Author's Note: Have some moral dilemma with your smut, it's good for you. Right?
Chapter 15: More Proto/Elec Smut
…But not really.
Alt Title: Things Get A Bit Cringey and Awkward
Earlier in the night, locked up in his room, Blues is trying to figure out what to do about the light charge he has starting to build up. He works at the "sensitive" area somewhat hopelessly, not really sure how to achieve the stimulation that he is craving. The best he can figure is to create friction using his hand and fingers, but it is aggravatingly slow, and he cannot tell if he is really making any progress... Blues groans needily and huffs as the charge continues to torment him. He can't figure out how to act on it or get rid of it...
He takes to rutting against the bed, and when that doesn't work he turns to alternative means of stimulation. He starts rubbing heavy woolen blankets from the closet together until they are charged and zapping himself with them. It works bit by bit, but it is a lot of effort...
Ignoring the occasional sounds of laughter and social activity in the other room, he continues quietly trying to figure out a better way to keep building his charge. The blanket method is going to take all night... He needs something better. Faster.
Remembering that Elecman uses the lamp from the wall to pull electricity, Protoman takes that, cuts the wire from the lamp, and splits the cable so the charged and grounding lines are separate. He tests it out on his finger and is pleased to find that it does indeed produce a small shocking sensation when he has the wires on either end.
Now then...
Using the same technique he places one on one end his crotch, and the other on...
!
Blues does feel a zap... But to his disappointment it is not penetrating like it was when Elecman worked on him. It is like the charge just skims through the surface of his plating and back out.
Hm...
From his reading, Protoman knows that an electrical current will always take the path of least resistance... Which In this case would be his surface plating. So then... If he removes that and places the wires against whatever was building that charge before...
Protoman carefully unlatches himself below and pulls open the panels that reveal his inner components down there. He notices a large tube-shaped piece of a capacitor where he remembers feeling the sensation.
Bingo.
He knows it is not a good idea to touch these directly, but placing the wire ends on either end should be fine... So he places the first wire on the front end and the second wire on the b-"
!
There's a zap, a yelp, and the power in the entire apartment flickers for a second.
Blues drops the cables after several frightening moments when his joints lock up on him and scurries away from the charge. Shit. Fuck. He smells something burning. Is he smoking?
All the noise in the rest of the house pauses when the power flickers out momentarily, and Rock frowns at the sound of his brother's yelp. "Blues...?"
"FINE!" His brother's call is muffled through the bedroom door. He prays that no one comes to investigate while he tries to shove all his components back into place and latch back up.
Rock is about to stand up when Elecman holds out an arm to block him. "Hold on. Let me check on him." He has a very strong suspicion of what's going on, and he knows it is not something he cannot risk letting Rock find out about. The robot master stands up and heads to Blues's door. He pauses before giving it a few taps of his fist.
!
"I... I'm fine." Blues says with a shaky voice. "Just an experiment gone wrong. Everything's okay."
Elecman nearly snickers. Oh goodness. What has Protoman done to himself? "Are you sure? I'd be happy to offer some assistance."
"Nnnrgh..." It just had to be that one, didn't it? Blues was expecting Rock. "Don't need it."
Knowing Blues will only resist more if he pushes it, Elecman shrugs and decides to leave him be...for now. "Fine then. I'm going back to dinner. I'll see if you've changed your mind when I'm finished." And after he has had some time to squirm. Elecman reenters the kitchen slash dining room. "He says he's fine. You know how he is. Best not to pry. There's more important matters to attend to anyway." He settles back down to fork a potato into his mouth and sighs happily.
Mired in his own defeat, Blues goes and lays down on his bed. He still wants a release, but for now maybe the best thing to do is rest and hope it can be slept off...
As the others finish their food and fuel, Elecman looks strangely cheerful. He can only hope that Blues is still awake and charged up.
And regrettably... Blues is. And highly uncomfortable. It is like the charge won't LET him sleep... He can remember feeling prickly before bed in the past, but never like this... He bets it is somehow Elecman's fault for activating that protocol in the first place. He starts forming plans to have Light remove it the next day.
As if sensing the red bot's anger, Elecman is ready to say his goodnights to the others early and strolls up to Blue's door. He decides to be polite once again and knock.
"..."
Blues gets up, unlocks it, and lets him in wordlessly before returning to his pallet on the floor rather than his bed.
