Well, where should I start? Hmmm...maybe let's try when I was just a kid. Let me ask you, when you are just a baby, what do you do? Probably having a pacifier in your mouth and play around happily right? While for me....its not the case. When I was just born not even 2 months old, I was sent to infant classes. You might ask, that is normal isn't it? But you are wrong, I was sent there for literal 8 hours. My parents weren't there to cheer me up for my achievements, they just leave me there, and I was trained to do hard tasks when I was just a baby.
My parents are strict as hell, when I was just 1, I was already introduced to homework, exercises, brain cell consuming questions. My first trauma I have ever got was unable to eat dinner when I got bad results from those exercises. I don't even think that is legal to be honest. So, I read books everyday, learning knowledge other kids haven't learnt yet.
My family, or I say my whole family tree are very very strict. I've learnt about my ancestors from books that all of them were forced to be smart. It passed on for generations and generation, most of my ancestors who isn't smart and discipline enough were mostly abandoned, and they could never return to the family or seek help from them, forever. This is the kind of abandon I am talking about, to prevent you from asking 'isn't it legal for parents to stop caring when the child reach 18.' They literally shut you away from them. So, to not be abandoned, I must keep up the good work.
When I went to kindergarten, I was being praised by teachers for my super outstanding grades. Teachers said that I am super talented, I can answer questions instantly while other kids need a minute or 2 to even understand the question, making me a nerd. But little did the teachers know, all of these came from my hard work. I was so envious of other kids, they could play and laugh all day long, and when they were 2 and 3 years old, they get to play with their parents everyday. That is what I never had, I never felt my home as a warm place.
And what's worse, when I kept getting golden stars and trophies in kindergarten, the other kids got jealous of me. They started isolating me, pretending I never exists, that time, only teachers know my name. I also want to try and talk with other kids, but they kept ignoring me and stay away from me. Plus, when I was a human, I have a very fragile heart, I get sad easily, afraid of many things and very introvert.
And when I got to primary school, things never change, due to being the nerd and smartest kid in class, everyone isolates me. They say I am a super nerd, always holding books no matter what time. I can do nothing about that, since the books are my only bridge to dinner. But things don't get better, they get worse. I was being bullied at one point, my wallet was emptied by them, they stole my stuff, make me do all the cleaning and rip my homework I spent hours doing. I tried to search help from my teacher, but I was too afraid to do so. My parents also neglected me, all they ask is why my homework is ripped. They never cared about me, they only cared about the achievement and fame I got so they can flex on the relatives, I have no friends to encourage me to report to the teacher, no family members to help me heal. I was always crying when I got home, originally, I got 2 hours free time to do the things I want after finishing all homework and exercise given by my parents. But that time I spent all those times crying in my bed, quietly.
But that is when my hero stood out for me. My sis.
My sis was 7 years older than me, she was also one of the super nerds in the world. She is an extrovert, a super extrovert. She is always in an upbeat, confident expression, she even got a channel which she tried out dangerous, cursed, stuffs, making her a thrill seeker. That is why Mysty reminded me of her. She was sent to boarding school during primary school age. She also stayed in the dormitory of her secondary school and rarely come home. That is when she realized my problem, she slowly learnt that I was heavily isolated, bullied and neglected, unlike what my parents told her: I am good, focus on studying. She then started coming back home more often, every time she came back, the first thing she do is help me out. She is the first person in my life who supported me, cared about me, give me warm hugs and treated me like a human being.
Whenever I had any society troubles or homework problems, she always have the right solution for it. She also trained me to be strong, slowly, I could take on the bullies. But when things got real too far, she would always stand by my side, teaching every brat a lesson with her rubber baseball bat. She always sacrifices her time which she could go and relax and hang out with her girlies just for helping me out. There's many times I told her I am fine and she could go relax but she never listen to me. She never stop telling me courageous words and never give me up. Although I still don't have even one single friend, she helped me survive my whole school life.
