Raid (Animus Book 9) by Joshua Anderle & Michael Anderle

Author:Joshua Anderle & Michael Anderle [Anderle, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-09-10T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Genos took manual control of the ship from Chief and prepared to take off. Kaiden exhaled a relieved sigh as he took his co-pilot chair.

“That wasn’t so bad, was it?” The Tsuna chuckled as the ship began to gain altitude.

“Maybe not for us, but if we were simply some nice elders there to tell them the good news, we’d be paste by now,” he joked.

“I’m not really sure what that means,” his companion replied as the ship banked away from the Halos base. “But I’ll agree with you, nonetheless.” Genos increased speed with a suddenness that made Kaiden flatten himself against his seat. The junk town seemed to rocket into the distance.

As he virtually pried himself off the chair and forced his muscles to relax, he noticed a blinking light in the corner of his vision. “What’s that, Chief?”

“Messages. You have quite a few.”

The blinking stopped but a panel of contacts appeared in its place. Two were from Zena and Janis, checking the number to make sure it was right, but the seventeen others weren’t.

“What the hell? Laurie and Chiyo have been trying to reach me,” he exclaimed.

“Oh…I suppose we should have checked in with them through all this, shouldn’t we?” his teammate murmured.

“Chief, why didn’t any of these get through?”

“They did but I held them off.”

“Why?” he demanded.

Chief’s eye narrowed in exasperation. “We have been kind of dealing with more important things the last few hours—you know, like getting shot. I sent them messages saying call back later but they didn’t listen.”

“They’re probably wondering how the meetings went.” He sighed and tried to contact Chiyo. “At least we’ll have good news to send back.”

The comm link took a moment to establish but she answered quickly and he opened a holoscreen. “Nice of you to finally return,” she began, a snarky edge to her tone. “Where are you and what happened?”

“Good evening, friend Chiyo,” Genos said cheerfully.

“Hello, Genos,” she responded. “Answer the question, Kaiden.”

He chuckled. She seemed peeved, for some reason. “I’ve had a little trouble, but it’s all good now,” he informed her.

“Trouble? Did the gangs attack you?” she demanded and worry replaced the grumbling.

“Not really. I would ask you to contact a cleaner if that were the case, and not the kind that makes your armor look fresh.” He laughed. “The Fire Riders and Skyway Kings are with us. Genos and I finished talking to the Azure Halos.”

“How did that go?”

“Well enough. We had a small misunderstanding, to begin with but after that, they were almost nice,” he admitted.

“What could they bring to the table?” she inquired.

“Fewer hackers than I hoped. They have a decent force, but most of their new recruits are actually engineers. I’m not sure how many we need. They said they have about thirty-something hackers in all but only ten are actually really good.”

“If the Halos say they are good, then they are. They are one of the few groups that actually know what that means in the profession,” she stated. “On how useful they will be, well, we have a better idea now.

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