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SUMMARY: What happens when sprites from Mainframe meet Graveheart and crew?

By Citrine
 

 Chapter One

Scene: ICE SHIP AURORA

The computer was spewing sparks again. Jade covered her face and sighed in exasperation.

"This thing is gonna screw up the entire ship!" she grumbled.

King Cryos' voice came out the speaker. "Jade! Any sign of Beast drones?"

"Even if there WERE any I wouldn't be able to detect them! This.......hunk of junk is broken again!!" Jade gave the computer a kick, and in return the computer spat out  more sparks.

"...*sigh*... Well, wait a bit. I'll send Graveheart up with the proper tools to help you. Of course, he may just screw it up even more..."

"Pardon?"

"Never mind. Signing out... Fzzztt."

Jade signed and settled back in her chair. But her moment of quiet was quickly shattered by... "Femur!!!! What the heck are you doing here?!"

"Just wanted to see how my favorite Rock 'babe' is doin'... Got a problem with that?" He winked and raised his eyebrows.

Jade bit back the caustic remark and her lunch that threatened to spill out. "Femur, if you EVER come in here like that again I'll..."

"Hey, decent!! What's this little thingamajig do?" Femur waddled over to the console and twisted a knob that was marked: WARNING: USE ONLY IN EMERGENCY OF ENGINE FAILURE.

Smoke and sparks spilled out of the computer.

"FEMUR!!!!!WHEN I CAN SEE YOU AGAIN I'LL..."
 

Scene: MAINFRAME

SSSLLLUUURRRKKK!!!!!!!! "Ah, nothin' like a good energy shake." Matrix winked at his girlfriend.

AndrAIa glared at him. "You'll never GET one again if you don't stop that disgusting slurping!!" she threatened.

Matrix just grinned and... "Hey, what's that?"

A bright light was hanging in the sky. "I've never seen anything like that before!!" exclaimed Bob.

"Hey! Mouse! Ray! Seen anything like that before?"

"Sorry sugah, I haven't. Is it energy?"

"Woah! I've never seen anything like that, mate, even in the Web!"

Everyone turned to Dot. She shook her head. "Don't look at me! You guys were the ones game-hopping and surfing the Web! I'm just Command.com!"

"Well guys, we'd better figure out soon... 'Cause it's heading right for us!!!!!!"

Scene: ICE SHIP AURORA

Jade and Femur coughed and fanned the smoke away from their faces. It really didn't help much.

"Oops." said Femur mildly.

"Oops?!?! OOPS?!?!?! I"LL GIVE YOU 'OOPS' YOU LITTLE TOAD!!!!!"

The only thing that saved Femur from being strangled was Graveheart, who rushed in in the nick of time.

"It's ok toots. I know ya love me." Femur grinned again.

Jade made a sound similar to a "Grrrrr...rrrrffftttt......hiiiissss" and took a step forward.

"Uh... Jade? You're hissing... Uh oh."

Just when Jade was about to commit justifiable homicide, the coughing and gagging of *six other people in the room* stopped them in their tracks.

"Woah... What in the Net was that?!"

"...*cough cough* You know, I don't think it WAS from the Net...."

"Well, we're all here, right?"

"No DUH, Matrix."

Jade and Graveheart looked at each other. "Uh oh..."
 

Scene: ICE SHIP AURORA

When the smoke cleared, Jade and Graveheart got a clear look at their 'guests'. They looked like them, but their skin...! Two of them had green skin, one blue, the other pink, and the last two had tanned brown. All they could do was stare.

Andraia coughed a bit, then looked up. Those two were weird! Their skin looked like the surface of rocks, and half of their bodies looked like they were robots!

The two groups stared at each other for what seemed like a eternity.

Dot was the first one to break the silence. "Uh, where are we?!" She actually wanted to say,"What are YOU?" but she kept it to herself.

Jade opened her mouth to answer when she felt something clinging to her leg. "Femur!!..." She peeled him off, threw him in the air, and punted him like a football.

"AAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!..." he cried as he flew out of sight.

"Good kick!" approved Matrix. "Ow!" He doubled over and looked at Andraia. She gave him her evil eye.

"Jade..." sighed Graveheart. "How many times have I told you not to kick Femur?"

Jade crossed her arms. "The toad deserved it!"

Femur wandered around the Aurora, grinning, also wincing a bit. "Jade's sooooo shy. She's just playing hard to get! Now, I think I'll visit the lovely Princess Tekla..."
 

Bob gave a polite cough. "Ahem! Where are we?"

"You're on the..." Graveheart started.

