You too. Stay safe," he tells Zouichi before he slips into another hallway, and he means it.
Finding the security room doesn't take long - it's where most of the security officers seem to be running from. Howard ducks out of sight as each successive wave passes, managing to use the commotion to his advantage and slip through unseen. The security room itself is actually fairly small, but the computer that runs most of the system is easy enough to find.
On the other hand, if Howard had been hoping to unplug it - which he had - he forgot that a lot of Galileean technology is wireless. Whoops.
First things first, he tries to enter the computer. It requires a password. It does not accept 'password', 'user', 'abcd1234', '123qwe', 'pass', 'letmein' or 'popcornball'. It does, however, accept 'guest'.
"Seriously?" he mutters to himself. "This is like, babytown frolics."
Except what do you do to disable a system you don't understand, written in computer jargon you've never seen, with a desktop format that seems designed for either the incredibly brilliant or the incredibly eccentric?
Howard clicks things for a few tense minutes before giving up. He can't afford to waste time. There's barely thirty minutes left on the clock and he's several stories up with elevators that don't work. Also, that robotic evacuation voice is going to give him a migraine if it tells him to calmly leave the building one more freaking time. And has it been long enough for more troops to get called in?
He pokes his head out the window to see if there'd be a ledge to stand on for the teleportation. Nope. But there is a security guard who chooses that exact moment to look up and point. Which gives Howard an awful idea.
He grabs the computer and dumps it out the window on the guy.
The crashing noise is actually pretty satisfying. For Howard. He gets the feeling the guy under the window finds it less amusing, but at least if you're going to get a computer dropped on you from a non-lethal height, there are worse places to do it at than a hospital.
Robotic Evacuation Voice stops.
Howard takes a deep breath and starts to leave the room.
Re: The Box (3/3)
Finding the security room doesn't take long - it's where most of the security officers seem to be running from. Howard ducks out of sight as each successive wave passes, managing to use the commotion to his advantage and slip through unseen. The security room itself is actually fairly small, but the computer that runs most of the system is easy enough to find.
On the other hand, if Howard had been hoping to unplug it - which he had - he forgot that a lot of Galileean technology is wireless. Whoops.
First things first, he tries to enter the computer. It requires a password. It does not accept 'password', 'user', 'abcd1234', '123qwe', 'pass', 'letmein' or 'popcornball'. It does, however, accept 'guest'.
"Seriously?" he mutters to himself. "This is like, babytown frolics."
Except what do you do to disable a system you don't understand, written in computer jargon you've never seen, with a desktop format that seems designed for either the incredibly brilliant or the incredibly eccentric?
Howard clicks things for a few tense minutes before giving up. He can't afford to waste time. There's barely thirty minutes left on the clock and he's several stories up with elevators that don't work. Also, that robotic evacuation voice is going to give him a migraine if it tells him to calmly leave the building one more freaking time. And has it been long enough for more troops to get called in?
He pokes his head out the window to see if there'd be a ledge to stand on for the teleportation. Nope. But there is a security guard who chooses that exact moment to look up and point. Which gives Howard an awful idea.
He grabs the computer and dumps it out the window on the guy.
The crashing noise is actually pretty satisfying. For Howard. He gets the feeling the guy under the window finds it less amusing, but at least if you're going to get a computer dropped on you from a non-lethal height, there are worse places to do it at than a hospital.
Robotic Evacuation Voice stops.
Howard takes a deep breath and starts to leave the room.