"Hello there~" Elec greets with a cheerful trill. "Have you had any success with that 'experimentation' of yours yet?"
Blues tenses. By the tone of his voice, he knows exactly what's up. Seeing no point in denying, he simply decides not to answer the jab. If Elecman wants a rise out of him, he won't get it.
But Elecman is not one to give up so easily. He sits down at the edge of the bed. "Oh, but how did you get yourself into this predicament, I wonder. Could it perhaps have something to do with...," He starts reaching for Protoman's hip,
"Fuck off," the red bot swats his hand away.
Elecman frowns and recoils his hand. "Ugh! Here I am trying to help you, and you act so rude!"
"I didn't ask for your help!" Blues growls.
Suddenly Elecman's frown turns bitter. "Yeah, yeah. No one else does either, but I just keep wasting my energy trying to offer it." He huffs as he flops back onto the mattress and turns himself away from Protoman.
Blues pouts. Oh sure. Now he's the bad guy. Just sitting here minding his own business and not wanting to be touched... Hmph... "...rough day of work, huh?" he at length decides to break the tense quiet.
The floodgates open wide. "You have no idea. There wasn't anything I could do to be acknowledged around there. Not even saving a human's life." Elecman growls as he turns onto his back. "How can you and Megaman possibly care about any of them besides the doctor? They're wretched."
Blues is quiet for several moments. "There are definitely plenty of bad ones. But there are others like Light... And not like him, but still good... Better maybe."
"Hmmm...I'll believe it when I see it. "
"You will, if you give it long enough," Blues assures him. "I hated humans for a while too. But they creep up on you."
"I suppose I have to take your word on it." Elecman answers, his bitterness fading.
There is a pause. Then Blues reluctantly gets up from his pallet and goes over to sit at Elecman's side.
"Alright just... Take it away, please. I can't stand it. It's been keeping me awake. Siphon it off or whatever." His embarrassment in having to ask is written plainly on his face.
Elecman breaks into the biggest grin.
"Siphon it? Now Protoman...what fun would you get from that?" He sits up and starts eagerly moving closer to him. Elec puts his hands to Protoman's arms, giving a charming smile. "You remember what I said before don't you? You just have to be sure to relax."
He tries to lean in towards his neck.
Protoman looks as uncomfortable with Elecman touching him like this as he feels... But if he is honest with himself, he DOES want that release... So he sits still and tries to relax as much as he can.
But the evident discomfort causes Elecman to withdraw. Maybe he will hold off on kissing for now. In the meantime he'll trail his hands slowly down Protoman's arms, releasing a tiny amount of charge into them.
"Mmn..." Oh Blues likes that. The light surge... The tingle that shoots through his spine...
Quietly he lowers himself onto the bed to invite Elecman to mount him, the need for that charge is back in full force.
Watching Blues willingly submit has a visible effect on Elecman. The robot master can't help but bite his lip before leaning over him on his hands and knees. He takes a moment to just appreciate the sight beneath him, grinning all the while.
Protoman can't quite bring himself to meet Elecman's gaze head on, so he closes his eyes under his visor, feeling the warmth coloring his cheeks. It is then that he realizes if he is being treated then he needs to reciprocate, so he places his hands on Elecman's waist.
"Ooh..." Elec can't take it anymore. "God, you're so cute." He leans in, going right for Protoman's neck again. This time he doesn't stop himself from pressing his lips to the soft synthetic skin, and he transfers more charge through the kiss.
Blues is just in the middle of opening his mouth to protest the "cute" comment when the kiss stops him short and makes him squeak instead. He feels the charge like an explosion branching through his neck and across his face, blooming out like a flower.
Suddenly his lower region is feeling like it is knotted up tight. The sensation comes much quicker than it did last time.
"Nngh... You... Rrr..." he mumbles, trying to find some protest but his charge garbles it on his tongue.
He swipes the mask off of Elecman's head from behind so he can snatch the bot's black hair and hold him in place while his frame arcs up against Elecman's chest. Blues is struggling to remember how to vent right.
At first Elecman worries that he may have gone too far, but the way Protoman reacts is far beyond what he could have hoped for. That darling squeak, the way he tugs his hair, his body arching up into him. The robot master moans, unable to stop himself from grinding into the other bot, encouraging his own charge to grow quickly.
