A cold chill awoke the self-dubbed leader of the Acid Hackers, a group of teens just wanting to have a little "fun" with the cyber world by deleting others. Jeremy sat up on the cold floor of the Acid Hackers Base (an abandoned warehouse on the bad side of the city) that also served him as his bed. He grabbed his PET, waking Punk.exe up, and walked to the first level of the building.

It was plain. A few boxes of pizza they had stolen last night and an old assembly line was all that sat on the 15000 square foot first floor. No walls, just open space. The sun passed through one of the broken windows, hitting the young terrorist in the eyes. First closing his eyes in disgust, he decided it was about time the rest of the team saw this "beatiful morning".

"Wakie Wakie!" Punk yelled as Jeremy grabbed the hose. As soon as the water filled the hose, most everyone jumped up off of the ground and ran.

Most everyone.

Stuart opened his eyes, only to recieve a much needed shower. Stuart fought to get up, but with no success. He turned to PlantMan, but realized that PlantMan was too busy laughing his head off then to help out. Regardless, Stuart grabbed his PET and aimed for the shut-off valve, just slightly missing.

"Help.....me.....blub..." Stuart tried to yell for help but started to inhale too much water.

As if on cue, BubbleMan appeared just in time to hear the 'blub' Stuart gargled. "Dont you dare make blubbin fun of me, jackblub."

BubbleMan continued to yell at Stuart, but since this is a family website, we will just skip over that. After about 21 'blubs' later, BubbleMan realised that Stuart wasn't paying attention to him. BubbleMan hobbled over to the main water shut off valve and turned it off. He then continued his complaining, "And another blubbin thing!"

Stuart prounced onto Jeremy, one hand holding his neck and the other hitting Jeremy in the stomach. "YOU LITTLE!!!" He contined his assault until Johnny and Nij pulled him off.

One steak to the eye later, the Acid Hackers gathered around their boardroom table (The previously mentioned pizza boxes stacked very impressivly.)

"Dude. Nij, you got skills." Matt admitted as everyone sat down in their chairs, also made of pizza boxes but still suprisingly confterble.

Jake brought the obvious up, like he so often did. "Has anyone else noticed that there's like nowhere in this building to jack into the net with?"

"No, really?" BubbleMan said from the only monitor in the building, connected to the assembly line.

"Wait, then how did BubbleMan get in here?" Jeremy said, looking at the hamster-like Navi.

"Well...ummm...." BubbleMan looked around nerviously. "E-Mail?"

"Ohhhh..." the rest of the Acid Hackers said, knowing it was nowhere near true.

"Yeah, dude." Matt covered his amphibious friend's tracks, "We need to become L33T."

Johnny looked over to Jeremy, "Well, you're the self-proclaimed leader, do something."

"Wait, when did I do this?" Jeremy asked.

"The first line of this story." Stuart reminded him.

"Would you like to see a flashback?" Matt said, pulling out his PET.

"Sure." Jeremy shrugged. Matt handed his PET over to Jeremy. FlashMan pulled out the two glowing bulbs from his shoulders and let out a bright flash. Jeremy's pupils dilated to about the size of his entire eyes.

"Dude, you ok?" Matt poked the leader.

"No." Jeremy's voice trembled.

Stuart put his hand on Jeremy's shoulder. "What's wrong?"

"I just saw my birth..." Jeremy's voice cracked.

Everyone sat there in awkward silence for a little while. After about an hour, Jake brought up the obvious again.

"So... Has anyone else noticed that there's like no place to jack into the net here?"

Jeremy smiled. "I got it."

One compact bus ride later, Nij relized he had a car. After the even fuller ride back to the base, Nij pulled out his car and everyone jumped in.

"I hereby dub this the Acid Hacker Mobile!" Jeremy yelled.

"Unless you're going to start making the payments, this is still my car." Nij pulled away.

After 13 slug-bugs, they made it to the closest computer store.

Jeremy was the first out of the car and had already started plotting, "Alright everyone, let's check out the security that this place has to amuse us." everyone nodded and dispersed throughout the store.

Nij walked into a security guard, all 260 pounds, 6 foot 3 of 'it.' Turning around to run for it, another four 'mountains' stood behind him.

