Chapter 3: Server Disruption
The Corruption is starting to spread in every network it accesses. Is the Kaiba virus scanner going to catch this?
Kaiba Corporation Headquarters*
"So did something come up yet?" Mike asks Sam who is staring at the screen waiting for the system check to pick something up.
"Nope Nothing yet. I ran this 7 times going on 8. If it finds nothing this time then we have to work over time just to find out what is causing the network to pause." Sam says not taking his eyes off the screen. "Which means I won't be going home to my wife tonight."
"Well let's just hope this time something comes up." Mike says standing behind Sam, watching the screen.
Kaiba Corporations server*
The worm is still traveling through the Kaiba Corporation server, corrupting and destroying every file it finds. The destruction continues.
Kaiba Mansion* Seto's Office*
Seto is still working on his presentation, hoping to be done soon. Seto turns to the clock next to his phone on the desk across from the computer.
"7:45pm already?" Seto says in disgust. "Time flies when you are working hard."
Seto turns back to his computer screen and saves his work on his hard drive. After saving it, He then goes online and straight to his Corporation's Website. Upon entering the site, an error message comes up stating cannot find webpage requested.
"What do you mean cannot find webpage?" Seto asks raising his voice a bit. "This is MY webpage."
Seto then tries again and re-enters the website. The same error message occurs.
"What are those fools at the headquarters doing? slacking off?" Kaiba yells getting up from his desk. Seto then reaches across the desk and picks up the phone. Dialing the number, he then waits for an answer. Three rings and finally an answer.
"Kaiba Corporation. May I help you?" Someone on the other end says.
"This IS Seto Kaiba. What is going on over there and why can't I get into MY website?" Kaiba yells now scaring the worker after presenting his name.
"Uh..Uh Mr. Kaiba sir, We've been trying for an hour to figure out what's wrong with the server sir." The worker says stuttering.
"And through out all this time, NOTHING WAS DONE?" Seto yells, now knocking the soul of the worker.
"Sir, we've been trying. Nothing is coming up." The now soul-less worker says.
"I'm coming down there. Don't do anything further." Seto says hanging up the phone. He grabs his jacket on the back of his chair and storms out of the room.
Living room*
Mokuba and Noah are in the living room chatting about what Noah heard on the news.
"I told you, you won't be infected. Seto said so." Mokuba says facing Noah.
"But I'm an android doesn't that matter?" Noah says looking down at his body. "I mean I wasn't worried before, but now it seems like I'm at risk."
"As long as you're not hooked up to a network. Your memory files were recovered from the net, but it can no way be corrupted as long as you're not on the Internet." Mokuba says putting a smile on Noah's humanoid face. "Plus Seto's Anti-virus protection."
"Now I see why Seto cares so much for you." Noah says smiling back at Mokuba. "You always know how to make things better."
Seto storms in the living room, stopping at the couch, eyeing the two boys. Mokuba and Noah turn to him.
"Mokuba, don't go on the Internet." Seto says turning towards the door.
"Why?" Mokuba asks in confusion.
"Because the Internet isn't working at the moment." Seto says now walking towards the door.
"You went?" Mokuba asks after his brother.
"If I didn't, then I wouldn't be telling you." Seto says opening the door. He walks out and towards the limo. Walking out towards the limo, the driver gets out, and runs around to the side door, opening the door for Seto. Seto climbs in and the driver closes the door. The driver climbs in himself.
"Where to Kaiba sir?" The Driver asks.
"Kaiba Corporation." Seto says sternly.
Inside the Mansion*
"The Internet not working?" Mokuba questions turning to Noah.
"I don't know. He says it's not." Noah says shrugging.
"I don't believe the entire Internet is down." Mokuba says getting off the couch.
"Mokuba, do you think it's good to go find out?" Noah asks watching his brother running up the steps. "Seto did say it wasn't working."
