Tekken 24
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Note: Text that appears inside [ ] are being displayed on a monitor. Think DOS.
The following takes place between 11:00 pm and 12:00 am.
Events occur in real time.
11:00:00- "What the hell?" Hwoarang said.
The power had gone off. He didn't necessarily know why, but he didn't have a good feeling about it.
Nina was rushing into another room, her silhouette outlined by the dim glow coming in from the windows.
"Check the elevators." She said.
"Right." He said.
There was something about being in the dark that made people fear it. Hwoarang happened to be one of them, though he'd never admit it. He wasn't overly afraid of the dark, but it was the fear of the unknown that always got him.
In people like that, sight is a big part of the fear. If you were in dark room with an attacker, that scariest part of it is the fact that you can't see their face. Their outline is the only thing, and you have no clue what they look like.
The hallway was pitch black. It was like looking into a black void, there was nothing to see. Hwoarang already had his gun out, and he was now squinting, waiting for his eyes to adjust to the darkness.
Not only was he slightly scared of the dark, but he was also a little paranoid. While he was ready for an attack, he couldn't help but think that somebody was going to leap around the corner at him. He ignored the thought and stepped in front of the elevator. He didn't hear anything. The buttons weren't lit up, and after hitting both of them, Hwoarang knew that they weren't going to light up.
"Great." He said.
He walked back into the room, eyes fully adjusted, and looked for Nina.
"Elevators are out." He said.
Nina walked out of another room, either a closet or bathroom, holding a small handheld device.
"Are you sure you weren't followed?" She asked.
"I couldn't notice anything." He said.
She sighed.
"How much experience do you have in espionage or intelligence?" She asked.
"First day. I have Army training only." He said.
"Meaning, you can do reconnaissance but if somebody were to be sneaking up on you, you're clueless." She said.
"Pretty much."
She went back into the other room and brought out a laptop computer, she sat it on the bed. The monitor showed security cameras that displayed Anna Williams walking through the front door.
"This was ten minutes ago. When did you get here?" She asked.
"About that long ago, few more minutes maybe." He said.
"There's one other possibility that I could think of. Here, hold out your arms." She said.
The small handheld device she had turned on and she began to run it over almost every crevice of his body. The device vibrated, and Hwoarang chuckled. It tickled. He could feel the chill run up his spine, and the goose bumps that formed afterward. She finally ran it up against his left arm when the device began to beep.
"What does that mean?" He asked.
"You've been bugged." She said.
"How so?" He asked.
Nina read the display on the device.
"It looks like a tracking device, which would explain how she followed you. Do you have any idea how it got imbedded in there?" she asked.
"You mean it's under my skin?" He asked.
"Yeah. And if you don't know about it, whoever it was did it when you were unconscious." He said.
"Oh well, there's only about half a dozen times today that I've been unconscious for some reason." He said.
"Don't joke. We need to get out of here." She said.
"We should take the stairs." He said.
"I would prefer not to, but it is our best option right now." She said.
"Then let's go." He said.
11:08:27- The labs were going to be quiet. The scientists had already gone home hours ago and the only people in the building were security.
Adam was relieved at that point. The team he brought with him was in place. There were four men, two entering from the top and two from the bottom. Their job was to not only be a distraction, but as a way to take care of the security. His job was to enter the labs undetected.
Right now, he was entering through the lobby. Most people would consider it suicide, if you could get in that way in the first place. Well, he could. Being a computer programmer had its perks, like learning how to hack.
To most people, hacking meant being on the internet constantly, trying to screw up everyone's computer by infecting it with a virus or a worm, or some other type of hybrid backdoor or Trojan horse. Hacking really was just that; only that you don't hack to infect, you hack to overcome an obstacle, and it could be done on any electronic device.
The card reader Adam stood in front of was a perfect example of that. The device he used was just another card you could put in one of these types of devices. For example, you work at this company, and they give you an access card that has an access number which is housed inside the black strip on the back if the card. The only thing most people don't realize is that these cards can hold a lot of information, most of it text. It's like holding a miniature floppy disk. In most employee cards, they housed one number. In Adam's, they housed nearly half a billion different access numbers combinations. They had numbers that were only three digits to ones that went up to ten and all of them with numbers zero through nine. When you swipe the card, the reader looks for the correct number and bypasses all the others, and if it wasn't on there, you simply didn't gain access. Adam had worked on it for a good year back when he first joined. Wallace had thought it was kind of an interesting project, and it worked. These cards were given out to most agents now when they were assigned to covert missions.
Adam swiped the card. Almost immediately, the door clicked open. He loved this little gadget, and the best part about it, the card is extremely low- tech compared to a lot of the little spy gadgets out in the world today. He couldn't help but smile as he opened the door and walked inside the door. "Surveillance disabled." A voice said.
Adam was wearing an earpiece, which let him listen to conversations from the two teams inside the building. The message was good news because now he didn't have to worry about being on candid camera whenever he turned a corner.
There was no guards in the lobby from what he could see, meaning that there was a hidden room where they watched the lobby from, or that they simply were in other areas of the building and left the lobby unguarded.
The elevator to the labs was separated from the other elevators in the lobby. The regular elevators had gold doors, while this one was slick. The doors were metallic blue, as was the frame. It stood out, which was meant for stupid people, really. If someone didn't know where to go, they see the standout color and think: Oh, that's where I need to go.
Adam walked over to the blue doors and hit the button. The door opened and he walked in. There was only two buttons he could hit, and they were labeled "1" and "Lab". He hit lab.
The doors shut and the elevator began to move down. After about ten seconds, the elevator stopped. It was very abrupt.
Above the buttons on the wall, a panel flipped out. It was a keypad. He looked at it. It was asking for a ten digit PIN. It didn't have a card reader.
"Terrific." Adam muttered.
A voice came over the PA.
"This is a two-minute warning. If you have a PIN number, please insert it on the keypad to your right. If you do not have a PIN number, security will be notified and will escort you to your proper floor." The female voice said.
"Shit." He said, pulling out his cell phone.
The line rang.
"Wallace."
"I have a problem." Adam said.
"Yeah?" Wallace said.
"I'm in the elevator for the labs, and it's asking for a PIN that I don't have. The teams shut off the surveillance, but this elevator will tell them anyway. I have about two minutes till they know." Adam said. "Hold on." Wallace said.
Wallace rushed his way into Heihachi's interrogation room. Heihachi was still sitting there.
11:12:06- Wallace could see the smart ass grin on Heihachi's face, and he wasn't in the mood for it.
"What's the access code to your Lab elevator?" He asked.
Heihachi was silent.
"Look you son of a bitch. I got an agent in that elevator, and if he's discovered by your security, they'll kill him." Wallace said.
"Like they should." Heihachi said.
