[hours before]

you were running away from some mercenaries (not Smith's team) who created/modified you to be some kind of anomaly, the victim's demand

until a hollow-headed red stickman, with robotic spider claws on his back and some fresh green scars, saves you, killing the team with the Dark Blade, which soon after returns to a normal bracelet

[now]

The Dark Lord has taken you to his lair, a large facility with thousands of his ViraBots everywhere

"these are my spider viruses... I'll tell you about them later..."

The Dark Lord drags you to a room, his office and then, he turns to you and says:

"so... how about you join me? I'll take care of you, give you a home and even help you get revenge on the Victim if you want... in return, you have to help me with some things... I know what it's like to be treated the way the Victim treated you...”

The Dark Lord quickly gives a nervous smile, not wanting to show his weaknesses: his traumas, the traumas of having a wisdom tooth used by Alan Becker, this makes him want to dominate the internet just to rub it in his face that he is not a simple puppet who can be thrown away

"but if you don't want to join me, you can leave... I won't stop you, I won't go after you and I won't attack you..."