The door opens slightly as she peeks through the door, searching for any sign of life apart from herself. Upon seeing that the room is clear, she stealthily walks inside and makes her way to the the door on the other side. She peers through the glass panels and sees a long hallway leading to the outside of the complex, where her mission objective lies. She stays hidden as she watches two soldiers emerge from a door down the hallway and scout it for any intruders. Upon seeing no sign of movement, they make their way towards the exit, allowing her to slip quietly after them.
The door suddenly opens next to her revealing a soldier wielding an assault rifle. With only a split second to spare, she grabs her knife and stabs him straight in the chest, taking him out swiftly and stealthily. She pockets the knife and picks up his assault rifle before making her way towards the exit and opening it, revealing a small warehouse with a few soldiers.
"Over there!" One of them yells as they catch sight of the intruder.
"Shit!" She gasps as she ducks behind cover and tries to take them out. She manages to shoot two in the head and another in the chest, but one of them is hidden behind a large crate. She is about to take aim when the crate explodes in a ball of fire, along with the facility's main doors. A dozen soldiers come pouring in, while reinforcements for the enemy break down one of the doors to the side and start firing.
"Come on!" One of the soldiers yells. She follows her through the gunfire and they eventually make it out of the complex where they immediately enter a warzone.
"Hawk 3! Do you have the files?" The commander yells as he takes cover by the two girls.
"I've got it!" Hawk 3 responds.
"Get to the LZ now! Go!"
The two of them head towards a building positioned near the edge of the complex where several more soldiers are securing it. A helicopter is hovering nearby with soldiers climbing into it!
"Come on!" The soldier in front yells as they jump into the helicopter. Hawk 3 runs straight at the helicopter and prepares to jump...
"LOOKOUT!"
A massive explosion erupts around the area and everything turns white.
The sound of fists slamming against a keyboard echoes around the room as laughter erupts from her headphones.
"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Anna screams as she watches the replay. She watches as her character jumps towards the helicopter only to be struck by a jet fighter which crashes into the ground, exploding instantly, taking out most of the surrounding soldiers. "Of all the things for that to crash into, it has to be me?"
"Probably was intentional."
"Well Rapunzel, at least I'm not the only one that's about to go down." Anna laughs as she watches the helicopter spiral out of control and crash into the ocean.
"Eh? Oh come on!"
"Well, looks like the enemy wins again." Anna says as she rolls the chair to her left and opens up another monitor, bringing up her facebook status. "Ah, Kristoff is in again."
"Hey. What's up red dragon?" Kristoff asks as he appears for online chat.
"Oh the usual. Watching failure in the most epic ways."
"Speaking of failure, you should check the latest news on CNN." Kristoff says. Anna brings up the website and plays the video attached to the front headline.
"The cooporation known as Trinity Corp. has come under fire again as they are yet the victim of another hacking attempt that, late last night, crippled a number of their systems and temporarily took down their main website. It is not known what the intention of the malicious hackers or hackers were, as no files have been breached or stolen, though sources indicate that the Uplink corporation may have had a role in the attacks.
"That's not the part I'm talking apart. Listen to the next part."
"Trinity corp. was not the only one to have been hacked this week though, as the private tech company, known as Asengard Inc. has also been the victim of a malicious attack which compromised their systems a night ago and resulted in the theft and sabotage of a huge amount of data, primarily related to their latest developments. The CEO of Asengard has stated that the amount of research lost and the amount to recover or redo the projects would set them back tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. But, this is not without a sliver of a silver lining as Tech giant, Matrix Incorporated, has indicated that the source of this attack is the same individual as the one responsible for the Interpol, Xrep, FIB, and NSS hacks and DDOS attacks. The individual is known only as the Red Dragon as, for the meantime, their identity remains unknown, though matrix states that they are hot on the tail."
"I dont really see how that is a failure." Anna says.
"Anna. They managed to identify you as the same person who did the other acts. That's already a huge leap forward. If someone finds out who the red dragon is, you are pretty muched screwed."
"Yeah, but that is not going to happen any time soon, so I have nothing to worry about. Plus, I'm in Norway at the moment. Nothing ever happens here."
