Elektra's Season 4 Fanfic
ELEKTRA'S SEASON 4 FANFIC
Episode Nine Mainframe
Dot snuck around the large ship carefully. She raised her laser rifle, and waited.

"Hey.. sis… do ya think he's gonna come this way?!" Enzo asked.

"Shhh…" Dot replied. She looked around, then pressed her back against a wall, out of site from the doorway, "Quick… see if you can hack into the ship's sensors!"

Enzo ran up to the console, and Dot watched his back. He began to power up the sensors. "Hey SIS!! He's coming! Like… NOW!!" Enzo shouted as the sensors began to beep loudly.

She lowered the visor on her helmet, "Got him in targeting range.." and waited as he came closer. He saw her first, and began to fire his weapon.

"Look out!" Enzo shouted, but Dot was way ahead of her brother.

Dot quickly rolled out of the way, and aimed her weapon at the figure coming towards her, "Bye bye, big boy!" She said, and fired. She waited for the familiar voice.

"GAME OVER."

Dot soon felt the tingling of rebooting back into her own format, and watched the game cube leave.

"YEAH! All RIGHT, sis!! That was GREAT!! We kicked that User's ASCII!!" Enzo shouted happily.

"HEY!! Watch your language!!" Dot scolded.

Enzo quickly hung his head, "Um.. sorry.."

A Vid Window suddenly opened up beside Dot, "Commander Matrix…" the binome known as Specks saluted the Command.Com, "We just located something on the sensors… a portal!"

Dot's eyes went wide with excitement, "From the WEB?!" she asked.

"I… I think so, Commander… Let me just wait for conformation..." but before he could finish, Dot zoomed towards the principle office.

***
Principle Office
"Ok.. I'm here… so…" she went up to Specks' console, "You say it's from the web?!"

He looked at the information on the screen, and nodded, "It's been confirmed. Yes.. it's from the web..."

Dot opened up a Vid Window to AndrAIa, "The boys are back in town!" she said happily.

***
Mainframe Docks
Dot watched the Saucy Mare 2 as it was tied up. AndrAIa stood beside her, as did Little Enzo. She watched the crew leave the ship... and waited.

Matrix soon came out, followed by Ray, and Mouse. "Hey sugah.. did ya miss me?!" Mouse asked Dot as she walked up to her.

"It wasn't the same without you.." Dot smiled as she gave Mouse a friendly 'welcome home' hug.

"Hi, AndrAIa.." Matrix began, and hugged his girlfriend tightly. She responded with a kiss. After the long embrace, Matrix turned to Dot, and hugged her as well, "We're back!!" he said.

"Yeah, alphanumeric… whatever …." Little Enzo muttered sarcastically. He didn't seem to like his older counterpart too much.

Matrix looked at his younger self, narrowing his eyes.

Dot quickly piped up, trying to draw his attention away from the little boy, "You're ok!! Thank the User!!" She smiled. "Where's Bob?"

"Bob's coming …" Ray replied.

Mouse looked at Ray, "Uh.. honey.. we better get out of here… before Dot sees Bob and his... friends…" Mouse said. Ray looked at her, confused.

"Why?" he asked.

"Just trust me, sugah…" she said. Ray shrugged, but followed Mouse as she headed back to her apartment.

Dot watched them go, "What was that about??" she asked.

"Uh.. nothing!" Matrix said quickly, "Bob just has a few little surprises for you.." Then he looked at AndrAIa, "She's gonna blow…" He muttered.

"Why?" AndrAIa asked. But Matrix didn't offer any answer. He just waited.

Dot shrugged, and looked back at the Saucy Mare 2. Finally, Bob came out.

Behind him was an army of 40 Web Riders.

Dot simply stared, eyes wide. Bob ran up to her and hugged her, then stepped back when he sense a bit of reluctance. He knew what it was. He wanted to warn her.. but he hadn't had a chance what with running into Megabyte and all. He tried to make the best of it. "Uh.. hi.. Dot.. These are my friends… Do ya think you could find a place for them to stay for a while?"

"Your… friends??!" Dot said as she stared at the army. "They're all your… FRIENDS…?!?!"

"Um.. heh.. yeah…" he said.

Dot glared at him, "When you said you were going into the Web to get some help, I didn't know you were going to bring back a whole ARMY!!!!"

"Well.. I mean.. uh.. I.." He started.. but the look in her eyes told him to shut up.

"HOW am I supposed to find a place for all of them?!?! This is going to take SECONDS of planning!!!!!" She said loudly.

Matrix looked at AndrAIa, "Told you…"

Bob and Dot ignored him. "Um.. well… some of them can stay at my apartment…" he offered. "I can maybe stay somewhere else…"

"WHERE?!! WHERE are you going to stay, Bob?!!??!"

"Uh.. at our place?" Matrix offered.

