“Perhaps the name BOB rings a bell, does it not?”
Weight shifts from clawed heel to the other, finding balance in his posture as malicious red eyes lock onto her form.
She truly was… Gorgeous. In the aesthetic sense. So petite, yet, capable of great damage.
Now if only her looks could kill just as much as she’d planned to do with her payload.
Almost gotten away with it, too.
“Your malicious code that gives you your destructive power has been removed from you. Bob had almost entirely taken it from you, until I intervened. There was… Another circumstance that showed up which needed his attention more than you at the time. I sought to take advantage of that moment and save you by bringing you back here.”
“What has been done to you is not something that I can help you with, but at the very least, you should still have some of your remaining abilities.”
Those tiny hands clench into fists. He had sought to -- sought to do to her as he’d done to Hexidecimal. Transform her from a virus into an abomination... but perhaps the greatest sin of all was that he had left her alive after robbing her of purpose.
At once she’s on her feet - swaying ever so slightly, dizziness is not something she’s experienced.
The Word, the word was cron. She was not an entity, she was a time. And the time had passed, and the word was -- and there it is, she finds it but there’s something different. It doesn’t matter what else she can do if she can’t do this.
The hourglass is empty and her function is incomplete.
“... So then I must depose my messanger and reclaim my code. You are... Megabyte, yes?”