"Well it doesn't hurt to try and besides I'm sure the rest of the net still works. It may just be the corporation's Internet website." Mokuba says running all the way up the stairs. Noah gets off the couch and runs up after him. Mokuba runs in his room and turns on his computer. After it boots up, Mokuba jumps right on the net and Noah runs in Mokuba's room.
"Mokuba, I don't think you should." Noah says hoping for Mokuba to stop.
"Let me try one website then we will know for sure." Mokuba says typing in Goolge's webpage. After hitting enter, the webpage loads successfully.
"Well I guess that still works." Noah says eyeing the screen. The webpage on the screen suddenly closes.
"Wait, what the.." Mokuba starts now opening up another window and starting that page again. The same thing happens.
"Well maybe someone was trying to call." Mokuba says closing the net program and trying again. Once the Kaiba Internet server loads, the Internet Program closes on it's own.
"I don't think so Mokuba." Noah says now taking a seat on the bed.
"Well no big deal. Seto will figure out a way to fix it and let's keep this between us that I tried to use the net after Seto told me not to." Mokuba says turning to Noah and smiling.
"No problem." Noah says smiling. Mokuba shuts his computer down and turns off the monitor. Mokuba gets up from the desk and he and Noah run from his room, to the den to watch a movie.
Kaiba Corporation*
Seto has just arrived at the corporation headquarters. The driver opens the door and Seto steps out. He begins his way to the doors and finally reaches them. Walking in, he can see the work place is in a scatter. Papers on the floor, workers scattering about, phones ringing off the hook. Seto's eyes grow wide at the chaos in front of him.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" Seto yells only stopping a few workers.
"Seto Kaiba sir." One of the workers calls coming up to him. Seto turns in the direction of the worker who called out to him.
"What is going on here? I'm not paying any of you 60 dollars an hour to make a mess of MY COMPANY." Seto yells at the worker.
"Seto Kaiba sir, We have been having phone calls come in all day from everyone who has an Internet account with your corporation Internet service and it seems the server that those accounts are on are down." The worker says trying not to eye Seto.
"I thought I told SOMEONE TO FIX IT." Seto yells in the face of the worker.
"We have been working on it along with taking calls all day. Nothing has come up on the scanner yet, but something is corrupting the server. The main files that keep this server running, they have been deleted." The worker says. Seto growls, pushing him out the way and is making his way to the Main Office. Once he reaches the main office, he goes straight for the phone to call home.
Kaiba Mansion*
Mokuba and Noah continue to watch the movie. The phone begins ringing. Mokuba turns to the phone on the table next to him and reaches over for the phone. He picks it up and begins speaking.
"Hello, Kaiba Residence." Mokuba answers.
"Listen Mokuba, I need for you to stay off the Internet." Seto says practically yelling into the phone receiver over the noise in the office.
"I am Seto." Mokuba says with a straight face and hearing numerous noises in the background. "What's going on over there and why is it so noisy there?"
"Something is wrong with the main computer system here. The entire server has gone down and nothing has come up yet as to what is doing this." Seto yells into the phone.
"Well believe me, I haven't tried the Internet at all." Mokuba says continuing to have a straight face. "Just figure out what's going on."
"I will. Keep Noah away from every computer in the house because whatever is going on, he may catch it." Seto says.
"Ok Seto." Mokuba says into the receiver. Seto hangs up along with Mokuba. Mokuba turns to Noah and can see he is dozing off. (A/N: Computers have the sleep feature. He has it too ^_^)
"I don't think he's aware of that at the moment." Mokuba says to himself watching Noah silently drift to sleep. "I didn't even think Seto cared that much for Noah."
Mokuba's attention is back to the movie.
Kaiba Corporation*
"Seto Kaiba, Something came up sir." The worker calls out to Seto from the work area. Seto runs out the office and to the station where the worker is calling him.
"What's the problem?" Seto asks in a demanding tone.
"Well the scanner finally found something sir. A worm by the name of Gozblast.exe." The worker says as Seto takes a look at the screen to see the reason he was called.
