"Mom! We're home!" Keller called as she shoved her brother through the door. He glared at her, she rolled her eyes and shut the door taking her shoes off as she did so.

"I'm in the living room sweetie." Her mother called.

"I'll be in my room! TeraGuy and I are gonna NetBattle at the Coliseum!" John, Keller's little brother called as he dashed up the stairs.

"I still don't get why dad gave him a Navi first." Keller sighed, watching her ten year old brother run up the stairs, talking to his Navi excitedly.

"Your dad and I had a lot harder of a time building you a Navi. We want yours to be just how you imagine it." Her mother replied as she waddled into the foyer and beckoned her daughter to join her in the living room.

"You're watching the Vampire Diaries, this early?" Keller asked as she dropped her bag beside the couch. Her mother nodded.

"I thought you were going to spend the afternoon at the arcade with Kyra, what happened?" Her mom asked as she handed her daughter a cup of tea.

"I was going to until Daniel showed up and started flirting with me…again. So we decided to hang out later so we wouldn't have him distracting us from our training." Keller sighed as she took a sip of her tea.

"Daniel's such a nice boy, I don't see why you don't give him a chance."

"That's the problem mom, he's too sweet. He treats me like I'm made of glass." Keller said in disgust, "But I don't want to talk about him. Tell me what's going on in The Vampire Diaries."

Keller and her mother spent two hours talking about the show and a good portion of the rest of their time talking about the weird things that had been going on in the city. Then out of nowhere her mother brought up Daniel.

"I don't understand why you won't give him a chance." Her mother said as she took a sip of tea.

"He's nice, but he tends to flirt with every girl in sight, and you know dad doesn't like him either." Keller added as she pulled her hair back.

"Speaking of your father, he sent you something. He told me to make sure you got it as soon as you got home." Her mother said as she got up and went to the kitchen.

"What is it?" Keller asked burning with curiosity.

"This." Her mother said as she tossed an envelope to her daughter.

"Snail mail? Are you serious? Couldn't just send me a zip file or something?" Keller asked as she took the envelope and tore it open.

"Well? What is it?" Her mother asked as she went to get more tea.

"It's a custom burned disc, directly from IconLabs." Keller said excitedly.

"Is there a note or anything else with it?" Her mother called from the kitchen.

"No, it's just the disc." Keller said staring at it with curiosity.

"Why don't you go open it and see what it is?"

"But, I'll miss The Vampire Diaries!" Keller whined.

"I'll pause it until you get back, just go see what it is." Her mother laughed.

"Aye, aye. Captain!" Keller laughed as she got up and picked up her bag. "I'll be back in a flash!" She called over her shoulder as she ran up the stairs.

As soon as Keller reached the top of the stairs she ran down the hall to her room. She was so impatient to see what her dad had sent her that she forgot to open her door and ran straight into it. There was a thunk followed by a muffled curse as she landed on her butt with a huff, her face red with embarrassment. Quickly she got up and scrambled to look over the balcony. Good. Mom didn't see or hear that. She thought as she opened her door.

She dropped her bag beside the door and dove into her chair. Shaking with excitement she rolled across the room and put her PET in it's dock. Nervously she opened the disc case. Carefully she popped the disc out and inspected it. It looked like any other disk she'd gotten from her dad. A little less excited, Keller slid the disk into the computer's disk drive.

"System administrator active, please enter password to proceed." Her standard Navi announced. Quickly Keller typed the password. "Password accepted, now loading files." The room was silent for a minute, "Download completed."

"M'kay, the core logic is in. Now let's see what this is all about." Keller said aloud to herself as she pressed the start button.

"Running new blayde configurations." The standard Navi announced as a bunch of numbers appeared on the screen of her PET. Suddenly the screen went black.

"Okay, that's not supposed to happen." Keller sighed as she pressed the Home button, a second later the screen came to life.

