This is a farce. There are probably holes all over the place but it was just a bit of fun. I hope you enjoy it.
As always, constructive criticism is welcome.
To Take Control
"Uh, my dick is dry," said the young man sitting down at a desk with the gun pointing at him.
The man standing with the gun raised his eyebrows in anger and shook his gun in threat at the sitting man. "What the hell did you say?"
"I said you can suck my dick." The face of the man with the gun seemed to morph into something reality never heard of. "Are you stupid on accident or is it a life decision to be this stupid on purpose?" The questioning look on the sitting man's face was genuine. "Did my words come in another language because I only know the one - unless you count Drunk as a language. I can understand that like mad and I can speak it better than most of my friends, especially Dan, that dude can't hold his..."
"SHUT UP!" The man holding the gun screamed. He looked over to his partner, a young woman standing with her own gun, and said only slightly less loud, "Can we shoot him a couple of times or is that completely off limits?"
The woman walked a couple steps over nearer the sitting man and asked, "What are you talking about?" Her voice was smooth but with a slightly lower tenor. The handgun she was carrying sat in her hands comfortably and she stood calm and resolute.
They had come in through his office door fast and smooth, guns out and yelling at him to get his hands in the air. The sitting man knew they were in the building, of course, and he had seen the other floors get taken over, too. The man sitting behind the desk was certain he knew what they were there for as he had seen their tries to break into his network over the last couple of weeks. While they were good he was far better and had actually traced them all the way back to their source. He didn't know everything, of course, but he figured it was a robbery like
Die Hard
or something.
The sitting man looked up to the pretty blonde woman holding the gun and without any fear or variation said, "You want me to unlock the network, a trillions of dollars network function, and all you've got is a gun. If I don't open it up you're going to shoot me but if you shoot me no one will ever be able to open it. Now you don't have to kill me when you shoot me but what makes you think I would even be able to think about how to open it up after you injure me?"
"You're the only one who can open it up?" The woman, who seemed to be more in control than the guy, asked with her own upraised eyebrow.
"Yeah. You idiots locked it down when you tried to get somewhere you couldn't by getting someone you thought could go there but couldn't." The sitting man leaned forward and put his arms on the desk he was sitting at and looked between the two armed people.
"So this trillion dollar, world-wide company is now locked down and you're the only one who can get it open, right?"
"Right."
"Call the hacker," the blonde said to the man. "It may take a bit but he can get in."
The sitting man began to snicker and leaned back into his chair and shook his head.
"What?" The blonde looked like she was about to lose her temper. This man's arrogance and continuous try at humor was getting a little annoying.
"Who've you got? Paolo? Baby-Cake? Zero-Cool 2? Triumph-All?" At the last name the blonde raised her eyebrows involuntarily. "Ah, James "Triumph-All" Bracken. Okay, bring him in." The snickering didn't stop, it even turned to all out laughter.
The man with a gun brought out a cell phone, made a quick call and only a few minutes later a wiry, stereotypical super-nerd walked through the door. His combed over hair looked like it might have been washed a few years ago and the circular wired spectacles did nothing to make the man look intelligent.
When the new nerd looked up and saw the sitting man he said, "Nuhn uhn. Not a chance." He shook his head and waved his hands in negation. "The government can't crack this guy, every government who's tried has failed. They all hire this guy to make their systems secure. Either shoot him or give him whatever he wants. No one told me the network was setup by this guy. I thought he left."
The man called Triumph-All turned and walked away, even when a gun was pointed at him he told the guy to go ahead because they'd all be dead before someone cracked the codes of the sitting man. "You guys said you knew who set this up and the name you gave isn't him." He was let go at that point and the man with the gun made another phone call.
The blonde looked to the sitting guy and asked. "You know your arrogance will kill you, right?"
"What arrogance?" The sitting man's face was truly surprised by the statement. "Oh, you mean laughing at James or telling you good luck? I suppose there's some arrogance there." He looked up at the ceiling in thought. "I guess my delivery could have been better, I'll agree, but that has nothing to do with arrogance. The truth always hurts, though, doesn't it?" The snide wink did nothing to calm either gun holder.
"So you're that good, are you," asked the blonde. Her voice was back to a conversational tone but was tinged with a little disbelief.
The sitting man looked back to her, his eyes still sharp and determined to prove something. "How'd you get your job? Because you're good, right?" The blonde gave a half nod. "Well, that's how I got my job. James used to work here - I'll bet he's what started this whole thing, him and his mouth - but I caught him trying to embezzle money. You ever see that Superman movie with the computer enemy at the end? Yeah, he was trying to do that. So I locked him out of his money and then all of his online and connected accounts and then tipped off the company and then the government. Instead of putting him in jail they tried to get him to hack some stuff. When it was found I wrote it the government tried to recruit me but I don't like to follow orders and then this and that...and now, here you guys are, trying to break my system."
"You talk a lot, you little shit," said the man with the gun.
"Yeah, I'm trying to create a nervous tick of some sort." The sitting man didn't appear nervous in the slightest. "Not sure it's working." He sat for a moment and looked at nothing and then shrugged his shoulders and just said, "Uh, yeah. Nope."
The man with the gun walked around the desk and put the barrel of the gun right up to the side of the sitting man's head. "Stop talking and open up the system or I'll cancel any ticks you might be searching for."
"Enough," said the blonde with some authority. "What were you told?"
The man with the gun backed away and then motioned the blonde away from the desk so they could speak in private. "Don't touch that keyboard or you can pick your nose with stumps," he said to the sitting man. The sitting man shrugged his shoulders, raised his hands in acquiescence and gave a half smile.
The sitting man looked at them as they spoke and while couldn't hear them he could read a few of the words from the man's lips.
"...give him anything in reason...don't hurt...I should be allowed to kill..."
The man sitting behind the desk smiled inwardly. He loved this spy crap. He'd been involved with companies like this before because he could lock down their systems, find those who were trying to steal and lock them down, find the holes in networks and operating systems and codes and many more things. He also charged exorbitant costs for doing this. He knew there would always be something in the computer industry for him to do because that's where everything was going these days.
The sitting man was a hacker. Oh, not because he wanted to crash the stock market or cause planes to crash or steal personal information or credit cards, most of the time - he did it because it kept his mind moving and there were currently no other ways to keep his mind as sharp as code writing and debugging. Some may argue about chess or writing apps for the world to use but those didn't call to him. He wasn't a Bobby Fischer and his coordination for step by step processing was difficult. He saw the beginning and the end of a problem and his subconscious mind took over from there and provided all the answers. Some might call him some kind of savant but he didn't see himself that way. As well, there was probably someone out there who was better than he was. He knew that and it bothered him not at all. He did know, though, that 'Triumph-All' couldn't break anything of his. The dude was a hack, not a hacker.
When the two gun toting people came back over to him the man looked like he wanted to just shoot and get it over with. The blonde woman, however, stepped in front of her partner and asked, "What'll it take to get you to open this up for us?"
"Make me an offer," the sitting man returned.
"What do you want?"