"Here we go..."
I, in my armor, was slowly making my way up to an underground fight club. Yes, the club was underground, though I'd say it was conditionally underground, since everyone knew about it, but the law enforcement, as in many other cases when it came to rich intelligent people, simply ignored its existence.
However, he has his own access point, located inside the building, so it is not easy to hack into it, and the drawings of the building are only old, the truthfulness of which in our circumstances is not worth counting on.
Once I was near the entrance, I turned on the optical cloak and, trying not to be in the line of sight of the guards, and using Sandy for my acceleration, passed the weapon detector frame. Except that's not all. The doors open only from the inside, so I had to freeze and exactly behind one of the guards, and wait...
For now, the girls have been able to monitor everything through the city's cameras, but soon the only available source of information will be my optics...
"There's a large group of intelligent-- Golden youth, to be exact.
"Thanks Kiwi..."
A couple of minutes pass waiting while a group of golden youth, among whom to my surprise is an old acquaintance of mine, whom I pulled out of a very bad situation, approaches the entrance.
"Your invitation..."
The guard is silent and utters only this phrase, speaking to the guy as if he were nothing. And judging by the look on my old acquaintance's face, though it's more correct to say that he is David's acquaintance, not mine, he is not very happy about this communication. But he can't do anything, he has a chrome for the child, but only for the child. And now he is no longer a child, and chrome, because I see, not updated ...
Out of favor with your parents?
Although no... Knowing the canon, he rather just believed in his own exclusivity, considered the situation with the garbage men as an accident and spent all the money on nothing.
When the guy and his interest group were checked, the doors behind the guards opened, and I activated the sandi again and moved out of my seat. This time I went in through the open doors, and after passing two more guards, I walked quietly down the long, straight hallway.
When I disappeared around the corner, the group hadn't even taken a step yet. And it's just an amazing feeling, because if before using such acceleration I felt a strong strain, now I don't feel any unpleasant sensations.
Hiding around the corner, I stepped out of the acceleration, and after checking the cloaking system, I continued on my way, stopping only at the first door. There were no cameras in the corridor, which was understandable, it was an underground club, and who would want to be filmed when they were in a place like this. And since there were no cameras, I easily pushed the door open and slipped inside the room.
Hmmm...
Nothing interesting overall, just the usual guard lounge, which even now has five people in it and they're all hanging out in brans, but here's the laptop...
A laptop that sits on a table is more interesting.
Walking over to the laptop I inserted a splinter into its connector.
"Girls, work..."
"Got it..."
I stood against the wall and prepared to wait, but I didn't have to wait long.
"Done..."
This time it was Lucy who spoke to me.
"Quickly you..."
"It's a personal comp, sure it's connected to the club's network, but no serious ice here."
There was a slight mockery in her voice at such an obvious vulnerability, one that had been created by the same people who should supposedly be fixing such vulnerabilities.
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
"That's good, because this laptop shouldn't be here, it's just human sloppiness. What's going to happen, you can't just walk in here, the only entrance is heavily guarded! The laptop is in the security room, there's always one of our own here..."
Kiwi didn't hold back and joined the conversation, telling her everything she thought about this kind of behavior from the guards.
"AND? What's the result?"
"Well, we have the club card... and we're also hooked up to the camera system, which there are still cameras here, though not that many."
"Can I have the map?"
Of course I could still listen to them, but a job, even if it wasn't given by a fixer, had to be done. Though in our case I don't even want to talk about the fixers, they never found us a customer, though I wasn't going to blame Bestia and Regina for that. It's not easy to find a man who is ready to declare even to proven fixers that he wants to eliminate Faraday.
I think both girls even expected me to start acting without a contract.
"Sure..."
The girls hooked me up with an interactive map of the club with all the rooms labeled.
"Preferably in the server room first..."
"Roger that, do you want the chip?"
"Yeah, we made a little crack in the ice and now we don't need a laptop repeater."
I nodded a couple of times, then took the splinter and quietly left the room, before activating the sandi and walking quickly down the hallway. I passed the doors that led to the back rooms.
Literally five minutes of subjective time and I enter the club itself...
But I don't stop and continue on my way. The people all seem to be standing still, and I calmly walk around the frozen statues, moving towards the server room.
Getting into the server room was just as easy as getting into the security room, except that for the sake of reliability I'd boosted Sandy's performance a bit more, so that I could be sure I wouldn't be detected by the guards standing right next to me if they had more advanced optics.
"Ladies, I'm in the server room..."
With these words I inserted a couple of slivers into the connectors, giving the girls more complete access to the systems and it immediately yielded results as just a dozen seconds later I had a mark of Faraday's location on the map.
"What about funds?"
I sighed.
"Isn't that Faraday's main base?"
"Yeah..."
"Then empty the accounts. Just make sure we don't cross the big corporations any further. We're about to put their chain chihuahua to sleep. And if we hit their accounts, they're gonna want to get even. They probably won't do anything for the dog. they'll just put a new one on a chain."
"We're careful. You've got debts to repay."
