Un Fur Gettable
The nanites poured out of the FEDEX package in the mailroom and scurried unseen across the floor and along walls, seeking out electrical sources and EM radiation emissions. Others when they reached a rich metallic source stopped and consumed the metal to replicate themselves, within a few hours the 10 story building was infested with them.
Across the street in a high rise parking garage sat a uber high tech Global Dynamics van, inside three figures watched the monitors and scanners along the Westside wall, Henry’s eyes twinkled as a ping sounded from a scanner, “I think the nano-network is complete.” He typed in code and a highly detailed schematic of the entire building came into view, Corran smiled. “Great work Henry, you were right. This overkill security system of theirs is actually their greatest weakness; we can now turn it against them.” Red dots began to appear on every floor, one hundred to be exact. Henry rubbed his chin, “This is odd… There are EXACTLY one hundred people on each floor, what are the odds of that?” Raizo shrugged, “Ninjas are prone to OCD, so we tend to group in nice even numbers.” They both turned to look at him, he looked from one to the other of them, “What?” Corran asked, “Why so many?” Raizo reluctantly answered, “It is our Union’s Headquarters.” Henry raised an eyebrow, “You have a union?” Raizo shrugged again, “Doesn’t everyone?”
After crafting an ingenious plan Corran looked around the van, “Where is Pred?” He waved his hands around like a blind man, “Is he invisible again? I hate it when he does that…” Raizo shook his head, “No, I think he is heading for the roof.” Henry scratched his head, “Why would he be heading for the roof?” The Ninja smiled, “That is where the dragon is located, I caught Preddy earlier today clearing a spot on his trophy wall large enough for a dragon skull.” Corran’s jaw dropped, “A dragon? There is a dragon on the roof?” Henry and Corran swung a camera towards the roof, no dragon appeared on any of their sweeps. Henry sighed, “Well it is a ninja building after all, it must be cloaked inside some sort of holographic field.” Corran nodded, “Yeah, I imagine a dragon would cause a bit of stir.” He looked at Raizo, “Let me guess… The dragon is a union member too?” Raizo smiled, “No, he is in town for the convention,” Henry started to ask a question but stopped and waved his hands, “No, no, I don’t want to know…” Raizo smirked, “It is better that way.”
Using the hacked security system and the building’s central control they locked down the building and raised multiple alarms and electronically summoned help from a vast array of governmental agencies. The Fire department, SWAT, the Bomb Squad, Hazardous Materials Management, Dept. of Homeland Defense, CDC and numerous others swarmed on the building and smashed their way in and began scouring the building for Anthrax; terrorists and a myriad other non existent threats. The Ninjas being ninjas they could not allow their cover to be blown. So they disguised themselves as generic office workers and your standard cubicle drones, they clustered around water coolers and hunched over computer keyboards. A few even mimicked characters they had seen in movies in an effort to appear genuine, “m-m-m-m-m yeeeeeeeaaaaaah, I’m going to need you to work overtime.” And the ever popular sheepishly mumbled, “… uhm… um… that’s my stapler, my stapler…”
Corran and Raizo simply walked right in and blended with the chaos of milling bureaucrats, State and Federal workers and clueless supervisors. They went straight to the room which had Talat locked inside, and asked some police officers standing around drinking coffee if they could help with the locked door. They handed the officers a job application that they had snatched up on the way in and Corran used the Jedi mind trick to fool them into thinking it was a warrant. The ninjas disguised as unmotivated supervisors glared at Corran and Henry as they unlocked the door, but they dared not do anything in front of so many heavily armed police and law enforcement officers. They put Talat into a dog carrier and carried him out of the building in front of hundreds of irritated ninjas and a thousand plus clueless governmental employees.
Corran used the Jedi Mind trick to scare curious people away as they headed for the van disguised as an Animal Control vehicle, “Stand back people, this animal has Lyme Disease, very dangerous… Please make room everyone.” They headed to the rendezvous point and when they arrived they found the Predator sitting beside a stolen Lawmaster Mrk 5 and cleaning a very large reptilian skull. As they pulled up he held aloft the massive skull and beamed with obvious pride, his mouth mandibles spread widely into a curious and somewhat creepy smile. At least they hoped it was a smile.
Talat ran to his happy master and was so excited to be reunited he bagan to lay down some funky beats.
Just kidding, of course. But a damn solid read of a mission.
After dispatching at least 88 ninjas she made her way to the elevator which opened automatically. As the doors closed she picked up her radio and said, “Angel’s begin.”
