Scene: Behind the firewall, at closest border to Princepal Office; hundreds of A.B.C.s form up in ranks; Megabyte is at forefront on his motorbike[Megabyke?]; beside him is the transport containing Hexadecimal`s stasis chamber...
Megabyte: Whenever you`re ready, 'dear sister'!
Hexadecimal: Ready? Ready for what? (arm restraints release; scornfully...) You expect me to help you?
Megabyte: Now, now! We can do this the easy way, or... (pushes button, activating Hex`s collar, agonizing her; she begins to laugh maniacally afterward) I`m glad you find this amusing.
Hexadecimal: (sweetly) Oh, I was just picturing what I will do to you once I am free of your little 'toy'. (angrily) You have no idea the power you try to control! Chaos will always triumph over order! (sweetly once more) It is the way of things!
Megabyte: (impatient) Enough! Breach this firewall with your viral energies, or suffer! Your choice. (Hexadecimal blasts at firewall)
Scene: Princepal Office situation room; Phong, Enzo, AndrAIa, and Dot monitor a display of Mainframe`s sectors...
Dot: Motion sensors focused on G-Prime have just gone off the scale!
Nerdy Binome: We`ve got movement... lots of movement! There`s a build-up of forces at the firewall! Looks like Megabyte`s having a party, and everyone`s invited!
Dot: Prpare auto defence mode: nine-seven-zero-four! I need to know where the breach will be before it happens! You understand?
Phong: Looks as if you were right, my child. Megabyte is relying on Hexadecimal`s power to penetrate the firewall!
Scene: Inside the firewall`s boundaries; Hexadecimal`s power finally opens a rift in the firewall...
Megabyte: Excellent! (vid-window opens) Lieutenant!
Viral Lieutenant: All forces ready! Awaitng your command... Sir!
Megabyte: The way is clear. Take every legion and mount an all-out attack on the Princepal Office! There are no shields to stop you; take no prsoners, show no mercy. The city will be mine! (chuckles) Go!
Lieutenant: Sir! Yes, sir! (vid-window closes; the legions of A.B.C.s begin going through the rift, emerging beyond the firewall as ground defences take aim)
Dot: (in Princepal Office, watching the emergance) Wait for it...!
Phong: (as A.B.C.s get closer) Uh... Dot? Megabyte is not with them!
Dot: You blue-tin coward! Come and get us!
Enzo: Sis! We`ve got to activate the defences... now!
Dot: Yes, I know! Hit `em hard, Mouse!
Mouse: You heard the little lady! All smart-cannons deploy, safties off... let `em rip!
Scene: Outside the Princepal Office, the area of the city facing the breach; the defences open fire, taking a terrible toll on the A.B.C.s; a shot enters the rift, rattling Megabyte as Hexadecimal laughs at his predicament...
Megabyte: Close the rift... close it!
Hexadecimal:(sweetly) You`re wish is my command! (chuckles, then laughs insanely)
Lieutenant: (still in Mainframe) Come in Megabyte! Repeat... Come in Megabyte!!(static) It`s no use, we`re getting shot out of the sky! Give me an open channel! (gets one) Viral attack force retreat! Head for the rift! Return to base! (the surviving A.B.C.s turn back towards the rift, still being fired upon) The rift! It`s closing!! No!! Can`t pull up!! Gah... going to hit! ...FOR MEGABYTE!! (hits firewall and is destroyed)
Scene: Princepal Office situation room; cheers erupt as last A.B.C. hits firewall... a TOTAL victory...
Dot: (subdued) Hmmm... well done, people. (heads to her private office as Phong watches; Dot is sobbing quietly as he enters office; suprised...) Oh! Phong. (puts on glasses) I was just... ah... going through these intelligence reports! (Phong isn`t fooled) Phong... we won today. We beat them back. We protected the city. (sighs) I should be happy... but all I feel is empty. It`s like part of me died along with all those virals. How many more must suffer before Megabyte is stopped?
