Chapter Nine: Backup Virus
Pyro came back into the room and sat back down at the table.
"Still no response?" Riley asked.
"Nope. I snuck a peak. He's just laying there, staring at the ceiling. He looked pale."
Riley sighed. "Alright, let's go over this again. X's virus didn't work against Abyss. In fact, he re-routed it and tried to kill Pyro with it. If X hadn't hacked in and made an exit, you'd both probably be dead. When you guys came back, X was staring at the screen, wondering how Abyss overrode his virus. Shadow, you said, 'I don't understand either. You're the Ultimate Hacking Machine.' Suddenly, he flips out. How does that fit together?"
"I'll tell you how." It was X, standing at the doorway. Sorry for taking so long, but I had to make sure I was right."
"About what?"
X hesitated. "Man, where do I start?"
Shadow asked, "Why did you flip out when I said you were the Ultimate Hacking Machine."
"Because that's exactly what Abyss called himself."
"So?"
"So that's what finally put the pieces together for me."
"What pieces?" Riley asked.
"A lot I didn't even know existed." X admitted. "It helped me realized just who the backup is."
"You know?" Riley inquired. "Then who is it?"
X looked up at them. "It's me."
Everyone looked at each other.
"Wait." Pyro said. "That's impossible."
"How?"
"Well . . .you exit the Matrix all the time, how can it still be there?"
"Because it's imbedded into my mind, which Abyss has perfect access to in the Matrix."
"But . . .how could he do it?"
"Remember how I was knocked unconscious in a simulation by the attacking program?"
Pyro cocked his head. "That was Abyss?"
"He hacked into the simulation and poses as the enemy, then knocked me out and implanted the backup in my mind. Now it's a part of me."
"How are you so sure that it's you?" Riley asked, which everyone wanted to know.
X held up the flash drive that was his virus. "Because of this."
"What about it?"
"I had no idea how to make this until a few months ago, after I was infected. Think about it. My virus can infiltrate anything, destroy anything, or control anything, it's undetectable and incurable. I can do everything and anything with this virus."
"So?" Pyro said.
"Abyss can do the exact same things as this virus."
"Hey," Shadow said. "He's right. When Abyss destroyed that tree today, it was exactly like when the programs that attacked us were deleted."
"But what really set me off," X said, "Was that Abyss defeated my virus. The only way to stop a virus is to know it. I know my virus, what it is and what it's made up of, and how to work it. The only way to stop it is to also have this information, then you can work with it. He knew how to work my virus and that's how he rerouted it."
"So how did he know?" Riley wanted to know.
"Because he IS the X-Virus!!"
"What?!" Pyro exclaimed. "How is that possible?!"
"I believe that I made my virus based no the information in the back of my head, the information on how to re-create Abyss, should something happen. My virus was based on Abyss."
"Whoa." Hero said, believing it all.
"When we escaped from the Merovingian, I think I controlled the door. I held it and said 'lead me far from here'. It did! And before it did, I saw a red flash. I think that was me, overriding the chateau control, and that's how Abyss followed us so easily. He did the same thing.
"Remember how I said Siren said I was resistant to her spell?" he tapped the back of his head. "Because of this! And remember when Abyss was somehow making the warehouse crumble on us? He was controlling the building, just as my virus can. He also used his ability to put me to sleep by commanding me."
"Wait, how can he do that if part of him is in you?"
"Because I wasn't using that part of me. He was using his." X held his hands out. "It all fits."
"I'll believe it when I see it." Pyro said, shaking his head.
X didn't want to argue. "Next time we're in the Matrix, I'll try it."
A stepped up. "There is one more item to all of this."
"Yes?" X asked.
"You do realize, don't you, that, if all this is true, then, in order to eliminate the Abyss menace for good . . .you, too, must be terminated."
All eyes turned on him. X looked down.
"Yeah. I know."
Shadow shook his head. "No way."
"I see no other choice." X said.
