Now I know this show is really old, but I saw a few episodes online recently and I have to say this show holds up even today! This story is designed to be more of a spin off, but I still think you'll enjoy it, at least, I hope someone reads it. I'll try to do an episode each chapter, and I'm working on it in conjunction with Super Mario Dark Side, so until that story is done it might take time to update this story. Enjoy.

And so it Begins...

It was two years ago when it happened. "Dad? Where are you going?" I asked him. He went out on trips like this before, trips where he didn't come home for a long time, but he always came back. This time felt a little different though...

"I'm sorry, but I can't say, I'm going someplace far away, to do something very important," he said in a very quiet tone.

"You'll be back soon, right?"

"To be honest, I really can't say for certain," I looked down in sadness, but he put his hands on my shoulders, "but I need you to be strong, never give up hope, and remember that no matter what, I'll always find you again."

I nodded at that, and looked at him with the famous Knights look of determination, "I'll never stop waiting, and no matter what happens I won't cry or give up hope until there isn't any more hope to hold on to," I said to him.

"That's my boy," he said with a smile.

For some reason I couldn't help it, I hugged him tightly, "Good bye, dad..." I said.

"Good bye, son," he said returning the hug. He then walked out the door, got in the car, and drove off.

Two weeks later he was declared missing...

I waited and hoped that they would find him, but I remembered what he said to me the day he left:

"No matter what, I'll always find you..."

I promised him that I would never give up hope, and I've kept that promise even now. No matter what, I'll hold on to that hope, no matter how little there is.

I love you Dad... and I'm still waiting...

Two years later...

It was the Jake Knights' first day in high school, and he was really excited. He knew that his best friends Adam and Simon were going to be there. He was in the bathroom right now getting ready.

"Jake, today's the first day of the rest of your life, you've gotta look good for today," he said to himself in the mirror. He had long brown hair that went to his neck, blue eyes, and an optimistic smile that showed he was the kind of guy who believed in looking on the bright side of things. He didn't have his shirt on yet since he just got out of the shower, and while he wasn't really built, he was still nice looking. He then began flexing muscles he didn't have, and then gave a peace sign and winked, "It's all sunshine from here."

After putting on a pair of blue jeans, white shirt, red vest, and black sneakers he went to the kitchen and quickly ate breakfast. "Give your taste buds a chance to enjoy breakfast Jake," his mom said.

"No time mom, I have to hurry up and get to school. Adam told me that Amanda would be there," he said after scarfing down another mouthful of cereal, "I'll see you later, mom!" he shouted as he grabbed his backpack and ran out.

"Um, aren't you forgetting something?" she said with a smile.

"Right mom!" he ran back and kissed his mom on the cheek, "See ya mom!" he called back as he ran out again.

"I meant your lunch!" she said laughing at her son's enthusiasm.

"Right!" he ran back and grabbed his lunch from the counter, "See ya mom!" and he ran out the door.

His mother just smiled and looked at a picture of a ten year old Jake with a man with short brown hair and a kind smile, "He's so much like you Robin..." she said wistfully.

Cyber Squad

Jake was looking at the entrance of A-Central High, his new school. Just as he was about to walk in someone slapped his back. He turned around and smiled, "Simon! Adam!" he said enthusiastically.

"Hey Jake!" Adam said with a big smile.

"It's been a while, hasn't it?" Simon said in a more nasally tone.

"Tell me about it!" showing how close they were the three of them hugged.

Adam was about Jake's hight with long black hair, and usually wore long black pants, black boots, black jacket, and a white T-shirt, making him look sort of like a rocker. Simon was a little shorter than Adam and Jake, and had blue hair that went to his neck, and wore blue sweat pants, white sneakers, black shirt, blue vest that matched his pants, and large round glasses. The three of them had been best friends since kindergarten, and ever since then they somehow ended up going to the same school all the time.

"So Jake, did you here?" Adam asked.

"Here what?"

"The new Space Fighter game came out today," Simon said, making Jake really excited.

"No way! Are you serious?!"

"Ha, since when do I lie about stuff like this?" Adam said with a confident smile.

"Man, we gotta get it!" Jake said, obviously forgetting about school.

"Dude, got ya covered," Adam said pulling out a box with a disk inside. Jake almost had a heart attack.

"No way! You got it?!" he asked getting even more excited.

"His dad's head of the gaming company, so of course he gets it as soon as it comes out," Simon said with a hint of envy.

