When she walked, she swayed. Hair bouncing at the movement. Jack couldn't help watching her from behind as they moved through the Hyperion halls. He moved at a slow pace, getting use to his newfound legs. He scanned objects as he passed them, His ECHOeye updating him nearly in seconds. It was a new feat for Hyperion he admitted to himself. It was awesome those dumb-dumbs actually did something cool.
"So what exactly do you do here on the base?" Jack asked as he moved to walk beside Raven.
"I manage the Tech department here on Elpis. Occasionally the weapon upgrades due to the fact its manager is an idiot." Raven answered.
"Oh?"
"Oh is right. The man is useless. I've been trying to take over the position for…3 years now? About that. But the current CEO of Hyperion just gives the man what he wants because his dick is bigger."
Jack laughed. "Is that the position you want?" Raven glanced at him. "As much as I would love to have it, The Tech department would fall in quality….Dramatically."
"Sooo…Do both." Raven laughed this time.
"I would have to manage all three departments as a supervisor if I wanted to do both jobs. There isn't an in between."
"Soooo become a supervisor. You're more than qualified for that position."
Raven raised a brow. "What about the current supervisor?"
"I dunno! Shoot him, strap him to a rocket and let him die in space, Pumble him into the ground! I don't care how you do it, just take the damn position." Raven smiled holding her keycard up to the scanner to open the door. As Jack entered the room he smiled. It was a complete replica of his office from Helios. Though…Someone was sitting in his chair. Jack watched a scowl grow on Raven's face as she made her way up to the person. A sleeping person. Jack followed quickly grabbing her arm to stop her from waking the man up. He pressed a finger to his lips and made a wicked grin as he pulled her behind the man out of view. Jack hopped on his desk slowly and knelt before the sleeping man. Jack cleared his throat, then stared at the sleeping man for a long moment. Jack, being the complete ass that he is, reached a hand back, and slammed it across the man's face jolting him awake from his slumber.
"Man that looked like some nightmare." Jack toyed, shaking his head. "I'm having a nightmare too. I'm having a nightmare that some prick is sitting in MY CHAIR!" The man before Jack bolted from the chair, with his hands up.
"N-no way your H-handsome J-Jack, Doctor A-Ame-"
"Me? What did I say?" Raven chimed. "Jack, this is the current CEO of Hyperion. Dennis Quincy."
The man named Dennis stared in horror as Jack slid off of the desk and into the chair. "Doesn't ring a bell." He said. "See you later cupcake you're relieved of your duties."
"W-What!? You can't just fire me!"
Jack looked up to him, his eyes locked on Dennis. Just staring. "You got 5 seconds pumpkin before I blast you're brains out on the floor. 1!...2!...3!-" Jack laughed when the ex-CEO ran as fast as he could, scrambling for the door. 'You can't just fire me!' Jack mimicked again laughing. Raven smiled as she moved beside Jack unlocking his computer, bringing up a file labeled 'Atlas tracker.'
"I knew it wouldn't be long before you were going to wake up so I took it upon myself to begin tracking Rhys for you. Here."
Raven suddenly had Jack's full attention. He quieted down and sat forward in his chair. "Woooaaaaaahhh, kitten. That's…That's some major information right there." He drawled looking at the monitor. "Is this what he's been doing for the past 8 years?" Raven nodded.
"What the hell did he do to you? because you're basically sacrificing him to me." Jack muttered scrolling through the files.
"My reasoning's are personal. I want him dead just as badly as you do." Her voice was soft but left underlying vindictiveness. "I'm starting to like you more and more pumpkin. What else can you do?"
"I've hacked they're systems multiple times to get Rhys off our trail. Guess you can say I've been the knife in his side for the past 3 years."
"Fuck the supervisor position Sweetheart. You're going to work right alongside me as a co-CEO. I need those set of skills to help me bring Hyperion back on top."
Raven blinked for a moment. "Co-CEO?" Jack nodded. "Yes Ma'am. I want Production set up for a second Helios that way in the future when we're going after Rhys, I want to fuck him up with moonshots. Period. No recovery just bits everywhere. That's you're first task. Get them started right now."
"Well I'll have to wait for a few more hours."
Jack raised a brow as he looked up to her. "Why?"
"It's only 3 in the morning." Raven smiled. "Most of your good workers are at home sleeping."
"So why are you here again if it's 3 a.m.?" Jack questioned again.
"You began showing signs of brain activity when you were sleeping. I was ordered to stay until you woke up. I'm glad I did."
Jack paused when he opened Rhys's personal file. The kid definitely didn't look like a kid anymore. He looked grown, even with a few greys in his hair, a golden eye, and a chrome biomechanical arm. Certainly looked a little tougher. You'd think the kid was in jail for something and got out acting like a bad ass. But still a pipsqueak Jack wanted to strangle nonetheless.
"If you wouldn't mind Jack, I have to go make a couple calls to corporate to start." Raven said hugging the clip board to her chest. "Sure no problem pumpkin. Go rest too. I feel fine. Oh! Here, I'm updating your position too. So you can go punch the supervisor in the dick later."