Wallace flipped the table that was in front of Heihachi over. He then grabbed him by the collar and dragged him out of the car and up against the wall.
"If they kill him, I'm going to make sure you get the chair. So if you want to save your sorry ass, you'll give me the code." Wallace said.
Heihachi just smiled, and Wallace just snapped. Wallace pulled out a knife and stabbed Heihachi in the arm, and he buckled to the ground from the unexpected attack.
"My lawyer's going to love this." Heihachi chuckled.
Wallace pulled out his gun and pointed it about five inches from Heihachi's face, and it was aimed right between his eyes.
"The code, or you'll die at the same time my agent does." Wallace said.
Heihachi still didn't budge. Wallace then fired a shot into Heihachi's leg. Heihachi screamed, but it then turned into hysterical laughter. The man was insane.
"What's the code!" Wallace screamed.
"526...891...7543!" Heihachi spurted out between laughs.
Wallace took the cell phone that was clipped to his belt and dialed Adam back up.
"Yeah!" Adam said, sounding relieved.
"5268917543." Wallace said.
Adam punched the combination into the keypad and the elevator then began to descend once more.
"Did it work?" Wallace asked.
Adam didn't respond at first, because the doors had slid open as the elevator stopped at the lab. He walked out, thankful to be out of the elevator. It took about five seconds in all.
"You ok?" Wallace asked again.
"Yeah. I'm in the lab." Adam said.
"Call me when you get something." Wallace said.
The two hung up. Heihachi was still laughing, going insane while he bled from his wounds. At the same time, Wallace was on his phone, calling in a medic.
Back at the lab, Adam was in shock as he stared out at the field of Combots.
11:15:05- Hwoarang and Anna had already gone down the fourteen flights of stairs and were now in the hotel lobby, which was actually near the top of the tower where the Park Hyatt resided. It was nice to see again, as the backup generator for the building kicked in about halfway down the stairs.
Hwoarang moved over to the information desk. There was a computer and its monitor hadn't been powered up, so he ignored it. Nina was busy trying to get an elevator, but for some reason, it wasn't working. She then pried open the doors.
She looked up the shaft, and about three floors up was the elevator. She quickly looked down just in time to see an explosion at the bottom of the shaft, some thirty to forty floors down. Hwoarang must have heard this, as he pushed Nina out of the way as the elevator began to fall, the wires cut by the explosion.
The elevator carriage fell quickly, and it passed the open door with a quick whoosh.
"How did you know?" she asked, lying on the floor.
Hwoarang got up off the ground.
"When I was in the Army, we had a mission once in a big skyscraper. We first hit the power, then the elevators. I heard the boom, saw your head poking out in the shaft, and thought the worst." He said, offering her a hand.
"Thanks." She said.
He didn't say anything at first, seeing he was too busy thinking about her. Nina was a heartless assassin, wasn't she? Why was she displaying a warmhearted image to him? Did she have her own intentions? And why the hell was she working with Ling? The questions of the day kept piling up with no end in sight.
She took his hand and pulled herself up off the floor.
"Don't mention it." He said.
She pulled out a rappel gun from the bag she was carrying. Nina had thought it would be a wise idea to take some of her equipment, even if this was an escape. It wasn't like there was a fire in the building, where there would be a time limit. Here, she could sit up here all night if she wanted to. Right now, she figured the best way to get out would be to rappel down. She aimed the gun.
"Wait!" Hwoarang said, grabbing the gun from her hands.
"What the hell are you doing?" she said.
"I got an idea." He said.
The lobby had floor to ceiling windows on its right side, which is what spawned his imagination. As soon as she saw him moving over to the window, she knew what his idea was. She had to admit, it wasn't a bad one.
Hwoarang looked for something heavy. He went behind the desk and took the swivel chair that sat there. It wasn't light either, meaning that it would be difficult to build up some momentum. He backed himself up and then ran at the window, holding the chair above his head. He tossed the chair at the window, which ran against it with a thud.
"Well, fuck." He said.
The window didn't even crack. It just sat there, with not even a scratch on it.
"Stand aside, boy." Nina said.
"Look who's talking, you blonde-bimbo bitch." He said.
She had a gun in her hand, and she very well could have killed him if she wanted to. She thought the name calling was fun. She didn't have a problem with it.
Hwoarang kind of took it personally, her calling him a boy. He sat there as she shot the window, which shattered it on the first shot. He was embarrassed.
He then shot the gun at the floor, and then strapped the gun to his belt. She hugged him as they stood at the edge of the window, and they jumped.
11:23:24- Wallace was waiting outside of Heihachi's interrogation room. He had sent a medic in to treat the wounds he gave Heihachi. In fact, Wallace was surprised at the fact that he was able to inflict that much damage without Heihachi fighting back, but then again, it should be that big of one now that he thought about it. Heihachi acted like he enjoyed getting shot, seeing how much he was laughing.
The medic walked out of the room.
"Well?" Wallace asked.
"He's fine. The bullet went thorough the leg. I picked it out of the floor. I put a lot of gauze on the leg, and within a few days he'll be able to walk without limping. You can see him now." The medic said.
Wallace nodded and walked back in the room. He immediately took a seat at the replaced table, directly across from Heihachi. There was a file in his hand, and he placed it on the table.
"You want to talk?" Wallace asked.
"Actually, yes, I do." Heihachi said.
There was a slight pause between them, as if waiting for one person to make the first move. Their egos were big enough that neither one would budge. Then Heihachi raised his pointer finger on his right hand, and laid it palm up on the table.
"Do you know anything about nanotechnology?" Heihachi said.
"I know of it." Wallace said.
"Well, get this. Inside my finger are a couple thousand little transmitters. All together, they can send out a very powerful burst transmission."
Heihachi took his middle and pointer fingers and tapped them together twice. He took his hand back. Wallace looked on as if he wasn't amused by this magic show.
"That little gesture just told the nanomachines to send an SOS message to my lawyer. It also tells him my geographic location within the city. He should be here within the hour, even at this time of night." Heihachi said.
Wallace actually grinned at that. Nanotechnology really was impressive. Heihachi had used them to make a distress signal, when the most common use that was currently being tested was in the medical field. The small machines were really only visible under a microscope, and when inserted into the bloodstream, they could do plenty given that they had the right technology. For example, a person with diabetes could use the nanomachines to create and inject insulin into the person's bloodstream with the person every having to worry about it. The possibilities in the medical field were endless. Heihachi just happened to find a way to make them communicate through human skin. It really just proved how much money Heihachi really had.
"You're not going anywhere." Wallace said.
He got up and left the room.
11:30:26- Rappeling down a forty-something-story building wasn't as easy as it looked. The intial fall took them down about four stories, and now each jump took them down about one and a half stories at a time. Hell, Hwoarang hadn't even hit the thirtieth floor yet.
