Meeting a Virus

A/N: Sorry it took so long to post this, it was a much longer chapter than I had intended. And please, let me know if there are grammar or spelling issues or if there seems to be gaps in logic. Sometimes I stare at a thing too long and can't tell when it's wrong or not. Hopefully I'm keeping to how the characters are and the stories make sense. Even though I try to show what may have happened in between the shows, a lot of things happen to them in a day, so if it feels like a lot happens quickly, well, that's just a day in the life of a Mainframer. Enjoy and please rate, respond and review!

Remember:

(-) means that the character is thinking.

Time-frame:

millinano = second

nano = minute

second = hour

minute/cycle = day

hour = year

"Where's Dot?" Enzo asked as he and AndrAIa looked around the outside of the school.

"I hear fighting." AndrAIa stated after she listened for a nano.

"Where?" Enzo asked as he tried to hear it as well.

"Over there. Lots of fighting.. I think Bob is there." AndrAIa said as she pointed to G-Prime. She was trying to make sense of what was being yelled and why some two beings were yelling about 'there's Bob' and 'get him!'.

"Alphanumeric! I'll show you the Tor while everyone's busy!" Enzo said as he fist pumped both arms in excitement and smiled at AndrAIa. She smiled in return as they hopped onto their zipboards and flew off. While flying towards G-Prime, Enzo explained about the system's two viruses.

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As they neared the Sector, they saw part of the fighting. Megabyte was trying to expand his infection. Enzo and AndrAIa stayed low to the ground as ABCs flew through the air in attack formation. AndrAIa was amazed at the size of the army and began to wonder how she would have fought them.

Soon enough they arrived at the Tor and Enzo was giving the complete tour, except that Megabyte had changed the layout since the fiasco with the unformat command. So they ended up just exploring with Enzo giving bits of information here and there. For awhile, they managed to sneak around unnoticed, until they came across a room full of virals who were preparing to join the attack force.

"Uh oh..." Enzo muttered as he and AndrAIa attempted to back away without drawing attention.

One of the virals saw them and gave a jump in surprise. "Halt!" the one bimone commanded.

Enzo and AndrAIa turned in unison and fled the room. The virals were a little stunned at how quickly and in unison the young sprites ran but soon gathered themselves and followed after them.

(I should have been listening for enemies! That teaches me to be so distracted by Enzo... now we're both in danger. I have to make sure we make it out safely...) AndrAIa thought to herself as she and Enzo ran.

AndrAIa heard when the virals took to their zipboards and turned to Enzo. "Fly!" She commanded.

As one without pausing a nano, they hopped onto their boards and took the nearest turn to try and shake the virals off. After a few nanos of chase, while they deterred and lost a few of their chasers, Enzo began to laugh. AndrAIa was startled but soon joined in as they zipped around another corner and heard some virals crash into the wall. They started to cause as much destruction as they could as they flew.

-Meanwhile-

Megabyte sat on his thrown in the center of the Tor, overseeing the attack. He clicked his fingers together as he watched and gave a few orders as needed.

Suddenly a vidwindow popped up with 'Urgent' flashing across it in red. Megabyte sighed and clicked on it. "What?!" He demanded as he pleased his hands on the arm rests.

"Sir! The fox is in the Hen House." A numeral 1 viral binome whispered to Megabyte while glancing back and forth.

"...What are you talking about?" Megabyte said as he rolled his eyes.

"The cat is out of the bag!" The viral continued.

Megabyte pressed a button on his thrown and the viral gave a start as he was zapped.

"Er, well, we have two intruders in the Tors. One is the sprite known as Enzo and the other is a female unknown sprite." The viral nervously stated as he gave a salute to Megabyte.

"An unknown sprite? Get me a visual." Megabyte commanded as he pondered. (There should be only 4 sprites left in Mainframe, who was this 'unknown'?) The security camera vid popped up next to the first vid. Megabyte gave a small start and sat back. It was a new sprite, a young female! Megabyte watched as both sprites were laughing as they avoided the virals and caused trouble.

Megabyte frowned a little and set a spy to find out all about the new sprite in town. Meanwhile, he would gather his army to greet them. He traced their path and started to put road blocks to drive them just where he wanted.

After the second time they were forced to turn down a different corridor, AndrAIa began to be concerned. (They are merely chasing us now, and have stopped firing at us as well. I do not like this, it feels like a trap...) She thought as she and Enzo continued to avoid the virals. AndrAIa tried to listen for sounds of a trap but there was so much fighting and ordering going on that it was hard to tell. Enzo was just going with the flow so AndrAIa began to try and find other ways to avoid all the virals. Enzo realized what she was trying to do and tried to help as well, but it seemed like they were still going in the general direction that the virals wanted.

Megabyte stayed two steps ahead of the young sprites, and while they destroyed as much equipment as they could, they were still herded into the trap.

"Megabreath!" Enzo said as he and AndrAIa skidded to a stop in the middle of a ring of virals. They had just ran out of a corridor and into an opening with ABCs and virals surrounding them. Megabyte was at the point directly across from the corridor that the sprites just came from. Some more ABCs flew down and closed the gap behind them, sealing them into the ring of virals.

"Ah, the young sprite. And who is your friend here? It doesn't matter. You've trespassed onto my property for the last time. Finish him." Megabyte said with a nod to the commanding viral in the closest ABC.

The viral binome nodded and ready the ABCs into firing position while virals on the ground lowered their spears to make sure the sprites didn't run away.

"AndrAIa, I'm sorry." Enzo whispered as he grabbed AndrAIa's hand. She smiled slightly and was about to respond when a loud "Woof!" rang through the air.

"Frisket!" Enzo cried.

"Frisket?" AndrAIa asked, looking around. She recalled Enzo said something about a Frisket before and now she saw a huge four legged red and yellow creature grabbed a hold of one the ABCs surrounding them and shook it hard. The ABC crashed into it's neighbors and sent virals running for cover. Soon there was a gap in the ring and Enzo and AndrAIa were gone quick as a flash.

They managed to both hop onto Friskey and he took off running out of the Tor. AndrAIa was sitting behind Enzo and while it was precarious seat, she didn't mind being so close to him. By the time they were a safe distance away, they saw that the fighting in the sky was nearly over, with the good guys winning. The young sprites distracted Megabyte and his forces enough that Bob and Dot's forces were able to come out on top. While the Principal Office's forces never knew what broke the virals' concentration, they were glad all the same.