Mother's Infection

Mother, upon learning that the Strangevirus may be sentient, decided that it, too, was one of xer children, and xe wished to commune with it. After attempting to force an infection upon xerself by sucking up a silvery puddle of virus and not becoming infected, xe sought out Inhatti. Inhatti gladly obliged Mother, and crashed her fist into the robot's eye. Mutation began.

Thus, Strange and Mother were one.