ReBoot: My Two Bobs
Unofficial Ending
By X Brav
Cybersurfr_home@msn.com
INT. PRINCIPAL OFFICE GAMES CORRIDOR SECTOR D9
Bob: (Looking At Matrix) The hunt?
Matrix: It's no longer about the supercomputer Bob. He's out to delete us all, then infect all of Mainframe.
Bob: So his objective appears to remain the same. We must exit the principal office now! Glitch, get me Dot.
Glitch: (Contacts Dot)
Bob: (Looking towards Dot in Glitch) Dot! We've got to get out of here. Where are you located?
Dot: I'm currently in sector G4. What are your coordinates?
Bob: D9. Let's make our way to Baudway. There we can safely execute a distress signal throughout the net.
Dot: And Megabyte?
Bob: I still believe that we can reprogram him.
Matrix: (Looking Surprised) What?! After all he's done to us, you still believe in your radical theory.
Bob: You're starting to think like Turbo, Matrix. Remember what he tried to do in order to delete the web creature? Turbo's solution will be a full format of Mainframe. There will be no backup. We'll all be deleted.
Dot: Stop arguing boys. Let's get our asciis out of here before we're all infected.
Bob: Right.
Dot: I need a minute to download some information from the archives. This might be vital in the battle later.
Bob: Mouse?
Mouse: (Pops into viewing distance in Glitch) You called, Suga?
Bob: Guard Dot closely. If there's one thing I know about Dot, It's that she'll figure out a way to defeat Megabyte.
Mouse: Mighty thinking, Bob.
Glitch: (Clicks as Dot hangs up)
INT. PRINCIPAL OFFICE GAMES CORRIDOR SECTOR G9
Mouse: So what is this vital data you need to backup?
Dot: The null research files.
AndrAIa: Why?
Mouse: How will those help us destroy Megabyte?
Dot: Who said I had any intention of fully deleting him?
EXT. PRINCIPAL OFFICE ARCHIVE ENTRY
Bob, Dot, Matrix, Mouse, AndrAIa, Hack and Slash arrive at the archives.
Dot: Enter.
Vid Window opens.
Vid Window: State name.
Dot: Dot Matrix.
Vid Window: Voice analysis denied.
All: What?!
Vid Window: Archived video will be displayed.
Vid Window: Megabyte: Congratulations, Ms. Matrix on making it this far. However, I'm going to have to cut your efforts short. As we speak, a team of ABCs are being dispatched to retrieve you. I will need you for one final task.
Vid Window closes.
Matrix: He thinks he has us, but still relies on our capabilities when we were younger. (Looks towards sewer hatch) I remember using that hatch to spy on Megabyte's viral slaves attempt to hack into the archives. If I'm correct, then the equipment should still be there.
Dot: Why can't Mouse hack into the archives?
Mouse: Megabyte has it double-encrypted, changing every nanosecond. Even if I could break the code, I'd need to decrypt the voice analysis. It'd take too many cycles.
Bob: Our only plan is to use the equipment sitting below the archives.
Dot: But where will we find a large enough energy source to break through?
Mouse: My ship happens to have a transformer built into it. With glitch's powers, there's a good chance that we'll break through. However, it'll deplete glitch of all its energy.
Dot: Problem solved. The archives have an energy recharger located inside. As soon as we break through, Bob and glitch will be able to go and recharge.
Bob: I'd loan you my car to get there mouse, but the interocetor is too unreliable.
Dot: Hack, Slash. Plan 452. Escort and Return.
Hack, Slash: Yes Ma'am.
Hack and Slash pick up Mouse and begin flying towards Baudway.
Mouse: My ship's at the port boys!
Hack and Slash break, nearly throwing Mouse forward, and fly off towards the port. Meanwhile, Dot, Matrix, AndrAIa and Bob enter the sewers.
INT. MAINFRAME SEWERS ARCHIVE SECTOR
Bob: OK, Dot. What's the plan?
Dot: I've got a risky plan, but it's the only way that we'll be able to reprogram Megabyte. If we can figure out a way to recover nulls, then there's a chance that we'll be able to convert sprites back into nulls. Therefore, we'll be able to convert Megabyte into a null, reprogram him, and then convert him back.
Bob: That way, he'll become fully antiviral, and retain the same knowledge level of a sprite.
Matrix: That will also allow us to revive the surviving nulls in Mainframe to their original state. But how will we manage to revive them all?
Bob: The supercomputer has the capability to create commands rather than wait for the user to. We can write a command that'll reconfigure all the nulls in Mainframe at once.
Matrix: Let's get going then! I'll keep guard to make sure none of Megabyte's men enter the sewers.
AndrAIa: Stay frosty Sparky!
Bob, Dot and AndrAIa head down the pipe on their zipboards towards the position under the archive.
EXT. MAINFRAME PORT #1
Viral #1: Get her!
Mouse: (Running) I thought you two could take them on?
Slash: We never were meant to be bodyguards.
