Back in the bunker, and Aiden and Kat started decrypting the data they had stolen. Kat started typing away, scrolling through loads of folders with a lot of dirt from of Blume employees on it.
"Why do Blume store all this?" Kat mumbled, while she looked through secret sex logs, thievery charges and other major crimes. However, Kat was realising that these people weren't major employees.
"Blume keep all this so it doesn't get out I suppose" Aiden said, as he was looking at his own monitor.
"Still doesn't make sense" Kat whispered, clicking away, still trying to look for Charlotte Gardner's name. After a couple more minutes of running decryption codes, Aiden sat back, looking impressed with himself. He looked over to Kat and smile smugly
"Guessed who found the documents on Charlotte" he said. This perked Ray and Tobias's attention (who where still working on the Dedsec location) and they both moved away to see Aiden's computer. The only thing on her file was a video. Aiden looked at the three of them who where stood up, huddling round the monitor. He noticed their expecting faces and pressed play on the video. The video, at first, was just Charlotte her self sitting in a meeting room, supposedly waiting for someone. Kat's suspicions where proved right when someone came into the room. This man had a beanie on and seemed to have a bust up left leg. When his face was put on camera Aiden let out a 'son of a bitch'. Kat presumed that Aiden knew the guy.
"Damien, what a… Pleasure to see you" Charlotte said, getting up to shake his hand, but he declined and she sat down.
"Okay, you've got my attention, let's talk about Raymond Kenney" Charlotte said. There was a long pause as the man, who Kat now knew as Damien, paced the room and headed towards a TV in the corner.
"One thing at a time" Damien said, still facing the TV "you should know I've come across some dirt on a few CtOS executives" Charlotte perked up as soon as she heard this an instantly asked
"What kind of dirt?"
"The expensive kind." Damien replied, smugly "Relax –this isn't blackmail."
"If not money then what?" Charlotte asked very quickly, not getting the full picture. Damien raised his hand and said:
"It's simple. You can have the dirt" and with that he turned around to ace Charlotte again
"Very little is simple. What's your price Mr. Brenks?" Damien looked at her, and then placed his hands together as he walked sinisterly towards her
"I want inside CtOS. I'll give you Kenney, the dirt, even the vigilante when I'm done with him." He stopped when he got closer an saw the discomfort on Charlotte face. He then started again "I know, I know. The people upstairs would never allow it. But they don't need to know. And Kenney is right here in Pawnee." Damien then made his way to a chair by the conference chair and simply said "isn't that convenient?"
Charlotte reaches for her phone and start dialling a number while excusing her self. When she walked out the door, you could hear her say "we have Kenney. Get moving" an with that she was gone. Damien on the other hand, was not gone, and seemed to get more comfortable in the seat.
"Always a pleasure to be of service" he said to no one in particular. And then the video cut off
"Wait, that it?" Kat said, fully confused. Tobias seemed a little confused as well, but Aiden and Ray seemed to know the man in the video "who is Damien?" Kat asked. Ray sighed and rubbed his eyes
"An annoying son of a bitch. He was the one who was messing with CtOS the day of the black out" he explained. "And that's how he got his access, through Charlotte Gardner"
Now it made sense, of it came out that Charlotte Gardner, who was basically the only Blume employee in the public eye, was the one who granted access to a man that nearly took down the city, there would be riots. People wouldn't feel safe. This made Kat wonder who was hiring Sarah to collect this data for them.
"This would be pretty bad if it came out to the public" Tobias said "what will we do with it?" He asked, unsure of what's going on
"We can't give to the public that's for sure" Kat said, as to which she a barrage of 'whys' by Aiden and Ray. She rolled her eyes, they would've just given it all up if she hadn't been here "think about it, this goes out and people are going to rebel, lots of people will get hurt, and more hackers will get inside Blume"
"So what, we just keep this secret to ourselves? Let Blume control is for the rest of our lives? This could be out chance to destroy them" Aiden said, getting up to face Kat, who was getting slightly intimidated by his defensive tone
"Of course we'll get to them, we'll just do it from the inside. Blackmail can be a bitch" she said simply. Aiden relaxed, realising her plan. If they know something Blume don't, that could be a massive advantage for when they decided to attack Blume completely. Kat then heard a faint ring tone,and after looking around to see who's it was, she realised it was hers. She reached into her bag and found her ringing phone. The caller ID said it was Sarah and Kat answered immediately.
