Sergeant Vance didn’t look up from stripping his rifle. “New pacification protocol. Sector 7Z went dark six hours ago. No comms, no drones, nothing. Command thinks it’s a logic plague.”
He tried to delete it. It duplicated.
“Command,” Vance shouted into his collar. “7Z is lost. Enemy uses airborne memetic vectors. Requesting immediate—” warped apple undermine 7z
Jensen’s HUD refreshed. Their mission orders had been rewritten. OPERATION: WARPED APPLE was not a pacification. It was a delivery. Sergeant Vance didn’t look up from stripping his rifle