Infiltration - Interlude
Nexus – 8 AM
“Five years, and they already done so much. There’s even a steel mill under the works… I never imagined they could organize themselves so fast” Horus remarked after turning off a display on the hall.
“I beleive it is time for we to take a look beyond Vernacia. I heard of a country, not far from here, called follomer. They seem to be quite advanced on space travel and such. Perhaps we might better assess how far behind we are.” Djohaal suggested .“Might be” he thought for a while “So you want to take a little stroll?”
“I’m getting bored, you know”
“Alright, just try to keep a low profile.”
With that Djohaal opened a portal inside the room and vanished.
Follomer Syndicate Defense Industries – 5:25 PM
Entering the complex was an easier job than Djohaal imagined, he just sneaked behind one of the scientists that worked there, knocked him down and assumed control of his body.
He then just entered via the front door.
What he saw inside surely made his now-human jaw drop, there were computers everywhere, consoles pouring out data, scientists on their scrubs dazzling back and forth.
A woman approached him “Dr. Harrison? Are you feeling alright?”
“Oh” he stumbled “Yes, yes, I’m feeling alright, I just have some urgent matters to attend, excuse me!”
He then stormed away, without knowing where to go...
(…)
FDSI – Test Bay 2 – 5:30 PM
In one of the testing chambers in Tower 2, scientists worked nervously. A new test for their prototype Beam Projector would be executed soon. They were worried it could make a radiation pulse like the last attempt did, and didn’t want more of their colleagues lethally poisoned.
“Alright, all containment modules online, lets turn this baby on.”
The scientist pressed a button on the keyboard. A soft humming could be heard through the facility as the beam charged.
(…)
SDI – Tower2 – Floor 15 – Sector 3 – Corridor B – 5:35 PM
Djohaal could hear the power fluctuations on the Beam Projector to a greater extent though, not only with his physical avatar’s ears. He could sense the energies there within his very entity. He was feeling uneasy.
He found a big box that read “Network Node – DO NOT OPEN”
“This is exactly what I’ll do!” he thought standing beside the node. He created a distraction field around him before starting to do the job. People could see him fiddling with the node, but for them, it seemed something completely normal.
He then grabbed a crystalline artifact from his pocket. He stuck it on the tangle of wires. The object melted and attached itself to the wires like some metallic octopus, and it started leeching off the data.
(…)
SDI - Complex Control Center – 5:38 PM
At the Control Center alarms sounded. “There's been an attack on our mainframe database!” one of the technicians shouted as he furiously started typing
“They already breached in. I've never seen a hack happen this fast before. They are downloading data already! Half a Terabyte per second!”
“It seems to be an internal attack, we are being hacked from inside the complex!”
The lead director in the control center shouted, “Cut the main server! Locate the source of the hack!”
“Roger!” Several voices on the room sounded out.
(…)
FDSI – Corridor B – 5:39 PM
The metallic artifact started emitting some noises, as if it conversed with Djohaal. He concentrated even further…
(…)
FDSI - Computer Center – 5:40 PM
“What the hell!? The server is running backwards!?”
“What do you mean?” the other technician asked
“It was shutting down, now it looks like a film played backwards, it is turning on again. Data leak speeding up to .75 Terabyte per second!”
“I found the source, it seems to be in Tower 2, floor 15, sector 3 on corridor B’s data node. Sending a security team.”
(…)
FDSI – Corridor B – 5:42 PM
A security team was closing by. Djohaal concentrated even further to keep his barrier up. The more minds he had to fool the harder it was, specially with the infernal noise that was coming from the test nearby.
(…)
FDSI – Test Bay 2 – 5:42 PM
“No. No. Not again!” the team leader shouted “It’s going to overload again! Take cover everyone!”
The test bay was evacuated as the Projector in the center started screeching. Some seconds later it blew up on a storm of fire and energy.
(…)
SDI – Tower 2 – Corridor B – 5:43 PM
Suddenly the noise became an incredibly loud screech. Djohaal felt his “real” body tingling as the very space and time was being rippled. He felt his grasp on Dr. Harrison weakening. He had to concentrate even more to not lose his grasp. If he shifted out now all would be lost.
As the screech passed he finally came back to himself and then he suddenly realized… “The barrier, I forgot it”
He looked around as at least ten heavly armed men surrounded him, one of them already grabbed his arms. “Dr. Harrison, stand away from the node now!”. Another soldier looked at the mess that was the node, with the metallic device finishing its download and returning to its original shape. “What in the world is this?” as he grabbed the object.
Djohaal felt enraged, but, as he felt his power returning, he let out a sinister laugher.
“You think you mortals can contain me?” He said as the soldier looked at him puzzled.
He closed his host’s eyes as it fainted. Suddenly a purple shade emerged from the fainted body of Dr. Harrison. It bore a shiny metallic crown many soldiers noted to be of a most unique metal.
“Holy...Lock down the corridor Don't let it escape!” one of the soldiers yelled as the others barricaded the corridors. Dr. Harrison was pulled to safety. Djohaal couldn’t help but laugh
“Do you think?” - he said waving his hand at the soldier that held his data lecher. The soldier was knocked down by a violent invisible blow. – “That you can meddle with a Keeper?” The artifact flew to Djohaal’s handA hail of bullets was their reply, but they flew across Djohaal’s body as if he was merely a hologram projection. The fire stopped as the guards realized it was pointless.
“What the hell are you?!” The security captain asked
“Your guardian…” Djohaal said pointing the palm of his hands at the soldiers. They all dozed off on to a deep sleep. Djohaal then simply evaporated on a purple cloud and left the base.
(…)
Nexus – 10:32 PM
Djohaal entered the Nexus’s hall once more.
“I brought some interesting stuff here” he said handing Hours his Leecher.
“And you made quite some noise I recon.”
“That too” he replied with a dreadfully mischievous tone on his voice.
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