A/N: Warning: Astro Boy has angst with:

1. His father

2. Cora

3. Just about everyone else. Angst with the others, angst with random peers at school, he has angst with his robot thing, he practically has angst with the *chalkboard*! LOL.

Machines can't feel, right? And robots are technically machines, too, right? So why am I feeling so trapped?

I'm desperate. Really.

It isn't easy to be a robot in my city. As a matter of fact, I'm the only robot Metro City really trusts.

But they don't really believe that I'm capable of feeling.

They just think I'm a mindless robot who knows absolutely nothing. And I CAN'T feel…correct?

Wrong. Robots can feel.

I know this because I feel trapped. Why? I don't know.

Metro City, the people of it, are good to me. They don't think of me as a servant or anything. But they do see me as emotionless.

And I know I'm not emotionless because I'm also very hopelessly in love.

Her name is Cora, and boy is she something else.

She accepted me, before she knew I was a robot. (Of course.)

But then Hamegg ended up tazing me and revealing it, of course.

Anyway, point is, I feel a little…stuck. People call on me, and when there's an emergency I feel that's all I'm good for.

I know my father and I have been trying to heal our broken relationship, but sometimes, I will look at him and think of when he gave me up. Kicked me out. Told me I wasn't loved…wanted… Maybe it's selfish to think like that. But I can't help it. I'm scared it's going to happen again.

Besides my father and the desperation threatening to take me down, I'm more or less ok.

At least that's what I tell people and they kinda buy it.

Cora does, too.

So does her gang of misfits, homeless kids, and all that jazz: Widget, Sludge, and Zane.

They're misfits, but in a group they do fit in really well together. Weird, but true. I don't really fit in with them. I mean, I'm a robot, I fit in nowhere.

Just a robot, and only a robot. Maybe I'm tired of being a robot.

Maybe, heck, maybe I'm tired of being the hero all the time. It's not that I get embarrassed when attention is fixed on me, even though it is a little embarrassing.

It's just that sometimes I'm tired of being the star of the show.

I sound pretty whiny, huh?

But, maybe for once I want to be an extra, just another ordinary normal member of the audience.

It's not that I'm tired of the spotlight. But if I'm supposed to be the hero, who's going to save me?

A/N: Warning, I didn't get to see the full ending of the movie, I only got to see to the part where ZOG gives him more blue core.

But I read the end on Wikipedia, so I'm pretty sure I know how it ends. But just in case I missed anything or anything I might've said doesn't match up with what happened in the end, just know that. Also, Astro gets seriously really depressed in this story and later on there might be hard-core torture.

Also, angst!

Disclaimer I DON'T own Astro Boy movie. Or animated series.