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Richard Philmore.

Male, age 37, 5 feet 11 inches, average weight, average strength and basically... all average really.

Except that he was involved in one of the most biggest criminal cases relating to the technology industry in history. He basically sued the entire media industry.

He worked as a computer technician at a secured facility, making sure hacks were a thing it never saw in it's lifetime. Richard did a good job, he used the most latest security equipment and wrote his own anti-malware and firewall software. He knew the ins and outs of the entire computer system... Or computer empire, a more accurate description, of the facility.

But then the Philmore Trials took place and everything went downhill for him.

He had a wife and daughter, he loved them like any father and husband would. Though one day he had received threats by some wannabe hacktivists to lower the security of his workplace. Of course, being the loyal law abiding citizen and genuine employee of 'Janus Libertarian LLC', he ignored the warnings and carried on with his work.

A week later he received another more blatantly cruel message but again Philmore didn't do anything beside reporting the incident.

A few days passed, a tragedy occurred when he reached home. He found his wife and daughter dead, on the bathroom floor and in the play room, respectively.

He reported the case to the police but after investigating into the catastrophe, it sort of backfired on him. Richard was framed for the murder, all evidence pointed towards it.

He hired the best of attorneys to defend him and the case was so close to being resolved, with his name cleared, but the media caught on and aggravated the situation which eventually brought the entire country to fall against him.

He was put in jail, and when he got out he was in the process of suing all the news TV channels and websites, though that case didn't go anywhere. Richard suffered from being at the wrong place at the wrong time over and over. I kind of feel bad for the-

SNAP!

I shake my head a little, he snapped his fingers right near my ears. I stare into his eyes, I really don't feel like talking to him anymore.

"I can sense that you're thinking about my past..." He says and I scan his body posture, for any threatening signs.

"Y-You want revenge on everyone... technology,  that's what you're after," I observe and he nods his head.

"That's right!" He sings, "And you my friend, are going to help me out with all that."

"But what's there to do now? You've ruined the entire usage of electricity and access to intern-"

"NOPE!" He says extremely loudly, his echoe making my spine shiver. There is an unnerving moment of silence before he speaks again.

"There's a Phase 2, like every world changing improvement," He explains further, "'Cartharsis' as I like to code it, a new beginning to a faulty past."

"BULLSHIT."

"Darlene Alderson, a sister you mistook to be just a regular girl, someone who was 'erased' from your past... That's got to hurt. She even stood out for you through the whole five/nine hack but" He holds his hands together, fake pity dripping like acid from his words, while I stare in horror.

"What..."

"And then there's Jayden Knowles. The girl who pulled you back to your feet, the one who made you realise that people may be worth giving a chance," He drifts off, "Your doppelganger with a difference... I wished she had come here with you."