She is also the only person who trusted in my dreams. Like I said previously, I have an interest of being a cyber security, but my parents disagreed and my teachers mockingly said I won't succeed since there is already many cyber security out there. She never think like that, she always helped me chase that dream. Gathering information about it, training me to be able to become a security and even help me in some of my inventions. Like I said, I am a super nerd, I use the things I learnt from whatever source, combined with my sis's super smart brain, we started making inventions. That is when I got another primary goal other than being a cyber security, make my sis proud.
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"She is the reason why I could still talk, still walk, and make tons of stuff without her, I would still be that weak little nothing." Murmured Johnson.
"Wow, your sis is truly amazing. But...what makes you a criminal of that then? And what is it associated with RNP?" Asked Albur.
Johnson's expression shifted again, his sighs became much more heavier.
"Well, everything could have gone smoothly, but one normal day, changed my life forever, it was roughly...7 years ago....."
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That was a...typical Tuesday. I was at an international spaceship airport, where I got my first job as a cyber security when I was 18. My sis was also there, she was about to board a spaceship that is going to Mars, online rumors said Mars have something unusual so she is going to find out.
Johnson: Come on sis, you are going to Mars for 3 days just to investigate some random stuff?
Johanna: Oh John, you don't know, those are super unnatural rumors everyone is talking about! That will be super exciting to go investigate.
Johnson: Well I can't stop you. I could only guard you when you are going to Mars.
Johanna: By the way how is the glitch trapping going?
Johnson: Pretty well. The firewall restrain box held all of the glitches trying to breach the spaceship. None of them will bother that spaceship. To be honest I still couldn't figure out how glitches work, they aren't controlled by anyone yet they appeared to have intelligence.
Johanna: They are sure annoying, but for now they did not cause any deaths, they just simply bug systems and cause them to fail.
Johnson: I bet on my life, I will try my best to destroy them!
Johanna: I could definitely trust your work. My lil bro has grown and became a glitch fighter.
Johnson: Yeah, also, the tech I had been working on is finally completed!
Johanna: Really?
Johnson: Yeah! I found a way to transport our body into a hidden parallel space which exists as a stack in our reality by turning our body into digital data!
Johanna: Wow, that is what I call amazing!
Johnson: After I showed this tech to the whole world, I will prove everyone wrong and show the who is truly the (censored) boss here!
Johanna: Uh, uh, language.
Johnson: Oh, sorry, my bad.
Broadcast: Good afternoon passengers, right now, A2S8 spaceship is about to take off to Mars, please get to gate 5 before the spaceship take off.
Johanna: Oh, my fight is about to go, gotta go now!
Johnson: Oh, alright, see ya sis!
Johanna: See ya three days later!
And after that, I went back to guarding the cyber stuffs of the airport. But then, something went wrong. I was just sitting in the room where it holds the codes, then, I realized glitches starting to breach the systems. I tried my best to hold them all off. Luckily, I did it, but just as I sat down relieved and insert the add on firewall programme into the system, the downloading suddenly stopped. Then, it turned into the release of the fire wall restrain box, I don't know why it happened but I tried my best to hold them all off and begun killing them, but then, I accidentally pressed a button, which stopped every restrain, and it unlocked every fire wall. Then, there comes a dagger. It pierced through the screen, slowly materialising. After a while, the dagger popped put of the screen, there I saw it, a materialised glitch, with a skull and a weird shape behind the skull.
???glitch: Raid the spaceship! Take what we need and scram!
It talked to a walkie talkie, I tried to fight it but everything I threw at it penetrated it.
???glitch: Anyway thanks for letting us in to the system. We deeply appreciate it.
It then flew away, the glitches started attacking the system. I knew I had to stop the spaceship before its too late. I rushed to the room where the staffs tell the pilots what to do for tale off. I tried to warn them and tell them do not take off, but they kept talking recklessly about unauthorized personals banned for entering and will be fined. I have no choice but to hurt them, and after I rushed to the control room, I tried my best to stop every system involved for take off, but it was too late, the spaceship took off, and was already halfway to Mars, I could still see the spaceship through the camera on the satellite of the control room. The skull glitch, holding its dagger, inserted a card into it. That same move, same user.
