<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Copy that.  Waiting.”</span>Darion said a moment before suddenly he heard a wall slide open nearby.    It was an emergency fire ladder.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Got the ladder hub.  Ascending now.”</span>As soon as Darion finished speaking, he began climbing the ladder.  They had quite a few levels to climb, and fast.  Darion started cursing under his breath.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Fucking bastard making me need to climb over 10 levels of ladders.  Gonna kick his as when I catch up to him.”</span>All that he mumbled while climbing and listening to the radio for what level the target was on.<br/><br/>………………………………………..<br/><br/>Kala’s hands were moving as fast as they could over the screens, and over the holo-keyboard projected by her omnitool, and over the one from the ship’s computer.  Switching between each when she needed to.   It was taking all she had to keep up with the computer once the way was opened.  All it looked like she had to do was give the computer a target and just sit back.   This thing was by far the most advanced cyber warfare computer she had seen.<br/><br/>But then that was no fun, so after the set it loose on the part of the system keeping the hub out of control, Kala instead began working on something else.  Using the access already gained she began pulling up the records from the previous doors accessed.  Especially the data about the omnitool used to gain access into them.  She needed that data to rewrite the coding to one of her own viruses to counter this hacker.  She was so busy writing that code with the computer filling in the gaps she couldn’t find that she didn’t hear Taseer come up behind her until the Asari spoke.  And the voice being so close actually spooked the human girl into jumping a little and she cursed when she recovered.<br/><br/><span style="color: Sienna">“Jeeze Taseer, don’t sneak up on me like that.  And yeah.  The Acheron’s computer is amazing.  The most advanced cyber warfare system I have ever seen.”</span>Kala paused to look at the small bit of code in her virus change to be perfectly what she needed to ruin the target’s day.<span style="color: Sienna">“She isn’t just breaking codes.  Is it even possible to fall even more in love with this ship?”</span><br/><br/>As she spoke the message came on the screen that stated they had access to the doors, and had full control, and Kala ignored everyone else past that point as she handed the virus from her omnitool into the computer.<span style="color: Sienna">“Okay baby.  Let’s put this into the Atrium door controls to all the doors leading lower when they are locked down.   Let’s see how he likes being hacked.”</span>As she said that, she set the door controls on the atrium doors to upload the virus to the hacker’s omnitool upon his first attempt to access it.<br/><br/><span style="color: Sienna">“Once he is locked in, it will take a couple minutes, but that virus should be undetected, but it should fry his omnitool and give the guards down there the distraction they need to get close enough to apprehend him… I hope he has a newer model omnitool so the data storage isn’t fried too.  I want whatever hacking programs he is using.”</span>As she said that with the computer’s help she got them camera access into the atrium so they could watch what was about to happen on their display.  Once down she turned around and put her hands behind her head to relax and watch as well… nothing more she could do from here.<br/><br/>…………………………………………..<br/><br/>Darion climbed out of the ladder shaft at the 87th floor, breathing hard after climbing about 11 floors worth of ladder.  He spared a moment to lean over and rest his hands on his knees.  Apparently he hadn’t kept himself as in shape as he had thought, but then even the most in shape soldier would be winded after that climb.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“This is Darion.  On the 87th floor, in route to atrium now.”</span>He said into the comms before standing back up, unclipping his rifle, and beginning to move towards the indicated room;  Following one of the other security guys who knew the way and unclipping his rifle from under his shirt.<br/><br/>As they reached the atrium, Darion moved into a position of cover behind a metal section of the railing before peeking out and taking a quick look around the room.  It was wide, a balcony running most of the room, overlooking a floor below.  The floor below had some quite comfortable looking furniture.  Would have looked like a nice place to just sit and rest, or maybe bring a date after diner and many cocktails.  Too bad it was about to be ruined though as there crouching behind a planter was the target.<br/><br/>Darion crouched up higher and leveled his rifle to take aim, but there was no clear shot from here to the target, so he took aim at the planter, and fired to get the bastards attention before he could find a way to escape.  Of course after that Darion’s shields flared, causing him to duck back behind cover and wait for an opening to fire.  But all he heard were rounds hitting their cover and keeping them suppressed.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“fuck”</span>he cursed, waiting.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Hope you all get here soon, he is a really good shot and has us suppressed on the balcony.”</span><br/><br/>Thankfully though it wasn’t too long after that that the next security team entered and took the Target’s attention.  That little distraction Let Darion crouch up from behind his barrier to take aim to fire again.  Him and others began firing their rounds at the fleeing target, though darion was pretty sure he was the only one to really hit consistently.  Just as the man reached the bar for cover, his shields died.  Darion took aim and made sure to place a round into his shoulder before he had to duck back again.  It was easier to reload while in cover.<br/><br/>He waited for a while, moving over so he could peer out at the chaos happening through a glass part of the railing next to him.  This guy was a good shot with what Darion was seeing.  He put a couple guards who tried to advance onto the ground.   Now how was he going to get the bastard out of cover to finish off, or cripple.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Wish I had brought a flashbang…”</span>he grumbled to himself.<br/><br/>At about that time, Darion saw Ashana enter the room as well, or at least saw er when she was dragging an injured security guard behind cover.<span style="color: Seagreen">“good, gang’s all here.  Not to get a good aim…”</span>Darion reached over and after a few shots at the glass on the railing, busted it out so that it wasn’t in the way as he went prone.  Balancing the rifle against the edge of the balcony, he took aim and every time he saw anything to shoot at from the assailant.  It was his turn to be suppressed.<br/><br/><span style="color: SeaGreen">“Malcom, Ashana.  I have got an idea.  I can set my rifle to overload it’s thermal clip to the point that the rifle will explode like a flashbang, with a little fragmentation.   I can get it behind the bar with a throw from here.  If he is smart he will dodge it.  I hope that would be enough for you to get him with a singularity or some other biotic trick.”</span>Darion said, still taking aim, talking quietly through the radios.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>