Nina didn't mind him doing all the work; in fact, it was very erotic in some ways. She was clutched to his chest as he jumped off the wall with a small grunt. She looked down and noticed that they still had a ways to go. She never really wanted to be attracted to anyone, but being this close to Hwoarang was intoxicating. Maybe it was denial, but she had always paid attention to him. He was a wild spirit, and he definitely had a big mouth. She liked people who took charge, but that wasn't as present now as it usually had been. She wondered why.
"Is there any way to make this go any faster?" He asked.
"Not really. This wasn't meant to go a long ways at once. That's why I initially wanted to take the elevator shaft." She said.
"Now you tell me." He said, pushing off the building once more.
She was becoming annoying. So far, he was going through all the trouble and embarrassment. Not only did he make an ass of himself when trying to break the window, but now he was the one repelling down the side of a huge skyscraper. It wasn't exactly his idea of fun and he really had no idea why he was putting up with this. Maybe he was looking for some excitement for once in a long while. The army never really could satisfy his hunger for adrenaline. The SpecOps unit, while high-tech and very secretive, was dull. It was always hush-hush, being silent and cunning, and it was always about planting some type of tracking device or a bomb and then escaping if the alarms went off. It just wasn't as intense as it used to be, but that was changing today. It had to be. He wouldn't be here if it wasn't.
As he pushed off the building again, he notice a sudden loss of slack in the cable that was carrying them.
"What'd I do?" he said, as they abruptly landed against the building again.
"Did you lose some slack?" she asked.
"Yeah. What happened?" he said.
"You should have plenty of cord to carry us down." She said.
Hwoarang tugged on the cord, and it wasn't going anywhere. In fact, he pulled so hard, he thought the metal cord cut his hand, but it didn't. Then he saw a big piece of glass fall right next to him. He looked up just in time to be able to strafe away from another piece of glass. Hwoarang and Nina both looked up to see a shillouette looking down at them. The light from the lobby had hidden the person's identity, but Nina knew who it was as did Hwoarang.
"Anna." He said.
"Oh god!" she said.
Anna had gotten down on one knee. Nina took out a small night-vision scope from her pocket and looked at Anna, who had something in her hand. It was a pair of wire cutters.
"She's going to cut the line!" she yelled.
"Give me your gun." He said.
She handed it to him and he pulled out his own.
"Ok. We both push off on three. One, two, three!" he yelled.
The force of two people pushing off was enough to give them some power, and as they got away from the building, Hwoarang opened fire. This was there last chance, but Hwoarang couldn't help but think of how proud John Woo would be seeing this.
The bullets ricocheted all over the place, and he didn't know if any of the shots hit her, but they had hit the wall again. As he landed his feet against the thick windows, he looked back up only to see her still there.
"Again!" he said.
The two pushed off the building and he knew that if he didn't hit her now, they never would. He opened fire once more, this time emptying the clips. They reached the back end of the swing and were headed back to the side of the building again and once again he looked up. She wasn't in the window, in fact, one of the shots must have hit her just right because she was now falling out of the window. Her screaming figure flew past Hwoarang and Nina and landed on the pavement below. They didn't care to look as they continued to rappel down.
11:35:22- The database for the Combots was extensive. Something like this had to have taken years of research and dedication. The lab itself was small and easy enough to run that you really only needed about four people down here at any given time to run the place at full capacity. The main floor for all the bots was really just storage, and an eye grabber for whoever came here.
The main terminal looked out onto the main floor, and was run by three computer terminals. Adam had been rushing through all of them, trying to find out what made the Combots tick. So far, he had learned more about robotics than he ever cared for. What he found was interesting.
The bots had a collective consciousness. Whatever one learns, they all learn that same piece of information at the exact same time.
But that was all he really knew right now. He was busy trying to figure out what the bots were made of. But to do that he still needed to now how work faster with the terminals. Usually, there was a man at each one of the terminals, and now Adam had to do the work of three men.
The first terminal dealt with power systems in each of the robots, the second dealt with computer diagnostics, and the third dealt with emergency override systems and backup information.
Right now, he was trying to hack into the backup information. All he needed to find the back door into the system. He had tried about thirty different number combinations, and then he finally got it on number thirty one. The system unlocked, and he was given full access.
His phone vibrated. After the incident in the elevator, he set it to silent mode, just in case there was a guard down in the labs, which there wasn't.
"Yeah." He said.
"It's Wallace. Give me an update." Wallace said.
"Well, I just got access to the system. I was going to try and see if I can get an exact number of these things down here." Adam said.
"Fine. Call me when you get something." Wallace said.
Adam hung up and then typed in some basic commands:
[command_help]
The monitor then displayed about twenty different options and none of them really helped. He then tried something else:
[system check_log]
It was a different question that on most computers got an unknown command error. But it was a common command on most government servers. This time he got a response.
[log updated 12.04.2004 at 04:36 p.m. all systems functional. 999,987 units accounted for out of 1,000,000 units processed. 13 units have been checked for activation. Would you like status on checked units? Y or N?]
Adam was happy at what he saw. He dialed Wallace's number into his phone.
"Wallace."
"I got something." He said.
"What?" Wallace said.
"Well. It seems that there were a million units processed, but there seems to be thirteen bots missing, and that was of 4:30 this afternoon." Adam said.
"Where did they go?" Wallace asked.
Adam typed away.
[Y]
What came up surprised him.
"My god." He said as he read the text.
[13 units have been checked for activation and have been placed at the specified locations. Virus dispersal will begin at 06:00 a.m. on 13.04.2004. Dispersal will be completed at 8:30 a.m. on 13.04.2004. Would you like to change this command? Y or N?]
"What?" Wallace said.
"The bots have some sort of virus in them. It says that the thirteen bots will release it at six tomorrow morning, and that it will be finished by nine. It looks like I can change the command." Adam said.
"Change it for God's sake." Wallace said.
Adam hit the Y key and hit enter. He knew one of three things would come up. One: It would allow him to change the command, no questions asked. Two: it would ask him for a password that he would have to hack away at. Three: He wouldn't be able to change the command at all. And what do you know, it was number three that came up.
[command cannot be changed. lock is in place and cannot be removed.]
"I can't change it. It's a locked command." Adam said.
"Can you get around it?" Wallace asked.
"Given time? Maybe." He said.
"Then get to work." Wallace said.
11:41:19- Ling felt guilty, as she should. There was so much that was going on today and she couldn't even talk about half of it.