"Simon and I were thinking of heading to your place after school to play it," Adam said to Jake, who was getting really excited, "So, what do you say?"

"Like you even have to ask! Let's go right after school!" he announced.

"Speaking of school, if we don't hurry we'll miss the first bell," Simon said bringing Jake and Adam back to reality.

"Oh geez, you're right," Jake said looking at his watch, "We better move."

All three of them ran inside to make it to class.

Cyber Squad

Elsewhere, in the network, a being in a black cloak and a black helmet with three horns, and had red glowing eyes was traveling at light speed around the world.

"At this rate my plans for world domination will be put on hold," the being said to himself, "I have to get back my battle program if I'm going to succeed." The being speed off in search for a computer to rest in. Eventually he found a lap top computer, "Ah... this'll do for now," he said and then logged into the lap top, which began sparking with dark blue electricity.

Cyber Squad

At lunch, Jake, Adam, and Simon sat at a table near the window. Adam and Simon were talking about their classes, but Jake wasn't paying attention.

"Dude, my biology teacher is wack!" Adam complained, "He gave us an essay on the first day!"

"You think that's bad? I have to read the first two chapters in my history book for tomorrow," Simon sighed.

"That's way easier then what I have to do," Adam said with a hint of aggravation.

"That's the problem! After that's done I won't have anything to do! Argh!" he said holding the top of his head in frustration. Adam just shook his head looking at Simon.

"I'll never understand how you can be disappointed at the statement, 'no homework'," he then turned to Jake, "Hey, you hearin this Jake?" but Jake wasn't even on the same wave frequency, just sitting there with a love sick smile on his face, "Jake. Earth to Jake, do you read me?" Adam and Simon followed his gaze and then realized what was wrong.

"Ah, that makes sense," Simon said to Adam. Jake was looking at a girl with long red hair, white blouse, short jean skirt, white sneakers, and a killer body.

"We've lost him, haven't we?" Adam asked Simon.

"Oh yeah, he's gone," Simon said.

"Red hair, blue eyes, winning smile, and the sweetest personality, all rolled into that perfect body, "he sighed, "She's perfect..."

Adam and Simon both shrugged their shoulders and sighed. This was a something they knew all too well. Ever since Amanda moved in to town three years ago Jake had a monster crush on her. They were friends, but that was it. Truth was, Jake never had the courage to ask her out. That and both Adam and Simon felt that she was waaay out of his league. She was only only fourteen and she already had a look some older women would be envious of. Neither one of them was ready for what happened next.

"Today I'm gonna do it," Jake said suddenly looking really determined.

"Gonna do what?" Adam said, "You aren't gonna-"

"Yep. I'm gonna ask for her number," he said slamming his fist on the table, startling both Simon and Adam.

"Why now?" Simon asked.

"Why not now?" Jake answered.

"Um... you've been tryin' to go with her for three years with no luck, so how is this different?" Adam asked.

"Hey, she said that we're good friends," he said like it was okay, Adam had another view on that.

"Dude, that's bad! If the girl puts you in the 'good friend' category, that means 'not boyfriend material'!" he said trying to shake Jake back to his senses.

"All right, how much you want to bet that I get her number today?" Jake challenged.

"You serious? Five bucks says you can't." Adam said, Simon just shook his head.

"You are on," and with that Jake got up and walked over to where Amanda was sitting.

Right when he approached her table, another boy with long blond hair, blue jeans, blue flannel shirt, black T-shirt, and black and white sneakers was talking to her too trying to do the same thing Jake wanted to do. "So Amanda, you know my parents have a pool," the boy said in a smooth, but stuck up tone.

"Yes Alaster, I know," Amanda said uninterested.

"So, I was wondering if maybe you wanted to come over sometimes," Alaster flirted, but Amanda didn't look amused.

"Um, Alaster," she started.

"Yes," he said with a smile, but Jake tapped his shoulder.

"Hey Alaster, you mind giving Amanda her space? You're sort of hogging all the good air." Jake taunted.

"Ah, Jake Knights, how have you been lately?" he said turning around crossing his legs, obviously trying to look more superior then he actually was.

"Oh, I've been great. Good school, great classes, the guys and I actually have a new game we're going to play, Amanda has graced me with her presence," Amanda had to giggle a bit when she heard that one, "Personally the only bad thing today was that I had to bear witness to you're mug."

