Roger Wilco (jr.) and the Hackers of Wedaton by Rutherford B. Hayes It was like the Silver-Tailed Pheonix...Roger Jr arose from the ashes. As he watched his father jump into the time rip back to SQ4, he looked around. Xenon was a MESS. Clumps of dirt and destroyed buildings were everywhere. Since being in an almost mind-sucking transfer beam, he had almost no idea what caused this incident from the start. Even after eliminating Vohaul, the city was in ruins. Without the assistance of Xenon's SuperComputer, rebuilding Xenon would require great skills. One man just couldn't do everything by himself. When Roger Jr looked out of the SuperComputer outpost, he couldn't help but stare at the pink bunny wandering mindlessly on the streets, and the Droid-O-Death shining bright red lights to show it was offline... BEEP Roger Jr's time gun beeped to show it was fully charged. Well, he couldn't just stay here forever. He set the gun to time period SQ-XIII and fired...CRASH!!! A strange man wearing a small, green cloak, black hair and long brown pants stumbled out of the time rip, which sealed itself again. Jr looked at him in surprise as he got to his feet and looked around in surprise. "What in the name of Sir Graham is this kind of castle, young page?" said the man. "Umm, who are you, sir?" asked Jr. "My name is Alexander of Daventry." he replied. Roger Jr was shocked! This man had come from the KQ9 period! And now he was stuck in the SQ period? In the middle of a POST-APOCALYPSE? What kind of event would get Alexander HERE? "Sir Alex, how did you get all the way over here?" asked Jr. "The most I could remember was that I was standing outside the castle of Daventry, admiring its greatness. Then, two dark shadows loomed above me...and here I am." Two dark shadows? In the KQ9 age? Roger Jr had played KQ9 before, but he hadn't seen those shadows...could they be...hac- Before Roger Jr could stop to think about it, he suddenly heard loud noises coming from inside the computer structure! He quickly sprinted from his current position into the tunnel, and Prince Alexander followed curiously. Soon, Roger Jr was inside the computer's main structure. It was dark, except for repeatedly flashing lights. "What is this dungeon?" called Alexander. Roger Jr ignored the call and quickly sprinted his way towards the complex's inner sanctum. Electric bolts were shooting into the walls of the brain complex. He continued his way, ran into the tunnels of the inner sanctum...and everything was dark. Seconds later, lights came on... An evil, new face had ported itself into the Super Computer's hologramic system. It wasn't Sludge Vohaul - he was formatted. However, this person looked very much related to this person. He had a chin goatee and ruffled black hair...of course, you couldn't exactly tell the color of his hair on a hologram. Roger Jr looked around. How did they manage to get the Super Computer back online? The actual brain was erased...they must've kept a boot disk of a similar utility on their home planet...still, Roger Jr pondered a single question. What was this hacker-person going to do to Xenon, or any other planets inside the Earnon galaxy? Just then, he spoke. "Mortal of Xenon. I command you to sit down." Sit down?...just then, Jr spotted a what-would-be-like chair with several computer controls rigged into the arms. He sat down and looked around curiously. The hacker spoke once more... "I am Jorge Vicerd, from the planet Wedaton, second-in-command of SHODD - Specialists of Hacking into Offensive & Defensive Databases. We have discovered a formula for hacking the latest SuperComputer since SQXI. After losing our colleague - Sludge Vohaul's - signals, we proceeded to investigate at the time period of SQXIII. Finding you the reason of our failure..." just then, a huge electric shock blasted into Jr, "We will claim you guilty as charged." And, as it looked, Jr was being electrocuted. Electric bolts shooted into him...but it was over before it started. "shiznit!" said what looked like the Executions Hacker, "His kind is invulnerable to this kind of material...although, we learned before that his father actually wasn't, resulting in his last gory death." Roger Jr remembered that. When a group of what they claimed as "Special Ops" took Roger Sr. to an execution facility. He was tortured and electrocuted when his cries filled up the whole facility...so the other Hackers trained guns on Roger Jr, proned to fire...he was doomed... "WHAT IN THE NAME OF DAVENTRY?!" called out a voice. It was Sir Alexander! He ran into the complex, out of breath from trying to chase Jr. "An outsider from the KQ dimension! Eliminate him!" Now was Junior's time to escape. He looked at his chair console and pushed what looked like an "EJECT" button. As he did so, he realized too late he had made a mistake. A knockout electrocution bolt fired through the chair, knocking him out this time... Soon, Roger Jr woke up a few hours later, he thought. He looked around...he was in a small sitting cubicle. There were three windows, two at the sides and one at the front. The front window looked upon some sort of control center, blocked off by a glass wall and a computer. Jr couldn't move, there appeared to be some tranquilization injection shot into him before, because he felt so stiff. A speaker was rigged into the ceiling of this cubicle. A button was situated at one of the opening doors to stop the cub...oh no, a button...this was a VOMIT COMET. One of these things that spin you out of control and go up to 50 G-forces. 