All Systems Red Novels & Stories

Year 1863 Kay's heart seemed to have stopped beating. He couldn't remember how to make his way through the hospital halls as fast as he could, leaving Sarah, Kate and Florence far behind. Rupert followed a step behind him. Arriving at the emergency room, he ran his eyes across the room and scanned everyone. 'Where?!' Among the sea of ​​patients lying and groaning in pain, he didn't see a single red-haired woman lying in there. His fear reached a climax as his gaze fell on the cloth-covered wheeled bed leading out to the morgue.

I keep running, there’s a gunshot and it all goes black. I shot up from the bed drenched in sweat, heart racing. I look at my surroundings and realize I’m in my apartment in L.A. I rub my eyes and try to focus on my room. This nightmare has been occurring every night for the past six months. Something is going to have to change so I can actually get some sleep. I look at the alarm clock, 5:30am, crawling from the bed, grabbing my work clothes and heading for the shower.

She scoffed. " Don't speak about her that way, Vani. She might just be hurt, maybe from her past." I said, staring at the sky scraper out the window. **ELDERS MEETING** " The Elders are contemplating on the judgment to pass to your mate right now. She broke the sacred law and must be punished;" Hailey said, as they walked down the hallway. " That is my choice to decide not to be there's .....they don't have any say in this matter!" Alpha Derrick scoffed.

I was the real daughter of the Jenkins family, recently brought home, while Coco, the fake, unexpectedly procured the College Entrance Exam Leech System. All she had to do was give a name, and the person's score would be transferred to her exam sheet. She was overjoyed when she mistook me for the star student who had been the top scorer in the city's high school for three years, and quickly put my name in. Then, in the three months leading up to the college entrance exam, she would be watching Youtube videos in class, getting her nails done after school, all while bragging she could get over 700—even with her eyes closed. I warned her that college entrance exams were no joke, but her boy

"What is happening in this house? What are these things?" Milana stepped in front of him, still trying to stay in control. "Get to the lower bunkers!" she shouted. "Secure the backup area and stop asking questions! This is high-level protocol!" That mistake cost them everything. The last three enemy players lined up at the far end of the salon. They went completely still, eyes rolling back as they gathered power together. Ara’s system flashed a bright red warning. **CRITICAL WARNING: INCOMING DEADLY SYSTEM ATTACK.**

Empty things did not. Behind her, Charlotte shifted uneasily. “It’s not even trying to reconnect,” she said. Ophelia didn’t turn. “It can’t.” A pause. Charlotte frowned. “That doesn’t make sense. Systems don’t just stop responding globally.” Alessandre’s voice came from the other side of the room. “Unless the structure supporting them is gone.” Charlotte looked between them. “You’re talking like it was a single system.” Alessandre shook his head slowly. “It wasn’t.”

They could wipe us clean and we would lose access to our system “Code red!” I barked at the others who were already in front of their system, my heart pounding as the countdown flashed on screen. Fifteen. Fourteen. I typed like my life depended on it, trying to override the force logout. My hands flew across the keyboard, heart thundering. Seven. Six. Sweat beaded on my forehead. Three. Two. Just as the countdown hit two, I slammed the enter key. The screen went black. All systems logged out at once. We made it. And a sigh of relief escaped from the others.

The lowest level blinked red. “What’s on that level?” I asked. He frowned. “Storage. But if it’s red, it means active.” “Active how?” A mechanical groan answered for him. The ground beneath us shook as if something enormous had woken up below. Alarms flared, filling the hall with flashing lights. Alexander grabbed my hand. “Run.” We bolted back down the corridor, glass walls trembling beside us. Behind one pane, I saw monitors going black one by one. Something was wiping the system clean.

Catherine’s knuckles clenched white as she issued her second command, “‘Sentinel’ system! Switch to lethal mode! Fire!” “Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat—!” This time, the automated turrets spewed real flames. High-explosive armor-piercing rounds, like the Grim Reaper’s scythe, instantly tore the “living dead” to shreds. However, just when Catherine thought she had regained control, all the lights in the command center suddenly turned a disturbing blood red. [Alarm: Internal system intrusion detected.] [“Sentinel” defense system…control seized.] [“Barrier” protocol…malfunctioned.]

“Get me out of here. I need backup!” “On my way,” Damien responded, but his voice was taut with urgency. “Hold on, Elena. Don’t do anything rash. We can still—” The words were cut off as a bright red alert flashed on the screen. **Japan** The first country was falling offline. Elena’s stomach twisted. The screen displayed the cascading failure of Japan’s national systems…communication grids, financial networks, transportation….all dropped into a state of complete blackout. Chaos was already beginning.