Free RETALI8ION: The Cobalt Code by Amber Neko Meador Page A

Daniels moved out of the way, and a bed with his wife laying on it, came into focus.  Disappointed, she slid the video to the side a bit to let it keep playing at the edge of her field of vision, then reached to her right and opened up the next server on the list.  Looking over the primary folders, this new server looked like it was another decoy, or at least wasn't being actively used since there didn't appear to be anything but an operating system loaded on to it.
    “Anything interesting on the video?” Artemis asked.
    “So far, it's just him and his wife having a boring fuck,” Regina said.
    “Another woman joins them just after the twenty-second minute mark,” Galatea said casually.
    “Sounds like my kind of home movie,” Amina said over the comms.
    Regina reached up and moved the video's slider to the right, and let go of it at the twenty-two minute mark.  She watched closely, and a few minutes later she saw another woman join Mr. Daniels and his wife on the bed.  "And here comes a new girl."
    "Is it a Russian hooker?" Grendal asked curiously.
    Regina laughed.  "No, I think she's either Austrian, or... Wait!  Is that Falinda Schwann?  The underwear model for Vickies?”
    “One moment,” Galatea said.
    Regina waited patiently while continuing to watch the now-intriguing video continue.
    “Ninety-four percent match.  The video is somewhat grainy, so I cannot get a one-hundred percent match,” Galatea announced.
    “Looks like money can buy happiness,” Grendal said with a laugh.
    “I'm sure his highly conservative constituents would love to see this.  Here we have Mr. Traditional Family Values himself having a bit of a romp with two women who, at this point in the video, look to be tying him up for some submissive fun,” Regina replied as her smile got wider.  “Galatea, go ahead and post this anonymously to a few popular file sharing sites.”
    “No problem,” Galatea replied.
    “Why would he leave that on his own home server?” Amina asked.
    “Most guys think they'll never get caught,” Grendal replied.
    “I've got some more good news,” Artemis announced.
    “Let's hear it,” said Yosha.
    “We've all been paid today,” Artemis said confidently.
    “I do love payday,” Regina replied.
    “Not just that, but I have more spreadsheets, accounting documents, receipts, and routing numbers than I thought I'd find.  A ton of money has been moving through just a few shell corporations.  I don't know where it was ultimately going, but I know where it's going now,” Artemis said, happily leaning back in his seat.  “We can really screw the fakku out of him now.”
    “Hell yeah,” Regina said.
    “Got a present for you, Regina,” Yosha said.
    A second later a new file popped into Regina's virtual environment.  She reached up to tap it open.  It was a single phone number.  Regina picked it up and dropped it into another program icon.  A new screen opened and she watched as her program started opening a phone emulator.  When it opened a few minutes later, an emulated phone screen appeared before her.  The phone’s background was a picture of Koto Daniels, his wife, and his two kids.  “It isn't.  Is it?”
    “Sure fucking looks like it,” Yosha replied.
    Regina opened up the first of four e-mail apps running on the phone.  Scrolling through and reading several messages, she was more than satisfied that this was his personal e-mail for communicating with friends and family.  She opened the second.  This one was his official 'dot gov' email address.  “Holy shit, this is gonna be good.  Galatea, go ahead and copy the last thousand e-mails from these first two e-mail accounts I have open, and share them anonymously to the code kitties and wannabe data thieves on Net3.”
    “You hoping a few newbies put a few corrupt pieces together for us?” Artemis asked.
    “I sure am,” Regina stated.
    “CGN has just started a breaking news segment about the video,” Galatea