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The Separation. Chapter 1: Down Time
They stood in one corner of the diner, whispering amongst themselves, watching her. Just when they thought that the past minute couldn't get any stranger, it had. Before them now was one of the most complex programs that had ever been developed. It had been designed to fulfill a very important task : to seek out viral entities, to rewrite their file code, and render them non viral. As they watched this program, explanations for the current circumstances seemed to be few and far between. By all programming logic, it was impossible. Game logic was different, but still, it was incredible. Though no one knew exactly how it had happened or why, it had. Now this complex, important, and powerful program was there, in front of their eyes, sitting in the body of a child.
"Well Sugah, what do ya think?" Mouse spoke to Bob but couldn't turn her eyes away from the yellow skinned girl with dark blue hair. She had developed the A.v.A. program but had never imagined anything like this was possible.
"What if its a trick. Something Megabyte did." Matrix looked at the smiling, blue-haired child as she spun on the bar stool and giggled.
"I doubt that Sparky." AndrAIa smirked. "Besides, look at her." AndrAIa laughed as the young girl spun again with a giggle. "She's just a kid."
"That's just it, " Dot finally took her eyes off the girl. "She shouldn't be here."
"But she is." Bob continued to watch as the girl hopped off of the bar stool and skipped over to one of the booths with a giant smile on her blue colored lips. He smiled and laughed as she took a straw and examined it. "She's a child. Its as if she was just formatted. Just watch her Dot. Everything is new to her."
"I know Bob." Dot had to agree. She was a child. Dot looked over and had to laugh to herself as the girl began to balance the straw on her nose. "But we still need to find out exactly what she is."
"Why don't you just ask her." Ray chimed in. "She is an AI after all, and we know she can talk. She probably knows more..." He cut of his words as the girl lost her balance and began to topple over. Baud flew over and caught her before she hit the ground. "You alright Lil-Bit?"
"I am undamaged. Thank you!" The girl giggled and looked at Ray through her floppy pink bangs. "I am just not used to these things yet" She wiggled her bright yellow-skinned legs a bit then looked down at Baud and giggled.
"Oh! Hello!" She said to the Baud. After Baud responded with a single beep, she grinned and touched Baud with her hand. After a few moments she looked up at Ray and laughed.
"Well, I guess so then." Ray laughed back at her.
"What?" Mouse raised an eyebrow. "She didn't say anything."
"Actually luv, she said a whole lot." Ray smirked back at the girl. "No Lil-Bit, they don't."
"Don't what?" Bob looked between the two, confused.
"Speak PNI…program neural interface. She can speak to me by connecting to my program interface." Ray explained after a smirk at all of the confused faces. "Its hard to explain, really, unless you can do it." Ray shrugged and turned back to the girl.
"Okay." The girl laughed after a few moments. She hopped off of Baud and headed closer to the group. "Ray said you wanted information from me?"
"A.v.A. , we just have a few questions…well more than a few actually." Dot began, not really sure of how to approach this problem.
"A.v.A." The girl thought for a moment then frowned. "That's the name of my program matrix."
"Something wrong with that name?" Bob raised an eyebrow.
"Well it is kind of…technical." AndrAIa noted.
"How about just Ava?" Mouse shrugged and looked at the child.
"Ava." The child repeated as she sounded out the letters to her program matrix in a different voice pattern. "A-vah. Okay!" She looked up as the grin returned to her lips.
"Alright, Ava it is." Dot gave the girl a smile. "Well Ava, I suppose the first question would have to be…" Dot didn't want to hurt the girls feelings, if she had them. "What are you, exactly?"
"I am Ava." The girl shrugged, then stopped and looked up at Ray. "Oh…I get it. Thank you Ray."
"No problem Lil-Bit."
'I wish you two would quit doing that…" Matrix said as he raised an eyebrow with a slight frown at being left out of part of the conversation.
"I am A.v.A." The girls voice changed slightly, as if reading a text file within her programming. "Anti-viral Agent, Keytool program 181alpha. My function is to seek out viral entities, rewrite their file codes, and render them non-viral." The girl blinked slightly, as if recovering from a slight haze, then giggled. "That's a long name!"
"So…your still the program we created?" Mouse raised an eyebrow.
"Yes! I am a program. My function is to seek out viral..." Ava began again.
"Hold on Sugah!" Mouse smiled and bent down to the girl. "But you're a sprite…I mean programs don't just get off their binary and walk away."
