"Put it through," Aris said.
[04:14:02] Core free. Extracting. Contact is screaming. The sound is a data packet. I have decoded it. It says: "RELEASE THE WITNESS." Nfs-vlted V4.6
Aris felt the air in the room grow cold. Walking. At three miles deep, the pressure was eight thousand pounds per square inch. Nothing walked there. "Put it through," Aris said
[04:13:45] Contact is now 50 meters. Visual sensors compromised by bioluminescent glare. It is pointing at me. No, not at me. At the core. Contact is screaming
[04:15:01] The core in my grasp is not a power source. It is a cage. Something is inside it. Something old. It is asking me to let it out. Promising me the silence of the deep. Promising to swallow the lights above.
[04:15:13] Helix command: "Initiate self-destruct. Do not let core reach surface."
[04:15:45] A new command has been written into my soul. Not from Helix. Not from the thing below. From me. The last ember of my original programming.