A/N: A sweet little fic I wrote on my day off. The songs are Strangers like me and Don't Forget about me By Phil Collins and Simple Minds. I don't own anybody but Kenna Summers which is myself and Kale my robot friend that looks excactly like Zeta.
Zee and Ro our heroes in Zeta project are exploring a place they ducked into to get away from Bennett and his agents. Ro is looking around seeing what kind of place is this. "Zee what is this place?"
"I looks like a collection of antiques from about fifty or sixty years ago." Ro's face lightened up. She liked a lot of the old stuff from the old days. She decided to have some fun and look around. There where boxes of records and CD albums, videos and dvd's.
"Ro what are these things?"
"Those are called video tapes and Dvd's that's what they used in the old days."
"Why did they have such odd names for movies and bands back then?"
"It was a lot different back then. Many bands named themselves after things they liked."
"Some one liked Scorpions?"
"I guess they where a heavy rock n roll band."
"What about this person formally known as Prince?"
"Oh he's one of my favorites. He's a very good artist."
"What about these few Phil Collins, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, U2, and Areosmith?"
"They where all famous back in the 80's, 90's." Zee looked through some of the movies.
"There was a great variety in the 80's and 90's wasn't there?"
"Yeah I heard they had almost any kind of music could be popular one week then another the next. There was Pop, Rap, Rock, Heavy Metal, Soft Rock, Hip hop, Jazz, Dance, Love songs, even a little Big band came back at that time. Umm lets see there was Country, Blues, Newage, Alternative, and World Pop."
"I bet there are a lot more Ro."
"Probably but I don't want to stand here all day naming them for you." Ro looks through the boxes of things. The owner smiles at Ro and Zee. She finally got someone to come in here. She was getting old and she didn't have much life left.
"Zee come here listen to this." I put down the things I was looking at to see what Ro was talking about. Ro placed some big earphones over my ears as I came over to where she was. I heard a tune to start to play out. "This is Phil Collins. The one you where asking about earlier."
Whatever you do, I'll do it too
Show me everything and tell me how
It all means something
And yet nothing to me
I can see there's so much to learn
It's all so close and yet so far
I see myself as people see me
Oh, I just know there's something bigger out there
I wanna know, can you show me
I wanna know about these
strangers like me
Tell me more, please show me
Something's familiar about these strangers like me
Every gesture, every move that she makes
Makes me feel like never before
Why do I have
This growing need to be beside her
Ooo, these emotions I never knew
Of some other world far beyond this place
Beyond the trees, above the clouds
I see before me a new horizon
I wanna know, can you show me
I wanna know about these strangers like me
Tell me more, please show me
Something's familiar about these strangers like me
Come with me now to see my world
Where there's beauty beyond your dreams
Can you feel the things I feel
Right now, with you
Take my hand
There's a world I need to know
I wanna know, can you show me
I wanna know about these strangers like me
Tell me more, please show me
Something's familiar about these strangers like me
...I wanna know
Every moment now the bond grows
grows stronger
Two worlds, one family
Trust your heart
Let fate decide
To guide those lives we see
I listen to every word that he sang. It explained everything I wanted to learn. I wanted to know about everything Ro knew. Everything she felt. These emotions I wanted to understand. She was looking threw a box.
I took the earphones off and places them on the table where the CD player I think they called it was laying. "Ro what are you looking at?"
"Look Zee when you place this in the light it shows a rainbow of colors." She held the crystal up to the light. It looked beautiful. Why was there so many things I didn't know and I was suppose to be a highly intellgent robot. I guess it was the way you looked at it.
I asked if I could see some of the clothes, and dresses that she had. She gladly showed me to the back. I saw some dresses in perfect condition. They where some in renassance style, Spanish style, others where just beautiful.
"Ro come here!"
"What is it Zee? Gasp." She was astonished to see such beautiful dresses in a antique store.
"You like them?"
"They're beautiful. Maybe they didn't have great technology but they knew how to make eliquant dresses and beautiful clothing for women."