"That is true…" The girl scratched her head. "Ray…I do not know how to explain. I am lost."
"That's alright Lil-Bit. Its something I don't even try to explain myself." Ray rustled Ava's pink and blue hair with a smile then looked back up at the group.
"As a search engine, Ava and I are not all that different, program-setup wise, I mean." He watched as Mouse slightly downcast her eyes. Everyone in the group had known about the reality of he and Baud except Mouse. The explanation he had given her during the game hadn't exactly gone well either.
"I was designed with this physical interface, however." Ray continued. "Ava, wasn't. Basically, she is still the program A.v.A., but the game took her PD and her AI and created a physical interface. Why it did that could be any number of reasons. Your guess on that is as good as mine."
"Well, all we do know for sure is that it did happen, and she's here." Bob looked over at Ava who had occupied herself during Ray's explanation. She was peering into the reflective surface of a napkin dispenser, making faces at herself.
"Alright. Mouse, how does that explanation fit with your understandings?" Dot wanted as many opinions on this as possible. She still hadn't cast aside Matrix's idea of Ava being a possible "gift" from Megabyte.
"Well." Mouse looked up at the group again. During the game, Ray had attempted to give an explanation of search engine programs and physical interfaces. That explanation had told her things that she hadn't thought possible. Now her understandings and knowledge of things felt small and insignificant. "Anything's possible." was all she could think of to say.
"That's for sure." AndrAIa hadn't been able to take her eyes off of Ava. She was so much fun to watch. Ava looked at everything as if it was brand new. She had one of the most complex programs and the body of a version 1-0, but her mind was a cross between a computer interface and a newly formatted basic.
"Ava?" Dot looked back over at the girl making faces at the napkin dispenser. Ava looked up and gave Dot the same overly large grin as before.
"Yes, Dot?" Ava's bright blue eyes looked up at Dot through the pink strands of hair that swept over her forehead.
"I have another very important question, and I was hoping that you could answer it for me. If you get lost again, you can tell Ray and he can explain, ok?" Dot asked slowly.
"Okay." She grinned again with a tilt of her head.
"Thank you." Dot gave Ava a small smile before continuing. "I need to know what went wrong with your first test subject, Megabyte. I need to know why you were unable to cure him…to fix his code after you infected him."
"I never infected him." Ava looked at Dot with a tilted head and raised eyebrow.
"What? But we saw his weakened state!" Matrix looked at Ava with a raised eyebrow of his own.
"My program made the transfer, but I never infected Megabyte." Ava wrinkled her nose then looked up at Ray.
"I don't understand. What's the difference between your programming transfer and you infecting the virus?" Dot was confused by the child's lack of explanation.
"Hold on a second Dot." Ray looked at Ava to receive the PNI transfer. "Whoa, slow down Lil-Bit!." Ray couldn't believe how fast she was processing. "Alright, I think I understand." Ray turned back to everyone, his head spinning slightly from the rate of the information exchange. "When Megabyte droned you Dot, Ava's anti-viral program did infect him, but Ava, the AI, didn't."
"So, the program that transferred over was only partial!" Bob understood, sort of.
"And without the AI, the program wasn't able to learn and adjust to Megabyte's files as they fought back!" Mouse nearly hit herself for not seeing that sooner.
"But why didn't the AI transfer?" AndrAIa chimed in.
"I don't know…" Dot stopped suddenly and then looked down at Ava's PDi. "Ava, what is the first thing you remember? Was it the lab when we first tested you, after the game, when?"
"Dot, what's this all about?" Bob placed a hand on her shoulder. He could almost see the files in Dot's head as the began to process a new idea.
"Well…." Ava chewed on her bottom lip as she stopped to think. She twisted her ankle behind her for a moment, then stopped. "Well I do remember the lab…but it was dark and cold….but I did not know then that it was cold. I…I could not see or feel…or really understand anything." She looked down for a moment, that odd tinge of adult like quality returning to her voice.
"I was alone, but I did not know I was alone. I had no…understanding." She paused to look up at Dot. "Then suddenly I understood."
"When, Ava?" Dot placed a hand on her young girl's shoulder.
"When I was placed here." She placed her hand over her PDi. "and then when I was placed here." She pointed to Dot's icon slowly and chewed lightly on her bottom lip, as if in deep contemplation.
"You mean when I downloaded you onto my own PID?" Dot looked down at Ava's hand as it touched the icon.
