(villain) sonar after episode 7
I mean if shroud manages to hit him that hard until his nose bleeds there, it had to be pretty painful.. yes i know the scar was caused by mecha man but i think it fits here
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(villain) sonar after episode 7
I mean if shroud manages to hit him that hard until his nose bleeds there, it had to be pretty painful.. yes i know the scar was caused by mecha man but i think it fits here
The entire Z-Team when Shroud held Beef over the side of the roof
How it feels watching multiple Dispatch playthroughs and theories and now everybody is acting suspicious
I want to see a subversion of the usual Shroud turns Robert evil trope.
Shroud gets the pulse, destroys SDN's headquarters and walks away a winner
He also walks away with the body of Robert Robertson, leaving behind only his confused and scared dog on that rooftop. The Z team is in shambles, they're angry, they want their damn dispatcher back, no matter how big a bitch he is.
Months pass. The crime rates in the city are skyrocketing, Shroud is building a crime empire, powered by the pulse technology, reigning supreme as the new super villain in his new and improved spider suit.
In the midst of his most loyal enforcers, as a taunt to the heroes in general and the Z Team in particular, is Mecha Man. Coded in black and red, with a new look and, clearly, a new pilot who can throw toxic sludge at people from installed ports on the mech's chassis.
Then, the Z Team gets word from an operative of theirs that went rogue: Invisigal. It's a single photograph of a dimly lit room, with a tank in the middle, half draped in soft-looking blue cloth. Inside the tank is exactly who you think it is. Robert Robertson, looking more peaceful than the team has ever seen him, sleeps in a slightly bubbly lit up water.
Shroud has never wanted Robert to become Mecha Man. He watched that kid grow up, endure neglect, too high expectations, and a lack of genuine parental figure. Some wires clearly get crossed in Elliott's head when he's bashed in by Robbie. Because now, it's not just the Astral Pulse that he wants. Not for the reasons most people think. He has been searching for a fool proof way of keeping Robert safe.
Locking him in a sleeper pod, kept safe in his hideout, Shroud, in his mind, is doing what's best for Robert. Someone else can have the suit. Someone else can be a hero and take care of the world.
Shroud will take over the world and make it safe Robert. Only then will he let him wake.
The Z Team has to now find a way to free their favorite dispatcher before his crazy pseudo-father turns the entire state on its fucking head.
Mech vs mech
i wonder if there was any overlap between Flambae's time in prison and Shroud's- if any of the Z-Team that went to prison had any overlap with Shroud unknowingly ↓ because he probably wasn't 'Shroud' in prison- he was probably just Elliot Connors by design [because he's not an idiot- he knows an inordinate amount of put away villains respect the fuck out of what Mecha Man stood for]
lets fuck with the timeline a bit and say there was a very very brief window where they DO [a month max maybe]
it's not much, just a passing glance- a second of eye contact- but it's filled with so much wrongness that it sends them reeling -> it's not the deciding factor, in signing the Phoenix Program's contract, but it's a damn good push
Robert chokes when the name gets dropped on some Tuesday, and almost works himself into a panic- even though the name had been said with both disgust and tamped down unease- he just doesn't expect it
"Where the fu.. fucck did you-" "Woah, Robbie... calm down," he doesn't know who says it, but the nickname- despite the oh so gentle tone- really just makes it worse in this context
He's so still that Z-Team doesn't even think he's breathing
Chase swoops in to lead him away and if looks could kill, man... they'd all be six feet under ↓ his glare promises a verbal beatdown later- and only verbal, if they're lucky, but... well.. they still all elect not to bring that name up again
i found this on pinterest but I believe the op is @/Regulus_291 on twt
So. Robert has Beef before the coma, but its also kinda implied he doesn't really have any friends or anyone close to him who would be aware he has a dog while hes in the coma - and the boring answer is one of his neighbors takes care of Beef. Bcuz no one would know Mechaman has a dog so no one at the hospital would think of it.
But.
I propose the far funnier option, that the goon Robert left tied up in his apartment with his fucking dog, goes back and takes care of Beef for the four months. Purely out of spite. Toxic will make Beef love him more than Robert out of Spite. (It does not work. Beef loves his father above all.) (but it is how Shroud learns Robert has a fat dog and why Beef doesn't really give two shits about being kidnapped by this stranger)