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The Prometheus Files Chapter 2: Encounter
It had taken him 6 hours time to get here undetected. He could only maintain invisibility for 30 seconds, and there were so many police and National Guard around on cleanup duty that he couldn't risk flying or even running at super-speed. He also knew that he had to avoid being seen altogether, because he had no valid ID, and martial law had been implemented until cleanup was complete. And while he could easily escape from law enforcement, he couldn't risk that kind of attention. The man in the black coat entered the underground bunker under the Bueno Nacho parking lot. He laughed a little to himself, knowing that this particular outpost of GJ was established specifically because of Kim and Ron. It was small, a few rooms, three computer terminals, a bathroom, two bunk beds, and a small armory. This was a staging area, nothing more. Small armory, the man chuckled, as he melted the weapons into useless slag with white energy blasts generated from his fingertips. He knew that this counted as intervention, but while this armory was small by GJ standards, it would make any of Kim's enemies drool. There was enough firepower here to pull off a Matrix-Lobby-Shooting-Spree successfully. He didn't want that firepower to wind up in the wrong hands before GJ got the damage to this outpost repaired. The damage was actually quite severe. The bunker was 200 feet underground, but the parking lot had been completely destroyed, and a crater was just 200 feet deep at one point granting access to the bunker. The security system was fried, as were the high pressure transport tubes used by GJ. The bunk room and bathroom were completely collapsed. But one of the three terminals that accessed GJ's main database was still functional.
The man tapped his watch, and then liquid metal began to come out of it, forming a small screen and a cable to connect to the terminal. He connected the cable and pressed the "Upload" button on the screen. A few minutes later the device had done its job, stating: "Identity Uploaded, Master Encryption Keys matched". Just as he closed the connection and turned his watch back into a watch with another tap, he heard someone sliding done the crater wall outside. Damn, someone got curious he thought.
It was six A.M. when Kim's kimmunicator watch played its distinct tune. Kim was groggy as she woke up, remembering that she was dreaming about Ron, that she was very content, but she was not sure that they were dressed. She snapped awake when she realized she was cuddled with Ron, wrapped in a blanket in the middle of nowhere. She quickly recalled last night's events and relaxed. She and Ron hadn't actually done anything other than cuddle while fully clothed, so she wasn't worried about getting in trouble. It was graduation night, so she figured her parents would let her get away with staying out with Ron all night. She sat up, not waking Ron, and answered her kimmunicator. Wade's face immediately appeared.
"Kim, glad I was able to get a hold of you. Betty Director at GJ needs to speak to you immediately." Wade then noticed on the camera that Ron was asleep next to her. "Kim, uhh, did you and Ron, uhh…." Wade stuttered.
"We were fully clothed the whole time; we were just cuddling, now, Betty, GJ, Wade."
"Right, here you go."
Betty Director's Face appeared on screen. She had bloodshot eyes and looked very tired. That didn't surprise Kim. Betty was probably in charge of global management of cleanup after the recent invasion. What shocked Kim was the fact that her evil twin brother Sheldon, AKA Gemini, was standing behind her wearing a GJ uniform and giving orders.
"Doctor, uhh, isn't that your evil twin behind you," Kim blurted before Betty could say anything.
"Yes, and I can explain that later, it's not related to why I called you. One of our outpost bunkers in Middleton was breached in the attack, and we just intercepted a National Guard com saying that they heard strange noises coming from its location. We can't have the local police or National Guard entering the base, you two are the closest of the people we can trust."
"You want me to check it out and make sure no one broke in."
"Yes. The transport tube to the outpost was destroyed, but the armory and one of the GJ database terminals are still intact. The security system is fried and we can't sever the terminal's link to our systems. Both the Terminal and the Armory would be very dangerous in the wrong hands."
"Understood, Ron and I are on the way," Kim stated as she nudged Ron awake. "Where is the bunker?"
"Underneath the parking lot of local Bueno Nacho that you two frequent. We established that outpost specifically because of you two lovebirds. Contact me when you get there," Betty said chuckling as she signed off.
Kim turned red with embarrassment as she realized Betty would have also seen her and Ron together through the camera. She relaxed knowing that Betty of all people would never tell anyone. She was still curious, but not worried about Gemini being there though. She trusted Betty's judgment.