Phong: My child, you mourn the loss of innocence. But hope still lives and burns brightly inside you! You are the commander of this system, and... you must be strong... for all our sakes! For Bob`s sake.
Dot: Bob?
Phong: Dot, now the viruses are contained, we are free to search for a way to rescue Bob! He is a Guardian! He will find a way to survive the Web... but he needs us to show him the way home!
Dot: (sighs, sniffs) Phong... thank you, old friend. (collects self) What am I doing here? Thes reports can wait! I should be celebrating with my staff... if you would just excuse me? (goes out to her still cheering staff as Phong watches with approval)
Scene: Interior of Silicon Tor, Megabyte`s throneroom; As Hexadecimal`s stasis platform is lowered away...
Megabyte: Herr Doktor, how long do you estimate that we can maintain control of my sister?
Herr Doktor: Ach! Vell, heh heh heh, it`s so complicated! Zere is so many variables... taking into account of her power, not to mention her obvious insanity!
Megabyte: Herrrr... insanity?
Herr Doktor: Ach! Please! Don`t mention that! It frightens ze workforce! Basically, how we have kept her under control for so long is a mystery! She even could be faking... I zink she likes being tied up!!
Megabyte: Let us not even think about that! Doktor, what is the timeline on our own firewall disruptor?
Herr Doktor: All goes according to plan, as always, mein grossen-biter!
Megabyte: Excellent! Where are Hack and Slash?
Herr Doktor: Ach... zey haff not yet returned, mein fuhrer!
Megabyte:(exasperated)Execute one simple command, then join the attack force... is that too much to ask?!? Remind me the next time we breach the firewall that Hack and Slash are to take point! I`m weary of their incompetance!
Scene: A waste disposal area below Silicon Tor; Hack and Slash, with Cyrus chained and hanging just outside a trash compactor...
Hack: (exasperated) Look... just press the button and...
Slash: (interrupts) I don`t want to press the button!
Hack: (patiently) Just press the button!
Slash: But every time I press the button something horrible happens!
Hack: Uh... Slash?
Slash: Whut?
Hack: (shouts) THAT`S THE IDEA!!
Cyrus: Ummm... excuse me! Mmm! But I`m really quite comfortable! Uh... ah... you could just leave me here! (Hack and Slash merely look at him)
Hack: Eh... where were we?
Slash: We were talking about buttons.
Hack: Yeah, right. So, ah, who pressed the last button?
Slash: Me! So it`s your turn!
Hack: Ya sure?
Slash: Yup!
Hack: Really sure?
Slash: Ye-up!
Hack: Really, really, really sure??
Slash: Uh, well, uh...
Hack: Okay, okay! I`ll press the button! (presses it)
Cyrus: Oh, er, ah, oh... if I could... uh... oh,dear... (gets closer to compactor) AHHHHNNNYYYYOOOO!! (suddenly, gets pulled away at last possible moment by...)
Slash: (grabs Cyrus away at last moment) I cannot do this! It is bad!
Hack: What do you think you`re doing?
Slash: I am saving the little fellow from what to me looks like certain death!
Hack: Yeah... that`s right... AND WE`RE SUPPOSED TO BE THAT CERTAIN DEATH!!
Slash: (releases Cyrus) Go little fellow... run! Be free! (Cyrus is confused, but takes off running anyway)
Hack: Now you`ve done it. Megabyte`s gonna be mad!
Slash: Oh, what`s new? I miss Bob!
Hack: (incredulous) What? (tries to muffle him) You crazy?
Slash: Bob always stopped us before we could do anything really bad. (sadly) Now nobody does!
Hack: Hey! I never thought of it like that before!
Slash: Let`s get back to the Tor. I do not like it down here!
Hack: D... okey-dokey!
Slash: Are you gonna tell Megabyte what I did?
Hack: (to Slash`s shock...) Yup!
Scene: Princepal Office situation room; Enzo and AndrAIa sit near bottom of stairway as Dot descends...
Dot: Hi, AndrAIa! Keeping our favorite guy busy?
