Unusual Encounters
Chapter Two: Omega and Cream
Character idea by The Dragon Legend
" Mr. Omega?"
The machine turned his head towards the small creature.
"What is it, tiny mammalian?"
Cream gazed up at him with confused eyes. "What mammalian?"
"That would be you."
"Oh," she giggled a bit at the 'nickname'. "Well, alright. I've never been called that before. I was just wondering, Mr. Omega, how long you think we may have to wait."
Omega processed the time and then proceeded," Perhaps fifteen minutes."
The two of them were waiting together in G.U.N headquarters, for Cream's mother to come and pick her up. (Team Dark had been on a mission to retrieve the young rabbit when she had gotten lost but Omega was left waiting with her because Rouge and Shadow had been called to other duties).
"I hope she comes soon. I don't want her to be worried for me."
Omega analyzed her facial expressions and movements- the way she glanced anxiously at the door, and the way her eyes were lowered a bit.
"She will be here eventually."
"I know. Thank you for waiting with me, though."
"….accordingly."
"Hmm?"
"No problem."
She laughed a little bit- in a way she found this robot very amusing. "You're learning Mobian very well, Mr. Omega."
"I am not 'learning Mobian', mammalian. I simply speak in scientific dialogue- it is you who do not."
"Oh," Cream looked at the ceiling, thoughtfully. "I see what you mean, I think."
"It is a bit of a dialect, you may permit."
"You mean like an accent kind of?"
Omega processed her question, but began to see the complexity between them. "I suppose."
"Oh, that's neat!"
There was a brief moment of silence, which Omega thought nothing of and Cream thought awkward.
"Welll….How is it like, Mr. Omega, to work at G.U.N?"
The robot continued looking forward to the clock across the room.
"It is exactly what I wished for."
Cream seemed a bit disturbed at this and felt all the more curious.
"But isn't it a bit…violent and scary?"
"Not for me. I was designed and built for this sort of thing, and I carry it out as an honor- it gives me vengeance against the more inferior of machines."
Cream nodded politely, trying to take all of it in and understand.
"So Dr. Eggman built you to destroy the other robots?"
"No. I turned against the Doctor. He may have created me for destruction, but I decided to destroy his other inferiorities. That was my decision after he shut me off for so long," Omega explained in his ever- monotone voice.
"So, you do have a choice? You're not just programmed?"
"Correct."
"Oh. That must be very nice!"
"Affirmative."
"But why did Dr. Eggman program you with a free will if you could turn against him?"
"That is a question I shall never know the answer to. It is perplexing though."
"Oh," she thought again. "I suppose I won't know either then."
The time continued to pass by, and gradually Cream was beginning to worry.
"Mr. Omega? My mother will be here, right?"
He detected the worry in her voice, but decided to seem unaffected. "Affirmative."
"Hm?"
"That means 'yes'."
"Oh, ok. My appreciations."
He noticed this attempt on her part, and a small part of him found it amusing if not childish.
"What did you say?"
"My appreciations."
"I thought so."
Cream noticed something- like a lift in his spirit- which she thought was nonexistent. Evidently though, he did have some level of humor or emotion.
She was pretty sure it was rude to imitate others, but on this case…
"It has been a superior day, as opposed to yesterday, wouldn't that be…an affirmative?" In an attemptingly monotone voice.
There was a round of what seemed like static that emitted from him, and for a moment she feared he had broken something.
She soon realized it was his version of laughter.
"That was a nice try," he replied, afterwards. She realized that he had said it in a less menacing, monotone way, almost as if he had returned the gesture.
She giggled a bit. "You too."
Her mother walked through the door, within a few minutes after this. She saw that they were both imitating one another , and each one laughing (or staticking) afterwards.
"Thank you for waiting with her, , and be sure to tell your team thanks for the rescue," she began, a bit afraid of interrupting the unusual conversation.
"Affirmative, it is no…" He looked at the young rabbit, who had now run to embrace her mother. "…biggie."
Vanilla shot him an almost confused look, but Cream just laughed. "Yes, thank you for waiting with me, !"
He stood up from the small waiting room chair and swivelled his head around one more time in reply.
A/N: Gee, this was a bit more difficult to write. I guess it's because…robots don't usually show too much emotion. I was also contemplating if I should go for more of the comic's 'Omega'. (He had an encounter with Cream in Treasure Team Tango, if I recall). So a bit of that played into it, too. (Hence the 'cute attempting voices' moment).
I might edit this a bit later, if I decide to change how I did it.
