Working Vacations
Disclaimer: I do not own any Reboot characters, nor do I own Angela. White Mask Productions owns Angela. You can find White Mask on the Internet at http://www.whitemask.com Angela is from the Death Angel game.
Author's note: I know that if I played by the rules all of your favorite characters would be dead. I tried to keep the slaying of the main characters to a minimum.
Prologue
"Dot, you need to take a vacation. You work too hard… the stress will drive you random." Bob said. I resisted the urge to say, "Bob, but where is the fun is staying sane?"
However, Dot only responded, "I have no time to take even a cycle off!" With that she ran away, heading for the dinner at full speed. I was following her matching her speed. It's one of the good things about being deleted. You don't waste any energy and you have no limitations. Other then the fact that I'm invisible, it's the same as when I was processing. Although I have one power that I didn't have before, I can influence the emotions of sprites and binomes. I have no idea whether or not it works on virii as well. Oh well.
Dot sat down at her usual booth and started working I after a few nanoseconds of this I decided to wreak some havoc. Not on dot of course I was stuck protecting her, and her brother. Yes… how boring it was to keep the Scowling Green Giant from being deleted. Little Enzo was more fun. He hadn't changed since I left. He seemed to get a kick out of me possessing Michael. It was the only way I could communicate to him alone, otherwise EVERYONE would know that I hadn't been deleted. I had worried about my brother… but apparently Bob had deleted him. It wasn't something Bob would do. That is why I had started protecting the Matrix family. It could be Megabyte in there, biding his time until he could infect Dot and make her his own for whatever sick purposes.
So I just went off and caused havoc in the diner. I scared the customers silly by making Cecil be nice to them. I had to check up on Dot. So, just to be silly I forced Cecil to wheel over to Dot with a plate of biscuits, and in the best imitation of my voice that he could muster he said, "I brought biscuits."
This made Dot jump and she glared at him. She took a few, just as I realized control of Cecil. He dropped the tray and screamed.
"Ze Dinner zhe iz Haun-ted!" Cecil cried. He panicked and tried to hide as best he could. Matrix nearly kicked the door in. With Gun ready to fire he scanned the place. He didn't see me. Dot looked down at the biscuit in her hand and nearly cried. I had slipped up… they were my recipe. I had freaked her out. I wouldn't doubt that she thought the place was… "haunted" as Cecil put it. Matrix tried to calm her, as did I.
She moaned and whispered to Matrix four words no one would expect to hear from her, "I need a vacation." Matrix was as shocked to hear it as I was. She asked to be left alone for a few milliseconds. During that time she booked a luxury trip for five sprites. Little Ezno, Bob and her were in one room while Matrix and AndrAIa were in another. Bad form, Dot, Bad form. First She was leaving the system unprotected, and secondly, Matrix an AndrAIa alone in a room together. Well who knew what trouble they'd get into? I'm not perverted… I don't want to know. "Get packed, they're coming next cycle."
A millisecond later a game came down upon the Diner, where everyone seemed to be trying to comfort Dot. When they saw it coming down, the binomes scattered yet… the sprites just stood there, trying to comfort Dot.