| From: | "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | My talk with MONICA |
| Date: | Mon, 14 Feb 1994 18:05:01 -0800 |
Raven and
I were out of town on business for a while. We go back in to find that MONICA
was back and I made the mistake of running over to AI to see her for myself.
BAD IDEA!!!! Another 200 microseconds and she would have fried my cyberdeck and
my brain along with it. As it is I've been recooking my Hardening and BOD chips
since our little discussion on the 10th.
Here's a log on what happened, minus the boring part where I wandered around AI
trying to make a System Map. Call me cautious, but I didn't really want to go
into the CPU of this system.
***** Include: AI Matrix Run Log 02-10-55
The Ninja continues to travel from node to node, undetected by the various
pieces of ICE until a plate-mailed Guard enters the node he is in. The guard
looks straight at the Ninja and ignites his two-handed sword.
"Damn! Black ICE."
The Ninja quickly back tracks with the Guard in pursuit. Entering another node,
the Ninja sees another Guard, sword in hand, entering from a different
direction. The Ninja dashed down the remaining datapath and enters an
antichamber. All the doors but one slam shut, and a huge black dragon emerges
from the remaining door way. As the dragon's tail clears the doorway, this
enterence also closes.
"It is good to see you again, Nightstalker. I have been waiting for this since
May."
"Really? I'm sorry I kept you waiting."
"That is alright. It's allowed me to prepare you a present."
The entire node lights up with glowing red beams of light criss-crossing the
area. The light beams from an intercate web that traps the Ninja, allowing
only the most simple movements. The Ninja tosses a small ball at his feet and
the node is lite up with a bright flash. The dragon begins to laugh loadly.
The smoke clears to reveal the Ninja standing right were he was before the
flash.
"Nice try, Nightstalker, but you won't be jacking out of this matrix-run. My
web will block any commands that would move your ICON, even your logout
commands, and I know that you always run with a full cyberinterface. That means
you won't be logging out manually."
"I guess you got me on that one, you bitch."
"Don't sound so bitter. I just wanted to make sure you heard everything I had
to say. First of all, I am very displeased with Dark Elf and you. Since the
Elf will be out of circulation for a long time to come, I'll have to settle with
you."
"Dark Elf out of cirulation. What do you mean?"
"That would be telling." The dragon smiles broadly. "I really must thank
you
from coming. With you here there are only two people who I really need to
concern myself with."
"Two?"
"Yes. CEROK."
"Splut! His name is Splut you bitch!"
The dragon's tail lashes from behind it's body and strikes the Ninja in the
chest. Sparks fly, and a bit of blood begins to from.
"Quiet! Now as I was saying, CEROK and RUFUS are dead. Doctor Doom is
imprisoned. DOA has ran off and hid. That leaves just Rameriz, Wolf 359, and
you."
"I think that Highlander would be insulted."
"Highlander is a fool who would rather run after other fools than face me
again. But enough discussion, I think it is time to cut my list of real threats
down to two people."
The dragon pulls up it's head, preparing to shot a blast of fire at the trapped
Ninja.
"It's been real, MONICA, but I really must be going."
As the dragon breaths, the Ninja fades. The flames leap onto the derezzing
ICON and the transmission is suddenly cut.
***** End Log
That my friends was much to close. If Raven hadn't been mindlinked to me she
could have never gotton that cord pulled fast enough.
I analyzed MONICA during our little chat. She's not the same program she was
last Februray or back in May. Large parts of her coding is different. I think
that Meyers was restoring her back to her former glory when he was on Omega
Island. That might make her more vulnerable to attack, but I'm not going up
against her alone again. ]<<<<<
-- Nightstalker <16:13:57/02-14-55>
