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HACK 2: (R)EVOLUTION
PROLOGUE: MOTHER SEND HER REGARDS
October 28, I-Island…
“Come on” Melissa Shield muttered to herself, eyes glancing at a container in the middle of the room, currently empty, placed on a pedestal, but Melissa knew better, this wasn’t a pedestal, it was a device that would funnel her latest experiment into the container, seal it at vacuum for easy transportation and studies.
Glancing at a computer screen nearby, Melissa nearly jumped in glee when she saw the results of the compound creation.
A 100% chance of bonding with the user without issues and being unable to co-op the user’s nervous system, as it was feared when she first brought it up.
Michael and Cora, bless them had the same concerns but had trusted her because she would not do anything as dangerous as the thing she created with fail safes.
Her attention was brought to the device as it hummed into life, and it began to funnel her creation out of the forge it had been for the past month while being programmed and worked on.
A storm of red and black suddenly emerged into the container, like a sandstorm, swirling with a life of its own.
Each grain she saw in the container filled her with pride.
Then the process was done, the container was sealed immediately, then Melissa went to one of the consoles, and began to insert the final commands onto the swarm inside the container, adding the final failsafe protocol and kill-switch if necessary.
She waited for five more minutes until the download was done, and there she smiled.
She gingerly walked to the container, now the swarm within was docile, each grain lazily moving around, she smiled at this, knowing that the reason she could see the grains was that each one was composed of an untold number of smaller, way smaller machines that on command would and could become something great.
The culmination of both nanotechnology and micro and hopefully, macro construction and micro-healing machines.
She had made SIVA.
And yes she still doesn’t know what SIVA stands for aside from being a reference to an old god of destruction.
Not an exactly befitting name to something she created with the purpose of creation and improvement, but she would be stupid to say that humans haven’t turned benign things into dangerous weapons.
This of course was just step one.
Right now SIVA was just step one for something even greater, a self-replicating machine capable of creating anything imaginable, from clothes to construction material, to even construct things, the possibilities were endless.
But it lacked something.
Melissa went to a small container, this one opened upon approaching, and began to let out cold steam as Melissa reached for a vial that was being pushed onwards, lifting it up to eyesight, Melissa gulped.
This was the closest any person even had to distill and separate a Quirk secondary effect from a person.
In this case, Hax’s ability to cause seamless bonding without issues.
This was required for SIVA to work inside people, machines inside people just don’t happen unless drugs are involved, the body will simply try to purge the foreign substance by any means.
“But with this” she thought, the possibilities to operate from within, without the need of invasive incisions, to be able to operate with unnatural precision, something even in this age of Quirks was still hard to do.
Approaching the container of SIVA, Melissa placed the vial on the top of the container, a small slot opening, she placed the vial there, letting its contents empty on the vacuum-sealed container, then closing.
Immediately the screens began to flare with life, information provided by the Nanites themselves began to fill Melissa with hope.
Then it happened.
‘Bonding process successful, agent assimilated”
“YES!” she jumped in joy, rushing to the console she began to trace over the new data it was being fed to her right now.
Her smile couldn’t become wider at the moment she read the data relayed to her, “This…changes everything” she uttered.
“SIVA could easily and seamlessly unite two Quirks into one without affecting the body and causing a cascade scenario in the process, I’ll need more testing but with this we can bypass One for All lethality to Quirked individuals”
“But that’s so basic compared to what could be achieved, seamless integration of organs or skin grafts in the matter of hours instead of days or weeks. Operations that are dangerous can be carried out without issue. Creation of newer material to a molecular level on a SIVA forge. Miniaturization of industries and forges. The decrease of pollution. The reuse of hazardous materials for the benefit of all”
“I created a wonder” she uttered in awe, “Despacito, call papa, tell him it’s done, SIVA is complete” she said, seeing the affirmation of the AI system.
Easily she made her way towards the container and lifted it with her hands, it weighed almost nothing, despite that she held it as if it was made of the most precious and fragile material the world had ever conceived.
“You are going to change everything!” Melissa uttered to the nanites contained in the glass.
She didn’t noted how the interior of the pedestal was glowing in a certain pattern.
“Today, we made history!”
BOOMMM!!!
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The room was a hazy mess for Melissa, her back hurt, her eyes felt unfocused, she idly realized her glasses were gone-oh, no that was the concussion.
Even without the glasses, she is not supposed to see double, just slightly blurry up-close.
A sharp pressure in her chest made her reach for that spot, only to stop when she felt it.
It was warm and liquid, the thing that she touched was surrounded by it, and it was cold to the touch.
Looking down, Melissa began to panic, breath coming in swallow intakes that made her acutely aware that she was breathing smoke now.
Because right there, right in the middle of her chest she saw a huge portion of the glass container of SIVA, stuck to her chest.
She began panicking, the pain now becoming acute and concentrated, her vision was no longer impaired as she could see the damage to the room, a smoking, burning crater in what used to be the pedestal where the SIVA nanites has been funneled into the glass container, screens were broken and sparking, and to make matters worse the sprinkler system wasn’t working, wonderful.
Her ears, which at one point were ringing, caught the sound of gunfire, shouts, and panicked orders.
She also noted that her arms and chest, aside from being coated with blood, her blood, were also covered in glass embedded into her flesh and covered by the SIVA nanites.
Well, those that made it.
Most of them were burnt, which made her angry, only a few, which were very close to her chest, and the glass embedded in her chest were in perfect state.
The shouting and gunfire got louder.
She couldn’t let whoever had made…this, have SIVA.
She lifted bother her arms, bringing her S-Watch to level, and began to activate commands into it with great pain, then after a while, it pinged ‘Ok’ to her.
Then she brought her S-Watch to her mouth.
“Initiate Panacea Directive…Midnight Exigent protocol… (Gasp) command order… (Gasp) priority 5” she uttered.
The nanites near her chest lit up with a red glow, each one taking life and fragmenting even further, becoming finer than sand, finer than anything than the eye could catch a simple glance.
They hovered over her form for a while, then the small SIVA nanites moved, into her open wounds.
She gasped as the foreign sensation swarmed her senses and overtook the pain she was feeling.
She knew this was all an attempt to save her life, and in turn, would ensure no one would get SIVA.
But it all has its costs.
In her case, she would become the only source of SIVA and the only place that knew about it.
Panacea Directive, a healing directive.
Midnight Exigent Protocol, an erase order on every file regarding SIVA from the mainframes in I-Island.
Priority 5, bumped every order given to make it a priority; it was done now or now.
As her eyes fluttered close, Melissa’s last thoughts at the moment were of her father.
“God…I hope nothing happened to him”