"Have you scanned that thing yet?" asked Dot.
"Yes, but we don't have any logical response… This is very strange." answered Specks
"Dot, I'm almost sure that Megabyte is going to hunt me, or he'll try at least." said the young guardian "After the shot, he may going ballistic and we must be ready for that. He may pretends makes me the same as Bob, or anything worse."
"Enzo…" The game sprite approached to the boy and hold his hand.
"Don't worry AndrAIa, I'll be fine."
"Of course! We'll not allow Megabyte to hurt our main boy." Mouse winked to AndrAIa.
"Sir... ma'am… We are reading energy fluctuations…" said Specks.
"A Gamecube? Just now?" asked the guardian.
"Don't worry Enzo, I'll go with the trainers…" Dot approached to her brother. "Stay frosty… and safe."
"Sure, sis."
WEARING, INCOMING GAME!
WEARING, INCOMING GAME!
"See you!" said the boy while saw how his sister go outside. "OK, guys, we don't have too much time…"
"Stop everything my child… I've seen that sky color once upon a time… and it wasn't Megabyte."
"What do you mean, Phong? Another virus? Hexadecimal maybe?" Asked Enzo.
"Well, we are offline so… one of our two most wanted must be the cause."
"We don't know about Hex since cycles ago… that makes sense, she were always barking mad." said Mouse while looks at the sky through the Vid.
"Did we know the origin point?" Asked the guardian.
"Affirmative… sector four." answered Specks.
"I should go."
"I'm going with you." Said the purple sprite.
"No Mouse, we need you there being ready for Dot when she finishes the game, beef up the shields." Answered the boy.
"Then, I go." said AndrAIa.
"Be careful my sons. Hexadecimal is less dangerous than Megabyte… but still a virus."
"And remember: that may be a trap." added Mouse.
"When these two work together… that doesn't last long." said Enzo.
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"That's a nice bike!" said AndrAIa
"What is it with you and bikes?" asked the young guardian while driving.
"We are very close now… park the bike there, walking would be safer."
"As you wish!" Both sprites left the bike and go ahead walking.
"Look at that two lovebirds, Scuzzy… That two could have been me and Bob… Oh! Bob… What a pity!"
"Stop saying nonsenses Hex! What are you trying now?" Asked Enzo curious.
"Attract your attention, of course…"
"What!?" asked both sprites surprised.
"Look at that beautiful sky... that's my legacy."
"For last time, drama queen… What do you want?" said Enzo.
"I'm done it… Megabyte used all my energy, he hurts me… he breaks me… I don't like him anymore! I want to go with you! And I want Bob back, I miss him!"
"Do you think we are going to believe you?"
"Enzo, she may be mad, but doesn't bad at all… not as bad as Megabyte…" said the game sprite.
"AndrAIa, she is still a virus."
"Well… If you don't believe me… I'm going to use… that." the virus answered pointing at sky.
"What do you mean with that?" asked AndrAIa.
"My viral infection is over all of us, even inside the game… I've seen Dot going inside the cube...? Imagine the mess when the game couldn't leave the system…" she makes an evil laugh "And, of course, under my orders, all of you will be infected too."
"Yeah, we've got the picture…" said the guardian.
"So… your last chance?"
"Have we another choice?"
"If you want your sister back… nope."
"AndrAIa?" He looked at the girl wanting some help.
"No more options, guardian." she shooked and look at the virus. "But you, stop it now."
"Oookay." Hex up her arms and absorb all the red from the sky.
"I have a bad feeling about that…"
"Same here…"
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"A virus! Inside my principal office! I can't believe that!"
"Calm down, Phong… It was our only choice… We've lost Bob, and I cannot lose Dot too." explain the green sprite
"So, that's the principal office… more depressing than I expected…" said the virus while looked around, happy.
"Thanks to you, by the way…" AndrAIa answered.
"Ooh! Thanks!"
"That wasn't a compliment, Hex…"
GAME OVER
"Dot should be here in nanos. She is going to kill us…" said Enzo worried.
"Don't worry sugar, you've done the correct thing."
"I hope so…"
"Ooooh! I can't wait until seeing Dot and tell her!" Hex seems to be plethoric.
"Hey guys! Have you seen how the sky…? Hexadecimal!" Dot screamed while the virus smiles.
"Hold your horses, honey… She is in our side…" Mouse tried to cold the situation.
"What!? What do you mean with in our side!? She is a virus!" screamed Dot.
"But Dot! I miss Bob! I want him back!" said Hex.
"Don't you dare to mention him!"
"For user shake, finally someone who understands me!" said Phong happy.
"Now don't you start!" answered AndrAIa.
"Anyone could explain that to Dot? Enzo, come with me, sugar." requested Mouse while pulling the guardian from his arm.
