Pancake procures password

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A group of heavily armed guards burst into the interrogation room making Justin
jump in surprise
"Aaaargh!" Rufus screamed, tears welling in his eyes
"Oh, bugger..." Justin started, realising that he had just cut Rufus's little
finger off by accident
"H-h-h..how c-c-c-could y-y-y..."
Getting bored of waiting for Rufus to finish Justin decided to try and look
macho in front of the guards
"Oh shut up" he spat "You've got nine digits left, and then I start on other,
softer bits of you!"
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Who: Justin Pancake and Rufus
Where: A secret undisclosed location (The laundry room)
When: After Rufus's finger was chopped off
Rufus held a bloodstained rag over the stump where his little finger used to be. He looked around, all he could see were high piles of JMC uniforms spilling over washing machines. The entire room smelled half of stinky socks, and half of lovely fragranced fabric softener. The two smells were currently battling for dominance and there was no clear sign of a winner.
"W-w-w-why did you bring me here?" Rufus said, looking around with a puzzled look on his face.
Justin was checking the door was locked. "Because..." He said, "This is the last place anyone would look for you. The resistance want you, but I still want you to reprogram Holly."
Rufus shook his head, and Justin looked down at the finger he was holding. "Do I really have to cut off another one of these?" He turned the fleshy lifeless finger around in his hand for a few moments before realising how weird that was. "Why am I still holding this?" He said in disgust and threw it at Rufus.
Then he picked up a JMC laptop and placed it down next to Rufus, on top of a pile of clean Y-fronts.
"All I need is the access password." Said Justin. "I'm an engineer, I can do the rest myself. Just one little password, it's not like you're even involved."
"I couldn't l-l-l-live with m-m-myself" Said Rufus, shaking his head.
Justin sighed, and massaged his forehead with his finger and thumb. "I didn't want it to come to this." He said.
"Come to w-w-what?"
"Bring her in!" Justin shouted towards the door.
Slowly, a figure was pushed into the room with a bag over her head, and was thrown to the floor.
Justin pulled off the bag, revealing shoulder length midnight black hair.
"Amber!" Rufus called out, trying to stand, but Justin pushed him back down.
Amber's hands were tied and had a gag over her mouth, she tried to speak but it came out muffled.
"The thing is Rufus..." Said Justin. "We thought that you wouldn't help us if we threatened you, but if we threatened your sister...." He grinned. "So what's the password?"
"N-n-n-n-no way!" Said Rufus. "You couldn't c-c-capture my sister, she's to c-c-clever! This is just a hologram, a t-t-trick!"
Justin shrugged. "Maybe she is. Maybe I'm really good at creating realistic holograms. Maybe I overwrote the need for the classic 'H' on her forehead. But I'll ask you this Rufus.... do you want to take that chance?"
Rufus crossed his arms and looked away.
"Let's hear what she has to say shall we?" Justin removed the gag from Amber's mouth.
"Rufus don't do what he says-" She screeched before Justin replaced the gag.
Justin took a small hand-held mining laser out of his pocket and aimed it at Amber's head. She flinched.
"Oh look how scared of death she is!" Justin laughed.
"It's a trick!" Said Rufus. "You've p-p-programmed her so she doesn't know she's a hologram. I'm not giving you the p-p-password!"
Justin applied pressure to the trigger with his finger. Rufus turned his head to see, and saw the look on his sisters eyes.
"Like I said before Rufus, do you want to take that chance? I'll count down from three.... three..."
Rufus said nothing.
"...two...."
Rufus bit his lip.
"...one..." Justin took a deep breath.
"W-w-w-wait!" Rufus said.
Justin jerked the gun down at the floor and fired. "Bloody Hell Rufus! A man with a stutter can't afford to wait until the last second to speak!"
"I'll give you the p-p-password." He said, pulling the laptop towards him and typing it in. Justin watched the screen, and the face of Holly appeared, frozen with the message "Are you sure you want to customise Holly? All changes since last save will be lost."
"Excellent!" Said Justin, and patted Rufus on the shoulder. "Good 'un matey! We'll have the resistance crushed in no time now! That wasn't so hard was it?"
Rufus rushed over to his sister and removed the gag from her mouth. "S-s-sorry sis!" He said.
"Oh, Rufus, there's something I should tell you." Justin said, not moving his gaze from the screen. He extended his arm and fired at Amber. The laser bolt hit her in the chest and caused her body to flicker and fade. It vanished totally and a single light-bee fell to the floor.
"Apparently I am good at making holograms!" Justin said.
Rufus's heart sank, and he lunged towards Justin with clenched fists, but a security guard in a Nazi JMC uniform caught him. "Put him back in the cell" Justin said.
After some typing on the laptop, Holly's face appeared again. "S'up dudes?" He said.
"Holly, from now on you'll only take orders from either Captain Castillo or me, is that clear."
"Perfectly dude." Said the digitised face.
"And you'll not start a sentence with 's'up dudes' either. You'll call me 'sir'."
"Yes dude, I mean sir." He said.
"Good, now Holly, tell me where the new resistance HQ is."
"They've set up in Seymour's apartment." He said.
"Excellent!" Said Justin, and quickly got onto the radio with Castillo.
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When: Later
Where: Underneath Seymour's apartment
Justin finished planting the last of the explosives to the ceiling. He stood back and admired his handiwork, not a single spot of the ceiling wasn't covered with either plastic explosives or wires. He'd had to be careful not to make a noise or members of the resistance above would have noticed.
"Captain, we're ready to go." He said into his walkie talkie. "Detonating in three....." He quickly ran out of the room. "....Two...." He picked up a bazukoid and aimed it just in case anyone wasn't killed in the initial explosion. "....One."
<Tag anyone in the resistance who is still in the HQ, how will you survive? Seymour how will you react to your apartment being trashed?>