Sorry about not updating in a little while. Stuff has come up, and it's been hard for me to concentrate.

Terratasha- thanks for reminding me about that detail. And I don't think that I'll have any more siblings. Too hard to keep track (for me anysway).

Well, sorry if this took a little while to update. My beta reader is at camp, and I tried to get another one of my friends to do it, but she wasn't going fast enough. So, I'm doing it, but if anyone wants to beta for this and my other story, just drop me an email, or review. On with the chapter

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"Everyone, time to get up!" Mrs. Walker called the next morning through an intercom. "NOW! Ryan, Joey, Daniel Walker, Jena, Zemmi, Gig, Aviato, and Xantho need to get ready for school. Howie, Cody, Sam, Hub, Daniel Blecker, Axl, Helena, Walker, and Alexander need to decide if they are going with Jena to school or not. Send your navis with the answer." When Hub made it to the kitchen, he found the rest of the navis already there.

"We're all going," Axl said.

"Me too," Hub yawned. "Did you have to call Danny by his last name too?"

"Yes, because I know that my Daniel will try to get out of going to school by saying that I was talking to the other Daniel," she replied happily. "I recall that when we would go and visit Jena, and your little group got into trouble, they would send Daniel Walker instead of Daniel Blecker."

"Yep," Hub said, laughing.

"Hang on," she said as she went back to the intercom. "Everyone, downstairs, NOW!" This announcement was followed by the thundering of eight pairs of feet. "Jena, you're going to need to give Hub the keys to your car around eleven so he and one other person can go and buy lunch for all of you. Ryan, Daniel, Joey, here are your lunches. Bye!"

"Bye mom," the Walker kids said while the rest just replied, "Bye Mrs. Walker." They all went outside and the navis logged into the net to get into the cars. "Ryan, don't forget to take your car to the carwash today. It's filthy," Jena said as she and her friends crammed into the car.

"Fine," he grumbled, as Daniel and Joey got into his car. The cars drove onto the runway, and took off.

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"Lan! It's time to wake up!" Roll called from Lan's computer. He rolled over to look at the clock, and found out that it was only 6:50.

"Can't I have ten more minutes?" he asked.

"No, Maylu told me to wake you up now," she said, crossing her arms. "Mega told me to wake you up when Maylu woke up." Lan sighed.

"Fine, I'm getting on," he said as he crawled out of bed. Roll smiled.

"We'll see you outside!" she replied happily as she logged back to her homepage. What she found when she got there was an envelope with her name on it. "Who is this from? This isn't Mega's handwriting." She opened the note, and found this.

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Sis- watch your back.

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"Roll, is something wrong?" asked Maylu as she brushed her hair. She saw Roll look at the sheet of paper with a puzzled expression on her face.

"Oh, no. I just found a piece of paper that fell off of my desk," she said as she pocketed the note. "It's nothing."

"Ok, is Lan up?"

"Yes he is. Oh, and it's going to rain today, so you will need an umbrella."

"Done," Maylu replied as she plugged out Roll and headed downstairs. "Let's go and get some breakfast." She ran downstairs, and sat down.

"Ok, who gave me this? There are only three people who would call me sis. But none of them would actually just say that. I mean, Drop would say something snotty, Stop would be nice, and my brother wouldn't even send me an email. That's just not Forte (A/N: I'm using the manga version of Forte's creation, not the anime. 1). No one else would call me sis." Roll sighed. "If they took the time to write this, why didn't they take the time to sign it?"

"Roll, are you sure that nothing is bothering you," Maylu asked. "You look a little pale, and you haven't said much this morning."

"Oh, well, I'm just worried about Mega. He hasn't emailed me since he left," she said. "Well, that's partially what's worrying me."

"Is that all?" Maylu asked.

"Yep. I just miss Mega," she said, sitting down on the floor. "I just wish that he would email me to tell me that he's ok. I was looking at the Houston news last night, and there was a break-in in the courthouse, and it said that The Guard took care of it. I just know that Mega was in that fight, and he wasn't able to use any battlechips. What if he got hurt?" she exclaimed nervously.

"Roll, calm down," Maylu said. "He's fine. Jena would have emailed us if he was hurt. And she would have sent him back. Are you sure that that's all that's bothering you?"

"Yea," she sighed. "We should get going. Lan may beat us to school if we don't hurry."

"Ok," Maylu said as she grabbed her umbrella and went outside as Roll went back to her thoughts.

"If Mega were here, I'd feel much safer. He'd protect me, and I doubt that he would let me out of his sight. He'd hold me and tell me that everything will be ok," she thought as she sighed.

