Chapter 4 is out!

Very generic chapter name, I know, but I couldn't think of anything else.

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Chapter 4: The First Day

This was the first day Snaptrap was on vacation, and of course, it was incredibly difficult for the others, not because Snaptrap was gone, but because they all had to deal with a crying toddler.

Robert was kicking and screaming in Ollie's arms, he was really trying his hardest to calm the crying toddler down. Though he wasn't very successful.

"I-It's okay Robert!" He exclaimed, rocking Robert back and forth.

How on earth does Snaptrap do this?! He thought to himself.

"C-Come on, stop crying please...!" He said as he began bobbing Robert up and down.

"You want me to call Snaptrap?" Francisco asked, Ollie shook his head and said.

"No! He needs time away from his son!"

"Why exactly did we think this was a good idea?!" Larry asked, plugging his ears as he tried to block out the loud crying.

"Because ever since Snaptrap adopted Robert, he's been doing nothing but spending time with him instead of doing evil!" Ollie exclaimed.

"You sure? Maybe you're just jealous that Snaptrap is always keeping Robert by his side and not letting him spend time with you." Larry said jokingly

Ollies eyes widened "Me?! Jealous? Nonsense!" He exclaimed as he put Robert down on the meeting table and folded his arms. "Okay, what's the problem?!" He asked in a rather rude tone. That only seemed to make the situation worse.

"That's not how you talk to a child!" Francisco yelled a little, Ollie mentally slapped himself. Of course that isn't how you talk to a child!

Francisco walked over to Robert and picked him up, he then started rocking and hushing him. "There there, it's alright." It seemed to be working! Robert was calming down a little!

Eventually Robert had fully calmed down, he sniffled and hiccuped.

"How did you...?" Ollie asked in surprise.

"I read up on how to take care of a child, I figured it'd be useful since we now have a three year old running around the lair..." He explained. Ollie once again mentally slapped himself for not thinking of that.

"Now..." Francisco looked at Robert "Tell your Uncle Francisco what's wrong." He said.

"Uncle...? Since when are you his uncle?" Larry asked in slight bewilderment.

"Since fifteen seconds ago..." Francisco replied.

"I miss daddy..." Robert said with a frown as he wiped away his tears.

"I know you do, but he'll be back before you know it, so be a good boy until then, okay?" Francisco asked.

Robert sniffled, but nodded lightly. "Okay... I will..."

"Ugh, Thank goodness that's over..." Ollie said, sighing in relief.

Francisco smiled just a little "Now, is there anything you wanna do?" He asked Robert.

Robert thought for a little bit, then he gasped "Hide n seek!" He exclaimed. Francisco put Robert down, "I'm gonna hide! And you all have to find me! Now, close your eyes and count to a hundred!"

Everyone did just that, once Robert was sure they weren't peeking, he ran off.


I ran out of the lair in excitement, my childish side was going haywire, all because I was playing hide n seek, I was so excited that I had ran into the city as I tried to find the perfect hiding spot.


Much later

Francisco, Ollie, and Larry had turned the lair upside-down, but they couldn't find Robert anywhere.

"Where could he be?!" Ollie asked in slight worry.

"I don't know!" Francisco added, he sat down and tried to think of anywhere Robert could be hiding.

"What if he went into the city to hide?" Larry suggested.

"I dunno, do you really think Robert would go into the city all alone?" Francisco asked.

Suddenly, the phone began to ring, Francisco grabbed it and answered it. "Hello?" He aeked

He immediately froze up when he heard the voice "S-Snaptrap!" Ollie and Larry stiffened "W-What are you calling for?" He asked nervously.

"...Y-You wanted to check up on Robert?!" Franciscos voice began to fill with panic. "U-Uhh... H-He's napping right now! And I don't wanna wake him up!" He made up an excuse on the spot.

"A-Anyways, there's nothing worry about! Just focus on relaxing! Bye!" He quickly hung the phone up.

Ollie raised eyebrow "Y'know, maybe you should call Snaptrap back, I don't think you sounded suspicious enough!" He said sarcastically.

