The Thief – Kasumi Goto - 2 weeks after the battle for Earth
Kasumi Goto, the best thief in the business, not the most famous, had watched her step long enough that she was able to retire from the big heists. She now mostly spent her time fiddling around with her stupid greybox. For a couple of weeks, she'd sat in her new home and had replayed the available memories of her former lover Kaiji Okuda. She was minutes away from making a breakthrough and could barely contain her excitement. Killing Donovon Hock had probably been the most satisfying thing she'd ever done. A close second was pulling off her first successful robbery. She could tell she was daydreaming, but dreams and memories were all she seemed to have.
The Mona Lisa was twenty metres away. She could smell the 700 year old painting from the beginning of the hallway. She'd cut the electricity, the Element Zero traps hotwired in the floor which would send her floating in the middle of the room were fried… probably. The guards were busy at an "intruder" at the southern end of the building.
She knew what was in this room. She could sell the painting, quit and live like a queen, or maybe she'd keep doing this.
She let out a quiet giggle, "Quit, no, no, no. This is fun" She activated her tactical cloak and took a small, deliberate step onto one of the eezo traps….. Nothing, she was good to go. She walked to the other end of the room, hacked the alarm for the glass panel and then cut it open with her diamond hard omni-blade. Grabbing the painting she began to walk away, but almost forgot one thing, her call card. She turned around and put a single red rose where the forever known painting had been moments ago.
Giggling yet again, she decided to make this thievery more interesting.
"Well, that was easy!" She yelled. Seconds later, guards stormed into the building.
They found nothing but a rose.
Kasumi would never give up thieving, stealing, robbery, heists, burglary, and shop-lifting anything that involved sneaking around on her toes, it was her passion. She was a kleptomaniac and proud. Cerberus even had a kill order on her which she held with pride. The official document had been printed out and hung up on a wall. She was just about to put down the Grey box when Kasumi got a message from… Liara T'soni?
"Why would she be messaging me? She hardly knows me at all, aside from our raid on the Shadow broker's base we haven't spoken. And second off how did she…. Oh right, Shadow Broker." She spoke to herself; she tended to do that when she was on her own.
She decided she'd leave the message for later, no doubt if the Shadow Broker wanted her dead she'd either be dead or have known there was bounty on her head. The Broker didn't tend to be so courteous when he was about to assassinate somebody. But that was the old broker, that gigantic Yahg was the ugliest thing she'd ever seen.
"Ha, so I'm not gonna be killed anytime soon. Well that's boring." Slightly disappointed, she kept fiddling with the Grey box, hoping to have more memories to relive with Keiji.
Keiji had been very secure with this amazing piece of technology, it had way too many firewalls for any sane person to be bothered going through. Almost all the time spent since she'd retaken the Grey box had been focused on cracking its code. She guessed that she had roughly 40% of it unlocked. That whole Batarian massacre thing must've been a lot bigger than she thought. Just as she thought she was about to be able to relive another memory…. another firewall. Moaning in frustration, she continued hacking.
"Dammit Keiji" She sighed.