Disclaimer - I don't own FFX or Astro Boy (pouts). If I did, there'd be a lot more Atlas because he's cool. But I DO own Rikani, so don't steal her, or my evil pet pineapples will come after you. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (chokes on a random shoe that someone in the audience threw and dies) X.X

Based on the English dubbed TV version (see Cartoon Network, 5:30 weekdays). After Atlas nearly destroys the space station and floats off into space, he lands on a strange planet. That's where the story begins.

Atlas sat up and rubbed the back of his head. "Where am I?" He mentally asked himself. After floating in space, this planets gravity had pulled him in. Not the most graceful of entries, but at least he was still alive. He looked at himself and winced. Half his chest armour had been ripped off, exposing the wires underneath. His right arm and both his legs were malfunctioning. "Ouch" he said aloud.

"I agree with you there. Welcome to Bikanel Island" A feminine voice said from behind him. Atlas twisted around in alarm. A young girl of about 16 was kneeling behind him. Her blonde hair was tied up into a bun with plaits trailing down from it; she wore an orange tank top and short green pants. He looked at her eyes and openly stared, his mouth open in surprise. Her eyes were blue and instead of having the pupil in the middle, it swirled around. "Here, I'll help you up", she offered him a gloved hand. "You need some serious repairing, and I happen to be the only Al Behd in the area, so you're lucky I was here. Otherwise the fiends would have had you." She slung his un-broken arm around her shoulder. "I'll take you to Home, or what's left of it machina-boy."

"Machina-boy, Al Behd, Bikanel Island?" Atlas asked in confusion.

"Well, I don't know your name, and you look like a machina." She explained. "I'm an Al Behd, as you can tell by my eyes. This is Bikanel Island, home to us Al behd, and before I forget, my name's Rikani."

"I'm Atlas."

"Well Atlas, let's get you to my workshop so I can fix you."

The remains of the Al Behd Home

"This is Home." Rikani announced. All that Atlas could see was a burned out building and a lot of rubble lying around. "Well, it was until the Guado came and destroyed everything. Come on, we have to get you fixed up." She hauled him the other side of the building. A small house stood there. "That's my workshop. We'll have you fixed in no time." Inside the workshop, many parts from various machina littered the floor. A green crate in the corner held various cords, cables and wires, while a large blue crate next to it held sheets of strange metals. "If I would have known I was gonna have company, I would have cleaned up a little bit." She grinned at him as she gently sat him on a bench. "Let's see, your body armour will need to be replaced, that's easy. As to your arm and legs, we need to see why they malfunctioned and fix that problem up." She said as she hunted around in the blue crate. "How did all this happen anyways?"

"Well," he sighed. "I don't want to talk about it."

"Suit yourself, but you know, you shouldn't keep things all bottled up. Messes with your mind, you know?" She pulled a piece of red metal from the crate. "If you ever need to talk about it, I'm here, okay."

Thirty minutes later

Atlas stretched his arm and legs. "Good as new," he commented. "Is it just you, or are all Al Behd this good at repairing robots?"

"All Al Behd are good with machina. That's the reason that we're hated by nearly all the non-Al Behd's in Spira. 'Cause they reckon that's why Sin came, because some people from the past built huge machina for war and destroyed a heap of other people." She clenched her fists. "They think that machina are evil, and that's why Yevon says they're sacrilegious. A machina is only as bad as the person who uses it or programs it."

"Oh." Atlas said softly. "That reminds me of back home in Metro City. There were a lot of evil scientists who created robots and machines and used them for evil purposes." He hung his head. "Us robots are programmed to help humans, but when we are mistreated, we turn against them, kinda like the Blue Knight. Tokogawa owned me, but then he started mistreating me." He looked out of one of the windows, not meeting Rikani's eyes. "I became bitter, and started to hate humans. Then, one day I snapped. I couldn't take it anymore. I launched a solo attack on the moon base. I tried to destroy it." Rikani hesitantly laid a hand on his shoulder. "I didn't succeed, Astro stopped me."

"Who's Astro?" Rikani asked.

"My rival. To cut a long story short, we fought, Tokogawa turned up, I sacrificed my life to save Tokogawa, and ended up here."

"So that's how you got all these injuries." Rikani said.

"Yes, now I need to find a way back to Metro City." Atlas sat back in thought for a few minutes.

An hour later

Rikani waved her hand in front of Atlas's face for the tenth time.

".........." Atlas didn't notice, as he was still deep in thought. Rikani sighed as she pulled up a chair and sat back to front on it, facing him, resting her head on her hands.

A minute later

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" Atlas yelled in surprise. He had come out of his thoughts to find Rikani sitting in front of him.

"Teehee, I scared ya, didn't I?" Rikani giggled. "Ya think of a way to get back to your home?"

"No." Atlas scowled at her. In reply, Rikani stuck out her tongue and crossed her eyes. "How childish." Atlas thought, but copied her anyway.

"Well, you can stay here until we find a way back home for you." Rikani offered. "You could help me with restoring Home. Right now, I just have to clear the rubble." After careful consideration, Atlas nodded.

"It's not like I have anything better to do anyways."

Squeeee, here's chapter 1. I know it's not very long. If I get enough reviews, I'll make the next chapter longer. This was just an introductory chapter. Virtual Atlas and Rikani plushies go to reviewers. Or cookies (::). Maybe even cash equivalent :-P Sorry if Atlas seems a little OOC.