Washington DC 1100 June 12th 2003 The office of CIA Director Langston Graham

Langston is in his office when the phone rang.

Langston here

Barto Here.

The voice on the other end of the call was Agent August Barto. A Cold War Warrior, he is one of the best investigators in the CIA. His voice was low and very deep like that of a deep well.

OK Barto protocols are met report.

Sir, we have tracked the abductee and kidnapers to a rented Car. It was abandoned in a underground parking lot 3 blocks from the scene. No other vehicle was seen leaving the area. We are at a stand still. There are no other avenues to investigate. They got away Sir.

Ok Agent Barto you will get new orders soon.

Yes Sir, Barto Out.

Langston Out.

Langston Graham now sat back in his chair. This was indeed bad news. That 2.0 needs to be operational soon! Damn the trials on the original one has been costly 15 agents either dead or placed in the secure mental facility in Ca. Damn Flemming better find out why soon. Diane is the only link with Orion. Damn him anyway walking out on this important project!

Langston thoughts now turned to the kidnappers themselves.

Damn these guys were good they went to ground so that the satellites could not see them. Then they moved the group out of the building by staying underground. They are in the wind! Damn Fulcrum has access to an Intersect!

Los Angeles Ca. 1100 Jun12th 2003 Roark International Headquarters.

Ted Roark is pacing back in forth in his office and waving his hands.

"What do you mean she is uncooperative? Make her compliant!"

Ted threw at the wall his new cell phone which was created especially for him.

Speaking out loud he ranted.

"Damn I go to all that trouble to kidnap the right person then my people say she can not be cracked! No I say No! I will have those secrets."

At this point a young woman was brought into his office. Followed by his trusty operative. Tommy Del Gato. Roark now stopped and looked at the young woman.

"Ok who are you and why are you here?"

The young woman who was brunette and was not that unpleasant to look at pulled out her glasses then opened the briefcase she was holding. Inside was vials of a liquid and a syringe. Clearing her throat she began to speak.

"Mr. Roark Sir, It is an honor to meet you."

"Yeah Yeah! Get on with it."

Ted now waved his hand at the young woman in a dismissive manner.

Sir, I am Jill Roberts a biochemist. I have something I created which can help you.

Ted now stopped pacing and peered down at the young woman.

"You do huh? What is that?"

"I have a truth serum that I call Thermin which No one so far can resist. You want secrets just fill this syringe with 2 cc of this liquid and viola they talk your eyes out literally. There is one side effect."

"Oh, What is that?"

"When a subject is told to talk they continue until they pass out from exhaustion. There is no way to shut them up. In test trials subject have talked for 50 days straight. Only pausing to pass out but when revived would continue babbling about everything. It was like the mind and mouth were bridged. The guards in one trial got so fed up hearing the subjects talk that they ended up shooting them for their own mental health."

So there is no way to get specific information?

"Yes that is the truth."

The young woman looked at her shoes as if Ted was reprimanding her.

"Well what is the problem? Here!"

Ted motioned to Tommy to take the briefcase with the vials and syringe.

"Take this to our problem. Also set up surveillance so she can babble away. Eventually she will tell us everything I need to know!"

Tommy taking the briefcase away from Jill and left the room. Leaving a frightened Jill still standing in front of Ted.

Ted finally smiled and sat down in his chair.

The Internet secrets will be mine!

He said to the thin air.

In the corner there was a slight ripping of the air but Ted ignored it.

Jill still standing in the middle of the room all but ignored by Ted.

Ted after having a pleasant daydream looked up. He saw the young woman still standing in his office. Perplexed Ted asks.

"Well? Why are you still here?"

"Sir?"

Ted perturbed said in a louder voice as if she were deaf.

"I said why are you still here?"

"Sir, You did not dismiss me."

Ted cocked his head to one side

"Eh, Loyal that is good, good I say."

Ted was pleased he inspired such loyalty. He should get or else!

Jill was worried. She knew Fulcrum was ruthless and deadly. Here was the top guy as ruthless as they come. He acted very insane too.

"Oh I guess I did not! You will have a great future with us! A great future! Now get out of here I need to think!"

Ted now turned back to his daydream. Secure in the knowledge they will have all of Orion's secrets and soon!

Orion now secure in his underground lab now punched up a few buttons on the wrist computer. He saw a playback of everything which was said in Ted's office. This cloak device is a great addition to the network. It is sad Mike lost his life. It seems the cloak can be routed through any electronic pathway. Only problem is that I have to sit perfectly still or the air disturbance will reveal my position. I guess that is one limitation I will have to live with Stephen mused. I loved the record capabilities I now added. It helps so I am not distracted by what I see. I might miss something vital. The recording would capture it. Plus using the intersect would correlate all the necessary information.