(eng) P. S. Power - Discipline 03 by Persist

Author:Persist [Persist]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter eleven

It really would have been pretty easy to sit and stew on the idea that they were facing some kind of unbeatable foe that would always be one step ahead of them, but that wasn’t the real case. The AI, while great at what it did, like all computer intelligences were, had serious limitations at the same time. It could send out orders, but didn’t have any real authority for instance. A few commands from the right agencies, and they could cut off a lot of the information that the thing was getting. Maybe close to all of it, making it functionally powerless.

The trick would be in getting them to actually do it, which, of course, Ben had no particular way of getting done. It could be however, if the right people could be interested in fighting the terrorists, even if it might make them look a bit bad for a while. After all, the government built the machine, and let it have intelligence, even though they claimed that wasn’t true. At least to the public, as if hiding the facts from them helped anything.

It never did, in the end.

Which did give them an option, Ben realized. Telling the world about who was behind things, could, at least in theory, enlist some help. Also have them bombed, from orbit. That part wouldn’t be great, but if it was the only thing they could do, then it was. The trick there would be doing it from so far away from anyone else that when it happened, only he paid for it.

Naturally, that wasn’t the real result that would be had. Ben felt it first, before lines of text came up, claiming to be from each of the others. Lissa had a nice violet colored script that seemed hand written, and complained that she’d die without him. Clark was orange and typed, but wasn’t that thrilled with the idea either. Since he wasn’t reading their minds, it probably meant that he was projecting the thoughts onto them. It seemed about right however.

Not that it would stop him in the end. If they all had to die in order to stop the threat to the world, then Ben would do it. That thought surprised him, more than a little bit. It wasn’t that he wanted everyone with him to suffer and die. That was so far from the truth that it almost stung his brain. That was a real thing for him too, he realized. The idea caused prickles that nearly hurt, inside his head. It was really unlike anything that he’d even noticed before.

Once that passed a bit, he considered the concept however. They were important to him, but underneath it all, Ben had a goal. To take down the government. Barring that, to at least punish the ones that had hurt him. Everything he’d done for months had been all about that. From sitting in a room and waiting to die, to running and trying to master his confusing abilities. The commitment had been made, and now he just had to persist.

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