Chapter 32: Training

Naruto, Sasuke, Ulrich, and Shikamaru virtualized onto Lyoko.

"Alright… everyone's here. Jeremie, are you there?" Aelita asked.

"Yup." Jeremie said.

"Hello! These guys wanna train a little with those monster prototypes we made… can you program some?" Aelita said.

"Sure… but won't they need vehicles and stuff?" Jeremie asked.

"Right… hmm… can any of you fly?" Aelita asked.

"I can." Both Naruto and Sasuke said. They levitated.

"Well, that's nice. So can I." Aelita said, activating her angel wings and ascending into the sky. "The rest of you are gonna need vehicles to get around then. You might have your ninja jumping, but that not might work so well on flat ground."

"True…" Shikamaru said.

"Well, we might just have to remodel the overwing, the overboard, and the overbike then… unless we make some sort of car." Jeremie said. "Shikamaru, Hinata, do you want scooters, flying boards, or motorcycles?"

"I think Hinata would be best with a overwing, Jeremie. The scooter." Yumi said.

"Yeah, I'll use that." Hinata said.

"Hmmm… I'll have an overbike… that's the motorcycle, right?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yup, that's right." Jeremie said. "Well, I'll have to spend a bit remodeling, but I'll program the original vehicles so you can have a quick test run with them." He coded up the overwing, the overbike, and the overboard. "Odd, you can have a quick joyride if you want."

"Odd, you'd better not brag if you remember what we discussed earlier." Yumi said.

"Okay, okay!" Odd said.

"What deal did you make?" Jeremie asked.

"One that involves a physical punishment for Odd from Yumi, that's all you really need to know." Ulrich said.

"I see… alright then." Jeremie said.

The vehicles materialized in front of the group. Yumi went over to the overbike, Odd went and climbed onto his overboard, and Ulrich walked over to his overbike.

As Odd went off on his overboard, Hinata and Shikamaru walked over to the vehicles. Hinata climbed onto the overwing, and slowly turned the grips forward to ascend, and then slowly pulled the grips back to do a loop. She then pushed the grips forward to go straight, and gradually slowed down to a stop.

"Wow, you're already pretty good at this, aren't you?" Yumi said. Hinata smiled. Jeremie was right. Having a vehicle was easy. Just then, a lavender purple overwing materialized in front of them.

"That's your overwing, Hinata." Jeremie said.

"Thank you, Jeremie." Hinata said.

"No problem!"

Hinata got off Yumi's overwing and got onto hers. Yumi got onto her overwing, and both flied up to Aelita, Naruto, and Sasuke.

Meanwhile, Shikamaru was drifting on the overbike. He didn't need any pointers from Ulrich. The minute the overbike materialized in front of him, Shikamaru lazily walked over and climbed on. The overbike seemed to be perfect for Shikamaru.

"I'm surprised that you were able to latch on so fast." Ulrich said.

Shikamaru drifted to a stop in front of Ulrich. "And why do you say that?"

"Because Jeremie was terrible at it."

"HEY!" Jeremie yelled. "I WASN'T THAT BAD! PLUS, HOW DO YOU KNOW?!"

"Remember that one time you came on Lyoko? You literally couldn't do anything. The minute you saw a kankrelat (A/N: Yes, I did spell 'kankrelat' correctly, I looked it up), you'd run. You couldn't ride any vehicles. You needed wings. Come on, Aelita can do two, maybe three if she ever tried the overbike, and you can't do any?"

"Yumi, please tell me that Odd's deal goes for Ulrich too?" Jeremie pleaded.

"Nope, unless it's ABSOLOUTELY necessary." Yumi said.

"Darn it. How am I gonna punish him now?" Jeremie said.

"Hey, just because I said 'absolutely necessary' doesn't mean that I'll never. I'll do my side of the deal when we get back to Konoha." Yumi said, glancing at Ulrich.

"How 'bout we just do a good old Pencak Silat match when we get back instead of a beat down?" Ulrich asked. "I haven't trained since the week before we went back on Lyoko."

"Alright then," Yumi said, "you're gonna get pretty beat up anyway."

"Psh, yeah right."

"Well then, should we get the prototypes materialized before Ulrich becomes one?" Aelita said.

"Why? I think he would make a pretty good fighting dummy." Yumi said.

"Why fight him here rather than the real world where he'll actually feel the pain?" Aelita said. "You want to knock some sense into him, don't you?"

"Like that's actually gonna happen." Ulrich said. "Unlike Odd, I've got some experience fighting against Yumi."
"You mean the 'yelling at each other because you're mad at each other but then you get back together because you love each other' kind of fighting?" Odd said with a smirk because he was finally able to get at Ulrich.

"Odd, I swear, one day I'm gonna kill you." Ulrich said, looking at Odd with daggers for eyes.

"You can try, but you'll NEVER get me. I've been waiting for years." Odd said, only agitating Ulrich even more.

Ulrich still managed to keep his cool. "Maybe it's because I never tried."

"Why? Because you're scared? Oh, poor little Ulrich can't even get the courage to fight a cat?"

"First, you just mocked yourself, and second, maybe it's because it's worth nothing to waste my power on you. Plus, Yumi always gets you before I do, that lucky duck." Ulrich looked at Yumi, smiling.

"Oh, Ulrich darling, I'm just SO flattered by your compliment." Yumi said, catching on. "But I'll let you get a nag at him anytime if you ask." Yumi said.

"Oh, why thank you, darling." Ulrich said. "I love you so much."

"Alright! Enough of the chitchat! You can tease each other all you want when you get back, let's just get this done." Jeremie said.