"Yes…downloaded." Ava nodded simply. "When you registered me, I became aware."
"Well that explains how Megabyte lucked out." Matrix said, looking down at Ava.
"Of course." Dot stood upright. "How could I have been so basic!" She hit her head and rolled her eyes.
"What?" Bob raised an eyebrow.
"Of course the AI wouldn't transfer to Megabyte! I registered it onto the PDi! I registered the AI!" Dot shook her head and almost started to laugh at her own mistake.
"Bob, when Ava's AI became registered with Mainframe, it became permanently imprinted onto that PDi. There was no way it could have transferred to Megabyte." Mouse explained.
"I cant believe I made such a basic mistake!" Dot grumbled.
"Dot…"
"Yes, Ava." Dot looked down at her.
"You are not mad at me are you?" Ava began to chew on her bottom lip again, now assured in her limited understanding that she had failed her prime function.
"Oh, no Ava!" Dot knelt down beside her and placed the hand back on her shoulder. "I'm mad at myself. Its not your fault that you weren't able to cure Megabyte, its mine. I'm just mad at myself for making the mistake."
"Dot, " Ava placed her hand over Dots. "I…I am happy you made the mistake."
"I…" Dot looked down at the young sprite's eyes as they sparkled with the simplicity and truth that only a child can have. "I am glad too."
"Okay." Ava gave the same tilted head grin, as if it was in her programming to do so.
************
"When will we be able to begin, good doctor?" Megabyte stared strait ahead as he laid down on the cold steel table in the P.O. lab room, awaiting the doctor to complete his proposed treatment. The thoughts of all that had happened over the last cycle filled his mind as his body continued to fight what remained of Anti Viral Agent, or A.v.A. . The momentary lapses he had experienced in his viral nature filled most of his thoughts, but the new addition to the Main Frame program registration matrix made a small sneering smile come across his lips. The fact that he had survived and overcome all that those sprites had thrown at him made him laugh arrogantly. He had been victorious again. A little worse for wear, but victorious non the less. Now the hunt would continue, and he now had a new way to complete his plan.
"Ve will begin momentarily." The doctor spoke over his shoulder as he began running the initialization sequence for the binary purge.
"Doctor," Megabyte keep is deep green eyes focused on the darkness above him. "I want you to save all purged data."
"You vant me to save ze anti-viral program, Lord Meg-n-byte-n?" The Doctor raised his brow.
"Do I have to repeat myself?" Megabyte rolled his eyes, not wanting to explain what he had in mind. Not yet.
"No, of course not!" The doctor jumped slightly and turned to reconfigure the purge program. "It vill take longer, but it can be done."
"Wonderful." Megabyte barely spoke in an auditable tone. He had a cure for one of the problems that ailed him. All he needed now was a way to rid himself of this guardian infection that appeared every now and then. He new exactly when it appeared, but he refused to let his mind wander back to those moments of viral lapse. Every time they did, he found himself lingering on something that deeply disgusted the pit of his viral stomach.
***********
"Bob, what are you doing?" Dot said through a laugh as she watched Bob and Ava go at a thumb war.
"I am teaching Ava what the word play means." Bob looked up at Dot with his usual innocently boyish grin.
"Well you could at least teach her how to play it the right way." Matrix suggested.
"What do you mean?" Bob raised an eyebrow.
"Your elbow is way to high." Matrix pointed out. "It always was."
"Oh, so that's how you always beat me?" Bob smirked.
"That and your weak thumbs." Matrix gruffed out a small laugh.
"Weak thumbs!" Bob laughed then looked down at Ava. "Do I have weak thumbs?" His question only caused Ava to giggle at the funny perplexed look on his face.
"See!" Matrix used Ava's giggle as a sign that he was right. He had relaxed a bit as he watched Ava's actions. She didn't seem threatening, but he still had tinges of uncertainty in the back of his mind. "Ow!" Matrix faked a hurt look as AndrAIa hit his shoulder.
"Let them have their fun." AndrAIa chided. "Quit being a pain in the ascii."
"Too easy." Ray laughed, refraining from making a comment on just how much of a pain in the ascii Matrix was. "Ow!" Ray flinched as Mouse thwapped him on the shoulder. He gave her a goofy innocent grin. "What?"
"You know what." Mouse said through a small smile.
