Sunday, November 2
The Fortress: Part 5 – The Firewall
Caprice ran down the steps past the others. Drug dealers and cops were firing on each other with abandon. Sarah had thankfully been forgotten in the conflict. He only hoped she had climbed down one of the drainage pipes off the roof.
Caprice paused as he caught sight of Keys standing near a server room.
"Keys!" shouted Machete, blade at the ready. "Burn it!"
Keys nodded and came out of a maintenance closet with two bright red cans of gasoline. He undid the stoppers on both.
Caprice grabbed Hammer by the arm before he lost track of him in the smoke. "They're torching the servers!"
Keys kicked open the server room door. Several programmers, unaware of what was going on outside, looked up in shock as gasoline was poured over them. Keys made no distinction between program and programmer, spraying the contents of one of the cans of gasoline everywhere.
He drew a lighter and lifted one thumb to ignite it.
Hammer sprayed Keys with the other can of gasoline. "I wouldn't do that if I were--"
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