After a long and complicated process to board a space shuttle, Jackie, Matt, and Inez settled down. Digit had been placed in the pet compartment. No one liked being separated, but putting up a fuss would bring too much attention to their travels.

It was excruciatingly slow going. By the second hour, Inez was the only one awake. She had counted the ceiling tiles in the shuttle, walked down the aisle three hundred times, and even stared at other passengers intensely, memorizing them.

Inez was thrilled that they were on their way to rescue Cyberspace from the evil clutches of Hacker. Her body shook with anticipation whenever she thought about it, but also with a little apprehension. She was afraid that after all their time hiding, their skills might be a little rusty. And what would Slider think of them? Who else was with Slider, or was he all alone?

"Irene." Someone whispered. Inez turned to see Jackie, who gave her an admonishing look. "Try to get some sleep."

"I can't." Inez answered back. "I'm too excited…and nervous. Ja – um, Mom, what are we going to do? How do we fix all this? I mean, look at us. We're not anything like what we were back then. And, to be honest, a lot of winning was through luck. What if we're not lucky anymore? What if –"

"Slow down." Jackie replied. "Everything's going to work out fine. First we have to figure out a plan."

"Well, step number one is going to be to find Samuel." Inez offered.

"That's right." Jackie nodded. "After we find him, we'll be able to learn everything we missed and come up with an educated guess.

"A conjecture." Inez said. "Right?"

"Sure." Jackie replied. "And a conjecture is?"

"An estimate, speculation, an idea." Inez explained absently. In her mind, she was already going through scenarios.

"Okay then." Jackie murmured. "Well, let's try to get some sleep. We're going to be going through a lot in approximately…four hours."

"Four hours?" Inez groaned.

"Try for some sleep, okay?" Jackie suggested.

A loud snore suddenly reached them, and the girls looked up to see Matt, fast asleep, with his mouth wide open.

They dissolved into giggles.