People were predictable. Alice leaned against Cain's expensive car and pondering the next course of action. Soon, she'd get an "Entry Denied" message, rich people of questionable legality preferred their own private security to deal with petty threats like Cain. She wasn't going to be invited unless Toshimi had already butchered her way through half of them. She could ignore the denied access, especially now that she too had a deadline on life, but there were other options. Waiting at the car for Cain was one, the second option was tracing Lili and use her.<br/><br/>The security AI pointed her antennae up, deciding to gather some information while waiting. She made a face when she discovered the station governor had scheduled a meeting later this day with the Al'Hal Eth' of the Ethonian trading organisation. Daddy's probably investigating how his daughter managed to get locked up on the most corrupt federation station.<span style="color: #00b3b3">"Inviere Cain, you're running out of time..." </span>Alice mused, images flashing through her core.<i>-Cain on her knees, wrists bound together by maglocks and tugging on her uniform begging for help, for her. Her metal hand running through the woman's boyish coiffure and pulling her close to-</i><br/><br/>Alice shook her head to dismiss the solipsic daydreams from her processes. Did organics also have to deal with intrusive ideas? How did they handle it? The sheer frustation of her personality matrix falling apart only worsened her affliction. If she managed to evade the team about to be send to wipe her core but couldn't get her core unlocked, what would her fate be? Would she fall in a groundhog's day coma, stuck in her own private paradise. Would the gap between memory and personality grow so great that she'd become a mindless beast of pure reactionary emotion? Or maybe, maybe she'd be one of the really dangerous Rampants AIs, the ones that devour their own blackcode.<br/><br/><br/>The building's security answer ripped Alice out of her wandering processes, leaving her briefly stunned and disorientated. A state that wasn't helped when she actually processed their answer. They wanted her to enter? Was Toshimi really causing that big a ruckus in there? Or was the self-aware AI destabilizing so much that her calculations and predictions were completely off? Trying not to let a second grave error disrupt her workings too much, Alice quickly stepped in the body, requesting and receiving permission to remove her limiters. StationSec took people disrupting the station's richer clients very serious.<br/><br/>Connecting with the building systems as she entered, the AI detected the moving elevator and quickly stepped up as it reached the ground floor.<span style="color: #00b3b3">"What..."</span>Alice stared as the doors opened. There were Toshimi and Cain, the latter wielding a metal club, but inside the elevator also was a rather stressed-looking Black Dragon ambassador. Hostage situation? Maggie Greer didn't get the armed war machine she had wanted, the AI that swooped into the elevator was neither heavily armed nor did she wear the StationSec riot control armour. The attractive uniform was<i>never</i>used by officers in the field! Those red rings glowing around Alice's irisses didn't help bring any comfort.<br/><br/>Still, the AI's limbs moved with frightening speed, though Toshimi's reactions were still superior. One arm protectively reached out to cover Maggie Greer while the other sought to rip the metal baseball bat out of Cain's hands with the machine's monstrous strength.<span style="color: #00b3b3">"Stand behind me, Ma'am." </span>The machine politely told Maggie Greer before focusing on Cain.<span style="color: #00b3b3">"I see you found my missing date, Inviere Cain. I would've shared if you asked. Unfortunately, Shrödinger's about to open his box and discover instead of fried Calamari a scarred but living squid. Your father's going to be talking to the governor in a few hours and find out what you've been doing... what have you been doing anyway, trying to start even greater conflict between the Black Dragon and Ethonians?"</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>