She
ended up working late into the night, phoning up and apologising to Ombre
somewhere around six in the evening to tell her that she wouldn’t be back to
the flat, which she rented from the company, before ten or eleven o’clock tonight.
When Ombre asked if she had eaten and she gave a vague answer, the spirit of
the Orb made her promise to talk to security and said that she would see her
later.
When
Kari caught herself beginning to doze, having not slept properly thanks to the
jet lag, she darted off for coffee while a program rendered out a short 3d animation
for her to present as finished and ready to be added in the next Duel Disk
update, to the boss in the morning.
She
had only just reached the floor’s break room and started the coffee machine off
to make a fresh pot when she felt magic swirling in her office, shortly
followed by the fire alarms going off and the sprinkler systems kicking in.
Kari
swore as she darted back to the room she had temporarily been assigned to grab
her bag and work out if she could recover the work she had been doing only to
find Ombre was there with two carrier bags of takeaway in her hands, there was
a guy unconscious behind her door and the sprinkler systems had taken care of
whatever fire had been there.
Thankfully
Ombre had cast a shield spell that seemed to be directing the water away from
the computer. Kari was relieved to see the magic hadn’t caused the system to
short out and it was still merrily rendering away.
“What
happened?” Kari asked as she took in the scene, well aware security would be
here any moment and finding herself relieved when she could pass through the
barrier covering her computer, allowing her to cover it with her rain coat
instead.
“I
came in with dinner for you and found some prats messing with your computer.”
Ombre shrugged, letting the barrier go once the Kari had ensured the safety of
the computer. “That prat,” She pointed to the guy who was led behind the door, “Got
hit by the door on my way in and my magic took care of him.”
“Messing
around with my computer?” Kari asked with a frown as she hid the rendering
program and tried to open up the menu, only find the rendering program was
hiding errors that had popped up left right and centre and a swirling purple
vortex on screen that looked like it was sucking in files. Kari cursed and
yanked the network cable out of the back of her computer, trying to sever the
connection to the rest of the Kaiba Corp network before darting to the nearest water
shielded computer and checking it, only to find it was doing the same thing.
“Kari?”
Ombre asked, confused as Kari checked one more computer before pulling her
company phone out of her pocket and dialling swiftly.
“Make
sure that guy doesn’t get away.” Kari grimaced as she waited for someone to
pick up, “We’ve been hacked.”
Ombre
shot off back to Kari’s office as Kari started talking to someone in what could
have been ancient Greek for all she knew about it, but involved shutting down
the network of computers within the company and getting the damn sprinkler
system shut off. The sprinkler system shut off before she could get there and
she arrived to find a couple members of the security team were already trying
to wake up the man to find out what had happened.
Amusingly,
the guards seemed to assume she was her light to start with, giving her the
same respect they would have given any department head right up until Kari re-entered
the room. At which point they seemed to get very confused, decide that Ombre
was another intruder and tried to hold her for questioning too, despite Kari
vouching for her.
It
wasn’t until Kaiba and Mokuba entered the room, one looking highly pissed off
and the other curious and irritable, and the elder Kaiba brother told the
members of the security team that they were to sit down and shut up because
apparently a girl with no training could do their jobs better than they could.
They
didn’t seem to take that very well, especially when Kaiba told Ombre that he
expected her in the following day to continue guarding his new head of
department until he could be certain something like this wouldn’t happen again.
However they were swiftly distracted when Ombre lift the spell she had been
using to keep the intruder sedated and his first reaction to waking up was to
attempt to attack Kari, who he had mistaken for Ombre.
The
security guards pounced on him before he could lay a hand on her and Kaiba sent
Kari and Ombre home after getting details from both of them about what had
happened. Kari was willing to leave. Though she didn’t believe that her boss
was still like the horror stories, she wanted no part in questioning the man.
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