"A WORM?" Seto yells. "Get rid of it."
"Before I do that, I'm going to find out the status of the worm to find its weakness." The worker says now being grabbed by the collar and snatched out of the chair.
"Don't find out anything about it. That THING is the reason behind MY server going down. Take care of it now or you'll be NEEDING A NEW JOB." Seto yells slinging the worker back in the chair. The worker begins trying to quarantine and repair the worm. Seto stands over his shoulder as he beings working on getting rid of the worm.
Wheeler Residence*
Joey is sitting on the net downloading movies.
"Man, DSL connections rock." Joey says to himself clicking on another video stream. Serenity comes down the stairs and to the study, the room under the stairs where Joey is. (A/n: Let the records show I can't stand Serenity)
"Joey, I need the net. I'm going to check my mail." Serenity says to her brother.
"Sure just let me close this." Joey says closing the music website. Before he closes his account, he suddenly receives an email.
"Wait what's this?" Joey asks clicking on the envelope and opening the email. "Your IP has been logged?"
"Who's it from Joey?" Serenity asks standing behind Joey.
"I'm not sure. Something about my IP being logged." Joey says reading the email. He then comes across the hyperlink given to further prevent this in the future. "Probably another advertisement trying to sell something."
Joey closes the email and his account, now getting up from the desk. Serenity takes a seat and opens her account by going to her name on the Kaiba Corporation Internet Provider. After getting online from her account, she receives the same email as Joey.
"My IP has been logged?" Serenity questions now opening the email. She opens it and begins reading what the body says. She then comes across the hyperlink given and clicks on it.
"That way it won't happen again." Serenity says to herself clicking on the link and watching the page as it begins loading. The page stops loading and the whole Internet program closes.
"Joey, I need a little help over here." Serenity calls to Joey. He gets off the couch and over to the computer.
"What happened?" Joey asks looking at the screen.
"I received an email with a link in it and I clicked on it. A page started to load and it never finished and now the whole net program just closed." Serenity explains.
"Try again and see if it will open." Joey says as Serenity tries again. The program opens, then closes right after and an error occurs.
"Did I do something wrong?" Serenity says turning around and seeing Joey walk to the phone.
"No sis you didn't. It's Kaiba's crappy Internet that did it." Joey says dialing some numbers and holding the receiver to his ear. After three rings, the other end picks up.
"Let me speak to Kaiba." Joey demands. "Yeah I'll hold." (A/N: Let the records show that I will forever dislike Serenity.)
Back at the Corporation's Headquarters*
"What is this thing and why won't it be destroyed?" Seto yells still seeing the status of the worm after 4 Quarantines and 2 repairs.
"Sir, it seems nothing will stop it." That same worker says.
"Keep trying. Nothing has ever gotten passed my quarantines in my virus protection system." Seto yells stomping off back to the main office.
Kaiba Mansion*
The movie has finished and Mokuba and Noah are watching Digital Satellite Tv, while thinking about what's going on at the Main office of the Kaiba Corporation. Noah notices his brother's expression and wonders what's on his mind.
"Mokuba, is something wrong?" Noah asks grabbing Mokuba's attention.
"No, not really." Mokuba says in a sad tone.
"Are you sure?" Noah asks. Mokuba gives in looks up at Noah.
"Well Seto called about 15 minutes ago, while you were dozing off and said that something is in the Main computer system and is taking down the server as to why the Internet shut down. He told me to keep you away from every computer in the house." Mokuba explains.
"Don't worry Mokuba. Even if I was to get infected, I have the virus program on me so I'm ok and will continue to be." Noah says taking Mokuba's worries away a bit.
"I guess you're right." Mokuba says cracking a smile.
Is he really safe and who is behind the worm on the net? And Is the Kaiba virus scanner as great as Seto says it is? Read more to find out soon. No flames are welcome as I have mentioned before because they will be ignored and paid no attention to. For everyone else, please review and Thanks. Next chapter should be out, uh, well, I'll have to check on that one.