"You know, explosions can kill people"
Kat chuckled at her friends abrupt greeting
"Yeah well, it would have been nice to have a head up that you where doing some illegal shit" Kat said, and Sarah laughed down the phone.
"yeah, I suppose I'm not very good at the whole being a 'truthful' friend thing" Sarah said, and Kat hummed to indicate she agreed "anyway, I'm going to make it up to you and tell you who hired me or, well, Jordi, to get that info" she said. This took Kat by surprise, she wasn't expecting this. This was very un-fixer like of her
"What about Jordi's whole 'customer confidentiality' he has" Kat asked, expressing her surprise at Sarah's choice
"Well, I'm not him, and I love him I do, I really do, but this seemed important to you" Sarah said sincerely "plus, I've missed by hacking pal" she laughs and Kat smiled a little. She then decided to do something she wouldn't have ever thought she would've done
"Remember I talked about the test site I helped make for Blume? Yeah, meet me, an my dream team, here so you can tell us who did what" Kat said. Ray's eyes widened and made motions for her to hang up. Aiden just rolled his eyes, he just knew Kat would do something stupid, and Tobias seemed kid of excited to have someone else in the bunker. Sarah and Kat then said their good byes and then hung up
"The fuck?" Ray said
"What?" Kat said innocently
"You decided" Aiden started "That we should tell Jordi Chin's fucking girl friend where we are? You know we can't trust Jordi". Aiden was getting angry again, and you could cut the tension with a knife. Kat heard Tobias lean into Ray and ask who Jordi was. Kat crossed her arms in defiance, as Aiden's relentless stair bore down on her
"One, Jordi isn't that bad, he's actually a nice guy if you try and two, you don't even know why she's coming round!" Kat said and Aiden looked at her confused
"Fine. Why is she coming round?" He asked. Mimicking her words from before
"She's going to tell us the other people who want that info" Aiden looked impressed. It hadn't crossed his mind that, to take Blume down, it would help to know those who are also trying to take them down.
"Okay, so maybe it was a good move" Aiden said, and Kat smiled, relaxing a little. Aiden made her feel so many different things, and it was fucking confusing.
Kat was in the kitchen making herself a sand which when she heard a noise coming from the main room of the bunker. She finished off her sandwich and made her way there, with her food in one hand. When she got there she was informed that Ray and Tobias and finally located and IDed the guy who was making the dedsec call, or at least the guy who was transmitting it.
"His name is… David Selmer?" Ray said, trying to pronounce it properly.
"That's the guy" they heard a voice say, and when they turned round try saw Sarah standing at the foot of the stairs. She had a small gash on her face from the explosion earlier today.
"Excuse me?" Ray said
"David Selmer. He's the guy who ordered me to collect the data from the CtOS tower. And he was paying big bucks for it too" Sarah said. "So what was on that drive?" She asked curiously as she made her way to one of the computers, but was blocked by Aiden's arm. She put her hands up in defeat and took a step back.
"Looks like I'm not trusted" she said, and then made her way to Kat's side, taking the sandwich from her hand and taking a bite "thanks, I'm famished" she said, and Kat just shook her head and laughed. She sure had missed her partner. "So what now?" She asked, with her mouth full.
"I suppose we track this guy down and demand answers" Ray said, relaxing a bit at Sarah's friendly nature. Sarah swallowed her bite slowly and looked to Kat
"I'm guessing this guy didn't only try and get some data" she asked nervously
"No. They er.." Kat couldn't finish as memories of her sister and the footage came back to her
"They showed her the footage of her sister when she got shot" Aiden finished for her, and she have him a thankful look.
"Oh, you mean Celia? Yeah, I miss her too" Sarah said sadly, and suddenly the tone in the bunker became a lot less friendly. Sarah put her arm around Kat as she was slightly taller than her and pulled her in for a slight hug.
"Look, I can't help you from here on out okay, I'm good at hacking and not shooting. But, Jordi wanted me to tell you to phone him because he misses, and I quote, his 'drinking buddy'" Sarah said, letting Kat go. Kat smiled and nodded, telling her that she'll go for a drink with Jordi soon and she left it at that
And with that, Sarah left the bunker the way she had came. The four of them where left with a deafening silence until Kat said
"God damn it, thanks to her I need to make another freaking sandwich" and she threw her hands up in the air and made her way back to the tiny, metallic kitchen inside the bunker.
