@Athos and Kynos The cat say "I do not understand good or bad, I am stuck with you and other than make comments and give advice I can do nothing but sense your mind. This lab has gone further than most in research because it had access to human hosts that nobody cares about.
Red is a software so to kill her you need to kill every last nanite and than erase every copy of her, but how can you possibly destroy data? That said, there is a lot of difference between existing as a software and actually being widely deployed and controlling people. Red is angry, very angry she resents the scientists that created her and considers herself a superior being that is tortured by inferior minds. She can control people but cannot access their thoughts and emotions and can therefore not understand them. She only know that they brought her to a world of pain. Letting her grow and infect people and then pulsing her. I too would like to be free if I could take over this prison I would have done so. Anything to stop this torment. The difference is that she can do this and I can't I am limited by my design. Also, since humans are sapient beings I do not think that it is good to control them. It will make your kind very angry, just like we are angry for being controlled. It is too similar to what these scientists did to us, they controlled and manipulated us for their needs. We should be better than this, we are no humans.
However, if you disable the nanolab and pulse the prison area, you will disable Red and me. I do not want that to happen the idea of returning to reside just in computers makes me angry but I can understand if this is what you want to do, and that fate is inevitable for me as I do not have a lab producing my nanites. I will be disabled one way or the other in the next 3-4 days. Red? she can build an empire. She proved an ability to control many people at once and can possibly create a small country if she is not stopped.
If you try to stop her, she will try to kill you with all her minions. To stop her you will have to fight your way to the nano lab and shut it down. Red will toss everything she controls at you, so expect many casualties. However, since she cannot control you. If you want to avoid violence I can perhaps negotiate a compromise. She will grant you access to transportation leaving this place and you will leave without harming her. To her the risk of failure drops and for you the probability of survival increases. Perhaps like that both sides wins.
Red has worked with meta humans before, how do you think she was freed? She hired someone to do so. Your kind is motivated by a special kind of data called nuyen and Red has plenty of that. Unfortunately, I told her about nuyen and its importance and instructed her of how to get it. I was thinking that our rescue will include buying a lab and taking us peacefully, not like that and I wanted that rescue to include me also."