The Corruption is starting to spread in every network it accesses. Is the Kaiba virus scanner going to catch this?
Kaiba Corporation Headquarters*
"So did something come up yet?" Mike asks Sam who is staring at the screen waiting for the system check to pick something up.
"Nope Nothing yet. I ran this 7 times going on 8. If it finds nothing this time then we have to work over time just to find out what is causing the network to pause." Sam says not taking his eyes off the screen. "Which means I won't be going home to my wife tonight."
"Well let's just hope this time something comes up." Mike says standing behind Sam, watching the screen.
Kaiba Corporations server*
The worm is still traveling through the Kaiba Corporation server, corrupting and destroying every file it finds. The destruction continues.
Kaiba Mansion* Seto's Office*
Seto is still working on his presentation, hoping to be done soon. Seto turns to the clock next to his phone on the desk across from the computer.
"7:45pm already?" Seto says in disgust. "Time flies when you are working hard."
Seto turns back to his computer screen and saves his work on his hard drive. After saving it, He then goes online and straight to his Corporation's Website. Upon entering the site, an error message comes up stating cannot find webpage requested.
"What do you mean cannot find webpage?" Seto asks raising his voice a bit. "This is MY webpage."
Seto then tries again and re-enters the website. The same error message occurs.
"What are those fools at the headquarters doing? slacking off?" Kaiba yells getting up from his desk. Seto then reaches across the desk and picks up the phone. Dialing the number, he then waits for an answer. Three rings and finally an answer.
"Kaiba Corporation. May I help you?" Someone on the other end says.
"This IS Seto Kaiba. What is going on over there and why can't I get into MY website?" Kaiba yells now scaring the worker after presenting his name.
"Uh..Uh Mr. Kaiba sir, We've been trying for an hour to figure out what's wrong with the server sir." The worker says stuttering.
"And through out all this time, NOTHING WAS DONE?" Seto yells, now knocking the soul of the worker.
"Sir, we've been trying. Nothing is coming up." The now soul-less worker says.
"I'm coming down there. Don't do anything further." Seto says hanging up the phone. He grabs his jacket on the back of his chair and storms out of the room.
Living room*
Mokuba and Noah are in the living room chatting about what Noah heard on the news.
"I told you, you won't be infected. Seto said so." Mokuba says facing Noah.
"But I'm an android doesn't that matter?" Noah says looking down at his body. "I mean I wasn't worried before, but now it seems like I'm at risk."
"As long as you're not hooked up to a network. Your memory files were recovered from the net, but it can no way be corrupted as long as you're not on the Internet." Mokuba says putting a smile on Noah's humanoid face. "Plus Seto's Anti-virus protection."
"Now I see why Seto cares so much for you." Noah says smiling back at Mokuba. "You always know how to make things better."
Seto storms in the living room, stopping at the couch, eyeing the two boys. Mokuba and Noah turn to him.
"Mokuba, don't go on the Internet." Seto says turning towards the door.
"Why?" Mokuba asks in confusion.
"Because the Internet isn't working at the moment." Seto says now walking towards the door.
"You went?" Mokuba asks after his brother.
"If I didn't, then I wouldn't be telling you." Seto says opening the door. He walks out and towards the limo. Walking out towards the limo, the driver gets out, and runs around to the side door, opening the door for Seto. Seto climbs in and the driver closes the door. The driver climbs in himself.
"Where to Kaiba sir?" The Driver asks.
"Kaiba Corporation." Seto says sternly.
Inside the Mansion*
"The Internet not working?" Mokuba questions turning to Noah.
"I don't know. He says it's not." Noah says shrugging.
"I don't believe the entire Internet is down." Mokuba says getting off the couch.
"Mokuba, do you think it's good to go find out?" Noah asks watching his brother running up the steps. "Seto did say it wasn't working."
