The bank is 98% automated and has a handful of employees who are seen openly. There are many
who are in the background running the show. Most of the customers in the banking hall are just
there to confirm transactions. All of which are automated unless a client wants otherwise. Even the
subordinate staff are employed automatically from an internal cleaning department. Different
people every two days. Once a contract is in place, the employee profile is printed out and and they
get an ID for the two days. Same with the internal security department. Everything is internalized.
Both the employees are sourced from local companies, cleaning and security. And the process is
automated. There is an on-line platform where the employees are chosen and are issued work
details. The hackers are already in the system, at 4 days to go. Jack was still funding them and the
gang had already been given funds to be ready for the d-day.
The gang was ready they had received a blue print and information about the banking hall and how
to get out. There was a back door, not one but three. One for the executives, for the support staff
then fire exit. The gang is to leave by the executives exit as it is automated and the hackers can
control it. They already had guns ready and they were physically, emotionally fit. They were
somewhat sketchy spiritually. These are marijuana junkies who live wishful lives. Always staying in
one place talking and smoking. They occasionally have jobs like when the government has an
initiative for trench digging and they require labor.
Most of the gang members are dead and numerous are languishing in high end prisons. Those were
previous gigs gone wrong. They do contracts like disrupting a voting event, obviously contracted by
one contender. During elections they also are paid to cause chaos funded by all the candidates. But
the one who pays most is the one whom the chaos favors.
The gang is mostly made up of street youths. They are organized, they have a bank account and also
few business ventures that fund them part time like car washes. But they want to be different so
they engage in risky ventures. They have been on the police watch list and some of the previous
leaders have made it on the most wanted list. Some of whom are dead and others are serving life
sentences. But the gang survives.
They have in the past got away with crime due to lack of a trace back to them. Mostly it is luck,
other times is that they have some of the police bosses on payroll. Surprisingly they have a very
wide network such that it would cause civil unrest to raid them, the kind of human rights out cries.
The gang is silent and secret. The public have no idea who they are, they camouflage as a homeless
self help group. So they only get sympathy from the public. The police too are skeptical about them
as the gang receives occasional donations from churches and other human rights sympathizers. The
gang has many faces and many departments. The one working with the hackers is the inner circle.
When you are accepted into the gang which is registered as a youth group legally, you first have to
prove your worth. There are rituals you have to pass. If you don't you stay at the 'front office'
forever. That is the department that deals with the help from outside.
The inner circle does not interact with any of the other departments yet it is the one which runs
everything. They have representatives. The 'front office' is the department of the gang that is known
as the youth group. The gang which is the inner circle get those who are qualified to join them from
the other department. To be qualified you have to have despaired in life and are ready to do
anything to make your life worthwhile. You also to never no matter what be a snitch, be ready to die
for the gang. If you are unlucky and get caught no degree of torture should lead you to snitching on
the group. In fact their motto is I will die silent.
They happen to have many motto but this one is for the rookies. Their plan is to storm into the bank
unexpected and draw guns. Since the counters are automatic the hackers better be on time to render
them useless for the gang to collect and leave. The hackers seem to be the only ones who can make
the mission fail or sail through. The gang is a 6 boy group. That is suicide for them Jon thinks.
But their reputation speaks for itself. They have pulled successful jobs in Uganda and Tanzania not
to mention Ethiopia but lost 6 colleagues in a recent Job in Sudan. The job in Tanzania they looted 6
million cash in dollars. But the contractor paid them only a handful. To them it is about living
dangerous fast and risky. They would do any job like that for free. The authorities are still
investigating the matter across the border in Tanzania but the only suspect is the contractor. The
contractor messed up on cleaning the cash. It will be about 10 or so years before the gang comes up
as the possible suspect. They know how to cover their tracks.
The Uganda job was profitable as they got each 8 figures in Kenya shillings. They left behind an
agitated president and a furious police department. It will be a public hanging if they are caught.
