Making Supers 1 by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

A slip of paper sat beside another hefty roll of cash, a small flash drive that had to be at least 30 years old, and a whole lot of nothing else.

I pried the flash drive out of the foam and tossed it to Giselle.

She caught it with a blink of surprise. “What’s this?”

“No idea,” I told her. “Can you get into it?”

“I’d need a prehistoric computer,” Giselle said.

“Done,” Chuck said. “I’ll get it for you.”

The huge merc disappeared into one of the side doors, and Giselle glanced at Gwen.

“You struck me as someone who didn’t mind the new stuff.”

“Never hurts to have redundancies,” Gwen replied. “Pinnacle has enough of them, and people like SatSec have backdoors into every cloud and server you can think of.”

“We made sure there weren’t any backdoors,” Giselle said hotly. “That was my job.”

“How many people did you have to fire for tinkering?” Gwen countered.

Giselle’s jaw clenched. “More than a few.”

“So they were shit at not being caught. I’m not saying you were bad at your job, Giselle. I’m just saying that Pinnacle have their fingers in everything. Especially tech, because that’s the easiest way for them to keep support amongst people.”

I opened the fold of paper. A smirk crossed my face at the words. Dad had made the message nonspecific, as usual, and of course he’d just had to make things more complicated for us.

“What’s it say?” Giselle asked.

“Complete the Party. Obtain loot. Begin the raid,” I read aloud.

Gwen and Giselle blinked at me, confused. I tossed the slip of paper back into the suitcase with a chuckle. These weren’t exactly the normal kind as far as Dad’s instructions went. He’d originally told me to form a party, which I had. But the next two suggestions were a lot less specific.

I gestured for Gwen to sit down with the rest of us. She did, just as Chuck appeared with a dinosaur of a laptop. The thing probably still had a disc drive. It’d also work as a pretty good bulletproof plate, if it came down to it.

“This is nerd-speak, right?” Gwen asked.

“Brandon loves it, especially with Dean,” Giselle said. “Same kind of language as the first message we got from him. But don’t we already have a ‘party’ with Gwen and the others?”

I thought about it for a moment. “We might be mixing our nerd metaphors.”

“How so?” Gwen asked.

“This is a guess, not a fact,” I said. “But it’d depend on how many people Dad thinks should be in a party. In the game we used to play together, his go-to, it was four.”

“We’ve got more than four,” Gwen pointed out.

“But only three supes,” Chuck supplied. “Right? You, Giselle, and Dean?”

“Which would mean that we’re still one short,” I said.

Chuck opened up his brick of a computer, slotted in the flash drive, and slid it over to Giselle. Her fingers danced over the keys and rubbed the worn-out trackpad. I tried not to chuckle as her brow knitted into a frustrated expression. She was

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