A/N:

WARNING

This chapter of the story contains mentions of rape and blackmail. And in the future the story may also contain Smut/Lemon/Explicit sex. If you are uncomfortable with these things then you are not in anyway obliged to read this story.

Prologue

12.5.2068
Friday
New York City

11:00 pm

In one of the poor sections of New York City (even in this day and age, they hadn't been able to completely get rid of poverty), there was a certain old three storied rundown apartment building. In fact, it was so rundown that, there were rumors floating around it was going to be demolished by the feds soon. And for this reason, the apartment had a very cheap rent, so it suited the needs of its poor residents just fine.

Anyway, it was night time, so all the residents of the apartment were sleeping.

Everyone except one man.

Standing on of the balconies of the third story of the apartment, was a 35-year-old Caucasian man. He was quite tall and muscular. He wore a black jeans and dark gray t-shirt (black or dark gray, was all he wore these days).

He also had pale skin (as is customary for all Caucasians), blonde hair and generic Caucasian blue eyes and an overall rugged face. He was someone one would call ruggedly handsome… if it wasn't for the haggard and tired expression and the dark circles around his eyes due to the lack of sleeping because of nightmares.

His name, name was Andy David. And he was standing there to try to think about his life, and to think about whatever if he should go through with his plan with a clear head. Because if he does go through with his plan then this was going to be the last time, he'd ever be able to think about it.

You see, life hadn't been kind to Andy or in Andy's words it was a shitty life. However, it did teach him some valuable life lessons.

Lesson no. 1. Never believe a Politian (especially a leftist one).

Lesson no. 2. Student loan is not free money. In fact, there's no such thing as free money.

Lesson no. 3. If you're planning to go to a university, never choose an easy subject if you want to have a well-paying job in the future. In fact, don't go to the university at all if you can easily learn things from the internet.

Lesson no. 4. Never try to make a decision without thinking it through with a clear-head first. Otherwise, you'd probably make a decision you'll regret in the future.

Lesson no. 5. Your mom and dad are two of the most trustworthy person in your life. And if they are saying, doing this is good for you or doing that is bad for you, then they are probably right (unless of course, they are THAT kind of parents. But those kinds of parents are in the extreme minority).

However, these lessons are of no use to him now. Because, these are the kinds of lessons one has to learn very early on in life. And if someone fails to learn them, well they'd learn them eventually later in their life when it turns into their own personal hell. But by that point, it'd be too late.

And trust him, he should know. After all, the same thing happened to him.

You see, from a very early age, he was hot-head and lazy. He never thought before he acted, so he always got into trouble. And because of this, he always made stupid decisions.

He had a family. A mom, a dad and an older brother. And as any parent should, they loved him (even is older). They sent him to school, and not some ordinary public schools either, but the privet ones with some really tight rules and regulations. They gave him advices, warnings, and punishments when he did something wrong. Of course, at that time he thought them to be stupid, annoying and useless.

No wait, that's not true. He knew that, what his parents were trying to teach him wasn't useless. Every time they gave him an advice, every time they punished him, every time they nagged him, they did all of that for his own good, and he knew that too. It's just that, he was too lazy and too pathetic to accept it. They weren't useless, he was!

Anyway, after finishing high school, he got into an argument with his parents on which university-course to choose. His parents wanted him to study IT.

You see, at that time technology, especially communication and information technology were developing at a rapid pace. And because of this reason, there was a sudden want for people with a degree in IT. So, having an IT degree, was hundred percent guaranteed to land you with a job at that time.

However, as it was said before, he was lazy. So, he didn't want to study something as complicated as IT, he instead wanted to study something easier.

Anyway, the argument took a very nasty turn.

Long story short. He walked out of the front door, showing his parents the middle finger.

Damn! If he could, then he would've gone back in time of that night, just so he could shove a foot down his younger-selves ass!

Anyway, he took student loan after he saw some Politian talking big-shit about it, and then joined a local university. And there, he chose the easiest course imaginable, which was also the most useless.

And guess which course was that.

If you had guessed Fine Arts, then you are absolutely correct.

Fine Arts, was perhaps one of the most useless subjects one could choose. Especially in this latter half of the century, when technology is the king. Nobody wants a Fine Arts flower-vase over the iPhone anymore.

And just like that, he came out of the university, with a shit-eating grin on his face, throwing the graduation cap on the air and with a degree that wasn't even worth the paper it was written on! With a 450,000,000$ student debts to boot!

And then, only after a month or two after the graduation, he became a fucking workaholic. Apparently, sleeping on the road and eating only the bare-minimum for a while due to the lack of money is enough to turn even the most hardcore lazy-ass into a total workaholic.

After the graduation, when he began to hunt for jobs, he realized first-hand just how useless his degree was. As nobody wanted to recruit a guy who's only qualification was to make some Fine Arts flower vases, and not good ones at that. And so, after nearly a month of wandering around here and there for a job, sleeping on roads and nearly starving to death he, a university graduate, took up washing trash-cans.