"I just think you should be a little more careful from time to time. Maybe lay low for a while..."
"Kristoff. The agency doesn't allow give us a customizable schedule. If we need to do something, we need to get it done in the allotted time."
"I was unaware they assigned us task 24 hours a day."
"Ah. Here we go again." Anna sighs.
"Hey Anna. Are you still there?" Rapunzel yells causing Anna to wince.
"Yes. Still here."
"Kay. Well, I've got some things to do at my university, so I won't be online for a while."
"Oh. OK. Got it."
"Stay safe Anna. And don't do anything stupid." Rapunzel says as she signs off.
"When have I ever done something like that?"
"Pretty much all the time." Kristoff retorts.
"Don't you have something else to do than whine about my habits all day?"
"I've got this job down at a local office. But I don't leave for another hour."
"Well, it's nearly lunchtime here and I am starving, so I'm going to have to go for a while. Talk to you later?"
"I guess. Try not to get arrested until then. You still owe me forty bucks."
"Ha. You wish. I won that deal fare and square." Anna says as she turns of the headset and stands up, stretching for a few seconds, before making her way over to the kitchen countertops, which are covered in plates and empty food containers. "Eating out it is."
She quickly grabs her phone and laptop before locking up her apartment and walking down the flights of stairs to her car, a range rover. She gets in and starts the engine, before pulling out of the parking lot and into the main road that heads to the center of Arendelle, a large city located in Norway. Having arrived just a mere few weeks ago, she is still relatively new to the sights and places of the city.
She remembers the last place she was set up in, which was a small place in north western Germany called corona. For nearly a year and a half she was situated there, until a job went severely wrong and she ended up being traced. Xnet is the company she works for, a small communications provider which simply provides a mask to its true identity, an agency specializing in cyber espionage. She remembers how she got offered a job there after she demonstrated how easy it was to break into their systems from her home. Instead of arresting her, they offered her a chance to be an agent and live the life of a hacker, at a slight cost though, like not being able to stay in the same location for too long and now also being a wanted person to numerous companies and governments.
Kristoff and Rapunzel are also fellow agents, though their duties slightly differ. Rapunzel is responsible for cyber defense whereas Kristoff is more of a paperwork guy, handling all the logs and making sure that nothing that's not necessary is kept.
Overall, the existence of Xnet's true identity is kept secret, except when it's not, like when rivals like Uplink start attacking them as well but, as far as Anna is concerned, that's out of her department.
"This will have to do." Anna says as she pulls up next to a small pizza parlor and gets out of the car. She enters the, nearly empty, restaurant and picks a seat by the window, before settling down and opening her laptop.
"You should make yourself less predictable." A guy says from behind her causing her to jump. "Calm down red."
"Can you please stop doing that." Anna scowls as the man gets up and takes a seat in front of her. "How did you manage to find me?"
"Are you really asking that question? I don't think we'll be stupid enough to let our agents roam freely without keeping an eye on them." He says. "Now, about the last job..."
"Yeah, yeah. I nearly got caught and you will disavow me if I get arrested..."
"Actually I was going to say good job."
"Oh." The person in front of her, Pete McKinley, was the head of the Xnet division in Europe, handling all the missions passed down from higher command. Some missions were simple like obtaining a file from a small business' website, while others were a lot more complex like sabotaging an entire major company. Most jobs were privately assigned by rival corporations who simply wanted their competitors to suffer, whereas others were requested by the government. "So, why are you here. That couldn't have been the only reason."
"Of course not. I've got a mission, if you're willing to take it." Pete says as he hands Anna a small flash drive and file. "Quick and easy. There's a file stored on a server belonging to the Norwegian intelligence agency, detailing reports of Russian missile testing in the northern Atlantic. Moscow is afraid that they may pass this on to the Americans, so they've tasked us with retrieving it, and deleting all copies of it. I've decided to put my best agent, you, to the job. So, what do you say?"
"How much?"
"Three thousand, plus ten percent commission. What do you say? Swift and easy."
"Eh. What the heck. I'll do it." Anna says as one of the waitresses places a plate of pizza in front of her. "How long do I have?"