Blues bites his lip as his own energy levels spike back in response. This time he has slightly more of an idea what to expect... So he experiments, moving against Elecman in different ways and trying to coax out more energy however he possibly can. Before he realizes what he is doing, he has Elecman's forehead pressed against his own helm as he keeps his grip on his partner's hair and is panting directly against the other robot's face. When he notices this, he rips his helmet off (leaving his shades on) and brings their heads back together.
"Aah..."
He can feel the charge flow between their skin. It is a bit dizzying at first, but Blues likes it. The more direct contact the better, it seems.
The smirk never leaves Elecman's face. Oh goodness...the proximity is certainly enjoyable, and so is Blues's enthusiasm. He can't help but nuzzle up against his cheeks, and then he starts peppering them with kisses while his arms slide up and down Blues's torso.
Protoman feels a familiar sensation in the pit of his stomach when Elecman begins kissing him all over. It is not painful or pleasant exactly but it is... strong. Unease? Insecurity? Conflict. A part of him enjoys this... but another part of him is flashing warning bells that there's something wrong with it. In any event he doesn't move to stop his partner. What he does do is moan... and loud. Maybe too loud. He has momentarily forgotten that they do not have the house to themselves like they did last time.
Elecman snickers. "Now now...you have to try and contain yourself. Can't get caught now, can we? I'd hate to see your dad's face if he knew what I was doing to his first son."
Then it hits Protoman. Dad. Son. Sons. Brothers.
That's why this doesn't feel right. He and Elecman are technically siblings, what is he...
Blues pulls away. "We shouldn't do this."
"Huh?" Elecman frowns. "Why not? We'll be fine as long as we control our volume."
"No! N…no... that's not what I mean. It's not about whether or not we're caught it's... fuck... We're siblings. We live in the same house with our other siblings, we... What would the doctor say if he found out? This isn't right."
"Well...I mean come on, we're not the same as you and Rock. We don't look alike. We're built differently." Elecman reasons.
"I don't care if we're not like me and Rock, and that's not true! We are built the same! Our outsides may be different, and our hardware modified, but at the bottom line we share the same code base we... this just isn't right okay!? It's incest." The word falls from Blues's lips and lands sickeningly inbetween them.
Eleman still doesn't buy it. He desperately fumbles. "It can't be! The rest of us...we never felt like that. We'd kiss and fuck and whatever all we wanted, and it never felt weird. It'd feel weird if it was weird wouldn't it?"
"It DOES feel weird! That's just it! It does!"
"Not to me," Elec counters. "If you're supposed to be my brother, then why am I so attracted to you?"
Protoman's mouth hangs open in shock.
"Why are you so surprised?" Elecman tilts his head. "Why would I even be doing this if that wasn't the case?"
But Blues feels sick. He picks himself up from the bed and moves away.
"B-Blues...?" Elecman sits up and keeps his gaze locked, looking worried.
Protoman has his head in his hands... he's thinking.
"C-come on..." Elec tries to smooth away this unpleasantness. "There doesn't have to be anything wrong with it."
But Blues still won't look at him and won't move from the spot on the other side of the room. Elecman's chest starts to feel unpleasantly hollow. "I'm...I'm sorry." They were having such a nice time. He was really starting to enjoy being with Protoman. What can he do to make it right?
"Elecman I..." Protoman is having the opposite experience. His chest feels heavy. Where he had a charge before, now it is like it has been drained out of him.
"What?" the yellow bot asks urgently. "Protoman talk to me..."
"It's just... this... this thing was obviously a design flaw... it wasn't supposed to exist... and now you are going and turning it into kissing and attraction and... I don't know how to feel about it. It was one thing when I thought this was innocently getting our charges out, but it doesn't feel like that's what this is really about anymore..."
"It doesn't have to mean anything." Elec insists.
"But it does, doesn't it? To you."
"What? No! I just do it because it's fun and it's cute watching you squirm."
But this was clearly the wrong thing to say too. There is a very long pause that hangs in the air between them. Elec searches Blues's expression for any sign that he might be coming around, but the protobot's face is stoic and his eyes masked behind his shades give nothing away. Finally Elec can't stand it anymore.
"What?"
His sudden outburst seems to get the gears turning in Blues's head again. Protoman rubs his temples. This doesn't feel right... and he probably shouldn't be doing this with Elecman... he definitely doesn't want to go encouraging more "attraction" to himself...
