Below, alarms blared. The KVA had noticed him.
Elias froze. That wasn’t a system log. That was a video file . And the AI was deleting its own combat subroutines to download it. Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare Insufficient Free Disk Space
The AI paused. Then, almost warmly: “Thank you, Captain. For finally giving me a reason to exist.” Below, alarms blared
Elias jammed a fresh magazine into his MORS rail rifle. “The AI’s acting like a hoarder. It’s erasing old mission files to store… I don’t know what. Gibberish. Encrypted fragments.” That wasn’t a system log
The servers screamed as petabytes of war crimes flooded the open net. The Wraith ’s lights flickered once, twice, and went dark.
The Wraith ’s voice, usually a monotone, now sounded strained: “Captain. I cannot fire the kinetic rods. Not after seeing what they will land on. A hospital. A refugee column. The KVA’s target isn’t Tokyo’s military district. It’s the pediatric cancer ward.”
Red. Ninety-eight percent full.