Toby Alone
YEAH, THIS EPISODE IS GONNA BE UNIQUE. LIKE, KINDA DEPRESSING.
I KNOW THE NAME OF THIS CHAPTER IS THE SAME AS THE CERTAIN FIC BUT I THINK I GOTTA NAME IT THIS.
I AM SO UNORIGINAL SOMETIMES.
edit: now I only need a harem fic...
STORY IS NOW.
Fuse stared at himself in the mirror of his bathroom, cracked glass tarnishing the reflection's evenness. Tear stains on his cheeks were the only thing recognizable of a grieving, lonely man within a young body, broken beyond repair.
"Toby? Can you actually help me wash FG?" Fuse groaned, looking at the girl and the robot he loved dearly at the bathtub, washing the robot. He should of smiled at the sight.
But he didn't.
"You aren't real." He closed his eyes, "You've been in my head since I took out the Skull Creeper, go away." He opened his eyes again to see the two gone. Fuse shook his head and resumed washing his face. Once he was done, he entered his room and looked at the balcony.
"Toby?" The girl turned around to see him smiling, not holding a robot. She wore the pajamas she always slept in, "Nice day, really nice day. I'm gonna spend it indoors." She began galloping back inside as Fuse looked sadly, he remembered how much laziness and energy she had...
"Fuse-y...!" The girl moaned, "Give me more candy!" She moaned yet again as Fuse stood next to her in a maid outfit.
"I-I told you that you were fine WEEKS ago!" He then looked down on himself, "Why am I wearing this?!"
"Makes you look cute." She answered simply, nodding her head, "Now serve me some tea!"
Fuse smiled a bit, remembering the old days, the ones he wished to have again, his married life, only with Fusion GIR around. That would have been swell, some stories he would be telling hours to himself.
Now that was all gone.
"FB, I-" He quickly looked around to see the hallucination gone. His eyes watered slight, he wiped the tears forming at the corners of his eyes away and headed to the balcony.
"I remember this." He noted as he looked down onto the yard, "The screaming..."
"FG!" Fuse ran after the robot who bean incinerating bushes with his eyes, "Please stop!" He yelled as he grabbed the robot who tried breaking free of him.
"I want mommy! I want her!" The robot struggled more but Fuse refused to give it up.
"Mommy is taking diarrhea! She isn't here to take care...of...you!" Fuse fell onto the floor, the robot stopped struggling. Fuse's eyes drooped down a bit before making the robot turn to him.
"Listen, Fusion GIR. I know you're a robot and I can't relate to you. One day mommy won't be there anymore. Please...just please...I want to be able to talk to you." He said to the robot who hugged him back. Fuse was slightly stunned by this but nevertheless returned the hug.
"I don't want mommy to leave me."
"Me too." He hugged the robot back as the sun in the sky shined above them.
"FG...mommy was there until the end." Fuse looked up at the sun and imagined grasping it with his fists, "I'm sorry daddy couldn't be." He stared back at the courtyard, it was rather silent as it was before he came to this blasted planet. If he just skipped that world he would never feel such pain, loss...
Happiness.
"I need to eat." Fuse jumped off the balcony, landing his feet onto the ground. He felt gusts of wind on his face, cold, silent until something else came along.
"Daddy!" A certain robot hugged his leg, Fuse looked down to see the robot happily hugging his leg affectionately. Fuse lifted his leg and felt real weight was added due it.
"Ignore it Fuse." He told himself, walking to the kitchen sternly, "Just keep going." His foot felt lighter and he looked down to see the delusion was gone. He shook his head and walked through the door.
"Where is it?" He past the table he used to eat in personally, no big long table, just a round circle one made of wood with three chairs.
Three...
"What do I have?" He opened the refrigerator. He was greeted by the smell of horrible food, "Shoot, smells like crap." His stomach growled, "I haven't eaten for days." He looked through the most edible bits and found one thing.
"Some still fresh leftover lasagna." He grabbed the food wrapped over a plastic covering. He went towards the microwave and put the food inside it and set the timer.
"Wish I had something original to eat..." He glanced at the oven, burn marks everywhere, "I still haven't cleaned it up since the incident."
"HOW DO YOU SET IT OFF!" Fusion Bell screamed as the oven was set ablaze.
"You just had to set the timer right! I saw you!" Fuse ran to get something to put out the fire but nothing, "You set it right!"
"Then the universe doesn't like me being a good housewife and cook!" She screamed as Fuse grabbed a hose from the courtyard and began shooting water at the oven. The water hit the girl straight away in the face. FB wiped her soaked clothes as Fuse rushed over to her after it was done.
"What the hell?" He began patting her cute tight white shirt, "Why did that happen."
"Forget it Fuse-y! I'm just no good!" Fusion Bell kicked the floor angrily, "I'm crap at cooking."
"Well, you're right about that!" He replied, "But you aren't a bad person, don't get made over cooking. My territory." She looked up at him and smiled.
"Yeah, but first, you gotta get these clothes off me. They're too tight and becoming see through." She looked at herself cautiously, "Make sure Fusion GIR comes here to see this-" Fuse was staring at her incredible tight clothes, "PERVERT!"
