Overnight

An Astro/Atlas boy fan fiction

By Dan Rush

Foreword: After staying the night over at Atlas's hide-a-way in the industrial district. Astro comes home to talk to Doctor O'Shay so he can invite Atlas to stay over at the Doctor's house with Astro and the tree house gang.

Part 2

Zoran's room

Atlas just stood quietly looking at the large poster on the wall and it was huge running from the ceiling to the floor. There he was with an angry determined face, his right arm cocked back, fist balled and he knew where that fist was going...

Right for Astro's face...which Atlas thought he probably landed a good connection. The other arm was stretched forwards so he probably had Astro by the throat. The picture itself made Atlas squeamish with regret.

"So? What do you think?" Zoran asked.

Atlas cocked his head and gave her a queer look back..."Why?...uh?...don't you know where that fist is going? Why are you looking at me like I'm a hero? I was beating your brother up."

"Well..." Zoran replied. "You do defend us robots don't you?"

"That's...not exactly the point." Atlas replied. "I'm beating the snot out of your brother? Hello? Pounding the bolts out of his brains?"

Zoran snorted. "Oh like you could ever destroy my brother...sheesh...obviously you didn't land enough punches to change his brain, he's still the bossy, stupid caveboy I have to deal with every day and...he's not anywhere like you when it comes to speaking for us! Oh sure my brother is super smart and he's able to convince humans but you? You take the fear of screwing with us right to their roots of power!"

Atlas sat on the floor of the bedroom. "Zoran? A lot of things you think I'm a hero for were really misguided acts caused by pure hatred and anger. That's not heroic at all. And I mean...I was trying to destroy your big brother...come on kid? Seriously?"

"Like I said...oh like you could ever destroy Astro. Hmph...you didn't even try hard enough. Oh yeah...took off an arm, a leg, ripped the chest panel out a couple of times, bashed his eyes out like a thousand times...why didn't you follow through?" Zoran stood up and poked at Atlas's nose. "Huh? Why didn't you finish what you started? Sheesh you're so wile-e-coyote...Had you killed Astro? You would have been the most miserable robot on the planet."

Atlas sighed..."It still doesn't justify me as a hero to you...I look at that picture and I feel so ashamed of myself..."

Zoran suddenly dropped to her knees cupped Atlas's face in her hands and gently kissed him..."Just because you're the "ying" to my big brothers "yang" doesn't mean you're not less worthy of anything...specially another kiss because...mmmm...you are such a hunk..."

Atlas gasped..."Zoran? Come on I mean..."

"Shut up?" Zoran said as she kissed Atlas again.

"Zoran!" Atlas yelped.

"Shut...up...Atlas." Zoran said once more before kissing Atlas flat on the floor of her room.

Half hour later...

Atlas gingerly entered the living room where the other boys were sitting around waiting for the pizzas to show up...

"Hey!" Astro said with excitement as he got up to take Atlas by the hand. "Come and meet the...other...Uh...Atlas?" Astro patted Atlas and waved a hand in front of his face. "Hey? You alright?"

Kenichi stood up. "What's wrong with him?"

"He was in Zoran's room." Astro replied.

Alegio stood up smiling..."She raped him."

Atlas suddenly snapped out of his haze..."We didn't do anything! UGH! Sick...! We didn't do anything Astro! I swear!...nothing...nadda...zilch..."

Astro smiled back..."She kissed you didn't she?"

Atlas stood quiet for a moment and nodded his head.

Alegio snickered..."See? She raped him good."

"Oh shut up you little dorkus!" Atlas yelped back. "Ugh...I feel like she put a virus in my mind."

"Where is she?" Astro asked.

"Probably fawning over my poster and flooding the room." Atlas said as the other boys walked up...

"Atlas? You probably know these guys good enough. The big tough one is Abercrombie..."

Abercrombie put out his hand..."Astro told me to be nice...trust me, that's not easy for me concerning you but you deserve the truth."

Atlas replied. "I wasn't expecting to be popular."

Alegio came next...only he started pawing and fawning over Atlas's body which made the boy bot a little nervous...

"This is Alegio." Astro said. "He's totally a gear head, our class strait "A" student."

Alegio put his hands on Atlas's chest. "I've been like so dying to see you up close. You know Astro? You and him are like seriously "twins" it's not funny? I mean if you switched hair and color? You'd be dead ringers for twin boys."

Atlas snorted..."Day in hell I end up related to this twerk."

Kenichi came up last..."I'm Kenichi Kennedy, our class president at the school."

Atlas raised a finger for a pause then fetched his duffle bag and pulled a box from it... "This...is for you Kenichi."

"You can call me Ken." Kenichi looked down at the new Soccer ball..."Oh you didn't have too..."

