Chapter 2944 Split My Poor Little Pussy:>106
- It took me thirty-six hours in real time, which corresponded to thousands in the digital realm, to break the puzzle wide open. This was the first step and I was running out of time. I feared I would run out before I got beyond the first door. Speaking of the door, once the correct sequence was keyed in the one hundred and twenty-five-foot door split open and I was greeted by a holographic guide. I guess form dictated function. The hologram was the spitting image of the ship or maybe the ship was meant to match its creators. I swam to meet it. The hologram formed a sphere around me and carried me along much faster than I could have swam. The scale of the ship hinted that the builders were not only vastly superior to humans but much larger physically as well. The hologram took me to what appeared to be a work station. The room was a two-hundred-foot cube with holes in all six surfaces. The spacing and shape of the holes appeared identical in all respects. I hovered over one of the stations and there were eight holes and around them in a perfect circle was something akin to an electronic grid pattern, like a circuit board. I suspect that the crew inserted their tentacles into the holes and that somehow, they manipulated controls inside those holes. That was my guess at least. The sphere I was in was lowered into one of the holes and I could see the internal mechanism.
- "I was right. The pliable material adhered to their tentacles and subtle muscular changes allowed them to manipulate the machinery."
- The pain was intense, and I cried out as my machine side was accessed without warning. I had alarm bells going off across the board. The probe continued and as I watched the very nature of my implant, nanites, and peripherals were altered on a fundamental level. Once it was finished, I ran a test and the reaction time was instantaneous. Whatever the alien had done to me had improved my functionality to a level that would take me a while to discover its limits, if it even had any. One of the things added was their language. It acted as a Rosetta Stone and that made communication possible on my end. I am sure they understood me within seconds. I attempted to tie into the ship's systems to keep it from tumbling. I guessed it would have taken time to power up the ship and systems to stop it. I was wrong. The moment my desire hit the network the ship corrected its course. The ship took a course that would place it in orbit around the Watcher's asteroid.