Chapter 5- The Colony
It was beginning to get dark, and they still hadn't found any sign of Tai. Where was he? Was he even alive? Matt asked himself these questions but didn't want to take them seriously. It began to rain. "We should find some sort of shelter," he heard Mimi announce. Those were the only words heard since the attack. Some were too traumatized to talk, and the others didn't know what to say to anybody else. They climbed a large tree and picked out spots in silence. The tree was big and had roots sticking out of the trunk before going underground. Because of the silence, everybody was soon asleep.
* * *
When the sun rose, everybody was still groggy and tired. Matt sat up and looked out at the land through the leaves on the trees. He scanned the area looking for any sign of -
"Hey what's that?" Yolie asked. She had pointed to something brownish looking, as if it was a rusty brown, and it was covered in ivy.
"The base." Matt said. He hadn't even seen it. It was less then a mile away. Immediately Yolie and him woke everybody up. When he told them what they had seen, they all jumped up and were ready. They though that maybe Tai would be there for the shelter, and maybe there was leftover food there. It more over grown then it looked. "Think Tai's in there?" Matt asked himself aloud.
"As far as I'm concerned," Davis said sarcastically, looking at the building, "it's The Four Seasons." For those of you who don't know, The Four Seasons is a very elegant 'Big-City' Hotel, used in New York, Washington, D.C. and so on. The building looked like someone had spilled a giant cup of coffee all over it. It was covered in ivy, and in places where glass had once been, was smashed out, as if something had blown it from the inside. There were blotches of stained and rusted metal all over. There were jeeps, and other vehicles were turned on their side, with dents on the up ended part of the car. "Looks like something happened here." Davis said quietly.
Yolie went up to a large water-truck that was laying on it's side. There were hand prints smeared all over the side, like someone was trying to get in the truck. There were also gashes in the side in pairs of three like... claw markings, but that was not possible, no animal had claws like that. It was strange, it looked like the person had muddy hands, but the marks weren't totally brown mud. It was more like dried....... she gasped. "What is it Yolie?" Cody asked. Yolie began to back away from the truck, trying not to scream.
Matt went up to were Yolie had been and looked at the smeared hand prints. "It's . . . it's blood." he said clearly. "We should keep moving."
They all walked past the vehicles, and into the building. The room they had walked into looked a lot like a hotel lobby. It had a security desk that was right in front of the doors, with a computer, a phone, and several security monitors. Near a few windows to their right was what looked like a cafeteria area, with some tables, a bar, and there were even empty trays on the tables. "Looks like everyone just disappeared" Sora commented.
Meanwhile Izzy was had walked around the desk, sat down on a chair and was looking at the computer. "Izzy, now is not the time" Joe complained. "Gimmy a sec'" Izzy said from underneath the desk, playing with the wires.
Suddenly there were sparks and then a small humming noise. Izzy looked back up and the monitor was booting its self up. Everybody crowded around as Izzy rubbed his hands together gleefully.
"I don't get," Matt replied, "this place must be ten to fifteen years old and there's still power. How?"
"Well, it's not exactly power," Izzy said, "see that." He pointed to a small piece of typing at the bottom right hand side of the screen:
Bac/batty_#078/xy
"What dose that mean?" Cody asked, as he stared at the strange writing. "It's running on a back up battery." Yolie informed them, "See that's the battery's ID," she pointed to '#078', "and that's the system location," she pointed to '/xy'. "What are you doing now?" Izzy had begun typing again. "I'm trying to figure out why the computer shut down it's system. There." A bunch of words appeared on the screen. "Look here, someone got into the system. He was obviously allowed look"
13,44,121,32,88,77,19,13,122,13,44,52,77,90,13,99,13,10,13,109,55,103,144,13 ,99,87,60,13,44,12,9,100,13,43,63,13,46,57,89,03,122,13,44,52,88,931,13,21,1 3,57,98,100,102,103,13,112,13,146,13,13,13,77,67,88,23,13,13 system malone goto command level
Izzy was pointing at the different words as he spoke, "Malone is his or her password to get in. Then they went to the command level, that's where you control what the computer system does. Now look at this."
