New Blood by Zen DiPietro

Author:Zen DiPietro [DiPietro, Zen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Parallel Worlds Press
Published: 2018-06-14T04:00:00+00:00

The initial rush of excitement waned as the hours passed, but Emiko’s overall high remained. Drew didn’t talk much, since he was absorbed in his work. She kept herself busy checking and rechecking absolutely everything she could.

On one hand, she could hardly wait to arrive and do the job they’d been assigned. On the other, she didn’t want this heightened sense of anticipation and adventure to end.

Prior to coming to the academy, she hadn’t realized she was such a thrill-seeker. She’d always considered herself unusually serious.

Now here she was, piloting an atmospheric-launch-capable ship on a covert mission to the moon alongside the most attractive guy she’d ever known.

It was fantastic. One hundred percent pure joy.

When they moved in on Luna, Drew relayed the logistics of what they needed to do.

“Here’s the deal. We’re going to have to physically get into the office.”

“Why?” She’d expected him to work some sort of electronic wizardry and just strip the data remotely.

“Because that’s how this is set up. That’s obviously the job they want us to do. A physical infiltration and hack.”

“Tell me what you need.” She didn’t know the intricacies of what he did and would have to rely on him to handle those bits.

“I can get us past their security system, no problem. I can keep us off their security feeds. I hope to wipe out any evidence of my tampering, but I’ll have to be inside their system to be able to do it. Our problem is the risk of being seen by real, living people. They’re the main variable.”

She nodded slowly, thinking. “Can you get into their personnel system? See who all is in the building?”

“Yes.”

“Can you get the data for entries and exits, and personnel, for every day for the past two weeks? And all messages for the person who sits at the reception desk.”

A slow smile slid across his face. “I see where you’re going. Nice.”

“I’ve been learning a thing or two in my security classes while you’ve been working on all this hacking stuff.”

During the remaining three hours before arrival, they huddled together over the voicecom terminal, analyzing behavior patterns and looking for any indicators of abnormalities to the daily routine.

“Okay. Now can you program a sensor lock on each of these people? Then we can establish location parameters, and, if the people go outside of them, your program can alert our comports.”

“I like it,” he said. “Here, hand me your comport and I’ll rig that up.”

He held out his hand for her small portable voicecom unit.

By the time they began their approach to Luna, they had their plan in place.

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