HEADLINE!: Under a Blue Flare
The able bodied citizens of Convergence merged together around the predetermined location of the Nexus under a blue flare. Once there, a cloud of nanites hearkened the shut down of the entity known as ADA. Robots who relied upon her link to them, and the city at large, went offline. Infrastructures also reliant upon this link went offline, including most mobile communications, radio communications, and the dome. The largest, the dome, merely flickered briefly before it was reactivated.
Some theories suggest it was either a power cycle, or a back-up system coming online. One man was later grumbling, "Need to plug it in, ensure the files are up-to-date, and delete the WTF folder. What is with the burning, and the fire, and the sthap!"
Red ADA descended and combat between her and her forces of hacked bots, as well as city protectors opened fully. ADA, the impostor, seemed to be unaffected by most, if not all forms of damage. As the battle continued, however, some unseen force, perhaps SpyBot or MalwareBytes, forced the entity from the city systems and all communications with ADA ceased.
Then, as if in some strange B film, Red Ada revealed her 'true form' to be a spiky blob with black shadows and hands reaching up to claw and grasp. Reports from a protested source suggest that this figure was actually the guise of a creature from the 'beyond' known as Blackthorne.
In this form, no longer protected by the false image, and infrastructure merge, he was able to sustain damage. Which the fighting population of Convergence was only too happy to administer.
Lexxus, the battling woman spotlighted in last month's issue, took her own life for the final blow. She surged forward and was pierced with a shadowed spike through the chest, in order to deliver gunfire to Blackthorne's face. At that moment of sacrifice, an event across the city was given the proper time to complete, and the merged ADA was driven off, banished from the city.
With the figure known as Red ADA now gone, reserve power was slowly depleting, and could not last. Looting and violence broke out throughout the city. As the prospect of a peaceful city diminished exponentially, the dome revved back online and stabilized. AdaNet came back online and communications reestablished.
It is not clear how this happened, but those of us at the Convergence Chronicle wish to expressly thank those intrepid individuals who took part in this, and ensured the future of all of our homes.
Reporter: Alexi Alkaev
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