Chapter 8

The next day all of the Lyoko Warriors went to class while the search for Jeremy, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi continued. Odd, Ulrich, and Jeremy's parents (Yumi's had already known) were informed and showed up to praticipate in the search. Spidey and the gang were called out to be questioned and some angry parents yelled at them for being irresponsible enough to just let their friends run off like that. It wasn't easy but once it was over they went back to class and had to act like nothing had happened.

Sissy and Herb noticed and were sympathetic. Sissy tried to cheer them up (mostly Spidey) but it didn't have any effect. Giving up she could only look on sympathetically at lunch as the gang sat at their table quietly. But no matter how long the day seemed it couldn't go on forever.

The school day did eventually end and all of the gang met up in the same spot as the previous day. "So we're going to Lyoko again?" Sissy asked.

"That's the plan." Spidey nodded. The dark haired girl noticed lines under his eyes, but kept it hidden with his hat. They headed straight for the factory this time and did not go through the sewers. Getting into the abandoned factory they took the elevator down and dropped Aelita and Dawn off first along with the others except for Reneamon who stood along with Spidey.

Next they rode the elevator to the scanner room. They each got in a different scanner as Reneamon change to Vixemon as she got on Spidey's shoulder and waited. "Okay, Aelita, we're ready." Spidey called out as his spider suit came on.

"Actually I'm letting Dawn handle this one." The pink-haired girl let him and Vixemon know.

"Alright then." Dawn's voice echoed throughotu the room. "Here I go."

"Transfer Sissy...transfer Herb...transfer Spidey and Vixemon!"

"Scanner Sissy...scanner Herb...scanner Spidey and Vixemon!"

She hit the enter key. "Virtualization!"

The virtualization was successful and all of four of them were transferred to Lyoko. This time Sissy and Herb both managed to land on their feet. But looking around they realized they were somewhere different from their last trip to Lyoko. Vixemon went back to Reneamon as she stood on her feet beside Spidey.

"We must be in the ice sector." Herb said looking around.

Sissy rolled her eyes. "What gave it away?"

"The ice!" He answered without thinking.

"It doesn't matter what sector we've landed in." Spidey said. "It's not going to affect your training."

"So what's first?" Sissy asked after pulling out her halberd.

"I'm going to need to speed up your training." Spidey explained. "So you're going to be fighting us. That way you'll get a good feel for what a real fight is like."

"WHAT?" Sissy freaked out. "But Spidey dear you're way too strong. You'll beat Herb in like two seconds and me in thirty!"

"Yeah," Herb nodded. "Wait...what?"

"Don't worry, we won't actually be trying to hurt you." Reneamon reassured them.

"Wouldn't it be better if we just fought each other?" The brain asked.

"You'd be surprised how bad that could go." Spidey and Reneamon smirked. "Anyway we'll start with you Herb. I'll charge you and you have to stop me before I reach you. As an archer with your saber you have to be mindful of being caught by your enemies. You have to keep them at a distance if you don't want to get divirtualized."

Nodding Herb pulled out his saber and prepared himself. Spidey positioned himself far enough back to give Herb time to shoot at him. When he signaled that the was ready Spidey ran toward him. The wirzard shot at him as quick as he could. The first bolt Spidey deflected without any trouble. The second one he dodged and he didn't even manage to get the third out before Spidey knocked the saber out of his hands.

They tried again. Herb started to get faster each time and his aim improved. Soon he learned to shoot two bolts at the same time which Spidey found a lot harder to deflect or dodge. After a while they stopped as Spidey and Reneamon could tell Sissy was getting impatient.

"Just come at me." Renemon told her. "I'll just stand here and defend while you do your best to hit me." Nodding Sissy pulled out her weapon and slashed at Reneamon. She was clumsy and sometimes her attacks were quite off so Reneamon didn't have much trouble dodging or stopping her blow.

But like Herb she improved. Her attacks got faster and more precise. Reneamon actually had to try near the end to make sure she didn't knock her diamond sword in her hands which she made it out of her Diamond Storm move right out of her hands. "That's great Sissy." She complimented her. "But listen next time I want you to-"

"Spidey!" Aelita's voice rang through their heads. "We have a problem."

"What is it Aelita?"

"XANA's attacking!"

"What?" He exclaimed. "Already?"

"It's true." Dawn answered. "A tower was just activated."

Sissy turned to Spidey. "What are we going to do?"

Spidey gripped his fists tightly. "We're going to fight!"