A snippet of a fictional story

After three weeks of unfathomable intensity, Jonathan and Tom’s stratagem to oust Hanson and Mark bore fruit-both of them were avaricious and couldn’t stand their bank deposits being out of order. Thusly, they submitted their resignations subsequently. Jonathan and Tom ought to have thrown a party to commemorate their departure; however, they were rather discombobulated to discover that Wicky threw a spanner in their works and became their next executive President of Taprobane. Nonetheless it wasn’t simply fortuitous because Wicky was one of Hanson and Mark’s henchmen; hence it was foreseeable who would take the baton.

Having acquired the role of Presidency, Wicky immediately, commanded the crème de la crème of the squads of Taprobane to congregate a stone’s throw away from the Presidential House and assault the protesters in the dead of night. His troops launched such sanguinary war tactics to drive any rational person to state that Wicky was a sandwich short of a picnic for sanctioning the soldiers to commit barbarous acts on demonstrators. Surely,enough,it was met with condemnations from people who found it repugnant and cautioned Wicky that if is resolute was to stifle protests, then he’ll be laughing on the other side of his face when he sees the outcome of his preposterous motives.

Of course, Wicky paid no heed to their admonitions and continued detaining the non-violent protesters. Wicky was also urging Hanson to return to Taprobane; as the latter was rumoured to be leaping from one country to the next like a frog-afraid of being convicted of the crimes, he had hitherto, perpetrated.

Tom and Jonathan were frustrated by this sudden turn of events and decided that the Taprobanian Parliament is an Augean Stables that will never be in favour of the common populace.

“If we are to bring forth an egalitarian society-we must first eradicate the carcinogens in the Parliament and engender a cohort of erudite representatives who are short of recalcitrance,” affirmed Tom.

“How do you propose we do that?” queried Jonathan-having the notion that is irredeemable.

“I want you to design a noxious which is homogeneous to a ransomware software-except it should squeeze the victims to resign by displaying a simple warning and locking all the data until our demands are met,” pleaded Tom.

“I’ve already invented a malicious ‘worms ware’- a merged form of the destructive ransomware ‘Golden Eye’ and the most virulent worm ‘Mydoom virus. ‘As a result of possessing traits of both strains, it is bee’s knees! “elucidated Jonathan.

“Woah! How did you figure out, it will be a desideratum?” questioned the bemused Tom.

“Frankly-speaking, I didn’t know we’ll be needing it; but I was engrossed in creating viruses and worms ever since I was an undergraduate. All these years. I’ve been revamping my creation until it was perfect,” replied Jonathan with an air of dignity.

“Hence, it is a serendipitous occurrence, anyway can you explain me the activation procedure?” Tom requested.

“Sure, as this is ethical and is to be utilised to yield beneficial results-I have no objection to that but we have to return to Zone 23 to retrieve my possessions,” reassured Jonathan candidly.

They both motored towards Zone 23 in Jonathan’s car and reached its environs where they abruptly, halted their vehicle. They were stupefied to see military personnel present there. Jonathan suddenly, saw his laptop and went on tiptoes to fetch it; while Tom took control of the steering wheel. Jonathan returned and Tom swerved the vehicle dangerously and sped away.

Unfortunately, a couple of soldiers noticed them and chased them in their vehicles. Tom stepped on the gas and pondered how they were in the TIA’s (Taprobane Intelligence Agency) crosshairs. Jonathan postulated that perhaps the TIA was aware of their bank account strike are were thinking of rounding them up in Zone 23. He further admitted that he had inadvertently, forgotten to disable the location settings in his laptop and immediately did the latter.

The cat and mouse chase continued for an hour and eventually, ceased because Tom and Jonathan knew all the small-connecting sideroads like the back of their head and threw the TIA off the scent.

Tom was knackered and pleased that he managed to ward off the TIA: but on the other hand, Jonathan was at wit’s end. Tom reassured Jonathan that they were still anonymous as Jonathan’s laptop’s MAC address was bogus. That relieved Jonathan and he gave them a pen drive and instructed him to insert it in a socket of one of the Parliamentarian’s computer. He further elaborated that he had programmed it to infect devices specifically to the Parliament during the chase; so as to ascertain it is endemic to the latter.

Tom steered the car to one of the houses in the vicinity of the Parliament and ordered Jonathan to go in. Jonathan entered the building with Tom following behind. Tom suddenly, bent down and pressed a switch concealed beneath a mat. Upon fidgeting with it, the ground remarkably, opened-unveiling a deep dark hole that seemed to lead to a secret underground tunnel…

To be continued…

Penned By:

Rtr. Kruban Nallainathan

General Member