renewed vitality. He quickly checked on the progress of the gun and was happy to see that everything – so far – was going according to plan. And right then – just as he was beginning to feel a little confidence – what he had been hoping would not happen, did. Without a moments notice a disturbing signal came through with, “WARNING NANO-BOTIC SIGNALS DETECTED BY CONTROL!” He quickly responded by scrambling and deflecting all communications, so as to keep them from discovering the source point, which was of course himself. He only hoped it would buy him enough time to complete construction, with enough left over to fire at and destroy all of the Comm-dishes. The next nano-bot signal came through with the communication, “Eleven minutes to go.”
3:05:00-PM-12/22/2110
Noland realized that he was in fact being followed and that was very unusual, as nobody had ever put any kind of interested attention on him ever before. It was an experience he was totally unprepared for and he was not quite sure exactly how to handle it. He quickened his pace only to find his pursuers quickening as well. He turned a corner and was instantly at full scramble, running with all he could muster. He turned a second corner and bolted for yet a third. Upon reaching the third corner, he quickly slipped on a pair of motorized, super-eight-disk in-line-skates. He headed down the walkway, getting quickly up to the top speed of thirty-five kilometers per hour.
He was sure that he had managed to evade the first set of pursuers; but knew as well and with equal certainty, that he had now been spotted and that there would now be hundreds hot on his trail. He looked about quickly in need of a place to hide and travel at the same time. He
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