"Well it doesn't hurt to try and besides I'm sure the rest of the net still works. It may just be the corporation's Internet website." Mokuba says running all the way up the stairs. Noah gets off the couch and runs up after him. Mokuba runs in his room and turns on his computer. After it boots up, Mokuba jumps right on the net and Noah runs in Mokuba's room.
"Mokuba, I don't think you should." Noah says hoping for Mokuba to stop.
"Let me try one website then we will know for sure." Mokuba says typing in Goolge's webpage. After hitting enter, the webpage loads successfully.
"Well I guess that still works." Noah says eyeing the screen. The webpage on the screen suddenly closes.
"Wait, what the.." Mokuba starts now opening up another window and starting that page again. The same thing happens.
"Well maybe someone was trying to call." Mokuba says closing the net program and trying again. Once the Kaiba Internet server loads, the Internet Program closes on it's own.
"I don't think so Mokuba." Noah says now taking a seat on the bed.
"Well no big deal. Seto will figure out a way to fix it and let's keep this between us that I tried to use the net after Seto told me not to." Mokuba says turning to Noah and smiling.
"No problem." Noah says smiling. Mokuba shuts his computer down and turns off the monitor. Mokuba gets up from the desk and he and Noah run from his room, to the den to watch a movie.
Kaiba Corporation*
Seto has just arrived at the corporation headquarters. The driver opens the door and Seto steps out. He begins his way to the doors and finally reaches them. Walking in, he can see the work place is in a scatter. Papers on the floor, workers scattering about, phones ringing off the hook. Seto's eyes grow wide at the chaos in front of him.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" Seto yells only stopping a few workers.
"Seto Kaiba sir." One of the workers calls coming up to him. Seto turns in the direction of the worker who called out to him.
"What is going on here? I'm not paying any of you 60 dollars an hour to make a mess of MY COMPANY." Seto yells at the worker.
"Seto Kaiba sir, We have been having phone calls come in all day from everyone who has an Internet account with your corporation Internet service and it seems the server that those accounts are on are down." The worker says trying not to eye Seto.
"I thought I told SOMEONE TO FIX IT." Seto yells in the face of the worker.
"We have been working on it along with taking calls all day. Nothing has come up on the scanner yet, but something is corrupting the server. The main files that keep this server running, they have been deleted." The worker says. Seto growls, pushing him out the way and is making his way to the Main Office. Once he reaches the main office, he goes straight for the phone to call home.
Kaiba Mansion*
Mokuba and Noah continue to watch the movie. The phone begins ringing. Mokuba turns to the phone on the table next to him and reaches over for the phone. He picks it up and begins speaking.
"Hello, Kaiba Residence." Mokuba answers.
"Listen Mokuba, I need for you to stay off the Internet." Seto says practically yelling into the phone receiver over the noise in the office.
"I am Seto." Mokuba says with a straight face and hearing numerous noises in the background. "What's going on over there and why is it so noisy there?"
"Something is wrong with the main computer system here. The entire server has gone down and nothing has come up yet as to what is doing this." Seto yells into the phone.
"Well believe me, I haven't tried the Internet at all." Mokuba says continuing to have a straight face. "Just figure out what's going on."
"I will. Keep Noah away from every computer in the house because whatever is going on, he may catch it." Seto says.
"Ok Seto." Mokuba says into the receiver. Seto hangs up along with Mokuba. Mokuba turns to Noah and can see he is dozing off. (A/N: Computers have the sleep feature. He has it too ^_^)
"I don't think he's aware of that at the moment." Mokuba says to himself watching Noah silently drift to sleep. "I didn't even think Seto cared that much for Noah."
Mokuba's attention is back to the movie.
Kaiba Corporation*
"Seto Kaiba, Something came up sir." The worker calls out to Seto from the work area. Seto runs out the office and to the station where the worker is calling him.
"What's the problem?" Seto asks in a demanding tone.
"Well the scanner finally found something sir. A worm by the name of Gozblast.exe." The worker says as Seto takes a look at the screen to see the reason he was called.
"A WORM?" Seto yells. "Get rid of it."
