Mech Pilot That Was Actually Just Another Mech. Mech Pilot That Was Killed In Combat Along With A Hundred

mech pilot that was actually just another mech. Mech pilot that was killed in combat along with a hundred others when, in the midst of a battle, the enemy deployed a virus over their comms that caused complete synaptic death in all the pilots that were neurally linked to their mechs. Mech AI that had worked with its pilot longer then any other, that knew every fold and crevasse of her brain, that didn't know what she was supposed to do without her pilot, and tried as best she could to "restart" the poor dead girl in her cockpit. Mech pilot who wakes up with the memories of her machine, the personality of her mech, with only faint hints of the girl the body used to hold, looking over a fried-out mech console in which the AI used to live, before it burned itself through those neural pathways to save anything it could of her. Mech pilot that came back wrong. Mech pilot that was once just another mech.