Joke Nineteen: Why Robo?

[crazy_clownwoman]

[Harley has discovered that her remaining son isn't acting normal....well like himself anymore...she's not taking it well at all. And the phone is pushed to the side in annoyence and off the hook so everyone can hear Harley yelling at someone.]

Snap out of it! I don't care what you're doing, just snap out of it!

"But mom, I'm not doing anything. I just asked if you were coming to watch the game tonight"

Shut.up! Just shut up! You can't be a drone. I won't let you!

[Notices the phone and picks it up and is too frazzled to filter it. She doesn't even remember if Jolt was home or not.]

Hello Jolt?  Sideswipe, I don't care who. Get your buts back here, there's something wrong Kaito. You have to fix him!

Comments

[braided_icarus]

Kaito....? But he's....been droned for a while now...?

Unless you mean the robot one?

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

What he has not...

Oh yeah. He's the robot one.

He's also my kid here.

[braided_icarus]

So he's droned too....

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

[And she sounds miserable]

....it was just the two of us for so long here...

[braided_icarus]

I know. A lot of people I became friends with have been droned now.

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

....me too.

[there's a dry chuckle]

It really stinks you know. Being stuck here for so long. Every time I make a friend they just vanish in a month or so...

[she sighs]

....I was going to take him back to Gotham with me too. Robo I mean...He was a good kid.

[braided_icarus]

Yeah. It happens, sometimes. Even Mina now....

Still. Gotta keep moving forward, find a way to reverse it and then work out a way back home.

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I guess.

[She doesn't sound too convinced.]

[braided_icarus]

You're not giving up on us, are you?

[weaponsparked.livejournal.com]

You're alive!

[weaponsparked.livejournal.com]

... wait, what?

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

[There is a long pause as she sighs again]

No.

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I managed to get out of the town alive.

Something's wrong with Robo, my kid. You have to fix him now.

[weaponsparked.livejournal.com]

That's... that's good to hear.

What--me? I'm not a medic.

[numanstan.livejournal.com]

Harley, what's wrong?

[braided_icarus]

Good.

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

Yeah....I think I just need a bit.

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

How about you?

You're a robot. Used to be...what ever! I don't care. He's a robot. You must know something about how to fix him...or something!

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

My kid...Kaito.

He's not...actin' right.

[numanstan.livejournal.com]

Not actin' right, like... droned?

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

but he can't be droned!

...he just can't be

[numanstan.livejournal.com]

... M'sorry.

... Maybe it's just for a little while, yeah? Maybe he just didn't go to school enough, or robbed a bank, or somethin'.

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

No...he would have told me if he was planning something like that.

...he's been here for such a long time with me. For a while it was just the two of us in the house with drones...

[numanstan.livejournal.com]

[He has no idea what to say to her. He's seen so many people lose their friends and family to droning, but he's never been through it personally...] Y'wanna go get some ice cream? [because that makes everything better obvs]

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

[There's a long pause and a sad voice]

Sure.