Hahaha ready for some more Tobecky angst everyone? No? Too bad.

Credit for the idea for this episode goes to a tumblr user whose post I can't seem to find anywhere.

Disclaimer: I do not own Wordgirl.

Super-Wordbot

It was a beautiful day in Fair City. Everyone was enjoying the wonderful Monday morning… except for two very, very annoyed seventh graders.

Violet stopped eating and leaned back. "Becky, you should apologize."

"Why, Violet? I did what I had to do. It's his fault for being a villain!" Becky said angrily.

Violet looked over across the lunchroom to Tobey, who was eating alone, as usual. "You both have been irritated all day, and it's because of your fight. You need to fix things. Would Wordgirl hurt someone's feelings without apologizing?"

Becky sighed. "Fine, you're right." She stood up and made her way over to the boy, dodging stray chairs and people with half-eaten lunches.

Tobey glared up at her from his lunch as she approached. She took a deep breath and began. "Hi Tobey, um… so I just came over here to apologize for calling your mom instead of my parents like I said I was going to, and also for yelling at you," she said uncomfortably.

She turned to leave but stopped and looked back when she heard him speak up. "I guess I must apologize as well, for trapping you in there just to try to prove that you're Wordgirl… and for yelling at you."

"Thanks…" Becky knew she should go back to her table, but she actually was starting to feel bad about the whole thing. Before she realized it she was asking "So, what's with the absence of robot schemes? You're usually carrying a stack of diagrams with you, but I don't see them today."

He shrugged. "I didn't feel like it."

"Oh."

"Yep."

"Well… see you in science class."

Later that day, in science class, Becky and Tobey were trying to work on their lab… well, Becky was, at least.

"What's the mass of that block, Tobey?"

"Huh?" Tobey replied absentmindedly.

Becky glared at him. "Have you been doing anything for the past twenty minutes?"

"Um… yeah. I put the mass on the spring, and… looked at it… "

He was interrupted by a loud boom. Becky turned to look out the window and gasped. In the distance a large object was swooping around skyscrapers, diving down into the city and flying back up with cars or parts of buildings. She wasn't alone in her shock; the rest of the class had also heard the noise and were going to the windows to see the commotion.

She joined them. "What's going on?"

One of the girls turned towards her with a scared expression. "It's Wordgirl in her super suit! She's destroying the city!"

"WHAT?!" Becky stomped over to Tobey, who was still playing with the springs. "Stop your robot right now!"

"Does it look like I'm controlling it?"

"What?"

"I don't have any remotes with me, except for the one I use for my robut that takes me to school. Besides, I got rid of that suit. I left it deep in the woods until I could find a use for the parts, because I didn't have any room in my laboratory."

"How do I know you're not lying?"

"If I was making my robut destroy things, I would be out there taking credit for the destruction."

"Okay, fair point. How do we stop it, then?" Becky said urgently. "Don't you have any big red buttons that shut it down or something? Or a spare remote?"

He sighed and put down the spring he had been fiddling with. "I don't put 'big red buttons' on my robuts. It just gives them a weak spot. I could build a new remote, but it would take a while."

"If you know the frequencies you used, you don't need a complicated remote, you just need one that can control basic motor functions, right?" Tobey looked at her in surprise. "What? I didn't borrow Complicated Robotics for the Advanced Engineer to use as a bookshelf decoration."

"Right, well, I guess that would work. It would still take some time though, and I don't have the right materials here."

"Well, you need to get to the right materials as fast as you can."

"Why should I do anything to stop it?"

Becky almost snapped at him, but stopped herself and thought of a reason he'd definitely agree with. "Well, don't you want to see who's operating your robot?"

"Ugh, fine."

The principal's voice came over intercom system. "Because of the amount of destruction happening downtown, we will all take shelter underground until Wordgirl stops wrecking the city."

Miss Davis nodded and began ushering students away from the window. "Come along, class, you heard the principal. Let's get going."

"Tobey! We need to get out of here, now!" Becky whispered.

"We? You need to leave too?"

"Um… yeah. None of your business. Just - follow me. Miss Davis?" The teacher was busy trying to convince everyone to leave their things behind and just get out of the classroom. "Miss Davis?"

"Becky, she's not looking. Let's just leave."

"But what if -"

"But what if nothing. Didn't you say we needed to get out of here?" Tobey stood up, grabbed her hand, and pulled her towards the classroom door. Becky waved at Bob, who had been sitting in the corner of the classroom, and he jumped up and followed them.

