Chapter 6: An Identity Uncovered

'Jackie, Digit, and Matt have the UVO and are now on their way back to Control Central. Will Dr. Marbles' plan work in locating Inez?'

The Lost Dimension

At the castle, Prince Sam and Inez are having dinner and the meal for tonight looks to be Steak and Potatoes. Sam seems to be enjoying his meal, but Inez doesn't seem to be touching her food. The potatoes look stirred so she might have touched them, but the steak looks completely untouched.

While continuing to eat his meal, Sam looks over at Inez and notices that her food looks as if it were just served.

"Inez, Is something wrong?" Sam questions. "You haven't touched your food."

"I'm not as hungry as I thought I was." Inez answers as she turns to Sam.

"Is there a problem with your food because if there is, I can always have it replaced for you." Sam replies.

"No, no problems at all." Inez says with a small smile. "It all looks very delicious, but I just don't have much of an appetite tonight is all."

Sam nods as he goes back to his meal.

Silence.

"So have you thought of a way that I can get out of this dimension?" Inez questions, breaking the silence.

"Honestly, I have been trying to wrack my brain in trying to find a way out for you, but have come up short each time." Sam answers as he places his knife and fork down. "The portal generator would be our only option, but when Hacker banished my family here, he destroyed it."

"He would destroy the one thing that could be the biggest life saver right now, but then again, this is hacker." Inez says with a sigh. "I'm not in the least surprised that he would do something like that."

"I'm so sorry Inez." Sam apologizes. "You have my word that I will do everything in my power to see to it that you get out of this dimension."

"Thanks Sam." Inez replies gaining a smile. "I hope my friends are doing all they can to stop hacker and find me, while I'm stuck here."

"I know they are." Sam nods with a small smile. "It is you that they are fighting for."

"I'm going to go lie down for a little bit." Inez says. "Thanks for dinner."

"You are very welcome Inez." Sam smiles.

Rising from the table, Inez begins making her way to her room, unaware that Sam's friendly expression has quickly turned to a devious one.

Control Central

Digit, Matt, and Jackie now arrive back at control central with Jackie holding on to the UVO. Dr. Marbles and Motherboard have waited patiently for their return.

"We've got the UVO." Jackie announces.

"Great job team." Dr. Marbles praises the team as Jackie hands the UVO over to him.

"So what are you going to do with the UVO and how will it help us find Inez?" Matt questions.

"First, I'm going to begin looking for traces of Inez here throughout our cyberspace universe and incase she doesn't turn up on any of the surrounding cybersites, then I will use the UVO to open up a portal to Hyperspace." Dr. Marbles explains. "With that portal open, I will begin looking for her there."

"Won't it take forever to search for Inez in hyperspace if that's where she landed?" Jackie asks. "Hyperspace, like Cyberspace, is massive. That search could take forever."

"If we were looking for Inez the old fashion way, sure, but thanks to the technology of your SWKAKS, she can be traced by her pad's signal." Dr. Marbles replies.

"Me and Jackie have already tried linking to Inez's SKWAK pad, but nothing happened." Matt cuts in. "We got a message saying that she is out of range."

"You see Matt, with your SKWAK pads, you kids can only do so much amongst yourselves." Dr. Marbles begins. "Now here at control central, we have the technology to go beyond the common communication of your SKWAK pads. Your SKWAK pad signals can be detected in another universe with the technology that we have here."

"Why didn't you say that in the start?!?" Matt asks, becoming increasingly frustrated. "We could have been looking for Inez hours ago instead of tracking down the UVO that we had to, once again, outsmart Hacker just to get!"

"The UVO was very necessary to obtain incase Inez can't be found within our cyberspace." Dr. Marbles calmly replies. "By using the UVO to locate Inez, it will not only pick up on her SKWAK pad's signal, but also pick up on her life signs, thus getting a beat on her location. Once she is located, I can open a portal from here and send you and Jackie to Inez's location to save her."

Having said that, Dr. Marbles walks over to the main computer with the UVO. Inserting it into its slot on the control panel, Dr. Marbles types in a command that allows him to begin his search for Inez in Cyberspace. The scanner now appears on the computer's screen and begins searching for Inez's life signs, starting with the Cybersite Frogsnorts.

While Dr. Marbles is doing this, Matt takes out his yo-yo and begins playing with it, all while trying to keep his impatience under control.

With the conversation that took place between Dr. Marbles and Matt over, an uncomfortable silence now falls on the room, which is making Jackie and Digit feel a tad out of place.

"I'm going to go straighten up in the spare room." Jackie speaks up. "Let me know what happens."

"I'll come with you." Digit says.

Jackie and Digit now leave the room, leaving Matt, Dr. Marbles and Motherboard in the main room.

The Lost Dimension

Not having had much of an appetite for dinner, Inez is laying on her bed with her SWKAK pad in her hands. She has tried to contact Matt, Jackie, and Motherboard again, but hasn't had any luck. Trying the connection to Jackie's SKWAK pad again, the out of range message appears on her screen once again.

"It's hopeless." Inez says, setting her SKWAK pad down. "I'll never get in contact with anyone. I know I'm far from control central, but I should at least be able to hear from someone."