"Whoa! Did I just see a unidentifed flying Femur? Uh...!" Pyrus walked in and stopped aruptly, causing Zera to smash into him.

"Watch it Lavahea..." She stopped as well.

Cryos walked in, took one look and said, "I take it Femur caused this?" He got a nod in return. Cryos rolled his eyes.

"Excuse me darlin's, but, for the third time, where are we?" inquired Mouse.

"You're on the Ice Ship Aurora." repiled Jade impatiently. She started to say something else when she noticed Matrix and The Surfer eyeing her with curiosity. "Oh for Mantle's sake! This is ridiculous. I'm going to the bridge." Jade pivoted on her heel and marched out.

All eyes went to Graveheart. He gave a sheepish grin. "Uh...Cryos, you're a diplomat. YOU explain! Gotta run..." With that, he ran out after Jade. "Jade! Wait up!..."

"Thanks a lot, Graveheart..." muttered Cryos. He sighed. "I don't know where you came from, but right now, you are on the Ice Ship Aurora that is currently fighting the Beast Planet. Do you come from Rock?" Silently he asked, "Or do you come from a entirely different world..."

The six of them blinked. "Uh...come again?" asked the Surfer.

"We're from Mainframe,"Dot supplied. "There's a system called the Ice Ship Aurora?!"

"SYSTEM?!" exclaimed Cryos.

"Um...You're NOT on a system. You're on a ship...you know...the kind that goes through space...?" Pyrus just got blank looks in return. "Hoo boy..."

"Are we in...The Supercomputer?" whispered AndrAIa..

"What?!" exclaimed Zera. " In a computer? Hardly. You're OUTSIDE of a computer, if that clears anything up..." To Pyrus she whispered, "Whoever HEARD of living in a computer?! These guys must be..." she made a twirling motion with her finger. Pyrus gave a audible snort.

"Are you...Users?!" Bob asked.

Cryos, Zera and Pyrus looked at each other. "Um...I suppose...you could call us that..."

Instantly, the group brought out ALL their weapons. "So, we finally meet, User!" snarled Matrix.

"Uh, Zera? I think you said the wrong thing..."whispered Pyrus.

"Geez, I wonder how you figured THAT out, genius?!" she said sarcastically.

Jade walked by, holding a sonic cannon that needed minor repairs. She took in the situation with one glance, and joined the trio. "Well, it looks like this old thing is gonna get some exercise after all! Besides, I have this urge to shoot SOMETHING!!
 

 Bob backed up a step when he saw the cannon the woman was holding. That thing looked like it could blast them ALL away! Matrix, of course, was getting a little hot under the collar. Matrix ran towards Jade.

Jade would've blasted his head off, if it wasn't for Dot, who dove for Jade's legs, knocking her to the ground.

"Oooofff!!!" Dot's head connected with the wall, and she went limp. Matrix skidded around and saw his sister. "SIS!"

 The cannon made a large skylight in the middle of the navagation room.

"WARNING: Cabin pressure dropping. Commencing emergency force field."

 AndrAIa advanced on Zera, rather cautiously. Who knew what kind of powers these Users had?

Zera didn't think. She did the thing that was second nature to her. She opened her mouth and released a cloud of nanonites. Andraia didn't even have time to yell for help before she was frozen in place.

Pyrus was facing off with Mouse. He had his staff out, and Mouse had her sword. Pyrus ducked a blow from Mouse. "You're....pretty good...at handling that thing..." he panted. Mouse wasn't about to admit that Pyrus was just as good as her.

"Well...sugah...when I'm...done with you...Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!" Mouse dropped her sword with a clang. Pyrus had grabbed her wrist to block a blow. Mouse studied the burn. That little brat!! She'd have a scar there for sure! She raised her ring.....just as Cryos ran over, wrapping her in a blanket of nanonites.

Bob and the Surfer were both out cold, and Zera and Cryos ran over to freeze them. Matrix jumped up. A kick from Jade sent him flying. To add insult to injury, when he raised his head, he was staring down the barrel of his own gun.

"Now you listen here, and you listen good." Jade was breathing heavily. "I don't know what the heck you are, but you've got SOME nerve popping in here and trying to destroy us all!"

 "Well, that's what they call payback time!!" he shouted. He raised his fist...and slammed it into Graveheart's hand.

"Graveheart!! You know, I'M supposed to be protecting you, not the other way around?"

 "Jade...."

 Matrix gave a roar, and the last thing he saw was all his friends, frozen like statues, before he was frozen as well.

"Ok, Pyrus, you can thank our nanonites for saving your butt!!" crowed Zera.

