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Chapter 7 - Infiltration inside the research facility

As Ava makes her way to the research facility, with some stamina and conventional transportation through high-speed maglev trains, she attempts the most silly social engineering. She disguised herself as a guard trying to access the laboratory, she tried to trick the guards with a fake ID, but the advancements in the fraud detection system caught her. 

The guards pulled her up and restrained her to the ground. 

*Bump* 

The guard shouted, "Stay where you are."

The fraud detection system consisted of an advanced neural network capable of detecting any slight fabrication and its material composition with an accuracy of around 76 to 85 percent 

The fraud detection system was integrated into a camera, like some sort of microchip, whose feed is sent to the database for machine learning analysis. 

Ava was frustrated and she muttered in her suppressed breath, "Of course, they are a bunch of nerds with white coats! It's no secret that they will defend their base from threats as much as they can. If only I could hijack it." 

The guards keep tackling her to the ground. Before being tasered to the ground. She was stunned, immobilized with her eyes open before the guards carried her through their arms to the faculty

The guards handcuffed her and lifted her, where she was being carried to the faculty. The faculty was eventually alerted, as she was being carried to the faculty to which she had arrived. The futuristic door opened, and Ava was escorted to the front of the executives as she was forced to sit in a chair 

The faculty members whose names were Head Clara Mendoza and Vice-President Peter Floyd both looked at Ava while standing up, alongside the other important members of the faculty. 

The faculty was adorned with sleek, soft metallic surfaces with neon lights resembling magnificence and tranquility; it was a representation of those in the upper echelon

Clara Mendoza, who was a Latina lady with black hair, made a quick reaction. 

"What is the meaning of this, a mere teenager trying to infiltrate our research borders?" 

Peter Floyd, with his rather above-average height and with a rounded face in a suit, orders with an authoritative, angry voice, "Explain yourself!" 

Peter Floyd's head turns to the guards before addressing an artificial intelligence that is active somewhere in the room. 

"Computer, bring up information on this individual." 

The computer requests access to the Main Headquarters database in its efforts to search through the Database. The security camera of the room locks into Ava as it registers its facial information

Soon, information regarding her was laid bare before Ava and the faculty, A teenager who studies at Unison University of Engineering and Technology. 

Age: 17

Gender: Female 

Cognitive biometric: Cybernetically enhanced

Relatives: Father Victor Sumeris, Mother Cassandra Lee

They also regard the fact that Victor was considered a capable scientist in their department. 

They look at Ava. 

"Soo this is the daughter of Victor? Funny considering that our esteemed researcher has stated that he has not visited nor interacted much with his offsprings except for his wife." Clara observed Ava with detached interest

While Ava was silent, there was a hint of defiance that was etched in her face but due to the predicament she is in, she has the right to stay silent until further notice. 

Ava kept silent as she was still restrained.

"Oh, look at these people wondering at these people, they are pretty much dumbstruck that someone like me dared to break into their security. Now they're just barking at each other", her thought speaks for the first time with defiant clarity - eyes resentful

Snippets of the conversation go like this 

"So, what do we do with this kid?" Clara asked

"I don't know, maybe put her in detention?" Peter Floyd suggested

"Detention, that may sound fair. But let's not forget she is a child of one of our esteemed researchers." Clara Mendoza replied with conviction. 

"Huh, perhaps we have some use for her. But are you sure?" Peter Floyd's pragmatism shows

"No, she's too young, but she will be monitored. We will have Dr. Victor informed of her sudden intrusion" Clara Mendoza concluded with her mouth closed

Clare invoked "Security! Return her to her house, but first inject her with an amnesiac attack." 

The security guards that were in standby nodded, especially those who strapped Ava to the chair for questioning, held Ava furiously down to the ground before injecting a syringe capable of inducing an amnesiac effect to her neck, rendering her memory senseles,s especially her body incapacitated temporarily. 

Ava's consciousness passes out before the guards drag him where they put her in the car and inform Victor about the situation. 

The vehicle started to roam, its hover pads engaging, where Ava is at the moment suffering from amnesia, which puts her in a state of coma. 

The vehicle continued to mobilize before it settled near the house. The two guards informed the mother of what happened as they dragged Ava's comatose body.

The mother was shocked to hear her daughter's audacity to infiltrate her husband's workspace 

A Classified one. After all, anything of a breach in secret facilities could spell trouble – this was common sense. Could you see it, could you sense it? This was a new development in her daughter's nature. A rebellious spirit that is found within developing teenagers. A phase, but that is bold and could spell federal threat, if left unchecked

The next morning, Ava woke up, and she was back in her room. But something felt strange even if she was in her room. There was a weight in her neck, some sort of metallic that's attached to her neck. Ava rushed into the mirror and saw a device wrapped around her neck, it was a collar with circuitry designed to monitor her actions and location through GPS. 

"What the hell is this? Why is it even in my neck." 

The collar continued to blink, its LED was responding accordingly. 

~Blink red and blink green~

Cassandra came in and informed her that she had been grounded for months, to the point she was being tracked and monitored for her punishment for infiltrating a secret facility; she was spared from a worse fate due to her juvenile nature and her father's connections. And out of all the options the influential figures were working on, they decided that the collar would be set on her neck as temporary punishment 

Ava was pissed, but has remained in cognizance that she has no control over the situation, thus feeling uncomfortable that she was being watched - her sense of privacy and autonomy felt violated because of her reckless intentions to pursue her curiosity. 

Ava was angry, she was quite angry she even stomped the very floor she was standing on with carried frustration. 

Ava then vented with frustration, "screw this I will just get used to it anyways". Ava walked away to leave her house. She made her way from the bed just to have a peaceful time off from her hobbies.

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