I was hard at work on my computer rewriting my book, "The Shades." I put in the last letter and saved my work. I copied the entire thing and clicked on the Internet symbol on my start menu. I was going to send my work to my friend Luke Siftar. The dial-up connection sounded odd. Little did I know that a hacker had messed with the Internet, so that the first person who dialed would be sent an e-mail and if you opened it, you would be sucked into your computer. The reason that the guy who sent the e-mail wanted to suck someone into their computer was because he was evil. As soon as I was connected I noticed an e-mail from a guy whose e-mail address was ntitled: ihacker@learntobeahacker.net. I opened the e-mail and there was a swirling green mist around me. I yelled and grabbed out for something to hold on to. I grabbed an electronic dictionary. ZAP!

I found myself standing on a huge stack of paper that I soon realized was my entire e-mail collection. I was small. I could lie down and be the length of the word "weirdo." I looked down and saw a metal platform floating over some lava. On the platform was the e-mail I had just opened. The e-mail that had sucked me into my computer. I looked down at the dictionary in my hands. Suddenly I heard a whooshing sound and immediately, I looked up. A NEW E-MAIL WAS ABOUT TO SQUASH ME FLAT!

"AAAHHHGGG!" I screamed and leapt out of its way. I grabbed onto the edge of the e-mail, which was 3 inches wide, and pulled myself up. I jumped on a big green circle in the middle of the virtual envelope that said "open." The virtual envelope materialized, and I paced around so I could read the e-mail. The subject was "Aaron Sjordal, I know about your ihacker@learntobeahacker.net problem." The e-mail read, "Aaron, place your electronic dictionary in the little green square, sincerely, your friend, Bill Gates." There was a "P.S." that said, "Hitch a ride on the e-mail down on the platform. The guy who created the mail will try to delete it in his own inbox. When you get into his e-mail system you can make him send that e-mail to himself, but you must change the code and make him get zapped into the Cyber-Jail where I can suck him into the real world and report him to the police. Write an extra 5-3683-473983-8484-7777 at the end of his code. Good luck."

I put the electronic dictionary in the little green square on Bill's e-mail, exactly where he had told me to put it. A golden beam of light from where the dictionary had been hit me violently and knocked me off the e-mail pile. I landed softly on ihacker@learnto beahacker.net's e-mail which was floating in the air and was about to send itself back to the e-mail system that had sent it in the first place. I needed to rewrite it as I was in his inbox. Something small and blue came flying toward me from the giant stack of e-mails where I had recently been standing. I caught it in my hands. It was a small, blue device that had two screens on it and three buttons. One of its screens was big, and the remaining screen was small. Two of the red buttons were small, and one of them was big. The e-mail I was riding blasted off into the Internet. I tried to hang on, but I found that it was difficult. In seconds, I found myself in ihacker@learntobeahacker.net's inbox. I pressed the small buttons on my little blue contrivance. The correct statistics were inputted on ihacker@learntobeahacker. net's code. I deleted my e-mail address from the "to" box, wrote in his e-mail address through my little wireless blue thing and jumped on the "send" button. The screen on my small device started to flash. Out of it came the dictionary that I thought was gone forever. Also, on the little screen, was another note from Bill Gates. It said, "Good job, Aaron. Now push the big button on your Virtu-Vice, the blue gadget, and you will be on your way home. Sincerely, Bill."

As I stood on the e-mail, I pressed the button right before it blasted off into cyberspace only to find itself back in its own inbox. The next thing I knew, I was sitting back next to my computer. I still had my electronic dictionary and my Virtu-Vice. I thought, so far this has been a good day, because I got this little blue thing, got to see what my e-mail system looked like from the inside and got an e-mail from Bill Gates. Then I disconnected from the Internet and went to eat lunch.