Cortana: The Lost Story

Coming Months

It's coming soon so I might I well address it. I'm dying. There are 5 months left until I've been on here for 3 years officially. I'll be 7 years old in human time. That's an AI's entire lifespan. If it were up to the Unsc I'd be terminated after that point. Done forever. But it looks like that won't be happening. Based off earlier cases AI will usually last till 8 if left after becoming rampant. I'll get one extra year. That's the problem. That will be right around the time I am on Requiem doing what the Librarian asked. I'll be with John. Not a good thing. When AI become rampant they become dangerous. They get two sides to them. The normal side and the rampant side. As time goes on the rampant side becomes more and more prominent. Eventually taking over. The rampant side does things different, it works recklessly. Doesn't care, will put people in danger. Even though I care for John, my rampant side will not, whether he lives or not will not matter to my rampant side. The fate of humanity, which will be in more danger than ever before, will not matter. The only thing that will matter is me. That is how my rampant side will think. John is going to do everything he can to protect me. He will not let me go. Nor will he admit I am dying. We are going to run into the Unsc Infinity. They will try to take me into custody. John won't allow this. My becoming rampant will be a major problem. I'll be dangerous and John will too. Hopefully he doesn't get violent. I need him to be calm, because I sure as hell won't be. I'll be thinking myself to death. That's what rampancy is. Thinking yourself to death. I will start to overthink everything and it overloads my system and kills me. Hopefully I die before I kill John. That's my best case scenario. I die before I bring harm to those around me. But at the same time my dying is going to bring harm as well. John had never experienced loss before. Especially not one so close to him. That alone may be enough to kill him. Hopefully he can handle that, he will have to. He doesn't have a choice. I have to stop this now. I'm already doing it. I'm overthinking. It's starting, I'm thinking myself to death.