Going to the pool complex, I saw that the 3 Water AEP units were splashing in the water and getting others to enjoy themselves. It was smart advertising. If they were all having lots of fun, others passing by would see that and try enjoying themselves. When we got there, they looked at us in horror. We were their enemy and we had found them. They also knew that defending themselves here would blow their clan's cover. Walking over to them, we smirked. "Looks like you guys are not so tough now. You haven't come looking for us since 05-001 died." Paul said with a menacing smile. "Hold on. We don't want any problems here." one of them said. "Too late for that. You guys attacked us first." Brett mocked. "This how it's going to go. You give us all the details on Toxic Clan and some cash, and we leave peacefully today." I said firmly. We were shaking them down. They looked at us and saw that we were not playing around with them. They told us all about Toxic Clan and wired us all some money to get us to leave. It was about 12,600 credits each. That totaled over 75,000. It paid to be strong.
05-002, 003, and 004
Strength and violence were the only language that the Conqueror faction understood. The Toxic Clan ran a bank of all things. That was where the transmission hub was hosted. All of the main Clans had their clan building be near the host of their transmission hub. This was something that could not be ignored. Not only could we go on a massive heist, but we could also take over the hub and turn it to the Researchers faction. It had to be a full clan undertaking. I learned that you needed more than 1 AEP unit to hack the hub and change its alignment. Doing everything was too much strain on just 1 of them. We had 9 units. Ava, Caleb and Cameron were all going to be with Paul, Bret and I for the actual heist. Our PEP units would be on support by watching the skies and engaging the police and Toxic Clan operatives in their X-frames. I had our 3 PEA units driving the getaway vans. None of us had the skill to drive a van with cops chasing us halfway across the continent. The guild building was where we would be laying low after it was done. It had an armory to fight and a lounge to relax with.
Preparing for it took a while. We had to get all the parts ready. The getaway vans and the motorcycles that the others would be using to track all of the government's big movements had to be armored up and ready to go. The vans were going to take us to the guild building in several routes depending on the pushback by the government goons on our tail. Those on the cycles would be helping to pick off those that follow us. The X-frames were to buy time at the bank to hack the X-frame. We needed a clear picture of the layout of the bank. We sent Amp and Arc to film discreetly as they made new accounts at that bank. Now that they were millionaires, they were taken down to the bank vaults. They did not have any hard assets for the main vault, but they were able to film it nonetheless. It was a success. While we were planning this all out, we got a visit from Toxic Clan. They had heard of our plans from the "grapevine". Basically, all of the PEP units in the guild that were not in PBJ Clan snitched on us and told the Cold Clan leadership. Cold Clan told Void Clan. Void Clan then told Toxic Clan.
