Peter swiftly dropped from one of the air vents and shot an arrow around the rimming of the fourth camera. He did a weird signal with his hand and Dex dropped in after him, tapping on his pen pad.
"Okay, we've got three minutes until the next round. What's the plan?" Dex whispered. Peter shrugged.
"To be honest, I didn't think we'd get this far." He admitted.
"Are you kidding me?!" Dex hissed. "So you thought we'd get caught?! Am I not good at what i've been doing in the past half hour?!"
"Chill out, Dex," Peter demanded. "We don't want to get caught now, the main computer is around the corner."
"No, I'm not going to chill out! You-" Dex stopped in mid sentence when he saw a metal door behind Peter. He closed his eyes and thoroughly went through the building layout that was implanted in his brain.
"What's that door? It's not in the building plan."
Peter raised an eyebrow at Dex's sudden mood change. He turned around and looked.
"An elevator. I've never seen anyone go beyond it except for the league..." Peter darted back around and stared at Dex with wide eyes.
"Oh no," Dex chuckled nervously. "We are not going down there."
"Oh come on you chicken, it's probably abandoned." Peter pleaded.
"Or maybe someone's down there. Don't forget, we're here to see if any info is in the main computer."
"Dex, there can't be a better way to find out what happened then to go down there!"
"One second, Alpha 10, I hear something." A voice sounded. Dex let off a small gasp, there was a guard at the end of the next hallway.
"Looks like we're going in the elevator!" Dex whispered in defeat, sprinting to the metal doors. He violently pushed on the button, noticing it didn't have an up or down arrow, just a colored in green circle.
"Peter, you're going to have to shoot this guy with a stun arrow," Dex sighed.
"I didn't pack any stun arrows!" Peter exclaimed silently. Dex rolled his eyes.
"Whatever! Just... shoot the guards radio when he turns the corner!" Dex ordered. He sprinted quietly and swiftly jumped back into the air vent. Lucky for him, right before the guard turned the corner. The second Dex heard the arrow puncture the metal of the guards radio he dropped back down and covered the guards mouth before he had the chance to say anything. Dex grabbed the muscle of the guard's neck as hard as he could, and seconds later the guard lost consciousness. Dex guided his limp body to the ground with a smile of triumph. As if mocking them, the elevator let off a ding to tell the boys it had opened.
"Let's go!" Peter called, rolling into the elevator.
"You better hope that the arrow didn't break skin, I didn't have tie to check." Dex grumbled, running into the elevator after Peter. A moment later the elevator doors closed an cliche elevator music seeped fromm speakers. Peter leaned against one of the elevator walls and sighed. He counted his arrows out of bordem. Dex looked over and noticed a keypad next to him.
"I only have two arrows left, so we better hope there won't be any cameras where ever the elevator is taking us."
"This was an idiot move," Dex sighed, sliding to the ground. "We should have just went back up into the air vent. If anything, it's going to be even more heavily secured than what we've already gone through. I don't know if you noticed, Peter, but hacking into the video feed was not easy. Some of the cams had different codes. Now here we are, going into unmarked territory."
"I did notice Dex, and I'm very greatful that you helped me, so chill out. I'm sure it was very hard, and that's exactly why I didn't ask for any other of my friends to do this."
"You don't have any other friends." Dex laughed, rolling his eyes. Peter playfully punched Dex's arm.
"Who else can say that they got this far into the hall of justice?" Peter said in awe.
"Not to burst your bubble, Pete, but the only thing we've gotten more access to than the public is getting into this elevator. But who else can say that they got this far into the hall of justice at night?"
On cue, an alarm started to screech in the elevator.
"What's going on?!" Peter yelled, covering his ears.
"I don't know!" Dex yelled back, tapping back into the camera by the air vent on his pen pad. The guard that Dex had taken out was laid out on the ground and two guards were speaking into their radios next to him. One was pressing the elevator key.
"Crap," Dex hissed, jumping back to his feet. "They're calling the elevator back!"
"Well, use the key pad on the elevator wall and hack them out!"
"Shut up! I won't be able to do it with your mouth running and the alarm going off!" Dex barked. He closed his eyes and scanned through his memory of a hacking method to stall the elevator and reroute it. Dex quickly looked at his keypad and searched the virus and worm codes that he had. A couple of them he had found from one of Batman's system itself. Violently typing on the elevator keypad, he thought of what to do next. The virus and worms were only going to hold for a few moments, but it would maybe give Dex enough time to do something about regaining access to the elevator.
"An SQL injection!" Dex cheered.
"What is an SQL injection?!" Peter yelled over the alarm.
"An SQL injection lets me see the security vulnerabilities in the database, so I can find one and shut the whole security system down!" Dex explained.
"Well, do it!" Peter demanded. Dex sighed and began to type extremely fast on the keypad. Unfortunately, he knew the SQL code injections all too well. He had to use them a couple of times to attack the high school's system to make it say that Peter was present. All of the times he had done it he hadn't gotten caught once.
"Okay," Dex turned around and smiled at Peter. "It's done."
A moment later the alarm stopped and the elevator began to drop again. Dex dropped back to the floor with a sigh and looked at Peter.
"Why can't I be the one with the bow and arrows?" He joked.
"Because, I'm way cooler than you," Peter joked back.
"Well, now that that's over with, we better hope there's no other way to where we're going, because I just committed a huge crime. Probably jail worthy, so I better crash all of the cameras too."
"You just can't catch a break," Peter chuckled. Moments later the elevator chimed and they both stood to their feet.
The second it opened fear stretched over both of them. A black figure stood over them with a look that spoke death.
"It's a school night." The figure stated.
"Wholy shit," Peter gasped. "That's Batman."