AN: i do not own anything except for M-198 AKA Marcus Mechatorque and with permission was able to use her oc char Turbo Tetra will try to update asap

This is a story that happens to center around two unlikely people and the love that blooms between the two that some would consider misfits. The first person we see here is M-198 but outside his game he goes by Marcus Mechatorque, a machine that comes from the game Mecha Combat Warfare. He is considered a good guy in his game but when he is out of the game and walking around the people in Game Central Station, people fear him just on his looks alone. When he usually talked to people that would give him the time of day, after a little bit they would say that they are late for something then just darts off somewhere which he does not show it but just makes him feel so sad. Most people don't really know that he has a kind side to his hard metallic exterior, but few people try to get to know him to know that side of him. For the time he has been plugged in and the way others treat him, he just felt really low and there were few times that this had affected gameplay when the arcade was open which made the players not play his game so much during those days.

The other person we see next to him is a girl named Tetra and she is from the game Turbo Time that has been unplugged for a bit longer than thirty years since Turbo got the game unplugged. She has hopped from game to game just to have somewhere to live but she mostly slept in Game Central Station like most of the other unplugged people. She had cause trouble with the surge protectors and a few other people, for fun but yet it was mostly for the attention she needed. People treated her badly just because she came from the same game as Turbo and wears her racing outfit like Turbo but hers is blue and white and because of that she had a sour attitude towards people. Once she met Marcus one day in Game Central Station, she knew he was special in some way and decided to stay in contact with him over the time they hang out together.

They first met when they both had walked into each other by accident one faithful day inside Game Central Station as Tetra was avoiding some surge protectors from her recent fun. From the bump into each other they caught eyes with one another and within those moments, the fires of love slowly sparked into life. For a while after their encounter, they were slowly starting to hang out with each other more often and enjoying the presence of one another. They went to watch races and have some drinks while he was trying to keep her from doing her usual shenanigans which at few times he decided to join in with her. With the two being together they both filled the void each one almost desperately needed, for her it was the attention she always wanted and for him, it was someone that was able to look pass his exterior to his inner self. As they started to be with each other more and more each time they were together, they started to get a deeper connection forming between the two that they have been reinforcing.

One day while he was walking around Game Central Station and was looking for Tetra, but what he did not know was that she had been coming up behind him ready to strike. As she got closer he started to hum the Jaws approaching tone and once she was close enough, she pounced on him and glomped him to the ground as they both erupt into laughter there in the middle of the place. "Hehe I got ya" she said between laughs, "you sure did and how are you doing today" he said as they both stood up from the glomp she looked up at him and said "well I'm a bit miserable but I am doing ok." "What is wrong" he said with a concerning look "I have a bit of an ear infection but I just went and got some medication for it" she sighed as she told him "it sucks that you got that infection" he said with a sorry look on his face. She simply responded "yeah" and while she wasn't looking for the moment he walked behind her and started to tickle her sides to make her laugh. She starts to squirm around and laugh "AHH NO MY WEAKNESS" she tries to tickle him back but just tries to squirm free from his grasp as he laughs along with her with then letting up on the tickle.

Moments after she catches her breath from the tickling, she decides to try and jump onto him playfully and cling to him "HA, I got ya now!" He did not move an inch as she clings to him as he just looks at her and says "you sure do" with a smile on his face as she just laughs and snickers at him with quickly saying "well…sort of." Since she decided to cling he decided to have fun with taking off her helmet and started to give her a noogie as she started to squirm in his grasp. She laughs from the noogie trying to tickle him though she knew it would do little good as her hair got messy from the noogie as he just laughs and stop with handing Tetra her helmet. She would playfully smirk at him as she fixed her black hair that she had braided in the back that reaches to the middle of her back as she leaves her helmet off and goes in for a hug as he then hugs her back with not even attempting to tickle her again. While holding him she sighs and is content in his arms as she smiles up at him and asks "so… what are you up to right now?"