Mark tried to get between us, but I shoved him out of the way like a sack of potatoes. I was going to stop this, but I had to time it just right, and the Megatron Pulse wasn’t ready yet.

“What are you going to do? The game is programmed to me, so there is nothing you can do to stop this, no matter how violent you get,” Helsin said with a snide look that I wanted to punch off his face.

“You think you can just toy with the lives of billions of people? Is this all you ever wanted?” I asked, trying to stall time.

I needed to stay close to him and the button that was dark for now. When the system was ready, the button would light up.

“You think I have always wanted to kill most of the world's population? This is something that has to be done! They were going to shut the project down, and the government funding the project made it this way! The funding has continued to get less and less over the years, and there is nowhere left to draw money from. The funding is why we had to push the proje