Democracy vs Corporatocracy

Chapter Thirty Three: Operation Computer Virus

March 11th 2051

Philadelphia was once a magnificent city, it was the city where four different United States Presidents had been born and the city where the Declaration of Independence had been signed, freeing America from British rule. But now it was a Corpo playground. Sixty percent of the city's population lived under the poverty line, 20% couldn't afford housing and had to live in tents and the rest were barely well off. At the centre of the city was the MegaCorp Division of Research and Development, where MegaCorp scientists made needless products to keep the population in check. They had recently developed motion sensors that would allow people to know if a criminal had entered their homes, but MegaCorp had made these sensors into cameras, that would spy on people and identify who is most likely to rebel against the American Corporatocracy. That was about to be stopped. Walking across the street were three men in their early twenties and two teenagers. The men wore maintenance uniforms and the two boys were in Intern uniforms. They walked up to the offices and saw the tall building that was where an entire apartment block once was and saw MegaCorp's logo on the holo-board. MegaCorp's logo was a black M in a white spot on a red flag. In some weird way, it was similar to the flag of Nazi Germany, just without a swastika. MegaCorp claimed that the red represented the prosperity they bought, but the Freedom Democracy League knew that it actually meant the bloodshed they bought and knew that they had to stop MegaCorp before it was too late. The strike team headed inside to the reception and saw the clean and pristine layout of the room. They walked up to the receptionist, who instantly looked at them and said "Can I help you?" Codes, who had brown hair and glasses, answered with "Us three are showing these two interns the ropes, here are our access cards". They all showed the woman their access cards who had them put the cards through the scanner and said "Go right on ahead". The five of them walked past the desk and headed to the elevator. Codes pressed the button and the door opened up. Two executives were inside and each had a briefcase in their hand. The two walked past without a word and the strike team entered the elevator. Lucas bought a sticky note out of his pocket that said "Sub-level 3" and pressed the button that lead to that level. The doors closed up and they felt the elevator going down. Codes had a code cracker in his pocket and planned on using it to access the terminal that controlled the Privacy Violators. 

The elevator arrived at Sub-Level 3 and the doors opened up. The strike team all walked out of the elevator and into the hallway in front of them. They all saw the rooms with computers and data centres inside and the offices where personnel managed day to day affairs at the offices. Matthew saw that there were two security cameras on each side of the hallway and hoped that Internal would come through for them. The camera lights flickered a bit and got back to normal. One camera looked right at them and turned up and down. That was the signal. Internal had now accessed the cameras and made them show footage from 24 hours ago exactly. This would make the guards not realise that anything was up and would allow the team to enact this operation without any interference. They walked along the hallway for about two minutes, finally coming across the room where the terminal was. The door was made of a dark black metal and had a small window in the middle. Lucas peered through and saw the terminal. It was a square device the size of a car, it had a screen at the front of it and control panels across the sides. Lucas could also see data centres and computers all around it, especially the one that controlled the guns belonging to MegaCorp grunts. One of the soldiers then knelt down to the air duct next to the door and got to work on pulling it off. First he used a screwdriver to remove the screws, then he took off the air duct entirely. The soldier looked at Matthew and Lucas and said "Now you two head inside and deactivate the guns that the grunts in New York have. Then rewire the terminal to have the privacy violators broadcast the evidence". Codes then handed a flash drive to Matthew and said "Remember, put the drive into the input, then use the computer to make it so that the Privacy Violators broadcast the evidence once Brothering turns them on. Finally, hit the two big green buttons on either side within three seconds of each other, that will send the command wo all of them". Matthew saluted Codes and said "Yes Sir, heck yes". Matthew and Lucas then got on their knees and crawled into the air vent. Luckily it wasn't that long and it was easy for Lucas to push the other air duct open. They crawled into the room and saw that it was filled with data centres and computers. Matthew said nervously "Okay, I'll head to the terminal that controls the privacy violators, while you find the one that allows MegaCorp grunts to access their guns". Lucas nodded and started looking for the terminal. MegaCorp guns were electric and were user biometrically locked, meaning that if anyone who was not authorized tried to use it, they would receive and electric shock. Lucas finally found the terminal that controlled the guns and used his code cracker to access it.