Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Cyberchase or any of the characters It is owned by WNET, Thirteen WNET New York, and Nelvana Title Entertainment Inc. (man three company's for one show? o.o ). The only thing I own here is A) The idea for this story, and B) My original character Loraine Kenndal. (and the doctor and nurses :) Also the name Zippy's Gas Station belongs to Herinteractive Inc. and the name Connie Kenndal belongs to Focus on the Family and Adventures in Odyssey.
Authors note: Hey everyone, this is my first ever fan fic! I'm SO excited! Just FYI this chapter takes place just before Hacker takes his revenge on Coop for refusing to use the transformitron (trans-form-i-tron, it sounds the way I spelled it, which might be wrong : ) for evil. (I feel like putting an evil laugh here, don't know why, eh why not... MUAAHAHA!) Ok! One last thing and then I'll be quiet! When you review this story as a whole please tell me if I'm getting too mushy with the story line (or going overboard with anything for that matter!) I tend to get kind of overly sappy with love story's *dramatically bat's eye lashes* XD Alright I'll be quiet now! Enjoy people!
Darkmatterfangirl
Characters:
Lori Kenndal: Sliders mom and Coops wife, 25 yrs old (in the first chapter, 32 from chapter 2 on), and a nurse.
Coop Kenndal:Sliders dad and Lori's husband, 27 yrs old (in the first chapter, 34 from chapter 2 on) owns a garage, used to work for motherbord (fix-it-guy), former best friend of hacker.
Slider Kenndal: Lori and Coop's son, 6 yrs old (in the first chapter, 13 from chapter 2 on).
Hacker Sinclair (great right?) :Good guy turned bad, 28 yrs old ( in the first cha...ok, you get the idea, I'm gonna stop being redundant!), used to co-own Coop's garage and work for MB (computer tecky), exceedingly vain and bitter (natch).
Rylie Jennings: An old school friend of Coop's. She's 27 years old, and a C.S.A. Agent.
Derek Andres: A 29 year old C.S.A. Agent. Rylie Jennings fiance.
Max Carter: Creech's father, I just gave him a last name.
The two nurses: Just nurse that work at Valley Central Hospital, nothing more.
Dr. Wellington: An emergence room doctor/neurologist
Connie Kenndal (Yes I did this on purpose : ): Coop's 16 yr. old sister, lives down the street from them.
Inez Garcia: Doesn't come around till chapter 2.
Matt Campbell (pronounced CAM-BEL): Doesn't come till chapter 2.
Jackie Jamison (pronounced JAME-I-SON): Again, not till chapter 2.
Digit: Chapter 2 and on.
Motherboard:Same thing, Chapter 2 and on.
Dr. Marbles: Once again (sigh) chapter 2 and on.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
-Jeremiah 29:11
Chapter 1: The prologue
Radopolis: Highway 5; 3:07p.m.
It's a nice normal afternoon on Radopolis, some adults busily running errands around town, teens and kids trying to repair/build skate bots for the upcoming shreadfest skate off, some of them using store bought parts, others whatever odds and ends they can find around their houses. All in all a relatively peaceful site, everyone is 'mellow' as they (being radsters) would put it, well...almost everyone...
"ARGH! WHY DID I HAVE TO BECOME A NURSE?" Loraine Kendal ranted and raved to herself as she drove home from work. "All day long it's been,"
"Lori, I need you to fill this prescription..."
"Lori, the patient in room 345 is paging you..."
"Lori, needs you to start some I.V.'s on a patient in room 211..."
"Lori, Lori, LORI!" "Were there ANY other nurses on duty today?" she thought. With all the running around she had done...debatable.
She was beginning to think she should quit, days like this seemed to be happening more and more often lately.
Should she quit?
No she couldn't, they needed the money; her husband's car repair shop STILL hadn't taken off, they were barely breaking even as it's was.
What had happened to her life?
She was a attractive, 25 year old Christian woman, married to a great guy, had a 6 year old little boy, a good job, a nice (but small) house... and yet she was edgy, nervous, and just plain upset!
Something just wasn't right...and as she shook her head to try to get rid of the tired feeling looming over her, she remembered why her world was off kilter...Hacker.
Radopolis: Coop's Garage; 3:07p.m.
"Uhh!" Coop sighed as he dropped in to the nearest chair.
