The Drabble Diaries
by Tomoyo-chan
Disclaimer: I don't own. While not specific to a certain fandom, this was heavily influenced by Cinder by Marissa Meyer.
Cyborg Cinderella - June 23, 2012
They say she escaped in a carriage made from a pumpkin and pulled by mice. Of course the carriage was a garish orange and she couldn't deny it probably was infested by mice, but pulled by them?
They say a fairy godmother made her the dress, when really it was a kindly neighbor who had once been young and in love.
And it hadn't been a shoe she left behind but her while foot.
You know how hard it was to hobble back on just one foot? And then finding a replacement among all her old parts before her stepmother got home?
She would have grabbed her foot back from that stupid footman, 'cept the scanner droids were catching up and would have thrown her in jail for gatecrashing if they found her without an invitation. Her sisters, due to their mothers higher status, had been invited but not her. The three of them didn't always get along but she didn't want to be left behind again while they were off at some party.
They say the Prince fell in love with her at first sight. That may have been true, but she suspected he fell in love with her shiny holo-screen enhanced eyes. He was only four years old after all, and was entranced by any passing glimmer. He probably would have forgotten her if she hadn't left her foot.
By the time the parts search had gone through - darn she forgot about that - and she was hauled in front of the Dowager Empress, the little prince had forgotten about her. His mother had taken away the foot and distracted him with cookies. But she couldn't excuse the gatecrashing, or the running, or the broken balcony that led to her foot being left behind in the first place.
So she ended up having to work off her debt at the palace for eight months, fixing the damages followed by general community service. It was there she fell in love with the footman who had snatched up her foot (now happily returned).
She might not live in a palace, but she visits one. Her stepsisters might not be evil, except when you steal their hairdryers. But the cyborg cinderella and the palace foot-man lived happily ever after after all.