An Aphotic Zion

Persona Non Grata

22nd July 3115

Back at the far distant start system of Hades Nexus we find our old friends the Crimsons who have just got the information which was sent by Dr. Frelik, well… she’s not a doctor anymore though. Their cryptographers have been brainstorming the highly classified documents of the Consensus. They are in a dark room server room. Due to power shortages most of the power is used to run only critical systems. The room is lit up with the lights of servers and the computers. The fans used to cool the servers are making constant noise and the air isn’t too clean either even though air cleaners have been working twenty-four / seven. “The encryption on these documents is crazily advanced. I have never seen anything like this before” says Evans as he tries to find some weak code in the snippet he found. “Hey! Did you find the source yet? I am getting bored here” says Amelia as she puts her legs on the table while drinking her ice-cold coffee. ”Well that’s because you aren’t working at all! Come over here and help me out will ya? Besides I have been covering your shift for about four hours now.” Says Evans in frustration, he is surrounded with papers with code snippets of different programming languages all over them. He has left his workstation to avoid getting crazy like Zeus and started working out the code on hard paper. “Aww, Evey. Just a few minutes more. Don’t you worry I will be there. Give me a little break will ya? “Says Amelia as she puts her cap on her face to try and get some sleep after she drinks her coffee. “Give you a break? Hell I gave you a full nap-time! And what’s up with the nick names and all? “Evans waits for a minute but doesn’t gets a response this time.

Evans and Amelia are twins, they have been working with the Crimson rebels since a long time. They are the ones responsible for Crimson’s infiltration team’s success over the years. They have also been co-ordination with the sleeper cells of the Crimsons in the Consensus and have never been spotted. They are given nick names like the ‘Miracle workers’ or the ‘Psych-O-techs’.

Mackenzie is a former soldier of the Royal Navy, but she left the Consensus the very moment she realized that what was it all about. She acquired some highly classified information from two rebel sleeper cell agents she caught during the third Great War. Those sleeper cells were Lieutenants Hues and Sasha. The information she got on the Consensus blew her mind away. She joined the rebel ranks soon and was given a big fat promotion in the Rebel community for that. 

“Screw this! I am out!” he flips the table spread the papers all over the place. And walks out of the room angrily but suddenly is shocked to death and stands in attention as if he has seen a ghost. General Brigadier Mackenzie is here with her Lieutenants Hues and Sasha. “Heyyyyyyy, what’s all the commotion about ev-“ Amelia says as she looks outside and the moment she realizes who is here she backflips out of her chair and stands in attention as if she was never tired. “Engineer Amelia and Evans reporting ma’am” Says Amelia and Evans as they salute her “Easy there guys. No need to get all worked up on me.” Says Mackenzie as she smiles and looks inside the room. “How about you guys take a little walk with me? Lieutenants, get us something to eat” she then starts walking with the twins. “It’s about the data you guys recovered from Frelik. Where are we at?” Mackenzie asks them calmly. “Yeah, about that---uhh” Evans was going to say something but he stops there. “Go on, tell her. “Says Amelia as she gets this cold stare from Evans. “What is it Evey? What are you hiding from me?” Says Mackenzie with a smile.  “Uh, you see ma’am. We have the data but its encryption is driving us crazy. We haven’t even found the source code yet. I don’t think if we can do this. Its way above our league ma’am” says Evans as he sighs and looks down. “I see, alright then you two. Take a day or two off. I will get Zeus working on this, you guys did well. It’s time that you took your proper rest.” Hues and Sasha arrive with packets of food and some juice with them. “Here you go ma’am everything you wanted and more” Says Hues as he hands over the packets to them. “Good work people. Now as I was saying, take a day or two off and then hand us over all the data you recovered along with a copy of the original. I will get Zeus on this one. “She says so with a smile and then leave the place with Hues and Sasha.