Thanks to Bardic for making sure his characters act like they should.

FTA: Curse of the Devil - Crinale 2210-12
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Saturday, September 8th, 2210

Angelus HQ, Perth, Australia.

"I've got word that Tsar Pawel is going to St. Petersburg for a few days." Nikole informed the two men.

"Well, then. This couldn't have worked out better!" Matt said "It's time to initiate... Operation Ananke!"

"Ananke? Greek mythology?" Brandon asked.

"We're not calling it that." Nikole butted in.

"Yes we are, all of the operations I'm involved in have codenames!" Matt responded

"Ananke," Brandon thought out loud, "The personification of destiny, necessity and fate. Somewhat relevant to Ramaela."

"Exactly. Th-"

"Oh, whatever, Let's go, now!" Nikole cut in again, walking out.

"Ugh, fine, fine." Matt said, following Brandon out.

On the way to the airbase, Nikole informed the two of more info of the operation.

"There will be one more person who will be helping us, we're going to meet them at the airbase."

True enough, when they got there, a young girl walked up to them.

"Yo! I'm Tsukiko Katsuo, but you can call me Kat!" She introduced herself, "Nic's given me a brief summary of the operation. You know, I thought we could give it a cool name, like-"

"Ananke! I named it after the Greek goddess of fate."

"Heh, that's awesome. It's fitting, considering who the main target is!"

Behind Matt and Brandon, where Kat and Matt couldn't see her, Nikole had her palm over her face.

"Anyway," she said loudly, "We're on a tight schedule, I would prefer it if we stopped talking about meaningless crap and getting on with the operation. Our plane is leaving very soon, so I would appreciate it if you hurried up!"

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Sunday, September 9th, 2210

Moscow, Russia.

The 4 of them were sitting in an old car a few blocks down from the parliament building.

"Ugh, couldn't have you gotten a Russian car?" Brandon asked Nikole, "The Russians are fighting the Germans, so why get a German car? I mean, I like Jennter cars like this one, but still."

"I got what I could, quit complaining." Nikole responded.

In the back seat, Kat was looking at the screen watching lines of code being typed out at a high speed.

"What exactly are you doing?" She asked Matt, who was doing the typing.

"Hacking." He said simply, focused on the computer.

"Hacking what?"

"You'll see." He replied.

Suddenly, multiple screens appeared on after the other in quick succession.

"YES! Camera access granted, thank you so very much. Now..." He was clearly anticipating something, because he started to mutter "come on" over and over, until...

>>ОБНАРУЖЕНО НЕСАНКЦИОНИРОВАННЫЙ ДОСТУП1

"Hello!" He said, as if talking to a child, or a small cute animal, "Let's play!"

He cracked his fingers, seemingly ready to code again, but then navigated to a file on his computer, opening it.

"I've always wanted to try this out." He told Kat.

Suddenly, the warning disappeared.

"BOOM! Gone." He yelled joyously. "I AM INVINCIBLE!"

"Uh, right." Kat said exasperatedly.

Matt continued to edit the camera feed to a short snippet of nothing in them. Finally, he spoke.

"Phase 1 is complete. Time for you to go into the field!" He told Kat.

"Phase 2! My turn!" She exclaimed, literally jumping out of the car and running toward the palace.

"Uhh, what exactly is she thinking?" Brandon asked, "She's going to get caught."

"No, she knows what she's doing." Nikole corrected him.

At the palace, Kat skidded to a halt, and ran down the side of it. She engaged her radio.

"Yo! This thing working?" Was the first thing that came from the radio in the car.

"We hear you, but we don't see you." Brandon turned to Matt. "Do you have the real camera feed? The one that the security doesn't have?"

"Yeah, here." He passed the monitor to the front of the car. They saw Kat running down the side of the building, then stopped by a window. She then pulled out something that looked like a gun and fired it. The grappling hook shot out and caught the roof. She pulled a button on the side and grabbed on the gun with both hands as she was pulled up an over.

"よし！2" She exclaimed, "I love doing that!"

She entered through the roof door, which was unlocked.

"Ok, I'm in" She whispered.

"Great, we see you there. Maintain radio silence, don't get caught." Nikole ordered, twiddling a pen in her hand, occasionally clicking it.

"Yeah, yeah, I know."

She stealthily navigated through the palace, until she found the room their target was in.

"Wh... What gives? She's not in there!"

"Eh? Who are you?" Came a voice to her left.

1UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED
2 Yoshi!, translates to Alright!

Yes, those are Goldeneye references.