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Jack Plot 030: A Malware Named Jack

Jack Spicer is a computer virus designed by infamous hacker Raimundo Pedrosa. He’s sent to infect the computer of one Kimiko Tohomiko, who rejected the hacker’s offer for a date.

Lucky for Kimiko she’s a great hacker too and manages to isolate the virus. What she wasn’t expecting was for the virus to be much more than just a typical malware and actually have artificial intelligence.

Once isolated and no longer a threat to her computer he hangs around on her desktop interacting with her via the webcam and speakers. At first it’s annoying because she can’t seem to get rid of the Jack program, but he’s not hurting anything and she's on her tech so often she gets used to seeing him around. he even starts acting like an antivirus and altering other malware into assisting bot programs (Jackbots) who work like a firewall destroying more dangerous malware.

Eventually Raimundo tries to ask out Kimiko again and she finally agrees to go out with him JUST ONCE! Shockingly she has a good time and the two start dating. Jack notices Kimiko getting distant with him always talking about his coder, and constantly exchanging texts and emails with him (because you know Jack would have infiltrated ALL of her technology). He gets jealous. Kimiko is HIS person! He won't stand for his coder taking her away, especially when he was created by the same man in order to destroy her computer!

At first his interference is small. His Jackbots intercepting and erasing emails and texts before they can reach their destination. but then, since the two keep loosing messages, they start CALLING each other! Jack gets downright livid. He starts acting out. corrupting files, sending his Jackbots to destroy folders of image data (pictures of the two together).

Kimiko is confused at Jack’s actions, having p.much forgotten he was technically MALWARE, and decides he must be malfunctioning. She’d set her computer to a cleanup and malware scan then left for a date with Rai.

Jack starts calling her phone and leaving messages when she won’t pick up, spamming texts. When she gets home she figures she’ll check messages in the morning, posts a social media update about how great her date was and goes to bed.

Jack is enraged at being blown off. he starts fucking with EVERYTHING! He’s TAKING THIS SHIT OVER! He interrupts the scan and completely alters her desktop, and file organization. Hacks her online accounts and alters everything deleting any trace of Rai and spamming his own name everywhere. Gets her bank info and gets her locked out of all credit cards and bank accounts. Just everything!

Rai, having gone online, sees the sudden posts and edits on her social accounts and “oh fuck” After all, he MADE Jack. Of course he’d recognize the virus’ handywork. He’d try and call Kimiko right then, but Jack intercepts the call at the first ring, before Kimiko can be woken.

“How’s it going Pedrosa?”

“Oh shit!” Rai’d hang up but him calling had let Jack transfer to him, since the virus had already been getting into his stuff too thanks to interaction with Kimiko.

Rai quickly gets to work trying to get Jack OUT of his systems! But the virus has too much control already and Rai hadn’t noticed because he had previously been working like an antivirus. By now it’s morning Rai’s been up all night and is exhausted, Jack would spam him mocking texts about humans needing to sleep. Rai would chuck his phone against the wall, breaking it before running out of his apartment and to Kimiko’s.

His banging on the door wakes her up and she answers in her PJs, “Rai? It’s 4 in the morning what are you-”

“you didn’t destroy him?!”

slow blink “huh?”

“The virus I sent! Jack Spicer! You DIDN’T destroy him?!”

rubs sleep out of eyes “Of course not, why would I?”

Rai glares. “Check your phone.”

She does and is instantly awake “WHAT THE HELL??!?”

“I ask again, you DIDN’T destroy him?!”

sheepish “Well, I mean… He seemed so nice!”

“HE is a COMPUTER VIRUS!”

“Well MAYBE you shouldn't have programmed him with literal AI!”

“I WANTED IT TO BE CHALLENGING!”

Kimiko’s phone would ring and it’s Jack on the line. “Hey Kimiko, like what I’ve done?”

“It talks to you?”

Kimiko gives nervous laugh “uh yeah about that…”

“This is what you get for breaking my heart! Hope you like a cyber free life!” hangs up.

Rai just stares at the phone then at Kimiko. “You gotta be kidding me.”

“hey YOU programmed him!”

They ditch Kimiko’s phone and all other tech they have in her apartment and run out. Their bank accounts and credit cards are all frozen so they can’t buy any new tech or anything, but luckily Rai works at a computer store and they sneak in and he starts programming a new ANTI-Malware, he titled the Optimal Malware Infiltrator, or OMI for short. It’s not a very big code, he programs it to be as unobtrusive as possible. He also adds the AI programming used for Jack, knowing he’ll need more than a standard bot to stop the other.

Once the program is complete, he sends an email to Kimiko addressed from himself knowing the Jackbots would instantly destroy the file thus letting Omi loose into her systems. Once Omi has infiltrated he sneaks in locates and scans Jack. But he’s not really sure what to do with him. Jack doesn’t register as a malware, he registers as a corrupted file. Omi decides he must be here to fix Jack and return him to the antivirus side.

Not as easy as it looks. Jack’s obsessed with Kimiko and uses his bots to keep Omi at bay. Omi tears through the bots like nothing deleting them from the system. Jack makes more, but Omi can destroy them faster than Jack can make them.

Eventually Jack recalls all his bots from outside sources to keep Omi back, not noticing that Omi is succeeding in isolating him back onto Kimiko’s computer where he was first activated.

Rai and Kimiko are cheering because from the store computer Rai has opened a scan results window from Omi showing the number of detected and deleted malware (all the bots) and 1 Isolated file. They don’t really know what that’s all about but hey! down with Jack!

Finally it gets to the point Omi has destroyed all the existing bots and Jack is cornered unable to access more spam to alter them into Jackbots. Jack thinks Omi’s going to delete him too and begs for his existence, but Omi doesn’t. Jack instead finds Omi offering him a hand up and an offer to join him on the antivirus side, he could tell Jack was a mighty and powerful program!

Jack preens at the compliment and is iffy about the offer, what about Kimiko? after all, he’d been programed to go after her from the start. Omi tells him that Kimiko was just a human, she would get old and die, but as programs they could last as long as technology did. He promises Jack can have a new purpose if he comes with him, and reluctantly Jack agrees. Once he takes Omi’s hand, Omi runs his scan through the contact and eliminates the corruption in Jack’s file.

Back with Rai and Kimiko the scan results window finally clicks the isolated file to “fixed” and blinks the scan is complete. Victory team hacker! They go back to Kimiko’s to clean up the mess only to find Jack with Omi on her desktop, still in one piece.

The corruption was the programing in him telling him to target Kimiko, and Omi’s scan on Jack had deleted that specific string of code. Jack now could care less about her and he and Omi say sayonara to the two hackers before vanishing into the internet. Omi paused long enough to thank Rai for programming them and that he was taking Jack, his new friend, so they need not worry about future issues.

Raimundo and Kimiko are just sorta, did this all really happen? And flop onto the couch with a sigh of exhaustion. They’d deal with fixing the results of Jack’s mess tomorrow… after at least 16 hours of sleep…