Disclaimer: If I owned Alias, then Lauren Reed would be somewhere in
Antarctica, Francie would still be alive, Will would still be in the
picture, and Irina would be back in the show! None of those things are in
the show, so apparently I don't own it...(
A/N: Wow I already have 8 chapters! That's the most I've ever written for a fanfic. Thanx to all who review! You make me feel really good!
When it was decided that the mission would be long term, Irina, Jack, and Sydney checked into a larger room with three beds. They kept their aliases and spent most of their time in their room, Irina telling them what she knew so far, which wasn't much, but it was more than anyone at the CIA knew.
"What exactly are they planning to do with Melanie?" Sydney questioned her as she looked through some notes Irina had taken as she hacked into the Covenant's computer files. There wasn't much there since the Covenant's files were heavily guarded. Hackers had to type in the passwords a certain number of times and at a certain speed in a certain time frame. The files were encrypted in a seemingly impossible code so what little information Irina, Jack, and Sydney had wasn't useful enough to undergo a surprise attack.
After three days worth of bad luck none of them were feeling very hopeful. Irina was on her laptop, typing madly again, Sydney was going over the few files Irina had managed to download off the Covenant's hard-drive, and Jack was on the phone, calling all his contacts in different countries to find out everything they could about the Covenant's plans, but so far nothing was working. Until Irina managed to hack into more of the Covenant's files.
"Look at this. See those symbols? They stand for nonsense rambling, but the rambling itself is a code. If you can decipher the symbols and turn all the words backwards-like turning stressed to desserts-and take the third letter from each word and make them into other words, you might be able to get a clearer picture of what the Covenant is trying to do, and why they need Melanie for that." Irina told them as she printed out the newest file.
"Are all the files like that?" Sydney asked as she took the paper.
"No. The KGB used this type of code on their files, too. The symbols are very hard to decipher, but once you do, it won't be difficult to read. Sydney, I want you to start on that." Irina said. Sydney nodded and sat on her bed with another piece of paper to try to decipher the symbols.
They stayed like this for the whole day. Jack had taken the files Sydney was looking at before, Irina was getting further and further into the core of the Covenant's mainframe, and Sydney was little by little coming closer to figuring out what the files read. At three in the morning, both Jack and Irina were asleep, but Sydney was still looking over the files, knowing her eyes were as red as the crayon for lack of sleep in four days. But she refused to give up, knowing every minute was a factor. She thought she had it pretty much figured out, but it was still very uncertain.
Daydreaming now, she rested her head in her hands, glancing at the files every now and then, trying to read the files with every letter that made sense. But something struck her as odd when she read the files with the letters she had chosen the previous time. They actually made sense. She read over them once more to see if she made a mistake, but there was no mistake. She had deciphered the code!
She wrote down the words that she could now easily read and did what her mother said to do. She made all the words backwards and took the third letter from each word and put them into separate words. When she was finished, the results surprised her.
LOOK IN EGYPT. "Mom! Mom wake up!" Sydney exclaimed, waking her mother up from her laptop. Irina looked up and stared at Sydney. "What is it?" she asked.
"That's what I wanted to ask you." Sydney said as she gestured to the piece of paper that had the message on it.
Irina looked at the message for a long time, looking as confused as Sydney. "Do you think we should go?" Sydney asked as Irina looked up from the paper.
"It's most likely a trap, but it's the only lead we have to go on. You wake Jack up, tell him what we're doing. I'm going to call my contact in Egypt, let him know we're coming, and investigate into everything he knows about the Covenant. We leave when my contact makes the signal." Irina told her and went for her cell phone. Sydney woke Jack up and told him what Irina had told her.
"She's just leading us into Egypt, when she is more than positive it's a trap? Doesn't that seem suspicious to you?" Jack asked Sydney after she finished telling him what she knew.
"Yes, but she knows what she's doing. She's calling her contact, she wouldn't put us in any danger intentionally. She wants the Covenant to go down as much as we do. And she's right, it's the only lead we have." Sydney pointed out to him.
Jack stayed silent, then nodded. "Ok." He said and went to the lobby of the Kebarel to inform them they were checking out. Sydney went to pack away their belongings and equipment, and started walking towards the nearest airport where the contact would provide them with a private aircraft. They walked as slowly as they could so that security wouldn't see them as suspicious characters. When they were within a 100-foot radius Irina's cell phone rang.
"Yeah." Irina said into her cell phone. Immediately after that she closed it. "It's waiting at the very back of the airport. There isn't any way we can get to the plane without being spotted, so we need disguises." She said as she wiped some sweat from her forehead. Jack immediately hurried them behind a corner and shushed them. They heard a security guard approaching. As soon as he was within reach, Jack grabbed him and wrapped his arm around his neck. With his free hand he took out his walkie-talkie.
"Call in for two other guards or your family will be picking out your gravestone." Jack ordered. The guard took the walkie-talkie and called in for two other agents in Indian.
