The group takes action

Tom had to be honest, he was quite impressed with the nerd. Don didn't really look the part so Tom honestly assumed the guy would show up at the college and completely stuff up. Don walked by the security room, saw a person inside running the cameras and led them to the server room.

"The one thing we have on our side is that nobody here actually knows what they are doing." Don murmured while leading them halfway across the main building. Reaching a flight of stairs he climbed two floors, Tom silently following and listening. "You see the setup for this place is actually quite nice. Expensive equipment, great quality cameras, and enough of them to be able to keep an eye on any given area."

Tom nodded, "Yeah I think almost every hallway and staircase has them."

Don instinctively looked above him at what they were talking about and grinned, "Little do they know that is one part of their downfall today. One security officer on Monday, hundreds of cameras. He can only look at a few at a time."

Tom whistled as if he was impressed, but wasn't quite sure why any of that mattered. "So that means-"

The black haired short need nodded flashing his charismatic smile, "It means there are just too many places to look at all times. So if something happens they can look back at recordings which helps us. But that officer will struggle to keep his system protected from us. He has three screens. One on the main lobby at many angles and just outside, one that cycles every other section inside the buildings with certain places appearing multiple times and the last screen going through the outer grounds."

Tom figured waiting for the guy to continue his monologue was the best way to save face here and just followed up the last of the stairs and they turned towards the server room.

Don stood near a locker, for a moment Tom thought the guy was actually grabbing something but following the black haired student's eyes he noticed his gaze was focused on a camera. A red light flashed before disappearing. They say for several minutes before it appeared again.

Don smiled, "Five minutes? Way more than enough time."

"What?"

"The blinking light turns on every five minutes. Meaning after the light...come here and follow me!" Tom shook his head and followed the short student into the forbidden server room. Shit, you'd expect this place to be locked! "When those lights are on the camera is on his screen. We have five minutes before it pops up again and shows us inside." They walked around the dark room, lit by several small green and red mechanical lights. There were several stacks of small machines on top of each other. Tom figured these were servers, or whatever.

Pulling a small object from his pocket, Dom began reading small notes written on tape on the side of each stack before, "Bingo! These are what controls the cameras and writes the footage to store it to the stack way over there. Which should be far enough my little trick keeps the archive footage safe. Honestly I'd just hook my laptop into that machine there and download the files but it would take way longer than five minutes. But a little sabotage with this..." A loud clunk snapped Tom back into focus as Don reached his arm back out of a small space in the one tower of machinery, "And no more cameras."

Tom followed Don as they left again. He felt like a badass spy. Don actually seemed a bit badass, he was impressed. Only problem is he really didn't get what they just did. It just seemed cool. "So you like one of those hacker guys like in the movies?"

Don looked back laughing and raised an eyebrow, "Seriously? I mean I guess. Movies and television aren't accurate at all. Fell in love with computers as a kid, but my Mom couldn't really afford to get me one, being a single Mom and all. So I spent any opportunity in school growing up at one. A teacher even gave me old parts to take apart and learn from.

"I got into High school and my Mom just hands me a laptop. Says like I deserve it or something. Expensive one too. My uncle said she saved every penny for years to get me a nice one."

Tom felt a tightness in his chest. His own Mom wouldn't even notice if he didn't come home tonight and this need has some super Mom that does that for him? Life was bullshit sometimes. "Sounds like your Mom is pretty fire." Don looked over and eyed him, appraising his sentence. "What?"

The other student shook his head and sighed, "Nothing. I'm just used to people making dirty comments about my Mom. She's really young."

Tom raised an eyebrow but stayed silent, the security room was now just a few doors away.

"But I guess my fascination turned into something more when I saw her make that sort of sacrifice. That much effort. I didn't want to let her down, I don't want to let her down. If I do all those years would be for nothing. She could have dated again, had friends. But she didn't. I owe it to her." Don sighed, "So that level of determination really helps getting good at stuff like this."

"Well when we catch this asshole and kick his ass I'm sure it will make it all worth it for your Mom." Tom said reassuringly. He didn't really vibe with other dudes, sure he'd go out with some guys to chase some girls or make him look cool when he had a girl in mind, but Don actually seemed chill...for a nerd.

"What about you?" Don asked turning and looking up at him, "How's your family? You seem to be the most confident person I know. From experience that means you deep down are either the most or the least confident and happy."

"We are here let's just have you hack a mainframe or some shit." Tom muttered

Pretending to walk by they noticed the door was wide open, no officer. Tom smiled until her noticed the unsteady look on his partner's face. "He shouldn't be gone already. I don't like this. We should bail."

Tom thought about Megan. How all over his dick she would be when they find the asshole they were looking for. How much she would owe him. Raising his hands he stepped in front of the nerd, "Whoa! Uh...every chance we give up on are more chances for that guy to change people, to change us. We don't have the benefit of choosing when we can and can't. I will keep watch. If he comes I will make up some bullshit and buy more time."

Don's eyes still looked full and his lip quivered but he nodded and briskly walked inside. Tom watched the guy hook up a usb and some other equipment before admitting it was all beyond him and let him work. Standing in the hall he kept focus. This was something he could do! This was his part of the group, of the secret mission. There was nothing that could stop him!

An animated giggle made him jump and turn down the hall to see Grace, one of the hottest cheerleaders in school running down the hall. What was even more captivating was she was completely naked, her big tits bouncing with every step. It was more of a half skip. Skipping past him she smiled and gave a wink, Tom practically drooled. Who knew she had a body like that?! She seemed way curvier than he remembered. Following her ass as she kept going she stopped at the change room where several female giggles echoed and cheers. He heard a few slaps of skin on skin and a very horny moan. Fuck. Okay almost nothing could stop him.

Glancing back at his partner, Don was scrolling through footage. Hyper focused on some strange boxes that appeared on face after face on the screen. He looked professional, capable, and probably almost done.

As the lookout, it was his job to investigate something odd like this, right? Tom grinned and began walking away, he would take one for the team and risk his being to investigate these girls thoroughly.