87 CHAPTER 81

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[David Lance POV]

As Robin, Aqualad, and Kid Flash dealt with the fire. Raven and I infiltrated CADMUS, using her magic to skip most of the security in the building.

'There are… a lot of telepaths here,' Raven stated through our recently formed mental connection. 

'Yes,' I replied, wondering if they would prove to be a problem later on.

'Don't worry, I can shield our presence from them,' Raven added calmly, answering my unspoken question.

I nodded with a smile at that, as Raven continued moving us through the levels of CADMUS, using her magic to phase us through them with ease.

If Canon remained the same, Group A, which consisted of Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Robin, would reach Superboy in a matter of minutes or hours; on that part, my intervention wasn't required.

My mission in CADMUS was completely different. I wanted to destroy all of their work, and in order to do exactly that, I would put the sidekicks' infiltration above to good use, making it my cover for what I was about to do.

'Stop, and try to move us to that room,' I said, catching sight of a computer that, based on the schematics I had stolen from one of the Genomorphs' on level 12, was connected to the main servers.

'On it,' Raven replied, promptly moving our intangible forms to the room with a quick phase. Once in there, Raven muttered her mantra, engulfing our bodies in dark energy, casting an illusion over us, making us look like a pair of Genomorphs.

'Good thinking,' I smiled, cracking my fingers as a warmup. 'Now tell me when Group A gets detected….'

Raven said nothing, turning to guard my back as I got to work on the computer. 

Hacking into a computer was by no means an easy feat. It requires a skilled individual with a keen understanding of how computers work, which I was, to a large extent, of the meaning thanks to my training. 

However, hacking a computer from a heavily guarded facility, well, that was very, very difficult, especially when the time was against you. 

I was very aware of my limits when it came to most things, more than most people would.

I guess it was part of my self-hate during my early years in this world that, in turn, made me painfully aware of my shortcomings. 

This little line of self-awareness was the reason I knew for a fact that I couldn't hack into this computer, at least not without alerting everyone in the facility that I was hacking into the computer in question, which wasn't the idea.

I had become aware of this the moment I had tried to open the computer beyond the basic functions without alerting the system. 

Now, while this task was without a doubt beyond my current hacking skills to complete in a silent manner, there were other ways to complete the mission at hand.

One of those ways was the infiltration group A was leading; their infiltration lacked all tact or strategy for that matter, promising to give me the perfect cover to get what I needed for this computer without being found.

Chances were, Desmond would blame them for the hacking, which ultimately worked for me, and everyone in the end.

'They have been found,' Raven said, pushing some images of the trio running through the facilities into my head. 

'That felt weird…' I replied with a small shudder. That image thing would take some time to get used to… 

'Is this the distraction you were looking for?' Raven asked, gazing at me for a brief moment before she returned to her guard duty.

'Not yet. I need all of CADMUS behind them,' I replied, taking a deep breath.

'I'll let you know then,' Raven replied calmly. 'CADMUS is literally chasing them, all of their personnel… that was fast, they really didn't keep a low profile, at all….' 

Well, that was fast.

Knowing there was no clean way to access the computer and that distraction would lose its effect soon enough, I forced the computer to open a terminal window, where I typed a few commands that would or rather should give me access to their server.

I knew this would fail, but there was no need to worry, as this was nothing but step one in the process.

Within seconds, as I had expected, the computer screen went black, as an error message appeared, telling me that I had made an unauthorized access attempt.

I smiled, pulling one of Batman's gadgets, one used particularly for hacking situations. 

Connecting the gadget to the PC, I forced the computer to restart, using the USB I had connected as a booting device, one that was connected to the main booting device creating something Batman likes to call a ghost link between devices, allowing device A access to device B. 

This, however, wouldn't give me access to the files I wanted, but it would give me access to the security measures of the computer, that in time, would give me access to the files I wanted to download and destroy.

Focused, I disabled the cybersecurity measures of the building, putting the cameras on the floor we were in a loop of old recordings, before turning the PC off, disconnecting my gadget in the process.

Now from this point forward, it was a race against the clock. From the moment I had disabled their security protocols in place for electronic files, I had sent an alarm off around the building.

From here, I had a minute or two to get what I wanted before whoever was in charge of CADMUS cybersecurity located the source of the alarm and, in turn, located me.

I probably had more time, especially considering that they would have to run to Desmond's office to find me, as their cameras on this floor were, as of the moment, very useless, but that would at much buy me a few seconds.

And I didn't like running it so close.

So, I would work within the time frame of them noticing.

'Be ready to move when I say… hm, when I think the word,' I said, turning the PC back on.