Chapter seven:
Matt is walking around during class time. He is skipping and though he knows that he shouldn't as he could get in trouble he honestly doesn't care. He is in third place in the rankings after all so it's not like it's going to be a huge loss to him to miss a few classes. He is looking around himself while quietly thinking. 'What could it mean?' His thoughts almost feel like they are echoing in his head. 'It has to mean something important right…? But I just don't understand what it could be.' His thoughts come to a stop as he sighs to himself. "Only one way to find out." He heads off towards his room for now.
Later...
A figure opens a door peeking inside only to slightly glance side to side. Said figure steps into the room upon seeing anyone. "I'm in." The figure keeps a quiet tone trying to be sneaky. "I'll open the door."
"Okay." A voice on the other side of the line as the owner of the voice has the other earpiece to talk to the figure in the room. "I hear you loud and clear. Both cameras are working as I can see both. Go ahead and head on further inside. I am detecting no heat signatures so far."
"Rodger that." The figure responds and uses the pattern to open the door before heading on through it. The figure cautiously makes it down the stairs but moves quickly knowing that they need to make good time on this. The figure makes it to the bottom but has to jump down landing with a roll into darkness upon spotting two people.
"Do we need to test it out before the day comes?" One of the two in that are in the room question the other one in the room along with him.
"It should be good. And testing it now may be a bit of a dangerous idea. Especially if something goes wrong. One of the kids will just go missing." The other in the room respond ducking his head a little as if scared of getting yelled at for speaking up.
"That is true." The one reaches towards the machine gently touching a part with no buttons or levers. "Then we shall just do it when the correct time comes."
"Yes sir." The other in the room sounds very relieved to hear that he is not in trouble at all.
The one in the room along with him is about to speak when they pause at a small sound. "I think I heard something."
Both of the two turn around glancing around to try to locate where the source of the slight scratching noise had been.
The figure hidden in darkness slightly ducks his head hoping that he won't be noticed. He slightly glances
"I found the source of that sound. There's a rat to your left. I'm picking up on its heat signature. Try scaring it into the room before they find you." The voice on the other side of the earpiece tells the one hidden in the darkness.
The figure in the darkness moves a little waving a hand out to try to scare the small creature. The figure notices that it works as said rat runs off into the light to be seen with a squeak.
"Humph." The one in the room that seems to be the boss of the group. "Stupid rats." He pulls out a pistol with a silencer on it and shoots at the rat killing it rather quickly. "That was a mild inconvenience. We probably should make sure that none will be getting to the machine though. We need to ensure that they won't be messing up our machine." He lowers the gun down to hang in his hand at his side. "Don't want them to chew anything after all."
"Yes of course I can get traps to trap them." The other in the room offers to his boss. "I can get it done right away."
"I'll send you to do so in a moment." The boss responds to this turning away to look back to the machine. "I wanna check something over before we move around to try to shoot any rats currently left alive in here. Just to be sure that the ones already out and about will not be chewing anything."
"Ah yes of course we can do that." The other in the room nods in agreement to this and the two of them turn to the machine once more.
Though the two of them are slightly glancing around listening for any more sounds every now and again. They really don't want any more rats to come around or surprise them.
"Things aren't looking good." The voice on the other side of the earpiece speaks having been watching everything from the laptop screen. "If they really are going to move around ready to shoot what they find then we need to get you out of there. Damn it. I can't lose you. Let's look for an opening to get you out of there. Stay close to the stairs so you're ready to bolt the first chance you get. If only that stupid rat hadn't been there then we would have been fine."
The figure in the darkness nods softly and moves to be as close to the stairs as possible. The figure carefully watches the other two in the room mostly out of the corner of his eye to not get caught.
"Does it have enough power to be able to run?" The boss questions the other who is standing next to him.
"Yes. It has plenty of power. It is hooked up to the main power so we have no reason to even worry about it not having enough power. That is unless the main building doesn't have power."
"Good. Then let us hunt some rats."
The figure hidden within the darkness tenses waiting to see if where they are going to start over here or starting at another side. To the figures relief they move around to the opposite side to begin searching.
They are using little flashlights to search the darker areas.
The figure hidden in the darkness takes this moment to dash for the stairs hurrying up them.
"Run Near!" The voice on the other side of the earpiece slightly commands in concern.
"Wrong name." The figure, Near, responds to the other as he hurries along up the stairs. He makes it out and is quick to do the pattern before leaving that area behind. He slows to a casual walk when away from that room and he walks to get to where the other is waiting for him. He keeps going completely walking past a few of the other orphans making it closer and closer to the area where the other is.
"Oh no."
Near's eyes slightly flicker around upon hearing something concerning over the earpiece. "What happened?" He asks softly trying to make sure that no one else even hears him.
"I was just informed of a hack having been detected in our communication. It looks to have only gotten audio but that's not good at all for us."
Near clenches his teeth upon hearing this. "I'm almost to you."
"We're tracking where the hacking signal had come from." The one on the other side of the line reports to Near. "It might be done by the time you get here. If it is outside of this place I'm sure someone else from the group can go ahead to deal with them before anything bad happens. If it's in here then we can deal with it ourselves."
"Okay, see you soon." Near continues going on his way.
Elsewhere…
A button is pushed with a rewind sound before it is released causing an audio piece or play.
"Run Near!"
"Wrong name."
The tape is rewound once more only to play that same part over again.
The one who is listening has a rather serious look including lips placed in a flat looking line and eyes slightly narrowed.
