| Fan Fiction |
by GreenHammock
Changmin adjusted his glasses as he tweaked his code ever so slightly. The darkened rims under his eyes were evidence of the passed twelve hours spent in fervent scriptwriting, gradually breaking into Hero’s meticulously planned safety hardware.
“It’s funny,” YooChun mumbled from the sidelines, cradling a long since emptied coffee mug in his hands. “You’d think that with all his money, all his power, he’d be able to protect his files.”
Junsu laughed in agreement as Changmin let out a sarcastic snort, “Yeah. If he wanted real protection, he wouldn’t have everything on desktop – it’s so easy to hack into computers.”
Junsu nodded, tossing a glance to Yunho, whose presence was, as always, dominating the room, loudly quiet, demanding attention. He couldn’t help but wonder if Yunho somehow thought that, had he not given the journal to Six, she would still be here, chatting with them, and had completely disregarded Hero and his advances.
Then, he couldn’t help but wonder that, if that had occurred, would he still be alive?
The answer was doubtful.
“Oh, here we go,” Changmin said suddenly, shocked yet still noticeably pleased with himself. Yunho immediately crouched down next to Changmin to inspect what he had found – Junsu and Yoochun followed suit.
“Looks like there’s some money inexplicably missing from Hero’s account,” he vocalized, scrolling down to get a better look at the statement. His eyes widened as he caught sight of the figure. “Oh, wow, a lot of money missing.”
“Where’d it go?” Junsu asked quietly. Changmin’s head shook, once.
“No one really knows – it just vanished. He’s set an entire quadrant out to inspect it, but so far, they’ve come up empty handed…” he looked over the information, all coded, with a mildly impressed look. “Wow, no trace at all – whoever did this is good. They can’t even trace the IPE number – they followed it all the way back to where Uganda used to be before the signal just… ended.”
Junsu quirked an eyebrow at Changmin, lips pursed. “Did you do it?”
Changmin jumped back in shock, “What? No! I couldn’t do this! If I spent the rest of my life hacking into mainframes, I still couldn’t get close to this!”
“Oh,” Junsu mumbled. “Nevermind.”
“Why would you think that?” Changmin muttered, turning back to his computer bitterly. If only he HAD stolen seven hundred billion plus dollars from Hero…
Junsu shrugged, “I don’t know, it sounded like you were fishing for compliments.”
“Why you little”-
“Wow, wait,” YooChun snapped. “Scroll back up – no, shit, further – no, down a little bit – stop – STOP.” Changmin removed his hand from the touch pad and scooted out of the way, allowing YooChun to take his place and search for what he had spotted. “I’m sure I saw it…” he murmured, before he stopped entirely, and pointed at the screen. “There,” he murmured, poking the screen lightly. The colour diminished and rippled through the page, and Changmin slapped his arm.
“Don’t touch it,” he snapped. YooChun rolled his eyes.
“Sorry – but look, right here – October 17th, 3075… There’s a gaping hole in the input. Nothing until almost seven months later.”
“What?” Yunho barked, pushing them out of the way and staring at the screen with intensity. It couldn’t be! How could he have missed it? How could he have-
But YooChun was right. Most of the account were mere hours apart, but this… the last account on October 17th was marked clearly as a trial run for a new drug, said to replace the more common ones, be cheaper, less harmful side effects. And then, nothing, until a routine post detailing price quota’s and ritual documented simplicities April 30th, 3076, that set the vigorous documentation back into spin again. No reports, no activities – absolutely nothing happened, for seven months, and yet Hero’s bank account still managed to drop nearly twelve million.
How had the not noticed?! How had he not seen this before? They’d gone over Hero’s records hundreds of thousands of times in search of slip ups, of anything. This was… this was immaculate. There was no reason they shouldn’t have seen this.
Scanning the page, the condensed reports, brief in content but very long, Yunho suddenly caught sight of something of interest.
An experiment called ‘Information and Data Resurrection’ began on June 2nd, 3076, detailed simply to help recover lost information in Hero’s database, should it ever be lost. Anything that somehow was stolen or deleted would automatically be copied and saved into the new portable host as soon as it reached the firewall – but information was sketchy and vague. Essentially it was a project in order to help revive lost information after it had already been lost, and the host that would harvest the missing data would be referred to as the experiment itself would be called, Experiment Six.
E-Six.
“Changmin,” Yunho snapped, clicking his fingers. “June 2nd, 3076 – Experiment Six. Get as much information on it as you can. Hack personal computers, blogs – fuck, buy new equipment if you have to! Just get anything you can on this experiment.” Changmin ‘aye aye’d, partially because of Yunho’s authoritative tone, partially because he’d never been offered new equipment before.
“Junsu,” Yunho snapped. Junsu quickly turned and nodded, allowing him to continue. “I want you to back track every file on Hero’s database, looking for gaps. I don’t care when they were, how routine or trivial they seem – find them, document them, analyze them.” Junsu nodded and sat down beside Changmin, flicking on a monitor and setting off to work instantly.
And then YooChun rolled his eyes and stood in front of Yunho. “And me, master?” he quipped sarcastically, rolling his tongue with each word. Yunho eyed him for a minute, before he jutted his thumb in the direction of the kitchen.
“Go get me some coffee.” Revenge for bleeding on the carpet, some would say.
YooChun grumbled and went off to do Yunho’s bidding, as Yunho planted himself onto a desk and began to sift through Six’s journal again.
How they had overlooked this, he didn’t know – but given the way Hero was trying to cover it up, he couldn’t help but feel like this was finally it. They were an organization aimed solely at bringing down Hero’s empire, and that was exactly what they were doing.
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27.09.09.
Finally making some headway.