AndrAIa: Yes sir, Commander Matrix! Oh, uh, I mean 'Ma`am'!
Enzo: AndrAIa, it`s okay to call Dot 'Sir', isn`t it, sis? Uh, I mean 'Sir'! (they all share laugh over this, until a klaxon goes off)
Nerdy: The new long-range sensors Mouse fitted to the defence grid are registering a massive energy build-up above the city!
Dot: Can you tell what it is yet?
Nerdy: Naww... Confirmed! It`s a game! Scanning for landing co-ordinates...!
Dot: This is it, little brother! Uh... I mean 'Guardian' Matrix!
Enzo: On my way, 'Commander' Matrix!
Dot: Wait! Enzo?
Enzo: Yeah, Dot?
Dot: Look, you`re all I have left. Now you be carefull out there... I don`t know what I`d do...
Enzo: (interrupts) Hey. Don`t get all mushy on me... you`re a commander, remember? Anyway, AndrAIa and I can take on any user!
Dot: Okay, go! But be...
Enzo: (finishes her sentence)... Carefull! I know, I know! (Enzo, AndrAIa, and Frisket leave for the game)
Mouse: They`ll be okay, sugar!
Dot: I just can`t get used to this! I`m letting my little brother go into games! It`s just too much responsibility for a little sprite!
Mouse: That 'little sprite' is a young Guardian. Bob knew what he was doing, he chose well!
Dot: But Bob was supposed to be here to train him!
Mouse: Yeah, and if the portals to the `Net were open, Enzo could be downloaded to the Academy! Look, honey, things didn`t turn out that way... we have to make do! We all have our roles to play!
Nerdy: The long-range sensors nailed it! Game landing where predicted!
Dot: Is the sector evacuated yet? I don`t want amateurs getting in Enzo`s way!
Nerdy: Sector being cleared! No movement from G-Prime! Enzo and AndrAIa are on their own!
Dot: That`s what I`m afraid of!
Scene: A motorcade carrying Enzo, AndrAIa, and Frisket in Bob`s chauffeured car approaches the game target area, as Megabyte watches the scene on a vid-window...
Megabyte: You still race into the games, do you... ummm 'Guardian'? For what? Putting on a show for the masses, are we? The young 'pretender'? (chuckles) 'To mend and defend' (chuckles again) Who will defend you the next time we meet? Have your fun, boy... while you can!
System Voice-over: WARNING! INCOMING GAME!... (crowds cheer as Enzo, AndrAIa, and Frisket enter game)
Scene: Interior side of the firewall border, as binome runs frantically alongside it...
Cyrus: (panting) I... I`m free. I gotta get away... yes yes... that`s it! Get away! Ah! Trapped! I can`t get out... no no can`t get out... (hysterically) I CAN`T GET OUT!! (suddenly, Scuzzy appears on the other side of the firewall) Eh? Scuzzy?? T..trying to... ah... find your mistress? You can`t get in, can you? A..and I can`t get out! Ehm... maybe we can... help each other! Yess... (laughs over into hysterics)
Scene: Interior of game; a floating celestial colleseum...
Enzo: Glitch! Game stats. (pauses) It`s a tournament style fighting game between gods, mortals, and demons.
AndrAIa: The game is loading the players.
Enzo: We got a problem... the user only has to beat five opponents to win the game!
AndrAIa: So? What`s the problem?
Enzo: There are twelve to choose from... what happens if we reboot and don`t get picked? We won`t be able to defeat the user! We`re not in control here!
AndrAIa: What are you saying, Enzo?
Enzo: This is bad... this is very bad!
Scene: Princepal Office situation room; Dot, Mouse, and Phong monitor the game...
Dot: How are the power levels?... Any sign the game`s nearly over?... Is that reading normal?
Phong: My child, the game has barely begun! Even allowing for the time discrepancies between virtual-space and game-space, ther is still a finite time we must wait! Be patient. (pauses a moment, then impatienly...) What does someone have to do to get a cup of cocoa around here?? (startles everyone)
Scene: The game, as the user chooses it`s form...
