Rogue Rovers Episode 4: Cyber Love

A/N: I don't own Road Rovers; they're property of Warner Bros. Chris belongs to Chris Markham. Dylan, Briggs, and Riley belong to Dylan Rinald. J, Ice Blaze, Melanie, Ayame, Grudge, Takato, and Khalil belong to me. True to Your Heart is by 98 Degrees and Stevie Wonder. My Boo is by Usher featuring Alicia Keys, but there are some changes in the lyrics to fit the situation in the story. Superstar is by Ruben Studdard. Xbox 360 is owned by Microsoft. Feel free to make comments or suggestions.

Chapter 1: You Got Match

It was a scorching May day in Socorro, New Mexico. Outside of the city's limits was a large hole where a laboratory used to sit. Within the hole, a rainforest paradise resided, with numerous trees surrounding the cavern walls and a waterfall sitting along one of the walls. Sitting in the center of the cavern was a large complex of fire hydrant shaped buildings. Within the walls of one of the buildings was a hallway with numerous doors on either side of the long hallway.

On the other side of one of the doors was a large urban themed bedroom. Three out of the four walls had a brick wall paint scheme, resembling a side of a building. The left wall from the entrance of the room was blank. Next to the blank wall was a home theater system that was embedded in the wall. There are three sets of surround sound systems in the room: one near the ceiling, one halfway down the wall, and one more near the floor. Four computer projectors that point toward the blank wall, creating a video wall, are located in the ceiling and are hidden. The floor close to the video wall is lowered. A coffee table sat in front of the video wall, and a curved couch sat behind the coffee table. A king size bed sat across from the door. A nightstand sat next to the bed on the right, and a desk that is sitting a few feet from the bed sat on the left side of the bed. A door that leads to the bathroom sat along the right wall. A keyboard, turntables, and a saxophone are located in the lower right hand corner of the room. A dresser is located in the upper right hand corner of the room. Next to the dresser is a walk-in closet.

Sitting on the couch, with a wireless keyboard on his lap, was a male teenaged shiba inu canosapien. He wore a red South Pole t-shirt, baggy jeans, and a pair of sunglasses on top of his head. The teen stared at the video wall, which displaying an online dating website. At the moment, he was creating a profile. While he was making his profile, a knock came from his bedroom door.

"It's open," the teen called from his seat, while still focusing on the video wall.

The door to the room opened, and a male teenaged white tiger felospaien stepped in. The white tiger wore a black basketball jersey with the number two on it, a t-shirt with the sleeves torn off underneath, baggy jeans with some holes in it, and tan work boots. He walked over to the couch where the canospaien sat. He stopped and looked down at the canosapien before looking up at the video wall.

"Hey J, wha're you doin'?" the white tiger asked, looking at the wall.

"I'm creatin' a profile on this online datin' site," J replied as he continued to type on the keyboard. "Wha' do you think of it?"

The white tiger walked around the couch and sat down next to J. He started to read J's profile. He leaned back and placed his right hand on his chin, while he read it. After he got through reading it, he nodded his head.

"It looks good," the white tiger said. "Does sis know 'bout this?"

"I haven't told her yet, Blaze," J said. "I'll tell her soon though." He then clicked on the submit button with the wireless mouse. A moment later, another profile popped up.

"It seems like it already found a match for you bro," Ice Blaze said.

"It says her name is Ayame Shiwatori," J said, looking at her profile.

"Must be Japanese."

"You think?" J asked sarcastically. He continued to look at her profile until he stopped. "Found it."

"Found wha'?"

J dug into his pocket and pulled out his phone, and then he answered, "Her phone numbe'." He looked at the screen, while he dialed the number on his phone. The phone started to ring. After a few more rings, someone finally answered the phone.

"Hello?" a female oriental voice answered from the other end.

"Hello, is this Ayame?" J asked nervously.

"Yes it is," Ayame replied. "Who is this?"

"Name's J, n' I was matched to your profile on ."

"Really!?!" she exclaimed excitedly. "That's great. I can't wait to meet you."

"Me ne-…" J said before being interrupted by an alarm.

"What's that?" she asked.

"Someone is stealin' my ride," J lied. "I have to go to now n' get my car back. I'll talk to you late'."

"Okay bye and good luck in getting your car back," she said before hanging up.

J and Ice Blaze got up from the couch. Ice Blaze ran to the door, while J ran to the bed to get his shoes on.

"I'll meet you down there in moment Blaze," J said as he was slipping on his worn out pair of sneakers.

Ice Blaze nodded his head and headed out the door. Once J got his shoes on, he exited the room and headed down the hallway toward the briefing room of the facility. J reached the briefing room a moment after Ice Blaze did. The briefing room was a large circular room with high walls. The Road Rovers logo was on the floor. In front of the room was a balcony, where a white male with white hair and glowing white eyes wearing a white suit stood. Next to the balcony was a large monitor that is displaying the state of Florida. In front of the monitor was a circular table that has the Road Rovers logo on it. On one side of the table were seven seats.

