Title: Tiny Little Giggles
Description: Astro is feeling under the weather after a hard landing that caused damage in one of arms. Zog, who has a strong liking to Astro, decides that he can’t let someone who had brought him back from a 100 year old sleep, go unhappy.
“Is it done yet?” Astro asked, watching his dad finish fixing a chunk of his arm.
“Not yet, I still need to work on the inner circuits, but for now, try not to fiddle with this too much.” Tenma informed before covering an exposed spot on Astros arm with thick, patted bandage. “Now I need to make extra parts so we will continue this in a few days to a week”
Astro nodded, “sounds good to me” then hopped off the table he was sitting on and headed out, finally able to let his mask fall, letting his mood fall to drowsiness. He was not in the mood for being at the lab, he needs to get out to get some air.
He decided that sitting in the field where the cherry tree was a good spot to let his mind wonder.
He felt stupid for pulling that stunt the other day, if he had just slowed down or took another way around that building, he wouldn’t have nicked the corner and spun out of control. Now with this newfound anxiety, he was stuck in a loop of replaying the incident in head.
When he had gone through the 10th mental replay, he got up and grabbed a nearby stick and chucked it as hard as he could, hitting a wall of gold with a ‘thwang’ sound. Looking up he realized it was zog. “Oh Zog, I didn’t see you there..” Astro stated, a hint of somber in his tone.
“Is something troubling you?” Zog’s deep voice came from far above, although the deep tone seems to just reach at Astros level the second he spoke.
“I got into a crash bumping into a building and now I feel like an idiot trying to pull a stunt so ridiculous” Astro stated bluntly, kicking a stone.
“It was an honest mistake, I’m just glad you’re okay now” Zog lowered down and lended a hand expectantly to the ground. Astro hopped on as Zog lifted his hand to his level. “Besides, you have your dad to help, you arm is almost done anyway”
Astro timidly placed a hand on his injured arm, turning away, “well what if I mess up on another trick? What if I injure myself again but worse?” Astro let loose his hand, allowing his bandaged arm to hang freely. “Look at my arm, i did this to myself..”
Zog took a moment to take in everything he said, he knew this wasn’t true, he wasn’t a dumb robot, and neither was Astro. “Your strong Astro, that doesn’t mean you won’t stumble, I fell from metro 100 years ago and I’m still intact for how heavy I am”
Astro just huffed, “well you don’t have to deal with a fragile body like mine”
Zog may not have the most expressive design, but when Astro turned his head to look him in the eyes, he was convinced there was something else lurking behind them. “What?”
“Don’t tell me that’s what your really think of your self”
Astro just looked away, “I mean my body is fragile like I said, did you not see my arm?” Zog lifted his other hand pointed his finger directly into astros back and gave a small shock of his power that was given to him. “You mean this body?” Zog questioned, getting a small yelp from Astro. “Hey! What?!” Astro powered his boots and started levitating a few feet from his original position.
“If you really think you’re fragile then let me see..” Zog assured, gesturing a finger in a ‘come here’ motion. Astro wasn’t sure about it, but he hesitantly listened, sitting back onto zogs hand while saying, “what are you gonna do? Does it have anything to do with my arm?”
“I’m gonna use a small amount of the blue core energy to feel around your sensors, it will be painless” Zog repositioned his pointer finger where it was before and gave another shock, making Astro yelp louder. “Ahh!” Astro had fallen over to his side, lifting an arm to shield any more on coming shocks. “Hold still”
Zog went for another attempt to “feel around” his sensors, this time he aimed for his sides, while this attempt lasted longer, it was still cut off by Astro curling up and giggling. “Wahahait! Not there!” “If you hold still this will go by faster”
Zog decided to hold the action a little longer, going on and off a few times, the only self defense Astro had was his one good arm. “zohohohhoohog! I cahahahant move thihihihis arm too much!” Zog didn’t reply, he was contemplating on what other spots he could target.
Watching Astro curl up into a ball was quite admirable to watch. “Was that giggle I heard? Is THE Astro, the hero of metro city, ticklish?” Zog then used two fingers to point at each side of his torso before sending a stream of bolts into his body. “N-nohohoho! NOOHOHHOT THAAHAHT!” “No? Then why are you laughing? Does it really tickle that much?”
Astros eyes widened, “uhh, we don’t need to go there!” Astro tried taking off, but Zog was quicker and grabbed Astro by a leg and slowly brought him back to position him next to his other set of wiggling robot digits. “Wait! We can talk about this!” Astro covered his stomach with one arm but it was clearly no use in hiding. “What’s wrong? Scared of a little blue core energy?”
“Heheh, uhh no I’m made of it! I’m practically a tank because of it!” Astro boasted sheepishly. If Zog had the ability to raise a brow he would, though Astro imagined him doing so anyway followed up by. “The you wouldn’t mind if I just poked around here?” Zog teased, now fully letting out a LONG stream of energy in Astros system. “Or here? What about here?” Zog was hitting every spot he could get to, ribs, sides and especially his stomach. Over all Astro was a ball of nerves to begin with.
“ZOOHOHOOHHOG! CUHUHUHUT IHIHIHIT OUT!”
“I’m glad you chose me to bring back after a long time, who knows what would have happened if someone else found out about your adorable weakness. What would Cora and your other friends think?”
“Oh yes, you know they wouldn’t pass up the chance for something like this” Zog teased. “Citchie citchie coo, your so small and fragile I agree”
Astro started waving his one arm to try and dismiss his statement. “YOUR SUHUHUHUCH A DOHOHORK!”
When Zog finally came to the conclusion that Astro was cheered up, he let him rest in the palm of his hand, breathing heavily. “Feel better?”
Astro sat up, looking anywhere but in zogs direction. “Yeah..thanks” only to be greeted with a tiny zap to his neck. “Heheh”
Note: I know it’s short but I still think it came out really cute! Hope you enjoyed this @crackperdaykeepsthedoctoraway and other that may read this!
