Chapter 6- Work'n with the Bad Guys

4:30am, Will's apartment…

The phone rang throughout the house waking Will. He turned himself over to look at the clock. "Whoever is calling at this hour is crazy." he mumbled to himself picking up the receiver.

"Hello..." He grumbled. There was no response from the other line"Prank calls at four in the morning, what next" Just as Will put the phone back on the receiver he heard a noise coming from the front of his house. Will grabbed a baseball bat from his closet and slowly made his way toward the front of his house. He stopped outside the doorway that lead into the living room to listen. A few moments later a person silently walked through the doorframe. Will swung the bat, but before it could make contact he recognized the Brownish-Black hair of Anna Espinosa. Will shifted his position in the nick of time and missed Anna's head by only a few inches, but in Will's groggy state he couldn't stop the bat and ended up with a rather large hole in his wall.

Anna followed the bat with her eyes"Pretty good, do you always fight with a baseball bat" Anna said turning to Will"And do you always fight in your boxer shorts." She finished upon looking at what Will was wearing. Will looked down, he hadn't had time to change before his "surprise attack."

"Well…"

"Go get changed, I'll wait in the living room so we can discuss our work."

Only a few moments later did Will arrive back in the living room. "Espinosa what do you want" he asked. "and at 4:00 in the morning." he added.

"More like 4:45am now to be exact." Anna stated crisply. "Now close your yap and let's talk."

"There's nothing to talk about, you're one of those crazy or should I say insanely, no insane isn't quite the word, how about psycho Rambaldi follower's. To get exactly to the point I'm not interested in what you have to say." Will said smartly.

Anna ignored Will's comment"How much do you know about Rambaldi" Anna questioned as she quickly dug through a bag she had brought with her.

"I know if you don't get out of here right now I'm going to crush your head with this bat." Will said angrily. Anna thrust a file into Will's hands.

"Page through it." She said. Will's blue eyes got wide as he paged through the thick mass of papers.

"Syd…" he murmured to himself. "How are you to read this." Will asked confused.

"It's encrypted you dim-wit." Anna replied.

"Well I figured as much. Is it one of Rambaldi's famous prophecy's?"

"No, he just likes to draw pictures." Anna replied sarcastically. Will laughed.

"You're in his fan-club, the one that collects all the Rambaldi masterpieces, and puts them in museums, right? I've seen better." Will joked. He studied Anna for a few moments," I'm in."

"Is that your final answer, because once you're in there is no turning back."

"I'm sure."

"Good. Now I can tell you what you to know. It's a Rambaldi prophecy, obviously, and I'm pretty sure it's about Sydney."

"Ok, I do want to know this, don't get me wrong, but I'm interested in what I'm really supposed to be doing." Will said.

"First off we're finding the Sphere with the coordinates." Anna said.

"If all you're doing is looking for the sphere with coordinates, then why did you hire me?" Will asked.

"I can't really dig up that Sphere by myself now could I? Honestly Tippin be smart." Anna replied rolling her eyes.

"You hired an analyst for work labor?" Anna snorted.

"No! I hired you to find the coordinates."

"I thought you already had them!"

"No, I need you to help me get them." Anna replied.

"You're so confusing."

"I don't have time for this, you're beginning to piss me off." Anna snapped.

"Alright bossy."

"Don't even start." Anna warned.

"Alright, alright." Will said.

"Ok, here is the code we're getting the coordinates from and the computer can come up with the numbers. I need you to figure out what type of coordinates it translates to." Anna said handing him another folder.

"I'm an analyst not a code breaker."

"I don't need a code breaker, and I had a feeling you would be right for this job."

"Alright, let's have a look." Will said opening the file. "This is incredible." They sat in silence as Will examined the code. "Have you checked to see if it's longitude and latitude."

"It's not. That's why I need your help."

Will nodded. "This symbol, this eye shape is just he mark of Rambaldi, right?"

"That is correct."

Will examined the document further," How much time do I have?"

"We have about 5 hours tops. We have no real deadline, we just have to get the Sphere before the Covenant does."

"We?" Will asked.

"Yes we, two minds are better than one." Anna replied.

"How come the handwriting is different in this document, compared to the others." Will asked.

"He put the information in a young woman who he called the passenger. And with a certain serum she would write out this equation. The women's name is Nadia Santos she wrote most of this quite recently."

"Rambaldi stored information in the mind of someone who wasn't even born yet?"

"Exactly. The man was a genius."

Two hours later the equation was laid out on the coffee table with both Anna and Will crouching in front of it. With a laptop open on the couch ready to translate the symbols to numbers, something went wrong. "This handwriting is perfect. The repeated symbols are constantly the same, no random bumps or anything. Even the circle is perfect. Except for this phrase here."Will said pointing"Whoever this Nadia person is, she altered the equation."

"So we're at a dead end, great." Anna sighed.

"Maybe she didn't want a certain someone to find out what the phrase means." Will said.

"Well I want to know." Anna said.

"Well what do you want me to do, track this Nadia girl down and threaten her until she gives me the right pass phrase!" Will exclaimed.

"If that's what you have to do, then I suggest you do it fast." Anna replied. Will looked for any signs of a joke. There were none.