Monitor Keeps Going Black For A Few Seconds Novels & Stories

For a single, fleeting second, the older man's calm, aristocratic smile completely shattered, his slate-gray eyes widening in pure, unadulterated shock as the camera view spun into a dark vortex of gray dust and breaking glass. ​BZZZZT. ​The screen went entirely dead, replaced by a steady, golden Directorship notification loop. ​​EXTERNAL SIGNAL TARGET "KANE_M_COMMAND": DISCONNECTED. ​​LOCAL PERIMETER THREAT CORRECTIONS: SUCCESSFUL. ​​STAGING BAY GRID: STABILIZED.

Flashlights cut through the rain as Gideon's remaining Black Feather guards opened fire wildly into the pine trees. I ignored the gunfire, my eyes fixed entirely on the terminal monitor as I initiated a full-scale regional data blackout. "Come on... come on..." I whispered, slamming my palm against the execution key. The server box let out a sharp, high-pitched electronic whine. The small antenna on top of the box began to flash a violent amber light as it scrambled the incoming wireless frequencies from Manhattan. On the screen, a secondary status bar appeared, tracking the communication loop between the terminal and the tower vaults.

Engine running. Waiting. END SCENE

With that in mind, Kai began humming as he skipped toward the monitoring room… Upon entering, however, Kai’s glee quickly turned into rage. Trembling from both anger and worry, Kai couldn’t help but walk toward the pitch-black screen. Hadn’t he told his confidant to keep an eye on things…?! “God d*mn it…!” growled Kai, wondering if anything had been recorded at all. He should’ve been informed that the screen had turned pitch-black the second it happened! Now fuming with anger, Kai slammed his fist against the table, nearly causing the monitor to fall to the floor!

Jeremiah huffed, put his hands behind his back, turned, and walked into his office. In the security control room, Jade was intensely focused on the monitors, reviewing the footage from the morning, frame by frame. Unexpectedly, while everything seemed fine initially, the footage went black when it came to her dormitory area. "Sorry, the cameras in that section malfunctioned. We're already investigating the issue," explained the security guard. Jade had a suspicion of what had happened and asked, without much hope, "Can it be fixed?" "It depends on the extent of the damage. If it was tampered with, it might be hard to restore."

He unplugged it, plugged it back in. Still nothing. Alex grabbed her phone. Opened the app. The feed didn’t load. Just a spinning circle. Then a message: Connection unavailable. Alex stared at it. “Call Marcus,” Dominic said. She already was. Marcus arrived twenty minutes later. No questions over the phone. Just, “I’m coming.” He stepped inside without knocking, eyes already scanning the room. “Show me.” Dominic handed him the monitor. “Cut out about ten minutes ago.” Marcus turned it over, checking the back, the ports, the wiring.

He pointed to the timer that had count down to about forty minutes left. "Let me see if I can shut it down." Ricardo began keying in a set of command that brought the screen blank and lines of code began to appear. "Or maybe I can at least hibernate it long enough for your friends on the mountain to take over and contain it." A few minutes and an enter key later, the equipment powered off. "It's done," he sighed in relief. A smile had just begun to form on Megan's face when the glass panel suddenly began to beep with blue light running across its structure, and all the nanites went red-hot.

he thought, he stared at the panel for a few seconds to see if it happened again, nothing happened so he turned to his monitors and saw there were a couple of blacked out cameras. “What the hell?” he said out loud, he looked for the camera’s location, one was on the third floor and the other was near the roof. Heaving his huge frame out of his chair he headed for the lift, it was unlikely the door had blown open by itself so he thought he had better go and check. As he hit the button for the lift he heard a buzzer again, he swung around and quickly made his way back to his desk. By the time he got there the buzzer had stopped so he still didn’t know which door it had been opened. As he turne

“As for the specific cause of the blackout, we couldn’t find out. I’ve had the technical department check multiple times. It wasn’t a problem with the equipment.” That was a bit strange. As they spoke, they arrived at the central control room. Soon, Andrius saw the footage Dax mentioned, where the surveillance went black. “Hm?” He suddenly sensed something off. He noticed that before the screen went completely black, there were some small black spots in the footage. However, the moment was very brief and only a fleeting glance, making it seem like a trick of the light.

“Patch me in now” But the screen blinked once, then blacked out.