But that's not only thing he did. Aside from washing trash-cans, he also picked-up various other odd-jobs just to keep his soul and body together. And the fact that almost half of his hard-earned income would go to his student debt only made it worse.

In other words, he was piss-poor and broke.

And after five years of busting his ass like this and not being able to even put a dent on his student debt he finally said enough was enough. Because he figured out that, if things go on like this, then he'd be doing his slave work for his entire life, and he still wouldn't be anywhere near clearing his student debt.

So, seeing no other option, he took a dive into internet's underbelly known as the deep-web (thankfully after the emergence of fusion-energy and the quantum internet, even he could afford an internet connection and a computer, albeit cheap and second-hand ones). There he started to sell illegal drugs online.

Of course, he didn't just, started to sell drugs mindlessly, or without a plan. After all, being mindless and making decisions before thinking it through with a clear and logical head, was exactly what got to this point in the first place. So, when he decided to sell drugs, he made a plan, and it was simple.

First, he'd sell drugs at a rate that he'd never be more than a blip on the police radar, and he'd only sell drugs once a month to further avoid detection (Seriously, if his name ever got on the police records, then his life would be over). Second, whatever money he'd get from this, would go straight to clearing his student debt and nothing else, not even to buy a cheap candy. Third, when he finally gets rid of his debt, he will stop selling drugs all together, and then he will take his workaholism and dial it up to eleven to save enough money to open up some kind of business.

When he began to sell drugs, he followed these rules with religious zeal and diligence. And it worked, because after only a year, he was able to pay off almost a quarter of his debt. And so, he estimated that if he kept to doing his work like this, then he would be able to pay off his student debt in five years or so, which was quite frankly okay with him.

And so, it continued. Things were finally looking up; everything was going well.

Until everything went to shit.

It all started with a mysterious phone-call. A phone-call of from a certain infamous hacker.

Four years ago, …

7.3.2064
Friday
Chicago
13:15 am

At that time at night he was sitting in front of his computer.

"Damn! MARVEL out-done itself again!" Andy exclaimed with an excited grin as he was watching the latest MERVEL movie 'A Man of Iron (2062)'. Basically, it was just another iteration of Ironman, but even then, it was a damn good one as expected of MARVEL.

"Man, I wonder if they'd make another Avengers series," Muttered Andy.

He loved the MARVEL movies, he loved DC too but MARVEL definitely was his favorite, so he had seen all the MARVEL movies from old to new. But aside from that he also liked watching Anime and reading Japanese Light Novels and fanfictions too. In other words, he was a weeb, an otaku since he was a kid. And even his current shitty life wasn't able to change that.

Anyway, as he was a weeb he was watching this movie and thoroughly enjoying himself too even in this dead of night.

Humm! Humm! Humm!

However, his enjoyment was interrupted as his smartphone in his right pocket started to vibrate signifying that someone was calling him.

"Shit, who the hell is calling in this ungodly hour?" Said Andy pushing the movie and fishing the phone out of his pocket in annoyance.

The smartphone was a sight to behold. It was fairly large and almost super thin. Of course, it wasn't thin enough to cut fingers, because otherwise that'd be a problem. This was the latest of the Samsung Sub-Particle series.

Now the question may rise, if Andy was piss-poor then how could he afford this thing?

Well you see, that's the thing, it wasn't expensive at all. It was actually quite cheap. In fact, not just smartphones from Samsung but smartphones from almost every other brand had become so cheap that somebody even poorer than him could easily afford them. In other words, in this latter half of the century smartphones from almost every other brand had almost the same status as button-phones from the earlier half of the century.

Now one may ask, huh!? How did that happen? Wasn't Samsung at the very least supposed to be king when it came to smartphones?

Well, this happened because the real king decided to come down from his high-throne.

Yeah, we're talking about Apple.

After the emergence of fusion-energy the production-cost for electronics all over the world plummeted rapidly which enabled various tech-giants, including Samsung, to up their production like crazy and as a result electronics like smartphones and computers became cheaper and more affordable than ever before to the general public.

And it's at this time Apple decided to strike.

You see, Apple was, and still is, a premium brand when it came to both hardware and software. It was simply the best of the best, and everyone knew it and wanted its products. But Apple products were also notoriously expensive. Even an older model of iPhone costed more than 200$. In other words, it just simply wasn't affordable to the average person.

And it had a negative effect on Apple too. Because of the sheer expensiveness of Apple products, the company may have been making a killing out of it almost every year, but this was also causing the company to missing out on the oh so delicious pie known as the world-market. They just weren't getting a big enough share of it.

