Authors's note: *peaks out from behind curtain* um...hey... *waves* yeah... *comes out from behind curtain* ok, I know I have a schedueling thing that needs to be fixed (which I'm working on!), and I know I should have updated WAAAY before this, and I know this chapter is tiny, and well let's just leave it at I know and I'm veeeerry sorry! :) in my defence I went on vacation for a month (had no internet) and just got back today! ok I'm going to stop comming up with excuses, botton line next chapter will be longer and the wait will be shorter! X) Enjoy...

To my reviewers:

Kawaii Stella: As always thank you so much for your incouragement on my last chapter! Your are a huge encoragement to me! When you said 'well writen tale' I started bouncing off the walls! :) Thanks so much!

Aisha: Thank you so much for your encouraging review, it's makes me so happy that this story is starting to get more readers! and as far as the masked teen goes, it'll be a while before I reveal his identity so if you get curious I have a poll on my profile that has 3 different people it could be. :) I hope you enjoy this next chapter as much as you liked the third!

God Bless both of you!

~Dgirl~

Disclaimer: I don't own Cyberchase, or it's characters, it's owned by WNET, Thirteen WNET New York, and Nelvana Title Entertainment Inc. I'm simply borrowing the characters for stress relief. My own as well as theirs. (well theirs eventually... ;)

Chapter 4: Electricity Leads to Laughter

You are not beaten until you admit it.

~George S. Patton Jr.

~oO0Oo~

FLASHBACK:

Hacker turn to Slider grinning. "NO ONE CAN STOP ME NOW! AH-HAHAHAHAHA!"

The masked teen just rolled his eyes. "And Que the lightening!" He thought sarcasticly.

~oO0Oo~

Well instead of lightening, a WOOSH rang out as Coop's speeder flew into the hanger at top speed, cutting off Hacker's laughing tirade. "What!" Hacker yelped.

The speeder screeched to a halt in the middle of the hanger, the front grill opened and Coop flew out on a hover-board. "Not what," Rylie grinned, standing on the trunk of the speeder. "Who." In the blink of an eye Rylie had shot the grappling gun (the item she had removed from her belt earlier.) at a beam on the cealing and swung off the speeder...and right into Hacker. "Careful!" She smirked as she smacked him in the gut with her feet, and swung back on to the speeder. While Rylie was having fun with her little revenge, Coop had used the hover-board to get Slider onto the Speeder. "Let's move." He shouted to Inez as he and Rylie made it back onto their vehicle.

The Speeder shot forward at top speed, and after picking his jaw (and stomach) up off the floor, Hacker started yelling. "BUZZ! DELETE! STOP THEM!"

Instantly, Buzz, AKA the giant doughnut, rolled in front of the hanger entryway, blocking the only escape route. However there was one thing that Buzz forgot...doughnuts have holes.

The speeder shot through the hole...and got stuck halfway.

Delete ran over and plucked Rylie and Inez off the speeder, tossed them to Buzz and grabbed Coop and Slider. "Got em' Boss!"

Hacker sneered at his captives. "A noble effort, Coop! But it's to late to save Slider, or yourself." He nodded his head toward Rylie and Inez. "Or aaannyone for that matter!" He motioned for Buzz and Delete to cuff the do-gooders as he stepped into the transformitron's glass chamber.

You know how there's always that calm before a big storm? Well the few seconds it took for the transformitron to finish computing was just that, and then Cyberspace's biggest nightmare was unleashed. Hacker transformed...

The chamber door swung open with a BANG and a green smoke screen filled the room, and despite the graveness of the situation Rylie couldn't help but wonder as she struggled against the iron wall-cuff surrounding her wrists. "Really? Green? What is with him and the color green!"

Hacker's venomous laughter rang out as he emerged from the glass chamber, at least six feet taller then normal. "AT LAST! AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HA! HA!" The now Robo-Hacker stomped over to the hanger door to carry out the final stages of his plan.

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Meanwhile, outside the Hanger...

Digit hit the landing gear as they neared their destination, wanting to make as quiet a landing as possible. The second the speeder landed the trio jumped out and started toward the Hanger, but stopped short as the ground started vibrating, and the source of the vibrating came into view.

Digit gasped. "Tell me that isn't who I think it is?"

As Jumbo-Hacker took of into the sky, the kids and cyboid dove for cover in some bushes so they could formulate a plan to get past Hacker's new guard dogs (err robots, er bunny and doughnut...whatever!).

"A plan, we need a plan..." Jackie mumbled to herself as she pinched the bridge of her nose.

Matt rolled his eyes at his friend's over-thinking. "Jackie, it's a matter of getting past a giant doughnut and a big bunny with the brains of Buzz and Delete. I don't think it's gonna be that hard."

"Yeah," Digit added. "No biggie, we toss a few carrots for the rabbit to chase, roll the doughnut after him and we're home free!"

Jackie's eyes lit up. "Digit! Your a genius!"

Digit beamed. "I knew that!" He paused. "What did I do?"

Matt grinned. "What you just said Dig, what better way to distract a rabbit...than with carrots?"

Digit opened his chest hatch and pulled out a bunch of carrots. "Tah-dah!"

Jackie shook her head in amazement. "Why am I not surprised? Ok, here's what we can do..."

The trio huddled together as they quickly made a plan.

~oO0Oo~

Coop banged the back of his head against the wall, after rubbing his wrists raw in the metal cuffs. Rylie turned as much as she could toward him, a highly annoyed look on her face. "Coop, stop it, you're gonna give yourself a concussion."

