The mystery between Paige and Bob continues


Chapter 6: Surfer Insurgency

Principle Office

The troops started cranking a wheel.

As the wheel cranked a chain, the bodies of Ray Tracer, AndrAIa, Matrix, Phong, and Enzo were left dangling inside the Core Room.

The Gateway Command was still powered down as Herr Doctor was working with Bunnyfoot to get it working. It would be easier if their leader would drop the block around the system, but knew if the system wasn't blocked, Guardians would have come raining in from the sky.

Megabyte waited patiently, watching out the VidWindow as the surfers and two hackers were working to bring down the shielding on the Principle Office.

"Soon," he said. "Soon."

"Megabyte," someone called his name.

The virus turned and looked to see Bob standing at the entrance to the Core Room. He was stolid, but tired as they stared eye to eye.

"Welcome Guardian," he said. "Had enough I see?"


Bob stepped off the platform and appeared from the portal in the center platform where they were standing. "I can't walk around this place knowing that you have my friends here."


AndrAIa started coming around and saw Bob standing there. He was removing Glitch from his forearm where it always was.

"Bob, no!" she shouted. "Don't surrender."

"I have to AndrAIa," Bob told her. "There's nothing else I can do. I'll do it. But you realize that the entire Guardian Collective will be waiting for you on the other side of that portal."


"Let them try and destroy me," Megabyte replied. "As they attack, I will copy their codes, achieve their powers, and none of them will be able to stop me from achieving my ultimate prize."

"You're mad!" Ray Tracer shouted.

"Virus," Megabyte said. "Now Guardian, where are we?"

Bob stared at him in dread.


Outside

Stara Crichton and Mouse finally cracked the code. The shielding flicked and faded into pieces before it was finally down. "Got it!" she shouted and grabbed Mouse in a tight hug. "We're online."

"Good work Stara," Dyson the leader acknowledged her efforts.

The five surfers jumped on their boards; replaced their masks if they had done so and headed off into the Principle Office.

Each surfer pulled out a pole and illuminated their tactic blades to use in their insurgence into the Principle Office.

"Let's fly," Paige ordered and they took off.


As Dot and her soldiers attempted to go through the small openings in the shield, it closed blocking them from getting in.

Mouse's transponder on her wrist called. Stara was calling from inside the shield.

"Mouse, try all of my codes again," Stara said to her. "They're saved on the disk in front of the computer."

"In the meantime, we'll take care of business," Lana told them.

"Be ready for a viral outpouring if we start winning," Dyson said to them.

"Good luck you guys," Mouse mumbled. "You're our only hope."


The surfers stood at the entrance to the Principle Office.

"Bring it down," Dyson ordered.

All five surfers charged their energy into their blades, and blasted the door wide open. As the smoke billowed, viral forces tried shooting at them.

"This is what they call resistance?" Grendar said in amusement.

"Where is a guardian brigade when you need them?" Blade joked. "They were so much more brutal than this."

"Cut the chatter," Dyson said to them. "Knight Surfers, full shut-down. Delete if necessary."

The surfers merged into the melee and struck down the viral troops.


Stara lied down on her surfboard, spread her arms out, and clipped several of the troops with ease. She rolled over onto her back and yawned. "That was fun."


Blade and Grendar blasted at the troops, deleting some, but others' weapons exploded and they took off.


Dyson walked up slowly to a set of troops who were guarding the door to proceed. They looked up at her, red eyes wide with fear.

"Move," she said.

Two of them raised their staffs to her.

She snapped her illuminating fingers.

They were lifted them off the ground and she tossed them in one fluid swoop out of her way.

"Let's go," Dyson ordered and the other four followed her.


Core Room

"Sir," Megabyte's commander reported. "They're inside. We can't take much more of…" the commander screamed and VidWindow went static.

"Commander," Megabyte said. "Commander…"

"We're sorry, but the soldier that you were trying to reach is currently been deleted or compiled," a voice said. "Please surrender now, while you still can. Thank you."

He shut the window and watched as the Guardian's keytool was put into the code extractor.

"Speed this up," the virus shouted. "We don't have much time."


Bob was now chained with the rest of them.

"Bob," Matrix asked him in a weak tone, "why did you surrender?"

"I figured that Mouse would get Dot out of the Principle Office and call for help," Bob replied. "But then again, I wasn't getting anywhere walking around, waiting to be captured so I got it over with."

"But now, he's going to get into the Supercomputer," AndrAIa added. "We can't let him."

"I don't think he will mates," Ray said.

"How can you be so confident surfer?" Matrix asked.

