Agent Philips rushed the halls of the NSA as fast as he could, despite being a man in his 50's when push came to shove he could move as fast as a man half his age. Reaching the main doors, he quickly swiped his key card and walked into the control room where Bradley was waiting along with Stenson and Nilsson.
"Where did you find it?" He immediately asked wishing to cut right through the BS.
"It surfaced under a half hour ago sir, we immediately ran a trace and we were able to get a location." Bradley said handing a tablet over to Philips.
Philips looked at the screen and saw a marker and along with it were a pair of coordinates and a name. "Berk?" He questioned, unfamiliar with the town.
"It's a city located in southern Minnesota, the exact address is 5194 S. Hooligan Drive." Stenson said.
"Anything else you can tell me?" Philips asked.
"Yes, we were also able to get an I.D. on the computer's owner." Nilsson said as Philips scrolled through the tablet and brought a picture of Hiccup. "His name is Hiccup Haddock, age 15, his parents are Stoick Haddock and Valka Haddock nee Jorgenson, and he is currently enrolled at the local high school." She explained.
"Wow, you guys really do know everything." Stenson said.
"We're not being paid not to." Nilsson said.
"Are you sure this is the one, I mean he's only a kid." Philips said skeptically.
"Well sir, despite his age he seems to be pretty proficient with computers." Bradley said.
"You got a point there, kids today are capable of doing a lot of things." Philips said as he studied the picture for a moment.
"So how do you want to handle this sir?" Stenson asked.
"Well for starters we need to get our hands on the computer, it could be receiving the entire code and not just a fragment." Philips said.
"And what about the boy sir?" Stenson asked.
"Personally I would like to just get the computer and keep this whole thing as quiet as possible." He said looking at the tablet but had a look of uncertainty.
"But?" Nilsson asked.
"But, seeing as how he got the code, there's a high chance that he could be the only one who could give us any clue about what it is." He said, after a few more seconds he handed the tablet back to Bradley. "I want him brought in as well." He said.
"How exactly should we do that sir?" Nilsson asked.
"Contact the local authorities, tell them it's high priority, I want this done quick." Philips ordered.
"Really sir, doesn't that seem a little extreme?" Bradley asked.
"I know, but right now this is a matter of National Security and this kid seems to be a part of it so we need to treat it as such." He said as he left the room with a stone look on his face.
It was Sunday night and Hiccup was studying the code on his laptop, while he was scanning the text he was writing in a notebook next to him. On the lined paper of the notebook, he was sketching the symbols from the code, but that wasn't the only thing he was sketching, along with the symbols he had sketch of old Norse runes. After seeing the shield at the art festival yesterday, he realized why the symbols seemed so familiar to him, they bared a striking resemblance to Norse runes, and even if he wasn't sure that they were the same, he thought it would be a good place to start.
"Okay, that takes care of this line, on to the next." He said to himself, evidently tired as he checked a book on the other side of his laptop.
Now Hiccup loved a lot of things revolving around his Viking heritage, especially the mythology, in fact that's were his fascination with dragons began. He was also very interested in the language, both written and spoken, and even though he didn't really understand the runes, thanks to some help from his parents when he was a little kid, he could now speak Norse fairly well. One of the advantages to coming from a family with healthy roots to their heritage was that he didn't need to go to the library or a bookstore, since he already a few books of Norse runes, which he had on his desk as a reference.
After a few minutes of alternating between checking the screen and the book he rubbed he tried to stifle a yawn. "What do you think bud, should I call it a night?" He turned to his dog who was trying to sleep, the canine lifted his head and gave a tired look to Hiccup before laying back down. "Yeah, maybe I should get to bed." He mumbled.
However, after taking another look at the laptop, he felt the urge to keep going, at least for a little while. For Hiccup one of his dominant personality traits is that he can be very passionate about what he does, whenever he feels like he's on to something, it can be really hard for him to stop until he sees it through. As he took another gander at the screen he gradually took his pen and began to sketch in the notebook again.
Unfortunately, Hiccup wasn't the only one working on Sunday night, several miles away at the Berk Police Department headquarters, wheels were turning. Within a locker room there was a squad of officers, all of whom were putting on Kevlar and tactical gear. As they were preparing, a man who was holding papers came walking in, most of his body covered in Kevlar with the exception of his head, he was a tall man who appeared to be in his 40's with short black hair that was greying on the sides and a stern look on his face.
"Alright listen up everyone." He called out with expert authority which caused the others to immediately turning their attention to him. "As you all know we just got a report from higher up, there's a person of interest in our town and they want us to bring them in." He said.