"Well, the rest of the ship equals eight more eyes," Pyro said, "So I'm sure we can see things you cannot."
"I sure hope so." Said X.
"So what now?" Hero asked. "What do we do?"
"Perhaps X's newfound powers can be used as an advantage." A sentinel typed. "In person, he will have more control than the computer virus. Maybe we can use him as a weapon."
X groaned. "Always a weapon. I wish I'd never made the stupid thing."
"But it may end up saving us." Riley said. "We've all had enough headaches for today, but tomorrow, you guys are going back in."
The guys sighed.
"You alright, man?" Shadow asked when they were all in their beds.
"Alright?!" X exclaimed. "I'm a piece of the deadliest program ever known and I created a virus based on it!!"
"Chill out." Pyro said. "It wasn't your fault."
"I know, I just . . .dah!!" He threw his hands in the air and let them fall to his sides. "What am I gonna do?"
Pyro and Shadow couldn't answer that one.
"Look," Pyro said, "The Oracle said we were going to have to help you and we will. Anything you need, just ask us."
X smiled. "Thanks."
"Now try to sleep it off." They all turned in.
But later that night, Shadow spoke again with Pyro.
"The Oracle said we would help him until we could not anymore." Shadow said. "You don't think she meant until . . .?"
"I still can't believe that X is really the backup."
"Why not?"
"Because I think it would've been a bit more obvious."
"How much more obvious can you get?"
"With every resurrection, Smith/Abyss has always kept his will to destroy. It would have shown in X by now, I'm sure of it. He'd have killed us by now."
"Maybe his will hasn't entered X's mind because he hasn't used it, or maybe X's mind is too strong."
"Maybe. We'll see tomorrow."
The next day, nobody was ready for the entrance. Each one they endured became worse and worse. They decided to put it to practical use.
"Now, X," Riley said, "All you need is a computer, any computer, and, if you're right, you can hack in and find where many of the programs are."
"It'll take quite a bit of time to search the entire Matrix, overriding every stop to just see them."
"We have plenty." Riley assured. "Pyro, Shadow, make sure he gets that time." They nodded. "Okay. Let's go." The three boys lay back in their seats. A sentinel each took a teen. "You all ready?" Riley asked.
"No." X said.
"Good luck anyway." The sentinels plugged them in.
"So what computer are you going to use?" Shadow asked.
"Well, I want to spend as little time as I can. The best way to do that is to find a computer where I have to use my powers the least, a grand computer that already can hack. But even better would be a computer that already knows a lot."
"What computer has all that?" Pyro asked.
"Who would know the most about the rogue programs other than Abyss?"
"The Merovingian."
"Bingo."
"How are you gonna get there?"
X put his hand on the knob of a back door to a building.
"Experimentation." He looked at the door. "Merovingian's computer room." He opened the door and there they were. There were a few guards inside, who turned to greet them.
They didn't want to damage the computers, so only Shadow stepped in at first, firing a bullet from each gun, knocking down two guards. He fired again and finished off the last two.
X stepped up to the large computer and put his hands on the keyboard.
"Most of them are probably here already," X said, "But let's see where the others are."
Pyro flipped open his phone and called Hero. "You ready?"
"Ready." Hero was going to download all the info that X gave him.
"Find the programs." X told the computer. "All of them."
The machine sprung to life. Results displayed soon enough, flashing names and faces and locations, which X stored up in a file and Hero began downloading.
"How is it?" Shadow asked.
"A little tricky. Give me some time." Pyro and Shadow waited.
"He's really doing it." Pyro said, amazed.
"I know." Shadow said.
Soon, X wondered, "Where could Siren be? I have a bone to pick with her." He searched the entire Matrix in a few seconds, but found nothing. "Odd." He searched again. "She must be hidden from code."
"Can you search harder?"
"I don't know what to look for . . .but the computer does." He searched another department, looking up Siren's info, then he searched for that particular coding and got a result. "Alright, she's . . .oh, shoot!!"
