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Most people simply figured that the company name 'Lisa Tech' was simply a reflection of its owner's gigantic ego, but Ivan personally suspected that for all her other talents the woman actually wasn't capable of being creative enough to figure out something better. Not that he dared ever voice such a doubt about the strange superwoman. The company had just held its own annual event, which like its owner kind of tried be everything all at once. It was a testament to the woman's management skills that nothing had ever gone particularly wrong with the event.

The barbecue was the main draw for family and friends of workers which was interspersed with an odd array of games.

They'd managed to work in events of various sorts including a paintball game, which was invariably won by the company's owner even when it was her vs everyone else. Lisa was fast enough to dodge actual bullets like most people might dodge balls so something like paint balls were basically just hanging still in the air to her.

They also generally had some tug of war. This time around a crew in the debugging department had gotten cute and challenged Lisa with a truck. They had been waiting for her outside of it expected her to be surprised to see the rope tied to the back of a truck. Instead she just walked over, picked up the other end and started pulling the vehicle, breaking the parking brake in the process and leaving the crew scrambling to get someone inside the cab to fight back. By the time they'd succeeded Lisa had actually already managed to tie the rope around a few objects, utilizing angles in such a way that the truck couldn't move forward unless the rope eventually snapped. She hung around a moment making a show of holding the truck still with minimal effort before tying it off first though.

Things had gone well and people had fun until the late afternoon. Lisa had summoned another employee to her office and they came out to clean out their desk shortly afterwards. Later Lisa called Ivan in and started asking him questions clearly in a foul mood.

"Corporate espionage boss? I thought you rendered that impossible. Honestly."

"Always a weak point in the human equation. You know, the USSR used to peel away otherwise patriotic people with a few appeals to ego and an offer for money."

"Is that what happened with Tony?"

"Pretty close."

"Don't tell me you're suspecting me because of some superficial similarities to old Soviet tactics and I just happen to have been born in Russia? Sorry but they can't be the only ones to have figured that strategy out."

"That's not the only reason, but tell me straight up, did you have anything to do with it?"

Ivan could say "no" safely even though Lisa had such fine perceptive skills it was impossible to get a lie by her since he was innocent.

Lisa nodded, "I knew I could trust you really, I wouldn't have taken you along on the Victoria thing otherwise. Just, tell me if someone approaches you alright?"

It was weird but he agreed, talked with her over a few things and she showed him some insanely complex gadgets and coding involved in trying to steal information from her servers. A person would have to be fully fluent in fifteen different languages to even hope to read the code Lisa wrote for her own uses and security, but the system was quite capable of cracking her system. It was worrying.

At the end of the day he went to his car and noticed a young woman jogging in a sports bra and tank top. He pushed the button on his key to unlock the car as she passed by him. He pulled out his phone and heard her tell him he should turn it off.

"Excuse me?"

She was in the middle of a set of stretches, having stopped with her back to Lisa's building, "If you want to keep your data, shut that down."

He wasn't sure why but he turned it off as she instructed and when the phone shut down she stood back up and tweaked a watch on her left hand. He looked away at the flash of light then back to her.

"What was..."

"EMP, friend. Ten seconds to talk."

Ivan found himself wondering just how this woman could possibly know it would take ten seconds for the back up security to turn online in the event of an EMP but didn't bother to ask anything as she bent back over, grabbed the front of a car with one hand and stood up, lifting the vehicle onto its back wheels, front on top of her hand.

"Care to ask me anything technical?"

"Hmm, transpose the atomic weight of tungsten."

"Four eight three eight one."

"2,731.5 times 5,137.2"

"14,032,261.8"

The young woman answered his questions without pause even as she walked forward, pushing the car ahead of her. He knew his parking space was at the edge of any security cameras that Lisa's company controlled so she most likely walked out of sight of them by the time the back ups came on. He followed, sensing that was what she wanted. He assumed it would look like he drove away and she went back to jogging in the brief downtime.

