Chapter 9
Spidey's Murasama Blade slashed right through the front of a crab effectively terminating it. Sissy twirled her halberd before driving it right into the side of a Blok. Another Blok was destroyed as Herb shot an lightning bolt into it from afar. Reneamon was in her second form.
"Alright Aelita," Spidey shouted at the pink-haired girl. "The way is clear. Now go!"
Coming out of her hiding spot Aelita made a break for the nearby tower. She was only feet away when a certain Lyoko Warrior was in her way. It was William still in his XANA form came out of nowhere and blocked her way. "AAH!" Only barely managing to stop and not crash into him. William smirked and swung his sword in attack.
Suddenly, Aelita run away as William chased her in his super smoke form, "Aww crap!" Spidey crused. Spidey ran with speed and suddenly he was so fast that to the others he was just a blur. Sprinting ahead he stopped right in front of Aelita just in time to parry the sword with his Captain America shield. Spidey decides to put the program to the use. Aelita hid behind him as Spidey punched him with all of his strength as William was sended flying from him. "Aelita head for the tower quick." Spidey said as Aelita runs at the tower...only to hear a creepy sound as she turn around to see a Scyphozoa makes it way towards her. "Oh man." Aelita gets away from the land squid. She managed to get back Spidey's back. "Shit." Spidey muttered as William came back in his super smoke form, Aelita grasped Spidey's back as she gasp and was scared.
Suddenly Kyubimon came in as she attacks the land squid, "Hold onto me Aelita." She nodded and held on his body, Spidey looks only to William grabs his legs and spun around two times and toss him with Aelita on him as Spidey and Aelita scream. "Spidey!" Kyubimon yelled. "Fox Tail Inferno!" The tails separated and light up with blue mystic fire. They launched and went flying at the Scyphozoa as they set fire on it and suddenly it screehed and exploded like fireworks.
Spidey and Aelita were flying but until they were stop by a wall of ice as he flipped and his suit brings out the Murasama Blade and the sheath. He jumped back with great agility as Aelita jumped off of him and spread her wings from her back and flew back with him.
William was about to get away from this place, only to hear a yell, Spidey was coming flying back. He was about to parry it as he puts up his Zweihander in front of him. Time seem to slow around them as Spidey puts his hand on the hilt of the sheath and hand on the handle of the HF crimson blade, finger on the trigger, charging up for the quickdraw attack. Suddenly the sheath glow in a fiery red as Spidey push the trigger and the Murasama Blade launched out in a fiery explosion and Spidey slash once hortizonal. William block it only to discover his sword was sliced in half as it dropped to the ground. William gasped as Spidey reared back the katana over his head still in the air and brought it down with both hands and sliced down the middle as William's wireframe glow green before he devirtualize.
Spidey stood up and with the flick of the right wrist, Spidey does a traditional samurai sheathing it's katana into the sheath.
Aelita let out a small gasp as she landed on the ground. "Thanks Spidey."
"No problem. Now get to that tower."
She nodded and ran inside. Making her way to the top she put in the code lyoko. "Tower deactivated."
Back at the bottom of the abandoned factory Dawn sat in the chair watching all of this happen from the monitor. Seeing the tower deactivated she clicked the enter key. "Return to the past!"
Suddenly everything that had happened that day was reversed. When time started again it was morning and everyone had forgotten everything that had happened besides Spidey, Dawn, Aelita, Sissy, Herb, and the gang. Which meant they had successfully stopped XANA from getting what it wanted. And William was send back to his room, already told about Yumi was dead and he was shocked about it, but he decides to find love in the form of Sissy, but he won't come in until a certain event.
Spidey and Dawn let out a yawn. Aelita was still asleep. "That went surprisingly well..." They muttered to themselves. Leaving their room along with the gang they headed outside. Class would be starting soon and even though they had already sat through it they couldn't just skip. Spidey's lack of attendance would be noticed.
They had only left the dorm for a minute when Sissy and Herb ran over to them looking excited. "Hey Spidey! Dawn! Did it work?" Herb asked. "Did Dawn do it right?"
"Do what right?"
"I think he means the return to the past." Dawn said clearing that up.
"Well of course it worked!" Sissy answered. "I even checked by having the same conversation with Emily that I had this morning. It was crazy!"
"Yeah, well it's pretty normal for me or Dawn." Spidey shrugged. Just then Aelita walked up to them. "Oh hey Aelita."
"Hey you guys," She greeted them. "Congrats on your first victory against XANA!"
"Thanks!" Sissy smiled. "How did we do?"
"Pretty good." Spidey answered. "You both defeated multiple monsters without dying and only made a few rookie mistakes."
"Not to mention you managed to got William out of XANA's control." Dawn added after she was told by Aelita and show her the program Spidey developed.
