part one
Hey everyone! Welcome to the chapter most of y'all have been waiting for. The deleted scenes! This is the chapter where you can read the scenes I either forgot to put into the stories you've just read or I didn't think they would fit. This is part one of the deleted scenes. Let's get started, huh? Okey dokey! For our first deleted scene, I wanna take you back to the third installment, Memories Are Made of This: Chapter Eleven entitled Collisions, Sabotage, and Deletion. This scene was supposed to be a part of the last scene, where Dot barely escapes deletion. Let's take you back: Dot has slipped from reality, as her family now realizes. Kit, distraught over this turn of events, accidentally unleashes his anger in a form of an energy wave through his mother. Convinced he has killed her, naturally everyone is in shock and sadness. But the young commander had some fight left in her and the blast only seems to have brought her back.
This next scene was supposed to give a some what plausible explanation as to why she was able to fight for so long...
Bob smacked himself in the forehead. How could he be so basic! "That's why she's still fighting the infection." he murmured, shaking his head. He couldn't believe he hadn't thought of this before.
"Whatcha talkin' about, Bob?" Mouse asked.
"Dot has part of my code." Bob stated to the confused looks.
"So you mean there's something in the guardian codes that stops the infection?" AndrAIa asked.
"I guess so." Bob murmured, glancing at his wife, still laying in bed. "The Guardian protocol is supposed to have some form of anti-viral protection within it. I can only assume that if these bugs are really some how linked to Daemon, they must be viral as well."
"So that's how she's been holding on." Enzo replied. "She's been fighting this whole time."
"It doesn't stop it, merely takes a defensive stance." Bob turned to look at Kit. "Though I'm not sure how..."
"You mean I saved Mom's life?" Kit asked. He had gone from his mother's killer to his mother's savior all in the span of five nanos.
"Well, you certainly gave her a wake up call, Sugah." Mouse said, patting the boy on the back.
"Then she's gonna be okay." Enzo said, a smile coming to his face.
"Not for long." The doctor jumped in. They were all getting way too excited...
A beit a small scene, but one with an explanation. The next scene was supposed to be immediately after that. If you recall, the scene now ends with the finding of extra antitoxin and the exclamation that everyone is heading home. Well, in my original thoughts for this, I had planned a sweet and touching scene between Bob and Kit, taking place after the scene you've just read...
A few microseconds later, Kit found himself outside on the ramada table, just sitting and thinking. He was still worked up about the whole deleted, not deleted event that had just taken place. He had just came face to face with a loved one's near deletion experience, something he never wanted to go through again. He also came to the conclusion he didn't want to be in the situation that nearly deleted his own mother.
Looking down at his hands, he realized what a blessing and what a curse he had within him. He was special. No other kid in any other system could possibly do what he could. But then again, he didn't want too be special. He wanted to be a regular kid, like the other regular kids that...Kit shook his head. There were no other kids in Mainframe except his immediate smaller family members and maybe five to seven others, most boys around his age or younger.
Kit bent his head, the urge to cry again starting to overtake him.
"This seat taken?"
Kit quickly wiped his eyes and looked up to see his father smiling at him. "Sure, Dad." he said, a bit shaky.
Bob sat down next to his son, on the bench so he could look Kit in the eye. "I was kinda worried about you." he said. "After, you know."
"Yeah." Kit sighed. "I had to get some air. Things went by so fast, you know?"
"Yeah, I know." the guardian whispered. Turning to face Kit, the guardian replied, "You know I'm proud of you, Bobby. How ever you did it, you saved her life."
"Then why do I feel so scared?" Kit asked.
"We've been through a lot the last couple of seconds." Bob replied. "I was scared, too. Even now."
Kit looked over at him. "You're scared now?" he asked.
"Sure." Bob chuckled. "I almost lost my wife, the mother of children. The woman I love more than life itself. And on top of that, it looked like I could've lost you too. Matrix and Enzo both looked like they would shut down at any nano. Even now, what if that antitoxin isn't enough to bring Dot around? Mainframe's in big trouble and we're not there and I think you know no one's leaving until Dot's okay."
Kit sighed and looked down at his hands.
"You have a real gift, Christopher." Bob whispered. "No other kid can do what you do."
The boy just continued staring at the objects of conflict.
"I know this whole thing hasn't set well with you since you found out about them." his father continued. "I know you've been trying to ignore them and well...as you know, when you get angry..." Bob sighed, knowing the full extent of what his sacrifice had done to his children. "You gotta control it, Kit. Even if you never use them again, at least learn how to control them, that way if your temper flares, they won't get the best of you. But it's your choice. I'm not going to force you to use your powers if you don't want to."
Kit glanced at his father. He seemed hopeful that Kit's answer would be yes, even Kit wanted to say yes. Even if he still had some resentment of the awesome power he harnessed, he wanted to be able to at least control and use it for good. Bob was right. When Kit got worked out, his powers came out and he couldn't control them as effectively like his father could. Besides, knowing the bugs were now in Mainframe, Kit wanted to be able to fight to get rid of them.
"I wanna be able tot control them, Dad." he said. "I wanna know more about them."
The next deleted scene takes place in the Beginnings Arcs, specifically Arc 2: The Christopher Lan Story. I actually put some of this deleted scene in the story, but it had been meant for the next arc. This is the whole scene, deleted from the third arc, practically found in chapter three: And Baby Makes Three...
"Where'd the baby come from, Daddy?" Kit asked, turning to look at Bob.
"From AndrAIa's tummy." Bob replied.
The boy looked at the baby, then AndrAIa, then back at the baby.
"Well, how did it get in there?" the little boy asked.
All the color drained from the guardian's face as he realized the situation he was now in. And the mere fact that Matrix, Dot, and Enzo were snickering and laughing at him didn't help matters any either. "Uh..." he stammered. "Well...um...uh...why don't you ask Mommy?"
"Oh no you don't!" Dot laughed. "He asked you to explain. So go ahead, Daddy."
"Yeah, Bob." Matrix snickered. "We'd all like to hear this."
Bob cleared his throat, trying hard to explain something he hoped wouldn't come up until the child was at least 1.4 hours old, and with the added attention he was now getting from the others in the room. "Come with me, Kit." Bob said, leading the boy out of the room. "We'll go have guy talk, okay?"
At that, everyone broke out laughing.
Once outside, Bob sat in a nearby chair, with Kit standing in front of him, his little face scrunched up in confusion. "You see, Bobby..." he started. "When a Mommy and Daddy love each other, they decide they want to start a family, they...see they come to a decision that they...okay, see, when Mommy and I wanted to have you, we...we got together...and you got inside Mommy's tummy."
"But how does the baby get inside the tummy?"
"I'm...I'm...I'm getting to that." Bob said. "See...when we...your mother and I...got together...okay, see before you were born, you were growing inside Mommy's stomach."
"Daddy," the boy asked, more confused than ever and presently wondering where his mother was. "If I'm growing in Mommy's tummy, how am I out here?"
"No, no." Bob replied, struggling with this whole topic. When he had
told Enzo this story, it seemed much easier. "You are not
growing in Mommy's tummy. You came from Mommy's tummy, okay? See, when
Mommy and I wanted to have you, we...um..."
Where is Mommy?
"And then, you were made. Inside Mommy's tummy." Bob finished. "Do...do you understand now?"
"Yes, Daddy." the boy nodded, giving his father a hug.
Thank the User he understands, Bob thought, returning the hug.
I have no idea what this man just told me, Kit thought. I've
already forgotten it.