"Hey sis," came a sneering voice from the back of her PET. Roll turned around quickly and saw her sister Drop and her boyfriend King there. "I thought that I told you to watch your back."

"Hello Drop. What brings you here?" she asked angrily.

"You are coming with us," King said, walking towards her. Roll tensed, and started a mental email to Mega.

"Mega, help," she thought. But before she could send it, King delivered a blow to her head, knocking her over. Drop ran over and kicked her in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her.

"Go ahead and send that email to your boyfriend," she sneered. "Then you can send one that says that you, your Op, and his Op have been captured, along with his parents. Tell him how you tried to defend yourself, but couldn't. Tell him how you were injured, and how your evil sister kidnapped you with her boyfriend. But he may already know." Roll turned her terrified face to look at her sister. "You see, we took the liberty of kidnapping everyone that means anything to him and his friends, and left notes to give them instructions."

"If he refuses to comply, you will all be deleted," King said. "But we will torture you no matter what." Roll gave an involuntary shudder at this. "Let's go, we got what we needed."

"There's no way that I'm going to go without a fight," she thought as she stood up. "There's no way that I'm going quietly."

"I see that you have Stop's spirit, but you seem to be lacking something," Drop said, getting into a fighting stance. "Forte's power. And my wonderful attitude." Roll ran at her sister, and got into a fist fight. After a few minutes, it was obvious that Drop had more experience than Roll. "Are you serious? When you got into this fight, I thought that I would have some competition. You're pathetic." She sent a particularly nasty punch to her jaw. Roll fell down, and felt her hands be tied behind her back. She started to struggle even more. King planted his boot in between her shoulder blades and stopped her movement. "Thanks hun."

"No problem, let's get out of here," he said, picking Roll up. With the last of her consciousness, she sent one more email. "Mega, save me. King... -connection lost-"

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"Hub, Hub, HUB!" Axl yelled, smacking the backside of his head on the last one. "You completely spaced out on us. What's wrong?"

"Roll is in trouble," Hub said.

"Are you sure?" Axl asked, nervous.

"Positive. I just got two mental emails. The first one just said 'Mega help.' While the second said 'Mega, save me. King.' then it ends abruptly. I think that King took her," he said as he buried his head in his hands. "It seems like every time that I go out of town, or anywhere for that matter, she gets hurt. I don't want to let her out of my sight. Ever again." Helena sat down next to him, and put her arm around him. They had been released from school when they received the first distress call from Daniel. He, Joey and Ryan had been attacked on the way to school.

"Dude, why don't we go and see if we can find anything in her homepage," Walker said.

"Yeah," said Zemmi. "Last time this happened, we were able to get her back here."

"Let's go now," Helena exclaimed as she stood up and ran to Hub's car.

"Ok," said Axl as he and Walker helped Hub, who was close to a breakdown, to his car. "Howie, we're going to Dentech. We'll be back soon."

"You got it," Howie replied. They had received the messages, and were trying to contact their families. No luck. All that Zemmi could find in ways of her family was Gig. He had been beaten to a pulp, and was currently in Sci Labs recuperating. When asked about Dr. Hikari, Zemmi was told that he hadn't shown up for work, nor was he answering any calls. When the family homepage was visited, there was only a note, a note saying that they had been kidnapped, and that Hub would be contacted that night at seven on the Walker family telecommunicator. Zemmi returned to find out that Roll was in trouble. All of the Ops thought that there was no chance of finding her there. They watched as their navis left before speaking.

"There's no way that they are going to find her," Cody said. "They will only find these horrible letters."

"Can't we call the police or something?" asked Sam, who had been crying on Howie's shoulder.

"Sam, hun, I am the police here, as Hub is in Dentech," Jena said.

"But doesn't Lan work with other people?" asked Daniel.

"Yes, but we need to do this on our own," Jena said. "We are the only people who have fought with Todd before. We know all of his dirty tricks. And if they did anything to Roll, God be with them, because there will be hell to pay, and Hub will be the one to deal it out." Sam sighed.

"What should we do?" she asked.

"First, we're going to wait for Hub to get back. Then we're going to see if he has any ideas," Jena said.

"So Hub was the brains behind the brawn?" asked Howie.

"Yep," the four others said.

"It's the quiet ones who rule the world," replied Cody. "So, when Hub returns, we'll decide what to do." Silence reigned for ten minutes before they heard the car return. "Any luck?"

"None, and Hub is really broken up about this," Zemmi said. Hub just sighed as he tried to get control of himself.

"We need an idea," said Jena. "We need an idea to get back at Todd. He's contacting us at seven."

