Zoomie felt her body tense up and freeze, each breath shock felt suffocating and heart felt as though it was going to burst out of her chest at any moment as she looked at the stern cold gaze of the Hypirex officer before her.
"Look slugha, I don't have much time in hands. So I'm as clear and blunt as I can be," he spoke with a heavy and hash tone in his voice. "Just explain your involvement with your friend and the hacked limiter,"
"What?" Zoomie shuttered at the officer's words.
"You heard me, slugha", the man did not stutter, and spoke with word without bothering to high the intent of what he was insinuating with them. "What was you involvement? Who hacked the limiter, are you acting like middle man facilitating traction between the hacks and other slugha".
"I…" Zoomie choked underneath the crushing weight of the officer's accusation. Her mind spiraling with a racing as struggled to find the words to defend herself.
The man, his frail patience fade slammed his fist on to metal so much force and speed being it that left it a visible and caused Zoomie to jolt up with fear.
"You're testing my patience slugha. We checked your friend's logs and info. You were the only one of her contacts she interacted with regular," he spoke with raising fury in his voice. "So quit the naïve scared act, and give me a name,"
Zoomie just looked her him, her eyes trembling and body shook. Unable to utter a single word.
She then shut her eyes, silently praying to Yaseki above to come save her.
"That's enough Sprinter," a stern voice spoke up.
Zoomie then turned and him. Another officer but he seemed different from the other. His armor looked more refined and sophisticated as it even under the dim light in the room. And his limiter…
Her eyes widened upon seeing it.
The device around his wrist seemed more like gauntlet than an actual limiter as it seemed to cover his entire arm and with a soft green glow with 'III' etched on it instead of a digit.
"Reacher," the offer gritting his teeth in frustration.
"What are you still doing here at the station," he spoke with caution a little bit of annoyance in tone. "The criminal has already been captured and detained. So there is no there further need for you intervention in the matter and you can simply the investigations to…"
Before the officer could finish his sentence, the other officer took only a single forward and vanished. Moving faster than a blinking appeared right in front of the officer with a gentle breeze blowing from behind.
Zoomie seeing watched happed just looked on with a mouth agape. She didn't even see his streak move past.
In just that one step he blitz past her with only trace of it being the breeze that blew immediately after he appeared.
And it seemed it was just her that was taken aback by his speed as even the officer that once sat across from her confident and bold, was now shaking with cold sweats trickling down his brow.
"Why is she here?" the officer spoke with calm voice.
"She…" the man voice cracked as he spoke. "She was the last person the overclocker was in contact with. We check from her damaged limiter. Though of the logs and memories were fried, that last massage we managed to recover from it came from her,"
The officer then turned to Zoomie. His eyes making it was to her limiter and seeing its gear. Once he saw the single digit flashing on it, he let out a single breath. Immediately realizing what was going on here.
He then turned away from the man and went to Zoomie. Zoomie at him with eyes wide open, wonder what wanted from her.
The officer then extended his hand to her. "Your limiter".
"Oh," as she looked down at her limiter before slowly raised her wrist and bring it to him.
"Scan," said the officer and his limiter began beeping with green flashes. Cables and wires then sprouted out of his limiter attached themselves on hers, connecting both limiters.
A more detail of Zoomie's information, including not just her logs but biological and bodily information like the rate of her breathing and heartbeat.
"Calm down, everything will be alright," he spoke calmly with his eyes near leaving the screen.
He then began skimming through, reading her most recent interaction with Rushina and found in evidence of her concluding, aiding or being with Rushina and her hacked limiter.
"She's clean," he spoke as wires and cable retracted themselves from her limiter.
"What?" the man in shock. "How can you be so sure? You can't just deduce her innocence or lack of involvement with just an initial screening of her limiter. How can you be sure her limiter isn't hack as well? You can't these sl…"
The man's words hung midsentence as the officer vanished from sight and before he knew what was happening a hazy blur appeared in front of him and then he found himself pinned against the wall.
"Know you place Sprinter" the officer held him firmly against the wall. "Don't forget that as a Reacher I out rank you. So you better mind your words,"
Zoomie looked at the officer with eyes fluttering in shock, wondering if her eyes were deceiving her.
"Sorry sir," the officer jammed his teeth in frustration. "It…it wouldn't happen again,"
The officer, seemingly satisfied by his response let go of the man. Allowing him to slump down to the ground.
He then turned to Zoomie.
"Sorry about this miss," he spoke with gentle tone Zoomie heard come from anyone. "You're free to leave,"
"What about Rushina?" Zoomie spoke with fear etched in her voice.
The officer seeing the destressed state Zoomie was in spoke softly, "She's currently in a holding cell about to be questioned on how her limiter was hacked and who was responsible. And after that, she'd trailed and then punishment will be issued,"
Zoomie looked at her limiter, seeing the number flashing on it.
"Rushina"
With a quite cell where the air felt so cold that each breath taken densed up in to a cloud frost. Rushina sat on the cold floor, her body shaking and trembling from the cold with the wrist where her limiter once rest on now naked and bare.