Sitting in the four of the seats were four figures. The first figure was Ice Blaze. Next to Ice Blaze was a teenaged male German Shepherd, Doberman, and Golden Retriever mix with light brown fur with patches of dark brown throughout his body. His left ear had a chunk taken out. His tail is long and fluffy, and his hair is fluffy too. He wore a blue and red football jersey with the number one on it, blue jeans, sneakers, and a red and blue head band to keep his hair out of his face. Next to the mix was a German Shepherd that wore a camouflage army jumpsuit and a camouflage beret. Next to the German Shepherd was white male with black hair and brown eyes. He wore a blue jacket, white t-shirt, black combat pants, and white trainers. A unique feature about this person was a canine tail that stuck out from his pants.

J took a seat next to Ice Blaze and turned his attention to the man on the balcony.

"Rovers," said the man. "It seems like General Parvo is up to no good again."

"Name one thing tha' he has done anything good?" J said. There was a brief pause. "I rest my case."

"As I was saying, Parvo's men have kidnapped scientists and engineers from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. I don't know what he is planning, nor where his base is located. Go to the space center and look for clues."

The German Shepherd stood up from his seat and looked at everyone else in the group.

"All right troops," he said in an official commanding tone. "We've heard the situation from Master. Now it is our job to stop Parvo at all cost. Let's move out."

The group rushed out of the briefing room. Ice Blaze ran up next to J.

"Why do you always have to make sarcastic remarks?"

"Well, this habit is like a cockroach."

"A cockroach?"

"Yeah, it's too stubborn to die until you nuke it to kingdom come."

Ice Blaze just shook his head as the group approached the hangar. The group arrived at the hangar, which was an extremely large room full of Rover aircraft. In the center of the room was a large yellow R. The group headed over to a red jumbo sized dog-shaped aircraft. They boarded the vehicle. Inside the aircraft, the German Shepherd took the pilot seat, and Ice Blaze took the co-pilot seat. J sat behind Ice Blaze; the mutt is behind German Shepherd, and the human is behind J.

The German Shepherd requested permission for takeoff, which was granted. He started up the aircraft, and the aircraft slowly ascended toward the retractable roof. It finally made it out of the hole. The German Shepherd changed the direction toward Florida and started to fly in that direction. While en route to Florida, the human tapped on J's shoulder. J turned around and looked at him.

"I haven't introduced myself, my name is Chris," he said in a British accent.

"Sup man, name's J," J said as he extended his right hand. "Nice to meet you."

"Same here," Chris said as he shook J's hand.

"In front of me is my brothe', Ice Blaze," J pointed to the white tiger in front of him.

"Friends call me Blaze for short though," Ice Blaze added. "It's great to meet you Chris."

"It's great to meet you too Blaze, but I have a question…"

"I already know wha' it is," J interrupted. "You wanna know how me n' him are brothers right?"

Chris nodded.

"I'll give you the short, sweet, n' to the point story. I was human at one point, n' Blaze was a regular white tiger. We went to the park to relax but got ambushed by a group of ninjas. We woke up in Parvo's base. My cousin mutated me n' Blaze. We escaped n' ended up at Mission Control as stowaways in the Turbojet Rover. We got our butts chased before tellin' 'em it was a big misunderstandin'. We late' joined the Rovers."

"But that doesn't explain why you two are brothers though," Chris said.

"I was adopted into the family," Ice Blaze said. "I was J's pet before becomin' a felosapien. Afte' I became a felosapien we decided tha' I should be adopted into the family."

"Oh."

It took the aircraft a few hours, but they finally arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was large compound that featured a visitor center at one of the compound, and a launch complex at the other end. Within the launch complex was a rather large building used for assembling the spacecraft. The Sky Rover landed near the Vehicle Assembly Building.

The group disembarked from the Sky Rover. As they exited, a white man in his late 40s with black hair in a business suit approached them.

"Greetings Road Rovers, I'm Robert. D. Cabana," Robert Cabana introduced himself. "I'm the director here at Kennedy Space Center."

"Nice to meet you Mr. Cabana," the mutt said as he shook hands with Mr. Cabana.

"Can you brief us on what has happened here?" asked the German Shepherd.

"Well, some of our scientists and engineers were working on the Space Shuttle so that it could be ready for the launch of Node 3 in few months," Mr. Cabana said.

"Where were they last seen?"

"In the Vehicle Assembly Building," Mr. Cabana said as he pointed to the building that was close to the Sky Rover.

The German Shepherd turned his attention to the group.

"Alright soldiers, our objective right now is to search that building for any clues."