"So we have until then to regain our composure," Hub said. "If we make it look like he isn't getting to us, then we might get the upper hand. You know how he works: bullying, intimidation, all of that good stuff. If we act calm, cool, and collected, then we can throw off his hold over us."

"So if we can gain the upper hand early, then we will win," Daniel said.

"Someone, pop a party pizza or two in the oven," said Sam.

"Better yet," Jena said, "We can order pizza. I know where dad keeps his money, and I have all of the numbers for the pizza places. We get some Papa Johns, and rent a movie, blare some music, and act casual, and we can blow his cool."

"But what if he does something bad to our family?" asked Sam.

"Then, the carefree us will turn to the angry us," Hub said. "And I can assure that I will probably be leading the pack on that one."

"Well, let's get started. Oh, Cody, would you please rig the communicator so that we can record what they're saying? We might actually need backup on this one, despite what Jena said earlier," Daniel said.

"Sure, I'll get Alexander to start working on it now," he said as Alexander started the programs. Zemmi sighed.

"Why did Todd resurface?" she asked.

"Who knows," said Axl. "I don't know much about the guy, other than he is a bully, and that he enjoys picking on people. And there's this crazy rumor going around that someone just came back from the dead." This got Sam to smile a little.

"He enjoys watching other people suffer," Hub said, logging back into the net. "He likes to think that he's in control. He used to try and beat me up just because I was little."

"Yeah," said Jena, communications screen popping up. "You were the smallest of us."

"And you still are," Daniel said.

"Hey, but I'm still the strongest," he shot back.

"Yes," said Cody. "And that may give you an unfair advantage over Todd if you get into a fist fight."

"And your point is…?" he asked.

"You want to beat him fair and square, right?" Hub thought for a few seconds before answering.

"I guess," he said. "Jena, do you still have that humanity program?"

"Yes I sure do," she said, going to her computer and opening the program. "You want to become human now, right?"

"Of course," he said as he entered the program. "Start 'er up." Jena hit the enter key, and a blinding light filled the screen, and then the room. When the light died down, there was Hub, in the flesh. "Jena, do you have any chocolate ice cream?" he asked, cocking his head a little.

"What?" asked Cody.

"Chocolate ice cream," he said. "I want something chocolate. A half gallon of chocolate ice cream sounds really good right now." Sam and Jena fell over laughing.

"Same old Hub. Well, we can go to the store, and get some. Actually, we can each get a half gallon, and eat it along with the six medium pizza's I ordered," said Jena. "Ok, I'm going to need to know what type of coke you want, and what flavor of ice cream."

"Coke? I want Dr. Pepper," said Cody.

"Dude, did you learn nothing from living in Houston?" asked Howie. "Every soft drink is called coke. I want a Root Beer, and some Vanilla ice cream."

"Oh, I'll also have a tub of Cookies and Cream," Cody replied.

"Pepsi and Strawberry," Sam said.

"Banana Split and Sprite," Daniel yawned.

"I'll take a Coke," said Hub.

"And I'll get Pibb and mud slide," Jena said, writing it all down. "Hub, you're coming with me to the store. Let's see, it's twelve now, so we'll be back around one, maybe two. The pizza will be here around three. We need to pick up some other things as well. Zemmi, make sure that they don't break anything."

"Whatever," she teased.

"See ya later," Hub said as he and Jena walked to the car. They climbed in and took off for the store.

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"So, do you all know why you are here?" asked Susan. She had all of people who were kidnapped in a cage before her.

"Because you are an idiot?" asked Lan. Susan glared at him.

"So you are Hub's little brother," she said. "Todd's going to have fun with this. Anyone else want to answer?"

"Because you don't know who you are messing with?" suggested Daniel. Susan turned to face him.

"No no no, I've got it. It's because Todd wants to get beaten to a pulp," Joey said.

"Or, at worst, he has a psychotic death wish," Ryan added, smiling like a maniac. All of the boys were.

"All of you, shut up, before I put all of you into solitary confinement. You are here because your sons and daughters have ticked off Todd Hunter, and you are being used to get back at them," she said.

"I have a question," Lan said.

"What is it?"

"What if I don't want to be used? Can I go home?" Susan growled.

"That does it. Solitary for you," she said, grabbing a set of keys. "Phil, John, make sure that only Lan comes out." The two hulking boys opened the door, grabbed Lan, and yanked him out before anyone could react. They started to shut the door when Lan started to fight. He let his body go limp, and when he threw the boys off balance, he started to kick and wriggle. Susan tried to get in and stop him. He kicked her in the jaw. "That does it! Throw him back!" Phil grabbed him and threw him in the cage.