She said that she was here as CIA. Her case involved her infiltrating Hwoarang's old gang and busting them for the deal that went down tonight. It had been building up to today and now it was blown. Drake's betrayal, Chen's death, and Hwoarang's return were things that she hadn't expected. But that was only the first part of her excuse for being in Tokyo. The second excuse was that she was Nina's contact for a Black Ops mission that was the assassination of Heihachi Mishima and Jin Kazama.
Jin's dossier kept flashing through her head. The information she found there was something she wanted to forget. The story it told wasn't possible. Jin couldn't have done those types of things. Jin may have been troubled, but he had a good heart. The devil gene couldn't even make him do those things.
She tried to distract herself from the horrible memories. But it was tougher than it sounded. Sitting in an empty conference room, being ignored by every living person in the building only made her mind wander. It was excruciating trying to pass the time.
Within the past fifteen minutes, she had been trying to amuse herself by following people with her eyes and trying to guess what they did. She had seen Wallace a number of times already, a maintenance man, and almost every intern or technician on the main floor.
Her eyes now wandered on a bulking security guard who seemed very young. The guard's back was turned to her, but she stared anyways, wondering what the man's name was. As soon as the guard turned, she knew the man's name, and pretty much everything else that could be known about him.
"Jin?" she said.
She smacked herself, thinking that she may have been hallucinating. She looked back at the guard who was now walking away, off the main floor. It was Jin Kazama alright. This was something she had to check out. She left the conference room and walked downstairs, following Jin.
11:45:58- Wallace walks down the stairs from his office onto the main floor of the ATU just in time to see a man in a suit walk through the main doors of the building.
"Oh, no." Wallace mutters.
It was Heihachi's lawyer, and he knew the trouble he was in. He shot and tortured an unarmed suspect while in custody. He'd probably get fired and thrown in jail for it.
"Agent Wallace?" the lawyer said.
"Yes?" Wallace said.
"I'm Kayan Ryoto. I represent Mr. Mishima." He said.
"Yes?" Wallace said.
"I'd like him to be released, now." Kayan said.
"I can't do that." Wallace said.
"Really? I'd like to prove otherwise. You are holding him illegally." Kayan said.
"Illegally? I just got information that there are a million robots in the bottom of his lab that are going to be releasing a virus soon. He is being charged with conspiracy, not to mention murder of a couple police officers. Those are very serious offenses. What makes you think he can be released just like that?" Wallace said.
"A letter from the Emperor himself." Kayan said.
Kayan took a letter out of his jacket pocket and handed it to Wallace.
Sure enough, it was a hand written letter from the Emperor, dated about ten minutes ago. The letter was faxed, but Wallace knew it was genuine. It said in gory political detail about how important Heihachi was to the economy of Japan and what would happen if he wasn't released. Wallace wouldn't even think about not complying at this point; he had to let Heihachi go.
"This way." Wallace said.
Wallace led Kayan to the holding room and opened it. Inside, Heihachi was still sitting at the desk. Wallace gave him an unpleasant glare.
"You can go." Wallace said.
Heihachi smiled, got up from the desk and left the room. He then followed his lawyer out of the building. Wallace punched the wall, furious.
A man in a bomb squad jacket came up from behind Wallace.
"Agent Wallace?" he said.
"What now?" Wallace said.
"We're done with Baek Doo San." He said.
"And?" Wallace said.
"There's nothing we can do. There are too many different triggers and the primary charge is set to go off if any of the other triggers are disconnected. As I said, there's nothing we can do." He said.
"Great." Wallace said as the man walked off.
11:50:48- Hwoarang finally placed his feet on solid ground. It was one hell of a goddamned relief. Nina obviously had no problem with the repelling but he did. He almost got killed yet again. Now he had to get back to the ATU before Drake killed his father.
They were in the back of the building, and it might take a few minutes to get to the front to get to his car.
"Where are you parked?" she asked.
Hwoarang nearly drooled at what he saw parked about 100 feet away.
"What?" she asked, curious to know what caught his attention.
She stared off and then frowned. He was still a kid after all. Hwoarang was busy drooling over a silver Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R motorcycle.
"I'm sick of driving cars." Hwoarang said, sprinting over to the bike.
He straddled the bike and Nina ran over to him.
"We don't have a key." She said. Hwoarang laughed.
"Please! Like that's going to stop me." He said.
Whatever he did, Nina didn't care, just as long as they got the hell out of dodge. Hwoarang successfully hotwired the bike in about two minutes. He revved the engine and then pulled out of the lot at top speed, heading for the ATU.
11:53:24- Jin was a hard man to catch up with, that's for sure. He also liked to hide, Ling realized. She wasn't sure if he knew she was following him.
The one thing she wanted to know was what the hell was doing alive! She thought Jin was shot to death earlier in the day. What was he doing sneaking around in the ATU in a security guard's uniform?
She moved down the stairs into the basement of the ATU. It was quiet down here. The only thing that could be heard was the hum of the supercomputers in one of the rooms. She started going from door to door, checking to see if any of them were open.
About a minute went by with her finding out a lot of the doors were locked and still no sign of Jin. She then came across one door that happened to be unlocked. She went in.
The room was dark. She couldn't see anything. Her hands against the wall, she began feeling for the light switch. She found them next to the door, and flipped them on.
She was inside of a medical center of some sort. The walls were lined with lockers you would find in a morgue. She guessed that inside of them were bodies.
Her eyes ran against the lockers and noticed one that was slightly ajar. She went over to it, and opened it. It was difficult to pull out the metal gurney at first, but with a slight tug, it came out smoothly. She gasped as it finally came out. There was no one on the table, but there was a nasty blood smear on it. The shock of the blood caused her to back up, and right into somebody who was waiting there.
She began to turn around when an arm came around and took her into a choke hold. Looking up wasn't necessary, because she could tell it was Jin. His grip was too strong, and she could pull free. She tried to get some leverage by placing her feet on his legs, but it didn't help. Any time she moved, he only squeezed harder.
She finally blacked out. Jin let go of her and then placed her on the metal gurney. He rolled it back inside the locker and shut the door. He then left the room and shut the lights off.
11:58:38- Drake Matthews was in a parked car somewhere in Tokyo. His looked at his watch. He then took a briefcase from the backseat and opened it. Inside was a laptop computer. He brought up a command prompt and typed.
11:59:03- Adam was still in the lab working on trying to get around the locked command. He was beginning to think that he wouldn't be able to fix it.
He heard a whirring sound coming from the main floor where the Combots where. He stood up and looked out.
The bots themselves had been turned off, their eyes a dark gray, seeing as the lights that represented their eyes weren't on. The only thing was that now they were turning on, one by one.
"What the fuck?" Adam said.
What was going on? This shouldn't be happening. He never turned them on. He was becoming frantic.
He glanced down at the screen in front of him.
[All remaining units now operational.]
11:59:57... 11:59:58... 11:59:59... 12:00:00...