"I'm sorry! I panicked!" Francisco replied, rubbing the back of his head. He then sighed a little "It doesn't matter now, what matters is we find Robert! Otherwise, Snaptrap will be real mad!"

"R-Right, let's start looking around the city! It's the best bet we got!" Ollie exclaimed. Everyone got up and ran out of the lair to look.


I had been looking around for a hiding spot for a solid 10 minutes, and I hadn't found anything. In fact, I had received several concerned looks from many people whom passed me. I couldn't think of a reason why they'd be concerned though! I was just playing hide and seek!

I kept running through town, giggling to myself as I kept on searching, there just HAD to be a good hiding spot! The perfect one even! And I was determined to find it!

A little more time had passed, and I was getting tired, I stopped in my tracks and sighed, slumping over. "I'll never find the perfect hiding spot... It's impossible..." I said, frowning a little.

I slowly looked up again, and it took me a minute to realize something...

I was in front of the T.U.F.F building! I gasped intensely "Maybe there's a hiding spot in there!" I exclaimed as I ran into the building and ran up to an elevator, I tried to reach for the button... But i was too short. I jumped for it, but I still couldn't reach it. "Aww..." I said in disappointment, before slowly looking to the stairs.

"No way am I climbing the stairs... I may be three! But I have stan...stan... Standrads...?" I tried saying standards, but failed miserably "The point is I don't want to climb stairs!" I yelled to myself as I placed my hands on my hips.

The elevator doors suddenly opened up, revealing Dudley! He looked at me and gasped as he picked me up "There you are Robert! Why are you down here?" He asked, showing slight concern.

"Uhh... Why are YOU down here?!" I asked him, desperate to change the subject.

Dudley thought for a moment "You make a good counterargument..." He said to me. "I was going to get some ice cream!" He then leaned in and whispered "Don't tell the others, but I snuck out of my cubicle, everyone thinks I'm doing important work."

"Ice cream?! Can I come?! Pleeeeeeease?" I begged, Dudley immediately smiled brightly.

"Of course! Come on!" He yelled as ran out with me.


I was holding a cone that had 2 scoops of ice cream on it, and Dudley had a cone that had 10 scoops, we were walking back to the office, enjoying our ice cream happily.

"I love ice cream!" I yelled as I licked the ice cream cone.

"I do too!" Dudley exclaimed "Ice cream is the BEST!"

As we entered the office and took the elevator back up, Dudley was the first to walk back in, while I followed after him.

However, I could tell right off the bat that the others already knew that Dudley left, as the moment he entered, I could see he was being glared at by Kitty. Guess no one noticed me yet.

"Dudley! You left to get ice cream?!" She asked in slight anger.

"Uhh..." He quickly ate all his ice cream, as well as the cone, "No..." He said with his mouth full, though he immediately regretted doing that, as he gave himself a brain freeze. "Agh! Brain freeze!" He exclaimed.

"Dudley, we're trying to look for a lost toddler, and you're getting ice cream?!" The Chief added.

"W-Why are you yelling at Mr. Dudley? He went out of his way to buy me ice cream too...!" I spoke up, showing them my ice cream cone.

It took everyone a moment to process that I was actually there, Kitty looked at Dudley in slight shock, "You found him?!" She said.

Dudley's brain freeze slowly subsided, he looked up at Kitty "Yeah! When I left to get ice cream, he was waiting at the elevator, then I took him with me so we could BOTH get ice cream!" He explained.

Kitty sighed a little "Well, at least we found him... Now we can take him to the orphanage." She said.

My eyes widened a little, I can't go to the orphanage! I already have a dad!

I gotta think quickly! Or else I'll be taken away from Snaptrap!

"I-I...I don't wanna go to an orphanage!" I blurted out. Folding my arms and pouting.

Everyone jumped in surprise, Kitty looked at me and frowned a little "But why? You can't live on your own..." She said.

I just kept pouting.

"I'm sorry, but we have to take you to the orphanage Robert..." The Chief said to me.

Crud! Uhh, what else...? I thought.

I clung onto Dudley's leg "I'll live with Mr. Dudley then!" I said quickly.

Dudley gasped in response "That would be awesome! I wouldn't be lonely in my treehouse anymore!" He exclaimed.