"Because, your viral friend is freaking out at the moment because someone is in the Principle Office now," Tracer told them. Suddenly, his icon on his belt began beeping red.

"What's it doing?" AndrAIa asked.

"It hasn't done this in forever. Mates, my icon is indicating a locator beacon with another set of icons that I haven't seen in nearly a deca-cycle." He looked up. "They're here."

"Who's here?" Matrix wanted to know.


Megabyte and Herr Doctor were working before they became distracted by a one of the entrances to the Core Room as it exploded. The five blue cloaked people blasted their way inside and flew around the large central chamber.

"Open fire on those surfers!" Megabyte ordered the troops protecting them.


The Knight Surfers encircled the chamber and split off into a star formation. They blasted downward to disable the troops, but flying as fast as they were was proving very difficult.

"Rescue the hostages," Dyson ordered.


The surfers parted into a perfect exploding star.

Lana and Blade went nose-diving downward to do their duty.

"Let's go beautiful," Blade said to his girlfriend.

"With pleasure," Lana replied.

They joined hands and used their power together to cover the entire circle of viral troops in their blue casing light. The casing became electric and created a web of shut down soldiers around Megabyte.


Grendar and Stara encircled the room, each with a group of troops on zipboards behind them.

Stara smiled as she was coming toward her friend at lightning speed. "Going high," she cheered.

"Go down low," Grendar said.

The two surfers did the opposite of what the other said, causing the troops to collide with one another. They all fell down into the core.


Blade and Lana returned and freed the hostages. "You all OK?" Lana asked.

"Lana?" Guardian 452 asked of her. "It can't be you."

"Believe me kid," Lana replied. "I'm Lana Vesper all the way."

"And…is…that…?" Bob asked.


Megabyte stared as the fifth and obvious leader of the surfers came down slowly, slid off the front of the board in perfect grace, and stood there staring.

"Your friends are impressive," he said to her. "A fine army you have raised."

"And a pathetic one you have," she replied. "Hope you have warranty coverage on those piles of drones."

He chuckled. "You amuse me," he told her, just before he lunged at her.

Her hands met his and he was unable to get a clean hit on the surfer. She was far too quick, even for him.

When Megabyte did get a hand, he tried copying her code but received a negative impulse blast, knocking him off his feet, and away from her.

"How can this be?" he asked. "I was discharged." The virus was back to his feet. "This cannot be possible."

"Surfers can't be copied," she said. "Time you were drop-kicked into next cycle." The surfer leader raced to him and watched slowly as she leapt, using his shoulders as a vault, to spin around.

Her boots showed spikes and a guardian icon on them.


Bob saw the boots and remembered a vivid memory as though he was reliving the past somehow.

Paige Dyson was in a cage fighting match with a rival of hers and he was watching as a part of their underground circle of friends. She leapt up and spun to kick her opponent with the foot that she appeared to be bracing with.

It had spikes around the rim and a guardian icon.


"It is," he said.

"Anytime now guardian," Blade broke him out of his reverie.

The surfer was almost finished with her attack in grabbing the cords by Megabyte's head and to pull him backwards.

"Glitch," he called for his keytool, which freed itself from the code extractor, and attached to his wrist. "Blaster." A tear was created from some debris. "Glitch, portal."

The portal to G-Prime opened up and the surfer finished the attack and tossed him into the portal. It closed once his two associates were tossed through by two of the surfers.

"And stay out," Matrix grumbled.


The reunions and celebrations began once everyone was released. Everyone was pleased to get free and that Megabyte the Trojan Horse was removed from the Principle Office.

The surfers removed their masks and hoods to reveal themselves.

"I don't believe it," Ray said. "You blokes really are here."

Stara and Ray embraced. "It's good to see you Ray," she said to him.

Grendar and Matrix were almost the same height and stared in mutual respect.

The CPU forces arrived with Dot Matrix and Mouse leading the charge.

"Oh," Mouse said.

"I guess we're a little late," Dot joked.

"They took care of business," Matrix told his sister. "These surfers were incredible. They were the finest fighters I have ever seen."


The leader tried to leave them all there, slamming her foot on her surfboard to get back on it again.

"Wait," Bob spoke out to the leader. "Are you really her?"

"Do you know this person Bob?" AndrAIa asked.

"Tell me the truth," Bob asked her. "Paige, is it you?"

The leader turned away and removed the silver mask. After the mask was removed, she faced them as she pulled away the blue hood, letting loose a mass of pink hair.

"Yeah guardian," Paige said. "I'm Paige Dyson…"


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