Star Fields

Chapter 100. The End Game.

Chapter 100. The End Game.

The truth is not always pretty.

The first step in my plan to thwart Tyco's take over was to find someone I could trust, someone who would be able to find a means to defeat his plan, which was to do away with me and take over.

I waited until nighttime to arrive in Alexa's bedroom. She was watching some old Disney musical version of The Lion King. She gave me a confused expression, as much to say; 'What are you doing here?'

"I need you to help me."

She pointed at herself. "Me?"

"Yes. I am in danger of being destroyed."

She squinted. "You? You're the one with all of the powers."

"Listen to me," I said. "Tyco is on this vessel and is planning to destroy me and take over the collective."

"How could he do that?"

"The only way that I could imagine it is if it's through the nanobots."

"I thought that the nanobots are controlled by the central computer system."

"They are, but what if some of them have antimatter and were placed in my body when I was resurrected."

"That's hard to believe. Antimatter would need to be controlled by a strong magnetic field."

"There are materials that are used for that purpose. Let's suppose that controller nanobots with antimatter subdued by a strong magnetic field are in me. How could we detect it?"

"We could run a magnetic field scan of your body. It should show up as an anomaly. But if we found it, you would have to expel then, and that could cause them to explode."

"Let me handle that end of it. Just help me find them."

She got out of bed but wasn't wearing anything.

"Aren't you going to dress?" I asked.

"We don't have time for that. Let's get you down to Medical."

We rushed down the corridor to the Medical Station. I crawled on the exam table and Alexa manipulated the controls to run a magnetic scan.

"Yes, you do show an anomaly. It's near your throat." She pointed it out on the screen.

I sat up. "Okay, I'm going to expel them into space. I hope they're clear enough before they explode."

A few seconds later, the hull of the ship suffered a loud gamma ray blast that sounded like it was hit with hail stones.

"Okay, now the next step is to find out which android Tyco is in."

"There's not nearly as many male androids as there are female," she said. "It shouldn't be that difficult to trace him down."

"The problem is, I don't think he's in a male android body."

Her eyes widened briefly before she squinted. "Really?"

"I was the only male on Explorer-1. We didn't resurrect males until we got back to Helios Station and found the android production machines."

"That's going to make it much harder," she said.

"I believe that it has to be someone in Engineering, someone who has control over what happens in the main computer core."

"Who's in charge?"

"Queen," I replied.

"Is there any way we could determine if Tyco is in her body?"

I rubbed my chin. "I would have to go into the main processor core and find a link to her . . . or him."