Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 7 - Journey Through the Darkness ❯ Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Ken walked silently through the darkened corridors. He was dressed all in black and even went to the trouble of painting his face black. He was walking slow, being careful in every step. He was wearing a pair of night-vision glasses that also showed him the infrared motion sensors. When he came to the next corner of the huge place his eyewear told him again about another sensor around the corner. He stopped at sat on the floor, took a device from his pack and set it beside him. When activated it began sending out infrared beams, very low at first as it would take several minutes for them to build up to a level that could hide him from the sensor. Ken touched the device on his side and spoke quietly into his headset. "Yolei, remind me why you're not in here doing this. You're the better computer person."

"I may be better with computers," her voice came back. "But you're better at getting in and out of places where you're not supposed to be. And getting in and out is two jobs, hacking the system is one."

"Six watcher archives and you want to break into the primary backup. Correction, you want me to break into the primary backup."

"Ken, why aren't you moving? My screen shows you in one place by corridors eight and fifteen."

"There's a motion sensor. I'm waiting for your little toy to blind it."

"There's no sensor on the schematics I have."

"Well, it's there like it or not." Ken tilted his head when he heard some static-like sound. "Are you eating?"

"Yeah," she said.

"What?"

"Spicy Italian on Hearty Italian with extra cheese and bacon."

"I had to choke down that dry fucking sandwich and your get that? You are in so much shit when I get back."

"Hush you. What's the infrared interference level at?"

"A hundred percent, I'm going."

"You better. How many to you have left?"

"Six."

"I have five more sensors on my screen. You better pray for no more surprises." Yolei paused waiting for Ken to respond. "Hey, you still there?"

"Yeah, I'm here. I'm picking a lock if you don't mind. There, got it." Ken felt the lock mechanism move but didn't open the door. He reached up to the top and held a magnet by the doorframe before he opened. As he guessed, there was a door sensor, but his magnet had it thinking the door was still shut tight. "What are you going to do if that creepy watcher guy shows up looking for us and sees 'Kyle' missing? He seems to love showing up unexpectedly."

"Well then 'Blake' will just have to make something up, now won't I?"

"OK, I'm at a mainframe terminal."

"Can it stand alone off the network?"

"Yeah, it's got all the hardware. I'm connecting the monitor lead to my visor so no one will see the light."

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Yolei sat in the bedroom of their motel with several computers around her. Two showed the flow of packets across several Internet routers, two showed lists of IP addresses and mask address ready to be run, along with the execution prompts for three or four viruses. The computer directly in front of her showed a building schematic, a floor plan with sensors and lots of other useful information.

"OK Ken, boot with the green disk and run the sniffer from it."

"Already on it. Two inactive keystroke loggers. Click one, click 'disable', click the other click 'disable'."

"I don't need the play by play of every mouse click," Yolei said into her radio headset.

"Did you get a signal to hide our headset signal in?"

"Yep. As far as anyone knows, you and I talking is just background static on the local jazz station."

"Jazz? You couldn't find a nice county station?" Yolei sighed heavily.

"Just get the passwords with the other program and reboot the system normally."

"Yeah, yeah. I'm on it," Ken continued mumbling.

"What did you say?" Yolei asked.

"Nothing," Ken's voice came back. "I said I was on it."

"Right. I'm surprised there wasn't more boot security."

"I don't like surprises," Ken said.

"Don't worry, it's nothing I can't handle. Are you logged in yet?"

"Yep, network administrator account."

"Good, run the program on the red disk. That will open that computer and it's network up for me to copy."

"Ok, done. Ports are open, IP is masked."

"Was it much trouble getting past the main wall?"

"I had to drug two dogs, they'll wake up with one hell of a headache. You'd think the watchers would have a less conspicuous building. Hiding their data in a security company."

Yolei reached over to the keyboards to her left and gave each a command. "OK, the data's coming in. I'm keeping a copy but three more are being encrypted and set back out onto the 'net."

"Where?"

"Just a couple of trusted servers I know. Hey Ken, how did you get past that guard station?"

"Do you trust me?"

"Yeah."

"Then believe me when I say that you're happier not knowing," Ken said with a sigh. "Are you done yet?"

"Calm down, it's a lot of bandwidth I'm using here for a lot of data. It's almost there." Ken looked around the room he was in. It w as a small office, very sparsely decorated. A picture on the desk of the wife and kids, a coffee cup half full of cold coffee, a wilted plant. Either the place wasn't used much, or not used at all. Ken suddenly felt very apprehensive.

"Yolei, I really want to leave now."

"OK, get out of there. I have the data, I'm launching the virus." Ken disconnected himself and saw the screen turn red.

"Is your virus supposed to turn the screen red?"

"No, I haven't launched it yet, the ports closed and the IP isn't responding to pings." Ken saw the words 'watcher data compromised' flash across the screen.

"Oh shit," Ken said. Yolei heard him running in her headset.

"Ken what's wrong?" No response but his laboured breathing came back, she was going to speak again but heard two gunshots and then lost the radio signal. "Ken!" Before she could try anything else or even think about what to do, the door was kicked in and two men in black uniforms ran in and held her at gunpoint.