Chapter Ten: And So It Begins...
Author's Note:
About time Lightening updated! Thank god, I thought she gave up on the story! Anywho, here's Chapter Ten: And So It Begins...! This is where all the action is about to begin. It's gonna get a bit suspenseful in this chapter, so if you're hand is sweating on the mouse or whatever else you're holding, don't worry! Take it that you're enjoying the story! I'll leave Chapter Eleven for Lightening! I'll see ya guys later! ;-)
-CelestialTime93
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Inez slept soundly that night. Of course, everybody else in the Garcia household was awake. Discussing the issues of Inez's illness.
"I have a bad feeling about this, Fernando." Inez's mother frowned.
Fernando suddenly got irritated, and stood up. "Why in the world did you not give her the immunization, Abrienda?"
"I already told you, I couldn't afford it!" Abrienda replied, "We were poor back then, Fernando. Now we aren't. But now it's too late! Our only daughter is dying and we can do nothing about it!"
After a brief silence, she sighed. "You're right, Fernando. I should've given her the immunization. Even if it took away all of our money. The government could've helped us with welfare. I was just being selfish and greedy. And now a I get my punishment for my daughter being a victim of small pox."
Soon, Abrienda burst into tears in her husband's arms, "I should've given her the immunization! None of this would've happened if I did!"
Suddenly, there was a scream from upstairs.
Abrienda and Fernando recognized it immediatly. So did Emilio.
"Inezalin!" Abrienda screamed, and ran up as fast as she could to her daughter's room, "Emilio! Call the next door neighbours! Now!"
"Abrienda, I'm coming with you!" Fernando cried, chasing after his wife.
Emilio went straight to the phone and found the phone number that Inez posted up on the bulletin board.
The phone rang on the other end.
"C'mon, pick up." Emilio muttered nervously.
Meanwhile, Abrienda and Fernando found themselves in many obstacles, and how the stairs mysteriously grew taller, as so did the house.
"Inezalin, hold on!" Abrienda cried.
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Inez stood immobilized by fear, finally able to stand on her two feet, but nervously.
"So, you're all ill, aren't you?" Hacker sneered.
"That voice..." Inez whispered hoarsley.
"But you had enough strength to go to the Autumn Festival today with your friends, didn't you?" Hacker continued.
"The illusions..."
"But, of course, that is all going to end." Hacker replied, taking out a radioactive staff from behind his cape, "Isn't it?"
A radioactive light was released from the staff and enchanted the whole house, creating it to be higher and taller than usual.
The lights also hit and swirled around Inez.
When the lights faded. Inez looked up to face the nightmare again. "Hacker." she scowled weakly.
"Oh, so you do remember." Hacker said sarcastically, "And I thought the forgetting smoke would make you forget! Well, that could be easily fixed..."
"Wanna bet?" Matt leaped in the window and kicked Hacker to throw him on his back. Jackie and the two 11 year old's pet dogs leaped after.
The staff was thrown out of Hacker's hand when he fell to the ground.
"Matt! Jackie!" Inez cried weakly, her legs feeling numb again.
Matt quickly scooped Inez up into his arms, and asked, "You alright?"
"I'm fine." Inez replied weakly.
"Brandy!" Jackie exclaimed to her Yorkshire Terrior, "Messenger!"
Brandy yipped excitedly, and grabbed hold of Hacker's cape and started growling and shaking it, making Hacker choke.
Hacker threw Brandy away, and retained possession of the staff.
"Brandy!" Jackie cried, picking up the weak terrior.
"Obi! Go!" Matt cried.
Obi leaped up on Hacker from the back, and started clawing him. Hacker screamed in pain. He soon threw Obi off of him, just what he did to Brandy.
"Obi, no!" Matt cried.
Obi quickly recovered, but didn't have enough strength to make an assult towards the intruder.
"You will perish!" Hacker bellowed to the frail girl.
"No!" Matt cried, and jumped out of the way of an oncoming attack, still holding onto Inez's weak, limp body. She already fell unconcious. Her face was as white as a ghost, and her blood veins could easily be seen. The bruise on her arm began to grow more and more sickening.
"Matt, she's becoming more ill!" Jackie cried.
"Arf! Arf!" Obi barked in agreement.
