Chapter Four

Medical arrived about five minutes later just as she had said, we brought them in to tend to our wounded. unfortunately Max was one of those injuried, he was sitting in the hall way with one of the medics as they treated his injuries. "how is he?" I asked the medic ad she looked up over her shoulder at me. "he should be fine, he took two rounds to the chest but it looks like his vest caught them both, and it doesn't seem like any of his ribs are broken either. just some really bad bruising. to say that he is lucky would be a massive understatement." he chuckled as he sat there holding his chest. "then you haven't met this bastared yet." he said as he briefly pointed at me. i rolled my eyes in responce and nodded. "okay, your gonna sit in the MRAP seeing as your injuries aren't that bad. we have some people with real injuries that we need to transport anyway." i said before nodding to the medic as a sort of thanks before starting to walk into the control room. a few of the men that weren't injured were cleaning up and looking through any physical files they could get too. it was all we could do considering we didn't dare touch the computer, we all knew we would end up fucking something up if we did.

the techies got here pretty quickly, and got to work right away. digging out information from any computer they could get there hands on. meanwhile myself and the men explored the facility, trying to find any extra information possible. searching through any physical material we could to get information. all we were able to gather was spreadsheets that made no sense to us. and to make it all worse nothing was titled. it was hard to find out what held what information. they seemed to use some form of code for just about everything here, including the computer files. we had some of the best experts in the field when it came to tech but even they were getting caught in places they didn't expect. whoever was running this place, either knew what they were doing, or had hired people who did. either way, this meant things were going to continue to be much slower then we expected, which was dangaurus.

a few hours had gone by, we had secured the entire building by now and were digging for any information we could get. before I heard my radio beep and a voice come over the radio. "boss your gonna want to come see this. second floor in the breaker room." i clicked my radio on and to respond. "copy I'll head up now." i said before the radio beeps again only a few seconds later. "security to parks. the geneticist you wanted just rolled up." i stopped dead in my tracks and sigh. "yep I'll be there in a moment. breaker room you'll have to wait." i said over the radio before shaking my head as start walking to the front entrance. "the one time max manages to fuck himself over." i mutter to myself. i walk out to the gates to see a white ford explorer parked in the front, a woman standing by the driver side door talking to one of my men. it wasn't easy to see the woman from where I was but as I approached things turned from operation focused to awkward in a split second. it was the same woman who had come to my apartment the night before, and I could tell this wasn't gonna be a happy reunion just by the pissed off look on her face. as she saw me. i took a breath an approached them both "I can take it from here. " i said as I pat his shoulder and let him take off as I look at her. "we have met." she crossed her arms. "five bucks and a note? are you kidding?" I nodded softly. "okay I get that wasn't slick, but we have a job to do. we can talk about this later." i said before holding out my hand to shake her. "Josh Parks, I'm the one in charge of these guys." she shook my hand and rolled her eyes. "I can tell I'm not dumb. Cleo Good, you know what I do because I wouldn't be here otherwise." she said before walking past me and starting to walk twarads the lab. "your gonna have to show me through here so keep up." she said as she continued to the door. i sighed and started walking. "like I didn't have enough issues." i muttered before hearing two beeps of my radio, meaning someone was talking to me on a closed channel. "five bucks and a note? are you an idiot?" Maxs voice said over the radio. i quickly responded. "shut the fuck up, at least I didn't get shot by a rent a cop." i said before shutting my radio off entirely and jogging up to Cleo.

"what's the layout like?" she asked as she took out a small note pad and walked into the main entrance. "pretty simple. right inside you have a break room to the right, some sort of lab just past it to the right. on the left seems to be some sort of incubation room and on the far left is a stair well which leads to a large server room, the breaker room. and past those is the security office." she nodded, seeming to jot down only a portion of what I had said. "okay, where exactly is the server room located? just above us?" I nodded slightly. "yeah it's a pretty large server room. takes up pretty much the whole second floor. at least what's acessable. the control room which is in here takes up about two stories by itself." i said as I lead her into the control room. "odd... why is there a massive control room in a lab? have the techs found out what this is used for?" I she asked as she looked to me. i shrugged. "nope, we have been having hard time getting any info out of this place. they seem to use some sort of code system. like police code, like I can say 10-4 and 10-70 without you realising I just said affirmative foot pursuit. so they are working on cracking that right now." i said before she nodded. "okay.. this doesn't add up, a lab, an incubation room and a huge server room? a lab doesn't need these things. and it deffinantly doesn't need them at this scale." i nodded and started leading her back twarads the lab room "yeah I was thinking the same thing. this doesn't make sense." i said as we entered the lab room. "okay, well I'll do what I can to find out what they are doing here. I'll keep you posted." she said before I nodded and turned to go to the server room.