Quicky Fanficky #1: One Punch Man - Logic Error Loop
Saitama was sitting by his manga shelf reading the new addition to his collection. The minibots were doing their usual routines of running around the apartment and doing whatever they do. Occasionally Saitama would glance up, to see one writing with crayon on the wall or in Microwave's case, attempting to microwave himself.
"Oi! Get your metal ass out of there!" Saitama yelled at the bot, though not bothering to get up from his comfortable position on the floor.
This apparently startled the little robot and he fell to the floor with a loud crash. Bandaid then ran out of the bathroom, wrapped up in toilet paper mind you, carrying a box of adhesive bandages, as soon as the fallen bot started crying.
Saitama shook his head and went back to his manga. He was taking a brake. Genos had brought the eight little monsters home one day. They were made from all of his obsolete parts and loaded with an advanced AI program. Of course when their 'mom' was home, he could easily command them as Genos literally could interface with their programs to correct their behaviour. But when it was just 'sensei', it felt like Saitama was herding cats and cats hated him.
"Uh, huh!" One of the bots, Noodles, shouted at their brother.
"Nuh, uh!" Was the reply from Markers.
This continued to repeat, to the point Saitama was seriously thinking of finding headphones and plugging them into Player, who had crawled onto his lap to enter rest mode. This bot had just recorded the entirety of the Treehouse program and was probably in the process of deleting the last three days worth of re-runs from his memory. So, maybe that wouldn't be a good idea to listen too.
"Sensei!" Sticky ran up to him. For whatever reason this one either intentionally found things that would sticky to him or was always covered in something unidentifiable and sticky. "Sensei! Some thing wrong!"
"If you need a bath, Genos has shown you how to use the bath tub." Saitama sighed turning a page.
"No! Some thing wrong with [Unit serial no. 000-75fe-4] and [Unit serial no. 000-75fe-6]!" Sticky insisted. "I think they [require maintenance]!"
"Well, Troublesoot is out with Genos and Pow, right now." Saitama said putting the manga down. "I can't fix anyone right now even if I wanted too. Genos doesn't want me hooking you guys up to the laptop either. They will just have to figure it out themselves."
"Sensei!" Microwave wandered out of the kitchen covered in, you guessed it, every bandage that was in the box. All on his upper body, to boot. "Sensei! [Unit no. 000-75fe-4] is caught in a [Logic Error Loop]. [Unit no. 000-75fe-6] is also in a [Logic Error Loop]. I [cannot resolved, please contact system administrator]."
"Alright! Alright!" Saitama finally got up. Holding Player on his hip and walked over to the two fighting robots.
"Uh, huh!" Noodles repeated.
"Nuh, uh!" Markers repeated back.
"What are they fighting about today?" Saitama asked Microwave, who was slowly undoing Bandaids work.
"[Unit no. 000-75fe-4] has determined that the hero [Watch Dog Man] is the most desirable by [Age range 5 to 10 years] as the best hero and we should instructed [Unit no. 000-75fe-0, designated: G.E.N.O.S] to purchase [Watch Dog Man] merchandise." Microwave said. "[Unit no. 000-75fe-6] believes that [Child Emperor] is a better [role model] for [Age rang 5 to 10 years]."
"I see..." Saitama sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Noodles, Markers, manual comand, huh... Stop, reset."
The two bots immediately stopped repeating and momentarily shut down before booting back up. They looked right up a Saitama once awake.
"Your brother says you are fighting over heroes." Saitama said looking down at them. Free hand on his hip now.
"Yes, available information indicated [Watch Dog Man] is superior to [Child Emperor] in appeal to [Age rang 5 to 10]." Noodles stated.
"He is not!" Markers started.
"Is too!" Noodles yelled.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Saitama stopped them before another repreat. "Okay, I'm putting a stop to this. You two do not need to care about any other hero other then your Sensei and your mom, okay?"
"But, [Demon Cyborg] is considered [scary] to [Age range 5 to 10] and more appealing to [Age range 13 to 26]." Markers said. "And [Caped Baldy] isn't even in the [S Rank] yet."
"What did Genos say about using sensei's hero name and hero ranks?" Saitama asked raising an eyebrow.
"... Don't talk about them in front of sensei..." The two said in unison and looked down.
"Good. Now I don't want you to talk about this anymore." Saitama stated. "Or I'll have Genos program it into you."
"Okay..." The two nodded.
"Sensei." Saitama heard the door open and the clang of Genos entering the apartment. Troubleshoot and Pow ran past him, straight to watching the t.v. "Sensei, are you okay? I believe Microwave and Sticky, sent out maintenance requests. Did something happen?"
"No." Saitama shook his head. "Just a little spat caught in a loop and Microwave fell off the counter again."
"I see, I will have to readjust his parameters again..." Genos said thoughtfully as he spoted Markers continuing their mural on the wall with the permanent Sharpies. "I think it's time I also install an updated cleaning algorithm as well..."
"Kids will be kids." Saitama shrugged.
"Rwar! I'm [Mummy] man!" Bandaid announced heading towards Pow.
"Pow!" The bot yelped and lit Bandaid on fire, causing Genos to quickly blast him with the fire extinguisher. The bots then proceeded to play in the foam.
"Dangerous robot kids." Saitama chuckled to himself as Genos gave the two a verbal scolding.
