Blockade by Chris Hechtl

Author:Chris Hechtl [Hechtl, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

Nara was on hand when they did a biopsy of the patient's speech centers. Doctor Ferguson was thorough; he took multiple samples from different locations.

Nara let him do the work and then took the samples to the scope. "Okay, let's see what we're looking at," she said, loading the first dish. The case was a curious one; the IT comm tech's file didn't make sense.

She'd even considered a psychosomatic response given his stress load. But the psyches had ruled it out. So had the scans, something had definitely gone wrong. What was the first question. How to fix it was the next one. But to fix it they had to know what went wrong.

"Okay, I'm looking at sample one; you took this from his speech center. There are no signs of cancer. The neurons are scrambled though," she said, looking at the scope. "But it's not cancer. Okay, let's see the USI sample," she said.

Once the nurse had loaded the next sample, she looked through the scope. She saw a mess, not the orderly organic circuitry she'd encountered before. When she probed it, she got an unexpected response. "I'm in. You got a memory cell, I'm checking …," she paused when the screen flashed red. She stepped back as her A.I. came to the fore.

"Danger! Xeno virus!" her A.I. stated. Alarms began to go off in the room and through the hospital. She turned as she sucked in a shocked breath to see the room lock down.

"What the hell did we just find?" one of the nurses demanded.

"It's a corrupted implant. The Xeno virus somehow got into his implant and was trying to rewrite his brain," the commodore stated as she forced herself to take another look to confirm the diagnosis.

Security personnel were arriving outside the doors. She noted the stern looks from the windows. She waved them off. "Chase, let them know we're safe. It's contained," she stated.

"The equipment has to be firewalled, Doctor," her A.I. stated.

Nara nodded and hunted for the ODN plug. When she found it, she yanked it out of the scanner and then dropped it to the floor. "Any problems in the hospital net?"

"Nothing so far. A full scrub has been ordered," Chase stated.

"What just happened?" Commander Ferguson said as he pulled out.

"Like I said, the Xeno Wraith virus got into his implants somehow. They tried to take over."

"You aren't serious!" Commander Ferguson stared at her. He was a Bekian medic, and he had thought he'd been at the pinnacle of medical care until he'd left his home star system. He'd thought he'd seen it all until encountering implant tech.

Now he was terrified by the tech. It was his worst nightmare come true. He looked down at the sleeping patient with revulsion written all over his face.

A nurse stepped back into a tray and knocked it to the floor. The clatter made everyone jump.

"He's not infectious," Nara stated. "You've known about him for weeks. As long as you don't try to interface with him, you'll be fine.

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