Thread: NieR - 'User Error' (Kaybee x The Carnal Soul)

She knew that she was being watched as she stalked the halls, her footfalls silent despite the weight of structure that gave her form. Active scanners informed her that monitoring was being levelled in her direction and cameras mounted on the walls turned to follow her as she passed them by. She'd destroyed a few of them as she'd advanced on the dam's perimeter but now that she was inside the place there was nowhere for them to run if they saw her coming. In the detached way that software was aware of software she knew that they were trying to access sections of her code but they hadn't shown any signs of being able to break into the necessary core files of her being so 2B saw no reason to retreat. A human might even have considered it suspicious that they weren't even targeting files that could disable or restructure her, but to 2B, it was simply foolishness. That these hackers imagined they could really do anything to her by accessing useless surface subroutines, it was almost insulting, though feeling offended at the apparent idiocy was tucked back behind a more prominent satisfied feeling as she believed that this would not be any real trouble. She could clear this group quickly and then be back to the front lines to push the Biodroid threat back, clearing them region by region, sector by sector. That was what she was meant for after all... A door barred her way, thick metal that would take a several-kilogram breaching charge applied very carefully to a very specific point to destroy normally. A hiss of steel as the sword slid off her back again, she raised it above her head and brought it down, shearing from its hinges in a single blow that sent a scream of twisting metal echoing down the hallways. And behind it, she could sense the human figure, made slightly hazy by the smoke whispering off the liquefied edges of the cut but perfectly clear as her sensors outlined his form and she stepped through the door, sheathing the blade again as she did so. Orders were to subdue and capture if possible, and this man was unarmed, no threat, saying something that didn't matter. She charged, moving faster than the human eye could follow as she leaped across the intervening space, intending to get behind him and knock him out with a minimally powerful blow to the head. At the same time, a little switch of programming shifted in 2Bs head, and suddenly a suite of sensory receptors that had been locked into their off state before she'd even begun the mission switched on without warning, halting her. To Red Jack it had appeared as though she'd moved from the doorway to the other side of his table in the blink of an eye, such was the speed of her motion, but with that speed also brought a sudden overload of sensory information as the very air resistance put a sudden pressure on every part of her. Behind the black mask, 2Bs eyes went wide, realizing in an instant that several routines that should not be active had somehow been activated. She tried to switch them off but the program wasn't complying, and thus her inhuman speed was partially sealed just like that. It hadn't been a graceful stop either, she'd locked up from the sensation barrage and as slowing had unlocked her systems she had gone to one knee, grabbing the edge of the table for support as every system at once ran a diagnostic, demanding to know what had caused this erroneous data surge. It made her feel a brief tingle of something analogous to fear, if only for a moment... What have you done? She levered herself upright and advanced on Jack, very deliberately refusing to use her speed until she knew what sort of tolerances her mind had while the sensory feedback routines were active. She didn't need speed to take him out, it would just be less efficient.