The door opened and a grenade flew in. The guys all jumped away and covered their heads as it went off almost instantly, blasting the computer to smithereens.
A lone program walked inside, coming through the smoke like a goddess.
"Well, well, well," Siren said. "I knew you'd come back to me."
"I really hate her." Pyro said, drawing his sword. He jumped at her, but she ducked under him and knocked his legs out from under him, then kicked him away.
"She's fast." Shadow said, "But not fast enough." He ran and slid under her as she jumped. Shadow spun back and swung three fast kicks, all of which were blocked. Siren struck thrice with her blades, but Shadow whipped out his own and blocked them all, then swung a high kick. Siren bent back and swung her own kick, knocking him into Pyro, who was about to get up.
Siren turned and her face me X's staff. She spun with it and kicked his side, toppling him. He blocked three more strikes, then went for the kill. Siren backflipped in the air, kicking his staff up, also bringing his hands up. She landed before he could block and rammed her knife into his stomach.
X's eyes shot open and he was frozen. He looked down at the blade in his stomach, then at Siren and Shadow, who stared in shock and horror.
Siren yanked out the blade and turned. X fell to his knees, clutching his stomach.
Pyro was burning. "You'll pay for that."
Siren whipped out a handgun and fired away. The boys dodged the bullets until she ran out of ammo. They were going to attack with their own guns, but they stopped, eyes wide.
Siren didn't know why they stopped until she felt breathing on the back of her neck. She spun around to face X.
X rammed his hand into her, just as Abyss had done to him. Sure enough, it worked.
"Ahh!" She cried. She tried stabbing him, but X stopped her.
"No." He said. She obeyed, stopping. "Drop 'em." She did.
"What . . .how did you . . .?"
"Appearances can be deceiving." X said with a smile. "You're a real thorn in my side. But no more." He gave the command. "Delete."
Siren twitched and writhed as the virus did its business. With a cry, she burst in fragments of red code, just like everything else infected with the X-Virus.
Shadow walked over to him. "How did you . . .?"
"The virus in me." X explained. "I was even able to alter myself!"
"Incredible!"
"That's not the word for it." Pyro muttered to himself.
X's phone rang. "X." He answered.
"Let me guess." Hero said. "The virus?"
"Yep."
"I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Listen, a bunch of programs are coming towards you."
"Did you get the info?"
"Everything up until Siren. I have an exit right back where you guys entered. It's far from the Merovingian's men. Think you can get there?"
"Yep." He hung up. X commanded the door to bring them back to their entrance point. They went through and closed the door behind them, leaving no trace for the programs to follow.
"Right in there." X said, pointing to the warehouse. "Right where we came in."
"Hold on a second." Pyro said, grabbing his shoulder and spinning him around.
"What?" Pyro didn't look happy.
"I didn't believe it before, that you were a piece of Abyss. Sure, signs seemed to point that way, but who knew? Maybe you were a new Neo or something. But now that I've seen it with my own eyes, I know it's true. You are a piece of Abyss." His eyes narrowed. "And that doesn't settle with me."
"What do you mean?" X asked.
"I mean you've got a piece of our enemy in your brain." He was circling X. "How do I know that's not effecting you?"
"Pyro, it's not! I'm still me!"
"Yeah, you are, still part human, part virus. That backup has Abyss's will with it. How can I possibly know that it won't overcome the human part of you and cause you to change your mind on who your buddies are."
"You're crazy. I have my own mind!"
"For how long?" Pyro asked him, right up in his face.
"Dude," Shadow said. "Can we discuss this on the ship?"
Pyro shook his head. "No, we can't." he shoved X. "Seraph taught me something: You never really know someone," He brandished his sword. "Until you fight them."
"Pyro, what are you doing?!" Shadow exclaimed.
"Don't do this." X pleaded.
"Why not?"
"I don't want to hurt you."
"Prove it!" Pyro ran and jumped at him. X blocked with his staff, but the impact knocked him to his knees. He blocked Pyro's downward strike again, then rolled away.
