Section Twenty-Four

As Vittoria and Langdon landed on the Vatican's hellipad, they had one thing on their minds, finding the stolen antimatter. Looking around, it seemed as though nobody else but them were present in the area. The Guard explained to them that all of the Cardinals were in the Sistine Chapel for Conclave was about to start in under an hour, and the rest of the staff was ban from the city for secrecy and security reasons.

When the two of them approached two guards, they gave Vittoria and Langdon some trouble for getting in due to Vittoria wearing some shorts, but the pilot told the guards who they were and to let them in. As they walked in, they got to a set of stairs, when they approached the bottom, the guard put in a code and let them into a room full of mayhem.

When they got inside the Office of the Swiss Guard they saw a collage of many different things. There were many peices of technology inside of the office. The pilot, who had led them to the Office instructed them to wait there, and that Commander Olivetti would be there soon to talk to them. Olivetti was the man who had called Kohler earlier on that day. The man led Vittoria and Langdon to an area with the servalence monitors. He demanded an explanation for the image showing up on camera #86, and sure enough, it was the canister of the stolen antimatter. Vittoria was told that they had not begun looking for the canister yet, and at this she was in shock, for the lives of the Cardinals and everyone in Vatican City were in danger. When Langdon explained that the Illuminati were responsible for this act, the Commander did not believe it and said that he did not have time for any games. Even when Langdon showed Olivetti the image on the fax, he did not believe him. When the Commander would not believe the two individuals, they demanded to see the person who was in charge, they wanted to see the Chamberlain, the one person ranked higher than Olivetti himself at the time being. At this time, they were interrupted by another guard who was coming to get Olivetti to go "sweep" the Chapel for any electronic bugs. As the Commander left, he locked Langdon and Vittoria in his office and left one of the Guards there to watch the door to ensure they did not some how escape.

Vittoria contemplated calling Kohler from her cell phone, but quickly deserted the idea for she knew that he was probably still recieving medical attention, and that the Swiss Guard would come in there at take it from her. Vittoria knew she had to somehow get ahold of the Camerlegno (who is the Chamberlain). She decided to do something risky and try to get ahold of him from the phone in Olivetti's office. Vittoria knew that they were locked in, and the Guard on the other side of the glass walls was locked out. She knew that Olivetti would be the only one with a key to the lock, and therefore knew that the guard would not be able to stop her from making a phone call. The first line she tried was not the Pope's office, and she knew she had to act quick to get it because the guard on the other side was now on his walkie talkie with Olivetti.