Resident Tale

Chapter 19: No Exit

Grinder and Kent infiltrated the abandon Veltro base with B.O.W staggers left behind. Kent discovered something that interested him, but the power on the crashed ship lost power, so he and Grinder ran to the airport.

They found an MB-28, or a computer, Kent fell immediately in love. Grinder just teases him about, calling it Kent's girlfriend.

Grinder powers the computer with generators and Kent had to bypass the encrypted locks on the computer, but that only drew more attention of the B. to them. 

Grinder kept them busy as Kent was bypassing the encryption, but only more and more B.O.W.s. kept coming, giving Grinder all the fun. But he was successful in killing all of them as Kent was finished with the encrypted, but what surprised Grinder was that Kent was hacking into the BSAA secret service, believing that they were also involved.

So he hacks away and finally found the missing piece to the puzzle. "Right, right. That explains it." Kent mutters and Grinder looks at him, "Explains what? Who's behind Veltro?" Grinder asks him, Kent looks over at him, "Yeah, probably. there's only one way to find out. Let's ask him ourselves." he answers and called something, Grinder looks at him and connects to the call. 

This is Forkball; O'Brian here.

O'Brian answers, catching Grinder by surprise "Huh? What the hell? O'Brian's our man?" Grinder questions.

Kent wasn't surprised at all. "Director O'Brian, I think I've put it all together. Veltro was never back in action. It was all smoke and mirrors orchestrated by yourself. Your own little Veltro production. All to get in the head of one certain somebody." Kent informs him, O'Brian was quiet just for a second. 

You've pretty much got it. I'm glad I'm paying you for nothing. 

O'Brian admits, with no shred of shame in his voice. Then Grinder looks up as he heard something fly right over them, "I analyzed his logs, sir, and there's something you may want to see." Kent informs him, looking at the computer. 

Then let me see it.

O'Brian tells him, "Yes sir, I'll send it immediately." Kent states and types away. But then the data just stops, blocking. "What's going on?" he questions and a label pops up, "Connection error?! We've been detected!" Kent shouts then a bomb went off outside. 

Shaking the airport base, Grinder was alerted and ran to his friend. "Hey, Kent!" he shouts. "Two boys, uncovering secrets, wanted dead or alive! Just like the Falcon and the Snowman!" Kent shouts to himself as he hurriedly types away and Grinder grips his arm and tries to pull him away. "You want to die with your machines, idiot?!" he questions him.

But Kent refuses to move away, "Dude! Hold up, I'm almost-!" Kent tells him as he started the download, the two struggled, but then stop, looking up at the ceiling and everything collapsed.

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The line was suddenly cut off by the sound of explosions, O'Brian looks at the download and saw that it stop at 20%. "Kent! Keith!" he calls out to them on the radio but was replied with nothing but static. He stood abruptly from his chair, shoving it to the side, and had his back facing the computer.

He sighs with sorrow in his eyes, "What a disaster..." he mutters to himself, but unknown to him, the download of the data started up again, reaching 100%.

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3:16 am

Laboratory