Dot looked at her 'older' brother, "WHAAAAAT???!!"

"I mean… I can stay with AndrAIa, Bob can stay in my room… and some of the web riders can stay at his apartment…" Matrix explained.

"YEAH!! That would be alphanumeric!!" Little Enzo said happily.

"NO! It wouldn't!" Dot protested. "He can't stay at our apartment.. I mean.. he.. well… him and I.. we might.. it.. it just wouldn't work!!!"

Matrix looked at Dot, and smiled slightly – well, as much of a smile as Matrix could offer, "Are you afraid of something, sis??"

"Afraid?!! What would I be afraid off?!!" She asked quickly. And, in Matrix's opinion, a bit defensively.

"Ok.. ok.. don't worry.. I'll find somewhere else to stay. Maybe I can stay with Ray and Mouse…" Bob started.

"NOT with MOUSE!" Dot snapped.

Bob looked at her, arms out helplessly, "Well.. where else CAN I stay..?"

Dot took a deep breath, and let it out slowly, "Ok.. you can stay with Little Enzo and me…"

"Thanks.." Bob replied, and kissed her on the cheek. Dot still glared. Bob shuddered slightly when he saw the look on her face. "Uh.. heh.. right.." he said, then turned to the web riders, and spoke in Modem language. "Ok.. Cannon, you and about nine other guys can stay at my place…" he shouted to them, then he looked at Dot, "They're used to being cramped up together.." he said in his normal voice.

"I don't mind a few guests…" AndrAIa offered, "Maybe about 3 of them can stay with us… if they don't mind sleeping on the floor.."

Bob nodded, and picked three more Web Riders to go with AndrAIa and Matrix. He opened a Vid Window, and called the nearest hotel. They had room for about 20 of the Web Riders. Bob picked the last seven to stay in the Principle Office until a place could be set up for them.

"Well.. now that THAT'S done, you guys can relax," Dot addressed the web riders, "You might as well take off your armour…"

"NOOOOO!!" Bob, AndrAIa, and Matrix shouted in unison.

"Uh… Dot.. you REALLY don't want to see what they look like…" Matrix explained.

The web riders kept their armour on.. but Cannon, however, took off his web mask. Matrix, Bob, and AndrAIa gasped, expecting the worst. But they were pleasantly surprised.

Cannon's eyes were red, and his skin was gray. He had long black hair that surrounded his face gracefully and… to everyone's surprise, he looked like a typical sprite. It was as if the web hadn't degraded him in the least.

Bob narrowed his eyes and looked at the web rider leader. For some reason, the lack of web degradation unnerved him. "Why does this bother me…?" Bob asked himself.

Cannon smiled at Dot, and spoke… not noticing Bob's curious look, "Thank you for your hospitality, Commander Matrix…".

Bob jumped! Cannon wasn't speaking modem language, he was speaking standard computer language. "You can… TALK?!!" He asked, slightly dumfounded.

Cannon nodded, "Yes… I've always been able too," he held up his mask, "But you just can't talk in these things!!"

***
Dot's Apartment
After the web riders were seen to their temporary homes, Dot decided it was time for Bob to be introduced to HIS temporary home. "Ok…" Dot began as she lead him to Matrix's room, "You'll sleep here. If you want anything, you know your way around," she smiled, "Just don't eat all my food…"

Bob let out a small laugh, "I'll try not to.."

"Well, I'm going to sleep so…" Dot was interrupted.

"BOB.. DOT!! WEEEEEELL.. this is interesting!! So tell me.. is this going to be a permanent thing, or only temporary??" A microphone was shoved in Dot and Bob's faces. "The viewers want to know!! Do we hear WEDDING BELLS in the near future?!?"

Both Bob and Dot looked at the interruption, "MIKE… SHUT UP!!" they shouted in unison. They glared at Mike the TV.. wondering where he had come from so suddenly.

Mike the TV looked at them, and pouted. He slowly sulked away.

Dot shook her head, "As I was saying… I'm going to sleep.. good night…" she kissed him, and headed into her room.

Bob watched her from behind. "Wedding bells?!" he muttered to himself. Then shook his head, "No way!" and headed into his temporary room to read.

***

Dot lay awake in bed and stared at the ceiling. She was hoping to have more time with Bob when he got back… but THIS was ridiculous!! He was right down the hall!! "I can't believe this…" she groaned, "How did I ever get talked into letting Bob stay here??" Her inner voice answered, "because you love him… and you really DON'T mind that he's here at all…" Dot sighed, "Oh cursors!" She hated when her inner voice was right! Dot sat up in the bed. She couldn't sleep. "While I'm up, I might as well do something useful, " she muttered, and headed to the shower.

***

Bob closed the book. It was a great story… written by a sprite named Christopher Pic.

He stood up and stretched. After being in the web for over a minute, he thought it was time for a shower!

