Kiko-Lyn's Great Mobile Adventure

Fur-sure, she imaginary gesture quotes. My next generation swarm will include cutting tools. But for now, it's illusion time.  She whistles her flock; momentarily panicked with nomophobia₁₀ when nothing flies toward her. Then from several displays she sees a flash tailored to the directionality of her eyes.  Six, she counts, made it here.  Others will be holding station on the path to the outside and completing a mesh network link out to the public net. The dragonflies crawl over and attach to her wrists. She activates a stored program, from her video stunts, for the chromophores to display large bruises and raw wounds. When the attendant comes, it will seem she needs treatment from a self-damaging struggle.  She keys the spinal neural blocker off, feels her legs tingle with returning feeling, and starts yelling as if in panic and pain.

She is hoarse before anyone bothers to show up.  Clear view, a facial image and kinesthetic walking pattern off to the analytics cloud for identification. One down, she thinks. The swarm throbs and shows fresh hemorrhaging. The attendant rushes to release her arms speaking in what Kiko-Lyn’s translator program just flags as swearing. As soon as the arm buckles are released, Kiko-Lyn swings her legs up into a scissor-hold and then flips herself to the floor.  She lands the attendant’s head first. She clamps the nose and mouth and waits for her medical sensor to flag him as unconscious. 

On the clock now, she straps into her exoskeleton and the Googgles^TM beside it. There is a 3D print accompanying the display on the prep table; a scanned image of her marked “before”. I’m going to need a full physical workup, she thinks. Then she gathers her flock. The partial flock re-assembles on the handle, forming a shock baton. They then relay situational status. Complication: her dragonflies are very low on charge as they could not authenticate to the charge stations in this private building. Evade is possible but escape delayed. This local group will recharge from the staff handle battery, but mobility is limited in the rest of the flock.  She will need to pass and retrieve each dragonfly before she leaves. Best not to leave her tech where Jonathon could reverse engineer it. Her NDA with NEC is a bit fuzzy on her removing the dragonflies from the lab. Moving to the door, she reviews video from the external swarm flagged by her suit AI. Four more people have been recorded by the swarm during the time she was drugged.

These minions have noticed her escape. Using clues from the video eyes of her dispersed swarm, Kiko-Lyn is directed out of the way of pursuers as they appear in dragonfly eyes. Eventually, this puts her off the outbound path and into areas of the building the flock has not surveyed. But she has picked up three more dragonflies. But her rapid action advantage is lost; time to hide and reconnoiter. Hiding must be possible in this old facility that would be retrofitted, not built with integrated sensors. Now it’s time to move in stealth and map for hiding spots.

She runs a Tango 3D model reconstruction of all the rooms and passages mapped by her dragonflies and starts modeling a virtual avatar seeking refuge. Hunkering down and switching her view to virtual reality, her avatar walks the 3D halls projected in her Googgles^TM. She is searching for sensor dead spots to hide. She finds a potential spot where her avatar turns invisible.  She physically moves there to wait it out. She pulls up her hood and keys the chromophores in her clothing to simulate background and shadows. Her main worry now is making any noise that audio sensors could detect. She is hungry but only uncomfortably so. She notes that it’s been 34 hours since her capture video went out to Jorge. Worrying, Is he Trust fail? How soon will he respond?

To be continued…