"Were you actually expecting me to go quietly?" he asked. Susan just glared and walked away, the two boys in tow.

"Good job," Joey said as he helped Lan up and Ryan gave him a pat on the back.

"Lan!" Dr. Hikari said as he ran over to his son. "Were you trying to get yourself hurt?"

"I just wanted to try to give us a chance to escape. A few more seconds, or if someone had come out, we'd have been free," he said as his dad sighed and Maylu pulled him into a hug.

"You scared me!" she said. "What would have happened if they hadn't reacted the way they did?"

"Well, I wouldn't expect him to have thought that through, seeing who his brother is," Mrs. Dickenson. "And I expected the Walker delinquents to praise him for that."

"What is your problem?" Roll said angrily. "What is your problem with Mega and Jena?"

"Is that what Hub goes by these days? Well, he and that wretched child Jena caused my darling son Cody to go and do horrible things," she said, as her husband shook his head.

"After he started hanging out with those two, we got more and more calls regarding his conduct," Mr. Dickenson said.

"Are you trying to blame what your child did on our children?" asked Mrs. Walker.

"Yes, I am," Mrs. Dickenson said. "Look where this 'friendship' got us now! Stuck, in a cage, in the hands of a lunatic!" All of the kids sighed. "And what is your problem!"

"You are making a huge deal out of this," Ryan said.

"It's as much Cody's fault as it is anyone else's," Lan said.

"You can't go blaming this all on Mega and Jena," Roll replied angrily.

"Want to bet," Mr. Dickerson snapped back. Everyone was about to get into a shouting match when Dr. Hikari broke them up.

"Everyone, calm down," he said.

"You cannot order us around, Yuuichiro," Mr. Dickerson said.

"No, but I am telling the boys, Maylu, and their navi's to stop fighting. It will get us no where," he said, annoyed. "I cannot boss you around, but if you keep this up, I have no idea what these kids will do, and I won't hold them back." A long silence followed this remark.

"Fine, we will have a cease fire for the moment. You kids should not think that you have won the war, though," Mrs. Dickerson said.

"Don't worry, we won't. What are your thoughts on this, Mr. and Mrs. Funderburk, Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, and Mr. and Mrs. Blecker?" asked Joey.

"I think that the Dickerson's are over-reacting," Mrs. McCormick said plainly.

"I agree," Mr. Blecker commented. "All of our children caused the same amount of trouble." Roll sat there for a few minutes, listening to the adults chat, before she got bored.

"Thankfully I was able to sneak Light out with me. Wow, I just called the journal by its 'name'," she thought as she pulled the book out. Aviato and Xantho noticed, and walked over.

"Roll, what's that?" Xantho asked.

"Mega's journal from when he was little," she said. "I was going to read some of it; see if I can find anything else about Todd."

"Can you read us a story?" asked Daniel, who sat down around the computer jail cell, where the navis were being kept.

"Sure," she said as Aviato pulled a chair over for her to sit down on. "I'll just skip to a long one. There are a lot of one liner ones in between a few dates.

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April 12, 2030

Long time no write, sorry about that Light.

I had a bad few days. First, I finally got to go back to the playroom, and Todd was there. Meanie. I just glared at him when I walked in, because the mean nurse was with me. She said that she would be observing today, and that if she saw any trouble (she meant Jena and me and everyone playing) she was going to take me back to my room. They must have heard, because they stayed away. It made me sad, and mad. I just walked over to the books, sat down, got Velvet, and started to read out loud. I noticed that it got really quiet when I read. I tried to not act like I realized it. I may know them now, but I don't like to be in front of bunches of people. The only people who were loud were Todd, Phil, and John. Why are they even here? I'll ask Jena as soon as I can. I've been practicing sneaking. I'm very good now. I'm going to sneak to her room after I take my medicine, or tomorrow.

Anysway, Todd was being loud, so I pretended like he wasn't there, and kept on reading. When I was done, a girl named Sarah came up, and told me that Jena, Sam, Daniel, and Cody missed me, and that they were sorry that they got me in trouble. Sarah is a talker person, who tells people what you want to say, if you don't or can't tell them by yourself. I told her to tell them that it's ok. They had came one by one to make sure that I was ok during this time. They had done a few pranks, but they mainly asked me for ideas. I came up with some good ones, but I can't tell you now. I found out today that Mrs. Winston might take you away. Jena said that no matter what, they weren't going to take you; that she'd take you if I go away. I hope so, what I told you may get us in trouble. I don't want to get in trouble anymore, but it's so much fun to get out of it! Like this- I helped Jena and Cody come up with a bucket trick. We put water in a bucket over Todd's door, and another time, we put sugar in Kyle's bed. He sometimes helped Todd. He's mean too. The sugar made him stick to the covers. When Jena asked me where I got the ideas, I said "books." Some books really help, and so does some TV. I'm so bad. Too bad you can't see how big I'm smiling now.