"I STILL think it's DISGUSTING, Zera!" he threw over his shoulder. Zera stopped, hands on hips, fuming. She released a string of nanonites at his head, but Pyrus ducked, and the nanonites landed on the floor.

"Hah! You missed! Learn how to AIM, ZerAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Pyrus slipped on the icy patch the nanonites made and landed flat on his backside. "Ooch...."

 Zera stepped over him. "I don't think I missed, Pyrus..."
 

FIRE PALACE

 Mouse opened her eyes. "Whoo...did anyone get the license of that data...hey!!!!!" She banged on the wall of the heat chamber. She saw the...giant bug? Or whatever it was walk up.

 "Relax. The chamber will just restore your body temperature to normal. You'll be safe in there."

 "That depends on your matter of option..."muttered Mouse. AndrAIa had already 'defrosted', so to speak, and was sitting with Graveheart, Jade, Zera, Pyrus and Cryos.

"So you DO come from a computer! " exclaimed Zera. "But why did you, uh, HE attack us when I said we were Users?"

AndrAIa blushed a little. "In our world, whenever the User loads a game to play, it comes as a game cube in our city. We have to fight for our lives if we're trapped inside it, or we'll be deleted, so to speak. Matrix attacked you because, well, some time ago a User took his eye in a Game. He's been holding a grude ever since."

"So that's what the big lunk meant" AndrAIa smiled at the new definition of her boyfriend "when he said 'payback time.' ..." mused Jade.

"So that's our story. I don't know how we got into your world, but..." AndrAIa stopped. "I don't know how we're going to get back, either..."

Graveheart spoke up. "We're fighting the Beast Planet. It can destroy us all. Actually...It's already taken...um...Fire. We're trying to outrun them now..."

AndrAIa looked really puzzled. "Look,"said Graveheart, exasperated. "Just believe me that it is a enemy that can't be stopped!"

Just as they were going to release the others, Tekla ran around the corner, closely followed by Femur. Tekla quickly regained her composure, but hid behind Cryos.

"Nothin' like a good chase to liven up your life, toots!" He winked at Tekla. Tekla looked like she was about to be sick.

"Hubba hubba! Hey Graveheart, aren't cha gonna introduce me to ya new friend?"

Graveheart gave Femur a 'look'. AndrAIa saved him the trouble by standing up and introducing herself. "I'm AndrAIa. From Mainframe." No sooner when she was finished, Femur found a comfy place on her leg. Jade just covered her face with her hands and sighed. AndrAIa didn't seemed to be bothered, however. She reached down and pricked Femur with a nail. His eyes rolled back in his head, and he gave a "Glurk!" then collasped. She looked at the group. "Paralyzing. Quite handy."

 "Hmpf. I wish I had those...I would need them...." muttered Jade.
 

 "SHOOT!! A Beast attack! That's ALL we need." Jade ran for the shuttle. Graveheart followed. "Jade! Meet at the Control Core! Everyone else, battle stations!!"
 

BATTLE MOON FIVE

 "Everybody! Hurry!!" Jade scrambled into a Ice fighter and was just about to lift off when Matrix jumped in.

"What the? - Oh forget it. I don't have time for this..." Jade accelerated and lifted out of orbit. Matrix, however, since he wasn't strapped in, met a very hard, very unyielding piece of floor.

"Woah!!!!!..." SMASH!! "Argh!!!..." SMASH!!
 

Graveheart was having his own problems, since a dripping wet Bob wasn't very good for the computer. (The heat chamber didn't exactly finish it's job.) "Aw... there goes the navagation..." Bob looked rather guilty, so he reached out and shot a beam of energy towards the computer. "Bzzzt... Computer is back online..."

"Woah! You can do that?!"
 

ROCK - CONTROL CORE

 Jade and Matrix ran across Rock's terrain (well, Jade ran. Matrix was sort of limping.) towards the Control Core.

"Grrrr.." The Core's entrance was sealed, and Jade had no way of getting in. "I knew I should've..."

Matrix simply lifted his gun, aimed, and fired. Unfortunatly, the shot went right through the door. At least they had a nice peephole. Jade looked at Matrix and raised her eyebrows. Matrix shrugged. Jade rolled her eyes.

"There's another way in. If they haven't blocked it up again, that is..." Jade ran out again, to the tunnel that she and Graveheart used to play in as kids. Matrix said something, uh, unpleasant, and hobbled after her.

Graveheart and Bob screeched to a stop in front of the Control core. Jade was nowhere in sight. "She must've gone to the tunnel!" He and Bob ran off to the tunnel.

Jade found the tunnel blocked, and rushed back to the main entrance. Somehow she missed Graveheart and Bob, who were heading the opposite way. She and Matrix reached the Core.