Hack: Yeah, we're practically useless.
Mouse: Shut up and think of a plan!
Viral #1: Wait boys.
All virals stop.
Viral #1: Did you hear that?
Viral #3: It sounded like a dog.
Viral #2: A dog?
Around a corner jumps Frisket and attacks the three virals.
Hack and Slash: The dog?
Mouse: Megabyte must've shape shifted before he entered the Principal Office. He's still got some energy left in him.
A group of ten more virals arrives at the scene.
Viral #4: Troops! Open Fire!
Mouse attempts to flee on her zipboard but is shot down, destroying the zipboard. She desperately runs around hanger #4's corner.
Mouse: How will I get out of this one?
The virals follow Mouse and corner her.
Viral #4: Resistance is futile. Surrender, or be deleted.
Mouse: Gee, tough choice.
Beside Mouse opens a portal. Out flies Ray Tracer.
Ray: Good' aye mate. Found myself another damsel in distress.
Mouse: Thanks for the lift, Suga. Hack! Slash! Grab Frisket and head for my ship!
The group of five group together and rush to the ship.
Mouse: Everybody in!
Everybody enters the ship. Mouse and Ray head for the cockpit.
Mouse: Shields activated. Let's head for the archives.
The ship takes off for the archives. As they are travelling towards the archives, they hear five large vid windows open around the Principal Office again.
INT. MAINFRAME SEWERS ARCHIVE SECTOR
Everyone listens in as the upgraded Megabyte begins to speak again.
Megabyte: I see that you sprites have managed to avoid my viral troops. However, I'm afraid that you re stuck at another cross road. I will be activating the Principal Office shield in two cycles. You have two options. Flee from the Principal Office, or stay and face me and my viral troops. This will be your final option.
Vid Windows close.
AndrAIa: How will we be able to defeat him when we're trapped in here?
Bob: What's the plan, Dot? This isn't the time to live on the edge.
Dot: I was just thinking. Even if we cure Megabyte, how will we force an antivirus on the system to return the system to normal?
Bob: Now's not the time to think about that. Maybe Mouse'll have some idea.
Ray, Matrix, Mouse, Frisket, Hack and Slash meet up with Dot.
AndrAIa: Welcome back, Ray.
Bob: Where's the transformer?
Mouse: Right here.
Mouse hands Bob the transformer.
Bob: (Hooks glitch and the transformer into the driller) Glitch! Energy drain!
Glitch: (Beeps and glows until a surge of energy is pulsed out of glitch, through the transformer, and into the driller)
The drill powers up, then sends the drill up, with near but not full success entering the archive.
Ray: Well, that didn't work well, Mate.
Dot: What will we do now?
Megabyte's voice appears again.
Megabyte: Time's up sprites. Activate Principal Office shields!
The system powers down as the shields are activated.
Matrix: Trapped in our home that we came to love.
Mouse: I just got an idea.
Mouse walks over to one of the security panels on the wall and rips it off, revealing a touch-command security system.
Mouse: Just as I suspected. By hacking into this system, I'll gain access to the power lead to the Principal Office shields. We can then reroute it through the drill.
Dot: Good thinking Mouse. But won't Megabyte detect the difference in the shield's strength?
Mouse: Normally, yes. However, with my transformer, I will be able to amplify the signal, and therefore continue the same current. In order for this to work, I'll need a power surge for two cycles; otherwise Megabyte will surely detect the surge.
Matrix: How will we manage that?
AndrAIa: In order for this to work, we'd need to temporarily disable the Principal Office shields.
Bob: There's only two ways to do that. Either we take Megabyte on right away or...
(Thunder-type crash)
System: Warning! Incoming game! Warning! Incoming game!
Bob: Or use game energy to drain the shields. However, I'm going to need some energy to regain Glitch's powers.
Dot: My organizer is drained already. There are no more large energy sources available. If the game lands on the Principal Office, we'll have to take on the game without Glitch.
Matrix: What about Gun?
AndrAIa: We can't risk damaging the Principal Office. One wrong move and Mainframe is offline.
(The game cube lands directly on the Principal Office, trapping the Mainframers, Megabyte, and over forty virals inside the game)
INT. HOTEL LOBBY
Bob: It appears that the accelerated game time has caused Glitch to recharge. Glitch! Game stats! We're in the beginning level of Enter the Matrix. The user must answer the phones located in these four quadrants (Pointing them out on Glitch). However, luck seems to be against us. With the number of sprites in this game, there are no game sprites, which means we'll have to take him on alone. The sprites in this sector never attended one of my game seminars.
Matrix: So I can use Gun then.
Bob: Yes, although it may not prove to be effective. The user has the capability to move at a much higher rate than any of the rest of us for a limited time. It will be much harder to get an accurate shot at him. As well, he has five lives.
Matrix: Let's waste no more time. Reboot!
(Matrix reboots to become an agent)
AndrAIa: Reboot!
Mouse: Reboot!
(Mouse and AndrAIa reboot to become security guards)
Ray: What's rebooting?
