Aryssa could feel herself start to panic as she took in her surroundings. Okay, so they were inside the computer, that made sense. I mean, how else could you explain everything looking so digital?
"You've got to be kidding, right?" Chris asked, clearly not on the same page.
"I wish I were." Arianna muttered.
Lori shrieked and began to shake her head vigorously. "Get us out!" she cried. "I don't know how to change outfits in here! Get us out! Get us out! Get us out!"
"I'm trying!" Arianna yelled, before sighing. "Listen, I'm not quite sure how to work this thing, yet. You just have to give me some time. Go exploring while you wait, and try to find out what you can. I don't do great under pressure."
Aryssa almost snorted, that was for sure. "Just hurry up, okay?" she asked.
"I know." there was a moment's pause before she came back. "Here, I'm gonna send you guys some vehicles. There's an app on here for that."
Suddenly six vehicles appeared before them. 4 motorcycles and 2 skateboards. They were all floating in mid air, which made Aryssa a bit nervous about getting on them since she was scared of heights. She went towards a black skateboard which was right in front of her, and gasped in delight.
"Awesome! I got a Death-the-Kid-super-Awesome-Floaty-Skateboard-thing!" she cried, jumping up and down happily.
Arianna cleared her throat. "Actually, it's called an 'overbike'-"
"Yeah, well, I'm gonna call it a Death-the-Kid-super-Awesome-Floaty-Skateboard-thing!" Aryssa laughed.
"Aw! No fair!" Lori cried, as she climbed up onto the motorcycle that appeared in front of her. "I want a Death-the-Kid-super-Awesome-Floaty-Skateboard-thing!"
Aryssa laughed, and struggled to get on her own. "That's not my problem."
She wobbled a bit as she finally stood up. By now, everyone was on their own. She sighed in relief, as she finally got her balance. It wasn't as hard as she had originally thought.
"Ready?" Blake asked, inspecting his handles.
Everyone nodded, and they started off into the woods.
"I'm still not quite sure that Arianna was right about us being in the computer." Chris muttered, a few minutes later.
"How else do you explain what's going on?" Meggie asked, as she finished her summer sault thing. Her, Lori and Blake kept on doing weird tricks on their vehicles where as the rest of them was just trying to get used to them.
Chris smirked. "Mind control."
Aryssa rolled her eyes. "I think the other option is more believable." she shrieked, as she turned totally sideways on her overboard to avoid a tree. The bottom just barely scraped it's trunk.
She was panting as she righted herself, eyes wide.
"Whoa!" Lori laughed. "That was awesome!" as Bradley asked "Are you okay?"
Glaring at Lori, Aryssa said: "Yes, Bradley, I'm fine. Thanks for the concern-since apparently no one else was worried."
But a glance behind her proved her wrong. For when she did look around, she saw relief flood over Blake's features. Okay, so he was probably just worried about having to carry her around. He couldn't enjoy it all that much, right?
Suddenly, a huge blast knocked her off of her overboard. Aryssa grunted as she landed on her side. It didn't hurt so much as it had taken her by surprise.
"'Ryssa!" she heard Lori cry. Oh, so now she was worried about her? Aryssa cracked opened her eyes to see a giant bug like thing hovering over them.
All of her friends had gotten off of their bikes by then, and were now standing over her, staring at the thing.
"Um, Arianna?" Meggie cried. "Care to tell us what this thing is?"
"I'm not sure!" Arianna yelled out.
"Well, is it bad?" Chris yelled back.
"Y-Yes, at least, I think so…." Arianna didn't sound so sure.
"That's reassuring." Bradley muttered, sarcastically. "Mind telling us how we're supposed to kill it?"
"I-I think you have to stab it in the target."
"With what?" Aryssa shrieked as more of the mosquito things came flying out from the trees. "Blake's the only one with a weapon and he can't take them all on!"
"Give me a second!" Arianna yelled.
"We don't have a second!"
"Well, you all must have some kind of weapon!" Arianna's voice was frantic. "Blake, try to fend them off while I search. And don't lose any life points! I'm not sure what'll happen if you die!"
Blake nodded, before drawing his sword and trying to block every blast that came their way. Aryssa didn't need to even ask what Arianna meant by life points. She'd played enough video games to get what she meant.
"Any time, now, Ari!" Meggie half shrieked, half chuckled.
There was silence on the other end. Aryssa didn't know whether to take that as a good sign or a bad sign but she sure as hell didn't like it. So help me God, if she had abandoned them….
"Okay!" Arianna's voice came back at last. "I think I've got it!"
"Well, hurry up and tell us!" Blake yelled. "I can't fend them off forever!"
"If you'd just let me talk, you wouldn't have to!" Arianna replied. "Okay, now, Chris, you're glove that I'm assuming you have on-" everyone glanced down at Chris's gloved hand as if to confirm what Arianna had said "-can control the weather."
Chris raised his eyebrows, but glared at his glove for a second which in return started to glow. Overhead, there suddenly was a loud crash of thunder. Laughing, Chris held his hand out to an exceptionally large group of bugs and a small twister instantly appeared, sucking them all up.
"Awesome!" he laughed.
"Meggie!" Arianna yelled right after. "it says you have some kind of energy disk!"
"Oooh…" Meggie laughed, and pulled out two disks from seemingly nowhere. "I was wondering what these were for." she smirked evilly, before throwing them and hitting two straight in the center of the target, causing them to blow up. Just as if she'd been doing it her whole life.
Glancing over, Aryssa saw Lori playing with some knives that she must've pulled from no where, as well. "Hey, Ari!" she cried. "Are mine knives!"
"As a matter of fact, they are!" Arianna cried back. "They can also transform into a scythe."
Lori gasped in delight as she held the knives away from her-they instantly turned into a double ended scythe. She smirked over at Aryssa. "You may have a Death-the-Kid-super-Awesome-Floaty-Skateboard-thing, but I have a Soul-Eater-Super-Awesome-Scythe!"
Typical Lori, having to point that out, even as they were about to get killed. "So, Kidd is with Chrona." Aryssa smirked back, putting her hand on her hip. Kidd and Chrona was Lori's favorite couple from Soul Eater. "And it also means that I reserve all rights to pound my fist of the floor and call myself Garbage." which was something Death the Kid did a lot.
"Yeah, well, Soul is with Maka." which was Aryssa's favorite couple from Soul Eater. "And so this means that I reserve all rights to Maka chops."
Aryssa glared at her best friend, but Arianna was yelling before she could reply. "You're both idiots!" she cried. "This isn't the time to be discussing this!"
"Fine!" Lori yelled up, "I'll go help fight!"
"Good! Now, Bradley, you also have a sword."
Bradley pulled a sword from a sheath that Aryssa hadn't noticed until just now.
"Well," he breathed. "Why didn't I notice this before?" but he didn't spend too much time dwelling on the thought,, and went running right up to fight.
Aryssa shifted uncomfortably as she waited for Arianna to tell her her weapon. But another blast hit her right in the head before her room mate had the chance. She heard Lori let out a loud shriek. Aryssa glanced down at her hand and saw it start to turn into little paper like things.
She let out a gasp. Well, so she was going to find out what happens to people when they lose their life points.
She was scared.