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p class="MsoNormal"A female hurried along the long row of flickering computers and screens, scanning each one. A few were blank, with only static or plain black. A red portal appeared on the wall. Could it be? Communication was cut off a few days ago, but it was undeniable; that was a shot from emher/em portal gun. A redheaded teen with beautiful blue eyes emerged from the portal./p
p class="MsoNormal" "I-Iris? Is that you?" The woman rasped. The girl nodded, dragging her body across the floor. Iris looked up pleadingly at the woman. Rick stormed into the room, entering through one of his green portals. He aimed his freeze-ray gun at Iris, pulling the trigger. She instantly froze, her face contorted in shock and sadness. The woman stared at the frozen girl and sighed./p
p class="MsoNormal" "I can't believe you found her," The woman smiled, shaking her head. It seemed like she was relieved in every sense of the word./p
p class="MsoNormal" "R-really, she c-came to me," Rick frowned./p
p class="MsoNormal" "We'd been searching for her for so long, we…" She trailed off./p
p class="MsoNormal" " She was a failure," The woman began," I couldn't have kids of my own, so I decided to make one. After seven long years, she was finished. The problem was, I didn't want to accept that she was as dangerous as she really was."/p
p class="MsoNormal" Rick chuckled. "emShe/em was dangerous?" He took a swig from his flask, since he emknew /emthis would be some kind of tragic back-story that he had to sit through./p
p class="MsoNormal" The woman nodded gravely. " When I tried to tell her I needed to fix her, she decided to rebel against me. She killed anyone and everyone in her way. Luckily, I added a tracking chip to her in case something like this happened."/p
p class="MsoNormal" Rick stared down at the frozen robot with an overwhelming amount of hate./p
p class="MsoNormal" "She said she had a father," Rick muttered./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Yes, I'm aware of him. That was all her delusion of what she emthought/em her father was. In reality, he was her landlord. We had to resort to killing him, since he was going to expose my organization to the world," The woman explained./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Let me introduce myself. My name is Antoinette," Antoinette stated, holding her hand out. Rick slapped it away./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Rick," He said./p
p class="MsoNormal" "If there's anything you need, just give me a call, alright?" Antoinette smiled./p
p class="MsoNormal" "S-sure. LaAAATer," Rick waved, trying to get back home. He promptly shot out a portal and walked through. Just before the portal shut, he popped his head out./p
p class="MsoNormal" "This is yours," he stated, holding out her revolver-like portal gun./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Thanks," Antoinette muttered, taking the gun. Rick went inside the portal once again, leaving Antoinette alone. She traced her fingers on the indentions of the gun, memories flooding back to her. She brought the gun above her head, and struck it down onto her frozen 'daughter'. Iris shattered in a million pieces, as the woman's heart was not too long ago. Antoinette could only stare at the mess she made. She caused so many deaths, and so many injuries with her own selfish need for a child./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"A female hurried along the long row of flickering computers and screens, scanning each one. A few were blank, with only static or plain black. A red portal appeared on the wall. Could it be? Communication was cut off a few days ago, but it was undeniable; that was a shot from emher/em portal gun. A redheaded teen with beautiful blue eyes emerged from the portal./p
p class="MsoNormal" "I-Iris? Is that you?" The woman rasped. The girl nodded, dragging her body across the floor. Iris looked up pleadingly at the woman. Rick stormed into the room, entering through one of his green portals. He aimed his freeze-ray gun at Iris, pulling the trigger. She instantly froze, her face contorted in shock and sadness. The woman stared at the frozen girl and sighed./p
p class="MsoNormal" "I can't believe you found her," The woman smiled, shaking her head. It seemed like she was relieved in every sense of the word./p
p class="MsoNormal" "R-really, she c-came to me," Rick frowned./p
p class="MsoNormal" "We'd been searching for her for so long, we…" She trailed off./p
p class="MsoNormal" " She was a failure," The woman began," I couldn't have kids of my own, so I decided to make one. After seven long years, she was finished. The problem was, I didn't want to accept that she was as dangerous as she really was."/p
p class="MsoNormal" Rick chuckled. "emShe/em was dangerous?" He took a swig from his flask, since he emknew /emthis would be some kind of tragic back-story that he had to sit through./p
p class="MsoNormal" The woman nodded gravely. " When I tried to tell her I needed to fix her, she decided to rebel against me. She killed anyone and everyone in her way. Luckily, I added a tracking chip to her in case something like this happened."/p
p class="MsoNormal" Rick stared down at the frozen robot with an overwhelming amount of hate./p
p class="MsoNormal" "She said she had a father," Rick muttered./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Yes, I'm aware of him. That was all her delusion of what she emthought/em her father was. In reality, he was her landlord. We had to resort to killing him, since he was going to expose my organization to the world," The woman explained./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Let me introduce myself. My name is Antoinette," Antoinette stated, holding her hand out. Rick slapped it away./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Rick," He said./p
p class="MsoNormal" "If there's anything you need, just give me a call, alright?" Antoinette smiled./p
p class="MsoNormal" "S-sure. LaAAATer," Rick waved, trying to get back home. He promptly shot out a portal and walked through. Just before the portal shut, he popped his head out./p
p class="MsoNormal" "This is yours," he stated, holding out her revolver-like portal gun./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Thanks," Antoinette muttered, taking the gun. Rick went inside the portal once again, leaving Antoinette alone. She traced her fingers on the indentions of the gun, memories flooding back to her. She brought the gun above her head, and struck it down onto her frozen 'daughter'. Iris shattered in a million pieces, as the woman's heart was not too long ago. Antoinette could only stare at the mess she made. She caused so many deaths, and so many injuries with her own selfish need for a child./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p