Nanotroopers Episode 19: Mount Kipwezi

by Philip Bosshardt

  ***Multiple configurations, Base…attempting to probe for common weaknesses…detecting a casing seam on many configs, located amidships…if my disrupters can reach it***

  “Agreed,” Winger said. He rode into battle like a cavalry officer on a proud mount and flinched when all ANAD’s disrupters went off at the same time. The enemy bot dissolved in a spray of atom parts and loose molecular trash.

  Soon, the same maneuver was replicated by trillions of ANAD daughter bots and the air was thick with carnage and boiling debris.

  “ANAD, I’d like to try and capture one of those bots. Red Hammer’s trying to do the same thing…we should take a sample and bring it back. Pinch off ten percent of your mass and execute a Config Twelve.” C-12 was a secure enclosure configuration, a nanoscale cage that could surround and immobilize almost any nanobot.