"You little..." Alaster said under his throat, feeling very offended by that remark.

"Now why don't you get on your way? The grown ups here have to talk," Jake continued.

"Alright, I can take a hint," Alaster said getting up, "See you around," he said walking off.

Jake took that as his chance to sit down, "Well, now that he's gone," he said.

"That was really nice of you Jake," she said with a smile.

"Yeah, well, I was thinking, we've been friends for a while now, right?"

"Yes..." she said like she almost knew what he was going to say.

"I was thinking, it would be so nice if we could, you know, get in touch with each other more, so..."

"You want my phone number, don't you?"

"Yes please," he said obediently.

Amanda giggled to herself again, and then took out a piece of paper. She then wrote down her phone number and gave it to Jake. "Call me, okay?"

"Yes ma'am," he said nodding. He then got up and slowly walked away. Once he knew he was out of her immediate line of sight, he ran back to where Simon and Adam were waiting.

"Well?" Adam said holding his hand out expecting five bucks, instead Jake put Amanda's number in his hand, "You got it?!" he asked in shock.

"Yeah, cough it up," Jake said taking back the number. Adam pulled out five bucks and gave it to Jake, and both of them proceeded to congratulating Jake for doing what they deemed impossible. They were all unaware that they were being watched by Alaster, who sat alone at his table glaring at Jake.

"You've won now Jake, but just you wait, Amanda will be mine," he said in a dark tone full of hatred.

Cyber Squad

That night Alaster was in his room in front of his lap top computer plotting his revenge, "Perhaps I'll send a virus into his computer, and make sure that his game malfunctions. No, not evil enough. Maybe I'll take an embarrassing picture of him and post it all over the Internet. That'll embarrass him for sure."

"Why stop there?" a deep, cold voice said, it sounded digital almost, "Why not completely ruin his life?"

"Who said that?" Alaster said looking around.

"I said that," the voice said again. Suddenly the virtual being in the black cloak came into view on Alaster's lap top.

"Who are you?" Alaster asked.

"I am Kilokahn, the first ever self aware computer virus in existence," Kilokahn said.

"It's nice to meet you..." Alaster said awkwardly.

"Do you have a bigger computer? It's awfully stuffy in here." Kilokahn said looking around.

"Um, yeah... I'll connect this to my desktop..." he said still wary of Kilokahn. He then put the lap top next to his desktop and plugged in his USB cord. Kilokahn used the new door way and transferred into the desktop.

"Ah, much better. Thank you human." Kilokahn said bowing actually.

"You're welcome...?" Alaster said, still not sure how to take this. He finally asked, "If you're a virus, what do you do?"

"That's simple human, I can do many things. Since I'm self aware I can destroy networks from the inside," he explained.

"How?" Alaster asked, now getting a little intrigued.

"You see, what you humans call the Network is actually my realm of existence. Every machine has this virtual environment, I believe you call it Cyber Space."

"Huh, so Cyber Space is real?"

"Ah, very much so, yes."

"I have a question, why tell me all this?" Alaster asked, not so afraid anymore, just intrigued.

"Because I need your help human," Kilokahn admitted.

"Ha ha, my help? With what?"

"To rule! I wish to rule over this world I exist in, and the world of humans," he said, shocking Alaster.

"Rule?!" Alaster wasn't too sure how to take this. This virus just came into his computer, and told him that it wanted to rule the world. What was even weirder was that it told him period, a computer virus, with a personality, a mind, maybe even a soul.

"Of course, if you help me you shall be rewarded," that caught Alaster's attention.

"Really...?" he asked with a smirk.

"Anything you desire, you name it, I'll give it to you, my friend," when Kilokahn said that, that got to Alaster a little. Alaster didn't have any friends, and he was sort of desperate for them. When Kilokahn called him "his friend" Alaster actually took that quiet literally.

"Half. Once you take over the world, I want half of it for myself," Alaster said to Kilokahn, who just chuckled.

"Correction, you mean when we take over the world," Kilokahn said to Alaster.

"One thing though, why do you need my help? If you're so powerful then why don't you do it yourself?"

"Alas, my power has fallen greatly since my last battle. My battle program was separated from me and I need to get it back."

"So basically you're powerless now," Alaster said throwing his hands up in the air.

"Oh no, you offend me with such remarks. I am anything but powerless. Allow me to demonstrate. How quickly can you make a virus?" he asked Alaster.

