Chapter 4: explaining to the police and more training

Spidey and Aelita had no choice but to follow behind the princnipal with Spidey's gang behind as he led them to his office. When they arrived the police officers were already waiting. Spidey did his best to not look nervous. One of them approached the two as the gang leaned the wall and animals were with them.

"We're investigating the disappearnce of one student." He explained. "Your principal informed us that all of you were very good friends with him. In light of this we just have a few questions to ask you. It could really help us find your friend."

"S-Sure," Spidey noddded. "Whatever it takes."

He volunteered to go first and was taken inside the office while Aelita and the others had to wait outside. The superhuman teen did his best to stay calm and give the officer the same story he had told the principal which Kevin Ethan Levin told him and not leave any holes. After half an hour of questioning that got them nowhere Spidey was allowed to leave.

Next they called Aelita in. Spidey gave the pink-haired girl a light squeeze on her hand as she passed to reassure her. However when half an hour passed and Aelita still had not come out he and his gang, Yumi, Odd, and Ulrich were started to worry. Had she slipped up? Did their stories not match? Did Aelita crack and tell the truth? As more time passed their fears got worse and worse.

An hour after she went in Aelita finally came out looking shaken. The police officers that came out with her seemed disgruntled. Spidey rushed forward to make she was okay. "Aelita are you alright?"

"All of you may return to your dorms now." One of the officers told them. Spidey nodded as he told his gang head on back as Yumi told them she going to head home now as she waved them and left and everyone started to lead Aelita outside. However as they were leaving they passed an officer leaning against the wall. Raiden recognized him as the man of his look like who killed Jeremy Belpois while posseseed as XANA.

The realization stopped him in his tracks as the others head on ahead. Gritting his teeth and his eyes were glowing a bit red with the Ripper in him trying to killed the man at him who failed to notice. Raiden wanted to attack him but knew this man had no memory of his twin what he had done. He hadn't even been in control of his actions but that didn't stop Raiden from hating him.

Shaking his head he got out of there. They had missed dinner and it was dark out so they headed back to the girls' dorm. The boys headed back to their rooms while the girls were in their rooms, stopping in front of Aelita's room Spidey turned to his pink-haired friend. "Aelita, I'm glad you're alright. What happened? What took so long?"

Her eyes darted across the hall. "Inside." She said unlocking her door. They both walked in and turned the light on. In the light Spidey could see Aelita's eyes were a little puffy. She didn't notice him looking and started to explain. "Do you remember earlier when I was late meeting you and the others?"

"Yeah," Spidey nodded. "You said you needed to get something. Is that what this is about?"

Aelita bit her lip before pulling something out of her hoodie pocket. It was a black case of some sort and when she held it up to him Spidey gently grabbed it. It wasn't hard to figure out what it was. Opening it he could see a pair of glasses resting within. They looked familiar. "Are these...Jeremy's glasses?"

Aelita lowered her head. "I'm sorry. There his extra pair and I spotted them yesterday. I just wanted to keep part of him with me but when they fell out of my pocket the police officers thought I had something to do with his disappearance. They were really suspicious..."

Spidey sighed and fell back onto Aelita's bed. "That's way too close mon."

"Are you mad at me?"

"Nah, it's not your fault." He answered. He took off his sunglasses and shut off his Ipod and headphones as he put them in his backpack.

She sat down beside him. "I miss him."

"I know my little friend." Spidey sighed as he thinks of dear old friends he show to Aelita once of the picture.

"Don't you miss them?" She asked. "Jeremy was your friend, but what about your other Friends, and I know you cared for MJ..."

He sat up. "I'm fine."

"No you're not!" She told him. "You can't be fine. I'm here for you Spidey. You can tell me."

"Tell you what?" He stood up and looked away from her. "Tell you that the girl I liked, the girl I watched out of the corner of my eyes, the girl I had feelings for is dead?" His voice started to break. "Tell you how it felt when I found her body there and knew I hadn't done anything to save her? Tell you how it feels knowing I will never see her again?" He rubbed his arm across his eyes. (Spidey was referred to Mary Jane Watson from his old universe. His former girlfriend before he tell Dawn and well after they hit it off as girlfriend and boyfriend in the reality universe before coming to Code Lyoko universe. He didn't told the others about this).

"Spidey..." Aelita got up and walked over to him. He moved to try and hide it but she could see the tears running down his face that he kept trying to wipe away. She grabbed his arm to stop him. "It's okay; you don't have to hold back."

