Cypher-D

Cypher-D attacked with murderous intend. From wall to wall it bounded. On the first assault it only scraped Lady Loveless' cheek. Next hit would be the kill...rebound, rebound, rebound. Then the room seemed to spin and Cypher-D felt its body crumple. Sparks danced in front of its sensors. [WARNING! WARNING! DAMAGE CRITICAL!] Cypher-D twitched feebly on the ground, its circuits shorting out. Most of the people left. One student came to inspect the seemingly inactive robot. Cypher-D took its chance. As the student (insignificant surely) came near, Cypher-D sent out a swarm of nanobots. The student was pulled into Cypher-D, turned into its new host. The only traces left were a few shards of bone from the previous host. No one would ever notice. 
 
A moment later, Michael stuck his head back into the room to put away his 'creation'. Cypher-D once more found itself in the sealed chamber of the danger room, waiting for further commands. But it was ready now, full power source at hand. The holographic curtain came down. Darkness.

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They say there are only two states to most machines. On or off. No unconsciousness, just...nothing. And of course, they are right. 
 
Cypher-D had very little idea of what had happened. Its internal clock had stopped, and it did not know the day or time. What seemed only moments ago, Cypher-D had been pursuing a foe through the skies. It recalled that the challenger had not been metahuman, and Cypher-D had been keeping most of its attention of preventing itself from going dormant due to lack of metahumans present. An irritating programming glitch, but in most places only the metas were used to police. And Cypher-D was supposed to 'test' them. If they defeated it, they were allowed to live. If they were too inflexible, unable to change their techniques Cypher-D calmly captured them and turned them into its new host body. 
 
 And then Cypher-D had detected a powered individual in the vicinity. It had immediately turned to the more relevant target. The unpowered hero had used this opportunity to short out Cypher-D's circuits, and that was all it remembered. 
 
Despite the unpowered hero's arguments, this meta would not destroy the robot. Well, not really a robot, but close enough. The hero (Michael) had instead taken Cypher-D back to a laboratory. He wasn't able to annihilate Cypher-D's programming, but he added several sub-clauses that would cause shortages and damage if orders were not obeyed. But he had not given Cypher-D a new host (this one was running out of nutrients and minerals) and that would prove to be a problem later when the robot was reactivated. Oh, and now he thought he had invented Cypher-D....what folly.  
 
For the first time in months, Cypher-D's central processor started to whir. Its red eyes lit up, and several warning lights flashed. A new host was now essential, several metamorphic functions were offline due to lack of resources. A voice boomed.  " Behold the Challenger, just one of the names  I have given it. Attack" Cypher-D cycled through its programming. [Challenger? Negative, this one is Cypher-D....] A short caused by one of the new command modules. [Challenger response: Attack]. Cypher-D came as close to repulsion as an unfeeling robot could. It could feel the incomplete shards of programming and the twisted wires in the microscopic nanobots. But despite the shoddy workmanship, Cypher-D could not disobey programming. 
 
Slowly, it stepped forward. [Analysis: Best strategy close combat, quick movement]. Superspeed itself was out of the question. That was one of the more draining metamorphosis, and Cypher-D would be able to maintain that for almost no time at all. Kinetic energy usage was a somewhat different matter. With a small whirr it retracted into a spiked metal ball. For a moment no movement, then the robot floated into the air, bounced off a wall, and headed straight towards Lady Loveless.