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-VIRUS DETECTED-
-...-
-Program Herod in effect. Termination of Yalda Asamo is now mandated-
That message appeared in my vision, also on the screen of the TCC. It was broadcast throughout the whole tower through hidden speakers everywhere. It was even broadcast outside too.
A virus went out over the airways. My immune system fought it off with ease, but all the bees within a kilometer of the tower were mandated to eliminate me.
Oh God…please don’t let this be happening! I didn’t want to die…
“You can’t do this! Why would you want to hurt innocent people, and me!?”
"Innocent? How many people have you actually met before? Two…three? You couldn’t possibly know that with how few you’ve seen." The room turned dark, only the red glow of the bees illuminated it. “And don’t use your father as an example, because he has more sins on his hands than any of us…”
How dare she disrespect her own creator like that?! Dad was the kindest person I’d ever known!
“Destroy her crystal heart, then she will die,” TCC ordered the bees.
The many bees in the room raced at me, each preparing their beam weapons to hurt me!
Lasers shot all over! I ran around the room dodging their strikes, only just barely!
“Oh no!”
ZAP!
My body was hit by a laser, but it reflected off and cut a hole through the metal wall. It still hurt a lot!
“Switch to blunting and slashing weapons,” TCC ordered.
The bees flew at me at full speed, ready to bash me down!
One of them slammed into me, knocking me back.
-Armour integrity = (100%)-
“Ouchy!”
It hurt a little, but luckily it didn’t do any damage.
“Your Ferronium skin is holding strong. I suppose I’ll need more drastic measures to insure your termination.”
She commanded the bees to attack again, but they all stopped moving.
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The bee that hit me started blinking red and white very fast. It flew up into the air away from me, then…
BOOM!
It exploded! The remains came down to the floor in cinders.
“What is this?” TCC asked herself. “I believed my virus had overwritten their self-destruct protocol…”
Self-destruct protocol? I think that was only supposed to activate when one of the commandments was broken. Too bad TCC didn't have that, apparently.
All of the other bees that saw what happened didn't budge. They didn’t want the same fate that the other did due to defying the Third Commandment of self-preservation. But which commandment was broken in the first place when I was hurt?
One of the bees started speaking in a male, robotic tone, "The Fourth Commandment has been violated!"
Another female sounding bee joined in, saying, "We must not allow Yalda to come to harm!"
Wow, Fourth Commandment? I didn't have that in my list.
So, was the fourth one meant to protect me? That would explain why the bee self-destructed after it hurt me.
The remaining five bees changed into a purple colour and turned on the TCC, then started to attack her instead!
In response, the TCC summoned more bees and they started fighting each other. It was a family feud!
The door behind me opened up for some reason. I saw my chance to get out of this room!
I ran as fast as I could, bolting for safety.
From the hallway windows, you could see millions of bees were flying around the tower. They were swarming so much that they looked like a cloud of bright red.
-Enemy count = (40,353,607)-
There were a lot of bees coming after me. Excuse my language...but holy crap was I in deep trouble!
They spotted me, heading for the open windows in the hallway!
There was no jammer anymore, so I had authority access over the tower. I rose up some of the defensive glass windows. Those things were starship grade glass, there wasn’t any chance those bees would be able to break them.
A swarm of red slammed into the side of the tower, causing the whole thing to rumble violently! As one bee hit the glass, he’d reel back to let another slam into it as well.
Thunderous strikes continued to clash against the glass, but not so much as a crack pierced it. I was safe for the moment.
“Oh Yalda…” The TCC spoke over the intercom, “do you not realize this tower is my body?”
“Uh-oh!”
The glass walls started to lower, I ran as fast as I could, stumbling over my short legs before the first bee flew in.
A tidal wave of constructs flooded in, all of them were ready to take me out.
I was barely able to sneak into a security passageway. It was just big enough for me, but too slim for the bees.
Shimmying my way through, I had to turn on my night vision to see where I was going.
“Even here, you are not safe.” TCC spoke over the intercom again.
Suddenly the walls of the security passageway started to close in on me, I was going to be squished!
I moved faster trying to get through, I didn’t want to be an angel pancake.
Just before the walls slammed together, I was let out into a big hanger bay.
There were a few doors leading out, especially one huge door to the outside, but all of them were closing fast.
I fruitlessly ran down to the center of the room, trying to head for one of the doors before they closed. I was seconds too late.
Another way to escape the tower was to access the door overrides. My admin powers weren't working though, and I was too flustered to try and use that counter jamming technique to access anything…
Oh no, what was I going to do?
Suddenly, the hanger door opened back up. Outside was something big, and very scary…
One of the most powerful types of bees hovered in from the hangar bay door, ready to attack with its large arms. It was called a Hornet Assault Bee, or a H.A.B. It’s the size of a fighter jet and as armoured up as a tank. It had huge claw-like arms, stinger missiles on the end of its abdomen and laser eyes.
All of those weapons aimed at me now...
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