EP 2: THE INTRODUCTION.

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So there's good news, and there's well... News. The good news is that half my friends saw me walk into my room with my new lady friend and they think I'm going to, you know. The other news is, my new friend is fast asleep and there goes all my groundwork. I mean here I was with precious cargo in my cabin, but for some reason I couldn't get into the booty. It was really rocking my ship.
Trust mother nature to do everything in her power to make it worse. I mean, there lay the Queen, a few feet from me. And here I was, on the floor, being the gentleman, because why not? The weather had become incredibly cold and I just prayed it was the universe giving me signs. My guest was sleeping peacefully and I wasn't going to wake her to discuss trivial things, I mean we just met.
Then it happened, the power came on. I got up quietly and opened my laptop. I mean since I was bored here, I could as well find myself some entertainment. I opened up my personal folder of big.... Cats. Because I love learning about lions and all that national geographic stuff. While learning about cats, I spotted the trophy I recovered from my first riot ever. The hard drive I had gotten from school.
I finished off, the video and inspected the device. It wasn't actually some expandable storage device. Turned out to be a mobile server hub. A device that would allow whoever possessed it to access information in a certain database which the device was connected to. On closer inspection, I found no brandings or inscriptions on it and that really intrigues me. I pulled out my OTG USB cable and connected the device to my computer and wirelessly shared data from my smartphone. Booting up the devices interface, I was met by a log-in panel. Putting my five seasons of watching Arrow to work, I plugged in my Linux rootkit and started pinging echo requests to the server. For some reason it needed GPS access, but what do I know? After multiple tries and me firing a few hashstrings at the device, hoping for a denial of service clause, I was able to revert the login page to a sign up page. The server took me as a new user and granted me administrative access.
Not that I want to brag, but how many people can pull that off? In just a few minutes too. I'm totally on fire. Getting into the device was worse than being locked out. It was full of numbers and tables rapidly changing. It looked like the world stock market on steroids. Like I had entered the matrix, like every class on complex analysis, like... Well you get my point.
At first I thought it was all encrypted, but it turned out to be untrue. Going through the tables, I realized what I had just stumbled upon. It was the database of all online transactions that occurred within the senatorial district of the Federal University Of Technology. I could see school fees, remitta charges, something called surcharge, a table for taxes and the academic staff wage. It was so much. I estimated somewhere around 85 million was on the server right in front of me. I quickly took a screenshot, maybe I did want to brag.
I saw an account in the table for non academics blinking rapidly. From what I could discern, there was money going into it from some other tables. I clicked it open and stopped the transaction. I couldn't see how much was in the account, but I could see 4 million had already gone into it. Then my inner demon bitch slapped me for not thinking about it sooner. I could set up my account to this and take my fair share of the national cake. The Federal University of Technology cake. I began keying in my account number and my inner igbo boy slapped the other side of my face. My account was registered with my name. It would be easily traceable.
First thing tomorrow, I would head out, make some fake ID, open an account and become the richest non yahoo-boy in this side of umuchima. I turned off the laptop and put my head on the pillow and closed my eyes, getting ready to choose what Benz would fit me. There was a loud bang outside. Normally, I wouldn't care, I had mad people living in my lodge, so it wasn't uncommon for one of the assholes to decide to use the gate as  a piñata. But it was two am. Who was that heartless? I checked my phone, and it was actually eight am. Apparently I had taken more time getting into the server thing.
I panicked, Queen was probably gone. I quickly got up to see her on my laptop eating bread. Apparently she had showered and let me sleep in. I probably looked like a zombie cause she laughed when she saw my face. I looked at the screen of my PC and and begged the earth to swallow me there and then.
"So you're a fan of Alexis Texas huh?"
I was about to explain, or at least try to, when I heard the banging sound at the gate again. I peered through my window and saw Joshua open the gate and get pushed to the  ground by a police officer. About five of them stormed in followed by an inspector. They began knocking on the doors of the rooms, calling out to everyone to come outside. I quickly washed my face and tried to get Queen to calm down. Apparently she ended up calming me down. I mean, don't get me wrong, we at umuchima have one fear. We can fight cultists and beat shit out of armed robbers, but the police? No way that's where we turn to France.
Everyone came out of their rooms, standing outside while our rooms where searched. Chairs and drawers and laptops and other stolen items from yesterday's raid/protest on the senate. No one dared to even struggle with them, the police men had their way with our belongings and when they had finished defiling themselves, they came out and stood by their inspector. The inspector looked eerily familiar to me, like I had seen his face somewhere, maybe in a ufc match or something. He looked down at all of us and began his supervillain speech.
