Okay, I think the chapters from here on out are going to be in third-person view because it's a lot of switching locations and characters. Besides, it's easier to write in third-person.
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Margret was cold, dirty and very hungry but she refused to crack. She refused to give in to Fred and Van Hellscream. She was loyal to the resistance through and through and that wasn't going to change just because they offered her better food in exchange for Intel. No, Margret knew what they did not. She knew that Christina's team had already hacked the system. She knew this because Kenny ad told her so. Recently he had taken on guard duty just to keep an eye on her and the other inmates. He brought her food and water as well as updates from the team and messages from Duncan. So, she remained strong despite the hunters best efforts to break her.
They would win.
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Meanwhile, back at the resistance: DJ, Robecca, Frankie, and Ghoulia had tried everything, but can't seem to crack the passcode to Van Hellscream's data. Shaggy and Operetta brought them some lunch just cyborg DJ grunted in frustration, ready to slam his head down on his keyboard. He had NEVER before encountered an encryption that he couldn't hack within minutes or hours at most, and they'd all been at this for a week! Robecca tried to console and encourage her boyfriend, without much success. It was clear that they were all tired and worn out and desperate. Very desperate.
"Ugh! If only we'd been able to find Elle Eedee and bring her in on this!", DJ griped, referring Robecca's newer, electronic robotic counterpart. She was the only other hacker that was as good and powerful as DJ; like him, being able to access most computers just by touching them. However, no one had had any contact with her for over a year. It was as if she'd just disappeared. Operetta looked at the various screens as she and Shaggy set the trays of food on a nearby table. Her eyes widened with a gasp.
"Ah think she IS in on this, Sugah!", she gasped as she came up behind DJ and Robecca to point at the strange pattern in the passcode window. "Ya see that? That there's a MUSICAL melody! Just a couple cords, but that's what it is alright!"
All four hackers face-palmed themselves for not seeing it sooner themselves. Who would've DREAMED that Van Hellscream would be that clever?!
"So the encryption is musical!", DJ realized. "Only Elle has ever used that for her systems and networks! We have to enter the correct code AND sounds! Which are also the cipher for all the data!"
"Like, I'll go get Christina and her keyboard!", Shaggy said, running out with Scooby.
Shaggy had discovered Christina's keyboard only a few days earlier when he walked in on her playing. He hadn't even known she could play. Christina had been all-too-happy to tell him about the grand piano her uncle owned. Dracula's castle was cloaked from hunters just as the resistance base was. Shaggy laughed. So, that was why they could never pinpoint exactly where the elusive Count Dracula was hidden.
They returned with Christina, plug in the synthesizer, and Operetta played the cord melody. Upon hearing it, she, Frankie and Ghoulia all gasped in surprise.
What's wrong?", Christina asked. "It's a beautiful melody."
"That's Astranova's key-melody!", Frankie said.
"Didn't she disappear about the same time as Elle?", Operetta asked worriedly.
"Then that means...", Robecca started.
"Van Hellscream has had both of them since almost the beginning of his reign of terror!", DJ growled. "No wonder his computer systems and weapons have been so powerful! He's been using a combination of the most advanced Earth AND Alien tech on the planet!"
"It's worse", Frankie said after a closer look at some of the code as the decryption was running. "If I'm reading this right, Van Hellscream is actually using Elle herself as the core to his entire computer network!"
"That heartless jerk!", Duncan snarled he arrived with Clawdeen.
"But fiendishly brilliant of him", Robecca said, as appalled as the rest of them. "Elle's positronic brain and AI are the most advanced on the planet; aside from me, of course. Technically, I'm only more advanced because I'm truly alive, thanks to the magic and alchemy my dad used in my creation. It was HER knowledge that enabled him and his forces to hit the monster community as a whole so quickly! I shudder to think what might have happened to me, and the rest of you, if he'd been able to do the same to me!"
"Given the familiar codes she used, I think Elle was counting on us eventually gaining access", Frankie said. "It was probably the ONLY way she could call for help!"
"I agree", DJ said confidently.
"Then it's even more imperative that this data gets decrypted", Christina said. "Now that you're in and running the code, how long will it take, guys?"
DJ, Robecca, Frankie, and Ghoulia took a closer look and conferred briefly.
"Five days", DJ told their leader. "Three, if during our waking hours Robecca and I both give the systems here access to the processing power of our brains."
"Then start helping them think, guys!", Christina grinned. They were so close now!
"Shaggy, Scooby, Duncan, and Clawdeen? Gather everyone else in the dining hall! We can start making plans. Once we have all the information and the incriminating evidence from the computer files, we can move on Van Hellscream, end his reign of terror, and monsterkind will be free to live openly and peacefully with normies again!"
"Yes, Ma'am," the four shouted before rushing off to go do what was asked.
Your time is up Van Hellscream! Christina thought triumphantly
