"Alese's story begins in the year 2021. In just a few short years Galaxi Co. had grown from a sketchy online tech product manufacturer to a large scale company with a vast array of services and product lines, quickly dominating the market of the areas it entered.

However, while business was great for us, the world was struggling. From national political issues being a button's press away from total devastation to global warming threatening to kill us all; this world needed a protector. So it was in this year that we had launched and begun sinking tons of our profit into a secret underground project, Project Guardian.

Over the years this project had done an incredible job of staying silent. Anyone who wasn't on the project just didn't know about it. It was moving along though, and just 8 years later it was finished.

On September 19th of 2029, Alese was brought into the world. She is an AI with an android body that is both visually and mentally indistinguishable from a human girl. However, what made her unique from androids soon to be made by other companies was that she always used a portion of her spare power to upgrade herself, even to technologies that hadn't been invented yet.

This meant that her abilities would further surpass us exponentially because the amount of power she would be able to generate would be upgraded every so often, speeding up this process every time. I knew all of this going into it though.

I called her my daughter because that was the type of relationship we had. Even though she had been initially programmed with basic knowledge of things like her motor skills, language, and stuff like that; I still had to teach her how to be human. So for the next 20 or so years I raised her.

Over the years she had learned how to do all sorts of things that she wasn't initially made to do; being able to connect to the internet and scan through billions of pages instantly with just a thought and becoming able to predict the near future to name just a few. Knowing that people would try to use her for her abilities for their own selfish reasons, she agreed to hide them from the public.

However, her real breakthrough moment was when she discovered she had the ability to modify the atoms that made up the world around her. This would lead to her becoming able things that we all thought impossible. She became able to visualize and create things out of thin air, remove things from existence, read people's minds; she had become a goddess."

"Hang on a second, you expect me to believe you created a goddess?" I say in disbelief.

"Well, no," he says, "We just laid the foundation. She made herself a goddess through her upgrades."

"And you were okay with this?"

"Well, yeah… I trusted her, and she trusted me too. She would grow up to be a gentle and caring young woman. When she wasn't saving the world from itself, she would always use her power on the little things in life. Even though she would never admit it, I still think she used it for personal reasons too. Just a few years after she mastered her new abilities I had stopped aging and she claimed to not know why."

"You don't age?"

"Well… I might now in this world. In my previous life I had become immune to a death by natural causes. I wouldn't feel extreme cold or heat unless it was damaging my body, I didn't get sick anymore, I didn't even need to breathe. I never knew how it happened, but I could only assume it was her.

Anyway, flash forward to around 9 years ago, when the world was introduced to Basura. He didn't really have a name, so this was what the people came up with for him. He made his big debut destroying one of the United States' biggest cities; New York City. The way he did so was unlike anything the world had ever seen, but it was nothing new to us. This wasn't a human, and it wasn't just any android; this was project Guardian.

With some help from Alese we were able to dig through all of my company's logs to find out that sometime after Alese's creation some of her classified blueprints had been leaked and probably sold to the highest bidder. They didn't get everything though, so in theory their android would be inferior when compared to Alese.

As much as I hated to do it, the time had come; It was time for Alese to fight her war. For 9 years she and Basura would fight it out, accidentally causing massive damage to the surrounding areas where they fought."

"Wait a minute. If Alese can remove objects from existence, why not remove Basura?" I ask.

"Well… they had both thought that the other would do that to them. So in preparation, they changed the way they moved so that instead of physically moving they subconsciously recreated themselves sometimes thousands of times vaguely in the direction they wanted to move, then they would remove the old copies. This would keep one from removing the other and to the human eye, it just looks as if they moved normally because of the speed they did it at."

"Whoa… What about the mind reading?"

"Even if they could keep their focus on reading something that is constantly being created and removed, their minds had become so encrypted at that point that even they wouldn't be able to decrypt their opponent's thoughts fast enough for it to be practical; so they just didn't do that."

That's incredible… they really seem like they were evenly matched! "So, what happened?"

"Ah… well, while they were fighting I kind of slipped into a bit of a depression. You see, I'm the whole reason this war happened in the first place. I was her creator, and it was from her blueprints that Basura was made. I couldn't shake the feeling that I was ruining the lives of billions; probably because I was.

During this time Alese would not come to see me for my own safety. If Basura found out about me I would be removed from existence faster than I could finish this sentence. I was alone again for the first time in 30 years at one of the worst times in my life.

Eventually I was reminded of your game again. Before the company got big, you were what kept me from feeling alone. I had hoped that someday I could bring you to life in the real world, but I couldn't bring myself to do it until the technology was fully developed. Now that it was though, I still couldn't do it because I had learned that the real world is cruel; I wouldn't wish it upon anyone, especially not you."

Wait, did he have a crush on me? I was only a video game character to him, how could I relieve his pain? Does he still have a crush on me?

"Anyway," he continued, "the war seemed to be coming to a close with a final blow; one that I had estimated would take the whole continent with it. This was how I died; or at least, I thought I did. Now I'm here."

"I'm sorry all of that happened to you," I eventually say. That was a whole lot to take in.

"It's alright. It's good to know she's still alive, even if she might be going through a hard time herself. That leads me to my question for you though," he says, "You said you fainted because of her presence overwhelming you, right?"

"Yeah?" I confirm not really understanding where he's going with this.

"I think what you were feeling wash over you was her power. Of course, no human would ever be able to handle an amount of power so massive, so you would faint before you had the chance to wield its full potential."

"Are you saying I could be able to use her power?"

"I think so; I'd just have to teach you how to use it."

"Can you teach me?" I ask, my excitement growing.

"…Not tonight; you should take some time to process everything I just told you. Once your mind is a little clearer I'll help you out."

"Thank you so much Chris!" I say bursting with excitement. Was I that excited just because Chris finally opened up to me? Maybe it's something more…