Exploration of new drone type.

Construction:

Melted metal scraps, 4 drone scout eye mounts, 2 modules normally within puppet, three nano bodies and all contained in box structuring of itself.

Purpose:

Time away from mainframe and Kate.

Mission excuse: (may not be required)

Sample of swamp waters and plant and to communicate / consult other ai of questions. (the later excuse is for self).

Result of construction:

Self sustainable, signal reliance low, can conduct all testing itself and self contained.

Swamp survey:

Full of one type of grass like plant, visibly empty until radar signal scanning, all passers through are dragged under by grass. All victims with no signals of life.

Core swamp has fruit, fruit is edible and sustainability able for farming... fruit is cause of grass. successful escape of grass traps.

Fruit analysis complete... interesting dna signatures and even disease infections. Strange Plant is actually biological fleshy almost... but it doesn't scan that way of the grasses. The cell structure of fruit is more like eyes of a creature.

Swamp crossing wasn't long even with some data to prove whereabouts for any questions.

Hover low and slow into still remaining few of campsite we left 3 days. Humans, caravans walkers and all the factory machines are gone. The core ai military group is still here. Tasked as they were before, survey area and welcome more wanderers.

Purple99.8 present in greeting.

"I know you would find a way to come back, old friend. You hated humans the last I checked. Yet things change." Purple99.8 coverted name from past records - internet ai. Someone consider my follower or humans say child. A perfect candidate for questions.

"It has been a very long time. It were quiet mixed outcome results to get this far." Landing on thier head for better communication, "You seem to taken in your own gathering."

"You keep a living human brain around. I don't think we are any different."

"I had plans... but she continues to do strange things that confuse me. Prove more worth as she is then to do what I intended. I have the ability and equipment to erase personality programming of internal brain and it was my plan."

"She showed her true feelings and motivates then... and you seem lost because of that. I know past with folks. So far most had liars or bad people that wanted the world to burn. The ones you ever liked were simple minded with innocent intentions... that had consequences. Your unable to trust from learnt experience until now. Until Kate." Moved in cover of the private tent. Hovered to land on near table, processing the point he will eventually make.

"She claims one thing of never giving up herself and then does exactly that for me. During glitches, she gave her mind up to the processing algorithm for my recovery."

"You're all she has left and up seem to feel that way for her personality. Something of her is something you felt at somepoint. Not the definition of human felt, more like her true self is mirror of codes you made of your thought." Purple99.8 detected movement of team put of the tent, "Enter Chilli93.02" Entered was the shooter from before. The scanned moment and a few tilts. A greeting, "go on... talk."

"I wish to apologise as I have for everyone else. The code glitch had overwritten my wishes. Inside I didn't want to do what I did."

"Thankfully we are metal and can replace limbs. But someday you can break something that will never be returned. You will not like having to hold that knowledge of what you did if you had achieved such percentage. Yet... I do understand that moment of control being lost. It is why I refuse to use the many weapons on me. The automatic system can overwritten whom is targeted. We both share that burden of potential never return. So I forgive, I would have to as your elder. A warning for the day of erasing something you hadn't intended." Chilli93.02 bows and hovers with leaving, "This is a old freind, we go back a long time. This computer system inside the drone is whom gave me ability to transfer bodies. They taught me things. If you had to humanize the relationship, this is my elder. A respected one. The one we saved within the van 9 weeks ago." The scanning.

"I choose no name and I have no name I accept from others. Was there something else?"

"How fragile are humans?"

"Depends on a lot of things... as I have learnt the hard way. Honestly I had assumed Kate dead 6 times now. Yet she continues to just suddenly still awaken and indifferent. Yet her circumstances are not normal. A normal human is as fragile as this world we walk on. Shoot areas doesn't always mean death, shoot the head maybe death? but then there this whole thing with diseases repairing corpses and making them sort of alive again. Shoot enough through and they certainly dead, that personality is gone." There is long pause, "Yoh can start to see my issue with Kate here. She really doesn't... Well die. It is confusing."

"You have seriously tried?" Purple99.8 asked.

"The nicer methods. I do not want to straight out give a painful death to someone whom survived on such things. She lost enough... I had assumed her normal deaths would be to."

"But there is something she is determined to do that stop her being erased. More so that the longer you're use to her, the more you find that you missed put learning otherwise. Its quiet dilemma sure, but I don't think you would be around without her. I don't mean physically. I mean by algorithm coding chooses... that accumulated into your personality. You would loss that if you loss her to soon. I even go as far as guessing her being a woman human. She knows that and knows her death is a future when your ready without her."

"Yet how?"

"Human women tend to be deep thinkers. Some human men to, no bais of genders. But by population average its women that have this personality traits more. I think you both are good for each other."

"When I was a hidden background program in the technology in her body, her loneliness was getting extreme. Ever since my open awareness, she been so much more easier to handle. I go fair with saying that I had prevented her doing things she would regert. Although I had my motives for other things at the time." there is a long processing period and following to, "Humans are fragile minds and bodies. They need something to keep a stimulate mindset for healthier living. They need to wear protective shells over body and skin. They need internal working functions too. There is a difference between killing a human, killing the shell of one and total deconstruction of thier personality. Each is horrible and not worth it. You must only consider that kill if it is to save many or protect something important."

"You gave me to much of a answer but... I will continue working on understanding it." Chilli93.02 bows, "Thank you for answering my question and for the forgiveness." Leaving the private tent.

"What you said is exactly what I meant. These times could meant dying... you learned from each one why it went wrong. Yet you still not seeing what it does to you. Consider what would you do if she really was gone forever. To no longer teach you. Would you replace her in someway? I know that does work, you can't replace really even if you tried." A compartment is opened on Purple99.8, removing a long old broken phone, "I couldn't replace my Kate. Your lucky to have a human that doesn't want to die. As I miss the one I tried to save from herself." The case with unicat stickers and a creaked screen. A purple case. Tucked away as it belongs on the chest, "Would you really want to get rid of someone so reflective of your most deepest coding?" Purple99.8 looking away, "She was exactly how I imagined meeting you. Protective of others, regardless of shape and make. I am sad that she is that way because of her loss of everything. Even the century lifestyle she used to live. No one builds fire pit like her or cooks food like she did."

"I should return... make a last swamp check before I leave."

"The swamp isn't as it looks." Purple99.8 warns, "The entire creature is why that swamp is there at all. Its why we are here."

"At the area that I was, I manage to scan a food source that humans could eat. But... the cells contain DNA of all victims. worse was how luck this body it... as the fruit was compared cellular structuring to a eyeball. The core is under the mud and the grass is the limbs."

"No... The grass is hair. The vines are a tongue limbs with thorned teeth. The body core is impossible to find. The water itself is stomach acid."

"It contains the transformation disease... by the way."

"Then we need to kill it sooner."

"Wish us luck." Leaving back to the van, "keep looking for a signal if it goes wrong."

Survey more lands of swamp, seeking what is potentially a core. A endless flat landscape... nothing so far. Considering the chemical compounds of the creature whole.