Secrets 1
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"It's not safe being in this kind of situation, Dez."
"Austin, I have no choice."
"I'm uncomfortable with the plan."
"Plan? What plan? This is survival." There are foot steps coming to was both of them a door opening. "We've been compromised!"
The door opens revealing Austin's sister, Amanda. "What are you two doing? Your supposed to be outside at the party."
"You see. I don't feel like I'm quite fitting in you know?" Austin says.
"At your own birthday party?"
"Exactly. You get my point."
"Austin come on."
"Hi Amanda," Dez says dangling from the window.
"Dez you stay here." Amanda walks away. Austin signs as he looks at Dez.
Austin leaves and follows Amanda. She brings him to a group of girls and leaves him with them while she goes back over to her boyfriend, Chase.
"So where do you work?" A girl asks Austin.
"The Nerd Herd. I fix computers." Austin answers.
"What happened to your hand. They are all bandaged."
"Um, it's from Call of Duty. The controller chafes after several hours."
The girl makes an awkward face, "So what do you plan to do. I mean, you can't be fixing computer all your life right? I heard you went to Stanford University."
"Yes, that's technically correct."
"I graduated five years ago. What did you major in?"
"Engineering."
"I met this great engineer. He ran track."
"Bryce Larkin. Yeah, he was my roommate."
"I wonder what he's doing now."
"I think he's an accountant."
Bryce falls from a roof into a white screen room. He runs over to a computer that's says INTERSECT COMPUTER. He puts all the information on that computer on his tablet and runs away with it. He runs away because after removing the Intersect from the computer it sets of a bomb that with commence in ten seconds. Security guards chase him up the stairs. While he's running he is going through his email so he can send the email to someone in particular. He reaches the roof as guards behind him shoot at him with guns. He jumps form tall roofs to more roofs. He is about it hit a dead end when he slides down the eaves trove. He jumps of the roof and gets up quickly and goes through the email again. He looks up and gets shot in the chest. He looks up to see NSA agent Trish De La Rosa. "Long time no kill. Don't move!"
"De La Rosa." Bryce dies right there as his tablet burns out. The last thing that is showed was EMAIL SENT TO AUSTIN.
Dez brings Austin back up to his room to play some video games because all the girls eventually ran away from him. Amanda come sin and asks Dez to leave for a few minutes to talk to Austin.
"Austin, as much as we may ask but no one wants to hear about an old girlfriend. Especially when you run on about what had happened between you two. Your twenty five now."
"It's hard okay? Bryce took my girlfriend, Jill from me. And may I might add that Bryce got me kicked out of Stanford?"
"I know but you have to get over that fact that you and Jill broke up."
"Do we have to have this talk?"
"We've rehearsed it enough."
"Okay, well then I'll get over Jill tomorrow." Amanda leaves because she can't find any way to talk to him.
Dez walks in and goes straight to the video games. "Sisters, hu?"The computer goes off meaning a email has been recieved. Dez looks over to the screen. "Why don't you look at that. Bryce remembered your birthday. Remember Bryce?"
"Yeah, I think I remember Bryce." Austin goes over to the computer.
Dez looks at his watch. "Well, I got to go. It's getting late. Happy Birthday, bro."
"Pedal Safe."
"Thanks."
Dez leaves Austin's apartment. Austin opens the email and all of a sudden a million pictures pop up on the screen. Austin stands up straight and continues to stare at the computer. It's like he is unable to move. He started at these photos from night to morning. The pictures stop moving and the computer says INTERSECT UPDATE COMPLETE. Austin falls target on he ground landing hard on the floor.
Austin open his eyes a little blurry but then clears up as Dez helps Austin off the floor of his bedroom. "You okay?"
"Yeah. Just..." Austin looks up at the computer and a little confused. "Did you spike the punch?"
"What kind of friend do you think I am. We've been friends since Kindergarten do you honestly think I would do such thing?" No answer. "Yes I did."
"Well, I'm just going to go take a shower." After he finishes his shower Dez and Austin drive to the store they both work at.
A co-worker of Austin comes up to him and starts talking to him about a virus in the new computers that they are selling. "Can you please slow down Jerry. I have a splitting head ache today and it's hard to focus on anything that you are saying right now."
"Sorry , what I was saying that there is a virus going through the laptop..." Austin stops paying attention to Jerry talking when he focuses more on the news that is playing on the display TVs that Dez turned in because he controles when they turn on and when they turn off. In the news they are talking about that General Mitch is going to be landing in Burbank, which is where Austin lives, later today.
"He's already here, he landed today." Austin says to himself.
"Who?" Jerry asks.
"I don't know." Austin says a little confused about what he just said. He thought to himself, How did I know that?
"Anyway so this virus might end up staying here for a couple weeks until it disappears because there is no way of removing it because we had go put a computer guy to try something with it but it's buggered. He said just wait a few weeks and it should be clear gone..."
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON D.C.
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"Bryce Larkin was CIA, Graham. He was one of your agents." A lady says.
Graham follows, "And it was NSAs job to find him. To question him not to kill him. Thanks to RamGirl here we have nothing."
Trish says, "Well you got a dead CIA agent. That's a good star in my book."
The lady says, "If this gets out..."
"It won't."
"Nobody asked you." Graham says. He's a tall African American man. He wears suits and ties all day. Enforces the NSA rules mostly. Trish is an agent for the NSA.
"Actually they did." The lady says. "Agent De La Rosa is heading up this investigation."
"So what was Bryce after? What did this computer do?" Trish asks.
"Well, it pretty much did everything. After 9/11 the CIA and the NSA were told to play nice. Share there Intel and this is how we did it. We collected every scrap of information we had left and put it in this computer. The data was encrypted into thousands of images and whoever received Larkin's email got all of our secrets."
"We need you to find those secrets De La Rosa."
"I found this in him." She shows them the burned up tablet Bryce had. "Hard drive is fried but I picked up a trace signal."
"Where?" The lady asks.
"Los Angeles."
A brunette girl comes walking into the electronic store that Austin works at. She comes walking up to the front but Austin doesn't notice her at first. Dez says, "Stop the presses. Who is that? Megan Fox." Dez whispers the last part but Austin still wasn't paying enough attention and started singing Megan Foxes name over and over again while listening to someone on the phone. He looks up and drops the phone.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything." She says nicely.
"No, not at all. What can I do for you..."
"Ally."
"Hi Ally what can I do for you."
"Well, Austin." She puts a flip phone on the counter in front of both of them. "I have a problem."
"Ah, I see. The intelecell. Absolutely. This model has a letter screw at the back that can pop out." He puts the battery back in and screws it closed. "And good as new." Austin hands back her phone.
"Wow. You geeks are good." She looks at Dez and Austin.
"I would think of it more as Nerds." Dez says.
"Yeah, you know, Nerd Herd."
"Excuse me I have an emergency. I need you help." A man with his daughter comes walking over to Austin.
"Just give me me one minutes Ally." Austin goes and helps the customer and when he is finished he goes back to Ally but find that she is gone. Dez, on the other side picks up a card.
"Dude! She left you her number."