"Three of you..."

"So, you do know blondie?"

"Shit."

"Easy big guy, you couldn't run away even if I gave you a head start anyway. I just want to talk. Now ask me out."

"Come again?" he was confused but caught a rather severe look from her, "that is, would you like to go get a drink?"

Slipping from perfect English to almost jokingly accented the girl grinned and said, "I would like that very much comrade, where do you recommend?"

He wondered if this was for the benefit of the nearest cameras of other businesses, just in case Lisa checked them she'd find them but reading his lips - this other girl kept her own speech out of easy detection. He decided to bite the bullet and offer to take her. She was absolutely right after all, if someone like Lisa or Victoria wanted him dead he'd be gone before he could shout for help.

Later he insisted that he wouldn't sell Lisa out and was nervous about saying anything about "blondie" who he'd refused to name for her. Lisa seemed keen on keeping relatively quiet about Victoria to the rest of the world.

"I see."

Ivan swallowed hard and slunk back in his seat.

"No fears comrade, I'm not here to hurt you. You've told me some interesting things already, most of which you didn't mean to, but you can't be blamed for that."

"Are you going to do anything to either of them?"

"Depends. Anyway, it's six. Or possibly seven."

"Six or seven of what?"

"One of the Chinese experiments died for sure, but the other's a solid case of 'never found the body' so we don't know the exact number."

Ivan felt nervous fear that he knew the answer as he asked her, "Exact number of what exactly?"

"Augmented humans of course. Blondie was a surprise to me, but it seems that the majority would be a surprise to even Lisa."

"That's....scary actually."

"Is it? From my perspective it's incredibly lonely. Have a good day, and don't worry about contacting your boss, I'll do it myself soon enough."

"Um, are you going to make a scene? Like what happened with...blondie?"

"It's not my plan, but we'll just have to see how Lisa takes the news, won't we?"

- Really just a prologue for this: fav.me/davw72x

Description
Most people simply figured that the company name 'Lisa Tech' was simply a reflection of its owner's gigantic ego, but Ivan personally suspected that for all her other talents the woman actually wasn't capable of being creative enough to figure out something better. Not that he dared ever voice such a doubt about the strange superwoman. The company had just held its own annual event, which like its owner kind of tried be everything all at once. It was a testament to the woman's management skills that nothing had ever gone particularly wrong with the event.

The barbecue was the main draw for family and friends of workers which was interspersed with an odd array of games.

They'd managed to work in events of various sorts including a paintball game, which was invariably won by the company's owner even when it was her vs everyone else. Lisa was fast enough to dodge actual bullets like most people might dodge balls so something like paint balls were basically just hanging still in the air to her.

They also generally had some tug of war. This time around a crew in the debugging department had gotten cute and challenged Lisa with a truck. They had been waiting for her outside of it expected her to be surprised to see the rope tied to the back of a truck. Instead she just walked over, picked up the other end and started pulling the vehicle, breaking the parking brake in the process and leaving the crew scrambling to get someone inside the cab to fight back. By the time they'd succeeded Lisa had actually already managed to tie the rope around a few objects, utilizing angles in such a way that the truck couldn't move forward unless the rope eventually snapped. She hung around a moment making a show of holding the truck still with minimal effort before tying it off first though.

Things had gone well and people had fun until the late afternoon. Lisa had summoned another employee to her office and they came out to clean out their desk shortly afterwards. Later Lisa called Ivan in and started asking him questions clearly in a foul mood.

"Corporate espionage boss? I thought you rendered that impossible. Honestly."

"Always a weak point in the human equation. You know, the USSR used to peel away otherwise patriotic people with a few appeals to ego and an offer for money."

"Is that what happened with Tony?"

"Pretty close."

"Don't tell me you're suspecting me because of some superficial similarities to old Soviet tactics and I just happen to have been born in Russia? Sorry but they can't be the only ones to have figured that strategy out."

