4)
In the meanwhile, at Zitkor Industries, Mr. Zitkor is on the phone.
"Yes, Donald, I assure you that all that nonsense about the Ozone layer is just media hyperbole. So if you are interested, in that joint real estate venture in Cross World City, I'll see to it, if you just say the word."
"I am not comfortable with this. Let me think about it first."
"Ok, Trump. If you say so. We'll talk soon."
"Ok, Zitkor. Bye-bye now."
He hangs up, and turns on his computer, starting to look at the latest profit outlook for his companies. Just then, one of his Skugs, in human form enters the office.
"Sir, we just got word that Professor Hart is in the middle of a secure transmission."
"Really? Do you at least know where it is coming from?"
"Our best estimates place it somewhere outside the city of Angel Grove."
"Thanks. Now leave me, so I can investigate this."
After the Skug leaves, he puts Juliette down on the floor, and gets behind his desk.
"Forces of darkness, empower me! Take me back to my Virtual Reality!" he says, and he touches his evil crystal, and turns into Grimlord. Then in a flash, he is transported to his palace in Virtual Reality, surrounded by many of his mutant robot warriors.
"Hail, Grimlord! Master of the virtual world!"
"I want to find out what is going on with that transmission. Corn. Icebot! Report!"
"I am unable to hack the transmission, sire!"
"What? That is impossible!"
"The source had a mainframe so powerful, it rivals anything I've ever seen before."
"How could such power exist outside my grasp? I want it, and I want it now. It holds the key to the destruction of the VR Troopers!"
"But how will we get it master?"
"We need to sneak up behind the Troopers range of scanning, and grab this mainframe right from under their noses, by using the Digital Grid."
"But all of our forces are meant to be used within Virtual Reality only, master. How will we…?"
"No, not one of us, you fool! I know just the being capable of delivering such an attack."
"Who?"
"Kilokahn."
"What? But master, you…"
"I know what I did, you fool! It's just a matter of tricking that program into cooperating with us. Icebot, you know what to do."
"I am not sure about this, but your wish is my command."
With that, Icebot hits a few buttons on his control panel, and a screen displays a message : "Virtual Reality-Digital Grid defense offline"
5) Meanwhile, continuing the conversation with Hart and Alpha 5.
"Perhaps there might be a connection. Right after our last test with the Servo program, I made the call that the program had to be abandoned. Tyler didn't agree, but I trusted him to make the right call. Jack was disappointed, but agreed. Then that's when we decided to try and build some technology and weapons that could function both in Virtual Reality and the real world. At that moment, when we got the crystals for the Virtualizers, we were attacked.
"During the attack, they stole a copy of some information of computer viruses that we happened to have on us. We barely made it out alive from the attack. And we were lucky enough to save the crystals. Jack then decided he had had enough, and left us shortly after, in order to protect his family. We then created the early prototype VR Trooper armor, and attempted to try and stop Grimlord ourselves. We traveled into Virtual Reality, and snuck into Grimlord's Palace. We found out that Grimlord had used the virus data they stole from us, to create a digital being of some kind. Unlike his mutant robots, it wasn't able to be controlled, and he altered this program, and modified it, making it less powerful. But in the end it was deleted, from what the computer said.
"So we hacked into Grimlord's computer, and starting deleting all the data in their computer. Then we were detected and attacked. We barely escaped with our lives. I was hit hard. It was those injuries that forced me to become fused with this computer, as I am now. Tyler helped save my life, and we worked to perfect the Trooper armor night and day. Then one day he decided to go on his own, without telling me, to try and stop Grimlord. He left me a data node. On it he gave me instructions to contact his son Ryan, and start the Trooper program up with him. But there was a part of it I am unable to read. It is damaged."
"Can you connect it to the computer, and let me see?"
Hart agrees and Alpha looks at the data that is streamed to him. "I think I know just the person who could fix this. Here's how you contact him."
6)
A short while later, as the Squad gang starts to pack up their things, for their trip to Cross World City. They are just starting to leave Sam's basement, when the computer beeps. Syd heads over to check it out. The others group around the computer to see also. Sydney hits a few keys on the keyboard, and then a face appears on the screen. The face of Prof. Hart.
"Greetings from Virtual Reality, Syber-Squad."
"Wow!"
"Oh, my God!"
"Hey! I know that guy! He used to work with my dad in the computer store. His name is Mr. Hart!"
"That is Prof. Hart actually, Mr. Sam Collins, son of Jack Collins."
"What do you want? And how do you know about the Syber-Squad?"
"Because I was one of the people who created the Servo program and all the subroutines."
"What? Ok, we're all ears, let's hear it. How were we picked to get these powers?"
"I'll tell you what I know, but you are going to have to come to see me. I'm based outside of Cross World City, which I hear you guys are on your way to right now, for a musical gig at the fair."
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"A little robot told me. Now, I am transmitting my contact information right now. When you arrive in town, contact me, and I will give you further instructions. Ok, guys?"
"Alright, Prof. Hart. Talk to you later!"
The transmission ends, and Sam sits down, shaking his head.
"What is it?"
"I don't know. My father is involved in this whole thing in someway, but how?"
"On the road, why don't you call him up, and ask him?"
"I will."