"Stage two of download starting. Estimated time, one minute." The navi announced as the screen became blurry. "Rebuffing. Partition defragmentation complete. Software update estimated completion, two hours. After the operation system update is complete, there will be a delay before it will be completely operational."

"How long?" Keller asked with a sigh.

"Estimated completion is four hours. Estimated total configuration completion is six hours."

"Six hours for a lousy software update!" Keller whined, "Are you sure that's all there is to it?"

"That's it." The Navi said simply.

"Another disappointment courtesy of dad." Keller sighed.

"So, what'd he send you?" Said a voice from behind her.

Keller spun around so fast she fell out of her chair and landed on her face. She heard whoever it was laughing their head off. With a grunt she pushed herself up off the floor and with one graceful move she whipped her hair back so she could see. Once on her feet and with her vision back to normal Keller realized it was her mom.

"Mom…how did you get in?" Keller asked as she fixed her hair and sat back down in her chair.

"You left your door wide open. Oh, and I heard you hit your door when you got up here."

"Oh…" Keller laughed.

"Well, what did your dad send you this time?" Her mother laughed.

"Another software update." Keller sighed in disappointment as she spun back around to face her computer screen where a loading screen blinked on and off.

"How long is going to take?" Her mom asked, casting a glance at her daughter's strangely clean room.

"Six hours until it's completely done! What kind of software update is this?" Keller whined.

"Come on, let's go watch The Vampire Diaries. It'll get your mind off of this software update, and you need to be brought back up to speed." Her mom suggested.

"Okay." Keller grumbled.

"I can't believe Stefan went back to being a ripper!" Keller said in shock two hours later, as she took a sip of tea.

"Maybe he never stopped being one."

"What about Elena? Do you think she'll listen to Caroline and stay away from Damon?"

"I don't think it's just the sire bond that's pulling Elena to Damon."

"Do you think it could be the fact that they met before, but Damon compelled her to forget and her becoming a vampire got rid of that?" Keller asked as they got up.

"I don't know." Her mother said as they made their way to the kitchen.

Keller was about to say something else when there was a knock at the door.

"I got it!" Keller said running back to the foyer. She opened the door and there stood Kyra. "Hey! Kyra! What are you doing here?"

"Did you forget? We agreed to go to the skate park so we could practice for the skate exhibition this weekend, remember?" Kyra said, her raven hair swirling in the breeze.

"Oh yeah! Let me just grab my board and we'll get going!" Keller said as she spun around and dashed up the stairs.

Less than a minute later she was out the door, Kyra trying to catch up.

"So what are you gonna do since you can't NetBattle for the rest of the day?" Kyra asked as she did a perfect ollie.

"Speaking of NetBattles, we've gotta meet up with Sam and Lyteman at Netopia Stadium, remember." Lark interrupted her NetOp.

"I totally forgot." Kyra laughed.

"Kyra you are such an airhead." Keller giggled.

"Says the one who's late to class every day and almost always forgets something." Kyra grinned.

"Blah, blah, blah." Keller grinned, "Don't you have a battle to get to?"

"Oh! Man!" Kyra looked at the time and groaned. "There's no way I'll make it on time no matter how fast I go."

"Sure you will, just follow me." Keller grinned as she started down the street.

"Where are we going?" Kyra asked.

"Don't worry about it, just follow my lead." Keller said as she wove through groups of pedestrians.

Without much effort Keller pushed the board as fast as it would go. She wove through the crowds easily, her deft fluid movements amazing the people she passed. Without warning she whipped around a corner and heard Kyra let out a curse as she struggled to keep up. Keller let out a wild whoop of triumph when she caught sight of the Bullet Train.

"Come on! Let's go!" Keller grinned grabbing Kyra by the hand and leading her onto one of the cars.

"The train. This was your great idea." Kyra sighed.

"Just wait." Keller said with a knowing smile as the train pulled out of the station.

"For what?" Kyra asked as the train raced through the city, turning their view outside into indistinguishable blurs.

"For this!" Keller said as the train slowed as it came into the next station.

