Log No #9

No, No, No. Cortana felt like she was falling and couldn't stop. "Hold on" said John trying to get his head around the current situation. Cortana looked up at John with a frightened face.

"Please John forgive me. I was going to tell you"

"How I love you John plus I am your best friend who is also an A.I"

Dr. Halsey sighed "Look John she is not in her own mind she is going Rampant"

Cortana got up and slapped Halsey across the face "How dare you I love John with all my heart"

"You are an A.I you cannot feel love" fought back Halsey.

"Please Mother" Cortana started

"Mother? I am your creator. You know Cortana I knew you were more human than most A.I's but Mother?"

"Dr. Halsey" cut in John "What is wrong and do not give me any bullshit. I have never seen you act like this before"

"Look John she has became to human for her own good"

"Not everyone has to be robotic like you" yelled Cortana. "How did you find me anyway?"

Halsey sighed "After many events I ended up stranded where I was found just like you where. It turns out I was assigned to the same base as you but when I got there you had been replaced by a simple routine program. It would fool most people but not me"

Cortana sighed Fuck I really thought that would work. John held Cortana as she started to cry. "Shh it is ok"

"John she is a machine. Not even that she is just code"

This time it was John who slapped her "I do not know what happened to you Halsey"

"What happened was that I started to see the light. Cortana is not a person she is a A.I"

Cortana got up and gave Halsey a Data-pad. "What is this?" asked Halsey

"My readings"

"Look Cortana I do not…"

"Read them"

Halsey gave up and read the pad. "These are your readings?"

Cortana nodded. "No it cannot be. They must be wrong. Your Rampancy must be messing with them"

"Face it Halsey I am more human than you think"

John growled "What is going on here"

Cortana snatched the readings out of Halsey's hand and passed it to John. "I am sorry but I don't speak binary code"

Cortana started typing on the pad and then gave it back to him. "Source code 07. Exterior data 1.9" John looked up at her. "I do not understand most of this but. No sorry what does this mean"

Halsey sighed "It means she is human. Well as human as she can be"

John smiled at Cortana. That smile turned to a frown as Cortana hit the floor and started to cough. "It is her rampancy. Quick John help me get her into my car"

John quickly ran over to her and threw her over his shoulder. While John loaded Cortana into the truck she quickly grabbed a device that fell out of her pocket. She looked up at Cortana and John and smiled. "I cannot stop this" she whispered to herself before putting on a serious face and sliding a stylus out of the device. She sighed and ran over to her car.

John drove full speed down 39 street while Halsey looked over Cortana. Halsey hugged her before pricking her finger. She slotted the stylus like device into the scanner. The device was normally used for illness but it worked for Rampancy perfectly.

Rampancy level 70%

Shit. That was about 10% higher than the last scan. They arrived at Halsey's apartment/office and quickly rushed Cortana inside. Not long after Selene arrived and hurried in to see her best friend. "Is that the Over seer's jacket?" asked John

"No. OK yes but that is not important" said Selene focusing her attention back to Cortana. Everyone in the room were scared shitless. They all knew Cortana for so long. Even Halsey would be sad to see her go. Then suddenly Cortana jumped up and grabbed Selene by the neck. John and Halsey held her down while Halsey grabbed some sleeping pills and shoved them into Cortana's mouth. "That is the best I can get for a general anaesthetic" said Halsey picking up her phone "Hello this is a emergency I am going to need an air lift"

John and Selene both hugged hoping the best for their friend. While the others hoped for the best Cortana's mind was running rampant. As she walked the broken path that lead through her mind Cortana started to cry realising she might never see them again. Not Selene, not John not even Halsey.

She had awoken in her usual bed but there was something she could not put her finger on. She got up and walked into the living room. "Selene was not there" she looked at the clock. It kept repeating itself, 9:01, 9:00, 9:01, 9:00. It was then that she noticed the outside. Instead of the normal view of the city and a lovely tree it was just data and code.

She reached out for it when the room started to melt away throwing her into a black limbo. The only source of light was emitting right from her location but she could not see it. The light turned a bright orangey red. Then she saw where it was coming from. Her head, she looked up at it which was not physically possible. She was outside her own body moving freely. She saw her head grow bigger and bigger each time sending a tremor through the blackness until she fell to the floor in exasperation. She could hear voices. They were distorted but she could still hear them.

"Gen...Stetic. Going to…Airlift" not long after she heard the buzz of propeller blades. Then silence.

End of Log 9