20 Gs were about as much as the human body could take before become disrupted. Just then, the speaker boomed, "Because you have escaped from my clenches once more, I will proceed to eliminate you in the most painful ways possible." The car then slowly started moving...exhaust gas shooted into the room. Roger Jr tried to cough but he couldn't - the tranquilizer seemed to have sealed his mouth. A nearby meter showed the G level of the car. It slowly started to increase. It started out with one G, which was about the actual weight of the human body...after a few seconds it rose to 2 Gs...then to 3, then 4, then 5. Jr started to feel his body char. It must be either the G forces acting upon him, or the tranquilization starting to wear off. He felt a rather ticklish tingling feeling...but this was not a time to laugh. When Jr started to feel something move, the G forces had already moved up to 8. And then, it still got higher. The man at the controls was ruthless and repeatedly started increasing the G force without any feel of remorse. The forces rose to 11. Thoughts started to race through Junior's mind about...the "Special Ops" squadron. Father was being tugged away by two soldiers, and mother...she was... 18 Gs! Roger Jr didn't waste an opportunity! He quickly shook off the tranquilization and smacked the button with his foot, just before the G level reached 19. The cubicle slowly started to stop...and it did. Everything went black, but Junior was fine...until Jorge found out. When Roger. Jr finally woke up, his hands were tied to a rope hanging from a helicopter, floating above the planet of Kiz Urazgubi. He heard the pilot say, "...a drop in the ocean...". Ocean?! Suddenly, Roger. Jr found out that the rope was being held by a rather unstable steel peg. Junior swung repeatedly, loosening the peg millimeter-by-millimeter. The helicopter had started to slow down, the helicopter was over a pool of very cold water. Roger. Jr then did one enormous swing as the helicopter hovered down, then...*SNAP!!!* Junior had escaped drowning! He had swung off the helicopter, broke the rope and had landed on one of the shores. The pilot, surprised and shocked by this event, called out, "Send in La'Mile Cocque!" Cocque was a French assassin working for, in which Roger Jr. found out, the head hacker Jorge Vicerd. Cocque jumped out of the helicopter, armed with a piton gun. This gun was rigged with a steel cord used to suffocate people when it hits the neck of someone. Roger. Jr sprinted into a cave, clear out of Cocque's sight. Soon, Junior went to the top of a crivace. However, Cocque was not far away. He was using his piton gun to get from cliff-to-cliff. Roger. Jr walked around the crivace a bit until... *THUNK CLUNK BUNK* "Alexander!!!" "Yes, good knight?" Sir Alexander was as annoying as ever at this point. At this point, Cocque spotted Roger, then he fired his piton gun straight at...Alexander's foot, tripping him off the cliff. "Good riddance!" shouted Junior as he ran into another cave. He found himself on another part of a cliff with...a boulder. Roger got out his time-warp gun and set it to "TELEPORT". The batteries were almost empty, however. Junior, hateful about this, kicked the gun repeatedly. It turned on and teleported...but it didn't teleport Roger, instead it teleported the boulder... ...which fell right on Cocque, crushing him! "Hasta la vista, baby!" Roger Jr. called out with glee..."Oh, god that was lame. Just like saying 'parking lot pizza.'" Suddenly...a helicopter behind him KNOCKED Roger Jr into the pool! "We've got him...get the rope, Otis." said the pilot. Roger didn't give up so easily, however, unlike his wimpy father. He swam to the shore and hid behind a bush. "I must admit you're as witty as me, good sir." said Alexander. "Oh, not you again!" Suddenly, Junior had an idea. He shoved Alexander out, then like a ventriloquist, called out, "I surrender!" "That's him, Otis!" the pilot shouted, as he ran towards Alexander, grabbed him by the legs and tied him to a chain. Otis, the pilot's bodyguard, dropped a metal slab in the pool and tied Alexander's chain to it. They then began the gory process of drowning him. "Eesh." Roger Jr whispered as he