"Hey kid, I dropped my keys, can you bend over and get them for me?" one said to Nijubu. Nij looked at DerestMan. Desertman nodded back and they both took off screaming.

"What was up with him?" one guard asked.

"Dunno, maybe it was something you said."

Stuart looked for all the security cameras in the store, writing them down strategically on his hand. After about fifteen minutes, he looked down to see where the cameras were. His entire hand was blue, which was extremly odd since he was writing with a red pen.

Jeremy thought he'd be slick and check out the main operating system. He turned the corner and entered the "Employees Only" doors. He walked in backwards to make sure he wasn't being followed.

"Grrrr."

"Punk, be quiet." Jeremy snapped.

"GRRRRR!"

"Punk!" Jeremy slang his PET to look his Naiv in the eyes. "Punk, will you shut up before somebody hears you!"

"It wasn't..." Punk trailled off. "Hey bro, do you trust me?"

"Yeah, why?" Jeremy thought this was an odd time for this.

"Then run." Punk Said.

Jeremy turned around to see 31 pit bulls. Jeremy ran as fast as he could. Jeremy, Stuart, and Nij met up again.

Trying to cover his pants were the dog bit him, he turned to Nij and Stuart, "So, any ideas?"

The trio looked at each other oddly for a second, not really wanting to admit what happened to each. Suddenly, a cracking sound was heard. A low bone-dragging sound made its way over to the group. Soaking wet, tarnished, beaten, shredded and to put in easier terms had a big boo-boo, Matt dragged what was left of himself back to the group.

Mouth hanging open, Nij jumped to his comrade's side. "Dude, what happened to you!"

Matt was slow to speak, and his voice was shaken. His body shook with each syllable. "Fear the dolphins... for one day they shall seek revenge." And with that he fainted.

Stuart grabbed the falling Matt. Jeremy grabbed his PET.

"Yo FlashMan, what happened?"

"Sssshhhh....they'll hear you." FlashMan tried his best to hide offscreen.

"Who?"

"The dolphins... Th3y w1ll 0wn3z j0, th3y w1ll 34t j0r 50ul..."

"Dude!" Punk yelled to Jeremy, who dropped FlashMan. "You got mail."

Jeremy sat and waited Punk to continue, who didn't. "Well...are you going to read it?"

"What do I look like, your slave?"

"Yes, Yes you do. As long as I control the on/off switch, I own you." The two "punks" looked at each other and started laughing. DesertMan spoke up.

"It's from Johnny, he says 'Go outside'." Amazed, everyone looked at DesertMan, who normally couldn't speak. DesertMan looked around and frowned. "Zwaazool, waazaazzzww." he said, and eveyone was satisfied.

Everyone made their way out front, where a Vons eighteen-wheeler pulled up. The door opened to reveal Johnny.

"Security here's too tough..." Jeremy admitted.

"So we'll rob Vons instead." Johnny finished the thought. The truck's horn blew as it pulled away.

"Wait," the now awake Matt interupted, "How can your feet touch the pedals?"

Jeremy looked at Johnny, then turned to Matt. "Dolphins."

"AHHHHH. THE DOLPHINS ARE COMING!!!" Matt yelled then tucked himself into a fetal position and started sucking his thumb.

"Dude, that's cold." Nij looked at Jeremy. "Good work."

"BubbleMan, head out and check out Vons security." Jeremy said via his PET's cell phone.

"Sure, why not send the short one..." BubbleMan complained as he left.

As soon as the security cube got into veiw, BubbleMan pulled out his harpoon gun. He jumped up, forming his Bubble Wrap barrier. As soon as he was in range, the tiny titan unleashed a swarm of harpoons, fish, and little crab things, easily destroying the cube. BubbleMan warped into Vons' computer system.

BubbleMan expected to see the standered Vons Union Navis and programs inside. The programs where still there, but all the Navis were what you'd expect to find at a highschool or something.

"What happened to the union Navis?" BubbleMan asked.

One of the closer Navis responded, "They're on strike, we're the scabbs."

At first disappointed, BubbleMan showed his evil hamster grin of death. He cocked his harpoon gun, "Would you get deleted for this job?"

Only a few Navis avoided the initial blasts. The others tried to run, but quickly discovered their fear of small hamsters with guns and self-confidence issues.

