A/n:I apologize for the long wait for an update, and hope that you all enjoy Chapter 7 of The Fourth Child.

-Shangri-La-

With a whoosh of displaced air, the Grim Wreaker descended towards the tranquil looking Shangri-La. Deploying it's landing gear the personal ship of 'The' Hacker, landed on the ground with a slight jolt. Within moments of the ship landing a ramp was lowered to the ground, and soon a figure was seen at the top of it. It was a human male about five feet tall wearing black pants and a long-sleeved green shirt, with spiky red hair and a mask that completely covered his face.

The mask itself was almost snowy white and styled to look like a wolf,(imagine an ANBU mask from Naruto). Beneath the mask the human better known as Tân, "Why do I have to wear this stupid mask" Tân complained to seemingly nobody. "Because it will keep the other Earth brats from recognizing you as Dylan", explained Hacker through an ear piece that Tân was wearing. This allowed Hacker to communicate with him over long distances, a microphone in the mask was how Tân would be able to respond to what Hacker was saying.

This also had the added benefit of making Tân's voice unrecognizable to the other Earth kids, which was essential for their plans to work. After all if the Cybersquad realized that Tân was really Dylan, then they could confront him on Earth. So it was better for Hacker if his minion(though Tân would hit him if he heard him being called that), remained anonymous for as long as possible.

"You remember what your mission objective is right?"asked Hacker through the earpiece, making Tân roll his eyes beneath the mask. "Yeah find this 'Good Vibration' and smash it" said Tân exasperated, since this was the tenth time he'd been asked that question in the last hour. "Just remember to make sure that the Good Vibration is destroyed at all cost!" said Hacker sternly to his human companion, who gave him a nod though he couldn't see it.

It was after saying those parting words, did the Grim Wreaker's ramp retract and after a couple of moments took to the air and soon was out of Tân's sight. The red-haired human stood there for a moment before turning around and walked away, he had a powerful artifact to find and destroy. It was only after a few minutes of walking when Tân noticed that he'd been placed on an Island, one that was surrounded that vicious looking whirlpools. "This is going to be a pain to deal with" muttered Tân to himself, before heading back inland.


There had to be a way off this island and he was going to find it.

After several minutes of exploring the island Tân came to a conclusion, "There is nothing I can use as a raft" exclaimed Tân in frustration. It was true none of the plants or tree's had big enough leaves to use as a boat, in fact he wasn't sure any of them were capable of holding his weight. So with that avenue of escape scrapped Tân began to look at the tree's, figuring that he could fashion a usable boat out of the bark.

It was during his inspection of one of the tree's that Tân discovered something odd, pressing his ear to the bark Tân tapped his knuckles on it and listened. Sure enough he heard a metallic ping echo through the interior of the tree, "It's hollow!" said Tân with growing excitement as he believed that he had found his way off the island. With that thought in mind Tân began running his hands all over the tree's trunk, looking for a button or something that would open the tree.

When his hand passed over a certain spot that gave in slightly, Tân knew that he had found the switch. Applying a little more pressure to that specific spot Tân heard a soft click sound, then the tree's trunk folded inward to reveal a mostly empty space save for a rolled up green object. Tân removed it from the tree and unfolded it, to show that it was an abnormally large leaf. He couldn't help but release a small sigh of disappointment, he had been hoping for a flare or a boat not a leaf.

But deciding that moping about it wasn't going to help Tân took the leaf and placed in on the water, if it was hidden then that meant it had some importance for escaping the island. Or it had belonged to somebody who was also trapped on the island but was rescued, and left their leaf behind..inside a hollow tree. Tân's musing were cut short when he noticed the leaf was glowing, before he could question this strange occurrence, a second leaf appeared next to the first before moving in front of it seamlessly.

'The leaf can multiple?!' exclaimed Tân mentally as he watched the leaf duplicate, he was sure that if he hadn't been wearing a mask that the shock would've shown on his face. Once the shock had passed Tân assessed the situation, 'This is perfect! if the leaf keeps multiplying then I can use it as a bridge to the mainland'. No sooner had he thought that did the leaves glow brightly, and soon two new leaves appeared and moved in front of the others.


Quickly Tân stood on the fourth leaf and waited for the process to repeat itself, and soon enough the four leaves had become eight. After several minutes of running along the leaf bridge which would double every so often, did Tân notice that he was approaching the mainland. Increasing his speed Tân gave a soft cheer as his leaped off the leaves, and touched down on the ground with a quiet thump. The second his feet had touched the ground the leaves began to glow, Tân watched his bridge disappeared before his eyes.

Turning his back to the large body of water he had just traversed, Tân began to start walking further inland as his journey was far from over. He walked along a dirt path for several minutes before he reached a dead-end, which was surrounded by high cliff on three sides. Tân was about to double back and find a different path, when he noticed two tree stumps at the far end of the canyon. Deciding that he had time to spare he walked closer and immediately noticed the difference between the two, one was colored a light shade of blue while the other was a dark red.

