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Chapter 5: The Electra Chronicles
Part 1"Alright, Hex, pick a hand." Jareth held out his hands, fists closed.
"Okay," Hex said, looking from one hand to the other. "I choose....that one!" Hex pointed to Jareth's right hand.
"Good choice!" Jareth switched to a grinning mask, and dropped a small object into Hex's outstretched hand.
Hex's face lit up. "Oh, Jareth! You found it!"
Jareth laughed. "Yep. It was lying where the Tor used to be before the Restart."
Hex gave Jareth a look. "Why wasn't this deleted when the system restarted?"
"I dunno." Jareth plucked it from Hex's hand. "Remember how much fun we had with this last time? I thought we'd never see it again."
Hex grinned. "I bet Bob and the others were HOPING never to see it again."
Jareth gave the small device back to Hexadecimal. "What are you going to do with it?"
"Oh, I don't know....I'm sure I'll think of something." Hex started to walk towards the window.
"Hey...where are you going?"
"Oh....I thought I'd stop by the Diner, see what our friends are up to."
"Don't let them see that. It's not going to make them happy."
Hex laughed. "Don't worry....I won't." Hex Mask-teleported out the window, leaving Jareth standing alone in the Lair.
"Have fun.." Jareth said, gazing out the window after her.
"Doooot...."
Dot Matrix looked up, recognizing the voice before she saw the face that went with it. Only one person in Mainframe tended to stretch names so hauntingly.
"Hello, Hex," she said, "What are you up to today?"
"Oh, not much. It's been very boring around here lately. When are we going to go to the supercomputer?"
"I'm working on the plan right now. We've got to find a way to get in without being spotted, so Mouse and I are trying to come up with some sort of cloaking....Hex? Are you listening?"
Hex looked back at Dot. She had been staring at the ceiling. "Oh..Yes. Yes, I have been listening. We are still going, aren't we? Jareth and I are SO looking forward to seeing Mother again..."
Dot sighed. "And that's another thing. If Jareth comes with us, how can we be sure he won't take Daemon's side? He is still half viral."
"And what am I?"
"Yes, but you're not dangerous anymore. Well....not quite AS dangerous. Jareth is."
Hex pondered that. "Couldn't Bob help him, the way he helped me?"
Dot removed her glasses and started rubbing the bridge of her nose. "No, I'm afraid he already tried. It had no effect."
"Oh. Well, do you have any ideas?"
"Not a one."
Hexadecimal sighed, then turned towards the entrance as a binome burst in, ringing the bell above the door. "Ms. Matrix," the Binome said, sorely out of breath, "I think...there's something...you should see...A portal...just opened..."
"Which way?" asked Dot. The Binome pointed.
Dot, followed closely by Hexadecimal, started off towards the portal. As she exited the Diner, she ran face-first into Bob.
"Hey! Dot? What--"
"Shut up and follow."
Bob followed.
Electra stepped out of the portal and looked around. "It's almost exactly how I remembered it," She said in a low whisper.
"Freeze, Virus!"A gruff-sounding voice shouted. Electra suddenly felt the barrel of a gun press against her back.
"Do you have any idea who I am?" Electra said with a growl.
"No, and I don't care. You're a virus."
Electra mouthed a quick command to her Keytool. "BuBBle--Containment Field." Instantly, a crystal-clear bubble appeared around Matrix. "I wouldn't shoot in there if I were you... That bubble would reflect it right back at you."
"How the Motherboard did you get a keytool?" Matrix asked, surprised. His eye swiveled back to it's original position.
"I have two, thank you very much.... If you promise to be a good boy, I'll introduce you to Jet." Electra smirked.
"I'll never su..."
"Hey what's going on there?" Bob's voice rang out. Electra toyed innocently with her hair as the chrome-plated guardian walked over to her.
"Oooh, Bob...It's a viral sprite." Hexadecimal's voice rang out and she appeared beside Electra.
"Um... Hi. could you release my friend?" Bob asked.
"But BOB!"
"Matrix, no complaining." Matrix frowned, but shut up anyway.
"BuBBle, release field." With a sound like glass shattering, the Containment Field dissolved.
Hex's eyes widen. "BuBBle? Is that you Electra? My, you've grown."
"No, Hex, I haven't. That's just your mind playing tricks on you."
"Oh. Well, it's still good to have you back. And Jareth will be so happy to see you."
