came up with an AU leaning more into the vampire concept for Malware.

He feeds on mechamorphs and tech, and is technically the "mechamorph's natural predator". He can paralyze his prey keeping them from escaping him while he consumes them. He can also "infect" and enthrall other mechamorphs, making them a bit feral.

He is technically curable, and Azmuth kept him in a stasis for a long time intending on fixing him without letting him indulge in his natural hunger. something happens to his stasis chamber and he wakes up, and instead of heading to galvan-prime for azmuth and the second helix, he goes on a feeding frenzy on Galvan-b and enters his second state like that. Galvan-b calls for help cause they don't know how to deal with him. Ben helps to deal with him.

His main goal after being temporarily delt with, is to take over galvan-b and have complete control over his food source. He has no desire to be cured and likes how it feels to feed. He still teams up with psychobos and Khyber as a means to gain more power for his goal and to deal with tennyson.

In this au he ends up able to use the Nemetrix without the mental deterioration side effect due to his already predatory nature. Khyber is extremely envious of him, and also very into him. His transformations have his hexagon optic as a pupil unlike the flat eyes of zed's. a star marking and red circuits are also present.