 "Grrrrr... What's taking Graveheart so long?!" They went off at top speed to the tunnel, again. As they skidded around the corner...

"WOAH WATCH OUT!!" Graveheart and Bob smashed into Jade and Matrix. They all ended up on the floor nursing cracked heads...and in the case of Matrix, cracked ribs...AGAIN.

Bob shook his head to clear away the multi-colored nulls he saw. "Ok... I've had enough of this!!!" Bob opened a portal, and shoved all of them inside. They landed inside the Control Core... five feet above the air. "ACKKK!!" Jade glared at him from her warped position on the floor. "Couldn't you have made the landing more comfortable?!"

 Bob shrugged apologetically. "Sorry. I'm still working on that."

 Graveheart snickered a bit but stopped as soon as Jade shot him a murderous look.

"Ahem, hem, uh, just clearing my throat..."

 Jade heaved a what-did-I-do-to-deserve-this sigh, and turned to the console. Everything looked ok, except for a nice, round, hole... that was spewing sparks. "Oh, great. I guess your gunshot went right through the door AND INTO THE MAIN CONSOLE!!" She fumed.

"Well, uh, um, er... heh heh...can you fix it?"

 Jade mumbled something unintelligable. "Fat chance... well, the automatic control is offline... but I think manual control is ok..." she flicked a switch and flinched. The cranky console fizzed, then spat out a spray of sparks.

"Manual control, online." Jade gestured towards the control chair. "Have a good time and please come again. It's all yours."
 

"Uh... Jade? Why's the control chair stuck there?"

 "Beats me. Anyway, you're the one who's supposed to control the moons, Graveheart, not me." Jade had a wicked grin on her face.

 "Wait a minute....Who said I had to sit there? YOU'RE Commander. YOU should be controlling the moons!"

 Jade sputtered a bit, looked at the tilted chair, looked at Graveheart, and looked at Mattrix and Bob for help. None was forthcoming. Grumbling a bit, she hoisted herself up in the chair and tightened the belt.

"Gack!! I'm just hanging here!! I don't even NEED the chair!!!"

 "... *snicker snicker... snort...cough cough*..... Have fun, Jade...."

 "Ha ha. Ooh you're sooo funny."
 

"Glurk... I think I'm gonna be sick..." Jade moaned and held her stomach.

Graveheart, Bob and Matrix were barely holding their laughter at Jade's green (Well, greener than before) face, and snorts could be occasionally heard.

"Oof...When I feel better I'll get you for this... Blurgh..."

"Lo-look at it it this way Jade....We got rid of the Beast - *snicker* - Drones!"

 Bob was turning bright purple from the effort of holding in his laughter, and Matrix looked like he was about to faint from lack of air.

ICE SHIP AURORA

 As soon as they got back on the ship, Jade made a break for her quarters. The three of them exploded in laughter, guffaws, giggles, and the occasional snort.

 "He he he he... did you see her face?!"

"Hoo boy...he he...Who wouldn't?!"

 "Ooh... ha ha... she's gonna get you back for that, Grumpheart!!"

 "Hee hee hee... That's GRAVEheart, not GRUMPheart..."

 "Wooooo...that was funnie..."

 "Ha ha...whoooo...Where can we sleep tonight?"

 "Gasp...I guess you can...stay with me...or you can stay with Femur."

 "Geez, no choice there..."
 

NIGHT-GRAVEHEART'S QUARTERS

 "Shhhhhh...Bring that cream over here..."

 WHAM! "OW!!..."

 "Shhh... Zera..."

 "Sorrie... That closet looked a lot like you, Jade..."

 "Oh wow, there's a compliment..."

 "Thanks..."

 "Tekla... Did you...?"

 "Shhh...Yes I did. Jade, is this really necessary?..."

 "Shh...Keep your voice down... No, I just want to get them back..."

 "SNNNOOORRRKKK... wheez... SNNNOOORRRKKK...."

 "Mmpf!! Don't laugh...he he..."

 "Shhhh!!!... Mmpf...hahaha!!"

 "I'd know that big snore anywhere. A little honey should shut Bob up...."

"Jade...Where do I put the syrup?"

 "Just dribble it all over them....Thanks AndrAIa... Oh ...thanks for coming along to help me get my revenge..."

 "Nah, no prob. I wanted to do somethin' like this to Matrix for a looooonnnnggg time.."

 "Mouse... You're the smart one around here... How do I rig these balloons up?!"

 "Shhhh...Dot, honey, lemme do that..."

 POP!!!... slooosshhh...

 "Oops."

