Cyber Wars ch.21- Royally Screwed
 

~Personal Log~

It has been two weeks since the CF defeated MM’s First Order Assassins. Since then the CF members have been on the mend and recouperating. J2 and Beowolf have infiltrated MM’s hideout posing as Agents with Coyote, but we haven’t heard from them in a while. I hope they’re safe. Wolf and I have been handling the political backlash/praise now that I can walk around and Monk has stopped trying to keep me in bed. Most countries have praised us for keeping the UN intact and a promise of ending MM’s power-hold has kept other countries as bay for now.

My only hope is that we don’t get any death threats/assassination attempts until Angel and Wraith are fully healed…

~MM’s Hideout~

J2 and Beowolf have been recording as much data as they could and messing up MM’s network. No one seemed to realize this at all as long as they were under the guise of Agents. J2 had just begun running a system diagnostic and secretly corrupting files when MM’s voice boomed in her mind. “Jackson! What are you doing?” “Running a diagnostic like you ordered.” “Report to my chambers! I have a mission for you.” <Maybe this will be something I can send to Jade.>
J2 opened the large double doors to MM’s inner sanctum and entered. “You wanted to see me?” A light flooded the room to reveal a chained up Beowolf out of his Agent disguise. The doors slammed shut ominously behind J2. “You thought you could fool me Jackson? Or should I say J2?” “What are you talking about?” “Don’t play dumb with me.” J2’s Agent disguise broke off her. “I’ve known who you were all this time. I merely let you go uncaught until I made sure you had what I need.” A pair of glowing shackles closed around her arms and legs. “And I intend to get it…” A gloved hand reached towards J2 as Beowolf, using the last of his energy, sent a frantic call to Wolf. All that could get through to the PDAP was: “J2…Codes….Help…”

"What the heck happened?" Devin asked Angel.

"Sorry about my unexplained absence. I ahd to take care of a few... personal things."

"Okay, long story short, Mastermind has my dead fiance's sister being held captive, and my fiance's necklace that I was wearing during the fight. I freaked out and whipped my PDAP at the wall before trying to move, discovering I appear to be paralyzed from the waist down again, and punching this hole in the wall. All in all, my body's broken and I'm quite angry, so something is going to die within the next 24 hours. How are you?"

Agent Coyote entered Mastermind's chambers.

"Oh sorry, I see you have guests."

Coyote turned around and left raising an eyebrow. He's smarter than I thought, or those two are dumber than I thought.

Wolf and Kaitiln had been sparring against each other in the base's RW dojo, when Wolf's PDAP beeped.

"Wait a sec-argh!" Wolf dropped his guard and got a roundhouse kick in the face.

"Oh crap, sorry." Kaitlin said. "It's hard to alter one's trajectory in mid flight."

"I'll be okay, it's just that I got a priority alert transmission." Wolf said as he made sure his jaw was still in place and checked his PDAP.

"J2...codes...help..." was all that the screen read.

"Oh no," Wolf said half to himself.

"What?"

"Remember about 2 months ago, when the Department of Defense asked me to lend some assistance in keeping some security codes safe?"

"Yeah, you didn't know what they were codes to, but you figured they were codes to Area 51 or something."

"I know...but it turns out I was wrong. I had Beowulf run a search in the DOD database. He came back with the 'SDI Mk. II' secret project."

"Strategic Defense Initiative? You mean Beowulf and J2 were holding codes that activated an Anti-Ballistic Missile System?"

"Not quite," Wolf said. "The project was actually to develop a satellite capable of hitting any point on the earth with a concentrated particle beam. Basically it's a giant laser cannon. The idea was that if a nation threatened to fire nukes, the satellite could just vaporize the silos, and anything else in a 2 Km radius, thus giving the nuke carriers pause for thought. Even if the missiles were launched, the weapon could still take the incoming warhead out. That satellite was launched about a month ago, with it's construction on board the ISS completed in secret. Beowulf just sent me a frantic message...from what I can gather, Mastermind has captured him and J2...and he's ripping the launch codes from them."

"Oh no...Jason...you realize what can happen once Mastermind gets control of a weapon like that?"

"Yes..." Wolf said grimly. "In a matter of seconds he can make any other terrorist attack in history look like child's play. We have to let Jade know about this."

The two ran down to her quarters, and Wolf, rather loudly and rapidly, knocked on the door.

Jade was busy actually relaxing for once, playing a game of chess with some person across the country. She had just moved her knight into attacking position when a frantic knock came at her door. Wonder what this is about? "Come in."

Wolf was so frantic he was unable to get his words out. "AI...launch codes...DoD...laser...DEATH DESRUCTION AND MADNESS!!!""

Jade looked at him oddly.

"Hold on a second." Katiln said. She grabbed Wolf and gave him a long and deep kiss. When she broke it off, Wolf stared blankly for a second.

"I'd like to point out the alternative was kicking you in the groin, so before you start going on about gratuitous public displays of affection...just tell Jade what the problem is."

"Uh...right." Wolf said as he finally got his bearings. "Ok, apparently, somehow, J2 and Beowulf have been captured by Mastermind. It gets worse however. A couple months ago I allowed the DoD to place activation codes for a satellite laser cannon, code-named "Javelin", in the care and guard of Beowulf and J2. It's a very dangerous weapon in the wrong hands, here are the specifications." he handed her his PDAP. "Mastermind is ripping the launch codes from them as we speak...and if he gets control of the satellite, then we are in really deep shit."

There was a short pause, then Wolf spoke again. "It looks to me like Mastermind is aiming for an end-game scenario. He's seen that we're beating him back...and now he's decided if he can't have the world...then nobody can. It's either him or us..."

Tryanny or Freedom he added silently.

***

Agent Smith smiled gleefully as he heard the two captured AI's holler in pain as their coding was scrutinized forcefully by Mastermind in an effort to find the Javelin activation codes.

"It's really quite ingenious, what those two AI's did to infiltrate," he said to the agent next to him, unaware that he was actually talking to Coyote. "While they were able to keep their appearance disguised, the coding wasn't quite right, not consistent with ours. I noticed this, and informed dad of it. I'm finally back in his good graces, even such that my code alone has been altered so that nobody, not even dad...or his lunatic brother, could subvert me."

He walked away lauging softly. "Once we seize the Javelin...the world is ours..."

OOC: Jad, unfortunately for reasons that will be clearer later, you cannot have Coyote add Smith to his list of subverted agents. You'll have to find some other way to make waves.

"Oh someone is full of themselves. Those two were pansies, no wonder they got taken over. They should of stayed away from drugs, Stayed in school, ate their greens, drank their milk. I pity the fool who tries to take me over." Agent Coyote adjusted his bling.

"Do you think this is to gaudy to wear to the celebration?" He asked smith about the 80 pounds of gold and daimonds around his neck.

Angel leaned back and said, "The worst part is that I can't do anything short of being jacked in."

Jade took in what Wolf had said and only had one word to respond. "Shit." She turned on her CODEC, "all able bodied CF members meet me in the briefing room yesterday, we have a situation. Wraith and Angel stay in bed, if I see you out of your rooms I'll shoot you myself." She turned to Wolf and Kaitlin with a hardened look on her face, one they had never seen before. Jade knew that they would be royally screwed if MM ever got the codes. "Let's go."