"As you want…" answered happily while going out as fast as they could. "What's wrong, Mouse?"
"Nothing. I only want to tell you something… Don't let Hexadecimal knowing about our plan, OK?"
"That will be easy, if we can keep her with my sister."
"Dot and Hex? Together? When hell freezes…"
"War makes strange lovers…"
"Speaking of the Devil… tell all that stuff to AndrAIa before she says something."
"OK, I'm on it!"
He goes to the back rooms, looking for AndrAIa. Finally, he found her too quiet, looking something with a funny expression.
"Hey what happened finally with Hex?"
"I don't know… I've just made a gateway" she confessed laughing.
"Very clever…. what are you doing?"
"Dossing around... reading that old Mainframe readme files…"
"Ohm… By the way, Mouse asks me to tell you that we should keep Hex in ignorance." says while look the files. "That's the one when the twin city exploded." He changed his face suddenly.
"What happened, Enzo? Why anybody won't talk about?"
"Because… It was… my father's fault… I'll tell you someday, but not now." he turned sad.
"Are you OK?" AndrAIa puts her hand under Enzo's chin and hug him.
"Hmm…I'm getting better…" he smiled and kiss her.
"Ooh! What a clever boy…" She kissed him deeply and getting closed to the guardian.
"Thanks, AndrAIa… for being here…" He wrapped his arms around her waist. "I would be lost without you."
"I love you, Enzo." she kissed him. "And I'll be always by your side." kissed him again.
"Always."
"I know, Andi… I love you too."
"Enzo…" she said sweetly, very close to his neck with clear intentions of arousing him.
"Yes?" he low his arms until cuddle the game sprite from her lower back.
"Can I borrow your bike…?" she whispered at his ear.
"Nice try! No way, clever girl." he giggled.
"Well… I had to try!"
"More luck next time!"
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"That damn boy is becoming a pain in the ass…" said the virus looking the Principal Office through a VidWindow. "Without Hex's powers… We have less chances… I may need a plan…"
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"I cannot believe I am doing this!" said Phong "Registering a Virus. Oh, madness! Absolute, utter madness!"
"There's no other choice, Phong" Added Mouse "If not, Megabyte could find her; we should change her format."
"Oooh, thank you, Phong! Now, where can I... pin it? How'd she get the hair?" Asked the virus plethoric with her new icon.
"What happens, sis?" Enzo asked to Dot, who stare the virus angry.
"We are registering Hex… I can't believe I just said that!"
"Things are changing…"
"Too much and too fast" said Dot looking affectionately to the boy.
"Did we have any plan now?"
"For first time… no. We may wait until see the next Megabyte step… and be ready."
"I feel useless" reply sad.
"Just relax… You have a lot of responsibilities lately… Enjoy your time now, as long as we could… I'm sure that something happens any nano now"
"You're right" he smiles and starts to walk "I'm going to the back rooms, I'll be there if you need me" he said while going out.
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"Hey, the calm before the storm?" the game sprite comes onto Enzo's room.
"Yeah, I guess... just hanging out…" he answered looking how the girl approached to him, till come to the bed where he was lying with an old readme file.
"That's one of the…"
"Yep. The explosion one." he leave the file and hold AndrAIa's hands, nestled her towards him.
"That should be hard for you."
"Not as harder as for Dot. I'm not able to remember all of the stuff, I was only a little child, a 0.7. Dot was 1.6 but she should carry on with all, including me."
"Aaw! So cute! A little naughty troublemaker…!" she kissed him sweetly "I would die for seeing that!"
"I'm sure Dot doesn't think like you…" he smiled sad. "It was… hard. We were alone until… Bob…"
"Enzo…" the game sprite caress his hair and nuzzle.
"He was…. He is my hero, he always will." he kissed her neck.
"We'll find him, love."
"I know."
"Sorry for let you see that files… I didn't know how difficult was…" said the game sprite when the young guardian shut her with a kiss.
"Do you want to keep talking about that…?" he rolled up the game sprite and whisper in her ear. "Really?"
"I don't know…" she wrapped her arms around him. "Let me think…"
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"What are you looking at, sugar?"
"Enzo and AndrAIa are in the back rooms…"
"Yeah, I know… And?"
"That's… I mean… he… and she…"
"Oh, stop mealy-mouth. Are you worried for if they are having it away?"
"What do you think? Are they…?"
"Don't worry honey, that two has got the shots for each other since the first nano but… I'm sure that they are only having some… necking… that's all."
"What if…?"
"No."
"But only with a little Vid Wind…"
"No. Dot, listen. Your brother and AndrAIa, are growing up, they are teens now, and they should discover all that stuff. Your play role is being there and support your brother, answer his questions… he isn't the typical teenager… You shouldn't be worry."
