“My girlfriend has been turned into a 4 inch bee-human hybrid. That’s not technology that belongs in this reality, so we’re looking at other alt-jumpers here. Not only do we have to rescue Sharon, we have to seize their technology and shut down the operation. I have no idea who's behind this, so be ready for anyone and anything.”
“OK, here’s the plan” said Jim. He had called up a rough 3-D map of the BlackCo building where Sharon was a prisoner.
“Karen, you’ll make a windsurfer landing the roof, sabotage the elevator boxes and head down. I don’t have a complete floorplan, but from the wiring diagrams, the main computer room is here” Jim used his Phaser-shaped laser pointer to indicate the location.
“Head down there, pull as many of their network server's hard drives as you can carry and proceed to our meeting point on the 1st floor emergency stairwell landing.”
Karen merely nodded grimly.
“Lucas, you’ll get the rest of us through the back door, then split off and head to the basement. Wire the support columns to explode and then see if you can rig a remote shut-off for the fusebox--we may need it as a diversion.”
“Got it.” said the anarchist.
“Antoine, you’re backing me up. From the e-mail address, Sharon is in or near one of the executive offices on the sixth floor. We’ll pick her up, then find the lab where she was transformed and remove the extra-alt devices there so we can reverse the process and find out who’s behind this.”
“Tres bien. My sword and gun are yours.”
“There are a lot of variables here, and timing will be loose, so we’ll keep in touch with these.” Jim handed out his new neutrino radios, which happened to look just like those cool Jedi communicators from a current movie of note. “I made them myself.” The others nod in approval over the design.
Jim stuffed his Powerbook in his backpack and strapped on a phone company tool belt loaded with homemade devices.
“Ready? Let’s go!”
They were a band of nerds with a plan, skilled and dedicated. After five minutes, the whole plan had naturally fallen apart as each one decided to tinker with his or her part of it.
Sun Jun 27 00:43:15 1999