*CRACK* *THUD*
"Oof!" He was on the floor...
"Great!" He thought. "Now absolutely EVERYTHING in this shop is rebelling on me!"
He slowly got up rubbing his backside, then he looked up.
"Oh God, what are we gonna do?" he prayed.
He had lost nearly half of his costumers within a week; and he hadn't had that many to begin with.
Hacker had turned traitor last week, and left motherboard; not to mention abandoned his half of this business. And now Hacker was going around spreading roomers that Coop was some kind of double-crosser (Ironic huh?).
"Ok, shake it off man, Lori's gonna be home with Slider soon." He mumbled. "You don't have time for self-pity dude...just shake it off." He tossed the remains of the chair in the trash bin and walked toward his speeder.
Bleaker St.; 3:15 p.m.
Lori put the brake on as her car approached a red light; she looked down at the gas gauge. It read close to empty.
"Hmm...better fill the tank." She said absentmindedly; her mind was still on her problems.
Lori shivered as she thought about the way Coop had looked when he found out Hacker had threatened her...he looked frightened, and then he told her, Hacker had threatenedhim too.
She grimaced as she thought about that night...
"He said WHAT to you!" Coop shouted.
"Shh!" she said. "You'll wake Slider."
He didn't say anything else, he just got up and started pacing, finally he looked at her."He told me he would find the blueprints to the transformitron and get his revenge on me."He muttered.
As he spoke her eyes grew wide. "Oh Coop...what are we gonna do?" she said as tears filled her eyes.
He opened his mouth to say something, all that came out was a sigh. What COULD he say, he didn't know...all he could do was pull her into his arms and cry with her.
A car horn snapped her mind back to the present, the light was green.
"Get a grip girl!" she snapped at herself. "Hackers not gonna carry out those threats so just don't think about it."
At least she hopped he wouldn't carry out the threats, no he wouldn't! He just wasn't that kind of a guy, she should know, Coop and she had known Hacker since high school.
"The guy just isn't the 'hurt people' type." She decided as she pulled in to a gas station.
She just sat there for a minuet thinking; then she put her forehead on the steeringwheel and folded her hands.
"Please God, protect us." was all she said.
Zippy's Gas Station; 3:18 p.m.
In the shadows of the gas station a mysterious figure wearing a trench coat, and a ski mask, stood starring at the Loraine as she pumped gas into her car.
"Target Acquired." Said the ray-gun in his hands.
"I told you, you'd pay twit!" The man hissed as he pulled the trigger.
The ray-gun fired a reddish-orange, glowing ball that moved at lightning speed.
"AAAAHHH!" He heard her scream as it hit her.
He made a break for it; he had done what he came for...
"One down, one to go," He said as jumped on his speeder and rode off, as he did this he also pulled off his ski mask; it revealed a man with pale green skin and dark black eyes...
Radopolis: Grade School; 3:35 p.m.
"Mom is never late." Slider thought as he stood in front of his school, he looked at his digital watch again.
"3:35" he thought.
"She was supposed to be here at 3:00. Where is she?" Just as he was about to go into the school to see if his teacher could help, his dad's old speeder pulled up to the curb.
"Pops!" he shouted as his father got out of the vehicle and ran over.
"Are you alright?" Coop asked as he hugged his son.
Slider thought he sounded a little paranoid.
"Me?" He said with a confused look. "I'm fine, I was just worried. Why didn't mom pick me up?"
Coop look at his son.
Understanding the question was easy, the answer, not so much. "Umm... Sli, your mom had a bit of an accident."
Valley Central Hospital: 6:22 p.m.
"Uhhh!" Lori groaned.
Where am I? She thought. What happened?
She heard voices...who was it?
Mustering up as much energy as she could she opened her eyes.
She was in a hospital room, but why? What had happened? She didn't remember...she tried to sit up, get a better view of her surroundings...she was met with a stabbing pain comingfrom her back.
She screamed.
Two nurses flew across the room to her side.
"Just relax now honey." The first one said. "You've been through a lot."
"What happened?" Lori gasped out.
"You were at a gas station and somebody shot you with a magnetitegun." The second nurse said as she stroked Lori's forehead. "Don't you remember?"