So, if things didn't change and if Apple didn't adapt to the market then they would louse the pie all together. And Apple's management under its new CEO Anthony Robinson, knew it as well. And so, they wanted to make the Apple products cheaper and more affordable to the general public as well. But of course, nothing is ever so simple, because if they suddenly make their previously expensive products cheap out of nowhere it may cause the company to louse face. And so, Apple was looking for an opportunity, an excuse that'd let them to adapt to the market without lousing face.

And the perfect excuse presented itself when fusion-energy emerged.

As it was stated before, because of fusion-energy the production cost plummeted and the rate of production rapidly shot up, which in turn caused the electronics to become cheaper and more affordable. And so, when Apple too finally lowered its price, it did so with the excuse of lower production and energy cost.

Of course, everyone knew this was pure bullshit and Apple could've lowered its price even before this. But no one cared, because this was Apple they were talking about, no need to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Anyway, Apple products became easily affordable within a reasonable price which enabled the general public to buy the very latest model of iPhone and other Apple products without going almost bankrupt. And because of this Apple products became even more popular than ever before; people were buying iPhone and other Apple products like crazy and almost forgot about the other brands all together.

Anyway, because of this recent flex of Apple (in which Apple demonstrated why it was the king of electronics) the other electronics brands were soon left in the dust. Because, like it was said before Apple was, and still is, the premium brand of electronics, and everyone knew it but it was also too expensive for the general public, so it wasn't all that popular. And because of this the other brands like Samsung, Oppo and Huawei was the kings when it came to smartphone. But after Apple lowered its products price the general public could suddenly easily afford that piece of good hardware. In other words, there simply wasn't any competition.

Now that's not to say the other brands were out of business. No, they were still there, and they were slowly but surely regaining their former ground but it was a slow-going process.

And because of this reason Andy's current Samsung smartphone, despite being quantum connection enabled or 11G, was still easily affordable to someone like even him.

Anyway, after taking out the phone he looked at the screen to check the caller ID. However, instead of seeing a name or a number he sees a series of hashes and stars. Basically, it looked like this…

##*####*####*###*######*####

"Huh? What the…" Said Andy in confusion. "Hemp! Probably a prank," And one can't fault him for thinking that, after all there were many apps nowadays that allows the caller to easily hide or edit the phone number on their caller ID. Well anyway, after that Andy cuts the call and goes back to his movie.

Humm! Humm! Humm!

However, only a minute after this his phone rung-up again. And again, it was the same caller ID. And Again, he cut the call, in annoyance.

Humm! Humm! Humm!

However, this time even before he could put the phone on the desktop desk, the same (not)number called once again.

"Alright motherfucker you wanna talk!? let's talk!" Saying that he finally takes the call-in irritation. "Listen here your asshole! I'm not in the mood for your stupid pranks so why don't you shove it where the sun doesn't shine!"

"This isn't a prank," Said a voice from the other side of the connection. The voice was very distorted, it sounded as if thousands of tortured souls from hell were speaking as one, it was the kind of voice you'd expect from an inhuman creature from one's nightmare.

"H, Hello? L, listen man i, if this is a prank then it isn't funny, okay?" the voice was fucking scary, and even Andy's false bravado wasn't enough to mask the fear in his voice. "And what's with the stupid voice?"

"Stupid!? How dare you! This is a masterpiece of scary-ass distorted voices!" Said the voice sounding offended. "And it took a fucking year to get this thing to work right, so you have no right to…" Then seemingly remembering something the voice pushed its rant. "Ahem! As I was saying, this isn't a prank call and that's because it's blackmail call," Said the apparent blackmailer.

"Ba, b, blackmail!? Hey what joke is this!?" Said Andy in both fear and anger.

"This is not a joke Mr. David. I'm really going to blackmail you, and I have the blackmail materials on you to do it as well," Said the blackmailer.

"Blackmail materials? What the hell are you talking about!?" Asked Andy in slight panic as his mind goes back to his recent drug dealing activities.

"Well, I know that you are an online drug-dealer in euphoria a dark web drug selling website, you sell drugs once per month and you sell them at a rate that you're nothing more than a blip in the police radar," Said the blackmailer.

"He knows," Thought Andy in a dawning horror as he could no longer deny that he was officially screwed. "W, what do you want from me?" Andy finally asked in a resigned tone.

"Well, let's bring everything out in the open first," Said the blackmailer. "I've hacked your computer, your online user ID and had stolen your online information, so I have all the information about your recent drug dealing activities and it's only a click away from being sent to every government law enforcement agency in the US. Your meticulous way of drug selling may keep you under the police radar, but trust me the information I'll send them is enough to get you into jail for at least a decade," Informed the blackmailer who was apparently also a hacker. "However, all this can be avoided if you just send me 24,000,000$," Stated the hacker in a matter of fact tone.

"What!? 24,000,000$!? Are you kidding me? Where in the hell, am I supposed get that much money!?" Yelled Andy in panic.

"By doing what you usually do, selling drugs, it should be easy for you," Suggested the hacker.

