Kingsley Industries. The multi-million dollar tech company rivaled only by that of Carter Technologies. The first three floors are open to the public, but the next thirty-seven floors? Impenetrable.
Natalia Kingsley knows the wrong type of people. And not the type of people like murderers and rapists. People like Thomas Jameson and Nathan Austin. They're the type of people that will do anything to get their way. The type of people who don't care if you live or die as long as they get what they want.
The light of the sign atop the Kingsley Industries building lit the silhouettes of two people on the roof. Both were kneeling down, doing their best to stay hidden.
"I've got the building schematics. Main lab is five floors down, floor thirty-five. Jamie is on the same floor, in a small room on the other side. I'll go to the lab, you go to get Jamie."
The two both nodded in agreement. One of them opened the vents, and the pair started to make their way down to the thirty-fifth floor. When they reached it, they hung for a few minutes to get their bearings.
"This is gonna be a really stressful mission, Carter," One of them said, his blue hair narrowly avoiding falling in front of his face.
"Relax, Iniko," The one called Carter replied. "We've done this so many times. It's not much different to anything else." Her green eyes glared into the darkness. "Let's just this over and done with."
The pair of spies slowly became invisible, their mission suits and visible skin disappearing. Carter cautiously looked out of the grate: no one could see them, but they would see the vents opening. When she didn't see anyone in the immediate vicinity, the spy opened the vent. She crawled out, and Iniko followed close behind them. They made sure that their paired coms were on and then parted ways.
**
There were two parts of their mission: rescuing Jamie Ellis and removing all information of T.I.D.A.L.'s agents from the files in the building. The first part of the mission was up to Iniko. That was his specialty.
His sneaked his way towards the west side of the floor, using the information Carter has given him. Natalia could get a lot out of T.I.D.A.L. by using the director's daughter as blackmail. That's why he had trusted his two best and most trusted agents to this mission.
They didn't know what was happening to Jamie. And as he crept closer to the door of the room where the girl was being held, he was expecting armed guards to be blocking entry. Except there weren't any.
They must be inside, Iniko thought, as that was the logical explanation. But as he cracked the door open and inched inside, there was only Jamie. She still couldn't see him, so he used a thermal scanner to see who else was hiding in the shadows. No one, apparently.
He walked towards the glass cube in the centre of the room, an extremely barren cell except for a bed and a toilet nudged into the corner. Jamie was lying on top of the bed, eyes wide open. She looked exhausted, and her hair was messy. How have they been treating her?
Iniko became visible, and Jamie sat up. Her eyes were wide, but she seemed to recognise the blue haired agent almost immediately.
"Iniko!" She cried.
"Shh!" He hissed. "We don't want anyone hearing you!"
"Sorry," She said, feeling bad. Iniko got to work on cutting a circle in the glass, small enough for a ten-year-old to fit through. The girl climbed through carefully, essentially latching onto the spy. He became invisible again, and the girl became it along with him.
"As long as you hold onto my hand, no one will be able to see you. And I need you to stay as silent as possible. Not a peep." Jamie nodded, zipping her mouth. The two then started to make their way towards the main lab where Carter was, being careful not to make anyone aware of their presence.
**
Rescue Jamie Ellis. Remove Natalia's files on T.I.D.A.L. agents. Carter knew what she had to do. Hacking was what she did. Working with kids was Iniko's thing. And she had to trust that he would do that.
Carter walked straight towards the lab, knowing no one could see her. As she approached the entrance, she pulled out a thermal scanner. Finding no heat signatures, she continued confidently. She was unusually surprised to find that the door was both unguarded, unlocked and unalarmed.
Still, she proceeded with confidence when entering. Once inside with clearly no danger, she removed her invisible disguise. I need to find the main computer, She thought. That will have all of the stored stolen information.
It didn't take long for Carter to find what she was looking for. It seemed that Natalia thought the building was secure enough not to guard it. Fat load of good that did her, leaving the area unsecure, Carter thought with a smirk.
Her fingers whizzed over the keyboard as quickly as humanely possible as she tried to find the files she was looking for. She found them fast. Again, they weren't well hidden. Whoever had set up the computer had added a shortcut on the desktop, labelled 'T.I.D.A.L. Agent Files'. Amatuers.
Carter looked through to see how much information was stored on the top agents, as the director had asked her to. She skimmed over all of the other agents, their profiles having barely information in them, as they should. She pulled up the two that she wanted to see.
'West, Iniko - Agent Cobalt' and 'Carter, [first name unkown] - Agent Byte' the files read, along with photos attatched. As it should be.
Carter then imputed some controls on the small computer inbuilt into the left wrist of her suit. Cables shot out of the knuckle ports she had designed into the suit. As she plugged them into the computer and let for the small computer to do their thing. As she waited, she looked around for how they would escape.
Fortunately, the whole building was essentially windows. And there was a fortunate placement of the main computer along a set of windows. Lovely, Carter thought. Just then, Iniko came into the lab, Jamie with him. The pair walked over to where Carter was and became visible.
"How is it coming?"
"I've almost gotten all of the files." What sounded like a stampede suddenly began outside. It was clear to the spies that a silent alarm had been set off, and Natalia was now on her way. The Kingsley Industries founder burst into the lab, face red.
"You go, I'll be done in a second," Carter said hurriedly to Iniko. He nodded, covering Jamie's face. He kicked the window, and it shattered.
"I need you to hang on really tight, OK?" He asked Jamie, who nodded. She latched onto his back, scared. He jumped out of the window, spreading his arms as wing-gliders reached from his waist to his wrists. Similar to a flying squirrel, they supported both him and Jamie as they glided down to where he had to wait for Carter.
A few moments after Iniko had jumped, Carter got all of the information. She walked over to the broken window, standing with her feet half over and facing towards Natalia.
"You do not have the right to take that from me!" Natalia yelled, livid.
"Actually, I do. Since they belong to me, not you. See ya!" Carter smiled. She saluted, then dropped. Natalia screamed and ran to look over the edge of the building, only to see Carter falling happily, her red hair whipping in her face.
At the last minute, Carter employed her own wing-gliders. They carried her down to where Iniko and Jamie were waiting on the motorbikes. She high-fived both of them as she pulled her helmet over her head, hopping onto the bike. They started to drive off towards T.I.D.A.L.'s secret headquarters, leaving a trail of dust behind them.
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