Kindhearted Bravery

... thanks to the power of a typo, I remembered that King Omline exists.

To all muses who are motherless or have particularly terrible moms on this fine mother's day:

…….ok

….She…does not know what a mother is.

Snnnnnnrk….her "mother" STiNKS!

Hug s the robot. She would trade that one over her actual mother.

Her mother is dead … she would very much like that nice robot mom!!

He got adopted last year, it’s cool to have new siblings!!

They really must be dying, if Sierra is telling him to rest. He'd be more comforted by an insult or some grumbling, it would feel more natural.

Another blink, and Rinkus realizes his thoughts have gone slow and sludge-like. The panic is gone, but his heart still hammers with adrenaline.

Ah. He's really in a bad way, isn't he? Should he be panicking?

Among the trees and furs, he finally lets Sierra sink against a trunk, and falls between two roots himself, a hand on his crest-less skull.

"...if I die, tell people I punched one of the fast-biters in the face." It's a lie, but. Still. He feels he needs to say something poetic.

It might have been the most pathetic state the two of them were ever in together, that’s for sure and he loathes it. The way they had to support each other, it’s just …

Weak.

If there is anything that he hates more than anything, it is feeling weak.

Rinkus is not much better off. Weird. He would have rather pushed him along instead of telling him to rest.

Must be his own condition.

Ugh.

"You’re not gonna - "

Oh, and now he is about to reassure him that he won’t die? Fat chance!

He smirks.

"Yes. I’ll even tell them that you managed to peck an eye out.“

He rolls his eyes at the mention of magical healing stones. How he managed to fall for Pterano‘s nonsense was beyond him.

When the wall crumbled to bits, he was already sold, but who was he to interrupt such a compelling demonstration?

"Hoo-hoo, launch people ya say? Why didncha open with that kid, that's a selling hook if there ever was one!"

And he snatches the gun from her hands, because politeness was not within his credentials. Instantly he aims the thing at a windowsill filled with flower-beds, and drags them all into the Vac-U. Then, with a demented grin, launches the unfortunate posies into the air.

Then, somebody's vespa is next, somehow sitting perfectly snug in the Vac-U, with no added weight to his arms. Quackerjack's eyes are almost bulging with wicked glee.

Ohhh, if only there were some lackwit pedestrians to try it on! Oh well, the night is young!

"Kiddo, you get a buy-one-get on FREE deal just for that! Name the Quackerjack stock you'd like to buy and it's yours!"

"Save the best for the last,” Susie offers with a slight smile, caught off guard for only a split second when the jester snatches the Vac-U immediately out of her hands. He was certainly excited to test it out. Maybe a little too excited, if his wicked grin is anything to go by.

He certainly figured out quick how it works too.

The Quackerjack Stock she would like to buy … hmm..

It’s been so long since the tharpod actually had a toy or focused on things meant for children.

Oh!

"I don't need to look -"

An entirely computer console goes flying overheard. The glass window separating the observation room and the testing area down belong long since smashed, leaving jagged pieces still intact. They are above, and XL is below.

The hulking mess of a robot is currently smashing a defence-droid's head into the ground, sending sparks and blue servo fluid everywhere. It's...surprisingly gory.

XO...is trembling. It's never happened before. He's met XL only once before, and it did not go well. He doesn't understand. The LGMs had rebuilt him, so why does he feel the pain still in his chest cavity? Phantom pains, Buzz had called it once. Preposterous! XO was a machine.

XR ducks when the computer console comes flying. SHEEESH! Somebody is in an even worse mood than usual, why does it have to happen now while Buzz is absent.

"Woah-ho, look at this - robot gore. Actually wait, don’t look at this.“

Although the moment he heard his name from his baby brother (now he can call someone baby brother) his optics quickly changed towards the other robot.

Trembling? Not good.

Instantly, the ranger is at his side.

"Oh, you know - that’s how family reunions always go with him. Black sheep of the family and all that. It’s probably a revenge thing because I have beaten him a lot of times sooooo - don’t worry! I got this!“

Roz and Fink's friendship is by far, one of my favourite things about the movie😭

I miss them:(

"Nah. That's just business as usual."