Summary: It was the usual job until Tucker uncovers a secret within the mansion.
Character: Tucker
Prompt: Foley Tucker Foley

Day Eight

The plan was simple. Getting into the celebration for the elite, the rich socialites, the ones in power, was beyond easy for him. The guest list hacked to include him. Documents forged to confirm his identity as a billionaire from old money that hardly had to work to maintain the fancy sophisticated lifestyle of the other guests of the celebration, should anyone go looking to check up on him. It was all child's play for a man of his unique capabilities, which was exactly why his services were requested for this job.

Once he was inside the mansion, more like a castle really, Tucker waited for the right opportunity to break away from the crowd. Guards kept watched all around for spies like him, and security cameras monitored activity everywhere within the mansion and the surrounding grounds. Tucker smirked inwardly as he flipped a switch on the device hidden in his pocket. He already hacked the security system, with ease, and now every feed of the cameras would be displaying a looped recording of empty halls and rooms. He would be able to move about the mansion without being spotted now.

So long as he didn't get caught by any of the guards.

Tucker glanced around the corner, and when the coast was clear, he sneaked out of his hiding place and crept down the hall. According to the information he dug up on the mansion, the information his boss wanted was within the room at the end of the hall. All he had to do was sneak in, copy the file, and make his escape. Easiest thing in the world. He was an expert in this type of operation after several years working as a spy.

The door stood as the only thing in his way. But something caught his attention when he reached it. Tucker turned his gaze down the hall off to the left of the door. That hall wasn't on the blueprints for the mansion. He frowned, wondering how recently it was added to the building. He took a step down it but paused as he noticed the tell tale signs of invisible lasers protecting the hall from unwanted visitors straying down it.

On the wall, he saw where the control panel was secretly hidden behind a section of the wall. Many people probably wouldn't even notice the slight lines that indicated a removal panel, but Tucker came across things like this often in his job. After opening the wall, he looked over the control panel and whistled softly to himself. It was a fairly sophisticated bit of technology, but tech was his specialty. Bringing out a sleek black PDA, he plugged a wire into the control panel. It took him mere moments to hack through the security and shut down the lasers within the hall.

Tucker walked down the hall, throwing a glance over his shoulder to check for guards. He knew he should just get his job over with before he did something stupid to get caught, but his curiosity overcame him. If the owner of this mansion had lasers set up around this hall, they were obviously hiding something big at the end of it. Whatever it was might be more valuable to his boss than what they were originally after. The lock on the door was a little tougher for him to crack, having to rewrite some of the data to recognize his hand for entry into the room.

Tucker sneaked into the room, closing the door behind him. He shivered and rubbed his hands up and down his arms as he looked around. Each breath came out in a misty puff of white. What was this place? There were large tubular containment units around the room, but each one he passed was empty.

Until he came to one in the center of the far wall. Tucker's mouth gaped open as he stared at what was trapped within the tube of glass filled with some strange greenish liquid. Pale with lanky limbs and lean muscles. An oxygen mask covered mouth and nose. White hair floated within the fluid. Half lidded green eyes glowed through the murkiness of the liquid.

"What is this?" Tucker whispered, trying but failing to understand why this man was being held inside the containment unit.

"Nothing for you to be sticking your nose into."

maltese: (3) Yay angst! 8D We all know Vlad is chock full of angst. XD;; (4) Haha, no. XD;; I guess it's kind of hard to guess on that one. Sword Art Online might not be a very well known anime, and I didn't include any of the characters from it in the theme response. (5) Well, I've been writing these since the beginning of the month. I just didn't start posting them up until now. XD;; *is lazy* It's a thing... that I'm working on. Eventually. (6) Valerie and Danielle make a cute pairing, I think. =) (7) Hm~ Could be. =)

Newspace19: I might~ I'm very tempted to make it into a real story. XD;;; When I've finished everything else on my list. D8 So much to write still~