Title: Scrubbing the Ledger
"What are you going to do?" Laura asked, her voice filled with desperate tension. "The system is locked! Quality control droids have already flagged the entire batch as toxic waste!"
Gerald stood tall on the elevated catwalk, his eyes tracking the four heavy regulatory droids hovering above Loading Bay 9. The bright red scanning lasers cut through the damp air, locking directly onto the four contaminated aerospace pods.
"I am going to purchase the entire dock," Gerald replied into his comm-link, his tone smooth and unwavering. "And then I am going to buy the regulatory board before they reach the main network gate."
He raised his left wrist, opening his encrypted high-tier financial portal on his wrist-interface. The glowing holographic interface illuminated
