The Generators

10. Taya.

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G.A

12/26

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Nothing is ever easy. I'm just going to start off by saying that. It's also what I thought as Roo, and I chased a pair of Welsh hackers down the streets of South Korea. I was hungry, I was tired, and I was sick of running. It was the 42nd hour of a mission that was only supposed to take twenty-four, which meant that I was running on no sleep and next to no food. Since when did computer geeks become Olympic marathoners?

"Roo?" my vocal cords managed to squeeze out her name but nothing else, luckily, she had my back. I was exhausted, and at this point, I was afraid that if I stopped running, I'd never be able to start again.

"Yeah, I've got it," she called back, swinging a right down the nearest alley and out of my view. Together we'd dragged the hackers over to the dumpster, propping them up as if they'd just had a bit too much to drink that night.

They hung a left, and I followed, and by the time I'd caught up to them, they were both on the ground unconscious with a victorious Roo standing over them.

"Thank heavens." I gasped, collapsing on the ground in an attempt to catch my breath. "When the heck has hackers gotten so athletic. Nobody told me this was going to be a chaser if I'd have known I would've done cardio." I wheezed.

Roo laughed as she dug through one of their backpacks, looking for the reason for my misery: a flash drive containing enough passcodes to take down the entire electrical grid of the Spanish peninsula. "People adapt."

"Story of my life," I replied, rolling my eyes and picking myself back up off of the ground. "Did you get it?"

"Yeah, ancient technology," she said, tossing me a black tab that was the size of my fingernail.

"Twenty terabytes of information, in the palm of my hand." I shook my head. I was constantly amazed by the way things seemed to be. Twenty terabytes of information was equivalent to about the last five years of my life, every second of every day. And here it was in my hand. Humbling, to say the least.

"That's exactly why Luce doesn't get to come on these missions. That would be twenty terabytes that nobody would ever see again, except the insides of Luce's brain." Roo chuckled as she put the tab into a special pouch that was impenetrable, from lasers, to water, to crumbs, to scanners, to Luce. With secrets like these Luce would have everything she would need for complete world domination. And it wasn't inconceivable that she would do such a thing.

"Which is why they send us. The un- assumables." I joked back. Unlike the rest of the team, Roo and I could pass as normal. For the most part, we could use our powers right out in the open without anyone knowing the wiser. While we all may have been spies, Roo and I were probably the most likely to be recruited for MIB, we kept it discreet.

"It could be anything. And at a time like this? It could be nothing at all." she said with a shrug. As we merged into a busy street, she pulled her hood up over her head and stuck her hands in her pockets, I did the same. We may have been unassuming, but that didn't mean that we were completely safe.

She was right, of course, but for some reason, I couldn't shake the feeling that it wasn't nothing. We didn't usually get sent out to go fetch stolen data with no context. Whatever was on that hard drive, it had to potential to change the game as we knew it.