Bonesaw- Brain Scope

The spider box approached the man, and two legs reached around behind his neck.  Another inserted something up his nose.

“Uhhh!?”

The spider box let the man go, then retreated to the copy’s side.  A red light on its head flashed.  After a second, a green light flashed.
...

“What did you put up my nose?”

“A scope,” Riley said.  “You don’t have a corona.  You have what I presume is a lot of technology with you.  Communication stuff?”

“Uh… yes?”

Riley de-catalyzed the extinction-level ammunition in her gun.  She let the fibrils recede, the ones that were engorged with her fluids dragging their way through her veins on the way back out.  “Then I believe you.  Where’s Valkyrie?”

- Ward, Infrared 19.z