Hacking the Sun https://www.penana.com/feed/27800 I wrote a thing about a Hacker during the night, Pizza and Taco Delivery person during the day. Furthermore, she's living on earth after the planet has become subjugated to an alien race. So, there's that.  en Penana Hacking the Sun Epilogue https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/70 "Breaking: Goliath, the transnational supercorporation, was the victim of a large-scale terrorist attack...""...Less than a week after Pine Rim and Poppy, people are now questioning the state of security in New Sumer.""... Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:00:41 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 28 Falling... https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/69 "Get up, Lynx!"Awake, Jessica gaped up at Raptor, who was staring from beneath the shelter of a blank sky. Looking down, she noticed a clay-like substance plastered over her hip wound. Whatever it was, it stopped the bleeding. He had administered first-aid while she Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:56:05 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 27 Share, Comment, Subscribe 3/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/68 "This is gonna hurt!" As straightly, as carefully as her unsteady hands could manage, she pushed Malvis aside and allowed the blade to slide out.David spasmed and moaned. "No!" he whimpered. "Finish what you started.""You need my help!""I'll be alright. The blade missed my heart. I can feel it. I have time..."Jessica Sun, 14 Mar 2021 03:09:08 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 27 Share, Comment, Subscribe 2/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/67 "Jessica!" Babel called.A droning ring tore through her blurred vision as she pressed the ground. Despair and the boom of an engine were one. Despair had an agent. Despair's white hero entered the top floor from an incinerated entry point. Malvis advanced by leaps and bounds.David anxiously crawled out of the mad Azarean's path. Bu Sun, 14 Mar 2021 03:07:47 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 27 Share, Comment, Subscribe 1/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/66 Even Monarch's death passed like a ripple in a sea of moments, one equation in an algorithm. His people wanted to mourn, gaunt as they seemed, but there was no time to while the rest of the world beckoned. It was Beelz who gave the order to keep going, and Jessica agreed, trudging over the fallen on the 86th floor. One functional elevator carrie Sun, 14 Mar 2021 03:06:28 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 26 Demon of Dissent 3/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/65 "10:00! 2:00!" Beelz pinpointed tangos beyond the walls.Meanwhile, Jessica kept hers and David's heads down. Bolts of light scattered the interior in an exchange of dense fire that carved a storm. Operatives and Azareans fired, fell, and fired again. During one keen instant, a grenade explosion interrupted the spray, and a holographic shi Sat, 06 Mar 2021 22:59:37 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 26 Demon of Dissent 2/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/64 With cat eyes, Jessica watched as they attached explosives to every support beam. The LEDs blinked from green to red.Beelz and her men repeated the action on the next floor, which housed a grandiose lounge in front of a glossy white conference room. Every corner was home to an animated plant: a swirling stem whose sleeping petals housed b Sat, 06 Mar 2021 22:58:37 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 26 Demon of Dissent 1/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/63 Jessica was already floating to the 82nd floor, skipping past Monarch and his as they scrounged the divided blocks. They were searching—so far as she could tell—every nook and cranny of Goliath Headquarters. Beelz and her team had to be above the rest.Past the sensations of weightlessness and wind, she entered the 82nd floor through a gap Sat, 06 Mar 2021 22:57:53 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 25 Curtain Fire 3/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/62 Stumbling in stutters, the lab coat used his keycard to access the safe room. True to his word, the black walls slid above a transparent screen surface, to reveal a pair of large canisters shrouded in vapor. While Raptor examined the refrigerated environment, Jessica tapped the scientist's shoulder."What did you mean when you said these a Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:28:39 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 25 Curtain Fire 2/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/61 Raptor went first, then Valerie.Jessica positioned herself on the edge of the deck for a better view, then peered through the smoke using thermal vision."Floor 75 comes with several unknowns!" she said. "The level below that is empty!""You can see what's going on?" said Shannon."I can."Pisces' airship began pat Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:17:32 