BubbleMan held his gun up to the programs. "You, open the truckramp. Anyone trying to call the Officials will get deleted before they can even connect, got it?"

The program did as it was told.

"Now, everyone..." BubbleMan pulled out the prism chip and uploaded it, making it appear in the center of the room. "Its time to BubbleDance!!!" Music came on and light reflected through the Prism, making a disco ball effect. All the programs figured 'why not' and joined in the Dancing.

Johnny pulled the eighteen-wheeler up. Everyone jumped out, and Stuart jacked into the main security system.

PlantMan sent his vines out, taking over the network. BubbleMan logged in next to him, holding a drink with an umbrella in it. "Whats up, flower?"

"Everythings under 'wraps' up here." PlantMan ignored BubbleMan.

The Acid Hackers busted throught the cargo bay, quickly surrounding the scabbs. Nij pulled out his blade and tanted one of them.

"Where's the money?" Johnny demanded.

"In the front cash register." An anonymous scabb yelled, hoping that they would spare his life.

"PlantMan." Stuart smiled. PlantMan, using his vines, took over the fork lift and pinned the scabbs to the wall. The Acid Hackers then waltzed straight to the front regester. Right before they got there, Johnny jacked into the thermostat, hoping to at least have one cool line this 'episode'.

Jeremy held his PET to the girl at the front register's neck. "Open the register or we'll let Johnny here have his way with you."

The girl looked over at Johnny. "NOO!!! ANYTHING BUT THAT!!!!" and she frantically opened the register.

"Hey," Johnny moped, "that really hurts."

"HALT right there!" A cowboy jumped up. The Acid Hackers looked at him oddly.

"Who do you think you are? Robbing from the innocent? Now, you must pay dearly!!!" The cowboy said. Jake half-expected the kid to do some kind of Sailor Moon pose.

"Well, we have plenty of zenny now. So, do you have change for a 20 or should we just delete you?" Jeremy smiled at the kid. A bunch of kids backed up the cowboy.

The cowboy and Jeremy stared at each other.

Since Jeremy was busy, Jake stepped in. "Do you have any idea who you're messing with? We are the Acid Hackers!"

"Prepare to get burned!" Johnny stepped up to add. As soon as he had finished saying that, the tempurature in the building shot up twenty degrees.

One of the kids stepped up."Acid Hackers? Heh, well, we've been sent here to delete you."

Jeremy and the cowboy were still staring at each other. Jeremy suddenly let out three soft words. "Battle Routine: Set."

The cowboy added "EXECUTE!!!" and was the first to jack in.

The boy from earlier yelled at the wrong moment "Lookout!" At the last second as Darklady jumped in the way as the Fish Missle blasted straight for Serenade. Darklady converted to Purple Darkness mode and blocked the attack with her Dark Shadow axe.

"You blub hole." a small amphibious Navi said, stepping out from behind a rock.

"HE wasn't in our briefings." MetalMan said. "But that won't stop us from deleting him!"

"Is everyone ready for the cheesy intro/battle sequence?" DrillMan asked both teams.

"Ready!" everyone called back.

"Zuquazu!" a pile of dirt said to the group.

In the real world, Nij translated, "DesertMan told you to prepare yourself, cuz when he's done, the vultures will have nothing to pick at. Oh, and the name's Nij."

DersertMan folded into the ground, preparing for a suprise attack. But the sudrise was on him as KingMan jumped on him, launching a shockwave on the submerged Navi.

"Anyway you move, KingMan will jump you." Sam said.

"And Sam will take down your queen." KingMan returned the complement.

"Just so you blubbin know, they call me BubbleMan." the operator less Navi comented.

"BubbleMan? What kind of opponent is that?" Moe hung his head down.

"Hey, at least I'm not a blubbin Boring Navi." BubbleMan pointed at his drill topped opponent.

"They call me DrillMan, dig it?"

"Dude, that sucked." Moe turned to his teammate.

"Shut up Moe!" DrillMan yelled back.

"Let's flare it up!" The flaming mammonth said, and unleashed a massive fire breath move.

The gun toting bowler jumped to the side, "So, what do they call you, FireMan?"

Johnny jumped at the remark, "FlameMan is 3 times better then FireMan can ever hope to be!"