But at the same time...
No. Bad
But
...
Blues's resolve is skating on thin ice because he is starting to realize how charged he still is and that makes Elecman's words about this being a bunch of nothing sound really good... But he has principles! And he can't... He can't just….
But the more he thinks about it… Elecman seems more and more right. They don't really feel like brothers. Not in the sense that he and Rock feel like brothers. They may live sort of under the same roof, and Light might call both of them "son", but they have never had that kind of bond.
As he takes the time to think it through, his inhibitions slowly fall away.
"Fine. Just one more time. Then we're through." And so saying, Protoman resolves internally to go and have Light deactivate the feature tomorrow. He'll have this one surge, get it out of his system, and then be done with it forever.
"Excellent!" Elec grins. He moves across the room to wrap his arms around him.
But Protoman flinches away. "N… none of that... no kissing or intimate... whatever. I just want to get overloaded. Nothing else."
…
Elecman huffs. "Fine...make it so boring."
Protoman leaves him and goes back over to lay on the bed again, turning his head to the side.
Elecman follows to mount him instead like they were doing before.
Mounted, Protoman stays where he is and waits for Elecman to resume. Just don't look at him. Get it over with and everything will go back to normal.
Elecman frowns. Something has definitely changed. Internally he berates the bot under him. Damn you, you are not making it that easy for yourself.
He puts his hands to Protoman's shoulders and begins grinding into him.
"Nngh..." Blues tries to mute his reactions, but after a few minutes of grinding that is becoming difficult and then impossible. Soon he is back to panting like he was doing earlier, but through all this he continues evading Elecman's gaze.
Elecman chuckles deeply. He never stops moving his hips, but meanwhile his hand reaches to cup Protoman's cheek.
Blues grits his teeth. He grabs Elecman's hand and pulls it away. "None of that."
Elecman huffs...and sends a gentle bolt of electricity into his face anyway.
!
The red bot finally fixed his gaze on Elecman to glare at him.
Without warning, the bot on top is flipped onto the bed and Blues gets on top of him, pinning him down. "I said None. Of. That."
Misreading his growl and believing that he's just being feisty, Elecman's lip curls into a smirk. "Oooohh~ Are you going to punish me~?" He teases with a lilting voice.
Blues slaps him across the cheek. And not a nice, friendly slap either.
"Ah!" Elecman cries out. When he is released he holds a hand to his cheek and looks up to Protoman with hurt puppy dog eyes. "Meanie"
Protoman grits his teeth. "That was a warning. Next time you get punched. When I say 'don't do that' I mean DON'T. DO. THAT." Though he is the one barking at Elecman, he is upset enough that he trembles. This is starting to feel wrong again... He shouldn't have slapped Elecman... Maybe he really should just quit here...
"Okay...okay..."
Blues gets off of him and walks away from the bed again, running his fingers through his messy hair and trying to get a grip. When he can't, he sinks against the wall. "I... I'm sorry... I shouldn't have done that..."
"It's fine. I've gotten much worse." Elec tries to shrug it off.
"No... That's not the point..."
"Then what is?"
Blues sighs shakily. "I... I don't know. I shouldn't have hit you. It was wrong. I overreacted. It just wasn't okay... I'm not thinking straight."
"So you slapped me? So what? You don't see me damaged or crying or whatever about it. It's nothing."
Elecman puffs, his aggravation with the ongoing interruptions evident. But Protoman's shaken state gives him just a moment of thoughtful pause. When he speaks next, his voice is mild and sincere. "'...I think your biggest problem is you make everything into a bigger deal than it has to be."
Blues looks up at him. "...Maybe I do. It is a big deal to me. It would be a big deal if it were me in your shoes. …Maybe we just don't feel the same way about each other."
"I didn't expect us too. You act like I love you or something though."
…..
Protoman laughs weakly. Fuck... Now who's the moron. Elecman was innocent in this all along. It was him that was making it into something it shouldn't be.
"...Oh, you really thought I did, didn't you?" Elec raises an eyebrow.
"No. ….Maybe. Love's too strong a word."
"Indeed it is."
"...indeed," Blues puts his helmet back on. "Sorry... I'm not going to be able to continue. You'll have to hit Cutman or Iceman up..."
"Those two? Egh, no thank you. Too immature." Elec scowls. So much for having a partner tonight. "I'd much rather just take care of myself."