"Now if we could continue without further interruptions." Bob spoke in a serious tone that made Dot laugh again. Bob lingered happily in Dots laugh for a moment before turning back to the giggling Ava. "Ok. So you put your hand like this, and then you…"
"Bob!" Enzo called out Bob's name as he rushed through the doors of the diner. He ran toward Bob for his usual greeting. "Bob! We won! We actually won! I mean, I didn't have any doubts, but for a while there, it was well, close you know and.." His words stopped as he forced his legs to hit the brakes in his mad dash for Bob when he caught site of Ava.
"Hello!" Ava chimed through her wide grin with a wave of a small hand.
"Whoa! Pixelatious! " Enzo blinked a few times. "Who are you? Where did you come from?" He turned to Bob. "What's going on Bob?"
"Whoa, slow down your processes!" Bob smirked. "Enzo, this is Ava."
"Hello!" Ava repeated with the same small wave and large grin, as if repeating the same task.
"Hi." Enzo said as he surveyed Ava for a moment. She seemed a little on the basic side to him, but it was still someone his age.
"Enzo, where is Phong?" Dot looked up from her planner.
"Oh! Hey sis!" Enzo then looked behind him. "Well he was right behind me…"
"My son, " Phong slowly opened the doors to the diner in a short-breathed voice. "slow down."
"There he is!" Enzo smiled.
"We should have you in for a check up soon." Phong caught his breath for a moment. "You seem to be running just a bit on the fast side."
"Hi Phong." Bob waved slightly.
"Oh, Bob! Good, where is this thing that had to wait until we were back at the…" Phong raised an eyebrow, and his jaw opened wide as he caught sight of the small smiling yellow sprite beside Bob. "Oh I see…"
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"Ava…" Phong held the small scanner up to Ava's head as she continued to look at whatever she found interesting.
"Yes, Phong?" Ava looked between Matrix and Enzo for a moment.
"In order for me to complete these scans, my child, " Phong tried to keep the scanner aligned with her head. "you must hold still."
"Okay." Ava turned back to Phong with the grin that seemed forever plastered on her blue lips.
"Well so far, the sectors are still quiet." Bob stepped out from behind the counter where he had talked to several of the bynomes from the sectors.
"Have you told Turbo of our new addition, darlin?" Mouse looked over to Bob as he approached.
"Not yet." Bob shook his head. "I don't want to give him another reason to force his way into the system. Besides, I don't exactly know what to tell him." Bob glanced over to watch Phong try and run a scan on the ever fidgety Ava.
"Alright then sugah." Mouse just shrugged lightly, not entirely fond of the idea of Turbo and the guardian forces coming into the system to do things their own way.
"AndrAIa and I are going back to the bunkers to check up on the troops." Matrix called out to Bob on his way out the door.
"Good idea." Bob nodded and gave a small wave to them as the door closed.
"Please hold still my child." Phong sighed.
"Okay." Ava said exactly the same as before with the same smile.
"How's it going?" Bob walked up beside Phong, Enzo, and Ava.
"Very slow, my son." Phong shook his head as Ava moved again. "But I want to show you something. Mouse, you would do well to see this."
"Alright." Mouse stood up from her seat next to Ray at the bar and walked over with Ray following close behind.
"Find something out?" Ray questioned.
"I think so." Phong opened a vid window and displayed a complex binary combination. "Ava, what do you make of this?"
"That is a secondary bypass of a program matrix caused by a series of interrupting links, possibly virus or system malfunction related." Ava blinked a few times and turned back to Phong.
"She's right." Mouse shook her head in disbelief.
"Very good Ava." Phong nodded, then picked up a spoon from the diner counter. "And what is this, my child?"
"That is…" Ava paused and furrowed her brow for a moment, then giggled when she saw her warped reflection in the spoon. "shiny!"
"What?" Enzo started to laugh. "She doesn't know what a spoon is?"
"Exactly, my son." Phong nodded.
"So, that means…what exactly?" Bob raised an eyebrow.
"Well it means that Ava still has all the information we programmed her with such as program sequences, viral information, mechanical knowledge, ect." Mouse replied. "Everything that we thought might be necessary for the A.v.A. program to complete its primary function."
"But since she wasn't programmed with unnecessary information, such as what a spoon is, she must learn it for herself." Phong eyed Bob to see if he understood.
"Alright." Bob nodded slightly.
"So she's like a basic 0-0?" Enzo said through the remains of his laughter.
