VIRUS

                                 Chapter 4



      Back at Mike's, Virus was munching away at the modem's output
  buss to the phone line, when an idea began to take shape in his tiny
  mind.  What if I could get into those wires while Mike was on line
  with Don?  I wouldn't have to use the ship anymore!  ...And I could
  visit the kids in a flash!

      Don made his decision.  He would call a special meeting of all
  the sysops in the area to discuss all the weird problems everyone
  was having.  Don was fairly sure they would have to call in the
  EXTERMINATOR.

      Hack and lock were making repairs to their ship in preparation
  for starting a new colony.  Hack had just finished checking the food
  stocks when suddenly Virus and Heat popped into view in the middle of
  the Mother board.  "Mom!  Pop!..  Where'd you come from?  How'd you do
  that?"  "Son, I have discovered a marvelous thing.  It's called
a MODEM!"
  Virus called a meeting of all the colony leaders by sending messengers
  via the modem.  This required waiting until the system operators had gone
  to bed for the night, and wouldn't notice their computers going on line.

  They all gathered at Mike's place for the biggest meeting of the clans
  since they left the bottom of the pond.  Mike was to experience some
  weird difficulties for the next several days.

      Virus decided someone must take the news to the Supreme Council
  back home.  Hack volunteered for the mission.  The news was too
  important to trust to just any `ole bug.

      Benny, Don, and Mike had determined that the EXTERMINATOR would
  have to be called in.  Don put the call to the Big X.

      Hack's ship left for home the next morning with all the news of
  their adventures.  Before he was half way home, the Big X had
  arrived at Benny's.  By the time Hack had arrived at the Council,
  not one single member of the colonies was alive.  The Big X had done
  his job well.

      After Hack's announcement of all the wonders in the world above,
  The Supreme Council made plans and directed that ships were to be
  built to transport all who wanted to go to the upper world.  Hack
  prepared for the trip back to his new home.  He left the next
  morning.

      When Hack rolled into Mike's computer and heard the smooth
  hum of the hard drive, he knew something was terribly wrong.
  He didn't have far to look!  Everyone lay dead in the middle
  of Mike's Mother board.  The glow of their magnetism extinguished
  forever.  They had all been killed by a method of extermination usually
  reserved for the most hardened of criminals back home... DEMAGNETIZATION!
   ...Hack vowed revenge.

      He would gather his people into a force and with the help of
  their new discovery, the modem, they would wreak havoc on all the
  computers in all the world.


                                 Continued

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