Author: I'm doing a lot of handwaving and ignoring canon in this work. Canon through Season Three's "Number 7". After that, assume: Bob somehow made it back to Mainframe, and the user got tired of a slow and buggy computer and rebooted the thing while Bob and Megabyte were there, but AndrAIa, Matrix, and Frisket aren't.
Disclaimer: ReBoot is not mine.
Prologue
I come from the games. I travel through systems, peoples, and cities in search of one place—Mainframe.
My format: Guardian. I defend systems from their enemies, protect their hopes and dreams, destroy any viruses that plague their system. I keep them safe.
Safe from everything but myself.
My format: Virus. I cripple systems through games I corrupt, warp cities beyond hope of repair because they trust me. I delete any Guardian foolish enough to stand in my way, and take pleasure in doing it.
My lover, my dog, and me, we don't want to control systems. We don't seek to conquer them. We watch them burn, but leave enough ashes that they can rebuild. We leave the system wondering how a Guardian could betray them all to their deletion.
Once, we were lost on the net. Now, it has become our home, until we find Mainframe. Then, our game-hopping will stop, our journey will end.
And Mainframe will burn.