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"Don't worry, its not like we're never going to see each other again right?"

Bob and I plunged ahead on into the core! Another thing I've done for him, I've made him resilient to the high-energy of the system core. Silver armor pretty… Wow, I'm getting random. Must be the radiation.

I gotta remember my priorities. If I don't keep a level head then Bob won't keep a level head and he's the one who's got to actually DO stuff in here.

We took the lift up into the sector control center to shut the system down. If my calculations were correct it should only have taken us 1.6microseconds to snap all the sectors off if moving unhindered at top speed. Unfortunately unhindered was not what we were. Megabyte had left us a present, and Bob was getting distracted.

Come on, Guardian! You can't waste time talking to a hologram! You'll only survive three micros in here even with my help! Ignore the dipswitch and do your job!

What I wouldn't give for hands.

I think I'm getting spoiled with the sprite senses…

An alarm blazed across the chamber. Megabyte turned and sniggered. "Oh well. There goes Sector 31, pity."

Cursors and Crashes. Bob! Get moving! We're loosing the city! You're loosing your energy! You're loosing MY energy! And I'm loosing my mind! Too long… we're taking too long… you've got to survive. You can't give up… !

My grasp of his sight was failing. I watched a cascade of sparks flying off of the switch at the apex of the current sector board. A Megabyte hologram stood to bar the way. He said something but I'd already lost the sense of sound. Just leave it Bob, what's one sector. What am I thinking? That's one sector of Mainframe, every sector was precious. But on the other hand, why was Megabyte's ghost so adamant to keep this sector active? Could it be…

I scanned quick, my lower level senses still functioning. The world was going black except for streams of data in my mind's eye. There was a patch on this sector, a patch that glowed a viral green.

Bob… this is where the simulation's being stored!

He reached out and grabbed the switch. I could feel the pain of the heat in his hand. Our energy was draining, the calculations didn't look good.

Here Bob! Take my energy. Take all I've got. Do what you can with it. Get us out of here. Save Mainframe.

I released all the strength I had in my own consciousness. Even the data was fading and vanishing. I finally logged off. I hope my reserves were enough to save him.