LEVERAGE AU - volume one

Chapter Two

Outside the opposite building, Alice hung and clung to the glass, identifying the security system. "Vibration dectection is on."

"No cutting, Alice, use the binary." Jack responded as Boomer and Pidge grabbed supplies and opened a hatch to enter the building.

On the exterior of the building, Alice began to place a cutting agent on the glass. She attached a suction cup to the glass and pulls it away, letting it drop to the ground. She then reached into the hole and sets a remote on the table. Climbing in the window, she hit the remote which released her rope. With a flip off the desk, she caught a pencil before it could hit the ground. Alice then moved to the hall and toward a room marked "DANGER: HIGH VOLTAGE" filled with electrical equipment. "Ugh."

As Boomer and Pidge waited in the elevator, Alice set up a laptop and crossed two wires. About half a moment later, the elevator jerked in to motion, descending quickly. "They're on their way," Alice reported to Jack.

"What are you getting with security? You see security?" He asked back.

Alice looked over at the security room on her monitors and half grinned. "They can't see a thing." She had rigged the cameras to show an unmoving elevator on the guard's monitors. They had no idea of what was transpiring in their building.

Jack watched through security cameras on his laptop and spoke again. "You got any chatter on their frequencies, Alice?"

"No, why?" She asked back in response, eyebrows furrowing.

"There's eight listed on the duty roster, there's only four at the guard post."

"I can't even tell how many guys are in the room. How can you tell who's who?"

"Haircuts, Alice, count the haircuts."

"...I would've missed that."

"What?"

"Nothing."

Boomer raised an eyebrow at the conversation. "Problem?"

Jack shook his head. "Maybe... Run the cameras."

Pidge watched the display on her device, which was now running code diagnostics on the password to the door. "Huh. Ten digit code. I salute you, sir. And, Alice? If you could tell me when you get the 411 on those guards that'd be great."

Alice responded, "Got 'em. They're doing their walk-through an hour early, why the f..."

Jack inhaled sharply, "It's the baseball playoffs. Nobody wants to miss the big game... Yeah, game 5 of the playoffs. They're doing their rounds an hour early so they can watch the playoffs. Alright, so, where are they?"

"Stairwell," Alice replied quickly as one of the guards walked past an open doorway, seeing them as he raised his weapon and chased him.

Jack could hear the heavy breathing of running through his comm, "Okay, guys here's what we gotta do. We gotta squelch 'em."

Alice nodded and hit keys on the laptop, sending a high-pitched sound onto the guard's comm frequencies. The guard tried to use his radio, but got only a high-pitched whine while the guards in the break room heard a high pitched whine on the intercom. One of them reached up and turned it down.

"Alright, Boomer, what I want you to do is clear the zone and use Pidge as bait," Jack said. Boomer took off his jacket and disappeared.

"Bait? What? Hold up. Wait a minute. I know you ain't talking about me, I ain't nobody's bait!" to her device, "Come on baby, work for me baby, come on, baby."

"Pidge, those guards are almost there!" Alice warned. Pidge turned to leave but the guards were standing there, weapons pointed at her. She raised her hands over her head as Boomer walked out behind the guards. Pidge dropped her bag. By the time the gun hit the ground, Boomer is the only man left standing, holding one of the security guard's guns in his hand.

"That's what I do, sweet-heart," Boomer answered to her question earlier. Pidge looked impressed. Behind her, the door clicked open. She and Boomer entered the server room.

"Guys, guys you gotta talk to me, okay? 'Cause I don't know what's going on," Jack said as he watched his screen. Would they turn on him and take the money for themselves? No, no they wouldn't. They needed him... Right?

Boomer was tying up the security guards while Pidge worked on a terminal. "It's all good, I'm stripping the drives right now.," She said as she plugged in her flash drive and waited. "Come on baby. Got all the designs, got all the backups. I'm leaving this cupboard bare."

"Great. Now drop the spike," Commanded their absent director.

The monitor flashed before showing the Blue Screen of Death. Lights on the servers began to go out and Boomer raised an eyebrow. "Gave 'em a virus?"

Pidge snorted. "Dude. Cmon. I gave them more than one virus." The two exited to the hallway to see Alice.

"Hey Boomer, those guards you ganked? They reset all the alarms on the roof and all the floors above us. We can't go up." She said, clearly implying what Boomer was thinking.

"....Every person for themselves," He said as he started to move away but Pidge merely scoffed. "Oh, what is it now?"

"Oh nothing, just, that, I'm kind of the one with the merchandise guys."

Alice raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, well I'm the one with an exit."

Jack groaned, "And I'm the one with a plan. Now I know you children don't play well with others but I need you to hold it together for exactly seven more minutes. Now get to the elevator and head down. We're going to the burn scam."