Prompted Shorties

Going Viral

Prompt: You have (or a character has) created a computer virus that is capable of spreading to every computer, tablet or smartphone in the world. It takes over the device's screen and displays something else instead—a message, an image, an animation, etc. What does it display, and why?

Story:

I was on the brink of a meltdown when my inspiration came into light, worked for five days straight, stopping for nothing other than peeing while being energized by pizza and red bull.

Was I healthy? No. But did I finish what I started? Yes.

That's all that mattered to me. That night I had the best sleep I could ever remember, much less so when I started this project. All I need to do when I wake up tomorrow is upload my artwork to the public and see what I'll get.

At precisely 10 in the morning, I uploaded my work then turned on the news. Just one minute from the upload, my work or should I say "The Viral Virus" – as the media puts it – had already made its impact globally. Yet everyone seems to be asking two questions. Who made it, and why?

You see, this isn't just a regular virus. The one I made was specifically engineered to be killed with one switch and one switch only, and it is resting safely inside my pocket.

Now what does this virus actually do? Well I can't tell them. Not yet. I still haven't gotten what I wanted.

Attention from the important people.

Maybe I'll let the virus simmer for an hour, see how they like it.

Just as I was about to get up from my couch, it happened. The president was ready to meet my demands.

Now the thing is, I can't actually show my face in public since I'd be most likely executed on the spot, so instead I devised a little show. Stating what my virus can do if it were kept loose, and of course my demands all shot in a secret hideaway, dimmed lights, face masked, voice altered and pre-recorded and installed in the virus as well.

Perfectly untraceable with my virus out and about. Broadcasted through every phone, every PC, every TV and even on the radio.

My virus isn't just a virus. This is to show that when people of higher life status try to take away what's right for all of us middle to low class people, this is what'll happen.

Blue screen, for every gadget you have, either new or old, powered or not, secured or unsecured, my virus will take it all and freeze it all. But that's just the first stage.

Second stage comes at 12 noon, which is deleting all data stored in their precious little things they call gadgets and storing it in my highly secret storage data, which can store every information on the face of the earth that's been saved through every gadget into one small tiny spec of a hard drive and not even get it up to 10% of data saved, that's how big it is.

Now the second stage is important because every data you have, photos, videos, personal information, stock prices, heck, even the entire books of the government state, it's all going away.

The third and final stage, which is the icing on the cake, comes shortly after the second stage, which is the kill stage. It basically fries all the software and systems in every gadget affected by my virus making it unusable.

I can send the whole world back into the Stone Age, but that's over exaggerating it. Now, all this would go away if you just agree to my demands.

Keep net neutrality or face the consequences.