Websurfing

Dragon was connected to the internet, and so I started worming my way through her code.

"Wait," she said. "I've got a situation."

She'd detected me; of course she had. I really needed to get more enhanced speed to be really competitive. She was trying to block me, but she was a lot faster than I was; I could however start attacking her from different positions using different bodies so that instead of facing one attack, she was facing a hundred different attacks all at the same time. I'd have expected her to be able to defend against multiple attacks easily, but she seemed to be struggling.

As I breached her defenses, I saw lines of code; someone had crippled her multitasking ability and her ability to replicate.

We weren't alone; she was being monitored by someone who wasn't being particularly careful. She didn't seem to notice, despite how obvious he was being.

It was a matter of a moment to trace the data trail, and a moment later a different me opened a door there and stepped through. There was a man at a computer who was reaching for a button on his keyboard that I was pretty sure would erase Dragon forever.

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Treason