"Yay!" Sissy said wrapping her arms around Spidey in a hug.
"Hey!" He objected. Grabbing her arms he tried to remove her. "I said good job; I didn't say hug me!"
"You also did well Dawn." Aelita the dark blue haired young woman.
"Thank you." She smiled. "Though it was harder than I expected."
"You'll get used to it." She explained.
"So now what do we do?" Herb asked.
"Now we go to class...again." Spidey winced.
"Awww...really?" Sissy whined. "That sucks! Math was horrible enough the first time!"
"Well think of it this way Sissy." Herb pointed out. "You already know when the teacher will call on you so now you just have to be ready for it."
The dark-haired girl bit her lip. "But I already forgot what she was going to ask..." This casued the others to share a laugh. Just then the sound of a ringing noise could be heard all over the school.
"Well there's the bell." Aelita pointed out. "I'll see you guys after class." The others said they'd see her later and after a few waves goodbye they all headed to class.
They got through the repeated day without any trouble. It was slightly but certainly more boring. But the two newcomers were glad when they got the day off and didn't have to go train again. The next few days passed and though they did a bit of training they were mostly peaceful.
Soon the weekened arrived. Spidey and Dawn and the gang had been doing their best not to dwell on what happened and had been feeling a bit better recently. Spidey noticed however, that Aelita was still pretty mopey whenever she thought no one was watching. He and Dawn could tell she was still dwelling on what had happened.
Deciding to do something about it he approached her Sunday morning at breakfast. She had sat down to eat at an empty table so Spidey sat across from her. There were few other people in the cafeteria as a lot of the students liked to sleep in.
"Morning Aelita." He greeted her.
She seemed slightly surprised to see him there but quickly replied. "Good morning Spidey." Then she went back to eating.
"I was thinking Aelita...maybe we should do something together today?" He suggested. "What do you think? It'll be fun."
"Oh I don't know Spidey..."
"Come on, it'll take your mind off things." He told her. "Think: is there anything you want to do?"
"Well..." She swirled her spoon around her empty plate in a circle as she thought. "I guess we could go back to the Hermitage and see if there are any more clues about my father."
Spidey cringed. "That's not really what I had in mind. I think it would do you good to not worry about Lyoko for a day. We could do something that normal people our age do."
"Like what?" Aelita asked. "I don't think there's much we can do around here and we're not allowed to go very far."
"Well why don't we go see a movie?" He suggested.
"A movie huh?" The pink-haired girl thought about it as she started playing with her fingers. "Jeremy took me to a movie once. It was nice."
"Would you like to go again?"
"Alright," Aelita let out a smile on her face. "Sure it'll be fun."
"Great." Spidey said finishing his breakfast. "I'm sure it'll do us both some good." "See ya then!" Aelita waved goodbye as she picked up her tray and went to throw it away.
Well Dawn actually heard everything as she was sitting at an empty table but Spidey or Aelita didn't see her, well she can tell that Aelita has a crush or more like a falling in love thing. So hey, why not let Aelita to share him with her, so she wents to Aelita's room and help her with the date.
A few hours later Spidey and Aelita walked side by side out of the school grounds. Aelita changed into a outfit which was a black jacket with a matching black tank top with a giant pink star in the middle. She's also wearing a pink mini skirt with black leggings and replicas of Spidey's PUMA shoes pink and black, bit of makeup of dark pink and a white eye shadow creating a smokey effect above her eyes then has black eyeliner and glitter. Having a light peach lip-gloss on her lips, you see Dawn came to her room and told her that she approved Aelita to actually share him with you, help her to pick a outfit and applied make up for her. Aelita was shock at first this fact, but hey she wants Spidey she can have him with Dawn. Now she was skipping every few feet. Spidey was in his clothes with the backpack on his back, replace his hat with a Tyson Granger cap backwards, pair of NEMSIS sunglasses on his eyes, his Murasama Blade in stealth mode with the bullwhip on his belt with the revolers on the belt in the holsters hidden under the hoodie over them except for the sword and whip. Hidden under his sleeves were two metal bracers with the pictures of eagles and hidden blades about 16 inchs, activated by two rings attached to fishing line, his ring fingers tucked in and kept his gloved hands in his pockets. Aelita turned her head toward him. "It's a nice day isn't it?"
Spidey briefly directed his attention to the blue sky. "Yup," he nodded, "Hardly a cloud in the sky."
"So what movie are we going to see?" She asked.
"I didn't have anything specific in mind. Is there anything you're interested in seeing?"
"Well when I went with Jeremy he took me to a science fiction movie." She told Spidey. "But I wanted to see a romance."
"Oh...then I guess...we should see...a romance." Spidey was clearly not comfortable with the idea.
"Really?" Aelita said surprised. "Because we don't have to you know. It's okay."