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 25 Curtain Fire 1/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/60 The scent of phantom rainfall tricked the senses while Jessica and Sub Terra soared toward the storm. Faceless tides braced every passenger on deck, their grimaces lit under the red diodes throughout the cabin: an ensemble of determination, anxiety, and fear. And just outside, outlined in the dark, an array of airships bobbed and weaved across t Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:15:58 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 24 Neon Boughs 3/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/59 Halfway up the flight of stairs, leg soreness started to kick in. Just a little more, she kept thinking. No more conspiracies, no more running, no more dragging my friends through this nightmare. Fatigue in tow, hopeful prospects accompanied her all the way to the top, where she found the other side.On the roof, reacquai Sat, 06 Feb 2021 21:34:08 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 24 Neon Boughs 2/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/58 "Citizens of the deceitful Sovereign..."Thanks to those words, the streets devolved from ghostly to frenzied in the blink of an eye. Sobriety was nowhere more engraved than on Stockwell's gaunt and tired eyes as they stretched to the sky. Exploiting his mental stagger, Jessica snuck closer."How does it feel from this point of view? Sat, 06 Feb 2021 21:30:43 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 24 Neon Boughs 1/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/57 In the heart of the city, where technology and civility blossomed neon boughs of humanity, Jessica set her feet on the clean sidewalk and nearly stumbled. A realm familiar yet alien, a realm of light, expanded before her very eyes. Illuminated billboards, lies, and transparent girlfriends were all the rage, the trends nowhere more saturated than Sat, 06 Feb 2021 21:28:05 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 23 Brass and Brains 3/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/56 Wessex raised his hand."I know what you're going to say," said Jessica. "How do we spread the evidence. Right? If you can get me into the Nexus, I'll broadcast Goliath's incriminating dialogue of Pine Rim throughout the intercontinental Eden network. Make Azarean epistemology catch fire. Everyone digs deeper into Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:38:07 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 23 Brass and Brains 2/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/55 Interrogative murmurs started throughout the room. Like most folks present, Wessex gawked at Jessica in hoping to gauge her level of crazy. However, the stares and the murmurs bounced off the girl's hardened demeanor."We cannot be so bold as to assault the lion's den just yet," said the commander. "Our contingency for Goliath's abrasive a Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:37:41 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 23 Brass and Brains 1/3 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/54 The ever-present symbol of Sub Terra was a fist rising out of Earth. Defiance had been stitched on every uniform, every banner, and emblazoned on a gargantuan, widescreen television monitor. In this case, it was also a screensaver mounted over a platform some feet above the floor. The platform convexed outward like a stage, to a hall full of dil Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:37:08 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 22 I Haven't Had Coffee 2/2 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/53 "Aren't you and Babel going to do anything!" Raptor shouted.Jessica breathed in and out, steadily. She could have scrambled the airship's system; she could have deduced a method of disengaging the claw. "You just have to trust me," she insisted. "This isn't Asgard."Raptor stared spitfire, the seat unbalancing him and everything els Tue, 05 Jan 2021 19:44:16 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 22 I Haven't Had Coffee 1/2 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/52 A solemn night sky blanketed the world. All Raptor could do was land at the first pitstop, which turned out to be nothing more than an isolated power station in a dry part of the territory. Overhead, a bright white sign and its illuminated hare previewed their point on the map: Hare Raiser Power rotating in all directions, situated on t Tue, 05 Jan 2021 19:43:09 +0000 Hacking the Sun Chapter 21 The Lanterns 2/2 https://www.penana.com/story/27800/hacking-the-sun/issue/51 Like wicked rain, gunfire cut down the men and women outside the barricades. Bright muzzle flashes illuminated the assailants behind each tree. It was clear then that the area was already surrounded.Jessica and her friends dove behind the nearest barricade. Too many projectiles mounted into a deafening torrent as the Woodsmen returned fir Sat, 02 Jan 2021 20:53:34 +0000