Everyone nodded their heads and headed toward the Vehicle Assembly Building. Once inside the building, everyone began to split up to search for clues. The entire building was huge. At one end of the building was Space Shuttle Endeavour. Throughout the facility were numerous machines and computer terminals that were used to inspect the space shuttle inside and out. J looked like a kid in a toy store when he saw the space shuttle and computer terminals.

"A geek's dream come true," J thought as drool started to fall from his mouth as he gazed at all the technology around him.

"J," the German Shepherd called to the drooling shiba inu teen. "Stop drooling and focus on the mission."

"Sorry Briggs," J said in a mesmerized matter. "For a compute' geek like me, this is paradise."

"Don't bothe' Briggs," Ice Blaze said as he walked up to the German Shepherd. "When you get him near anything tha' deals wit' technology, you'll need the Jaws of Life to get him away from it." He handed the German Shepherd a piece of dark cloth. "Oh yeah, I found this over by some compute' terminals ove' there." He pointed to the terminals close to the shuttle.

"Good work soldier," Briggs said.

"N' from the smell of it," Ice Blaze said, sniffing the cloth. "I havin' a bad case of déjà vu."

"Why is that?" asked the mutt as he and Chris met up with Briggs and Ice Blaze.

"Dylan, remembe' how J n' I were ambushed by those ninjas in the park a while back?"

"Yeah, I do," Dylan said, nodding his head.

"Well before bein' ambushed, I found a dark cloth in a bush with the same scent on it."

"What does that mean?" asked Chris.

"It means tha' it is the same group of ninjas who took the scientists n' engineers."

"We better report back to Master then," Briggs said as he turned around. He stopped and looked around the area for J. "Where's J?"

"I'll give y'all one guess," Ice Blaze said, nodding his head in the direction of the space shuttle. "I wonde' if they have a crowbar around here."

"Why do you need a crowbar?" asked Dylan.

"Trust me, even wit' all my strength, J will have a death grip on anything he can get his paws on," Ice Blaze said as he found a crowbar in toolbox.

"So what are you planning to do with the crowbar?" asked Chris.

"Well there are two ways to approach this," Ice Blaze said, resting the crowbar on his left shoulder. "The first way is to pry him off of wha' he is clingin' on to, while he is kickin', screamin', n' degradin' his dignity. The second way is to hit him upside his head wit' the crowbar. I highly recommend the second option because tha' way we don't have struggle wit' pryin' him off anything."

"Is there a third option that doesn't involve struggle or violence?" asked Dylan.

Ice Blaze shook his head. "Nope."

"We'll go with the first option," Briggs said. "It's non-lethal of the two options." He started to make his way toward the space shuttle.

Inside Endeavour's cockpit, J was sitting in one of the seats, looking at the controls to the shuttle. He had his laptop out and typed out notes on it. He also had a notepad and a pencil out so that he could make some diagrams. A group of shadows appeared behind the chair that J was sitting. The shadows belonged to Dylan, Briggs, Chris, and Ice Blaze. Their shadows blocked the light that was coming from the shuttle's ceiling, preventing J from continuing his diagram sketch of the shuttle's controls. He looked behind him and saw the group standing there.

"Hey guys," J said, laughing nervously. "Wha' brings y'all up here?"

Ice Blaze pounced onto J with brute force. J let out a scream as the white tiger pounced onto him. J attempted to latch onto to something as he was being dragged out of the shuttle.

"No!" he cried out as he latched onto one of the seats. "I ain't finished diagramin' the controls!"

"Yes…you…are…" Ice Blaze said as he pulled on J's kicking legs. "N' stop kickin' me in the face!"

"I'll stop kickin' when you let go of my legs," J said, kicking Ice Blaze in the chest.

"Like tha' is goin' to happen," Ice Blaze said as continued to pull on J's legs until a popping sound was heard.

J eyes went wide, and he released his grip from the chair, which sent him flying toward Ice Blaze. They collided with each other. Ice Blaze had the wind knocked out of him when J struck his chest, and J was on top of Ice Blaze unconscious.

"Well…I guess we have found our third option," Chris said.

"Yeah, but what was that popping noise," Dylan asked.

"I think I jus' popped J's legs," Ice Blaze said, pushing J's body off of his body so that he could get up.

Once up, Ice Blaze picked up J and placed him over his right shoulder. Chris and Dylan went into the cockpit to grab J's stuff. They returned a moment later. Ice Blaze picked up the crowbar that was dropped on the floor with his left hand. The group then exited the space shuttle and headed toward the exit of the Vehicle Assembly Building. While on the way out, Ice Blaze returned the crowbar back into the toolbox he found it in.

Everyone left the Vehicle Assembly Building and headed toward the Sky Rover. They boarded the aircraft. Briggs got back into the pilot's seat. Ice Blaze placed J in the seat behind the co-pilot's seat. After placing J in his seat, Ice Blaze took his position in the co-pilot's seat. Dylan sat across from J, and Chris sat behind J. Briggs started up the aircraft and headed toward Road Rover Mission Control.

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