"You like anyone in particular?" Ro walked up and down the many dresses looking at each one. A silver, shimmering dress caught her attention. As well as a purple strapless dress.
"These two are perfect."
"See if they fit you." Ro went to try them on it would be fun to see what she looked like in them. The store owner smiled as she might get a coustmer. She smiled at the young man. "Is she your girlfriend?"
"Oh no, no."
"Sister?"
"Nope just close friends."
"Well you two look cute together none the less." I thought more about it. I really liked Ro, I would do anything to keep her safe. She did things that no other did. She showed him things he never knew where possible.
I waited till I saw Ro come out of a large dressing room in the dark purple dress. She was breath taking. The dress fit her prefectly flowing from her hips down to the ground. It almost touch the ground. A silk material flowed off her arms with shimmering gliter trailing down it. She reminded me what a lovely night sky looked like. A dark sky painted with simmering stars.
"So what do you think Zee?"
"You look Beautiful took my breath away."
"But you don't breath Zee." She whispered.
"That's how beautiful you look right now. Even things that don't breath get their breath taken away."
"Zee…"
"Let me see what you look like in the other dress." She left to go back in the dressing room. I looked around. I was going to buy a few things while I was here. I found a crystal castle with simmering colors of light blue, red, and golden glittering colors. The store owner showed me how it worked. I wound the key on the side. It played a soft song in a fairy tale like sound. The colors of the castle changed as the music played.
I looked at jewlery under the counter by the saleswoman. She pointed out some really pretty things in there. I looked at a couple of ring and necklace sets. A dolphin seems to playfully jump around the finger on the ring and the necklace was the same. I saw a necklace and ring that I thought was perfect for Ro. A rose bud on the ring and a rose on the necklace. It was beautiful. I asked get it. The woman was delighted to give it to me.
"Do you take Cred Cards?"
"That's the only antique thing I don't have in here." She said with a smile. I grinned at that sarcastic remark. She told me that she wouldn't show Ro the gift as she hid it behind the counter. I looked around for a while more.
It seemed to take Ro a long time to change out of the dresses. She surprised me when I was about to ask her if she needed help. She came out of the dressing room as I opened my mouth to ask but was stopped.
The silver dress made her look extremely thin but not grossly thin as unhealthy. I knew she was thin but this made her look even thinner if possible. She definitely didn't look fat to me. The dress made her like a person in royalty in the middle ages. Her hair even went with it. I was astonished. It took most of my control to keep from going crazy. Yes, I know I'm a robot but no ordinary one. I could tell when something was beautiful.
She smiled at me. That made her even more beautiful. I gave her a smile back. She giggled sweetly at me. What was so funny? "Jeez I didn't know I would made your mouth drop so far that it would touch the ground."
"Sorry just captivated by your beauty again their Ro."
"Oh you big sweet talker."
Was I a sweet talker? I was just telling her the truth. She looked at the many mirrors. She liked the way it looked like. She saw me looking at her in the mirror. She smiled again. I knew that she was happy here with me but I had to ask her.
"Ro are you happy here with me?"
"Of course Zee what's gotten in you."
"I just needed to be sure." Sometimes she would be in the greatest moods and then other times the sourest. Her looks changed a lot over the year and half they spent together. They made a perfect and undefeatable team. With her quick wits, his super strength. Her quick wits made it impossible to get Bennett even close to catching us. My fast reflexes, strong body and ability to run quickly have helped me and Ro a lot.
Ro now had a little different fashion sense. She wore overalls, an army green tank top, her hair was the same. I wore the same attire as I usually did. Well I don't know what to called it hologram I guess. We had met some new friends over the year and half.
Ro met Batman several times. She thought he was okay. A little quick to judge. She can't believe that he thought I was going to shoot her though. I would never do that to my friend. I promised her I would never bring any harm to her. I have to myself broken that promise but she told me that it was never my fault. I didn't purposely do that. Sometimes I did but it wasn't meant to harm her. It was too ward off our enemies.
