Ash practically followed DT to his apartment, the question "how does he eat?" burning her mind. She had a feeling of curiosity like no one could explain. Perry held his father's hand as they walked into the apartment. DT let go and Perry ran off to play, Ash had to chuckle to herself. The little guy was full of energy. DT sat down, and took off his polar bear head. Ash, knows what's underneath, a metallic skull like head with three "eyes". But, something extra was added to DT's structure. A small rubber tube with a funnel on the end.
"Now," DT grabbed the head and began to use it as if it was a puppet. "This head, isn't just a mask, it's an entire machine of it's own."
Ash watched attentively.
"This head is capable of facial expressions, eye movement, that kind of stuff. Tiny, motors, pistons and other mechanisms all work together to move around. But, Johnathon decided I needed to be hyper-realistic, as to fit with everyday people. I needed to eat, and drink."
Ash nodded. "Yeah, but how does this… eating thing work?"
"Simple, the bear head is capable of a chewing motion, it chews food like you and Johnny. Then its shoved down this tube, and into a container."
"Aw man, that's cool. You convert it to energy right?"
Ash watched Johnathon, also having taken off his suit, the tube was removed but his container was still hooked to his metal body.
"uh… no, not quite."
Ash tilted her head in confusion.
"That, what do you do with it."
John from behind DT, detached his container with an air hiss. Then tilted it over the trash can.
"Dump it out." He said abruptly, as a soupy, what was buttered noodles, slouched out of the container and into the trash can.
Ash took a moment to gag silently.
"C-cool." She said in-between the will to hurl dinner on DT's floor.
"Gee Ash, you look like you need to empty out your container too."
DT turned around with a disappointed look on his face.
"John, oh my god, why?"
He shrugs his shoulders.
"Alright, I'm going to wash this thing out." He went to the sink and started to rinse it out.
DT turned back, his he had his polar bear head on, it would express a grimace.
"You may want to look away… I have to empty mine out now."
Ash decided it was best to excuse herself to the other room. Johnny finally came in, he was putting leftovers away. Ash and Johnny had a general conversation. But, kept getting interrupted by DT, having trouble getting all the contents out of his container. All the while, Ash wanted to throw up. After a while DT called them that it was alright to re-enter. But, that's when a high-pitched voice called. It was Lamby's but when Johnny and Ash looked up, they gasped.
"My food container's stuck again." He said.
"Lamby's a robot too?" Ash gasped.
"Uh yeah." DT said. "Hang on Lamby I'll get it."
DT left his container in the sink, and paced over to Lamby. He knelt to Lamby's height and popped off his container and handed it to him.
"Thanks dad, I'll get John to re-work the nozzle."
"Why doesn't DT dump it?" Ash asked.
"We made a promise to only dump our own containers, to be honest I don't know why…"
With that, Lamby dumped out what he had for dinner and used a stepping stool to reach the sink. Ash was bewildered at the fact this did this every day. Eat breakfast, dump it out, eat lunch, dump it out. Then Ash went back to that first day, when DT showed off the pancake machine. He ate a plateful of pancakes, and when she and Johnny left, turned right around and dumped them into the trash. All this, just to look "normal" to mimic a living being, to give an impression they were alive.
"Why, why are you willing to go through all this trouble?"
"Because, society doesn't like machines walking among man, because people always, ALWAYS, point out the abnormal." John said.
"Yyyep… that's why." DT added in.
"Does Perry know about Lamby?" Johnny asked.
Just then, Perry came running in, Lamby without his suit on mind you, stepped down from the stool. Perry, wrapped his arms around Lamby's skinny metallic leg.
"Lamby! Can we play hide and seek?"
This alone was a tell-tale sign, that Perry knew Lamby's true nature, but loved him anyway.
"Alright. Let me get my suit on first."
Perry yelled out a cheer and hid, even before Lamby got back to start counting.
DT invited the rest to sit.
"Hey DT, can I ask another big question?" Ash's curiosity was peaked again.
"Sure, ask away."
Ash took a breath.
"Where did you come from?"
"Well, ready for a science lesson?"
Ash tilted her head. "Sure…."
"We come from a place, called an Alternate Universe. It's basically a place where something is different. There are endless amounts of universes. In fact, this universe, is an alternate universe of, the True Universe."
The two anthropomorphic animals stared at DT. This talk, about universes confused them to no end.
"The True Universe is… well… the default or normal universe. Its where humans reside. Neat fact, the people in the true universe know what we are doing. This very conversation, Perry and Lamby's hide and seek game, are all being broadcasted to the True Universe. But don't be alarmed, they can't straight up watch what we do. The broadcast is translated into advanced text. The text specifies actions, and what we say."
Now, Ash and Johnny confused beyond belief, are people really reading about what they are doing. Do they know they're confused? Do they read about their little romantic moments?
"However," Dt started again. "This broadcast only focuses on certain people at certain times. So, if you ever get… uh… romantic with each other, the broadcast focuses on us."
Ash and Johnny sighing in relief, decided it was time to go. They said goodbye and left. DT sighed.
"I know exactly why you decided to spill the beans like that." Jon said.
DT didn't say a word.
"We go home tomorrow."