✔ᵉⁿᵍˡⁱˢʰ Shadow [Suicide Squad]✔

16 - Foreknow

Panting, Jyn stumbled along the narrow gravel path between the buildings.
at the end of one of them and took two metal pins out of her jacket pocket.
metal pins from her jacket pocket. After several quick glances in all
directions to make sure that no one was aware of what was going on.
she began to tinker with the lock with the pins until it finally clicked and the lock
finally clicked and the door opened. It could not have been
could not have been simpler. She could have used the front entrance, but then she would have been on the
she would have been on the surveillance cameras.

In a back room of the foyer, Jyn opened the junction box, flipped several switches and then locked it again.
several switches and then locked it again. As she left
she flipped the light switch again and, as expected, the lights stayed off.
expected, the light stayed off.

With the momentum of her body weight, Jyn opened the main entrance door,
made a welcoming gesture and released the door with a half-turn to follow
To follow Bane in. Halftime. But not a very good one.

"Floor twenty-seven through forty-one are completely deserted.
Anything above that, forty-two to fifty-six, that's where guards run their
circles," Jyn began, her eyes half narrowed, but still glancing
suspiciously as she followed Bane, "Since the beginning of the week, the security system has been
since the beginning of the week, and a whole new system was installed this morning.
installed this morning. The codes change three times a day. New
Security standard. Military standard. Honestly? Lousy system. A
very bad system. It doesn't follow any pattern or any
grid. There is no logic behind it. It's all arbitrary."

"It was to be expected. But in this day and age, nothing is really
safe," together with Jyn Bane got into the elevator and gave her a
Stick, "How far along are you?"
"After this morning at under thirty percent. Yes, the new system and
software, have set us back quite a bit," she sighed and put her head back.
her head back, watching the display and letting the flash drive wrap around her fingers.
fingers, "This, this number, will still work but we need a specialist.
we need a specialist. This is only the *prototype*, which already has it
completely in itself, and will drive the best to despair.
Exabyte. It works on Exabyte. Nothing on the market, comparable
there is not yet, works on Exabyte. Terabyte, if anything. Wait and see,
wait for the 'right' generation. That's the one that's going to be our problem. You
are about to see what mine is."

Arriving at level fifty-three, Jyn was the first to step off the
elevator, but stopped at the corner and pointed to the three
Security guards at the end of the hallway. Even if the cameras were turned off
were turned off, the guards would know that she belonged to the non-company person
belonged and was working at the company for some other reason. However, it would
not have mattered if the guards had seen Jyn or not, since the three of them were lying
were lying dead on the floor. The first had his head smashed against the wall
against the wall, and the trail of blood could be traced from the wall to the floor.
to the floor. The other two either had their necks broken or their windpipes crushed.
windpipe crushed, so exactly one could not say it. In any case
she took a big step over one of the guards, led Bane the end of the hallway and turned left, opening the first door on the right.
the first door on the right. From her boot she pulled out several
folded slips of paper, leafed through them
hastily and entered a seven-digit combination of numbers. A beep
followed by a click indicated that the door was now open and the alarm had not been activated.
the alarm had not been activated.

"Welcome to the twenty-first century," despite all of this, Jyn's enthusiasm held
Jyn's enthusiasm was contained by what was to be found here, "In a few
few years, every company and bank will be using this system.
The good thing is, we have time to prepare. And we will
need it, too. We....."

"..... need someone whose area of expertise is getting into alien systems,
get into alien systems," Jyn pointed at him approvingly with a snap of her fingers and
looked back down at the monitors, her mouth pulling from right
to the left as Bane finished her sentence, "Finish it. We're going to need
need him and his resources. Only first he needs a push and
a little incentive."

"If anything gets out to the public now, Daggett will know right off the bat
instantly who he has to thank for it," a thing no one would volunteer to do
because Daggett had the means to ruin a man's life in seconds.
to ruin, "Not many have access and then on top of that I'm gone? He's going to want me dead. Neither Daggett Industries nor Daggett himself recovers that quickly. Forget it. I'm not...
I'm not. I still want to be able to move around the city freely. Pay
some idiot for this job."

Wordlessly, and without any emotion on his face, Bane placed the inner
edge of his right hand to the back of Jyn's neck, causing her to inwardly
gulp. Just do it/plead, meant this simple and
simple gesture otherwise.... yes. So Jyn pushed the chair aside, went him
the squat and started typing away on the keyboard. It wouldn't be
hour would pass - if at all - before Daggett learned of it and that all the
all the company's data was on the web. Freely accessible to everyone.

A nightmare for any corporation. And their death sentence.