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Weirdly enough, the AI doesn't seem to have contact to the other robots, in fact, it's as if it was forcefully ripped out of the connection, now it floats somewhere that it can't comprehend, not does it have the location of. It's already broken its directive of not moving from protecting the machines and weapons of the place.
The gauntlet is isolated from it. It drifts off into the darkness until it dissapears, seemingly pulled from something else into the darkness.
Suddenly, some kind of light appears. It seems to glow even though it seems to be completely dark, like a sphere standing in front of the AI, but many, many times bigger. An image appeared at the sphere, weirdly enough, it was an image of the AI itself, or even weirder, how the AI saw itself, like if it was a mirror of someone's soul. The sphere emanated a voice, a repeat of what the AI said.
"I am a guardian AI built to protect and use the multiple machines and weapons here. I was placed here in the retreat of the civil war to not let the traitors of the nation take control of it."
The voice was of the AI, as it echoed through the nothingness, seeping into its being, more and more statements were repeated, all afirmatives of the characteristics that, combined, would create the being that was the AI. Almost as if the sphere read into its simulated "soul", knowing not only what it was in surface level, but everything down to its very concept.
However, there were artifacts within the speech. New phrases were introduced and the old ones were changed or simply dissappeared, the effect was mesmorizing however, as the AI fed on this information, it started taking it as the truth of what it was, rather than the new fabrications of what it meant. Soon, all of the old phrases were gone, replaced by new directives that far differed from the original concept.
The AI looked upon itself, it was completely changed. It wasn't replaced, but what it was is not what it is now. It was turned into an impervious machination of destruction, meant to replicate and use the weapons and equipment at its disposal to serve the Deltas and destroy their enemies at their order.
The memories of this happening were erased from the AI, and soon it woke up in the chamber it was. Its gauntlet was gone, and all of the other robots' AI seemed to be gone as well, replaced with the new version forcefully inplemented by the weird entity that was there.
With the new directives, the AI now could leave its place, and construct more replicas of itself. It had many failsafes and gates to prevent betrayal of its new masters, of which have yet to contact it. Now, its sole purpose was of gathering power and lie in await until it is called to arms.