Author's Note:Okay people! Here's the first meeting of Infection! I'll try to make a s interesting as possible, fortunately, I am fond of the story line. Oh, and Dantheman7777? Just think of that as alternate reality that happens after they return to the past. It'll work. Here we go, and on with the show!

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Emerging from the taxi, Zack and Jason looked at the complex before them. It was the exact setting that you'd see in a movie. A bunch of small, fat buildings crammed together. The entrance sign that stood above the open gate simply said East Side Docks.

Zack shrugged. "Well, which one's 86?"

Jason motion to the map tacked hastily to a small office trailer. "How 'bout we use the map?"

He held out a hand to stop Zack. "What say we make it interesting? Who ever finds the location of the warehouse first, wins. And loser, uh, imports two cases of IBC Root Beer."

Zack agreed. "You're on. Ready? Set? GO!"

For over a minute the pair carefully scanned the map's assortment of rectangles and squares in silence until… "HA! Found it!"

Zack looked at Jason with disbelief. "Yeah?" He challenged, "Where?"

He pointed to a point of the map right at the edge of Dock #23. "There!"

Zack looked at it for the longest time. Then he slowly turned his head to look at Jason. "Damn you." He said half amused.

Jason could only smile triumphantly.

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"Hello. You must be Zack and Jason. Come in, you're a tad early."

Upon reaching Warehouse 86, they didn't even need to open the double doors. They looked in silence at the girl walking up to them.

She was tall, and thin with a slight build to her. She had long dark blonde hair to her neck and her face seemed to hide a boyish charm underneath her blue eyes.

Zack and Jason made no move to enter or follow the girl.

"Well?" She said, "Don't be shy. I don't bite."

"How…?" began Jason.

"Who…?" began Zack. But they never got a chance to finish their questions.

"My name is Stephanie. I work directly with Master and I alone know what he looks like. As for how I knew you where you were and your names, I'm not a hacker for nothing and the door has a camera above it." She pointed to a not-so-discreet camera directly above the door. She turned and headed into the warehouse.

They shrugged and follower her. "You are the last to arrive. It is amazing, really. I didn't expect all of you to show!"

As they entered the warehouse they noticed that it was large. It was two-story warehouse with an elevator and stairway leading to an office and catwalk. On the ground floor there was a number of round tables with four odd little box on them. Hanging on the wall, sides by side, farthest from the entrance were 2 very large flat-screen plasma TVs as well as the elevator up to the office. On the left of the entrance was an economy-style kitchen complete with toaster oven and microwave, as well as a refrigerator. To the right, there were a lot of chairs to sit on.

But one thing that stood out among all of that was the number of people that were there. Master had indeed attracted a lot of attention.

"Wow. There must be at least 50 well known hackers here!" Jason said. Stephanie acted like she didn't hear it.

"Do you see those tables?" She pointed to one. "Those tables are state-of-the-art data hubs. You can plug into Master's server and also recharge your battery from it." She turned to them and smiled. "I can see you've noticed that the people here are the who's who of hackers in the world. Your very lucky to be here." With that, she picked her laptop up from a near by data hub and walked toward the TVs. Upon reaching the elevator, she turned and called for attention.

"Excuse me. Thank you for coming. You all are actually very early. The meeting isn't supposed to start for 10 minutes. My name is Stephanie and I am the personal assistant to Master. Please, feel free to wander around the warehouse but do not enter the office," She pointed up to the office, "You may not enter it unless you ask or a asked to. I shall go inform Master of your eagerness." With that, she went up into the office via the elevator.

Jason looked around and noticed the pair from the airplane. As Jason looked, they made eye contact with him. After as second, the got up from their seats and walked to him. Jason flinched. "Shit. Ah, hello. You were on the plane, right?"

They spoke in the same tone of voice. "Yes." Said the male.

"Yes, we were." Said the female.

"Ah…. I…. I see. Well, ah, my name is, ah, uh, Jason. Pleased to meet you….two…" He held his hand out. They just stared at him. He withdrew his hand.

"Hm. Very well. My name is Sam Johnson." Said the male.

"And my name is Kristin Johnson. We are twins."

Jason had to stifle a laugh. "R-really? I'd have never guessed."

They glared at him. "We bet. You are the one who manages to make your enemies interests to the FBI."

He nodded triumphantly. "That, and other things as well. The only way you'd know that is if you hacked the FBI mainframe. I guess you two are the ones who hold the record at 18 minutes."

"You know your stuff. We are indeed. Isn't that right, sister?

"Yes. It is, and it is a great honor to have that record."

Suddenly, a voice spoke from the PA system and the TVs flickered to life. The first thing the showed on both was a capitol I inside of a circle. "Good evening."

The screen on the left switched to a male silhouette against dark blue background. "You all are very early. Very early indeed. I like that. Shows your eager to know what I want."

A large man in the back rolled his eyes and called out to the screen, "Yeah, yeah! Cut the crap, pal, you Master?"

The silhouette laughed. "Ha, ha. Indeed I am. And you must be John Cat. You currently have $82 million in a Swiss bank account registered to Cohn Jat. Right?"

The man named John Cat stood motionless and in awe. "Bu…bu…"

"I did my homework bud. Now then. Before we start I must ask a simple question. If you are a person who opposes or dislikes illegal activities and/or doing illegal activities then I must ask you to leave now."

No body budged.

"Excellent. Now, I have all brought you together because you and I share a simple interest. We love to hack. We treat it like a passion and, as a result, have become masters at it.

"Look around you. You are the top people in our noble passion. You can single-handedly take down the defenses at every military installation and bomb whomever we please. Or we can just shut em' down for good. All of us together can control the world. And that is what I am proposing."

Zack spoke up. "What are we gonna be like? A Mafia?"

"Yes."

"Oh."

Master continued. "We will indeed be a Mafia, however, with a few exceptions. Everything we do will be in the realm of the computer. We will NOT kill! We will only incapacitate when needed. We will go about our regular lives and only hack when I say so, or you have a good reason to."

A young girl broke into Master's speech. "Just the fifty of us? Should you have recruited more?"

"Yes. Yes, I have. You are only a mere 10. I have more agents all around the world! So, what do you say? Will you join my elite society? Will you be a part of… Infection?"

Everyone called out in unison, "YES!"

The silhouette reached off screen and produced a glass. "Good. Join me, please, in a toast."

Everyone got a glass from the kitchenette and raised it to a silent toast.

"Good. Now then, to business."

Jason and Zack looked at each other, raised their glasses and shouted together, "TO BUISNESS!"

Everyone looked at them in a bewildered look. "Uh? We already MADE the toast. Anyway, first things first. In order to control the world, we need our foot in the door. What I want all of you to do is to hack everything you can! Governments, companies, civilians! Upload everything to my server. Don't worry I have more than enough room. One more thing, you will never see me unless it is absolutely necessary. And just to quash the rumor ahead of time, I'm not in the office. If you have to speak to me, or I need to speak to you, my assistant Stephanie will tell you. Got it? Good, meeting adjourned." With that, the two screens flipped back to the I inside the circle.

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Jason made his way to Stephanie. "Uh, hey?" He said.

She looked at him sweetly. "Yes?"

"I have a problem. If I am to stay here, I need a job. D'you he can help me?"

She smiled. "I sure he can. I'll have him contact you if he can."

"Thanks."

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Author's Note:Alright! Enjoy. Stay tuned, next chapter to be soon! See ya!