That is if. The president sometimes on his entourage has cash and that is what they went for. The
police sometimes sees it fit to tag a cash truck to the entourage to ensure it's safety. The president
was never aware of this until the gang made a move.
That is where the hackers had first known about them. Only in the black market do you get to meet
such fellows and not take them to the authorities. The official underground black market is like a
country, where loot is enjoyed and traded as if it were legal. The gang wanted to wash clean the
cash and there is where the hackers came in, recommended by a retired gang member now in his
60s. Yes the gang goes way back it's not just a teenage armature outfit.
The H3 apart from doing hacking contracts, they also did money laundering. Only in the black
market of course. They helped the gang and ate like a third of each gang member's share. A lot but
well worth it, in fact cheap in the gang's view. That was better than being publicly persecuted in a
foreign African country.
The H3 had a big gig in Ethiopia and wanted help so they sought the gang. The job was to pay half
of what they got in Uganda including free washing. They actually drove to Ethiopia as they did in
the other two gigs. The target a new branch of a well known bank in the world. They were to make
away wit
h everything before the opening date. A clean sweep of both the database and vault. The
gang was to clean the vault, while the H3 to open the computerized bank to them and erase any
evidence of a database itself.
They got away in a clean fashion. They obviously left bad tastes in mouths but the bank was
wealthy it was like fetching from the sea. The bribes they had to give made the recipients get into
trouble over where they got the currency. I guess that was a lesson for bribe addicts in Ethiopia.
And some poor policemen went in for the robbery, I pity them. But the perpetrators had no remorse
and have never had. That job had no contractors it was all H3 plan. The pair loved working together.
They were a couple fighting and sleeping in the same bed. The next job was Sudan. A tough one, so
tough that H3 pulled out at the last hour. They were already in Sudan when H3 cowered out.
The hackers apparently sighted luck of satellite support as the reason. They advised the gang to pull
out. The gang had come a long way to turn back. This plan was far into the sheets for them to let it
be. It was to hit a UN convoy. They were transporting cash for some mysterious reasons. The
hackers had intercepted the details and they choose to hit it.
Mostly the highways are so open air, an ambush was out of question. But there was a small section
where an abandoned village ruin stood and there was a suitable place for the hit. Apparently a
section of the road was bombed along that section so the ruin created a diversion. The convoy was
to move before sun rise in the dark. Making it easy to hit. Also they did not expect an attack so they
placed only two armed marines.
They heavy utility vehicle was computerized but depended on satellite coverage, the H3 realized
that the codes were only issued by the driver it was not a two way network. They could not simply
trunk it. In any efforts to hack into it would lead to them compromising their positions and machine
identities. The equipment they used were so high definition of the shelf multi million dollar hybrid
IT systems. The kind only used in times of a world war by the military. A technology only known
by a handful of folks. So wasting it by hacking this was far unworthy.
The H3 were to get control of the vehicle and initiate a security override where an on board
tranquilizer is released inside and they just walk away with what they want. Leaving behind passed
out passengers. Now the plan had changed. The gang being the handy partner wanted to physically
stage an ambush with no prior training or practice. So they had exactly 10 minutes to prep up.
They decided after wasting 8 minutes on idea generation, that they just spray the bullet proof
vehicle with bullets. When they stop, the gang to attack. The H3 went back to the meet point at the
border to wait for the gang if they ever make it.
It was 12 minutes for the UN vehicle to come up. The gang was ready. Divided into two 6 each
groups. The UN convoy had seen the suspicious movement in their night vision surveillance. They
had let the armored vehicle to go up front and the one with the cash behind with no armed escort. In
fact it was parked, waiting for a go ahead after the movement has been defined. The H3 informed
one group about it. They had good communication and could pick up conversation by the other
party.
So the informed group went to check it out. And found the driver alone taking a lick. They looted
and tied securely to the steering wheel. And made into the darkness. They did not get all the cash
but more than they hoped for. As they were a few blocks away the other vehicle arrived with the 6
gang members. In a minute they were massacred. And the others went to meet up with the H3 and
they headed home to mourn.