snuck clear out of sight of the brutes. He suddenly saw a piton gun on the ground. He picked it up then hit Otis' head with it! He screamed and wailed as he fell into the pool. The pilot, with no idea what was going on, jumped in with him. "At least I have the pleasure of drowning them, too..." Jr scrambled into the helicopter and looked at the sky. It was as black as blood... Of course, Roger Jr had to get to Jorge Vicera. It would determine the fate of him, and his planet Xenon. After pressing a few buttons, the helicopter was turned into a stealth vehicle. Jr then left orbit of the planet and started up lite-speed mode, searching for the whereabouts of where Jorge would be... He scanned every planet until he finally got to... Gingivitis. A highly unstable and volcanic planet, in the words of his StarCon teacher Cpt. Frans (in honor of SpaceQuest.net and Frans Van Hofwegen ). "Have to get down there...Jorge will probably be waiting for me." Roger Jr set up advanced orbit, turned his stealth ship into a helicopter and entered the planet. Yes, Jr was right. Labs and computer control stations and bunkers and satellite dishes were scattered EVERYWHERE on Gingivitis. How can they stand the unstable activities? Questions quickly answered. A well-known source of radioactive petroleum deposits were in Gingivitis. Since the radioactive petroleum meant business, it was drilled out... and used to power Jorge's extreme set-up in a nearby petrol/nuclear plant. Of course, Junior wasn't allowed to sight-see for long. A cruise missile blasted the helicopter, and Jr jumped out just in time, but his escape ride was now on fire. Troopers scrambled out of the buildings...then Junior remembered the piton gun. He aimed it at a nearby satellite dish, fired and got a ride. Suddenly, Jorge came out in a military combat unit. He aimed his rocket launcher at the dish...and proceeded to blow it up. Junior came flying out and CRUNCHED onto the ground. "Major, be careful with that thing," said Jorge's personal bodyguard, "That bazooka has enough power to roast that petroleum plant - over there." "The only thing I am concentrating on now, Captain...is toasting Junior before he meddles in my plans anymore." Jorge announced. Roger Jr, knocked out and possibly dead, was brought to Jorge. "Bring him to the waste disposal machine...he'll be a good source of petrol." Roger Jr woke up. He was all bruised and beaten. He was inside what looked like a crusher, only it wasn't turned on yet. He was covered in muddy, dirty petrol and coal. It had nearly soaked his clothes...the room was very dark. It would be impossible to predict what would happen next. Suddenly, there was a rumbling noise. The ceiling started moving down. Roger Jr quickly span around for an exit. There was a cooling vent...so he quickly busted it open and crawled through. He watched as the waste petrol and coal got crushed...and had he not got out in time, there would also be blood and skin. Junior then went on, crawling through the cooling vent. It seemed to get hotter and hotter as he crawled on, as if it was about to burn up...it seemed to go on forever......wasn't there a way out?! Junior then realized, he was heading around the planet. There was a pipeline heading around it. He had to escape this pipeline, there must be a very hot package coming along. Suddenly, he came along a small trapdoor. He opened it up, and slid downwards into one of Gingivitis' very few mining facilities. That could explain half the rumbling. "Remarkable...but these things need to be destroyed," Roger said to himself. He went on until he found a security-locked computer system. This controlled the mine's drilling process. Laying atop the keyboard was a manual...who would leave that behind? He flicked open the manual and switched to "PASSWORDS - Entry password. It is recommended that you entry the password at current dateline." Junior keyed in the stardate: 31.798. The computer beeped to show it was unlocked... "EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN - Select 'Emergencies' in main menu. Select 'Emergency Shutdown'. Confirm. This will cause all drills to shut down." Junior did so, with glee...and before he knew it, the rumbling stopped...but he remembered about the radioactive deposits...and it started rumbling...and rumbling...and it started to shake and twist and rattle and roll... Explosions went off around the mine crater. Evacuation drills were called. Soldiers ran everywhere - they weren't concentrating on Roger, they were concentrating on their life. Also eager to escape, Junior followed a soldier up the ladder to the surface. Gingivitis was shaking and...a volcano was rising out of the ground! It spurted large amounts of coal and lava, which flooded the whole planet. Junior reckoned he had about ten minutes before the whole planet melted down and fell from the universe's grasp.