Two minutes later two other guards arrived with their guns drawn. Jack and Irina went over to the guards and punched and kicked them until they were unconscious. Jack, Irina, and Sydney put on the guards' uniforms over their clothes and took their badges and guns. They crossed the airport without anyone recognizing them and got to the terminals where they pretended to be boarding a plane headed for Russia but then took off in the other direction towards the smaller jet in the background.
When they made sure there wasn't anyone that was watching them they boarded the jet as fast as they could. Their contact greeted them with a "Hold on." and started the jet. Jack, Irina, and Sydney took off their guard uniforms and fell asleep gratefully.
The contact woke them up about five hours later. "We are here. We must hurry." He said, sounding oddly like Jack's contact when they arrived in India.
"Thank you." Irina said as she, Jack, and Sydney got off the jet. They stood up and waited for the contact to join them. He got off the jet a minute later, looking nervous.
"Listen ok? Do you know what you're getting into? These people are dangerous, and they know what they're doing. This is most likely either a trap, or a red herring. Either way, your coming to Egypt was a mistake. You should go back." The contact said, extremely nervous.
"But they have my daughter! Good decision or not, they have my daughter, and that's good enough for me. Are you going to help us or not?" Sydney asked.
The contact hesitated then nodded. "Come to my place. We can talk there." He said and they followed him down a dark, dirty alley. At the end he turned left and was in the backyard of a small house. "It's very small and dirty, but it's all I can afford." he apologized as he led them into his house. He wasn't exaggerating when he said it was really dirty. The dust was rising off the floor and there were clothes and items scattered everywhere. But they were in too much of a rush to dwell on that for long.
"Do you have a computer?" Irina asked.
"In there." He pointed to a small room by the door. Sydney followed her in and watched as she typed furiously into the computer, but soon pounded on the keyboard in frustration.
"They threw me out of the database. They knew I was hacking on and they threw me out of the system altogether. The only way to get into their mainframe is to get into it with their main computer. But that presents a problem." Irina said in a frustrated voice.
"So in order to download their files we need to get into Covenant headquarters." Sydney said, catching on.
"Yes, but we can't get to their headquarters without downloading their files." Irina pointed out. They sighed at the same time.
"Well, not necessarily. If we got a Covenant agent to download files on their computer, it would still work, right?" Sydney asked.
"No it'll work. But the problem is getting a Covenant agent to do it. It's just about pointless." Irina said.
"You got that right. Stand up and put your hands behind your head." A man with a laser gun said as he pointed the gun to Irina and Sydney.
A/N: I basically have an outline of how the other chapters are going, but it might take me awhile to update since my sister is hogging it again. But please R/R! I need feedback!!!!!
A/N: Wow I already have 8 chapters! That's the most I've ever written for a fanfic. Thanx to all who review! You make me feel really good!
When it was decided that the mission would be long term, Irina, Jack, and Sydney checked into a larger room with three beds. They kept their aliases and spent most of their time in their room, Irina telling them what she knew so far, which wasn't much, but it was more than anyone at the CIA knew.
"What exactly are they planning to do with Melanie?" Sydney questioned her as she looked through some notes Irina had taken as she hacked into the Covenant's computer files. There wasn't much there since the Covenant's files were heavily guarded. Hackers had to type in the passwords a certain number of times and at a certain speed in a certain time frame. The files were encrypted in a seemingly impossible code so what little information Irina, Jack, and Sydney had wasn't useful enough to undergo a surprise attack.
After three days worth of bad luck none of them were feeling very hopeful. Irina was on her laptop, typing madly again, Sydney was going over the few files Irina had managed to download off the Covenant's hard-drive, and Jack was on the phone, calling all his contacts in different countries to find out everything they could about the Covenant's plans, but so far nothing was working. Until Irina managed to hack into more of the Covenant's files.
"Look at this. See those symbols? They stand for nonsense rambling, but the rambling itself is a code. If you can decipher the symbols and turn all the words backwards-like turning stressed to desserts-and take the third letter from each word and make them into other words, you might be able to get a clearer picture of what the Covenant is trying to do, and why they need Melanie for that." Irina told them as she printed out the newest file.
"Are all the files like that?" Sydney asked as she took the paper.
"No. The KGB used this type of code on their files, too. The symbols are very hard to decipher, but once you do, it won't be difficult to read. Sydney, I want you to start on that." Irina said. Sydney nodded and sat on her bed with another piece of paper to try to decipher the symbols.
They stayed like this for the whole day. Jack had taken the files Sydney was looking at before, Irina was getting further and further into the core of the Covenant's mainframe, and Sydney was little by little coming closer to figuring out what the files read. At three in the morning, both Jack and Irina were asleep, but Sydney was still looking over the files, knowing her eyes were as red as the crayon for lack of sleep in four days. But she refused to give up, knowing every minute was a factor. She thought she had it pretty much figured out, but it was still very uncertain.
Daydreaming now, she rested her head in her hands, glancing at the files every now and then, trying to read the files with every letter that made sense. But something struck her as odd when she read the files with the letters she had chosen the previous time. They actually made sense. She read over them once more to see if she made a mistake, but there was no mistake. She had deciphered the code!
