Futureworld 3030: Chapter 10
Gareth & Shelly meet at a Unibar lounge to further discuss the plan.
Gareth and Shelly sit in a corner booth at Unibar 6 waiting for their drinks to arrive. This is the first time they have met since Gareth discovered her note expressing interest in the plan to slowly dismantle Unicorp. Shelly sits there with a red three ringed binder in front of her on the table. Gareth sits nervously with his palms sweating across from the girl he has had a crush on for the past two years.
“So, who was that idiot you brought into the office that night?”, Shelly asks.
Gareth laughs.
“Just a guy from the masses who basically held me hostage until I promised him something of value.”
Shelly rolls her eyes.
“Well, probably best that you ditch him since he nearly foiled your whole plan. It’s your fault too though. You’re too gullible Gareth.”
The server comes by with their drinks and places them on the table. Gareth has a whiskey on the rocks while Shelly drinks a glass of gin, neat.
“Yea I know, but I had to show him something. We may need him too. As risky as that may seem, I think he can help us with the masses,” Gareth replies.
Shelly laughs and takes a sip of her drink.
“O yeah, how’s that?”
Gareth slowly twirls the straw in his drink. He takes a sip of the whiskey.
“Force. We can’t go about this alone and with the help of some of the masses we might actually have a chance. It’s a sheer numbers game.”
Shelly ignores Gareth’s suggestion. She looks around for servers or anyone else watching them. She opens up the binder and turns the pages within. She gets to a page with a blueprint outlining one of Unicorp’s water storage units.
“All we need is access to water storage unit 13. The water for all of the units comes from here in the central tank that filters it off elsewhere.”
Shelly slides the binder over to Gareth. He looks down at the outline and at the main tank in the center of the room. His eyes widen as he sees the pipes underneath it sprawling across varying rooms. The room is about 2 football fields long and 3 wide.
“How did you get this?” Gareth asks Shelly.
“I had to do a little looking around in the archives and grease up a guard or two, but I was able to find it.”
Gareth looks at Shelly with a puzzled face.
“Grease up?”
“Yea bribe…Ew I didn’t jerk them off or anything if that’s what you’re asking?”
“No no, just wasn’t sure.”
The two of them look at the blueprint and Shelly flips to another page in the binder. Shelly circles a couple of areas on the outline and takes a large gulp of gin.
“Whoa, didn’t peg you for much of a drinker,” Gareth says after witnessing the large swig.
Shelly laughs.
“Never was, but going to need a few with all of this brewing up.”
Gareth has dozens of questions in regards to the plan, but doesn’t want to come off more ignorant than he already appears to be. He’s waited for years to be with Shelly outside of work. Although this was not what he had in mind he still relishes the moment. Gareth asks,
“So, what made you want to do all of this in the first place?”
“What? Take down Unicorp?”
“Yea.”
Shelly laughs and leans back in the booth. She takes one more large swig and finishes the glass.
“I don’t know where to start, but first I’m going to need another drink.”