Mrs. Winston just came in and asked me what I was doing. I said talking to Light. She got mad. I asked her if she didn't want me to write in you, because she gave you to me to write in, why did she give you to me. She just told me to finish, and left. I outsmarted her. Go me. Well, I had better get back to sleep before she notices. Wait, someone is outside my room.

Guess who it was. Jena and Daniel! They came to see how I was doing. They said that Sam and Cody were keeping the nurses away. I asked them why Todd was here. They said that it was because of a mental problem. He has trouble thinking straight. And that makes him mean. They left after saying that Sam and Cody were going to visit tomorrow. I have to go to sleep now, or else I will face the anger of Mrs. Evil person.

'Night Light.

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Roll finished, and a silence reigned over the cages. "Todd has dain brammage?" asked Ryan (A/N: switch the d and br, and what do you get?).

"Apparently," Maylu said. "And so does Susan."

"When I get my hands on Drop, ooh, she's going to get the beating of her life," Roll said, putting the book up.

"Do you have another sister?" asked Aviato.

"Yes, I do. And a brother. Forte and Stop. They're both older than me. Drop is older too," she said.

"You're related to Forte?" he asked.

"Yes, but he was gone before I was activated," she replied.

"So, you're the baby of the family," Xantho said.

"Yep. It goes like this- Forte, Stop, Drop, and me," she said.

"Was Cossack high when he named you and your sisters?" asked Joey. Roll groaned.

"No, Kalinka actually named us. You know, my creator's daughter. She did it on accident. She was five," she defended.

"So she was learning fire safety," Mrs. Hikari said. Roll sighed.

"Yes," Roll said. "Could we please drop the subject?"

"For now," Lan said. "But we may want to annoy Drop with it later on."

"Then you will feel the wrath of both of us," Roll said.

"So, what do Stop and her Op do?" asked Ryan.

"They are mercenaries," she said bluntly.

"What?" everyone asked at the same time.

"They are mercenaries. If you need some information on anything, you can get it, for the right price," she said. "This is going to take a while."

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"Chaud!" Mary yelled as she ran to give him a hug. He had taken his limo to the airport to pick her and her family up.

"Mary," he said as he caught her. "How's Netopia?"

"It's fine. Let me introduce you to my parents," she said as she grabbed his hand and dragged him over. "This is my mom, and this is my dad."

"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Warner. Did you have a safe flight?" he asked as he shook their hands.

"Yes, it was nice of you to get us first-class tickets. Thank you," Mrs. Warner replied.

"It was nothing. Would you like some help with your bags?" he said smiling.

"Thank you. Between my wife and daughter, there are five bags," Mr. Warner said. Chaud walked over and grabbed two bags, Mr. Warner got two, and Mary got one, the smallest. They walked out to the limo, and the driver took the bags and put them in the trunk.

"Home, sir?" asked the driver when he reentered the car.

"Yes Geraldo," Chaud replied. The driver started driving, and twenty minutes later, they were in front of Blaze Mansion.

"Is this where you live?" asked Mrs. Warner.

"Yes, it is. Would you like a tour?" he asked as the butlers took the luggage to the prepared rooms.

"I would like to take a shower first. Maybe later then?" she asked.

"Sure," he said as he took them to their rooms. "This room," he indicated a room to his right, "Is your room Mr. and Mrs. Warner. Mary, your room is right here," he said, showing the room right across the hall. "There is a joining bathroom for all rooms."

"I just gave Ring and Mr. Warner's standard navi, Hess, a map of the mansion," Proto said. He had been chatting and catching up with Ring since she logged into the limo's system.

"Thank you Protoman," said Mr. Warner.

"You can just call me Proto. It's shorter," he said. Mr. Warner thanked them and shut the door. Chaud said goodbye to Mary, and went to his room. "Are you going to work on that contract now?"

"Yes," Chaud said, sitting down at his desk. "Mary said that she wanted to go and see Maylu and Lan after school, so I have until then to work on this." Proto shook his head and pulled up a game of solitaire.

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1- Forte was created by Cossack to help with the programming. After a while, people began to think that he was too powerful, and they sent navis to kill him. They also took Cossack during the attack, so he couldn't help. That's when Forte got the scar on his symbol. One of the killers tried to kill him that way. Forte got mad and destroyed everyone there. He then left with his grudge against humans who are afraid of things that are more powerful then them.

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