The entity brought the impaled drone close to its chest, soon the chest opened revealing its real body, a small ball of light, guided by its instincts it extended multiple tentacles towards the incapacitated drone. The tentacles upon contact began dissolving the drone, like it was a hot iron rod which was punched into a block of ice. The entity used more tentacles to make the process faster.
Soon fragments of new information about the drone kept appearing in its mind.
Although compiling them will take some time, it can see these were information about the drones, their blueprint, algorithms , behaviour and finally about the place they came from and how to open the portal they had used to come here.
That was the way out the entity was looking for, but it needed to kill and 'eat' more drones. It has not become efficient in using this to get information thus it needs to kill more drones to get complete information.
With the new goal decided, it changed its weapons, its left tentacle became a straight rod, the chainsaw disappeared , multiple holes opened on the rod's surface from which yellow tentacles came out . It became a large stick with thorns which can be used to capture drones and devour them. Its right hand transformed into a large shield.
It's been a few seconds since it captured the drone, the protective net it had deployed was being broken down but this net had bought it enough time.
With a new goal it charged toward the swarm of drones.
With its previous experience it invaded the swarm of drones , swinging it's spiked weapon it impaled many drones , the yellow thorns took few microseconds to devour them.It blocked the projectiles with the shield, although this can't protect the entity indefinitely , it can take enough damage until the entity has killed enough for its goal.
Few minutes later the entity had successfully killed enough to get all the information it needed from the tier 2 drones.
It followed the previous strategy , ran out of the swarm and created a barrier net to block all projectiles.
From compiled the information the entity has gotten the way to open a portal to the place these drones come from.
To open the portal it needed to decode a frequency which when used, creates the portals.
It has used large amounts of 'brain power' in order to do this.
Finally the entity used an algorithm it has designed to make the required frequency, soon a similar portal appeared in front of it.
Before it could rejoice, a familiar voice echoed across the whole space.
[Tier 3 units being dispatched]
With its 360 vision it could see new units that looked like humanoids with laser swords being summoned, they also had insect-like wings and shoulder guns.
But these had nothing to do with the entity, it wanted to get away from here.
The entity moved toward the portal as it was about to reach it, it noticed one of the new units suddenly vanished , before it could react the new unit was in front of the entity and slashed with its sword.
The entity has already changed its hands from weapons to normal as they have served their purpose and it was about retreat, caught off guard with no way to dodge the laser sword, thus it's left shoulder was cut off completely.
But the entity was not without any counters , before the tier 3 unit had a chance to react , a yellow tentacle came out of the hollowed shoulder and pierced its head, the entity caught its severed limb with its other hand and jumped into the portal along with the tier 3 unit , impaled from its head.
Similar to the previous portal , a bright flash occurred when it entered.
When the light faded the entity found itself in the place the drones came from.
The Maze.
It didn't know much about this place apart from its name and what it had speculated from its name.
The entity was floating above the ground as it had no legs, surrounding it were humongous walls on both sides leaving only a straight path which.
The entity walked towards the walls and touched them, it intended to see if it could devour them to open a path.
As it touched the walls , a shock passed through its whole body. It jumped back instantly and cut off the hand that touched the wall.
The severed hand suddenly began to pulse, turning a deep crimson as something unnatural took hold.
Several new hands began to sprout, grotesquely twisting and multiplying. Fingers elongated and new eyes formed along the grotesque limbs, blinking erratically as if perceiving reality in ways beyond comprehension. The piece of metallic hand has become a mass of flesh that writhes, growing out of control.
The entity's core instincts screamed a warning—this was not normal. It was something even it couldn't predict.
Before the corrupted hand could evolve more, the entity acted.
With a flicker of thought, its other hand morphed, reshaping into a mechanical flamethrower. A burst of white-hot fire roared to life, engulfing the still evolving abomination.
The twisted hands and eyes shriveled and screeched, writhing in agony before turning to ashen remains.
The entity stared at the smoldering spot and the walls where the mutation had begun,slowly realizing that , It probably came to a more dangerous place than the white space.
{That… was too close.}
This was data corruption , a serious data corruption can kill human netrunners but for digital entities it mutates them into mindless AIs likely creating bizarre cyberspace monsters. Although the entity didn't know enough about this it knew enough to stay away from whatever causes it , that is the walls in this case.
Meeting a dead end at the walls the entity glanced open skies.
Although after its recent experience with the walls of this place, hope for such an exploit is very low, it still has to understand its current environment to find a way out.
Using the jetpack and wings the entity slowly ascended, stopping at the border of the walls and the open sky above.
Learning from its earlier mistake, it made a small round drone and made it fly towards the sky.
As soon as the drone crossed the border the entity lost connection with it, the entity watched as the drone suddenly broke into small cubes and kept breaking down until it vanished.
Looking at the result , the entity was thankful for its cautiousness.
But it was not discouraged, just as it was about to begin another round of tests, its thoughts suddenly got sluggish and its conscience was slowly fading.
Time crawled to a stop, as it began to look for the cause it realized it's body had been cut in half. This also includes it's real body, which instead of being a small round ball is now two semi circles.
Looking around with its 360 vision it could not find any hostile entities , but then again it also did not see what broke the test drone.
Realizing the urgency of its situation , the entity tried to use tentacles to connect both sides of the body.
Suddenly something cut apart the tentacles trying to connect the entity's bodies, two claw-like hands caught the two halves of the entity.
The enemy materialized behind it, using some kind of cloaking tech it had attacked the entity without showing up in its 360 vision.
A robot with four hands with two shoulder guns had emerged as the cloaking was turned off , two hands were holding laser swords like the teleporter units earlier and two holding the entity.
With its real body seriously damaged , it couldn't bring more fire power, it tried to control the broken robot body to attack but the enemy robot's shoulder gun quickly put more holes in it, neutralizing it.
As the entity's thoughts got more sluggish , red liquid substance emerged from the robot body moving towards it, realizing what it could be , the entity made a firm decision.
Before the enemy could savor its prey , it was engulfed in an explosion.
The explosion continued to devastate the surroundings until it was neutralized by the walls.
Few seconds after the explosion , the damaged area got fixed automatically and the maze returned to its tranquility.
AUTHOR'S THOUGHTS:
"When someone is talking out loud"
'When someone is thinking'
{Dawn Cyberself of MC talking}
Dawn=cyberself of Jason(MC)
"pp"=perk points.
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