"What are they doing?!" Riley exclaimed.
"I don't know!" Hero said. He dialed Shadow. "Shadow! What are they doing?!"
"Pyro doesn't trust X because of the virus part of him!"
"Well, stop him!!"
"I can't! Pyro's twice as powerful as I am!"
Hero sighed. "Alright, we'll try something else." He hung up. "Pyro doesn't trust X with a virus in his head. Shadow can't stop him."
"Alright." Riley said. He turned to the sentinels. "You'll have to stop them."
They went to the plug-in seats.
Suddenly, they stopped. The head sentinel opened its satellites and looked around.
"What is it?" Riley demanded.
The sentinel projected a screen. "Sentinels! Many sentinels! And they're not on our side!"
Hero and Riley looked at each other.
"We can't use the EMP with the kids in the Matrix." Riley said. He looked at the sentinels. "Can you work the guns?"
"Yes."
"Then you get back there and do that. Hero, you stay here and keep that exit open for the boys. I'm getting us out of here!"
He ran up to the cockpit and got the ship going. There were only five sentinels, so they each took a gun and got ready. Riley could barely believe what he saw on the screen. There were way too many sentinels to possibly take out with the guns. The EMP would be needed.
"You kids better stop your fighting and get the heck outta there!!" Riley said as he took off.
Shadow could only watch helplessly as Pyro continued his onslaught. He kept striking and slice and X could only block, unable to get a hit in of his own.
The sentinels began firing upon their own kind, surprised by the number as Riley was. Riley was twisting and turning this way and that, just trying to avoid the enemy. Hero held on tightly to the computer screens as the ship was rocked back and forth. He kept watching the screen.
Abyss chuckled to himself as he leaned back in his apartment.
"You cannot escape me, X. Your friends have turned on you, my sentinels will destroy your ship and kill your crew, and you'll soon be back with me, safe and sound."
He let out an evil laugh.
Author's Note: I don't know what to say here. Just please review, tell me what you think.
Pyro came back into the room and sat back down at the table.
"Still no response?" Riley asked.
"Nope. I snuck a peak. He's just laying there, staring at the ceiling. He looked pale."
Riley sighed. "Alright, let's go over this again. X's virus didn't work against Abyss. In fact, he re-routed it and tried to kill Pyro with it. If X hadn't hacked in and made an exit, you'd both probably be dead. When you guys came back, X was staring at the screen, wondering how Abyss overrode his virus. Shadow, you said, 'I don't understand either. You're the Ultimate Hacking Machine.' Suddenly, he flips out. How does that fit together?"
"I'll tell you how." It was X, standing at the doorway. Sorry for taking so long, but I had to make sure I was right."
"About what?"
X hesitated. "Man, where do I start?"
Shadow asked, "Why did you flip out when I said you were the Ultimate Hacking Machine."
"Because that's exactly what Abyss called himself."
"So?"
"So that's what finally put the pieces together for me."
"What pieces?" Riley asked.
"A lot I didn't even know existed." X admitted. "It helped me realized just who the backup is."
"You know?" Riley inquired. "Then who is it?"
X looked up at them. "It's me."
Everyone looked at each other.
"Wait." Pyro said. "That's impossible."
"How?"
"Well . . .you exit the Matrix all the time, how can it still be there?"
"Because it's imbedded into my mind, which Abyss has perfect access to in the Matrix."
"But . . .how could he do it?"
"Remember how I was knocked unconscious in a simulation by the attacking program?"
Pyro cocked his head. "That was Abyss?"
"He hacked into the simulation and poses as the enemy, then knocked me out and implanted the backup in my mind. Now it's a part of me."
"How are you so sure that it's you?" Riley asked, which everyone wanted to know.
X held up the flash drive that was his virus. "Because of this."
"What about it?"
"I had no idea how to make this until a few months ago, after I was infected. Think about it. My virus can infiltrate anything, destroy anything, or control anything, it's undetectable and incurable. I can do everything and anything with this virus."