"Before I do that, I'm going to find out the status of the worm to find its weakness." The worker says now being grabbed by the collar and snatched out of the chair.
"Don't find out anything about it. That THING is the reason behind MY server going down. Take care of it now or you'll be NEEDING A NEW JOB." Seto yells slinging the worker back in the chair. The worker begins trying to quarantine and repair the worm. Seto stands over his shoulder as he beings working on getting rid of the worm.
Wheeler Residence*
Joey is sitting on the net downloading movies.
"Man, DSL connections rock." Joey says to himself clicking on another video stream. Serenity comes down the stairs and to the study, the room under the stairs where Joey is. (A/n: Let the records show I can't stand Serenity)
"Joey, I need the net. I'm going to check my mail." Serenity says to her brother.
"Sure just let me close this." Joey says closing the music website. Before he closes his account, he suddenly receives an email.
"Wait what's this?" Joey asks clicking on the envelope and opening the email. "Your IP has been logged?"
"Who's it from Joey?" Serenity asks standing behind Joey.
"I'm not sure. Something about my IP being logged." Joey says reading the email. He then comes across the hyperlink given to further prevent this in the future. "Probably another advertisement trying to sell something."
Joey closes the email and his account, now getting up from the desk. Serenity takes a seat and opens her account by going to her name on the Kaiba Corporation Internet Provider. After getting online from her account, she receives the same email as Joey.
"My IP has been logged?" Serenity questions now opening the email. She opens it and begins reading what the body says. She then comes across the hyperlink given and clicks on it.
"That way it won't happen again." Serenity says to herself clicking on the link and watching the page as it begins loading. The page stops loading and the whole Internet program closes.
"Joey, I need a little help over here." Serenity calls to Joey. He gets off the couch and over to the computer.
"What happened?" Joey asks looking at the screen.
"I received an email with a link in it and I clicked on it. A page started to load and it never finished and now the whole net program just closed." Serenity explains.
"Try again and see if it will open." Joey says as Serenity tries again. The program opens, then closes right after and an error occurs.
"Did I do something wrong?" Serenity says turning around and seeing Joey walk to the phone.
"No sis you didn't. It's Kaiba's crappy Internet that did it." Joey says dialing some numbers and holding the receiver to his ear. After three rings, the other end picks up.
"Let me speak to Kaiba." Joey demands. "Yeah I'll hold." (A/N: Let the records show that I will forever dislike Serenity.)
Back at the Corporation's Headquarters*
"What is this thing and why won't it be destroyed?" Seto yells still seeing the status of the worm after 4 Quarantines and 2 repairs.
"Sir, it seems nothing will stop it." That same worker says.
"Keep trying. Nothing has ever gotten passed my quarantines in my virus protection system." Seto yells stomping off back to the main office.
Kaiba Mansion*
The movie has finished and Mokuba and Noah are watching Digital Satellite Tv, while thinking about what's going on at the Main office of the Kaiba Corporation. Noah notices his brother's expression and wonders what's on his mind.
"Mokuba, is something wrong?" Noah asks grabbing Mokuba's attention.
"No, not really." Mokuba says in a sad tone.
"Are you sure?" Noah asks. Mokuba gives in looks up at Noah.
"Well Seto called about 15 minutes ago, while you were dozing off and said that something is in the Main computer system and is taking down the server as to why the Internet shut down. He told me to keep you away from every computer in the house." Mokuba explains.
"Don't worry Mokuba. Even if I was to get infected, I have the virus program on me so I'm ok and will continue to be." Noah says taking Mokuba's worries away a bit.
"I guess you're right." Mokuba says cracking a smile.
Is he really safe and who is behind the worm on the net? And Is the Kaiba virus scanner as great as Seto says it is? Read more to find out soon. No flames are welcome as I have mentioned before because they will be ignored and paid no attention to. For everyone else, please review and Thanks. Next chapter should be out, uh, well, I'll have to check on that one.