Henry could be seen at the main chair, it was a leather yet plump, the armrest had a sleek but sheen tactile feeling to it.
There were no seatmates, it was just him where he could see the executives from his sides sitting.
Henry replied,, his elbows on the table as his two hands lift his chin, where he begins to speak with almost dishonest disinterest.
Henry began to speak, “So, someone managed to fix our Mega-Quantum computer? The staple of our industry computing device”
“One that could deliver Quantum computing megabits to other industry applications”
“And Ava, who I just met managed to successfully fix it..?”
Henry then began to smile in a devilish twisted form, “Isn’t that f*cking wonderful” his hands slam the table with force that it emits a noise, his spine raised and bent forward, as he stood and his head looking straight down at the table
Maya in her buttoned blazer, twitched her face into a temporary grimace, her hands at her, at ease.
Henry looked at Maya, his head with rather anger before he closed his eyes where he fell to his chair.
His eyes were closed, doing the villain posture, him with his handsome face and brown hair, the chair swivels towards Maya.
“Remind me again, who fixed the Mega-Quantum computer…? Is it a worker or the rising trophy?”
Maya answered, “Yes, sir. It is Ava Sumeris, you hang out or fiddled with in Plasma Festive”
Henry then waved his hand dismissively towards Maya, “Uhuh, I suppose she does have some use to us”
Maya with her face turned bored said, “Well, she did improved the cybersecurity of the computer and the hardware circuitry, so I guess there is some use to her…”
Henry then began to speak, his luxurious sleek chair swivelling slowly towards the executives, his eyes were of dispassionate interest, eyes and his mouth looking bland.
“Gentlemen, as we are aware of some of the problems in our Omega-mega Quantum computer, the pinnacle of William Corporation tower” his smile became intense, eyes slowly turning manic
Maya slapped her own face with a hand, her mouth dying of cringe, and in agony.
The executives, some old, some young, started making noises with their mouths.
Henry watched, his eyes scanning with interest as they bicker.
“Ahhh there it is, the oxygen being wasted on scrambling the noise…” he muttered to himself
Soon Henry raised his hand, where he begins to speak with a smile, “Everybody, be silent”
“I know, how terrible of a price it is for the Mega Quantum Computer, which I had the honor of naming”
“Suddenly got bugs, but this is a great opportunity for us”
The executive began to speak, he was in a brown suit with almost greyish hair, “Sir, what opportunity exactly?”
Henry answered politely, “You will see” politely tilting his head with a wicked smile before telling, “Maya, please do the briefing and report from our security team”
Maya then began to speak, “According to experts of our security department… It’s to their belief that somebody had compromised the systems of our Mega Quantum Computer”
Henry then gasped in air, his spine bent backward exaggeratedly, “Huh who could it be…?”
Henry then looks at his boardroom of directors and executives, “Does anybody have a say in the matter?” his face professional where the board begin to bicker while Henry watches
Henry then looked at Maya, “Do get an update from the security department”
Maya with her hands at her back, nodded where she just stood, her blue cybernetic iris flickering while glaring upwards while Henry’s hands lay on his chin, his elbow on the table, taking delight from the noise the boardroom was arguing.
Maya then looks at the door, where it slid open revealing a man with a security officer uniform, white collar with a tie and pants with light shoulder pads entered.
He was holding the tablet, and he seemed to be in a hurry. He hurried to Maya.
“Miss, we have security logs of who broke in the room and tampered with the algorithms”
Maya who was glaring upwards, then looked straight towards the male, “Show me the logs”
The man turned the tablet and handed it to Maya, to which Maya held it and looked at it.
“hmmmm”
Maya watches the footage from her view, with a tablet her eyes scanning the details - she watched security footage of a door slide opening to the inside of the Mega Quantum Computer room, where her hands on her lab coat pockets started walking.
It had a lustrous dark-brown hair with a somewhat a rather younger appearance, it turned revealing a little bit of golden flecks and green from the side of her striking but feminine eyes, with a slight smirk.
Maya’s eyebrows furrowed as she watched the footage with intent.
The figure soon unholsters a device, resembling a hemisphere-like alien device where it starts to roam around.
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The lady then held the device up, before letting go of it. When the device began to float midair, it soon stabilised before moving away from her, where it began to fire a green pulse laser it soon floated around computer systems and made some crude corruptions in it’s memory pointers.
It roamed around beaming without damage except scrambling the data or Hardware-software interface of those systems, soon the hemisphere appeared from below the footage, its hemisphere’s under was facing the view before it went static.
The man apprised them, “We have been trying to find the identity of the intruder. No one in the database fits the appearance of the intruder - we did a wide search of this, but not finds”
Henry then said, while staring at the screen, holding his own, “I wonder who could that be….” with a rather slightly growing smile.
Maya remarked while looking at the footage with a rather efficient manner in her face, “That looks like a certain someone - she kinda looks like Ava with a different hair color…”
Henry’s eyelids looked straight towards Maya, “Yet Ava is the one who fixed our Mega Quantum Computer, correct?”
Maya nodded, “Yeah, but it’s hard to tell if it’s based on her technology or natural talent”
Henry then swivels towards the board of directors, he then begins to ask without looking at her, “What do you know of her anyways?”
“She is a schoolmate of mine who is known for her beauty, aloof nature and excellent grades, now known as the ‘Dropout prodigy’
Maya then begin to disclose, “She voluntarily worked in Genesis Innovation Inc, and I suspect her neurobiology isn’t human like”
Henry’s head looked at Maya, his torso facing the view above the boardroom table with directors or executives sitting on their chairs in complete silence.