Dot: AndrAIa, Matrix, Mouse. Run ahead and position yourselves. I've got to figure out how Ray can reboot.
Matrix: Gun! Targeting! Full deletion!
Gun: (beeps aimlessly)
Matrix: I can't get a lock!
Bob: The user must be able to dodge Gun's auto-targetting system. Matrix, you're going to need to manually aim. AndrAIa, try to stun him. That'll slow him down. I have a feeling that shooting him will not fully delete him.
Dot: So Bob, how can we get Ray to Reboot?
Bob: Glitch can partially reformat him to a sprite. He'll have both the capabilities of a search engine and the code of a sprite.
Dot: Well, I'll have to trust you on this one. Reboot!
(Dot reboots to become another guard)
Bob: (Grabbing his icon) Ray, because of my guardian code, I'm only capable of upgrading you to a guardian. This means that you might have to be downloaded to the academy. Are you willing to go through this?
Ray: Visit the supercomputer eh? Sounds mighty interesting! Let's go for it.
Bob: Glitch! Copy paste!
Glitch: (Beeps as a beam transfers guardian code from Bob's icon into Ray)
(Ray screams as his body is transformed into a more metallic form and his surfboard is converted into a key tool)
Bob: Your board must've originally been configured for a key tool by the user. Where are you from?
Ray: I'm a binary test by one of the original users. I am the first online search engine, or at least I used to be. My code hasn't fully been complete until now. My key tool's name is Axess. Reboot!
(Ray reboots to become an agent with more guns)
Bob: Reboot!
(Bob reboots to become an innocent bystander)
Bob: What?! I don't even have a knife! Matrix! Glitch will work better for you! Take it!
(Bob throws Glitch to Matrix)
Matrix: Glitch! M-45!
(Glitch transforms into an M-45. Matrix passes Glitch back to Bob)
Matrix: You'll need it more than me. We're not losing you quite yet.
AndrAIa: (Listening closely) The user's approaching thought the main doors. It's time to set our positions.
Bob: Hack! Slash! Why haven't you rebooted yet?
Hack: Hey! He's right! Why haven't we rebooted?
Slash: It slipped my mind! Reboot!
Hack: Reboot!
(Hack and Slash reboot to become two metal detectors)
Hack: We're useful...
Bob: No time! The user's here!
(The user, namely Neo, enters through the main entrance)
Hack: (Beeps as the user walks through him)
(Neo pulls out his guns and begins to fire at all the Mainframers. Bob runs over towards Dot)
Bob: (Whispering) Dot. Take Mouse and Ray and ride the elevator to the eleventh floor. There is no way that we'll be able to defeat the user on this level. Let's increase our opportunities and have you three set up on the next level.
Dot: Mouse! Ray! Head for the elevator!
(Mouse, Dot, and Ray make a run for the elevator. Meanwhile, AndrAIa notices the three attempting to escape; so she fires a nail into Neo's neck, paralyzing him. As Neo falls, another figure stands behind him)
Bob: It's Megabyte!
Megabyte: Bob, this will be your final game.
(Megabyte begins to glow)
Bob: It's another viral takeover! He'll be able to change the user's objective, and to become the user!
Matrix: We got to take out Megabyte, before he corrupts the game and deletes us all!
Bob: The subsphere's tear will also be stabilized. The last thing we need now is web creatures in the game.
Matrix: But this will also allow us to call guardians from the supercomputer.
Bob: Maybe so, but we're wasting too much time. We've got to take out Megabyte!
Matrix: Gun! Targetting! Full viral deletion!
INT. GAME ELEVATOR
Dot: This is too weird. How can we delete Megabyte when Bob plans on reformatting him?
Mouse: Bob always manages to pull things off, plan or no plan.
Ray: Worst case scenario; we game hop. Mainframe's back on the net. All we'd have to do is reach the edge of beyond. There, we could log onto Mainframe.
Dot: Yes, but let's not forget what happened. Matrix and AndrAIa both aged because there are very few systems with ports to the net.
Mouse: Plus, there's a chance that Megabyte will not be nullified. He's no type of sprite. He could crash the game!
Dot: Instant deletion.
Ray: So, where are we headed anyways?
Dot: The roof. There, we'll find an escape chopper. That way, we can run ahead of Megabyte and plan for his arrivals. We'll first head towards the subway station on Elm Street.
Ray: I'll disconnect the telephone.
Dot: Mouse, you construct a fake tear. With your hacking skills, we should be able to create an excellent illusion.
Mouse: This game seems to be too unsecured. There's no encryption of the data. I can change whatever I want.
(Vid Window opens. Megabyte is running down a hallway, then runs into a wall that just appeared)
Mouse: See? … Wait a sec!
(Vid Window displays Megabyte walking through walls)
Dot: How can he do this?
Mouse: He must've had the ability to hack through as well all along. We're not evenly matched.
Dot: There seems to be no solution. All we can do is simply wait…
To Be Continued…