ReBoot
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+ The Mouth of Mainframe +
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Matrix, AI, and Byte
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The black limousine sped through the streets of Mainframe. Every now and then, the back window
would roll down and a blue face would appear. Megabyte was getting nervous.

(Where is she? And where are those damned nulls?) These thoughts ran through his head constantly.

Little did Megabyte know, Enzo Matrix and AndrAIa were behind him. Literally.

"Hey AndrAIa. You thinking what I am thinking?"

"I don't really know Enz...I mean Matrix. What were you thinking?" She giggled.

"Well..." He started, ignoring her giggles. "I was thinking, well actually, wondering. What could
have made the nulls turn bad? I mean they don't really have brains. They just meander around not
doing much and yet..."

"Matrix...You are starting to sound like our friend Megabyte over there." She laughed, she just
couldn't help it. "Stop worrying about Hex. We need to find out where the Binomes went."

"You're right AndrAIa. So. I suggest we stick with our buddy Megabyte until something turns up."

They floated on their zip boards behind the shiny, black limo. Suddenly, two figures appeared
from within the limo. It was Hack and Slash.

"Oh oh."
"It's him!"

Matrix stared at the two bots.

"Crash! They spotted us."

"It's no prob." AndrAIa pointed her hand at the two bots. Matrix knew what would happen next.
Three reddish spikes shot into the robots and they fell back into the car.

"AndrAIa...I told you to please stop doing that."

She blushed. "Sorry."

They heard a yell come from within the limo as it began to veer into the buildings near them.
It was at this point that they finally realized where they were...Lost Angles...

* * *

The smoke poured out from the engine of the limo. Megabyte stepped out of it and looked behind
him at AndrAIa and Matrix. A look of annoyance appeared when he saw them.

"Blast the user. Why are you two here?"

AndrAIa was shaking. Even Matrix, who seemed to be fearless (or so he claimed), was a little
worried when Megabyte stepped out. Matrix opened his mouth to speak.

" *sigh* To be honest, I really don't give a damn why you are here. Just get away from me."

Megabyte began to walk away from the wreckage and further into the city. Matrix finally spoke up.

"We are here to find the missing Binomes from Mainframe."

Megabyte spun around. Matrix and AndrAIa flinched.

"Really? Well...maybe you two can be of some use to me after all." Megabyte began to chuckle.
"Yes. Very useful indeed."

* * *

The streets were deserted. All except for the occasional micro-rat and the three figures walking
along. Megabyte, Matrix, and AndrAIa searched all over the streets of Lost Angles. Even in the
alleyways. But no sign of Hex, the Binomes, or the nulls.

(This is very odd) Matrix thought. (There isn't even a single goddamn one)

Megabyte, on the other hand, was watching carefully for any signs of Hexidecimal.

AndrAIa looked at Matrix with a worried glance.

"Matrix...Can we really trust Megabyte?"

He looked at her.

"Does it look like we have a choice?"

"No. I guess not." then she added, "Could you at least tell him to stop staring at my ass?"

"Well, I wouldn't do that. Besides...he has good taste." He laughed and patted her butt. She too
laughed and smacked him on the arm. He then began to pretend it was broken.

"OH OW! You broke it! Agh. The user needs to upgrade me now! Agggh!" AndrAIa couldn't help but
laugh at Matrix. He was like his old...well younger self. The laughter stopped when Matrix fell
face-first onto the ground. AndrAIa gasped. She turned around to hit Megabyte but he wasn't
there.

"Uhh...Megabyte?" She was getting nervous now. (What the hell? Where could he have gone to?)

Suddenly, she remembered Matrix. She rushed over to him and lifted him up.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah. Just a headache. What the hell happened?"

"I'm not sure. You were goofing around and then WHAM! Down you went."

As they were trying to figure out what happened and where Megabyte had gotten to, a dark shadow
loomed closer and closer. A high-pitched squeal started up. Matrix looked up behind AndrAIa and
gasped...