The Missing Piece of History

PROLOGUE

The Training camp:

THE CORTEX was brightly lit and filled with a crew of Techies, preparing for a mission.

The ongoing mission was not new to them, yet they did it with utmost care. Nobody could risk any kind of failures in that mission. The techies do it once every six months.

The crew consisted of a leader and three others. They wore their blue suits, preparing themselves for the mission they were undertaking. They packed the necessary tools in their backpacks.

While the crew was busy getting ready for their mission, no one noticed a small palm-sized electronic bug enter the doorway. It moved similar to that of a normal bug, buzzing all the way. It quickly hid itself behind the set of monitors.

Once the crew was ready, the leader - Darren, closed the door. He pressed a few keys in one of the monitors and a red beam swept through the room.

The bug was on its way to do its job. Once it neared the power cable of the monitor that Darren was operating, it merged with it and passed as a signal to that monitor.

Darren looked patiently at the monitor which took a lot more time to process than usual, but finally displayed a blurred number 9 which quickly turned to 4.

He scratched his chin with his index finger, dwelling himself within his own thoughts. What happened could have been a minor defect. But he was to make sure that nothing went wrong in the mission.

So, he repeated the whole process and the red beam scanned the entire room again. This time the monitor took no time delay and displayed the number 4 boldly.

Though that was the result that Darren had expected, he was not satisfied somehow. He knew in his heart that something was wrong.

He looked at his crew and then at the blue Nexus-Vim that he had in his hand. Then he made up his mind and started his mission.

But he was totally unaware that the bug had done its job. He knew nothing about the troubles that were about to follow.

The creator of the bug shared a silent smile with his own crew, for their mission had started successfully.