Under the surface. (Sanquin / Feelove)

[Sanquin]

Rich frowned a little. He didn't trust this one bit. Sure Tanya said that she had mistaken the man for someone else now, but he didn't buy it. Even a regular person would realize that the tone in her voice had told a very different story before. But the man decided to drop it...for now. He'd look into this project shadowcat later again, when he had a bit more time.

"Yea, I have everything. I should be done in about an hour, maybe a bit less. These guys aren't as smart with their files as I thought they were." He replied, starting to type away at his keyboard again. "Anything else you need?" He asked, just to be sure. He was in their system right now. In another few hours, he would be totally locked out again. Plus, the company would hopefully go down soon as well. So if she wanted anything, she best come with it now rather than later when it was maybe too late already.

[Feelove]

"Nope." She replied as she swung her leg around the rented motorbike. It wasn't as fancy or luxurious as the hacker's, but it would do for now. "It would be great if you could give me a good, fat addition to my bank while you're at it though."

"So we're good? Everything settled. Won't see you ever again?"

She hoped that he had all that he needed, and that he saw the mission through. She wanted to see the company pay for their actions as much as he did. She had spent too much of her life running away from bad guys that pretended to be good by covering up everything they did. This mission was almost cathartic.

[Sanquin]

"Bank account huh? Well, I'm sure they won't miss an extra 20k." Rich replied with a smirk. Heck, after today they wouldn't know anything about their money unless they checked manually at the bank. "Anyway, we're good yea. Have fun with your spy stuff sexy. Give me a call if you need me again. You know, just anywhere hackers go and I will find your message. Oh, and check the news in the next week. Maybe you'll see my name dropping by somewhere." Not exactly his name. Just "Dr. O", but still.

He chuckled, then turned off his side of the comm. A job well done, hic-ups aside of course. Now it was time to really get to business. The man transferred the cash to Tanya's account, then finished up what he wanted to do in another 40 minutes. After that he packed up as much of his camera's and hidden microphones as he could carry with him, before heading home on his bike.

[Feelove]

"Much thanks. And don't worry, I always keep a close eye on the news." She looked wistfully back at the large building. Every successful mission always made her feel kind of good on the inside. "I guess this is goodbye then. Adios amigo. If you want your earpiece back, you'll find it on the rooftop of a post office off 75th Street."

She then carefully removed her earpiece and dropped it off at the place she had stated, before riding off into the sunset.

[Sanquin]

Two days later Amaranth was all over the news. All over every news outlet even, each spending most of their time on just this one story. The news spoke about how certain information had come out from a source calling themselves 'Dr. O', that the company was responsible for the deaths of at least a dozen people. And whether it was accidental or not, that they tried to cover it up. Furthermore the company appeared to be suffering from internal problems as well. One other source spoke about all of their money being inaccessible, and that it was pure chaos. Stories about the company kept on going for the rest of the week, and would continue on for at least another two weeks probably.

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A few days after that, and Rich was looking for something new to do again. Another injustice to prevent or set right. For now he was just going through live security camera footage in the world. He had decided to expand his help to the entire world, as long as it was help he could provide without having to actually go there of course.

That's when he spotted something on one of the video footages he saw. A woman sneaking around. And after looking a little closer, he actually recognized her. The main raised a brow, then grinned widely. The man jumped into action, starting on hacking into the system of this company. It wasn't that big or important a company and their security was...lacking severely for someone like Rich. Tanya appeared to be going for a computer, which gave Rich a perfect opportunity.

As soon as she had turned the machine on, a message appeared on screen. One from him. "Hey there sexy. Fancy meeting you here. Need any help?"

[Feelove]

She stared at the screen, startled as the words flashed before her eyes. Her hand had automatically reached for the pistol strapped to her side, thinking that she was finally discovered... But the only person that called her that was a certain past acquaintance. Raising an eyebrow at the text she reached for the keyboard and typed out the next few things:

G, V, 6, 8, 1, J, A, A, 4, 8.

It was no surprise that Tanya remembered the password from almost a week ago, but she had to make sure that the man was really who she suspected him to be. Not that she really needed his help for anything. It was a simple task that she was trying to do, nothing major and surely nothing that required his level of intellect. Still, it would help to know that it was him on the other end, and not the security of the building she was currently creeping through.

She was not expecting Amaranth to come down completely, but all she could say about that particular matter was that the hacker was very thorough with his work; something she greatly respected of him. She was somewhat surprised to hear it splattered all over the news the way it did, and he even took all the fame for himself. Dr O indeed. Not that she was actively complaining since the less people knew of her, the better.

[Sanquin]

Rich smirked. The password from last week huh? Well, he still remembered his as well. "D, 5, S, 8, 3, 8, S, N, V, M." appeared on the screen, with a winkey face after it. After a moment of silence there was more text on the screen though. "Hope you liked my work. I have to say I do like the anonymous fame. And I'll ask once again, need any help here?"

That's when he saw something on another camera. Sure Tanya could easily take care of herself in a situation like this but it was better to know what was happening beforehand right? "For instance, that one guard that's patrolling around, and will reach you in about 15 seconds. Looks like he's 70 or something." It was very useful sometimes to have access to all the camera's of a building.

[Feelove]

"Thanks for the headsup." She typed back, before she turned off the monitor, leaving the entire room to plunge into darkness, the only light coming from the door frame. She could hear the tinkle of metal hitting metal, the telltale sign of someone trying to open the door. She flexed her leg muscles, before leaping up towards the bar on the ceiling, doing a highly acrobatic twirl and holding her body up with just her hands.

The door opened, and in stepped an old, sweet looking man. She waited patiently as he carefully looked around, making sure that everything was still in order. He stopped for a moment, eyes lingering on the computer that she was busy tapping away at mere seconds before, but then shaking his head and heading back out, locking the door behind him.

She let out a small breath as she released herself, landing lithely on the balls of her feet. She turned on the monitor once again and began typing away.

"Either way, I'm not getting any information out of here without you knowing right? So since you're here, could you help me extract any information about that Baldwin guy we saw last week?"

Poof, there went her lie. But it wasn't a very convincing lie in the first place and they both knew that. She was sure that whatever information she got from this location, Wallace was going to piggyback it anyway. So what was the point of hiding?

Sighing, she settled down and waited.

[Sanquin]

Rich looked at the screen bemusedly as he looked at the camera footage of Tanya skilfully avoiding being caught. The old man had no idea what was going on, clearly, and soon left again. Once the woman was back at the keyboard she asked him if he knew anything about Baldwin. So that's why she was there...well, he could have known. After all he had already found quite a bit more information about the man.

"Actually, I already knew you knew the man." He replied back. "So I did some research on my own, just because I was curious really. And I found some interesting things. But I don't think this computer is the best place to discuss it. Remember that rooftop you left the mic on? It'll be there again. We'll discuss further through that. Dr. Oddity out." Then he left the screen blank. He didn't want to reveal too much on a computer that was easily hacked and could be monitored. Especially sensitive information about Baldwin and Tanya.