"So?" Pyro said.
"Abyss can do the exact same things as this virus."
"Hey," Shadow said. "He's right. When Abyss destroyed that tree today, it was exactly like when the programs that attacked us were deleted."
"But what really set me off," X said, "Was that Abyss defeated my virus. The only way to stop a virus is to know it. I know my virus, what it is and what it's made up of, and how to work it. The only way to stop it is to also have this information, then you can work with it. He knew how to work my virus and that's how he rerouted it."
"So how did he know?" Riley wanted to know.
"Because he IS the X-Virus!!"
"What?!" Pyro exclaimed. "How is that possible?!"
"I believe that I made my virus based no the information in the back of my head, the information on how to re-create Abyss, should something happen. My virus was based on Abyss."
"Whoa." Hero said, believing it all.
"When we escaped from the Merovingian, I think I controlled the door. I held it and said 'lead me far from here'. It did! And before it did, I saw a red flash. I think that was me, overriding the chateau control, and that's how Abyss followed us so easily. He did the same thing.
"Remember how I said Siren said I was resistant to her spell?" he tapped the back of his head. "Because of this! And remember when Abyss was somehow making the warehouse crumble on us? He was controlling the building, just as my virus can. He also used his ability to put me to sleep by commanding me."
"Wait, how can he do that if part of him is in you?"
"Because I wasn't using that part of me. He was using his." X held his hands out. "It all fits."
"I'll believe it when I see it." Pyro said, shaking his head.
X didn't want to argue. "Next time we're in the Matrix, I'll try it."
A stepped up. "There is one more item to all of this."
"Yes?" X asked.
"You do realize, don't you, that, if all this is true, then, in order to eliminate the Abyss menace for good . . .you, too, must be terminated."
All eyes turned on him. X looked down.
"Yeah. I know."
Shadow shook his head. "No way."
"I see no other choice." X said.
"Well, the rest of the ship equals eight more eyes," Pyro said, "So I'm sure we can see things you cannot."
"I sure hope so." Said X.
"So what now?" Hero asked. "What do we do?"
"Perhaps X's newfound powers can be used as an advantage." A sentinel typed. "In person, he will have more control than the computer virus. Maybe we can use him as a weapon."
X groaned. "Always a weapon. I wish I'd never made the stupid thing."
"But it may end up saving us." Riley said. "We've all had enough headaches for today, but tomorrow, you guys are going back in."
The guys sighed.
"You alright, man?" Shadow asked when they were all in their beds.
"Alright?!" X exclaimed. "I'm a piece of the deadliest program ever known and I created a virus based on it!!"
"Chill out." Pyro said. "It wasn't your fault."
"I know, I just . . .dah!!" He threw his hands in the air and let them fall to his sides. "What am I gonna do?"
Pyro and Shadow couldn't answer that one.
"Look," Pyro said, "The Oracle said we were going to have to help you and we will. Anything you need, just ask us."
X smiled. "Thanks."
"Now try to sleep it off." They all turned in.
But later that night, Shadow spoke again with Pyro.
"The Oracle said we would help him until we could not anymore." Shadow said. "You don't think she meant until . . .?"
"I still can't believe that X is really the backup."
"Why not?"
"Because I think it would've been a bit more obvious."
"How much more obvious can you get?"
"With every resurrection, Smith/Abyss has always kept his will to destroy. It would have shown in X by now, I'm sure of it. He'd have killed us by now."
"Maybe his will hasn't entered X's mind because he hasn't used it, or maybe X's mind is too strong."
"Maybe. We'll see tomorrow."
The next day, nobody was ready for the entrance. Each one they endured became worse and worse. They decided to put it to practical use.
"Now, X," Riley said, "All you need is a computer, any computer, and, if you're right, you can hack in and find where many of the programs are."
"It'll take quite a bit of time to search the entire Matrix, overriding every stop to just see them."
