Monty Green: The Hacker

Soeul, South Korea

Monty was completely bored out of his mind. His lecturer was babbling on about stuff that he had covered himself months ago. At this point the only reason he even showed up for these lectures anymore was because of the attendance credits. And he mainly used the time to do jobs for his clients anyways. Thank God the majority of his classmates used laptops for this class so he wasn't drawing suspicion to himself. Carefully, he hacked into the mainframe of a local business and located his client's records. Typing quickly, he added a few more hours worked and removed some bits about damaging property. Satisfied that he did exactly what the client had asked, he removed any trace that they had been hacked and started to play an online game (with the sound muted so he wouldn't distract those who were learning this stuff for the first time of course, he was a considerate person).

As he played the game and killed his opponents, he couldn't help but wonder what to do once he graduated. He knew that he probably had over a year left to figure that out but he wanted to have some form of plan. He also knew that he wanted to get as far away from his mother as possible. He was only doing this stupid course to please her. If he let her, she would arrange his entire life exactly to fit her standards. In fact, if it was up to her then he would already be in a long-term co-habiting relationship with his mother's best friend's daughter Abby. Who hated his guts. And the feeling was mutual.

Zoning back to the present day, Monty became aware of people packing up around him. Glancing at the clock on his computer he saw that class was finished. Quickly packing up, he turned to head to the door when it happened. One moment he was here in the lecture hall surrounded by his class mates, the next he was sitting on a leather couch next to a guy with stringy hair and a crooked smile playing some sort of war game. It looked a lot like Call of Duty. The vision only lasted a second and then he was back in the hall being jostled by their classmates as they attempted to get past him so they could go study for the upcoming pop quiz their lecturer had teased them with (which he already knew the answers to as he hacked into their files a week ago).

Walking out into the fresh air, Monty wondered if he should be concerned with these visions. He knew that they were something that his mother would certainly disapprove over, saying that would be how Monty would destroy a promising career and future. Knowing that, Monty welcomed the visions. Anything that his mother would disapprove over he generally embraced. That was the whole reason he started to experiment with drugs.

The first visions were generally strange though. The woman in white that he saw when he was hacking into his mother's bank account gave him the fright of his life. A few days later he saw the same woman in his dreams. Only this time she was in some sort of building that looked to be abandoned a long time ago. He watched as she brought a gun up to her mouth and fired it. He woke up sweating and panting just before her body hit the ground. He hadn't been able to sleep for an entire week after that.

Shaking his head in defeat, Monty trudged back to his dorm room. The visions were most likely affects from his drug use. He should be a lot more concerned about something like that happening, but he just found he didn't really care. He wasn't about to give up the drugs either. They were his only escape from his life. Sighing a little, Monty felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, alerting him of an incoming text. Fishing his phone out, he opened up his messages and scowled a little in annoyance when he saw the text was from his mother, ordering him to come to dinner on Sunday evening with him and his step-father Pike because she wanted to introduce Monty to one of her friend's daughters. Vaguely wondering how much pain he'd be in if he threw himself under the nearest fast-moving vehicle in order to avoid heading to that dinner, he started to tap a reply, when he bumped into a figure standing right in front of him.

"Oh God! I am so sorry!" Monty apologized, still glancing at his phone, "it's totally my fault."

"Monty Green?" the figure asked.

"Um yeah?"

"Come with us" a second voice added. Looking up confused, Monty realized that the figure he had bumped into and the second voice were that of campus security.

"Um why?" Monty asked, panic growing inside him as he glanced around at his surroundings, wondering if it would be worth it if he made a break for it.

"The Dean wants to see you" the security guard he had bumped into added, looking bored out of his mind.

Monty started to laugh uneasily and stepped back a few steps, preparing himself for a chase. The guards, noticing this, started to advance on him.

"Look, whatever he thinks I did, I can assure you that I most certainly didn't" Monty babbled. "In fact, I think you might have me confused for somebody else-"

"Oh for crying out loud, I don't have time for this" the second guard complained, grabbing Monty by his arm. "Let's go kid."

The guy started to drag Monty across the quad towards the Dean's office. Monty started to struggle at first, but the first security guard just grabbed his other arm and started to drag him as well. Not for the first time in his life Monty wished he wasn't so small and weak. He wished that he knew how to fight at the very least! Not that it would do him any good in his current situation, but it still would have been handy to know.

They arrived at the Dean's office way sooner than Monty would have liked. Desperately he wracked his brain looking for some reason why he might be here. It had to be something bad, right? Had he been caught for the hacking? For doing drugs on school campus? For dealing drugs to students on and off campus?

'No, no, that can't be it' Monty thought, trying to calm himself down. If that was the case then the police would be here instead of campus security and he would be getting arrested. He's just getting dragged to the Dean's office. It can't be that big.

Letting go of Monty long enough to knock on the door, a calm but authoritative voice called out "come in!" Smirking a little, the second security guard opened the door and peeked his head in saying "we found Monty Green for you sir" and the second he extracted his head, his companion shoved Monty through the open door into the office, Monty almost landing face-first on the soft, plush carpet.

