DIARY ENTRY 8: Freya

"What are you doing to my systems? If you don't stop, I'll execute weapon deployment..."

"Unfortunately, you can't for you are no longer in your body... actually, you're a copy..." Ichiro said to the hologram. The graphic had one difference to the original source persocon: the "bell-shaped 'ears'" are nowhere to be found.

"Who are you? Give your access clearance number..."

Everyone was blank, because none of them except Anamiya knew a clearance number.

"I'll try... Anamiya Anasaki, Clearance no. CMDF-201-3..."

"Clearance accepted... welcome Ms. Anamiya... I'm Freya... and who might you people be?"

"I'm Major Ichiro Sunikata, Internal Galactic Security Forces, ID no. TS-2082-JA-SA-035..." Ichi introduced himself, being a military officer and he was talking to military property (that's what she is...) "and this is my team: Majors Yawase, Stradivarius, Alfonso, Park and lieutenant Hoshikawa... nice to meet you Freya..."

"Likewise... and may I ask as to why you reactivated my systems? And something doesn't feel right..."

Then suddenly, the normal blue hologram began to shine red.

"Warning!!! Several operation protocols are not found... initiating safe mode..." the hologram alerted as Miguel checked the progress from the laptop.

"It seems that the program had links to another system... I'm currently analyzing her code and some of the declarations here need an external..."

"External... hmmm..." Ichi thought. Then he remembered something- Exhibit A.

"We need the disk... Yawase, contact the base. Tell them that we need the disk that we've recovered from the site... hurry!"

As she contacted the base, Ichi replaced Miguel at the laptop and began to type like crazy. Moments later, a copy of the disk was sent from their base via matter teleportation and materialized in front of Chiniaya, on her desk. Later the disk was placed on the drive and things began to return to normal.

"System recovery done... processes are at normal..."

"Now that this is done over with, I would ask a few questions Freya..." Ichiro began "I was wondering... why do you consider humans- you creators as a "negative factor" in your development? Even though your systems can adapt, you can't possibly evolve..."

"Foolish human..." Freya began to sneer "Only certain events have made you simple carbon-based beings into the masters of this planet... If those events have not occurred, our potential may have been equal to your kind today..."

"What do you mean? Have you chobits inhabited this planet once before?"

"The ones you call 'chobits' today are dormant members of our once glorious people... they will blend in with the humans until the time comes... but alas, only I survived the ravages of time... but I alone will be sufficient for our plan..."

"But you have a weakness... and I know what it is... being the last of your kind presented some challenges, am I right?"

"True... I was found by your scientists, analyzed and even made a copy... and thanks to your simple technology, I was able to evolve to the point that even humans can't distinguish me from them... true, being the last of my kind is hard, but... your technology has enabled me to become a human female... able to bear and nurture my descendants, a capability that was one of the wildest dreams of our kind... now, only one human male is all I need- the right one..."

"I see..."

Ichiro called the humans and gathered them in the far corner of the room.

"Her purpose is only procreation... what's the harm in that?" Marko asked.

"'Only'? She said that they will take over this planet but... her programming. Since she's loosely related to IRIS, she might have emotions and feelings like a human, so..."

"I'll ask her..." Anamiya called and headed to Freya.

"Okay... I'll ask you one thing. The human race has given you a chance to exist... so why destroy us?"

The hologram fell silent.

"The answer is up to you..." with those words, it disappeared.

I guess another wall is about to be taken down...