Anonymous asked:
Prompt: After the Boom episode "Return to Beyond the Valley of Cubots", Sticks finds D-Fekt in Cubot Village.
cutegirlmayra answered:
So, the video games and cartoon series don't mix/talk and aren't consistent with each other. But I decided to write this with that idea of trying to blur the line a little more between the two.
Prompt:
Sticks, peeking her head out of a dead bush, surveys the area with shifting eyes. Once clear, she rolls behind a rock and jumps up on the rock and lands on all fours.
"Day 2. After the unanimous decision of keeping tabs on D-Fekt's progress with the Rejected Cubots, and especially after his little robo-demise operation fell through, I've been assigned to do this recon mission!"
She then flopped down and scurried behind a large rock mass, formed to include their desert surroundings and caves.
"Ah-ha!" she excitedly spotted the Cubot's all huddled together, passing rocks and then laughing when one Cubot dropped it.
"Hmm… seems innocent enough. But my expert experience with robot takeovers confirms to me that there is nothing too innocent to be overlooked!" she climbed the rock formation, hovering over the little village as she looked around for D-Fekt.
"bbbzzz… S-Sticks?…bzzz… Sticks, this is Tails! Do you copy?"
"Nah, I'm losin' ya. I think I gotta go this alone." Sticks took out a wrist communicator but barely looked at it, keeping a sharp eye on the Cubots.
The same Cubot was unable to take the rock when passed, and the group laughed again.
"I'm going to stake out the night. I'll report in 1800."
"Sticks!? Bbzzz.. Don't be a hero!"
"It's my job." She squinted her eyes as she saw the Cubot with twisted black locks about to drop the rock.
As the rock started to fall, a pair of hands under the rock formation lifted up and Sticks watched as the power levitated the rock…
It flew right into her arms, and she smiled with a swooning sigh to D-Fekt, observing with his pitchfork as a body-guard, and had a proud, strong look on his face.
He puffed up his chest before she turned back to the game, then collapsed his 'tough-guy' appearance and put a finger to his mouth. Hearts swirled around his head as he lightly chuckled at being noticed.
Sticks smirked, "Gotcha." She started to observe the way they interacted, before still unable to see D-Fekt, only seeing that he helped the girl Cubot when she would miss the rock exchange.
"Ohh… That's not fair! He should be helping all of us!" One Reject admitted, and suddenly D-Fekt's countenance changed and he started overusing his power to help all the Cubots pass the rock from one to another.
"Huh. He seems to be overexerting himself…" Sticks suddenly felt her heart changing towards him, seeing him frantically try and make sure the rock never fell as the Cubots passed it, and sweating oil as he did so.
"…Hard to watch over them when they can be so demanding…" Sticks suddenly felt her military-spirit die out…. And withdrew further into herself.
She looked like a cat watching the mice squirm under their sad circumstances. And then…
"WAHHHHAA!" she had accidentally put too much weight on her center, her hands under her, allowing some loose rocks to slip underneath her weight and roll her down off the cliff.
"It's raining rocks!" One Cubot exclaimed, overjoyed. They all reached their hands up.
"It's a miracle! Ow!" One got his head hit, another got his hat knocked off.
"Ah! My identity!" he patted the ground, his hand only a few inches from the hat, but he acted as though he had lost his glasses.
Once the last of the rocks fell loose, D-Fekt flew into action, holding his pitchfork, and looking aggressive.
"Stay back!" he flung his arm out, warning the Cubots.
They all floated back as he helped the one Cubot regain his hat.
He then poked the pile of rocks, "Grr…" he got frustrated and rose his hand up. "Reveal yourself! Coward!"
The rocks lifted up and Sticks looked like her eyes were rolling around, her tongue out as if knocked out and seeing stars.
"Huh? Sticks! What are you doing here?!" he threw the rocks away and pointed the pitchfork at her. "Do you dare disturb the Valley of the Cubots!?"
"Ugh… my head." She shook it and then looked at D-Fekt. "Aww… you remind me of my little poochy~" she clasped her hands together and put them on the side of her face.
"… Come again?" D-Fekt thought maybe something in her brain-programming was damaged. He wasn't unfamiliar with damaged machines…
"I had a robot dog… he felt strongly about protecting too. Until a few loose wires… well, anyway. Amy's got a Beebot. We've got Buddybot… heck, we all even have Robot copies of ourselves! Whom I still can't trust." She glared to the skies, hunching down as if her other-robo-self was watching her.
"Anyway, I understand now that some robots like to feel they have the purpose of protecting something. It's odd because we of the organic variety have the same kinda wishes as well." She got up, rubbing her head and behind before D-Fekt stuck the pitchfork out in front of her.
"You hate robots!" he argued, as the Cubots all fled behind him.
"W-…Well…" Sticks, feeling a bit guilty, looked away and held her hands up. "Guilty. But only the bad ones. You know, that either choose or are just forced to be evil." She nodded.
"…And what am I then?" D-Fekt kept his aggressive look.
"…I'm not sure yet." Sticks admitted, her eyebrows suddenly bending back as if her mind was being conflicted against what her heart had seen him do. "You really do care about your friends here… and I can understand that." She looked over at his cowering Cubot friends.
"And… You seem to have a kind heart… or… ticker." She corrected herself, but he seemed to be lowering his guard a little at her words.
"Look, everyone's special and needs some attending to. It's awesome you're protecting those that need protecting and guidance. We just wanted to make sure you weren't using your friends here like last time to get your own vendetta."
D-Fekt looked down, processing the information…
The Cubot with curls placed her hand on his shoulder, and he looked back to her with kindness.
"Alright. I'll let you go! Just quit spying on me!" he removed the pitchfork from her face.
She smiled.
"I don't like your reasoning… I WAS helping the Cubots cause!…. But I won't lie and say I wasn't putting them in danger through it." He looked away. "I just didn't want them to fear… if they had me, I wanted them to feel empowered."
"Uh-huh." She was slowly sneaking closer…
"Well, you and your friends won't need to worry about me for a while. The Cubots have a lot to work on. I need to strengthen them. If you dare step foot in this valley again though, I'll-! AH!"
He was scooped up and Sticks gave him a big, dotting hug.
"Aww~ Look at you~ A little hero~"
"P-put me down! This instance!"
"Hehe~ You know… Robots might grow on me…"
Suddenly her eyes widened, "ROBOTS MIGHT GROW ON ME! AHHHH!"
She placed her hands on her cheeks and dropped D-Fekt, who landed with a harsh hit on his metallic bum, but got up and floated away from her, moving the Cubots as well.
He shook his head at her craziness. She ran around and jumped up in a panic, before fleeing away.
"Lifeforms." He sassed, judging her. "They're as unpredictable and stupid as-"
Suddenly he looked around him, not seeing the Cubots.
"C-Cubots?!" In worry, he turned fully around.
They were passing the Cubot's hat that once lost it as a rock.
He was on the ground again, searching. "My Hat! My Identity-y-y!" he cried out, shaking his head and hands in the air as the Cubots kept passing it, before dropping it and laughing at the Cubot who dropped it.