Well, this has been a horrible crazy nine weeks. And I just realized that I haven't updated in over a month! And the fact that my comp deleted my chapter::sigh:: yet again, hasn't helped matters any. Well, here it is.

Begin Chapter

"So, how do you propose to get everyone home again?" Jena asked her brother.

"Um, I thought that we could take their vans and stuff like that back," Daniel replied as he looked around the warehouse. Mega was talking to his family and Maylu, with Roll asleep in her PET, Cody was trying to ignore his parents, Ryan was off getting his car, the rest of the parents were talking, and the rest of the guys were making faces at the Dickenson's backs. This made it hard on poor Cody, since his parents were trying to have a very serious talk.

"I guess that that'll work," she sighed. She was about to ask where Ryan went when she heard his horn.

"They scratched my car!" he growled. "They'd better be glad that I didn't know about that when I was whooping them." Jena sighed.

"Let's just get everyone into a car and get out of here." She walked over to her dad and asked him to get the van. He took Dr. Hikari and walked down the hall. "Ok everyone, my dad and Hub's dad went to go and get a van so we can get home. Any questions?"

"Just one," Mrs. Dickenson sneered, "Who put you in charge?"

"The City of Houston. Any other questions that pertain to us getting back to my house?" No one replied. "Good, so we'll just wait for dad, and get as many people as we can in the cars that we have now."

"I'll go to the PET to save room," Hub yawned as he logged into his PET.

"Well then, we don't have to leave Mr. Dickenson now," Jena sighed. "Oh well." All the kids started to snicker. Before he had a chance to respond, Mr. Blecker interjected.

"That's enough. We've all had a very stressful time here, and we don't need this you two," he scolded.

"Hey, I didn't do anything!" Hub defended.

"Yes, but you will." Jena and Hub looked at each other, and quickly looked away, grinning.

"And you shouldn't have said anything," she smiled. "Since you called us out, we have to now."

"But we might as well wait 'till we get back to your house." Jena looked at Hub, and an identical evil grin spread across both of their faces. "Wait till they see what we made for them."

"Is that a good or a bad thing?" Maylu asked Sam.

"Well, it's a surprise," she responded as everyone started to pile into the van, which had just pulled into the room.

"Lan, you're taking your brother and riding with me," Jena commanded as she jumped into her car, followed by Lan, Cody, Daniel B., Howie, and Sam. They shut the doors and prepared to leave as the Dickensons started to get into the van.

"I didn't know that that car could seat six," Mrs. Dickenson commented.

"It doesn't, but someone will double buckle," Mrs. Walker replied as she shut the door behind her. She then smiled at her other children, and their friends, and waved them off. "We'll see you at home!"

"Bye mom!" Daniel W. said as he climbed into Ryan's car. He and Ryan were the only ones in that car, and Maylu and Joey were in the other. The three cars lined up and took off.

"So, why did you want Lan in your car?" asked Maylu over the radio. The three cars were currently over Downtown.

"Because it would cause Mrs. Dickenson to freak out," Jena replied. "And if Hub did it, she would have said that he just went into the comp. after we took off."

"Fun stuff," Daniel snickered. "But why are you doing this?"

"Because we're going to get in trouble with them no matter what we do," Hub said in a nonchalant voice. "Might as well deserve it."

"Well, I can't believe that you're doing this," Roll jokingly scolded. "Haven't you caused enough trouble for one day?" Hub gasped.

"Are you suggesting that I was the one solely responsible? I'm hurt," he said, obviously trying to not laugh.

"But you're tough, you'll live," she replied with a laugh, which quickly spread to the other cars.

"Yeah, you're right. I'm so macho."

"No, you just have a thick skull," Ryan interjected.

"……..shut up," Hub replied quietly before bursting into laughter.

"Jena, new email," Zemmi suddenly said.

"Onscreen," Jena replied. "Oh, it's from Chaud and Mary. Hmm, so they saw our little 'accident' on the news, Hub, and are asking if we knew that that person was wanted. Man, our luck rocks."

An hour later, everyone was standing in the doorway of The Garage gaping. They all walked in, and other than the six that were there before, everyone started to look everywhere. It was clean. Not only was the Garage clean, but the floor was waxed, the metal polished, the dishes done, the toilet scrubbed, and the weeds from the whole area were gone. "But when did you find the time?" asked Mrs. Walker.

"You were gone for a while, and we got bored," Jena shrugged. "Oh, and this was not Cody's idea, Mrs. Dickenson. It was Hub's. And he was the one who prepared dinner." They all stared at the PET.

"I get really really really bored, I bame A.D.D.," he defended. "Oh, and it's a huge helping of Pot Roast that I made. And nothing with chocolate. I've had enough of that stuff for a month at least."

"Oh, I did send you that info, right Dr. Hikari?" Jena asked.

"Yes you did, thank you," he replied.

"Good, for a moment there, I thought that I had forgotten," she sighed.

"Well, I'm bored. I'm going to the room that I was staying in whilst y'all eat," Hub yawned as he left his PET.

"I swear his attention span is growing shorter and shorter each day," Cody said as he shook his head. Roll took this as an opportunity to follow her boyfriend.

"Mega?" she asked as she checked a few rooms, coming to a halt near the one at the end of the hall. "Are you in there?"

