Part 2/3 for the timeline of Slider and Coop Headcanons this time during Coop's disappearance and Hacker's banishment. Warning this is going to be long and angsty lmao sorry I'm on mobile.
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The day Hacker betrayed Coop, Coop tore up the plans and left, angry that Hacker could even do such a thing and went to cool off. He made some food and then went testing out some new boards. That's when he realized that Hacker had put magnemite in his helmet and left afraid if he stayed around it would affect Slider.
Slider was ten when this happened.
Slider was at school and then hung out with some friends at the skatepark that day. He got home late and was surprised to find the house and garage empty, cars gone, and house dark. He at first chalked it up to a late night job and made some simple food before going to bed.
He only grew slightly concerned when both his pops and Hacker hadn't appeared or reached out by mid morning the next day. He had tried calling his pops multiple times to no avail or reply. Trying not to panic Slider called Hacker. That conversation was full of venom and threats. Feeling full blown panic Slider called every single person he could think of asking if they had seen Coop.
Two days later Slider had to give a full blown report to Dr Marble, and Digit would hug him everytime it looked like he was about to cry or put his wing on his shoulder every time Slider got frustrated with the doctor's endless questions.
Meanwhile Coop has never been this stressed. He grabbed what he could, his tools, some canned foods, water bottles, and whatever was in his car which was a pillow and some building supplies like nails and screws he had. The site he chose poured rain for a week then grew to a desert like state for the next week. It was used as a disposable site in the past and Coop used that to his advantage. He ripped his car apart and used every piece. It took him 2 weeks of nonstop work but he build a metal shack. The third week was for water collection and the fourth he found several shipment containers of canned foods that must have crashed a while ago. Not all of it is edible, but enough for a good year or so until giving him time to try to grow some food.
Coop's most precious possession was a photo of slider and him with a giant tear where someone else used to be.
Coop forces himself to keep busy because if he doesn't he starts worrying about Slider.
Slider hyperfocuses on finding Coop. He spends his days crossing off cybersites on a giant Cyberspace map and his nights trying to figure out where to go next and tools to help him find Coop. News of Coop's disappearance is now known in Radopolis and the site mourns the loss much to Slider's annoyance. He refused to give in to the thought that Coop is gone or that he just abandoned him for no reason.
Slider got into multiple fights with both adults and other kids who tried to tell him to stop looking for his dad. He stops hanging out with people and becomes much more withdrawn. He doesn't trust people much anymore.
Coop's close friends take turns coming out to check on Slider and make sure there's food, and that he's okay but he's pretty much done talking, especially to previous trusted adults.
King Dudacus personally comes over and gets Slider to at least start skating again. Having a positive outlet for all the negative emotions helps a lot. He'll often rant to the king while Dudacus makes him share a meal with him bc Slider is now extra terrible at eating and sleeping.
Most of the time sleep for Slider is whenever he crashes from exhaustion. Even with that, he won't rest easy unless it's in his room after he's checked the house' locked doors and then sleeps with a baseball bat next to his bed.
Slider once threw up because of how upset he became after thinking he saw his pops in a crowd on a Cybersite.
When Slider first meets the Cybersquad he has no idea who they are and doesn't really care. He still had his morals, but isn't about to go out of his way to help some strangers, he's busy with his own problems. If they hadn't mentioned Hacker was involved Slider wouldn't have stopped.
Slider hates dealing with Hacker. The Borg is too smug about the entire thing, often mocking Slider and any familiar ties they had in the past. Slider in return refuses to acknowledge any parental nicknames he might've called Hacker as a child and tries to keep any knowledge of Hacker being his creator away from others, something the villain now loves to announce and even goes further and now suddenly adores calling Slider his son because of how disgusted, embarrassed and upset it makes him.
Both Coop and Slider suffer from nightmares, one of the most common ones is finding out that the other one isn't okay. Slider has nightmares about Hacker, he doesn't tell anyone this. Coop often dreams he never gets to see Slider again, that Slider will hate him, or that Hacker will somehow convince Slider to join him and take over Cyberspace.
Coop tries to make his home liveable. He spends his days going through the trash and pulling out things like books vs scraps of material he can use.
Coop's body is suffering from the increased aging it's frustrating to not be able to parkour, skate, or be active without feeling pain and creaky in your joints.
Slider called Dr Marbles every day for the first 4 months straight asking if he had any updates on finding his pops. Dr Marbles tried not to feel terrible when the phone didn't ring on day 1 of the 5th month.
The Cybersquad doing things like helping Slider keep his garage and just wanting to see him helps a lot of bitterness and mistrust of people go away.
Slider is the classic example of pushing people away first so he doesn't get rejected by them. He's absolutely puzzled by how much the girls seem to like him.
Slider felt physically ill when the Cybersquad thought he betrayed them, even more so when Hacker announced that he was clearly the good son he always knew, just throwing Slider's most guarded secrets out into the open and clearly enjoying how it made Slider feel.
Slider made Digit promise not to tell people about how Hacker made Slider and acted as a father figure when he was younger. Slider is terrified of somehow turning out like Hacker or others even comparing him with Hacker.
The Cybersite that Coop was hiding on was in a far tucked empty corner of Cyberspace, and was taken off maps years ago, thus no matter if Slider went to every Cybersite on his giant map, he never would have found Coop without the guide and hints Coop left for him.
I hope you enjoyed my angsty headcanons ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ Next part is going to be show era when Coop and Slider are back together. (ᵔᴥᵔ)