Winter's Sunshine

3. IT Department

Jen was working in her office as usual when she saw Alex walk in holding the redwing. Alex had been struggling hard to fix it but unfortunately, it was beyond repair. It's prototype available in the database was complex and hence would take days to build a new one. Alex sighed resting her mobile on the desk, shaking her head in defeat. She was frustrated that she couldn't fix this broken thing.

"It's okay. You know not everything can be fixed." , Jen smiled apologetically.

"It has to be made from scratch.", she said examining it.

Sam walked in the office, anger evident on his face. Alex made her way to him and started explaining it's whole situation to him. She assured  him that he will get back his side-kick in the next few days. Shaking his head, still annoyed Sam swallowed his anger and nodded in agreement. He had no other choice but to wait.

Alex went to he desk and started gathering the data to begin her work when a sharp beep started buzzing through Jen's watch, 'SECURITY BREACH' flashing on it.

Jen rushed to the adjacent room on seeing it and started entering codes on the computer. The big screen was now displaying footage of each security cameras in the tower that was being accessed randomly. Each camera footage played for ten seconds or so and then was skipped on to the next one. It seemed as if someone was scanning the entire building floor by floor.

Who is this? Jen thought to herself, stressed out heavily.

Sam and Alex who had followed Jen stood at the back staring at the screen. The whole team present in the room started tracking for the information of the intruder but failing miserably.

Tension started building up in the room when the intruder had scanned almost fifteen floors of the tower.  There was no way one could hack into the stark tower so easily. The technology here was way too advanced and complex for just anyone to attack in. This meant the threat was huge. Much to her dismay one name kept repeating in Jen's head, Hydra! Maybe Hydra it is.

Jen saw her team struggling to track the intruder. She failing at it too, decided to just observe the attack. Shifting her gaze to the big screen, Jen looked for patterns in intruder's search. Nothing useful was noticed yet, just camera footage was been skimmed across each floor. It was floor number thirty now, Medical faculty on sight. Jen stayed staring at the screen, focusing on each detail possible, hoping to find even a single clue to track the intruder.

Dr.Cho's lab's entrance was on-screen. The camera zoomed in the lab and was immediately switched to one on the inside. Dr.Cho and other doctors were seen working. Each was focused upon by the zoom one by one. Then were the patients and lastly the nurse station.

"Maybe this Lab is his target.", Jen said and everyone turned their attention towards her.

"How can you be so sure?", Sam asked, curiously.

"The intruder has been scanning each floor one by one for not more than twenty to thirty seconds. But it seems that he has slowed down his search here." , Jen replied pointing to the screen. "In this medical Lab.", she stated.

"It's been around a minute now and he is still scanning the lab.", she added.

"Great observation.Uh- Miss?"

"Jennifer."

"Sam."

Jen nodded in response and focused her attention back to the screen. She noticed the attack was now stopped and everything went back to normal.

"We lost him", Alex announced sadly.

"Not really.", Jen declared firmly.