Master's Degree in Network Security

Calian POV

Once I heard Ariane say that, my eyes lighted up because, "Yeah! It does look familiar, doesn't it?" I mean, I could've sworn I've seen this aircraft somewhere before, I just can't put it in my mind where I've seen it? "Great then, now that the both of you obviously know something, why don't you tell all of us where we are!" Crynn cheered out, the problem is, it only looks familiar and I don't know why it looks familiar!

"I still need to think it through exactly how this is familiar, so I can't give anything right now," Ariane said what truly needs to be said. "Maybe we should scout out the surroundings first? I mean, we're in the middle of practically nowhere, so..." Yes we need to do that, I don't want to stand in a desert doing God knows what.

"So anyone capable of flying this aerodyne, that's the name of this aircraft right?" Crynn asked and oh boy, flying a futuristic aircraft is not my forte at all. "I can and I'm sure Jill can as well being S.T.A.R.S and so on but we might need to look at the manual first if there's any," although I learnt to fly all kinds of planes in the Kingsman, I hadn't once been educated how to fly this thing.

And so as easily as that, we went into the aerodyne, complicated controls and so many buttons, here I come once again.

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Crynn POV

The interior around is nice, and in addition we have two pilots! I'm actually also an experience helicopter and occasionally seaplane pilot all used for some shady business but my expertise remains. There's a number of monitors and keyboards all around, key boards that have way too much keys on it.

Like, there's not just the English alphabet, but there's also a whole lot of symbols on the right, making this keyboard twice longer than any normal keyboard I've ever seen in my life, not only that there's also a lot of external switches and buttons and ooh my brain is already going into overdrive seeing this.

"Is there anyone good in computers around here, information communication technology anyone?" Not that I can't operate a computer, I usually leave the hacking to someone else, someone capable enough to hack into the Pentagon undiscovered and let me tell just how many hackers are capable of doing that, a lot.

"I'm an expert hacker!" Jill raised her voice and came to my excitedly, no expert hackers are supposed to be that excited. "Ah! I have a master's degree in network security!" Wait a minute, what? "You have a master's degree in network security? Pardon me but aren't you an athletic archer?" I'm baffled with Aria, a master's degree in network security but ended up as an archery athlete, I'm a bit confused here.

"Oh right, ehm... I actually like computing so I decided to become hacker after, don't laugh, watching the matrix. Archery is only a hobby of mine but eventually I decided to go full on archery because I already own a master's degree on network security so why don't I hone another specialty," ok you might be the first person I know who got hooked on hacking because of the Matrix, fine that's okay.

"Looks like I'm going to have to be the co-pilot of the day, excuse me ladies, I'll leave you be with a lot of computing that I won't understand, good luck with that," so, I depart from my position onwards towards the front of this aircraft. I pressed a button next to the doorway and the sliding door opened up to the cockpit, a cockpit that looks bigger and more comfortable than the cockpits of commercial planes.

"Where is Jill?" Calian asked me, clearly hadn't caught up to the fact that I've replaced her. "She's up to work with some computing back there, I'm going to be the co-pilot here unless, you'd like to be the co-pilot instead?" I do know that some would prefer the co-pilot seat but I'm overall ok with both rank of occupations.

"No, you can become the co-pilot, take a seat and here is the manual book," I sat next to him on the co-pilot's seat and took the thin book from his hands, I opened the book and oh boy, so many instructions, do I really need this. "How do you learn your flight?" Hmm... That's a question I could answer.

"Independently, I need to be able to fly a helicopter or a seaplane in some of my... jobs, I'd say I have a fair share of 3 years in flying helicopters and seaplanes," yeah, air superiority is sometimes needed in my line of job, if you'd even call it a job. "You know, my first world is in the Kingsman, I was educated in flying there, it's lovely, they had this simulation chamber which felt like I'm flying up 30000 feet high, good thing I don't have the fear of heights."

Huh? Kingsman, hence the fancy wear and umbrella, he does look like a British nobleman but instead he's a Kingsman, of course, Kingsman are like fake aristocrats I guess. "I don't think I'll need this, the controls look simple enough. These are obviously the start switches and this is the control wheel, only thing left is this screen which should be easy enough to light, there done it."

I flicked a switch to the side of the screen and the screen turned on and loaded into an interface. "Okay then, autopilot, throttle, VTOL controls, flares, and... many more, I'm sure we'll learn in time," just style Calian, just my style. "So, I'm guessing we'll have to flick or start switches at the same time, so 3... 2... 1... flick," some lights lighted up and some scales moved around.

[Engine operational, hull integrity at 100%, controls fully functional, ready for flight] A womanly robotic and cold voice sounded in the cockpit or maybe throughout this entire aerodyne, looks like we're good to go. "Open map, let's see where we are," Calian pressed the map word on the interface as a map opened up.

"Oh crap... I think I know what world we're in," just from opening a map? Impressive.