Agent X, a secret operative working for SHADE, has just been given his breakthrough case. Even with the help of a super-coder, Hacker, and his superior, Sheaf, this mission will be the most challenging one X has ever taken up.
The task is simple: i...
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They all made their way to the storage room as discretely as they could and gathered near the secret entrance to ACE. Leader held up her hand in warning, indicating that everyone should stay where they are and not move here and there.
Then she took a few cautious steps forward and looked around carefully, squinting her eyes in concentration. Everyone waited with bated breaths, not even daring to do so much as breathe too loudly while Leader searched.
Finally, her position relaxed and she exclaimed in triumph, 'I've found it!'
It was like a spell had lifted from them, as the team almost unfroze from their positions and gave huge sighs of relief while stretching languidly. Leader shook her head at their antics and approached the barely visible system cautiously with the pen drive in hand. She examined it from afar, not daring to touch it yet until she got the plug point. When she spotted the square hollow in the machine she delicately pushed the drive into it.
'It's your turn, Hacker. Hack into this thing and get us in there.' Leader spoke over her microphone. Hacker nodded seriously with an affirmative and started typing rapidly into her keyboard. After what seemed like hours, the machine beeped slightly.
'Ok, I've unlocked it. But you guys have to hurry and stand on that specific tile otherwise the system will override me.' She announced to everyone over their earpiece.
They quickly assembled on the tile, and before they knew it the tile had flipped over and they were at the entrance of ACE.
They quickly began walking towards the intersection that would lead them to the different floors.
Once they came across it, they looked around the path, nodded at each other, and split off into the planned groups.
Sheaf took the floor X was most likely to be in. He whipped out his phone, pulled up the blueprints of the floor and looked around to spot his current location.
'Sheaf, you're on the left wing of the floor. Near the meeting rooms right there.' Hacker spoke upon seeing his confusion. He shook out of his daze, thanked her and began walking toward the room. When he reached the door, he pulled out the device for testing the presence of other living beings.
He pressed it to the door and waited as it beeped and whirred and scanned the room. Then it turned green to show that no one was occupying the room. Sheaf gave a frustrated grunt. He still had to check it for the weapon, so he got down to start picking the lock.
For a few moments he struggled with the lock, and then it opened with a small click. He stood up and opened the door carefully, taking care to not cause too much of a creak. It swung inwards to reveal a very dimly lit room.
Sheaf pulled out his flashlight and shone the beam around while standing in the doorway, bouncing it off walls to capture every angle to check if the weapon was tucked in any corner. When he drew a blank, he walked into the room and thoroughly checked it to confirm that the room was devoid of anything.
