Postremus

Part 10

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Victor rubbed the sleep from his eyes and shuffled for his shoes, still on the phone with Ms. Rudricks."That's impossible. I coded the system so it happened at exactly 6:50."

"Well get your ass over here. Cause it started and participants are getting massacred by the dozens. Including your daughter." Ms. Rudrick hung up the phone.

Victor froze when he heard his daughter was in more danger than intended. He shot out of bed and made for the door, not bothering with his hair or his tie. With his work pants and under shirt on he made it to the car already waiting for him outside of his house. The driver sped out of the gated community and towards Velantis head quarters.

Victor ran up the steps to the Chair mans head quarters where Ms. Rudricks was standing, her arms crossed and her foot tapping. On the dome was footage of everything that was going on in the high school. Young teens were being slaughtered like pigs in every section of footage.

"How the hell did this happen?!" Ms. Rudricks slammed her fist on the panels, "You are one of the best computer programmers in all of Concordis, and you made basically the only law in Exsilium Imbecilus slip right past your nose!"

"I-I don't know what happened. My codes were all correct and they worked fine. No bugs or anything." Victor ran a shaky hand through his hair and adjusted his glasses.

Ms. Rudricks looked at everyone below her who were all looking up at her for the next command.

"Don't just sit there and look at me like a bunch of half-brained morons and pull up his damn codes!" Ms. Rudricks bun began to fall apart, which never happened. A single strand of hair fell in between her eyes.

Quickly all the works began workng feriously to open the codes. The security camera footage minimized on the dome and the codes Victor had worked on for months appeared.

"Terrance! Run through the coding for time and find the bug!" Ms. Rudricks pointed a stern finger at a man to the very left of everyone. He nodded and pulled up the coding for time.

"Found it!" Terrance displayed the bug on the screen. The coding was filled with virus's and all sorts of bugs.

"No way. Somebody hacked into the system." Victor stated with his mouth agape.

Ms. Rudricks turned on him, "What do you mean somebody hacked us?! That's impossible!" She ran her finger along a panel titled 'Security'. "I need all computer security units to the main office ASAP."

After a moment three men came running into the main office. They stood with their hands behind their backs awaiting Ms. Rudricks confrontation.

"How did we get hacked?" she asked sternly.

"We don't know. Nobody could have the knowledge to break past the firewall and encrypt a virus into the system. But what we do know is that the source of the attack came from High School #1547 in Sanction 14."

Ms. Rudricks clenched her jaw and turned towards the coding on the dome. She gave a long heavy sigh then replied, "I want that firewall up and running again now. Make it stronger. I'll find this attacker. Pray to God that we don't all get the death sentence for this mishap." Ms. Rudricks pressed a button and a grand leather chair came out from the floor. She sat in it and looked at Victor, "You. Man that virtual panel over there and watch your codes closely. We'll have to roll with this and make it work." She looked over at a young woman who was awaiting orders at her station "Mikasa, watch the security cameras of the school and see if you can find any suspicious activity!"

Victor became situated at his seat and pulled up his codes, analyzing them carefully. Mikasa stood up and addressed Ms. Rudricks, "Put it up on the dome, Mikasa."

The dome lit up with footage of the security camera in the main office of the school. A girl with brown hair and a blade attached to a pole was being led into the control room by tall boy with black hair and a dark red hoodie. Victor stood up "That's Cambria!" he shouted.

"Oh. Seems as if your daughter is getting a little frisky with that boy, thinking this was it for them. Mikasa! Is there a camera in the control room." Ms. Rudricks looked to Mikasa who was typing on a panel.

"No ma'am. They shut the door behind them as well."

"I can see that." Ms. Rudricks began pulling up various codes on her panel, searching through every line, and every word. She fell silent for what seemed like forever. "Aha! I've caught you! I traced the codes back to a location of where they came from. They came from that exact control room." She pointed up at the footage on the dome. "Mr. Eliston, your daughter is having sex with a mastermind. She has good tastes."

Victor rolled his eyes and continued to watch the footage. Cambria wouldn't throw herself at just anyone. The door to the control room remained shut for about an hour. Maybe she actually did have sex with that boy. Suddenly the door flew open and the two came out again.

"Pull up the rest of the cameras Mikasa. Let's see how our little hacker deals with this." Ms. Rudricks pressed a button on the panel and pointed to a security camera in the kiva. Students were crowded wall to wall in the kiva, with the doors well barricaded. In the blink of an eye those barriers vanished along with the doors. Mortuus came flooding in after the kids, but most ran to out the other side of the kiva before they fell into the hands of the Mortuus. The kids ran down the hall and into the commons. The 'mastermind' was standing at the front of the building looking up at the banister.

"What's he looking at? Mikasa find what he's looking at!" Mikasa pulled up a security camera next to the banister which displayed Cambria cutting off a young girls foot.

Victor stared in astonishment as he witnessed his own daughter slaughter a girl and hang her over a banister like a feeding trough for pigs.

"What a pleasant lady like daughter you have there, Victor." Ms. Rudricks placed her hands under her chin and watched the 'mastermind' and Cambria leave the building.

The boy pulled out a lighter and lit a flame. Cameras began going black and the only thing visible on the ones workng were explosions going off in the school. Ms. Rudricks stood up and started shouting "No! Stop him! He's bringing down the damn school! Stop him!"

Everyone became flustered as all the security cameras went blank and the school was being reduced to rubble. Ms. Rudricks began slamming her fists on the panels again. She turned to the entire team below her and shouted "Bring me that boys head!"