
THEY TOOK WHO (writing thing)
You ever see a moment from a show that's completely unrelated to your s/o and you are just "oh This is so them" because that's me right now. So I was watching some mlp clips and remembered season one of if not my all time favorite episode the season 6 finale. CUE THIS CLIP with discord reminded me so much of gz that I had to write an au with this clip.
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"DAMMIT!" shouted one of the shorter robots. Their orange LED eyes scanned the holographic table as they looked at their tablet. They watched as multiple of the ones they had deemed friends, or who were very powerful, went offline just to be brought back online but completely different. A large white robot placed a worried metal hand on the other to comfort them, watching the tablet as well. "Hey, it's okay. We still have the south district. The coordinator over there has to help out," they said reassuringly.
However, as if those very words were a curse, a smaller, completely black robot clearly one of Theo's newer robots came rushing in. "There's no help coming from the south side," they said with a worried tone.
The black robot came out of the shadows, cupping their hands together, its holographic eyes looking worryingly between the two older models. The larger robot roughly grabbed them by the neck. "How do we know you haven't been reset... you're a newer model after all. You're supposed to have your emotions completely impossible," they said.
As they watched the black robot squirm and panic, they let go with a sigh, knowing that fear such as that was something you could not fake. They took a breath that they didn't even need before speaking. "Theo replaced every commander with new ones. The old models are set to be destroyed for parts or completely reset. I-I don't know what's gotten into him recently. Do you think it's something to do with the legend?" they asked.
The small grey one walked over, joining the others. "I-if it is, and the legend is true, Theo's already won!! Every robot with real emotional intelligence is gone!!" they said, shaking in fear.
As the group huddled together trying to think of a plan, a pair of red glowing LED eyes flickered to life. "You know, when people talk about machines with real emotions, you guys always leave out me and my wife... honestly, if I had the sensitivity Spark does, I would probably have this city destroyed," he said casually, as if he was always in this random, run-down building.
The group looked toward the voice, where they were met face-to-face with a blocky, dark grey robot unlike any they had ever seen and that wasn't just because he was hanging upside down from a bar. The group looked at each other, about to speak, before they were interrupted. "Now isn't this an interesting cast of one-off characters?" he said with a laugh before raising an eyebrow. "Where's Spark? Her last ping was near this building," he asked.
Silence rang throughout the building after that, the three scared to speak to someone who, well, for all intents and purposes, was nothing but a myth, a legend, a fairytale. Eventually, the taller one spoke, moving closer to GZ. "First... how do we know you are actually the legendary GZ... you could just be a spy pretending to be him... he's not even supposed to be real," they spoke.
GZ raised one of his LED eyes a bit at the other, questioning the nerve they had to question someone like him. However, he casually flipped off the railing, landing on his feet before blankly staring ahead at some turned-off monitors. Before the group could do anything else, all of them turned on, displaying CCTV cameras, Oblivion headquarters cameras, and random Minecraft videos for some reason, all before being replaced to show his own face, all the monitors coming together to resemble him... it was as if his very consciousness was in two places at once. "Shall I continue?" he teased.
The others quickly looked between GZ and what he had done before the small robot spoke. "Theo has gone insane... well, more insane than usual! Every model is being taken and reset. It's like they're complete imposters!! Even some of the strongest model types are being taken over. The combat units from sector B, the adventurers from the south," they spoke, but as they did, GZ looked completely bored, as if this was simply, well, not his problem. "Even this small rescuer who I think was a health unit, but Theo doesn't make those, but I—I had never seen anyone like them before. Short, box head shape with a blue screen, kinda chu—"
Before the robot could continue, every light in the building went off. The only light left was a bright intensity illuminating from GZ's eyes. The sound of light bulbs breaking, never to be used again, echoed in the silence. It felt as if the world was scared for what was about to happen. GZ stepped to the robot, getting in their face... before speaking.
"They took Mray?" he asked.
The robot nodded, no one daring to speak a word. The brightness from GZ's eyes illuminated brighter.
"WHERE?"