The one wherein Sombra is a menace to society

by megafox

Sombra, the megalomaniacal anarchist hacker with poor friend-making skills, finds herself in a bind with the police and is forced to leave the Dia de Los Muertos movement and her vague left-wing politics behind to join Talon as a terrorist for-hire. Gives some backstory to Sombra's life and the events prior to "Infiltration."

1. Chapter 1

Note: this was written almost entirely on my iPhone 4 over the course of about 2 weeks so its a bit hasty and unedited in parts. I would totally appreciate any reviews and criticism.

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Sombra hacks and 7 million euros are lost by an institutional trader in a botched algorithmic HFT that was delayed by 400 pica seconds. Sombra hacks and a U.S. Republican senator's microwave is now slowly irradiating his kitchen, he will die of skin cancer in 5 years. Sombra hacks and a botnet DDOSes a major DNS provider causing millions of dollars of lost business from service outages. Sombra hacks and an NSA server farm is now concurrently busy-waiting until she gets millions dollars of ransom money. When Sombra is in this mood hacking and fucking are the same thing.

Sombra bites her lip, hacks and thousands of people are now sending monthly donations to the CPUSA. Sombra uploads "bitch. asm" to a Facebook server and sells 70 million user names and passwords to the Chinese government. Sombra hacks and a neural network using leaked data of NSA employees can automatically identify their social media accounts. Sombra hacks and she leaves very smart people confused.

She was cruising now; she had been awake for several days riding a wave of drug fueled hypomania. Exhaustion fuels bad judgment. She had no more spare brain cycles to start on a new target, only maybe to masturbate and refactor some code. She sat back in her chair, put one hand down her pants and began to look through her notes. This was day 3 of her worldwide hacking spree.

The limit that Sombra daily faces is that there is one Sombra, which may be solved in the near future since she is training several omnic neural networks in cryptovirology.

Sombra, however, has two weaknesses.

She is a bitch

She is bad with "not computers"

She grew up an orphan, which led to problems. An intelligent woman, she knows that her weakness is that she is maladjusted. However, as an intelligent woman she concluded that she was talented and desirable enough for people to look past her weaknesses so she never has to work on them. She has yet to be proven wrong.

How did this start?