Author's note: One-shot for contest and Charm's male protagonist's origin story.

Day 0 of New Life

Blood dripped down the side of my arm as the cut bled out or it should have had I been human.

It had been my 6th birthday when I found out the terrible news that I had been lied to all my life and that, in actuality, I was not human.

It was my father's fault that I thought I was human.

He was a scientist who worked in a secretive lab and basically raised me there because his bosses asked him to work so many hours.

The day I found out, some goons had rushed into the lab, taken away all his work and dragged him away from me. They also branded me and told me that I was no longer to be in his care.

Of course, I struggled and tried to reach him and ended up falling into his arms whilst telling him I would never leave him no matter what happened.

Another scientist declared that I was just a subject to him and that he had fooled me into thinking I was anything more than a machine.

"NO! I'm human! Aren't I?", I yelled and accidentally tripped, ending up sprawled on the floor where a shard of broken glassware pierced into my arm and sent pain up my arm to leave me in writhing agony.

It was the first deep cut of my life, before Father had always been the one to treat me and warned me to be careful in the lab. By the age of 5, I knew all lab safety procedure by heart. Once, I was proud of that achievement.

As a scientist looked at my wound, I became puzzled.

Blood was not dripping out. In fact, when I looked at my arm inside lay only wires.

Naturally, I shrieked and jumped in the air. A goon took my other arm and dragged me away from the scene while I screamed at my unlucky fate.

The goons said to me, "You're just an android, kid. You'll be sent into work with the rest of them."

A scientist who accompanied them, responded, "What a particular android, don't you think? He's robotic, but could fit in as a human. It's still a wonder his master never told him."

From then on, my life changed for the worse.

Henceforth, I was dead as I had never been alive and Mr. Roboto, what they called me, was born.