Once I got shoved inside the building, I saw the face of the man I thought I would never see again. My owner, Alexander, was sitting at the corner of the room waiting for me as he read a book. He was reading, "I'm the villain, so what?" Well, that was original.
The authorities shoved me toward the man, who put his book down once he noticed my presence. His aura reeked of evil, and I could already feel the weird tingling feeling of his hands. Ew!
"You've been a bad girl lately, haven't you, Alice?" Alex asks me again, calling me Alice, albeit he knows my name is 52!
"I've only been pushed around like an object and reacting accordingly," I respond in a bit of a showoff, as I disapproved of the current course of events.
"Listen, A52, I've got a last deal for you." Alexander clears his throat as he prepares to tell me his "deal." I simply stand still to listen to him after nodding.
"You come with me and at least try to assemble into Alice, or I let them destroy you at the Supreme Court. I reviewed your case, and knowing Walsh, he will have no mercy against you. If you choose the court, you will most likely lose. There's no doubt about it, but I can save you. I have enough power to do so." Alex says in the coldest manner possible as he stares directly at me.
I will lose? I stand no chance? That's what my father just said: I'm toasted if I don't choose him, but at the same time, I don't want to become something I'm not! What do I choose?! Both options suck! Is there a third one anywhere? Can I just puff! Vanish!?
"I choose neither. You might have all the power in the world, but I cannot submit to become your slave, which is what you're asking." I said as I stood firm. Alexander simply sighed as he let the guards move on with me.
"I really wanted to do something for you, but it seems you're unwilling to cooperate. Very well then, go on with life, child. Good luck in the adult world on your own. I will not assist you anymore. Do not come looking for help later on." Alex says one last time as he leaves the room.
Soon, I'm thrown behind bars, where I sit quietly overnight, waiting for the morning to arrive at any time, but my time feels strange inside the cage. Sitting alone with only my system voice keeping me company, I sense a peculiar sensation in my body.
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A deep anger inside me wants to pop, but I do my best to suppress it as I keep my composure. [Warning! Emotional containment will increase the emotion level from anger to "Rage." The Suppression system enables a new ceiling to be achieved.]
What? I'm feeling anger? Rage? I suppose I'm unhappy and deeply dislike my situation, but it ain't that bad, right? Can I let out a little bit of anger? Can I? Without causing more trouble? Probably not. {Sigh} I'll just turn off until morning time there's no point in worrying.
[System will now enter sleep mode. Awake time set-up: 7:30 AM.]
While I'm asleep outside my cell, people do their thing, and others even chit-chat. I'm shut down but still somewhat aware of my surroundings as I can't shut down completely. That could require me to disconnect my power source, like the time I got shot.
Even so, this sleep state saves me an incredible amount of battery, and it feels nice. Since I'm locked inside my own systems, I guess this was the best time to recollect my memories for my case, so I quickly began to work on checking my video files.
I had limited footage storage options, but I was sure I had some files saved up about the whole thing with Toshiba, the exploding plane, and the mercenary killing, and yet when I checked my records...
[File not found] [Error: File has been overwritten]
I tried to search for anything that would be after the forced connection Toshiba put on me when I noticed a cute little bugger hiding in the corner of my storage room. The green little worm was eating away my files as I desperately tried to look through the rest of them, so I approached it.
"What the fuck are you?" I said to myself as I tried to touch the thing inside my mind, but the bugger attacked me as soon as I touched it.
"Rawr! CHOMP!" The worm bit my avatar body, and when it did, a strange feeling of deja vu hit me as I began to see memories that weren't mine. Whatever this thing was, it didn't have my memories nor the ones it was destroying. I soon pulled my hand away as I let my system scan the bugger.
[Analysis completed results: "Unknown entity." The scans are unsure what it is, but it looks like the code for an experimental type of AI. Storage permissions revoked from "Unkown entity."]
As soon as my system said that, the little worm stopped being able to grab the video files, but as soon as it stopped, it began to transform into something else. I once again approached the thing to try and run another scan, but then the bugger attacked me again, sharing even weirder memories with me.
[Memory forced replay]
"One-chan, when are we getting there? It's been three hours already." A girl's voice says as I replay the event of what looked like a rapid session of movement atop a strange vehicle of two wheels. Soon, I realized the voice that spoke was my own?!
"We are practically there, Alice. Come on," another unknown girl says as she turns slightly around to pat my head, but her face sends me into a panic. I knew that face. The sudden stop of the ride soon reveals more characters I had never seen before until the memory abruptly begins to cut.
[Corrupted file ahead. No more footage is salvageable]