"Yeah," drifted his voice through the door. "Come on in." Roll opened the door and found Mega spread out over his bed, looking like he had just thrown himself on it and didn't bother to move. She smiled as he rolled over so he was lying on his back. "What's wrong?"

"I'm just glad to see you, that's all," she replied as she sat down next to him. He responded by sitting up. "I'm sorry."

"About what? You had nothing to do with this," he said, looking at her.

"I'm just sorry that you have such a hard time, and lately it's been because of me." She started to cry. Mega made a move to comfort her, but she pushed him away. "If I wasn't here, you wouldn't have to worry about all that happened."

"It's ok," he said as he hugged her. She tried to break out of his grasp, but he just held on. "It's not your fault."

"I'm a cause of a weakness to you," she sobbed. "A weakness that has been exploited." Mega pulled her close and tried to comfort her, but she didn't want it. She made that evident by wriggling and squirming, trying to escape. Mega looked down at her, closed his eyes in a futile attempt to not cry, and let her go. She ran out of the room, and he heard the sound of a navi logging out of an area. Mega fell back onto his bed, and stared at the ceiling for God knows how long before falling asleep.

"Man, this was a good roast," Lan smiled after his fifth helping. "I didn't know that Hub could cook."

"Well, I'm glad he can," Daniel W. smiled back. "Where did he go?"

"He probably went to pass out in 'his' room," Jena replied as she started to take up the dishes for that night's wash. "Dannie B, it's your turn to do dishes."

"What?! Nuh-uh, there's more than the six of us, so Sam also has to help," he whined.

"Fine, Sam'll help while I go and fix Ryan's car so he'll quit whining." Jena walked up the stairs and into Ryan's room to get started.

"So, no desert?" asked Mrs. Dickenson.

"We have some ice cream mom," Cody replied.

"We? We? What is this we? You are not going to be associated with these people for much longer. There is no we," Mr. Dickenson sneered.

"Whatever." It got so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

"What did you say?"

"You heard me." Howie decided to play the part of peacemaker.

"Well, I think that that's a sign that we're all tired, so why don't we all get to bed, eh?" he asked.

"Fine, but don't think that you've gotten out of trouble yet mister," Mrs. Dickenson sniffed as she made her way out the door along with her husband. Mrs. Walker had agreed to take them to a hotel for the night, so she stood up and ran out to the car.

"Good job Cody, way to stand up to your parents!" Daniel W. said as he gave Cody a high five.

"Thanks," he grinned. "Well, I'm going to bed."

"Same," said most of the people in the room. Everyone split up and went to bed.

The next morning

Hub awoke to his alarm, telling him that it was 7 am. He stood up and stretched as the night's memories returned to him. All of the exhaustion was gone in a second. He ran straight to the room where Roll was staying. He ignored the "Do Not Disturb" sign and barged in. No Roll. His eyes grew wide as he took the link to her PET. She wasn't there either. Panic started to set in. He quickly found the link to her homepage, and took it. He searched for fifteen minutes, and finally found a note.

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To whoever finds this, probably Mega.

I need some time to think, so I'll be gone for a little while. Don't worry though, I'll come back. If you really need to find me, well, I guess you're going to have to look because I'm not telling you where I'm going to think.

Roll.

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Mega looked down at the note and reread it five times. "I finally get her back, and then I lose her again. Life's not fair," he thought as he took a link to her PET, and then to the Guard system. He went into his room and threw himself back on his bed.

"Is that bed really that soft?" asked Zemmi as she entered the room. Mega responded with a grunt and shoving the note in Zemmi's face. Curious, she read the note. Mega didn't need to look at her to tell what her reaction was going to be. "WHAT?!"

"Yep, I think that I'm just going to go back to sleep, and when I wake up, this bad dream will be over," he sighed as he crawled under the covers. Too bad no one heard him. As soon as Zemmi read it, she zipped to her PET and showed it to Jena, who forwarded it to basically everyone in the building. In five minutes, all of the under-twenties were in Jena's room searching for an answer to this problem. Everyone was distraught, but none so much as Maylu, who hadn't stopped crying since she read the letter.

"This is not good, this is not good at all," Axl said as he read the note. "Where's Hub?"

"He went to his room," Zemmi sighed. "He's really torn."

"I bet!" Helena almost screamed. "He risks his life to save her, and she repays him by breaking his heart?!"

"Helena, could you bring the volume down a few decibels?" asked Alexander. Helena sat down and huffed.

"I wonder what caused this sudden rash behavior," Walker thought out loud.

"Probably Empress," Cody's voice floated through the net. Everyone sighed. "Poor kid."

"Hub's had such a hard life, it's a miracle that he's this normal," Daniel B. said.

"So, y'all're talking about me without my knowledge?" Hub gave a weak laugh as he entered the net room. (A/N: Y'all're is a contraction of Y'all and are. It is perfectly acceptable English in Texas). "I'm going to go find her, and I don't want any help." He looked at each person and navi in turn. "I want to do this on my own. I'll find her." He sighed as he looked to the floor. "I have to." He started to tear up. "I just have to."

End Chapter

I'm going to write a sequal to this, but i just don't have the time. I'll work on it as soon as i can. T.T