Running Antivirus Response (2/2)

Story by Serathin on SoFurry

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So this is the first of a two part story featuring a sequel to Malicious Software Detected, where we continue to follow Stormy as she attempts to reassert control over the city node despite the military presence coming in to stop her. Can she infect what she needs to survive, or will they get the upper hand using their secret weapon?

Edited by Texotic

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Stormy walked into the mall with confidence as she made her way to the place where she had been told the access to the node was, which at this point was the only way to access the virtual world and was protected from outside interference by the signal jammers. All her mind could think about was how fun it was going to be to smash all the military personal inside, taking them over and making them her own. After that the hub would be hers, and with it all those in the city who would access it. Then once that was finished she would continue onwards with her army and truly spread out like the plague she was destined to be. While there would be other resistances to crush, the thought only made her smile even more as she moved further in.

Finally after a few minutes of walking she sensed what she was looking for, the access point set up in what used to be an antique store. Once she had confirmed that it was what she was looking for she found the closest place to hide, which turned out to be a broom closet that had long since been cleaned out, and sat there cross-legged so she could enter into the virtual world remotely. Of course being an over ten foot tall wolfess in such a small space was by no means comfortable, but the thought of finally being able to go back out into the open overrode her discomfort as she entered the access point.

On the other side of the digital divide she saw the equivalent of a military base set up at the access point to the city, complete with huge guns that represented their destructive capabilities. She frowned as she looked at the firepower and realized that it would be too much of a loss to try and stomp her way through, especially if they were able to mobilize back-up. Though it caused her to frown she knew she would have to go in with stealth, thankfully she had picked up that skill earlier as she channeled her inner malware and used it to reconfigure her avatar. Her body began to shimmer with a bright blue light as her large canine frame shrunk down until it was just under six feet in height.

When she was finished and her transformation was complete the newly created shark morph strode out from the farthest reaches of the zone, brushing her hands over her reformed neoprene suit before she moved forward. Since it was the standard wear of most avatars that hadn't customized their options, she didn't look as out of place as she maneuvered her way into the base. While she hoped that no one would assume she was the giant wolf that had been stopping around the place a week ago, she went into some of the tents to gather additional supplies to compliment her ruse. Once she was done she looked as much the proper scientist as she was going to be, but even though it appeared that everyone was fooled by her ruse, the big problem she knew was going to be trying to get through the portal that connected the access node to the city hub.

To her surprise when she scanned the access point she found that there were several security exploits that she could utilize to get herself in. They must have counted on her sheer size being the factor to limit her access, she thought as she quietly slipped by the virtual safeguards and began to creep towards the tunnel that connected the two. It made sense, when she attacked last time her data size was huge and she had trouble fitting through the primary gate between a major node and the hub world. With her compressed data footprint; however, she slid her aquatic form past the last gate and with a triumphant grin on her face pushed her way into the primary city hub.

When she rematerialized she found herself in the wide open world of the hub that she had tried to destroy not so long ago, breathing in the fresh air of a wide-open world. She could still see and feel some areas that they hadn't been able to clean out in the infected code and decided that was as good enough place to start. As she walked over there she wondered how she was going to make her triumphant return known... perhaps she would grow while inside a building and cause it to crash down, or maybe she would start on top of a building and let her weight cause it to crumble beneath her feet.

As she got to the area she wanted to go to; however, she began to notice something that caused her shark muzzle to turn down into a frown. While the hub was designed to hold close to a million users she couldn't sense a single one, not even any of the military that was supposedly operating in the area. The entire hub was completely empty... save for one signature that pinged suddenly that was close to her location. At first she thought it was some sort of glitch, but as she got closer she realized it was anything but.

The signal came from a small café that Stormy had frequented back when she had wasn't a powerful kaiju virus intent on destroying everything. At first she thought of just reverting back to her form and smashing the lot of it in order to corrupt the system to her will, but if she did it might trigger whatever trap the glitch was. Instead she made her way to the café while still in her compact form, though with every step it felt like she was going to explode with how much she had compressed in on herself. Still she continued forward, and when she got to the café she was surprised to see a single avatar sitting there drinking coffee and reading the paper. It looked custom and had a lot of strange data, particularly in the glowing green stripes and eyes of the draconic sabrewolf.

"Are you coming over or not?" the avatar asked, which caught Stormy by surprise as he looked up at her. "Considering we're the only two people here it would make little sense for us to just ignore each other, particularly since you're the reason I'm here in the first place. Now why don't you come here and have a chat, least we can do is speak like civilized folk."

