"Oh good. I was hoping you'd seen the video from that camera drone you lost. This is how we downed it. Are you going to leave now," he said calmly, "or are you going to let us unwrap your toy?"
Joe glared angrily for a moment, and then looked down at his controls. The drone turned and sped off into the night.
The two men looked at one another for a moment, and then broke into relieved laughter. Once they'd caught their breath, Ferd said, "Were you bluffing? I mean about that trove of secrets?"
"Yeah. I was."
"So you can't really bring down whole swathes of the infrastructure?"
"That I can do. Well, with a bit of help, I can. What I was bluffing about was that leaving us alone would stop me. But what was that about the collective? Could they really be convinced to strike?"
Ferd laughed. "Hardly. The struggle until now has been keeping them in line."
THE END
[To be continued...]
Copyright 2013 by P. Orin Zack
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