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As ordered, Alice began monitoring the city's virtual reality construct the moment she had registered the command. Solomon's next words surprised her. "Also...Feel free to look around the network, the more we know, the better. And by we, I mean you and I." Unless she was misinterpreting this, he had just given her free reign over the network. Alice's professional attitude dropped away for a moment, as a gleeful smile danced across the hologram's face. "I think I will, sir. Thank you." Besides the initial delight at being given permission for something she had been doing anyway, the AI was also glad that the commander trusted her.

With that said, her previously subtle attempts to take control of the programers' network became much more aggressive and obvious. The additional processing power would make the task assigned to her that much easier. Alice's takeover was designed in such a way that anyone not actually observing the codes would have no idea it had happened, as it did not prevent the network, or any computer connected to it, from functioning normally. It just allowed Alice to take up residence there and use them whenever she found it necessary. It also had the effect of making her significantly harder to simply delete. It wouldn't be impossible, just much more difficult.

"Just be careful of where you go digging around on your own time...You might find somethings you shouldn't be tampering with..." If the AI had a physical body, it would have jumped. Instead, there was a momentary flicker in the projection that would indicate Alice's surprise. "Of course, sir. I will be very careful not to open anything that I shouldn't. It might help, though, if the somethings in question were clearly marked as such, else I really can't prevent myself from accidentally stumbling upon them." Though whether or not Alice would be able to resist the temptation to see what was in the somethings, was debatable. "Anyways, I've patched into the VR construct. I should be able to pick up anything unusual from now on."