(In her favourite dreams, she is a rabbit.)
Prologue: Cammie
Cameron "Cammie" MacCloud is born in 2055, and the only dreams she can't control are those of a woman who died nine days before her hundredth birthday.
(There's a reason why only some brains are gen:LOCK compatible.)
The woman had lived in a world much less advanced then Cammie's, but the woman didn't have to deal with aliens. Instead, Cammie sees a world where cyber security is reluctantly acknowledged to be weak and wonders how her own world fairs. Before she can walk, the little blonde girl wants to be the best white hat hacker or security engineer.
The older she gets, the less these dreams come, and the more she takes interest in exploring the differences. Cammie is gifted with life lessons, a loving family, and knowledge of how-to-adult, all before grade school. The lines between reality and dream blurs for those starting years, until she isn't sure what it is she knows as fact and what was only a dream. In the dreams she can control, Cammie gets to work separating possible from can be possible.
In the waking world, she will be a kid as long as she can (her memories tell her adulting is hard). It drives her family crazy, so she gets bits of tech to keep busy (to learn how to hear). The only reason Cammie doesn't become addicted to the Ether is the spotty connection out where she lives.
Cammie grows up with little patience and an unrecognized genius. By eight years old the dreams have faded off, but her interest in the adapted alien technology only grows. The Union is expanding territory with their advanced amalgamations, while three of the four countries in the United Kingdom are debating throwing their lot in with the Polity. At eight years old, she joins a practice hacker group.
By twelve, Cammie's grades have gotten her into the school with the best technical program where she begins to build a robot.
In 2068, New York isn't the only place the Union attacks. It's just the place they brought out the new weapons. Cammie works around the clock with the hackers in the area to try and stop the Union from getting a foothold on the isles. If they can halt their approach through Europe, even better.
She has an epic battle with something in the Union as it shuts out the other intruders one by one, until she's all that's left. It's terrifying, thrilling, and not something she wants to experience ever again. Unknowingly, it's when the nanites are neutralized in New York that causes her breakthrough win.
Cameron MacCloud shuts down the large part of Union forces being fought at her shores. She turns their machines on their people and powers down their surveillance system before the Union opponent recovers enough to kick her out. The United Kingdom's win becomes a legend in the hacker community. Alone, on her bedroom floor, Cammie has done the impossible.
And at the next school day, gets scolded for not doing her homework.
(Cammie has memories telling her not to give any call signs, so she never breathes a word of her involvement. It's better left unsaid what the Union does to those who try to claim they were the victory hacker.)
The worst day of her life is watching the Nanotech destroy someone. (With her home gone, she sets a goal to learn how to destroy the Union's tech if she can, nullify it if she can't.) Her self-made hearing aids are a masterpiece of hearing technology which get her noticed.
The best day of her life is the day Nugget comes online.
(And finally, Cammie finds someone she can call family.)
At sixteen Cammie is reluctantly – forcibly – enlisted into the Polity, but with her skills and resume it is cybersecurity which wins the rock-paper-scissors against engineering. It isn't even a year when the department tells the cybersecurity expert to pack her bags, she's being moved to a place with greater tech where she'll be better used.
Cammie steps on a plane, hearing aids adjusted to translate any language, and charms them all with only her smile.
Disclaimer: I do not own gen:LOCK. All rights belong to its respective owners.
A/N: I have an idea of where this is going… Thanks for reading!
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