Freeport 44

[Soul Reaper]

I’m pretty sure your…client, will be very satisfied with it.

You think so? I don’t, my clients are very paranoid with the ship and equipment, not to mention I’ll have to do a full scan on the ship to make sure there aren’t any bugs, and of course any unwanted software, anything found would diminish the value of the ship, you see my point Mister Forge?

Marcus looked at the man directly in the eye, the ‘middle-man’, or so they called the people in that line of work, was slightly taller than Marcus and well built in muscle, but his usage of Cardamine was too obvious due to the blue-ish marks all over his face. For a second Marcus thought about torturing the man with cardamine withdrawal, but then thought of it as a bad idea, he had to be on the good side of the Lane Hackers, or at least the one that he needed his supplies from. But he also didn’t want this idiot to think he was holding the ropes.

Look, I’ll get this straight, since I’ve about had enough of your constant bitching, I know your client is a member of the Lane Hackers, and a pretty senior one too. The deal has already been made, and the cash and equipment is mostly ready to transfer on both sides, he just wanted one of his thugs, being you, to check out this gunboat and make sure everything was alright. Now, unless you want yourself to be beaten, shot and then your body being hurled into deep space, just do your freaking job and make sure everything is ready for this thing to fly wherever your 'client' wants it, got that?

Before the man could even respond, Marcus walked out of the engineering room and to the small bridge of the Conference Class Zoner Gunboat. He glanced at the security display, the guy was checking some stuff around some energy coils, Marcus didn’t have the patience to watch over him anymore and simply walked out of the ship onto the station, looked towards Charles that was standing near the opening with his full tactical op. body armor and weapons.

Watch over him, if he tries anything stupid, kill him. Once he’s done, just report to me and we’ll have this thing out of here in no time.

Yes sir.

It was a short walk to the 'bar', the bar wasn’t much on Ames, due to it being mainly a research facility, although it did have a bar for anyone who docked there to resupply. He had a quick drink before heading to his temporary office he sometimes used when he had business in Liberty or Kusari. He closed his door and immediately went for his computer console, bashed in the key codes for a transmission and was answered with a quick ring, then the transmission closed and another one automatically opened, but was still connecting. Who knew how many hundreds of servers or lanes the transmission was being bounced around between them? The hackers were too damned paranoid, although, to Marcus, that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. It took a minute to establish the connection, and a computerized distorted male voice came through the speakers.

Mister Forge, I assume everything is in order?

Yes, it is, except for the dog you sent here.

Oh, him, yes…he wasn’t aware of how we had handled the things.

Well, I pretty much told him, though I doubt he fully understood, will probably come and try to snag some more money from me.

Well Mister Forge, I must say he is kind of new, and did screw up a few times, in fact, I just got the green light from him, the ship’s condition seems good.

And you were expecting anything less from me, Mister…Chaos Theory.

Of course not, my apologies, but you see, it’s a standard rule and routine.

Yes, I understand, now, about your end of the deal…

The Custom XR90 Bio Neural Processing Units are en route to Ames along with the necessary crew to pick up the gunboat, they’ll be leaving the units at the usual place for you to pick up, of course, you can have them scanned and checked to make sure they are the original thing, my…’employees’ will be sticking around until you are fully satisfied.

Yes, I could do that, but I don’t need to waste my time, I trust you enough, at least in my money, to know you are for real.

Indeed, never screw over a good customer, the words I live with. Also, note that the necessary software has been installed onto the units under my direct supervision, I assure you they are 100% efficient, I’ve also added a small pack of useful software you might use in your time, as an added bonus. Although a bit...off the legal side, but I doubt you have any problems with that.

Of course not, anyhow, I think we’re done here, I’ve more business to attend.

Yes, I’ll not keep you waiting, however, my man that you were working with, some other stuff has come up, I don’t think I need him anymore, if you’d be able to dispose of him and save me the time…

Of course, that would be very much acceptable between business partners.

The transmission got terminated, and the automatic tracer software on his computer gave an error, like always, the tracers were pretty much useless, everyone was using some heavy encryption these days. But perhaps the additional software the Hacker was talking about would be beneficial to Marcus on that subject. He sighed and sipped some of his hot chocolate and started waiting for the equipment to arrive. It wasn’t much of a wait, only a half hour until he got a message from Charles notifying him of the group of 3 that came to deliver the processors, and were waiting near the gunboat ready to fly once he was done checking everything. He patched through to Charles’ comm. Unit.

Charles

Sir?

Have someone load the ware onto my ship, leave the gunboat to the hackers, the deal is done.

Yes sir.

Also, dispose of that first guy, Ejection Chamber C2, on the station’s west wing is mainly empty most of the time.

Yes sir.

By the time Marcus finished sending a message to Isaac about the equipment any other business he had to do on the station and then arrived at the hangar, the processors were already loaded onto his own Conference, it’s engines already warmed up and ready to go, Charles was waiting for him by the entrance Hatch.

Sir.

Marcus nodded as he went past Charles who quickly followed up once he entered the ship, gave a pat on the pilot’s shoulder, the hatch instantly closed and lockdown and they were away from the station and already in the lane to Shikoku. He sighed as they were jumping, Kusarians always had ways to waste his time, obsessed with ‘Gaijins’, he hated Kusari, even more than Rheinland, but that didn’t mean he didn’t do business in those particular houses. It was going to be a long trip back to Freeport 11.

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