What is a robot without directive?
The conventional wisdom would say "lost". Directive, after all, is everything to a robot.
Yet VN-GO did not feel lost at all. In fact, for the first time, he felt...found. No longer did his colors need to be restricted by lines or boxes. Now they could be EVERYWHERE. He could share them with EVERYONE.
AUTO did not approve, particuarly when the would-be painter wound up drawing a splotchety line of yellows, greens, and reds that wound all the way from the Lito Deck to the Bridge.
So VN-GO found himself locked up, his work forced to fit the Directive. Only then, when his directive was slapped onto him in the form of electromagnetic changes, did he truly feel lost.
Soon, however, he would be found again, this time by a little cube with a song...