The zoom-room pulls AndrAIa into the Clockspeed Room of the Supercomputer. It's a high-ceilinged circular chamber with shimmering glass windows, an elaborately tiled floor, and a tiny pink supervirus standing a few pixels away.
She floats up away from the floor, glowing with a viral green light that grows to fill the entire chamber. A pulse of energy streams out of her, out of the room, out of the building, out of the system. It expands across cyberspace, spreading the Word to everyone and everything it touches.
In the heart of dozens of systems across the 'net, carefully concealed egg capsules suddenly burst forth with the same light, sending out secondary pulses of the infection.
It doesn't quite reach everywhere--there are doors which are still closed to Daemon. But nonetheless, Phase 2 is completed, and the 'Net has heard the Word.
Dot looks at Mouse before looking at the big screen, that tone of voice is never a good sign. She watches as the infected circle showing the supercomputer flashes green...and travels down the network path for a formerly clean system. Then that system flashes from blue to green, and the infection travels fater, taking multiple paths now.
"How is she doing this? She can't. It's impossible!" Her voice is hushed, this left 'very bad' and zoomed past 'what in the WEB' and left 'oh frag' eating it's pixels.
About seven-eigths of the pie chart showing the number of infected systems is now a glowing, disturbing green. The indicator in the bottom right corner of the display reads 92.18%.
"Net ninety-two percent infected," Mouse says, although even she feels it is unnecessary.
"It's over. She didn't get it all," Mouse says, trying to reassure Phong and all the assembled dataforms. "There're still small pockets of closed systems that are clean." It's not much consolation, though.
"AndrAIa," she says. "Welcome."
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With a warrior's scream of rage, she brought her exo's metal fist down, hoping to smash Daemon.
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The exoskeleton stops dead at the touch. Green light swirls up its arm and into the body of the Game-sprite, who drops to the floor.
AndrAIa has just heard the Word.
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Her eyes are full of worship and love when she looks up. "My lady."
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"You've arrived just in time."
She floats up away from the floor, glowing with a viral green light that grows to fill the entire chamber. A pulse of energy streams out of her, out of the room, out of the building, out of the system. It expands across cyberspace, spreading the Word to everyone and everything it touches.
In the heart of dozens of systems across the 'net, carefully concealed egg capsules suddenly burst forth with the same light, sending out secondary pulses of the infection.
It doesn't quite reach everywhere--there are doors which are still closed to Daemon. But nonetheless, Phase 2 is completed, and the 'Net has heard the Word.
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"Dot?" she says, shaken. "You... better see this. I'm puttin' it on the main screen."
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"How is she doing this? She can't. It's impossible!" Her voice is hushed, this left 'very bad' and zoomed past 'what in the WEB' and left 'oh frag' eating it's pixels.
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Clearly a strategem, yes, but its purpose quite eludes him.
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"Net ninety-two percent infected," Mouse says, although even she feels it is unnecessary.
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Initiating Panic Mode. Panic Mode is go.
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"Dot! What are we going to do?"
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