While the Morgans were preparing for an imaginary third round of their battle in the 21st century with Eden, due to their single misunderstanding of collaborating Rina’s visit to Eden and had used her family’s influence to help the country by making America turn the aircraft carrier that would have otherwise caused quite a few troubles for them.
At the same time, the FBI finally deemed themselves to be prepared enough for making their move. They used the ongoing war between Eden and Esparia to be the reason for Aron to try to escape and return to America for his safety, so they had to make an urgent move before that happens, as Aron could be a powerful obstacle if they delayed it for too long.
A convoy of five cars, three of them being from the police and two having the logo of an energy utility service provider, parked in front of Aron’s house. A group of people started coming out of the cars, with police officers armed with weapons and bulletproof vests.
As for the company workers, they walked at the center of the parallel, making their way towards the house, which could now be seen to be bustling with movements as all the guards guarding the house started positioning their hands on their waists, indicating that if those in police uniforms tried to do anything funny, this place would turn into a war scene.
“What brings you here?” Donald asked as he walked out of the small fence around the house, already wearing a bulletproof vest and other radio equipment.
“We are here under the judge’s approval to cordon the house for containing a machine that is deemed to be dangerous for the neighbors and the grid,” answered one of the workers as he handed Donald the paperwork detailing the judge’s order.
Donald received the piece of document and started reading it. At the same time, he had already informed Aron and his lawyers, however, even before the lawyers could respond, Aron had responded and ordered for Donald to not cause problems for them and allow them to enter the house, but before that, they should evacuate his family first.
“You can enter the building but before that, we have to evacuate our clients,” Donald said. Right away, someone was about to disagree under the worry that they might be hiding something but Donald continued with his statements, “A few male and female police officers can come with us as the clients pack their things and evacuate the premises since the judge’s order says that they have to evacuate the building until you find the cause for the problem anyway.”
“Sure,” they accepted and some of the workers released a few sighs of relief. They had anticipated that the situation would go in a completely different direction, hence the massive armed police presence they had brought with them but it seems that the owner of the house cared more about his family than whatever dangerous thing might be inside, or the dangerous thing inside had already been moved.
Meanwhile, the residents living in the neighboring houses all seem to have been attracted by the commotion as they immediately left their houses and gathered at the place where this drama was taking place, surrounding at a small distance away from it as they watched everything taking place in silence or sometimes discussing between each other about the situation while pointing a the police who were on the door.
After a few minutes of supervised packing, the family left the building with a few guards who were heading directly to Henry’s school to pick him up, as per Aron’s orders. At the same time, the house also had its perimeter wrapped around with yellow tape as the police started guarding the building together with the guards who were ordered to keep an eye on the ongoing situation until the lawyers arrived to assess if any law had been broken during the process and decide their approach to revoking the occupation of the property of their client.
The onlookers in the surrounding area started dispersing, but there remained a few groups of neighbors who continued talking about the ongoing situation, but not for a long time before they too left to tend to their own work, which they had momentarily put on hold to witness the police raid.
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“I really expected them to give us more trouble than simply packing and complying with the warrant,” Peter Strozk reported to Lisa Page about the success of their plan using his phone.
“I don’t think it’s going to be that easy from now on. The army of lawyers will soon be arriving to scrutinize whatever you are doing at the moment before they start the process of revoking access to the building by appealing the warrant,” Lisa cautioned, trying to remind the team leader that everything was not over until they had secured what they had come for.
“I know. My team is now collecting the data from his private server and in the process of dismantling the electrical connections before we start the process of moving the machine back to the HQ,” said Peter, showing that he wasn’t letting the plan’s success get to his head. He turned and smiled looking at the guard whose job was to make sure that they weren’t doing anything shady but at the moment the guard was doing nothing of that sort even after seeing that they were collecting data to the Network-Attached Storage(NAS) they had brought with them.
“Having access to information is really convenient,” he said to Lisa, who on the other side of the phone understood what he meant by that statement.
The team had thoroughly investigated all of the people who were working at the house, providing security and maintenance of the surrounding. However, they found out that the people Aron hired were only for the security and nothing else, the chores inside the house weren’t done by anyone else, as the people living there handled it themselves, as they felt more comfortable that way.
Leveraging their access to abundant information they had collected about the guards working at the house and identifying their soft spots and weaknesses just in case they were ordered to oversee all of their steps. Unfortunately, they did exactly that, but now thanks to them being prepared for it, the team threatened the guard using his family and a few more of his secrets, ultimately convincing him to now be working for them in return for payment. This meant that they weren’t the only ones getting something out of him since he was also getting money and was not working for them just because of threats and with no compensation.
Now, thanks to that guard’s assistance, they had managed to gain uninterrupted access to the security services’ logged information, which detailed every journey the family had taken in the previous months, as well as the details of who visited the compound and much more.
With this information, the team could piece out the destinations the whole family had visited since day one of their jobs, allowing them to later be able to correlate events occurring at certain places with their logged information which was always accurate since the guards were always present with them during those visits.
Their actions were all marching in the same directions the Morgans had been taking themselves to: Successfully attracting Aron’s attention towards them. Something that many people in the future would be afraid of doing thanks to these two being the pathfinders of demonstrations of what would happen to those who dared try to do anything like this.