Coop stopped and turned his head to see her. "Actually I would welcome that right about now."

She glared at him. "Being a sarcastic pessimist isn't going to help either."

"Rylie, we got caught by a giant doughnut – I think I have the right to be sarcastic...and pessimistic!" He spat out.

She rolled her eyes. "Just sit tight, the agents should be here any minute."

He sighed. "Fine. Who are they sending, by the way?" He questioned.

She looked away from him quickly.

He groaned. "Oh Rylie, you didn't, please tell me you didn't?"

She shrugged.

He sighed. "Yes...you did."

~oO0Oo~

Inez looked at Coop and Rylie as they conversed quietly, trying to figure out how to get free, a few feet away from her and Slider. She glanced over at her friend. "Can you move at all?" She questioned quietly.

Slider glared at her. "I've been trying to move ever since he brought me here, my wrists are raw."

"Well pardon me, I'm just getting a touch desperate here!" She snapped back, then looked away to hide the hurt look on her face.

He sighed. "Inez, I'm sorry you didn't deserve that, I just don't have a clue how we're gonna get out of this one."

After getting herself under control, Inez glanced back at him. "I know, none of us deserve this..." She paused for a moment looking over at the adults. "And none of us know how we're gonna get out of it." She turned her head back to Slider, and saw him flinch. "Does it hurt much?" She asked, referring to the after affects of the magnetite.

The urge to throw up from the pain washed over Slider again, he squeezed his eyes shut, and after a few seconds answered her. "It comes and goes." He sighed, after the pain tapered down a bit.

~oO0Oo~

Back outside...

Jackie and Matt, hid in the bushes waiting for the signal from Digit.

Digit however, was perched on top of the Hanger waiting for the perfect moment to put the carrots to use, he tiptoed closer as he heard Hacker's lackeys talking.

"Big is good huh Deedee?"

"Yeah, only I'm starving. I wish I had some carrots." The giant rabbit sniffed.

"Perfect." Digit thought. The Cy-boid quietly flew off the Hanger roof toward the cliff. "UOO-HOO!" He yelled in his best girly voice. "FREE CARROTS!"

"Carrots!" Delete yelped. "I WANT SOME!" As he ran toward the voice, a carrot dropped out of the sky and landed on the ground in front of him. He picked it up and shoved it in his mouth.

"GET YOUR CARROTS!" Digit continued. "FRESH AND FREE!" He smirked.

"This is just too easy." He thought as he lead Delete over the cliff.

~oO0Oo~

Matt and Jackie quickly ran toward Buzz after Digit lured Delete away from the entryway; and after making a quick dive through Buzz, Jackie ran for the cuff release button on the far wall, while Matt dodged and threw punches with the ski mask creep.

The minute they were free, Rylie smashed the teen into a wall and cuffed him. While the rest of the group set to work sending Buzz off to join Delete on the low side of a cliff.

"Now that's what I call a doughnut on a roll!" Digit joked as Buzz rolled away.

"So much for your 'back up' Rylie." Coop muttered as he helped his son back into the Hanger.

"Well what can I say Coop?" She retorted wryly. "I've been too tied up today to keep track of them.

Matt rolled his eyes at the adult's exchange. "Come on we've got a formula to mix."

"And a plug to pull on Hacker." Digit agreed.

After mixing and giving Slider the magnetite cure, the crew set to work on dismantling the transformitron.

Inez started to pull out the NIC, but was stopped by a shield of electric current. "AAA!" She screamed as she jerked her hand back. "What WAS that?"

Rylie frowned as she checked the small burn on Inez's hand. "Some sort of protection field for the machine."

"And a painful one at that." The injured girl muttered, flinching from the pain as Rylie wraped the burned area in a hankerchief.

"It's not supposed to do that, is it Pops. " Slider guessed from the look on his father's face.

Coop sighed. "Nope," He walked around the machine, as he reached the rear panel of the computer he grinned. "This might help though."

The rest of the group ran over to Coop.

Rylie gave Coop a knowing look. "Uh-hu."

"I don't get it," Jackie stared at the panel. "It's just one of those 'input your password screens'. How does that help us?"

Matt chuckled. "Yeah I doubt even Hacker's dumb enough to…." He stopped talking as Rylie punched in a password. "How do you...?" He questioned.

"Let's just say the guy used to have a bit of a crush on our resident spy here, and he still tends to used her name as a sorce for passcodes." Coop grinned at the blushing woman.

"Yeah, yeah...moving on." Rylie grumbled as she hit the ENTER key.

The computer whined and whirled for a moment, and then a quite female computerized voice spoke. "PASSCODE ACCEPTED…ELECTRO-CURRENT SHEILD TERMINATED…..HAVE A GOOD DAY HACKER SINCLAIR."

The whole group started laughing. "I will never get used to that name…" Rylie shook her head.

"Try sharing a business card with the man." Coop winked.

"You mean…" Inez gasped from laughing so hard. "That's his real name!"

Rylie chucked. "Yup, you can thank Dr. Marbles for that!"

"Maybe that's why he hates the Doc so much!" Digit joked.

"So how do we take this thing apart Coop?" Rylie questioned as the laughter died down.

Coop grimaced. "Anyone got a screw driver handy? We're gonna be here while."

"Great…." Rylie rooled her eyes. "Build a machine that can transform anyone INTO anything? Mission possible. Take it apart quickly? Not so much….."

~oO0Oo~

"Cherish yesterday, dream about tomorrow, live today." ~Author Unknown

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