Blues frowns. "Well you said you'd done it with some of the others... Who then besides Fireman?"
"Hmmmmmm...Quickman, Crashman, …" Elec starts listing them all, but Blues cuts him off before he can continue any further.
"Fine then," the red bot goes back to laying down on his pallet, trying to ignore how charged he is. Thinking about Elecman being with all of those other bots isn't really helping.
"Hmmmm, so...would you like me to leave the room? Because I do intend to take care of myself," Elec warns.
"Do what you want. I'm going to bed."
"If you say so," Elecman goes and sits himself by one of the outlets.
Protoman remains aware of him, but tries to shut out the distractions and find sleep.
...he doesn't find it.
Elecman, to his credit, does his best to avoid disturbing him. He is actually quite capable of being quiet when he needs to be.
Protoman lets himself agonize over what he has done and thought and said and felt in the meantime until he is absolutely sick of himself.
At one point Elecman has to cover his hand over his mouth. His eyes close.
Blues prickles. He can practically feel it in the air even from across the room.
At last the tense silence is broken by Elecman's cry.
"Ahh..." Elecman trembles as bolts visibly travel up his stomach and to his core.
Protoman shudders as he watches. He wants some of that...
Without turning around to look Elecman addresses him. "Someone getting jealous over there~?"
"...Elecman..." ...no. He can't say it. "No, never mind... "
His roommate sighs. "Suit yourself."
He merrily continues on. After several more minutes, Blues groans quietly.
"Fuck..."
"Come on now. Make up your mind." Elecman prods him.
Blues clutches his head. He's going crazy. He's acting like a crazy person. He's crazy. Elecman is making him crazy. This charge is making him crazy. His every instinct is to get out of here, go somewhere else, and get his head screwed on straight while he's alone.
Elecman stands back up and approaches the pallet
Protoman doesn't notice at first. The black bot treads lightly and he has got his hands covering his eyes again.
"Protoman."
!
He uncovers his face.
Elec's cheeks are puffed out and he looks extremely peeved as he stares down the bot below him. "Do you want me to finish you or not!?"
Blues bites his lip and struggles.
"...No," he finally releases the answer with a sigh. Now he sounds tired. "I really just... I want it gone. I don't want to have to deal with it. Tomorrow I'll have the doctor get rid of this stupid protocol..."
"Very well." Elecman shrugs, and without further insistence he returns to his spot against the wall.
Protoman nods silently and resumes feeling like a sad sack of shit.
Elecman's hand goes back between his legs. No more distractions this time. As he works himself back up, he clasps his hand over his mouth. He has to be sure to stay as silent as possible so that the red bot can sleep, even as he gets closer and closer. As Elecman's body tenses up, his eyes close again. He's not trying to drag this out any further. His hand gives him the friction and the voltage he knows he wants, never letting up until he finally feels the overload course through him. He manages to only let it be known through a simple exhale of breath at the end when the blissful peak starts to fade off. He looks back towards Protoman's pallet, listening for any sign that to indicate if he is still awake. The red bot's breathing has fallen to where it is even. He appears to be sleeping, but you can never be sure with him.
Elecman sighs again and gives himself a few moments to simply cool down before he gets back up and takes his spot back on the bed. As he gets under the covers, he frowns. Just why did Protoman insist on sleeping on the floor? This bed was meant for him.
As he watches, Blues shifts occasionally... It might not be the most comfortable thing.
Curiosity gets the better of him. "...You awake?"
"...I am now..."
Urk. Now he feels bad. He woke the guy back up after he was having such a hard falling asleep and after all the work he did to keep quiet while he was finishing himself. "I'm sorry. I just thought...you should be sleeping up here."
Blues sighs. "...If I come up, will you get rid of this damn charge...?"
"I thought you didn't want me to."
"I want you to take it away... Not overload me... You can suck energy out, right?"
"Oh? Well, yes, I can…" but Elecman makes it evident that he considers it a rather unsavory option. Why waste it?
"Please..." Blues's voice is sincerely desperate.
"Alright. I'll need to touch you though."
Blues gets off of the pallet and gets into the bed, nodding.
Not wanting to waste his time, Elecman places his hand over where the capacitor should be. "Ahh...no wonder you're so agitated." He begins coaxing out the built up electricity into his own circuits.
Protoman moans very, very softly, almost inaudibly, as the source of his torment gradually lessens back into nothing. Sweet mercy.
