~Warning: there are some disturbing imagery in this chapter.~
and Digit walked though a small town, hoping that they could find the Earth children to give them some guidance. Marbles held tightly onto a small hand-held device that could make a portal if Motherboard needed him in Cyberspace- or if Hacker found them.
"Doc, do we have to tell them the whole story, if they found out that I was actually created by Hacker they might not accept me." Digit complained worriedly.
"Digit, they're your friends. I am certain that they would understand how you had no say in who created you." Marbles reassured him.
"Thanks, Doc." Digit replied, though he was still nervous. Soon enough, they saw Matt coming back from baseball practice. Matt hurried to them.
"Is everything alright in Cyberspace? Someone might see you." Matt asked. Digit sighed.
"Can we talk somewhere with Inez and Jackie? I really don't want to repeat this bad news more than I have to." Digit asked.
"Yeah, of course, my farm isn't too far from there we can go there then I'll call them." Matt promised. The trio hurried to Matt's farm. Matt called Inez first.
"Hey, Nessie, how fast can you get to my place?"
"I could be there in fifteen minutes, what's up? Oh, and don't call me Nezzie." Inez replied.
"Digit and are here and they want to talk to us about something." Matt explained.
"Alright, I'll be right there." Inez promised.
Right when he ended the call, Matt called Jackie.
"Jackie, how soon can you get to my place?" Matt asked.
"About 10 minutes, why?" Jackie replied.
"Digit and are here-" Matt started.
"On Earth? Did anyone see them?" He was cut off by Jackie.
"Yeah, they want to talk to us about something." Matt explained, slightly irritated at Jackie's interruption.
"I'll be right there." Jackie promised.
It was a long fifteen minutes, waiting for the others to arrive, Digit was shaking but refused to tell Matt the cause of his troubles. sighed and stared at the ground for the duration of the wait. Finally the girls arrived.
"So, what's the problem?" Jackie asked. Digit sighed.
"I told you guys that I used to work for Hacker, but there's more to the story, Hacker... created me." Digit explained slowly. Jackie covered her mouth in shock and Inez and Matt stared incredulously.
"Digit, if you came all the way here because you were worried we wouldn't accept you, the fact that you were made by Hacker doesn't make you evil and we would never hold it against you." Inez promised.
"Thanks, Earthlies, I needed that, but there's more. Hacker has been increasingly mad or insane. I don't know how to describe it but he's trying to force me to live with him!" Digit cried.
"For the past month, he has been sending Motherboard letters claiming that he will take Digit back and he'd punish him." explained.
"We won't let him take you, Digit." Matt promised.
Meanwhile, in control central, Hacker was knocking over anything that Digit could hide in.
"Hacker, Digit is not here and I demand to know why you are so insistent on making him stay with you. I'm sure that you know he wouldn't help you." Motherboard said, trying to keep calm. Hacker let out a spine-chilling laugh.
"Maybe not purposely, Motherboard; but wait until you see my latest creation." Hacker laughed and pressed a button that brought in a large machine, it had what looked like many charging cells, but two of them were filled with Buzz and Delete. The colour was drained from their bodies and they were both barely conscience. Motherboard gasped at the horrific sight.
"Help us." Delete mouthed.
"You see, Motherboard, I decided that I needed more power, so I invented this little gadget; it allows me to drain the power of others so I can become even more powerful than you." Hacker said proudly.
"You truly are a monster, if you would harm those who have been loyal to you." Motherboard said angrily, never in all her years of ruling Cyberspace has she witnessed such atrocities. Hacker laughed.
"Yes, but at least I'm intelligent; I stop the machine just in time so that they can regain energy so I can feed off them again." Hacker smiled.
"He's... been...doing this for... for over... a... month." Buzz managed to get out. Hacker just smiled.
"Hacker, you've gone mad from these chargings, you must stop!" Motherboard cried alarmed.
"That's where you're wrong, I just need replacements for when I completely deplete Buzz and Delete of their energy, that's where Digit comes in." Hacker replied.
"Please, think about what you are doing!" Motherboard cried. Hacker laughed.
"You're right, imagine how much energy I would receive by draining your power!" Hacker laughed and approached her with a cord that connected to the third charging cell. Motherboard gasped and sent an S.O.S message to .
was trying to comfort Digit when he received the S.O.S from Motherboard.
"I have to go assist her." replied.
"You can't go alone!" Digit cried.
"He's right. I'll go with , can you two stay here and protect Digit?" Jackie asked. Matt and Inez nodded. Marbles nodded at Jackie and used the device to go to control central.
Jackie and gasped in horror at the sight of Motherboard, Buzz and Delete being drained. Marbles hurriedly unplugged the machine from Motherboard as Jackie ran to free Buzz and Delete.
"I should have made it able to harm humans." Hacker growled. "I need that energy!" Hacker's outburst made Jackie jump back. Hacker glared at his two damaged henchmen.
"I might as well leave them here; I took all the energy I could from those duncebuckets." He said and began to leave with his machine. Jackie tried to take the machine from him, hoping she could use it to save Buzz and Delete, even though she never really liked them, for obvious reasons, she couldn't let them die! Hacker grabbed her arm and thew her against the wall a sickening crack was heard.
"Jackie!" Motherboard cried.
"One thing you didn't realize, my dear, was that I already had many charges with this miraculous device." Hacker said matter-of-factly then left with the machine.
"Are you alright?" Motherboard asked Jackie.
"I think I broke my arm." Jackie muttered, holding her right arm in pain, "How are you, Buzz and Delete?"
"I am alright." Motherboard replied. inspected Buzz and Delete.
"They might live if we help them right away." He reported.
"I'll call the hospital and inform them, Jackie could you go to Earth and go to a hospital there to help your arm while takes them?" Motherboard asked.
"Yeah." Jackie replied, giving a weak smile. Motherboard opened the portal and rushed the two injured borgs to the hospital.
Hacker smiled as he drove to the Northern frontier. All it takes is to go to the Northern Frontier and charge himself with the harvested energy and he would be able to open portals to anywhere- including Earth.
~There will be more, I hope you're enjoying the story so far.~