Henry’s head then looked at Maya, “What do you mean? Do you mean her brain is enhanced, and of course I know Ava works in Genesis Innovation Inc”
Henry crossed his legs, raised his hand facing to side, his hand facing the ceiling not straight.
“I tried to invite her to work here, unfortunately… She couldn’t be persuaded otherwise”
Maya then remarked, “Not enhanced, sir. More like a new breed of brain and physiology…”
Maya uses her android capabilities to connect to the hologram projector, soon a hologram of Ava’s biology in front of the boardroom executives.
Henry looked at the holographic projection of Ava, with her internations, he stared at them with clinical interest, others on the board followed suit, while the Security guard excused himself, “Well I should be going”
Henry stared at the biology and remarked, “This biology isn’t normal - I know Ava is smart, probably with enhancements or not, but this isn’t normal of her biology nor typical of the upper class”
“It’s so alien”
Maya began running her mouth, while pointing at the internal body, with millions of nanoparticles swimming around her body, and her brain with neuroparticles that looked like it’s simmering blocks with black nanobots with green lights.
“There were enhancements in her brain, physical dexterity and millions of receptors in her body with radio capabilities like an advanced transceiver”
Henry leaned back on his chair, his hand on his lap, “Huh, who could have grant her such abilities?”
Maya scratched her back, “I don’t know, if it was intended it would be pretty grim, perhaps she was engineered by an alien species?”
Henry’s head rotates to Maya, “Genetically engineered?”
Henry rotate to his straight as he grinned, “Perhaps this is one of the testimony cybernetics are proof of one’s superiority”
Maya perplexed at Henry’s emotion, “What are you planning”
Henry then begins to smile with grandeur, his eyes glimmering with the reflection of the lights.
“I am including new upgrades of my own, to my journey of becoming a trillionaire…”
Maya slightly smiled, “That’s interesting, tell me how would you include upgrades to yourself?”
Henry placed a hand on his chin, “It will start with Genesis Innovation Inc, the place that Ava wanted to work in” his eye glimmer with hope
Maya glazes her eyes further, “Uhuh, Genesis Innovation Inc - what are you suspecting what’s going on that place, it’s just a research facility”
Henry then silently say, his eyes all manic but still reflecting the lights of the ceiling like he was a in a golden palace, “You are not seeing it, so let me help you”
He dramatically placed his hands on his table, as he glared up, “There is something about that place that is a trove of treasures, Maya… Infiltrating the business will not only expedite our secret project, but expose us to new opportunities”
“Either we show them we are not some basic corporations that could be picked out by the biggest scientific equipments or we’re just meat to them”
“It’s an advanced laboratory, come on… We are conquerors here - and we don’t play nice we play corporate” Henry’s voice became louder, his hand on the table
“Which is why it’s so special…. Don’t underestimate her ability to work anywhere, if she came from there imagine else they’re hiding” Henry speaks, his hand pointing towards Maya with glee in his face
Maya’s mouth held in agape, eyebrows tilted, as she held the tablet to her breast, “Wow….. That is an amazing idea, sir”
“Consider me impressed”
Henry looked at Maya, “We would do what that lady did to our Mega mega quantum computer”
Maya straightens her eyes, feeling somewhat dubious, “You are not expecting a raid, aren’t you?”
Henry did an evil hand’s rubbing where he was seen smiling, “Yes, Maya you are thinking what I think”
Other electives gave out their opinions agreeing to Henry’s plan to have the research facility hacked or breached, others concern about the ethics of this plan even comments about how this plan would get them into a lawsuit
Executive 1 expresses admiration for Henry’s thoughts, “How should we proceed with the raid?”
Executive 2 on the other hand, showing his distrust. “I don’t know, I wouldn’t want to get in trouble with the lawsuit”
Executive 3 expresses his uncertainty, “Sure we can assemble a team of hackers, but what are we going to do? The security measures there are extreme”
Henry scratches his chin where he places his hand on the board table saying, “I think I am also aware that Ava once broke into the building but was punished with a monitoring collar”
Executive 3 reacted, “That’s horrible, how can we even do a breach if the security measures there are impregnable?”
Henry then dismiss him with a smile and with a swagger movements and said, “Don’t worry I have connections and wealth to assist anyone who is willing, trust me all your concerns are appropriate, but I prefer a fun and more ruthless way to benefit all of us here”
Henry then raises a finger then swipes it through the air, “A stealth mission!” with a smile
Henry rotates his body facing Maya, “You think you can handle it? If not, could we instead invest funds into developing cybernetic research which is more legally doable but slow and boring?”
Maya smiles while crossing her arms, “I don’t get doubters when it comes to my capabilities”
Henry felt reassured, “Then good, if the research files are extracted and studied we can use them to lessen the time needed to develop our cybernetic products. I will let Maya handle the rest, all of you in the other hand - I promise we’re are going to make a lot of money once we’re done with our plan”
The rest cheered with the new announcements, some bicker while Henry just watches with calculation glimmer to his eyes
After like a hours later, the night sky is dark, the moon is luminescent, and the grass felt greener, where stands Maya with a team of agents with their specialized roles, one is male, the other is a female with a holster belt, the other is a hacker with goggles strapped on his forehead - all prepared to infiltrate the building for research data.
The scene ends with them rushing to the building with very little footsteps. There were two security guards, and some scanners, as one security guard roamed around the perimeter of the entrance of a large research laboratory.
The security guard suddenly walked away deciding to explore the area, where he never returned and soon others managed to sneak in with the hacker’s access to the logs and security camera, with a Deepfake surveillance
Effortlessly breaking security measures, except with a few hassles with scientists walking around.
The scene ends with a building below the night sky, the moon was glowing in the dark alongside the black-greyish clouds
