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Restored Archive - 05/05/2024 - 12:30

Name : Colibri Biographic Memoirs - File N°195

Author : Cirrus

Archive's Date - 06/2020

“Cirrus, still no visual on the other intruders?”

“Still none Colibri, but I was able to locate two connected devices in the floor you were in”

Colibri was now at the bottom of the elevator’s shaft, rapidly breaking open the elevator’s trapdoor with a small impulsion grenade, “Cirrus, before you try to hack into their devices, I’ll need you to open the elevator’s door on floor -2.”

“Easy, I’ll just divert the power again and –” Both metallic doors slid open at the same time, before the loud sound of crashing metal could be heard.

“Shit, they got through.” Colibri muttered as she ran into the dimly lit hallway in front of her, the walls were made of tan concrete, almost all covered with large green metallic lockers, only broken by the few locked doors alongside. “Cirrus, Guide me to the nearest ventilation access, I’ll need to get to the diamond as quick as I can!”

“Hey, I’m trying to hack here! Those devices I’ve located are encrypted to the brim, who knows what delightful intel they have if they’re that protected!”

“Cirrus, for heaven’s sakes I’m being chased here can’t this wait?”

“Take the next door to your left, it should be opened… now!” Colibri leaped through the doorway, her ring starting to emit a small white light to see through the completely dark room, it looked like some sort of bureau, tons of archival papers stashed into drawers, shelves upon shelves of classified information hidden under one of London’s most secured location,

“This seems to easy Cirrus…” Calmly said Colibri while looking through the papers

“How so?”

“There is not a chance the government would just let all this classified information here without anyone to guard it, I know we had to hack through some doors, but all of this is too dangerous to be left behind just that!”

“What is that “we”? you have no idea how many firewall layers there was to go through just to open the backdoor!”

Small footsteps could be heard, followed by a small ray, similar to those of a flashlight, could be seen looking around the corridor. “This isn’t what we’re here for anyway” muttered Colibri to herself, still trying to find the access to the ventilation system.

“Stop right here, intruder” shouted a deep, gritty voice from behind, “Hands up or I’ll open fire!”

Without much options, Colibri cooperated, putting her hands above her in evidence and slowly turning to see who had caught her, it was a massive grey-haired man, slightly taller than the doorway, his beard hiding all form of expression on his visage. Her captor didn’t look like a guard however, he was in a desaturated light blue lab-coat and formal shoes, not the kind of attire you would jump down an elevator shaft with, he looked more like a science teacher than a fighter, but he was armed with a pistol, and Colibri wasn’t.

“What are you doing here? The conferences are on the other side of the road professor!” she chuckled, trying to relieve the atmosphere

“Got yourself in trouble little bird?”

“Oh shut up Cirrus, I can handle it”

“Intruder, please deactivate your communication device, now!” Said the figure, hunched down to fit through the doorway.

“If you wish!” Colibri said, dropping what resembled an earpiece to the floor

“Great job, I knew giving you that miniature camera was a great idea, I have a visual on him now!” Cirrus muttered, trying to be as quiet as possible. “I’ll try to find his identity in Interpol’s Database, but you have to buy me some time!”

“Now please come with me, We’ll have some talking to do,” grunted the man in front of him before reaching for a small phone-like device in his pocket “Aquilo, I’ve got her, continue the miss– Aquilo? Do you hear me?” Colibri’s Assailant seemed confused, and flipped the device, remarking a small jammer attached on it’s side, “You, what did you do?”

“Only seemed fair!” Colibri snarkily answered has she leaped backward and landed on one of the lockers. “We could team up you know! You don’t seem to be here for legal reasons, sneaking in the hallways, messing with the cameras, why are you here?”

“Hey now, I’m the one asking the questions here! And a little bird told me you’re not to be trusted!” the man aimed his gun back at Colibri, “I’m the one with a weapon here remember? Now you’re either coming with me willingly, concussed or dead; you’re choice!”

“Colibri, I’ve been able to find a matching profile, You’re faced with Trevor Smith, renowned British Mathematician since about 40 years, he’s also part of some weird association, the “Espa Isles” I’ve never heard about that before!” Cirrus said, his voice slightly nervous, “This guy is like a ghost, no information about his whereabout in the last 10 years is present, none expect an hidden whitelist, where his name was added 8 years ago”

Colibri nodded, even though Cirrus couldn’t see her, before flying head first into his Chest, “Cirrus, I’m going back through the elevator shaft, I’ll need you to open it again”

“Not on my watch!” he said before aiming his pistol, shooting a bullet straight at Colibri, well not really ‘straight’ as the bullet started to move in wave before hitting through one of the lockers at Colibri’s side.