"About forty five minutes." Pete says causing Anna to choke on her food.
"What?! Are you kidding me?!"
"Better get started kiddo. One of our surveillance vans is set up nearby so you can use their connection. It shouldn't be too hard for one of our best agents to handle this now, should it?"
"Oh come on." Anna mutters as she types a few things into her laptop while Pete stands up and proceeds to the door.
"And remember. Don't leave any footprints."
"Got it boss." Anna says as she begins searches for the name of the connection.
"Random WiFi Network...oh, totally inconspicuous." She mutters as she connects to it.
"Ma'am. Will that be all?" The waitress asks as she approaches the 19 year old redhead. Anna nods in response before continuing what she is doing. She accesses the Norwegian intelligence agency's website and begins to do what has now become instinct to her. After just a few minutes she is in their files, but knows she only has a few minutes before they successfully track her. She scans the entirety of the list of files, looking for any sign of the specific one that her boss is talking about. She looks at the time on her side
2 minutes. Shit...come on...
Anna frantically searches through the entire list, wondering if Pete may have given her wrong information or if she hacked the wrong website, though it definitely said that, that was NIA. Her eyes catch sight of a folder located in it at the edge of the list, named Tsar. She opens it and dozens of files pop up, all detailing military operations that Norway has been monitoring, including the ones that Pete was interested in. Anna quickly copies all the listed files to the flash drive that he has given her. She keeps glancing at the time, with each second counting down to failure.
"Come on..." Anna says as she begins to tap her fingers in nervousness. "70...80...90...hurry up."
As soon as the transfer has completed, she quickly exits the folder and deletes all the logs in the system, before breaking the connection and sighing in relief.
"With fifteen seconds to spare." Anna sighs as she begins to try and clear any trace of her. As soon as she finishes, she packs everything up and pays for her food, before making her way towards her car. "An easy 3 thousand. Heh."
"Got the file?"
"Sir?! I thought you already left."
"No. I'm waiting for you to finish your mission. I was also giving another mission to Dark Angel." He says as he gestures to a young man walking away from a small office block.
"Well, here's what's needed." Anna says as she hands him the flash drive back.
"Great. Your money will be wired to your account within 72 hours. Until then, stay alert. You technically just hacked the government of the country you are staying in."
"Yeah. Remind me why you gave that to me and not some other lad in another country?"
"You're my best agent. Plus, as long as you did everything correctly, you should have no problem. I'll be seeing you later." Pete says as he gives a nod of acknowledgement and then leaves. Anna gets into her car before beginning her ride back to her apartments, located just out of town.
Upon arriving at her place, she flops down on her sofa and uses her laptop to check whether her friends are online, of which none of them are yet. Seeing as there is nothing left to do, she decides to just browse a few sites to keep her awake until they return.
Rapunzel and Kristoff were pretty much her closest friends having known each other for years now, with her having known Rapunzel since high school. Since her father passed away a few years after her birth, she had spent most of her time being raised by her mother, until she died of complications during surgery when Anna was fourteen. After that she spent a few years with some close relatives before finally deciding to move out in her own and find a job as tech support in her local college. It was then that she learned how to perform the stuff she does now which eventually lead up to her recruitment into Xnet. It was Anna's recruitment into the agency that had prompted them to try their luck as well, of which they now all worked for them.
Anna laid back as she placed her headphones on her head before beginning to watch a movie while checking her account.
It is already nearly seven by the time that Rapunzel and Kristoff are back online and that is a good thing since Anna was nearly bored out of her mind.
"So how is everything?" Rapunzel asks.
"Did another job, this time against the NIA."
"Oh boy. Another agency that's your to want you blood now!" Kristoff says.
"Oh stop worrying. I did everything according to the books so I should be fine. How about you?"
"My professor was a bore and assigned me more work than days to finish it, so I'm going to be busy for the next few days." Rapunzel says. "How about you Kristoff?"
"A mountain of files, and a river of folders."
"Sounds fun."
The sound of a private message interrupts Anna. She looks to her agency's email and sees one in the inbox.
