It was getting late, certainly past midnight as ferri was still sitting over the desk, working overtime in the lab. Nothing in particular held her there, she could just as well go home, however working as a chemist for NaVa S.A. was quite a rewarding job - having unlimited access to cutting edge technologies and chemicals that any scientist would’ve dream of, was enough to her keep, both, her body and mind constantly at work.
Her recent research focused on so called living latex - essentially a compound that in texture resembles rubber, however it's combined with swarms of nanites that control the material. End result is layer of thin and elastic material that can be remotely controlled. The basic idea have already been done and sold on the market, but as always, improvements can be made - lighten the material controlled by robots which would allow for quicker operations.
That was Ferri’s goal, and for the past week, every night she felt as if she was on the very verge of making a breakthrough. There were no deadlines or corporate targets that she had to meet. As such high ranking specialist she had a lot of freedom, her managers knew that sooner or later she’s going to deliver. At this point it was mainly Ferri’s personal goal to develop the product.
But it appeared that tonight wasn’t the night. “This doesn’t make sense...” she sighed, tossing a pen across the room in anger. her face lowered into her hands in sigh of defeat and disappointment. The clock above - it was nearing 3 am and resigned she slowly got up, sliding papers into a folder, taking her work home, hoping that maybe she’ll be enlightened before going to sleep.
As she got up an alarm rang - “Intruders!” The sirens announced. Terrified, Ferri looked across the room, trying to locate evacuation exit - normally closed a sizable metal doors were open. Grabbing the papers she stared running towards the exit. She had no idea who would dare to breach into the facility and what exactly they’d be looking for. Running across the long corridor she heard buzzing sound - “drones!” She thought as she looked behind and noticed two, hand sized robots flying towards her.
