It had all gone down so smoothly for like the first 4 minutes.
In retrospect, it was a little too smoothly; today's mission, yet another gambit at trying to get another chess piece onto her board, had been to isolate and blackmail the currently Lord Speaker of the House of Lords. A fucking ridiculous title for a fucking ridiculous system of government, but, well, when you're an anarchocommunist, most governing bodies seem pretty ridiculous.
The titles, though. Yeesh.
She'd slipped into the house - something more of a compound now in these times of strife - and she'd been making her way onto the grounds, fully cloaked, three guns on her and a knife, a circuit attached to her hand. Fully prepared, or at least she'd thought, until the alarm tripped; a wire, low to the ground, attached to a bell.
So low tech, so stupid, she hadn't even thought of it.
The hacker translocated well outside of the location, a distance so great that it made her stomach lurch. After making sure she didn't throw up everywhere, she'd hailed a cab to drop her off in the vicinity of her warehouse - only to see that it was surrounded by cop cars. The cabbie was looking at her with a suspicious eye and she offered him an easy smile, the AI integrated into her central nervous system bringing up a 3d map of London in her mind's eye. She just needed...somewhere. Anywhere. Fuck.
"Keep going down this street for another...three blocks?" Sombra made sure to seem a little lost; her accent easily placed her as a foreigner, hopefully he'd be less suspicious if he just thought her incredibly confused by the winding nature of London streets.
"Yeah. Hopefully the last, thought I wanted to see snow but I'm freezing." She laughed, her expression friendly and open. It set him at ease and they continued conversing back and forth as he took her in the direction of what she was 96.37% sure was Tracer's little flat (give and take 2%, according to her AI).
At the end of the ride, the hacker slid him his money in physical pounds. It wasn't often she actually paid for something, finding the concept a little ridiculous when she could access bank accounts and make transfers without ever touching her own money - but he seemed nice and he told her about all the best Indian places on this side of town, so it was easy.
Sombra stepped out onto the snow with a crunch of her boots and pulled her far too thin coat over herself tightly as she looked up at the building. After the cabbie was gone and she was fairly certain no one could see, she reached out with her hand and purple hardlight extended from the nails of her circuit into the keypad, brunt forcing her way through different passwords until it opened for her. She slipped inside and into an elevator, hacking into it as well so that it would send her straight up - not that she thought anyone would be up at this ungodly hour.
She repeated her motions, easy as she breathed, though the last set of locks - those leading into that zippy little pipsqueak's apartment (and she was aware they were the same height, but whatever, she was zippy and little and a pipsqueak). Silent as the grave, she slipped into cloaking and moved into the kitchen, ruffling around for something to eat whilst her stomach growled.
"Que carajo es baked beans?"