SQUAD - Season 2

Episode 5 - Andi's Offensive

Maci

The room was dark, cold and silent. Maci knew her friends were sitting there, all around her, but she didn't speak. No one did. It was all too stressful. It was all too real. The DDA had won. Surely, it was all over now.

Only once in a while did light flood into the room, and never was it relieving that it did. Light meant nothing good. It meant that whatever the DDA was doing to Maci's friends, they had finished on one person and were coming to get their next victim.

After what seemed like forever since Madi had been collected, the door opened once more.

"Wilkerson? Maci Wilkerson?"

The man in the suit was here for Maci.

Hesitantly, Maci stood. The man looked to her.

"Right this way, Maci. You're next."

Maci looked to the her friends one last time. Justin and Heath looked back, melancholy in their eyes.

Andi

Andi couldn't believe how many people had actually  congregated at the park, ready to storm the DDA halls. It was a considerable amount, nearly three hundred people of all ages, some younger than Andi, weren't happy with the government agency. Nearly three hundred people wanted to help Andi save her friends.

Once her watch struck twelve, midnight, Andi stood on a picnic table and began to announce her plans.

"I assume you all have cars, and that we can all reach the facility, correct?"

Everyone nodded, and a couple people verbally expressed they were accounted for.

Andi clapped her hands together. "Alrighty then, let's get this show on the road. The idea is simple enough in principle. We're all going to begin by acting as though we want to silently express our disagreement, you know? Like, the right to do that? We're going to calmly pull up to the facility and walk in, all together. Once we all get into the lobby, it's go time.

"As soon as we all get inside, we'll be using the air soft guns," Andi motioned to a bucket on the ground next to her. "We'll take out the front desk lady and stand our ground, only proceeding in one, large group. We've got to make our way to the server room first, because that was the whole intention of our first plan. I've got a virus on this drive here, and we've got to do whatever it takes to plug it in.

"That being said, we've also got to make sure the virus gets there intact. Heath made thousands of slightly different copies to keep the DDA from patching out the bug it exploits. In a little while, you're each going to get a drive with one of those copies installed. That way, as long as at least one of us gets to the sever room, we'll be okay. Any questions?"

The crowd was silent, but they were more than ready to go.

"Okay," Andi said finally. "Let's go."
Justin

Justin still felt the lump of the USB drive in his pocket, and he still had a plan to use it, even though he was already screwed for sure.

They had computers all over here, and they were all connected. Heath had researched it all, and even though some wouldn't have the permissions to take down the whole mainframe, if the virus got into the DDA system even at all, if the USB was plugged in for even a millisecond, it would be able to take down several sections of the network in seconds. When it was his turn to leave the dark cell, Justin would be on the lookout for a computer, any computer, that would allow him to infect the DDA just the way they had infected his friends. After all, if Emma could escape, he could too, right?