“That’s not normal…” Colibri mumbled to herself before grabbing a small boomerang from one of her pockets, “Cirrus, Light off!”

The light all shut down at once, plunging the hallway into darkness once again, for a few seconds only. Multiple white dots of lights starts to fly around her foe, going so fast they were leaving a white streak of light behind them, Trevor slightly grinned as Colibri was backing up, “Call me Geogeist little bird. So you can tell everyone who took you out once you’re at the Foundation!”

The small dots flew at an incredible speed toward Colibri, all in different trajectories, two of them hit the wall, one broke a light and immediately fried and the last flew straight into Colibri’s knee, the impact punching her to the ground, “Not bad little one, but I’ve gone after far stronger foes than you before, just give up!” Geigeist monologued, “It’s not personal, just business. I can’t let an anomaly run free!”

Colibri was on the ground, another orb flying in an ellipse over her head, stopping her from getting up, Geogeist was getting closer and she was grasping on her boomerang as hard as she could, waiting for him to be in the perfect spot. “But I don’t think you’ve gone against someone wittier than me! Cirrus, open the doors!”

The light flickered as a wave of electricity ran across the hallway, opening all the locked door at once, the closer one hitting Geogeist right in his abdomen. Now slightly concussed, he stopped concentrating on the small drone spinning above Colibri, which fell to the ground immediately.

As soon as the door opened, Colibri took the opening and leapt back on her feet before throwing her boomerang right at the elevator’s door, the boomerang stuck itself into the metal, stopping the door from opening or closing any further.

“Goodbye Geoguy or whatever you called yourself, I sure won’t remember you!” Colibri added before entering the shaft once again. “Cirrus, you said there were two devices, right? Can you locate the other one for me?”

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Restored Archive - 28/02/2024 - 12:30

Name : Colibri Biographic Memoirs - File N°194

Author : Cirrus

Archive's Date - 06/2020

“Cirrus, can you hear me? Is the connection working?”

“Yep, everything is working great over here Colibri, are you ready?”

“Of course I’m ready, we’ve been planning this one for months now, it’s going to finally be a big hit!”

“Okay, but be careful, we can’t let you be spotted yet, we need to stay undercover for now.”

“… Don’t worry about that, I’ve got everything under control”

“So the coast is clear?”

“Yes, no one here to see!”

“Then prepare to glide down, I’m ready for some action!”

London was quiet for once, the never-ending chatter that the city was usually filled with was no more since the lockdown, and since the night had fallen, no one was outside anymore, no one except Colibri.

She was perched atop one of the towers from the Tower Bridge, ready to glide down, while Colibri was no stranger to it, she had never done such a big heist before, where she was mostly content with taking back unregistered artifact from private collections, so they could be studied by specialists instead of being exposed in the living rooms of some Billionaire, she didn’t risk much, because you couldn’t say you were stolen something that wasn’t registered.

But today, she wasn’t stealing an unregistered artifact, she had to make an impact to find more allies, to make a name for herself, and what better way to get known across the globe than was stealing one of the Crown’s jewels?

Colibri had a target, she would get one of the central diamonds, a rare jewel stolen from India when it was still a colony, so she could give it back to the Indian Treasury, with just enough evidence for the world to know she existed.

“Are you making your move or not?” impatiently said the voice in her earpiece, “Time’s Ticking down!”

“Oh, I’m making one Cirus,” answered Colibri before jumping off the tower she was perched on, “and this one is going to leave a mark.”

“It’s 22 O’Clock! Enter now!” screamed cirrus as he was mashing buttons on his keyboards, one of his eyes always locked on the surveillance system the other trying a way to divert the power back to the entrance without activating an alarm.

“Go left, and after that it’s left again!” he said, the buzz of an overworked CPU almost covering his voice.

“Got it, still no movement on the cameras?”

“We’re all clear, the guards are still two levels above you.”

“Uh, Cirrus?” Colibri paused for a bit, “You said left right?”

“Yes, What’s the problem?”

“There’s no door to the left.”