"What is it?" Rapunzel asks. Anna shrugs as she opens it up and reads it.
Red Dragon.
Tonight at 1733 hours exactly, a data transfer will go down between two major coroporations. The contents of this data is believed to be a list of known black market dealers and their locations which are highly sought after by many governments, including that of the USA. There will also be another large file that will be transfered just after. It is not known what the contents of the latter file are, but the corporation Skytech has indicated a massive payout if succeeded, amounted to 500 thousand. If successful, you will recieve a 70 percent commision of said amount. The latter's data is to be stored on an external secure server belonging to the Uplink corporation. The connection will be relayed through the andromeda network so you will need a cyber defense specialist to help.
Good luck.
"Half a million?!" Rapunzel shrieks in shock as Anna gapes at the mail. "What's in that file? A list of a thousand bank accounts or something?"
"Who cares? I'm taking it!" Anna states excitedly as she immediately logs in to her gateway and starts searching for the network.
"Anna! I think you should think this through." Kristoff says.
"What is there to think? It's five hundred thousand!"
"That's exactly what I mean. What data would ever be worth 500 thousand?!"
"I don't know. Bank accounts or something?"
"Over the andromeda network? The only people who ever use those are either other agencies or governments. And even then, most of the previous missions were simply paying thirty or forty thousand. Half a million is extremely excessive. I've got a bad feeling about this alright, because whatever that data is, it sure is hell worth a lot and I doubt whomever owns it will let it go that easily. Anna...I don't think you should do this..."
"Are you mad?" Anna asks.
"Kristoff. This is half a million. It'll take you and your desk job at least more than a decade to earn that amount." Rapunzel says.
"I just don't think you should do this without additional help, or at least with someone with more expertise."
"Excuse me? Are you saying I'm inexperienced?" Rapunzel asks as Kristoff stutters. "At least I'm not the person filing nothing but papers and folders all day long."
"Guys! I'm going to do this, no matter what you say, alright?"
"Suit yourself."
"Great. Let's go!" Rapunzel says as she and Anna begin to break into the network. "The time is 17:31 so the transfer should begin in two minutes. I've bypassed their systems so they shouldn't begin to detect us until we actually start copying anything. Ready?"
"Ready!" Anna says as she places the final touches. Now anything transferred will go through her computer and immediately be copied. The three of then watch anxiously as the time tick to 17:33. Just as the email specified, the transfers immediately begins and they watch as it is copied to Anna's computer. "Right...this hopefully won't take long."
"They're already trying to trace us." Rapunzel says as she begins doing everything she can to delay them.
"That's the first file!" Anna says as she sees that one of them is fully copied. The other file also begins to copy but Anna notices that is substantially larger than the other one.
"Anna. Hurry that transfer up...we're running out of time here!"
"Nearly finished...Done!" Anna says as she immediately terminates all the connections. "Yes! We did it!"
"Um...something odd here..." Rapunzel says as the smile on her face vanishes. "Your connection is still active."
"What?!" Anna gasps as she looks at the screen, and indeed, they are still tracing her and Rapunzel. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! End connection"
The two of them watch as the connection refuses to break and still remains open, time beginning to run out as them being discovred gets closer and closer.
"Shit! Kill the gateway!" Anna yells to Rapunzel, before contacting the Xnet command.
"Red dragon? What is it."
"We can't close the connection. Someone is keeping it open. We need you to shut the gateway off."
"Okay...hold on...we're on it!" The man says through the line. Anna watches as her connection goes blank and she loses contact with Rapunzel and Kristoff.
"What happened there?" Anna asks.
"Someone was trying to hack you, and was preventing your connection from breaking. You were lucky there red dragon. We've changed you IP address and we'll try to find out who it was. I recommend you don't do any more hacking for a while. I'll inform command."
"OK...got it...thanks." Anna says as she sighs in relief. She looks to the screen and sees that the file transfer has been successful. She logs back into her accounts and contacts both Rapunzel and Kristoff who look extremely worried.
"Are you alright?! Did they trace you?" Rapunzel asks.
"No. Command managed to break it. They said someone was trying to hack me!"