"But Jeremie- "Odd whined.

"Odd, you're already digging your own grave. You should be thanking me because I'm saving you. Even if I really want to keep this up, the people from Konoha probably have no idea-"

"Jeremie, I agree with Odd. Plus, it was getting good too!" Naruto said.

"Psh, I was having fun too." Ulrich said.

"Whelp, you can have all the fun later. Or maybe not, because X.A.N.A. might attack us and we won't be able to defend ourselves. Plus, have a little patience. It'll also give you some time to think of better ways to tease each other." Jeremie said. "I hate to be the party pooper, but that's some real potential right there."

"True, true." Yumi said.

"Well… Shikamaru, there's your overbike." Jeremie said as a dark green overbike materialized in front of them.

"Thanks Jeremie." Shikamaru said as he dismounted Ulrich overbike and climbed onto his. Ulrich got back on his overbike, and he and Shikamaru flew up to the rest of the group.

"What are we fighting first?" Aelita asked.

"Kankrelats, I guess. They're the first, then Blocks, Krabs, and then…" Jeremie kept on going with the monsters they'd fight. When he finished, five kankrelats materialized.

"Jeremie, those are yours, right?" Sakura asked.

"Yup. You have to hit those little targets on them, which we call eyes of X.A.N.A., or X.A.N.A.'s logo." Jeremie said.

"Easy enough." Naruto said, throwing a few shurikens and knocking out 3 of the kankrelats. Sakura then chucked a few more shurikens and knocked out the other two.

"Wow… that's really good for a beginner." Odd said.

"We're not beginners, remember? We've fought things like these in our world… it's not the same as yours." Naruto said.

"Oh, right… then why did you need to practice?" Aelita asked.

"Well, we didn't really need to practice, we just needed to see what X.A.N.A.'s monsters looked like and whether we needed to keep something in mind when fighting them or not." Sakura said.

"Well, if you only need to know what they look like, then I could just program models. That way, I won't take up as much memory programming them." Jeremie said. "It would be best to save space because I still need to find or make some more memory cards in case we run out of memory all together."

"That'll probably be best then. Well, Jeremie, program them all left to right, weakest to strongest. And we're counting the Kolossus too." Aelita said. When she finished speaking, nine monsters appeared in a row. There was a Kankrelat, a Blok, a Hornet, a Creeper, a Krab, a Tarantula, a Manta, a Scyphozoa, and finally, a Kolossus.

"That last one looks huge." Naruto said in awe of X.A.N.A.'s beast.

"We'll get to how to beat that one later, but for now, we'll go left to right. Right here is a Kankrelat." Aelita gestured to the Kankrelat. "If you don't hit it in 20 seconds, it'll start shooting lasers at you that you should dodge, and to 'kill' it (none of the monsters truly die on Lyoko), you have to hit its eye. If one of its lasers hit you, you'll lose Life Points. The amount of life points you lose is based on where it hits you. If you lose all your Life Points, you'll be devirtualized off Lyoko and back to Konoha, which means we'll lose some chance of stopping X.A.N.A. Also, Kankrelats often come in groups of five. Got that?"

"I think so, yeah." Sakura said. Naruto and Hinata nodded their heads in agreement.

"You're doing better than we did, that's a good sign." Yumi said.

"Alright." Aelita said, moving onto the Blok. "This is a Blok. Bloks have four eyes. Each eye has a different power. Two shoot lasers in different forms, while two shoot ice. Ice takes away life points while also making you freeze in place, so you should be careful around it. Like the Kankrelat, you can shoot or wound the eye to 'kill' it. You can also stab the top to get it too." Aelita moved over to the Hornet, and starting explaining its attacks. She then went on to explain every other monster and its attacks, and then she got to the Kolossus.

"And finally, X.A.N.A.'s best monster; the Kolossus. If you don't have any special powers, he can get you in one hit. The Kolossus has two eyes that you need to hit, and you need to hit them within about 10 minutes of each other, or he'll repair himself and become just as strong as before. One is on his blade hand (which you can jump on if he swipes at you), and the other is his face, connected to those… tentacles, I guess." Aelita said. "He can stomp you too. Funny thing is, when you hit both targets, he just falls… it takes a while for him to devirtualize due to how big he is. Well, that's every monster on Lyoko, and how to defeat them too. Any questions go to the other guys, I'm tired."

"Good job, Aelita." Jeremie said.

"Thanks." Aelita said, panting. "That was a lot of stuff to remember."

"Well then… should we go back?" Naruto asked.

"Probably, Kakashi said we only had today, so…" Sasuke said.

"Well then, we should get going. It's most likely evening by now." Ulrich said.

"Alright… I have to do five at a time, right?" Jeremie said.

"Yup, there's five scanners." Sakura said.

"Alright…

DEVIRTUALIZE; ULRICH!

DEVIRTUALIZE; ODD!

DEVIRTUALIZE; NARUTO!

DEVIRTUALIZE; AELITA!

DEVIRTUALIZE; SAKURA!"

Each of the five disappeared in blue flakes as Jeremie pressed the key to devirtualize them. After a minute or two, Jeremie devirtualized the rest.

DEVIRTUALIZE; SASUKE!

DEVIRTUALIZE; YUMI!

DEVIRTUALIZE; SHIKAMARU!

DEVIRTUALIZE; HINATA!

And the rest disappeared in those same blue flakes.

A/N:

Hello again! I added a line with 'A/N' so that you wouldn't get confused with what was author's notes and what wasn't. You're welcome!