[video] (can go to action if you wish)

[testsubject031]

[Labrys peers at the frame with big, grey eyes and an emotionless blank expression on her face, with the SEES dormitory in the background. She is idly twisting her battle axe in her hands, looking it over as if it were a new toy. Her Yasogami uniform is gone too, revealing her entire robotic structure. It has been ripped off like a rag.

Something is wrong.]

Fascinating. I had no idea we could go this far.

[Labrys speaks with a cold, metallic, disinterested voice. No accent, just a digitalized default voice box.]

This one yearns to be human, but in the end, it too is just a simple machine. So much nonsense saved in the memory...

[This mass hacking just got a lot more dangerous.]

Comments

[ video ]

[theultimateshadow]

What are you talking about?

[testsubject031]

Please clarify which statement you failed to understand, Erinaceinae.

[theultimateshadow]

You're talking about the same thing, right? So nothing of what you said makes any sense. What's this thing that yearns to be human?

[testsubject031]

Ah, yes. This robot that we are using to speak with you, currently. Its day-to-day happenings are all recorded as data.

[theultimateshadow]

That's strange. Something must have happened to cause such a drastic change in personality. Someone must have reprogrammed you. But for what purpose...?

[ Shadow's kind of doing that thing where he's wandering off into his own thinky world... ]

It probably doesn't matter. For a machine to wish it were human...that's pure foolishness.

[testsubject031]

[Labrys...if it's really Labrys...laughs evilly. Shadow won't get an answer.]

Exactly!

[theultimateshadow]

You're just saying that because you've been programmed to. This is hardly a meeting of minds.

[testsubject031]

How do you know what we are?

[text]

[prototype_blues]

Somehow I doubt they're "just" a simple machine.

[He doesn't know who this is, but Blues is not liking what he heard, not one bit.]

[text]

[testsubject031]

But we hacked this one so easily!

We'll be the judge of that after a little test run. Apparently this machine is capable of extreme damage!

[voice]

[electricyousei]

"Miss are you suffering from the viral outbreak? If so hold on and I can attempt to get an antivirus to you."

[testsubject031]

Hahaha, you talk to it like it's a person! What a riot!

[electricyousei]

"Most artificial intelligences are. They just are mechanical in composition instead of biological."

[testsubject031]

Impossible! They are only people shaped.

[electricyousei]

"Not at all, who is to say how sentience is formed but any form, mechanical, biological or otherwise is just as valid as any other form."

[action]

[greatseal]

[Since connecting to the network could be dangerous to Labrys, Minako doesn't think to contact her through it or check it again after talking with Atsuro. Instead, she goes and knocks on her door...]

Labrys? It's Minako, are you home?

Re: [action]

[testsubject031]

Damn!

[Labrys' hacker controls her to go to the door, but doesn't open it.]

You have approximately five seconds to leave.

[action]

[greatseal]

Labrys...?

[well this doesn't sound good. She completely ignores the 'request.'] Are you all right?

[testsubject031]

[Minako won't be hurt, but shortly after asking her question, the blade of her battle axe cuts part-way through her dormitory door.]

[greatseal]

[that was a heck of an answer. Minako jumps backwards, landing almost against the wall on the opposite side of the corridor.]

...I'll take that as a no. [Surprise gives way to tactical planning even though... she doesn't have much in the way of advantages right now. No Evoker, no naginata, and stuck in an enclosed space against a powerful robot. Battle is clearly not in her favor.]

video;

[trainwrecking]

Don't mess with her memory! It's hers, none of it is useless! And who is we, anyway?

[He doesn't have to be a computer genius to see that something is amiss.]

[testsubject031]

Wouldn't yoooou like to know? Are you sympathizing with a machine?

video;

[screwattack]

[Well there's one piece of equipment that really ought not to get involved with this. It looked like an android equipped for battle... if that got turned against civilians...]

What exactly are you planning to do with that weapon?

[She isn't even bothering to address the android, she's addressing the intelligence that is in control at the moment.]

video;

[testsubject031]

Well, there's really only one purpose for an axe, and that's to cut things!

video;

[screwattack]

If you turn that weapon against innocent lives, you'll severely regret it.

[While her tone is very cool and collected, her stature is stiff and tense. There are all sorts of alarm bells going off, putting her on edge...]