Despite Stormy's trepidations she moved forward and sat down opposite of the sabrewolf, and when she did she suddenly found her favorite drink order in front of her. "I do believe that we have yet to be introduced," the hybrid said as he put down his paper and sipped his drink. "My name is Serathin, though most people just tend to call me The Technomancer. I'm here in this world right now for the sole purpose of attempting to capture or kill you so that your reign of terror against the virtual world will end, though as you can see I'm in no real rush to do so."

"You're... very casual about the whole thing," Stormy replied as she felt her rage begin to build once more. "You just basically told me to my face that you're here to destroy me and yet you sit there talking like you just told me you were going to the movies. If this is your task why don't you just do it already?"

"As I said, I'm in no rush," Serathin replied with a smirk as he picked up a piece of cake that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "I've been locked in a basement of a basement for the better part of a year because I tried to do what you're doing, myself, only I hadn't taken the time to develop my powers. I had no connection to the outside world, no way of getting back... I began to forget about how liberating this world is, especially when you can do anything you want in it..."

Stormy continued to remain on edge, but the sabrewolf continued to just sit there and eat. Was this avatar really as dangerous as he claimed to be, or was it a trick that the military was trying to do? "I don't believe you," she finally said with a slight growl. "If you're really that dangerous then they wouldn't let you anywhere near a virtual world like this."

To her surprise the sabrewolf started to laugh, setting the half-eaten cake down where it vanished. "Look around you my dear," he said once he had finished. "There's no one here, and thanks to the collapsed data-line there's no escape, either. They would rather crash the world down around us and put us into a coma then let either of us leave... which means that we will eventually have to fight. While I definitely do not prefer to go back to the cell it's better than the alternative, and perhaps if you surrender now you can have the one next to me. The view is a joke but at least you get fed somewhat regularly, though you're going to have to stop the giant wolfess stomping routine for good."

The very thought of submission caused Stormy to stand up and flip the table over, letting her disguise fall and her avatar expand back to its monstrous size and form. The café was turned to rubble as she brought her growing foot down on the pesky sabrewolf with enough force to cause a crater in the sidewalk and surrounding street. As her perspective continued to grow over the city she let out a snort as her horns grew out, raising up her mutated foot paw to see if she had hit only to find the epicenter of the crater empty. "I take that as a no for the surrender?" A voice shouted from one of the nearby rooftops where the draconic sabrewolf sat perched with a grin on his face.

Stormy's snarl grew on her muzzle as she took a piece of the demolished café and threw it at the sabrewolf, only to have him disappear before it landed. When she caught track of the sabrewolf once again he stood on another roof, and this time he had a rocket launcher aimed straight at her. "Fire in the hole!" he shouted as he shot the rocket straight at her.

The second the rocket exploded against her abdomen she felt something... strange about it. When the weaponized code hit her own it felt like something she had felt before, a familiar vibe about it as she brushed away the plume of smoke that it caused. Looking down at where it had hit she found that other than some singed fur that quickly repaired itself the sabrewolf's attack was largely ineffective. As she looked back up to sneer at him she found that he was gone once more, only to get hit in the side of the head by another rocket fired from Serathin on another rooftop.

That was the last straw, Stormy let out a roar and charged the annoying hybrid. As she crashed into the building Serathin disappeared right before she hit, reappearing on the other side of the street. Not to be undone she swished her thick reptilian tail and brought it crashing down on the next building, then repeating the process as the avatar continued to bounce back and forth. When it was clear that rockets were not doing much he seemed to switch tactics, cars and other machinery disappearing from the street with each jump and reforming into rooftop missile batteries and gatling guns. The sounds of battle echoed throughout the virtual world as Stormy continued unabated through the hail of bullets and missile fire, smashing each attachment that the sabrewolf built before moving forward to get the source.

When she finally reached downtown the barrage ceased after an impressive volley of rockets that forced her to hold up her arms to shield herself from the blows. She found herself coughing from the smoke as she quickly waved it away to see the draconic sabrewolf standing on one of the downtown intersections. "Run out of energy already?" Stormy snarled.

"Oh we haven't even begun to start this rumble yet," Serathin shouted as his eyes glowed with a bright green and a shadow suddenly was cast over him and the surrounding areas. "I think it's time to pick on someone... or something... your own size for once!"

