"What the..." he said reacting to his PET phone ringing. Jake stole the ball and made the winning goal.

"Hey!" Matt, being the goalie, yelled, "What was that?"

Stuart checked his PET; he had some new E-Mail.

"I have to attend something personal." Stuart said, grabbing a suitcase and leaving.

***

A few minutes later, the Acid Hackers minus Stuart were now bored.

"With a member gone this place seems boring" Jake said.

Jeremy was going into Stuart's hut.

"What are you doing?" Johnny questioned

"I'm seeing what he has got inside". Jeremy answered, "He never let us enter there. So who's with me?"

Jake, Matt, Johnny entered.

Inside Stuart's hut was just a bed and all of his clothes were lying on the floor. There was a 1000 combination safe with 3 dials with a couple plants on top of the safe whose vines were entangling it.

"What's in the safe?" Jake asked

"Leave that to me." Matt grabbed his laptop, began to crack the safe.

Minutes later,

"Got it. Its 526" Matt yelled. Jake reached the dial but the vines struck his hand.

"Son of a...! He got it wired."

Johnny and Jeremy jacked their navis into the safe's computer. The cyberspace floor was filled with vines.

"Allow me!" Flame Man said, unleashing a fire breath wiping out the vines. Then Punk dashed the plant control program, destroying it with a screw crusher.

"It should be safe now." Punk said

"Thanks for the pun." Flame Man replied.

Jake grabbed the dials again, setting them to 526.

It opened automatically.

"What's in it?" Johnny asked

"There seems to be blueprints, some memos, stocks and a disk." Jake replied grabbing everything inside the safe. He handed Matt the disk, who inserted the disk into AH's Main computer.

They all jacked in their navis into computer to see if they could decipher it. The navis opened all of Stu's private files in the disk. The disk file contents were all clustered together that you can't tell the difference what was the beginning of one file and the end of the other.

"It needs a defragmenter so we can tell what from what." Flash Man said

"So, you got a disk defragmenter?" Beast Man replied

"Yeah I do," Flash Man replied. He grabbed the file and quickly put it into the defragmenter. The files launched a flare that went out of the page but the navis shrugged and waited for the files to come out.

"So what do you think those files are?" Jeremy asked. "Stuart kept it a secret from us so it must be something real important."

Everyone just made some guesses on exaggerated nonsense, saying it was secret government technology or that it was classified information about making plants grow really fast.

"We'll just have to wait for." Matt said

***

As for that flare, its pathway was going into the Undernet and inside another site. Somebody was checking on that site.

"Gentlemen," he said. "We found the location of our old weapons."

"Finally! We'll be back on top in no time." One of his colleagues said

"Just leave it to me. I'll have it back sooner than you can say 'Mwa ha ha ha ha ha'." another colleague said

"Are you sure you're up to the task, Swipeson?"

"Why not? After all I am our Counter-Competition Expert" Swipeson replied.

"Very well then," The first gentlemen said. "Don't disappoint the Dark Council."

***

The disk defragmenter was finally done.

"It's about time!" Bubble Man said in anticipation.

The defragmenter shot out what were blueprints of cyber weapons of mass destruction

"This is what he kept secret from us?" Beast Man asked

"If he would have shown us these," Jeremy said "We could have defeated the Net Guardians a long time ago."

"Zlozawoza zzalza? (If these were that powerful, then why would he hide this it from us?)" Desert Man asked.

The other navis just stood there staring at him.

Flash Man replied, shrugging as kept reading "He'll probably want to sell these things for a quick buck or 2."

"When did you become so paranoid?" Flame Man had to ask.

"Zola Zaw (Never Mind)" Desert Man replied

Punk picked up another blueprint, "Check this one out!" he told the others "The Pink Dolphin..."

"Dolphin!?!?!?" Flash Man yelled.

"Thanks for saying the magic word" Nij said

Flash Man screamed and headed out of the page but quickly returned, screaming, "AHHHHH! INTRUDER!!"

"Not Good! Hide the files!" All of the navis were grabbing the blueprints and finding a place to hide them. They quickly placed them underneath the defragmenter. Then the navis got onto the net ready for battle. The security cube for the AH's severs got busted down and the intruder charged and slugged Flash Man with right hook but Flash Man quickly got up and released a Time Stopper, paralyzing and revealing the intruder. Then Punk and Beast Man charged up and unleashed and screw crusher and a savage beast while Desert Man and Bubble Man fired off harpoons and sand blocks and Flame unleashed a fire breathe at him.

"You fools think you've already won." the voice wasn't anyone familiar to them.

"Who's there?" Punk yelled

"The name's Swipeson, Counter Competition Expert of the Dark Council. Don't think you've taken out Piracy Metal Man so easily."

"Piracy?" Flame asked.

"It's data that can take shape and powers of any navi. It can also regenerate any damaged part of its body and multiply."

After he said that, a crystal liquid was coming out of his illegal navi and covered it. Soon all of Piracy Metal Man's wounds begin to heal. He was back in shape in no time. Flash Man was whispering to all his allies except Punk

"There's no way you can delete him!" Swipeson yelled then laughed evilly.