 "MOUSE!!..."

 "Are we done?"

 "I think so..."

 "Wait! What about Ray? He might feel left out..."

 "I think he'd feel GRATEFUL, Mouse..."

 "Oh what the heck..."

 "Hold it! Zera, can you..."

 "Um, ok..."

 "C'mon, let's go...I wanna get a good night's sleep so I can see them in the morning..."

 "Oh that was fun. I haven't done anything like that since I TP'ed the Principal Office...."

 "MOUSE!! That was YOU!!?? I had to clean up all that for more that a minute!!!"

 "Oh, sorry sugah. I wanted Bob to clean it up......"

 MORNING-GRAVEHEART'S QUARTERS

 "Mmmm..." Graveheart was enjoying a nice dream with lots of...syrup?! He could even taste it. Iced, cold syrup. Waitaminute...This was a dream! How could he...His eyes flew open.

"AAARRRGGGHHH!!!"

 "Mmpf...Whut's gon on mate...AAACCCKKK!!!"

 "Mmmmmmmm!!!!!.......M'm cannnk malk!!! Ny nouth pulla huney!!!!"

 "Mm...Whipped cream....WHIPPED CREAM!!?? AHHH!!!!!!"

 Graveheart tried to jump out of his bunk, only to find that his feet had been frozen together. CLUNK!

 "OW!! Oh yuck!!!!!"

 Matrix, Bob and Ray found themselves in a similar situation. "AHHHHH!!!!!...." SLAM!

 "Somemuddy....durn mon de bites!!"

 "WHAT?!"

 "DURN ON DE MIGNTS!!"

 "WHAT?!?!"

 "TURN ON THE FREAKIN' LIGHTS FOR THE USERS SAKE!!!!!!"

 "Oh....Right."

 As soon as they turned the lights on, it was apparent what Tekla had been doing. The lights went on, alright, and with the lights came a could of soft, downy feathers, that had no problem at all with sticking to their bodies...

 Matrix turned around and stared at his friends. Actually, they no longer looked like Bob or Ray or Graveheart, they just looked like, well, they just looked like a bunch of chickens with syrup all over them. Matrix couldn't help it. He cracked down and started to laugh. They all looked at him like he had a screw loose, then Bob joined in, and the last two followed.

After laughing themselves hoarse Ray got up and headed for the door.

"Uh, guys? Uh, there's a wire leading up to the ceiling..."

 In unison, all of them looked up.....and saw the 50+ water balloons hanging on the ceiling. "AAACCCKKK!!!!!"

 "What do we do what do we dooo?!"

 "Climb out the window!!!!!

 "Oh, sure. We'll just climb out the window...AND GET SUCKED INTO DEEP SPACE!!"

 "Oh....Yeah."

 Outside, the entire female population of the Aurora were listening with great eagerness to the screams and shouts and 'Acks' and 'Arghs'. Smiles were in evidence everywhere, but everyone kept quiet.

 Pyrus came along the hall and headed for the door. He noticed the girls (Who wouldn't?) and gave them a strange look.

"Uh, what are you girls doing...?"

 Mouse piped up. "We're just waiting for the guys, sugah. Don't mind us, just GO ON IN."

 Pyrus knocked on the door. "Graveheart? Cryos sent me down with a message...... can I come in?"

 "No, DON'T!!"

 Pyrus tried the door knob and cracked the door open. "Graveheart? Is everything ok?" Pyrus opened the door all the way.

"NNNOOO!!!" Four voices wailed in unison.

SSSPPPLLLOOOSSSHHH!!!

 The balloons cascaded down on the four and they emerged looking wet, tired, and water-logged.

Pyrus started. "Um...did I do anything wrong?..."

As if on cue, all the females outside broke into a explosion of laughter.

"Wahahahahaha!!!!"

 "Hehehe...Told you I'd get you back for that!!"

 "Wooo...You guys have NO idea how silly you sounded..."

 Matrix tried to walk forward, but forgot that his feet were still encased in solid ice. He landed flat on his face instead. This caused more merriment.

 "Hooooooo boy..."

 "Oh yeah!! We rock!"

 "Enjoy the water, boys?"

 "Sure looks like it..."

 "*snicker* Guess who's the weaker sex now! It ain't us....."

 "I have my revenge! Muhahahaha!!"

 The four soaking parties glanced at each other, then fainted dead away.

Author's Note: If I have offended any boys who are reading this, don't be sad. I just HAD to stick that in. Hope some of you got some ideas for camp pranks.....! Yes, some of these really DID happen..... Oh, nuts, Syber_Kat forgot the part about shaving cream!..... :-)