[ WP ] You are a supervillain explaining how you are not actually evil .

Log Entry: Day 4380 of testing 
 
 Here we go again. Infected Subject 408. 
 
 As another body writhed in pain under the stimuli of the electrodes, I could only lament her pain. A pain that didn ’ t need to happen. A pain that shouldn ’ t have ever needed to be done. 
 
 No, not her. It ’ s not a her. Stop worrying about it. 
 
 They had taken everyone from me. Every single thing I had ever cared about had been taken from me when They had come. It had happened so fast, there was no way that I could have helped anyone. I had to go into hiding. I had to find a way to fix things. There had to be a way to make things right again. I didn ’ t spend twelve years climbing to the highest ranks in molecular manufacturing and deconstruction to fail now, and I sure as Hell didn ’ t spend ten years in exile and waste so many lives to just give up. 
 
 “ Why?! Why are you doing this to me!? ” 
 
 It was resisting the treatment. How were they resisting again? 
 
 As I turned up the amplitude on the induction unit, I could only think about the better times. Before I had to rely on such barbaric methods. Before I had been run out of my lab. Before They had fully entrenched themselves in the minds and bodies of every other human on the planet. Before I had to do the unthinkable to fight back. 
 
 “ Why? ” the words were almost sour in my mouth as I watched each of the blonde hairs on its head extend like tendrils of unearthly gold, “ You know why, Subject 408. ” The electricity coursing through its body clenched the mouth shut. The braces probably didn ’ t help matters for it either, but I didn ’ t care. The child it had once been was long since trapped. She had been screaming much, much longer. “ I want my family back. ” 