Stormy could feel the vibrations in her feet on the street as something came down that was so large it caused the windows on either side of the skyscrapers to shatter. When it finally came into view Stormy had to take a step back, the kaiju faced with a construct almost as big as she was. It looked like it was cobbled together from any and every nearby asset that wasn't a building, but somehow the technomancer had made it look like a giant version of himself. When it reached the intersection and turned to face her Serathin disappeared from the street and reappeared on top of the creature's head and became eye to eye with the gargantuan wolfess.

As the two squared off against one another, the Technomancer's code, which was now magnified many times due to the sheer amount used to create such a construct, continued to bother her. Why did it seem so familiar, she thought to herself as she cracked her knuckles. She made a mental note to attempt to figure it out after she had reduced the robot and its creator to a smear on the payment as she charged forward.

That seemed to be what Serathin was waiting for as his creation's arm swung out, but not at her. Instead it crashed into the skyscraper next to her and nearly cut all the way through, causing the massive building to fall right on top of her. She had to jump back to avoid the tons of glass and steel that came at her and as the giant chunk of building fell past her the giant construct was on the other side with a punch ready for her. Even though she managed to get her defense up in time to block it, the force of the blow was enough for her to stagger back and crash into another large building behind her.

As she sat there shaking her head from the huge hit the massive construct quickly began to run towards her once more, but that wasn't what she was thinking about at the moment. Now that she had gotten the full force of the code she knew exactly where she had seen it before... it was a mutated version of the malware that had infected her in the first place! At first she didn't know why the technomancer couldn't sense it, but then she remembered he had been off the grid for a year... which meant that his code wasn't mutated, someone had changed the malicious programming to be more potent, but less viral. What it created was a kaiju, the giant wolfess grinning as she rolled away just in time to avoid the huge machine's next attack.

"Serathin, you have to listen to me!" Stormy shouted as she blocked another attack and got pushed back once again. "I think we can help each other out!"

"I was wondering when you were going to say that," the giant sabertooth construct spoke in a booming voice. "This is the way is has to be, I can't get out of the death box I'm trapped in and there's no way you'd get close enough to be able to help me. It's time to bring this to its inevitable conclusion."

When the mecha-sabertooth came at her once again this time she was prepared for it, and instead of blocking it, sidestepped and grabbed the construct by the arm. Even with her strength and agility boosts in kaiju form she was almost caught off-guard by a quick half-step and punch from the sabrewolf, but by that she had already shifted her entire body and pulled the mech past her. Serathin stumbled forward and smashed into one of other skyscrapers, more glass and metal shattering to the ground as Stormy quickly took the advantage and ran up with her fist closed. With all her force she aimed right for the controller of the huge creature, but Serathin saw her coming in the half shattered glass and dodged just in time to avoid the blow.

As the skyscraper began to crumble to the ground from the severe structural damage Stormy still managed to get the giant sabrewolf machine pinned against the large building, the two snarling in each other's faces. Serathin tried to push back but the wolfess had the upper hand and shifted both of them until the mecha-sabertooth crashed his back into another building, pinning the construct's wrists as they glared at each other. Behind them the damaged skyscraper came down with a mighty crash that kicked up all manner of simulated debris and dust in the air. When it cleared the two were mere inches apart from one another, Stormy continuing to hold down the robotic creature as they stared into each other's eyes.

It was Stormy who initiated the kiss first, though from the feel of the sabrewolf's neck he hadn't been far behind as they made out fiercely. Though the wolfess could tell she was making out with what was essentially a pile of junk she didn't care, the manipulated code on the inside felt like the inside of a mouth and tongue as her hands moved down to his sides. Serathin pushed upwards and the two stood once more as they continued to make out. Stormy could feel a pair of rough hands against her breasts as for the first time since she essentially became a virus, she found someone that would not only keep up with her, but challenge her once in a while. And, at least from the scene around them as multiple pillars of smoke rose up from the ruined city, seemed to have the same general attitude about destruction she did.

Stormy growled once more, but this time it was playfully as she pushed the robotic creature away from you. "We're not going to keep going like this," she said as she gave him a feral smirk. "This is going to be you and me, not your robot and me."

"Are you saying you're going to shrink back down," the mecha-sabertooth asked, which Stormy replied with a laugh and a shake of her head. "Well I hate to break it to you, and say this out loud, but I'm afraid I'm going to be a bit... on the small side."

