Arrow: Fracture Part 3

Thy Father's Name

The grainy footage on the monitors had every eye fully focused upon the live feed that Felicity had rigged with Anatoli and the other Bratva members' cell phones. A simple hack and the phones' cameras were now sending a live video back to the Keep for the team to watch. Even though Anatoli had no idea how it was working he opted to push aside his questions and focus on his task, after all he suspected asking Felicity about the process behind the setup would be filled with mostly large and confusing technological babble. Despite the operation in Russia being what the team suspected as safe, Oliver had agreed when Felicity offered to setup the live feed in the case that a tech issue would arise and require her assistance. The video showed the small group of Bratva thugs cautiously moving through the dark building. The server farm where the data had been traced back to was located inside a storage warehouse used by several businesses in the country. The warehouse was a legitimate storage facility, the server farm however was a nest of dark web transactions and information. Normally the team, especially Felicity, would've loved to get their hands on any data from the untapped information source that could potentially lead them to numerous unsavory characters operating within Starling City. Tonight however the team had one goal from the operation, and they were betting heavily on it.

"We're at the server door." Anatoli whispered as he scanned the door with his phone to show his counterparts across the sea. Felicity leaned in closely as the feed settled over the door's lock, which she quickly began a search for in hopes she could put together some sort of one time hack to get them inside.

"Give me two minutes and I should be able to bypass the security." Felicity began as her keystrokes took over the comm.

"No need my dear." Anatoli replied as he waved an access card in front of the door's security reader and unlocked it. Felicity paused and watched as the door swung open on the monitor.

"But the key cards for this security system are only active for forty-eight hours...how did you get one?" Felicity asked, not sure if she even wanted to know the answer.

"Bratva has it's ways." Anatoli shrugged as he and the men entered the server room. The rows of servers stretched down the dark room, each filled with dozens of pulsing lights. One of the men called out and drew Anatoli to him, showing the others he had reached the main access port. A quick glance with his phone and Felicity knew it was the right spot.

"This is it?" Anatoli asked.

"Yes. All you have to do is plug the cable from your phone into the main port and the program I sent you will do the rest." Felicity explained as she nervously watched, wishing she could have been there to ensure the process. Anatoli's eyes widened at the technical display before him as he slowly guided the cable to the port and inserted it, careful to secure the connection.

"Is it working?" He asked, freezing in place for fear of disrupting the process. Felicity checked a second monitor with her program already running on it and saw that the wheels were turning.

"Yes. It should take about three minutes to sift through the files and find what we need." She said, double checking the program and it's status. The sound of a small item bouncing off the floor somewhere in the room caught the Bratva soldiers' attention as they snapped in different directions looking for anything out of the ordinary. Anatoli peered through the dark pathways around him and nodded to his men. Each man quickly readied their weapons and began to fan out around the room, slowly moving along the pathways while searching for any threats. Oliver leaned in closer over Felicity's chair as he watched the multiple live feeds and saw that the men were on alert for some reason. A familiar uneasy feeling crept along Oliver's spine as he narrowed his view on the monitor.

"Somethings off." He muttered, mostly speaking to himself but still catching Felicity and Diggle's attention. They each turned back to the monitor and watched the feeds closely, catching a quick blur on one of the phones before the footage went to static.