Coffee Cricket.

-If you want to be part of this, you have to be aware that there will be no turning back - her father told her with a very serious voice and a frown on his face.

Marly no longer had any doubt that this was her only option, so she nodded her head with the same seriousness as her father and they walked together to the basement of that abandoned house in the middle of a dangerous neighborhood, which Marly had not visited before that day. In the basement there was much more space than Marly had imagined, it had definitely been modified and enlarged for its new purpose. There a team of men and women were working on a clandestine coffee production laboratory.

Her father was the head of the organization, but had kept it hidden for years, until Marly discovered it and he was forced to integrate it in exchange for his silence.

-I will leave you with Simon, he will explain how everything works and what your duties will be from now on. I have to go out, the work is here and on the street - her father told her and left.

Simon approached her with a kind look, he looked a little older than her, but he was also a young boy compared to all the others.

-You see Marly - Simon started with an enthusiastic gesture and a very convincing confidence - since the coffee industry took that abysmal turn two years ago, it became very difficult to access an organic or artisanal product. The transgenic laboratories of Coffee Cricket bought up all the producing land and processing factories that posed a threat to their emporium. Now the most commercialized beverage is the unpleasant artificial coffee of Coffee Cricket, whose flavor does not equal that of natural coffee and whose addictive effects are similar to those of any synthetic drug, starting from a slight tremor in the hands, to the most severe madness.

-I know the story perfectly well - Marly interrupted him with a gesture of annoyance - it is one of the most relevant facts of contemporary history, they teach it to us at school all the time.

-That's right Marly - continued Simon, who seemed excited to be talking about it - this new way of making coffee has revolutionized the industry, its way of producing and consuming. This is where your father comes in, who founded a small secret laboratory to produce a healthy and organic coffee for himself and his family. But what started as a small family project became a powerful clandestine alternative coffee industry, which is waging war against the big monopoly.

-Why did Dad keep it hidden all this time? - asked Marly, somewhat resentful.

-Your father has many enemies, Marly - answered Simon very seriously, with some concern - his project is very ambitious, and touches the interests of many powerful people.

-I know, but I am his daughter, he could have told me - Marly seemed annoyed.

-You will have to talk to him directly, Marly, I can only talk to you about coffee and this incredible project. We have several laboratories distributed throughout the city, in secret spaces like this one, some are in charge of the cultivation and others of processing the grain, besides having a distribution network with armored and discreet vehicles.

Simon salivated as he exposed the complexity of such a grandiose organization, Marly looked at him expressionlessly, just listening to her father's employee talking like a religious fanatic.

-Well, Marly, your job is simple - Simon continued - your father told me that you are very good with computers. What we need is for you to develop a more complete security system than the one we have, with the growth of the organization we are more exposed to a cyber attack, your father is afraid that they will find our Achilles heel in the network.

Marly smiled with satisfaction, that was her area, she was a skilled hacker and knew she could develop an impenetrable system, so she sat down at the main computer to which Simon gave her full access and got to work.

While everyone in the laundry room continued with their specific activities, the first thing Marly did was to review the location of all the other operation centers, the list of the real names and personal information of all the workers, the routes and schedules of transportation and the data of the vehicles and when she had all the information compiled, she sent it through the network to the head of security of the transgenic coffee monopoly Coffee Cricket.

Marly had been secretly working for her father's enemy company for almost a year, she had tried by all means to enter as an infiltrator, but her father was very careful. When the head of security received the data, he sent Marly a message:

-Perfect agent M, your mission was successfully accomplished, in five minutes we will be there razing those cockroaches to the ground.

-Will you do your part? - Marly asked.

-Of course - answered the head of security after a laugh - I'll let you tell your father yourself how we caught him. And most importantly, you will have your lifetime supply of coffee, just as you asked. It's what you deserve after this coup, now our industry is unstoppable.

Marly just sat there in front of the computer, pretending to work, while she waited for her colleagues to arrive, who would ransack the place and arrest everyone involved. When the explosions began to sound from outside, the screams of the workers did not disturb Marly, her attention was on the involuntary movement of her right hand, which announced the first symptoms of withdrawal caused by not drinking Coffee Cricket for so many hours.