What I Want from You (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader Woody Man 8)

The room fell silent. None of them were young; even the youngest was probably nearing forty. They were no longer children.

"There's another possibility." The man codenamed Zeus fell silent for a moment before speaking.

"He didn't answer our questions. Instead, he cracked our websites through other means, gathered the information from them, and then logged into this address." Zeus stated his speculation outright.

"Th-That's impossible, isn't it? If he cracked one of us without our noticing, I can admit that might be possible. But cracking eight people in a row without any of us noticing... Have we fallen that far behind?" This time, it was the man codenamed Odin who spoke.

"Brothers, the fourteen of us have all achieved something in the field of the internet. But don't forget that we haven't had fresh blood for far too long. Times are progressing. In our own eras, perhaps we were all top experts in the internet field, but now a new generation is growing up. There is nothing impossible about someone being better than us." Zeus's aged voice rang in everyone's ears.

That was right. The fourteen of them had stood at the forefront of their era for far too long, and it had been a long time since they had taken in any fresh blood.

"Wasn't that why we invited Ghost in the first place? We wanted to bring in fresh blood. Now that he's here, and he came this way, doesn't that prove his ability? All right, stop chatting here. Don't keep our friend waiting too long," Zeus added.

No one else objected. They all logged into the address. It resembled an ancient internet chat room, but the defenses on this address were probably far stronger than the military systems of many countries.

"Hello, friend." Zeus spoke first