Chapter 5: First victory as a team and possible date
Raiden and both Spidey's blades slashed right through the front of a crab effectively terminating it. Yumi twirled her bo staff with her fans attached to the ends before driving it right into the side of a Blok. Another Blok was destroyed as Odd and Rex shot an arrow and ice block into it from afar with Rex's Slam Cannon.
"Alright Aelita," Spidey 2 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 in the ice sector out of the training place. She was only feet away when a hornet came out of nowhere and blocked her way. "Ah!" Only barely managing to stop and not crash into it. The hornet shot forward in attack.
"Aww crap!" Spidey 3 crused. He gets out his beyblade and launcher and ripcord and done the thing with the engine gear. Locked it in aimed at the hornet. "LET IT RIP!" He release the Beyblade and suddenly the blade was so fast that to the others Dragoon GT was just a blur of blue light trail. Spinning ahead Dragoon stopped right in front of Aelita just in time to sliced the monster in half before it reached her.
Aelita let out a small gasp as Spidey 2 leap over to her and caught his blade. "Thanks Spidey."
"No promblem. 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 Madoka sat in the chair watching all of this happen from the monitor with Spidey 1 and the others. Seeing the tower deactivated she press 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 and the gang. Which meant they had successfully stopped XANA from getting what it wanted. After that Spidey and the clones of him return to normal leaving one and the only Spidey Parker.
Spidey let out a yawn. "That went surprisingly well..." He muttered to himself. Leaving his room and roommates room also, with Pikachu and Beautifly on him, Riley and Blade Wolf by his sides they headed outside. Class would be starting soon and even though he had already sat through it he couldn't just skip. His lack of attendance would be noticed.
He and his little gang had only left the dorm for a minute when his gang all ran over to them looking excited. "Hey Spidey! Did it work?" Madoka asked. "Did I do it right?"
"Do what right?" Spidey understanding it.
"I think she means the return to the past." Dawn said clearing that up.
"Well of course it worked!" Juila answered. "I even checked by having the same conversation with Emily that I had this morning. It was nuts!"
"Yeah, well it's pretty normal for us." Spidey and Pikachu shrugged. Just then Aelita walked up to them. "Oh hey Aelita."
"Hey you guys," She greeted them. "Congrats on your our first team victory against XANA!"
"Thanks!" Odd smiled. "How did we do?"
"Pretty good." Raiden answered. "You four defeated multiple monsters without dying but use some of Spidey's moves and only made a few bit rookie mistakes. But overall great."
"Yes!" Ming-Ming said wrapping her arms around Spidey in a hug.
"Hey!" He objected. Grabbing her arms he tried to remove her which he did. "I said good job; I didn't say hug me!"
"You also did well Madoka." Aelita told the maroon haired girl.
"Thank you." She smiled. "Though it was harder than we expected."
"You'll get used to it." She explained.
"So now what do we do?" Tyson asked.
"Now we go to class...again." Spidey winced. Despite he likes going to them, he sometimes hates them.
"Awww...really?" Max whined. "That sucks! Math was horrible enough the first time!"
"Well think of it this way Max," Emily pointed out. "You already know when the teacher will call on you so now you just have to be ready for it."
The blond-haired boy made a stupid anime look face. "But I already forgot what she was going to ask..." This caused 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 easier but certainly more boring. But the four superheroes in training (After this start the main stuff will come like Justice Leauge epsiode: Star Crossed.) were glad when they got the day off and didn't have to go train again. The next days passed and though they did a bit of training they were mostly peaceful.
Soon the weekend arrived. Spidey and the gang had been doing their best not to dwell on what happened and had been feeling a bit better recently. Spidey however noticed, that Aelita was still pretty mopey whenever she thought no one was watching. He 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 sat 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. Well even Spidey's gang.
"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 eh?"
"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 mother."
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. "Jeremy took me to a movie once. It was nice."
"Would you like to go again?"
"Alright," Aelita let out a small smile. "Sounds like fun."
"Great," Spidey said finishing his breakfast. "I'm sure it'll do us both some good."
A few hours later Spidey and Aelita walked side by side out of the school grounds. Aelita had 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. Spidey was wearing his black MMA ELITE hoodie and his clothes strapped to his belt is his Muramasa blade in Stealth camo mode, the bullwhip strapped to his right side holster belt and kept his gloved hands shoved 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. "Yeah," 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 ot 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 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 you want you shall get one." Spidey said with a wink.
"Thank you Spidey!" She said sincerely. Aelita then grabbed Spidey's right hand out of his pocket and held it with her won. Her hand was warm. The dark brown haired teen suddenly realized how similar what they were doing was to going on a date like either Dawn or his dead girlfriend MJ. 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.
A few minutes earlier...
Meanwhile back at the school Raiden and John Cena and AJ Lee were lying around watching TV in Spidey's room. They were having a peaceful day until Dawn suddenly opened the door and came inside gently. "Hey guys, what's up?" She said with the calm tone. "Oh nothing, Dawn. Hey do you know what happened to Spidey, Riley has searched the whole school. So much of the area he can't find his scent. Where could he have gone?" John asked.
"You mean you don't know?" Dawn asked.
"What? You know where he is?"
"Well...yeah." AJ admitted. "I heard he took Aelita to the movies. I saw them leave the school earlier."
"Kinda like they were on a date." Raiden chuckled.
"What?" The sound of her angry voice forced the boys and girl and Pokemon and Riley to cover their ears with their hands and paws. "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." 'Then again, we could work out a situation for me and Aelita to share him.' Dawn thoughts.
Dawn turned around and headed for the door. "Where are you going?" Blade Wolf asked.
"I'm going to find them of course!" She said closeing the door behind her.
"But Dawn...they left hours ago." AJ Lee sighed because she knew she was long gone and couldn't hear her.
The dark blue-haired former Coordinator ran across the school and headed for the entrance. But before she got there she heard someone crying, Dawn's concerned state comes into play as she went to find the source. She was met with the sound of Aelita's crying as she ran into the school enterance. "Aelita! What's the matter?" Dawn asked in concern, Aelita looked at her friend. "Dawn 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 gasp in shocked.
Dawn turn on her watch. "Guys we got a code major red." As soon as they heard it, Raiden and rest of the gang heard it also. They got out of their dorms rooms quickly as Riley run to Dawn and Riley. Riley barks, asking where is Spidey? Aelita told follow her as they run to the alley where she last seen Spidey.
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.
"SPIDEY!" The bloody boy heard both voices call his name and he was met with two soft hugs. He looked up and saw both of tear stained faces of Aelita and Dawn."It's ok, it'll be ok..." He heard them whisper as they tried to help him up, both of his arms around their necks for support.
"Hey girls!" Aelita and Dawn backed up as they 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 and Dawn 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 Pokemon 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...