Part Two: The Flower
Firewalls


"Rinoa, could you please pull up the beta files for me?"
"Sure thing." Rinoa pulled up the files on her new computer on her desk.
"There you go." She smiled and sent them over to her supervisor's computer and continued her work.
It had been three days since Rinoa had gone undercover in Trabia Garden. She needed to get some inside connections in order to do any damage. Trabia was state of the art, and there's no way she could hack into it herself through outside means. That's when she decided to apply for a job. At first, the people were suspicious of new applicants. But Rinoa just showed them her skills at hacking and they were impressed. They hired her and she has been slowly prying information out of them through her workstation.
"Hey, Rinoa, I'm gonna go out for lunch, you wanna come with?" Her supervisor, Mark, a young man that looked like he was still getting into the business, asked her.
"No thanks, I brought my lunch." Rinoa smiled at him.
"Okay, see ya later." He waved to her and left the office.
Rinoa smirked a little and jacked in her laptop to their system. She finally decided it was time to sabotage them. She pulled up her programs and began using the access codes that she had been given for her new job. It was too easy for her to hack into their main system. She giggled a little bit as she began to delete a few files here and there. It didn't do a whole lot, but she just wanted to have some fun. What she was really looking for was the DAISY program. That was her main target.
She looked everywhere she could, but the program couldn't be found. She figured it was here, but that she just couldn't get to it. She was looking around until she finally found a suspicious file. She smiled as she clicked onto it. It asked her for her password, but Rinoa didn't know one to this file. She tried a few of her other ones to try and get in, but it just flashed "access denied." Rinoa became frustrated, but she wouldn't give up. She thought of Selphie for a moment. She knew that she had created the program and was probably the only one who was allowed to access it. After a few seconds she decided to try again. This time she tried a new password. "Irvine." Access was granted and Rinoa clapped her hands. She had finally accessed the DAISY program.
She let the program load, but a suspicious window popped up. It told her to insert the secondary password in ten seconds. Her heart began to race. She didn't know a secondary password to use. The clock slowly counted down as she tried to think of another password. She tried "SeeD" but as soon as she did, her screen began to flash red and in an instance, her computer was froze. She was really pissed now. That clever Selphie had installed a few firewalls to block anyone out. She must've really loved this program. Rinoa snorted in anger as she tried to think of the passwords. But she figured they weren't just personal questions. They were probably letter and number slurs to make sure no one knew what they were.
Rinoa did think the firewalls were pretty standard though. She just needed something to get through them. All she needed to do was to find a backdoor into the program. However, her computer was frozen and there was no way she figured any of the other computers in the office had the capacity to hack into these files. Except one. Mark's was probably strong enough to hack into these files. All she had to do was get on it and hack herself right into the DAISY program.
She got up from her desk and checked around the room. Today was pretty empty and no one else was at their stations. Since Mark was out to lunch, Rinoa had a perfect opportunity to use his computer. She headed over into his office, which he just stupidly left unlocked, and sat down at his computer. She was right; his computer was much better than hers was. She began to do her work of hacking back into the DAISY program. But this time she chose not to just go in the front door. She began her work of finding the back way into the program. It wasn't easy because Selphie was a pro at this. But once she found herself in, she just let Mark's computer do most of it. It had pretty good programs to make work much easier for him.
She leaned back in the chair as everything was processing. But she quickly snapped out of it when she heard the door open. Mark had come back early and Rinoa was in trouble. If she was caught, she would never get another chance at this. She desperately needed to destroy the DAISY program and get Selphie where it hurt. She quickly switched the monitor off and jumped up from the desk. She could always kill Mark and continue, but he was innocent and he was a pretty nice guy. So she had to resort to other means.
Mark was whistling a tune with a sack in his hand. He fumbled into the office and saw Rinoa standing there. He didn't know what to comprehend from this. He never checked to see if she was still working. Rinoa was a really nice girl, not to mention very pretty. When he learned she was to work with him, he was excited. He desperately wanted to ask her out. He finally got the courage to ask her out to lunch, but she had refused. He figured she would because she was a really hard worker. But his heart leapt when he saw her standing in his office. The thought that maybe she had the same feelings for him as well, was unbelievable. He dropped his sack and just froze in place.
Rinoa smiled. She had this one wrapped around her finger. She knew about Mark's crush on her and used it to her advantage. She walked over to him in her heels. Her uniform, a gray skirt with two solid purple stripes going down them, trudged along with her. She put her hand on his shoulder.
"What are you doing in my office?" He sounded almost playful when he said that.
"Waiting for you." Rinoa pressed herself against him.
"Rinoa...are you saying..."
"Yes." Rinoa went in and kissed him. He immediately wrapped his arms around her waist and began to slowly slip his tongue in.
Rinoa couldn't help but think that this guy wasn't that bad. If things were more normal, she would probably go out with him, but she had other objectives. She let him do whatever he wanted to her. He began to slide his hands up and down her body. It was apparent that this guy hadn't had any action for a while. She felt it was time to make her move. She put her hand on the back of his neck. She took her middle finger and thumb to two places that she knew were instant pressure points. She moved carefully found the right spot. Finally, she grabbed them fiercely and watched as he began to limp into her arms. She caught him and gently put him on the ground. Now she could get back to business.
She turned the monitor back on and saw that the program was open to her. She didn't need anything else and could finally get into DAISY. But once she clicked on it, a message popped up. It said, "It won't be that easy, Rinoa." The screen began to flash like crazy in a blinding light. Rinoa heard something above her as she saw a little helmet fly onto her head. She screamed, but she was already inside.

A/N: The suspense...well it's good for all of you. Will Rinoa be able to survive this new virtual reality world? Will she find Selphie and finish the job? Find out in the next exciting chapter of Kill Squall. MUWAHAHAHAHAHA