Stealth Approach

As I look over traffic on the top of the bridge, I signal my fellow malware fighters to start the first wave of stealth invasion.

“Move!” I unceremoniously shout into my earpiece.

We are using a hidden bridge system to walk past the parking structure/guard station at the perimeter of The Nut. Our stealth experts start their walk from the bottom of the bridge and signal me when they reach the top.

“We’ve reached the top, you know what to do.”

I am sitting right outside the parking structure with a device we use to hack phones, tablets, and defective explosives.

For some reason, guards carrying frag grenades are at the top level of the parking structure. If our guys get any closer, the guards will see them.

I use my device to hack the grenade that a random guard is carrying. I can hear everything that happens.

Victim: “What the heck? Oh no, it’s armed!”

Guard: “What’s the problem?”

Victim: “I’m armed. EVERYONE GET BACK, I NEED TO-“

Whatever he was going to say is interrupted by him blowing up.

The effect is slow to sink in for everyone on the top floor… No one is quite sure what happened.

I hack another guard’s grenade and listen to the panic that quickly overwhelms the top floor.

“Look out, I’m going to-“ Another explosion.

Guard: “Hey, wake up. Someone’s taking us out!”

For some reason, the guards on the bottom floor are not alarmed by the explosions.

Guard: “The guys up there are nuts. This is the second time now.”

Guard 2: “Yeah, a bunch of dumb pyro junkies with bombs. Whatever could go wrong?”

At this point, the guards up top are starting to understand what happened.

Guard: “Everyone check your gear. Our explosives might be defective.”

Because I want to cause more havoc than has already happened, I throw a trick grenade onto the second floor.

Guard: “EVERYBODY GET DOWN! IT’S A GRENADE!”

Everyone hits the floor so fast that they will likely be picking gravel out of their teeth for a while.

Everyone waits for the explosion… that big boom that should be happening right now… But it doesn’t happen.

As they pick themselves off the ground, it dawns on them that they are being toyed with.

Guard: “Someone go up to the top floor and tell those pinheads to cool it.”

Guard 2: “Whoever gets them to stop, I’m buying.”

On the top floor, the guards are trying to radio dispatch.

Guard: “Dispatch, can we get a couple body bags up here? We’ve got casualties.”

Dispatch: “We can hear the explosions all the way over here. What the heck is going on over there?”

Guard: “As near as I can tell, we have some defective explosives. Might want to have someone check on that.”

Throughout this disaster, the stealth experts have snuck past the guards and are now with me.

Friend: “Man, that’s quite the bridge.”

Me: “Let’s take a picture to send back to HQ.”