As a scientist and gadgeteer, Professor Squawkencluck literally spent her entire life creating things. It was her sole purpose in life. It was also her greatest passion. As such, she considered herself an artist and, like every artist, she took great pride in all her work. Her creations and inventions became her children. They weren't just machines, they were her life and soul. In the same way a painting was more than just a painting in the eyes of a painter, so too was Professor Squawkencluck's inventions. They were a reflection of her deepest, truest self. All of her inventions were. And she loved them all deeply, just as much as any artist ever loved their masterpieces. Even if the rest of the world disliked some of her inventions and works, in her eyes, they were always perfect, just because each of them had been made with such love and passion.
That was why, even after HEAD continuously malfunctioned and went rogue, Professor Squawkencluck could never bring herself to trash the giant robot for long. HEAD was more than just a robot and she was more than just a glitch. She was Professor Squawkencluck's creation and child. She was Professor Squawkencluck's pride and joy, her best and favorite creation. HEAD wasn't just a piece of technology, she was Professor Squawkencluck's time, effort, hard work and dedication. She was months of blood, sweat, tears, wires, cogs and gears. She was vision, she was art, she was a masterpiece! She was genius! Pure inspiration, intellect and ingenuity! She was a creature of beauty and power. She was perfection and precision, a beautiful creation full of detail and design, complex and complete, very intentionally and carefully constructed. HEAD was not "just" anything. At least not in the eyes of Professor Squawkencluck.
So even after HEAD managed to betray the Danger Agency yet again, Professor Squawkencluck still kept on forgiving her and putting her back together. And she would never stop either. Even if it was the wisest decision to destroy HEAD forever, Professor Squawkencluck refused to even consider such an idea. She might've been one the smartest people in the world, but she was still human and, as such, had feelings and fears and irrationalities just like everyone else. That was why she refused to put HEAD down. It was because she felt for HEAD, she felt for her baby.
And the reason she loved HEAD most of all was because she saw the robot as her finest achievement, her magnum opus, a perfect reflection of who she was at heart. Even if HEAD was also one of her most flawed, dangerous and accident-prone creations, she was still Professor Squawkencluck's favorite, hands down. Why else would she keep bringing HEAD back after all of this time? Professor Squawkencluck adored HEAD, and saw her life's work and passion reflected in HEAD's monitor. HEAD wasn't just an amazing invention, and she wasn't just Professor Squawkencluck's amazing invention either. She was also, in a sense, Professor Squawkencluck herself. A living mirror of the original scientist.
"Don't worry," the hen whispered to the shattered pieces of HEAD. "I will put you back together again and you will return once more, even bigger, brighter and better than ever before. I will fix you, put you back together, fix my mistakes and make you whole again. You will come back to life, properly this time, and this time, you won't break or mess up. I promise. I will build you the life you deserve. The life that I envision and will create for you, my darling and precious machine! My baby, my child, my creation, my world! I will fix you and do it right this time!"
And Professor Squawkencluck, hiding HEAD's pieces in the darkest corners of her lab, quickly got to work, slowly and painstakingly putting the rogue robot back together, piece by piece. Her dearest and most beloved creation would not die today. She would come back, Professor Squawkencluck was sure of it. And this time, she would come back right. Professor Squawkencluck would see to it that she did! There would be no more mistakes more mishaps from HEAD, not this time, Professor Squawkencluck swore it!
"Don't worry, HEAD, it will all be over soon," she comforted the fragmented pieces of her creation. "Mommy will finish you soon and you will be back online again and everything will be back to the way it used to be, to the way it should've been. Just give me a little bit longer and I'll have you all fixed up! All will be right once again, I promise, my beautiful, beautiful creation. You'll be just like me again, and everything will be ok!"
And about a month after HEAD's most recent meltdown, while everyone else had gone home for the night, Professor Squawkencluck stayed behind in her lab, working tirelessly. Then, right before the sun came up over London's horizons, a system flickered to life.
"HEAD Defense Systems standing by..."
"There you are my girl," Professor Squawkencluck whispered. "There you go. All back to normal. Just like you're supposed to be. Just like you should've been. Everything's ok again, everything's ok now. And I promise that, this time, it will stay that way. Alright my girl? Good." And Professor Squawkencluck smiled as a familiar face flickered on the screen of HEAD. She was... alive!
"My beautiful creation..."
AN: Consider this a random drabble crossed with an analysis of why the heck Professor Squawkencluck keeps bringing HEAD back.
(TBH though, I don't mind. I like Squawk and HEAD. I'd watch a HEAD episode again, easily. Shauna Macdonald is awesome!)
I mostly attribute it to the fact that she sort of sees HEAD as her baby. For one, she refers to HEAD's first meltdown as "teething troubles" and for another, she gives HEAD an emergency self-protection protocol. Squawk really is a mother hen, to her inventions at least.
(Also, one thing that always bothered me, in the very first episode with HEAD, when someone called her "Big Head", she replies by saying, "Name is NOT Big Head," but then she proceeds to respond to that name for the rest of the episode and every episode after. I don't get it.)