"I can walk by myself, thanks," Becky said as she pulled her hand out of Tobey's. He rolled his eyes as he pushed open the school's front doors. Tobey pulled out the remote for his robot to take him home and pressed a few buttons in quick succession. "Do you need a lift somewhere?"

"No, thanks." Becky said, then ran with Bob towards the bushes in the playground. Tobey decided not to wonder where she was going and stepped onto the robot hand patiently waiting for him.

"Hyyyyah! Ow!" Wordgirl slammed once more into the fist of the giant suit in an attempt to stop it from punching a building, but only managed to bounce harmlessly off of it. "I can't even make a dent! Tobey had better be finished with that remote." She zoomed down towards his house and into the garden shed. "Are you done yet?"

"Wha - Wordgirl! How did you know - never mind. I'm getting close."

"Let me see that." Wordgirl hovered next to him and bent down to see the unfinished remote in his hands. "What do you have left?"

"Well, I have the programming and transmitter finished, everything just needs to be connected -"

"Can you do it on the way there?"

"Uh… I guess -" Wordgirl scooped him up with her hands in his armpits and took off, trying to fly as steadily as she could so he wouldn't drop anything. She set him down at the top of one of the skyscrapers.

"Done yet?"

"Hold on! … Yes, okay, done." He pushed a few buttons and the suit froze in place, then gently landed on the street below them and stood still. One more click and the 'head' of the suit slid open, to reveal -

"Wordbot!" Wordgirl and Tobey both exclaimed in disbelief.

"But - Captain Huggyface took out its power source over a year ago! How… Tobey, are you sure you had nothing to do with this?"

"I swear, I didn't know Wordbot still existed! I thought you destroyed her - wait, why didn't you?" A smirk grew on his face. "Do you actually keep the robuts I build after our battles?"

"Not the time, Tobey!" Wordgirl retorted before approaching her metal look-alike.

"WORD-GIRL!"

"Wordbot! Stop destroying the city!"

"NO! I AM DEVOTED TO DESTRUCTION. SOON THE ENTIRE CITY WILL BE IN RUINS."

"So… starting right where we left off, then." Wordgirl shot towards the robot intending to land a direct hit, but the bot evaded her with ease. It began tearing apart the wall of a nearby building and throwing chunks of it at Wordgirl, who barely managed to dodge the bricks. Then Wordbot took off again into the sky, and Wordgirl pursued.

A few minutes into the battle and things were not going well for Wordgirl. In desperation she shouted "Tobey! Can you think of a plan? You know this robot better than I do!"

"No thanks," Tobey shouted back. "I just wanted to see who was inside my super-suit, and I found out. I'm done helping." He sat down and watched the two continue to battle fiercely. After all, it was his creation, so he could take all the credit for the destruction of the city at the next villain society meeting.

He found that the thought didn't make him feel any better, which was unusual. Normally Tobey would be in the mood for this - the banter, the destruction, watching Wordgirl meet her match in his creation and having to admit that he's smarter, but for some reason he just couldn't get Becky's words from a few days ago out of his head.

"You try to get people to like you by threatening to take away what they love, but after all these years, you still don't get it…"

He looked back up at Wordgirl, who was desperately trying to stop Wordbot from smashing a bus full of citizens, and became aware of the screams of terror from inside the vehicle.

I did this.

He felt a strange heaviness in his stomach… the last time he remembered feeling anything even close to it was at a birthday party last year. What did people call it?

"Remorse," he said to himself quietly as he watched Wordgirl catch the falling bus and then dodge a taxi flying through the air. "Deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed." The building under him shook as the taxi embedded itself in the front doors, directly underneath him.

"What?" Wordgirl shouted before attacking the robot once again.

"Nothing! I… I have a plan!" Tobey shouted back. "I need Captain Huggyface's help - you just keep her distracted!" Wordgirl nodded and dropped her sidekick in front of him while swooping around to attack from another angle.

Tobey bent down to talk to the monkey quietly. "I just remembered that I never waterproofed Wordbot. Do you think you could use the fire hydrant down there to stop her?" Captain Huggyface chattered excitedly and nodded, then swung down the building and leapt onto a fire truck that had arrived at the scene. He grabbed some of the long hoses and hooked them up to the nearest fire hydrant, then waited for the right moment.

Wordgirl glanced down at her monkey and, realizing immediately his intentions, swooped low so that Wordbot would follow. As the robot paused to pick up another nearby car Huggy turned on the hose and soaked it with water.