Lucy saying this, judging it, smiled kindly.
"Just be careful. It's better if you pay your debts longer, but we won't attract unnecessary attention..."
"Yeah, we get it, we're not taking any chances."
Kiwi interrupted me in a slightly annoyed voice.
"Mentor, my joy, I realize that my warnings have been bothering you for a long time, but I'd rather hear your annoyed voices a thousand times than find out once that we're in trouble because I didn't say anything."
"Yeah, yeah..."
"Mistress, you remember what happened the other day, don't you? It was because I got proud. and overestimated my abilities."
"Well..."
Kiwi seemed a little embarrassed.
"And I really want the kind of immunization I got to be enough for our whole team."
"Okay, uh. we get it. will be extra careful."
"That's right... am I going after the target or am I just gonna stand here for a little while longer?"
"It's better to go right after it, you've installed the chips, the ones that can be zeroed remotely... so you're good to go."
"Roger that."
And I left the server room heading straight for the VIP box where Faraday was. A fixer who was not used to hearing rejection and took great offense to it. Well, nothing, soon he will no longer be able to fulfill his duties and perhaps a more understanding and adequate one will take his place.
Or someone who'll at least know who they can raise their tail on.
It was not difficult to get into the VIP box, Faraday was alone inside, if you don't count his dubolomovs, who were next to him. But what do I care about those dubolomites? When no one even noticed my appearance...
Abruptly knocking out all the guards I put slivers in them, which simulated normal activity and allowed the girls to hack into them, and yes Faraday got hit in the head and a sliver in the socket.
"Ladies, you have before you a lot called Faraday. The main objective is to "forgive" all debts owed to him by various reasonable ones. The rest is at your discretion."
"Got it..."
While the girls were working, I arranged the dubolomovs and Faraday in such a way that accidentally, though what the hell accidentally, a reasonable person who entered the VIP hall could not immediately realize that something was wrong and I had time to knock him out. And not only accidentally entered, but also the one who will look in the VIP hall did not realize that something is wrong here.
I hid at the side of the entrance to the hall, and finally I could afford to relax a little. It took the girls about ten minutes to break in, and all that time I stood quietly against the wall and watched. The cloaking system allowed me to be undetected.
"We all did..."
"Can I put you to sleep?"
"Yeah. (chuckles)"
"All right. (chuckles)"
Nodding, I took out a specially prepared long spokeshave and walked over and drove it exactly into Faraday's ear. The needle had a handle on which I pressed a special button and the needle was to open immediately...
Which it did, opening up like an umbrella. And it did severe damage to Faraday's brain, causing his body to jerk a couple of times. But that wasn't the end of it. Now I deactivated one lock and the tightly twisted spring in the handle unscrewed the spoke, and the smooth back and forth motion I made turned the freak's brain into a rubbery substance.
When I was done, I pressed the button again, folding the spoke, then pulled it out and wiped it on Faraday's clothes and put it in the special clip on my belt. After that I pulled out all the splinters and quietly left the VIP zone.
"How are we doing?"
"As quiet as ever..."
"Can I get the chips out of the server room in time?"
"Overall... Yes..."
"That's good, there's no need to throw away useful items."
Quite leisurely I got to the server and took out of it chips and then still without attracting unnecessary attention and using the system of disguise and sandi left the club with a group of some rich women.
Once in one of the nearest back alleys I turned off the sandi and cloak, then breathed a sigh of relief.
"So..."
"David... thank you."
Kiwi's spike shook with the emotions overwhelming her.
"You're welcome..."
"No, you don't understand... he would have tried to crush me anyway. He would have kept trying to get me to betray you. And you, uh. you solved not only the team's problems, but my personal problems, too."
"Kiwi, you don't have a PERSONAL problem from a certain point on."
"This coming from a person who doesn't want to use our financial aid?"
Panam's caustic voice was the answer.
"Panam, I'm not saying no..."
"Yeah, yeah..."
Judy joined in the conversation while dropping me a note about where Panam was picking me up.
"I don't get it, are you questioning my ability to assess my own strength?"
"Well..."
"Judy, believe me, if I really need your financial support, I won't hesitate to come to you. And let's just drop the subject. Because you're not gonna change my mind."
"Yes, yes, you are very stubborn..."
"I'm going to spend the money to upgrade my car without asking you for anything..."
"Do I have a problem with that?"
I shrugged advancing towards the meeting point.
"It's your money, it's your car. just like I'm not gonna say anything if Judy starts upgrading her technique for the Brains..."
"Okay, let's really close the topic..."
I agreed with Lucy, as did the others, and then I silently made my way to the meeting point, where I got into the car that took us to our apartment. On the way the girls threw me all the data they had found and it made me frown.
"Fucking..."
"Did you see it yet?"
"Yeah, so much shit on the other fixers... I think it would be right to give the data to Bestia and Regina, let them clean up their tails so they have less leverage... Maybe Wakako's the one to dump the data, and the Padre. But it's up to our fixers to decide on which of their colleagues they want to hang additional debts for such a weighty help."