The techs lead you out of the lab, and to a waiting car: yours has already been run home apparently. It's here you find out that you were in that lab room as a steel cube for four days. They also let you know that you are on what is officially paid vacation time, and have been given a stipend to pay for travel, but you need to maintain a TF blog the whole time, and they want at least two or three transformations of your form per day. They let you know that you're linked to the blog internally, via the AI, and that, oh by the way, you are in essence trapped in the suit until you get back to the lab for them to de-synch it.
All in all, its a lot to take in, as they drop you at your garage apartment that you rent from a plumber. The garage is where he stores his supplies and gear, even though he lives in a different part of town. The house that shares the lot with this garage is his business office, so you are in essence alone every night and weekend, with only a paid receptionist in the house working hours, and the plumber, his son and an apprentice occasionally here. But it's Saturday so no one is here at all and you go up the stairs to your apartment and flop onto your bed.
Laying there, thinking about this, you try to focus on how you feel, how your mind feels. You concentrate and try to envision the AI that you know is in there, in your mind, merged into your form. It's like you're an android, a cyborg, some sort of robot like the Terminator that is disguised as a human. Then you feel an odd tingle...
Standing up, you are momentarily surprised to find all sorts of information in your vision: an invisible heads up display. But then a brief burst of confusion, then your programming is complete and you realize you activated the suit and you now are in fact a robot, disguised as a human. You're the terminator! But without the whole kill Sarah Connor thing. You did this by accident, but then realize this may allow you to better access the AI that is merged into you, and sure enough, all of your internal files are logged in your new OS, and you see all the files that are the AI, as well as the ones labelled human. Your initial thought to get rid of the AI, to get this program out of you cuts off immediately. You would be stuck, without any programming to be able to run the suit and you don't want to be a robot terminator for good. Similarly, you aren't going to delete any of your files for your human self, because then you would be stuck like this, or worse, stuck as the suit itself, to be worn and used by others down the road. But can you read and access the files, maybe make some changes?
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