“Oh for god sake!” Cirrus exasperatedly shouted after a loud paper sound covered the transmission, he knew the plan he found was obsolete, small renovations had been made two weeks before, but didn’t think it would cause a problem. “You need to find a way to go left!”

“Why? Are the jewels supposed to be th–?” The sounds of footsteps could be heard coming from the left, stopping Colibri in her chat as she muttered in her earpiece “Cirrus! You said no one was at my level!”

“Nobody is supposed to be here! I have no visuals on anyone at your level!” Colibri was looking around as she heard Cirrus’ keyboard before his voice came back, “You need to go above, whoever is here doesn’t want to be seen as well!”

Colibri had little time left, and the hallway she was in had only one way out, and that’s where the footsteps came from, she had to delve deeper into the unlit corridor, but every door she tried to open were either locked or led to closets and empty rooms, until she came across something else, “I have an idea Cirrus, but I’m not sure you’ll like it.”

“Well I don’t really care right now, you need to get to the level above, as quick as you can!”

“Could you open the elevator’s doors then?”

“That’s such a bad idea…” Cirrus audibly sighed, he knew this was probably the only choice, but it would be a risky play, “I could, but we won’t have time to wait for the elevator to come at your level.”

“I have wings, remember?” responded Colibri in a taunting voice.

“But an elevator shaft? You really think that’s a good idea?”

“We don’t have time, someone is on this level and really doesn’t want to be seen!”

Cirrus sighed again, before going back to mashing his keyboard, “I can’t redirect the current without activating an alarm, but I can invert it’s polarity!”

“And what does that mean?”

“It means that as soon as the doors are open you need to hit the fire alarm, on the right of the elevator and enter the shaft immediately, it’s going to stop the alarm but also close the doors!”

In a flicker, the light that where previously off all turned on in some sort of wave toward the elevator, lighting the hallway letting the silhouettes of two persons, way too colorful to be guards, appear before the light turned back off. The fire alarm blared as soon as the power got to it and immediately after the door opened, Colibri shot the red button on the wall with her bracelet-like taser, giving her just enough time to jump in the empty shaft, the elevator being stuck two stories lower.

Without another choice, Colibri sprung two massive wings from her back, covered in pure white and gray feathers, as if they where ones of a dove, before hitting themselves on the sides of the way-too-small-for-flying-straight-up funnel, forcing colibri to partially close her wings, so she could at least break her fall on glide down, the sounds of banging on the metal doors pressing her to find a way out, quickly.

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Dove of war | Viewpoint 2 – Archive 1 - Mockingbird

Restored Archive - 20/03/2024 - 23:46

Name : TimeLapse Mission Reports - File N°2648

Author : Aquilo

Archive's Date - 06/2020

“Two weeks? TWO WEEKS? What did you do to get us TWO WEEKS off-site??” A voice echoed throughout the train, and while the two agents were arguing in an enclosed room, their argument was taking place in the whole wagon.

“Calm down G, didn’t you say that it’s been a while since you came to the UK? See this as some sort of vacations!”

“For Dawn’s sake can you take this job seriously for once?” Geogeist grumbled, “We need to retrieve that artifact, and we need to be stealthy about it!” he said again, slightly calming down, “‘Stealth’, do you know that word Aquilo? Because it sure doesn’t look like it!”

The train was slowing down, before coming to a halt, it had finally arrived to its terminus: Victoria Station, London, the sun shining through one of the windows with a faint light, It was already late, only a couple of hours before nighttime.

Geogeist and Aquilo both knew working with the foundation wasn’t a small feat, and came with responsibilities, they had been sent here to discreetly retrieve an anomalous artifact stored inthe tower of London; N. Johnson, leader of the political branch, had pulled some strings in the royal family so the object would be kept here, and the police force would “let their guard down” but it didn’t mean the two agents could just barge in an take the artifact, it had to go under the radars.

Aquilo, who was known for being a troublemaker and not the best at following orders, seemed stressed for the first time in a while, after last week's incident, Aquilo was unsure of his capacities as a sharpshooter, and a heist in close-quarters was far from his playing field.

After finally entering their hotel room, a single street away from their target, he sighed and turned toward Geogeist, his stature towering above him, “Hey G, are you sure you’re ready for tonight?”

Geogeist seemed surprised by the question, he has teamed with Aquilo since he started working for the foundation, but had never seen him that… unsure, “uh, yes?” Geogeist placed a hand on Aquilo’s shoulder, “we did worse than this, we got it!”

