Astro's First Love Retold
Astro came home one day after his usual outdoor rounds when he noticed Jenny with Brad and Sheldon. "Hey Astro," they said. "Oh hey you guys. What have y'all been up to?" "Oh just talking," Brad answered. "About some love," Sheldon continued. "Yeah love and such," Brad agreeably repeated. "Hey Astro. What was your love by the way?" Brad asked. "My love was actually a tragedy." Everyone except Astro started laughing. "It really was a tragedy," Astro exclaimed. They suddenly stopped laughing. "It was? Well what's the story?" Brad asked feeling sorry for laughing. "Yeah, Astro. Tell us more about that girlfriend you were about to have," Jenny convinced. "Come to think of it, I actually don't want to tell it. At least not to your human friends here, Jenny. It's too sad." "Come on. Just tell us," Brad and Sheldon begged. "Fine," Astro agreed as he began to clear his throat. "It all started out years ago when I was younger, slightly shorter in height with a higher-pitched voice. Dr. Elefun called me into his office to tell me that my design was stolen. But it wasn't stolen by Dr. Elefun himself. It was stolen by my earlier professor named Dr. Boynton. He actually was the one who built me here in the world of fiction. He built me to bring his son back alive when he was killed illegally driving. Anyways, my design was actually owned by some other professor. Thus, I was told to dress like someone else when I entered his restricted laboratory. Because if I were to enter it undisguised, I'd have to be killed. As I walked to the outer landscapes of that forbidden land, I noticed a robot girl built with the same body structure as mine. Her name was Nicky. I asked her very nicely to take me inside the lab. Then I was to ask to see her professor just so I can get the original sketch papers of my design. But he didn't want to give it to me. It may be his own design, but if I letted him keep it, then I would have to be disassembled and disregarded for good for the fact that the design was secretly stolen. So he trapped me in a capsule. As I was stuck in it, I heard tapping on the door. So I read it in Morse code. It was Nicky. She was just lucky enough to hold onto the capsule release. So I found a way to break through the capsule and let Nicky in. She began to ask me out for her heart. I was touched to say yes. But when her professor went on the P.A. screen of the capsule just while we were making up, he deliberately set a time bomb inside her body as a way to kill me. A mistake he should've never done in the first place. Thus, I begged him to disarm it. He wouldn't do so until he had to without the use of the remote. He literally had to put her on the stretcher and disassemble her piece by piece in order to remove the bomb. I was just standing there sadly watching her decay as I held her hand. 'Astro. I love you so much,' she lastly said to me. 'I love you too, Nicky,' I lastly said to her. Then she was gone into pieces. All that was left of her were her feet in which are installed on me right now. And that is my love story." Astro recaptured his concentration when he noticed Brad, Sheldon and Jenny crying. Then they started looking at each other and cried even harder. "Astro. That is so sad. Why aren't you even crying?" Brad replied. "I'm not allowed to. If I were to, then I wouldn't be admired for authority reasons," Astro answered back. "Well Jenny can cry. And she's a robot," Sheldon added. "Oh I can see that. Well I'm sorry to have noticed that," Astro concluded. "Oh my! That story of yours is so sad, it just brought me way back to when all three of us including Tuck used to be very close especially when we were in high school," Brad said. "Yeah it sure does,"Jenny agreed. "We would always go to the mall and the skatepark after school. Then we would go on these miraculous adventures on weekends," Brad continued. "Yeah. Those were the days," Sheldon and Jenny responded. Astro just stood there staring at the three rather not smiling.