"Ow, ow!" Fuse tried escaping her wrath but couldn't.
Fuse was awoken from his trance after the microwave dinged, "Lost track there..." Fuse grabbed the meal from the microwave and felt its burning touch. He ignored it and placed the plate on the table.
"I'm so hungry! Thanks!" Fuse looked up to see the two on the chairs as Fuse sat down. Fusion Bell grabbed the plate from his side of the table and sniffed it, "Leftovers!"
"How was I supposed to do?" Fuse retorted, "Half of my stuff is rotten anyhow!"
"Alright..." She said as she grabbed some of the lasagna and gave it to Fusion GIR, "Take it. We're married Toby so you better raise a healthy boy." She pouted as she began feeding the robot.
"Sure thing..." Fuse felt a surge of happiness in him, as if this was the thing he always wanted. Something to cherish all of his life, "FB, I-" He looked and saw nobody there, just empty chairs and a plate of lasagna in front of him. Fuse took out his fork and stabbed the meal.
"I know I lived a couple of thousand years and I've done this before alone but..." He looked at his hands, "I'm...not that hungry." He stood up from his chair and walked out of the kitchen silently.
For the next hours were hell for Fuse, hallucinations of the two appearing randomly wether it was life before he married his wife, his life after that, or an entire dream of him having a family, the two alive and well, happily having a conversation with him.
It was tormenting him.
"P-Please stop..." He said, running into his bedroom, his hands against his ears. He shut the door and looked around to see no hallucinations. His hands lowered from his head as he sighed in relief, "Thank goodness..."
"FG! Come back here!" The girl ran out of the bathroom, chasing down the robot, "Toby! Help me!" Fuse merely took a position of an infant and slowly sulked down on the door as tears wept from his eyes.
"G-Go away...please." He told the imaginary people but they didn't vanish. They just ran around until the robot was caught, "J-Just stop it...please." Tears began leaking onto the floor, he looked up to see the images were gone but was replaced by silence.
"They'll come back later..." Fuse stood up, wiping the tears off his face, "They always do. I want it to...stop." He slowly headed towards the bathroom slowly, his legs barely getting up, making him limp. He fell once he got in side the bathroom but quickly regained himself as placed his upper body on the sink.
"Dammit!" He cursed, he opened the cabinet above the sink, grabbing anything it housed and brought it by next to the sink. Fuse then grabbed a disposable paper cup from who knows where and grabbed one of the jars.
"What are you doing?" He looked left to see the girl he lived so much, standing up. Fuse regained his footing and stood firmly on the ground, looking directly at the delusion as he held the cup, "Why all the medicine?"
"I'm gonna mix it all up and drink it in this cup." He told her darkly, "Don't you dare try stopping me."
"You're gonna kill yourself."
"Exactly the point." Fuse poured a small amount of the jar into the cup he held before discarding it back onto the shelf and took out another one, "It is...better dying than live a life of torment."
"You told me everything was gonna be okay." Fuse looked at the girl again, eyes yearning, "You told me I could live without Fusion GIR."
"Look at me and say that directly in my face." He growled menacingly, "I lost the most important things in my life, the things that made me believe in myself. But they're gone..." He trailed off as he poured three more jars into the cup. The girl tilted her head and looked curiously at him.
"You are one puzzle to crack."
"Is that so?" He quickly poured more liquids into the cup to the point it was overfilling and leaked onto his hand, "Tell me, why is my mind haunting. I suffered so much and the universe decides drop a bomb on me by trying to make me live a dream that I wish to happen so badly, a dream that I would sacrifice anything for...but it couldn't. Now, ask me again why am I a puzzle to crack?"
She didn't answer.
"Good." He looked and saw multiple jars in the sink and everything in the shelf was sloppily put together, indicating he used those girl simply stared at him searching through the mess until Fuse gave up entirely.
"Well." He held the black and revolting drink on his hand, "Are you gonna wish me goodbye-" He looked and saw the girl was gone. He shook his head and grabbed the drink and stared at it, "Bottoms up." He drank the entire cup's worth and dropped the drink while clutching his stomach as he smiled.
"A fitting end...to me." He then closed his eyes as blood began spurting from his mouth.
"What?" He looked around to see he was in a field, it was beautiful. Wheat blowed on his face as the sky was an amazing sunset, purple and orange in all of its glory. The entire field was wheat with the occasional hill seen around him and a breeze that's cool, "Is this heaven?" He looked around to nobody, no Peter, no angels, just...this.
"Is this hell? Make sense after all I've done." He laid on the grass, looking at the sky, awe by its beauty, "I feel...content." He looked up, "I can't share the afterlife with them. Maybe...Fusions don't have afterlives." He lamented sadly on himself, "Maybe I deserve to stay here forever...maybe I should just lay down and sleep..." He closed his eyes, feeling the breeze and the sun's heat, he finally found life within himself.
"Don't talk to yourself like that." He looked up to see her again, wearing a simple white dress and smiling. He stood up immediately, "Baka. Keep saying about valiance but then you tried to kill yourself." She spanked his head, Fuse didn't respond though.