Flame Man didn't hesitate; He set the Candles to Green and Orange, making Flame Man invincible and two chankeys on his opponent's side of the field. Swipeson just gave a smirk as Piracy Metal Man fired off missiles causing the candles to get extinguished. The Dark Council member slotted in 2 chips. The Piracy Navi launched a zap ring at Flame Man then released cloud 3 on him. Beast Man then used savage beast at the Copy navi. Piracy Metal Man managed to get hit by only one claw but then tossed a Metal Blade at the head causing Beast to form together and crash. Desert charged in with a flurry of lion fists while Nij slotted in a Sandstage. Swipeson uploaded an aqua shot and element sand. The shot hit Desert Man causing him to freeze and the Element Sand, since Piracy Metal Man was standing on Sand, gave Desert Man massive damage. Flash Man jumped in using an Ice Stage chip and a Thunder Arm, shocking the illegal copy navi. But Piracy Metal fought back using a metal fist combined with a flurry of punches, knocking out the electric navi. Bubble Man attacked next by using his Bubble Lead combined with a Geddon2 to fill the arena with bubble mine. Piracy Metal Man laughed and then fired missiles at the autonavi. Thanks to the Geddon2, Bubble Man was left wide open; getting hit by all of the missiles.

"5 down, one to go." Swipeson said.

Piracy Metal Man charged at Punk but The Acid Hacker Navi was two steps ahead and unleashed a screw crusher at him. The Dark Council navi copy grabbed Punk's arms and slammed Punk into the ground then placed his foot on Punk.

"Where are the files? If you don't tell I'll have Piracy torture ya until you do" Swipeson asked cruelly.

"I ain't telling ya..."

The doppelganger navi stomped his foot onto Punk 6 times.

"Where is it?"

"I'm not...."

Piracy slammed Punk again and again.

"Where are those files?"

Punk was badly injured but yet still defied Swipeson. As a result, Piracy kept maiming and torturing the navi of the Acid Hacker's leader.

"Where..."

Piracy slammed Punk into the ground again.

"Are..."

The copy navi stomped Punk

"Those..."

Piracy Metal Man kicked Punk into the demolished security cube.

"Files?"

The illegal imposter was about send a metal fist into Punk but suddenly vines shot from the ground wrapped around his fists.

"What the...it can't be... P-P-P-Plant Man. Re-Re-Re-Returned?" Swipeson said in fear.

Piracy Metal Man tried his best to look behind. Beast Man jumped and slashed the doppelganger in the back giving him gaping back wound

"Bzzzt! Wrong Answer! But as constellation prize you can have this free back wound!" Beast Man said

"Well then you should have thought it through, fool. Piracy navis regenerate!" Swipeson replied

"That's what we expected!" Flash Man said, adjacent to the illegal copy. After he said he unleashed another Thunder Arm, this creating a hole in Piracy Metal Man's chest, now making a tunnel in the copy navi. Piracy Metal Man just gave a smirk as the regeneration process began.

"Bubble Man Now!" Flash Man yelled

Bubble Man used a Panel out and then a Fountain. A hole appeared in front of the Auto Navi and then huge wave of water came out of it, hitting the Piracy Metal Man and washing out of the crystal liquid within him as it came out. Then Flame Man fired Flame Blast, evaporating the liquid.

"This can't be!" Swipeson said. "How can I be defeated?"

"Simple," Flash Man said, "Project Piracy regenerates by moving its inner layer to cover any wound or injury then the portion of that inner layer would become part of the outer layer. The plan was to fool you to think you had the upper hand, and then Flame Man set his both candles to red to heal and Our operators would slot in Recovery chips for us while you were interrogating Punk, Then Beast Man and I would sneak up behind your copy navi, I would use a Vine 3 and you know the rest."

"H-H-H-How did you know?" Swipeson demanded

"Easy" Bubble Man said. "We've read all about it in these blubbin blueprints!" He held the Project Piracy blueprint in front of him. Piracy laughed as he charged at the Auto Navi, ready to steal the blueprint but felt heavy weight coming from his legs. Desert Man had grabbed him.

"As King Man would say, CHECKMATE!"

Punk unleashed a final screw crusher, deleting Piracy Metal Man.

"YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THE LAST OF THE DARK COUNCIL!" Swipeson's communication line was disconnected.

"Hey Flash Man." Punk asked.

"Yeah?"

"How come you never told me about the plan?"

"Simple," Flash Man replied, "You'd ruin it."

"WHAT!?"

"Zolawa Zoawwa (Come on, we had a tough fight, we should jack out.)"

"Agreed" Nij replied, Jacking out Desert Man.

The other Acid Hacker operators soon jacked out their navis while Bubble Man had to repair the security cube by himself.

"Sure leave the auto navi to do all the work." Bubble Man said.

***

Back at the Warehouse everyone was ready for a nap after such a huge battle. They haven't expected one thing.

"Which one of you broke into my Room?" Stuart yelled very angrily. "I left for 12 hours and when I returned I find my room ransacked."

"Whoa, Whoa how were we supposed to know what was in that safe?" Matt said defensively.

"Yeah and how were we supposed to know that disk...?" Johnny added.

"You found my disk?" Stuart yelled.

"Jeremy made us do it." Jake said a little bit intimidated.

Stuart had his sight set on Jeremy. His eyes were filled with anger, then he had a simile on his face."

"I can explain..."

Jeremy felt something was tugging his underwear up. He looked behind himself and found a vine attached to pants and was raising him, giving the Acid Hacker Leader a strong wedgie.

Stuart let a laugh out as did the other Acid Hackers.

"Just be lucky I won't let the vine drop you." Stuart said as he went into his room. The vine did put Jeremy back onto the ground while the other Acid Hackers laughed at him.

The End

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