'He isn't here!' Yoshi cried. 'Link, what have you DONE?'

'I'm sorry.' Said the Hylian, looking down in shame. He, Yoshi and Kirby were looking through Dorm Thirteen for the missing boy. Link's face burnt up. He felt so responsible, so guilty. He was now under a serious weight of stress. His eyes began to shudder as tears formed in the corners of them. 'Where are you?' He thought. 'Where are you, Japs?'

They were missing Sport with Goku, but they did not care. Their friend was more important than a lesson. They had allready missed Lylatian, and Mewtwo had made an excuse for them. Kirby sat down on a chair in deep thought, and doing so he soon found himself rocketing up in pain.

'KANAKA!' Shouted Kirby, looking at what he sat on. 'YOU NUISANCE!'

'Wait!' Said Link, leaping forward. 'Japs programmed Kanaka to be like himself! We could get a clue, at least, from this robot! Kirby, you're good with computers, right?'

'I'm okay.' He said. He turned to the spider bot and, with great caution, reached to touch it. Many people knew how to operate the arachnid.

'Kanaka...' Said Kirby, shaking. '...Offline...' He stared at the Robot's artificial green eyes, and eventually they switched off. Kanaka fell limp. Slowly and cautiously Kirby lifted up the robots abdomen. Inside were circuits and wires, pistons for moving the legs, and one small chip that Kirby took great interest in. 'The Motherboard.' He proclaimed. 'This is the source of Kanaka's mind. Perhaps if we took a look at this on a computer, we could gain vital information.'



And so the three went to the Computer Resource room, which was in a building not far west from the Year Seven's Block. Link brought Kanaka's flimsy shell with him, and though Yoshi and Kirby saw no point in it, they let him do it.

'If I can just format the chip so that the system can read it, we can translate the entire thing so we can look at the information Japs was programming Kanaka for.' Said Kirby, but when he looked round he saw black, confused expressions aiming at him. With a sigh, he said 'I'm gonna have to play with the insides of the computer.'

After an hour, while Link and Yoshi lay propped against the wall playing 'Go Fish' with playing cards, Kirby was still trying to hook up Kanaka's chip to the computer. Yoshi was grouchy. He had been pulled from going to lessons to sit around doing nothing, and he was normally more than happy to, but doing nothing to find a worthless child as Japs did not seem at all worthy of his time to him. 'Can we go yet?' He whined. And just then, the monitor flashed on. Up came a load of text, and the dinosaur and the Hylian tried to read it, but it was scrolling far too fast for them. Kirby was amazed, looking briefly at each point he saw the effort and skill that had gone into making Kanaka. But then, Yoshi wailed in pain. Kirby's attention turned to the dino, and saw that the Kanaka, still not operational, had clamped around his hand and bitten into it.

Kirby, ignoring this, turned to the monitor. 'Wow.' He said. 'Looks like Japs made this thing smarter than him.'

'Smarter than him...' Said Link, idea's swarming suddenly to his head. '...Or does it know what Japs knew?'

'Pardon?' Said Kirby. The two ignored Yoshi screaming and dancing about the room with a spider's fangs in his paw.

'Does it have any information about Japs' ambitions?' Said Link, looking over Kirby's head. Kirby did a quick scan.

'No.' He replied. Link raised and snapped his fingers.

'I know what Kanaka was for.' He said, but then a tear rolled down his cheek. 'Japs was actualy desperate enough to do that?'

'Do what?' Asked Kirby. Link sat down.



'I was told that Kanaka was built to be a friend when Japs needed one. It's not quite like that. You see, Kanaka was made to make Japs have friends, in the only way he thought he could.'

'What's that?' Asked Yoshi, tugging at the robot.

'Japs was not like us when he was younger. I'd say he was one of the smartest in his year. He must have been picked on for that same reason, and so he needed a way to get rid of what he knew. He built The Kanaka to take away his intelligence.

'I never looked at it in this way before, but it's so obvious now. Kanaka comes from the Lylat of "Kan", my, and "Nakah", intelligence.' Link began to cry. The more he looked at it, the more he realized how much pain Japs had gone through. 'Think about it, if you had built this machine, would you kick it or throw it away when it came towards you, and hesitate to let it near you? Japs had a reason... Kanaka absorbs information from it's preys brain via it's fangs.'

Yoshi let out a shrill scream.

'Oh, shut up!' Shouted Link. 'Kanaka isn't operational! Has Japs ever shown you his scar, Kirby?'

'No...' Replied Kirby, who was now upset.

'Japs has a huge scar on his left arm. He told me he did it while on a hover-bike.'

Link began to weep. 'It's all lies.' He said through his tears. 'His whole life has been lies. Just... Just like mine...'

Kirby supported the Hylian.



'Is this true?' Kirby thought. 'It makes sense, in a way. Japs never knew any Lylatian from when I knew him. I pity him. No, no I don't. I wish he were here. I would shout at him so hard for lying... but he couldn't help it, could he? He made himself dumb in order to gain the friendship of others... that's awful!

'But did it work? Am I friends with the Japs he created, or the Japs he was?'



'We can get the information back into Japs.' Kirby said weakly. 'But would he want it?'

'C'mon.' Said Link, drying his tears. 'Lets look at Kanaka's memory. We have to know where Japs has gone in order to find out.'