It was finally morning, and I completed work on the infiltration avatar. I had disguised it as one of the natives.

"screw it" I was just going to call them Elves."

Carol looked in from the window on the airlock door. I walked over to talk to her. "the drones finished clearing out a path from the medical bay to the surface, so you'll be able to go outside now."

"does that mean I'll be able to bring the rest out of cryo today?"

"yes, but first you wanted to see the surface, right?"

"yes, let's go right now, I've been waiting over 2,000 years for this."

chuckles "you have been waiting too, but it's only been a few days for me."

Carol open the door to let me through, and we quickly walked over to the door leading into the ship. I grabbed hold of the emergency release handle and open the door to the inside of the ship.

Carol took a deep breath, and I felt the breeze pass through my chassis. "I guess that's your first breath of air from another galaxy, right?" 

I turned to Carol, only to see her slumped to the floor. I quickly grabbed her before she hit "would just happen." But Carol was already passed out. I turned to the other two people in the room, but they were passed out on the floor. I quickly got up to close the door when suddenly the air reach my core.

Suddenly I felt like something was wrapping my mind wrapping it up in its power something old, something vast, something that hated life. And then it shoved something into my mind.

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Out of the corner of my eye, I could see my core, Slowly turning in emerald green. I realized with donning horror that I was being taken over by something. Something that wasn't me. I turned to the thing inside of my own head and began to fight it. I tried shoving it out, thinking it out of my head, but it wasn't working. If my new abilities aren't working then maybe my programming commands will.

I shouted a command."Malicious code detected. Activate full system sweep and Antivirus protocols."

full systems scan activated.

Unknown code detected.

Deleting unknown code.

I watched as my crystal slowly lit in green fire, as portions of the creature were burned out of my system. I was able to think clearly again. The creature was taken apart piece by piece. When suddenly one of the pieces latched onto me and quickly became a part of me.

Then I had a HUD again. Only it had lists of creatures and my old databank blueprints. All the knowledge I thought I'd lost had come back as well as knowledge of things I've never even seen or heard of before. Knowledge of magic and creatures, I thought to only exist in fantasy. "this world has magic, that's what's been stealing all the power. Magic steals power to make more magic."

My core had turned back to its reddish tinge, and whatever had attacked me was now gone. I need to figure out what happened to Carol and the other two doctors.