Chapter Five: Not kids anymore

Principle Office

Matrix mutated back into the form of Megabyte. Hopefully now, Dot Matrix would try some ludicrous attempt at rescuing their friends. Then she and the hacker would be caught as well.

His Commanding officer came up to him. "Sir, we have yet to find Bob, sir. But we are still looking for him."

"It doesn't matter," Megabyte said. "Soon Ms. Matrix will be joining us for a little chat and Bob will come right to us." He opened a VidWindow to Herr Doctor. "Herr Doctor, is everything in readiness?"

"Lord Megabyte," Herr Doctor said to him. "We have the Gateway Command ready and awaiting the codes. Once we have the new security codes for the Supercomputer, it will be only a matter of time."

"Excellent," he said. "Order my troops to bring the hostages to the Core Room. I want the Guardian to see what heroism won the good…nothing."


Dot and Mouse walked out of the Diner and were wondering what they were going to do.

"Mouse, what are we going to do?" Dot asked.

"I tried hacking in inside the diner through Megabyte's shielding," Mouse told her. "There is absolutely nothing I can do to get through. Those kids aren't going to be able to get into Mainframe."

"Kids?" Dot said. "These so called heroes to save Mainframe are nothing but kids?"

"These kids aren't kids anymore sugah," Mouse told her with a slight bit of anger in her voice. "They were arrested and told that they were either be deleted or they had to conform and be reprogrammed as Web Surfers. Not much of a choice if you ask me."

"No," she replied. "Sorry Mouse."

"Think nothing of it honey," Mouse said to her. "Don't worry. They have the best skills of all five areas of programming. They'll get here…"

Suddenly, a tear opened up to become a portal, a portal from the web. From the dark purple portal, five people flew out, zoomed in quickly, and came to abrupt stop. Each of them tapped the icons on their belts before even saying a word.

Of the five man triangle, the middle right side behind the leader stripped off her mask and pulled her hood backwards. "Someone call for some heavy hitters?" the girl with the blue hair and tanned skin said. She was the splitting image of AndrAIa.

"Hello Lana," Mouse said to her.

"Mouse," the one parallel to her spoke in a soft tone. Silver-white strands to her purple flesh were released from the hood and mask.

"There's my favorite little hacker girl," Mouse said and ran over to embrace her. "Look how grown you are."

"I've missed you so much Mouse," Stara said.

"You know these people Mouse?" Dot asked.

"I grew up with Stara," Mouse told her.

"Mouse taught me my first tricks to be a hacker," the girl Stara said to her. "I don't think that I would be as good without her teaching me."

"Hello Mouse," the man behind her said. He looked like a younger Bob with long black spiky hair.

"Blade, a pleasure to see you too," she replied.

Dot's eyes were locked on to that of the leader who only stared back. The green slits didn't expose the person's appareance underneath.

"I'm Dot Matrix, Command dot com of this system," Dot said to the leader and extended a hand.

The leader looked down and then glided passed her, wrapping her blue robe tightly around her.

"What's with her?" Dot asked.

"Dyson was never much of a talker," the biggest man of the group said. "She has a personal hatred for Megabyte since then."

"What was then?" she asked.

"When her sister was deleted by him?" the man told her.

"Stara," the leader, Dyson, called to her. "Bring this wall down."

"With pleasure boss," Stara Crichton replied.


Core Room

Megabyte stared out the VidWindow as some girl with silver hair was working with Mouse on the outside of the Principle Office shield as she was hacking into the mainframe system.

"Who are these surfers?" Megabyte asked.

Herr Doctor was trying to scan and research them, but the files were coming up blank. "My grosenbiter, I can find nothing on these surfers. They don't exist."

He was angry. "Speed up my plan," he ordered. "It's time to leave, now!"


Outside

Stara and Mouse were both on two keyboards working hard to get ahead of Megabyte's codes. They were succeeding one nano and then denied the next.

"Keep going Stara," Mouse said to her.

"Just like old times," Stara replied and they kept going.


Blade walked over to his leader and spoke to her. She was scanning a map of the Mainframe Principle Office to analyze the easiest way to save the people in prison inside.

"Do you have your route of attack laid out yet?" he asked.

"Working on it Blade," she said.

"You're going to need a good one," Blade told her, "because guess who is inside according to Commander Matrix?"

She looked to him.

"Guardian Robert Serrano boss," he said. "Bob is inside that structure."

His leader looked toward the Principle Office and stared. "Bob," she whispered.


What could be the link between them?