The UN soldiers thought it best to kill them as not much of the loot was gone. It would be a waste
of time and they too might have been killed due to the political unrest at the time.
There was some truce concerning the Sudan loot. The H3 had pulled out but helped in the end but
did not save the others. But it clearly emerged that that was the gang's mistake since only the group
with the leader had a communication device. But that was collateral damage, it happens. They
moved on. Now the present gig. The gang has never done a Kenyan job, the H3 have done small
ones here and there. Mostly ATM and mobile money, nothing as big as this.
A rumor started oozing that a multi billion corporation had been hacked into and no one not even
the best IT genius in Europe knew how to solve it. The main suspect was a infamous group the H3.
That was not a rumor after the media broke the news. The suspect was not fully confirmed as a
suspect. The H3 had already established themselves as legal computer security consultants. Running
a company from a small garage somewhere in Germany. But they did freelance meaning they did
not stay for long at one particular place. Their physical address was the world wide web.
Everyone said they were a suitable candidate to have participated in the great hack. But nothing had
been confirmed. An arrest warrant was out for them. They cooperated fully with the authorities.
They were shaken up ransacked but the authorities had nothing from them. The problem was caused
by the couple who owned the shell firm. The wife wanted to kill the husband so that she could get
all the controlling shares. Likewise with the husband. They had grown to hate each other but never
showed it. They even went to bed together and had a good time. But in the back of their minds was
mischievous plans to get rid of the other half.
The wife had contracted the H3 to cause the chaos with a hack worth the 10 figures she paid. And
indeed it was all worth it. On the other hand the husband did a sophisticated research of who could
be responsible and all clues led to the H3, so he bought all hackers to blame the H3 although he was
not sure if it was them. He even paid the H3 to point a suspicious finger to another hack outfit. The
heat grew and the wife got to warn the H3 to go into exile. So they set out for Africa on a tourist
voyage.
They were scammed before they got familiar with Kenya. And with their abilities they quickly got
clients from the black market. Using contacts who did money laundering they became the one stop
shop in the African black market for money washing. But they also did hacking gigs across Africa.
In the black market circle there are no friends only enemies but business m
akes them but despise
aside for a while. If you need something you find someone and after the business no more
interaction and most of the people do not even know where the guys live let alone their names.
All these gigs and no one knows H3 names, only Jack knows as he contracted them once to hack
into a competitor's company. To get info that made his firm get government tenders from then to
present day. They are simply geniuses when it comes to computers and electronics. Funny enough
they get along pretty well. They have assistants, but who work on contract basis and are silent
members. 3 silent members that make up a 6 member team lethal enough to bring about the first
cyber world war. They are that dangerous and anonymous. Even in the black market circles no one
knows what they actually do apart from money washing.
As a habit they never stay in one place they move a lot and some debtors tried tracing them around
town a while back until they got tired. It was like a cat and mouse chase more of the road runner
sequence. So simple yet so sophisticated in their tool of trade. Their equipment is so high end that
the if the intelligence ever captures them, the equipment will be useless as they will not even know
where to begin when using them.
The Jon gig attracted them since they thought it was time matured to do a Kenya job. This was a
good start point. Ianovich world bank is by far the best target. And the only viable target in Kenya
anyway. The others are by the most ludicrously easy targets. The security is high end and of future
technology that is tailor made for blue chip firms. With 98% of the bank being computerized made
it their jurisdiction. For this gig they are the backbone. It has come a very long way from the past 11
days prepping, for Jon to opt to do it by himself as originally he had planned.
The bank is a Victorian structure on the outside but the inside is a scene from a futuristic film. So
modern and detailed that one might see themselves as odd objects standing in the atmosphere. You
might argue if a human ever participated in the décor design. The glass that is dominant in the
structure must be bullet proof so the gang have no chance trying to escape via shooting around. If
the server decides no one leaves then thats it. The H3 have to do a good job else the gang will face
an unpleasant abrupt short end. Perhaps a painful one.
