“Shut up!” I yelled. “I can fix this!”

“No! Listen!” Henry yelled back. “You don’t understand!”

Henry tugged at his end of the handcuffs, trying to pull my hand away from the keyboard. I ignored him, my eyes glued to the flashing screen. I typed furiously, trying to undue the problem. My thoughts started to unravel, my eyes briefly flashing to what was about to happen.
System failure [ 11111000000101010101001 ]

No, I couldn’t let that happen.

“Stop!!” Henry yelled, and pushed me away. “You’re not going to fix anything trying to recode this entire computer, no one is that fast!! Listen, you don’t realize this: All computers run on a base-2 number system, binary, ones and zeros. In five minutes, this computer, as well as all the rest in the world, will switch to a base-1 number system. All zeros. The computers will reject the change, try and fix it.
“It will only result in one thing: Catastrophic. System. Failure.“

“Then it’s too late.” I said.

I looked at my wrist, handcuffed to Henry’s.

Damn.