The countdown began.
The screen changed. No more fighter jets. A grainy, thermal camera view appeared—looking down from a great height. A city. Leo’s city. The camera panned, and he saw a massive, insectile drone hovering over the skyline. Its weapons bay was open.
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But if he let go, the autopilot would execute its final command: neutralize the host node . His building. His block. His entire digital footprint, erased in a thermobaric flash.
“Looking for a pilot.”
A black command prompt flashed for a millisecond. Then nothing.
He mapped the axes. X, Y, Z, rudder, throttle, hat switch. All worked perfectly. Better than perfectly. Zero deadzone. Infinite sensitivity. It felt like the stick was reading his thoughts. The countdown began
He checked the news the next morning. A “malfunctioning military drone” had crashed into an uninhabited warehouse three miles from his home. No casualties. The official report cited a “software glitch in the guidance system.”