Malone 040/#xy/67& mr goodbytes security keycheck off safety off sl off security
"He's gone to the security system, he's turned the key checks and the safety systems off."
"Why?" Davis asked.
"He doesn't want anybody to know what he's about to do" Izzy answered.
"What is that?" Yolie asked as she pointed to the last entry.
Whte_rbt.obj
"White Rabbit Object?" she said quizzically.
Izzy looked just as stumped, "I have know idea. But he turned the key checks off so the only way find out what happened is to go through the lines of code one by one," the expression on his face showed that this wasn't going to be easy.
Mimi crossed her arms, "Well how many lines of code are there?"
"About two million" Izzy said as he slumped into the back of the seat. He was about to shut down the computer when he heard fuzzing. He looked at the security monitors, they had turned on. He looked back at the computer monitor and stared. The screen began to blink blue as thousands of entries appeared, rolling the screen at a rapid pace.
"What did you do?" Davis asked, but he wasn't talking to Izzy. Yolie was kneeling down in front of the keyboard between his legs (NOT THAT WAY YOU PERVERTS) typing quickly. Izzy blushed. Yolie stopped typing finally, and hit the enter key. Suddenly the security monitors began to rewind rapidly. There was a quick rewound image of something bursting through a hallway window and then disappearing again. "Wait!" Ken said. Yolie paused the security tape. It was a freeze frame of a couple walking down a hallway. The only a wall the camera showed was almost made of windows. Ken pointed at a small blob outside the window. "What's that?"
Some didn't know and the others didn't want to admit what they thought. "Play it." Matt said. Yolie didn't want to, but she did what he said. On the camera a huge animal head burst through the window and crabbed the male of the couple and then disappeared. The female looked back the way she was headed but was tackled off the screen by something that everyone knew on cue, a Velociraptor.
After everyone recovered by the scene, Yolie continued to rewind. Finally a picture appeared and the rewinding stopped. One monitor showed a hallway with the same young couple walking. Suddenly they had looked behind their backs and then jumped to the side as a bunch of kids on tricycles rushed past, yelling and screaming happily. Another monitor was a camera of the kitchen, with metal counters in rows with at least thirty cooks cooking what looked like a feast or a banquet. Another monitor showed a back view of the desk they were all at now. Except the room was new looking and was flooded with people coming in and out of the doors. A man was siting at the desk and was typing faster then Yolie was. Matt noticed something and said, "Freeze that image!." Yolie looked at him as though to ask why, but she didn't and hit a button and the monitor froze. "Can you zoom in?" Yolie punched another button and another image came up. It wasn't as clear but they could tell it was a zoom in image of the computer, with a blur at the corner of the screen where the man's shoulder was. Matt pointed at the screen, "LOOK! It says 'malone' that's our guy, he's the one who shut the safety system off!" He was right, the man was typing in the same codes as what they had just looked at. Yolie zoomed out and the video began again. The man continued to type, then stopped. It looked like he was trying not to look at the camera so they couldn't see his face. He got up, walked out from behind the desk and walked out of the building. The codes he had just typed in had vanished and now the screen was going blank. Cody pointed to another monitor, it was outside. It showed the man walked up to a jeep, with four men already inside the man got in, and one of the four men patted the first man on the back as they drove into a forest.
Matt caught something out of the corner of his eye, and he looked over. In one of the bottom shelves of the desk, hidden by shadows were two yellow eyes looking back at him. "Guys........." he said, but everyone else had noticed too. Very cautiously, Matt began to walk over to the eyes as they seemed to be frighten.
Before Matt could get to it, what ever owned the eyes had looked at Cody, and pounced. Cody had fallen on his back and the creature had land smoothly on his chest. It looked exactly like the animal, or 'Velociraptor' Gennai had captured except it was a lot smaller, only about a foot long. It had bright orange, lightning shaped markings on its neck and bottom jaw. "It looks like a baby." Mimi said. Cody, on the other hand, wasn't daring to move, he was just staring at the creature as it stared back. It chirped at him, jumped off him chest onto the desk, jumped down, and then ran out a broken window and into the forest. "That was a little strange.........." Mimi replied as she stared at the place where the animal had disappeared. Cody had gotten to his feet.