She wrote down the words that she could now easily read and did what her mother said to do. She made all the words backwards and took the third letter from each word and put them into separate words. When she was finished, the results surprised her.
LOOK IN EGYPT. "Mom! Mom wake up!" Sydney exclaimed, waking her mother up from her laptop. Irina looked up and stared at Sydney. "What is it?" she asked.
"That's what I wanted to ask you." Sydney said as she gestured to the piece of paper that had the message on it.
Irina looked at the message for a long time, looking as confused as Sydney. "Do you think we should go?" Sydney asked as Irina looked up from the paper.
"It's most likely a trap, but it's the only lead we have to go on. You wake Jack up, tell him what we're doing. I'm going to call my contact in Egypt, let him know we're coming, and investigate into everything he knows about the Covenant. We leave when my contact makes the signal." Irina told her and went for her cell phone. Sydney woke Jack up and told him what Irina had told her.
"She's just leading us into Egypt, when she is more than positive it's a trap? Doesn't that seem suspicious to you?" Jack asked Sydney after she finished telling him what she knew.
"Yes, but she knows what she's doing. She's calling her contact, she wouldn't put us in any danger intentionally. She wants the Covenant to go down as much as we do. And she's right, it's the only lead we have." Sydney pointed out to him.
Jack stayed silent, then nodded. "Ok." He said and went to the lobby of the Kebarel to inform them they were checking out. Sydney went to pack away their belongings and equipment, and started walking towards the nearest airport where the contact would provide them with a private aircraft. They walked as slowly as they could so that security wouldn't see them as suspicious characters. When they were within a 100-foot radius Irina's cell phone rang.
"Yeah." Irina said into her cell phone. Immediately after that she closed it. "It's waiting at the very back of the airport. There isn't any way we can get to the plane without being spotted, so we need disguises." She said as she wiped some sweat from her forehead. Jack immediately hurried them behind a corner and shushed them. They heard a security guard approaching. As soon as he was within reach, Jack grabbed him and wrapped his arm around his neck. With his free hand he took out his walkie-talkie.
"Call in for two other guards or your family will be picking out your gravestone." Jack ordered. The guard took the walkie-talkie and called in for two other agents in Indian.
Two minutes later two other guards arrived with their guns drawn. Jack and Irina went over to the guards and punched and kicked them until they were unconscious. Jack, Irina, and Sydney put on the guards' uniforms over their clothes and took their badges and guns. They crossed the airport without anyone recognizing them and got to the terminals where they pretended to be boarding a plane headed for Russia but then took off in the other direction towards the smaller jet in the background.
When they made sure there wasn't anyone that was watching them they boarded the jet as fast as they could. Their contact greeted them with a "Hold on." and started the jet. Jack, Irina, and Sydney took off their guard uniforms and fell asleep gratefully.
The contact woke them up about five hours later. "We are here. We must hurry." He said, sounding oddly like Jack's contact when they arrived in India.
"Thank you." Irina said as she, Jack, and Sydney got off the jet. They stood up and waited for the contact to join them. He got off the jet a minute later, looking nervous.
"Listen ok? Do you know what you're getting into? These people are dangerous, and they know what they're doing. This is most likely either a trap, or a red herring. Either way, your coming to Egypt was a mistake. You should go back." The contact said, extremely nervous.
"But they have my daughter! Good decision or not, they have my daughter, and that's good enough for me. Are you going to help us or not?" Sydney asked.
The contact hesitated then nodded. "Come to my place. We can talk there." He said and they followed him down a dark, dirty alley. At the end he turned left and was in the backyard of a small house. "It's very small and dirty, but it's all I can afford." he apologized as he led them into his house. He wasn't exaggerating when he said it was really dirty. The dust was rising off the floor and there were clothes and items scattered everywhere. But they were in too much of a rush to dwell on that for long.
"Do you have a computer?" Irina asked.
"In there." He pointed to a small room by the door. Sydney followed her in and watched as she typed furiously into the computer, but soon pounded on the keyboard in frustration.
"They threw me out of the database. They knew I was hacking on and they threw me out of the system altogether. The only way to get into their mainframe is to get into it with their main computer. But that presents a problem." Irina said in a frustrated voice.
"So in order to download their files we need to get into Covenant headquarters." Sydney said, catching on.
"Yes, but we can't get to their headquarters without downloading their files." Irina pointed out. They sighed at the same time.
"Well, not necessarily. If we got a Covenant agent to download files on their computer, it would still work, right?" Sydney asked.
"No it'll work. But the problem is getting a Covenant agent to do it. It's just about pointless." Irina said.
"You got that right. Stand up and put your hands behind your head." A man with a laser gun said as he pointed the gun to Irina and Sydney.
A/N: I basically have an outline of how the other chapters are going, but it might take me awhile to update since my sister is hogging it again. But please R/R! I need feedback!!!!!