Disclaimer: Don't own "24" or "Tekken".
Note: Text that appears inside [ ] are being displayed on a monitor. Think DOS.
The following takes place between 11:00 pm and 12:00 am.
Events occur in real time.
11:00:00- "What the hell?" Hwoarang said.
The power had gone off. He didn't necessarily know why, but he didn't have a good feeling about it.
Nina was rushing into another room, her silhouette outlined by the dim glow coming in from the windows.
"Check the elevators." She said.
"Right." He said.
There was something about being in the dark that made people fear it. Hwoarang happened to be one of them, though he'd never admit it. He wasn't overly afraid of the dark, but it was the fear of the unknown that always got him.
In people like that, sight is a big part of the fear. If you were in dark room with an attacker, that scariest part of it is the fact that you can't see their face. Their outline is the only thing, and you have no clue what they look like.
The hallway was pitch black. It was like looking into a black void, there was nothing to see. Hwoarang already had his gun out, and he was now squinting, waiting for his eyes to adjust to the darkness.
Not only was he slightly scared of the dark, but he was also a little paranoid. While he was ready for an attack, he couldn't help but think that somebody was going to leap around the corner at him. He ignored the thought and stepped in front of the elevator. He didn't hear anything. The buttons weren't lit up, and after hitting both of them, Hwoarang knew that they weren't going to light up.
"Great." He said.
He walked back into the room, eyes fully adjusted, and looked for Nina.
"Elevators are out." He said.
Nina walked out of another room, either a closet or bathroom, holding a small handheld device.
"Are you sure you weren't followed?" She asked.
"I couldn't notice anything." He said.
She sighed.
"How much experience do you have in espionage or intelligence?" She asked.
"First day. I have Army training only." He said.
"Meaning, you can do reconnaissance but if somebody were to be sneaking up on you, you're clueless." She said.
"Pretty much."
She went back into the other room and brought out a laptop computer, she sat it on the bed. The monitor showed security cameras that displayed Anna Williams walking through the front door.
"This was ten minutes ago. When did you get here?" She asked.
"About that long ago, few more minutes maybe." He said.
"There's one other possibility that I could think of. Here, hold out your arms." She said.
The small handheld device she had turned on and she began to run it over almost every crevice of his body. The device vibrated, and Hwoarang chuckled. It tickled. He could feel the chill run up his spine, and the goose bumps that formed afterward. She finally ran it up against his left arm when the device began to beep.
"What does that mean?" He asked.
"You've been bugged." She said.
"How so?" He asked.
Nina read the display on the device.
"It looks like a tracking device, which would explain how she followed you. Do you have any idea how it got imbedded in there?" she asked.
"You mean it's under my skin?" He asked.
"Yeah. And if you don't know about it, whoever it was did it when you were unconscious." He said.
"Oh well, there's only about half a dozen times today that I've been unconscious for some reason." He said.
"Don't joke. We need to get out of here." She said.
"We should take the stairs." He said.
"I would prefer not to, but it is our best option right now." She said.
"Then let's go." He said.
11:08:27- The labs were going to be quiet. The scientists had already gone home hours ago and the only people in the building were security.
Adam was relieved at that point. The team he brought with him was in place. There were four men, two entering from the top and two from the bottom. Their job was to not only be a distraction, but as a way to take care of the security. His job was to enter the labs undetected.
Right now, he was entering through the lobby. Most people would consider it suicide, if you could get in that way in the first place. Well, he could. Being a computer programmer had its perks, like learning how to hack.
To most people, hacking meant being on the internet constantly, trying to screw up everyone's computer by infecting it with a virus or a worm, or some other type of hybrid backdoor or Trojan horse. Hacking really was just that; only that you don't hack to infect, you hack to overcome an obstacle, and it could be done on any electronic device.
The card reader Adam stood in front of was a perfect example of that. The device he used was just another card you could put in one of these types of devices. For example, you work at this company, and they give you an access card that has an access number which is housed inside the black strip on the back if the card. The only thing most people don't realize is that these cards can hold a lot of information, most of it text. It's like holding a miniature floppy disk. In most employee cards, they housed one number. In Adam's, they housed nearly half a billion different access numbers combinations. They had numbers that were only three digits to ones that went up to ten and all of them with numbers zero through nine. When you swipe the card, the reader looks for the correct number and bypasses all the others, and if it wasn't on there, you simply didn't gain access. Adam had worked on it for a good year back when he first joined. Wallace had thought it was kind of an interesting project, and it worked. These cards were given out to most agents now when they were assigned to covert missions.
Adam swiped the card. Almost immediately, the door clicked open. He loved this little gadget, and the best part about it, the card is extremely low- tech compared to a lot of the little spy gadgets out in the world today. He couldn't help but smile as he opened the door and walked inside the door. "Surveillance disabled." A voice said.
Adam was wearing an earpiece, which let him listen to conversations from the two teams inside the building. The message was good news because now he didn't have to worry about being on candid camera whenever he turned a corner.
There was no guards in the lobby from what he could see, meaning that there was a hidden room where they watched the lobby from, or that they simply were in other areas of the building and left the lobby unguarded.
The elevator to the labs was separated from the other elevators in the lobby. The regular elevators had gold doors, while this one was slick. The doors were metallic blue, as was the frame. It stood out, which was meant for stupid people, really. If someone didn't know where to go, they see the standout color and think: Oh, that's where I need to go.
Adam walked over to the blue doors and hit the button. The door opened and he walked in. There was only two buttons he could hit, and they were labeled "1" and "Lab". He hit lab.
The doors shut and the elevator began to move down. After about ten seconds, the elevator stopped. It was very abrupt.
Above the buttons on the wall, a panel flipped out. It was a keypad. He looked at it. It was asking for a ten digit PIN. It didn't have a card reader.
"Terrific." Adam muttered.
A voice came over the PA.
"This is a two-minute warning. If you have a PIN number, please insert it on the keypad to your right. If you do not have a PIN number, security will be notified and will escort you to your proper floor." The female voice said.
"Shit." He said, pulling out his cell phone.
The line rang.
"Wallace."
"I have a problem." Adam said.
"Yeah?" Wallace said.
"I'm in the elevator for the labs, and it's asking for a PIN that I don't have. The teams shut off the surveillance, but this elevator will tell them anyway. I have about two minutes till they know." Adam said. "Hold on." Wallace said.
Wallace rushed his way into Heihachi's interrogation room. Heihachi was still sitting there.
11:12:06- Wallace could see the smart ass grin on Heihachi's face, and he wasn't in the mood for it.
"What's the access code to your Lab elevator?" He asked.
Heihachi was silent.
"Look you son of a bitch. I got an agent in that elevator, and if he's discovered by your security, they'll kill him." Wallace said.