The plan now is for Jon to go in as a cleaner and make his way to the loading area. The bank has an
underground computerized loading deck to load the trucks with the cash to be transferred. Jon is to
get into one of the trucks as a cash bundle and initiate an EMT. That will alter the trucks processor's
and give H3 control without an alert to the bank's alarm system, at their central command center.
But Jon does not need to get into the truck. All the trucks have to be filled before they can depart
respectively. So all Jon has to do is attach the EMT device to a lead truck.
The trucks also have a lead truck which acts as a a switch between the bank and the other trucks in
the field. Think of it as a router. That way the bank saves time and money and other expenses too.
Once the EMT blacks out the lead truck there is a 2 second window for H3 to get control of it
before the Bank is alerted automatically. The maths is that they better do it when the trucks are still
in the load area since the security is not as tight as when they are moving away from the Bank.
Due to the homework by H3 the bank is simply not GIGO friendly. You don't simply go in and
come out that easily especially an unknown personnel. The first method is to be scrapped out. It will
not work out even if there is back up and plan b, it is not that simple. The H3 have unearthed that
the operating system ran by the Ianovich world bank is a blend of open source and proprietary and
also tailor made, that means it is AI. Thinks like a human, not just a human but a genius human and
super computer. So if they hack it it will be like the OS is freely giving them way but also closing in
on their location and machine Id.
It is like two hackers hacking each other where one lets one in and works around to trace the other's
whereabouts. The facts are becoming more damaging. First there is a possibility where the gang is
not wanted. Now H3 might fail to tame the bank's system for long enough. Jon thinks it was just
walking in and walking out with money and hide from the police. Now a new angle has been
uncovered. A fact is no way are they going to just get in the bank hall and get money from the
counter. It is designed for such situations and more. They have to get another way in or just do away
with the plan. This option favors the gang for now.
They are being side lined and there seems to be no way they can suggest a solution. If it were not
for Jon being the idea founder he too looks like he has no say. The H3 have a say as they are the
one's who have brought all the Intel and info to the table. The problem is if they do it alone, due to
the escalated risk status of the job they may decide to disappear and not give anything to the other
two.
The heat and tension can be felt with only 3 days left. Jon threatens to go with his original plan.
But if he is caught which seems like a likely possibility he is too weak to keep quiet about the rest.
So they can't let him do such a suicidal act. The gang also sees it as suicide. They do not have a
credible motive to actually risk it unless the other two are in. H3 are up for it but are still not sure as
they have never done the heavy lifting, that is the gang's portfolio.
Jon's role is to get in as a cleaner and that is easy. From there H3 to gain control of the whole bank
system through holes in the truck's network with the bank system. Most of the security designers
always create back ways in outside systems to make it easier to troubleshoot a problem. But they
end up forgetting about them. And the system administrators do not usually see such holes as they
are outside their clearance level.
This will require not more than 5 minutes. Then the gang is to cause chaos outside or in the bank.
This will make way for a worm attack on the system. That will cause confusion and the cash will be
transferred logically to other foreign bank accounts where it will be easy to withdraw with no
suspicion.
Jon was so into this stuff that he was starting to forget about Jane. Ann was always talking to him.
He
always updated her. That is how much he trusted her. Jane was not in the loop. She kept her
words that Jon should keep his distance until his time-frame is done. And his time was to be over in
3 days. Jane is not sure how she feels, she's always nervous. It feels like when you know something
big will take place but you are not sure but the possibility is too high. Ann is not as nervous for her
this is not such a reality. She knows whats up but thinks it is all fictitious since Jon will do anything
to be with Jane including playing mad.
Mum Jon too was out of the loop also Jack was not told as much as Ann was being told. H3 and the
something will go wrong. Her plan is for Jon to set of the fire alarm, H3 to install the worm and in
the chaos that should take like 10 minutes transfer the funds overseas. And it is done. Jon had a
laugh at the suggestion but it was way too clever. Jane thought it was that easy. She however got
upset that Jon at first thought her idea was a lost course. So she set out to prove to him.
