Alone with my thoughts behind the wheel of my Skyline, I pull off of the road and dial Sophia's phone number.
"Papi, is everything alright?" Sophia asks me her accent coming out thick, voice filled with concern.
"I should be asking you that Mami, how are you and the baby?" I ask Sophia my voice sounds strained even to my ears, "Hmm, Papi...I could really use one of your massages." Sophia hums softly drawing a chuckle out of me.
"That can be arranged...so Sophia, I know your business is much more than fashion and clothing. How would you be able to cope with a new market say the whole of Miami, and maybe further expansion to the rest of Florida and beyond that." My words come out like velvet, but it also carries a hint of something cold.
"Ayiee..Papi, Miami is a closed market...with rather particularly possessive market controllers."
"There is about to be a very large hole in the market... I'm not gonna let some government hacks yank me around...not since putting someone in place who can control the market and setup safeties that aren't easily bypassed."
"Brian, this is a dangerous game you are playing..." I know Sophia is deadly serious as she actually calls me by name and not her pet name for me.
"I know, but between dear old Dad...and something that fell into my lap I now have something to leash the big dogs." The silence over the line is telling.
"Brian, when you put your foot on the tigers neck you can never take it off. Are you sure you want to go through with this...con nuestro pequeño en camino hacia aquí?" Sophia says to me and tacks on about our baby being on the way.
"One way or another I'm in this Sophia, I'd rather we make Miami secure and use it as a base of operations to expand...imagine a world where we control the darkerside of the world, make sure kids don't go hungry while the parents sell food stamps to get their fix, or get sold out as party favors."
"Papi...sometimes you are too sweet."
"So are you capable of taking over Miami?" At my question Sophia lets out a soft barely perceptible sigh.
"Si, Papi...Si..." A small smirk stretches my lips as I pull the cylindrical container from my inventory a rolling silvery mass of nanites, grabbing the syringe containing the control nanites cluster I inject myself with it and open the lid of the cannister.
{Spread, Infect, Only necessary Replication to secure the country... avoid but protect these humans, their safety and my own are priority Alpha.} I command my nanites with flashes of the people close to me face's.
The swarm flew out of my car cloud disappearing into the night sky, "The end route of me having a sign-in system was always of me becoming an evil overlord." The words slip out of me even if I don't quite believe them.
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Mr Nobody zoomed in on live satalite footage of Brian his son, as he released a cloud of smoke into the atmosphere... "Brian doesn't smoke...what are you up to?" Mr Nobody presses a button his desk I need you to enhance the imaging of recruitment subject 73.
The intercom beeps and his assistants voice comes over the speaker as an enhanced image appears.
"Sir, it seems to be a cloud of nano machines..." Mr Nobody sits down heavily in his padded leather chair.
"Should I mobilize ground forces, sir?"
"No, I will make contact myself."