Taking the papers in his hand he began to hand them out to his team, "This is the identity of the suspect." He said as the other officers looked at the papers and saw an image of Hiccup. "Don't be put off by his age, he's been classified as high priority." He said as he surveyed his team to make sure that they all have a picture. "Alright here's the plan, we're going to meet with patrol officers at the address, they will create a perimeter while we move in. I don't know what this kid's capable of, but I want this done quick and by the books, understood?" He asked.
"Sir yes sir!" The squad called out in unison. "Alright let's move out." He said as they all ran to the garage and boarded the SWAT truck, once they were on board, the truck sped out to the street with sirens blazing.
Meanwhile back on Hooligan Dr. a certain blonde was standing in her kitchen waiting as the microwave steadily hummed and watched as a bag of popcorn was growing. As she waited, Astrid couldn't help but think about the events of yesterday, she still couldn't believe that Snotlout almost got hit by a truck. Even though she has threatened him several times with death, seeing it almost happened came as a shock, all she can think is 'thank God Hiccup acted when he did.' Her mind than flashed to the lanky boy in question, to be fair she wasn't sure how the day was going to go, but up until the truck she was pleasantly surprised, Hiccup seemed to be a lot more than he would appear. Then she thought about that kiss on the cheek, she wasn't sure what she was thinking when she did it, but she didn't regret doing it. However, her thoughts were interrupted when the microwave went off and the popcorn was done. Taking the bag out she poured the contents into a bowl and walked into her living room where a raven haired girl was sitting on her couch with a DVD remote in hand.
"Okay, movies ready to go." She said as Astrid took a seat next to her.
"What movie did you pick again?" Astrid asked.
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind." She said.
The girl in question was Heather, she was one of Astrid's closest friends and even though they went to different schools, they still hang out as much as they can and tonight was their annual movie night. Every Sunday night they would get together and would alternate between who picks the movies and who's house they watch it at; tonight it was Heather's turn to pick the movie and they were watching at Astrid's house.
"I never saw that movie." Astrid said.
"It's considered one of the best science fiction films of all time." She said.
"What's it about?" Astrid asked.
"It's about people making contact with aliens, it was directed Steven Spielberg." Heather explained.
"Sounds interesting." Astrid said.
"Yeah my dad really likes it." Heather said taking some popcorn and hitting 'play' on the remote. As the movie began, Heather looked over to Astrid and decided to ask, "So how was your date with Hiccup?"
The sudden question almost made Astrid choke on the popcorn, luckily she managed to swallow it and turned to Heather. "What?!" She asked.
"You know, when you went to the art festival with Hiccup yesterday, how did it go?" She asked.
"Well it went fine, but the larger point is that it wasn't a date." Astrid said.
"Really because the two of you doing something together, forgive me but that sounds like a date to me." Heather explained.
"We were just hanging out." Astrid stated.
"I'm not judging you." Heather said raising her hands up in defense.
"Sorry for snapping, but again we were just hanging out, I mean can't tow people who happen to be the opposite gender just hang around without it meaning anything?" Astrid ask.
"Sure they can." Heather said, "But I would just like to point out that the fact that you're getting really defensive about it." She said.
"Yeah because you keep saying it was a date when it really wasn't." Astrid said.
"If you say so." Heather said, but after a few seconds she decided to poke the bear a little more. "So do you like?" She asked.
"What?" Astrid asked.
"Do you like Hiccup?" Heather asked again.
"I mean, he's a nice guy and it wouldn't really be unreasonable to say we could be friends." She explained.
"No I mean do you like him?" Heather asked putting an emphasis on the word 'like' and Astrid immediately understood her tone.
"Not in that way." She said, although Heather noticed a faint redness appearing on Astrid's cheeks.
"Are you sure?" Heather asked again cocking one of her eyebrows.
Astrid was shocked by Heather's questioning, although she couldn't help but feel the heat radiating from her cheeks the more she thought about Hiccup although she did her best to deny it, she was losing. "Are you sure you want to be violently assaulted if you keep asking?" Astrid asked.
"Okay I'm dropping." Heather said.
"Good, now can we please just watch the movie?" Astrid asked.
However, as they were both about to get back to watching the film, they were roused by the sound of sirens coming from outside. "What is that?" Heather asked.
"Sounds like a siren." Astrid said.
Not too far from the house, several cars were raising down the street, although many of them were squad cars, a couple of them appeared to be black civilian vehicles but they were speeding as fast as the police cruisers. As they sped down the street they all came to a stop and formed a sort of semi-circle around the Haddock residence. Uniformed officers came out of the squad cars while men in in suits and ties came out of the black cars.