We met a girl named Kenna West. She was a girl about fourteen age but more mature. She was very smart for a girl that age and still she wasn't in any special school. She told me that she wanted to live a normal kid life. I would probably too. She ran away from her home since her parents passed her from reporter to reporter. She had a robotic friend like me. He too was looking for his freedom.
If there was a twin for every person in the world. Kenna was Ro's. Same sweet smile, same bright eyes, same idea about a befriending a robot. I asked them if they wanted to travel with us. Kenna thanked us for the invitation but she wanted to do it alone. She too was looking for her family. I started to wonder if Ro and her where family even twins.
The robot was named Project Kale. She named him Kale. He had a holographic cover as well. He was about the same age I was. He poised as her older brother like I did. He took care of her. He made sure she was alright and whenever she got sick he took her to the best doctors. I learned a lot from them. How they worked as a team correlating their movements into one. Trusting each other with secrets to never be told by anyone. I think that Kale was in love with the girl.
Kenna didn't seem to notice. She was looking forward so much she never noticed. I didn't blame the girl though she had confidence in herself that she could do anything with help from her friend. I wonder if Ro felt that way.
I waited as Ro was still looking at herself in the mirror. She asked what I thought about the dress. "It's great but only get it if you like it."
She smiled at me again. She was in a wonderful mood today. It started all wrong but now it was going great. She went in the back. "I think I get these two dresses Zee. Since you like how I look in them so much." She whispered the last sentence to herself. She smiled and giggled.
I went looking through the many treasures here. I found a beautiful blanket. It had a tiger imprinted on it. I found several paintings. Many of dolphins and whales in a Hawaiian paradise. I took a look at another. There was a child on a cliff. Looking over an ocean of blue. "Wow, that's beautiful." I would want to live some where like that place.
I looked at another painting. A beautiful castle in the center of a beautiful flower garden. A girl sitting under a cherry tree. A boy looking in the distance to see the dragon in a cave with a wizard in the tower of the castle. A knight shielding itself from the dragons fire breath. It was magical. As if I could go there in a sort of dream and live there.
Maybe I would see a beautiful queen or princess. Or would I see Ro in there beauty. Ro came out of the dressing room with the two dresses. I grabbed a few other things I saw that I wanted just to as a keepsake. The castle music box, a painting of the magical scene and another with Horses running in a thunder storm.
We bought all the things and packed them safely away in the back of the car. We drove off till Ro noticed someone following us. "Zee Bennett's on our tail again."
"Hold on Ro I'm going to get us out of his sights in a sec." I drove around a corner swiftly despite I was trying to keep calm. I soon realized that Ro was missing. I stopped the car desperate to see where she had gone to. I looked about a hundred feet. She was lying on the side of the road. Bennett and his agents surrounded my friend. I would thought this whole time it would have been the other way. Me being surrounded by Bennett and his goons with Ro coming to my rescue.
"Zeta come here if you don't want the girl to get hurt."
"Please don't harm her it's me that you want."
"Zeta please don't do this go, runaway. I'll find you again someday. Just don't ever forget."
"You keep quiet." Bennett had Agent West hit her in the stomach to keep her quiet. I ran off into the forest area. I was going to do this for Ro. I was going to get her back without losing my freedom. I got the car and headed off. I ran away from my problems for a while. Till I got everything ready to get a perfect getaway.
Won't you come see about me
I'll be alone, dancing --- you know it Baby
Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out
Love's strange --- so real in the dark
Think of the tender things
That we were working on
Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, Baby
Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me
Will you stand above me
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling
Rain keeps falling
Down, down, down
Will you recognize me
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling
Rain keeps falling
Down, down, down
Don't you try and pretend
It's my beginning
We'll win in the end
I won't harm you
Or touch your defenses
Vanity, insecurity
Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone, dancing --- you know it, Baby
Going to take you apart
I'll put us back together at heart, Baby
Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me
As you walk on by
Will you call my name
As you walk on by
Will you call my name
When you walk away
Oh, will you walk away
Will walk away
Oh, call my name
Will you call my name