"Jareth's still here?"
"Of course he is... I'm going to go tell him now."
Electra suddenly looked very uncomfortable. "Yeah. Catch up with you later Hex." With a flash of light, Hexadecimal disappeared.
Electra looked down at her shoes.. "Um... Bob. Take me to Phong."
Bob was surprised she knew so much about the city. "Don't you know where Phong is?"
"Fine. I'll go looking for him myself."
Phong's head snapped up as the Principal Office's alarms activated, signaling an unauthorized entry.
"Oh, dear...," the old Command.Com said, punching a few buttons on his console and bringing up a visual of the intruder. His hand automatically went to the button that would activate the security systems, but he paused when he saw who the intruder was. Moments later, the doors to the Phong's office opened, and Electra entered, looking just as she had when he had last seen her.
"Hello, my child," He said, smiling kindly at Electra. "How have you been? For that matter, WHERE have you been?"
"Hi, Phong. I've been...busy. How's everything? And what happened to Hex's face?"
"Hex's face was mended by Bob....does he know you're here? He'll be very happy to meet you."
Electra grinned. "I saw him as I was coming in. So, what's new? Is Megabyte still terrorizing everyone?"
"No, Megabyte has been deleted."
"Deleted? What else have I missed? You're not hiding a wife and family somewhere, are you, Phong?" Phong laughed. "No, my child. Perhaps I should...bring you up to speed."
"Oh, Jaaaaareth...." Hexadecimal swooped into the Lair through the usual entrance, the window.
"Hi, Hex. Don't you ever use the door?"
Hex gave Jareth a perplexed look. "The Lair doesn't have a door, Jareth."
"Oh, yeah....maybe we should build one. We could put it over-"
"Jareth, you'll never guess who's back," Hexadecimal interrupted.
"Megabyte?"
"No."
"Bob?"
"Ages ago."
"Elvis?"
"Who's Elvis?"
"I give up. Who?"
"I don't know who Elvis is."
"No, I mean, who's back?"
"Electra."
"ELECTRA?"
"Viral sprite, twin Keytools, about this big..."
Jareth switched to an annoyed mask. "I KNOW who she is. She's really back? As in, HERE?"
"I believe she said she was going to visit Phong...are you going to go see her?"
"I dunno....it's been a while."
"You should go see her." Hex grinned. "I think she likes you."
"Everyone says that."
Hex shrugged. "Maybe it's true. You'd make a good couple." Jareth vanished into his mask, which went spinning out of the room. "AND YOU KNOW IT, TOO!" Hex called. She sat down on her throne and stroked Scuzzy. "This....should be interesting."
The past.....
Electra sat up. Her mother had been yelling at her for milliseconds, trying to wake her up.
"Electra! Get up. Kit just called... She wants you to meet her at Chu's Diner!"
"YES, MOTHER!" Electra looked over to her mirror. "I hate my hair in the morning." She said. She picked up her comb and tried to unknot her long black hair. It's strange white tint shone through when the light caught it just right.
"And don't forget, you ARE going to school today. I don't want another call from your principal saying you were in a fight, or were caught skipping.
"YES MOTHER!" Electra sighed and double clicked on her icon, to changing into her school uniform. She looked at herself in the mirror again and rolled her eyes. She hated her school uniform.
"Electra?" Electra rolled her eyes again. "Are you ready?"
"Yes mother." Electra walked out of the room.
Kit looked out the window, waiting for Electra. She finally spotted her, but with a guy from their school, 3D. They stopped for a second, then Electra walked on alone into the diner.
"So... Who's Ms. Guy magnet going out with next cycle?" Kit asked.
"No one."
"But I saw you with..."
"No one.... he's such a jerk, anyway."
"Well, if your looking for a nice guy, then what about Jareth?" Kit smiled smugly.
"Jareth...he's a User. I guess if you go for that type...."
"Oh, I do. I do."
"Fine then, You go out with him." Electra smirked.
"Wha? I wouldn't be dead seen with him. I have more important guys to look out for."
"Like Backslash?" Electra grinned.
"I don't have to sit here and be insulted."
"No you don't.... since we're late for school, you can be insulted on the way."
Electra stood up, and Kit followed her as she walked out of the diner. In the booth directly behind the Kit and Electra had just vacated, Jareth finished off the last of his meal. He turned to watch as the two girls left the Diner.
