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This is Story #2 of the Paige Dyson Chronicles. It picks up right where "Paige's Past" left off so make sure that you have read that one before proceeding.

ReBoot—The Paige Dyson series

Parts and Pieces of me

Ep. 05.01.02

Mainframe—Principle Office…where we left our heroes

"Paige Dyson?" Ray Tracer spoke out.

There was silence amongst everyone at the five spectacular surfers that had freed the Principle Office from Megabyte's control. They were all relieved, but wondered about the surfers who had saved them.

"How are ya, my favorite sheila?" the surfer Ray Tracer said as he came forward and embraced the mysterious young woman.

"We've been doing fine, even after you decided to leave us," Stara Crichton added to their conversation.

"Hello Ray," Lana Vesper called softly to him.

"Lana," he replied, nodding his head. "You look like you're doing well."

Blade Drake wrapped an arm around Lana's waist and pulled her closer to him. "She's doing just fine," Blade told him. "Nice seeing you again since you left."

Ray was staring at Lana. "I had my reasons," he told them before turning to the largest of them all. "Grendar, mate. How are you?"

"Fine," he replied in his deep voice. His dark brown flesh accented his deep green eyes as he looked down on them.

"Hold on," Dot said. "Time out. What is going on here? Do you know these surfers Bob?"

Bob and Paige nearly stood toe to toe. He had to slightly look down at her, but her teal eyes and his brown eyes were locked on each other.

"You got taller," Paige whispered to him but loud enough for all to hear.

"You got paler," Bob whispered but quieter for them to hear. He reached for her hand with his fingertips and brushed them. Her hand twitched and she looked down at it.

"Bob," Matrix spoke to break up their concentration on each other. "Do you know these people?"

"Yeah, Matrix. I know them," Bob said. "These five are renegade guardians, just like you. They were thrown out of the Guardian Academy and became a bunch of troublemakers."

"And that is a bad thing," Blade replied after snorting.

"Dot honey, they were arrested and taken to the Surfer Academy to be reprogrammed as search engines," Mouse told them. "I was caught the same night they were arrested. Ray must have been caught already or after that."

"After love," Ray informed them. "I was out with other people when they were caught with you."

Mouse winked at him.

"Paige happens to be my deleted partner's twin sister," Bob told them.

"How was your sister deleted Paige, I mean Miss Dyson," Enzo asked.

Paige cracked a sideways smile. "You know that virus that went through that portal young one," she said. "That's him. That's the virus that erased my sister."

G-Prime

The Silicon Tor was in the beginning stages of being rebuilt. It wasn't going to be as tall height wise, but it was going to vast in size.

His troops and drones were hard at work to rebuild his fortress where he would domain over and attempt to take over Mainframe again.

Megabyte was sitting in his throne, watching the repairs as they were underway. He was still stinging as he too was being repaired by Herr Dockor. His tentacles were sore as they were being fire-blasted back to his head. "When I get my hands on that precious little thing," he schemed as the repairs were nearly complete.

He hissed as Bunnyfoot nearly sawed him in the back with the saw. He knocked him to the other side of the room.

Herr Dockor was fearful and fire-polished the tentacle. The hot plasma end was inserted into his skull and it would dry and reseal. "All repairs are complete mine grossenbiter," Herr Dockor replied.

Megabyte activated a VidWindow and saw the replay of the battle from earlier in the cycle. He was able to enlarge an image of the mask of the person under the hood. "Who are you my dear?" he said. "You and I have business to finish."

Another VidWindow opened and his Commander appeared. "Sir, the fighters are coming out," he said.

The camera showed all the people including the surfers with their hoods dropped away from their faces. Megabyte growled as he locked onto one of them with pink hair. She was radiant as she walked beside the guardian Bob.

The two of them together triggered his memory…a memory from the past.

Memory Bank

"One more virus for the deletion chamber," the Guardian Dixon Green said as he was chained up, awaiting deletion.

"He can hear you," the young guardian Bob replied.

"So what. Hey Kilobyte, ready for oblivion?" she joked.

After he was free and the male guardian was out of the way, the female guardian was at his mercy. He rammed his talons through her and she was doing to die sooner.

That was before he evolved into Gigabyte and was absorbed into Mainframe's twin city.\

Present

Megabyte returned from his memory recall and stared again at the VidWindow. "It cannot be," he said. "I absorbed her energy. She should have been deleted by the User."

Kits Sector

The surfers glided down the steps behind the Mainframers. Lana and Blade stood beside Grendar and Stara while Paige and Bob stood behind the Command-dot-com of the system.

"You're all welcome to stay here in Mainframe," Phong said to them. "I will see to it that you get some lodgings while you stay here."

"Thank you Phong," Paige said to the leader. "Since we have found Megabyte is occupying this system, I believe it is our function to ensure that we neutralize him and save you from him."

"We could sure use the help," AndrAIa said to them.

"Speak for yourself," Matrix mumbled.

"We're here as long as needed and Turbo will be footing the bill for our…" Lana started speaking, before she was elbowed by Stara. "Lodgings," she finished.

"We have the perfect loft for the five of you," Dot said. "In Kits Sector so let me make a few calls and we'll get you set up."

"Thanks," Stara said.

Paige was sitting on her surfboard staring out at the horizon of Mainframe. She was still in shock that she finally met the virus that had killed her sister. But at last, she would finally get some retribution and peace for her Dixie.

Bob walked up behind and stood there staring at her. "What are you thinking about?" he asked her.

"Dixon," she replied. "Who else?"

"You know she would have been proud of you," he said to her. "What you have become."

"Would she? I often wonder if she would look at me as her screwed up twin sister all because she loved her daddy more than her mommy. But it doesn't matter. Dixon was a part of my code when I was online, but now is the time that she can finally rest in peace." She stood up. "I'm going to delete Megabyte once and for all."

"That's a fine goal," Bob said to her. "But I came to talk about…us."

Paige looked at him. "Bob, it was fun, but that was when we were young and wild and free," she said and touched his hand with her fingertips. "But now we're grown and we can't be like that…ever."

"Come on Paige," Grendar called for her.

Paige left him to join her group again.

Bob stared at her as she glided away.

Dot was staring at Bob and Paige as they were talking and then she glided away. It looked like they were closer than they were willing to share. Especially with how close they stood beside each other after the battle with Megabyte.

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