2 days left that early morning when the groups finally decided to meet face to face, they were
surprised. Ann had followed Jon to the meet. That was a security leak. But Ann after a lot of
convincing that she was not seen, was allowed to stay. After all she boosted of how much she knew,
and they had no choice but to let her attend. Her solution was welcomed but she was informed of a
barrier.
The bank design is such that if a fire alarm goes off the system has to inspect before it is broad-
casted. So her idea will not really work. Also in her idea the gang are not in which is what they are
all avoiding. They want to work together on this one. They had started together, 2 days remaining
makes it crucial for them to tag team. Jon suggests they settle and use what they already have.
H3 were set and ready they had all they needed. Jon was set, he is to go in as a cleaner the next day
and use a water dispenser to smuggle in the EMT. The gang have guns to cause a disruption. Ann
having invited herself in men affairs had nothing to offer. Jon joked that if everything goes south
she be used to release the stress. Ann was up for the task but on assumption none of them survives.
The day is spent repeating and redoing the expected break. Over and over again until the time fits.
They repeat and redo until they do everything actually within the stipulated time and some minutes
are left. The challenge is for Jon to evade all the cameras, just as back up if H3 do not take control
in time. Taking control of the operations is easy as it does not require administrative rights, but
actually getting root privileges through the truck is essential for the overseas transfer to be made
possible.
24 hours left for the break in. They want to perform it during noon midday of d-day. Jon nervous as
ever makes his way in the uniform into town. Headed for the bank. All is needed is for the system to
re correct itself and for Jon to be caught. That will definitely be a hanging sentence. Ianovich world
bank have a history of hanging intruders and trespassers. No wonder they have a clean bill of health
against break ins.
Jon is to go in today and study it then tomorrow being his last day on the job, he is to make a move.
He also must get the device in somehow. He chooses lunch break and everything is going quite
according to plan. The other eight get into position. The six are set from strategic vintage points,
facing the bank. The two are flexing their fingers for quite coding.
Computers have developed from being instructed with commands to being fed code to carry out
sophisticated commands in a short time. Command issuing takes time and the response might be
negative but coding allows no room for negative feedbacks. Just precise positive expected feedback.
Coding is mostly used to carry out automated commands or actions such as moving a robot's many
joints at once in a logical way. For example making a robot smile while it nods and claps at the
same time sitting down.
There are bullets meant for bullet proof material and in the black market circle they are in
abundance. Those are the ones the gang will use two each due to them having a habit of being
expensive but effective. The bank having been designed in an awkward style the gang have to be
positioned 30 degrees apart from one another. Wherever someone is positioned they are to stay
there until the next day a little past midday.
The clock was ticking. Jon noticed something, an air drone. It hovered over the bank at all times. He
informed the group. The plan had to be scrapped. It is a multipurpose drone with x-ray vision
meaning anything unusual is being recorded. They got paranoid, the drone had seen a pattern in
their formation they speculated. Ann assured them, it had not. Jon was certain it had, he had over
heard a conversation that snipers had been spotted directed to the bank. But they were dismissed as
extra security as the transfer was a bit more than the usual.
This was to be investigated obviously. And they would be discovered. They thought of scrapping
the whole thing but Jon stood firm. Standing orders dictated that a fall out is to be killed, yes it was
that serious. In the midst of the tension, Jon suggested that the drone must be directly hooked to
control if they get an EMT on it they are in they don't need the truck. H3 saw the light so did Ann.
The gang was still not yet there, however an explanation by Ann made it make sense to them. This
was the new plan. To go with the drone. But it was not stationary. That made it hard to aim at it.
Jon insisted that he still has to implement the EMT he has hidden in the building. He was on his
own on that one, but the rest reluctantly accepted when Jon insisted it was back up. All this was
being conducted via walkie talkies, and an ear piece for Jon.
