It was just another normal day for Slavi. Get yourself captured by a secret governmental organization? Check. Smuggle futuristic tech in a highly secured facility? Double-check. Orchestrate an epic escape? You know the drill. And they say that being an engineer is a boring job. Well, it could be, but not with friends like his. When a hacker, a millionaire, a mafia-heiress, and a PhD in robotics band together, anything is possible. Now all that's left is for Slavi to rescue his best friend Max and ride off into the sunset. But will he manage to do it before his pacemaker is fried? And what the heck is all that talk about aliens? "Mission: Octagon" is a novelette. It is shorter than a novel but longer than a short story (it's the little sibling of the novella). For a variety of reasons, it is split into several sub-missions (aka, chapters). Please take that into consideration when starting to read. Now, enjoy the story to your heart's content.