nanites in a fantasy

ch 2 A squishy solution

"POP"

That was the only sound that disturbed the serene forest that Sam now found himself in. Wait was he still a he? As far as he could tell he didn't have any biological components and usually the leader of a swarm was a queen. Should he go back to using the, the they pronouns as he was technically a lot of things ohh this was gonna make his head hur-.

[Warning processor limit reached please reduce stress load or a force restart will be attempted.] The notification sounded off in his head or was it his core.

[Warning processor limit reached please reduce stress load or a force restart will be attempted.]

OK OK he needed to stop overthinking things apparently. Now how did he look around. Oh, oh ok that was weird he could see sort of it was more like a vast field in front of him where he could see in every direction and a bit underneath him. Wait, that was him wasn't it. Well at first glance his core looks like a giant glowing mountain of orange and green crystal. That his vision self identified as his core meaning the three hundred and sixty degrees view, he was getting was likely generated from all the viewpoints of his nanobots. Which would likely explain why everything looks so huge.

He couldn't see a lot, The grass here was tall blocking his view, and he was fairly well hidden underneath it, small blessings and all he guessed. However, just as he started to wonder about this.

[Warning processor limit reached please reduce stress load or a force restart will be attempted.]

OK that was starting to get really annoying he had to stop and ponder his next step very carefully especially with the hole pondering part. He was surrounded by grass so he was likely on the ground the safest place in that case would likely be under the ground.

[Warning processor limit exceeded. Force restart initiated.]

.........

If Sam still had lungs, he'd be gasping right now he had apparently overdone it and had been force restarted. He didn't feel any different, but he did notice the world was far darker? Was it nighttime?

[Warning processor limit reached please reduce stress load or a force restart will be attempted.]

Damn it he needed to hurry he tried to order his nanobots to begin digging down and using whatever material they could to reproduce [warning: tasks currently exceed processing capabilities]

'Crap wait is there some sort of task manager or some way I can prioritize certain things to free up processing power.'

......

As soon as he had asked the question, he had been knocked out again when he came to it was bright once more but with a different notification.

[Warning processor limit reached please reduce stress load or a force restart will be attempted.]

[Query??? Answer: Unfortunately, the task manager system requires more processing power than is available.]

[Warning: In order to use the query function user interface and personality core had to be taken offline to use/answer query.]

Strangely enough it had answered the wrong question and in return had somehow answered the right question.

[Warning processor limit reached please reduce stress load or a force restart will be attempted.]

He didn't have the time nor the patience to deal with this.

'OK take me offline however long you need to unless there's an emergency and run whatever system or task manager is required to begin digging and bearing my core. Let's say a foot underground using whatever usable material is available to multiply and produce more nanobots.'