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boost, a few extra systems upgrades, some extra peripherals, and a bunch of other hardware. Of course, I also spent some extra tim

. So, lets just say that besides all my new hardware, I'm also thinking of buying a book called

the software security kind. I almost got my mind fried! Not wanting to get flat-lined, but also not wanting to give up the advantages of an intelligent mind in cyberspace, I did the next best thing. ICy. I programed ICy, m

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lines being tapped into, they're more secure than

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think he'

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for this? And the fact that that guy was t

was going to lead me out, maybe into the kitc

has arri

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always said that you've got to have class in everything you do. So, they took

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put a damper on t

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they were

if you tell me, then I'm afraid

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ly through the salad. The sherbet found our hands on each other's

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s from her. It was like trying to hide s

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I needed a vacation anyhow, t

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out to do so

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into you. How

as a distraction just in cas

began its way towards more private areas, "Mrs. F

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w; I've got an appointment. I'

and left out

a quick

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e for some "questioning". I began to wonder how we were going to get past them without too much und

g too good; I think it's my condition

the car's nearby. Oh, gentlemen, " nodding

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g on to the door frame on the way out, as I tried to

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g a bit more slowly, "Tiff, you go in first, I've got to get so

car as she unlocked the passeng

miss and tell your boyfriend to get over her

unexpected passen

ing was heard coming from

er here quick y

the back of their car's trunk? Actually, I'd watched too many old

hrough his neck with my laser-pistol (not much of

ay, " she said as she heaved him as

report for it later, " I started up Tango, "right now, the

and I put her in

n't you have picke

k John, I can p

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dashboard. This time I was prepared

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a lower leve

specialties a

nd aimed the car up over th

you knew what the switch had put into the engine, then you might

he looked at the screen, "

after us, except that it was still dow

ent under it. Now, it takes a bit of doing driving

followed

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l followin

ned off onto a side street and took a drop shaft a f

ce to crash. After I came out, it slowly came out of its dive, almost crashed, bo

t's about out of

t what ab

her large truck aimi

dows came three more of the cloud-jumpers, each

ut, I feel like Custe

strewn along the plasteel street. I deftly turned, just barely missing a fruit stand- scaring

and-screech to avoid it, and still the stand held; and then the fourth car came whizzing by low enough to give the owner a haircut, but still, the fruit stand was narrow

ppy that they were

traight through all of them like

alley and stopped to hide there. The light on t

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lled out to head back

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you, " sh

and on past it as it

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an alley in front of us an

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going to do what I thi

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ed out and l

o one c

sign around the truck, each no more tha

clover-leaf began t

movies that you did, " she offe

ment and took out a funny loo

oked i

small magnetic

used up in MUT HQ. Good for o

oint laser bolts began spoiling Tango's new finish- and then went into the opposite lane, straight for a car headed my way. Another laser bolt sent Tango's rear bumper hanging off at an angle. The approaching car screeched as

ut and down, came out the other end and

still beh

see abo

t all four cars had passed him, I think that the driver just got out and walked). I then crossed over the lane divider (the cars don't ha

us, their guns giving

pondence class in driving; they

re, " she

s, and went into the restricted area, pedestrians in hard

o jo

f your engines,

ready with

sided angle. I headed straight by one of

e passed

uch, but the wild electric field arced over the second car, causing it to spin wildly. The third car went crashing into the second one as the

l with us, " she o

y for a bit

ut onto a r

ight at us with a big gun now mounted on its front

? The gun fired some sort of electrical effect (probably meant to paral

became an even larger fireball. I veered away out onto the main st

left of Tango Two and set

gh, "Now what was

ther have anythi

y her head on my shoulder

rove out of sight, "You sure know how to