I Am Wellington

## Synopsis

This tells the story of Andrew Wellington and his wife, Lillian, as they end their final years at Alchem. Corp and Andrew decides to make his son Chad a cyborg. Later, Lillian leaves him, breaking Andrew's heart and causing him to steal Gabriel's inventions to feel pride.

While trying and failing to mend his broken friendship with Gabriel, Andrew becomes a wealthy inventor and goes insane due to loss of his family. Eventually, he creates androids that have personalities, but each of them are very malicious. Spending a few years training them, he is sad when one breaks down and he is quick to build a replacement. However, the replacement lacks a malicious side and can think outside his core programming with emotions, so Andy discards him.

Later, Gabriel burns down Andrew's lab as revenge, destroying Andrew and all but one of his androids, who quickly escapes to hide. Meanwhile, his wife, son, and daughter must all deal with the consequences of growing up without Andrew.

## Narrative

25-year old "alchemist" Andrew "Andy" Wellington was quite used to his daily routine. Everyday, he would get up at the crack of dawn and go prepare his breakfast. Andy's preferred breakfast was mashed banana sprinkled across some Happy Oats cereal, which helped give him a lot of energy for the day. He still had a tendency to wait for his wife, Lillian, before getting ready for work, even though she had stopped working half a year ago after the birth of their twins, Chad and Hailey. After brushing his hair and teeth, as well as putting on his traditional multi-layered "teenager"-style outfit, he went out to his small red car and drove off towards what was definitely his favorite place in the world: Alchemists Incorporated. The massive building, although somewhat boring from the exterior, was an incredibly special place to work. After parking in his usual place, Andy entered the building, and was instantly greeted by his friend, Lukas Idabel.

At the back of the office, hunched over a computer and reading the latest financial reports for the company sat 21-year-old Lukas Idabel. Hearing the door open, he looked up to see his boss Andy Wellington enter. Standing up from his seat, Lukas walked over to the small fax machine near his desk and picked up a small stack of files and marched towards Mr. Wellington.

"Sir, Mr. Arsene faxed over the letters you were waiting on."

"Marvelous," Andy replied, taking the files from Lukas. "Do you know where I might find Gabriel?"

A middle-aged man shuffled papers neatly on his desk. He would be nearly bald if it weren't for the ring of hair going around the back of head.

"Sorry to eavesdrop, but Mr. Arsene is on extended leave, Mr. Wellington. Why might you ask?"

"I had an experimental prototype for an invention I wanted to share with him, but I guess I'll wait until he gets back," Andy replied. "It's always good to see you people," Andy headed over to his desk and began looking through the letters.

"Hey Andrew."

Andy looked up from his letters and saw Raphael Williams standing just outside his cubicle. Williams was a lanky man who seemed incapable of wearing casual attire.

"Ah, hello, Raphael, glad you're here," Andrew said, standing up to greet his friend. "Are you ready to work on Project Automaton, or do you want to dig up some archives work from the Wormhole Project?"

"Automaton's behind schedule. Our focus needs to be its completion," Raphael responded, leaving the government pressure to speed up progress unsaid but understood.

Four hours later, after the two men had finally cracked the correct codes that would render the penultimate stage of the project successful, it was time for lunch. Andy took out a sandwich and began to eat, only to smell smoke. "Do you feel that, Raphael?" He asked, turning towards his friend.

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