Tân wondered what purpose the stumps served as he saw no reason for them to be there, he began to look around to see if he could find a clue on how to proceed. Running his hands over the cliff's walls Tân was surprised on how smooth it was, it was then that he noticed his hand fit perfectly between lines on the walls that were spaced evenly apart. Taking a couple of steps back Tân looked at the lines with a little more scrutiny, and saw the lines continued upward to the top of the cliff.

As he stared at the lines on the wall Tân couldn't help but think that they were familiar somehow, a minute later a proverbial light bulb appeared over his head. They were there to show how far it was to the top, which meant that he needed to find something he could use to climb to the top. Suddenly Tân heard a low rumbling noise and turned to see the stumps had risen slightly, the blue had grown two spaces while the red had only grown one space upward.


At that moment Tân had the sudden urge to face-palm himself, it was so simple he had to ride the stumps to the top. He observed the stumps for a couple of minutes to determine which one he would use, and eventually decided to use the blue one as it kept growing at a rate of two instead of one like the red stump. Grunting lightly Tân jumped on the blue stump before it grew too big for him to get on, and waited almost impatiently as the stump slowly approached the top of the cliff. Once it had reached the appropriate height Tân jumped off, and started walking in the direction he had previously been traveling.

Before he had traveled very far his stomach let out a loud rumble, and Tân decided to take a break as he had been traveling for a long time. He had sat down underneath a large tree that had apples hanging from some of the branches, and took a couple of them to eat. Once his hunger had been sufficiently sated Tân once again set out on his mission, unaware of a pair of eyes that watched his every move.

Master Pi watched as the red-haired boy walked away from the apple tree, with great interest and a tiny bit of nervousness. He had known about the boy the second he had appeared on Shangri-La, and had been watching him ever since. Master Pi had wondered what another child from Earth was doing in Cyberspace, and working for Hacker of all people.

It was clear to him that the boy had only the worst intentions for Shangri-La, which was made all the more clear when he headed towards the Good Vibration. Normally Master Pi would have confronted the boy and probably banished him from Shangri-La, but there was something that prevented him from doing so. The human hadn't broken any of Shangri-La's laws and thus couldn't be punished, and also the boy was a guest and would be treated as such until proven otherwise.

A second later Master Pi disappeared as if he was never there to begin with.


-Cybersquad-

After learning that Hacker was after the Good Vibration, they immediately sent for Shangri-La. Though the Earth children weren't very worried as Hacker didn't have Buzz or Delete to help him, and they managed to foil him before. After a few minutes of fast flying they had arrived and landed on Shangri-La, as they exited their vehicle a familiar face greeted them. "Master Pi!" said the three children happily, as they were glad to see a friendly face

"Children," greeted Master Pi serenely smiling at them; "What brings you to Shangri-La?". Even though he already knew the reason for their visit, as he knew just about everything in Shangri-La. "We're here to stop Hacker from getting the Good Vibration" said Matt determinedly, with Inez and Jackie nodding agreeing with him. Master Pi observed them silently for a couple of moments, before responding in a sage like voice.

"I'm sorry to tell you but Hacker isn't in Shangri-La at the present time" said Master Pi, his words seemed to confuse the Earth Children. "What do you mean Hacker isn't here we heard the Grim Wreaker was seen in Shangri-La?" asked Inez curiously, "The Grim Wreaker was here but it left shortly after arriving" replied Master Pi. "But if Hacker isn't here then what's the danger?" asked Matt with a very puzzled expression, which was mirrored on Jackie's face.

Inez however was deep in thought as she tried to figure out what Master Pi, suddenly she had an epiphany. "Hacker has a new minion that he sent after the Good Vibration!" exclaimed Inez, which made Matt and Jackie to look at her in surprise. They hadn't even considered the possibility that Hacker would get a new minion, so soon after Buzz and Delete's deaths.

"You are correct Hacker does indeed have a new minion and he is on his way to the Good Vibration" said Master Pi while pointing in the direction of the Good Vibration, "Then we got to hurry!" said Matt urgently as he started running in the indicated direction with Jackie and Inez hot on his heels.

The Race for the Good Vibration had begun.


-Omake, submitted by BlackShadowScythe-

Tan: Kill them
Wicked: how can you say something like that so easily?
Tan: well why not?
Hacker: because we are characters on a children's television show.
Tan: and that mean you can't kill anyone?
Hacker: That's American tv for you
Wicked: Sometimes I wish we were from Japan.

A/n: Well here is Chapter 7 of TFC which I finally managed to get written, and I wish to apologize to all who were waiting a couple months for me to get around and update it. Thanks to all who had reviewed and were very patient with me. I'll try to update again as soon as I can, though I'm mostly gonna focus on re-writing BTS and hopefully post the revised version soon, so keep an eye out for that and remember to vote in my poll.

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S.D.W.L