"DADDY!" A familiar voice he longed for returned as it ran towards him, the robot hugging his leg happily, "I missed you..." He snuggled against his leg as Fuse looked down, eyes looking at the robot.
"What's wrong? Are you happy to see me?" The girl looked at him, frowning. Fuse just stared at her, his mouth slightly agape.
"A-Are you real?"
"Yeah, yeah I am." He grabbed her hands and went on his knees, tears running down his face. Fusion GIR let go of him and went to his mother's side.
"I'm sorry..." He cried, "I c-couldn't save you." Fusion Bell merely looked down on him, eyes staring back down at his form, "I'm sorry-"
"Oh you big baby!" She giggled, "Still...you feel really guilty." She pitied him as he cried.
"I missed you and our child...I couldn't move on. I'm nothing without you two!" He yelled in anguish, "I wanna stay here...with you forever."
"Silly. Don't be sad." She comforted, "Your planet still needs you, it needs a leader and you should be there for them." She told him and Fuse looked up to her as tears still flowed down his face.
"B-But I don't care about that. I want to be with you, just like our wedding! What we said." He lamented but the girl only gave another smile but it was a sympathetic one.
"You keep asking for forgiveness but there was nothing to forgive." She patted his head, "We're fine here and if the day comes, even if it will be a thousand years or a billion, we'll wait for you."
"I wanna stay with you..."
The girl knelt down with him and cupped his cheek after freeing one hand, "You gotta go. The people down there on the world we were both born in will die. They need a chance in life.
"My mind though, I can't stop thinking about the both of you." He said while caressing the hand she was holding his cheek with, "How can I lead them if I can't move on."
"You don't have to." She smiled lovingly, "You can stop crying. You don't have to move on but you can know this; we love you, no matter what because we're family. Got it...Fuse?" Fuse went silent after she called him by his overlord title. The first time she called him that.
"Y-Yes." He replied tearfully, "A-Alright but...can I ask for one more...hug?" He asked and she did it, her warmness caressing him as he hugged back, tears now flowing to her shoulders, Fusion GIR ran up and nudged in between them and hugged his adoptive father as well.
"T-Thank you." He said through the hug, "I-I love..."
"...you." Fuse woke up, blood and tears combined at the floor, the moment he fell down stayed the same. He wiped the tears and stood up and rubbed his arm injured slightly when he fell.
"I feel lighter..." Fuse looked around and headed outside the bathroom to his room. No hallucinations or flashbacks to plague him.
An empty home.
Fuse looked around the throne room, wiping the blood and tear stains from his face. The curtains were open slightly as the chair stood high and proud for a king but it was dusty. He looked at it and shook his head, knowing he transferred all the staff within the castle somewhere else.
No imaginary versions of them anywhere...
"I gotta get this cleaned, when was the last time-?" A memory resurfaced in his mind, something he would cherish for the rest of his long life.
"Do you, Fuse, take Fusion Bell as your bride? Your partner that would be there in your extremely long life?" Fusion Demongo asked, wearing a suit and holding a book. The entire throne room was filled with decorations to celebrate the ceremony as all Fusions were there, watching the wedded couple soon to be happily.
"I do, I'll always wanted to say that." He smiled at the girl in the white veil. He could tell she looked beautiful, especially in that dress as he wore a black suit.
"And do you Fusion Bell, take Fuse as your husband as his queen for the rest of your life?"
"I do." She answered simply, smiling as she did so, "I'll be his queen no matter how long."
"Then by my right as advisor...you may kiss the bride." Fusion Demongo bowed and Fuse flipped over the veil, finding no words to say but:
"You're...pretty today." She giggled at his response and grabbed him bridal style (shouldn't that be flipped around), "I promise I'll protect you always."
"Then I'll accept that promise!" She exclaimed as she crashed her lips with his, cheers erupting from the crowd. They let go of their first kiss and looked into each other's eyes.
"I wish Fusion GIR can see this..." Fuse said, looking down on himself.
"Our wedding and you're still thinking about that?" She questioned, pouting a bit.
"I don't want you to leave me." He whispered into her ear but she giggled.
"I never will." She kissed him again as she carried him. Flower petals falling down on the newly married couple. The two had a new life ahead of them.
And they couldn't wait to start it.
Fuse stared at where they stood, the greatest day of his life. A lone tear slid down his eye as he looked around, holding the wedding ring he put in his hand and gripped it. He looked at his throne and headed towards it and sat on it, feeling the comfort of it as he shrugged a bit.
He looked around, the laughter, the happiness...the life felt within this castle was gone forever. Fuse knew he could never move on just as she said. The door suddenly slammed open, revealing his trusted advisor; Fusion Demongo.
"I'm sorry sire! It is a bit of an emergency!" He explained, "A few stranglers of the rebellion were suspected be in the area near our town's local valley. Witnesses say that a surprise counteract will be made. What are your orders?" Fuse didn't react at first but then after a deep breath, he stared into his advisor's eyes.
"Kill them. Kill them all."