Neutralizing Assist and Recovery Knight 7: I don't own Frozen or any Characters.
Rating: T
Pairing: Elsanna
Words: 1,809
Characters: Anna, Elsa, Arendelle.
Summary: While Elsa is looking for her next target we meet that very target. Let's see what the target has been up to and do they know what's coming for them.
A flashing red light roused Anna from her sleep. She made sure that the flashing would be bright enough that no matter what she would see it. She grabbed her holo device and turned down the brightness all the way before waking it up. The holo jumped to life and it was still so bright she had to squint for a minute to have her eyes readjust.
When she was finally able to focus the alarm HQ had activated its intruder protocol. As she was laying there the computers were deleting all files and after that the hard drives would spin up until they melted themselves. It meant that there was a clear threat.
Anna got up and moved towards the door, but stopped short as she felt the air move across her bare breasts. Normally she slept in pajamas because she was always self-conscious, but on this planet she had no choice in the matter. Sleep mostly naked or cook, because this planet was hotter than most by fifteen degree's and this building only had Air conditioning during the day. So she went back and grabbed her bathrobe before heading out into the hall to go to the computer room.
As soon as she was out in the hall the two night guards looked at her "What are you doing awake at two in the morning Miss Anna?"
"Intruder alert at HQ," Anna said sleepily as she walked across the hallway.
"Probably another false alarm," James one of the guards called out.
"Hopefully," Anna replied, but wasn't as sure as she had set up a three hour delay on the system. If the alarm was triggered it would wait for three hours before deleting everything and notifying her. Of course the system could manually be deleted in that three hours by user override. Now that she was thinking about it she should have put in place something that if that happened she would have been notified. It probably was nothing though like many times before.
She sat down and attempted to log into the system remotely. Unfortunately she couldn't even find the system, nor the backup system or even the bios. Which she should have been able to access the bios at least, but still had nothing. She checked her local network and saw everything was functioning. So she checked the connection to Miranda's planet wide uplink and saw that was functioning. Which meant that the lines to the compound where cut in some way or something else happened. She turned on the Miranda news stations and saw the news.
She couldn't stop her mouth opening in shock as the Miranda news stations were showing a huge hole in the ground where the upstart revolutionists called The Children of Aria once was located. She stumbled out into the hallway "Miss Anna," the guards started, but when they saw her "what's wrong?"
She opened her mouth several times before she was able to say "HQ has been completely wiped off Miranda. There is nothing left, but a smoking hole in the ground."
"Go wake up David," James said, loudly as he came over. "Do you know what happened?" She just shook her head no.
Then suddenly David and all the other men from the men's dorm came moving out. They were all in their underwear just like she was, but at least she had a bath robe on. "What do you mean it was wiped off Miranda?" David asked in a very serious voice. Anna held up her holo device and showed the pictures from the news article. Everyone stood silently as the reported repeated what she had listened too. "How is this possible? You said we left not a single trace," someone asked.
"The only thing I couldn't stop was the first picture from the security camera and that didn't show anything other than me opening a laptop for like less than a minute. There was nothing for them to go on," Anna explained.
"Could the servers have done that damage on their own when they melted down," David asked calmly.
"No. They don't even draw enough power to knock down the building let alone leave a smoking crater," she explained.
"Then we have to assume ordinance was used either from the air or with in. Was the security data backed up off sight at all?" he asked calmly again.
"Some might have been uploaded to us if the manual server wipe happened. All information that was new since the last upload was supposed to be transferred," Anna said realizing that they had a clue to go on at least. So she moved back into the computer room and was quickly followed by everyone.
"Everyone go back to bed. There is nothing you all can do now. James pick two additional people to be on guard starting tomorrow night," David was the leader for a reason and no one hesitated when he gave out orders. Everyone left them alone when David turned and said "Now Anna go slow and let's make sure this wasn't just some horrible accident."