"That's not the only reason, but tell me straight up, did you have anything to do with it?"

Ivan could say "no" safely even though Lisa had such fine perceptive skills it was impossible to get a lie by her since he was innocent.

Lisa nodded, "I knew I could trust you really, I wouldn't have taken you along on the Victoria thing otherwise. Just, tell me if someone approaches you alright?"

It was weird but he agreed, talked with her over a few things and she showed him some insanely complex gadgets and coding involved in trying to steal information from her servers. A person would have to be fully fluent in fifteen different languages to even hope to read the code Lisa wrote for her own uses and security, but the system was quite capable of cracking her system. It was worrying.

At the end of the day he went to his car and noticed a young woman jogging in a sports bra and tank top. He pushed the button on his key to unlock the car as she passed by him. He pulled out his phone and heard her tell him he should turn it off.

"Excuse me?"

She was in the middle of a set of stretches, having stopped with her back to Lisa's building, "If you want to keep your data, shut that down."

He wasn't sure why but he turned it off as she instructed and when the phone shut down she stood back up and tweaked a watch on her left hand. He looked away at the flash of light then back to her.

"What was..."

"EMP, friend. Ten seconds to talk."

Ivan found himself wondering just how this woman could possibly know it would take ten seconds for the back up security to turn online in the event of an EMP but didn't bother to ask anything as she bent back over, grabbed the front of a car with one hand and stood up, lifting the vehicle onto its back wheels, front on top of her hand.

"Care to ask me anything technical?"

"Hmm, transpose the atomic weight of tungsten."

"Four eight three eight one."

"2,731.5 times 5,137.2"

"14,032,261.8"

The young woman answered his questions without pause even as she walked forward, pushing the car ahead of her. He knew his parking space was at the edge of any security cameras that Lisa's company controlled so she most likely walked out of sight of them by the time the back ups came on. He followed, sensing that was what she wanted. He assumed it would look like he drove away and she went back to jogging in the brief downtime.

"Three of you..."

"So, you do know blondie?"

"Shit."

"Easy big guy, you couldn't run away even if I gave you a head start anyway. I just want to talk. Now ask me out."

"Come again?" he was confused but caught a rather severe look from her, "that is, would you like to go get a drink?"

Slipping from perfect English to almost jokingly accented the girl grinned and said, "I would like that very much comrade, where do you recommend?"

He wondered if this was for the benefit of the nearest cameras of other businesses, just in case Lisa checked them she'd find them but reading his lips - this other girl kept her own speech out of easy detection. He decided to bite the bullet and offer to take her. She was absolutely right after all, if someone like Lisa or Victoria wanted him dead he'd be gone before he could shout for help.

Later he insisted that he wouldn't sell Lisa out and was nervous about saying anything about "blondie" who he'd refused to name for her. Lisa seemed keen on keeping relatively quiet about Victoria to the rest of the world.

"I see."

Ivan swallowed hard and slunk back in his seat.

"No fears comrade, I'm not here to hurt you. You've told me some interesting things already, most of which you didn't mean to, but you can't be blamed for that."

"Are you going to do anything to either of them?"

"Depends. Anyway, it's six. Or possibly seven."

"Six or seven of what?"

"One of the Chinese experiments died for sure, but the other's a solid case of 'never found the body' so we don't know the exact number."

Ivan felt nervous fear that he knew the answer as he asked her, "Exact number of what exactly?"

"Augmented humans of course. Blondie was a surprise to me, but it seems that the majority would be a surprise to even Lisa."

"That's....scary actually."

"Is it? From my perspective it's incredibly lonely. Have a good day, and don't worry about contacting your boss, I'll do it myself soon enough."

"Um, are you going to make a scene? Like what happened with...blondie?"

"It's not my plan, but we'll just have to see how Lisa takes the news, won't we?"

- Really just a prologue for this: fav.me/davw72x