Moving on along
Trilly, Jerry, (Cody?)
"Shucks, looks like I am the odd man out." John sighs, slightly tipping his hat with his thumb, "I'm not exactly what you would call stealthy, so its looks like I am going to have to bow out. But you can count me in for the next time." he adds with a smile while he turns to leave. "Looks like its back to class for me. Have fun ya'll"
Without John getting by the reporters is simple to say the least, soon enough you are at the beach, its not the ocean but its a fairly good replica. It even generates waves that you can surf on, Jerry has surfed harder but for right now its better then nothing.
The beach itself is beautiful, white sand, native trees for shade. Various spots for bonfires, along with several different takeout establishments its looks like a good place to relax and waste the hours away, someone went to a lot of trouble to make this place and while still quite warm out the time of day makes it practically deserted.
Some place else
Tap, tap, tap... fingers fly over a key board like a leaf blowing in the wind, entering code at a pace that is almost to fast to watch.
"Why is this taking so long? You should have had this done by now." An angry toned voice resonates from the darkness behind the person sitting in front of the computer. "This isn't easy man," the figure hunched over the keyboard responds, "this is cutting edge stuff, the encryption sequence alone is amazing. We could get billions on the black market for this, all I have to do is copy it."
"You will do no such thing, you were paid for this, very well paid and you will get it done, how much longer." the cloaked figure responds. "Yea, yea. I was just saying is all. You want access? Well, you got it." the man in the chair leans back smiling and pushes one final button. "We're in."
"How long will it last?"
"Don't know, but that's not what you paid me for, dude."
"True enough, now leave but your services may be required again."
"Hey, its your money." The man retorts, he gets up and leaves.
The other stands for a few minutes before gesturing slightly, a shadowy apparition appears from the darkness, its form twisting and changing as it stands there. "Follow him," the man says calmly, "do not let yourself be seen, if he does anything suspicious, kill him." The shadowy figure bows once and disappears from view.
"Amy, has any students left the grounds in the last half an hour?"
"Affirmative, Jerry Tao Lin, Trillian Gardener and Yoshi Todaji left the ground 23 minutes ago."
"Any indication on where they went?"
"Conversations prior to their leaving indicate that they are headed to a local water park, located 5.8 miles away. Did you want me to notify the faculty?"
"No and delete this conversation fully from your records."
"Affirmative."
"Excellent." The man responds turning off the monitor plunging the room into darkness
Mary, Emmet, Clover, Nick, (Cody?)
Mary introduces herself to the table of for and is welcomed easily by the boys, the girls while friendly aren't to thrilled to have competition, you barely have time to get associated before its time to go.
You all reach your assigned homerooms and as stated in the newsletter they have broken the students into groups of three. Roll call consists of:
Mary, Emmet, Clover, Nick, (Cody and Raph), John, Jerry, Trilly, Yoshi, Manjit, Layla, Josee
You all make it to class before the teacher, seating is assigned for a few of the students, Emmet's desk is arranged with multiple screens with keyboards. You deduce that not only will you be listening from the teacher but also multitasking other video conferences as well, looks like you might be more challenged then you thought. Both Nick and Clover are surprised by Johns entrance.
Any other desks are up for taking.
Once we get settled in I will jump everyone a head to lunch. Cody can go with either group.
Well, one in three or something, right? And only one person I haven't met yet so far.
