Chapter Six

A/N: Originally, the sixth chapter was to be the last but then I thought about it to myself "Now that's just too short. Make bigger. So much stuff not done yet".

So here we are! :D

Enjoy my mess~

Chapter Six

Slider had...well a blast. He finally gotten to take Matt out on an actual date, even though it was to the arcade. But it was worth it seeing the red head smile. Just thinking about it made him chuckle at how easy it was to blend in with the humans.

"Hey Sly, ready to go?," Matt tugged on the other's shirt sleeve, who in turn looked up at him.

"Uh yeah sure."

As they strode towards the exit, the kid from the baseball game blocked them. He looked distraught. Fiddling with his hands, wheezing as if he ran, no sprinted from a long ways.

"Uh h-hey Matt," the boy said as he scratched his neck, nervously.

"Oh hi Jack. What's up?"

Slider narrowed his eyes a tad. He was torn between asking who this was and did he have to fight him or flight in order to protect Matt. But he bit his tongue and held his pride as the other spoke.

"Look, I, uh, wanna apologize for what I did at the game. You know for trippin' ya..."

So THIS was the kid who hurt Matt that one day. The mark was still there on the red haired boy's lip as Slider saw, it was scabbed up and cleared away.

"Yeah it's cool. We cool," Matt said, making a thumbsup at the other kid. The other smiled, leaving to go back to his group of friends that piled up near a fighting game.

Slider's eyebrows flew to his hairlines, at least it all went well than he prevously had thought.

Him and Matt went unnoticed by passerbys as they snuck in an alley behind the arcade building. Fishing into his shorts pocket, Slider took out his own sqwakpad and commed in for a portal.

Within a few seconds, one popped up into existance. To be sure for himself, he double checked over his shoulders as Matt climbed into the purple void. No one saw anything as Slider sooner followed in after him.

Now in Cyberspace, they arrived in Control Central only to see that it was getting a whole new make over to suit the improved Motherboard. A large, cresent table sat in the middle of the floor, seven oval chairs with soft covers inside were placed along the rounded end while a gold trimmed, lush, velvet cushioned chair sat proudly acrossed the other side.

A few plants and flowers occupied corners, tabletops and the ceiling around the room. Some of which were from Bizz and Delete's greenhouse, they don't charge Motherboard due to her accepting them. Mainly due to Mother B giving Delete a bunny sanctuary while Buzz didn't really want anything. He did liked the bunnies.

"Wow."

What else could be said? It was just so nice. Motherboard looked up from placing the last flower pot down on the counter, her eyes crinkled upwards as she smiled softly.

"Hello Matthew, Slider. How has your day been progressing?," She asked as she took a seat in the closest chair, fluffing out her dress to rid of bumps.

"Pretty great Mother B! Me and Slider just mainly played games against each other. I totally won."

Pridefulness was the boy's weakness, he wore it as a medal, to bad that it was quickly snuffed out.

"Funny, I remember it clearly that you lost many times and you got frustrated and stomped off," Slider snorted as he ducked the incoming fist to his arm. Seriously, Matt hits too hard and HE's supposed to be the robot here.

"Shut up."

Motherboard brought her knuckles to her mouth as she cleared her throat, "Slider, I hope your father is doing well."

The boy curtly nodded. His dad had fully recovered thanks to Doctor Marbles, though his side still bugged him off and on most days but otherwise, he was perfectly fine.

"He's doing alright. Just leans on his side often," he said as he slapped away Matt's hand that was seconds away from itching his cast.

The other boy huffed, slumping further into his chair. This sucks. No really.

If it's not his parents berating him for itching, it's a pain in his side named Slider. He was practically pulling his hair out on how much this cast itched to high heavens.

"I am SO glad this thing is coming off tomorrow. It's driving me crazy!"

"You're driving me crazy."

"What's that supposed to mean??"

Motherboard silently watched from her seat as the two boys went back and forth. It was kinda cute now that she thought about it. She watched from a screen at how Slider admired Matt and how the girls would secretly try to tell him without her or anyone else hearing about Matt's favorite things.

She felt happiness as the children she held dearly to her heart were the sweetest kids she ever met.

If only it was enough that it could shake this feeling gnawing at her that something bad was going to happen.

End of chapter 7 uwu

Yes I know it's short, I'm just getting started. Leave me alone, you bullies! :U

(I'm just kidding~)

Thanks for reading!