This fan fic story chronicles Lore's life prior to his initial encountered with Data.
Contains mild violence and sexual content

Journey to the Dark Side: A Lore Story, REDUX
Written by: S. Bell

Chapter Seventeen: Ultimate Betrayal

Lore arrived at the lab. He knew that time was limited before the Crystalline Entity to strike, and he tried to figure out a way to alter his father's equipment so he could send a communiqué to the Crystal. He walked over to the storage area to see if there were any supplies he could use and when the door opened, he saw his own reflection. However, the reflection didn't move or blink when he did. It turned out not to be a reflection at all, but another android in his likeness! Lore was utterly devastated when he realized that it was his replacement.

"My own father has given up on me!" he said with a painful anger in his voice.

Lore became hysterical and started knocking things over and throwing things around. He attempted to collect himself when he noticed a small sheet of paper on the floor. It seemed a bit out of place from his father's other documents and had been hidden. If Lore hadn't shuffled things around, he may not ever have found it. As he unfolded the paper, he saw that it was a letter from Jacqueline addressed to Lore's parents.

The letter read:

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Soong,

I'm writing this letter to let you know that I don't blame you for what has happened to me. I loved your son very much and I still do, but I just don't think I'm strong enough to get past the recent events and I hope one day Lore will understand. I hope one day he'll forgive me for what I'm about to do and I hope that he'll forgive you for helping me. In spite of all that has happened, I would like to thank you for creating Lore, he really is a good person deep down but something's changed. I think with me gone, he'll be able to focus on working things out for himself. Hopefully, someday we'll meet again and things will be different.

Warmest regards,

Jacqueline

It took Lore a minute to process everything that had taken place between the time she was first released from sickbay up until the moment of her death. It had all been orchestrated! He realized that Jacqueline had done the unthinkable. She had faked her own death, and everybody was in on it… the doctor, Andy and even his own parents!

"She tricked me and she used my own parents to help." he whispered, the words barely audible. He crumbled the letter and threw it across the room. "That lying bitch! She let the colonists change her into one of them! Why?!"

Lore sat with his head in his hands and began to weep. "Now she's just like the rest of them! All humans are the same! Hurtful, deceitful, contradictory liars!"

Then he thought about the Crystalline Entity and smirked. He knew it was coming within a few weeks and that it was only a matter of time before every human on Omicron Theta would die. 'Good riddance!' he thought as he chuckled bitterly. Lore knew that there was one thing he had to do before he acquired a shuttle to leave the planet; and that was to find Jacqueline. However, before he could move everything went dark.

Dr. Soong wept, his hand still in Lore's back and on the switch he had just flicked. Juliana joined in Dr. Soong's sorrowful weeping as she leaned her head against his.

"You had no choice Noonien." she reassured, "This is the way it has to be. Lore was a danger to himself and others. Try not to be so hard on yourself; you've tried your best."

"How can I not be hard on myself Juliana? Lore brutally raped a young woman and nearly killed her because of his twisted emotions! He's murdered at least two people. The emotions I gave him were supposed to help him interact with humans more easily and instead they got entangled with his ambitions! Where did I go wrong? Why do I keep losing my children?!"

A week after Lore's deactivation, Jacqueline left Omicron Theta, but not before apologizing to Lore's parents one last time. She couldn't help but feel that she was somehow responsible for the chain of events that led to his deactivation. Shortly after her departure, Dr. Soong found the strength to activate a new android, an android without any emotions. The android's name was Data. Juliana objected to creating another android after Lore, but her objections were overruled by Dr. Soong's desire to create a successful android in his image. Initially, the colony was extremely wary of Data and they feared he would be like Lore. However, despite a rough and awkward beginning, Data made remarkable progress and began to grow on the colony within just a few weeks. The colonists felt more at ease since there was no danger in suffering from the repercussions of hurting the android's feelings since it didn't have any.