Mouse was exhausted. She had completed the Firewall seconds ago but the energy it took out of her to make hardware that largely focused with energy took it out of a sprite. So far Mainframe was secure once more, or at least for now. She took pride in being a hacker. She knew that ever since she had joined sides with Dot, Bob, and the others that she had friends. A hacker like her was usually around different systems, completing large amounts of hardware for anyone who paid. But she had changed from that. When she had been betrayed by Megabyte long ago and was almost deleted by the Guardians in the Supercomputer had shown her that going through hardware for different people that she didn't even know just wasn't worth it.

Bob and Dot had formulated another plan of attack. They had agreed, for once, that the only way to stop all this madness was to go to the Supercomputer and get rid of Daemon personally. Mouse had agreed to drive Ship for them out into the Web. They were planning to take Bob, Hex, because of the energy she had and that would come in handy, Matrix, Frisket, and Mouse.

AndrAIa was upset to be away from Matrix but she agreed that staying in Mainframe with Dot and Phong to make sure that Daemon didn't get through their system portal was important.

Ship was floating above Mainframe's sea of acidic energy beside Baudway ready to be loaded with supplies and a crew. They would have called upon The Red Binome's expertise, but they had lost connections with him while he was in the Web. They had assumed that Daemon had gotten to him and that him and his crew were infected.

Bob was saying his goodbyes to Dot like they would never see each other again. Hex had already boarded Ship and was on the deck, looking out over at the beautiful sight of Mainframe. Mouse was thinking about Ray and where he could be or if he was infected as she watched Bob and Dot.

Matrix was talking away from the group with AndrAIa. Phong who was watching from a VidWindow announced, "I'm sorry young sprites but the timelock for the Firewall to lift is about to take place." Matrix quickly said goodbye to AndrAIa and Dot and boarded Ship soon to be followed by Bob. They waved goodbye to Dot, AndrAIa, Scuzzy, Phong, Hack, and Slash.

"Good luck, you guys!" Dot shouted to them. Bob gave her a thumbs up before the firewall lifted and they were swept into the Web. The Web wasn't like it had last looked.

"What in the Net?!"Matrix said in shock. It looked more constructed, with green glowing things allover everything. Bob expected this. If Daemon could take over the Guardian Collective, then she could probably take over the Web as well. And it looked like she had. He turned his sight away from the orange ball that was their sealed system to go talk to Mouse.

As he entered the cockpit, he wondered what might happen to Mainframe if their mission failed. "Mouse, I was wondering if we could go a little faster. It looks like from the view on the deck that Daemon's already took over the Web. If we don't go faster some of the infected people down there might attack us," he explained to her as quickly as possible.

"I get it sugar, I noticed the marks to. Do you think because of her infection of the Web that she got Ray and the Red Binome's crew?"she asked.

"After seeing this, I wouldn't doubt it for a chance", he said. He knew how much she felt for the surfr but he was probably infected, and we should just get over the obvious facts now. As Mouse sped up and got closer to the Supercomputer, Hex came dwn to the two's company.

"You two should know something," Mouse noticed that the crack on her cheek seemed to be getting larger.

"What is it Hex?" Bob asked her.

"Someone's following us in another ship", she said to him. Bob made a shocked gasp and rushed up to the deck to look for whatever Hex had seen. He looked both ways. There was a webcreature advancing on them from the front and a ship coming from their right.

"Bob what's going on?" Matrix asked. Below him Frisket growled at the approaching objects.

"I'm not sure, someone must have spotted us. We better prepare the hardware to fire," Bob told him turning towards the crates packed at the side of Ship.

"Alright!" Matrix said, picking up Gun. He went over to pick out guns for him and Bob. He knew he wouldn't be able to delete, but the sport of firing Gun was enough.

"Hex! Start shooting energy at them to drive them off. I want you to focus on the Webcreature," he said formulating a plan off the top of his head.

"Right!" she smiled, her eyes turning red. She ran to the back of the ship, firing energy at the creature at the same time.

"Mouse! Try to go faster so the Webcreature won't catch us and so that other ship can't get a clear ship," he yelled down the stairs of Ship to Mouse.

He was rewarded with the usual reply of, "Alright Suga' ." They fired several shots at the ship approaching faster. Sooner than expected the black ship fired back in every direction since it couldn't get a straight shot.

"Matrix! Shoot at the side so the ship tips over and then fire at the blasters", Bob ordered. Matrix didn't need to be told twice. In the first two shots the ship went down. Hexadecimal, who was behind them, cried out as the boosters attached to Ship started up, almost frying her digits.

"Hey! Watch it!" she screamed, as Matrix chuckled. They relaxed a little as Ship went as fast as possible. Soon, they lost track of the Webcreature.

To be continued...

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