The hive intelligence didn't distinguish between warm flesh, hot lava or cold rock. As long as there was some metallic molecules and a little energy potential, he/she/it could use it to reproduce itself. Its life signature was so pervasive that the mech's algorithms had discarded it as background noise.
The mech finished its survey mission and, with no positive results, fired its rockets and escaped the gravity well of AS-14/V. Thirty minutes later, it was safe and docked at the Earth-bound USAAMS carrier. The hive mind was with it.
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