System Syndicate Activated
I turned on my heel and walked back to my beat-up car, stepping into the crunching grey dust that was beginning to coat the driveway.
I got inside, started the rattling engine, and pulled out onto the road. As I looked in the rearview mirror, I watched Titan Defense's head foreman tighten the last heavy steel bolt on the main entrance shutter, locking my betrayers inside their gilded tomb.
"System," I whispered into the darkening cab.
【Awaiting command, Chairman Claire.】
"Set a remote lock schedule for the mansion's main power grid. In forty-eight hours, cut their exterior communications."