okay, I'm gonna try a second time at writing a multi-chaptered fanfic, and of course it's for Bob's Burgers XD anyway, I've had this idea of an AU where Gene is a robot and Linda is his inventor for quite some time now, so naturally I had to expand on it in some way or another XD hope you enjoy the first chapter! :D

Linda Belcher was certianly an interesting person to talk about. The smartest of her family, she graduated high school at 16 and went on to continue her education at a technical institute. She was great in almost every subject, but her passion was robotics. She was a born inventor with a very creative mind. Unfortunately, her ideas never really sold out. She kept on trying, though. Many people were surprised when she married the aspiring burger chef instead of the dashing company CEO or even the short-statured health inspector. But she loved her husband Bob with all her heart, as well as their two daughters, Tina and Louise.

Linda had her own secret lab underneath the basement of the family restaurant, one that she dug out and built herself. Well, sort of. She made a robot to do the excavating. She then made another one to build the walls. Everything else she did herself. It wasn't a very large lab-Bob's head scraped the ceiling every time he went down there to check on her-but it was just enough room for her to get her work done. Besides, if she ever needed more room, she could always just fire up her excavator bot and her wall-building bot and make more room. They were both sitting in a corner of the lab, unused since then. She had tried to pitch them to multiple companies, but to no avail. Seemed like personal secret lab-building robots weren't very much in demand.

But, maybe this next one would be.

She had been working on this particular robot for almost two years now, much longer than any other project had taken her. Then again, she always made sure to juggle time spent in her lab with helping Bob in the restaurant and spending time with her daughters, so it wasn't like she was down there 24/7 like some kind of hermit. And while she shared most of her ideas to her family with a gleam in her eye, she was keeping this one a surprise. This must've been a very big deal to her, and the suspense was killing her family.

"I'm almost done, Bobby," she said, "you'll see hi-it real soon!"

"You said that a month ago, Lin," Bob groaned.

"Yeah, what's taking you so long?" Louise added.

"Well, I had a few bumps in the road, but I think I got it now!" Linda chirped.

"Geez Mom, maybe you could at least bring me down there this time so I can learn some stuff." Louise had inherited her mother's passion for robotics, as evidenced by her fingerless work gloves and the tool belt around her waist, and by a pair of goggles strapped over top of her pink bunny ears hat.

"Nice try, little missy, but you know this is a surprise," Linda playfully admonished. "Don't worry, though, we'll look through some of my books later tonight." With a wink, she exited the restaurant and descended to her lab once more. Bob was just about to go back to cooking burgers when Jimmy Pesto came in to cause him more grief.

"Eeeey, Bob~ what's cookin'? Oh wait, nothing. Otherwise we'd be smelling smoke from across the street. Haha."

"Ugh, what do you want now, Pesto?"

"Oh I was just wondering how life's been going for you being a single dad these past couple years."

Bob almost choked on nothing. "Wh-e-eh-what?! Why the hell would you say that, my wife is not dead!"

"Well she may as well be, I mean I never see her anymore. Spends all of her time down in that lab."

"She comes up... you just haven't been looking over here at the right times."

"It must not be very often, I'm always looking over here at your silly restaurant."

"...Well to be fair it's usually upstairs a couple hours before the kids go to bed."

"What, she doesn't like helping you out in the restaurant?" for a second Jimmy seemed genuinely confused, but then his expression and voice became significantly darker.

"Gee, Bob... it's almost like she... doesn't love you anymore."

That came like a slap in the face to Bob. In the back of his mind he knew it couldn't be true, but that didn't stop him from taking in a sharp breath of air and blinking rapidly. His fists were clenched so tightly that his knuckles were starting to turn white. Come on now, Bob, don't lose your cool in front of Jimmy Pesto!

"Aww, don't cry, Bob... there's sure to be other women..." before he could continue, a swift kick was delivered to his shin by Louise.

"Get the hell out of here and stop messing with my dad!" she yelled.

"Yeah, don't talk to our father like that, you asshole!" Tina joined, about to throw her notebook at him.

