“No, Please, Please No” Stuart sobbed, his tears running and falling down his red cheeks, “NO PLEASE NO!!!” He cried, he cried with all his might, but no matter how much he begged, how much he wished, none of it worked.

His wife was still dead, and she wasn’t coming back.

Her burned and bloody corpse lay lifeless in the bed, her blood covering the sheets, and a gaping hole taking the place of where her heart should’ve been.

“No, please. Please, please, please, don’t leave me. You can’t!” He sobbed

Nothing. She was still dead.

With a quivering hand, he reached over and closed her eyes.

“I’m so sorry” he whispered, 

And it was at that moment, that very moment, that he felt a little bit, no, a big part of his heart… 
Die

He just wanted to stay there, he wanted to stay by her side, but he knew that he couldn’t, the cops would be there soon.

Unsteadily he stumbled over to his dresser, opened the second to the bottom drawer, and pulled out his gun. He didn’t even know what he was capable of right now, but before he knew it, he had already unlocked the door.

With a yell that somehow sounded far off, he swung open the door and aimed his gun directly at his son. He was about to pull the trigger (he really was) but then he noticed one thing, one thing that made all the difference.

First, Chase was slumped against the wall, and judging by the dent in it, he had been thrown there with extreme force. 

Second, he wasn’t breathing, he was already dead. 

And finally, there was that one detail, that one almost unnoticeable detail… He had terrible burn marks on his chest

Tech opened his eyes being snapped back into reality by his ringing phone

Tech picked it up

“Is it done?” He asked as robots scurried all around, each doing their assigned jobs

“Not quite” Isaac chatted “But I’ve captured Slash, and the guy in charge trusts me, so, Step One is complete”

Tech rolled his eyes “Isaac I thought that I made myself clear when I said that I would be trusting you with this.”

Darla walked into the room, holding her tablet

“Sir, we’ve just received a report from yesterday, apparently a couple of the Kennedy City mines went off, and today there have been different rumors about two individuals-” 

Tech waved her away, “Darla can’t you see that I’m on the phone, just deal with it”

Darla nodded and walked away

Tech now turned his attention back to Isaac

“Do not call me with menial updates, call me when it is finished”

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Isaac looked down from his perch atop the castle, he saw all the little people running and walking about, and he chuckled at the thoughts of things to come

“I said, do I make myself clear?” Tech growled for the second time

Now it was Isaac's turn to roll his eyes, “Yes sir” He sighed “Won’t call you unless it’s really important”

“Isaac I don’t appreciate-”

Isaac hung up.

He looked down again and laughed

“Step Two”