SEVER ZERO
She slammed her laptop onto a diagnostic terminal and rapidly spliced her cables into the Core's maintenance port.
"I'm in the peripheral firewall!" Kara screamed, her fingers a blur. "But the ICE is adapting! It's trying to fry my motherboard!"
The liquid-metal Avatar turned its featureless face toward Kara. It raised its arm, and the liquid metal flowed and reshaped itself, forming a long, wickedly sharp javelin of solid chrome.
The Avatar drew its arm back to throw the javelin directly at Kara's cover.
"Oh no you don't!" Leo roared.
The giant hauled himself out of the shattered server rack. His LMG was jammed with ice, so he discarded it. He drew his heavy combat knife and charged the Ava