The Girl Who Hacked Tomorrow by Lee Baldwin

Author:Lee Baldwin [Baldwin, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
Published: 2013-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

Mole in the Hole

“Playback! What the hell just happened?” In the security trailer, Lieutenant Alan Jackson is pushing his team hard. With the many camera angles at their disposal, he wants to sort through all of them, review the peculiar events as a group to ensure nothing is missed. Unobtrusively, the psych evaluator observes facial reactions and body language of personnel in the trailer during each replay.

“The big bad monster changed back, sir. He’s a man again.”

“Talk straight Gibson! Psych Eval, is everybody seeing that?”

Jackson’s security team has been at this duty for thirty hours with little rotation. Turbulence in the streets and highways has blocked traffic, injected personal challenges into every life. Civilians are not the only ones affected. Team members are beyond mere exhaustion. Jackson has commandeered a rock group’s tour bus to provide local rotating rest breaks and meals. It will be available within the hour.

“Incoming!” A voice announces. A woman in uniform shirt and slacks, pulled-back hair and a black work case is visible on the security monitor outside. She stands easy as she’s body-scanned by two armored Marines.

“Got it. IT tech, she’s with us.”

“Up or down vote everyone, now!” The psychologist’s voice booms over the team’s headsets.

“Aye.”

“Yea.”

“Yes”

“Up, sir.”

No abstentions or dissenting votes, everyone sees the same thing.

The IT technician enters the crowded trailer, squeezes her way through sandwiched chairs where too many security officers crowd before too few workstations. She goes about her business efficiently, doesn’t have to take anyone’s system down, patches into USB and video data ports, uses her meter and test probes, moves along quickly. Checking the network for planted superbugs, Trojans, wormlets, bots. As she works, she sees many images on the center’s displays: Tharcia with Lian as a 20-foot winged monster, with Lian as a hunky guy in slacks. While she works, she silently makes note of everything.

“The woman fainted sir, he’s holding her in his arms.”

“Fainted? Then why is she talking?” This question has been asked many times.

“Close-up, someone get me a close-up.”

“Her eyes are shut but her lips are moving.”

“What’s wrong with this audio? What is she saying?”

“We don’t know, sir.”

“When do we get a linguist in here?”

“I have reminded them sir. Resources are stretched thin.”

“Remind them this is priority. I need this in clear now!”

Quietly, with a nod to Jackson and an OK sign, the IT tech leaves. Jackson’s eyes cup her bootie as she turns for the exit. Unknown to everyone, a flash drive in her test kit now holds every image that hit a monitor during her entire 10-minute stay.

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