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    The Z-Team learn about Robert’s unhealthy relationship with sex and view of his own autonomy.

    Post-canon
    Trigger Warning: Talk about sex, unhealthy relationship with sex

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    Two children, Robert and Janelle, wake up in an alleyway with little idea how they got there. They decide to band together for the sake of their survival. The Z-team eventually find the two, and now they've got to deal with the younger versions of their teammate and dispatcher after they've been struck by a de-aging superpower. But maybe it's a good thing because now these two child soldiers get to experience the childhood they never had.
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    Post Canon (Good/everyone is forgiven ending, Coupé was cut and brought back)
    Trigger Warning: Violence, blood/injury, child abuse/neglect, mentions of the mob/gangs,

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    "So how would this work out?” Invisigal asked."

    In which the Z-Team discusses the future of their relationship with both themselves and Robert

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    The Z-Team realizes that they all have a crush on the one and only Robert Robertson.

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    “We finally did it, Mads.” He smiled as he knelt, placing flowers on her grave. Before sitting against the tree that grew next to his grave. It was her favorite place to go when she was alive. “We finally found that peace and are finally safe.”

    He had come back to her grave more often now. Almost every week at the same time with flowers. He would always sit with her and tell her about his week. About things that Beef did that made him keel over with laughter. About his found family and how he wished she were there with him to meet them.

    He looked out over the city before him on that hill. “They look after me often now. Making sure I eat. Making sure I’m okay.” A smile was painted on his lips as he looked down at his hands.

    “We plan to move into a house together. All of us. Though some of them, like Chad, say it’s to ‘keep my bitch ass from couch hopping.’” He chuckled at that. “I can’t remember what it was like to have that. To have this.” He felt his face flush slightly. “To be loved and cared for like this.”

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    After everything with Shroud, Robert decides to adopt the Z-Team. To a Mecha Man, this means forcing them to memorize contingency plans and codes in case of emergency. The Z-Team understands this is a sign of affection, but it's also really, really annoying. Especially when they actually have to use one of the plans.

    Robbie Robertson hates everything about these weird heroes from the future. They're chaotic, loud, and have absolutely no sense of decorum. Even worse, the only person they'll listen to is his eight-year-old son.

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    When a child that looks oddly similar to the Z-Team's dispatcher- nearly attached to the back of Chase's leg and guarding himself from prying eyes- is introduced to the team as a deaged version of Robert, chaos expectedly ensues.

    If not the jokes, the endless teasing and chiding, the Z-Team also learn some...despairing things from the child form of their dispatcher.

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    In other words, where Robert Robertson the Third learns that loving his father doesn't mean that he always had a great dad.

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    Shroud was a bad man. He took what he wanted whenever he wanted and never thought about the repercussions—relying on his probabilities and calculations to ensure success. If it wasn’t a guarantee, then he would make it a 100%. He was relentless, cunning, and wicked smart.
    But “Robbie” Robertson or Astral was worse. Or at least that’s what Robert told himself. Sure, Shroud made him kill when he didn’t want to. He had physically hurt him countless times; the scars that littered his body were a reminder every day of what it was like to get on his bad side. However, Robbie was verbally aggressive, neglectful, and a barely there father. He would reprimand him for the smallest of things, and when he was hurt, it was always the words “get up” uttered out of his mouth.
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    Or Robert is basically kidnapped and raised by Shroud to be a human machine. But when he fails to get the Pulse the second time, intercepted by the Z-team and is taught what it truly means to get on Shroud's bad side. Now he has to navigate a life with his emotions running rampant, all the while being entered into the Phoenix program with a bunch of ex-villains, in hopes that he may become a hero.

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    Exactly as it says on the tin (pt 2 baby!)

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    Exactly as it says on the tin

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    It was a quiet day; the wind was still and the air felt heavy. Memories flooding him, words of failure clouding his mind. How he failed his legacy, his family, his father and mecha man. It’s kind of strange how he managed to fail himself. All he wanted was to defeat shroud, get revenge, you know.