It was beginning to get dark, and they still hadn't found any sign of Tai. Where was he? Was he even alive? Matt asked himself these questions but didn't want to take them seriously. It began to rain. "We should find some sort of shelter," he heard Mimi announce. Those were the only words heard since the attack. Some were too traumatized to talk, and the others didn't know what to say to anybody else. They climbed a large tree and picked out spots in silence. The tree was big and had roots sticking out of the trunk before going underground. Because of the silence, everybody was soon asleep.
* * *
When the sun rose, everybody was still groggy and tired. Matt sat up and looked out at the land through the leaves on the trees. He scanned the area looking for any sign of -
"Hey what's that?" Yolie asked. She had pointed to something brownish looking, as if it was a rusty brown, and it was covered in ivy.
"The base." Matt said. He hadn't even seen it. It was less then a mile away. Immediately Yolie and him woke everybody up. When he told them what they had seen, they all jumped up and were ready. They though that maybe Tai would be there for the shelter, and maybe there was leftover food there. It more over grown then it looked. "Think Tai's in there?" Matt asked himself aloud.
"As far as I'm concerned," Davis said sarcastically, looking at the building, "it's The Four Seasons." For those of you who don't know, The Four Seasons is a very elegant 'Big-City' Hotel, used in New York, Washington, D.C. and so on. The building looked like someone had spilled a giant cup of coffee all over it. It was covered in ivy, and in places where glass had once been, was smashed out, as if something had blown it from the inside. There were blotches of stained and rusted metal all over. There were jeeps, and other vehicles were turned on their side, with dents on the up ended part of the car. "Looks like something happened here." Davis said quietly.
Yolie went up to a large water-truck that was laying on it's side. There were hand prints smeared all over the side, like someone was trying to get in the truck. There were also gashes in the side in pairs of three like... claw markings, but that was not possible, no animal had claws like that. It was strange, it looked like the person had muddy hands, but the marks weren't totally brown mud. It was more like dried....... she gasped. "What is it Yolie?" Cody asked. Yolie began to back away from the truck, trying not to scream.
Matt went up to were Yolie had been and looked at the smeared hand prints. "It's . . . it's blood." he said clearly. "We should keep moving."
They all walked past the vehicles, and into the building. The room they had walked into looked a lot like a hotel lobby. It had a security desk that was right in front of the doors, with a computer, a phone, and several security monitors. Near a few windows to their right was what looked like a cafeteria area, with some tables, a bar, and there were even empty trays on the tables. "Looks like everyone just disappeared" Sora commented.
Meanwhile Izzy was had walked around the desk, sat down on a chair and was looking at the computer. "Izzy, now is not the time" Joe complained. "Gimmy a sec'" Izzy said from underneath the desk, playing with the wires.
Suddenly there were sparks and then a small humming noise. Izzy looked back up and the monitor was booting its self up. Everybody crowded around as Izzy rubbed his hands together gleefully.
"I don't get," Matt replied, "this place must be ten to fifteen years old and there's still power. How?"
"Well, it's not exactly power," Izzy said, "see that." He pointed to a small piece of typing at the bottom right hand side of the screen:
Bac/batty_#078/xy
"What dose that mean?" Cody asked, as he stared at the strange writing. "It's running on a back up battery." Yolie informed them, "See that's the battery's ID," she pointed to '#078', "and that's the system location," she pointed to '/xy'. "What are you doing now?" Izzy had begun typing again. "I'm trying to figure out why the computer shut down it's system. There." A bunch of words appeared on the screen. "Look here, someone got into the system. He was obviously allowed look"
13,44,121,32,88,77,19,13,122,13,44,52,77,90,13,99,13,10,13,109,55,103,144,13 ,99,87,60,13,44,12,9,100,13,43,63,13,46,57,89,03,122,13,44,52,88,931,13,21,1 3,57,98,100,102,103,13,112,13,146,13,13,13,77,67,88,23,13,13 system malone goto command level
Izzy was pointing at the different words as he spoke, "Malone is his or her password to get in. Then they went to the command level, that's where you control what the computer system does. Now look at this."