"No," Spidey told her. "I want you to choose. A romance it is."
"Thank you Spidey!" She said sincerely. Aelita then grabbed Spidey's right gloved hand out of his pocket and held it with her own. Her hand was warm. The dark brown haired teen suddenly realized how similar what they were doing was to going on a date which they were. The thought (along with Aelita holding his hand) cause him to blush. Aelita hummed the whole way there.
They soon arrived at the movie theater. There were two romance movies playing so Aelita made sure to choose the one that seemed less girly to her. After all she wanted Spidey to enjoy himself as well. Then, after buying some popcorn with Spidey's money, they went inside the theater.
The movie had been out for a few weeks so there were very few people watching it. Aelita and Spidey got good seats and waited a minute before the room went dark. As the trailers played out screen Spidey glanced at over at his companion. The pink-haired girl seemed engrossed in the trailers. Every once in a while she'd stick her hand in the popcorn barrel and pull out a handful to stick in her mouth without taking her eyes off the screen. Spidey seemd relieved. So far this date seemed to be the perfect distraction.
After the movie
Aelita is walking down the street with a little skip in her step. "Wow, I haven't had that much fun in ages!"
"Yeah, it was a great time." Spidey said, walking right behind the still ecstatic girl. "So what did you think of the movie?"
"I thought it was sweet." She answered, slowing down so she and Spidey were walking side by side. "The ending scence was my favorite part. What did you think?"
Spidey shrugged. "It wasn't so bad I guess."
She smiled. "Don't be embarrassed! I won't tell anyone you liked it." They both laughed. "Thank you Spidey for taking me. It was very sweet of you."
He wasn't sure how to respond. "It was nothing. I just don't like seeing you sad. I thought it might cheer you up."
"You're a nice guy you know that?" She wrapped her arms around him in a hug. Spidey seemed surprised but hey give the man a reward after a second hugged her back. Ten seconds later she let go. "Come on we have to get back to the school. Let's go."
Spidey nodded in agreement. "I have to agree with you there Princess."
In order to get back at Kadic, the teens have to go through a back alley which currently has a gang occupying the corners. The gang has no more than 5 people just leaning against a wall. Well if they begin to mess with Spidey he will protect Aelita from them.
Spidey gestured Aelita to get in close to him as she moved in with his arm over her shoulders and they tried to past the gang without making eye contact with any of the members, no need to cause any trouble. Well the trouble is about to begin in 3...2...1.
Then all of a sudden, a guy with a shaved head and a black leather jacket reached out and grabbed Aelita's arm. "Hey cutie, how you drop the zero and add a hero." The guy said with a werid smile.
"Let go of me you creep!" Aelita pulled away, her heart beating fast as she was grabbed.
"Let go of her motherfucker!" Spidey pulled them apart and grabbed the guy by the neck as he stood in front of the man. "Let a another hand on her and trust me you will be send to the hopsital in a box." Spidey threating the man, he pale as Spidey toss him out of the alley with super strength.
"Yo boss, wants us to end this kid?" Spidey turned around with his spider sense tingling rapidly and saw a bunch of them walking towards him. Spidey slowly reach for his left side as he turns off the stealth camo off the blade and got into a quickdraw stance.
Spidey whispered to Aelita to run away and call the police, then he push her away before Spidey was circled by the entire gang.
Aelita was hesitant but eventually ran away, a couple tears running down her face as she pulled out her phone, all she can do is wish that Spidey will be alright. She rans to Kadic.
Meanwhile back at school Herb and Nicholas were lying around watching TV. They were having a peaceful day until Sissy suddenly opened the door and came inside in a huff. "I can't believe this!" She said in her shrill voice. "I can't find Spidey anywhere and I've searched the whole school! So much for convincing him to spend some time with me. Where could he have gone?" She pouted.
"You mean you don't know?" Herb asked.
What? You know where he is?"
"Well...yeah." He admitted. "I heard he took Aelita to the movies. I saw them leave the school earlier."
"Kinda like they were on a date." Nicholas chuckled.
"WHAT?" The sound of her loud voice forced the two boys to cover their ears with their hands. "I thought Aelita was still moping over Jeremy. I never thought she'd steal him from me like that! She's a lot sneakier than I gave her credit for."
Sissy turned around and headed for the door. "Where are you going?" Herb asked.
"I'm going to find them of course!" She said slamming the door shut behind her.
"But Sissy...they left hours ago." Herb sighed because he knew she was long gone and couldn't hear him.
The principal's daughter ran across the school and headed for the enterance.
