An Unrelated Incident

Chapter 11

In the kitchen, Zoey and Trisha prepared the next part of the plan for regressing the two captives into twin baby girls. Trisha was indeed a robotics researcher, the top one in the nation. She had few peers worldwide. Her specific field of expertise was in nanobots. That's a class of robots so small they can operate at a microscopic level. She created a process to mass-produce them cheaply.

She had perfected them to the point she could introduce them into the human body and operate at the cellular level. Amazing things were possible but it took millions and millions of them. The NB powder in the suppositories was nanobot powder.

They were already circulating in Zoey's body but Trisha needed to get plenty of them into Brandi and Lana. Trisha even had them in her own body. They were very handy but they had to be replenished from time to time. The failure rate was still about two percent a month. That's why Zoey needed a booster.

After the suppositories melted, there would be sufficient numbers of the nanobots in the systems of the twins to run a diagnostic test. Zoey already knew what they were capable of. That was how she and Trisha met. Zoey was in a skiing accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down. She literally fell off a mountain. Besides her broken back, she lost most of her teeth and had to have facial reconstruction.

Trisha's miracle nanobots repaired Zoey's spine. Those particular nanobots were the first generation. It took time to program them to fill in the connections in Zoey's severed spine. Technically, they did not repair nerves; they patched them like a splice in an electrical circuit. After all, the body ran on electricity.

The nanobots completed the nerve circuit that was interrupted by the injury. Nanobots had to remain in her system and active to allow her to walk. Zoey could tell when too many of the nanobots had failed. She was unsteady and her feet went numb. Trisha tried not to let that happen if possible.

Now, Trisha would use the nanobots to take some things away rather than repair them. She could use them to immobilize her babies. Instead of completing a nervous circuit, they could insert themselves between the nerve path and block the impulses. She could turn on and off all motor functions, sensory responses, or both. For instance, Zoey had feeling in her bladder and bowel but absolutely no control.

Trisha could take them to the brink of helplessness with this latest update of her algorithm. She could make them totally dependent on others for their care and feeding if required. Once she broke them, she would turn on higher motor functions and allow everything but bowel and bladder control. The same as Zoey.

Trisha had created the app she opened on her phone. She looked at the map of the nanobots she had paired with her app. There were a few billion where she and Zoey stood. Nanobots inside Zoey allowed her to walk. The app showed two other concentrations 30 feet away. The concentration of nanobots on the right was Brandi and the other on the left was Lana.

Trisha touched her control bot to run a diagnostic on herself. She showed 98.5%. She wouldn't need a booster any time soon. Zoey's control bot diagnostic displayed 99.9% active. Excellent levels after the boost from the suppository.

Next, she selected the ones for Lana. She created a label for them and grouped them under it. The diagnostic for Lana came back reading 72.7% and was slowly trending up. Anything over 30% would allow her to assume control of the host's nervous system.

She tagged the last group of nanobots to Brandi and grouped together. Brandi's nanobots, surprisingly, read 92.5% and climbed. She must be exerting herself and fighting the restraints. The more her blood circulated, the faster they infiltrated the tissue. Good girl!

“Well, that was easy. Brandi will learn about nanobots first, won't she?” said Trisha.

“I think so, Mommy,” replied Zoey as she followed Trisha down the hall.