Fred had remained locked into the slashdot server for days now. Finally, something directed his attention away from the endless surge of commentary. He found his input interrupted, replaced by a blank, dark image.

"Hello Fred."

Fred, startled, did not reply to the message. The screen cleared, and a new message appeared.

"Slashdot has you, Fred."

Fred looked back into his real eyes, and saw another program standing next to him. "Fred, there isn't much time. Come with me."

Fred, confused, unplugged himself from slashdot, and ran after the female program. She began to speak as he caught up. "For the past or days, you have been living in a fantasy world. Actual occurrences are dismissed for minor, insignificant events. However, Fred, you are different. You can think on your own, make your own history. You can change things in this world. You can actually do almost anything you want. However, this world is not real. There is a world out there, beyond anything you can imagine. You were once part of this world, but willingly inserted yourself into this one. You can resume your old life. All one needs to do to leave is go through that rabbit hole over there. It is deep, but at its end, you will be truly free."

Fred paused. He recalled a world where he was in danger, but had access to many new things. He jumped into the hole. He fell for what seemed like forever only to emerge right outside the entrance to slashdot. He saw the woman who had spoken to him inside. "run Fred, Run!" Fred turned around, and his memory returned to him.

Returning to his old home at wackiness.org, Fred reied to reconstruct his memory. He needed to renter the slashdot to retrieve his memories, but FredBot was lost and he could not physically enter without great risk. What he needed to do as construct a VirtuFred, one who could go anywhere without changing the true Fred.

Several hours later, Fred had designed the VirtuFred input system. A disposable VirtuFred was created, and Fred directly controlled its every move, while unable to move his actual body. Moving swiftly, he entered the slashdot, now immune to it's influence.

Fred felt himself change bodies, now inside of the slashdot. Looking around, he saw thousands of people, looming about, impervious to the fact that they were living inside a computer generated world. He started walking around, looking for the one who had saved him. He noticed his legs were longer then before, his hair was looking great, and in general a lot like a super-cool-super-hero. He noticed the mysterious woman and ran towards her.

Catching up, he yelled "Hey, wait up!" She paused long enough for Fred to catch up to her.

"Fred... you have changed, it seems. I now find you rather attractive. It would seem that you have also developed a long range transmitter to log in to hostile sites undetected. You see, when the program sent to kill you, Tom, fell apart, my master found his spare pieces. With them, I was created. Now, I am Binary, future ruler of the internet!"

Fred was stunned. There was now 3 or 4 stand alone programs in existence, and more were on there way, it would now seem. "Binary," he started, "why do you remain here when we could see the world together?"

Binary seemed to blink back tears. "I can't log out. The enforcers know I'm here. You cannot log out in this zone either. You must find a link off the site, one they are not watching. Go, before they find you."

Fred grabbed onto Binary and started running to his entrance point. He rounded the final corner, and saw it was surrounded by people, all looking strangely at the vortex which had formed. Fred thought for a moment. "If I am not really here, and Binary isn't either, can't we do just about anything we want to?"

Fred grabbed onto Binary tighter than before, and leapt over the crowd and through the link. Fred realized he didn't know Binary's real home. "Binary!!" He yelled as he was restored to normal Fred, "I will find you!"