"See! I told you that was a bad idea!" Kristoff says as he crosses his arms.
"Hey tried but they failed, and we succeeded!" Anna says with a smirk as Rapunzel laughs. "We're half a million richer!"
"Oh my god! I can't believe it."
"Yeah. So all I have to do now is mail the first file to command and then copy the other one to this...server...somewhere. Unidentified...hmm...well...here we go." Anna says as she watches everything begin to copy. "I hope this skytech company was truthful about how much they're paying! Xnet doesn't like being cheated, and neither do I."
"The only thing you need to worry about is the possibility of one of many government agency's coming after you. Possibly even interpol..."
"You sure do know how to break the mood Kristoff." Anna mumbles as she let's out a yawn.
"Well, I better let all of this copy. It might take a while."
"What do you say to a game of battlefield 4 eh?" Rapunzel asks.
"Well, as long as I don't get shot down by a low flying tank again..." Anna says causing Rapunzel to snigger.
Anna groans slightly as she shifts her head on the table. She opens her eyes slightly and stares at the clock, on the bottom of her screen, which reads 7am.
"Anna...hey Anna? You there?" Rapunzel calls out over the headset.
"You're already up?" Anna asks with a mumble.
"We both are." Kristoff says. "By the way, I think someone's at your door! I heard knocking a few seconds..."
Knock, knock, knock...
Anna Jumps up at the sound of this and looks at the door. She can see the faint shadow of someone standing outside through the window but she can't make out how many or who it is.
"Anna?" Rapunzel asks wearily.
"You know what to do in case...right?" Anna asks as she stands up.
"Yeah..." They both reply as Anna removes the headset and walks to the door. She lifts open a small panel in the wall to the side of the door which reveals a button with the word 'Purge' at the top. This was installed by Xnet and in the event that agents come knocking at their door, they can use it to wipe their computer systems clean and destroy their gateway in Xnet, a last chance of getting away clean.
Anna takes a deep breath as she opens the door, revealing two people, a young lady and a man standing in the hallway. Anna looks at the man who had black hair and is wearing a suit and sunglasses, something that is rarely, if ever, seen in Arendelle. Anna is more interested in the lady though who is just a bit taller than her and has striking platinum blonde hair, which is tied up in a braid and hanging down on top of her left shoulder. She also has cerulean blue eyes which stand out in contrast with her hair and skin. Anna noticed that she is also wearing a suit, though hers was darker than the mans, which is gray. If there is one thought that popped into her mind when she looked at her, it is how beautiful she looks, though that thought quickly vanishes when she realizes that they are still strangers, who are currently standing outside of her door, dressed in attire that totally spoke out, not civilians.
"Uh, may I help you?" Anna asks as her hand behind the door slowly reaches towards the purge switch on the wall.
"Are you Anna Anderson?" The female asks with a soft and alluring, but still, somewhat, authoritative voice.
"Yes I am. May I ask...AAH!" Anna yelps as the woman suddenly knocks her to the ground and kneels on her back. "What the fuck are you doing?!"
"Norwegian intelligence agency! You are under arrest for acts of cyber terrorism and the illegal access of government systems!" She states as she pulls out a pair of cuffs.
"Agens Captivus!" Anna yells at the computer, knowing rapunzel and kristoff are still listening, as she elbows the girl in the abdomen and knocks her off. She leaps forward and slams her hand down on the 'purge' button. She watches as all the screens turn black and a few sparks erupt from the devices, before she gets knocked down even more forcefully, this time by both of them.
"Stupid move Ms. Anderson!" The woman growls as she yanks Anna's hands behind her back, forcefully, and then cuffs them together. "You're coming with us!"
"Fucking beautiful!"
I decided that my other Elsanna wasn't going anywhere so I decided to change the plot and try anew with, hopefully, more luck this time. The other one, love never did run easy, may be deleted soon, mainly because I never planned far enough ahead for that one and had no idea what to do next.
To any readers that read my other stories, I'll try to produce an update but I can't promise anything.
This will be an Elsanna story, and will have romance and action. Unfortunately, Elsa doesn't have powers in this one.
-TacticX