"Dude, thats pathetic. Bowlman will easily bowl him over." Jonathan smiled back at his Navi.

"Right, Jonathan." He nodded back and pulled out his gun.

The samurai stared at the beast. "Make your move, humanoid. I'll show you why they call me BeastMan."

"Baka, Honor will guide my staff to victory. As a warrior, you're no match for YamatoMan.EXE." YamatoMan said as he charged his foe.

"Your Navi will never survive the call of the wild!" Jake smirked across the way.

"Like you're one to talk. My name's Carlos, and today you get tamed." Carlos posed in a very martial arts stance.

"They call me Jake, and we'll see who gets tamed."

MetalMan threw his powerful Metal Wheel at the flower.

"Stand still, you poser!" MetalMan yelled.

"Sure," the plant smiled, "But prepare to face all of nature's tricks, for PlantMan takes no prisoners." And with that, a screenful of rose needles filled the air, all targeted at MetalMan.

"Ironic, isn't it?" FlashMan looked at his opponent. "Darklady verses Flashman."

"Yes," Darklady agreed, "we'll see if your light can withstand the darkness." She opened 3 DarkPortals.

David and Jeremy never broke their stare. David lifed up his chip, so Jeremy could see it. Jeremy nodded.

Both yelled to their Navis, "BattleChip Mode: Sword Y! Slot in!"

They put the chips into their PETs, changing their Navis' hands into swords. Serenade charged his oppenent, but the other Navi was a step too fast.

"So, what are you? SpeedMan? ThornMan?" Serenade asked.

"They call me what I am, a Punk. The Punk." Punk said, and slashed his sword down, but it was met with Serenade's scarfs, sending a Shockwave back at him.

"My friends call me a sweet Serenade, but you can call me S." Serenade charged forword.

"S? The king of the UnderNet?" Punk was shocked.

"Yes, I am he who has the ranking of # 1." Sernade let out a small smile.

Punk stood there. Ever since Jeremy first activated him, Punk always heared about the king of the UnderNet. Soon, the Navi known as S became his hero. Confusion sweeped over Punk. "What's the most powerful Navi doing hanging out with a bunch of goody goods? You own the undernet, the most feared reagon on the net!"

"I was told of a noble challenge and an evil scheme. And I was out of practice for so long I thought I might as well get some fresh air."

"But with," Punk stopped a moment and pointed to the rest of the Net Guardians, "THEM?!? They're not worthy of you."

Suddenly, The doors of Vons bursted open, and piles of Officials poured in. Navi after Navi logged into the system.

Punk knew some of himself would stay on the battlefield that day as he was forced to log-out. Jeremy and the rest of the Acid Hackers ran down the frozen food section, barely making it into the loading dock before the Officials did. Everyone piled into the eighteen-wheeler. Jeremy went for the wheel, but Nij shoved him out of the way.

"Now's not the time. We need speed." They tore away, the van speeding around a corner on two wheels.

Back at the electronics place, they ditched the eighteen-wheeler. Something shiny on the ground caught Jeremy's eye.

He walked up and saw it was a StandOut *, a Mega class chip. He reached down to pick it up, but it jumped away from his hands. Jeremy then realized it was on a string.

Instead of chasing the string, Jeremy followed it to a corner. He swung around the corner, planning to knock some prankster out. Instead, he hit the almost metal chest of a tall man wearing a trenchcoat and a tilted down hat.

"Are you the leader of the Acid Hackers?" He asked in a deep voice.

"Maybe," Jeremy smirked, expecting a battle.

"I've been watching you. I want to make a deal with you." The man growled.

"What kind of deal?"

Later that night, the Acid Hackers returned to their base. Even thought they'd already seen it like that, it still took them by surprise. A 50" big screen, personal servers for each, and a massive chip collection. The best way to describe the place was simply L33T^2.

"So, all we have to do," Jeremy informed his team, "is collect these 5 peices of a "GAMMA" and download them into regular Navis."

"Which are right there." Nij pointed out.

"Where are these pieces?" Johnny asked.

"He'll e-mail us when he finds them." Jeremy said, still in shock.

BubbleMan spoke up from inside the giant screen, "But why? Why did he choose us, instead of, like, people from the WWW or old Gospel people?"

Jeremy looked at him. "He said...it's because of Fate!"

The End

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