???glitch: Soul Execution.....
When the blade landed, it destroyed the spaceship, bursting it into pieces right in front of my eyes.....
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Albur gasped.
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I couldn't believe that, I accidentally let the glitches in. And I killed everyone on that spaceship, including the person I admired and loved. By that time, I burst into tears, scratching the glass, and crumbled on the floor. Before the police tackled and took me.
Days prior to the explosion, I was being sued and I am in the court. Due to I am a trained cyber security, they have all reasons to say I did the breaching and the spaceship exploding intentionally. I couldn't deny the truth I let the glitches in, but I didn't do that intentionally.
Within days, my bank account was emptied for those crimes they thought I have done. My parents are both furious, calling me a failure. They even abandoned me, selling all my belongings and kicked me out of the house. All my relatives, my teachers, all called me a failure. I was even grateful I don't have friends.
Under the intense stress and sadness I was experiencing, I got a mental disease. The emotion-loss disorder. It is a super rare disease that causes the patient unable to feel any emotion. Including happy, sad, fear and others. The only known cure is that the patient need to experience a true happy moment to be able to cure the deep scar of the patient, but being unable to feel any emotion already makes it impossible.
During all of these times, I lost everything, lost my home, I lost my trust with everyone, I lost my money and my belongings and my reputation is ruined. I couldn't hold on anymore, during one court fight, I ran away, I attacked every police in the court and rushed straight out to the exit. Police started pursuing me, they even drew guns at me. At one point, I was so uncontrolled, I killed a police officer, out of defensiveness. The police couldn't stop chasing after me, they even used high tech weapons. And during one pursuit, they fired it at me, it hit me, making me forever losing my right arm.
News spread everywhere, I became a fugitive, a dangerous criminal. I could only hide in dark streets, and to survive, I even have to rob a whole supermarket, just to get some food.
Days past, I started feeling how I was unable to sense fear and sadness, but due to my intense anger, it became the only emotion I recovered. I don't see hope anymore, I don't even know how should I continue to live on. I have thought tons of ways but my crimes just shut me away permanently from being normal again. So, one day, I made a decision. I want to leave this world.
I don't see hope, I just want to end the pain and suffering. But what kept me struggling to really do this, was my sis's words. She once told me before, death, was never the answer.
I was stuck between these 2 things for days, her words sounds absurd in my current situation. But then, I took that sentence and thought about it in another absurd direction… maybe, just maybe, it really is the answer.
Well now since I am a criminal, my doings next won't affect me. I secretly borrowed money from loan sharks. And I used them to hire a surgeon on the black market. I decided to die, but not really die, I am going to fake a death.
I snuck back to an old workshop my sis rented before, that was the place where we used to make inventions and test prototypes there. I looked everywhere, and there I found it, a robot, which I could use for my plan. I brought the robot to the surgeon, and I asked him to merge me with that robot. And after days, I woke up, I don't feel any difference at first, but then, I found out I was able to analyze and scan things. My legs feel different, I have wheels, and my body feels metallic, and my right arm is replaced by a four-fingered claw with a glowing core at the middle of the palm. The only thing I can tell that I was once a human was my left hand, which is still a human hand, but with many microchips attached on it. I. Became a cyborg.
After my transformation, I begun my fake death plan. I gave the surgeon extra pennies so he could play along with me. We chose an abandoned house as our stage and then, we dialed the police. I acted like I was emotionally uncontrolled and about to bring a hostage's life with me. The police has indeed arrive, tons of police cars are outside, red and blue sirens are visible. Police secured the whole place and there is even a hostage negotiator. I used a pre-recorded speaker to pretend I am holding a weapon and screaming angrily.
Police 1 : This is the police! Open up!
Negotiator: Please! Just calm down! Just talk about it nicely and I am sure the judge will make a smart choice!
Speaker: Lies! I have lost everything! You all blamed me for it! I am gonna blow this whole place up and this fellow is going to die with me!!!!!!