Raven laughed softly to herself. "Thanks Jack." When she turned to walk, it almost seemed like there was a pep in her step. Jack was happily chasing after her in his mind as he watched her walk away.
In the late morning when Raven finally made her way back to the Hyperion base, it was bustling. People were everywhere. Running with papers, and jogging with phones. Raven has never seen a Hyperion base this busy before. Jack must be raising some sort of hell. As she made her way through, to Jack's office, sitting inside was every supervisor, and manager to each department. "Well look who's late again." One piped up looking up to her. Raven glared at him and Jack smiled. "Her? She has every excuse to be late today. But she's your boss cupcake don't talk to her like that." Jack said coldly, smacking the back of the manager's head. Raven took the empty seat besides Jack, and he flopped paper work down before her. "Fill these out and you're position is final." Jack added quietly before looking up to the quiet bunch in front of him. "I chose Raven as my successor, in case anything should happen, which it won't, but if it does she owns the company. Not some Dennis prick with no experience in the field." He said making sure to emphasize the last part. When Raven finished filling out the paperwork, Jack stood and locked them away in his desk. "So Kitten, I've given them their duties for the Second Helios project. Your job is to make sure they get you their schematics by a week from today. If you don't get them, you put a bullet between their eyes, or feed them to the skags."
"Happily."
"Now, word is traveling fast about me coming back to life, so expect some retaliation. I've already seen some Atlas communications talking about me." Raven glanced over to Jack, who was looking at her. "I do need to talk to you about that too. I'm almost done here." He added quietly. Raven gave him a nod and he turned back to the group. "After you all get your schematics approved by Kit-..Miss Amelle, I want your people to work on it immediately. Got it? Good. Get the fuck out of my office." He ordered and just like that everyone in the room stood and left quickly. "Come here Raven, something I want to show you."
Raven followed him around his desk and watched as he popped up Atlas communication channels. "You've seen this before right?" Raven nodded. "Good. Shut down their communications."
The woman turned cocking a curious brow. "All of them?"
"All of them. Shut them down completely. Give Rhys a nice good fucking punch to the ear and make sure he knows you're the one doing it. That's your job today."
"But won't that make him raise suspicion that you're alive?"
"Let him. The minute he raises suspicion that his Atlas employees here on Elpis are in trouble, when he tries to communicate, redirect him here. Have a nice chat with him, you can sweet-talk his candied ass if you want to, but I want you to trace him. And at the last fucking minute I'll jump on the line and give my good ol' friend a hello and tell him what I want to do to him when I find him." Jack smiled standing up from his chair, offering it to Raven. As she moved to sit down, she was met with a pleasurable comfort and sighed.
"Feels good eh? Motion-activated dopamine injectors. Kick back and relax baby. I'm going to get us lunch. Call me if anything happens." Jack waved walking out the door.
Raven couldn't help but feel excited. The only time she was ever needed was when her hacking skills were needed to help with a Hyperion mission. Which in the past 3 years wasn't much. Now she was getting to do it for fun. Fucking with Atlas wasn't an easy task but she certainly enjoyed screwing them over. It was simple coding at first, then the firewalls kicked up. Working quickly, Raven made her way through the fire walls and began shutting down communications, fighting off the occasional firewall that Atlas hackers threw back at her. She worked almost in a trance, not realizing Jack had re-entered the room watching her as he ate Chinese from a take-out container. He kicked his feet up on the conference table with a smile.
"Damn you must love that shit!" Jack smiled when she jumped. "All transfixed like a good Hyperion drone. It's cute really."
"It's not easy when they keep throwing fire walls at me. It's a two person job that I'm doing. But it's getting done." Raven shrugged. The woman watched as Jack hopped up and made his way to her. "Go eat. I'll take care of the fire walls for you." He said pushing her off the chair. Raven grabbed her food and a chair pulling it up besides Jack. "Thanks for lunch." She said watching him flawlessly take down the firewalls.
"No problem sweetheart. Consider it a token of gratitude for being kind of a badass." Raven reached forward and pressed a button, the communication lines all falling at once.
"You were going to miss it. Sorry." Raven muttered as Jack turned to face her, his mouth agape. Raven shoved noodles in her mouth as Jack began to laugh.
"Y'know I'm really interested in you."
Raven's face turned a bright red as she looked up to him.
"Not in a 'hey I want to fuck you' kind'a way but, you're actually kind of interesting. What made you quit vault hunting?"
"Never did."
"So you're still a vault hunter?"
"Mm-hmm. Atlas buried my squad 6 feet under."
Jack cocked a brow. "They did?" Raven hummed again. This time she was avoiding Jack's stare. "We had something they wanted. They killed my team for it instead of making a deal, which we would have happily complied. We told them that. Rhys's smile was worse than fucking nicotine when he told his people to kill us off. The things I would have done to that bastard if I got my damn hands on his-…his fucking throat!" She growled through grit teeth.
"Woah, Woah now, save that anger for Pandora cupcake." Jack chuckled then turned when a 'Ping' on the communication lines came through. "That's gotta be him. When you're ready."