"Um, I don't think that'd be the best idea, as far as I'm aware, Dudley doesn't have any parenting skills..." Kitty said, clearly unsure about my suggestion.

"Hey! I know plenty about parenting! For example! It's a good idea to let children eat all the pizza and ice cream that they want!" He exclaimed.

"That's the complete opposite of how a parent would think!" She replied.

"What if you view it as a learning expe-...expe-...experaince?" I pronounced the word wrong.

"You mean experience?" Kitty corrected me

"Yeah! That word!" I replied.

"Hmm, well..." The chief thought about it.

"Pleeeeeeeease?" I begged.

The Chief sighed a little, "Alright, if it makes you happy." He said to me.

"Yay!" I cheered happily.

"Awesome!" Dudley exclaimed "From now on! You can call me your Uncle Dudley!" He said to me.

"Uncle? Seriously?" Kitty raised an eyebrow. "You barely know each other and you expect Robert to-" I cut her off by exclaiming.

"Okay Uncle Dudley!" Her eyes went wide.

Dudley's eyes lit up a little when I said that "Alright! Wanna see me do cool spy stuff?!" He asked me.

"Yeah!" I yelled excitedly. He immediately scooped me up and ran off, laughing like a child. I giggled a little at him.

Suddenly, I snapped out of my childish state. Quit being a kid for just one minute Robert!

A more childish sounding voice echoed in my head But I'm having fun!

I don't care! I pushed my own childish instincts and thoughts away so I could think clearly.

Okay... I gotta focus on getting back to the D.O.O.M lair, the others must be so worried about me... I thought to myself. I think my best bet is getting Dudley to help me... But I better ask him when we're at his treehouse.

Can we play now, pleeeeeaaaaaaaase? The childish voice begged.

Ugh, fine...

Yay!


Dudley quickly and excitedly showed me around the offices, well, I say that, but he just showed me the few really important rooms, Erm, well, important to him...

He did also show me some of his favorite hiding places in the office. Which caused me to giggle in delight, seeing as I was originally looking for a hiding spot, And now I had found my hiding spots and was ready for a game of hide n seek!

Sadly, that would have to wait though, cause afterwards, he took me to his cubicle and showed me what he does there, and that happens to be boring... Paperwork.

"Do you really have to do all of this Uncle Dudley?" I asked, looking up at him from the floor and sighing a little, seeing as we won't have any time to play.

"Yeah... Especially since I'm running out of excuses to NOT do it..." He said, sighing a little.

"Okay..." I said in disappointment, sighing again, this was gonna be a long day... I could tell...


I opened my eyes and saw that I was no longer at T.U.F.F, instead, I was sleeping in a bed, I looked around and saw that Dudley was in the bed with me. He was wide awake and watching TV, though he didn't realize I was awake.

"Uncle Dudley?" I called out, he looked down at me and smiled.

"Look who's finally up, did ya sleep well?" He asked me, I nodded a tiny bit. "Good, well now that you're up, we can play games!" He exclaimed, jumping out of his bed and stretching. "What do you wanna do?"

Maybe I should tell him... I thought to myself

"Um, well-" I was cut off.

"We can play tag! Hide n seek! Ohohoh! You can throw this tennis ball, and I can go run after it!" He said excitedly, quickly giving me a tennis ball to throw.

"Uncle Dudley, listen, i-" I was once again cut off.

"Come on! Throw the ball! You know you want to!" He was overly excited.

I sighed and threw the ball, Dudley chased after the ball and brought it back shortly after, his tail wagging quickly.

"Uncle Dudley, I have to-" I looked at him, he was staring at me. I sighed and took the ball and threw it again. He laughed like a child and ran after it again, he once again brought it back again.

"This is fun!" he exclaimed, however because of the ball in his mouth, he spat on me.

"Uncle Dudley! Can you please listen to me?" I asked him impatiently.

He put the ball on the ground and looked back up "I am listening!" He exclaimed.

"No, I mean quit interrupting me and listen!" I yelled a little, Dudley stayed quiet. "Thank you... I have to tell you something Uncle Dudley..." I said.