"Listen man the only reason I'm even selling drugs is to get rid of my student debt," Said Andy almost crying. "To get the money you're asking for, I'll have to sell an amount of drug and at a rate that I'll be instantly on the police radar."

"So, you are saying, you can't get the money, is that it?" Asked the hacker in a flat tone, well as flat as a distorted voice can be.

"Uh yeah," Said Andy with some hesitation, hoping that the hacker would leave him alone, no matter how unlikely that was to happen.

Then the hacker said, "Well in that case, be prepared to rot in jail for seven to ten years and to be unemployed for the rest of your miserable life as you'd be a marked criminal after this, because I'm sending the information in 5…4…3…2…"

"WAIT! Please don't do it! I'll send the fucking money!" Said Andy in full blown panic.

"Smart buuuooooy," Said the hacker mockingly.

"Where do I send the money?" Asked Andy with gritted teeth while completely ignoring the mocking voice.

"Send it to my coin account," Said the hacker. "You should be getting the address via email… now."

Beep!

Came the notification sound from his desktop, signaling the arrival of the email which drew Andy's attention.

"Did you get it?" Asked the hacker.

"Yeah, I did," Said a resigned Andy checking the email and seeing the coin address.

"Good," Commented the hacker. "Oh, and another thing, send the money by 19th April, and don't be even a second late. Because well, you know what'll happen."

"Okay I'll send the money in time, just don't leak the info," Said the Andy in an almost begging tone.

"Yeah, see that you do, good night Mr. D…"

"Wait, just who are you?" Asked Andy in a resigned voice.

"Well, I'm a black-hat-hacker, who also happens to be a blackmailer," Was his simple answer. "But if you are asking for a specific identity, well we don't really go around giving our real identities to our victims for obvious reasons, so I'll give you my nickname instead," Said the hacker.

Hearing this Andy waited with baited breath.

"Listen now and listen well, because I won't repeat it," Said the hacker. "Everyone knows my name, because I am Dr. Lucifer."

"D, D, Dr. Lucifer!" And he believed it without hesitation. After all, his online security was no joke. He was a user of Linux distro Tails, one of the most secure distros of the Linux OS. Then he has a Cubes OS, another security and privacy focused OS, installed in a flash-drive. And inside that Cubes OS he had installed a Whoenix virtual machine. And in that Whoenix virtual machine he had installed TorBrowser, again an extremely security and privacy focused browser, which he then configured for maximum anonymity.

And so, whenever he ventured out into the dark-web he would run that flash-drive with the Cubes OS, then he would run the Whoenix virtual machine to access the TorBrowser for maximum security and anonymity. And even though all these security measures had made operating the computer and surfing the web a bit inconvenient, but then again there's no such thing as hundred percent security and hundred percent convenience in a single package. And besides he had grown used to the inconvenience at this point.

And aside from that there's the quantum encryption provided by quantum internet which makes hacking virtually impossible. So, no ordinary hacker should've been able to hack him.

Well, Dr. Lucifer is no ordinary hacker now, is he?

"That's my nickname, don't wear it out," After that the now named Dr. Lucifer, the hacker, cuts the connection.

After that, he put the phone oh his desk.

"Oh my god!" Said Andy with a -the world had just collapsed on my head- expression as slumped on his chair. "I just totally got spooked by Dr. Lucifer," He said almost whispering. "What the hell am I going to do now?"

And who is this Dr. Lucifer?

Well, to put it simply Dr. Lucifer is a monster.

He made his appearance roughly eight years ago by hacking into the servers of various financial organizations and stealing money or critical information from them. And then, within just a few months he became one of the top 10 most wanted cyber terrorists in the world after he released some deadly computer viruses into the internet, blackmailing a lot of people after stealing their online data and then starting a huge forest fire in Florida… somehow. But then, within a year he became the most wanted terrorist (they dropped the cyber this time) in the world after he caused some yet to decommissioned nuclear-fission reactors around the world to have catastrophic meltdowns by hacking into their computers-systems. And by this point the various world's governments wanted to outright kill him instead of just capturing him as it became clear to them that Dr. Lucifer was a psychopath. But the problem was that, even after the combined best efforts of just about every government in the world they just couldn't find him, and what was worse they weren't even sure if Dr. Lucifer was just person or an entire organization of hackers. And so, they decided to do the next best thing and rise the standards of their cyber security instead.

Now make no mistake they hadn't completely given up on finding Dr. Lucifer. They just decided to develop their security system in the meanwhile to keep him out. And because of this cyber security systems like anti-online trackers, VPNs, the TorBrowser and the chain-block network developed like crazy.

And then in 2057 came the Quantum Internet.