Finally the CID allowed Jane and the workers back to their house, after all she had not lost
anything. It was just like April fools. But her dad was in serious hot soup, that was becoming sour
and the temperature increased. Jack got the news but he knew straight away that that was away for
the authorities to lure a fugitive from hiding. Jane's mum was no where to be seen. She was so
inhuman. The reason she stayed with Jack was the money. Jack always doubts if Jane is his
daughter, but takes her as his own flesh and blood. And the way
she was so innocent when they
were dating.
History repeats itself, Jane does the same with Jon. Jack will have a big grin on his oily plump face
if Jane turns out as her mother. Whomever will be with her will taste a life jack is so familiar with.
Jack pities Jon for being in love with Jane, he hopes she is not like her mum. But she already has
signs that point to her mum's character. That incident has changed Jane she now has seen how
foolish it is to be spoil. She regrets letting her mum dictate her behavior and life. Some role model,
nowhere to be seen when needed the most.
John is still looking to get forgiven by Jane for trying to get into her property forcefully. Even
though it was in vain. He got pushed into the pool for it, he drunk a few liters but got the point. Not
he is out to apologize. One of his friends suggests buying her stuff that girls love, among them
flowers and chocolates. So he did and delivered them personally.
Jane was blown away and she even promised to think about what they had. John is now breathing
easy. Jon is holding his breath. It is d-day and 30 minutes to the event. The gangs are strategically
positioned. 60 degrees apart from each other. The drone had no way of guessing what was to
happen. H3 were already into the system and were making way for Jon. Since they would be
nabbed if they used there frequency in the bank building, they used the cameras to communicate.
H3 had already chroma keyed Jon from the banks cameras and used the led lights on the cameras to
tell Jon what was up. Red meant don't move/ pretend your cleaning. Green meant it was all clear do
whatever you want. It took 20 minutes for Jon to find the underground loading deck.
He wasted no time, but had a shocker. All trucks were the same, assuming that the one at the center
was the main truck is obviously foolish. H3 were waiting for Jon to signal so that the gang can aim
at the drone. He was delaying, that was not a good sign. Jon tried to hurry. Trying in the fastest way
to distinguish the lead truck from the rest. It was a second past their assigned launch time.
The CID had told Jane that if she has any info, that it is safe to turn it in. Jane was chewing on this
and really felt very bad about Jon's plan to rob a bank today. If the CID knows about it they will
help Jon and he will not get hurt and might even not die. She picked up the phone and dialed the
CID, who were in the compound in no time. As if they had been right outside the gate. The whole
time. Jane feeling guilty for knowing the plan, is about to tell on Jon.
The inspector is very eager to hear what she has to say. He expects that Jack had contacted her
someway. She starts by saying she knows where they are. The inspector is in upbeat with a pen and
notepad. She describes the place in detail. The inspector is puzzled, that is a rich neighborhood. But
that made sense, since Jack had only wealthy people for friends. But how did she come across this
information. Was Jack also playing ball, trying to make a move against the CID, in order to escape
further. Or did Jack just mess up because he had dearly missed his daughter. It was clear they were
cut off from the wife as she was having a honey moon with her lover with no care about Jane. But
there was an inconsistence. Who was she talking about?
The description fit well, the inspector finally sat back and sighed. Jane had wasted their time to
come and tell them old news. The whereabouts of her mother. The other officers were quick to
dismiss her but not the inspector, who saw something in a vacuum when everyone saw an empty
space. What if it was Jacks sign to contact her, he must have asked Jane to tell the to the inspector.
Jane had decided to change the story at the last minute since Ann her friend had already been deep
in bed with the plan. If Jon goes down so will Ann and she will never forgive Jane. Jane cannot
handle such rejection. But she gave up a serious clue. Jane's mum herself was not a saint and had
funded her lover who had borrowed her money to set up a business. The lover was also dirty, he had
used the money to pay for some money washing for a friend who had pulled off a robbery from a
wealthy diplomat in the country.
deep into this weird wife of Jacks. Jane had shone a light that even she, did not know was shining.
