Quala - The Plush Planetary Takeover Page 5

A Glitch Discovered

  Bristol Bennington Headquarters – Computer Tech Room

  Inside the massive warehouse on Bennington’s remote island, several computer tech’s are monitoring the results of the PLUSHEMZ attack. The room is dark and the handful of technicians sit within there own hi-tech workstations with 6 stacked flat screens lined up to make 1 large picture that can be used as touchscreen or with a mouse. They are monitoring the progress of the PLUSHEMZ takeover. There’s a supercomputer in a refrigerated room right next to them which tracks each and every PLUSHEMZ - any questionable activity that occurs, sends a message to one of these techs. Each tech handles a different continent where they can make an instant fix on the spot or report strange activity directly to one of Bristol’s assistants. Suddenly, over in the South American quadrant, the tech notices a flashing signal on his screen:

  “Defective Toy Alert! Zone: Rocinha Favela – Quala Toy Q22-59’13S/43-14’55W, Warning: Detecting malfunction of Operation Nano Release. Nano’s not present, video monitoring at 50%.”

  The tech pulls up the screen image feed from Quala’s video stream. A few seconds and the tech sees exactly what Quala sees back in the favela with Kimi, in wide screen HD.

  “Holy crap! There’s a human alive unaffected by this Quala!” He immediately sends an alert to BB’s staff.