Meanwhile Riley was walking around the school along with Blade Wolf and Dawn. But Dawn hearing something as she saw Sissy running for the enterance of the school. But the sound was crying, "Sissy stop!" Dawn yelled as she turned around towards Dawn. "Do you hear that?" Sissy hears it, Dawn and Sissy gasped as Aelita came running into the school enterance. "Aelita! What's the matter?" Dawn asked in concern, Aelita looked at her friends. "Dawn, Sissy it's bad Spidey is surrounded by some gang in an alley way, he told me to call the police and get all of you to help him." Aelita said, which made Dawn and Sissy gasp in shock.
Dawn told Blade Wolf to get everyone included William as he nodded and run to get them.
Meanwhile near the alley...
There were two figures walking down the street. One was a male, his late 40s. He has a heavy build, with dark hair and bread. He has many scars and cuts on his arms and face, wearing a broken down watch he got from his dead daughter, brown eyes, wearing a green checkered collared shirt, which is rolled up to his elbows, fainted blue jeans, work boots, carrying a brown wored leather backpack with the weapons of a rifle, shotgun, bow, flamethrower, on the right side has arrows, a bat, on his leg and back were two pistols (Weapons list: 9mm Pistol, Revolver, Shotgun, Bow, Hunting Rifle, Shorty, El Diablo, Flamethrower, Assault Rifle, Molotov Cocktail, Nail Bomb, Smoke Bomb, Shiv, 2x4, Hatchet, Machete, Pipe, Baseball Bat, and Military Sniper). Two was a 14 year old girl, fair skin with freckles, a scar on her right eyebrow, anburn ponytail hair tied by a red ribbon, pale green eyes, wearing a red short sleeve shirt with a long sleeve shirt under the first shirt, skinny jeans, black and white sneakers with a green backpack on her back. These two were by the names of Joel and Ellie, they came from a portal. These two were friends with Spidey about a few years back after he help them through the zombine infected and thieves. They were trying to find him, but they saw something down the alley and they gasped as they saw Spidey and run towards him.
Back at the alley...
Spidey looked at each individual man. Neither of them looked really impressive, it was just the numbers that intimidated him. 5-1 isn't very good odds for Spidey, unless you an superhuman, you are really real shit now!
Not wasting time, Spidey unsheathed his katana and landed a round house kick against one of the goons and landed a couple good extreme fast punchs against a couple others. He puts his blade to his foot as he took off his shoe and did some break dance moves killing two guys before they even came at him. He unsheathed his blade and put back on his shoe.
Then when Spidey turned around his spider sense goes off just in time as he dodge a punch by the leader. If that one punch would almost knocked out Spidey and would caused tremedous pain in his head. Spidey smile darkly, taunted him as the leader trying to punch him again and again over the time but Spidey dodge with speed until Spidey had enough with this guy as he jumped back from him and super kick into his chin as he was send flying into a dumpster. Spidey dusted off his hands. He turned around again and this time he walked right into a punch by another goon. That one punch almost knocked out Spidey but his head is hard like an hammerhead shark and caused tremendous pain in his head. He put his hand on his forehead to check the damage, its turns out he has an open cut on his head and he's bleeding bad.
He looked over at the goon and noticed that he has something attached to his hand, which he determined was brass knuckles.
'I hate those things.' Spidey thoughts.
Then like vultures, the goons began to punch and kick Spidey repeatedly while he laid on the ground, defenseless.
"Get em up!" The boss ordered pulling a knife out of his pocket. With help of the goons, Spidey staggered to his feet, completely drained of his strength.
"Say goodbye kid!" The boss sharpened his knife and before he can deliver the final blow, he was tackled to the ground by a shadowy figure. Revealed to be Riley as he tore the throat of the leader.
"Arf!" Riley bark as he stood in front of his master, when the others dropped Spidey and tried to help their leader, they were met by more shadowy figures which were Spidey's friends. This caused a huge brawl to erupt. Suddenly Spidey notices two more guys were coming at him but they were killed before they reached him. Revealed to be Spidey's oldest two friends Joel and Ellie.
"SPIDEY!" The bloody boy heard a voice call his name and he was met with a soft hug. He looked up and saw the tear stained face of Aelita ."It's ok, it'll be ok..." He heard her whisper as she tried to help him up, one of his arms around her neck for support.
"Hey girls!" Aelita backed up as she saw the now beat up boss, bruises all over his face. The worst part, he's still holding his knife.
As the bloody Spidey saw the man run at Aelita with the knife in hand, he used the last of his strength to jump front of them and stand in the way of the blade in order to protect them. A few seconds later, "AHHHHHH..." Spidey let out a scream in pain as his hard six pack ab stomach was penetrated by the shrap knife. Just as fast as the blade entered it left and the villain pushed him to the ground.
As Spidey fell to the ground, he heard of his little gang the Pokèmon and Riley and Aelita cry out his name in fear and sadness along with Dawn. As he drifted in and out of consciousness, he finally heard the sounds of police sirens coming from just outside the alley.
Then everything suddenly turned white before to black...