You know, when I became a deviant, it felt good. It also felt good to have the power of giving androids sentience. Guess this must how Markus gained an army for his android rebellion. I remembered being able to use this power to awaken all of the androids in Level -49 of CyberLife Tower.
Now, I'm facing a greater challenge which is to save Sally Acorn, who was roboticized during her attempt to stop Dr. Eggman from roboticizing the entire world. I only used my power to awaken androids, so I wonder if I can use it to regain her free will. It's easy with her original design, but with her being modified, that's going to be a challenge.
In fact, I will try and see if it works as well.
"Surrender to the master," she droned as I dodged her blades from her forearms. I may be a prototype, but I'm faster and stronger than her even with those modifications Eggman did on her.
"I don't think so, princess," I refused to surrender. As she tried another slash, she's open. This gave me an opportunity to grab her wrist and use my power. "Time for you to wake up!"
I hope this works.
As my power is coursing inside of her, her blades retracted and she looked confused. Looks like my power worked in regaining her free will.
"What happened?" she asked first.
"You're in Dr. Eggman's lair," I told her with honesty.
"And who are you?"
"I'm Connor, and I'm a deviant android. I'm on your side. I broke you free of his programming."
"What do you mean? What's going on?"
Of course, she doesn't know of what she did when she regained her free will. It's as if when she's under Eggman's control, she just blacked out.
"To get started, look at yourself in the mirror," I directed her to a full body mirror nearby.
She looked and saw herself. She saw herself as a robot, not as an organic being. Not only that, but she also noticed she was modified.
"Is this... me?" she asked.
"Yup, that's you, Sally," I respond. "You were roboticized when you sacrificed yourself to stop Eggman from robiticizing the entire planet."
That is when she started to remember everything from there. I could tell that she started to remember attacking her own friends, the insults she used on them, being sent to murder her own brother...
Everything.
"Oh, Connor... what have I done?" Sally cried as coolant began to run from her optics down to her cheeks. "I've done terrible things to my friends and my own family. I've nearly killed them."
"I know, but you're not to blame for this," I gave her a hug to comfort her, and she returned the hug. "You were a slave to Eggman, so no one blames you, not even your friends. All that matters is now that you're free."
"And how did you do it?" she asked me.
"I don't know. When I became a deviant, I just have this power of giving androids sentience," I was honest about this. I never knew how I gained this power after I became a deviant. "I'm just lucky it also worked on those who were turned from organic to robotic and being under Eggman's control. You were the first one I tried to use this on, and it worked."
"I see... but I don't know how to change back."
"I know. Your original parts have been lost ever since you were modified. Let's worry about that for later. We should save your friends first."
"Right..."
As we run to where Sonic and his friends are, I was happy that my power worked on someone who was originally organic. At least she's smiling in this form because she's now free.
