Disclaimer: Once again, all I own are my characters and I've borrowed the other characters. The Tribe is owned by Cloud 9 Productions Ltm.

Chapter 4:

Three minutes later Tag stepped out of her room not all that much changed. The only real thing she did to change her appearence was she washed the T off her forehead, and added a silver feather to her hair. She kept her silver eyeshadow and silver lipgloss. As she closed the door she looked up to see Pixel and Crash waiting for her, and she sighed.

Crash stepped foreward. "Is Jay ok?"

"Yes Crash. He's fine. Com hit his head and got knocked out. That's why we're going to the city, so we can get him."

"Why can't I go?" Pixel asked. "Dal is going."

"Yes Dal is going. We need a guy with us, and everyone else is busy. So we have to take Dal."

"Very funny," came Dal's voice.

Tag laughed. "You know I love you. You Jay and Ved are like my little brothers. Dal come convince your girlfriend that she can't go. Are you guys ready?" Tag asked.

"Yes," came the reply from five voices.

"All right. Lets go. Lan you're gonna have to take a double shift." Tag walked to the front entrence to see the others in clothes that mainly stay in the back of their closets. These are their origional clothes, the ones they wore when they joined the Technos. There were many lower ranking Technos there to see them off.

"Do you want to take the car?" Ram asked, making one of his rare public apperances. The crowd gasped.

Tag turned to her leader. "No, it might remind the city of the Chosen. We'll take our scooters." Hearing that, a Techno rushed off to the scooter storage area, and picked out Tag, Siva, Java, Sig, Dal, and Maria's scooters. Then he handed each of them their scooter, going by the names on the straps.

As Tag turned to set off, Ram grabbed her arm and turned her around. He pulled her close and gave her a kiss. "Come back to me?" Ram asked.

"Always." Tag smiled at her boyfriend.

"Promise?" Ram's eyes searched Tag's.

"Promise." Tag gave Ram another kiss, then she set off on her scooter.

Maria sped up to talk to Dal. "What was that about?"

"Oh Ram is kinda parinoid about Tag finding someone else. So when she leaves, he has her promise to come back, and she never breaks her promises."

It took them 45 minutes to get to the mall. They were directed by Sig. She is the only one who had ever been to the mall.

When they got there they were met at the door by a boy with shaggy brown hair, badly in need of a trim. Tag recognized him as new Mallrat, Calin.

"Are one of you named Tag?" he asked.

Tag stepped foreward. "I'm Tag. Where are my tribe members?"

Calin pointed towards the stairs. "Up the stairs, third door to the left."

"Thank you." Tag motioned for Maria to come with her, and the others to stay. They were halfway up the stairs when someone stepped into the mall and saw them.

"Tiffani?" the person asked. Tag stiffened, instantly recognizing the voice. She turned around.

"Lex?" she asked. [i]It is Lex,[/i] she thought. She gave a cry of joy, ran down the stairs, and gave him a hug.