Cyborg's Revenge by Pauline Baird Jones

Author:Pauline Baird Jones [Jones, Pauline Baird]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Perilous Pauline's Books

Rap heard the robots assaulting the door at his back. He managed a quick look. They weren’t through yet.

In an ironic twist, they fortified this door in case the robots ever went rogue.

It was always a nice bonus when an adversary contributed to their own destruction. He targeted the last few techs still trying to fight the virus, but he did not delude himself that this was the only place that techs—under penalty of death most likely—were fighting back. He dropped into the seat in front of the last working terminal and joined the systems battle. Thanks to Nelson, he could see where Snake was still dropping packets of virus using the venting system. But if someone realized what she was doing, it could get dicey for her.

You should start heading back to the ship, he directed her.

As they’d expected, the Q’uy counterattack had a specific module to attack rogue robots. Either they had acquired a version of the virus Savlf had used against CabeX, or they collaborated with the spider pirate to create it. It didn’t matter.

What did matter was that they had been working to boost its effectiveness since—based on what he saw in the data streams.

If he’d still been a robot, he’d already be down. It was only the nature of his cybernetics that had protected him so far, but the nanites were computers, too. The countervirus appeared to be at least as adaptive as the one CabeX and others had developed for this attack. They were attacking him with almost everything they had, which left an opening for his virus to do some damage.

It is affecting the robots and shipping, but the main system is still capable of maintaining the counterattack.

Affecting the robots was optimal for Rap. He could withstand a lot, but not a combined robotic assault.

How many is a combined assault? Not because I’m worried or anything. Just for purely informational purposes.

What? Rap glanced back, saw the first signs of a breach in the door. A red line cutting through the metal.

He released more strands of virus into the system, sending them against the program trying to breach his cybernetics. As a human, his response time was slower.

He assumed this was the case for all the humans driving the counterattack. There was a downside. A human could come up with a save that a system didn’t. It was the human factor that had saved CabeX when he was attacked by a version of this virus.

But they had more humans on their side than he had on his. He did not let himself consider Ale in this calculation. He did not know what had happened to her. He did know that if he let worry overtake him, he would lose—all of them would lose.

Have we lost all hope yet? Because this would be a good time for the desperate saving play.

He did not have an answer for Nelson. He did not have an answer for his question either. Was he human enough to conceive of

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