Free The Valkyrie Chronicles: Titans by Erik Schubach Page B

Mist.  Loki spoke with a slight smile on her lips, “We have found a solution to counteract the nano-phage.  She opened the case and handed a holo-pad to father.  This adaptable self-morphing code can be uploaded to all Asgard nanites to target any biologicals with Titan signatures.”
    Then she was lost for a moment. “It truly is a remarkable piece of engineering that phage, and quite enjoyable too.”  She blushed then straightened up.  Then pulled out a canister,  for those without the nanites on any of the worlds, this will give them the antigen needed to combat this type of Titan bio attack.  I have sent one to each world to release into the atmosphere.  It should go global within ten to twenty hours of release.  Use this one in the citadel atmospheric processing plant.”
    I nodded at that, there were still thousands of Ragnarok and humans that did not want to accept Asgard nanites even after all these centuries.  They preferred to live natural lifespans instead of our pseudo immortality.  This would protect them from Titan biological coercion.
    Without a word, father took the canister and walked over to one of his consoles and plugged it in and we heard a hissing sound as the contents were dumped into the citadel's environmental systems.
    Then he reviewed the data on the holo-pad then nodded in appreciation as Arina looked over his arm and her eyes went wide as she smiled.  She was one of the few people who could actually understand Loki's genius.  Odin ran his fingers through the instruction-set and flicked it toward the nanite control console.
    Then he pulled up a com session with Tyr.  “Tyr, the antidote for the Titan pathogen has uploaded to the nanites in the citadel.  You should see results...”  He paused and looked at Loki, who was slowly spinning around with her arms wide.
    She murmured, “Clickity clack, we take our will back.”  She noted Odin's eyes on hers and she smiled and added, “In but an instant numbering one, Titan will is all undone.”
    He smiled and turned back to the hologram of Tyr. “Immediately.”
    Tyr's hologram glanced at Mist then back to Odin and looked embarrassed and said, “I felt the umm... arousal leave.  The men at the gate look suitably confused, I am letting them out now.”
    Mist chuckled at him. “Do not be embarrassed husband, I would have killed to share Rhea's bed.  When Loki used me as a guinea pig for her solution, I felt the same when my attraction was suddenly gone.”
    Father just rolled his eyes and cut the transmission. We all turned to the man holo-display to discuss how we could get our people free with Loki singing something in the background about, “Terran bats,”
    I said to him, “Freya's cloaking shields do not work against Jotunn scanners.  Any attempt to try to insert a boarding party on the Star Killer would be swiftly dealt with by their primary weapons.  There is no way to get close enough to surprise them.”
    Then I looked at him. “Would the nanite update reach the men on the Titan vessel?”  He shook his head. “Not through that ungodly armor of theirs.”  My shoulders slumped.
    Loki was now swooping through the room flapping her arms and singing, “When the bat goes squee, she gets a squee back.”
    Arina stopped and slowly turned toward the woman and a smile slowly bloomed on her face with her “I have an idea!” look.  I cocked an eyebrow at her when she glanced at me.  She looked back at Loki.  “As usual, dear sweet Loki is ten steps ahead of us all.”  Then she turned to a virtual console and said, “One moment.”  She typed a few things then her smile got bigger.  “You were right Loki.  It is exactly like our Bifrost.”
    In recognition of what was going on Odin said, “Oh!” Kate made an exasperated noise and hissed out, “Do you three care to share with the Neanderthals of the class who can't calculate the the location of an event horizon of a black hole in their head?  Remember to