The terminal sparked under my fingertips, the glass screen spider-webbing as I pushed the Origin-Code directly into the Aegis Destroyer’s localized network.
I didn't just look for the "Off" switch for the anti-gravity drives. I looked for the system registry, the core bootloader, and the emergency backup generators. And then, with the ruthless efficiency of a hacker who had watched this ship burn her city to the ground in a previous life, I deleted them all.
"Hack executing," I announced, my voice eerily loud in the sudden silence of the hangar. "Anti-grav engines cutting out in three... two... one."
THUUUUM.
The sound wasn't an explosion. It was the terrifying, bone-rattling groan of fifty million tons of reinforced durasteel suddenly remembering that it had mass.
The deck beneath ou