    But instead, he now walks down the street, guilt and doubt intertwining like a rope squeezing his heart. It was a simple interview, but Robert fucked it up, like he does everything.

    Robert’s mind murmured in his ear, the words of that annoying interviewer hung low, hanging onto the threads of his self esteem and image, ‘Your unimportant’, ‘Most heroes avenge their family’, ‘You killed their legacy’.

    ‘How disappointed your dad would be if he were here right now?
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    A story of healing old and reoccurring wounds. A story of love and hate. And a story where the past affects more than Robert could of ever known.

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    The general anaesthesia has worn off, but his eyes are only open a slit.

    Mal joins Chad at Robert's bedside. "How's he doing?"

    "He's awake, but still a bit drowsy."

     

    Z-Team looks after Robert post-surgery.

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    Chad and Robert can’t find anyone to watch their daughter, but they have to go to work! Chad suggests taking her along to the SDN with them, stating that the Z Team can help them look after her.

    Robert is reluctant. He’s sure that the SDN is the last place they should bring a toddler, but what other choice does he have?

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    Everything had been, well maybe not normal but calm, in the couple of months since Shroud’s defeat. Robert’s slowly been adjusting to a life where he doesn’t have to worry about avenging his fathers death. It’s been… difficult at times, but he’s finally settling into this new normal…

    Until he listened to, what he thought was, a random voicemail he had received.

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    "Her flight is this Friday, Vic. Don't forget, we don't want her to be lost at the airport."

    "I won't forget! Besides, you'll be there with me, you won't let me forget, Mal."

    "Damn right, babes! Let's make our dispatcher happy, huh?"

    -_-_-_-

    Or, the Z-team conspired to reunite Robert with someone very important to him.

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    I'm obsessed with the potential the story of Dispatch had. Don't get me wrong, I loved playing the game, I love interacting with the fandom, and I've had a lot of great discussions with people! However, I'm also able to recognize that there are flawed elements of the narrative aspect of the game. As someone who is studying creative writing in various forms of media, I thought it'd be fun to adapt Dispatch into a novel! I hope you'll stick around to see what I pick for Dispatch(ed)'s canon route!
    (aka. if I'm doing things right, more depth for many characters)
    For those who don't know, Dispatch is a 2025 narrative, choice-based video game about a man named Robert Robertson, who is a former superhero who comes from a family line of Mecha Men. However, his suit is destroyed by his nemesis, Shroud, the man who killed Robert's father. Agreeing to a desk job at the Superhero Dispatch Network (SDN), Robert manages a team of ex-villains (the Z Team) while navigating office politics, repairing his suit, and making decisions that impact the city and relationships.

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    Robert experiences a day in the life with a disability, but he's got a bunch of people around who are more than happy to help him out.

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    Realistically, Robert should have known better.

    or,

    Robert gets dosed with an aphrodisiac made for supers. The Z-Team is there to take care of him.

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    “Get off my fucking dick, Bobert,” Chad bites out with far too little venom to be taken seriously. In fact, it only serves to widen that sly little smirk of Robert’s into a knowing smile, all sharp teeth and hungry eyes, his cool breath ghosting along Chad’s exposed collarbones - when had Robert gotten so close? 

    Chad feels blood rush to his face and, uh, other areas as Robert leans across his lap. He reaches out for the glass in his hand. 

    Looking away from the frankly pornographic look Robert’s giving him, he tracks his slow movements as Robert unflinchingly plucks the now steaming, simmering glass of what had been ice water moments ago from his grip. He places it behind himself on the side table next to his own before turning back to face Chad.

    “Are you sure about that?” Robert teases, eyes flicking down the expanse of Chad’s now heaving chest. He tilts his chin up before bringing his eyes back to Chad’s, leveling him with a challenging gaze, “Seems to me like that’s exactly where you’d like to get me.”

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    Robert's coming down with something and in true Robert Robertson style, refuses to look after himself. Courtney has to step in, in the process having to step up in a way she didn't expect, before looking after him the way he always looks after her.

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    12
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