Mentally Able

Chapter 23

The next day, I was very high spirited because of our success in the mission. We took the boxes of paper to Liam to look at. I had never given the papers a second glance until it came the time we had to study them for clues and important things that related to the Supernaturals. There was one slight problem: the papers were all written in code. When we were at the government base, we didn't have the time to look over the papers thoroughly, and we where in such a panic for most of the time just had to take whatever papers we could, not caring what the information looked like as long as it was what we needed. We looked at the numbers. Yes, numbers. The code was written with numbers, so whenever we deciphered them into letters, they might still be in a code of letters too. We called in many other members of the Terragentem technology centre, but nobody could figure it out. I felt as though the code should've been easy to break, saying that the code only consisted of two numbers, 1 and 0. We all decided it was time for a break from it, but Liam wasn't going to leave the coded papers until he figured it out.
" I know this code.. I just have to remember what it's from." He said
So we left Liam alone with the coded papers and his 3D micro projector, still pulling up documents and and applications. About 30 minutes later, while I was sitting at a computer and playing a game on it, I heard a loud whoop of happiness. I ran down to the code room again, and there was Liam, jumping around and yelling
" I GOT IT I GOT IT I GOT IT!"
" Chill Liam." I said, though I was just as excited as he was. " What's the code pattern?"
" It's so simple, I can't believe that we didn't find it out sooner! It's back from the 21st century! Binary numbers is how their computers used to run, and you could translate letters into binary. So all I did was pull up some really old website, and plug all the numbers in, and it gave me words as the output! Look!"
He then typed in a string of numbers off one of the pages. Then, clicking one button, the letter translation appeared in the box beside it.
" See? You try."
I typed in the string of binary.
0100110101101001011100110111001101101001011011110110111000100000010100110111010101110000011001010111001001101110011000010111010001110101011100100110000101101100001110100000110100001010010001110110111101100001011011000011101000100000010000110110000101110000011101000111010101110010011001010010000001100001011011100110010000101111001000000110111101110010001000000110110101100001011011100110100101110000011101010110110001100001011101000110010100100000010100110111010101110000011001010111001001101110011000010111010001110101011100100110000101101100011100110010000001110100011011110010000001101000011001010110110001110000001000000110001101110010011001010110000101110100011001010010000001100001011011100010000001100001011100100110110101111001001000000110000101100111011000010110100101101110011100110111010000100000010101000110010101110010011100100110000101100111011001010110111001110100011001010110110100001101000010100101010001100001011100100110011101100101011101000010100001110011001010010010000000111010001000000101001101110101011100000110010101110010011011100110000101110100011101010111001001100001011011000010000001101100011001010110000101100100011001010111001001110011001011000010000001100001011011100111100100100000010100110111010101110000011001010111001001101110011000010111010001110101011100100110000101101100011100110010110000100000011101000110100001100101001000000110001101101001011101000111100100100000011011110110011000100000010101000110010101110010011100100110000101100111011001010110111001110100011001010110110100001101000010100100011101101111011000010110110001110011001110100000110100001010001011010010000001000110011011110111001001101101001000000110000101101110001000000110000101110010011011010111100100001101000010100010110100100000010101000110000101101011011001010010000001101111011101100110010101110010001000000101010001100101011100100111001001100001011001110110010101101110011101000110010101101101001000000110000101101110011001000010000001101001011101000010011101110011001000000111000001100101011011110111000001101100011001010111001100001101000010100010110100100000010100110111010101110000011001010111001001101110011000010111010001110101011100100110000101101100011100110010000001101111011001100010000001101111011101010111001000100000011001100110111101110010011000110110010100100000011101110110100101101100011011000010000001110010011010010111001101100101001000000110000101101110011001000010000001100100011011110110110101101001011011100110000101110100011001010010000001110100011010000110010100100000011101110110111101110010011011000110010000101110
( yes, this is exactly what I typed in. You could actually copy paste this into a binary translator and get the exact same message.)
This is what that jumbled mess of numbers meant.
"Mission Supernatural:
Goal: Capture and/ or manipulate Supernaturals to help create an army against Terragentem
Target(s) : Supernatural leaders, any Supernaturals, the city of Terragentem
Goals:
- Form an army
- Take over Terragentem and it's peoples
Supernaturals of our force will rise and dominate the world."

" So this is from the President's notebook?" Mark asked
" I guess. That or his board of planning people." Spencer responded.
" Is it seriously this easy to decode every one of these papers?" I inquired
" Yeah. Isn't that crazy? They must think we're pretty stupid." Liam answered laughing, still in a great mood from figuring out the code.
" Guys, they know that Terragentem exists. It pretty much comes right about and says it in this little piece of information. If they know we exist, that must mean that they know where we are, and if they don't, they will soon. " Ace said
Spencer interrupted.
" Sounds like we need another attack plan. This time a full out attack at the government base. And a way to take down Shadevin. "
" We can find out ways to plan the attack by translating the rest of these papers." Liam added helpfully.
" How long would this take?" Mark asked
" If me and the code team worked nonstop, probably about a day and a night. "
" Will you be able to do that?" Ace asked
" I think so, but if there comes a point that I get to tired then I could call in a replacement or something. "
" Do it. " Spencer said " You've got this little bro. "
The code team did work for an entire night, and at about noon the next day, they had translated everything onto one computer. This one computer held the key to victory.
Ace, Mark, Spencer, the other Generals and I all looked over this information. We learned lots and lots about their army, and from that we got an idea on what their strengths and weaknesses. And they had a lot of strengths. But they had one key weakness: if Shadevin was brought down, then the entire enemy force would be brought down. The civilians apparently knew almost nothing about this coming war. They wouldn't be any aid to either side. There was one main problem though. Shadevin had a colossal army. Not only did he have his human army, but he had indeed harnessed a supernatural army at approximately 6,500 Supernaturals. Sure, we had lots of Supernaturals living in Terragentem, probably about 50,000. Not all of those Supernaturals had military training though. Probably about a tenth of them did. The others could fight if needed, but we couldn't send them into war unless it was absolutely necessary and we were desperate. We knew what we had to do. It was time for the final round. It was now or never. We had to start the battle that finished the war, before it found us at our home.