"I have one cooked up right now," Alaster bragged.

"Excellent! Get it ready human, and I shall demonstrate my power."

"Well, okay." Alaster then pulled up information for a virus he just made. What happened next was astounding. Kilokahn shot a surge of energy from the screen he was on to the screen the virus' information was on. The information then condensed into the silhouette of a four legged monster, and then actually turned into a silver, almost metallic looking dinosaur type monster. "This, human, is a Mega Virus. A self aware virus not as smart as myself, but still able to attack the network from the inside."

Alaster had to clap his hands on that one. He didn't expect that Kilokahn could make more viruses. "I have to admit, I underestimated you. Can you send this thing into the phone line?" he asked.

"Can I? Watch and learn. But before I do, I would like to know the name of my new partner." Kilokahn said.

"Alaster Von Fredrick the third," Alaster introduced himself.

"Well Alaster, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance," he said bowing again, "I have the feeling that this is going to be the start of a great friendship," he then sent the Mega Virus through a silver vortex which lead to the phone line.

"Friendship..." Alaster said to himself, "I have... a friend..."

Cyber Squad

In the phone line, the Mega Virus wasted no time causing destruction. Simply by destroying a few of the towers that channeled information it shut down phone lines all over the city.

"Yes, my virus, this is but the start, of everything," Kilokahn said, watching the whole thing, "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!"

Cyber Squad

At Jake's house, he and his friends were frantically playing Space Fighter on Jake's computer. They had already made it to level nine.

"Come on Jake!!! Keep firing!!!" Adam shouted.

"Left!!! Go left!!!" Simon shouted.

"Come on man, you're almost there!!! Last one!!! LAST ONE!!!!!" Adam shouted even louder.

Jake then jumped out of the chair and held his hands up in triumph, "Yes!!!!!" he shouted.

"Way to go Jake!!!" Adam said.

"Nice one!!!" Simon added.

"Aw, it was nothing. Seriously though, this game is great," Jake said, his hands still shaking.

"Dude, it only gets better. We still have thirty levels," Adam said.

"Are you serious?!" Jake said surprised.

"That's the most levels Space Fighter ever had! The last one only had nineteen!" Simon said equally shocked.

"I know, right? There's no way we'll beat this one in one sitting." Adam said proud that he was the one who brought it.

"Well, let's get one more level in today, and then we can try to finish this up tomorrow," Jake suggested.

"Alright, then set up the next level!" Simon ordered.

As Jake began typing on his computer, it began sparking with golden electricity. "Um, is your computer okay Jake?" Adam asked.

"It should be. I wasn't pounding keys that hard," Jake said, a little concerned.

"That was weird though," Simon added. For a few seconds, all three of them just stared at the computer.

"I don't think we should worry about it," Adam said finally, "Jake, start the level."

"Right. Here comes level ten," he said as he pressed the Enter key. What happened next changed the mood entirely. Jake turned into a white ball of light that shrunk and flew into the computer screen.

"JAKE!!!!!!" both Simon and Adam shouted in unison.

"Wh, what just happened?!" Adam asked Simon frantically.

"I, I think Jake got sucked into his computer!" Simon said shaking, trying to make sense of what just happened.

"I know that!!! I want to know why!!!" Adam shouted at Simon.

"I don't know!!! This shouldn't be possible!!!"

"Yeah well, it happened!!!" Adam said pointing to the computer and seat Jake was in before.

"Okay, okay, stay calm. We need to think this through," Simon said more so to himself.

Just then the light flew out of the computer and onto the bed, and Jake reappeared on top of it. "What happened?"

"Jake!" Adam shouted as he and Simon ran over to him.

"We were going to ask you that," Simon said helping Jake up.

"I don't know, one second I'm in front of the computer, and the next I'm on my bed. How did I get here?" he finally asked. Adam and Simon looked at each other not sure how to tell him.

"Uh, you got sucked into the computer, man," Adam said, but Jake looked at him like he was nuts.

"Ha ha, very funny guys. Seriously, what happened?" he asked again.

"Adam isn't joking. You turned into some ball of light and then flew into the screen. A few seconds later you flew back out onto your bed," Simon explained. He then looked at Jake's wrist and saw a curious watch on it. "What's that?" he asked.

Jake took a look at it. It was really cool looking actually. It was blue and white, with a green gem stone on the top. It was held snug on Jakes wrist with a black band and had a red button under the gem. What was weird, and a little scary, was that it didn't have Velcro straps on it, or a place to loosen it.

