"We've got the satellite, but I feel like it isn't enough." said the council leader. "I still feel vulnerable, and I'm sure plenty of you feel the same." The majority of the room nodded their heads in agreement.

"I was reading an article about some experimental drones the government is testing. They have prediction systems onboard that are designed to take out any threats to the country. If we took control of them, it would likely be attributed to a malfunction. That way, if anyone gets close to finding our siphon, we could simply obliterate them." a member of the council suggested.

"That's a crazy idea. But, it just might work. Let's get started, shall we?"

Aiden was speeding down the streets in his Scafati GT as he headed for Pawnee, but making sure to avoid running any red light or notifying any speed cameras of his presence. He was heading towards Blume HQ to find out what Matthew Johnson wanted with Desmond and himself.

Whatever, it was, it couldn't be good, knowing Blume's shady history with gangs and cover-ups. Perhaps, since they were in cahoots with Abstergo, they too were Templars? No, Aiden doubted it. They were just allies. Or rather, business partners, if the files that said Blume was selling technology to Abstergo, and vice-versa, were to be believed.

And any business partner of Abstergo was an enemy of Aiden. He didn't want to go directly against Blume in this battle, but he would if he had to.

After a few hours of driving, he had made it to Pawnee, and Blume's headquarters. He had parked his car near one of his hideouts and used a hidden path to get the rest of the way to Blume HQ. He didn't want to be identified by their cameras, and scrambling them would set all the guards on alert. So, he was going do things the way he liked to the most, ghosting his way through the HQ, riding the cameras and retrieving top-secret classified files without even stepping foot inside the facility.

So, he started doing just that, taking care to not spend more than a second at each camera so the system wouldn't realize there was an intrusion.

After just a few minutes of daisy-chaining cameras, Aiden had gotten into Blume's computer core, where all their data was kept.

"It's good to be the best." Aiden said to himself, smiling at how quickly he was able to breach Blume's security and get into their computers.

Aiden began doing what he realized he had been doing a lot of lately: going through files. He was looking for anything related to the deal that had been going to between Abstergo and themselves, or anything related to a certain Matthew Johnson.

He couldn't find anything directly related, so he entered a search query for documents with 'Matthew' and 'Abstergo' in them. After scanning all the documents, the computer came up with several documents which were apparently related to the deal between the two companies. There were also some documents with DedSec in their names. Aiden wasn't sure what they had to do with the deal, but he downloaded all the documents to his phone anyway, just so he could have a look at them later in case they contained anything useful.

As he was walking away from Blume along the hidden path, he got a text on his phone from the same number that had texted him a few days before.

"If I were you, I would give the documents back. -Matt"

"Son of a bitch, how does he know I've got those files?" Aiden said under his breath, looking around to make sure there were no cameras that could have spotted him.

He didn't see any, but then he realized there was another way they could be watching him.

His phone.

He was about to kick them out of his system, but then he realized he could use it to hack them back. And besides, if they were already in, then it's not like they knew anything more than he did. He put his phone back into his pocket as he continued down the path back to his hideout.

By the time Aiden had gotten back to the shipping container that he used as a hideout, it felt like the phone in his pocket weighed a million pounds. He went inside and took it out as he sat down. He plugged a micro-USB drive into it, and transfered the files he had downloaded over to it. He would have done it wirelessly, but he couldn't risk Blume getting into his secure network.

He plugged the drive into his computer and opened up the first file.

It turned out to be about DedSec, not Abstergo or Matt. It seems they had been gaining new members in the last few months, and even had their own privately-funded server network which they used to carry out everything they did, such as taking down corporations' websites that disagreed with net-neutrality, taking over Blume's satellite, and-

Wait, what was that last thing Aiden read?

Taking over a satellite?

DedSec was corrupted by a Piece of Eden, and they had a satellite?

Aiden kept reading, and apparently they had taken a few of the US Government's remote-controlled drones as well.

Aiden wasn't going to kid himself, things weren't looking too good for him at the moment, seeing as how DedSec could literally monitor anyone in the entire country, or even the world, with that satellite and drones. They were probably watching him right now, since they surely knew Desmond, Rebecca, and himself were after the Apple.

If they were going to stop whatever DedSec had planned, they would have to take down the satellite and drones. Aiden had hacked that satellite before, back when Damien was inside the system and nearly destroyed the city, but now DedSec would have to be kicked out, and they were a force to be reckoned with.

"Better get started, I guess." Aiden said as he began looking up information about how satellites and drones operated, so he could hack into theirs.