"Like they should." Heihachi said.
Wallace flipped the table that was in front of Heihachi over. He then grabbed him by the collar and dragged him out of the car and up against the wall.
"If they kill him, I'm going to make sure you get the chair. So if you want to save your sorry ass, you'll give me the code." Wallace said.
Heihachi just smiled, and Wallace just snapped. Wallace pulled out a knife and stabbed Heihachi in the arm, and he buckled to the ground from the unexpected attack.
"My lawyer's going to love this." Heihachi chuckled.
Wallace pulled out his gun and pointed it about five inches from Heihachi's face, and it was aimed right between his eyes.
"The code, or you'll die at the same time my agent does." Wallace said.
Heihachi still didn't budge. Wallace then fired a shot into Heihachi's leg. Heihachi screamed, but it then turned into hysterical laughter. The man was insane.
"What's the code!" Wallace screamed.
"526...891...7543!" Heihachi spurted out between laughs.
Wallace took the cell phone that was clipped to his belt and dialed Adam back up.
"Yeah!" Adam said, sounding relieved.
"5268917543." Wallace said.
Adam punched the combination into the keypad and the elevator then began to descend once more.
"Did it work?" Wallace asked.
Adam didn't respond at first, because the doors had slid open as the elevator stopped at the lab. He walked out, thankful to be out of the elevator. It took about five seconds in all.
"You ok?" Wallace asked again.
"Yeah. I'm in the lab." Adam said.
"Call me when you get something." Wallace said.
The two hung up. Heihachi was still laughing, going insane while he bled from his wounds. At the same time, Wallace was on his phone, calling in a medic.
Back at the lab, Adam was in shock as he stared out at the field of Combots.
11:15:05- Hwoarang and Anna had already gone down the fourteen flights of stairs and were now in the hotel lobby, which was actually near the top of the tower where the Park Hyatt resided. It was nice to see again, as the backup generator for the building kicked in about halfway down the stairs.
Hwoarang moved over to the information desk. There was a computer and its monitor hadn't been powered up, so he ignored it. Nina was busy trying to get an elevator, but for some reason, it wasn't working. She then pried open the doors.
She looked up the shaft, and about three floors up was the elevator. She quickly looked down just in time to see an explosion at the bottom of the shaft, some thirty to forty floors down. Hwoarang must have heard this, as he pushed Nina out of the way as the elevator began to fall, the wires cut by the explosion.
The elevator carriage fell quickly, and it passed the open door with a quick whoosh.
"How did you know?" she asked, lying on the floor.
Hwoarang got up off the ground.
"When I was in the Army, we had a mission once in a big skyscraper. We first hit the power, then the elevators. I heard the boom, saw your head poking out in the shaft, and thought the worst." He said, offering her a hand.
"Thanks." She said.
He didn't say anything at first, seeing he was too busy thinking about her. Nina was a heartless assassin, wasn't she? Why was she displaying a warmhearted image to him? Did she have her own intentions? And why the hell was she working with Ling? The questions of the day kept piling up with no end in sight.
She took his hand and pulled herself up off the floor.
"Don't mention it." He said.
She pulled out a rappel gun from the bag she was carrying. Nina had thought it would be a wise idea to take some of her equipment, even if this was an escape. It wasn't like there was a fire in the building, where there would be a time limit. Here, she could sit up here all night if she wanted to. Right now, she figured the best way to get out would be to rappel down. She aimed the gun.
"Wait!" Hwoarang said, grabbing the gun from her hands.
"What the hell are you doing?" she said.
"I got an idea." He said.
The lobby had floor to ceiling windows on its right side, which is what spawned his imagination. As soon as she saw him moving over to the window, she knew what his idea was. She had to admit, it wasn't a bad one.
Hwoarang looked for something heavy. He went behind the desk and took the swivel chair that sat there. It wasn't light either, meaning that it would be difficult to build up some momentum. He backed himself up and then ran at the window, holding the chair above his head. He tossed the chair at the window, which ran against it with a thud.
"Well, fuck." He said.
The window didn't even crack. It just sat there, with not even a scratch on it.
"Stand aside, boy." Nina said.
"Look who's talking, you blonde-bimbo bitch." He said.
She had a gun in her hand, and she very well could have killed him if she wanted to. She thought the name calling was fun. She didn't have a problem with it.
Hwoarang kind of took it personally, her calling him a boy. He sat there as she shot the window, which shattered it on the first shot. He was embarrassed.
He then shot the gun at the floor, and then strapped the gun to his belt. She hugged him as they stood at the edge of the window, and they jumped.
11:23:24- Wallace was waiting outside of Heihachi's interrogation room. He had sent a medic in to treat the wounds he gave Heihachi. In fact, Wallace was surprised at the fact that he was able to inflict that much damage without Heihachi fighting back, but then again, it should be that big of one now that he thought about it. Heihachi acted like he enjoyed getting shot, seeing how much he was laughing.
The medic walked out of the room.
"Well?" Wallace asked.
"He's fine. The bullet went thorough the leg. I picked it out of the floor. I put a lot of gauze on the leg, and within a few days he'll be able to walk without limping. You can see him now." The medic said.
Wallace nodded and walked back in the room. He immediately took a seat at the replaced table, directly across from Heihachi. There was a file in his hand, and he placed it on the table.
"You want to talk?" Wallace asked.
"Actually, yes, I do." Heihachi said.
There was a slight pause between them, as if waiting for one person to make the first move. Their egos were big enough that neither one would budge. Then Heihachi raised his pointer finger on his right hand, and laid it palm up on the table.
"Do you know anything about nanotechnology?" Heihachi said.
"I know of it." Wallace said.
"Well, get this. Inside my finger are a couple thousand little transmitters. All together, they can send out a very powerful burst transmission."
Heihachi took his middle and pointer fingers and tapped them together twice. He took his hand back. Wallace looked on as if he wasn't amused by this magic show.
"That little gesture just told the nanomachines to send an SOS message to my lawyer. It also tells him my geographic location within the city. He should be here within the hour, even at this time of night." Heihachi said.
Wallace actually grinned at that. Nanotechnology really was impressive. Heihachi had used them to make a distress signal, when the most common use that was currently being tested was in the medical field. The small machines were really only visible under a microscope, and when inserted into the bloodstream, they could do plenty given that they had the right technology. For example, a person with diabetes could use the nanomachines to create and inject insulin into the person's bloodstream with the person every having to worry about it. The possibilities in the medical field were endless. Heihachi just happened to find a way to make them communicate through human skin. It really just proved how much money Heihachi really had.
"You're not going anywhere." Wallace said.
He got up and left the room.
