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Chapter 9: Jurassic Park, Part 9

Chapter 9

Back in the Control room, Emerald was sitting at Mercury's computer with Pyrrha, Ozpin, and Qrow watching her.

"Keycheck space minus 0. Keychecks off. Safety space minus 0." Emerald said, reading off the command history of the terminal aloud, "He's turning off the security systems. Doesn't want anybody to see what he's about to do. Now listen to this next entry, it's the kicker. 'White rabbit object'. Whatever it did, it did it all. But with Keychecks off, the computer didn't log the keystrokes, so now the only way to find it is go through the computer's lines of code one-by-one."

"Credit where it's due, kid," Roman said with a nod, "This you knows what he's doing."

"Please, it's common sense, nothing more." Emerald scoffed.

"I'm more concerned with this 'white rabbit object'." Winter said.

"What about it?" Weiss asked.

"I believe that Ms. Schnee is saying that an object shouldn't have been able to do everything it supposedly did." Ozcar said.

"Huh?"

"In programming language," Winter said, "An object is essentially a clump of code that acts as a literal object in the digital space of the computer. It can be moved around and manipulated, but it can't cause anything that Ms. Sustrai is describing."

"I believe Mr. Black simply created a command and disguised it as an object." Ozcar proposed.

"A back door." Winter nodded, the theory making sense.

"How many lines of code are there?" Pyrrha asked.

"'Bout two million." Emerald said, taking a drag from her cigarette.

"Two million?"

"Damn!" Yang said in surprise,

"That sounds about right." Winter commented.

"How do you figure?"

"Have you ever seen computer code, Ms. Xiao Long?"

"No..."

"That's an accurate amount. Trust me."

"Yeah."

"Qrow," Ozpin said, turning to his warden, "I wonder if you'd be good enough to take a gas jeep, and bring back my grandchildren?"

"Sure." He replied. As he walked off, he took a small swing from his flask.

"Yeah! Uncle Qrow to the rescue!" Ruby cheered.

"Wonder if this means we'll get to see him fight a dinosaur?" Yang said.

"Taking all bets, folks!" Qrow called. Kali giggled at this, while Ghira gave him a quizzical look and Taiyang simply facepalmed.

"I'm going with him." Pyrrha said, following after him.

"Oz. Oz!" Emerald said trying to get the older man's attention. When he finally turned around, she told him flat-out, "I can't get Jurassic Park back online without Mercury Black."

Back in the park, Mercury was driving down a muddy dirt road, wondering where the hell he was. He felt that he should have reached the docks by now. He blew past a sign. Realizing what it indicated, he immediately turned the wheel to the right as far as it would go in an attempt to turn around.

"Why do people in movies always seem to think that will work?" Emerald observed.

"Never thought I'd say this," Blake said, "But you have a point there."