Ko had seemed down fro the past few days into February. Usually, even as a 13 year old, he bounced off of the walls doing everything that he could to help people, and was currently trying to train to finally become level 5. But since February first, the boy seemed to be down, doing the bare minimum of his work and not even trying to fight Lord Darrel's Robots or other villains that wanted to harm the plaza, usually letting Rad and Enid take over the fighting.
"It's about time that someone go cheer up KO," Rad said finally towards Enid.
"Glad you volunteered." Enid said, turning the page of her magazine.
"ME!? I WAS SUGGESTING YOU WOULD GO DO IT! I'M NOT GOOD WITH EMOTIONS!"
"Well, you were the one who brought it up, Mr. Macho. Plus, you're a big softie on the inside, I know this. If you think that KO needs to get out of his funk, you go talk to him."
"Oh, and you don't?"
"OF COURSE I THINK HE NEEDS TO GET OUT OF HIS FUNK! I'm just way more apathetic than you Rad."
"Fine." Rad went back to the breakroom where KO was, and came across KO with his face buried in his arms and sobbing. "Oh geez…" Rad walked over and put his arm around KO's shoulders. "Hey buddy, what's wrong."
KO looked to Rad with a tearful face as he used his right arm to try to wipe away his snot. "Iz nobin…"
"Well, that's a lot of nobin to make you shirk your hero duties."
"Shirk my…Oh my gosh! You;re so right Rad!" KO tried to hop out of his seat to get to his cleaning supplies. "I need to get to work-!"
"No," Rad grabbed at the thirteen yearold's sweatband to keep him from running away. "You need to figure out what kind of nobin is making you act like this KO."
KO looked to his right, defeted as he was forced to face Rad. "It's Dendy…I…asked her if she had a crush on anybody…and her answer was…"
"That's no problem little buddy! Just beat up the other guy she likes and show off your strength! Girls love strong guys."
"She likes you Rad…" KO told the alien.
Oh, that's going to make this hard… Radacles thought to himself. Considering he was so awesome and couldn't keep the ladies off of him, it would be counter-intuitive to try and make one fall for KO. But KO was also his bro, and he and Enid agreed that Dendy and KO were made for each other! It was too confusing for Rad to try and to work this out on his own. "Hold on little dude, I'm going to get some help." Rad assured before moving out of the break room, leaving KO to his own thoughts.
"I bet you're all wondering why I've brought you all here today…" Rad said while looking at everyone he brought together: Enid, Carol, Raymond, Ernesto, and Shannon.
"Considering you brought 3 villains and 3 heroes together, yeah." Enid replied, leaning on the counter.
"Well, it's because I didn't want to get Cupid."
"Ooh! It's a love emergency isn't it!?" Raymond clapped. "I'm so excited!"
Shannon glared at her brother before switching to Rad. "What do you want our help for? You've got a level 11 hero dating someone hopeless, and Raymond, why do you need the ninja, a shapeshifting robot, and a business bot?"
"Well, the people who are involved in this are really close to you all."
"I-Is Darrel involved?" Ernesto asked.
"What? Ew! No!" Rad stuck his tongue out at a thought that came into his head.
"That's right, because Boxman designed robots aren't worth anything!" Shannon shouted.
"What!? No! I just don't think that Dendy and KO would fall for a robot."
Carol sat up. "Oh, so that's what this is about! I was wondering why KO was meditating for so long at home. I guess he was mulling over how to tell her, huh?"
"Nnnnot exactly…" Rad admitted, and rubbed the back of his neck.
"So you want us to do what exactly?" Shannon asked, her hands out in a 'what to do' position.
"Okay, I want KO's mom to try and get him out of his funk."
"Alright, but just to let you know, he doesn't even listen to me when he's home, he's usually meditating in his room. Sometimes wobbling like a top."
"Well, you're the person we can trust for it. Enid I need you to-"
"Be DJ Fireball and play good music?"
"What? No. KO and Dendy need to talk during the night, I need you to try and convince Dendy to come over for a completely different reason than a date, so that way she'll be surprised when she sees KO there with the perfect date."
"Oh. wow. Thanks Rad, I would've thought you would've just put me on music duty like everyone else does."
"But who's going to make the date?" Ernesto questioned.
"Simple! Raymond! You're going to make the best date ever!"
Raymond gasped. "While I may be a sports robot, I have always had a fancy for dancing and romance! I would be honored to set up the perfect date for the two!"
"Yes! Ernesto!" Rad pointed to the buisness bot, causing it to fall back from its chair. "Make sure everyone does as they're according to plan! Alright team! Break!" Everyone ran off except Shannon, who put her hands on her hips with a glare that could peirce skin.
"And what am I supposed to do?"
"Shannon, you're the backup. If all else fails, I need you the most. I need you to pretend that you're in love with me again."
"You're not suggesting that we sing again?"
"No, we just…act that we like each other in order for Dendy to go running to KO." Rad reassured.
"Fine, but only because it's getting boring with you two being the only ones to beat up."
"Um, I know for a fact that we're the ones who beat you up?" Rand expalined with a raised brow.
"Whatever. It's boring with just two."
