Zakolac whispered something in the mayor's ear after he tried to ask Nightmare for the answer, reassuring him that Virus still was alive and present as the leader.

Virus weighed his options carefully, as Nightmare brought up a very good point. Every second they spent here, training or not, S.E.C.R.E.T. was back home, continuing to mistreat and harm innocent people to progress their own agendas. They had already wasted enough time, in Virus' eyes. '[i]However, if we do manage to get crucial information to help in our fight...[/i]' Simon continued to view the benefits of either choice. "We're already here, aren't we?" He tried to joke to hide his true reasoning. "We might as well stick around to play in these games, we'll grow stronger, and maybe learn a handy thing or two from this information of theirs, right?" Simon continued to laugh, playing things off to get some of the eyes off of him, and perhaps play things to be less serious than they actually were.