"Oh now, that must be why you like beer soup." Fate's nose wrinkled of its own accord. "Suppose if you can't smell it through that foul air you prefer, you can't taste it, either. Or maybe you can. I'm not exactly an expert on green ladies."
But he soon would be an expert on this particular one, once he got around to poring through his datapad.
"Nothing," he murmured, still trying to sort out what had gone wrong. Delayed warning timer or something else he'd missed, letting its more flesh and blood companions know someone had tinkered. Unless someone else had triggered it, trying to do the same things he could. Failing miserably. "It wouldn't be the first time an amateur made my life really difficult."
Soon was a relative term and the datapad remained abandoned on the floor. First there was the little bounty hunter problem to deal with. Because the drone hadn't just exploded: it had sent a message.
"Not the drones, really," he answered absently, stroking a finger over a command line to verify what he was seeing. "More the clusterfuck that's coming up behind them."
Before the troops dropped in, he had to jam the hell out of the vid feeds. Instead of cutting them altogether, and forcing them to get physical eyes on the situation, he decided to increase the difficulty of what they were actually watching. The passageways were suddenly filled with digital renderings of people and non-sentient creatures, as if some nearby sweatshop had had a shift change or some hole-in-the-planet-core bar had actually done a last call. The drone would see them that way, too, unable to distinguish real from false. Which meant it wouldn't alert its masters to anything specific--just a lot of foot traffic.
Fate had to concentrate on this work--it was multitasking at a minuscule level and it took time. Anyone wandering around outside would see the underbelly of Osiris as it was before, but thanks to what he considered a level of his own genius, their electronic eyes would have an impossible time sorting out his renderings from actual living, breathing beings. He lost sight of the woman he was trying to protect, his mind picturing the blueprint and judging where she might have gotten to. Even hoping she was okay was beyond him at the moment, sinking as he was into the code and rhythm of the Net.
Concentrating as hard as he was, Fate sent a message to her pad without thinking because it was easier than speaking. Then he cleared his throat. "You need to go. Now. Now, fast as fuck now, sweetheart."
But he soon would be an expert on this particular one, once he got around to poring through his datapad.
"Nothing," he murmured, still trying to sort out what had gone wrong. Delayed warning timer or something else he'd missed, letting its more flesh and blood companions know someone had tinkered. Unless someone else had triggered it, trying to do the same things he could. Failing miserably. "It wouldn't be the first time an amateur made my life really difficult."
Soon was a relative term and the datapad remained abandoned on the floor. First there was the little bounty hunter problem to deal with. Because the drone hadn't just exploded: it had sent a message.
"Not the drones, really," he answered absently, stroking a finger over a command line to verify what he was seeing. "More the clusterfuck that's coming up behind them."
Before the troops dropped in, he had to jam the hell out of the vid feeds. Instead of cutting them altogether, and forcing them to get physical eyes on the situation, he decided to increase the difficulty of what they were actually watching. The passageways were suddenly filled with digital renderings of people and non-sentient creatures, as if some nearby sweatshop had had a shift change or some hole-in-the-planet-core bar had actually done a last call. The drone would see them that way, too, unable to distinguish real from false. Which meant it wouldn't alert its masters to anything specific--just a lot of foot traffic.
Fate had to concentrate on this work--it was multitasking at a minuscule level and it took time. Anyone wandering around outside would see the underbelly of Osiris as it was before, but thanks to what he considered a level of his own genius, their electronic eyes would have an impossible time sorting out his renderings from actual living, breathing beings. He lost sight of the woman he was trying to protect, his mind picturing the blueprint and judging where she might have gotten to. Even hoping she was okay was beyond him at the moment, sinking as he was into the code and rhythm of the Net.
Concentrating as hard as he was, Fate sent a message to her pad without thinking because it was easier than speaking. Then he cleared his throat. "You need to go. Now. Now, fast as fuck now, sweetheart."
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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