Part 4 - Daemon's Viral Guardian
Hexadecimal had no thought but delete. You can change some things about a virus but when you try to delete them their code says to delete you. The energy blast had left, once again, a crack on her left cheek. She remembered her times with cracks. She felt horrible all the time even though it used to bring out the most energy in her at times. Hexadecimal was now close enough to kill. As she raised her right hand ready to blast, Bob reached out and pulled her backwards so she would lose concentration.
"Bob!? What are you doing, He was trying to DELETE me!" she screamed at him, her eyes, once again, flaring red in anger and insanity.
"I know, Hex, but there has to be an explanation. I mean why would sprites that we don't even know attack us," he said, calmly. He pulled her down to the ground towards the ground.
"Bob, what's going on!?" AndrAIa asked over the noise of the blasts of energy being fired from the ships.
"I'm not sure. Why would sprites be attacking Mainframe?" Bob said to himself, going through the possibilities.
"Well, maybe Daemon finally noticed our system, but I don't understand, you said that Mouse put some more traps around the portal to our Mainframe, so how did they get here, they don't have keytools?" Matrix told Bob.
"I don't know! Does it look like I have all the answers!?" Bob said, exasperated. He looked around. "We have to get to the principle office before we're all deleted!" he said to them, his feet leaving the ground.
AndrAIa, Matrix, Dot, and Enzo climbed onto their zipboards and took off after Bob. Hexadecimal picked up Scuzzy and carried her as she flew after the group. Frisket began to run on foot.
"Phong, get every CPU officer out there firing at the enemy", Dot commanded.
"But, they're Guardians, we can't delete them. If we did get rid of Daemon, then we wouldn't have any Guardians left to protect us from the other viruses", Bob explained.
"Then what are we going to do, Bob?" Dot asked, expectantly. She couldn't believe that Bob was saying this. If they didn't complete the mission she had designed, then Daemon would infect all of Mainframe.
"We could drive them out. Hex could use her energy to drive them back into a portal out into the Net," Bob explained.
"But, how do we know we can trust her. We all know what she does when she's angry. She might try to delete them herself," Mouse said, pointing to the stunned Hexadecimal behind her. Mouse had joined them into the Principle Office when she seen the ships attacking.
"Mouse, Hex can do what we tell her. We can trust her with this. We know she is mad because they cracked her face, but since the restart, she's been able to control her anger, at least partly enough not to cause another Viral War," Bob told her, backing up Hex's respect.
Hex behind him, smiled thankfully. Inside she was ready for deletion because the once again pain in her face, but she could do this for them, they were her friends. Even if they didn't completely trust her. And besides, Mainframe was her home. She couldn't just let Daemon come in and steal the only peaceful life she had ever had. If it hadn't been for the restart taking away almost all the chaos in her, she would have already deleted the guardian that had fired at her.
"Okay, my child. We can trust her, for now. But if you want to complete this you had better get started before the Guardians delete all of Mainframe," Phong said. He turned to the VidWindow to the CPU's to tell them the new plan. "Commander, tell all of the CPU's forces to lay back. The Guardian has a new plan, so don't interfere unless you are told to by me," Phong said to the commander, then reaching up and, with his thin, golden digits, closed the VidWindow. "Bob do you need me to release a tear for you to create the portal?" Phong asked quickly, time was running short.
"Yeah, thanks Phong. Hex come on, we have to hurry," he said, beginning his exit of the Principle Office. Hex followed him, leaving Scuzzy behind.
"Phong? Do you think his plan will work?" Dot asked. She hoped the old sprite was sure with this plan of attack.
"For all our sakes, it must work," he said, his back to her, preparing the tear.
Hexadecimal was surprised that the Guardian would actually trust her with anything important. They were levitating themselves in front of the Principle Office. He was preparing the tear with Phong on a VidWindow. "Releasing the tear, . . . . Now!" he announced to Bob.
When the tear appeared, Bob instantly floated over close behind the Guardians. They needed to hurry before the Guardians saw them. When the tear was in the right place, he mended it into a portal into the far reaches of the Net. Into another Daemon controlled system. When the portal was complete he gave Hex's cue. "Hex! Now!" he shouted to her. Everything was in her claws now, which really didn't make Bob feel any easier.
Hex downloaded into her cracked mask. Bob saw the white speck disappear and then reappear in front of the unprepared Guardians. She turned back into her original form. Lifted her hands and fired her red energy. She only fired a low amount so that it wouldn't delete them, only control them to go through Bob's portal. The first Guardian ship was forced through the portal followed soon by the rest.
After every infected Guardian had been forced through the portal, the portal disappeared on Bob's command. "Yes!" Bob announced, happily while forming a fist and throwing it into the air. He floated back over to the VidWindow. "Phong, the plan worked", he said.
"Of course it did, no one can resist my energy", Hexadecimal said haughtily, from behind. Bob was proud that she hadn't messed up the plan and that he was the one who had created that planned it. "Hey Phong, do you think that Mouse could form a Firewall big enough to cover the system portal?" he asked.
Phong was pushed out of the way as he was replaced by the purple hacker. "Of course I could sugar, but I'm afraid I don't have that much hardware on my own. Of course, I could always use part of the Principle Office's hardware," she said, trying her best to look innocent.
"If it has to do with helping the system, of course you can use the Principle Office's hardware", Phong told her pushing her out of the VidWindow only to be pushed back.
"Well then, I guess I can start on it now," the Hacker said, excited to handle that much hardware.
"What do you mean the plan failed," Daemon said harshly to the Commander of her viral army.
"Well, it seems that the system's registered virus, Hexadecimal, forced your forces out with her energy," he explained to her.
"Why don't we just form another attack force to go to Mainframe?" she asked him.
"Because the hacker, Mouse, has formed a huge firewall around the portal to their system. This system is amazingly tactful. They have a guardian, a virus, a hacker, a renegade, and a gamesprite", he said in awe.
"Well, it makes no difference. Will just have to find another way in. I have an infected friend that is also a hacker. Maybe he can get through this, Mouse's, firewall", she said. She called up a VidWindow. "Officer Tina, could you get the Hacker, Moniter, up to my domain and let me have a little talk with him", she commanded.
"Right away, Ma'am," the officer informed her.
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