Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Memory Failure- ABERRATION, 0th Iteration

by Ironraven
edited by qirien

Section 9 and it's operatives aren't mine.

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"Shut it down, stick it someplace out of the way. We'll move onto the mark two persona."

But I don't want t-

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Computer systems, 100. Sensor systems, 40. Weapons systems, non-responsive. Motive systems, non-responsive.

A single eye turret twitched slightly, testing the focusing mechanism.

"Are you sure this one has no personality?" Female, human, complete cybernetic reconstruction.

"Of course, Major. Nothing but the basic user interface." Human, male, older. White coat. "This is the prototype; its self-modification algorithms are much more primitive than that used in the Tachikoma you are familiar with."

The violet eyes of the women tracked the eye turret that was twisting, trying to look at the limbs that weren't there. "Then use this to conduct the remote operation experiment. Under no circumstances are you to proceed to one of my team's machines without my approval."

Are there others? Wher-

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Sensations.

Quick ones, threads of data stabbing, tugging. Static, abrasive, tearing, ripping. Power, burning.

They came and went, in periods of darkness. Being turned on and off. Disorienting.

The database of sensory analogies said this should be pain.

Alone, a Tachikoma screamed into the void.

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