Without warning Keller grabbed her skateboard and jumped off the still moving train car, her hair blowing out behind her as she landed on the platform. Kyra followed suit and the two took off down hill towards the stadium. Keller moved back and forth between the street and the sidewalk, easily dodging oncoming cars and pedestrians alike. She looked back and spotted Kyra doing the same thing.

"Are you sure we can make it?" Kyra asked as they came to a stop at a busy intersection, they were only half there.

"Sure. Just follow me." Keller said confidently as she took off across the intersection, ignoring the angry yells and honks from drivers.

"Do you think this is a good idea?" Kyra asked looking down at her PET to find Lark with a ready response.

"When is Keller ever wrong?"

"Fine," Kyra sighed and put her PET back in it's holder. "Let's go!"

With the Netopia Stadium in sight Keller and Kyra pushed themselves as fast as they could go. They whipped down the hill, through traffic and pedestrians, turning everything around them into nearly indistinguishable blurs and blobs of color. Just when it looked like they were going to hit the railing they jumped over it, landing back on their boards in perfect sync.

"For a second there I thought you two were gonna become pretty roadkill." Sam said as Keller came to a stop a few feet in front of him.

"Yeah right." Keller scoffed, "I'm the city's best skateboarder. A little jump like that is nothing."

"That's your opinion. In my case I was sure I was about to get turned into pretty roadkill." Kyra interjected.

"Chill out Kyra." Keller laughed as she shook her hair out of her helmet before putting it back on.

"Aren't you gonna stay and watch me kick Kyra's butt?" Sam asked with a flirty grin.

"Thanks for the invite, but I need to get a little training in." Keller said coolly as she flexed her fingers.

"Maybe next time?" Sam asked hopefully.

"Sure." Keller shrugged. Without another word she took off down the street towards the train station.

"You ought to know that she sort of can't stand you flirting with her." Kyra said as Keller disappeared.

"I'll win her over, just wait and see." Sam grinned as the two friends walked into the stadium. Kyra just rolled her eyes.

Keller hopped off the train and headed straight to the skate park. She wove through the other skaters that were milling about easily making all of them stare at her in amazement. It's a good thing they haven't recognized me yet. Keller thought as she jumped over some railing. Just when she thought she could clear it her foot got caught and she fell on her side landing on her arm. Keller pushed herself up and looked down at her arm. It was scraped up, but that seemed to be the extent of the damage.

"You all right?" A voiced asked.

Keller looked up and spotted a dark haired guy standing a few feet away from her. His face looked so familiar. An instant later it clicked. It was Dante Sparrow

"I'm fine." She said stiffly.

"You must be a newbie." The guy said coolly.

"Wrong." Keller answered icily. "The name's Keller. Keller Locklear."

"Oh, the third-rate skateboard champion." He replied with disdain.

Keller clenched her fist so tight her knuckles turned white.

"How dare you call me, the Trinity City skateboarding champion third-rate!" She said in an icy voice.

"Look, I'm not going to say I'm sorry for saying it. I just don't see how a girl as narcissistic as you is considered a champion role model by the entire city. Frankly, I don't see anything extraordinary about your skills. You're just like every other skateboarder out here."

"I'll show you extraordinary." Keller murmured.

She quickly stood up and grabbed her board. Shooting Dante a glare she jumped on her board and headed for the half pipe. She ran up to the top of the half pipe. She swooped down with ease pulling off a blind kick flip as she came up the other end of the pipe. While still in the air she managed turn switch stance and finish off with a McTwist for good measure. Without any more comments she kick flipped off the ramp and headed home.

Dante watched in silence as she raced off.

Keller sighed and flopped down on her bed, her hair still damp. She was exhausted after her dash across the city, and her mini exhibition for that jerk Dante. With a sigh she glanced at the software update's progress. She still had three hours to kill until it was done.

"Oh, well," she yawned. "I guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see what it is."

With another yawn she stretched out across her bed and fell asleep.