"We have plenty." Riley assured. "Pyro, Shadow, make sure he gets that time." They nodded. "Okay. Let's go." The three boys lay back in their seats. A sentinel each took a teen. "You all ready?" Riley asked.
"No." X said.
"Good luck anyway." The sentinels plugged them in.
"So what computer are you going to use?" Shadow asked.
"Well, I want to spend as little time as I can. The best way to do that is to find a computer where I have to use my powers the least, a grand computer that already can hack. But even better would be a computer that already knows a lot."
"What computer has all that?" Pyro asked.
"Who would know the most about the rogue programs other than Abyss?"
"The Merovingian."
"Bingo."
"How are you gonna get there?"
X put his hand on the knob of a back door to a building.
"Experimentation." He looked at the door. "Merovingian's computer room." He opened the door and there they were. There were a few guards inside, who turned to greet them.
They didn't want to damage the computers, so only Shadow stepped in at first, firing a bullet from each gun, knocking down two guards. He fired again and finished off the last two.
X stepped up to the large computer and put his hands on the keyboard.
"Most of them are probably here already," X said, "But let's see where the others are."
Pyro flipped open his phone and called Hero. "You ready?"
"Ready." Hero was going to download all the info that X gave him.
"Find the programs." X told the computer. "All of them."
The machine sprung to life. Results displayed soon enough, flashing names and faces and locations, which X stored up in a file and Hero began downloading.
"How is it?" Shadow asked.
"A little tricky. Give me some time." Pyro and Shadow waited.
"He's really doing it." Pyro said, amazed.
"I know." Shadow said.
Soon, X wondered, "Where could Siren be? I have a bone to pick with her." He searched the entire Matrix in a few seconds, but found nothing. "Odd." He searched again. "She must be hidden from code."
"Can you search harder?"
"I don't know what to look for . . .but the computer does." He searched another department, looking up Siren's info, then he searched for that particular coding and got a result. "Alright, she's . . .oh, shoot!!"
The door opened and a grenade flew in. The guys all jumped away and covered their heads as it went off almost instantly, blasting the computer to smithereens.
A lone program walked inside, coming through the smoke like a goddess.
"Well, well, well," Siren said. "I knew you'd come back to me."
"I really hate her." Pyro said, drawing his sword. He jumped at her, but she ducked under him and knocked his legs out from under him, then kicked him away.
"She's fast." Shadow said, "But not fast enough." He ran and slid under her as she jumped. Shadow spun back and swung three fast kicks, all of which were blocked. Siren struck thrice with her blades, but Shadow whipped out his own and blocked them all, then swung a high kick. Siren bent back and swung her own kick, knocking him into Pyro, who was about to get up.
Siren turned and her face me X's staff. She spun with it and kicked his side, toppling him. He blocked three more strikes, then went for the kill. Siren backflipped in the air, kicking his staff up, also bringing his hands up. She landed before he could block and rammed her knife into his stomach.
X's eyes shot open and he was frozen. He looked down at the blade in his stomach, then at Siren and Shadow, who stared in shock and horror.
Siren yanked out the blade and turned. X fell to his knees, clutching his stomach.
Pyro was burning. "You'll pay for that."
Siren whipped out a handgun and fired away. The boys dodged the bullets until she ran out of ammo. They were going to attack with their own guns, but they stopped, eyes wide.
Siren didn't know why they stopped until she felt breathing on the back of her neck. She spun around to face X.
X rammed his hand into her, just as Abyss had done to him. Sure enough, it worked.
"Ahh!" She cried. She tried stabbing him, but X stopped her.
"No." He said. She obeyed, stopping. "Drop 'em." She did.
"What . . .how did you . . .?"
"Appearances can be deceiving." X said with a smile. "You're a real thorn in my side. But no more." He gave the command. "Delete."
Siren twitched and writhed as the virus did its business. With a cry, she burst in fragments of red code, just like everything else infected with the X-Virus.
Shadow walked over to him. "How did you . . .?"
