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Jace Robertson hates corporate heroes for hire. Now he has no choice but to become one.
After a public stunt exposes the mayor’s crimes, Jace is forced into the Phoenix Program to avoid jail time. As the son of Invisigal and dispatcher Robert Robertson, everyone expects greatness from him. Jace doesn’t care about greatness. He wants to be back on the streets helping the people heroes refuse to see and exposing the darkness the SDN is too afraid to touch.
But when a new villain begins stripping powerful heroes of their abilities, Jace and the new Z‑Team are thrown into the center of a crisis. The original Z‑Team is gone. Torrence’s heroes vanish. And Jace learns his father was never just a dispatcher — he was Mecha Man Blue.
Left with a fractured team of young ex‑criminals and a legacy he never asked for, Jace becomes Mecha Man Black. Armed with a prototype suit powered by his technopathy, he and the Z‑Team must face a foe even the greatest heroes couldn’t defeat.
After all, a Phoenix can only rise from the ashes after suffering a fiery demise.
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10 Feb 2026
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Sonar sat at Roberts desk, silently spinning in his chair with Coupé sitting on the dispatcher's desk. It was the day after one of them was supposed to be cut and they…they still couldn’t believe it.
Somebody had stood up for them.
Them.
The bat freak and the ex-assassin.
The ones that made their last dispatcher quiet while crying.
“He actually stood up for us.” Sonar whispered.
“So you have said.” Coupé whispered as well.
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02 Feb 2026
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Tired of Comparisons, Trying to Learn the Lesson In by Anonymous
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
16 Dec 2025
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AU where Robert has powers his dad forced him to suppress in his youth. Upon stepping into the role of Mecha Man Blue, Robert runs himself into the ground physically, mentally, and financially to uphold his family’s legacy. It’s what he was born and raised for, after all. He can’t afford to fuck it up. He’s nothing outside of it. His dad was so keen on drilling that into his head.
…with that kind of pressure on him, is it any wonder he starts to act out? It really shouldn’t be surprising that he needs to let off some steam, some charge, so he doesn’t lose his cool doing real hero work. Call him a hypocrite. Call him a supervillain in a hero’s suit. Robert’s long since past the point of caring.
It’s just a shame he’s working so closely with people who know the hallmarks of a real villain a lot better than he would like them to. He’ll have to keep his work and his fun separate, for the team’s sake if nothing else. They mean a lot to him. He genuinely wants to help them succeed in their redemption arcs.
But he has no intention of stopping. Not when he’s finally back in his prime.
Not for anyone.
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"No way. No fucking way. Why the fuck would Shroud write me in his will?"
"He wrote here his next of kin; Robert Robertson III... Seems pretty clear don't you think? Usually people jump at the idea of inheriting the family business, especially one as successful as his."
Robert squinted at him. "Dude. I am NOT inheriting the Red Ring."
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- Part 6 of Sorta-Related Dispatch Fics
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"Stay away from me, Robertson."
She had her reasons. He's about to spend all semester figuring out what they are.
Robert Robertson III, twenty-two years old, son of Robert Robertson II takes a job at his college's campus safety dispatch center expecting nothing-bad coffee, quiet shifts, maybe some peace from the grief that's been following him since his father's death.
Instead, he gets a crew of misfits who feel more like family than anything he's had in years. A mystery that starts with a name circled in red ink. And Courtney Cortez, twenty-one years old—snarky, guarded, sharp and looking at him like he's a ghost she's been running from long before they ever met.
She wants him gone. He wants answers. Neither of them is going to get what they want.
Late shifts. Loaded silences. Secrets that could burn everything down.
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After overhearing a conversation about Robert's dad, Malevola offers to perform a ritual for him to contact him on the other side so that Robert can know if his father is proud of his accomplishments as Mecha Man and a dispatcher for SDN. Unfortunately the ritual goes wrong and the spirit of Robbie Robertson is now haunting the entire branch.
(Inspired by BBC Merlin's "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon" episode)
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27 Jan 2026
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In the aftermath of the Red Ring's attack on Torrance, the federal government sees an opportunity to tighten their control on the population at large.
One man in a small city in the Midwest isn't going to take that lying down.
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26 Jan 2026
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Z-team learns some new things about their dispatcher after a fight gone wrong.
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26 Jan 2026
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Originally prompted as a what if?
What if Robert had met invisigal first before blazer, this’ll change up their dialogue actions and dynamic quite a lot.
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25 Jan 2026
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Dire Dispatch by Toxic_Overlord29
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game), Wednesday (TV 2022), Scream (Movies)
06 Feb 2026
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After five years behind bars, Enid Sinclair is done running—from the law, from her bloodline, and from the divine monster sealed inside her chest. Once known as the vigilante Dire-Wolf, she’s been released into the Phoenix Program, a shaky rehabilitation project run by the Superhero Dispatch Network’s Torrance branch. Her cousin, (Mandy) Blonde Blazer, thinks this is Enid’s shot at redemption. The rest of the Z-Team just thinks she’s a liability.
Across the cubicles and chaos of SDN’s glass-and-fluorescent tower works Wens Valdez (real name Wednesday Addams) the office’s eerily quiet records clerk with a taste for darkness and an after-hours hobby that leaves bodies in alleys. When her hunt for her mother’s killers collides with Enid’s attempt to rebuild her life, the two are pulled into a tangle of divine power, corporate hero politics, and ghosts both living and literal.