The developing of the Quantum Internet, or QI as they now call it, was way ahead schedule as it was determined to come out in 2080. But there were rumors going around that the development of the QI was spurred forward like this because every country in the world were afraid of Dr. Lucifer, the seemingly unstoppable and undetectable computer hacker. But considering that after Dr. Lucifer came along almost all the countries around the world came together in cooperation to push forward the development of Quantum Internet or the Quantum mode of communication and that the QI itself became commercially available to the general public only a year after that with almost zero bureaucratic delays or red tapes, the rumors may have been true. After all, necessity is the mother of invention and almost every other technology we have right now. And with lunatics like Dr. Lucifer lurking around having the QI became a very big necessity.

Anyway, in 2057 the quantum internet became commercially available to the general public. And the perfect security of the QI worked like it should. It not only prevented hacking attempts by the hackers but it also kept out Dr. Lucifer.

For a whole two years that is.

In 2060 a tragedy occurred. A tragedy that made the attacks of 9/11 in 2001 look like a bicycle accident.

In the 12th April of 2060 at 3:00 PM fifty passenger carrying airplanes suddenly crashed at full-speed on some of the largest population centers like Tokyo, New York, Delhi, Shanghai, Mumbai and many more. Millions of people died in this incident.

The investigators were baffled as to how something like this could have happened. Right till the moment they checked the remote computer servers of the plane. When they checked the computer servers, they found Dr. Lucifer's calling card in every single one of them.

Somehow, Dr. Lucifer hacked into the computer systems of every single one of the planes, despite them being quantum encrypted, and hijacked their controls, and the rest as they say is history.

After this, the world recoiled in horror as they realized that in an effort to keep Dr. Lucifer out, they essentially locked themselves up in a cage. A cage that Dr. Lucifer can enter and exit at will.

And now this monster, this psychopath has claw over his throat. Ready to rip it off at a moment's notice.

After that seeing no other option, Andy gathered the money and then send it to the specified coin account. And just as he thought, the number of drugs he had to sell had brought him on the police radar. They still had no idea who he was but they were definitely looking for him.

Anyway, after sending the money he didn't get another phone-call from Dr. Lucifer. He half expected him to go ahead and leak the information anyway. And so, he had spent many sleepless wondering if the police are going to knock on his door.

After that things had gone back to normal. He had accepted that he's never going to get rid of student debt and so, he stuck with his job (the legal one), kept his head down and stopped selling drugs as it was no longer safe. It went on like this for a few months. after which he thought that the nightmare was finally over.

But he was wrong.

After nearly a year Dr. Lucifer called again and this time, he wanted even more money than before. Of course, Andy wanted to deny him, but its blackmail what can you do?

But Dr. Lucifer didn't stop after this. Every time he received money he wanted even more. And Andy kept getting into even more hot water with the police.

And one day, Dr. Lucifer stopped asking for money. This should've been a matter relief for Andy as he no longer had to sell drugs to get the money as the police were almost breathing down his neck by that point.

But it wasn't.

Because what he wanted after this was far, FAR worse.

Two years ago, …

18.9.2065
Chicago

"You want me to do what!?" Yelled Andy in his phone in disbelieve at what he had just heard.

He was sitting on his bed in his apartment when the phone-call came. And now he's hearing this.

"I want you make a rape video of a girl whose information I'm about to send you, and then I want you to kill her after raping her as well," Repeated Dr. Lucifer annoyance. "Now don't make me repeat myself."

"Do you have any idea what you're even saying!?" Andy exclaimed as he was horrified by what he's hearing. "Murder!? Rape!? Are you fucking crazy!?"

"Well the world had determined a while ago that I'm psychopath, so if you look at it from that perspective then yes, I am crazy," Answered Dr. Lucifer.

"Whatever I won't do it!" Said Andy firmly. After all, selling drugs are one thing, but murder and rape is just too much, too inhumane.

"Really? You won't?" Asked Dr. Lucifer in a disinterested voice.

"Yeah!" Said Andy even more firmly.

"Sigh* Well in that case, prepare to die," Said Dr. Lucifer in a matter of fact tone.

"What! You're gonna kill me!?" Freaked out Andy.

"No, the law is enough for that," Said the hacker.

"W, what do you mean?" Asked Andy in confusion.

"Huh? You don't know the law of your own country?" Asked Dr. Lucifer in surprise.

"I can't memorize everything you know?" Said Andy annoyance.

"Well, to put it simply, the US government had reenacted the war on drugs policy and made the laws regarding it even harsher," Said Dr. Lucifer. "And so, If I leak the information about you, which I most certainly would if you don't do as I say, the number of drugs you've sold so far is enough to give you the death sentence for sure."

"De, Death sentence" Now Andy was simply scared out of his mind.

Being faced with the choice to get caught by the police and being sentenced to death or rape and kill a few women, he chose the latter. Every few weeks Dr. Lucifer would give him a target to rape and kill, and he would do it.