Dudley nodded a little.

"I...I have a daddy already... and... he's Snaptrap..." I said, Dudley's eyes went wide, He began trying to yell, but he was keeping his mouth closed, so it was muffled. "Um, you can talk now."

"Your dad is Snaptrap?! Why didn't you tell me sooner?!" He asked me in a panicked tone.

"Cause I couldn't do it around everyone in T.U.F.F! Besides, I trust you the most!" I told him.

"But this is Snaptrap! A supervillain! He's evil!" Dudley exclaimed.

"He may be a supervillain! But he's my daddy!" I exclaimed. "He may be evil! But I love him!"

"That may be true... But, Snaptrap and his henchmen will eventually get arrested! and if and when that happens, you'll be alone!" He said in concern.

"I won't be alone, I have you!" I exclaimed, smiling brightly. "You can watch me when daddy's in prison!"

"Are you... Sure you're okay with that?" He asked.

"Yeah!" I exclaimed. "But... I can't stay here... I have to go back to Francisco, Ollie, and Larry, they're probably worried about me..." I said, frowning a little "We were playing hide n seek, and I left the lair without an adult..."

"Well, I wish I could help, but I don't know how I could." Dudley said, I smiled though.

"Simple, you can take me back to the D.O.O.M lair!" I said, "Once we get there, I can go in myself."

Dudley nodded "Alright then! To the T.U.F.F mobile!" He yelled as he scooped me up and ran off.


I was sitting in the backseat of the T.U.F.F mobile, even with the seatbelt on though, I didn't feel very safe. I was hanging onto the seat for dear life. "W-We're going awfully fast, aren't we...?" I said in a terrified tone.

"We are!" He said excitedly.

"C-Can you s-slow down please?!" I begged a little, Dudley looked at me briefly and saw how terrified I looked, he frowned a little and slowed the car down I loosened up a little. "T-Thank you..."

"We're almost there by the way." Dudley reminded me.

"Okay..."


Meanwhile

Ollie, Francisco, and Larry were sitting down at the meeting table in the lair and resting, after hours of searching.

"That's it then... We're dead when Snaptrap finds out..." Ollie said, sighing and looking down at the table.

The phone began to ring, startling everyone. Ollie slowly got up and reached for the phone, his hand trembling, he picked the phone up and answered it, "H-Hello...?" He asked, he quickly pulled his ear away from the phone, hearing a very worried Snaptrap yelling from the phone "Okay! I've been waiting long enough! I WANT TO TALK TO MY SON!" He yelled, he sounded like he had been crying a little.

"B-Boss, Um, you see, Robert is-" Ollie was cut off by someone snatching the phone, he looked down and his eyes widened.

"Hi daddy! I'm doing fine!" Robert exclaimed excitedly, everyone could hear Snaptrap breathing a sigh of relief.

"I-I was just worried that you were-" He was cut off.

"Daddy, you're worrying too much... Ollie, Francisco, and Larry have been taking great care of me!" I reassured him.

Snaptrap chuckled a little "I see, well... I'll see you this Monday then..." He said.

"Okay! Bye daddy! I love you!" I exclaimed as I handed the phone back to Ollie, he smiled and hung it up for me.

Once the phone was hung up, everyone ran over to me and hugged me.

"We were so worried!" Francisco exclaimed.

"You really saved us from Snaptraps wrath!" Larry added.

"Don't ever do that again, okay?!" Ollie exclaimed.

"Okay! I won't!"


I was now sitting on a stool, facing the corner, "How long do I have to be here...?" I asked, folding my arms and pouting.

"30 minutes." Francisco told me. I growled just a little bit.

"But why?!" I yelled a little.

"For leaving the lair without an adult, and making us worried!" Ollie explained.

"B-But I saved you from getting in trouble with daddy! Didn't I?" I asked them

"That's no excuse, now you sit there and be quiet for half an hour, alright?" He replied, giving me a look of slight anger.

I sighed a little. Guess I had that coming... I thought to myself.


And that was Chapter 4! I had a blast writing this! Though I did hit a few walls while writing. But I'm glad it's done!

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This is Robert! Signing off!~