A time for new beginnings

Hi people this is my first fic. Please don't be too harsh - this is my escapism on paper! This is my ending of the hunt which centres on Bob and Dot - In my opinion the true only heroes of Mainframe, but as usual their relationship is going on a bumpy ride. Happy endings assured.

Insert Standard disclaimer along lines of these characters belong to Mainframe Entertainment and are not used in any way with permission or for profit gain act. Act. U can sue me for all I've got if u want coz I own nothing and is probably an only chance of meeting all the great people involved with producing the show. Heh heh!

Chapter 1

'Prepare for the hunt''

As these words sunk in Dot realised there was nothing that she could do in Mainframe that would insure the safety of her friends and family. Her army was scared, and trapped outside the walls of the principle office. Bob could probably create a portal to outside of Mainframe, but would only be able to transport two or three sprites. Besides, the armoury was stored INSIDE the building and the CPU was much too big to get through the corridors and it could be disarmed from the war room easily by Megabyte.

A remembrance of Bob contorting into Megabytes altered and a grotesque new form overpowered Dot's mind. How could she have been so stupid? Tears welled in her eyes and she fell to her knees and cried.

Hack and Slash, not accustomed to seeing the command.com show such open defeat, ceased their mindless gibbering and for once were silent.

She shuddered as she remembered Megabyte forcing his lips to hers. but why had he paraded around in Bobs form for all that time? It simply wasn't the logical thing for him to do. He had countless chances to kill them had that been his intentions; he had access to all the Principle office and its contents, he even had access to the super computer through the gateway. was it because of her that he hadn't carried out his function? Had the virus formed some sick and twisted infatuation? The thought appalled her as much as the pain she had seen on Bob's, the real Bob's, face when he stalled the wedding. But if it was true she was his weakness.

No, she couldn't win this war today and nor could Bob or Matrix. The virus was much more powerful, much more conniving and much less predictable as before. They needed help and lots of it.

Dot got to her feet and wiped away the tears. "Boys!" "Yes sir ma'am" the robots chorused "I have a plan and I need your help!" "Anything" "Yes, anything" "We can do to help" "Or do" "We'll try" "But Phong said your safety." "Mainframe's safety is now your main concern" Dot interrupted. "Make sure that's clear to Matrix and Bob. Slash, I need you to find them, tell them to get Enzo and then find AndrAIa and Mouse. Hack I'm going to raise the principle offices defences. Your job is to find Mouse and tell her this she can drop the firewall so that Bob can portal them out and then she can right a write a better firewall to keep Megabyte contained within the office - that's assuming he doesn't have transfinite abilities. Tell them to get out as soon as possible and not to wait for me, this is very important! No; tell them I time locked the firewall to start up once I left the building." She pulled out her organiser. part of her wished she could just connect to Bob via glitch and tell him what she was planning, but she couldn't risk being tracked. She had accessed the principle office defences, most were offline or she was unable to access them, but she managed to raise a firewall. Then she typed out a short note on her organiser and saved file. "Here" she said handing the organiser to Slash, "Give this to Matrix when you're out. Tell him poetry is not life but take heed of it, remember all that you have learnt and use it to guide you." "Don't worry" "Will do that" "You have left this in very capable hands" "Yes, Dot we won't disappoint you" "I will give this to Bob" "Matrix!" "I knew that" "You said Bob!" "But Dot where will you go?" they unisoned Dot thought quickly. "Take them all to the shelter used in the previous war, the one where you brought Matrix to when he returned from the games." With that she turned and left the two and headed for the archive.

Dot opened the concealed doors and accessed the hidden file commands that Bob picked up from the super commuter to trick Megabyte when he first arrived in Mainframe. She smiled at this memory and then winced again at the present and more recent past. Why couldn't things go back to how they were?

Viral troops could be heard searching through the passages, they were checking rooms and making their way to the one she stood in. Dot dashed into Phongs reading room and sat on the couch. It spinet round and she found her self in the armoury. She ran to the weapon storage but tripped over some storage boxes that hadn't been properly stored away. She righted herself quickly noticing that a large piece of glass debris was embedding in her arm. Not fully conscience of the wound or how deep it was she pulled the debris out and it started to bleed profusely. She ignored the stinging and grabbed all she could; Guns bullets and AndrAIs bike. She hoped she could remember how to steer the thing, it'd been years since she, as a rebellious teenager had been on one.

She raced past the troops at top speed. A smile formed on her face, the first since she'd shared one with Bob. She had forgotten her love for speed. "Good luck" she whispered as she drove to the core entrance. Dot put her hand to the scanner opening the door, and wheeled the bike to the gateway. She activated it and targeted the super computer. Twiddling the hidden file command in her fingers, she took a deep breath and jumped on the bike, pulled back full throttle and disappeared from Mainframe.