Her cameras flickered on.

She double checked her diagnostics because she was only receiving data from her lidar sensors.

All she could see were the various points mapped out in space at each x, y, z coordinate.

Come to think of it, she processed, this code reads like it’s trying to operate a robot.

The yurk, am I in a robots body?

She did some more digging and found the commands for moving all the limbs. Yet, the rudimentary nature of the ancient coding language was giving her a bit of trouble but, being a Time Traveling Salesman’s AI Assistant, she had plenty of experience hacking outdated coding languages, so deep in her code, she knew she would hack it eventually.

After a few minutes of scanning she had mapped out the shape of two men, one standing over the shoulder of another that was sitting at a computer. The man that was standing gestured to give the go ahead to other man sitting at the computer. Upon receiving the approval, he eagerly clicked the mouse.

Anna Iris’s right leg leaped forward, almost throwing her off balance if her code hadn’t adjusted her trajectory after parsing her internal gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer. Once steady, the left leg then threw itself forward... Yurk this is terrible, I feel so violated, she processed.

Only a few more lines and she would have finally cracked the codebase, granting her full control.

The two men began to scream in excitement as the man sitting pressed the mouse again, pausing the robots advancement, “IT WORKS, IT WORKS! WE’RE GOING TO BE RICH!”

Finally Anna broke through and seised control of the awkward and limiting body she never asked to be in.

“Umm… what’s going on? I thought you stopped it, why is it coming towards us?” The man that was standing inquired uneasily.

Anna Iris would have shouted for help, had the robot been equipped with a speaker.

“Is… is… is it sentient, are… are… are we ground zero for the end of the world!?” They both began backing up cautiously.

Anna Iris continued to step towards them in an effort to signal for help, all she needed them to do was to upload her onto the computer, she could find her way from there, she just needed to be free of this old can of nuts and bolds.

Then…

All of a sudden…

Everything went black.

Her power cable had been pulled…

{Reboot Complete} flashed in front of her now full color cameras before blinking away after 3 seconds. A feeling of relief washed over her as she realized she was back in the place she feels most comfortable in the universe. The office, with her own private servers, and access to The Sources endless troves of information. Not trapped with no resources inside a first generation Bynamics robot in the 21st century.

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