11:30:26- Rappeling down a forty-something-story building wasn't as easy as it looked. The intial fall took them down about four stories, and now each jump took them down about one and a half stories at a time. Hell, Hwoarang hadn't even hit the thirtieth floor yet.
Nina didn't mind him doing all the work; in fact, it was very erotic in some ways. She was clutched to his chest as he jumped off the wall with a small grunt. She looked down and noticed that they still had a ways to go. She never really wanted to be attracted to anyone, but being this close to Hwoarang was intoxicating. Maybe it was denial, but she had always paid attention to him. He was a wild spirit, and he definitely had a big mouth. She liked people who took charge, but that wasn't as present now as it usually had been. She wondered why.
"Is there any way to make this go any faster?" He asked.
"Not really. This wasn't meant to go a long ways at once. That's why I initially wanted to take the elevator shaft." She said.
"Now you tell me." He said, pushing off the building once more.
She was becoming annoying. So far, he was going through all the trouble and embarrassment. Not only did he make an ass of himself when trying to break the window, but now he was the one repelling down the side of a huge skyscraper. It wasn't exactly his idea of fun and he really had no idea why he was putting up with this. Maybe he was looking for some excitement for once in a long while. The army never really could satisfy his hunger for adrenaline. The SpecOps unit, while high-tech and very secretive, was dull. It was always hush-hush, being silent and cunning, and it was always about planting some type of tracking device or a bomb and then escaping if the alarms went off. It just wasn't as intense as it used to be, but that was changing today. It had to be. He wouldn't be here if it wasn't.
As he pushed off the building again, he notice a sudden loss of slack in the cable that was carrying them.
"What'd I do?" he said, as they abruptly landed against the building again.
"Did you lose some slack?" she asked.
"Yeah. What happened?" he said.
"You should have plenty of cord to carry us down." She said.
Hwoarang tugged on the cord, and it wasn't going anywhere. In fact, he pulled so hard, he thought the metal cord cut his hand, but it didn't. Then he saw a big piece of glass fall right next to him. He looked up just in time to be able to strafe away from another piece of glass. Hwoarang and Nina both looked up to see a shillouette looking down at them. The light from the lobby had hidden the person's identity, but Nina knew who it was as did Hwoarang.
"Anna." He said.
"Oh god!" she said.
Anna had gotten down on one knee. Nina took out a small night-vision scope from her pocket and looked at Anna, who had something in her hand. It was a pair of wire cutters.
"She's going to cut the line!" she yelled.
"Give me your gun." He said.
She handed it to him and he pulled out his own.
"Ok. We both push off on three. One, two, three!" he yelled.
The force of two people pushing off was enough to give them some power, and as they got away from the building, Hwoarang opened fire. This was there last chance, but Hwoarang couldn't help but think of how proud John Woo would be seeing this.
The bullets ricocheted all over the place, and he didn't know if any of the shots hit her, but they had hit the wall again. As he landed his feet against the thick windows, he looked back up only to see her still there.
"Again!" he said.
The two pushed off the building and he knew that if he didn't hit her now, they never would. He opened fire once more, this time emptying the clips. They reached the back end of the swing and were headed back to the side of the building again and once again he looked up. She wasn't in the window, in fact, one of the shots must have hit her just right because she was now falling out of the window. Her screaming figure flew past Hwoarang and Nina and landed on the pavement below. They didn't care to look as they continued to rappel down.
11:35:22- The database for the Combots was extensive. Something like this had to have taken years of research and dedication. The lab itself was small and easy enough to run that you really only needed about four people down here at any given time to run the place at full capacity. The main floor for all the bots was really just storage, and an eye grabber for whoever came here.
The main terminal looked out onto the main floor, and was run by three computer terminals. Adam had been rushing through all of them, trying to find out what made the Combots tick. So far, he had learned more about robotics than he ever cared for. What he found was interesting.
The bots had a collective consciousness. Whatever one learns, they all learn that same piece of information at the exact same time.
But that was all he really knew right now. He was busy trying to figure out what the bots were made of. But to do that he still needed to now how work faster with the terminals. Usually, there was a man at each one of the terminals, and now Adam had to do the work of three men.
The first terminal dealt with power systems in each of the robots, the second dealt with computer diagnostics, and the third dealt with emergency override systems and backup information.
Right now, he was trying to hack into the backup information. All he needed to find the back door into the system. He had tried about thirty different number combinations, and then he finally got it on number thirty one. The system unlocked, and he was given full access.
His phone vibrated. After the incident in the elevator, he set it to silent mode, just in case there was a guard down in the labs, which there wasn't.
"Yeah." He said.
"It's Wallace. Give me an update." Wallace said.
"Well, I just got access to the system. I was going to try and see if I can get an exact number of these things down here." Adam said.
"Fine. Call me when you get something." Wallace said.
Adam hung up and then typed in some basic commands:
[command_help]
The monitor then displayed about twenty different options and none of them really helped. He then tried something else:
[system check_log]
It was a different question that on most computers got an unknown command error. But it was a common command on most government servers. This time he got a response.
[log updated 12.04.2004 at 04:36 p.m. all systems functional. 999,987 units accounted for out of 1,000,000 units processed. 13 units have been checked for activation. Would you like status on checked units? Y or N?]
Adam was happy at what he saw. He dialed Wallace's number into his phone.
"Wallace."
"I got something." He said.
"What?" Wallace said.
"Well. It seems that there were a million units processed, but there seems to be thirteen bots missing, and that was of 4:30 this afternoon." Adam said.
"Where did they go?" Wallace asked.
Adam typed away.
[Y]
What came up surprised him.
"My god." He said as he read the text.
[13 units have been checked for activation and have been placed at the specified locations. Virus dispersal will begin at 06:00 a.m. on 13.04.2004. Dispersal will be completed at 8:30 a.m. on 13.04.2004. Would you like to change this command? Y or N?]
"What?" Wallace said.
"The bots have some sort of virus in them. It says that the thirteen bots will release it at six tomorrow morning, and that it will be finished by nine. It looks like I can change the command." Adam said.
"Change it for God's sake." Wallace said.
Adam hit the Y key and hit enter. He knew one of three things would come up. One: It would allow him to change the command, no questions asked. Two: it would ask him for a password that he would have to hack away at. Three: He wouldn't be able to change the command at all. And what do you know, it was number three that came up.
[command cannot be changed. lock is in place and cannot be removed.]
"I can't change it. It's a locked command." Adam said.
"Can you get around it?" Wallace asked.
"Given time? Maybe." He said.
"Then get to work." Wallace said.
11:41:19- Ling felt guilty, as she should. There was so much that was going on today and she couldn't even talk about half of it.