“Yes I know, it’s just that –“ Aquilo stopped for an instant, unsure of what he was about to say, “that this time, we have no margin, if anything goes wrong, we’re royally fucked!”

Geogeist softly sighed, before taking his hand off Aquilo and walking in the hotel room, “We did this job for what now, 12 years? We fought demons, aliens, maniacal murderers, and you’re scared of a couple of low-level guards who Mr. Johnson himself has under his little finger?", the door creaked slightly, "I know that blowing up that hangargot you on your nerves, but it wasn't your fault! it's just a simple retrieval mission, we can do that!”

“I guess you’re right, G” Aquilo said as he walked in after him, slightly smiling, “everything is going to go according to plan.”

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“Nothing is going according to plan!” said an exasperated Aquilo while Geogeist was throwing all he had against the elevator’s door, “can’t we just let that girl go? We already have the artifact in the bag!”

“Bud, that girl had wings, and we both know that she isn't part of the foundation too!” Geogeist took a small sketchpad out of one of his massive pockets, promptly scribbling a bunch of numbers on it, before a white line darted from across the hallway into the elevator shaft, the impact leaving the door opened, “We can’t let her escape, not under our watch!”

The elevator’s shaft was pledged in darkness, only a few colorful LEDs sparkling from panels across the walls, the figure that had jumped out previously was nowhere in sight, but she couldn’t have gotten far, and while Geogeist imposing stature jumped two stories down to the elevator itself, Aquilo carefully jummped on thin air, a small paltform apearing under his foot, helping him get up to a slightly open ventilation conduit. “good luck, G,” he muttered as he crawled in the vent, “good luck, me.”

Crawling around the vents was tedious, and while Aquilo’s stature was already thin and agile, he could only think how uncomfortable it would have been for anyone with wings to go through this crawlspace, at least that was he was thinking about when he finnaly got to an exit, the vent had a really small oppening leading to what seemed to be an empty room, not that Aquilo could see much into this darkness

The room was still dark, the walls covered by some sort metal blinds, anchored to the ceiling with a metallic railway, the only spots of light being some beams of redlight, used to keep the internal temperatures of the frailest jewels constant in hope to stop them from eroding. the rays were dispersed across the room, tinted by the jewel from a pure red to a deep purple, the lights dancing across the room like thousand of little lasers.

Aquilo had found into the royal’s jewel vault, and was pretty sure that as soon as he would stop floating and touch the floor, some sort of alarm would go off, but by peeking out from the vent, he quickly lost his balance and darted toward the floor, only stopping his fall a few centimeters above the floor

“Oh fuck me!”

While the room was completly silent, except the hums of the machineries keeping the precious collection in a good state, a lighter, more higher-pitched voice answeted from behind him,

“Sorry, but you’re not my type” the voice said in almost sassy manner, taking Aquilo off guard, “But that diamond, on the other end, way more like it”

Aquilo wasn’t sure, but he could swear he heard another voice quietly screaming about ‘taking this mission seriously’, but has far as he could see, there was only one figure looking at him though the vents he just came through. And while trying to keep his composure, he asked, “Who are you, girl? I’ve never seen you around here before!”

The slender figure dived down from the vent, only stopping a few centimeters away from the floor and Aquilo, two gigantic wing grasping the vent to ensure the stability of this precarious position. “Sorry, where are my manners, I’m Colibri!” the figure stretched a hand out trying to shake those of Aquilo, “but I’m sure you’re going to get to know me”

A slight smile could be seen across Colibri’s face, illuminated by the sparce sparks of light reflected on the jewels, the pair of what Aquilo thought was night-vision goggles making that smile the only noticable feature of whoever was in front of him. Aquilo hesitantly shook her hand, trying to buy time while he was reaching something in his back, before muttering, “Sorry dear, but I recognise a mockingbird when I see one.”

BANG~

A shell flew off Aquilo’s sniper rifle, before Colibri collapsed to the ground, still smiling, “good shot, idiot”, the blaring alarm covering most of what she was saying, “but I’ve got one better for you”, she added, tapping twice on her earpiece

The earpiece’s LED started to flicker from white to blue, before a blinding pillar of white light finally erupted in the room, covering everything and everyone, and soon all was light.

Aquilo was lost, the alarm and the light where covering his senses, he had been outplayed.

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