"Hmmmm." He placed a few units down on the table and walked out.
The present....
Night fell upon Mainframe. Timesprite wandered aimlessly down the seemingly endless alleys of Level 31, searching for something to allieviate her ever-growing boredom. It seemed like it had been forever since the system restarted, bringing her back to life after many minutes of deletion. Actually, it had been less than a cycle, but one of the drawbacks of being chaotic was an unreliable memory. Timesprite sighed. Maybe something interesting would happen soon. She had heard that Electra was back in town. Maybe she could go and listen to some of her stories. She had always wondered what Electra had done, where she had gone after she left Mainframe.
Without warning, a small black object went spinning past Timesprite, heading in the vague direction of Al's Wait 'N' Eat. Timesprite turned the corner just in time to see it fly through the restaraunt's entrance. Timesprite entered, wondering if it had been what she thought it was. Sure enough, there, sitting at the bar, was Jareth. Timesprite wandered through the crowded room and sat down next to him.
"Hey, Jareth."
Jareth started at the sound of his name. Level 31 was renowned for being the worst neighborhood in Mainframe, and he hadn't thought a Virus would draw too much attention here. He hadn't realized the other Virals in Mainframe might be hanging out here as well.
"Hello, Timey. What's up?"
Timesprite looked up. "The ceiling, the rafters, the--"
Jareth held up his hand. "Please. You have no idea how sick I am of that joke."
Timesprite shot him a perplexed look. "What joke?"
"The joke that...never mind."
Timesprite shrugged and started digging into the complementary chips that were set on the bar. "So, what brings you to Level 31?"
"Nothing much. I've just been thinking. You know Electra's back in town?"
"I heard. I thought about going to see her, ask about her adventures.. Have you talked to her yet?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"It's just....I..."
"You Like her?"
"I do not!"
"You like her. I think--"
"If you're going to say you think we make a good couple, skip it. I've already been through that today."
"How long have you known Electra, anyway? You knew her before I came to Mainframe, right?"
"Oh, yeah. We've been friends ever since we were little kids..."
"So this isn't anything new?"
Jareth sighed. "No...."
The past....
The bell rang. Jareth looked at the school gates as students quickly flittered out. They're were a few sprites that went slower then the rest, among them was Kit who happily walked along with some boys in the direction of the diner. Electra, followed her slowly....very slowly.
Jareth didn't have to walk that much to catch up with her. "Hello Electra."
Electra jumped, startled. She hadn't realized she was being followed. "Hello Jareth."
"I was in the diner last cycle," Jareth said, walking backwards so he could face her. Electra blushed bright red for a second, no easy task for someone with green skin.
"Oh.... were you?" she said as calmly as she could. "I didn't see you."
"I saw you. Actually, I was sitting behind you."
"You wouldn't be listening in on other sprites conversations, now would you?"
"No, Of course not." Jareth said, his fingers crossed behind his back.
"Well..... Maybe I'll see you around," Electra said, walking past him and into the Diner.
(You both sounded pretty insecure)
(Well, we were just kids.)
(And this was all before the Twin City incident?)
(Yeah. Way before. Everything changed after that....)
In the newly decorated room, A sleeping Electra tossed and turned in her sleep. She hadn't slept well since the crash. Maybe it was because of the burns that hadn't yet healed. Maybe it was because she felt somewhat guilty about what happened to Jareth. Electra rolled over again, knocking a picture off the nightstand. Jareth picked it up and recognized it. It was a picture of Electra and him taken a long time ago.
(What were you doing in her room? And didn't she notice you?)
(Quiet... I was getting to that.)
"What are you doing here?" Electra growled.
(Jareth... I think you skipped a bit)
(Did I? Oh. So I did.)
Jareth was looking at the picture when Electra sat up. "What are you doing here?" Electra growled.
(Better?)
(Much)
"Easy, easy, I only wanted to talk to you." Jareth switched masks, smiling warmly. He hoped she'd believe him... She didn't.
"Out." She said, sliding out of her bed.
"Come on. Why can't we just talk like we used too?"
"You're different now, if you haven't noticed." Electra said picking up her sword from the floor beside her bed.
"I noticed. Are you planning to skewer me?" Jareth smirked.
"Only if you come closer."
Jareth deliberately took one step towards Electra. Electra raised the sword a little. "Calm down."
