Angel Monarch

When Sera stood next to Maya again, she pressed a few buttons on the watch's interface, which brought up something like the inner code of the software.

"Okay, so... I went through your whole watch and you were definitely right! I have found at least twelve different spy programs!" She spoke while continuing to type away.

Sera didn't even dare to look at the interface, lest she gets another headache.

"Could you find out who put them on, and can you remove them?"

Maya typed for a few more seconds, before pointing at specific lines of code while talking.

"I can't find out who put it on, but I know exactly when it was placed and where was the watch while the software was uploaded onto it... Hmm, odd." She suddenly said while reading the code.

"What's wrong?" Asked Sera, but the answer only came a few minutes later.

"About one thirds of these programs where placed on the watch at the same time and place... What I found strange is that the location is unknown, like the the signal was blocked from going out." She continued to press buttons and scroll in the code even more ferociously.

"That is indeed strange, but I think I know why it's like that... Can you check what the person looked at with the programs?"

Maya looked at Sera curiously. She really wanted to know more about who placed the software on the watch, but she knew better than to ask questions she shouldn't know the answers to.

Instead she smirked and snorted with contempt.

"Can I do that?... Who do you think me, some shitty computer engineer?!" She said a few other gloating remarks before pressing a button one final time. A gigantic list appeared, which contained every action the owner of the software made. There were thousand of entries.

Maya was about to make a few more statements about her own talents, but seeing the large list made her stop.

"Uhh... Sera... I don't want to alarm you, but you probably have a stalker of sorts..." She scrolled down the list fast, Sera didn't even try to read any of the entries. She knew the exact person who was this interested in her.

"What is the oldest entry?" Sera asked curiously.

The scrolling speed increased further as Maya tried to get to the bottom of the list.

There were multiple reasons Sera wanted to know when the list started. First and foremost it would give the exact time when the software was installed, or at least an approximation. The second and much more important reason was, that she noticed something on her watch a while ago.

The watch kept an exact record of everything happening to its owner. This information was carried between watches and was kept in some kind of cloud, but when Sera tried to check on her records... they were erased!

Her first record is dated at 25 ATA October 23rd and it said,

'Regained consciousness after blunt force trauma!'

That was the exact date when she woke up without her memories.

Sera watched with great interest as the line sped away. Eventually they were nearing the bottom of the list, so Maya slowed down.

The line that read

'regained consciousness'

went away, but there were even more lines below it!

There was one that was a notification about her data being deleted, but this message was also later erased.

As her eyes moved through the lines she realized something. When Harold installed this software onto her watch, he made a giant mistake... He looked at each and every one of her notifications since she acquired her watch back in Newber...

Every information that has been previously deleted, had been accidentally saved by that dumbass, when he looked through every entry!

Slowly they got to the bottom of the list, but at this point Sera wasn't paying attention. Suddenly she looked towards the sky, which was obscured by the low ceiling, and she began laughing madly.

The sound was so surprising that Frank nearly exploded the whole building, but he managed to stop it in the last moment. Sera didn't care though, she was just laughing with true joy and anger seeping into it.

Maya just stared at her in confusion. After a few more seconds she had finally stopped and with a wide grin she looked at Maya. The intensity in Sera's eyes caused her to take a step back, but the table she was leaning onto stopped her from moving further away.

"Tell me Maya... Since you are so great with these watches. Could you perhaps remove every spy program from my watch and restore every single one of those missing notes?" Hearing this, Maya's disturbed and bit scared expression turned prideful. Her posture also straightened as she answered.

"Well of course! Is that even a question?... Give me half an hour and it will be done!"

Sera nodded and spoke with an even wider grin. This one was pure cunning and menacing.

There was another request she had, one that would revolutionize her whole army's secure communication!

Maya listened to it with great interest and the more she heard the more amazed she became.

Without further ado, she began working on Sera's watch, then on the much larger project she had requested.

After about an hour of her arrival, Sera walked out of the large garage door with a small smile on her face. On her wrist the same watch shined in the late day Sun. On the outside it was the exact same device, but on the inside everything had changed...

Eventually she began walking down the street while typing away on her watch. Every know and then a small giggle escaped her closed lips... She didn't quite remember what it felt to be giddy, but her current emotion must've been similar!

...

Sera:

Hey, Jill! I visited Frank as you suggested, thanks by the way!... Where are you right now? We should get started on getting the camp into working order!

She typed while walking. Her whole body was trembling from excitement. She really wanted to read through the watch's restored memory, she had only read the few beginning lines.

There was a lot she learnt from even those few sentences. For example her date of birth, which was at 7 ATA February 21st, and her parents' names. There were even more interesting information hidden there, but she had to take this slowly.

She wanted to do nothing more than to read the whole thing in one sitting, but she had to be careful. Harold could still see into her mind, which meant she couldn't really think about what she learnt. It was hard... really hard...

There was finally a chance for her to learn the answers to most of her questions, but she couldn't do anything about it... Not yet anyway!

What Maya had done to the watch wasn't easy. The spy software would alarm its owner, so removing them had to be done carefully.

In reality they were still on her watch, but Maya wrote an entire program that will send both false and true information. This feature could be enabled and disabled. It would give Sera the ability to control how much her enemy knows about her movements. This will give her a great advantage, but what she was going to do will be much grander!

Soon the answer arrived from Jill.

Jill:

We have already started. Come to the northern gate!

Sera had no idea who 'we' referred to, but she also didn't really care. Without wasting time she went towards the gate.

After walking for ten minutes she had finally arrived. The place was in a much better state than she thought it would be.

People were running around, most of them were evolved, which was also great news.

Looking around Sera couldn't see where Jill was and eventually she had enough.

A soldier was about to run past her, purposefully ignoring her presence. Poor guy wasn't at all prepared for what happened next.

Sera grabbed onto his elbow firmly, which caused him to stop dead in his tracks. His eyes only took one glance at her before they turned to the ground. He mumbled something that she couldn't make out.

"Have you seen ascended Jill?" Asked Sera. The man's whole body trembled as he tried to make a coherent sentence. Eventually he just pointed in a certain direction.

Sera turned there and she spotted a few black armored individuals moving through the crowd. She turned back to the man which increased his trembling quite a bit.

"Thank you!" She said before leaving him without another word.

The soldier continued to stare at the ground for a few more seconds, then his eyes went to the elbow Sera had touched.

His whole body was swimming in sweat and after he took a deep breath, he proceeded to pass out in the middle of the street from stress.

The people shouted and scrambled to help before someone would accidentally trampled him.

By the time people took him away, Sera was long gone. She walked towards the black armored people, they were each doing something different.

Some of them were talking with soldiers and evolved, some were furiously typing on their watches and some were seemingly talking to themselves.

When Sera stepped near them all the conversations and typing stopped. She, in her glistening golden armor, brought every single person's attention to herself.

She looked over the people in black armor, but she didn't see Jill anywhere. The six of them looked at each other for a moment, then they all snapped to attention before Sera.

"The Black Crusaders are reporting for duty Ma'am!" Said one of the six people.