"Alright let's set up a perimeter, I don't want any bystanders past this point when the SWAT team gets here." One of the men in suits ordered.
As the officers got to work, and it didn't take too long for people to start gathering around to see what was going on. Inside the house, Stoick and Valka were relaxing in the living room, but then their peace was disrupted when they heard the sirens coming from outside. At first they thought it was going to pass them, but then they heard them from right outside and getting curious, Valka went to check the windows. "What's going on Val?" Stoick asked.
"The police are right outside." She said leaving Stoick both confused and worried.
Upstairs, Hiccup was working on the code when he heard the sirens outside, the noise also caused Toothless to bolt straight up in alarm from the noise outside. "What's going on?" Hiccup asked to himself turning away from his work.
Down the street, Astrid and Heather came running outside to see what was going on and were shocked at the scene before them. "Astrid." They heard a voice say.
Turning around, the girls saw Fishlegs, Snotlout, and the twins running up the sidewalk. "What's going on, why are the police here?" Fishlegs asked in obvious worry.
"I don't know, but they're all in front of Hiccup's house." Astrid said.
Their attention was then stolen by the sight of a SWAT truck speeding past them and coming to a stop in front of the house. "Is that a SWAT team?" Snotlout asked wide-eyed.
"Awesome." Tuffnut exclaimed which earned him a weird look from the rest of the group. "What?" He asked.
As soon as the truck came to a stop, the back opened and a squad of people came out in full tactical gear, weapons at the ready. "Move, Move, Move!" The leader ordered.
The SWAT team rushed towards the front door, meanwhile inside the house, Valka was still looking out the window and Stoick was standing behind her with a worried look on his face. "What's happening now?" He asked.
But before Valka could answer, the front door burst open and the SWAT team came rushing in, "What the hell!" Stoick yelled.
"Hands up and no sudden movements." One of the SWAT members ordered while his gun was raised.
Stoick and Valka did as they were told and two other SWAT members escorted them out of the house, as they did this another member came out of the kitchen. "Nothing here sir." He said.
"Alright upstairs." The leader ordered as he and the others marched up the steps.
While inside his room, Hiccup heard the commotion downstairs and immediately became worried about his parents and he could hear the heavy footsteps coming up the steps. "Oh god, oh god, oh god." He said to himself.
Before he could do anything else, his door was kicked open, causing him to shield his eyes from any debris. The SWAT team came in, but Toothless jumped in between them and Hiccup and growled at them, "We got a dog." The leader said.
"On it." One of the others said, he then took out a tranquilizer gun and shot at Toothless, the dart hit him in the neck and after a few seconds he fell to the ground unconscious. "Canine is down." He said.
Hiccup uncovered his eyes and was completely shocked to see his dog on the ground with a dart sticking out of his neck. "Toothless!" He shouted.
"Hiccup Haddock, you are under arrest." The leader said to him.
"What?!" Hiccup asked in shock.
Hiccup however did not get an answer because as soon as the leader said that, he the others immediately grabbed Hiccup, forced him to the wall, placed his hands behind his back and placed a pair of handcuffs on his wrists. "Ah, what are you doing?" Hiccup asked in obvious pain.
but again he did not get answer as he was then forced out of his room and down the stairs. As that was happening, some of the SWAT members grabbed Hiccup's laptop, notebook and texts and then placed them into large evidence bags.
Outside, the scene was fairly under control, there were still a bunch of people gathered around to see what was going on, but they were kept at a good distance by the police. Astrid and the rest of the group came over to get a better look and saw both Stoick and Valka standing on their front lawn with police questioning them, though it seemed obvious that they had no idea what was going. However, they immediately turned their attention to the sight of Hiccup being escorted out of the house in handcuffs. This came to a shock to them, but Astrid took one look at Hiccup and noticed that his face had a look of both terror and confusion. When Hiccup passed his parents, they both were in a state of shock, but then Stoick snapped out of his stupor.
"Wait, why are you arresting my son?!" He demanded.
"He didn't do anything wrong." Valka said, but the officers paid no attention to either of them.
"Hey, I'm talking to you!" He shouted as he tried to approach them but was swiftly stopped by other officers.
Both parents could only watch as their son was taken before one of the men in suits, he went over to his car and opened the back right door. The SWAT leader took Hiccup and forced him into the car and that was all they could see of Hiccup before the door was closed. The suited man then entered the driver's side, the car started, pulled out and then sped down the street away from the bewildered spectators.