Atlas pushed it to Ken's chest. "Yes...I did. I never apologized for our first meeting when I threw you and you messed up your ankle...I'm sorry Ken...really sorry."

Ken wrapped his arms around Atlas and snuggled him..."It was an honest error...a stupid rock...I know why you did it...yeah right you hate humans, big liar."

Atlas backed away and rubbed his eyes..."Sorry..."sniff" sometimes these emotions can get a little overwhelming..."

"Cheesh...he's as big a pussy bot as Astro." Abercrombie snorted.

"You're being a big help." Alegio snorted. "Big dumb ass."

Atlas sighed..."I don't know where to start...I mean...I know you guys are gonna have like a ton of questions...mostly bad one's about me and I don't know if I can handle talking about myself..."

The boys walked into the living room where they all sat on the floor with Astro passing a can of oil to Atlas...

"Should start at the most difficult question I guess..." Astro said as he rested his chin on his hands..."Humans."

Atlas sighed..."I'd rather run to the train station and get plowed by the Shinkansen." Atlas looked up at the ceiling..."Ok...uh...humans...well they're not perfectly tuned up...how's that?"

Abercrombie snorted. "Just say they suck? Honestly Atlas, the first time we all met you, we remember the speech quite clearly...don't we guys?"

Alejio stood up and struck a commanding pose..."You humans! You're all blights on the perfection of the universe!..."

"Oh come on." Atlas snickered. "I wasn't that silly...and I didn't stand like superman."

"You sure did stand like superman." Astro snickered back.

"And putting humans in cages?" Kenichi said waving a hand.

"At the time it was how I felt ok?" Atlas huffed. "Sheesh Ken...ever ask Astro if he sometimes felt that way?"

Astro nodded...which caught the other boys in a shock...

"Please tell us you didn't think of such a thing Astro?" Alegio asked.

"Close." Astro replied. "I mean not literally...I'd never put humans in cages but you don't know how many times I kicked cans around and cussed out of eyes and ear shot. To be honest? Humans can be so frustrating."

"Here, here..." Atlas agreed with a smirky nod.

"Well you guys aren't exactly works of art you know." Abercrombie snorted. "How much money in damages did you two do around the city with your silly fist fights?"

"Less than all the wars you humans have cultivated in your history that's for sure." Atlas snorted. "If we robots didn't gain sentient abilities over the past 50 years? You humans would have blown the whole Earth into the universal toilet bowl."

Astro giggled..."Universal what?"

"Shut up and stop riding me?" Atlas replied.

Kenichi pointed at Atlas..."If it hadn't been for humans Atlas, you and Astro wouldn't be here."

Atlas waved a hand..."Don't think I'm not the least great-full. Between us? I was very glad that Astro had such close friends as you guys. That one time you guys stood between me and Astro got my total respect...especially Ken? Absolute balls of steel."

"Can't count how many times Astro's saved my bacon...or the rest of us." Ken replied.

Alejio leaned over..."Why won't you tell us what caused you to hate humans so much Atlas? I mean...you always avoid answering it?"

Astro waved a hand..."That's...a little of a sore subject guys...Atlas isn't really up to talking about it just yet."

The ringing door bell brought the conversation to an end as Astro got up to get the pizzas and his sister Zoran slid into the living room, caught the small foot carpet and slid almost into Atlas's lap on her back...

"Hi...you cute stud muffin." She said smiling.

"Ugh..." Atlas replied. "Ain't I just a little too old for you Zoran?"

"Giggles"..."Robots silly." Zoran replied as she sat up and tapped Atlas on the nose."

Atlas smiled as Astro set the pizzas down..."Mmmmm difficult debate canceled due to awesomeness."

As the boys snatched up slices to chew on, Abercrombie started things off again. "How is it you and Astro and Zoran can eat food? Like you guys need it really?"

"Hey..." Atlas said as he sat shaking spice chips on his slice..."I'm addicted to pizza ok? It's like robot crack...besides, blame goddy two boots here for it, told me not to knock it."

"Yeah..." Astro replied. "I know we don't actually need food but I told Atlas that it's an essential ritual in human life. A lot happens around dinner tables and places where you guys go to eat."

Atlas smiled. "That's how I found Ubber-Jino pizza. It's all old fashioned, hand made, brick fire pie...and the best thing about the place is the smell of it. I can sit for hours with my eyes closed and the scent is so interesting."

Zoran giggled. "Pizza sex."

"ZORAN!" Astro snapped.

"Oh really?" She replied to her brother. "Grow up big brother? He thinks I get a potty mouth from all the first graders at school. Hmph...Astro hasn't even landed a girl friend."

