The Unstoppable Truth

[Reverend Del]

Back on Manhattan

Creeping quietly, not so quiet that she could not be heard, but simply moving quietly as the passing breeze, Silverfire crept toward her target. She had identified an entrance, well Fastjack had. Hed been able to do all the legwork through the Cortex.

The building was a two story warehouse affair with a large service door at the front and a second, smaller personnel door on the left side of the building. Neither of these were Silverfires entrance points. She was going in through the vents. A-Tech had not got around to installing piped vents, despite them being a common feature on most corporate facilities; Silverfire assumed that this was to maintain the illusion that A-Tech was a small firm, rather than a part of an interplanetary megacorporation.

Her first hurdle however was getting on to the roof, the A-tech facility as located in a small patch of open ground, fully thirty feet from the nearest building. Jumping was possible but a quiet landing would be next to impossible to guarantee. Quiet was the watchword here, if she aroused any alarms shed need to cause a distraction to prevent them realising her true goal, and she did not want to have to waste time on that.

She had however checked out the building to the rear of the facility which backed onto the compound it was secured but it could be scaled, and right now, that was what she was doing.

Climbing down the wall she eventually came to the bottom. Unseen and unheard she began to tread the ground ahead of here looking for the point she would scale the wall onto the roof of the warehouse. She found it easily enough a place where the windows aligned and she would be able to make the climb without issue, it was close to the vent she need to infiltrate which was also useful.

Once upon the roof she walked lightly to the vent and began the slow process of climbing down the vent. However one thing she had not counted on was the systems age, clearly it had not been serviced in some time and she began to wonder if Fastjacks information had been right. Every movement caused the system to creak a little and she wondered if it would hold her weight when the only thing keeping it up was the brackets attached to the ceiling. She decided that instead of climbing her way to the room she would have to exit early and find another method of getting there, equally she would need another exit strategy.

Her exit cam soon enough, she found a grating into a supply room and used it to enable her to actually stretch, any amount of time crawling through ducting was too much time crawling through ducting. She moved to the door and looked through its rather grubby window, seeing no-one outside she carefully opened the door and began the trek to the systems room.

She had to avoid a few people on the way but they were not looking for anyone and did not seem to spot her, nonetheless she continued as if passive alerts were in place.
It seemed to take forever, but here, in her element, Silverfire hardly noticed the time ticking by, for once her mind calm and serene rather than racing at one hundred miles an hour.

She found her way to the car pool, the room she required was off this one secured with a simple key lock, and she had the necessary tools to bypass it without it registering that fact. Checking for people she spotted none, late at night it was unlikely anyone was being too attentive to any tasks at hand she had only to hope that there was equally no presence in the systems room. She was in luck. She began to wonder if this whole endeavour was blessed in someway, whilst she did not doubt the talent involved, it was beginning to surprise her just how easy it was to access this supposedly secure archive, even if they were only going for specs of a system that was being phased out anyway. Pushing the thought aside she made her way to the room and went inside. Finding the required terminal was not hard, and she placed a device which Fastjack had given her. Information retrieval was not her forte, it was Fastjacks. She waited for what felt like too long before her comms device finally let her know that the download was complete and she should leave promptly, detaching the device, she began to walk to the door. Then she heard footsteps coming toward the room, she looked for a hiding place and found it.

Two men walked into the room, leaving the door open behind them, they walked up to the terminal she had just used and whilst their backs where turned Silverfire came down from her place just above the door and made her way outside. An alarm sounded and she figured shed been found out, that there was some telltale sign of her presence she had not accounted for, it was not to be however, the two men whod been in the room ran outside and into a van, powering it up they waited for the service door to open. This was her chance to leave unnoticed and she took it, stealthily moving out the door she began the long trek back to the building shed scald to begin with.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.