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"Hey, Ray, is Mouse there?"

Ray Tracer… wow… I never thought I'd see him again. I guess this does mean that the war is over. Maybe Gavin's okay too… there's hope in the net if the deleted come back to life … again… anything's possible.

The web surfer had that look on his face that read 'no one ever calls for me' but cheered up quickly and gave Bob an answer. "She's off somewhere. Can I help?"

Bob hesitated, he really wanted to talk things out with a close friend. Surfr'd helped us through a lot but we really just met the guy. I'm afraid the answer was a 'no'.

"Thanks for offering, but its something I wanted to chew over with Mouse, you know how it is."

"I guess." Ray replied. "Well, I'll try to track her down for you. I'll tell her to call when I find her."

The surfer prepared to leave but something in Bob didn't want him to go. Perhaps it was having to face the loneliness of being in this closed space worrying about whether or not your fiancé was in love with you or not. "Wait, just a nano."

"Yeah?"

"You've been around. Have you ever heard anything about guardians and keytools un-merging."

"To tell you the truth, mate, I'd never heard of them merging to begin with. Why? Having problems?"

"You could say that." He replied. "Its complicated. Its what I need Mouse's help with."

"You're right. She's the hacker, she's transfinitely more code-wary than I am." He agreed. "Don't worry too much. She wont be too hard to find. She'll get to you in a micro tops I promise."

"Alright." Bob said. The vidwindow closed and he slouched in his chair. "What in the net could Mouse be doing that she can't be located by a vidwindow? Vidwindows go anywhere." He drummed his fingers on the console and laughed lightly to himself. "She's probably trying to hack into the Supercomputer sourcecode again… I remember when that was the extent of my problems."

Amazing how a risk to the Supercomputer took an easy back seat to Dot.

In any case Ray kept his word and Mouse popped up shortly, all smiles. "Hiya Sugar! What's up?"

"Nothing, Mouse, well, I need to talk to you." Bob said, sitting up. "I've got a problem."

Mouse got a look on her face that read 'here we go again'. I began to get the feeling that the two of them had been through this song and dance before. Much like her travel buddy the firey haired sprite perked up right away. "And what can I do to help, honey?"

"Well, you see, I've got to separate from Glitch, and I can't think of as to how."

"Separate from Glitch?" Mouse seemed a little confused. "What for? You seem to have recovered alright from the problems you had in the war. Has something else happened?"

"Well you see… it's the other Bob…"

It was about then that the conversation turned from 'Mouse please help me with your technical skills' to 'well, it all began when I was 01'… but at least I got a full update. I'd been out of the loop for a long time.

Mouse ended up being less than helpful in terms of what Bob should do. She even suggested that we NOT separate which was so far out of the question from where I was sitting that it wasn't even visible. But she did open up the archives so that was a plus. Now we could actually get around to solving this problem! Let the search begin!