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Hide and Seek

A girl of 12 stared at the monitor of her laptop. She had brown eyes, which were hidden by thick, rectangular-rimmed glasses, and straight brown hair that came to her shoulders. Beside her hand was a paper with a mess of X's, Y's, Z's, I's, and a jumble of other signs, numbers, and Greek letters. Her white lab coat touched the heels of her hard, black boots.
"Arrgh!" she said in frustration, "This script will never run how I want it to!"
She stared at the white walls of the room, which was partially covered by posters of famous thinkers and scientists, including Descartes.
"That reminds me," she muttered, "I still need to fix some robots, download the viruscan program into my computer, and return some books to the library before it closes." No one could blame her for looking forward to having pizza with her older brother, Izzy.
Suddenly, a purple portal appeared before her, and sucked her in like dust into a vacuum. Minutes later, she found herself in arms with green skin in a dark room.
"Hahaha! With you, Di Di, I will take over all of Cyberspace!" the green-skinned villain gloated.
" DO NOT CALL ME DI DI, HACKER, YOU MALICIOUS VERMIN!" she hollered. "And for what purposes do you want me for?"
"Hmmm," Hacker said softly, "You're . . .tough, linguistically. And it's THE Hacker to you. Maybe I should coop you up in a cage and lock it with a forever lock!"
With that, his two robotic henchmen, a stout robot named Buzz and a taller one named Delete, bounded her hands and feet with thick ropes against a metal chair. Then, they taped her mouth with duck tape. Hacker bought her to the cage, which was silver with gold bars.
"Delete, hand me the forever lock next to the gold lock." Hacker ordered.
"But boss, they both look the same!" Delete whined.
"JUST GET ME THE ONE ON THE RIGHT, YOU DISGRACEFUL DUNCEBUCKET!"
Delete, confused which was right and which was left, picked out a lock with his eyes closed and nervously handed one to Hacker.
"Oh no!" she thought helplessly, "How am I supposed to break out from this cage if it's locked with a forever lock?" Her glance shifted to her hands and then to her lab coat, "If only I could reach my front pocket for the Squwak.then I could tell the others at Control Central that I'm in the Grim Wreaker. But how can I if my mouth is duck-taped shut?"

How will she get out? What is "Di Di's" actual name? Why did Hacker kidnap her? We will soon find out in the next chapter . . .