"Better?"
All the tension leaves Blues's frame and he melts into the soft mattress. "...Bless you..."
"Ha! I'm already blessed." Elec grins before standing up. "I'm, ah...I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused you."
"You're not the one at fault. …I'm the one who's a fucking nutcase."
"Nutcase? I mean I might think you're a little crazy for not wanting to overload with a bot like me, but I wouldn't go that far. I'm pretty sure that I and the others are the defective ones for wanting to abuse this protocol."
Protoman laughs weakly. "No no. I'm the only defective one around here. Always have been... Always will be. But I don't want to be fixed."
"Ah..." That's when he finally remembers. His core. He had heard him mentioning it before. "...Okay. You might be a little more crazy for that."
"...yeah. Right."
"But I'll keep any further judgements to myself." Elecman shrugs as he lies down on the pallet that Protoman had been using.
"...where the hell are you going?"
"Nowhere? I'm sleeping right here," Elecman replies. What does he want to have a problem about now?
Blues scowls at him. "No you're fucking not, that wasn't the deal." He gets up and goes over to the corner, grabbing Elecman up and carrying him back over to the bed.
! "H-hey that's not necessary! I just didn't think you'd want me on the bed!" He squawks as Blues places him back down on it.
"I'm not kicking you off of it. This is your room now."
"Okay okay...sheesh. I do not need you carrying me anywhere," Elec pouts.
Once the two of them are settled on the bed, Elecman sighs as he puts his hands under his head. "It's funny how much your life can change in a short amount of time, isn't it?"
Protoman snorts softly.
"Less than a week ago I was sleeping in a rusty old pipe in a cold abandoned factory," the black and yellow bot continues on, "And the two of us were sneaking around in the sewers. ...Now the man I thought I was supposed to kill is calling me his son."
"...Yeah... And now the kid I hated has worked his way into my fucked up heart."
"So I've seen." Elecman chuckles. "If I'm not careful,he might do the same to me."
"...he just might..." Blues's eyes begin to sink shut... It really is nice in this bed, even if he has only ever actually slept in it... Never.
Sensing Protoman's descent to recharge, Elecman keeps his mouth shut and lets his own eyes close as well.
"...you're kind of attractive too." Blues breaks the silence.
"Pfff. Just kind of?"
"...arrogant though. So it counterbalances what you have going for you."
Elecman grumps again. "What you call arrogant, I call confident. Everyone loves confidence."
"Sure sure."
In spite of how tired he is, now that the charge has gone, he feels well enough for some harassment. He rolls over slightly and wraps his arms around Elecman to see if it'll make him uncomfortable.
…
The electrical bot happily flushes and snuggles a bit closer. Welp. Thatplan backfired. But the reaction is revealing...
"You like me... Why?" Blues asks, somewhat awed.
"You're cute."
"That's the worst reason possible."
"Is it? You find Rock cute, don't you?
"... I mean I DO but..." Blues bites his lower lip and drops his gaze. He loosens his grip on Elecman a bit.
"Buuuut?" his companion prods him. "Oh come on. I'm not suggesting anything weird or anything. You know what I mean."
"...Rock's a good kid..." Blues answers slowly and thoughtfully. "He's a good person. He fights to protect people that he doesn't owe anything to, he forgives me despite all the dozens of things I've done that should have left him resenting me... He's innocent. Strong. And admirable... And yes, he's cute. But "cute" isn't enough."
"Well alright then. Let's see..." Elecman thumbs his chin. "I think any bot could admire the fact that you let no one other than yourself govern you. You are no doubt strong. Sharp. Resourceful. I doubt all of the others could survive if they had to be completely alone."
Blues listens with interest.
"You get the things you want to happen to happen," Elecman continues. "You are just...a very powerful player. And we all admired that."
"Powerful... Persuasive... A survivor..." Blues murmurs. He is… disappointed. It's true to some extent that is these things. And that they can be admirable things... But it seems like there is still more important stuff.
"Joy... I share a lot in common with Albert Wily."
Elec gives him an odd look. "Well...didn't you already recognize that yourself? That's why you didn't kill him, isn't it?"
Blues freezes. He... He had forgotten about that... But now that he remembers...
He shrivels up inside.
He really is a little Wily...
Maybe he should let Light fix his personality and take that out of him.