"Calm down? Are you crazy? I'm in my room with a Virus! A Virus who used to be my friend."
"Why can't I still be a friend?" Jareth moved a little closer, and
Electra got ready to strike, but instead dropped the sword. "Look. Just get out."
(Did you end up leaving on your own free will?)
(No, she kicked me out.... Literally.)
The present....
Electra climbed through the window of Hexadecimal's Lair, trying not to tear her clothing on the edges as she did.
"Hello Electra," said Hex, watching her in amusement. "I should really get a door, shouldn't I?" she asked. The Lair was normally accessible only to those who could fly.
"It might help." Electra hopped down from the windowsill. "Is Jareth around?"
"Jareth? No, but he should be here soon."
"Do you want me to find him?"
"Oh, I'm sure if we wait around long enough, he's bound to show up eventually."
Electra sighed. "It's probably better that he's not here. I'm not even sure why I'm looking for him."
"Electra? How did you become viral?" Hex asked, completely out of the blue.
"Rather blunt, aren't you, Hex?"
"You could say that. How did it happen? You weren't a viral when we first met, were you?"
"Alright Hex, sit down and I'll tell you."
The Past.....
Jareth walked into the Diner, ringing the bell that hung above the door. Electra glared at him from her booth.
"Kit. Electra." Jareth walked up to them.
"What do you want, Virus? Are you going to follow me everywhere now?"
(Do you have to do the actions?)
(I am? Oh my.)
(And why did you call Jareth names?? You're half-viral too...)
(Hex....)
(Yes?)
(I didn't know what I was going to do, and I wasn't viral yet. Now don't interrupt.)
(Okay.)
"Hex is throwing some sort of party tonight at the Lair. You and Kit are invited. Please come." His message delivered, Jareth wandered off to another part of the Diner.
(Oh, the Party..... what party?)
(Think of it this way. You, me, Jareth, and Kit. Tea party.)
(Oh yes.... I really must have another one of those. So what happened next?)
(You mean at the party?)
"You've been staring at him all cycle." Kit exclaimed.
"Well, not all cycle.... I mean.... Who?"
"Jareth... who else?"
"Actually I've been looking at these biscuits Hex made. Look... they're little Jareth's."
Kit flashed her an ‘Oh, please.' look.
"Alright... maybe I glanced a few times. but do you remember? He became hands off when he became viral."
"Then un-infect him, or find another way to be together."
"He can't be uninfected. It was the Guardian who merged with the virus, not the other way around. If I tried to split him, there'd be no Jareth left in him at all, just Lore.
"Yeah, Yeah, but there has to be another way."
"No.... Unless...."
(So what did you do?)
(Well.......Do you have any more of those Jareth cookies?)
(I think so.)
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Dot Matrix studied the vidwindows that were arranged in front of her, all of them displaying 3-Dimensional maps of the Supercomputer. Possible weak points, armories, and Guardian barracks were indicated by small blinking lights. The others who were present in the P.O.'s control room waited to hear Dot's plan. Nearly all the sprites in Mainframe were present, including several Webriders who had been recruited by Bob at the last minute. "Wait a minute...." Dot said, "Not everyone's here. Where's Hex? And Jareth?"
"Electra and Timesprite are missing, too," AndrAIa said.
"I think I can round them up....just gimme a few nanos," Kit said. Without waiting for a reply, she turned and headed out. Dot sighed and turned back to her charts. Soon, the attack would begin...**************************************************************
"And that's the whole story. What do you think I should do?" Jareth asked. He turned away from his drink and faced Timesprite.
"I think you should talk to her. You do care about her, right?"
"Yes. I think I do. It's just--"
"I'm sorry. I have to ask this. How the Motherboard do you drink that?" Timesprite gestured towards Jareth's drink.
"This? It's not so bad."
"No, I mean HOW do you drink it? You haven't got a mouth."
"Oh, that. Well--"
"Jareth!" Kit's voice resounded throughout the nearly empty bar.
"Kit?" Jareth turned as Kit entered the building.
Hello, Kit," Timesprite said. "What brings you to Level 31?"
"You do. Dot's planning the attack on the Supercomputer. She wants everyone who's going to report to the P.O. ASAP."
"What's the P.O.A.S.A.P.?" Jareth asked.