"A device was stolen from the senate yesterday. A server hub. A small black box that holds information that's very important to this institution. In the early hours of today, it was accessed from this location. Someone in this lodge has it. So I'll ask only once, if you have what I want, bring it out now and I won't prosecute you or the members of your lodge."
I should've paid more attention at BlackHatsMatter.com. The first rule of hacking is to make yourself untraceable and I straight up gave them my location with a cherry on top. I looked at Queen and for some reason her pupils dilated. Was I that good looking? She kicked me subtly and pointed at my back pocket using her eyes. I peaked and say the hub sticking out. I wiggled my ass cheeks a little and it fell deeper into my pocket.
"What were you doing last night?" the inspector guy asked a guy from the lodge. He mumbled a reply about classical music. I made eye contact with the inspector and recognized him. He was the guy in the suit and tie yesterday taking a beating. He was the one who had the hub before I picked it up. He caught me staring and walked up to me, staring me dead in the eyes.
"What about you? What were you doing last night?"
I panicked. Maybe he saw me, if I was caught, I wouldn't just be expelled, I'd be going to prison. I was too young for prison, plus I'm way too good looking. I wouldn't last five minutes there. I tried to speak, but fear prevented me from giving a coherent answer. I just stared at him. He seemed to get angry at my silence, or maybe the vein jutting out on his forehead was just a  sign of healthy living and not a blood pressure.
"Did you not hear me? I said, what were you doing last night?"
I opened my mouth to speak, but I heard Queens voice over my squeaking.
"Me." She said.
"Excuse me?"
"That's what he was doing last night." Queen spoke with a firmness in her voice, staring blankly ahead. "Me. He was doing... Me."
I looked at her in shock and confusion which moved towards realization. After this ordeal, I would freaking marry this girl. My friend Joshua burst out laughing.
"Hahaha, my Maan!"
"Shut up!" The inspector shouted at him. "What about you, noise maker. Where you doing anyone as well?"
Inspector gadget left Queen and I and went to blast Joshua for information. I smiled at Queen and pulled out my phone. Using chromecast, I sent a text document with a similar Metadata to that of the hub to my friends laptop. He lived at Lafarge, on the other side of umuchima. If GTA had his laptop on, what I had planned would probably work. And knowing how much anime that guy watches, I was pretty sure he'd be watching Naruto on a Tuesday morning.
One of the officers called the inspector aside and whispered something into his ear. By the way, let's call him inspector gadget, cause he's looking for the gadget and is an inspector? Oh puns. Suit and tie and his hired guns left the lodge, promising to return. I called GTA and told him how I had set him up and told him to leave his lodge as quickly as possible, he on the other hand, expletively told me how much he hated me for constantly ruining his day. We're besties.
"Where did you get it?" Queen asked once I was done with the call.
"At the senate. Where everyone else got their stuff."
"And you didn't know what it was?"
"Now I do."
"So you know you have to return it, yes?" Queen asked, her hands on her hips. Damn I wish my hands were her hands.
"Dexter!"
"Yes...yes,we have to return hips... It. We have to return it." I did a quick refresh "Uhm, after I've gotten my share of this. There's a whole lot of money in this thing Queen."
"Yes, and if you do eventually take it, it would be called stealing."
"I'm aware, but I..."
"But what?" She asked, folding her arms across her chest.
God damn she was so distracting, and deep down I knew she was right. And maybe if I did what she wanted, I'd increase my chances. "How would we return it? It's not like I have the VC's number to explain what happened, and if we call the police, that guy would probably lock me up forever. There's no way to get it back to the VC without getting ourselves in trouble."
Queen turned around and walked to the window, deep in thought. I stood behind her, deep in thoughts of my own about her behind. Queen Elizabeth has nothing on this girl. Nothing.
" What if we returned it his office, make it look like it had never gone missing in the first place?"
"Because we could just walk into his office now?"
"The senate is in shutdown because of the riots. It won't be easy. But if we can sneak in, drop it in a drawer or somewhere that the VC would be able to find it again, maybe that would work."
"By we, you mean me? Yes? Why don't you just go back to eziobodo?"
"Because it is my duty as a member of this highly esteemed institution to co...."
"Calm down Luther Queen. Let's do it."

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