However, this wasn't easy for him nor was it enjoyable. Because you see, Andy was a soft-hearted person, and every time he raped a woman and then killed them, their screams of pain turned into his nightmare fuel. How can anyone enjoy rape? is beyond his understanding.

And then, Dr. Lucifer called him with another even more horrifying request.

A month ago, …

6.4.2068
New York

"Y, you want me to rape kids now!?" Said Andy in a horrified whisper.

Right now, he sitting on the bed of his apartment in the poor section of New York. He moved out of Chicago a while ago after the police activity increased there due to the recent strings of serial killing done by him.

"No, I don't want you to rape kids, I want you make child porn videos, there's difference dumb-ass," Stated Dr. Lucifer in annoyance. "And why are you making it sound like as if it's somehow worse than what you were already doing?"

"I did all those things because you blackmailed me!" Said Andy in anger.

"Ah, there you go blaming all your sins on the devil when all he ever did was whisper into your ears," Said Dr. Lucifer in a mocking tone.

"W, What the hell do you mean?" Asked Andy in confusion.

"What I mean Mr. David, is that you could've prevented all this," Stated Dr. Lucifer.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Asked Andy in even more confusion.

"When I first called you, you could've refused me," Said Dr. Lucifer. "Yeah sure I still would've leaked the information to the police and you would've gotten to jail for at least seven years. But tell me this, does your current condition seems like more preferable than going to jail now?"

Andy couldn't refute a word Dr. Lucifer said. Because he was right, if he had just surrendered to police in very beginning then none of this would've happened and he wouldn't have raped and murdered all those innocent women.

"And the fact that I picked you as my victim is also kind of your fault," Informed Dr. Lucifer.

"W, what!?" Asked Andy in bewilderedness.

"Yeah that's right," Said Dr. Lucifer. "For you see, I don't go about picking my victims just randomly, instead I pick them based on a few specific criteria," He said.

"Criteria?" Asked Andy.

"Yes, for example the potential victim has to be an idiot," Bluntly stated Dr. Lucifer.

Andy was offended by this. Because, yeah sure he wasn't some super-genius but he sure as hell wasn't a complete idiot.

"But aside from that the potential victim also has to be desperate, a failure in life, a bit weak willed, a coward, less confident and finally the most important criteria, the potential victim has to have something that I can use to blackmail them with, like some kind of secret that they absolutely can't afford to go out and become common knowledge," Further stated the hacker. "But make no mistake I'm not calling you an idiot or weak willed, after all a man that can make a meticulous plan like the one you made when you first started to sell drugs and then stick to it like that can't be an idiot or weak willed," Said the hacker. "And then there's the way you handled the dead bodies of the women you killed; I mean seriously? Dissolving the dead bodies in acid and then throwing them into several different rivers just to avoid being detected by the police? Yeah that was a fucking work of art!" Praised Dr. Lucifer.

"Wow, there must be a special place in hell for me by this point," Thought Andy in self-loathing and overwhelming guilt. He knows that feeling regret isn't going to do anything now, it won't bring back those he harmed and killed. But damn he really hates himself right now.

"Yeah sure I still had to bribe and blackmail a few police to keep them off of your back, but still…"

"Huh!? Wait hang on a second, you did what!?" Asked Andy after he was broken out of his self-loathing.

"Well, even though the way you hid the evidence of crime and then the way you disposed the dead bodies were definitely top notch, the police were still gaining on you, in fact they were just this close from finding out your real identity so, I had them back off a little," Explained Dr. Lucifer.

Oh! So that's why he wasn't caught by the police yet. You see, no matter how well one hides the evidence and disposes of the dead bodies crimes like rape and murder just doesn't tend to go unnoticed by the police and it's not like he got the money to bribe off the police so he was actually expecting to get caught by them sooner (and part of him was actually hoping for that to happen), and because of this he was surprised when no one showed up. But he was still confused though, so he asked, "W, why'd you do that?"

"Well, do you remember those rape porn videos you sent me? Yeah those were a big hit in my porn website in the dark web," Answered Dr. Lucifer.

"W, what!? Andy was surprised.

"Oh, right you wouldn't know anything about it now, would you?" Said the Dr. Lucifer. "Well you see, I have a porn website in the dark web called the illegal-porn. Unlike the other porn websites there, entering and viewing the contents of this one is free, it has the regular porn videos from the surface-web as well as the illegal ones like child porn and rape porn, and it's currently the biggest porn website in there," He said sounding almost proud. "Anyway, I uploaded all the rape videos you were sending me on the website, and guess what? They were an instant hit! Every single one of them!" Exclaimed Dr. Lucifer. "Hehe! Yeah sure you wore that dopey mask to hide your identity, but DAMN if the videos weren't hot! Your fans are demanding more of your rapey goodness man!" Said Dr. Lucifer with a perverted chuckle… or it would've been a perverted chuckle if it wasn't for the voice distortion turning it into a horrifyingly bone chilling laughter.

