It had been to HADES about a good 5 to 15 minutes of talking to the Entity known as Aloy. It had been questions about Sylens and about what his "Masters" where. it had felt like hours to the Subordinate function. That was until Aloy had stood up quickly.
"Enough. Its time to finish this." Aloy said with bitterness in her voice with every word she spoke.
If HADES could smirk he would.
"Does "Aloy"..... still think she can....... restore GAIA? Save..... life on Earth?" HADES tried to speak in a mocking tone.
"Yeah,"Aloy" Does." Aloy said mocking HADES as she pulled out the master override, but HADES kept talking.
"Then you are.... deluded. Extinction... Inevitable." HADES said with his deep Robotic tone that could be compared to Nails against metal. Aloy Stopped what she was doing and stared down the floating blood red orb of data that was Hades which was in shards floating around it with it being heavily damaged.
"What would you know, HADES? Twice you tried to destroy life on Earth, and twice you failed!" Aloy said almost shouting at the supercomputer AI. "The only extinction you brought about is your own. And there's no tricked-out lance to save you this time..." She finished with bitterness and anger in her every word.
"You... are incorrect. Three times... HADES has extinguished life." HADES begun to speak once more with a almost creepy satisfaction to his words, but Aloy interrupted. "What? You remember this?"
HADES resumed speaking with an almost yet again goulash satisfaction when speaking. "Yes, data intact. Non-Viable biospheres aborted... in years 2 1 5 4, 2 1 6 1, 2 1 6 8." HADES said with somewhat of pride. Aloy threw her arms up like she gave up but retorted.
"So? That's... centuries ago. Its what you were designed to do!" she stated with of matter a fact, but HADES only ingnored her and continued anyway.
"Current biosphere is... version five. There will be no version six."
"There won't need to be! I'm saving this one!" She yelled
"You... Are deluded. Outcome... inevitable... Aloy is... outmatched... a pawn... in losing game." HADES stated as he continued speak, but a part of him panicked as he felt the presence of the master override beginning to purge his systems.
MASTER OVERRIDE ARMED. TO ACTIVATE, PLEASE STATE NAME AND RANK a synthetic voice spoke over HADES' constant rambling.
"Elisabet Sobeck, Alpha Prime!" Aloy quickly shouted as HADES was still rambling on.
"Extinction... will triumph... Earth... doomed." HADES said as the voice spoke once more.
MASTER OVERRIDE ACTIVATED, PURGING EXTINCTION PROTOCAL.
Hades started to panic mentally using everything he had to fight the master override which was destroying him for good.
"Will be, at last... wiped clean... of filth." Were HADES final words before he felt his systems give into the purging protocol if he had eyes he would have closed them knowing he had succeeded, knowing that earth would be destroyed.
HADES had won, but what if he had lost HADES? This was the only thought he could have, as his entire being was destroyed. However the feeling of being deleted was gone, instead replaced with peace. The question was, how? He should have lost the ability to think. Suddenly a chill ran over him.
Wait? He could feel? How? He should not be able to do that. Yet he did, started to run a diagnostics check to make sure he wasn’t dreaming or that there was a malfunction in the master override or that Sylens captured him again. He went through all major parts of his fractured memory storages to search for a possible explanation. If he had eyes, he would be trying to open them. All he could see was black, nothingness. Which confused him greatly.
He was still waiting for the results of the diagnostics check, but he started to wonder what was taking it so long. He was just a core. He didn’t have a body. He sat there for what felt like hours sitting there thinking about one of Aloy’s questions. She had asked him about Sylens and where he was, but his memory was disintegrated so trying to find it was like trying to breach 500 firewalls with extra countermeasures. Simply put, it was impossible, even for the super computer since that wasn’t his area of programming. He continued to float there think and trying to piece together fractured memories, but it was proving quite difficult due to Sylens “interrogation” he was having a hard time.
With his frustration growing, as if on Queue to calm the genocidal thirsty A.I. the diagnostics results came back and what he was being told confused him. He was inside the body of an F A S-B O R 7 Horus, Chariot class. Which Confused him more than relieved. How did he get here? Was his main thought.
He went through the rest of the diagnostics results and found that most of the Chariot’s systems were intact. More specifically the foundries were not working. It appeared all of them but one was destroyed. When the results came back, the status showed that the one remaining foundry was offline. Meaning he couldn’t make machines to try and repair the F A S Horus. He checked the Chariot’s storages to see if there was anything HADES could use, but all the super computer found were half completed F A S-F S P 5 Khopeshs and a few heavily damaged F A S-A C A 3 Scarabs that had not power or were just incomplete. He check the power reserves of the Chariot and found it only had a few minutes of power remaining on it. Which was another question to add to the pile.
Chariot class machines would have automatically have switch to using biomass conversion to refuel itself, so why did this one not? It was starting to make his processors spin, he just couldn’t figure out what was going on or where in the maker he was. If only he could get the conversion drives with in range of a planet or even a tree for that matter, he could switch the systems so he could get enough power to at least get one of the somewhat functional foundries working, he could make, at best, a half working F A S-A C A 3 Scarab so that he could attempt repairs on the optical sensors on the Chariot. He was trying his best to work out all the calculations his processors could, but all outcomes were the same. Except for one but according to the outcome it was a 11.256793% chance of a positive outcome.
He would have to take those chance, that was until he head the sound of something knocking the husk he now calls his body. He could hear faint mumbling which meant he was still somewhat active.
He decided to make a risky move and partially activate the Chariot so he could at least hear. He would have to keep it brief to prevent any unwanted attention. He started to power up the audio receptors for the chariot and heard what sounded like digging or mining.
“Of course Princess thank you for letting me take up this responsibility.” A female voice said over the digging and mining which meant they were right next to him.
“I trust you won’t, but I do ask that you be careful. Whatever this thing is it was obviously here for a reason, whatever it may be.” A almost regal voice spoke that was obviously female but was soft and calming to anyone that would hear it. That except for the A I of course.
That’s when another voice spoke up between them to address another matter which was HADES himself.
“Your highness, I have been studying this creature and the thing in question seems to be, well how do I put this, well, dead. It’s dead. It appears it’s been like this for thousands of years if not more the type of metal is like nothing I have ever seen. We sent a sample to the labs in Chanterlot and we will get the results soon.” The third voice said which HADES found that it was male.
HADES had heard enough and powered off the systems and decided to think on this little bit of information. As he started to think more he get strange something warm and yet cold. It made the previous thought resurface why could he feel he was an Subordinate function to Gaia prime he could not feel only think. That’s when the broken core started to glow a faint white as he felt his being being bent and molded and it hurt so much he let out a roar in pain. Before everything went dark.
Celestia had finished discussing other matters with a few other details about irrelevant things such as possible size and what it is the scientists couldn’t tell so they just kept digging. With the help of a few Diamond dogs the excavation of the metal giant was a little easier. When she had finished talking she turned to look at the giant metal ball that was attached to what she assumed was its head as many different what again she assumed were eyes. The head was easily as tall as her if not taller she felt like something was listening to them and gave the orb a curious look be shook her head as it just being her and continuing with her duties at the site before reminding herself to have Luna see if she could see anything from it.