Thank you lovely guest for suggesting this song. To be quite honest I've never heard of this band, and when I listened to the song for some reason it reminded me a little of Weird Al XD. This probably isn't what you were imagining for the story, but it's all I could think of and it made me laugh a lot.
Song: How Do You Build A Robot?
Artist: Recess Monkey
Characters: Vriska/Equius
Equius puts down his weights when he hears the knocking upon his front door. The boy hardly ever receives guests, and most only contact him through Trollian if they needed him-so it's perfectly fine to say he's surprised and confused.
"Now who could that be?" he wonders as the knocking turns to incessant pounding. Quickly he lopes from his room, down the stairs, and into the noble foyer of his hive. His lusus, Aurthour, is already a step ahead of him and is at the door answering the call.
The door has only opened a fraction of an inch when she bursts inside. The force exerted is enough to knock poor Aurthour over. Equius scowls at the homewrecker for a neighbor.
"Vriska, may I ask what brings you here?" He crosses his arms over his chest and waits on a margin of impatience for her to answer.
"Yo Zahhak don't be so stiff, I just came to ask you a question," Vriska waves her hand in the air as if she's chalking it all up to him making it a bigger deal than it really is. She blows some hair out of her face and it just adds to her air of frugality.
He nods for her to proceed.
"Yeah, so I was thinking since you're so good with mechanics and all that you could help me with a project," She saunters further into his home as if she owns the place. Vriska circles around him with mounting haughtiness applied to each step. He doesn't like the way she's going about this. Still, he could at least hear her out.
"What is it you have in mind?"
Vriska pops up in front of him suddenly, startling him so he stumbles a little.
How do you build a robot?
"Excuse me?" he asks, totally flabbergasted by the sudden outburst of song.
I really want to know.
A robot that can fly-y,
With eyes that glow!
"Miss Serket have you ingested any sopors recently?" Equius begins to sweat at the thought of it. Disgraceful! He needs a towel. He snaps his fingers and Aurthour canters off.
How do you build a robot?
I'd like to understand.
I've been checking out some mo-o-oves,
And drawing plans!
Oh dear. She's completely lost it! Equius simply can't wait for Aurthour to return, and he sets off at once to find himself a towel and get away from Vriska.
My own robot would be so cool!
Flying all the way to school,
And all the things we could play-
We'll talk the robot wa-ay-!
He shuts the door on her, but accidentally rips it off the hinges. Panicking, he shakes it off and runs away. Vriska has a large, highly unnatural grin on her face as she follows after him.
He traverses down a winding staircase and into-unfortunately- his workshop.
I found a box of wires! (I found a box of wires!)
He turns around and sees Vriska prancing around with a very real and literal box of wires.
"Careful, some of those are live!" he cries and chases after her.
And six or seven springs! (And six or seven springs!)
Vriska plucks up the said springs and throws them into the box.
A flashlight and a ja-ar
Of red sequins!
"Where did those come from?!" He doesn't even own any sequins!
I'm allowed to use the trash can. (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
"Wait I didn't even give you permission to build a robot here!" He tries to take the box and mysteriously acquired trashcan away from her, but she merely dances out of his reach. She sets it all down on the table and begins to carelessly take items out of the box.
And the one that's in the yard.
Well that explains where the trash can came from. Vriska begins to put things together in such a dangerous manner he thought he might have a heart attack. The uncouthness of a lack of safety!
I'm attaching all the parts,
It's not that hard!
"Hey don't use that to put on the arm!" He takes away the hammer she had snatched and grabs a wrench instead. "It goes like this."
He shows her how to twist the bolts and recites the righty-tighty lefty-loosey mantra as he does so. Vriska hands him various pieces and keeps singing. He looks at the bomb she wants him to put on it and tosses it aside.
My own robot that would be so cool!
Flying all the way to school!
And all the things we could play,
We'll talk the robot wa-ay-!
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
She twirls around him as he works on the robot.
(Ooo-oo-ooo-ooo-ooo)
He screws on the last eye and connects the wires in the back. The machine whirs to life and Vriska stares at the robot with awe.
You really built a robot.
It's taller than my mom!
He frowns and scratches his head. The robot is actually quite small. He's seen Vriska's lusus fairly recently; she's ginormous! There's no way this thing could compare to the hulking Spiderbeast.
We'll finish up some wo-ork
On it's launching pad!
"What?!" Vriska grabs the robot in one hand and his wrist in another. She drags him back up the winding staircase and even all the way to the roof of his hive!
My- own- robot it would be so cool!
Flying all the way to school!
And all the things we could play,
We'll talk the robot wa-ay-!
She positions the robot and hits a button on it's back. Mini rocket boosters pop out of it's feet and propel it upwards. She leans back and shades her eyes to watch it soar.
My own robot it would be so cool!
Flying all the way to school!
And all the things we could play,
We'll talk the robot wa-ay-!
She trails off and stares triumphantly at the disappearing robot. He could have pointed out that she probably wouldn't ever see it again because he did not have time to program any settings, but he held back. Instead he decided to ask a question.
"May I ask you something?"
Vriska turns to him. "What?"
"Why did you break out into song to get me to build you a robot?"
Heh heh heh! Thanks for the request mate this was a fun one to right. VisQel Stelar, yes I am doing oneshots only. I'm trying to work on short stories, but don't worry I think I'll be able to attempt all of your requests ;) They'll just be posted all at different times because I've amassed a list of songs to turn into short stories and I'm gonna try and space things as evenly as possible.
Requests are still open! (Disney songs totally welcome I will love you forever if you request a Disney song)
Next chapter: Dream (DaveJade)
Disclaimer: Don't own Homestuck or the Song