Trigger: Day 10

Word Count: 60,043

Summary of Events:

After two weeks of waiting Spencer got his suit to try on, as well as an incredible list of features that he couldn't wait to try out, thus he proceeded to put the suit on as soon as he got home . . .

Excerpt of the Day:

Following the instructions, he activated the FormFit, which snugged the suit up to his body comfortably. He followed the instructions to inform FormFit that its present setting was his preference so that it would automatically tighten to that setting whenever he put it on in the future.

He then put on his boots and did a standing jump onto his chair that startled him with its energy. He jumped back down to the floor and then standing-jumped onto his desk with similar ease. Before he got too crazy with the jumping around he put the gloves on and tested the feel of the claws against his face. They were pretty sharp. He scratched himself with one and winced. He wondered if he was now bleeding as a result.

Next he placed the helmet on his head. It fit comfortably and, as soon as he closed the eyepieces into place the eyepieces lit up blue on the edges and a voice-recording prompted him: “Welcome. By putting on this helmet you have activated the digital features, to begin, please say your name.”

He was at a loss. Should he call himself Spencer? Sweeney? Dean? Something else altogether?

“Please say your name,” the audio prompt repeated.

“London,” he said.

“Welcome London,” the audio said. “What would you like for security features? Audio recognition or retinal recognition?”

“Retinal,” he replied.

“Please hold your eyes open,” the audio said.

He stared hard at the logo on the bottom of his computer screen for a long time.

“Thank you,” the audio said. “Upon all further activations a retinal scan will determine the wearer’s identity. Should anyone put on this helmet who does not bear your retinas they will not be able to access the digital features and if deemed dangerous will be temporarily blinded.”

That sounded impressive. This was an advanced helmet.

“Now comes personalisation,” the audio said. “First: which colour would you like all text and lines to appear in?”

It stated the name of each colour as the lights on the edge of his eyepieces changed.

“Green,” he selected once they’d all gone through.

“Second: what font would you like to use?” the audio said.

He selected an easy-to-read font at a moderate size, and he was even free to choose the voice that spoke to him and he elected to change it from its present business professional-sounding female voice to a masculine voice that was named James.

James led him on through the rest of the setting up process before informing him that if he had need of anything he merely needed to prefix his request by James’ name and the request would be carried out.