Enzo: The user`s chosen it`s form!
Game Voice: (as the demon`s form is chosen) ZAYTAN! (Frisket growls at it)
Enzo: Look, we can`t fight `em like this... you pick a character and reboot with Frisket. That way, Frisket can take care of the user if you`re chosen!
AndrAIa: But... what about you?
Enzo: I don`t believe in the 'no win' scenario! I`m gonna try to second-guess the user! That way, we have two chances of being picked! Got it?
AndrAIa: No... but you`re the Guardian! Come on, boy! (goes with Frisket, stops at certain character`s image) This`ll do. (taps her icon and Frisket`s) Reboot! (she and Frisket reboot into character and wait in window to be chosen)
Enzo: Good girl. Now it`s up to me! (a character is chosen and Enzo leaps to reboot but misses) Cursors! Missed!
Game Voice: (as character forms) ANGEL! (round one begins)
Enzo: This should be good! (the two characters battle, but the user quickly wins; user`s finishing move shocks AndrAIa) So! That`s your finishing move! I`ll be ready for it!
Scene: Lower level of Silicon Tor; Hexadecimal is in a stasis chamber, there is a knock at a small panel in the wall...
Hexadecimal: (sweetly) Come in! (screws in panel come out, panel falls down as Scuzzy bursts in; still sweetly...) Scuzzy! (then...)IT`S ABOUT TIME!! Where have you been?? (Scuzzy shows picture of the firewall) A firewall? You call that an excuse? (Scuzzy merely gives an all-suffering look to the camera)
Scene: The game, as the user battles fourth opponent as Enzo watches; he and AndrAIa haven`t been chosen yet; when the user wins, the final level is reached...
Game Voice: FINAL LEVEL!
Enzo: (looking around) Huh! Nice! (game begins to choose next player, stops at AndrAIa`s character) No! No, here! I`m here! COME AND GET ME!! (game choice switches to character behind him) All right... let`s do it! REBOOT! (becomes character, is chosen)
Game Voice: MATRIX!
Enzo: (muffled, until he pulls face-mask off) You can`t speak in these things! Okay, big boy, let`s party! (attacks user, staggering it)
AndrAIa: Woo-hoo! Way to go! Get him, Enzo! (Enzo continues to attack, finally winning round 1; Round 2, Enzo attacks once more, but takes some shots when the user smacks him, knocking him a distance; the round is the user`s)
Enzo: (tired voice) One all... this is the decider! C`mon, Enzo, keep it together! You can do this! You`re a Guardian... a machine! Let`s do it!! (attacks the user, giving as good as he gets, angering the user, who forces Enzo back, then strikes an upper-cut with his blades... raking through Enzo`s right eye, as AndrAIa and Frisket pound on their window-tile, trying to leave to help; as user moves in to attack, Enzo strikes out... breaking one of the user`s blades off; the user examines it`s remaining blade, then decks Enzo, knocking him down and defeating him; as user approaches for it`s finishing move, Enzo taps his icon, changing it to what looks like a game-sprite mode!; he then looks and nods to AndrAIa.)
AndrAIa: (as user finishes Enzo) NO! (shakey)No! (as Frisket whines, she changes their icons to game-sprite) There there, good boy, Frisket! Everything`s gonna be all right! Good dog!
Scene: Princepal Office situation room...
Nerdy: Energy build-up confirmed! It`s over! Game about to leave!
Dot: I want med-teams in there immediately! Full security alert! Get in and get our people out of there A.S.A.P.! Keep scanning G-Prime... this is when Megabyte could try something!
System Voice-over: GAME OVER...
Dot: Here it goes, get ready!
System Voice-over: ...USER WINS! (everyone is shocked silent by this, they all look sadly at a stunned Dot)
Dot: (low voiced shock)Enzo... no...
Scene: Moves to over-view of city and nullified sector; switches to Megabytes throne room as Dot`s anguished cry is replaced by Megabyte`s laughter at this turn of events; Fade to black.
