Chapter Four: Where's a restart when I need one
Mainframe: Principle Office
Guardian Bob Serrano crept around a corner and made it to another long hallway. He had noticed throughout his traveling that the patrols had been reduced to a minimum.
Before proceeding, he glanced down the hall and found Hack and Slash sliced to pieces.
Bob raced over to see if they were still online. "Hack, Slash," he said. "Are you guys alright?"
"We went to pieces," Hack said.
"We broke up," Slash added.
"It was terrible," Hack said again.
"Easy boys," Bob told them. "You had Dot so where is she."
"We ran into Mouse," Slash told him. "She grabbed Dot and took off."
"But then the viral troops came and now we look like this," Hack informed.
"So Dot hasn't been captured," Bob said and breathed a sigh of relief.
A VidWindow opened up behind him and Megabyte appeared on the screen. "Ah, there you are Guardian," the virus said to him. "You must know that currently, you are the only one left in the Principle Office who hasn't been caught yet." The view showed all of them captured and bound in the core room where he had just escaped. "Now all you have to do is surrender and do one little favor for me."
"Access to the Supercomputer," Bob replied. "I don't think so."
"Well then I guess that I will have to delete every single one of your friends, one at a time, until you listen to reason Guardian," Megabyte said.
Bob was angry as he clinched his fist tightly.
"You know where I will be Guardian," the virus told him and the VidWindow closed.
"Not good," he said. "This is not good. Where is a system restart when I need one?"
The Web
In a floating fortress that hovered deep inside the Web. The fortress shut down their energy sources and the docking bay opened up.
From inside, five shadows in the blue shawls and silver masks raced out. As they did, each of them pressed their icons and made their web shield suits appear under the cloaks. They still had to be protected from the Web even though they lived here all cycle long.
Each jumped onto their respected surfboard and they were off, flying into the Web and riding the grid waves toward the system that Prime Guardian Turbo had given them. They would be there with a few nanos.
"What do we do when we get there boss?" one of the males that was flying in their group asked.
"We capture and neutralize Megabyte," the female leader told them.
"I can't wait to get this virus," another of the girls rejoiced. "This is going to be the greatest kill yet."
"Ease yourself Stara," the other male in the group told her. "We haven't gone up against a Trojan Horse virus yet? We don't know the extent of his powers."
"Well, I don't care what kind of powers he has," the leader told him. "We capture and neutralize him. Only I get the pleasure in deleting him. Come on Knight Surfers, lets fly." They blasted off fast and looked for the system where they were supposed to enter.
Mainframe Principle Office
Dot Matrix and Mouse were with some of the binome troops that had been able to escape the Principle Office before Megabyte had sealed it off from the outside.
Mouse was trying to hack in to the computer system so that she could create a hole in the shielding to allow them to get through. They had to do something in order to save their friends.
Dot was still pacing around, but with nothing to do and not a plan of hers working, what was there she could do?
"Take a load of sugah," Mouse told her. "The only thing you need to be doing now is resting. Being worked up won't get us our friends back."
"I can't help it Mouse. Everyone has no doubt been captured: Matrix, Enzo, Tracer, AndrAIa, probably Bob by now."
"Don't give up on the Guardian just yet honey," she told her friend. "If Megabyte had Bob, he would have been in the Supercomputer by now. But at least if he does get through, Turbo and company will be waiting for him and you know what they will do to him."
A VidWindow opened and Matrix appeared.
"Matrix," Mouse said.
"Shhh," Matrix replied. "Keep it down. I don't want Megabyte to get whim of where I am."
"Where are you little brother?" Dot asked.
"I'm heading toward the cell-block," he told them. "I'm going to get AndrAIa and the others out of there. I need you to create a diversion for me so that I can do this without anyone tracking where I am."
"Why don't you just send Gun out as a distraction?" Mouse said. "Or take them out head on. The virals will go running when they see you trying to rescue AndrAIa."
"I'm trying to think about this the way Bob would," he said. "I have to be careful in caseā¦"
"There he is," viral troops shouted and started towards him.
"Oh great," he said.
"Enzo," Dot shouted and the VidWindow closed. "Enzo," she whispered knowing that they were probably the last two to be captured.
Was that really him?