Ron woke up to Kim nudging him, immediately recalling last nights events and conversation, and was quite happy to find that Kim was still there and that it was real, not a dream. His own dream had been about them making out. The thing, was, while he had looked into Kim's beautiful green eyes during the entire dream, he could have sworn he had seen his clothing along with Kim's (including underwear), lying in a pile behind them. He knew that it was just dream, and quickly snapped to attention when Kim turned off her kimmunicator.
"Morning Kim, what's going on?" Ron asked, secretly hoping they could stay cuddled for a while, but realizing that if Kim had been using her kimmunicator, then they probably had a mission, or were in a lot of trouble with their parents.
"Dr. Director just called, seems that a local outpost of theirs was breached and has an intruder in it. The security system was destroyed in the invasion, and we're the closest people that they can trust. They think there's an intruder, and there's a functional computer terminal there that they can't disconnect from their database, not to mention an armory. She wants us to look into it ASAP."
"I prefer to change before a mission, but let's go." Ron said bluntly, switching into mission mode.
"Grab the blanket and I'll start the car." Kim stated with conviction, also switching into mission mode.
They were at Bueno Nacho within minutes. Kim filled Ron in on the way. He had been a little surprised, but mostly proud, that the two of them had warranted the creation of a full blown GJ outpost. Ron was also extremely curious about Sheldon being in GJ HQ, but he, like Kim, trusted that Betty knew what she was doing.
They slid down the crater slop, Ron very happy that it was only the parking lot and not Bueno Nacho itself that was destroyed. When they jumped into the bunker from the hole in the bottom of the crater they saw that there was indeed an intruder. He was wearing a black trench coat and black hood. He was turned away from them and they couldn't see his face. The first thing they noticed was that he was at the computer terminal, which was still functional. The second thing that they noticed was that all of the weapons from the armory were… melted… into a pile in front of the weapons locker that had been broken open by a falling support beam.
The man reached into his pocket, and Kim and Ron immediately assumed a battle stance. The main pulled out what appeared to be clear strip of plastic with wires in it. He reached up to his throat and then put his hand back to his side, the object no longer in it. He then spoke.
"I see, someone must have heard something when I was destroying the weapons. The two of you are the only people in the area that GJ can trust. Too bad, I didn't mean to interrupt your little make session out on the cliff."
His voice sounded severely distorted and almost like a computerized voice. Kim and Ron realized that the strip of plastic must have been a voice scrambler that you can place over your voice box to mask your voice. They had used such devices from time to time.
"How the hell did you know about that, and why did you destroy the weapons?!!?" Ron screamed, even scaring Kim a little bit. Ron didn't know why yelled like that but he figured he didn't like being spied on. He also figured that any intruder would have gone after the weapons or just left them. "Just who are you?"
"I suppose I can tell you my first name. It's Jonathan, but you can call me John. The rest of my name, well, I'll have to keep that a secret for now. It's quite possible that I will never tell you, and it's also possible that you will figure it out on your own. I destroyed the weapons because they could be quite destructive in the wrong hands." The man suddenly pulled a gun from inside his coat and fired several rounds into the terminal, completely destroying it. He placed the gun back inside his coat without turning around. "How I knew about what you were doing, well, I'll keep that a secret for the time being as well, though I have every intention of telling you eventually. And to answer the most important question, which I might add you forgot to ask, I am merely looking at some data that I do not normally have access too. I did not access or steal anything dangerous, nor did I alter any data, which is something that Betty and Wade could tell you later. I have no intention of giving or selling the data I accessed to anyone else nor do I intend to use it for any evil purpose. We are actually on the same side, whether or not you realize it right now."
Kim and Ron were still reeling from the gunfire, since neither one of them had encountered it outside of movies or video games. It was much scarier in real life. However, they could tell that this man had no intention of using that gun on them, so they relaxed a little.
"Sorry, but we're not on the same side, because breaking and entering into a secured facility makes you a criminal, and we're not criminals. And stealing classified data also makes you a criminal. As for destroying the weapons, that would be destruction of property, but I'll let that one slide, since your reasons are valid," Kim said as she charged at the man.
