Re: Industrial Espionage (Andurhil)
Tanya darted across the complex grounds like a fleeting shadow, her movements almost feline in nature. Spinning on her feet, she turned around and took cover behind a rectangular ventilation shaft, sliding down to a crouch. The shaft was part of an array of shafts which no-doubt fed the vast underground expanse beneath her feet with oxygen.
The sound of the rotating fan blades inhaling the air whirred in her ears as she spied from the side of the metallic shaft, searching for her entry point and for any dangers. Noticing a security camera to her left which was turning towards her, she immediately pulled back so as to avoid detection. As the camera swerved away, she barell-rolled closer to the main building, taken cover behind a shaft further ahead as the camera turned back.
Some distance to her left was the main entrance of the complex, guarded by two armed security personnel. Furthermore, there was a static camera directly above them, keeping the blast doors under constant supervision. And to the side of the doors, a key-card lock. However, she wasn't planning on going in that way.
Stealing another glance behind her, she spied her entry point in the distance; an air vent on the side of the building, at the base of the wall. Blocking her route, however, was the camera watching the ventilation shaft array and the single guard patrolling the area, and who was now heading straight towards her position.
She pressed her back against the shaft as the guard walked past next to her. He was mere inches from her, yet she couldn't react for a few more seconds, the camera was aimed directly at them. The guard moved a bit further ahead and then started to turn towards Tanya's direction.
Time seemed to slow down as he turned, Tanya waiting for the very last moment before making her move. Then two things happened almost instantaneously; the guard made eye contact with the female spy and the camera's point-of-view moved past the both of them.
Before the man could so much as speak, Tanya kicked his feet from under him, bringing him to his knees as she sprang to her feet. The guard went to reach for his weapon, but Tanya's boot connected with his head in a quick spin kick, sending him toppling to his side, unconscious.
In the two seconds she had before the camera's eye was upon them once more, she dragged the guard's body behind one of the shafts and barrel-rolled further ahead, taking cover just in the nick of time.
From there she had a clear vantage of her target. The vent was very small, it would be a tight squeeze even for Tanya's small and lithe body. She smiled to herself knowing that a male operative would never hope to fit in there. Reaching for her backpack, she produced a compact electric screwdriver and prepared for her infiltration.
The moment the camera offered her the next window of opportunity, she sprinted across the rest of the distance between herself and the complex wall. She immediately fell to her knees and began work on the vent, unscrewing the fasteners which held the vent cover in place, removing them in a matter of seconds. Before the camera returned to her position, she had already crawled inside the vent and replaced the cover.
As she began moving further inside the building, she became aware of one important fact. Even though they looked amazing on her, her breasts were really impeding her progress along the vent. She was actually getting quite frustrated at the extra effort she had to exert simply to move along. Nevertheless, she pushed such thoughts away and turned her attention back to the mission.
Her mission intel had revealed that the device in question was on the 30th floor, and the only way there was via an express elevator which required top-level security clearance. However, satellite imaging had revealed that the air vent she was know crawling through also fed the elevator shaft, and that's where she was headed.
The humid air inside the vents had begun to make her feel hot and sweaty, so she unzipped her suit slightly to give her more room to breathe. Through various gratings at the sides of the vents, she could spy a formidable number of guards patrolling the corridors, along with a multitude of labcoat scientists heading to different areas of the complex.
After a few more minutes of laboured crawling, the tell-tale sounds of the elevator shaft began to reach her ears. Eventually she was behind the grating which directly connected the vent to the elevator shaft. Seeing as how she was on the inside this time, she couldn't unscrew the grating, so she had to resort to other tactics.
She waited until the lift had moved past her on its way upwards, then turned onto her her back and gave the grating several kicks, forcing it to break off and fall down the shaft with a clatter. When the lift moved past her once more, she slid out of the vent and landed silently on top of the elevator itself.
All she had to do now was wait until someone took the lift up to a floor sufficiently close to the the 30th floor, and she'd slip back into the air vents and seek her quarry.