Kit sighed and rolled her eyes to the ceiling. "The Principal Office, Jareth. If you're going, get there." Kit turned and left the bar, muttering something about ‘Crazy Viruses'.
Timesprite turned back to Jareth. "Well?"
"Well, what? The Supercomputer awaits." Jareth vanished into his mask and went spinning out of the restaraunt.
Timesprite used the door.
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Hex held a tray out to Electra. It was laden with biscuits and cookies shaped like all sorts of sprites and binomes, including Megabytes and Jareths.
"Thanks, Hex." Electra took one of the Jareth cookies and bit it's head off.
"So, where were we?"
"We were at the part--"
"Hex!"
Hexadecimal and Electra turned to the window, where a struggling Kit was attempting to climb into the Lair though the window. "Hex...can I make a suggestion?" she asked.
"Get a door?" asked Electra.
Kit nodded and dropped to the floor. "Dot wants everyone to report to the P.O."
"Why?" asked Electra.
"Mouse found a way to get into the Supercomputer without setting off any alarms. So Dot wants to go over the plan before we attack."
"Yes....I must have a chat with Mother....did you know she attacked Jareth?" Hex asked Electra.
"No. Why? When was that?" asked Electra.
"Not long ago. When she heard that there were Guardians who escaped her infection, she sent a bunch of aero-drone things to attack the system. Jareth showed up on their scanners as a Guardian, so they went after him, too," Kit explained.
"Yes...and I mean to ask her about that. Let's go," Hex said. She vanished into her mask and floated out of the Lair.
"Why can't they just walk like everyone else?" Kit asked.
"Beats me," Electra said. "Now, how do we get out of here?"
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After half a cycle passed, Kit and Electra finally managed to get to the principal office....grumbling. "I wish I could do that mask-teleport thing," Electra said.
"I should have brought a zip board," Kit replied. She keyed in the access code and opened the P.O.'s security doors.
"It's about time you two got here." Dot announced to Kit and Electra as they entered the room.
"Sorry... We sort of had trouble trying to get out of Hex's window." Kit said sighing.
Accepting this, if not completely understanding it, Dot gestured for Mouse to begin.
"Ah'm going to be able to turn the Supercomputer's alarms off for three nanos," Mouse said. "But no longer than that. So we'll have to get to the rebel sector pretty quick. Which reminds me.... Where is this rebel sector?"
Electra pointed it out on the map. "There," she said. "A few of the Viruses are jealous of Daemon, and were planning an uprising. The trouble was, they'd have to deal with the entire Guardian collective before they could make it to her."
AndrAIa looked up from her console. "Maybe you should call them, and let them know that reenforcements are on the way."
"Good idea," Electra said. She walked over to the communicator and dialed up her contacts.
While Electra was making the call, Dot announced the rest of the plan to the others. She informed everyone that they'd leave in a cycle.
"You hear that, GigAnate?" Electra asked. The slender Chaotic Virus grinned back at her from the screen.
"That's great, Electra. I'll tell the others," GigAnate said. "When are you coming?"
"We leave for the Supercomputer in a cycle."
"Okay. What will you do ‘till then?"
"I thought I'd see if my old place is still around. Later, GigAnate." As Electra switched off the Vidwindow, she felt a familiar pair of eyes on her back.
She turned around, and there stood Jareth. "Um..... Hi....... Jareth......" Electra stuttered.
"Hi Electra."
"Well.... I'll see you later." Electra quickly walked off before Jareth could say anything more.
Jareth watched as Electra left the P.O. Hex walked up to stand beside him.
"I don't get it, Hex. The girl lives in the Supercomputer. She walks on the same streets with Viruses and infected Guardians every day. But every time she sees me, she takes off like a frightened Null."
"She likes you."
"Oh, shut up." Jareth said.
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Electra wandered through the streets of Mainframe, heading in the General direction of her old apartment. She was shocked to find it still standing, and even more shocked to find that the doors were still keyed to her code. Apparently, no one had been living here since she had left. A sudden fluttering noise made her jump, but when she turned around she saw nothing. "Get a hold of yourself, Electra. You're losin' it." Electra turned and entered the building. "You're even talking to yourself." Back in her old room, She began to sort through some of her old things. The entire apartment was covered in a thick layer of dust. She sneezed.
"Bless you."
Electra gasped and spun around. There stood Jareth, his wings spread behind him. That explained the fluttering noise. "What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I followed you." Jareth picked up a picture from one of the tables and dusted it off. "I used to come here a lot, right after you left. But I haven't been here in a long time."