She said that she was here as CIA. Her case involved her infiltrating Hwoarang's old gang and busting them for the deal that went down tonight. It had been building up to today and now it was blown. Drake's betrayal, Chen's death, and Hwoarang's return were things that she hadn't expected. But that was only the first part of her excuse for being in Tokyo. The second excuse was that she was Nina's contact for a Black Ops mission that was the assassination of Heihachi Mishima and Jin Kazama.
Jin's dossier kept flashing through her head. The information she found there was something she wanted to forget. The story it told wasn't possible. Jin couldn't have done those types of things. Jin may have been troubled, but he had a good heart. The devil gene couldn't even make him do those things.
She tried to distract herself from the horrible memories. But it was tougher than it sounded. Sitting in an empty conference room, being ignored by every living person in the building only made her mind wander. It was excruciating trying to pass the time.
Within the past fifteen minutes, she had been trying to amuse herself by following people with her eyes and trying to guess what they did. She had seen Wallace a number of times already, a maintenance man, and almost every intern or technician on the main floor.
Her eyes now wandered on a bulking security guard who seemed very young. The guard's back was turned to her, but she stared anyways, wondering what the man's name was. As soon as the guard turned, she knew the man's name, and pretty much everything else that could be known about him.
"Jin?" she said.
She smacked herself, thinking that she may have been hallucinating. She looked back at the guard who was now walking away, off the main floor. It was Jin Kazama alright. This was something she had to check out. She left the conference room and walked downstairs, following Jin.
11:45:58- Wallace walks down the stairs from his office onto the main floor of the ATU just in time to see a man in a suit walk through the main doors of the building.
"Oh, no." Wallace mutters.
It was Heihachi's lawyer, and he knew the trouble he was in. He shot and tortured an unarmed suspect while in custody. He'd probably get fired and thrown in jail for it.
"Agent Wallace?" the lawyer said.
"Yes?" Wallace said.
"I'm Kayan Ryoto. I represent Mr. Mishima." He said.
"Yes?" Wallace said.
"I'd like him to be released, now." Kayan said.
"I can't do that." Wallace said.
"Really? I'd like to prove otherwise. You are holding him illegally." Kayan said.
"Illegally? I just got information that there are a million robots in the bottom of his lab that are going to be releasing a virus soon. He is being charged with conspiracy, not to mention murder of a couple police officers. Those are very serious offenses. What makes you think he can be released just like that?" Wallace said.
"A letter from the Emperor himself." Kayan said.
Kayan took a letter out of his jacket pocket and handed it to Wallace.
Sure enough, it was a hand written letter from the Emperor, dated about ten minutes ago. The letter was faxed, but Wallace knew it was genuine. It said in gory political detail about how important Heihachi was to the economy of Japan and what would happen if he wasn't released. Wallace wouldn't even think about not complying at this point; he had to let Heihachi go.
"This way." Wallace said.
Wallace led Kayan to the holding room and opened it. Inside, Heihachi was still sitting at the desk. Wallace gave him an unpleasant glare.
"You can go." Wallace said.
Heihachi smiled, got up from the desk and left the room. He then followed his lawyer out of the building. Wallace punched the wall, furious.
A man in a bomb squad jacket came up from behind Wallace.
"Agent Wallace?" he said.
"What now?" Wallace said.
"We're done with Baek Doo San." He said.
"And?" Wallace said.
"There's nothing we can do. There are too many different triggers and the primary charge is set to go off if any of the other triggers are disconnected. As I said, there's nothing we can do." He said.
"Great." Wallace said as the man walked off.
11:50:48- Hwoarang finally placed his feet on solid ground. It was one hell of a goddamned relief. Nina obviously had no problem with the repelling but he did. He almost got killed yet again. Now he had to get back to the ATU before Drake killed his father.
They were in the back of the building, and it might take a few minutes to get to the front to get to his car.
"Where are you parked?" she asked.
Hwoarang nearly drooled at what he saw parked about 100 feet away.
"What?" she asked, curious to know what caught his attention.
She stared off and then frowned. He was still a kid after all. Hwoarang was busy drooling over a silver Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R motorcycle.
"I'm sick of driving cars." Hwoarang said, sprinting over to the bike.
He straddled the bike and Nina ran over to him.
"We don't have a key." She said. Hwoarang laughed.
"Please! Like that's going to stop me." He said.
Whatever he did, Nina didn't care, just as long as they got the hell out of dodge. Hwoarang successfully hotwired the bike in about two minutes. He revved the engine and then pulled out of the lot at top speed, heading for the ATU.
11:53:24- Jin was a hard man to catch up with, that's for sure. He also liked to hide, Ling realized. She wasn't sure if he knew she was following him.
The one thing she wanted to know was what the hell was doing alive! She thought Jin was shot to death earlier in the day. What was he doing sneaking around in the ATU in a security guard's uniform?
She moved down the stairs into the basement of the ATU. It was quiet down here. The only thing that could be heard was the hum of the supercomputers in one of the rooms. She started going from door to door, checking to see if any of them were open.
About a minute went by with her finding out a lot of the doors were locked and still no sign of Jin. She then came across one door that happened to be unlocked. She went in.
The room was dark. She couldn't see anything. Her hands against the wall, she began feeling for the light switch. She found them next to the door, and flipped them on.
She was inside of a medical center of some sort. The walls were lined with lockers you would find in a morgue. She guessed that inside of them were bodies.
Her eyes ran against the lockers and noticed one that was slightly ajar. She went over to it, and opened it. It was difficult to pull out the metal gurney at first, but with a slight tug, it came out smoothly. She gasped as it finally came out. There was no one on the table, but there was a nasty blood smear on it. The shock of the blood caused her to back up, and right into somebody who was waiting there.
She began to turn around when an arm came around and took her into a choke hold. Looking up wasn't necessary, because she could tell it was Jin. His grip was too strong, and she could pull free. She tried to get some leverage by placing her feet on his legs, but it didn't help. Any time she moved, he only squeezed harder.
She finally blacked out. Jin let go of her and then placed her on the metal gurney. He rolled it back inside the locker and shut the door. He then left the room and shut the lights off.
11:58:38- Drake Matthews was in a parked car somewhere in Tokyo. His looked at his watch. He then took a briefcase from the backseat and opened it. Inside was a laptop computer. He brought up a command prompt and typed.
11:59:03- Adam was still in the lab working on trying to get around the locked command. He was beginning to think that he wouldn't be able to fix it.
He heard a whirring sound coming from the main floor where the Combots where. He stood up and looked out.
The bots themselves had been turned off, their eyes a dark gray, seeing as the lights that represented their eyes weren't on. The only thing was that now they were turning on, one by one.
"What the fuck?" Adam said.
What was going on? This shouldn't be happening. He never turned them on. He was becoming frantic.
He glanced down at the screen in front of him.
[All remaining units now operational.]
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