I've had enough of running away from my father. I think it's about time to face him, even if that's the end of me. I've got no friends, no partners, no pets, no housing, no properties, nothing left to lose, so why not try and kill the old man? That was what had been going through my mind for months until I got my hands on some weapons and cash.

It all happened in a club one night as I worked like a stripper for cash a guy named "Jared." Offered to help me after a private session where we got to know each other better. He said I was his type and thus wanted to help me out and seek revenge.

Of course, Jared took me home, and we made the minimum amount of intercourse to count as "acquainted." I fell so lowly thanks to my father, who only fueled my pent-up rage against him. I wanted him dead, and I would try my best to do so; I would kill him.

The time it was supposed to happen was about a week after I started dating Jared, and it was going smoothly until the fated night arrived. I'd got experience fighting thanks to the army hunting me down, but I never had much luck in hand-to-hand combat, so this mission had a high chance of failure, but I was okay with it.

You must realize that it gets done when my father says something, no matter what. My father sentenced me to permanent exile unless I helped him build an "Alice" robot. His punishment basically made it impossible for me to live outside the system. I couldn't use any tech, not even trust the "third" party software out there.

I couldn't get a regular job in any industry without being immediately fired or hushed away. If any thieves or criminals assaulted me, I couldn't call the police since they would arrest me instead, all thanks to my father. So why not try and kill him? So what if I died? I was already dead to him, so would it really matter?

Alexander fell in love with my sister so much he doesn't even see that I'm his last remaining daughter, his only living daughter. He doesn't care as long as there is hope to bring Alice back. Yet it's impossible to get people back from the dead, and I don't know why he refuses to believe so.

Why doesn't he recognize that Alice is dead and that I am the only daughter left? The only living one, for that matter? Did I never matter to him because I wasn't as pretty as Alice? Was Alice really that much better looking, and if so, was that the only thing that mattered to him? Beauty?

Whatever his motives were, I couldn't stand his harsh punishment on me anymore, so I resorted to violence. I wished to die that die, at least die trying. I would've never expected him to be waiting for me with an entire military-grade operation ready to stop me.

I knew my father was brilliant, but to think he would predict my attack is something I would've never thought of. Yet I couldn't flee now that I was trapped inside his labs with only three other people remaining on my team who were cowards behind a counter.

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"We must find a way out! There's no way to get him now, Toshiba! Let's find a way out!"

"We are surrounded, don't you notice that?!"

"Then we must surrender then! I don't wanna die!"

Seriously, what were they thinking this would be like? Even if my father wasn't ready for me, I was expecting us to all die. Were these guys that stupid? Did they not realize this was a suicide mission all along?

Suddenly, a light gleaned inside the room where we were hiding, and my father clapped from an upper corridor with a microphone on. {Clap, Clap} "Well done! Well done! You've finally chosen to show yourself! My failed daughter showed up back home!"

Had he called me a failure? I knew he didn't like me, but hearing my own father call me a "failed daughter" was more hurtful than I thought. Naturally, I had to scream to communicate back at him while I kept my head down, scared to be shot before the finale.

"YOU'RE A DAMN COWARD! CALL YOUR SECURITY OFF AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN! YOU WON'T EVEN FIGHT FAIR!"

"I would, but you're a trickster. Only a fool would fall for one of your cheap tricks. I wish you were at least a little like Alice in that sense. She was ten times better than you." A knife drove deep into my heart with that one. I knew it, but hearing it was much different. Hearing my father comparing me like that was so painful.

"Are you going to kill me or what?!"

"Oh? No! Why would I do that? You're uglier, slower, predictable, and weaker, but at least you got my intelligence if nothing else. I need you to help me bring Alice back."

"Alice is dead! She's been dead for TEN YEARS!"

"SILENCE!"

The troops suddenly shot some smoke bombs inside the room and some extremely loud devices that disoriented me and everyone else near me to the extreme. I didn't hear where the troops were coming from. I couldn't distinguish what I was seeing before me, so I was suddenly tackled and suppressed in a matter of a few seconds.

"DAMN YOU! JUST KILL ME ALREADY! JUST KILL ME!"

"You know I can't do that; you'll become my little obedient war dog once I train you nicely. You'll do as I say and create what I order you to; all you need is a little push, ain't that right, boys?"

Everyone around me laughed while I got picked up from the ground, already in cuffs. This was the worst of the end. I should've shot myself when I could. If the rumors are true, I'm already dead. Not physically dead, but human-wise, I'll be as good as dead.

Why keep considering me "alive." When does he plan to make me a brainless machine like any of the ones he already wields? If anyone can kill me, I would appreciate it, but as it stands, it seems like I'll be exploited against my will and made to do things I swore I would never.

My father descends from his cowardly platform as the troops get ready to transport me wherever they are going to mess me up. Yet Alexander couldn't let go of his last chance to scar me before I got brainwashed. He slowly approached me, put his lips next to my ear, and whispered.

"Between us, my dear rebel daughter. You should've been the one to die that day. I wouldn't have felt anything if you died instead of Alice. You're my biggest mistake."

That broke me. I had heard it a million times through messages and speakers, but hearing it directly from him was enough to break me. What had I done wrong? I only wanted Alice to have fun with my friends, innocent fun, yet that killed them, and it was my fault.

I didn't have the strength left to rebut anything at my father, and I just accepted my fate, knowing I would never be able to wake up from whatever dream I would be put into. This was the end of the line for me. I wish at least god would forgive my crimes.