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"Hmmm… Enzo…" she pushed up her hips, rubbing the guardian's erection through the underwear.
"AndrAIa… stop it now… They are a lot of people out there, including my sister."
"OK… It will be better for now…" she answered while taken some distance from his body.
Both sprites were lying in the bed, looking at the other and breathing hardly only wearing their underclothes.
"How we wind up doing that?" asked the girl
"Beats me!"
"We may should… dressing?"
"Yep…" he smiles and looks to the girl while she was looking for her clothes.
"What are you looking at?"
"You, damn sexy!" he approaches to her and pull away her clothes from her hands.
"Enzo! What in the net…!?" She was shut by a kiss.
"You know what?" asked the young guardian "I couldn't be bothered to do always the right thing."
"No time like the present, sparky!" she kissed him and put their underclothes off while lying in the bed."
"Where was I…?" he said while caress her breasts and go down until her thigh.
"Right there, more or less…"
WEARING, INCOMING GAME!
WEARING INCOMING GAME!
"That must be a joke…" the green sprite stopped and resigns himself when a Vid Window opened suddenly. "Great… Anything else?"
"Enz… What!?" through the window, both sprites could see Mouse laughing and Dot getting hysterical.
"Clean the perimeter, we are on way." said the young guardian before closed the Vid and turned to AndrAIa, who looked at him smiling.
"Having fun?"
"Sure!"
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"Hey guys! Good one!" Said Mouse approaching to them.
"Mouse! What are you doing inside the game?" asked Enzo.
"Did you expect that I keep there with Dot? That's your problem, honey" said pointing at the guardian.
"Don't remind me..."
"What were you two thinking!? I mean… I'm the first sprite pro sex, but please, be aware of Dot!" Mouse laughed while talk.
"Guys, the user!" screamed AndrAIa while the user, short, fat and suit in an orange anorak running to them.
Mouse uses her katana and decapitate the avatar in less than a second.
"Oh My God! They Killed Kenny!" sounds from the background.
"You know, Mouse, I don't think you're supposed to do that." said the guardian.
GAME OVER
"What a fast game…" said AndrAIa. "And easy"
"Not for Kenny I'm afraid!" Mouse winked.
"O.K… let's go to the principal before something happens. "said the guardian "Hey team! Let's go!"
"Did you think they are ready for fight the games alone?" asked AndrAIa to Mouse referring to the binomes they have been training.
"I hope so, we may need our time for our own plans…"
"And what about my sister?"
"I don't know, sugar, but knowing her… we should be careful, she is too smart."
"By the way… when we'll be online… we may need some extra shield"
"I'm counting on it. Don't worry, I've done some thinking… And be ready, I'm almost sure that Megabyte is in the middle of something, we should seize the moment."
"O.K… so… let's do it during his next movement. Whatever it will be."
"Are you sure, sugar?"
"No. But this way will be better for all of us. And now…" said the guardian while come inside the principal office "I have another issues to do…" added thinking in his sister.
"You have finished too fast" said Dot surprised.
"Tell Mouse!" answered Enzo "By the way… can we have a word, sis?"
"Sure" said the commander following her -not so little- brother to the back rooms.
"Dot, about what happened before…"
"Don't worry, you don't have to tell the tale over and over again… you two were together and I knew it when I opened the Vid… That was my fault"
"What about if… for avoid that kind of situations… let's use glitch instead of VidWindows… Is that OK?"
"Fair enough" she smiled brushed "That's pretty hard for me… You have growed up too fast… and now, you are a guardian with a girlfriend and makes all that… things…" she stammered while Enzo smiles.
"Just relax, sis… I'm fine."
"Yeah, I've seen it before"
"Dot!" said the young guardian totally brushed "Why is everybody telling me things like that?"
"Because… It's funny. The youngest novice sprite is who makes all the adult stuff."
"Funny, of course… and all of you are acting like mature adult sprites…"
"Enzo, please!" Dot laughed "O.K… seriously… enjoy every moment with her, you deserves it. And I'm glad you've chosen AndrAIa, she is amazing. Just like you."
"Thanks, sis. That means a lot for me" the guardian hug his sister.
"Oh, Enzo! You're taller than me! I haven't noticed since right now!" exclaimed Dot looking at her brother pretty nostalgic "You are now more or less as tall as… him…"
"Sis, are you OK?"
"Don't worry, I'm fine…"
"Sis, that's not true"
"No… I miss him terribly…" she started to cry while Enzo hug her again "I've never told Bob that I love him… And now…"
"Dot, don't be silly… he always knows. We'll bring back him, I promise."
"I hope so, Enzo…"