"Kids!" Fernando called from the doorway, "Hurry!"
The two that were running, along with their two pets, avoided every attack that was thrown at them and managed the slam the door behind them, stalling Hacker for a while.
The group made their way down the spiral staircase and soon met Emilio at the end.
"Emilio!" Abrienda called.
"Matt and Jackie's parents are outside!" Emilio cried, "Hurry!"
The group made it out, to meet up with Matt and Jackie's family, and all of Mexico City.
"Matthew Robert Williams, that was brave of you to save Inez's life." Matt's mother said to her son.
"Amanda, Matt and his friends aren't finished yet." Matt's father said.
"He will be, Robert." Amanda replied, "He will be. Am I right, Matt?"
"Don't worry, we will." Matt replied.
Suddenly, the window that was supposed to be Inez's room, glowed the same colour as the radioactive beams, and soon a beam shot out of the broken window. The crowd of Mexico City gasped in horror as a flexible beam shot down, and Hacker appeared. His staff in hand.
Matt, Jackie, and their pets, Obi and Brandy, along with Inez's cat, Gatito, were ready to assult the intruder.
"You really are smart, aren't you?" Hacker growled.
"You're Hacker, the one rebelling against Motherboard in Cyberspace, aren't you?" Matt asked in a cold voice.
"You got the right cyborg." Hacker replied.
"And what do you want with Inez for particular reasons?" Jackie assulted, making sure everybody heard the words that came out of her mouth.
"That pipsqueak has been ruining my reputation before I released the forgetting gas on you earthbrats!" Hacker bellowed in reply, "And I can't wait for her to wither away completely because of an illness! I want her dead now! The same with you and your friend!"
Gatito growled and screeched at Hacker, trying to scare him. It did no use.
Hacker just laughed and picked up Gatito by the fur. "And what's with this furball?" he scowled.
Gatito screeched again and scratched Hacker's face, forcing Hacker to let him go. Hacker screamed in pain as Gatito hissed at the cyberintruder.
"Grrr..." Hacker growled, "Buzz! Delete! Deal with these beasts!"
"On it boss!" Buzz replied, appearing with Delete by two more flexible beams.
Buzz ended up being backed away like a coward when Obi and Brandy barked wildly and warded off the robot.
"Aw, Buzzy! Look!" Delete squeaked, picking up Gatito, "It's so cute!"
Gatito just screeched and scratched Delete as well, scaring him.
Delete ran behind Buzz and cried, "That thing's a monster! No way I'm gonna catch that!"
"Me neither!" Buzz cried.
"You stupid, cowardly duncebuckets!" Hacker cried, shooting two beams at the behinds of the two robots, causing them to yelp in pain, "When will you two toughen up?"
"If you're going to harm the children..." Amanda cried, stepping up to infront of the kids and their pets.
"...You're going to have to pass us first!" Abrienda ended, joining Amanda in the front.
"Don't leave me out!" Jackie's mother replied.
"Why, Aldora!" Amanda smiled, "Didn't know you could fight."
"Oh, please!" Hacker scoffed, "Like these three earth parents can fight against me, The Hacker!"
"They won't have to do it alone!"
Matt and Jackie, along with the others, whirled around to see a portal open, and a familiar 13 year old and his father, along with his discovered mother, coming out of it.
"Slider!" the two exclaimed.
"Coop and his wife are here also!" Jackie exclaimed.
"You know these people?" Robert asked his son.
"Um, long story." Matt replied, "I'll tell you when this is all over."
"Alanis, you sure you wanna do this?" Coop asked.
"Like it will be hard fighting Hacker again." Alanis replied, "C'mon, Slider! You help the Cybersquad, your father and I will help the parents and the others."
Slider nodded and ran to the Cybersquad.
"I have no idea how I remembered you guys." Matt frowned.
"I can explain that later." Slider replied, "Is she alright?"
"Unfourtunatly, no." Matt replied, "She got the small pox."
"Small pox?" Slider replied dubiously.
"I'm guessing they don't have the small pox virus in Cyberspace." Jackie frowned.
"Apparently they don't." Slider replied, "But I can tell it's deadly. She's as pale as a ghost!"
"And right now, she's gonna have to fight her way to the end." Matt replied, "C'mon. Let's help our folks."
And so, it begins... once more.