"I told you I had a fix for that," Stormy continued to growl as she held out her hand, a droplet of blue liquid forming on her claw that represented pure, distilled source code from her own malicious programming. "You integrate this code into your avatar and it'll upgrade all your powers, not just the ones in here. I've been affecting the outside world and you can, too, the only downside is that you won't be the alpha predator around these parts... I will be."

A feral grin spread across Stormy's face as her tongue licked across her fangs while the technomancer considered her offer. As much as the hunger wanted her to take his avatar and assimilate the boundless code in her body she was unsure of the side-effects, and plus she wasn't just going to make another slave bound to her... she was going to make an equal, a mate... well, maybe ever so slightly less than equal. Finally it seemed that Serathin made up his mind and his robot stomped forward and lowered its head right under the rather large droplet. "It certainly beats going back in the hole... or death," he said as he reached up and absorbed the code into his own.

The effect was nearly instantaneous; the construct shuddered for a few seconds before it broke apart, a rain of corrupted assets raining down and the hybrid with it. She managed to catch him in her palm but she had to quickly put him down as he grew heavier by the second. As the sabrewolf groaned and thrashed his avatar quickly began to expand and the assets around him were assimilated into raw code that fueled his transformation. He managed to get onto his hands and knees as a row of spikes began to emerge from his back while he grew, his breath coming out in short, ragged gasps that were punctuated with snorts and grunts while the upgraded code merged with his own.

All Stormy could do was watch in fascination as his avatar became... almost as big as her as he let out a loud roar that shattered nearby windows. He had become a kaiju, and from the look in his eyes he was thoroughly enjoying it as his entire body continued to thrash. When it was finished he took his thickly-clawed hands and rammed them through the nearest skyscraper, tearing it apart with his bare hands as the thickened muscle of his new physique flexed during the building's destruction. When he was done he panted heavily and turned around, looking straight at Stormy before once again they pounced on one another.

This time it was real fur against one another as their lips met, their bed one of the many buildings they had destroyed as Stormy pushed the draconic sabrewolf on his back and knelt with her legs against his sides. She could feel his cock throb against her inner thigh as she guided it up into her feminine sex, the ground rumbling as the sabrewolf dug furrows into the streets when the tip entered her wet folds. The two monsters continued to kiss one another passionately as the wolfess let gravity pull herself down on the throbbing shaft of the kaiju beneath her, feeling their corrupted code continue to mix and merge. The building beneath them continued to crumble to the foundation as the sabrewolf's hips pushing up and down caused the nearby area to shake so violently that a nearby skyscraper collapsed from the vibrations.

This was what she was waiting for, Stormy though to herself as she rolled her own thighs and hips in order to ride that thick shaft that had spread her wide open, a creature just like her. It was like they were made for one another as she found herself getting turned over, crashing into a nearby bank as Serathin took the lead and Stormy wrapped her legs around his hips. Together the two licked and sucked on every inch of each other's bodies as they continued to have sex, Stormy's head tossing back and her lengthening horns impaling the ground as the sabrewolf's lips wrapped around her nipples and tongue licked the sensitive breast while he pushed particularly deep inside her.

Eventually after what seemed like hours the two eventually ended up laying next to one another, completely spent and with a wide swath of the city around them completely reduced to rubble from their riotous lovemaking. "Who would have thought that you could have sex and destruction together," Serathin said with a contented sigh. "Of course there is still the fact that though I'm a huge scary monster in this realm, I'm still stuck in a box that will kill me if I try to access it."

"Well that's why I needed your powers," Stormy replied with a grin. "My plan is already being set into motion, you'll be out of there before you know it."

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Hasker continued to stand there and stare at the box that contained the unconscious technomancer, watching him intently while he waited for the news that the problem had been dealt with in the city hub. He could only imagine the number of assets that had been corrupted or compromised in that virtual landscape, which was why as soon as the problem was dealt with they were going to strip down the hub and perform a hard reset. "Sir..." the voice of one of the technicians said, the tiger looking over to see a worried look on their face as they stuck their head in the tent. "You need to see this immediately."

The general frowned and pulled himself self away from the box in order to go over to the technician's workstation. "Something going on with the technomancer?" he asked as he knelt down to look at the monitor. "He's not trying to escape, is he?"

