CHAPTER 2
"The match would start in half an hour, lets go buy something to eat"
"come on don't be lazy, lets go "
"ohkay ohkay coming...."
Aksh was again dreaming, his past was again scrolling in front of his eyes..the match.. the last match he ever watched with his family. He was so excited about it...and he woke up. He was closing to his destination, realizing for how long he had traveled to get there. He was in Delhi a few days back, the metropolitan, where you can get everything just need to have money and everything is solved..but to where he is going money seldom matters..
His pilot informed him that they have been ordered to go around. In any normal air base aksh would have felt awkward about this situation but this place was not in any sense normal. This wasn't his first trip so he knew what might be the reason..a brand new stealth aircraft or a new weapon system might be blocking their way.
But at last when they landed, all his intuitions were wrong. There was a lot of hype in the facility, he had never seen so much people in the facility. He wasn't a rookie, he knew that there's gotta be something of great importance, there were a dozen of private jets and a no. of government helis. the facility code named RAIN (Research And Intelligence Network) located in the remote part of lakshadweep islands was quite similar to its earlier counterpart "RACE" but was quite sophisticated and well protected to avoid what happened to RACE . Above the thick layer of soil was just a runway and a small concrete building with just 2 small rooms and 1 guard office, but beneath was the whole soul of RAIN, a whole facility dedicated to gathering intelligence and innovating new ways of getting them in the life of common man. The facility was like a tree with roots proliferating silently in all directions.
Aksh waived his id card to the guard on duty and he in turn gave him the welcome to home nod, the steel door in front of him jolted and came to a halt. He then proceeded forward and scanned his id batch to the scanner which has magically appeared from the back of the door. The room in front of him was desolate but still he regarded it as "engineering and art at its best" because the room has multiple doorways in and out carefully hidden behind painted walls like illusions. He then went towards one of the walls and carefully sled one of those walls and entered his 10 digit pass key. The retinal scan unit came alive, soon after he entered in one of the many elevators the voice recognition system called out for his identity. Aksh replied "alpha tech 4993001" his pass key was accepted and lift started to move towards the central spine of RAIN. In the next few seconds the high speed elevator located his destination on its internal mapping system and through the network of shafts plotted the best and fastest way to get there. Meanwhile Aksh alone in the elevator was still thinking of the cause of the unrest in the facility, he has never seen this much planes in this facility as this no. of airplanes are a potential threat to the secrecy of this facility as they can be tracked by any enemy spy satellite but still they are here..somethings wrong he thought.
He was still thinking when the elevator stopped and abruptly changed its course, he knew there was an override command for the elevator but it was never used as it needed the passkey authorized above his pay grade.The elevator started moving again, now to a different location, the marker on the screen was showing LC 17, he knew what was in that floor, the conference room of Mr. Dutta.. the elevator halted as soon as it reached its location and the metal door unbolted....
"The match would start in half an hour, lets go buy something to eat"
"come on don't be lazy, lets go "
"ohkay ohkay coming...."
Aksh was again dreaming, his past was again scrolling in front of his eyes..the match.. the last match he ever watched with his family. He was so excited about it...and he woke up. He was closing to his destination, realizing for how long he had traveled to get there. He was in Delhi a few days back, the metropolitan, where you can get everything just need to have money and everything is solved..but to where he is going money seldom matters..
His pilot informed him that they have been ordered to go around. In any normal air base aksh would have felt awkward about this situation but this place was not in any sense normal. This wasn't his first trip so he knew what might be the reason..a brand new stealth aircraft or a new weapon system might be blocking their way.
But at last when they landed, all his intuitions were wrong. There was a lot of hype in the facility, he had never seen so much people in the facility. He wasn't a rookie, he knew that there's gotta be something of great importance, there were a dozen of private jets and a no. of government helis. the facility code named RAIN (Research And Intelligence Network) located in the remote part of lakshadweep islands was quite similar to its earlier counterpart "RACE" but was quite sophisticated and well protected to avoid what happened to RACE . Above the thick layer of soil was just a runway and a small concrete building with just 2 small rooms and 1 guard office, but beneath was the whole soul of RAIN, a whole facility dedicated to gathering intelligence and innovating new ways of getting them in the life of common man. The facility was like a tree with roots proliferating silently in all directions.
Aksh waived his id card to the guard on duty and he in turn gave him the welcome to home nod, the steel door in front of him jolted and came to a halt. He then proceeded forward and scanned his id batch to the scanner which has magically appeared from the back of the door. The room in front of him was desolate but still he regarded it as "engineering and art at its best" because the room has multiple doorways in and out carefully hidden behind painted walls like illusions. He then went towards one of the walls and carefully sled one of those walls and entered his 10 digit pass key. The retinal scan unit came alive, soon after he entered in one of the many elevators the voice recognition system called out for his identity. Aksh replied "alpha tech 4993001" his pass key was accepted and lift started to move towards the central spine of RAIN. In the next few seconds the high speed elevator located his destination on its internal mapping system and through the network of shafts plotted the best and fastest way to get there. Meanwhile Aksh alone in the elevator was still thinking of the cause of the unrest in the facility, he has never seen this much planes in this facility as this no. of airplanes are a potential threat to the secrecy of this facility as they can be tracked by any enemy spy satellite but still they are here..somethings wrong he thought.
He was still thinking when the elevator stopped and abruptly changed its course, he knew there was an override command for the elevator but it was never used as it needed the passkey authorized above his pay grade.The elevator started moving again, now to a different location, the marker on the screen was showing LC 17, he knew what was in that floor, the conference room of Mr. Dutta.. the elevator halted as soon as it reached its location and the metal door unbolted....
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