Random Warframe 1999 thought:
Imagine for a hot second that for some reason, The Drifter runs into On-Lyne.
Imagine if during a techrot mission it somehow spills over to one of the safe zones and On-Lyne happens to be there.
The Dirfter and their chosen warframe fighting to kill the techrot but only notice too late that it somehow got to a civilian area where On-Lyne where performing and the techrot almost gets them but the Drifter kills it and saves them.
Harddrive stands before the others, ready to at least buy the others time to escape.
To them, the warframe looks like techrot in human form. It stands there for a good minute and it doesn't do anything. It tilts its head in a peculiar fashion, is it...curious?
The techrot person slowly steps towards them, raises its in surrender, trying to convey it doesn't mean harm.
Zeke says its time to run, Drillbit says to wait, it's trying to communicate with them, DJ Rom looks in disbelief and Packet is looking from behind Hardrive in mobid curiosity.
The humanoid techrot halts it's movement, a hand slowly reaches to its back, On-Lyne tenses, only for it to bring up their Album. It points to the Album, then to them as if asking if it was theirs.
It's Packet that speaks first, he tells the techrot that's their album indeed, and asks it if it wants an autograph or something.
The techrot nods enthusiastically.
DJ Rom loses it, starts laughing his ass off, who would've guessed the techrot is a fan of theirs. Zeke tells him to knock it off, Drillbit is bemused, and Harddrive took a second to process before joining DJ Rom.
Packet steps up to the humanoid techrot and Zeke yells at him to get back but Packet ignores him. As soon as he got to it he realized how scary it looks up close, its face has no features. No eyes, no mouth.
He wonders if the techrot takes your mouth first so you don't scream.
Packet takes the album from the techrot hands and brings out a pen, he waves the others to come closer so they could sign it and after some hesitation, they do.
Zeke steps up and takes the album and pen, and he looks at the techrot with unsure look.
"So, uh, you got a name we address this to?"
The techrot freezes, as if it didn't expect the question.
Zeke wonders if he messed up royally before the techrot looked around for a bit, grabbed a piece of rubble before it carved a name on it with its hands and showed it to him and the rest.
It was barely illegible but it spelled A-O-I
"Aoi? Is that your name?" Drillbit asks but the techrot shakes its head, so Zeke asks if its for a friend and the techrot nods.
Zeke signs it, then passes it to the others to sign it as well. They wrote down a thank you to Aoi for being fan and a thank you to her friend for saving them.
Zeke gives it back and the techrot carefully put it back from whatever pocket they pulled it out of. The bands comes together to thank the techrot again and the techrot waves them goodbye before turning away and jumping on an atomicycle that appeared out of thin air and speeding away.
Harddrive puts his hands on his hips, and looks at fading silhouette of their newly made techrot friend.
"So we are never telling anyone about this are we?"
