The Eternal Eluder

This is a fictitious story. Its a techno thriller which i wrote four years ago. It has 12 parts. Read them an let me know your thoughts :)

Episode -1

“It’s a pride to be working in the same company as that of your dad’s, when he is not owning it. It is a feeling which words can’t explain well.” I experienced it when I got an offer to do an apprentice in CMPL, [Chemical Mercenaries Public Limited], one of India’s Navaratna Companies ; a Fortune 50 company with an annual turnover of about 2.3 Billions .

The company had its branches all over India, but the main branch (head office) was in Chennai, where I had got my offer. I was assigned to the ERP department, which was in the IC building. My dad was working in the 19th building. The branch had a total of 24 buildings. IC building was considered to be the main building as the server was placed in it. I came to know of all these as days passed by.

My apprenticeship was to be done for a year and at the end of it, I will get a completion certificate or even a permanent job, depending upon my performance the money I was ready to shell out and the top level people who could recommend for the same. Central government jobs were definitely not that easy to obtain.

It had been a month since I joined CMPL. I was playing Solitaire with intense, when I was interrupted by Sandhya. She was my colleague, another Graduate Apprentice who was working in the IC department. She was 5’ 6, wheatish, had a mole in her right cheek and a stunning physique. She was dressed up in the navy blue uniform which all Graduate apprentices are to wear.

She did her schooling in an Anglo-Indian school, which explained her diction in the English language. Though she was an engineering graduate, her aspirations were to do MBA abroad and get into the field of Digital marketing, just like every other engineer.

“Hey Dave.. games as usual ? You are Rockelling life dude !” She teased me.

“Yeah Sandy.. what else can I do, I don’t get to carry files like you and roam around and disturb everyone in the name of installing software.” I gave it back to her.

“Duh.. That’s my job, halfwit” saying she gave me a pat on my head with her file.

“Ouch.. now you gotta pay for that!” I acted as if it pained.

“Enough.. Get up now.. I need to install a software!” she insisted.

“As if I would start working after the installation.. Why don’t you install a few games ?”

“You know what ? You.. you should have been given this job.. you lazy bugger”

“Some people are born lucky !” I smiled.

“Come on.. get up“ she said firmly and then I obliged.

She sat in my chair and logged off my system, then logged in using the admin password.

I tried to sneak into the password as she typed, but she cleverly hid my view.

“Sandy.. Whats the password ?” I asked.

“Screw You !” she replied without looking at me

“That’s a nice password, who kept it ? “

“Not funny.. not at all..” she started to get busy with the installation.

“Why don’t you tell me the password?” I asked.

“Why should I ?”

“What if I give you a diary milk?”

“Nope”

“Two diary milks ?”

“Not enough !”

“Do you have access to the main server room, Sandy ? ”

“Nope, only Anand and Swaroopa have!”

“Oh Okay.. so…. will we be able to log in to the server using this password ?”

“No.. that has another password.. only they both know that! But wait, why are you asking me all these questions now ?”

“What if I want to log into the main server and corrupt the database? ”

“What ? “ She nearly screamed !

I paused for a moment, made sure no one was around, lowered my voice, looked at her eyes and spoke in whispers.

“Demolishing this CMPL empire.. Just like that.. What do you think? ”

“What the hell ?“ she shrieked.

To be continued..