The inspector was grateful and left without so much as a glance to Jane. All this did not make any
front page. It is obvious that matters for the wealthy remains for them, but a slight incident by the
poor makes news for the whole week.
It was all an off the book operation as the city's governor had ordered it, because the parliament had
raised a few eyebrows. The audit by the tender committee had openly revealed the transfer Jack had
made. Melissa Jack's wife was now facing some serious charges. Jack got wind of this but he
preferred it. At least now is everything goes well he might sweet talk Mum Jon into being his. She
has really been amazing to him. They have more in common, and can handle one another pretty
much and well.
Jane has mixed feelings about the mother but maybe that will snap her back to reality. Also she
somehow deserves it somehow. For Jane it is okay for her mum to go through whatever. Jack too
was not shaken even a bit by the situation, he however was concerned about Jane. He hoped she
was okay. Sometimes he could hear Ann saying that she was okay. Ann had knowledge about the
break but Jon had successfully kept Jack from her.
A second second into the launch H3 gave the go ahead and the six fired at the drone. They were
using semi mini grenade launchers, to fire the devices. Two guys missed. That was serious, they had
each a device left. Jon figured, since only one truck has a satellite dish it must be the lead. He
attached the device in and left to issue the signal. The mission late by a minute and some seconds
was lagging behind. Just a handful of minutes and the alarm will go off. By the time Jon was giving
the signal the gang had wasted four devices trying to aim at the drone.
H3 were a device away to getting full control of the system. The drone had crashed on to the roof
balcony, but it was only five minutes before the control center realized what was going on. It had
fallen at the door step of the bank's CEO office, Eng. Ian Job. Sir Ianovich. Luckily he was out for
lunch. He had�
�founded the bank and rumored to be one of the best hackers alive. Legend has it that
he hacked into a heavy weight bank and to avoid bad publicity the bank offered him capital for his
own bank. He founded Ianovich bank,an extension of his name Ian in Russian, and so the legend
goes.
If he was at the office he must have already pin pointed who had caused the drone's malfunction.
H3 were already into the system but without an eighth device they were not fully in charge.
Jon risked to go up stairs into Ian's office. Luckily he accessed it smoothly. He rushed to the
balcony and had to wait a gang member to shoot him a device. So he took some pillows from one
on the couches in the office and used it for the aim. The device almost got his skin but the pillows
took it for him. The force pushed him a bit. The drone had been designed to survive a crash. It must
be one of Ian's master pieces.
H3 were in at last after breaking a few sweats. Ticktock the seconds were ticktocking away. Now it
was up to H3 to get Jon out and make the transfer. They first initiated the worm. This caused a shut
down of the bank. No one could get out. Here was Jon at a very obvious place enough to guarantee
him a date with a tight rope around his neck and gravity taking it's course. Jon froze at the mere
thought of it.
There was panic at the bank. Ian was about to sip his favorite yogurt when he heard that unique
emergency alert. He threw the glass and made it for his Range Rover Vogue limited edition. He
threw the chauffeur from the driver's seat and got it himself. The traffic fueled to his headache. He
got out and started running on foot. He even snatched a scape board from an onlooker kid. He sped
towards his building. He was out of breathe as he used his private log to access the building's main
entrance.
The central center was all chaos, everyone was up and down here and there trying to make sense of
the commotion. When a signal went off and the main huge monitor showed the boss entering the
building everyone in the room wished that was a dream. They all settled in at there stations. Calm
and imaging the worst to come. What will the boss yell this time. Ian was a feared and respected
figure, whenever he entered a room people felt the presence of a royal. No one ever wished to be in
the same path with him same corridor or stairway let alone same lift/elevator.
