Chapter 6 – A new mission

I woke up in time on the next day. I had a good breakfast, kissed Chloe goodbye and took off to work. My mind was refreshed and so I was ready to think logically once again.
When I got to my station I’ve heard that another breach has happened. No-one knew whether it was the same guy or not, but I was sure that it’s the same guy. I quickly headed for my boss’ office and confronted him there. I promised him that I won’t underestimate this robber this time and he briefed us on the mission.
Apparently this time the breach was in one of the information sections of Dome #16. Me and my teammates loaded up and were ready to go. Our boss said that the robber will be much more useful if we capture him than kill him.
- “So do you think it’s the same guy again?” Rick asked me.
- “I’m almost positive it’s him.” I replied.
- “Well in that case we better watch out for his every move. That guy is really crafty.” Jack said.
- “Yes he is, but we will still catch him… tonight.” I said boldly.
- “If you say so.” Rick said.
Three of us sat into our Spyflier again and Alan took us to Dome #16. It took about 20 minutes to fly there. These spyfliers are really fast compared to all the other flying vehicles. I remember back in the day when we first arrived on Venus the flights from Dome to Dome were taking hours. It’s good that technology is improving so fast, but our guy has a digging means of travel and this way we cannot predict where he’s going to attack next. We needed to succeed this time.
So we got off by one of the entrances to Dome #16. That was the entrance that was closest to the information subsection of this Dome. Jack, Rick and I went in and compressed our crufacles.
- “OK then, let’s go and catch our guy.” Jack said with high spirit.
Three of us came across a few members of staff. They were not aware of where the robber might be, but they believed it’s somewhere in the lower levels. Three of us proceeded downstairs. There were lots of rooms full of computers. I personally thought the robber would be somewhere in the data vault, as there’s hardly any staff down there. But still he could be masking himself as a staff member around here, so I was studying every person we came across to notice any suspicious activity. He was wearing a ninja-type mask last time and so we didn’t know what his face looked like.
This floor seemed clear and we descended to the next floor. At this moment I received a radio message from our boss.
- “Jim, we’ve established a radar link with your location. The robber is still there. There seems to be a lonely target in the lower levels. Our detectors say that you’re very close to it. Be careful and do not fail me again.”
- “Yes sir.” I said and my team proceeded.
There were virtually no staff members down here. I was hoping that the target our boss was talking about is the robber.
After long search on this floor we found nothing. Now we found the stairs to the data vault. As soon as we descended there I could pretty much feel the robber’s presence. I didn’t have any equipment to detect him, neither could I see him, but I had a very deep gut feeling that he was there.