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down Gabrielle’s number and the number of her precinct on his notepad. “Have you seen what’s on the disk yet?”
    Connor says, “No, I haven’t. I’m only going to take a look at that disk if I have some sort of backup. I think they could be tracking it. I’ve hidden the disk away from here so that they can’t track me.”
    Dylan says, “I’ll run a scan check to see if they are using any tracking software. Stay on the line.”
    Dylan gets on his computer and works his IT magic, using highly advanced top-secret software to see if the FBI are tracking Connor’s file. After fifteen minutes of working,
    Dylan says, “I can’t find any tracking software being used. It’s weird; loads of the IT servers in the LA FBI building are offline. Those servers are usually online.”
    Connor says, “Yeah, it might have something to do with those assholes going into the main server room and turning the servers into shrapnel with their machine guns.”
    Dylan says, “Do you want me to come to Mars?”
    Connor says, “No, man, thanks for your help. Do you have my planet communicator number?”
    Dylan says, “Now that you’ve phoned me, your number will be stored on my planet communicator.”
    Connor says, “I’m going to give Gabrielle a call. I’ll stay in touch.”
    Dylan says, “OK, watch your ass over there.”
    Connor says, “Yeah, I will, take care.”
    Connor hangs up. He makes adjustments on his planet communicator, making his number private so that when he calls somebody nobody will get his number. Connor dials Gabrielle’s phone number on the planet communicator.
    Gabrielle Hoffman is a beautiful African-American woman that can kick some ass. Gabrielle wanted to be involved in law enforcement from a young age. She grew up in a poor suburban area that had a lot of crime. She always wanted to make a difference in the world and help everyone. Gabrielle saw Mars and the Glass Tomb for the very first time when she moved from America to the Red Planet two weeks ago. She moved to the First Dome because she wanted to work as a Red 1 law enforcement officer as the salary is much better than that of an FBI agent. Gabrielle is in her office in the Red 1 law enforcement 27 th precinct. She hears her office phone ring.
    She answers the office phone and says, “Hello?”
    Connor says, “Gabrielle, it’s me, Connor.”
    Gabrielle says, “Connor? Connor Harper, is that you?”
    Connor says, “Yeah, it’s me.”
    Gabrielle says with a shocked voice, “Jesus Christ, I heard on the news that you went on a shooting rampage in LA. They named some of the agents you shot.” Gabrielle knows some of the agents who were shot, guys she used to work with. The CommDrone1 virus has been eliminated. IT experts from all of the media corporations eliminated the virus and created firewalls, protecting their corporations from the CommDrone1 virus. After the virus was eliminated, the news about the shootings in the LA FBI building and on the Hawthorn Bridge spread like a plague.
    Luckily for Connor employee’s working at the Bedstay hotel haven’t seen the news and they don’t know that Connor is a suspect in multiple shootings.
    Connor says, “I killed those guys in self-defence.”
    Gabrielle says, “You have to turn yourself in. Where are you?”
    Connor says, “I’m not telling you where I am. After I’ve seen what’s on the R-1 file you can take me in, but take me in to the CSB-R1 base.”
    Gabrielle is confused and says, “R-1 file, what are you talking about?”
    Connor says, “That’s what all of this is about. Joel and his crew are planning an attack on the CSB-R1 base to download top-secret information. How they plan to attack the CSB-R1 base is detailed on a disk I have.”
    Gabrielle says, “The CSB-R1 base is