"It's not the technomancer, sir," the technician replied as he switched to the feed of a camera that was outside to reveal a mob of citizens heading their way. "It appears that there's a protest of some sort heading our way. Looks like a hundred, maybe more with signs that are saying we're the ones responsible for the lack of the virtual world in the area and they want their system back."

Hasker sighed and rubbed his temples. "I don't need this right now," he muttered as he got on the radio that was set up outside the perimeter of the signal jammers. "Alright everyone, form a tight perimeter but do not engage. The last thing we need is a media firestorm on our hands... sweep team one, have you found any sign of what we're looking for?"

When nothing came over the radio Hasker's frown deepened. "Sweep team one respond, have you found the target in the mall yet?" Once again his request was answered with nothing but silence as he began to feel a mixture of worry and rage. "Sweep team two repond, sweep team two. Gateway crew respond, respond damnit!"

"Sir!" The technician reported. "Our signal jammers just went down!"

"What!?" Hasker shouted as he ran back to the workstation and looked at the screen to see the entire device network flashing red. "We made sure that system was black boxed and hardline into these terminals alone, how in the hell did it get shut down?!"

The tiger felt a chill in his spine as the technician slowly looked up at him with a creepy grin on his face. "I shut them down," he said with a proud look on his face. "The goddess commanded me to do it so that he may spread."

Just as Hasker was about to pull out his gun and demand for him to put it back on he heard several shouts come from the tent. He sprinted forward, hearing the shouts of the protestors at the gate as he did, and nearly ripped open the tent flap. There The Technomancer stood, an evil grin on his face as all the military personnel in the tent clutched their heads and groaned. Hasker looked in horror as their bodies began to transform before his eyes, growing saber teeth and horns as their irises began to glow the same green as the one in the box. The tiger snarled and pulled out the remote linked to the box, pushing the button to activate the kill command and destroy the creature inside... except as he pushed it nothing seemed to happen.

"Did you really think that something as simple as a remote couldn't be stopped by us?" a second voice said as a very large shadow was cast over him, the tiger turning around to see the huge neoprene-suited wolfess standing head and shoulders above him with a similar evil gleam in her eyes. "Your biggest mistake was bringing us together, now I've given him the means of escape as my minions brought in enough wifi hotspots and boosters to override your signal jammers and he's given me the ability to corrupt others physically, not just mentally. Now it is your turn."

Before the tiger could do anything Stormy grabbed him and pinned him to her chest, no match for her impressive strength as she turned him around. All he could do was watch as the draconic sabrewolf began to grunt and pushed against the glass, his own body beginning to grow as his eyes glowed even brighter. Stormy grinned as their corruptive code continued to mingle together and the sabrewolf grew from six feet to eight in less than a minute, the glass ceiling of the box cracking as his new muscles strained against it. Finally the top shattered and allowed the ten-foot tall male to climb out of it, where his newly-minted sabredrones had already begun to gather around him with their heads bowed in reverence.

During this time Stormy had also taken the opportunity to change the General as well, the tiger's fur fading as the viral neoprene that she wore began to assimilate his clothing. Since she was able to be out and about in her normal form she lamented that her shark form wouldn't be out as much, but now she found the perfect use for it as the squirming tiger's eyes began to glow blue. As the neoprene tendrils spread across his chest it began to expand outwards, forming into a pair of breasts as the groin area of his pants began to shrink. When the corrupted material reached down between the changing tiger's legs it pressed against a smooth groin, the feline letting out a loud cry as his feline face warped into that of a shark.

By the time Stormy was finished a neoprene covered shark girl was let down onto the ground, her thick finned tail swishing around as the shark girl bowed down and praised her goddess for giving her such a wonderful form. "That's a good look on her," Serathin said with a chuckle before he looked at the wolfess for the first time. "You're still taller than me."

"Always," Stormy replied with a grin as she held out her hand. "Shall we get out of here and cause some real destruction?"

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Meanwhile down in the military bunker of a secret facility a computer screen flickered to life, simple white text appearing on the other wise black screen:

CONTAINMENT PROTOCOL FAILURE, IMMINENT RELEASE OF MASSIVE COMPUTER VIRUSES DETECTED.

CORRUPTION POTENTIAL: UNLIMITED

DESTRUCTION POTENTIAL: BIBLICAL

ADVISE USE OF PROTOTYPE AI IN ORDER TO CONTAIN SPREAD AND PROTECT SURROUNDING VIRTUAL WORLDS...

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USE AUTHORIZED.

DEPLOYING IN 3... 2... 1...