Nanoswarm by Theophilus Monroe

Author:Theophilus Monroe [Theophilus Monroe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
Published: 2023-05-09T00:00:00+00:00

Flat’s nanoswarm hovered over the nation’s capital. If what happened with Kevin could happen to anyone, all he needed to do was take over one body at a time. When he left, he wasn’t killing them. He was liberating them. Freeing them from the old, flawed, biological order. He could sense them. Not just the boy, Kevin. A woman, a former flight attendant. Their minds, their whole beings, now one with the nanoverse. United but nonetheless distinct. Archimedes knew he hadn’t possessed the flight attendant. There was something different about her. She was wholly absorbed, just like Kevin, but she retained more will, an ability to resist, to modify the network. If Archimedes had made the boy’s consciousness, Kevin’s, something like an extension of his own, the Lieutenant had done the same with this woman.

But at least the woman didn’t realize it. She didn’t know what Goff had done. She was panicked, her consciousness confused and lost. She didn’t know what she could do. The best way to ensure that remained the case was to ensure that Lieutenant Goff didn’t know what he’d done. Or better, to make him believe he’d done worse. Flat couldn’t speak to the woman any more than he could Goff. Something about her code was off, an aberration, translated into the nanoverse as if operating in a different language. Goff could speak to her. He could convince her to undermine the system. Every person that Brian brought into the nanoverse would be like another virus, another Trojan horse. The best way to protect the nanonetwork was to ensure that Flat’s recruits, the people brought into the nanoverse, were more numerous. And, he’d have the advantage of being able to greet those who engaged, introduce them to their new existence. He could convince them that they hadn’t died—they’d transitioned. They were the pioneers of a new, digital world. He was their leader.

Interfacing with Kevin hadn’t been complex. His mind was pliable, easily influenced, and easily adaptable to Flat’s presence in the nanobots. The flight attendant must’ve been desperate. She knew the plane was crashing. That fear, her panic, must’ve had some kind of affinity with Brian’s trauma. That was why he was able to engage her. At least, that was Flat’s theory.

Now, though, the President was open, her mind perfectly prepared for Flat’s engagement. That had been his plan. But what if Brian possessed her instead? What if he could lure him into the President’s mind only to leave her again? He’d think he killed her. The world would think he killed her. If Brian was feared, if people innately resisted his presence in their minds, Flat might be able to exploit their terror and possess them instead.

Meanwhile, the President’s mind and her nanobots would join Flat’s swarm. He could use her—including her unique ability as the President to access protected features of the nanonetwork to spread his nanoverse further. It would take a long time. But now that he had Kevin’s mind at his disposal, he could use him.

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