"Whatever it is, it's on pretty good. I can't see where it comes off." he said struggling to pull it off.

Simon took a closer look at it, "Um, I don't think it does," he said with an awkward expression.

Adam was getting more and more freaked out by the second. "Dude, what's going on here? What the heck is that thing?" he asked, full aware that he asked what was on everyone's mind at the moment.

"Don't you think I want to know that?!" Jake said, finally getting a little freaked out. If they were joking around, they wouldn't keep the joke going this long.

Adam looked at his watch and got aggravated, "Crap, it's getting late, my folks will want me home soon," he groaned.

"Same here," Simon added, and then turned to Jake, "Listen, if anything else weird happens today, let us know, okay?"

Jake nodded, and Simon and Adam slowly left his room to go home. After they left Jake just started pacing around, "What is going on here?" he asked himself. He then looked at the watch, "What would you do, dad?" he asked. He then got an idea, "Amanda! I'll call her. She'll cheer me up." He then tried to call her, but he heard this weird static. "What the?" he asked, "That's weird. I guess I'll just watch some TV," he said reaching for the remote to his TV. The news was on with a special report.

"It seems phone lines everywhere are shutting down. The phone company is looking into the problem, but at the moment have come up with no explanation," the news reporter said.

"No explanation? What?" Jake was getting tense for some reason, he didn't know why. Just then he heard a beep on his computer, "Huh?" he looked and saw the silhouette of a suit of armor of sort. As he approached it he saw it take form. It looked somewhat like a Gundam, but the face was different. The body was mainly blue with a green gem on the chest, it had white boots, red and white shoulder pads, a white helmet with golden horns that came out like a wide V, and the face was silver with golden eyes. At the top of the screen was "SERVO Program". "Servo program? What the heck is that?" As he stared at it he felt like he was being pulled in. Suddenly the computer began sparking like before, but this time it wasn't stopping, "Wh, whoa!!!" suddenly Jake turned back into the ball of light and flew into the computer again, but this time he flew into the suit of armor. He then on impulse held his hands in the air and took off, flying into a golden vortex, going who knows where.

Cyber Squad

When Jake exited the vortex, he came out in the phone line network. Before he even had the chance to ask what happened, he was knocked down by the Mega Virus that attacked the phone line. Jake wasted no time and just did what came naturally. He was actually fighting the monster, and doing pretty good. He jumped on top of the beast and began slamming his fists on it's back, but it threw him off, causing him to fall to the ground. The monster then tackled Jake again knocking him farther. Jake then got up and shot an orange energy beam out of his hands at the monster, who took heavy damage. He didn't know why he knew how to do any of this, but rather than waste time questioning it, he decided to just go with it.

As the monster was getting up, Jake charged his hands up with energy, and then shot two large beams at the monster, which exploded, or more so disintegrated.

Jake then shot a soft white light at the rest of the network actually repairing the damage done by the Mega Virus. He then nodded and flew into the golden vortex again going back home.

Cyber Squad

Alaster was shocked and furious, "Who in the world was that?!" he asked Kilokahn.

"Servo..." he said to himself.

"Ser-what?" Alaster asked confused.

"Listen to me Alaster, that was the Servo Program that damaged me before!" he actually sounded surprised.

"Servo Program? You were defeated by that?"

"Yes, but that's impossible. Why is he here?" Kilokahn thought to himself, but then shrugged it off, "No matter, we'll deal with him when we next see him. Next time we'll have to be prepared," he continued.

"Right. I don't know who that Servo Program is, but the next time I see him he will be deleted!"

Cyber Squad

Jake told Simon and Adam about what happened after they left, and they were as shocked as he was.

"So you, like, merged with this suit of armor, and fought a virus in Cyber Space?" Adam asked.

"More importantly, Cyber Space is real?" Simon added.

"Yes, and yes," Jake nodded.

"Dude, why did I miss that?!" Adam groaned, more concerned with the action then Jake's safety.

"Gee, thanks for worrying Adam," Jake said, falling into his seat, "What is going on here?"

"I don't know, but we'll figure it out," Simon said putting a hand on Jake's shoulder, "Together."

"Right," Adam added, "We're behind you."

"Thanks guys," Jake said, but then looked at the watch.

Every time I look at this thing, I think of you dad. Why is that?

Cyber Squad