"Ah Mr. Green, thank you for finally allowing yourself to be found" the Dean's voice dripped with sarcasm and Monty peeled himself up off the floor with a sheepish grin on his face.

"S-sorry" he stammered, "I was in class." It was then that he noticed that there was another person in the room. He turned to get a proper look at her- and almost died of heart failure.

It was the woman from his visions. The one who had killed herself. But she looked entirely different. In his visions, she was wearing a dirty white dress, her hair was rugged and knotted, she had bags under her eyes which were wild and scared, she was stick thin too, like she hadn't had a proper meal in ages, or a bath either as she was filthy from the tip of her head to her bare feet. But that was in his head. The woman sitting in front of him looked entirely different. Instead of white, she was wearing a bright, blood red dress. Her hair was effortlessly styled, not a curl out of place, her skin was clean and her dark eyes glinted like a Niffler's that had spotted something shiny.

"So, you're Monty Green?" the woman asked and Monty had to work hard not to shudder at the sound of her voice. It sounded cold and detached, almost like a computer program. Normally Monty loved computers, but this seemed almost unnatural to him. "I've been waiting for you. My name is Alie and I am the founder and CEO of Eligius Corporation and I would like to offer you a paid internship as an engineer on my Korean base."

Now normal people would immediately accept and start thanking them for the opportunity, but Monty was still scrambling to catch up to reality, so the first words to come out of his mouth - unchecked by his brain, were "so I'm not in trouble?"

Alie cocked her head to the side in curiousity, "did you expect to be?" she asked.

"Well, um, no offense to you Dean Sir, but - um when two security guards corner you on campus and start dragging you here saying that the Dean wants to see you right now, you kind of, well, you know, expect the worst. Maybe next time, I don't know, don't do that?!"

The Dean stared at him for a minute before raising an eyebrow and asking "now where's the fun in that?"

Monty stared at him for a few seconds speechless. 'Unbelievable' he thought.

"Anyways, the internship?" Alie interrupted Monty's thoughts. ''It's for six-months. Flexible working hours and you'll be paid above the average wage with benefits while you're there. It's half an hour walk from the university and if you live up to the expectations that I've received from your professors about you, you'll be offered a full-time job once you leave school. Do you accept the offer?"

For a split-second Monty didn't know what to think. It was the sort of thing that his mother would be jumping down his throat for him to accept on the spot. That was when he would usually deny it out of spite. But this time, his body was actually co-operating with his brain. This internship would look great on his CV which would help with applying for jobs abroad. It would also be good for avoiding his mother as the flexible hours meant that he could mold them to avoid her match-making and family dinners, that stopped feeling like family once his dad died and she remarried less than a year later. So he opened his mouth to reply when it happened.

"Don't take that job!" a brand-new voice roared out into the quiet room. Monty looked over Alie's shoulder and felt like his heart would hand in its notice because of the poor treatment that it's been getting these past few weeks. Standing over Alie's shoulder, who definitely, one-hundred percent hadn't been there a few seconds ago, was a man. He looked to be the same age as Alie, with long brown braided hair and a thick beard. He had tan skin and blue eyes with various tattoos on his face and body. He was staring at Monty with a look crossed with concern and worry.

"Monty" he began. 'How does he know my name?' Monty thought confusedly, "do not take that job offer, if she discovers what you are then she will kill you. Alie is evil, Monty, and she can't be trusted. Say no to the offer."

"Monty?" Alie asked, looking over her shoulder in an attempt to see what he was staring at. He guessed that she saw nothing because her glance turned suspicious.

"Well, um, this is an amazing opportunity. But I, um need some time to think it over. Is there any way I can think it over and let you know?" Monty babbled, starting to get a bit freaked out by the fact that there was a strange man in the room that only he could see, who was saying that Alie was evil and would kill him.

"I understand, here is my card, it has all my contact details on it. I expect your reply within a week" Alie said. If Monty had been paying proper attention, then he would have noticed, that Alie was eyeing him like he was a pest that she was trying her hardest to get rid of and her tone seemed to match. But he didn't notice. So, like a robot, he grabbed the card, shoved it into his pocket and fled the office with the strange man yelling "you'll regret it!" in his wake.

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And that's Monty! He's in a bit of trouble, Alie's onto him, probably not the best time for Nyko to appear. Also for anyone who didn't know, the niffler is a creature in the Harry Potter universe. They are attracted to shiny things and will usually do their best to find/steal said shiny items for their own collections. He appears in the Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them movie and I had Monty make the comparison because I feel that in this universe he would be a bit of a nerd. Also many eagle-eyed the 100 viewers would know that Eligius Corporation was the name of the ship that launched prisoners with night-blood into space and they are the owners of the ship that landed in the season 4 finale.

Finally thanks to anyone who left a fav/follow/review, I'm glad you are enjoying the story!