The group had sprinted away from Death, Stein, and Spirit, Maka barely escaping the punishment of being Daddy's little girl.
"That was too close" she said to the others, their chests all heaving from sprinting so fast. They all had hung on to their helmets, the plugs having trailed while they sprinted away.
"So I wonder what we could do with these?" Soul said, taking a long look at his own helmet.
"I don't know, but it sure looks cool!" BlackStar responded while trying to loosen his strap again, then tightening it as Tsubaki shot him a look.
"Death sure thought that these had a lot if potential." Tsubaki said from over BlackStar's shoulder, "maybe we should go to the Virtual Sphere area and try them out?"
Most of the group agreed, so they walked off to the infirmary. Which was being managed by Naigus at this point. Across the hall was a door that not many knew what was behind, Kid led the way in to the dark room. He hit a light switch and artificial light shone down in a circle on a series of beds, each having a Virtual Sphere on them. The small group of Meisters and weapons walked in tentatively, looking for someplace to put their things.
"Is anyone in here?" Patty called out.
"No"
Liz jumped out of her skin as they heard a voice out of the light speak. "Wh-who is that?" She shakily said.
"Nobody"
Liz turned herself into a gun and jumped into Patty's hand, "answer us".
In the area the voice originated from a light sparked into existence, some sort of a match was lit. A man's face burst into existence directly in front of Patty. "I am nobody". At this point, if Liz was in human form she would have soiled herself. As it was, most of the others were about to soil themselves.
Kid stepped in front of Patty, "Who are you?"
"I told you impatient meisters, I'm nobody.
The man entered the light circle, revealing that he was quiet aged.
"Why are you in here?" BlackStar asked, "You're stealing my spotlight!"
The man said nothing, but instead hobbled forward with a cane in his right hand. He walked past everyone, moving BlackStar out of the way with his cane. ("HEY!")
"Don't underestimate these things, I heard the government can blow up your mind with them." He said while leaving, "Conspiracies are everywhere."
As he opened the door to leave Spirit showed up in the frame. "What're you still doing here? We asked you to clean up and leave." He said
Spirit shoved his way past the old man, who was now recognized as the conspiratorial janitor. "I figured you guys would come here, we set up the Virtual Spheres with a preset simulation for training. Why don't you try it out?"
Maka sat down on one of the beds, "so long as you leave, we will."
Spirit's face grew red, "right, got it, when you guys want to begin you just put the helmet on, lie down, and say "link start", there's a tutorial all set up." He quickly left with his face acting like a beacon, no doubt off to the bar to pick up a hooker.
"Let's get started," Liz said, returning to her human form and finding a bed.
"Yeah" Soul growled out.
They sat down and finished setting up the Virtual Spheres, settling down on each of their individual beds.
"Link start!" They said in unison.
In each of their helmets a series of lights and sounds played out, illuminating their faces. Words floated across the screens, telling the DWMA students how to fully use the interactive software. Across the room, each of the meisters and weapons touched different parts of their bodies as they completed the synchronization of the Virtual Spheres to their bodies.
To Maka, it seemed as if she was entering a tunnel, and falling backwards through it. This experience reminded her of going to sleep, or simply falling through the ground as it moved around her, funnily: this relaxed her, it slowed her heart rate as adrenaline of the unknown rushed through her body. Then everything went black, and the Virtual Sphere began to run the attached software.