"Why are you following me? What do you want?"
"Electra? Why did you leave Mainframe?"
"I...wanted adventure. I was bored."
"That's what you told everyone. But why did you really leave?"
Electra looked at him, but didn't say anything.
Jareth sighed. "We can still be friends, ‘Lectra. Think about it."
Jareth tossed the picture to Electra, who caught it. Electra looked down. It was the same picture, the one of the two of them as children. "Jareth..." Electra began, but when she looked up, he was gone.
The next day....
Electra quickly ran through the Principle Office's double doors. "You're late Electra...," Dot said.
"Sorry."
Dot shrugged, then headed for the conference room.
Kit looked up at Electra as she walked over."You've changed your clothes," Kit said.
"Yeah, what of it?"
"Aren't they the clothes you...?"
"Yes, they are."
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The past....
"Do we really have to continue this?" Jareth said as he ducked to miss the swipe of Electra's sword. Electra executed a quick back flip and shouted a command to her Keytool.
"Jet--Crossbow!" Before Jareth could react, she shot him square in the chest. "Don't worry. It's only a stun arrow." Electra said as Jareth sunk into a deep slumber. "Bubble--code extractor." Electra kneeled down next to Jareth. "Copy and download Viral programming" BuBBle beeped, and a stream of green diamonds flowed from Jareth's Icon into Electra's. Electra screamed as Viral programming began to integrate with her code.
Roused by her screaming, Jareth awakened. His vison cleared just in time to see Electra hit the ground. "Electra? What did you do?" He picked her up and, unfolding his wings, carried her off towards the Principle Office.
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"Now Jareth, Tell me what Happened, we can't help her if we don't know what attacked her." Phong explained.
"I didn't see it, She had used a stun arrow on me, by the time I woke up she was fainting."
"Are you sure, Jareth? Are you sure......you didn't do it?"
"Yes, Phong. Well...pretty sure."
"Phong! Her condition is Changing." A binome in a doctor's uniform called out. Both Jareth and Phong rushed in. Electra lay on a hospital bed, tossing and turning restlessly. With a green shimmer, Electra's Icon changed from Black-and-white to Purple-and black. "She's turning Viral!" Exlamined the Binome.
The Binome and Phong glared at Jareth.
"What?" he asked.
Phong and the Binome continued to glare at Jareth. "I didn't do anything, I swear!"
"He didn't do it, I did." They turned around to see Electra, crouching on the bed as if she was about to pounce. Her black hair with it's strange white tint looked wild and unkempt, and she had developed claws and fangs. Her perfect blue eyes seemed almost innocent alongside her wild hair.
Jareth looked at her, stunned. "Electra...?" Electra jumped through the window and ran off.
Phong sighed. "Tell Security that we have a new Virus on our hands."
* * *
The present.......
"So how come you changed back?" Kit asked. "I thought you liked that new outfit better."
Electra just shrugged and changed the subject. "Come on, we'll be late."
"We're already late," Kit said, but followed anyway.The two sprites entered the conference room, where most of the others had already gathered. Mouse was typing at one of the workstation consoles, presumably trying to hack the Supercomputer's security network. AndrAIa stood nearby, watching her work. Dot and Bob were standing off to one side, discussing the plan for the attack. Matrix was cleaning his Gun, and Hack and Slash were arguing about cheese.
"Why cheese?" Kit asked of no one in particular as they passed.
"Why not cheese?" Electra replied.
Unable to argue with her logic, Kit shrugged.
"Gavin and his crew are preparing the ship," she said to Electra. "We'll be taking the Saucy Mare, except for Mouse and Dot. They'll be taking Ship."
Electra looked around the room. "Where's Jareth?"
"He and Hex already left. They said they'd meet us there."
"Electra? Could you come here for a moment, please?" Dot asked. Electra walked over to her. "I need you to contact the Rebels again. Tell them to meet us here." She pointed to a position on the Holo-display.
"Okay," Electra said. She walked over to the communicator and punched in a few buttons.
Mouse, done with her hacking, walked over to Dot. "Why aren't we stickin' with the original plan?"
"In case anyone here has been leaking our plans to Daemon. Think about it. Jareth and Hexadecimal are Daemon's children. They might decide to side with her."