Between malfunctioning dispatch calls, ex-villains on probation, and a god that still whispers from its cage, Enid will have to decide whether she’s the hero her mother died believing in, or the monster the world already thinks she is.
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Robert loved his father, he really did. But the only thing which could make the destruction of the Mech and his entire legacy worse, Robert decided, would be if his dad was here to see it. He might be temporarily retired as a superhero, drowning in thousands of dollars of credit card debt, fighting through chronic pain, unable to take revenge for his father’s killer, and working as the barely respected leader of a group of superpowered assholes… but at least he didn’t have to deal with that.
Or, Robert “Robbie” Robertson II gets transported to the future to witness his son at two steps above rock-bottom. Nobody takes it well.
Except Shroud. Shroud is having a fucking field day.
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- Part 1 of What's In A Name?
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Beef has been Robert's loyal companion for a long time, but he has so much more love to share. So when Robert gets a job that allows Beef to be around new people, of course the little dog is going to make friends with everyone.
Basically, little shorts that center around Beef's interactions with the Z-Team
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Invisigal, even on the verge of taking Shroud’s life, reaches to block the revolver’s bullet, prompting Robert to enact his revenge.
She disappears from the rooftop, with her injured shoulder untreated. Robert watches the sunrise alone, contemplating his success as a mentor and a lover to her.
Two years after the incident, Robert has to juggle new changes to work, while mulling over the several unanswered questions that swirled in his head.
Little does he know that she always had her arms ready to reach back out to him... along with broken fragments of Robert telling her otherwise.
Will Robert and Courtney have a chance to mend their relationship again?
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19 Jan 2026
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“Hey, I’ve already been beaten up tonight by some skittle-coded reject villains, just let me have my cards and you a keep the cash, Bunny Manders.”
“Who the fuck is that?” A woman said just before appearing in front of him and taking a hit from a red inhaler. In her other hand was his wallet. He stuck out his hand expectantly.
“The sidekick to notorious gentleman thief A. J. Raffles.”
“Was she hot?” She said coughing through the fluticasone in her lungs.
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Robert and Invisigal meet before his first day at SDN and this is how it goes.
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When Mandy yawned, Robert turned his head slightly, watching her out of the corner of his eye, exhaustion lingering in his expression. Despite the painful effort it took to speak with the definitely broken ribs, he asked, “Could I walk you home?”
Mandy looked Robert up and down, and then actually laughed at that, her eyes crinkling up around the edges, blue eyes reflecting the sunlight. Robert felt his heart tighten, although it wasn’t out of shame or embarrassment. She wasn’t laughing at him.
“How about I walk you home?” Mandy offered instead, rolling her shoulders back in a half shrug. Her lips were still pulled into a soft smile. “I think you need it more than I do.”
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After the battle with Shroud, Mandy takes care of Robert
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15 Jan 2026
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"It gets worse, by the way. Severe insomnia can cause confusion, hallucinations, paranoia, problems with short-term memory and oh, yeah. You can totally die from it."
"Not true," Robert mumbled, "You don't die from insomnia. You can die from the health complications caused by severe sleep deprivation though."
"Great, you can die from the fucking health complications then! This shit's serious, Robert! And not normal!"
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Or: Robert's no good, very bad, really, really long day.
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10 Jan 2026
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Abandon All Your Stupid Dreams (about the boy I used to be) by St4rfruit_Supern0va
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
09 Jan 2026
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It all started when a collar clattered to the ground.
Then it all went to shit.
Everything was too bright.
Too loud.
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Aka: An alternate universe where I gave Robert one or two (or eight) upgrades ;)
Did he want them?
Who knows?
It's not like he had a choice.Series
- Part 5 of The World is made of Music (Song Fics)
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09 Jan 2026
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I Can Fix Him (Possibly... Maybe... Not Really.) by St4rfruit_Supern0va
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
08 Jan 2026
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“You are gathered here because we’re being asked to take in another villain and allow him to join the Z-Team… Effective immediately,” Blazer explained, all of the villains suddenly sitting up at attention.
“Wait- You wanna bring in another bitch?” Prism asked, Blazer sighing a bit.
“We don’t have a choice-”
“Yes you do! To fight and tell them we can’t fit anyone else here!”
“Guys- I know there is a cause for alarm and- A lot of opinions. However, this time around we don’t have a choice. I can’t just turn them away. He… He doesn’t have anywhere to go,” Blazer said, Invisigal raising a brow as she sat up in her chair. She pulled out a single earbud, her music still blasting in her left ear as she spoke.
“And what will they do if we don’t? Can’t we just send him to another team?” She asked.
“If we refuse to put him on the team? I was told they were going to- They were going to get rid of him. Permanently,”
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Aka: An alternate universe where, instead of becoming Mechaman, Robert became a villain on the Z-Team
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09 Jan 2026
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Robert Robertson has it all, which leaves him with nothing. His team has been successfully redeemed, and his enemy is gone. By winning, he has given himself nothing left to live for-- Allowing his long mistreated body to finally break down and eternally rest.
Or, not, because the Z-Team isn't exactly willing to let their dispatcher go just yet.OR: Just after the battle is done against Shroud, Robert passes out on his balcony during the team's after party. He's rushed to the hospital and treated for his injuries, but before he can go back to his depressingly mundane life, the Z-Team takes it upon themselves to help him out of his 15 year long slump.
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08 Jan 2026
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Robert already has a lot of scars so what's a few more? So what if it's self-inflicted as long as it helps him cope.
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08 Jan 2026