"Yes." Phong nodded as he adjusted his glasses. He looked back up at Ava who had occupied herself with looking at herself in the warped image that the spoon presented.
"Just means she's got some learning to do." Ray smirked as Ava's attention switched from the spoon to a glass.
"A lot of learning to do." Enzo started to laugh again as Ava put the glass up to her eye and looked through it with a large laugh at the distorted view of the world it gave.
"And who better to teach her?" Bob put a hand on Enzo's shoulder.
"What!" Enzo looked up at Bob. "She's way to basic, Bob! I cant process that slow!"
"As a favor for me?" Bob smiled down at Enzo.
"Well…" Enzo sighed at looked back at Ava who set the glass down and grinned up at him. After a slight roll of the eyes and a laugh, he nodded. "Alright."
"Thanks, Enzo." Bob stood back up and looked around, realizing that someone was missing. "Where's Dot?"
"Having a bit of downtime, sugah." Mouse answered after a sip of an energy shake and a yawn.
"Doctors orders." Phong smiled up at Bob.
"Same thing you should be doing, luv." Ray crossed his arms and looked at Mouse's less than energetic state.
"I'm fine." Mouse replied simply.
"One question." Bob stated.
"Yes, my son?" Phong tilted his head slightly.
"Which one of you took Dot's organizer away from her?" Bob smirked as the group all exchanged glances.
"We seem to have made an error." Phong looked up at Bob with a small smirk of his own and shrugged.
"Ill get it away from her," Bob rolled his eyes. "and make sure she is following the doctor's orders." Bob shook his head again in a small laugh and headed downstairs.
*********
"That sector was clear." Hack spoke to Slash as they headed out of Baudway on their way to Beverly Hills.
"So was Floating Point." Slash added.
"One thing I do not compute."
"What would that be, buddy?"
"Bob could of checked this out through a vid window."
"So? Maybe he wanted us to check, since we are so reliable."
"Maybe." Hack raised his brow. "Or maybe it is just busy work."
"Why would he do that?" Slash returned the look.
"I have no idea."
"You are just being silly."
"Am not."
"Are too. You do this a lot!"
"Do not!"
"Sure! Remember that time…"
"Must you always bring up past experiences?" Hack frowned.
"Only making an example." Slash insisted. "Like that time when.."
"The things I put up with." Hack sped down to get a closer look at Beverly Hills.
"Well, someone has a null in their gears this morning." Slash followed.
***********
"Here are the reports you requested, sir!" Tiggs handed Matrix the vid pad and saluted.
"Thanks." Matrix nodded and gave a small salute of his own after taking the pad. Tiggs smiled and walked off to attend to his CPU repairs.
"Well?" AndrAIa looked over Matrix's large arm to get a view of the data pad.
"We actually didn't do too bad." Matrix nodded in approval with a small smile. "They should be able to attempt a secondary strike by the end of the second."
"That soon?" AndrAIa questioned, wondering if Matrix was being a little optimistic in his hopes to attack Megabyte as soon as possible.
"Well ya." Matrix showed her the data pad. "See for yourself. We only have a few things to fix."
"Sparky…" AndrAIa had to stop herself from smirking as she pressed the 'next page' button on the pad. There were actually four pages of things that needed to be fixed.
"Oh." Matrix sighed, then smirked down at AndrAIa. "Ok, beginning of next second then."
"Sparky…" AndrAIa put her hands on her hips.
"What?" Matrix gave her an innocent look, then sighed with a sagging of the shoulders when she wouldn't give up in her resolve. "Alright. Don't worry, I wont send them out prematurely."
"Good." AndrAIa took her hands off of her hips and wrapped them around one of his massive arms. "Then we can relax for a bit."
"I had a feeling you were going to say the 'R' word." Matrix smirked and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Is relaxing every once in a while so bad?" AndrAIa asked honestly as she looked up into his eyes.
"Yes." Matrix answered truthfully.
"Oh." AndrAIa lowed her eyes slightly.
"Except when I'm relaxing with you." Matrix smiled as she looked back up to him. Being romantic wasn't his forte, but he was trying to improve.
"Good answer." AndrAIa laughed and tapped his nose playfully. It was the small moments like these that the love she held for him was unmistakable. She wished there were more of these times.
