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"No kidding. Yeah, let's go. Dial him in. Bring him up. Do whatever you have to do." "You ready Spike?" Another green blink was the response. "There'll be a couple second lag between sends and receives. He's just piping the audio back and forth to his site. Go ahead Spike." With that final approval, Spike sent his static image to the screen and initiated the voice synthesis session.
"What do I do?" Roger asked Nancy. "Just talk," she said. "Do you think you can help us Roger?" asked Spike. "Like I just told the lady, I've been looking for something with a twist. This is it and I'm in." "Good. Let's meet back here at Nancy's office. We can go over everything we've got and speak more openly." "Okay Spike," said Nancy, "but I don't know how I'm going to get Roger past security." "Nancy if that's a problem for Roger, we've got the wrong man." "Not a problem people, I've got a blank key card for Centurian systems like the one at MicroLabs. It'll let me in and leave no trace on the log. We'll be there in 25 minutes." Nancy answered as many questions as she could during the drive down Route 101 to MicroLabs office. It felt like another long night was ahead. Roger got used to talking to Spike on the display screen pretty quickly. A few more questions for Spike about how it feels to be nonhuman and he was satisfied enough to get some work done. Roger, Nancy and Spike went through the probe data together and went over the information on Lexicon Industries and its founder John Lexicon. "We need more to go on," said Nancy. "We're getting nowhere without knowing what their plan is." "Not only that, you haven't found enough to even justify an official inquiry from the NCSC. And if you told them how you got what you do have, Lexicon could have us put behind bars," added Roger. "I do have an idea about how to proceed from here though." "Let's hear it Roger. We need to move before they do. Whatever they have planned could take Spike out of the picture early. The two of us would be on our own." "When we were going over the Lexicon Industries data, I noticed a name that I think I recognized. A Hank Brooks was listed as the Lexicon Chief of Security. I knew a guy once who used that name. He disappeared about three or four years ago during an in-country operation." "Lexicon's management people all have a picture included on their web page. We can just bring him up on screen and let you take a look at him," suggested Spike. "I didn't download the image files before, just in the interest of time." Nancy took control of the keyboard and brought up the page. Making her way to the management directory, she quickly found Mr. Hank Brooks.
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