Sitting up, Inez lays back against the pillows and turns her attention towards the window. She notices that the sun is still sitting on the horizon and isn't moving. The red glow that the sun is giving off is shining into her room, giving the elegant room the look of a beautiful sunset evening.

"I hope I won't be stuck here for the rest of my life." Inez says with a sigh. "If I don't get out of here soon, I won't see Jackie, Digit or anyone again. Especially Matt."

Turning away from the window, Inez turns her attention back to her SKWAK pad.

"Well, I better go see if Sam found a solution to getting me out of here." Inez says. "I certainly hope he has found one."

Getting up, Inez makes her way to the door and soon exits the room. Making her way down the hall, Inez begins hearing Sam's voice along with another voice as she continues down the hall. Both voices are becoming clearer as she continues down the hall towards the end. Reaching the end of the hall, Inez quietly goes around a table that has a colorful vase sitting on it and peeks around the corner. Inez notices that Sam has his back turned and is talking into what appears to be a hand held television. The second voice that she was hearing along with Sam's is now recognized to be none other than Hacker.

"Yep, she is still here and doesn't have a clue as to what is going on." Inez hears Sam say. "Everything is going just as you planned Hacker."

"Excellent." Hacker replies. "You're doing a fine job Sam. Continue this and you'll be king of that cybersite before you know it."

Having heard that, Inez leans back against the wall in complete devastation. She can't believe Sam, the same guy that has been so nice to her and has provided her with a place to stay, is working for the Hacker!

"He's working for Hacker?!?" Inez whispers to herself, still devastated. "Everything is starting to make sense now. The room, how nice he was to me, everything! It was all an attempt to keep me here and through hacker's orders! I have to find a way out of here myself if I want to see anyone ever again!"

Turning around to go back the way she came, Inez bumps into the table. The vase that is sitting on it now topples over and hits the floor. The crash of the vase echoed loud enough for Sam to hear, thus getting his attention. Quickly putting the device away, Sam turns around and spots Inez.

"Please say Sam didn't hear that." Inez silently prays to herself.

"You are not supposed to be out of your room!" Sam says in a furious tone.

Inez turns around and spots Sam.

"What are you doing in the halls?" Sam questions, still furious.

"Trying to find my way out of here!" Inez argues back. "You have no right to try and keep me here and how could you be working for Hacker??"

"How much did you hear?" Sam demands.

"Enough to know that I have to find a way out myself considering that you won't be any help!" Inez replies. "You're working with the enemy and there is no way that I'm sticking around for that!"

Having said that, Inez breaks into a run down the hall.

"Guards!" Sam yells.

Eight of the castle's guards now arrive at Sam's behest.

"Find that girl at once!" Sam orders. "She knows too much information! Search everywhere and leave no corner unturned! I want her found immediately!"

The guards nod as they begin on their mission to search for Inez. Inez is continuing to make her way down the long and winding hallway. Now reaching the end, she quickly rounds the corner to the left and begins down another hall. While she's running, she can hear the sounds of foot steps behind her. Glancing behind her, she notices four guards are hot on her trail.

"Great, he's called in reinforcements!" Inez says to herself as she continues running.

Now reaching the end of the hall she is in, Inez is about to round the corner on the right for when four more guards show up, blocking her from a potential escape route and stopping her in her tracks. The four guards that were chasing her, now approach her and the set of guards that have blocked Inez off from escaping.

"This is not good, this is not good at all!" Inez swallows as she looks between the two sets of guards.

"We have orders to detain you." One of the guards speaks. "Come with us."

"No way!" Inez fights back. "If you're going to turn me over to Sam, then you can forget it!"

"They already have." Sam's voice rings out from behind the first set of guards.

Sam now steps to the front of the guards and eyes Inez. Inez narrows her eyes at him.

'You're a slippery one aren't you?" Sam taunts. "Looks like you're out of places to run."

"How can you work for Hacker and after everything you told me?" Inez asks in a fierce tone. "You never intended to help me!"

"You ungrateful brat!" Sam snaps. "How dare you despise me after everything I've done for you!"

"Ungrateful?" Inez snaps back. "I'm being ungrateful? I would rather be ungrateful then to be a pawn in you and Hacker's sick plans. If that's being ungrateful, then guilty as charged!"

"I'm going to give you two choices Inez." Sam says. "You can choose to cooperate and become my queen when I become king of this cybersite so this whole ugly incident can be overlooked or you can choose not to and I'll see to it that you never see your friends again. The choice is yours."

"I'll never agree to that sick arrangement!" Inez spits. "You can forget it!"

A fierce growl releases itself from Sam's throat.

"Take her to the dungeon!" Sam yells. "I will deal with her later!"

Two of the guards grab each of Inez's arms and do as they are told. They now begin escorting Inez to the dungeon.

"This is not good at all." Inez says, lowering her head in defeat.

A/N: Ok end of chapter 6 and I hope you all liked it. I apologize that this chapter wasn't posted last week. I had too much going on and was much too busy, but here it is this week and I hope you all enjoyed it. As usual, please no flames and chapter 7 should be out next week, I'm hoping so. Finals are coming up soon, which means cramtastic sessions are in, but I'm going to do my best to have it out for you nice people. If something doesn't make sense, please let me know and I'll fix it. If nothing else, please review.

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