Hijack'd - A Sci-Fi Fiction novel

𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻 5 - 𝓝𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓮𝔁

"I think so? I'm trying to remember, so much has happened in the past few months."

"Well, she was in Sydney when it happened, the synths attacked, and they brought NX-5. It swallowed half the city, her included. I was supposed to be headed home with her that day, but well that didn't happen."

"Well, hey, look on the brighter side, at least she might've just been taken somewhere." I say, trying to lighten the mood.

"No, it doesn't work that way." he held up his prosthetic.

"NX-5 is the lethal version of NX. It decomposes matter, tears it apart. Anyone taken by it's just dead. Besides, she got shot in the back by a Synth rebel."

"So, 6 of us are just, gone? gone to that goo?"

"They're nanobots. Tiny machines that work together to destroy shit. They're all outfitted with small, superheated saw blades that cut through most metals. We had to EMP half the planet and nuke Sydney to shit just to kill them."

My eyes went wide. "So, It wasn't a solar flare?"

"That was a cover-up story, we didn't want people to know that stuff got loose."

"Huh." I say to myself.

"Do we know where it came from?"

Kirk pulled out a more futuristic I-pad, hologram for a screen, winding the brightness down as he opened a 3D map of earth, and zoomed into a factory-like building between Alaska and Yukon, almost right on the border, this was clearly an older map, he had wound time back on it, he stopped In a large, metal room with about 9 large vats of NX-5, and some stairs, scaffolding, and catwalks over the rest of the room, mostly empty aside from that, the vats were open, he pressed a play button as we watched the goo begin to grow, expand, and spill out of the vats, quickly spreading throughout the room.

"It was a blessing we made it out of that megamall alive, that stuff moves fast."

"Where is it now?" I ask

"For all we know, it could be halfway across Canada at this point, that's why I have a plan for when it gets to us, but don't worry about that tonight, get some sleep, we have time."

I hesitantly nod as I walk back to my bed, luckily, me and Kirk's were the closest to the bathroom, I change back into my PJs, being a light pink with white polka-dots across it. I put my sleeping mask on as I tuck myself in and drift asleep, 3 hours should be enough, 6 in total.

5:00 AM

I woke up, sat up and stretched, yawning, immediately turning and flipping the sheets off me, I'm greeted with an empty room, once again, the only person here is Kirk, he's in his casual clothes, sitting on his bed, Looking at his phone

"Kirk? Where is everyone?"

"Shut up, we have a mission"

"Who assigned?"

"Me."

"Sorry, what?"
"What are we doing and why just us two?"

"I'll explain everything once we get there."

The car ride was long but after about 2 hours, we come to a stop at a tall office building in Toronto, a logo near the top with the words "Nanotex Industries" In large, red and black letters being seen, we're hiding behind one of the pillars holding the front of the building up

"Infiltrate?" I ask

"Infiltrate." He assures as I smile, we each load our 85s as we put them in the bags on our backs and pull out 4 suction cup-like devices and stick them to the wall, feet placed through the straps on the bottom ones, and hands through the top ones as we begin to climb

After passing about 7 stories, we make it to the 8th and Kirk tells me to stop climbing, he lets go of one of the suction cups on his hand as he pulls out a pen like device. He held it to the glass and a small beam flew from the tip. He moved it in a circle, the beam melting the glass it touched. He kicked it inwards as he flipped in, leaving his suction cups on the side of the building, I do the same, but I pack my suction cups. We both pull out our AKs as I turn to him. "What are we doing at Nanotex?" I'm still confused, Kirk let out a rough, violent cough before replying "I think that on one of the employee's computers, there's info on NX-5 and the person who made it, we might be able to find out where he is." My eyes widened in surprise as I smiled

"Does that mean I get to hack again?!" I say, practically jumping around in place

"Yes, hack all the computers."

"YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" I yell, but then cover my mouth, realizing the building isn't empty

"Now we gotta make it quick." He said, giving me a side-eye

I exhale and calm down as I pull out a sort of phone-like device as I press a few buttons as a huge electric shockwave blasted from it, not shutting down the computers, but somehow getting them past the starting sequence, I put the device away as I run to the first computer, quickly scanning every drive, every folder, and every file I could as fast as possible, nothing.
I move to the next computer, do the same, nothing, except for some stuff you should not have saved on a work computer. I scan computers left and right and by the 108th one, I find something, finally, a document with all the info about the man running this whole thing, Kirk likes to call him the Fallen, but his real name is...