After Gemma sent the robot a message, she got back to preparing step two. After all, what good is a step one without a step two? She moved her hands together as if to crack her knuckles, but of course, no sound came. She didn’t care. Her eyes just darted about from screen to screen until it settled on the one in front of her. She began pressing a few keys, a black screen popping up with the Hark logo. Giggling a bit, she began hacking into their systems. She’d done so once before, just to see if she could, and now she knew the shortest way to do it. It didn’t take her too awfully long before she was in, and she sang a high pitched note of victory to herself. 

[b]”Here we go,”[/b] she whispered. Her fingers whirred, while suddenly, within Providence, Hark headquarters began shutting down sector by sector. The only area Gemma left untouched for the moment were the prisons. Once she got there, she began recalling in her memory banks the cell numbers of those who were in prison for being android sympathizers, those who had been charged with crimes they did not commit. Her cameras, her eyes, they saw everything. And though she’d surely missed a few, several prison doors swung open. As the guards were surely about to step in, Gemma set down the phone networks. Every phone and communication device within the city would be blacked out so no one could call for help. She could only hope those within the prison, innocent or not, would stand up for themselves against the guards. There were more of them, anyway. And in the mix included her ex-lover. She had lost emotion for him long ago though. She still had a place in her heart for him, but he was not a part of the plan.

With a fake, deep breath, as she needed none, she began again, and began shutting down the hovercars associated with Hark. They all ran on the same computer system, and as she began screwing with it, all their vehicles would start malfunctioning and not working. She then had to put a big bow on top of course, so she directed her attention to the link to James MacCray’s handheld computer. 

[i]Hey Chief. Can you hear me now?[/i] it read. She returned her link to the dome over the city, which was now becoming nightfall, and flashed a new message across it. [I]Hark is at your mercy for the next 30 minutes.[/I]

She pushed away from the screen, putting her hands behind her head and awaiting Mr. MacCray’s reaction, message back, whatever he would do. She also had a screen watching the exit of the prison, curiously wondering if the people would escape and be free. She’d done all she could.