Beyond Circuits - Detroit Becomes Human Drabbles

Broken Promise - Recycling Center

"Please Kara don't" Alice pleaded. She didn't want to be stripped of something that made her feel alive, to be shown dehumanizing herself to what she truly was, especially after the immense trauma she endured because of her robotic self, being captured and taken away by the military.

Kara gave an apologetic expression as her ivory bionic hand inched closer to Alice's head as her skin deactivated, the girl gazed down as her humanity faded away revealing her true form, she looked back up with a face of sadness as the soldier near them hastily ordered for them to strip their clothing. Kara hesitated as she removed her clothes humiliated as she covered herself before crouching to help Alice with her clothes. The eternal child felt the coldness run through her biocomponents as her clothes were thrown into the dumpster, she looked down at her bare body almost as white as the hostile snow around them. She glanced back at Kara before embracing her in a hug of attempted comfort. They stood there for a moment before they were told to move forward, joining the other android, the girls clasped each other's hand as they walked into the blistering snow.

Alice shuddered at the coldness moving through her heated body, it was a miracle her temperature sensitivity was shut off or she would feel the pressure of the winter on herself. She gazed over as a sudden android began to run but he failed in his attempted escape as he was shot without any hesitation by the guards falling to the ground dead in seconds. She felt her heart beat in fear at the sight, it was so heartless and horrific, which made her even more afraid than before. One of the soldiers turned to the male android next to them ordering him to take the deceased android to the dump. The android anxiously begged not to, pleading for his life. It was such a depressing sight but the conflict was interrupted by Kara's sudden intrusion.

"I'll do it." She blurted out making Alice grip her hand tightly in a panic.

"Don't leave me!" She cried as Kara reassured her she would be right back, her hand leaving Alice as she walked away towards the corpse leaving the girl trembling as she saw Kara drag the body away and out of her sight. And so she waited in that line for Kara, as one of the soldiers ordered her to move into another area of the facility. She roamed around the area looking around at all the other androids sitting or standing in misery unknown of what awaited them. The girl stood peering out into the main area of the recycling line, she desperately awaited for Kara to come back like she promised but the hope of her only maternal figure's return began to deteriorate as the realization of the truth set in at the fact Kara was not coming back.

Hours passed as her fear became numbed by the pain of the betrayal of Kara, the one person she thought she could trust and even love had left her behind, it hurt almost as bad as Tod's horrible treatment of her. The people who should have loved her had deceived her. Even in truth she still glanced around for any sign of Kara but as it had been for what felt like an eternity she was still nowhere in sight. She wanted to be held by Kara, be reassured to be embraced by her, even though she knew that upon entering the recycling compactor her fate was uncertain, it would be better with Kara together instead of being alone and vulnerable. Their oath of them being together forever, as a family was all left in the dust at the unknown whereabouts of Kara. As the entrance opened she gazed one more time into the distance for one last spark of hope Kara would come and save her, take her away from this place, and protect her, but she was still alone as the soldier coldly told her to get into the horrifying contraption. With slow and terrified steps she moved in heartbroken and frightened. Alice watched as the doors closed as a horrifying robotic arm motioned towards her threateningly but she didn't scream or cry, as tears glossed over her eyes.

"Kara..." she murmured, feeling something wet slip down her cheek." Please come and save me, Kara."

But no savory would come from her words. No sanctuary of safety would save her from the utter fate of demise that awaited her, as Alice gazed once more swallowing down her tears, closing her eyes as something punctured into her body, her last thought being Kara.

You promised you'd never go....

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Kara's processors activated as she slowly regained consciousness, she winced opened her eyes slowly lifting her hand as she looked around her surroundings of garbage upon garbage of her own kind's bodies among the grim of other day objects, she lifted herself up, the rising sun beaming down on her dirty body. A sudden wave of guilt rose from her dumped on her like cold water as the emptiness without her purpose washed over her at the utter treachery of what her cowardly actions had caused.

She shuddered at the fact, her own eyes watering with the overcoming grief of what had happened to the one whom she had cherished. Destined to death by her own faults.

"Alice..." she muttered gazing into the distances of the miles upon miles of trash, which from a few miles away from where Kara stood laid the tangled and broken remains of the same little girl who had been killed by her broken promise.