"The virus in me." X explained. "I was even able to alter myself!"
"Incredible!"
"That's not the word for it." Pyro muttered to himself.
X's phone rang. "X." He answered.
"Let me guess." Hero said. "The virus?"
"Yep."
"I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Listen, a bunch of programs are coming towards you."
"Did you get the info?"
"Everything up until Siren. I have an exit right back where you guys entered. It's far from the Merovingian's men. Think you can get there?"
"Yep." He hung up. X commanded the door to bring them back to their entrance point. They went through and closed the door behind them, leaving no trace for the programs to follow.
"Right in there." X said, pointing to the warehouse. "Right where we came in."
"Hold on a second." Pyro said, grabbing his shoulder and spinning him around.
"What?" Pyro didn't look happy.
"I didn't believe it before, that you were a piece of Abyss. Sure, signs seemed to point that way, but who knew? Maybe you were a new Neo or something. But now that I've seen it with my own eyes, I know it's true. You are a piece of Abyss." His eyes narrowed. "And that doesn't settle with me."
"What do you mean?" X asked.
"I mean you've got a piece of our enemy in your brain." He was circling X. "How do I know that's not effecting you?"
"Pyro, it's not! I'm still me!"
"Yeah, you are, still part human, part virus. That backup has Abyss's will with it. How can I possibly know that it won't overcome the human part of you and cause you to change your mind on who your buddies are."
"You're crazy. I have my own mind!"
"For how long?" Pyro asked him, right up in his face.
"Dude," Shadow said. "Can we discuss this on the ship?"
Pyro shook his head. "No, we can't." he shoved X. "Seraph taught me something: You never really know someone," He brandished his sword. "Until you fight them."
"Pyro, what are you doing?!" Shadow exclaimed.
"Don't do this." X pleaded.
"Why not?"
"I don't want to hurt you."
"Prove it!" Pyro ran and jumped at him. X blocked with his staff, but the impact knocked him to his knees. He blocked Pyro's downward strike again, then rolled away.
"What are they doing?!" Riley exclaimed.
"I don't know!" Hero said. He dialed Shadow. "Shadow! What are they doing?!"
"Pyro doesn't trust X because of the virus part of him!"
"Well, stop him!!"
"I can't! Pyro's twice as powerful as I am!"
Hero sighed. "Alright, we'll try something else." He hung up. "Pyro doesn't trust X with a virus in his head. Shadow can't stop him."
"Alright." Riley said. He turned to the sentinels. "You'll have to stop them."
They went to the plug-in seats.
Suddenly, they stopped. The head sentinel opened its satellites and looked around.
"What is it?" Riley demanded.
The sentinel projected a screen. "Sentinels! Many sentinels! And they're not on our side!"
Hero and Riley looked at each other.
"We can't use the EMP with the kids in the Matrix." Riley said. He looked at the sentinels. "Can you work the guns?"
"Yes."
"Then you get back there and do that. Hero, you stay here and keep that exit open for the boys. I'm getting us out of here!"
He ran up to the cockpit and got the ship going. There were only five sentinels, so they each took a gun and got ready. Riley could barely believe what he saw on the screen. There were way too many sentinels to possibly take out with the guns. The EMP would be needed.
"You kids better stop your fighting and get the heck outta there!!" Riley said as he took off.
Shadow could only watch helplessly as Pyro continued his onslaught. He kept striking and slice and X could only block, unable to get a hit in of his own.
The sentinels began firing upon their own kind, surprised by the number as Riley was. Riley was twisting and turning this way and that, just trying to avoid the enemy. Hero held on tightly to the computer screens as the ship was rocked back and forth. He kept watching the screen.
Abyss chuckled to himself as he leaned back in his apartment.
"You cannot escape me, X. Your friends have turned on you, my sentinels will destroy your ship and kill your crew, and you'll soon be back with me, safe and sound."
He let out an evil laugh.
Author's Note: I don't know what to say here. Just please review, tell me what you think.