"Okay okay, I'm out of here! Jeez can't you people take a joke?" he said as he walked out the door.

"We only take funny ones, and that wasn't very funny." Tina practically said it to herself, since Jimmy was already out the door and making his way back to his place.

"What an ass," Louise said. "He's usually just a thorn in our side, but THAT was an all-time low." Her thoughts were interrupted by a sniffle from behind the counter. Bob was still standing there, trying to control his emotions.

"Ugh!" Louise groaned. She ran down the stairs to the basement and banged on the doors that looked like average storm cellar doors but were really doors to Linda's little lab.

"Mom! Get your ass up here! Dad's crying because he thinks you don't love him anymore!"

"I'm not crying!" Bob choked out from upstairs.

"WHAAAAAT?!"

Linda barged through the doors and practically flew up the stairs to Bob. They immediately wrapped their arms around each other as Linda patted Bob's back.

"Ssshhhh, it's okay Bobby, I'm here," Linda cooed, rocking the two of them back and forth a little. Tina awwed at the sight while Louise simply scoffed and walked away.

"Now who the hell gave you the crazy idea that I don't love you anymore?" Linda asked gently, yet sternly.

"Stupid Pesto," Bob sighed.

"Oh Bob... Jimmy Pesto might be handsome, but he's an idiot. I still love you, and I always will. Don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise. Especially not Pesto."

Bob relaxed, exhaling through his nose. He had been blessed with the most loving, most beautiful wife he could have ever asked for, and nothing could take her away from him.

Linda remained upstairs for the rest of the day, helping Bob with the restaurant and the girls with their homework, but when the night came, she couldn't sleep. She was itching to complete her robot. She was so close to being finished with him she could taste it. It was about 1:00 in the morning when she finally had enough. She looked over to Bob; he was out like a light. She smiled; it wasn't often he slept that good and he deserved the rest. Making sure not to pull any covers off of her sleeping husband, she crept down the stairs, unlocked the restaurant, then locked it back up again as she went inside, and made her way to her lab from there. She flipped the light switch on, blinking a couple times to adjust her eyes to the light. Pushing the cushy black rally-chair underneath her, she quickly got to work on her computer. Aside from tightening a few screws and testing the electricals, all Linda had to do was fix a small error in the coding. This particular error, if left uncorrected, would merely cause the robot to think and process differently than she wanted him to, but she knew that the correct programming was important. The smallest of mistakes could lead to the biggest disasters.

The coding had taken her a lot longer to fix than she thought it would. So had testing the electricals. Turns out that they weren't working properly at all, so she had to fix them. But, she pulled through. After testing the electricals for a second time and putting on the finishing touches, she'd be done, and she was determined to get this robot finished before Bob and the kids woke up. She checked her watch, holy crap, almost 7:00?! Bob was going to be up soon! In a panic, she quickly went back to work.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BE-

Bob groaned as he slammed the alarm off. He blinked tiredly a few times. Time to get up and have some coffee. He rolled over to look at Linda-wait where was she?

"Ugh," Bob groaned for a second time. After that little banter with Pesto the day before, he was really hoping that Linda would stay with him all night. Oh well, he knew that robot she was building meant a lot to her, so if it made her happy, then he wasn't going to stop her.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of someone hurriedly dashing up the stairs and through the hallways. He raised his eyebrow; what on Earth was going on?

"Bob! Bob! Bob!" his wife's voice yelled.

"Linda? What's going on?!"

She hurriedly ran into their shared bedroom, and Bob was expecting something bad to have happened, but Linda, despite her slightly frazzled hair and the bags under her large honey brown eyes, had the biggest of smiles on her face.

"Bob, get Tina and Louise up, I finally finished my robot!"

aaaaand a cliff hanger! I'm so mean XD I wasn't originally planning to cut this chapter off before introducing RoboGene, but it was getting kinda lengthy so I had to, sorry XD next chapter we'll get to see Linda's creation, so keep your heads up! :D