"Look around silly." Astro huffed. "You see that many robot girls around my size? Yeah...me and Epsilon? Awkward."

"Well come on Astro, lots of girls at school like you." Abercrombie said waving a slice in his hand..."I can count like ten. There's Kiari-chan for instance...I catch her gazing at Astro's butt a lot."

"Oh great." Astro replied. "One there's nothing for her to look at and two? What happens when she's 16 and I still look like nine? Awkward."

"You could get upgrades to look older Astro?" Kenichi said with a wink.

"And then I'd be totally useless." Astro huffed. "I don't want to look bigger, my current size is quite the advantage."

"Yeah." Atlas huffed. "What's wrong with being short?"

Zoran snuggled Atlas's size. "Pocket size for my adoring heart."

Atlas cringed. "Save me from death here Astro?"

"Shut up and suffer." Astro snickered back. "Payback for all the times you messed me up."

An hour later...

Atlas was out in the back yard of the house sitting by himself on the brick wall. He asked for the alone time because his Omega Factor based emotions were surging at one point and to his credit, Astro told the others not to disturb the sobbing red boy bot when he walked out...

With the pizza ate and the night still warm, Kenichi came out through the sliding kitchen door dressed in his pajamas and still drying his hair with a bath towel after taking a shower. He slowly walked up to Atlas and softly patted a boot...

"Hey? How you feeling?" Kenichi asked.

"Oh...fair." Atlas replied..."Made an embarrassing scene and all."

"You're not a weakling for crying." Kenichi replied.

"Astro talks about you a lot." Atlas said as Kenichi sat on the wall. "You were like the first human to invite him to the school. Like I said? You have balls of steel."

"It's because I was raised by a very moralistic mother." Kenichi replied. "My father died when I was a year old...cancer...and my mother lived a hard life raising a kid. I had to be older than I was. You have a tiger for a mother and you learn real quick not to be stupid...or a bully."

Atlas rubbed his hair. "I didn't have a mother...I got pipes, baseball bats, electric whips, cattle prods...and a lot of hate."

Kenichi sighed..."Astro always told us never to look at you as evil...personally? It was the one time I ever disagreed with him."

"Don't blame you." Atlas replied. "I turned out to be a bastard."

Kenichi smiled a little..."You watched way too much television...you were so corny with those goofy poses and phrases."

"Hey! I was trying to look imposing." Atlas snorted back. "My favorite mentor was "Butch" from Little Rascals. I was hoping Astro had a girl friend so I could impress her and steal her from him."

Kenichi crossed his legs as he sat..."Do you like movies?"

"Yeah." Atlas replied.

"Feel like seeing one this weekend with me?" Ken asked.

"Uh? Just you and me?" Atlas asked as he pointed to himself.

"No...I was thinking with my pet fish." Ken snickered.

"Won't Astro get kind of jealous?" Atlas worried.

"Oh yeah...he'll be so devastated..." Ken said smiling. "He'll be totally inconsolable."

Atlas caught the drift and giggled. "Fantastic...yeah, I'll go."

"Nice." Ken gave Atlas a chest punch. "Don't stay out here all night ok?" The boy slipped off the wall and ran into the house, leaving Atlas to happily kick his feet back and forth.

10pm...

Everyone watching the new Boruto movie

Abercrombie snorted..."That kid's a spoiled little complainer."

"Who? Boruto?" Alejio asked as he pointed.

"Yeah!" The bigger boy huffed. "Man...Naruto should rip his pants down and spank him blood red. That's what you get when you don't discipline your kids."

"You should know by vast experience Cormbie." Astro said smirking. "Crombie was the genesis for a new design in school paddles."

"I'd be totally board at a school." Atlas said with his arms crossed. "Totally board. There is no logical reason for any robot to be spending eight hours a day in a classroom."

"Well I think spending eight hours a day with Bender watching the television is proof that you're mostly a slacker." Astro sniped.

"What's so great about school?" Atlas asked. "You and I can get all we need off the internet if we want it, there's truly no logical point to wasting time in schools."

"Save that you will never have the social understanding of humans." Astro said with a finger wave. "It's a very curious study environment. Did you know that Ken is a school heart throb?"

Kenichi blushed. "Astro...come on..."

"He has girls coming out his earlobes, I swear." Astro said waving a hand. "And then there's Abercrombie and Alejio, an example of human hierarchical structure and the Hegelian dialectic."

Atlas shook his head..."Hey-gal whatza? Will you speak the right Japanese?"

"All I'm saying Atlas is that you should try school for a week with us. You might enjoy being there instead of being with Bender." Astro said as he tapped Atlas's chest. "P.E. Is a fun activity."

End of Part 2