"No... I don't...in fact..." She squeezed her eye lids closed. "I...I...I don't know...a lot of stuff is fuzzy...I can't remember.
The nurses looked at each other with worried looks on their faces.
"We're running some tests right now honey," said the first nurse. "They'll tell us what's goin' on with you."
"Do you want to see your husband?" Asked the second nurse."He's waiting outside."
"Coop? Yes! Please!" She was almost in tears at this point.
The nurses glanced at each other with a look that said 'well, at least she can remember him.'
The first nurse ran over to the door, opened it and said "She's awake now; you can come and see her."
Kenndal residents;10:34 p.m.
Coop sighed as he closed his son's bedroom door, the child was crying for his mother again.
What could he say to the boy?
Lori's memory loss was so bad that she barely remembered him, let alone their child. He coudn't tell Slider that, no he would just keep telling him that mommy was tired and and coudn't come home yet, in a way it was true, Lori did need rest and she couldn't come home...just not for the reasons that Slider thought.
The police had confirmed from the security tape at the gas station, that the man who had done this to Lori was...hacker.
They had a warrant out for his arrest, if Coop had it his way that man would already be behind bars, his hands shook as he thought back to what the doctor had told him about Lori's condition...
"The test's correlate with what she's telling us Mr. Kenndal," Dr. Wellington said. "She DOES have amnesia."
"So, how bad is it?" Coop said, his eye's pleading for a bit of good news. "How long will it last?"
"Well you can never tell how long it will last, and as far as how bad it is..." The doctor's voice trailed off.
"Yes?" Coop said anxiously...
The doctor sighed before he went on. "As far as we can tell she has little-to-no memory of about the last 6 to 7 year of her life, every thing before that she remembers just fine."
"Six years, but then that means...she has no memory of our son?" Coop said, very shocked.
"Yes..." The doctor said quietly. "I'm sorry..."
Coop's head jerked up as he heard Slider start to wail again, he went back into the bedroom.
"It's gonna be a looong night." He thought, sighing as he picked his son up and tried to calm him down.
In his mind he prayed. "Help us to make it through this Lord."
One week later: 10:30 a.m.
He didn't know how much longer he could do this, Lori had only been in the hospital a week and he was already stressed to the hilt.
Slider was in the house, taking a much needed nap. Coop needed some air, should he stay in the house? No, his sister Connie was inside making lunch, she'd holler if she needed him...
He grabbed the new mono-line skateboard he had made, and his helmet from the shop.
"Maybe some boarding would help me relax." he thought as he headed toward the skate track. It was quiet, pretty much no one there.
"Good." He thought "Quiet is what I need right now." He put the helmet on and went down the ramp.
He was off the ramp and on to the skate rail, about half way down his head started to hurt, he recognized the burning sensation from his last encounter with it.
It was...magnetite.
He fell off the rail and ripped the helmet off, sure enough, it was glowing...a strange reddish-orange glow.
"Idiot!" He mumbled under his breath, and with that he started to walk back to his shop to find a mirror, see how much damage had been done.
He had only had it on for a few minuets; it couldn't have done that much damage...right?
Wrong.
Kenndal Resident: 11:14 p.m.
Connie was about to check on lunch when her phone started beeping, it was a text message from Coop. She picked it up and looked at the screen...
Radster101
"Hey C, u there?"
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Sweet16
"Yeah, what up?"
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Radster101
"Problem, I need u to take care of Slider for a while."
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Sweet16
"Wait, what? What's going on? What problem?"
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Radster101
"No time to explain; just...just promise u will take care of him."
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Sweet16
"Of course I will, but u make it sound like u r going into hiding or something."
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Sweet16
"But, u r not...right."
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Radster101
"I told u, problem. I'm disconnecting my phone for now, will get in touch with u later."
"I'm sorry."
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Sweet16
"Wait, don't! What's going on!"
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Sweet16
"Coop?"
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"What on earth?" Connie groaned.
A/N: Yeah! chapter 1's done! (EXCITEMENT!) Cookies to anyone who recognized the "but your not right" as an original Connie line! Which by the way I don't own!(see how nicely the disclaimer fits in there. :) and sorry about all the lines on the screen toward the end, it was the only way I could get the text to separate the way I wanted it to! If it's confusing let me know and I'll change it back! on to chapter 2! R&R! (no flames please!)