Chapter 10

Hackers

Okay, I thought, the Arrow is coming to my apartment in a few minutes.

"How did you get Oliver to come to Central City so quickly?" I wondered.

"Well," Felicity confessed, "I figured Barry would need help fighting the Mirror Master. Also Oliver actually won't be here until around noon I just got a text that his flight was cancelled."

"Did you tell Oliver that we are stopping the Flash?" I asked, alarmed. "I've seen him one the news before working together with the Flash. Are you sure he will help me take down the Flash?"

"Yeah, Oliver will do what needs to be done to keep the city safe," Felicity answered. "I already updated him on the mission status and he is on board."

"I'm going to clean up these dished," Felicity told me and left.

Maybe I could check her texts to Oliver and give him a little background check. I reached for her phone and turned it on. There was a passcode required and I tried the password that I was able to hack in college. It worked and opened to an amazon page detailing the order of a bulk pack of kid's Colgate toothpaste.

Ha, I thought, kids toothpaste.

I navigated to her text messages and searched for Oliver when I heard her coming back into the room and turned off the phone.

"We are going to Skype Oliver in a little I suggest you get dressed and ready for the day."

I groaned.

"Come on, get up," she said reaching out her hand for me to grab.

I grabbed it and lifted myself up, grumbling.

"What you need is a shower," Felicity told me.

"Fine," I said as a grabbed some clothes from my dresser, went into the bathroom, and closed the door. I attempted to take my clothes of multiple times with no avail because of my inability to move my left shoulder without massive amounts of pain. Grunting in frustration, I tried again.

"What are you doing in there?" Felicity yelled.

"I can't seem to unclothe myself," I complained.

Felicity opened the bathroom door and walked in. "I'll help," she offered.

"No-but-," I stammered awkwardly

"Come on, it's not like I haven't seen you naked before," she argued.

I blushed in embarrassment remembering that night from our time at college together.

Realizing my embarrassment, she said, "Ok, we can go back to pretending that night never happened but you are going to let me help you."

"Fine," I muttered.

She lifted up my arms despite my groans of pain and took off my shirt.

"You've bulked up since college," Felicity noted.

"You aren't making this any easier by saying that," I protested.

"Ok fine," she replied.

I stood awkwardly not wanting to take off my pants.

"Do you really need my help for this part too," she asked.

"No, ok, I'll do it," I muttered as she left the room and closed the door.

I finished undressing and got it the shower. Dried blood started coming off of me making the water bright red as it drained. I finished washing and got out.

I dried myself off and put on my pants. I picked up my shirt and left the bathroom.

"Felicity," I said.

Felicity looked up from the computer and said, "Oh yeah, do you need help?"

"Wait, is that my computer?" I asked, looking more closely.

"No this is my computer, it just looks a lot like yours," Felicity answered.

"You have a sticker that say 'I can neither confirm or deny whether this is the computer of a CIA agent'?" I asked.

"Oh, I didn't see that," Felicity admitted.

"Just because youcan hack into my computer doesn't mean you should," I told her.

"Do you want my help or not," she asked standing up. "By the way I don't think that most grown men have their top website hit as Bulbapedia Pokémon encyclopedia."

"That is- f-for –CIA research," I tried to say, "Top secret, I can't tell you any details."

"Oh, Okay," she feigned belief.

"Ok, says the person who orders bulk packs of kid's Colgate toothpaste," I fired back.

"You hacked my phone?" she asked, surprised.

"You haven't changed your passcode since college," I chuckled.

"You hacked my phone in college?"

"You didn't know that?" I asked, surprised.

"I think we need a no hacking each other rule," Felicity suggested.

"We both know we would be fooling ourselves by saying that," I pointed out.

"That's true," she admitted.

I heard her phone start ringing. "That's Oliver trying to Skype," she realized.

"Oh boy," I muttered.

"Hi Oliver," she said as she opened her phone and pointed the camera towards us.

"Hello Felicity, hello Evan," he replied.

"Hi," I said nervously.

"My cell reception is about to cut out so let's make this quick," he told us.

"Nice to see you too," Felicity jested.

Unfazed, Oliver continued, "The one thing that frustrated me most when working with Barry was his lack of planning and training. That means if we do a large amount of planning and training, we will have the upper hand. If we analyze how he fights, where he goes, who he cares about, why he is able to heal and run so quickly, we can have a chance to beat him. You two need to hack into the STAR Labs computer system so that we can monitor what they are doing at all times."

"That's a really good idea," I realized.

The image started going blurry and cut out on Felicity's phone.

"Short and sweet, I guess," I noted.

Felicity opened my computer and started hacking.

"I found the STAR Labs computer system," she said almost immediately.

I walked over to see the screen.

"It's going to be really hard to find a back door through all that encryption," I realized.

"Maybe we don't need to find one," she suggested.

"Oh yeah, just use a Trojan and make one," I realized.

She typed for a while and after a minute of waiting she said, "It's not working."

"What if we try getting into their satellite rather than the mainframe?" I asked.

"Maybe," she said.

After searching for a while, she told me, "I can't find it, they must have re-routed the system since I last hacked it."

After typing for a few minutes, she cursed, frustrated.

"I can't find any backdoors," she complained, "They must have hidden them very thoroughly knowing a CIA agent was after them."

"Unless they didn't hide them at all and we just didn't notice them," I realized.

"What? Why wouldn't they be hidden?" Felicity asked.

"Caitlin," I replied, "She never said anything while we were arguing about the Flash's powers. Maybe she didn't agree with Dr. Wells. She knows I am part of the CIA so maybe she left a backdoor for me to get in."

"You're right, I'm in," she said.

A video feed of STAR Labs popped up on the screen.