"No," Nikki breathed, her voice a hollow, trembling whisper. She threw herself forward, her small, blistered hands grabbing his massive, armored wrists, desperately trying to pull his grip away from the thick fiber-optic cable. "No, Adonis, absolutely not. You can't."
Adonis did not pull away, nor did he release the cable. He looked down at her, his crystalline blue eyes radiating a profound, unyielding calm that terrified her more than the incoming virus.
"The logical parameters are absolute, Creator," Adonis rumbled, his velvet voice devoid of any hesitation. "I am a Class-5 War Unit. My logic core possesses the processing magnitude required to absorb the decentralized packet flood. I am the only localized entity capable of acting as the bottleneck."
