Chapter 11: Configuration

June 11
Outside SPYDER headquarters
1630 hours (6:30)

We parked in the back of the headquarters and I realized: we were armed to the teeth. Erica had a configuration of knives, several guns, and tranquility darts and guns. Cyrus had an M16 over his shoulder, Catherine ha a Taser, and Jawa had an areange of sharp objects such as Chinese throwing stars and pocket knives along with freaking molotoves. I saw a car speed off with a huge man and Joshua Hallal inside it. That was our cue. A helicopter whirred abovehead as we slammed the van doors and piled out. Alexander, Orion, and Mike peeked their heads through the window as they threw down sized grappling hooks for us, Alexander piloting the helicopter while making his way to the top of the headquarters. We each grabbed on to the grappling hooks and threw them to the top of the building. Climbing, Alexander landed and helped Orion and Mike out. I hugged Mike, (yet gingerly because of his fresh wound, which was wrapped with a white bandage and supported by a harness. Anthony Wells' voice buzzed in everybody's ears. "The coast is clear, I got into the cameras. There's actually a guard below you, but I got this one." With a click and whirr, a circular panel from the top of the roof sizzed and dropped ontop of the guard's skull. He groaned and dropped to the floor, making use as a landing mat for the Hales, Me, Jawa and Mike. The blueprints were non existent. "The blueprints are gone!" I screamed in my ear to Anthony before Erica could. "KESCKHHHH... KESCKHHH.... KRCH I.. I know I'm looking around the area." Anthony replied. In the beginning, static had raged and made me think Anthony was getting roughed up. Turns out, he was just shaking. The Hales, Jawa, and I checked drawers and cabinets in the kitchenette while Orion and Mike checked the main rooms. "I got it!" Orion exclaimed from 3 rooms away. We all rushed there, but frowned in disappointment upon seeing rhe blueprints. Theres was a circle with a wick in the middle of the page, and a small rectangle in the middle with random numbers filling it. The circle was next to an odd shaped representation of a building with random symbols below.
The symbols read:

/[ ?<==_ &>)). /&÷ "<==÷,@ $[ /&÷ ;[?;>,% [$ /&÷ ">! >@ >,>/>,!/>,%

Orion frowned as well, but said: "Its a type of code, they're just secondary symbols on a QWERTY keyboard. Each symbol represents a letter." He pulled out his phone keyboard and looked at the symbols above them. As he decoded it, the rest of us cleaned up our tracks and wiped off any fingerprints. Just ad Orion decoded it there was a hint of sound outside, which only me and Mike seemed to notice. "Uh, guys-" He started, but was cut off by Orion reading the decrypted message.  "It reads: To Murray Hill. The current plans for the bombing of the CIA are initiating."
The faint sound grew louder as I peered out the windows of the main room.

A bullet broke through.

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