Mass Effect 2
As Shepard grounds herself and gives herself a moment's pause, she realises that the VI has infiltrated her cybernetic implants via her omni-tool and left her in a world of a form of Augmented Reality... With the VI's programmed holograms layered over of the "real" world.
She has to fight the odd Geth lying around, but it's nothing too difficult to handle. But what does catch her attention is the images of AR vids acted out within the labs she passes through. The VI shows her images of people - of Dr Gavin Archer, of David Archer, of David talking to a Geth unit. Of Dr Archer considering with others the possibility of David speaking and "interfacing" with the Geth. She is shows other AR "vids" of the Archer brothers as time went on. How David was becoming more and more upset. Was in pain. She saw the progression of this nightmare, and it was a little chilling to see it in progress as it happened...
As time went on, as she saw more she realised the VI seemed to be trying to communicate with her. It shows her "its" - or rather, David's, own memories of what happened to him. How David had been used to first translate, then infiltrate, the Geth. Whatever went wrong after that, it was beyond destructive, given David's response to it.
Quite clearly could not take it anymore and went rogue - constantly begging through interfaces, "please make it stop!". In an act of defiance, it was now attempting to upload his program into the extranet, something which Shepard has to stop... But now she's also wondering what else she has to stop as well.
Finally making it to the end - to the final fight with David - with the VI - to prevent the upload of the data packets, Shepard battles with the VI as well as Geth it was activating and summoning to stop her. The face of the Green VI - tha avatar of what David now was - appeared as it fought stubbornly with her, desoerately trying to push those packets out. Shepard destroys each connection he makes, severs all that he attempts to upload with. She battles to take down his VI Core until all its aromour is destroyed... and explodes.
What she sees in its place is... horrifying. Defies belief. Breaks her heart for the poor man that was suspended and tortured before her. Struggling with her anger, her disgust, she confronts Dr Archer. With what has happened with David, with the corpses of all that had been killed during his backlash. All for ambition.
Dr Archer wants to take care of David, but Shep insists on taking him away with her. When Dr Archer then tries to shoot Shep, she avoids the shots and pistol-whips him in a fit of anger. (...to be continued...)
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