Note: author has minimal knowledge of episodes 3-4 at time of writing
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In Sonar's defense, he'd been doom scrolling and was most certainly not expecting to randomly see a picture of the Mecha man suit in a burger king parking lot while swiping through Twitter
he was expecting to swipe up and see a picture of the man himself and a young kid between the ages of 6 - 8, even less
It was for a brief moment that he wondered how the cashier could've thought it was just a really good cosplay before he realized it was Halloween and the kid was dressed up too
Safe to say, he immediately sent it to the group chat,
Prim: Awww! that's adorable.
Invis: Ok one: that's cute
Invis: two: flambae really just chose a normal guy to be his nemesis, didn't he?
Flam-bitch: Excuse me?! How do you even know if that's the real one?!?
So-nar: There's another pic of the Mecha man suit in the parking lot
Flam-bitch: So what is the problem? Babysitting is normal for everyone.
Coupé: What's the kid even dressed as?
Flam-bitch: a ghost, specifically the stylized 'Amity Park' version.
Invis: 1 the hell's 'Amity Park'?
Invis: 2 If the kid's supposed to be a ghost, why does it look like he's wearing a hazmat suit?
Flam-bitch: Amity Park, supposedly 'the most haunted town in America', located somewhere in Illinois, I believe.
Luck of the Irish: could be the young lad just thought it was cool
So-nar: So I'm looking at the replies on the og post, and some like conspiracy guy found it
So-nar: and recognized the kid
So-nar: flambae, you said you know stuff about Amity?
Flam-bitch: I've heard about it, yes.
So-nar: you ever hear about a hero named 'phantom'?
Flam-bitch: Ah, yes, I believe that he is the main hero of the town, why?
So-nar: cause uh, 'pparently...
Hazbin hotel: Jesus christ.
Invis: Dude, he's like 9 at most
Luck of the Irish: How much ya want to bet that be at least part of the reason he's with Mecha man currently?
So-nar: I just checked the time stamp on the original post. They've probably left by now. We have no way of knowing if the kid is still with him right now
Flam-bitch: it's fucking Mecha bitch.
Flam-bitch: I'd bet good money that kids still with him, he's not the type of person to just leave a child alone without anyone else.
Coupé: Isn't Mecha man like Robert's age???
Prim: Mecha man's been operating for ~15-14 years or so
Flam-bitch: secret hangout, everyone.
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Phantom was an interesting kid,
Robert made a mental note to find out where the kid was hiding. He knew it was somewhere in his territory. If it wasn't, the kid wouldn't have found him,
Maybe the 'pharaoh' and 'vines' kids were there too. If they were friends, they probably were. If not, he probably would know where they were,
Robert looked back down at the kid, who had, for some reason, decided he was going to stick with him the entire way to the observatory,
The kid didn't look up, playing with the toy that came with the kids' meal -some kind of alien-, seeming just as at home in the suit as Robert was
"Up to the observatory, the sky should be clear enough to see some stars tonight."
The kid's head snapped up so fast that Robert was glad he had already confirmed the kid was at the very least half human. Otherwise, it would've definitely been concerning,
"There's an observatory?!!?!?
the kid's eyes were so wide he could see stars in them
Robert grinned, "Yep, sit tight and... try not to vibrate through the bottom of the suit. We'll be there soon."