[Desc] The Lone Gunmen formed a theory about the
3 mysterious bachelors while Langly and Jimmy discovered another
side of Yves in a hacker convention.
[Written by] The Resident Web Vampyr © 2001.
[Date] 09.05.01
[Rating] PG
[Notes] Part 3 of eXposed. | This is my first venture
into the realm of The Lone Gunmen fanfic but I loved them since
day one at the X-Files.
[Credits] The Lone Gunmen is the creation of
Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz.
[Characters] Byers, Frohike, Langly, Jimmy,
Yves.
BOOTH 46, COMPUTER CONVENTION, LAS VEGAS HILTON
8:38
Jimmy, Langly, and Frohike queued at Booth 46 after they
completed the auction application form. A husky middle-aged woman
wearing a long dress with loud prints, sat on the registration
booth. She was sporting a heavy make-up and a distinct head dress
on her hair. Her duty was to take the application forms and enter
them into the computer database and give each qualified bachelor
instructions for the event.
"Next," said the woman.
Jimmy approached her and handed out his form. The woman read the
first few lines in the form and looked curiously at Jimmy. After
a few moments, she smiled tentatively, "Thank you for
joining this charitable event." The woman entered the
information into her computer and asked a few questions.
"You're real name wouldn't happened to be James,
right?" she asked.
"Yeah," said Jimmy excitedly, "How did you
know?"
The woman cleared her throat. Of course she knew what his real
name was. He wrote in the form: first name, Jimmy and last name,
Bond. What else would it be? "Let's just say, I'm a
psychic," she grinned. She then handed him a card and gave
him additional instructions.
Jimmy noticed the woman's I.D.. It read www.LoveMatesToGo.com and
on top of it, her name--Cleo.
"Cool," said Jimmy.
***
"I can't believe I'm doing this," said Langly darkly.
"I thought you wanted to do this Langly? That's what you
said a minute ago," asked Frohike.
"Well, yeah. But a guy can still change his mind,
right?" he reasoned out. He was about to leave the line when
the lady in the registration called out.
"Next," called out Cleo.
***
Another misfit, Cleo said to herself after looking at
Langly. She entered Langly's information in the database. Age:
32; interests: video games, progressive heavymetal, cyber
communications, 18th-century art; perfect date: A game of
Blizzard, pizza, and a diet coke.
Another loser. Jeez! Is there anybody more eligible than
these guys? she thought. After a few seconds, she was done
with Langly's form. She called out, "Next."
Frohike approached her and smiled. Cleo paused, this isn't
happening.
THE LONEGUNMEN HQ, [approx. one week ago]
13:20
Before they went to Las Vegas, the guys already checked out the
records of the LoveMatesToGo.com company while they were at the
HQ. They found out that among the so-called eligible bachelors in
their database, 30% of them were the same 2 or three persons. In
other words, three persons vie for 30% of the population.
"Probably 1 person represents 10%, don't you think so?"
asked Frohike.
An oddity they reckoned since it meant more chances that the
featured bachelors in the website would automatically not show
up. And thus creating an influx of clients unsatisfied with the
site's services. Jimmy suggested that what if the owner of the
dotcom doesn't know that the bachelors in their database were
just "reinventing" themselves just to get the numbers
up.
"What if they were just actors playing the part?" asked
Jimmy.
Byers agreed. They must find a way to prove that the dotcom
advertently used these 3 persons just to pump up the business.
Otherwise, the 3 mystery bachelors sure do a lot of identity
fraud. Byers volunteered to look for evidence that would connect
the founders to the 3 men. He believed that these men will
eventually show up in the upcoming convention.
Moreover, Langly crossed-referenced the duplicate identities to
those he suspect were names of already deceased persons since
1940s.
"Look here, they used this old fella's name who died in
1972," said Langly. "Same name, DOB, POB, physical
features, etc.," he paused, "I think somebody's feeding
these mystery men some information. Or they themselves researched
these things," Langly suggested, "which I doubt."
COMPUTER CONVENTION, LAS VEGAS HILTON [present day]
13:21
Byers made a visual inspection of the entire convention to
facilitate their search for evidence which for now was lacking.
He tried to contact the founder of the dotcom company to ask
about the alleged multiplicity theory that they formed, instead
Cleo was the only one willing enough to answer his questions.
Byers identified himself as a consumer reporter for a well-known
online consumer's report company based in Washington D.C. and he
would like to know how the dotcom's system works. How do they get
bachelors in their database, the process of selection, do they
have a background check on their applicants, and so on. Cleo
answered each questions as clearly as she can, but does not give
out specific details. She told Byers that it's better to have an
interview with Mr. Ruby, the founder himself.
LANGLY AND FROHIKE'S ROOM, PARADISE PARK RESORT HOTEL
13:23
Frohike was in the hotel suite attaching the last piece of video
circuitry in two wristwatches for Byers and another person, in
this case, for Yves. The two were assigned to matched the
profiles in the dotcom's DB during the auction, which according
the Byers, the probability of the 3 mystery bachelors showing up
in the event was about 3:4.
Using a state of the art contact lenses worn by Frohike, Langly,
and Jimmy during the auction, Byers and Yves would be able to
cross-reference all the information gathered by their
"baits" by downloading them from the lenses to the
wristvideo.
"I sure hope that this plan works," murmured Frohike.
FED CON CONVENTION, PARADISE PARK RESORT HOTEL
13:25
Langly took a quick visit to the other convention that was
happening near their area. He was excited on attending this
annual hackers convention since he failed to attend last year. He
had been a member of FED CON for a couple of years now since its
first conception. It was the moment he'd been waiting for, to be
surrounded with minds that equals his.
Well, not exactly, Jimmy had to tag along, having nothing to do
at the other convention. Langly didn't mind Jimmy being there
with him, he just wished that Jimmy would remain silent during
the entire session.
He carried with him the usual requirements when attending such
convention, cross over cables used to hook-up a portable notebook
to the ODBC server, in which case he only brought a palm pilot
for downloading files. Langly used to carry around business cards
for exchanges but now he wanted all his files in digital format.
"Langly," said Jimmy quietly, tapping Langly's
shoulder.
"What? Can't you see I'm busy?" Langly preoccupied with
a new gaming technology featured in one of the kiosk.
"Is that Yves?" he asked while pointing to the
statuesque beauty not far from where they were.
"Huh?" Langly looked to where Yves was. "Yeah,
she's a member all right. But she doesn't normally show up,"
said Langly uninterested.
He remembered when Byers, Frohike and him went to these types of
conventions five times a year to mingle with members of their own
kind, about 2 years ago. It was the same time they met Yves, a
well-known underground hacker famous for decrypting secrets from
various government agencies. They only knew her by name, but in
one very awkward situation at FED CON, her identity was revealed.
"I wonder what she's doing?" asked Jimmy.
Langly turned to look again at her direction and noticed the
booth she was standing. It was a booth for government agencies DB
backbone server. A very popular site for military aficionados.
"Hmp. Probably checking who else she can hack," Langly
chuckled, then paused, "I wonder what she's searching
for?" he mused.
TO BE CONTINUED ...
eXposed
By: The Resident Vampyr
The Lone Gunmen attends an annual computer convention show in Las Vegas to expose an online bachelor's auction company only to find themselves caught up in their own web.
Rated: Fiction K - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 4 - Words: 4,818 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: Jun 19, 2001 - Published: Apr 26, 2001 - id: 266525
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