***********
Bob made his way slowly into the apartment below the diner. Most of the lights in the place were turned off, and the soft morning light crept into the living room through a small half window. The light glimmered off of the various objects on the shelves of the tidy living space, illuminating various pictures and other memorable items from a past that seemed so distant. Bob smiled as he picked up a small framed photograph from the talent show for Enzo's, well Matrix now, 1-0 birthday. Dot seemed so happy in that picture, and she had been so amazing in that dress. That, however, was back before their world was turned upside down by the Web Wars. Now it was a rare thing to see Dot that happy. Bob sighed and quietly placed the picture frame back on the shelf.
He turned his eyes back to the dimly lit apartment to see Dot quietly asleep on the couch, her organizer firmly held by a hand in her lap. He smiled and shook his head at the sight as he grabbed a blanket off of a chair and walked over to her. Kneeling down in front of her, he slowly inched the organizer from her hand and set it on the coffee table. A small beep from the planner broke the silence of the room, causing bob to flinch and Dot to let out a soft moan . She stirred lightly, but did not awaken. Bob breathed a sigh of relief and stuck his tongue out at the planner in protest before lightly draping the blanket over Dot. Frowning slightly as the couch made a creaking noise, he sat down beside her. He was content just to sit there and watch her forever. It was amazing to him how different she looked when she slept. The calmness that sleep brought to her face served to enhance the beauty that he saw in her. When she was asleep, it was like they were back to when the photograph was taken, back to the days when things were alright. Now they had been through so much together, and despite all that had come between them, they were still together. Bob believed that nothing could ever change that. No amount of betrayal, shame, hardships, or mistakes could ever destroy the love he had for the sleeping beauty before him.
A slight stir from Dot brought Bob's thoughts back to the living room he sat in. As her movements got stronger and the look on her face began to contort, he realized that she was no longer dreaming. A nightmare had made its way into their perfect moment, but he was there this time to take her away from it.
"Dot?" Bob spoke softly as he gently grasped her shoulder. "Dot, wake up."
"No…please…" Dot twisted her head away in her dream state as the nightmare fought to keep her in its clutches.
"Dot?" Bob called her name again to try and wake her from her panic. Another nudge from his hands on her shoulders finally brought her eyes open to the apartment. Still dazed within the confines of the nightmare, her eyes widened as she caught site of Bob and brought her hands up to guard against him.
"No! Get away!" She flinched as her hazy mind tried to discern nightmare from reality. Her confused mind told her it was the monster again, here to take her from all that she cared about. As her eyes finally looked back up into his eyes, however, her heart told her the truth in the situation.
"Dot, its just me." Bob said softly as he gently lowered her arms from her face. "You were just having a bad dream. Its me."
"I know." She said slowly, her eyes still focused on his. Megabyte may have been able to replicate the color of Bob's eyes, but he couldn't replicate the depth and sincerity that they held. If only she had realized that before, none of this mess would have happened. She swore she would never make that mistake again, and she would never hurt him like that again. She sucked in a sob from the horrific nature of the dream that had consumed her and leaned against his chest. "I know, Bob."
Spoken words about the comfort that they brought to each other were unnecessary. She curled up tightly against him as his arms wrapped around the warmth of her body. His lips kissed to top of her forehead lovingly before he rested his cheek on top of her head. Just watching her sleep had made him feel content. Now, holding her in his arms and listening to her breath in the silence of the room, he felt his whole world come together. Life became simple and seemed to exist for only that moment. Closing his eyes, he wanted nothing more out of life than that moment with her. No matter what had happened in the past or what would happen in the future, nothing could ever take the love that existed in that moment away from them. It was theirs, forever.
*********
"My patience is growing thin, heir Doctor." Megabyte felt like had been staring at the gray ceiling of the P.O. lab room forever. The doctor had taken longer than expected to reconfigure the machine so that it could save the purged data.
"Ya, vone moment, mine heir Meg-n-byte-n." The doctor held up one finger over his shoulder as his other hand pushed a few more buttons. "Alvight, throw ze switch!"
"Uh." The bunny-footed binome grunted slightly in a nod before hobbling over on his bunny-slipper foot to the switch box. With a small bit of grunting laughter and drool, he threw the switch and the purging machine came to life.
"Ya! Ve are in busy-ness!" The doctor clapped his hands.
"Then you are ready to begin?" Megabyte sighed slightly at the doctor's enthusiasm.
"Ya, my lord." The Doctor turned to Megabyte holding a wire from the machine with a large needle in the end. "Just vone last hook up to you, and ve can begin the purge."
