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it was just an ordinary day in Murray Costume Manor, everything was running like clockwork.
Edwin was searching through his emails while Fiona was clearing up, most of the contents presented to Edwin was beyond boring to say the least…
when suddenly, he notices an email regarding him and his work from William.
Edwin couldn’t believe it, he wouldn’t.
his own friend, his own BUSINESS PARTNER double crossed him and is willing to leave him and his wife to complete bankruptcy.
it was bad enough that Henry was gone after dying and burning in the fallfest fire but now THIS?
Fiona noticed Edwin’s now tense and shaky posture and opened her lips to speak up to soothe Edwin’s nerves despite not knowing the situation yet.
“Don’t.”, Edwin snapped, “William seems to want to destroy us, for what reason? I currently have not a clue Fiona.. but I’ll be damned if I let him succeed.”.
Fiona’s eyes widened in total shock
“Edwin dear, you cannot be serious can you? what if that makes this matter worse?” Fiona protested as worry consumed her features
Edwin scoffed and let out a condescending low chuckle, “do you seriously believe that I’ll just sit by and let William of all people steal our work? our JOY? you are sorely mistaken my dear wife, I’ll do anything to stop that parasitic piece of filth from talking M1… surely you must know that much… correct?”
Fiona’s eyes darkened as she looked away from Edwin
“I will not be apart of this, I refuse to be apart of your silly revenge plan.” Fiona mumbled out quietly
Edwin just stood up properly and put his hands behind his back, “then you have no business stopping me, correct?” Edwin asked already aware of the answer.
“No…” Fiona stated with a strained voice, “I love you Edwin but if you do all of this for your work and not your family you have a serious issue on your hands…” Fiona replied cautiously, warning Edwin.
“Whatever, you are not a concern to me at this current time, my main priority is to reach M1 and prevent William from stealing our work, maybe if you truly had a backbone you would of aided me with this task, but alas… you seem to not care about bankruptcy or our future or even our son for that matter.”, Edwin replied coldly and fiercely.
Edwin walks towards the door, slams it open and waltzes on out with renewed confidence and fury, not even stopping nor caring for Fiona’s response.
Edwin walks through the Manor in search for the Mimic, it couldn’t be too far from him he thought to himself, it would know better than to disobey its creator after all.
but then again.
the thought of William arriving at any moment seemed to cause Edwin to worry and rush about, if he couldn’t have M1, William couldn’t either, he needed to make sure that M1 would be one with him… linked and bound together for eternity with no certain way to seperate.
Edwin had toyed around with cybernetics before but none of that could compare to what he was about to do to this scale.
there would be no redemption.
no way of EVER going back to normal.
he was in no state to make this decision and his stress levels were out of this world and every time he rushed he acted on complete irrationality and impulse.
after rushing to the Mimic Edwin grabbed a crowbar and dug into M1’s metal skull and tore off a quarter of the Mimic’s face and had finally decided after an hour of contemplating to force the part of the mimics head onto into his skull which made his skull bleed heavily, and he linked up M1 to his own brain.
Edwin repaired most of the damage done to the Mimic but one thing that Edwin did indeed notice was he could control the Mimic and the same could be done to him, in his rushing state, it caused Edwin to forget fully about the possibility that the Mimic could get ahold of his mind too… but all M1 does is Mimic and because of that little fact Edwin still remained to have the most control over the two of them and for that he was immensely grateful.
[End of Chapter 1]