Making Trouble by A K DuBoff

Author:A K DuBoff [DuBoff, A K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BDL Press
Published: 2019-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6: The Spice of Life

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“Blue rabbit pictures? That’s your idea?” Alyssa asked with obvious skepticism in her tone.

“See, no one has been able to replicate the symbol,” Jack continued, “but I have a recording.” He pointed to the cybernetic implant in his head as best he could while carrying the bags of food. “It has a twenty-four-hour log, which we are still within.”

Triss pursed her lips. “You know, that might actually work.”

“Yeah,” Alyssa mused, “if they use that symbol as a safe passcode, we could probably get ourselves inside.”

“And, we can send a message summoning everyone in the organization to the base, if we can get a contact list,” Jack added.

The captain’s eye lit up. “We have a list of the Perfect Touch locations. The branches were all listed in the contract—I read over it while we were in transit.”

Jack raised his one good eyebrow. “Oh, sure, now you read it, after it’s signed.”

“Do you ever read those multi-page documents filled with legalese?” she asked.

He shook his head.

Alyssa flourished her hand. “Well, there you go.”

“At any rate, we can send a message to those locations now using a blue rabbit digital stamp to verify authenticity,” Triss said. “That way, the associates will all be there when we tip off the Vorlox.”

“Is there enough transit time for them to get there?” Alyssa asked.

“Well, we stopped for a while, and we aren’t going at maximum hyperspace speed,” Triss said.

“Maybe set the meeting for an hour after our expected arrival? That would give some extra time for the associates to travel,” Jack suggested.

Alyssa nodded. “Okay, assuming this works, we’ll still need to figure out where they are keeping the IDs and anything else valuable enough worth the time and effort to steal.”

“We can figure out the internal layout once we’re in the computer network,” Triss told her. “Get me inside and I’ll take care of it from there.”

Alyssa adjusted her grip on the bags of food in her hands. “I imagine there’s no talking you out of this.”

“Not likely, no,” Jack replied. “May well save the time and energy and just embrace the plan.”

“It’s not a plan. It’s an idea,” she countered.

“It’ll be a plan by the time we do it.” He smiled. “Just think of all the good loot that will be in there, given a gang of this caliber.”

“Yeah, that’s what concerns me. If this doesn’t go well, we’re dead—or worse.”

Triss shook her head. “You should know by now that the tough guys are never as tough as they want you to think, the guards are terrible at their jobs, and we have stupid-good luck that always seems to see us through.”

“I worry about that luck will run out.”

“Not anytime soon. Not so long as we have each other.” Triss grinned. “Let’s get our people fed and then we can worry about the details.”

Alyssa sighed. “All right. I guess I have at least one more crazy venture left in me.”

Jack grinned. “Good, because we were going to make you go anyway.

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