Anna began looking through the new files sent from the HQ servers and found security data. There were video feeds from the external camera's and the internal ones. "Here we go," Anna said as they watched everything in reverse. The data was from several hours ago and they saw in the main meeting hall a figure sitting behind an overturned desk. The figure was in a dark military looking suit and a helmet on.
"It's a HAVOC suit. That person dropped from high altitude which means military training," David announced. "Play more." Anna played the rest in slight fast reverse as they watched two of their comrades gunned down in cold blood. Lauren was even shot in the back. The person then walked backward out of the room. They then saw Ortiz and Lauren were arguing about something and the dark figure move through the hallway. "The men's dorm," showed the figure move silently and slit the throats and then move to clear the female dorm.
It was a terrible thing to watch even fast and in reverse. Her comrades killed effortlessly. Then outside they watched as the figure take off into the sky. Just like David said the attacker dropped from the sky. Anna couldn't figure out which was more disconcerting watching people killed or just watching them fall dead as if nothing happened. "Why isn't there more?" David asked.
"They probably activated the EMP. It would knock out the cameras," Anna explained the failsafe that David had wanted installed. "Ok so there was an actual military trained intruder now what?" she asked as she looked over the data that was transferred.
"Is there any way to know for sure that the file deletion was completed?" David asked.
She looked over the data and saw the transfer was completed, but at that time the deletion process was only at ninety-five percent completed. "95% deleted when the upload finished and even then if they stopped the process most of the hard drives would have been melted by then too," she explained.
"What 5% would have been left? Anything to give our location?" he asked, but she had the answer already.
"That was all deleted in the first 5% the only things that would have been left was miscellaneous data," she wish she could have seen if all the data was deleted or even what was left. The only problem was that she made sure the most vital stuff was deleted first and left like 50% to be deleted in whatever order the computer came to it. So there was no way to really tell what wasn't deleted at 95%, but she wasn't going to tell David that because he finally trusted her.
"We will still keep a few extra guards on duty and tell our friends about this. Just in case. Go try and get some more rest if you can. The problem will be here in the morning," he said before heading over to the station she set up to be his personal station. She couldn't help looking at the wall that held a safe, that held the most dangerous device man has ever created.
Anna couldn't sleep at all the rest of the night, but then about midday she could hardly keep her eyes one. After a quick nap she was able to power through the rest of the day, but she was still exhausted by the time nightfall came again. She barely remembered her head hitting the pillow before she was out. Then in pitch black of night again the red light flashed and woke her up again, but this one flashed red then yellow. It indicated her personal files were being accessed. Which meant someone was looking for her.
Afraid something like this would happen she brought a portable connection into her room before she went to bed. She pulled it over and activated all her security protocols before delving into Alliance databases. Her tracks would be erased shortly after she moved into different area's she went into her file and saw that someone removed the protocol that deleted her movements. That meant if she were to go through security at the space port it would be logged again.
She quickly installed another to remove that information again. Then she looked for who had removed the original. Whoever it was they had removed all traces of their presence from her file as well. She quickly went deeper into the code to see if the IP addresses were still there and even those were gone. "You are really good figure in black," she said out loud.
The question was though were they so good that they found that she had a tracer program set up that tagged anyone that entered her file? It wouldn't activate until she activated it. If the person was really good once she activated it they would detect it and remove the file immediately, but it would give her a bread crumb to work with. That is all she needed most of the time.
Anna places several tracking protocols ready and waiting to get whatever they can before the file is deleted. She then activated the tracer and saw it was to a computer on a ship. Whoever it was almost instantaneously deleted the file, but she got the ship router IP out of it.
So she started to work her magic on the IP, but found that her tracer software was being corrupted. It was almost like, "Someone is using my tracker to back track me," she said out loud as she quickly cut off all access to those programs. Whoever was tracking her was good, but not good enough. The only question in Anna's mind was did they get anything useful?
I will post a new chapter every Tuesday, Thursday and am adding Saturday until the end of the story. Please review and leave comments. Constructive or deconstructive any feedback is welcome.
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