But Ian is a down to earth fellow, in the streets you may never notice at first glance that he owns
several blue chip companies. Think warren buffet, but an African version. Something was surely
going on and Ian's first instinct was to run an automated system audit. It took seconds but showed
nothing wrong. So the lock down was lifted. And all personnel advised to ignore the interruption.
Ian sighed and as he left the control center everyone got their breathe back. Ian went to his office.
He found Jon at the balcony. The cleaners must have some nerve, going into his office. Jon denied
that he had knowledge that the office was a self cleaning one. At first, Ian froze, it was as if he was
looking into the mirror a younger image of himself. Jon resembled in every way Ian's lost son. But
Ian dismissed the thought and sent Jon out in a Hurry. As he stood at the balcony in a nostalgic
trance, he saw the drone hovering as always over the building. What was the security alert for. What
had happened after all the ten years of no security bridge. The cleaner must have accidentally
poured water in one of his gadgets at his desk. That must be the cause.
The driver cum body guard came back to report that his car is secure. The skater kid and hotel
issues have been settled. Ian sent him to bring the cleaner back.
Jon was just leaving the building when the body guard was almost giving up the search. He had
gone to the control center to get camera footage of Jon. He was like a ghost. At the same time Jon
was leaving the building with a trash bin. Unusual but not easy to suspect, he used the back exit. He
had two bundles with him in the trash bin. He made it safely back to his house. Jack was lost for
words. The mother took back her utterances. Ann was the first to know. She began more in love.
H3 and the gang waited as the transfers completed. They had like 10 million dollars in total. Mind
you the figure increases once the money is washed. But will reduce when it withdrawn and given
back in cash to the H3. It was to be split into four, Jack, the gang, H3 and Jon. They were to get a
quarter each. Do the math. The process will take like a month before they get paid. Jon asked H3 to
wash for him the 4 million $ he had and they would get 1 mill. The gang was kept out of the loop
on that one. They had to wait a month.
Jon gave Jack 2mill and remained with one. Jane was lost for words. But it was too late. Ann and
Jon were so into each other. Jane made that out and it is what she lives to regret for eternity. Jon did
not even have any interest in Jane after that. The burning love candle must have went off when he
was at the verge of being caught at the Ianovich world bank. Jack and the daughter somehow made
it to Europe, by the help of H3. CID are busy with Melissa and her lover.
H3 offered the gang some cash, just as appreciation. The gang were so over joyed. They went into a
celebratory spree at a local joint. One of the member bragged to a stranger about looting some cash
from Ianovich. Ian had tabs all over the ghetto, he was interested in finding Jon. He certainly looked
like someone important he has met before. But instead he gets this great news. There was a minor
report that the cash in one truck was not consistent, but it was solved quickly. They don't dwell with
minute matters. The brag was brought in to Ianovich. He was hanged without trial.
And thrown in a nearby dirty river that crawled through the ghetto. The gang came to find him, but
it happens. After all that is collateral damage. Ianovich knows that that is a warning enough and no
such thing will ever be repeated. Sure enough the guys decided to lay low and meditate on how to
quit.
Jack transferred his shares to mum Jon so that she can take care of his interests until he is ready to
tackle the government. It was hard but she managed, Jon and Ann became an item and they joined
university. When the money had been washed and delivered, Jon wanted to try out another gig. This
was what he loved to do. His passion ... his calling. The experience made him figure out his talent,
Ann encouraged him to follow his heart.
Jon asked the gang and H3 to do another gig. They were reluctant, so he decided to pull it off
himself. With the cash and the respect he has gotten from the Black market he believes he can do an
even bigger pay day.
Sir Ianovich stumbled upon the hack. And realized his bank had lost 10 million $. his first suspect
were the Russians, then the Americans. But those did not turn up positive. He did a litmus test on
the Australians. They too were clean. This left two potential options. The Chinese and the Germans.
Ian had a strong feeling that it was a Kenyan. Was it his former students the H3. Could they be
exiling in Kenya and wanted to poke their teacher to see if he still had moves.
Ian started the inquest.
-To be continued-