Bab 21: Marcel the Hacker

Doors open and all of us stepped out, this floor though had glass on both sides, in the glass were stacks of data all with circles of color beeping in and out. Certainly an important part of the school, the hallway was dark with the data boxes giving off the only light in the room.

We made our way to a small pad with a set of numbers, Sebastian pressed a few buttons and the door opened. Inside we saw the backs of two people, one sitting and one standing.

"What do you want? Im looking into something." The man in the chair asked, the man in the chair turned around, it was Marcel.

"Nothing just wanted to say hi." Sebastian replied.

"Good, this is my new helper, Sarah Lilith. She was part of the arcanes but then went to becoming a hacker, she was a pyro prior to leaving the arcanes. She researched better ways to burn things, yes she burns buildings down and also people." Marcel explained, Sarah whispered something into Marcel's ear and walks out the room.

Marcel continued typing something for a while and stopped, he turned around and stood up revealing he had a jacket on.

"Sarah and i had stuff to do, had to find some dickhead who tried attacking one of the servers." Marcel explained.

"We got a mission in a week, for now just find any intel you have on the place." Sebastian handed the folder to Marcel.

"Thank goodness my parents are skilled with this, otherwise i might as well just become one of those casual students." Marcel replied, he placed the folders back on his table and sat back down again. "Both of you can sit over there." Marcel points at a row of seats that looked like they were not used for a long time. We both sat down on the cold chairs, Marcel continued typing on his computer with his hands constantly hitting keys in a fast manner.

"That girl looks nice." Sebastian asked.

"Calm your horse Sebastian, were mercenaries not lovers." Marcel interjected, somehow he heard what Sebastian said. Sebastian seemed flabbergasted that Marcel actually hear him mutter.

"You heard me?" Sebastian asked.

"I can hear you loud and clear." Marcel replied.

The room was cold and the sound of Marcel typing filled the room, the only feeling was the feeling of chills as the cold air hit my body where i sat.

Marcel finished typing on the keyboard and turned the chair looking at us, "So you want me to look at the folder?" Marcel asked, Sebastian and i simply nodded our heads in return. Marcel opened the folder and began reading, as his eyes continued drifting on the pages his expression gets more confused.

"This is bullshit it has to be." Marcel remarked after slamming the folder on his desk, "Our school is fucked up but not this fucked up." Marcel continued.

"This school is built on death the hell do you mean, we are brutal this is the school afterall." I replied, Sebastian and Marcel's expressions turned to shock as they heard me.

"Shit man, Damon is now a psychopath." Marcel sarcastically said, "Well its the last plan so we have nothing to worry about, maybe the town has cameras i can get to." Marcel turned his chair facing the computer and began typing again.

The lights from the servers blinked on and off continously in a rythmic pattern, cold air brushed any visible part of my body with its swift and freezing air.

"And got it, oh there is some commotion going on right now." Marcel said, Sebastian and i stood up walking to Marcel's computer.

The screen showed screens of multiple cameras, all the same area but different angles. A crowd began shouting and raising fists into the air, the audio was muffled but shouts were audible, "FREDOM FOR ALL" the people shouted. The people continued with malice in the voices and rag ein the hearts, they showed no signs of stopping in the protest. Police officers made a line with batons but none of them had any protection apart from the helmet, maybe they were just underfunded.

"Oh shit look what is going on there." Marcel put his finger at a part of the screen, someone began hitting the officers but was swiftly dragged inside, the other side was blinded from the protesters but we have front row seats for it. The cops began hitting the man repeatedly with batons until one of them placed handcuffs on the person. Marcel zoomed in on the person, it was a man with his face leaking blood with bruises and blood doused like water on his face and shirt.

"So they want us to stop the protest but wont stop what makes it? Idiots." Marcel slumps back on his chair in resentment.

The crowd continued and didn't seem like any of them noticed the brutality of the officers, it looked like afternoon and in the crowd were kids, elderly, all ages you can think of, well this isn't an isolated thing everyone is affected.

"In summary: Protests continue, police don't take chances with any violent protesters, the crowd never moves but the malice in the voice shakes the ground they stand on. Never underestimate the power of people, the government does not understand too well anyway. Blinded by money and shitbags or nepotism, i just want to put a bullet in that leader's head." Sebastian stated with his arms crossed.

"Well we cant do that unless you want to die, and death in this school comes slow." Marcel replied, Marcel began typing again and this time a tab opens with a map and writing below it.

"If my parents and friend hackers taught me one thing, rip the closet dry leave nothing behind." said Marcel with a slight smirk on his face.

The tab showed a a strategy map, there were lines drawn in blue and orange.

"Orange are the protesters and cops are the blue, I'm guessing these black spots are command posts" Marcel put his finger on one of the black spots visible on the map. "Years of coding and breaking random servers and this is what i do now, rot away doing this mediocre crap" Marcel continued resting his head on his hand on the desk.

"At least rotting here is better than rotting in an office desk those things suck ass." Sebastian remarked.

Marcel closed the tabs on the computer leaving it empty and began shutting it off, Marcel walked out of the room with his hand motioning us to follow.

"Anyways now i have nothing to do, since i finished as you two got in. You two wanna talk about something else?" Marcel asked.

"Well nothing going on right now so we can just talk about random things." Sebastian replied.

"I heard there was an attack on one of the bases, either by soldiers or terrorists." Marcel sighed for a bit, "Well then we should go to the cafeteria i heard they got pizza today." Marcel continued.

Marcel and Sebastian walked to the elevator while i followed, the doors open and we all went in. Marcel presses a button the doors close and the elevator goes down.

The door opens and we were back to the first floor, Marcel began walking forward taking the lead as we simply follow. We took the same route as the way back to our room but this time we walked deeper into the hallway of doors.

We reached an area that i have not seen before, people walking in and out sitting in rows of tables and a line getting food like a buffet that just opened. Marcel ran to get a plate along with a tray and spoon and fork from the side, he walked down to the line of people all with trays ready to get some food.

My stomach churned and i realized i didnt eat anything much in quite a while, i pulled out a tray and other things and walked to the line with Marcel.

"Perks of being a merc in this school is getting stuff like this, my father would be happy to hear my stories, but my father sent me here so he wont have me under his wing because he liked my brother more." Marcel explained.

We reached the food and in front was pizza, all in slices ready to be eaten shining like gold and steam emerging from the top. It was my turn and i took a slice of pizza, as i lifted the slice melting cheese from the slice stuck to the rest of the pizza like weak rope.

I followed Marcel to the table with a cup of water and pizza on his tray, i sat down and Sebastian sat next to us as well. We began digging in with spoon and fork or with our hands, the cheese pouring down my mouth as i sank my teeth into it, it was burning but the taste was out of this world, my mind began clearing and i continued eating my pizza along with my teammates.