Freelancer by Lingwall Jake

Author:Lingwall, Jake [Lingwall, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2015-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Answer my calls, David!

Kari punched her bed in frustration. She’d pulled on the first clothes she’d found and had frantically started trying to contact David. He wasn’t answering. She checked the feed from the drones around his house. Nothing had changed. They have to get out of there! What are they doing?

Kari ordered one of the drones to fly down the street to look for any trouble. When the drone made it to the street, Kari could clearly see a squadron of enforcement vehicles approaching and heading directly for David’s house.

Of course, enforcement must have known hours ago before the government released the information to the public. They’ve just been waiting for their chance to swoop in and tear a family apart.

Kari connected to the computers in her factory. With one command, she activated her hundred or so drones. They rose into the air together, as if they were all only a small piece of a single much larger drone. It was beautiful and terrifying at the same time. Kari quickly broke them into groups of about twenty drones and chose one drone from each group to be a lead drone. She checked the news sites one more time to be certain about what was happening.

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Kari ordered one group of drones to break through the factory’s door with their stingers, and she ordered another group to destroy all the printers and recyclers in her factory. It was quick and painless; she didn’t have time to mourn the destruction of her hard work. David and his family were going to be unjustly arrested in a matter of minutes and separated from each other.

Within seconds, the room in the factory was blurred from Kari’s vision as the drones attacked all the hardware. A moment later, the smoking door burst open, and a swarm of drones rushed out and into the sky. Kari ordered the entire drone army to David’s house, which the drones immediately estimated would take six minutes. I need to make them faster. The last group of drones left her smoke-filled factory behind and chased after the others, leaving nothing but a burning mass of commercial-grade printers behind.

Kari looked around her room desperately for anything that could help her get a hold of herself. It’s all happening too fast. I’m not ready for this. She felt like throwing up. The enforcement vehicles were only seconds away from David’s house. Kari’s notification light blinked; David was calling. She answered it as fast as she possibly could.

“Kari, why did you call me anonymously before if you were just going to call me like this now?” David’s voice was surprisingly soft and calm for the situation.

“David. Listen. You and your family have to run. Now!” Kari tried to focus on the conversation, but her mind was racing, looking for a way out of the situation.

“What? Kari, I thought we—”

“Stop. They’re almost to your house. You have to go now.” She didn’t have time to let him finish or argue.

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