Outcasts Of The Midlands

Chapter 3, Hacker's Bay

Chapter 3, Hacker's bay

As it states in The Chronicles Of Louisiana.
"New Orleans is the city of Robotics. Massive strides are made in Artificial Intelligence every day but some people are concerned that it could get out of hand. The first piece of artificial intelligence was developed there in 1973. After the events of the 2025 Nuclear Attack Of San Francisco, roughly 5 million
people died. Luckily, they managed to send it to Canada and newer models are more refined and an attack on that scale will most likely not happen."

Danny watched the cameras carefully, they had woken up and started talking and singing songs. It seems like they were actually enjoying it. There was no jobs needed to be done and they could chill all day, he wanted them to suffer and make money for him.

"Ahh! My horns are stuck!"
But then the horns revealed a hidden world. And when she got out she saw a plain of corrupted madness inside the wooden table. The drawers were fake, this world was fake. Well they already knew that as it was in a controlled server but they had found a flaw.

Meanwhile in Birmingham, James and Magnet had went to a rock concert because everyone from work was going there. James had not slept at all last night from the fear that Operation Cyborg Future would not succeed. James saw Magnet and as soon as he walking in he was ready to roast him.
"Hey Magnet! Seems like you bled out your hair."
"Yeah, bet you can't beat me when I actually show my power."
Magnet threw the first punch at James and it sent him flying onto the muddy ground.
"You wanna see a real punch? I'll show ya one."
A large crowd had already gathered and were cheering for a respective side.
He threw a massive punch right in his face, the battle was on. Magnet kicked him but with little effect, James threw him to the side with all his strength. Half covered in mud, he punched James in the face. At this moment, the band stopped playing and started watching the fight. Until James knocked out Magnet by RKOing him onto the floor.
"Let's leave? Maybe?" Stated a random intern
"Yeah! Let's do that!"

Meanwhile back in The Server
"How can we get out of here?" Stated Maisie
"Err.. I am not sure."
"Ashley! I got a plan!"
"What is it?"
"Well we gotta get a person from 2013, 2003, 1993, 1988, 1983, 1973. Then we have to battle a literal army of about 20 million people."
"Why would we go to 1988 and not just skip to err.. 1983?"
"We need Rick Astley to rickroll the entire army."
"You're an err.. genius! Yes that was what I was gonna say."
"Oh no.. you gotta see this Maisie"
When Maisie looked up, she saw it. A glitch landscape laid above the drawer where they could climb into. They managed to clamber up into the glitch landscape where they spotted a computer. They knew that they could use the computer to program freely and escape.
But then they saw a shadowy ginger figure, an angry shadowy figure.
"So.. you think you can mock my business."
"Start hacking! You two know how to hack!"
They started typing a script to paralyse Danny. This script would also summon a door but due to the computer being from the late 90s, only 2 people can leave.
"Come on! Type faster!"
"Err.. I can't"
"You write transparency {0}!"
"Hey!.. You need to write function!"
"Robot boy! Where are you?"
"Is he.. trying to recreate 28 days later?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"Alright! I got the exit made!"
Kiara ran straight towards the door while Lewis tried to save Maisie.
"You gotta come!"
"No, only one of us can escape! You gotta leave!"
"Fine.."
He started running towards the door, he looked back with despair as she was dragged back into the materialistic world. As soon as he left, he woke up in a facility. He was in a device with pins above him, he stood up and walked outside the room. Rats rampaged across the floor while dozens of rows with cells inside. Kiara busted out the door breathing frantically. They paced up the stairs together until they saw a ominous blue light with the sign below it reading
"IHDA Virtual Reality Experiment Laboratories."
They were out, it was time to run. They found a wide vent where they could easily fit in, but then he remembered the mission.
He had to go to the place in Coventry! He was really close. He had to do a short 2 mile run/jog, he crawled out the event where Kiara soon followed.
A few hours later, they had finally reached Coventry. Now it was just a matter of getting through the alleyway and entering the building. They managed to do that quite easily while avoiding the bin bags on the floor.
"Hello? Can we enter?"
No reply followed
"Er.. we do have twenty six pounds?"
"Give me it!" Shouted the guard
"When did we say we were gonna give you it?"
He sighed but then stated
"Touché, you can pass."
They both entered and were shocked when they saw a massive high-technology advanced space with people attempting to do things on their desk, a massive blue light hung from the ceiling.
But then he remembered that he could find his way back in time in a second. But this would be something way more dangerous than anything he had ever done before. But then a woman went over to Lewis because she knew his plans.
"So you wanna travel to Aston?"
The whole roomed was shocked, this was extremely dangerous.
"Can I call you Ashley?"
"Yeah.. let's stop attracting attention."
"Be warned, Aston is the most dangerous part of Birmingham! Fires happen weekly and explosions are normal, many gangs hold major influence over the entire place! Travelling there is imminent death."
"Wow.. are you sure we should do this Lewis?"
"Yes, it's a necessary step."
He hit the peculiar piece of the time travelling core and set it to 2013.
"But we need a person from 2023!"
"Well.. you'll do."
The bubble formed and they were ready
"What's going on!"
"Don't worry, you'll get used to it."