>>5372941While there’d been some appeal to that blue button, there’s no time whatsoever to test your odds, because who knows what that blue button is actually for?
Mind made, you know there’s only one option for you at this very moment, pounding boots drawing ever-nearer to your position.
There’s no moment of glory as you rush to jam the USB into the slot, just your claws fumbling to get the thumb drive in there correctly, and the couple of seconds that it takes to do so feels like complete agony.
A surge of triumph wells up in your chest once the thumb drive is well and truly in, but that triumph is short-lived once you pull away from the control panel, as nothing actually happens. Your claws dig into the metal, as that triumph you’d felt seconds ago becomes a permeating dread.
That can’t– that can’t be it!
Everyone else seems to be waiting for something to happen as well, and you don’t know whether you should pull it out and try the blue button or leave it in and do just that, because you can’t just do nothing.
Your frozen indecision is broken by the sight of blue light– blue light that blossoms outwards from that USB in circuit-like patterns in all directions, sending each monitor alight in a similar color.
In sync, each of them glitch and flash, innumerable lines of binary code rushing down the displays like water gushing out from a waterfall.
“SYSTEM UPLOADING: ONE PERCENT…” A robotic, feminine voice beeps out, code still running all the while. “TWO PERCENT…” The voice says a few seconds later.
“We don’t have time for this.” Valjean growls, cocking his gun. “Where are the guards?”
Focusing your proprioception outwards, you can feel quite a few have already made it into the thick of the server room.
“Server room,” You inform him. “Someone needs to stay here to watch the computer.” You’re not sure who that’ll be, but you just need someone to make sure that the upload finishes smoothly.
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