Dot Com's First Adventure

DOT COM'S FIRST ADVENTURE
…how an ordinary schoolgirl became an INTERNET VOYAGER!
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Chapter 54 - Time to go Blackshanks was gone... Adrienne's red train search engine was working again... and there was work to do. And not just for Dot, Wizzie and Mr Mouse either! "Hey baby" said Louise the Afghan hound Searcher softly, looking at Cursor the Cat with her deep brown eyes. "Remember - we had a date?" "Oh, yo!" went Cursor, shaking his sleek black head so that the gold earring in his right ear bounced up and down. "InterNetRap! We gotta practise, right away - or we're toast! No way you win that competition without getting your stuff in line!" "Mmm" Louise replied. "Burnt toast, too!" Then suddenly she had an idea - and swung round to her newly rescued friend Luis de la Zarpana, who was gazing up into the search zone sky, enjoying his freedom from Void. "Hey but now" she said "We can do a trio - a three way rap! Luis is so cool - how about a broken line sequence? That'd get the judges in the mood OK!" Mr Mouse grunted. "What's a broken line sequence?" asked Wizzie with his head on one side, looking very puzzled. Adrienne looked out from the side of her search engine control cabin, where she was doing some checks to make sure everything was OK. She giggled. "You wait and see Weezie!" she went. "It is certain, they will want to show you!" And they did. Chuff chuff-a chuff chuff-a chuff chuff-a chuff went Cursor, giving Louise D and Luis the beat. The Afghan and the Borzoi went with it, a dreamy look on their faces. Then: "We're on our way" rapped Cursor. "To InterNetRap" rapped Louise D back. "So cool!" went Luis, finishing the line. Then they were off, each rapper building a line. "We gonna show" "Some smooth-o moves" "No sweat! "You gotta hear" "What we can do" "Too right!" "Jus' stand back some" "Cos here we come" "Straight on! " 'N you will hear" "The kings and queens" "Of rap rap rap rap RAP!! They finished all together on the last word, but went on doing their moves with Cursor giving the beat just under his breath. Dot and Adrienne clapped and even Mr Mouse was impressed - for once! "Cool!" he said. "Wanna try some Wizzo?" Wizard laughed. "Think we'd better leave it to the experts!" he said, shaking his brown and cream spaniel's head. "Za-DA!" went Cursor, bringing the moves to stop. "That's just for a start" he said proudly. "Wait till you see what we can really do! Hey!" he went on to Dot "why don't you come with us? It'll be cool! All the best net-people go to InterNetRap, every time! You'd enjoy!" For just a moment, Dot was tempted. It would have been so good to see Cursor and Louise D and Luis in a Net-world rap contest - but then she shook her head, a bit sadly. "No I really MUST get on" she said. "Dad needs my help with organizing the Munchenmeat Awards. If I don't find out all the companies who can take part - then he'll be in such trouble with his boss Mr Elms. He might even lose his job." Cursor let out a low growling noise - it made the hairs on the back of Dot's head stand on end! "He tries that" said the big black cat softly "and I'll see he regrets it. No-one pulls stuff like that with any friend of Cursor's, let me tell you!" Dot shook her head laughing. "No Cursor, it'll be OK" she said, reaching up and scritch-scatching behind his silky ears so that the big cat half-closed his eyes and purred loudly. (He might be an Internet hero but he's still a cat!) "Wiz and Mr Mouse and I just need to get going, that's all!" "Well OK" said Cursor. "Mmmm, that feels so good!" He stood up and shook his head. "Well - we'd better go. C'mon you guys!" "Thought you'd never say the word" murmured Louise D, giving him another one of her long, slow looks from under her big eyelashes. "All right Luis?" "Sure thing honey!" grinned the Borzoi. " 'Ey! You take-a me? I always wanna see InteNetRap!" It was the little man who'd fixed Adrienne's search engine. He'd been enjoying the broken line rap, and now he hopped up onto a C-drive port sticking out of the Search Zone floor and stood there grinning, his sad eyes alight and his moustache waggling away. "Room for a leetle one to come too, no?" "Cool!" said Cursor with his big, lazy grin. "You've sure earned a good time!" The big cat turned to Dot and laid a big soft paw on her shoulder. "You look out for yo'self now, Dot" he said. "And don't forget - you need any of us, we're here! Just like always!" "Thanks Cursor!" said Dot. Louise D twitched her fake leopard-skin jacket back over her slender shoulders and walked over to her search engine. She climbed inside and logged on, and the engine's motor began to whine, the CD player-shaped craft glowing faintly on the edges of its wings with a blue and white light. Jumping up, Luis de la Zarpana and the little plumber joined her in the control cabin. "All right - we go!" said Cursor. "Take good care Mr Cheese-fiend!" Mr Mouse snorted. "Cheese-fiend !" he muttered. "The nerve of the guy!" With one elegant move, Cursor too climbed on board Louise D's search engine. He looked far too big to fit in it - but somehow there he was, comfortable and relaxed. That's the magic of the Net! "Bye darlings!" went Louise D. "And Dot - you're a star! Luis and I will never forget you!" She blew them all a big kiss and moved the mouse on her control computer forward. The search engine tilted back, then started to climb, picking up speed into the Search Zone sky where all the other search engines were still working. "Adios - and thanks a MEELLION Dot!" cried Luis. "Venceremos!" (which means "we shall win" in Spanish. They did too, by the way!) Wizzie put his paws up on Dot so he could see a bit higher, and did his special goodbye bark. Adrienne gave them a toot-toot on her search engine's whistle. And then - ZIP-ZIISHHH! They were gone! JOIN US EVERY MONDAY FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER! *********************************
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