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It was finally time to put the final phase of this operation into motion. All you had to do was find the body, grab it and get out without being spotted. If you were…well, you would cross that bridge when you got to it.
<span class="mu-r">“Good luck.”</span> you said, before nodding to your fellow Desperados and peeking out the door. The coast was clear.
<span class="mu-r">“Same to you.”</span> Araña whispered back.
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Sneaking through the secret A.I.M. base had been more than a little daunting when you were presented with the idea. If you were seen by anyone, it would change the entire nature of your plan. Sure, the cloaking device could mitigate the risk a bit, but if you were seen crawling on walls, shooting webs, or doing anything remotely spider-like that might incriminate you later, it’d come back to bite you and the Desperados in the ass sometime later.
Fortunately for you, however, the criminal scientists appeared to be very lacking in the attentive security department, relying on drones and security cameras to do the bulk of their job for them. Prowler was able to hack into their security network to get an idea of where each drone and camera was facing at all times, making it marginally easier for you to maneuver around the oblivious beekeepers. But there was only so much that you could do without entering the range of the insane amount of surveillance equipment that they kept on hand in this underground facility, so you kept hostile engagement to an absolute minimum. You couldn’t afford to leave a trail of bodies this early into the operation, and most of your prospective targets never left the range of the cameras placed in almost every room.
This led to an uncomfortable amount of close calls, where it all came down to your spider sense, Black Cat’s good fortune, and Prowler’s surveillance to narrowly avoid being detected. And in order to keep that streak going, you were forced to forgo shortcuts, cling to ceilings and any passing unmanned hover-carts that didn’t leave you directly in everyone’s line of sight. It was only when you needed to access a manned console that you seriously considered breaking stealth.
Luckily, however, Araña’s plan kicked in shortly afterwards. Whatever she and her partner were doing, it was drawing a healthy amount of attention from the limited staff that had been put in place by Roberto. Even when you gained access to the computer that Prowler needed to find the synthezoid body, it required your team to loop the camera feed in the room. That would only work for about another few minutes, so you had to speed up the timetable of this operation.
And if Prowler’s hijacked camera feed had been right, the people who were in charge of working on the synthezoid weren’t willing to leave the room for any reason whatsoever, even during an emergency. Maybe it had some hidden security protocols that you weren’t picking up on.
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