Malone 040/#xy/67& mr goodbytes security keycheck off safety off sl off security
"He's gone to the security system, he's turned the key checks and the safety systems off."
"Why?" Davis asked.
"He doesn't want anybody to know what he's about to do" Izzy answered.
"What is that?" Yolie asked as she pointed to the last entry.
Whte_rbt.obj
"White Rabbit Object?" she said quizzically.
Izzy looked just as stumped, "I have know idea. But he turned the key checks off so the only way find out what happened is to go through the lines of code one by one," the expression on his face showed that this wasn't going to be easy.
Mimi crossed her arms, "Well how many lines of code are there?"
"About two million" Izzy said as he slumped into the back of the seat. He was about to shut down the computer when he heard fuzzing. He looked at the security monitors, they had turned on. He looked back at the computer monitor and stared. The screen began to blink blue as thousands of entries appeared, rolling the screen at a rapid pace.
"What did you do?" Davis asked, but he wasn't talking to Izzy. Yolie was kneeling down in front of the keyboard between his legs (NOT THAT WAY YOU PERVERTS) typing quickly. Izzy blushed. Yolie stopped typing finally, and hit the enter key. Suddenly the security monitors began to rewind rapidly. There was a quick rewound image of something bursting through a hallway window and then disappearing again. "Wait!" Ken said. Yolie paused the security tape. It was a freeze frame of a couple walking down a hallway. The only a wall the camera showed was almost made of windows. Ken pointed at a small blob outside the window. "What's that?"
Some didn't know and the others didn't want to admit what they thought. "Play it." Matt said. Yolie didn't want to, but she did what he said. On the camera a huge animal head burst through the window and crabbed the male of the couple and then disappeared. The female looked back the way she was headed but was tackled off the screen by something that everyone knew on cue, a Velociraptor.
After everyone recovered by the scene, Yolie continued to rewind. Finally a picture appeared and the rewinding stopped. One monitor showed a hallway with the same young couple walking. Suddenly they had looked behind their backs and then jumped to the side as a bunch of kids on tricycles rushed past, yelling and screaming happily. Another monitor was a camera of the kitchen, with metal counters in rows with at least thirty cooks cooking what looked like a feast or a banquet. Another monitor showed a back view of the desk they were all at now. Except the room was new looking and was flooded with people coming in and out of the doors. A man was siting at the desk and was typing faster then Yolie was. Matt noticed something and said, "Freeze that image!." Yolie looked at him as though to ask why, but she didn't and hit a button and the monitor froze. "Can you zoom in?" Yolie punched another button and another image came up. It wasn't as clear but they could tell it was a zoom in image of the computer, with a blur at the corner of the screen where the man's shoulder was. Matt pointed at the screen, "LOOK! It says 'malone' that's our guy, he's the one who shut the safety system off!" He was right, the man was typing in the same codes as what they had just looked at. Yolie zoomed out and the video began again. The man continued to type, then stopped. It looked like he was trying not to look at the camera so they couldn't see his face. He got up, walked out from behind the desk and walked out of the building. The codes he had just typed in had vanished and now the screen was going blank. Cody pointed to another monitor, it was outside. It showed the man walked up to a jeep, with four men already inside the man got in, and one of the four men patted the first man on the back as they drove into a forest.
Matt caught something out of the corner of his eye, and he looked over. In one of the bottom shelves of the desk, hidden by shadows were two yellow eyes looking back at him. "Guys........." he said, but everyone else had noticed too. Very cautiously, Matt began to walk over to the eyes as they seemed to be frighten.
Before Matt could get to it, what ever owned the eyes had looked at Cody, and pounced. Cody had fallen on his back and the creature had land smoothly on his chest. It looked exactly like the animal, or 'Velociraptor' Gennai had captured except it was a lot smaller, only about a foot long. It had bright orange, lightning shaped markings on its neck and bottom jaw. "It looks like a baby." Mimi said. Cody, on the other hand, wasn't daring to move, he was just staring at the creature as it stared back. It chirped at him, jumped off him chest onto the desk, jumped down, and then ran out a broken window and into the forest. "That was a little strange.........." Mimi replied as she stared at the place where the animal had disappeared. Cody had gotten to his feet.
