Hello again, Scuzzy. These visits are becoming pretty regular, huh. I put some food in your dish. You're going to have to eat sometime, you know. I know you miss her. And I know she would want you to go on. Hey wait up scuzzy. Oh the throne room again. I still can't believe she did it. Sacrificed herself and saved the entire net. Hell I can't believe I am here in Lost Angles saying this. Or that I am crying about it or that I am taking care of your cat. Look I know we never relly got along, but you were there when we needed you. I will never forget how you forced the guardians out of our system, or the look in Enzo's eyes when you brought Welman back. Even when I look back, that incident with the paint program was harmless and fun.

Mr. pearsten= That was a bit a fun was'nt it. Hex was a playful one she was. Never a dull moment with her about. And don't be feeling bad for not seeing it a coming. No one could of known what she'd do, much less been able to stop her, and even if you could have, where would that put us now?

Yes you're right, but what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be back at the Data Dump?

Mr. pearsten= Nah it be fine. I have Mouse and AndrAIa watching it for me. As to why I'm here... I am paying my respects to a friend same as you, I suppose. I be daf' if I know why she ruined me name, but I owe her a debt, and this is how she wanted it paid. She gave me this dull red gem right after she was changed, asked me to return it here if anything should happen to her. Said that this was like her, a shard of chaos. That she was betting on chaos and her friends. I scanned it. It's just a gem, a pretty red gem and nothing more. It looks nice by the mirror it does. Kind of sparkles.

You were her friend? I never knew. How did she ruin you? If it is just a gem why did you-

Mr. pearsten= I gave my word and owed her a debt. Of course you did'nt know, it would have ruined me again. I couldn't have risked it. As to how she ruined my name... You know that once I was a code master. I was quite a good one to tell. Phong summoned me to get rid of Hex, but I could not delete her.

So you could not bring your self to delete her and were dishonored.

Mr. Pearsten= I wish it could have been like that. Would have made things far easier. I threw everything I had at her, and it did nothing. I closed my eyes and waited for her to strike me down, but it never came. When I opened my eyes, I found meself less then nose length from her. Then she said, "How rude," an just downloaded into her mask and flew off. Then an there I swore, one way or another, I wasn't leaving this system till I saw her deleted. The next second I decided I would use her chaos against her. I made a necklace of magnets and had it sent to her.

Now let me guess, she sent it back with a little something of her own.

Mr. pearsten= Nah she wore it alright, for a whole three seconds till she had a fight with her brother. Megabyte threw a binome at her. Hex through the necklace at him. I almost got Megabyte that day. If only I would have known at the time. Next I tried surounding her island with tears. The next second she thanked me for the wonderful meal. At this point I was pretty down in the dumps.

I never knew she was so creative.

Mr. pearsten= You aint herd nothing yet. Next I tried painting a portal on the side of a wall. I don't know how she went through it. When I touched it, it was solid. My last attempt was to get her into a game, and this was the turning point... The part were I failed my duty as a code master beyound redemption. I challenged her to a race, a race to where Phong told me a game would fall. All went well at first, then half way across she saw the cube. I floored it, not wanting to get caught meself. I did not know anything about games save that if you lose you be nullified. As luck would have it my zipboard failed me, and I was to slow to get out from under the cube. It stopped... the bloody cube just stopped. I ran like a bug out of the web for the edge of the cube. What I saw there I will remember tell my last processing moment. At the end was Hex, holding the cube up with one hand. I owed my life to a virus. I was ashamed at first, then grew indifferent as the second swam by and I took my place in Mainframe. I came to enjoy this peaceful life and realized I owed her much indeed. Now that I think about it, I am in good company. We all owe Hex. An I think that a great many of us be missing her. I'll be leaving now, I've gabbered my jaws enough for one day.

Bob= Dot! Glitch Bob and I were looking all over for you! Feeding scuzzy again I see? You know you don't have to come out here every second, I know how busy your schedule is. I could do it, or we could take scuzzy home. I am sure he would like it better with someone to play with. And Enzo could use a pet since Friskit is always around AndrAIa and Matrix.

I will think about it. Dot leaves.

Bob= Bob looks both ways, then whispers "I wish you well indeed sister. Ha ha ha..." Bob leaves.

The gem grows brighter and somewhere in our world....

Hey John, the buffer on server 27 is full again. Do you want me to flush it or defrag it?

Defrag it. Server 26 just went down and all email is being sent to server 27. If its lost, we'll never hear the end of it.