He easily evaded her attack, and jumped to the other side of the room. "Not a criminal, huh? Technically what you do is also breaking and entering, which is a crime. Sometimes you have the permission of the owner, but not always. The owners and the law always let you off the hook because you're fighting crime and they trust you. But you are still taking the law into you own hands, and you frequently take it well outside of legal limits. Any time you went to a place without the owner's permission before hand, even if it was to fight crime, it was breaking and entering. Under those circumstances, anytime you made the first attack you committed assault. When you had permission to be there, you were of course in the clear, gaining legal status as bodyguard or security guard. But many times, Miss Possible, Mister Stoppable, you two have broken the law. It was just that no one ever pressed charges, and likely never will. If you worked for GJ, or some other law enforcement agency, you would be in the clear, but currently you don't and you aren't."
"You sound like a mob lawyer," Ron said, actually somewhat worried about what the man had said. He glanced at Kim and saw that she was also a little worried.
"Yes, I probably do. Nor did I mean to worry the two of you, I was simply stating fact. I not only know that no one has ever pressed charged against you two, but I can say that I'm quite certain they never will."
"Whatever the legal implications of what we do, we have permission to be here and you are breaking and entering," Kim said as she charged the man a second time.
"True, good bye Ms. Possible, Mr. Stoppable. No one will hear from me for a very long time," the man said as he darted behind Ron, who was still standing at the hole in the ceiling that was currently the only entrance or exit.
Ron spun around following the man's movement perfectly. This man was fast, very, very fast. Ron knew he would need his mystical monkey power to fight him, but before he could summon it, the man jumped up through the opening and disappeared. Ron followed him through the hole, but when he reached the top, the man was gone without a trace.
"Ron, do you see him?" shouted Kim through the hole.
"No, he's gone, there's no trace of him. Rufus, got any ideas where he is?"
"Hnh, no. No sign." The little mole rat responded after sniffing the wind.
"Well, that was embarrassing, we meet a new villain, and we can't even lay a finger on him. Not to mention that aside from a relatively common first name that we don't even know is actually his, we have nothing to go one. We don't even have a voice sample. Wade, can you detect anything?" Kim said as she turned on her communicator.
"Well, I couldn't get much of a reading of the guy while he was in the bunker, 'cause my equipment is still having issues from the Lorwardian's attack. But I'm scanning the room now. Hmm. He was wearing gloves, so we can't expect any DNA, and there aren't any other traces. I can tell you that the weapons were melted with extreme heat, but I can't detect any trace of what generated it. I was intense enough that it should have incinerated most of the surroundings, but they are unaffected. I'd have to guess some kind of focused energy weapon, but the only stuff I could detect on the guy was a pair of 45. Caliber hand guns and his watch, which seemed, unusual, but I couldn't get a reading on it. There's no trace of any energy in the EM spectrum. So I can't help you there, nor can it provide us with any leads. I've been speaking with Betty, and since the computer was destroyed, we can't say for certainty what he did. But, we know he didn't get at any of GJ's really sensitive files, 'cause those servers were offline and still are. All that was functional was links to other databases such as Interpol, and various agencies in the US government. Wait a moment Betty wants to talk to you," Wade said as he brought Betty onscreen.
"Kim, good job, I think you got to him before he could do anything dangerous. We know that he didn't get any sensitive data, and although what he did to those weapons worries me a little, the only thing he could have done with that terminal in such a short time would be to create a false identity. But we know he didn't do that, because there are encryption keys in place. While they wouldn't keep him from making changes, everything he changed would be marked and tagged. And nothing is tagged as having been changed. There's no way to bypass that, unless…."
"Unless what?" Ron asked. He had jumped back into the hole and joined Kim in investigating what the man had one.
"Unless he knew the Master Encryption Keys, which only I know, and the only written copy of them is in my safe, in my office. They're still there, I checked, and no one else has gotten to them. Good job, you two. Oh, and why don't you two come down to GJ HQ tomorrow, and I'll explain about my brother and WEE." Betty said.
"Sure, how's 2 P.M. sound? Ron?"
"Fine, how about you Doctor?"
"That's fine, see you then. Come to this outpost, we should have the transport tube functional again by that time. Over and out."
"Well, the bad guy got away, but we stopped him from whatever he was doing, Boo-yah," Ron said jovially.
"Yeah, but why did he destroy the computer if he hadn't done anything yet?" Kim pondered.
"Don't know, and right now there's nothing we can do, so there's no reason to care," Ron said as he pulled Kim in for a quick kiss.
"We should get home, our parents aren't going to be too happy with us Ronny."
"Yeah, let's get going Kimmy."
"Hnh, breakfast, hnh," said Rufus.
Kim and Ron both laughed.