"It's friggin not okay!" He pulled his arm free. "I'm the leader/brain now so I have to be strong. I can't just break down like that. I need to keep it together."

"Oh Spidey, don't you see?" Aelita embraced him. Her arms squeezed his back and he couldn't help but to bury his head in her shoulder. "You already are strong. Stronger than me or Dawn or your friends could ever be."

He couldn't hold it in anymore. He broke.

The next day both of them went to class with the gang while the search of Jeremy Belpois. Jeremy's parents were informed and showed up to participate in the search. Spidey and Aelita were called out to be questioned and some anrgy parents of Jeremy yelled at them for being irresponsible enough to just let their friend run off like that, which they were shut the fuck up by James Heller and the 3 adults with some glares to make them shit their pants or something. It wasn't easy but once it was over they went back to class and had to act like nothing had happened.

Gwen and Madoka and Dawn noticed and were sympathetic, the gang of Spidey same thing. Dawn tried to cheer them up (mostly Spidey) but it didn't have any effect. Not even she made him happy. Not giving up, she could only look on sympathetically at lunch as they 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?" Yumi asked.

"That's the plan." Spidey nodded. Tyson and Kai notices lines under his eyes. 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 Spidey 1 and the others from yesterday off first.

Next they rode the elevator to the scanner room. They each got in a different scanner while the other teachers waited. "Okay Spidey, we're ready." Ulrich called out.

"Actually I'm letting Madoka handle this one." The ultimate hero let them know.

"Alright then." Madoka's voice echoed throughout the room. "Here we go."

"Transfer Aelita...transfer Ulrich...transfer Raiden!"

"Scanner Aelita...scanner Ulrich...scanner Raiden!"

She hit the enter key. "Virtualization!"

The virtualization was successful and all three of them were transferred to Lyoko, along with the teachers. This time they all landed managed to land on their feet. But looking around they realized they were the same place but different sector from their last trip to Lyoko.

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

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

"The ice!" Rex answered without thinking.

"It doesn't matter what sector we've landed in." Spidey 3 explained. "So you're going to be fighting us. That way you'll get a good feel for what the real fight is like." Raiden, Spidey 2, Heller, Gwen, John, and AJ stood by Spidey 3's sides.

"WHAT?" Yumi freaked out. "But Spidey and everyone else you're together are way too strong. You'll beat me and Ulrich and Odd in like two seconds and Aelita in thirty!"

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

"Don't worry, we won't actually be trying to hurt you, we going easy on y'all, just work on teamwork." Raiden reassured them.

"Wouldn't be better if we just fought each other?" Ulrich asked.

"You'd be surprised how bad that could go." Raiden smirked as his visors slided over the eyes. "Anyway we'll start with you Odd. I'll charge you and you have to try to stop me before I reach you. As an mini archer with your Laser Arrows 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. I won't used my Ninja Run on you but try to aim dead center at me before I get to you. Ready?"

Nodding Odd prepared himself as he got into a stance. Raiden positioned himself far enough back to give Odd time to shoot at him. When he singaled that he was ready Raiden ran toward him. The purple cat shot at him as quick as he could while yelling 'Laser Arrow'. The laser arrow Raiden deflected without any trouble with his blade. The second one he dodged and he didn't even manage to get the third out before Raiden pushed Odd to the ground.

They tried again. Odd started to get faster each time and his aim improved. Soon he learned to shoot two laser arrows at the same time which Raiden found a lot harder to deflect or dodge. After a while they stopped as Raiden could tell Ulrich and the others were getting impatient.

"Just come at me." Heller told Aelita. "I'll just stand here and defend while you do your best to hit me." Nodding Aelita pull out a glowing pink energy blade on her right arm. Heller was surprised at the size of the blade it was the same size as Spidey 2 and 3 and 1 and Raiden's blade and she slashed at Heller. She was clumsy and sometimes her attacks were quite off so Heller didn't have much trouble dodging or stopping her blow with his own blade.

But like Ulrich and the others yesterday she improved. Her attacks got faster and more precise. Heller actually had to try near the end to make sure she didn't knock his blade right off his arm. "That's great Aelita." He complimented her. "But listen next time we want you to-"

"Guys!" Madoka's voice rang through their heads. "We have a problem."

"What is it Madoka?"

"XANA's attacking!"

Everyone in Lyoko pale at this. "What?" Raiden exclaimed. "Already?"

"It's true." Spidey 1 answered. "A tower was just activated."

Aelita turned to Spidey 2 and 3. "What are we going to do?"

They gripped their fists tightly. "We're going to fight!"