The Hacker

*Electro Squads' Section, D.H*

Storm 01 sat on a long bench in front of a door that was designed with blue crystal that glowed brightly on it. He still doesn't know what's happening, and when he asked Electro 28 he didn't reply.

Storm 01 starts to slap the ground with his feet continuously, starting to get impatient.

Electro 28 suddenly took Jesselyn along with the other Rain troopers and entered the room. It's been more than 15 minutes and still hasn't seen Jesselyn.

He turned to the sound of approaching footsteps. It was Miss Havishma in her usual oversuit and squad leader Ace. He quickly stood up and ran up to them. "What is going on? What happened?"

Miss Havishma waited until he finished speaking before she started. "Where is Chief?" She inquired.

Storm 01 pointed at the door with the glowing crystal. Miss Havishma brushed past him and walked towards the door.

Storm 01 looked at Ace with an uneasy look. "Please tell me what is going on," he pleaded.

"Nothing your weak-ass can do to solve," Ace denied. "So just wait for orders from the higher-ups"

"Oh, just tell me what is going on!" Storm 01 yelled furiously.

Squad leader Ace towered over Storm 01 with his brows aggressively crooked together. He stared at Storm 01 intimidatingly to strike fear into his heart but Storm 01 stared back at him refusing to fall back.

Miss Havishma turned to them. "Someone attempted to hack Aix's mainframe," she revealed. "We don't know who, but we will find out."

Ace steps back defeated. He proceeded to where Miss Havishma was and stood beside her.

The crystal-filled door opened, giving way for the Rain squads to troop out of the room. Storm 01 grabbed Jesselyn's hand and pulled her to him. "What happened in there?" He queried.

"I'm okay. Nothing's going to happen to me," she smiled. "I'll probably see you at the last bullet competition if it still happens," she added before joining the other Rain troopers.

Miss Havishma and Ace stepped into the room. Chief and Electro 28 were already inside the room. Chief was seated on a wooden chair, while Electro 28 stood beside him. The entire room was plain, with only a single bulb lighting up the room.

Chief stood up from the chair and walked up to Miss Havishma immediately after she entered the place. "Havishma," he says as he moved toward her.

"I was right. This has to be the toil of the Earthlings!" Chief yelled.

"It can't be them. I don't think they have the resources to start another war. But if it is them, then they are going to start a war they can't triumph over," she inferred.

She turned to face Chief. "How did it happen?" She questioned.

"I think it's one of the Rain troopers 'cause they are the only ones with access to my office, and that's where I left the access card," he explained.

Miss Havishma was about to speak but Chief raised his hand to stop her. "I've searched and interrogated every member of the Rain squad. It seems it wasn't any of them..."

"Or perhaps the intruder already departed HQ," Electro 28 pointed out.

Miss Havishma shook her head no. "It's impossible for anyone to flee this place without getting caught. The exit point has been secured tightly after the previous agents incident," she stated.

"That only means the person's still on this ship, probably concealing themselves as an agent of a different squad."

They all turned to see Storm 01 standing by the door with an annoyed expression on his face.

"What can I do to help so we can catch this intruder, Miss Havishma?" Storm 01 added.

"Havishma," Chief called. "Handle everything related to this case. Do whatever it takes to find this traitor and take care of them when caught." He summed up before making his way to the door.

"Chief," Havishma stopped him. "What about you? What will you be doing?"

"I'm going to take care of other things."

Miss Havishma veered around to Storm 01. "Return to the Storm section. I'll wire you a list of agents' names through your watch, get them to the control room ASAP," she instructed.

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Storm 01 entered the control room with Percy, Sox, and Ada following behind him. Miss Havishma who was staring into the many computers in the room, turned to them with a sigh.

"I believe you all already know what's going on here in HQ. Department H is supposed to be the most secure place in the whole of Winter Weir but someone managed to get up to the mainframe without being caught, that's not something we are to take lightly," Miss Havishma imparted.

"I have my thoughts on who I think the intruder is," Havishma stopped, her eyes holding Sox's. "I want to hear other's ideas, that's why I call on you four fresh minds to dig into it and tell me what you think. Report to me directly on whatever you find. I'll be in my pad," she ended before walking out with Electro 28.

The moment Miss Havishma walked out of the room, Ada turned to Storm 01 and extended her hand for a handshake, with a crooked smile lingering on her lips. "We meet in person, 01."

Storm 01 brushed past her and walked over to the computer Miss Havishma was using before she left. Ada smiled and clenched her fist before turning to him. "Are you just going to ignore me after the great time we had in the VR training?"

Sox moved over to Storm 01's side while Percy stood in front of Ada. "Who are you?"

"That's the question I've been asking myself too," Ada replied.

"I meant I haven't seen you before now. Did you just join the Storm squad?" Percy queried.

"I've been around since the galactic war kid," Ada grinned.

Percy's brows shifted up a little. "Are you trying to make jokes?" He asked.

"Of course, it's a joke. Good thing you got it."

"Guys!" Storm 01 yelled. "Can we concentrate and find this person already? Some innocent people are being accused of things they didn't do," he frowned.

Percy and Ada finally turned to a different computer from the one Storm 01 were using.

"It's already been a few hours since it happened, I think we should watch the footage from 6 hours ago," Sox proposed. "We should notice the scene that was cut off if we watched carefully," she added.

Ada shoots her brows up. "You expect us to just sit and go through 6 hours of..."

"That's a great idea actually," Storm 01 praised. "We all watch the recordings of the route to the room the mainframe is at. We should pick up on a weird cut."

Ada wailed and pulled a chair to sit on as she played the video. They all went completely silent, pouring their entire soul into watching the recordings.

A few hours pass, but none of them found anything. Ada stood up and kick the chair she was seated on to the floor. "This is stupid," she started. "Why would Miss Havishma particularly lock the four of us in a room and order we find this mysterious hacker if she doesn't already suspect one of us?" She said furiously. "How are we supposed to find the hacker just by watching some, stupid recordings..."

"Found it," Percy yelled out.

Storm 01, Ada, and Sox rushed over to where Percy was seated. He played the recording for them to watch. Percy pointed at the time as it made 30 minutes cut.

"Someone edited the recordings," Sox stated.

Ada pulled the keyboard to herself. "Move away. I should be able to get back the deleted scene if the person is an amateur. A little trick I learned from home" she said, typing rapidly on the keyboard.

"This confirms that the hacker is not working alone. They have to have someone else doing the editing on the cameras, probably working as a White agent, it's the only way," Percy analyzed.

"Damn it!" Ada clamored and stomp her first on the table.

"What is it?" Storm 01 questioned.

"Whoever did this, they are no amateur. I couldn't get anything."

Percy stood up from the chair and began towards the door. "We should inform Miss Havishma..."

The four left the control room to Miss Havishma's pad. As they entered the room, they found Miss Havishma seated by the table and staring into a journal in front of her, flipping through pages, and hadn't looked up at the four even after they finished briefing her about what they found.

"Is that so?" She finally spoke. "Well, now we flush the virus out using another method." Miss Havishma raised her head to look at the four. "How fast can you prepare for a trip?"

"T-trip?" Storm 01 repeated.

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