Uber Jason - Absorption Weakness

"Chief!" Cosgrove was barely able to mask his shock at finding Estep under his desk with him. Estep was well down the list of grunts he had expected would survive this long. Obviously, he had seriously underestimated this kid. Either that or there was a god and he definitely on Estep's side.

"Chief, you gotta look at this..."

The tablet Esteo was shoving under his nose wasn't military issue but one of those clunky 8 X 10s the scientist carried around, possibly to build up heir biceps; the things weighed at least three ounces, more if they had fancy attachments like this one.

"What am I look at?" Cosgrove snapped impatiently over Estep's stream of exited chatter. " Plain and simple, ten seconds or less."

"Its him." Estep thumbed something on the edge  of the screen and Cosgrove found himself staring at a 3D schematic of the monster.
He's not human, he's full of nanos..."

"Cyborg?" Cosgrove frowned suspiciously.

"No I dunno what he is," Estep went on, "but he's full of nanos like nothing I've even seen and they're about to choke!"

Cosgrove's frown intensified.

"They've been eating the ammo for him, making him stronger, but they're close to capacity. All we gotta do is keep firing at him and they'll overload, shut right down."

"Then what?" asked Cosgrove. "He blows up and takes us all with him?"

"No, he shunts down with them," Estep said, almost tripping over his words with excitement. "Knocks him right out. Then all we gotta do is hook him up to the right amount of current and it'll keep the nanos frozen. See, the electric charge of..."

"Shut up and do it," Cosgrove barked, shoving him away as he slid out from under the desk and began blasting away again at the creature in the center of the room.

	 Jason X: The Experiment - Pages 124-125

In some distant part of her mind, Lynne knew that what she was seeing didn't make any sense at all. Which had to be why she couldn't do anything: not blink, not move, not speak, not even breathe.

Something blue was happening: empathically, intensely, and genuinely blue and it was happening to everything in every possible way. After a bit, she could make out long bright lines extending from the guards' weapons to the creature in the middle of the room. There were hundreds of these lines, perhaps thousands, lines of brilliant blue light, each taking its own path and never becoming lost or muddled up with any of the others. They circled the now motionless creature from top to bottom but the minute bit of space between each line so that he was still partly visible.

More time passed, unmeasured and immeasurable, and she saw that the blue lines of light also rose up from his head, extending all the way to the ceiling, where they spread out until they covered every part of it.

Movement. Not from the monster, but from somewhere overhead. A slow, easy, sagging sort of movement, like a lightweight pebble making a sluggish descent through an extremely viscous liquid. There was another movement, then- but a movement that she felt rather than saw- as if a ripple had travelled through the room, affecting every bit of matter from the nano level all the way up to the realm of human perception and beyond.

She blinked. When her eyes opened again, the blue moment had passed. Only one brilliant line of blue light was still real; it ran from the center of the monster's torso to what look like a stack of tablet wired into a console. One of the guards was hovering around it looking like he couldn't decide whether this was the best thing that had ever happened to him or the last few moments of his life.

With no warning, the monster toppled over backwards. The whole room shook when he hit the floor.

		 Jason X: The Experiment - Pages 127-128