"WHAT HAA-AA-AA-VE YOU DOOOONE…" the robot trailed off as it began short-circuiting. The glow in its eyes flickered once, twice, then it was gone.

Wordbot crashed to the ground. "How did it manage to turn on, Huggy?" Wordgirl asked him as he turned off the fire hydrant. The monkey shrugged. "Well, it's too dangerous to be left lying around anymore. I guess I'll have to destroy this one."

"Wait!" Tobey shouted from the top of the building.

"Whoops, forgot you were still up there." Wordgirl took off in a red streak and returned a moment later with Tobey. She landed gently on the road and let go of the back of his collar. "What?"

"If it's not too much to ask, I'd like to take Wordbot apart myself."

"Really? You're not just going to try and reprogram it to be obedient to you again?"

"No… still not in the mood."

"Well, I guess you can, then. I'll drop it off at your house later?"

"Could you leave it in my laboratory? That's where all my tools are now."

Wordgirl nodded. "Su-"

"Young man! You're coming with me," Claire McCallister's voice said sternly behind the pair. They both jumped in surprise.

"Mom! Hey… funny story…"

"Mrs. McCallister, this isn't Tobey's fault." Wordgirl cut in before he could say any more. He looked at her, astonished.

"What?" his mother asked, equally surprised.

"Yeah, I know, with the robots it seems that it's his doing, but it's not. Really. He actually helped me stop them from completely destroying the city."

"Well, if you say so…" Mrs. McCallister replied, sounding mildly confused. "Tobey, I need to get back to work. I'll see you after school." She walked back to her car, got in, and waved at her son before driving off.

"Wow, uh, thanks," Tobey said, relieved.

"No problem. You don't deserve to get punished for something you didn't do. Why did you suddenly decide to help out with Wordbot, by the way?"

"Oh," he said, looking away awkwardly. "I just remembered something… a friend… told me." He sighed. "You really do love this city, don't you?"

"Yeah, that's why I save it every day, why?"

"Nothing… could I ask another favor of you?"

"What?"

"Could you drop me off back at school?"

Wordgirl's eyes widened. "School!"

"... So in conclusion, the robots are taken care of, and I was not the one destroying the city. Bye!" Wordgirl disappeared up the stairs in a flash as most of the children in the room began applauding. She had left Tobey out of the story, as he had requested - something about his 'reputation'.

Wordgirl flew back to the bushes behind the playground and changed back into Becky. She then approached Tobey, who was sitting on the front steps of the school, looking as if he were in deep thought.

"I got done with what I had to take care of. It looks like you did, too," she said as she sat down beside him.

"Wha - oh, hi. Yes, I suppose I did…" He looked at her and took in the sweat on her forehead and the smudges of dust on her face, but decided not to ask about them. Instead he tilted his head back towards the doors. "Guess we should get back in there before anyone notices we're gone."

"Yeah, good idea." They entered and joined the throng of students making their way back to the various classrooms. After a few seconds Becky spotted Scoops and Violet, and muttered a quick 'bye' to Tobey before catching up to her friends and telling them about her latest adventure.

"We've got a lot of fanmail today, Huggy! Oh, look, another one from TJ." Wordgirl picked up a letter stamped with INTERNATIONAL WORDGIRL FANCLUB: IMPORTANT BUSINESS on the outside.

"'Dear Wordgirl, I just wanted to let you know that your spaceship is super cool! I love the room where you keep all the mementos of your battles. Did you know you have a robot that looks just like you in there? It was missing batteries so I put in some new ones, but it flew away after I turned it on. Anyway, I don't think it's too important. Thanks again for letting me play with your stuff! Signed, TJ, president of the' blah blah blah. So… TJ's been sneaking into my hideout then, ever since he found out where it was. I can't really stop him, can I?" Huggy shrugged. "I guess not. I'll just have to have a talk with him about what he can play with, then. I don't want another incident like today ever again."

It turns out that coming up with ways to take down two 'indestructible' robots is really hard, lol.

Tbh the "Tobey just ignored where she was going" stuff might seem OOC but during Trustworthy Tobey there were so many obvious clues to her secret identity and he didn't even care, so I think his want to prove that Becky is Wordgirl really just depends on his mood.

The funny thing is, he thinks Becky is Wordgirl, but he doesn't really think Wordgirl is Becky, if that makes any sense…

emeraldblossom34 I do plan on keeping Tobey a main character - he's one of my faves, after all!

Next episode will probably be a Two Brains one? I hope.