A rich man who was a widower lived with his young and only daughter. His daughter had an incurable illness and had only limited time to live.

He knew about her sickness, so before the doctor announced her early death, he already planned on a project for her.

His daughter had no friends, and would just play inside all day with her dolls. So he ordered some scientists to create a living doll to accompany the girl before she died, for he wanted to make her daughter happy at her final hours.

The scientists started on their project about a few months ago, and today was the day they bring the doll to life.

They connected wires to it, and waited for it to move.

5 minutes

10 minutes

15 minutes

2 hours

5 hours later

Nothing.

It stayed there, lifeless.

They decided to work on another one, as they lost hope for this one.

They sealed the doll in a box and threw him out back.

5 days later....

"Where am I?"

"Is anyone there?"

"I.... can't move..."

The box tipped over and the doll poured out. It slowly opened their eyes and looked around.

They tried to stand up. They felt something on his side, it was a tag labeled "Project F1"

"Project F1? Is that my name?"

They noticed more papers in the box, it was the blueprints for making them. There they found out what he was.

They slowly stood up, their legs shaking. They heard a squeak, and looked at their side.

A rat.

It started at the doll, then jumped on them!

"Get off of me!"

They tried to shake it off, but the rat managed to rip off one of their stitches. Their stuffed arm fell on the ground. Luckily the rat didn't take it away. They picked it up and decided to leave that place.

A few hours later, they reached a city.

Wearing shorts in 20 degree weather wasn't a good combo. Their legs were freezing so they decided to find a place to warm up.

They found a spot behind a school.  They laid down beside a trash can and covered themself with a trash bag to try to stay warm and eventually dozed off.

The next day....

5:45 am

Leo was walking to the trash bin with Liam. They were assigned to take out the garbage today.

"This bag smells awful!" Liam said as he dragged the trash bag to the bin.

"I know right?" Leo was about to throw the bag away when he noticed a foot sticking out of the garbage.

"Leo, what's wrong? You look pale" said Liam with a concerned tone.

"I-is that a foot?!"

"A what?!"

"There must've been a murder last night and left the body here!!"

Liam fainted out of fear, luckily Leo was able to catch him. But due to him not having the proper physical strength, they both fell down.

The foot started to move. A figure of a child stood up and looked at the two boys.

"Are you two okay?" They said. "Sorry if I scared you" They reached their arm to them and helped him stand up.

Liam eventually woke up. He hid behind Leo and trembled at the sight of the doll.

"Is it n-nice?"

"They're friendly, don't worry. He kinda looks like a Puppet though"

The doll looked at Leo curiously "Puppet? Is that my name?"

"You don't know your name?"

"I've been called "F1", but I don't know if that's my actual name"

"Hmm... Then we'll just call you Puppet!"

They gave him a smile. "Sounds great"