***

Dot gasped, and quickly turned off the shower when she heard the sound outside. She knew it was late. Little Enzo was asleep, and Bob had gone to his room nanoseconds ago! What was that noise?!

She opened the stall door and quickly grabbed her towel, then closed the door just as fast.

Dot leaned against the back of the stall, wrapping the towel around her, and finding herself grateful that the door was almost opaque. She held her breath... and waited.

She heard the bathroom door creak open, and a male sprite enter.

Dot looked around the stall with her eyes, looking for anything to throw at him. She grabbed a bar of soap. The sprite was about to pull the door open, when Dot's voice stopped him, "WHO ARE YOU?!" She shouted.

The sprite jumped back, "D-Dot?!!" he stuttered.

Dot quickly pulled the stall door open, and looked out to see…"BOB????"

Bob smiled nervously, "Uh.. hi… Dot.."

Dot narrowed her eyes, and threw the soap at him. He ducked it. "What in the 'net are you doing in here?!!!!! I'm taking a SHOWER for User's sake!" She shouted angrily.

Bob looked at her, noticing the towel she had wrapped around herself, "So I can see…" he began.

This just caused Dot to fume even more, "GET OUT!!!" she yelled, "GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!!!!"

"I'M SORRY!!" He replied, holding his hands up defensively, "I didn't know!! I mean.. you said you were going to SLEEP!!"

"Don't you ever KNOCK first?!" Dot shouted, ignoring his defense.

"Well… I usually don't have to…since I live alone.. and…" he tried to explain.

She grabbed her sponge, and threw that at him as well, "WHY ARE YOU STILL STANDING THERE?!!"

He ducked the sponge ever so gracefully, "I… I just.. um.. I'm trying to explain… that … uh…"

"DON'T EXPLAIN! JUST GET OUT OF MY BATHROOM!!" Dot shrieked, holding the towel around her tighter.

"OK!! OK!! I'M GOING!!" Bob replied, and ran out of the washroom, ducking the flying objects that followed him.

***
Dot's Diner
Bob sat beside Cannon, staring at Dot. He sighed. She still hadn't forgiven him completely for the little incident last night.

Dot looked across the table at Cannon, explaining the situation with the lack of housing arrangements, "I'm sorry we have such limited guest quarters here," she started. "We don't usually get a large number of guests all at one time…"

"That's quite all right, Commander Matrix," Cannon said. "It's understandable. I know you weren't expecting all of us," he looked at Bob accusingly, "Why didn't you tell her, Interface?"

Bob sat up straight, and looked at Cannon, "Well.. um…"

Dot smirked as she watched Bob squirm. "Serves him right…" She thought. She guessed being scrutinized by a web rider wasn't exactly pleasant. Especially someone like Cannon, who radiated with leadership qualities.

"I didn't have a chance… not really…" Bob continued his explanation, "I mean.. with the whole incident in the web and everything… " he shrugged.

Now Dot's smirk was replaced with curiosity, "What incident in the web?!" She asked.

"Well.. we had a little run in with Megabyte…" Bob started, and proceeded to explain the whole story.

"Was he... deleted?" Dot asked after Bob had told her everything.

Bob took a deep breath, "I really don't know.. I mean.. I don't see how anyone could have escaped that cave in .. but.. Megabyte's survived before…"

Cannon suddenly sat up straight, and narrowed his red eyes. Dot looked at him, brow furrowed. "What is it?" She asked.

Cannon turned to the doorway to see Turbo, "Nothing…" Cannon said over his shoulder to Dot, "Nothing at all.."

When Turbo caught sight of the web rider, he stiffened. Dot looked at him, and Turbo quickly relaxed, trying to look natural. "Hello, Commander…" he said politely to Dot, and walked up to the table.

"HI!" Dot smiled, and waved. She looked at Cannon, "This is Turbo.. Prime Guardian.." Dot explained. "Turbo… this is Cannon, leader of the web riders.." Cannon held out a hand to the Prime Guardian, "Nice to met you, Turbo…" Cannon said politely, and a small smirked played at his pale lips.

Turbo narrowed his eyes for a moment, then regained his composure, "Yes.. nice to meet you too… CANNON.." he replied, stressing the name. The two shook hands, reluctantly.

Dot wondered about this… but knew better then to ask questions. "Turbo... why don't you sit down and have an energy shake?" Dot asked.

Turbo glanced over at Cannon quickly, then looked back at Dot, "Ah'm sorry, Dot… ah can't stay. Ah really just came in here to say 'hi'." He smiled politely, "Now if ya'll will excuse me.."

Dot nodded, "All right.. see you later.." and Turbo left.

The little exchange between the Web Rider and Cannon had not gone unnoticed by Bob. "Now what in the 'net was THAT all about…" he asked himself. But he KNEW he didn't want to hear the answer.

End of Episode #9

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