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The Story:

The path was coated in mud, making it difficult for him to run. He could hear the growling of their ATVs closing in on him from behind. He didn’t care if they caught him, just as long as he reached the control room under the tower first.

He reached a chain linked fence and climbed over. As he landed on the other side, the men on their ATVs reached the gate and unleashed an army of bullets.

The door to the control room was locked, so he kicked it in. A bullet hit him in the side just as he was entering the building, knocking him down. He wailed in agony but began crawling to the main computer.

Pulling himself up to the screen, he inserted a jump drive and began typing. Blood tracked onto the keyboard as he pounded his way through the lines of code he had memorized.

They came pouring into the room, pointing their guns at him. He grabbed the keyboard and collapsed to the floor.

“Wait wait wait! Don’t shoot! Don’t!”

A tall, lanky man walked into the room, picking mud from the corner of his eye.

“You’ve been alive too long already, for my taste, Maddox. No more waiting.”

The man pointed his gun at Maddox.

“I’ll press it!”

His finger hovered over the enter key. The man sighed.

“You got it in, I see… So, what does it do?”
“It puts you out of a job,” Maddox said with a grin.

The man’s finger tightened around the trigger, and Maddox’s finger hung millimeters above the enter key. They glared each other in the eyes, as they each accepted the final outcome of their standoff.

Maddox pressed the enter key, and the man fired his shot. He stepped over Maddox’s body and checked the screen. The code had been sent to a satellite and was already making its way through everyone’s devices.

“We’ll take the jump drive. Maybe we can figure out a way to…”

The screen went blank and a sentence appeared.

“One more thing. Courtesy of Maddox.”

The transformers powering the tower began whirring louder, as if they were winding up. The man hung his head in defeat, and the entire building exploded.

 

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