"Yep, there's no doubt about it, there IS a special place in hell just for me," Thought Andy as an even bigger spike of guilt shame and self-loathing bit into him. "So that's why you were protecting me, huh?"

"Yep, and it was totally worth it!" Said Dr. Lucifer in cheery(?) voice. "Well anyway, as I was saying you aren't an idiot or weak willed however you are a coward, desperate, a failure in life, less confident and you certainly have a secret, or rather secretes, that you don't want anyone to find out about, after all you were a drug dealer and a now a rapist, in other words you fit almost all my criteria which more than convinced me to pick you as my victim," Said Dr. Lucifer.

Andy closed his eyes in shame at this. Dr. Lucifer was right, after all he was a failure.

"And guess whose fault was it?" Asked Dr. Lucifer. "Whose fault was it that your life is such a mess right now? It certainly couldn't have been your parent's fault, and I'm sure of that because I've observed their behavior and online info and they don't really scream abusive parents to me. So, whose fault was it huh?"

"M, my fault," Admitted Andy almost on verge of crying, his eyes were already getting wet. "It's all my fault, I'm responsible for my current shitty life and nobody else."

"Yes, your fault, you destroyed your own life," Said Dr. Lucifer. "You destroyed it by being lazy, short-sighted and hard headed."

Every word he said was like the blows of a speeding trucks to Andy, because again he was telling the truth. His own laziness short-sightedness and hard-headedness had really destroyed his life.

"When you were in the university you should've chose something like engineering, programming or accounting as your course, because unlike before, like 2000 to 2025 when collage education was a waste of money, it's much more serious now so, getting a degree in any of those subjects would've surely landed you with a well-paying job," Stated the hacker. "But you chose Fine Arts, a subject that has absolutely no real-life application but one in which obtaining a degree is quite easy in other words it's completely useless. Seriously what were you thinking?"

Well, that's the thing, he wasn't thinking at all. At the time he just wanted an easy subject like the lazy bum he was.

"Your parents could've supported you at this of your need, but it looks like you've managed to piss them off too somehow," Said Dr. Lucifer.

"Yeah, I… I destroyed my… own life," Said Andy in a shaky voice, some tears already falling from his eyes.

"In other words, you don't get to have the moral high-ground," Said Dr. Lucifer. "Now with that out of the way, get off of your ass and get me those child-porn videos ASAP."

"No please!" Andy was openly sobbing at this point. "Please let me go… I can't do this anymore… I can't…" It finally happened; Andy's will-power has finally shattered as he had lost all hope.

Dr. Lucifer might've noticed it too, because he said, "You know what? Take a month off to get your act together, I'll call again then and you better have an answer I'd like to hear by then." After that the call was disconnected.

And Andy just set there on the bed silently crying his heart out. Crying for the life he's never going to get back. Crying for all the lives he was forced ruin.

On that day he finally accepted that his life was over. It was over from the moment he showed his parents the middle finger. And the only difference between now and then is that back then things were still salvageable, he still could've turned his life around, but now it's well and truly over and there's nothing he can do about it.

"Pift! Bahahaha! …Hahahaha!" Thinking about all this Andy laughed. But it wasn't a heartful laugh, instead it was painful hollow laugh of someone who had lost all hope. "Oh god hehehe! … Oh god hahahaha! … it's funny… it's so funny how a few stupid decision can destroy one's entire life," Said Andy in between hollow chuckles. Then his expression grew pained as he muttered, "Damn, I wish I had a fucking second chance in life."

Humm! Humm! Humm!
Humm! Humm! Humm!

It's at this moment his phone started to vibrate breaking him out of his thoughts.

"Hmm? Someone's calling me?" Thought Andy while taking the phone out of his pocket. Checking the caller ID in the screen revealed that it was Dr. Lucifer. "Should I take the call?" thought Andy out loud. "Eh what the hell, it'd be for the last time anyway," thinking that he accepted the call. "Hello?" Said Andy into the phone.

"Hello Mr. David," Said Dr. Lucifer from the other end. "So, what's your answer? Am I getting my child-porn videos or not?" He asked.

Of course, he called him for that. Then after thinking for a bit he finally answered, "Go fuck yourself." Then he throws the phone over the railings of the balcony. "Wow, I never thought doing that would be so satisfying," Said Andy as he watched the phone going further and further away from the apartment.

After that he turned around and walked inside his apartment's bedroom. Inside the bedroom there was a plastic stool under a ceiling fan. And tied with the ceiling fan was a very durable looking rope tied in a hangman's knot.

Yeah that's right, Andy is going to commit suicide by hanging himself.

Looking at the rope and the hangman's knot brought some tears into Andy's eyes. then hurriedly wiping away the tears he got up on the stool and brought the hangman's knot around his throat.

Then steeling his heart and taking a deep-breath, Andy kicked away the stool from under his feet.

HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
HARRY

Was the first thing he saw written on the dirt ground when he became conscious.

"What the fuck!" Andy thought to himself as he looked at the disturbingly familiar writings on the dirt ground as he found himself laying on his chest on the said dirt ground. "How the hell am I still conscious? Aren't I supposed to dead!?" Thought Andy in surprise. However, for some reason the thought of death made Andy shudder in fear which was surprising to Andy as not even a few minutes ago he was having suicidal thoughts.

Then he tried to get up from his laying positions. "Woah!" Exclaimed Andy as he stumbled and fall back on the ground. "What the hell!?" Thought Andy in surprise and alarm as he finally noticed that his tall and muscular body was gone and, in its place, there was a much shorter and even skinnier body. In fact, this body was so skinny that Andy doubted it even had flesh other than skins and bones.

In other words, he now somehow had a kid's body. A kid that was probably suffering from a severe case of malnourishment.

And checking his new(?) body further he also noticed that his cloths were different too. Because not even a minute ago he was wearing black jeans and a dark gray t-shirt, but now he was wearing a pair of old black shoes, gray pants and a blue t-shirt that were a few sizes too big for his(?) current body.

Then feeling up his face (as he hadn't found a mirror to get better look of himself) he found a pair of round glasses on his nose. "Woah!" Said Andy in surprise as he almost became blind when he took off the glasses. And when he hurriedly put them back on his eye-sight was still a bit blurry.

And then when he tried to observe his surroundings the first thing, he noticed was the stench of seaweed. "Ew, seaweed? Where the fuck am I?" Muttered Andy as he nearly gagged at the disgusting smell.

The next thing he noticed that he was in some kind of a rickety small hut. And it was creaking due to strong wind that probably coming from the sea. "Well that's not good sign," muttered Andy while looking at wooden walls of the hut warily. "Huh?" Said Andy in surprise as he realized that even his voice was that of a kid.

Then he finally noticed a damp and empty fireplace and a fairly worn and dirty looking coach in front of it. And sleeping on that coach was a vary fat kid in blue pajamas.

"How did I get here? And where is here anyway?" Thought Andy in confusion.

And it was at this point memories rushed into his brain, memories that were not his causing him to clutch his head as if in pain. "What the fuck!?" Whispered Andy in surprise as he realized to whom these memories belonged to. "I'm Harry Potter?" yep these were HARRY FUCKING POTTER'S memories, and yeah, the same one's from the movies. "But wait, I'm not Harry Potter I'm Andy David!" Muttered Andy as he confusedly rubbed his hair and face, wandering why he had a nearly ten-year-old Harry Potter's memories and probably his body too now that he thought about.

And then his eyes widened as realization hit him. "Wait am I a self-insert now!? A Harry Potter self-insert?" He knew how crazy this theory was, after all self-inserts only happens in fanfictions and not real life. But this is the only explanation that makes sense as he's literally in a kid Harry Potter's body.

And now that he was able to think a bit more clearly, he realized that he's probably in the hut-on-the-rock from the movie and sleeping on the coach was probably Dudley, that fat kid from the movie.

Beep! Beep!
Beep! Beep!
Beep! Beep!

Came the beeping sound of alarm from Dudley's wrist watch, which immediately grabbed Andy's or Harry's Attention. Checking the time in the wrist watch revealed that it was 12:00 AM or in the middle of the night.

Looking at all these things he realized something, as he muttered with wide eyes, "Wait, that must mean…"

BANG!

No sooner had he finished that thought a loud banging sound came from the entrance door making Harry/Andy slightly jump in fright.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

This time Harry/Andy stepped back a little, but as he was still adjusting to his still new and much shorter body he stumbled and fell on his butt instead.

"OW! Even though I was expecting this to happen," Muttered Harry while rubbing his butt in pain.

The loud banging had also woken up Dudley as he got up from the coach and hid behind it. The other Dursleys had also woken up as Vernon came down the stairs with a gun and a cowering Petunia following behind him.

Looking at the two elder Dursleys Harry realized that they looked the same as from the movie, meaning that Vernon was as fat as a walrus and petunia looked like a very thin giraffe with the face of a horse.

BANG!

That was the last straw. Simply not being able to handle the powerful hits anymore the poor door broke free from its hinges and fell down on the ground.

After that, the one responsible for breaking the door finally stepped inside the hut in all his giant, bushy-haired and bushy-bearded glory wearing a leather duster, boots and a pair of motorcycle goggles. In other words, this was Hagrid.

After stepping in, he took off his glasses, and then he very apologetically and in a very thick Scottish accent, "Uh, sorry bout that, sometimes I dunno my own strength."

After that he picked up the door and put it in its place.

End Prologue

A/N: Andy David's list of crimes,

1. Drugs trafficking.
2. Murder
3. Rape
4. Kidnapping.

And many more other crimes.