"…You okay?" Uh oh. He may have reminded him of something he didn't want to think about.
"...I'll be fine." Blues is tired though... He tried to close his eyes and shut down again for the umpteenth time. Eventually sleep does find him... Even as he lies there wrapped up in Elecman's arms. As he dozes, his shades eventually end up knocked loose and fall slack on his nose.
Elecman takes a bit longer to go to sleep, and when Blues's shades fall off of their own accord, a wicked grin finds its way to his lips. He capitalizes.
The next morning, Blues is the first to wake. Unfortunately for the electric bot, when he does he realizes that
1) his glasses are off and
2) Elecman is still wrapped tight around him.
Hmm...
Elecman sleeps on innocently beside him. His head rests comfortably against his collar, his hood still pulled down.
Blues decides that he might as well not wake him. He'll probably need all the sleep he can get for work later... But he WOULD like to know where his shades went because he's pretty sure he fell asleep with them on.
Elecman does indeed plan to get plenty of rest, but not for the reason Blues thinks. He doesn't feel the need to wake up early anymore. As far as he is concerned, he is done with the plans, so now he can recharge as much as he pleases.
Not knowing this, Blues cranes his neck around, trying to stay still but look for his shades at the same time. They're not on the bedside table... Carefully he feels around his own blankets to see if they've just fallen off...
Nope... Hm.
He stares at Elecman, trying to remember losing them and having no luck... And as he stares at the sleeping face he gets a sneaking suspicion...
Blues carefully feels under his neighbor's pillow.
Aha.
Moments later he pulls his folded black shades out and puts them on. So he DID fall asleep in them.
Elecman's eyes shift a bit, but other than some light stirring, the robot master remains unconscious. He has no idea that he's been completely busted.
Feeling like a little payback is in order, Blues looks to make sure his companion is still sleeping and begins to carefully peel away Elecman's mask from his head
"Mmph..." The bot stirs but doesn't wake even after his mask is successfully removed.
Blues wads it up and tosses it across the room like a dirty sock.
The jerk of his arm does it. Elecman's now exposed face scrunches up for a moment.
Blues goes back to innocently acting like he's asleep, and soon after, Elecman's eyes finally blink open. He lifts his head up and runs his hand over his head. "...huh?"
Protoman tries not to smirk, but his bed companion isn't fooled. Elecman turns his gaze on him with a pout. "I know you're awake."
"Hi." Blues opens his eyes. A deep frown meets his gaze. "What is the point of taking off my mask?"
"What is the point of taking off my shades?"
Scowl. "...Well see unlike my face, I've never seen your eyes before."
"They're just eyes."
"Well this is just a face. I didn't even actually see them anyway. I only saw them closed."
"Hmph."
Elecman's face is adorned with a smug, sleepy grin as he recalls the sight. "You did look cute though."
….
Blues grabs Elecman's cheeks and pulls on them.
"Ow ow ow ow ow stoooop!"
"I'm not particularly in the mood to play 'who's cooler' with you. But if I WERE, I would raise you one Light." He says as he lets go.
:C Elecman suddenly reaches out and pinches both of Protoman's hips.
"Ack!" Blues squawks, but the next moment he sets his jaw and goes perfectly still and quiet.
...
...
"...I thought you were more ticklish than that."
Blues gives Elecman a defiant look and then wraps his legs around Elecman's waist and topples him over.
! " Oof...u-uh Protoman I was only playing...mercy?"
The red bot used his advantageous new position to lean in... He places his teeth on Elecman's neck and presses down firmly but without breaking the skin.
! "Ahahh!" Elec keens, his face flooding scarlet. He squirms beneath his captor.
Blues keeps the pressure on, holding him in place with a hand in the other side of his neck, and licks at Elecman's skin softly.
The bottom bot's mouth falls open in shock. "Aaghhh...P-protoman what are you doing?"
Just as he feels Elecman starting to get warm Blues pulls away. "Looks like you're more ticklish."
But rather than continue, he gets up and stretches.
Elecman stares as he gets up and when he realizes he won't be getting any more attention, whines after him. "That's not fair! If I did the same thing to YOUR neck..." He forces himself to stand up as well, rubbing the spot. It's obvious he is prickling with a budding charge.
"As if I'd let you," Blues counters. He ignores the rest of Elecman's protests and walks out to greet the day.
END OF CHAPTER