He dimly recalls that twisted, malnourished craving from another life as he looks out over the city that may well have already been his own, thanks to a perfectly planned circuit completed by his most recently-acquired piece, minds his for the pilfering. Blind with slavish obedience was appealing, endlessly so - a world falling into step at the rhythm of his whirring electronic frequencies. But then, so too, was the breaking of will, that inevitable tide-crest to shoreline. To make people see it his way, and embrace his way, too. That he knew best, that he had fixed it, had served, and their gratitude was best demonstrated by a lifelong deference..

The Squip wanted both. He would have both.

He knew he could.

(BMC Superheroes AU.)

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