Una.exe – Vengeance
Chapter 5 – The Vault
The five navis moved through SciLab, although the four human ops were near retiring they operated as well as they did nearly 20 years ago. Sarah looked around, their clearances had granted them access but they had Sarah's Dad keeping an eye on them.
"You know where you're going Sarah?" asked Dr. Hikari.
"Sure," said Sarah, "No problem."
"It wouldn't be if the security systems would allow themselves to be shut down," said Dr. Hikari, "They won't accept my clearance codes."
"What did I tell you about giving programs personalities Dad?" said Sarah.
"NetNavis with emotions are bad enough," said Dr. Hikari, "But giving a program a personality is asking for trouble."
"So what are we dealing with?" said SharkMan.
"Class 5 security programs," said Sarah calmly.
"Class 5!" said Punk, "How are we meant to destroy a Class 5?"
"Who mentioned the word destroy?" said Sarah grinning as the first program came into view.
"Halt," said the program, "Please state name and clearance code."
"Sarah Hikari," said Sarah, "Clearance code 657389873 Alpha."
"Clearance code invalid," stated the program.
"Me and my friends were wondering if we could go back into our spaces in the vault now," said Sarah.
"That is incorrect," said the program, "No navi has left the vault."
"Can you go and check?" said Sarah.
"I am programmed to guard this spot," said the program, "I cannot let you past."
"But if we say we belong in the vault and you can't check then how do you know that we don't?" said Sarah.
The program looked confused.
"Therefore if I can't go back into the vault then you would be responsible for my escape because I couldn't go back into the vault because you won't let me," said Sarah.
Now the program look really confused.
"Therefore it is likely that..." said Sarah before noticing that the program had got itself stuck along this line of thinking. She signalled to the others and they walked past the security program.
"What happened there?" said SkullMan.
"It got stuck in a loop of thinking," said Sarah, "Mainly along the line of if they escaped and I didn't let them back in would I be responsible for their escape because they couldn't get back to their spots in the vault then I would be...
"You get the idea anyway. My statements were logically correct but the reasoning behind them was false so I managed to lie whilst being completely logical, and the program managed to get stuck in a logic loop."
"Keep up the good work Sarah," said Dr. Hikari, "I didn't think you could confuse them like that."
"I used to practice on the programs at school and college," said Sarah.
"You mean you were the one who managed to bring the entire network to a halt at DenTech College," said Mr. Famous.
"And you checked every kid on campus but me," said Sarah, "I was just trying to confuse the printer management program in my pc and it ended up drawing on processing power to solve the problem from the entire campus without me knowing."
"What were you confusing it with?" said Punk.
"If it couldn't check if paper was in the printer how did it know that its paper check program wasn't buggy if the system check program wasn't working," said Sarah.
"Remind me on never to enter a riddle contest against you Sarah," said Dr. Hikari, "Can you disable the rest in the same way?"
"No need," said Sarah, "Alls I say is that if the last program let me past then I must have an accepted clearance code and therefore they would be going against their programming by not letting me past even if they determine my clearance code as invalid. What I want to know is who reprogrammed these programs?"
Sarah disabled the rest of the security programs and they accessed the first level of the vault. Sarah waved her hand in the air and a 3D map of the area came up.
"There should be 33 navis here," said Sarah, "How many are there?"
SharkMan did a quick count and reported that there were 33 navis. They moved into the second vault quickly.
"63," said Sarah looking around. SharkMan did another head count.
"46," said SharkMan. Sarah made a mental list of the missing 17 navis. They all moved into the third vault.
"Empty," said WoodMan unnecessarily.
"There should be two navis and two programs here," said Sarah, "Bass, ScylerV1.0, Alpha and Gospel!"
They quickly logged out and Sarah wrote down the list of missing navis and handed it to Dr. Hikari.
"Can you get me the disks with these navis on them Dad?" she asked, "I want to know what we may be up against."
Dr. Hikari walked over to a safe at the other side of the room. Inserting a data disk he inserted a code and downloaded the navis Sarah had asked for onto a disk.
"Can I use your pc at home Dad?" said Sarah, "I'd use mine but yours is better for this sort of stuff."
Dr. Hikari nodded and Sarah and the officials left SciLab and went their separate ways.
(A/N: I know this fic is supposed to be focusing on Hub and Una but this is an important part to the story. I will be returning to Hub and Una next chapter.)