Maybe there IS a way to tell her…
As soon as he arrived in his room, he slammed the door shut, not wanting Sage to hear any suspicious noises. He opened a drawer in his desk, hastily searching its contents. "Come on, come on…" Spinner muttered as he rummaged through the items.
Finally he pulled out a flat, rectangular white item from the bottom- a thoroughly scratched and worn down iPod. He shuffled through some of the songs in it.
"Nope… not this one… why do I still have this in my playlist?... Aha!"
He rushed to the computer in his room and quickly grabbed a blank CD from his desk, putting it into the disk drive. He then connected the iPod to the computer…
Spinner smiled to himself in his own devious Spinner way.
He wondered if Sage could forgive him for playing with the main controls after this.
Sage frowned impatiently and looked towards the BF5's rooms. It's been more than 15 minutes since Spinner left his chore duties and into his room for a so-called "break". Sage sighed and shook her head. Even with all her knowledge and technology, she could never see through Spinner and his actions.
Little did she know that he wasn't in his room at all, but going right under her nose to give her the biggest surprise she could ever get.
The older Cortez smirked to himself in the dark main control room, about to eject a CD into the program. He had already hacked into the security system with no difficulty, a skill of his which many people underestimate. He worked furiously on the data controls, all the while thinking about what he was doing.
He was hacking into the entire Hub system, injecting a possibly virus-filled Earth program onto complex alien technology, and possibly tearing the entire system down.
No biggie, right?
Spinner worked and worked and worked…
Finally…
His palms were sweating, his face contorted with anticipation as he lifted his finger to press the final button that would start the program. With a few deep breaths, he racked up the nerve to lower his finger down just a little bit…
The screen of the database, which had illuminated the dark room, suddenly started to flicker on and off. Spinner watched nervously as it continued its pattern. Would it work?
The screen suddenly stopped flickering and 2 words appeared on the screen.
"DOWNLOAD COMPLETE."
Spinner had to bite his tongue from crying out in joy. He had done it!
Quickly but silently, he slipped out of the control room and into the main section of the hub, where Sage was waiting impatiently for him.
As soon as Sage sensed his presence, she frowned and turned around. "Spinner! You have been gone for approximately 19 minutes and 45 seconds, which is 9 minutes and 45 seconds longer than your break should have been. Why?" She put her hands on her hips and waited for his response.
Spinner gulped.
The plan for SHOULD have been that he would click a hidden button on his hand, the music and effects would start, and he would pluck her strings with ease. But now that he was actually face to face with her, his heart sank into his feet.
Spinner raised a timid hand. "Uh, you see, I was just…" But before he could finish his sentence, Sage's eyes widened as she looked over to the path he had taken to get here.
"Spinner!" Sage cried, her eyes burning with anger. "Is that the hallway leading to the MAIN CONTROL ROOM? I specifically told the team NOT to walk into that section of the hub!"
She sprinted over to the hallway, expecting the worst from Spinner. A hacked program, a virus-filled software?...
Spinner looked at Sage in alarm and ran frantically after her, his arms flapping around like they were in the wind. "NO, SAGE!' He wailed. "You don't understand, I didn't do anything to the system!" Well, he didn't do anything potentially harmful, at least.
But it was too late for apologies. Sage turned her head behind to Spinner, her face contorted in irritation. Spinner, how could I think that you did not cause anything threatening to the hub… when I see that!" She pointed to a section of the roof of the Hub.
Spinner's jaw dropped open in utter surprise. That tiny section of the hub, which used to be blue along with everything else, was turning a shade of sickly brown. In fact, in every corner, nook and crevice, there were places fading from blue to brown.
"B-but… I didn't… I didn't think…"
"Of course you did not think, Spinner!" Sage screeched. "And to think that I only had to trust you with one simple chore, you would cause the entire structure to malfunction!"
It was true. In the Hub, the lights were flickering on and off, giving the room an eerie presence. The databases and systems were flashing and making hissing sounds, while the entire room itself was collapsing into a dull brown.
Spinner gulped and took in his surroundings with guilt and dread; The fact that Sage was staring down at him like he was some germ did not help much.
What had he done? It was only supposed to be a simple "I love you", but had turned into something much more disasterous.
Sorry about the short chapter. I promise I'll write longer ones in future chapters!