Chapter Three: Game Time

Gamecube

Matrix, AndrAIa, Bob, and Dot were in the game with little Enzo. They saw that they were in some sort of medieval land with a castle in the horizon.

"Great," Matrix grumbled. "This can't be the game that I think it is."

"Let's see," Bob told them. "Glitch, game stats." The stats came up. "This is Medieval Magick 4. Goal: stop the Users from getting to the Princess of Sarconia, Leila who has been taken captive in highest tower. Game is arena style combat to move on to next portions of the castle."

"Ultra gear," Enzo told them.

"Well, it's almost like that one game we played with Mike once Bob," Dot said.

"Let's get to it then," AndrAIa suggested, "because the Users are on their way. I can hear them down the path."

"ReBoot!" they all shouted.

AndrAIa became a feathered covered, leather worn Amazon warrior.

Matrix became a muscle-bound barbarian in chain-male with an axe.

Bob was transformed into a black tunic warrior with a magical sword on his back.

Dot became a vicious looking sorceress who showed plenty of skin. She was almost like a warrior, but more a magician than anything.

Enzo rebooted as a small Elven prince with a large bow and pointed ears. He played with them a bit and smirked that he was an elf. "This is so basic," he said.

They headed off for the castle to rescue the princess who was their goal.

Mainframe

Phong was talking to Paige Dyson as she floated on her surfboard around where the game cube had landed. "And you are sure about standing guard outside the cube until they emerge?" the wise sprite asked her.

"Phong, your people have been very generous to us since we arrived," Paige told him. "The least we can do is protect your strongest defenders of this system."

"Then take care child," he replied. "The game will be some time so thank you in advance for your service."

Paige nodded and the VidWindow closed.

She went gliding around the sides of it; peacefully surveying the system to make sure that there was no wrong going on for her to worry about. She didn't want to leave the game cube unattended to avert a crisis in progress.

But her senses were drawn to G-Prime as viral troops were using a tank with a large drill on the end to burrow deep into the ground. No doubt, they were going to attempt a hidden attack on the Archives of Mainframe.

Something she could not allow.

Paige swooped down into the shadows and watched the troops go at it. They were working hard to remove the debris that was in the way in order for their drill tank to make it in further.

She activated her bracelet communicator. "Mouse," she whispered. "Mouse, do you read?"

Principle Office

Mouse was taking it easy inside the Principle Office as she oversaw the repairs and upgrades to the new security system that would be able to detect any of Megabyte's transformations or any aliases that would try and get through to take over the Principle Office.

"Mouse," a voice called over her communicator on her gauntlet. "Mouse, do you read?"

"Paige," Mouse replied. "What's up sugah?"

"I think that I may have serious problems that are about to become yours," she told her. "Open a VidWindow and have a look."

Mouse opened the window and did a scan of the area. "I'm scanning the activity," she said. "You need to get out of there honey before you are seen."

From behind Paige, several things were coming towards her and she was moving slowly toward where the virals were working. She was going to stop them before they actually succeeded.

The scan came back and the code was in pieces. Just as when Bob had scanned Megabyte when they thought they had captured him, but was actually and alias file.

"Oh dear," Phong said from behind her.

"Paige, get out of there!" Mouse shouted into her communicator. "It's a trap!"

"What?" Paige shouted backed.

The virals that she had been looking at turned around and stared at her, and she tried to back up and get away from them, but suddenly a green laser net was dropped over her.

Viral troops pounced on her, trying to keep her from fighting back.

From the mass of virals by the drill that she was supposedly looking at, they merged together and transformed back into Megabyte. But the troops had her pinned when they shocked her surfboard that was yanked out from under her.

"Don't hurt our new guest," Megabyte said. "I want that job all to myself." He leaned in close to her. "I thought that I deleted you in the Supercomputer all those megacycles ago, but it seems as though the User restored you guardian."

"Maybe I am just one of those bothersome programs that doesn't want go away," Paige snapped.

Megabyte chuckled as he walked over to her surfboard. "And the User made you into a surfer now, didn't they guardian," he said, stroking his talon down her deep orchid board. "I am going to have fun tearing apart your code, number by beautiful number." Then he smacked the board.

She was struck down and blackness took her.

Megabyte leered over his prey and smiled. He wanted to copy this pretty girl's code so that she would get close to Bob. Once she did that, he would be able to gain access to the Principle Office and take it over again.

It was all apart of his plan.

"Bring her," he told his troops. "But gently my soldiers. Gently. I have interesting plans for our pretty guest."

Mouse finally arrived on the scene and saw that the virals, Megabyte, and Paige were no where to be seen. Stara Crichton flew in with the rest of the surfers. They were all alarmed when the hacker had called them saying that Paige was in trouble.

But now that she was gone, she was in even worse trouble now.

"Where's Paige?" Stara asked.

Mouse and Grendar both looked down the way toward Silicon Tor, Megabyte's fortress. They knew that if Megabyte had Paige, he would have taken her there.

"I'm going to erase him!" Grendar shouted and headed for battle until Mouse grabbed him on the arm.

"We can't go in there, surfer powers and weapons blazing," she told him. "Megabyte will be expecting us."

"So what do we do?" Lana asked. "Megabyte is going to tear her apart when he finds out that Paige is Dixon's identical twin sister."

"We wait," Mouse told her and looked up at the game cube, which should be ending any nano.

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