Game and Match

[Spark Long]

Spark Long liked to keep himself active, he also liked to think he was making a difference, keeping himself intouch with the real world, Emerald Heights was nice but it got dry and bland. He liked to be down here in the Bawery with salsa beats and the smell of fried chicken, burgers and tammalies. He liked the nose and the smells, all the colors and the people. In the daytime the Bawery was just a place, not the dangerzone that presented itself at night when the pushers and thugs came out to prey on the weak.

These were his boys, a group of kids he met down here everyday on Monday, Wendsday and Saturday, least it kinda kept them off the street. He stepped out of his car, taking off his tie and suit jacket. "Who do I have to school today?" He called out catching the ball. Oh yeah this was what it was all about.

[Carne "Hack" Molovier]

Karne strained, wageing a titanic struggle against insurmountable odds, fighting with all his might to-

"Ah! Fuzz!"

-control his dog.

He had woken up this morning, in his nice apartment, and for some reason, had decided to bring Fuzz to the Bowery. Fuzz was exstatic, and had immediatly decided to visit everything. Karne was powerless to stop him, which amused several young women, who rather enjoyed watching the somewhat attractive man being pulled around by his dog. Finally, Fuzz stopped, and Karne tried to catch his breath.

Looking up, trying to see what had made Fuzz stop running around (unwilling passenger and all), Karne noticed a man playing ball with a few kids. Paling in understanding, Karne was dimayed when the leash was ripped from his hand, Fuzz running in full tilt for the ball.

"Fuzz! Bad Dog! Hey, get away from the ball before he runs you over!" He yelled, aiming the last part towards the group playing.

[Spark Long]

Spark tossed the ball in the net just in time. Hearing the man he whipped his head over seeing a massive dog bearling torward him. He braced himself for impact, not knowing if the dog was friendly or not. It looked like it was playing so Spark knelt down and held out his hand palm up so he could get a good smell. He was careful with dogs... or at least he tired.

[Carne "Hack" Molovier]

Karne watched in shock as Fuzz actually stopped to sniff the man's hand, and wag his tail, before going over and nosing the ball around. He walked over to the man.

"Sorry 'bout that. Fuzz is a kid at heart, and he never seems to remember how big he is."

Karne looked the man over. He knew him from somewhere, he just couldn't remember where.

"M' name's Karne. Karne Molovier."

[Spark Long]

Spark chuckled to himself and pet the dogs head and neck. "Most dogs don't," He said to the guy still getting to know the overgrown puppy. "Spark T Long, nice to meet you and Fuzz here, had a Huskey as a kid, Jax." Spark had a love for big huge dogs, took him back to his childhood in the outskirts on his Daddy's land. The kids all left, living in the hood makes you warry of dogs so he guessed the game was over. He laughed standing up.

"Well looks like my game just left."

[Carne "Hack" Molovier]

Carne looked around, noticing the kids leaving.

"Eh? Sorry 'bout tha. I always forget about kids being scared o' Fuzz."

Carne looked Spark up and down, deciding he looked like a good man.

"Long, huh? Owner of Kothar Advanced Technology, right?" Carne asked, after deciding to just treat him like any other guy. "Let me introduce myself a little more properly; Carne Molovier, freelance computer systems anylist, and firewall creator extrodenaire."

[Spark Long]

He nodded. "Freelance? Interesting." He said rubbing stubble on his face that would soon be shaved. "Walk with me?" He asked.

[Carne "Hack" Molovier]

Carne grinned, and took a firmer grin on Fuzz. "Sure, let's walk."

[Spark Long]

Spark smiled walking beside the man. "I'm sure you know my company is at the top when it comes to our field, I'm looking for a capible head of a project I'm designing. I want to make an operating system that makes Microsoft's heads cry... I want them to weap at my company's sure power and genuis." He laughed but he was only joking alittle. "You got any references? You any good?" He asked as serious as a heart attack.

[Carne "Hack" Molovier]

Carne smirked slightly, "That's quite a goal, Mr. Long. That is a project that would make lesser men weep in futility. Microsoft highers the top seven percent of each generation to work for them, or sabotages their grades so that they never have the credentials to get highered." He thought silently for a minute, then turn a glance towards Spark. "You know that super hacker that was tormenting the Austrailian Government a few months ago, the one that was hacking into their software, stealing information, and then infecting their computers on the way out? It was my firewall that caught him."

[Spark Long]

A smirk slithered to Spark's face oh he liked this guy already. "My father's company isn't going to be just another tech dealer, I want it to be the best... the very best... other men lack the nads and the vision to relize capitalism's full potenal... Men arn't meant to be second best we're meant to reach beyond the stars." He laughed and shook his head. "I strive to be the best in everything I do... so... what do you say want to take the big guys down? After you show me what you got of course."

[Carne "Hack" Molovier]

Hack looked at him seriously. He didn't know what it was, but this fellow seemed like someone he could work for, and work with. He turned to the man walking with him.

A smirk crossed his lips, "Alright, I'll bite...I bet I can surprise you in under 30 minutes."

[Spark Long]

Spark laughed and motioned for a bench. He pointed to a coffee shop beside them... "Their LAN's gott pretty crappy security." He handed the man his iPhone with a grin. "My company's got some sick sequrity though what I want you to do is pull up the prints for project SR30 then I want you to tap into our fire safty system, trip the alarm and then tell me the faults in the security and tell me what to do to improve it."

[Carne "Hack" Molovier]

Carne smirked, and sat on a bench, pulling out his laptop as he did. It took a few minutes to boot up, and to put his 18 digit password in and break into the internet. He spent 15 seconds reaching the webpage, and went to work.

Twenty minutes later, he turned the computer around and showed Spark a digital feed from a computer camera in the building as it showed people evacuating the building. He then opened another page that was ope and said;

"I've done as you asked, here is the schematics for your project, impressive by the way, and everyone is leaving the building now. I've gone ahead and started a program that should pick up the more obvious mistakes in your security. By the way, there is a man by the name of Mister Bennsworth, who seems to be funneling a small amount out of your 401k each month. I went ahead and gave his email a nasty virus for you."

Carne leaned back in the bench, and watched the business man in front of him.

[Spark Long]

Spark reached out while he looked at the screen and scratched the dog's ear. "Very impressive... I think if you want it I can start you on $22 an hour plus medical, dental and vision and paid two weeks vacation." He smiled. "What do you say want to join team KAT."