The surgeon pulled the trigger of a gun. The police busted into the house, but what they saw shocked them, the surgeon crumbled on the ground, looking terrified at some organic left overs that was my body tissues which I don't need during the cyborg transformation. I used them to pretend I killed myself, leaving some parts of me.
Police 1: Jesus...
Police 2: Officer Joe reporting to the chief. Sir....we are too late....
Then, the surgeon blew up the whole building right after the police got him out and later escaped. That is finally the day. Johnson Hamliton, is finally dead.
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After that, I continued to live on as another identity, John Hamilton. The government never suspected me as Johnson Hamliton, they really gave me a new IC and treat me as John Hamilton. After that, I used the remaining money to slowly get myself what I need. The loan sharks have no idea that I am Johnson. Slowly, I started a health and safety company, Repair No Problem.
Even though I get to live again as another identity, I already abandoned my dream, I can only help the world out by slowly introducing my inventions to them. As for the digital world travelling, I kept it to myself, no one will discover this, to be honest, I actually planned to erase you, Mysty and Wilton's memories after the infection. And after a few years of company development, I started climbing higher and higher, slowly making RNP a whole empire. At the same time I was very aware of my surroundings, afraid that someone will find out my true identity.
But when I thought everything is going smoothly, the glitches, they struck back. This time unlike previously which they would only attack systems in data form, they materialized and started spreading terrorism everywhere. And that is the time I finally made a choice, I am gonna stop those biscuit eaters. I started reading glitch histories, learning more about them, and I use that digital world technology to fight them. To prevent them from raiding my house and spoil my true identity easily, I moved to the moon, there, I completely shut myself from public, I won't be able to face them anymore. After that, I built my first assistant that would help me and stay by me during my mental recovery.
???: Wh- where am I ?
Johnson: Woo....yes...my first CI drone.....
???: Wh-who are you?
Johnson: I am your creator, You are a R.E.C.O.V.E.R drone, from today on, you will be my assistant.
???: Oh.....wow.....then...what should I call you?
Johnson: You could call me Johnson, but if you are out there, refer me as John, ok?
???: No, no, I meant what should I call you as but not your name?
Johnson: Oh, um, whatever you like, I don't mind.
???: Searching the internet....wait, I found a word...could I call you.....Master?
Johnson: Oh, sure. Why not?
???: Master. Can I ask...what is my name?
Johnson: Your name....will be Covie. Covie the R.E.C.O.V.E.R drone.
Covie: Alright! I am ready to assist you!
Covie, the cheeky little R.E.C.O.V.E.R drone. I keyed in every data I could remember about my sis into her, trying to pretend she is still with me. I treated her like a part of my family, and slowly, she does as well.
For months, I chased down every glitch and killed them before they could do anything, I make weapons in my secret underground base used to specifically destroy glitches, its not illegal since before I moved to the moon I already got license for it, one of the glitches who I chased down for years, was Breach. She is that glitch who killed my sis. That is why I want her dead so badly I literally went on a rampage when I see her. Yet that psychological demon still got away.
Beating glitches aren't hard work, they are kinda weak, but the problem is I also have to face another problem. Due to the fact I shut myself from public, my employees all suspected me for my sneakiness, they questioned me during meetings but I just simply rejected to answer. Then, the employees started betraying me, selling my ideas to other companies and help them make RNP go on a downfall, which they inserted a virus into the C.L.A.R.E bots and forced the company to recall them all. I have no choice but to fire tons of employees and changes of executives. That year was the darkest time of RNP, no products were made, I could only focus on finding new employees or use CIs, not gonna lie, life was hard, very hard. I don't know why they do that, I was just hiding my identity, what I've done wrong?
Until, one day, I noticed the glitch breaching patterns have changed, they begun to go on mass destruction, this had never happened before. That is when I spotted the box that sealed Commander Glitch is slowly breaking. When I got ready all of my equipment and ready to go on a huge glitch slaughtering, Earth was raided, that was the biggest glitch raiding if HVR war isn't included. I was planning on what should I do. But just then, I heard fighting sounds outside, I told Covie to stay in the hut while I go investigate, that is where I found, 2 helpless human lying on the ground.