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Thu 7th Apr 2022 02:58

Can I really do this?

by Jerry J. Vahn

It's only been a couple of days since Rocket was Vanished. I'm still learning to cope with how my implants are working. I'm reacting faster than I was, and I'm finding it easier to jump into cyberspace.
 
Before I had to find access to the internet to jump into cyberspace. It seems now that I am able to tap into the power of cyberspace itself. I've found that I can actually use the cyberspace to move my body now. I seem to actually digitize it now and take it with me sometimes. Before I could feel my consciousness leave my body, now it's like part of me. I can move my physical body and transverse cyberspace to find computing systems directly.
 
We get a notice from SCRT that a senator is being targeted, but what was strange, is that it came across as Cypher was the one attacking the senator. We head out, hoping that he wasn't the one actually hunting the man.
 
We arrive to a scene that is in chaos. There are four black talons, several destroyer agents and some destroids arriving. Dragon Lady is the fastest reacting New Champion now. That girl can leap. She jumps over a house and lands on a black talon and takes it down.
 
I start scanning the local cyberspace for access to the black talons. Two of them jump onto the roof of the house that we came in behind. They both target Max and Ghost, that gives me a second to get into their systems a bit. Max goes desolid and I use this as a way to help protect him. I jump into his system and 'erase' max from his scanners. Ghost on the other hand, decided that the one I targeted would be a good target. She leaps into the air and slams into that black talon and another one who had fired at Dragon Lady.
 
Dragon Lady leaps onto the other black talon on the room and knocks it off the roof. Max zaps it with electricity and shuts it down. About this time, a destroid jumps up on the roof of the next building. I quickly jump over to attempting to control the destroid. I try to change its friend / foe recognition against Dragon Lady. I fail. These systems are more complex.
 
I really feel that I am not strong enough to help the team out. At least I could help Stevie get out of the combat zone.
 
Rocket, why did you trust me to carry on for you. I can't fill your shoes.
 
You will be missed by all.

Continue reading...

  1. Jerry J. Vahn's Journal
  2. Strange Dreams
  3. Long Watch Over
  4. End of the Journey
  5. NAGA Equipment Liberation
  6. This was a DUMB thing....
  7. First Live Trial
  8. Meetings
  9. Li'l Trouble in Little China
  10. Down to the Spiders lair
  11. My First Rescue Mission
  12. Ancestor in the Woods
  13. Soal's Legacy
  14. An Empty City Sector
  15. What Happens in Vegas...
  16. Secrets of The Commission
  17. Out of a Frying Pan
  18. And Back in to the Fire
  19. Thoughts of Home
  20. The Long Night Ends
  21. More Cells Call Out
  22. Destroyer's Depravity begins
  23. Disinformation Intensifies
  24. Slanderous Libel
  25. So close and so Far away
  26. Flightus Interuptus
  27. From Russia with Love?
  28. Overkill
  29. "Education" Camp
  30. Rocket Research
  31. Peaceful Lunch?
  32. Danger Room?
  33. Chef's United?
  34. A Real 'Education' Decamped
  35. Fires Bricks Snakes and Cats
  36. The End is Nigh!
  37. Can I really do this?

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