The Auction
Nico is running an auction to see who might buy some animatronics. Sure enough, tons of people come! Especially parents with kids!
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“Patton: The fatherly animatronic. He can make ice cream, he can run with the kids! He’s been programmed to hug and develop friendships with all children. He can teach good life lessons! And he can even make balloon creatures for them.” Nico explained.
“And...Roman?” The person asked.
“Aah, yes. Roman is a fighter. He’s a stage actor with a love for being the hero! And his sketchy brother, with the iron mace. They are not sold separately.” Nico told them.
“Interesting...How much is Patton on for?” The person asked.
“$5000.” He replied.
“Hm...Not bad.” The person looked at Patton curiously and smiled. “Does he have any flaws?” The man asked.
“There have been instances of following the kids home till he shuts down...And there have been moments when he hugs too hard. But other than that, he’s in really good shape.” Nico told him.
The guy smiled and placed a hand onto Patton’s cheek. Suddenly, Patton closed his eyes. “Awww…”
The man gasped and pulled his hand away. “Oh god he’s on?!”
Nico giggled. “He is on, sir.”
Patton looked at the guy and smiled. “I’m Patton! You can call me Pat if you want.” Patton explained.
“Yes. He also goes by Pat if that’s easier. He’ll even scan mispronounciations of his name and react to those as well.” Nico explained. “An example of this is ‘Pabbin.”
“Yes?” Patton turned his head to Nico.
“See?” Nico smiled, patting his shoulder. “He’s a good one.”
Patton giggled and hugged Nico eagerly.
Patton let Nico go and looked at the other person there. “And what’s your name?” Patton asked the person.
“I’m Violet.” They introduced.
“Ooooh! Like purple!” Patton declared, clapping his hands and jumping up and down.
“Yeah, like purple. I like green too.” Violet told him.
Patton gasped and turned to Remus. “Ooooh REEEMUUUUS!”
Violet widened their eyes. No way…
“Violet likes green!” Patton declared.
Remus looked down at his own clothes and fist pumped the air. “YESSSS!”
Violet giggled at this reaction.
“Wise competition for the GREEEEEN!” Remus said, running up to the two of them with his mace in hand.
“Is this real?” Violet asked Remus.
Remus ripped it from her hands. “Yes! And no touchy!” Remus ordered.
“Remus, be nice! Or else you’re not gonna get sold.” Nico ordered.
“Have you ever considered that maybe I don’t wanna be sold to a stranger?” Remus asked.
Patton walked around the auction, looking around for the kids. Suddenly, one of the kids ran up to the animatronic!
“Awww! Hello little girl! And what’s your name?” Patton asked.
“Ashy!” She replied.
“Ashy, huh? Like Ashy, dashy flashy?” Patton teased.
Ashy giggled into her hand.
“My name is Patton!” The animatronic told her. “Say, are you ticklish by any chance?” Patton asked.
“Noooo!” She giggled.
“Noooo? Are you sure about that?” Patton teased before poking her sides and belly.
Ashy giggled and laughed as she backed up little by little. “Nohohohoho! Pahahahahat!” Ashy told him.
“Oh, alright.” Patton stopped tickling her and started to stand up. But Patton froze in place the moment someone hugged his leg. Looking down, Patton realized it was Ashy trying to tell him something. “Ihihi didn’t want you to stop…” She admitted.
“Patton smiled widely and picked up the little girl. “Well if that’s the case:” Patton started throwing her up into the air and catching her. After the third catch, Patton started tickling her sides, and ribs. “Tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle!”
Ashy was laughing, snorting and giggling all over the place as she sat in his arms.
Nico was about to intervene, when someone stopped him. “It’s alright. She really likes it.” She told him.
Nico let out a breath of relief. Thank goodness…
Patton soon stopped tickling her and hugged her tightly before giving her a gentle squeeze.
“Yay! Mommy, mommy, can we keep him?” Ashy asked as she was put down.
“Maybe, sweetheart…He’s kinda expensive.” The mom admitted.
“I don’t know hunny…$5000 for an animatronic big forever babysitter is not bad.” her father admitted. “My headphones were crappy and were sold for $300.” He explained.
Patton looked around the auction room at all the tables and posters everywhere. It was so decorated and pretty!
A guy walked up to the broken yellow and grey animatronic. “What does this do?” The person asked.
“Ah, that’s Janus: a...dangerous animatronic, to be honest. He was scrapped after he allowed kids to use knives and matches.” The doctor told him.
“Cooool…” He reacted, grabbing the animatronic. “I like it! How much?”
2500. He’s not nearly as expensive because he’s fairly broken. But if you wanna use him for spare parts-”
“I’m not using him for spare anything.” Alex grabbed his own hat and replaced the wrecked black hat on the animatronic’s head. “I’m gonna fix him up.” Alex told him with a smirk.
Nico walked away before he could get caught up in Alex’s questionable shenanigans.
Roman growled and pushed a person’s hand away.
“This animatronic is threatening…” The person said.
“Yeah...No touching me.” Roman ordered. “Only Nico can touch.”
“Now now, Roman...that’s not how you get buyers.” Nico told him.
“Why don’t you wanna keep us?” Roman asked. “Are we not good enough for you? Or, perhaps too much for you?” Roman asked.
“We’re giving you to actual owners who will wanna keep you for other jobs. See it as adoption.” Nico told him.
“Except I’m being sold for $4000. Why is Patton more expensive than me?”
“Because you’re a little more dangerous than Patton is. And because everyone has been flocking to Patton.” Nico explained.
Roman huffed and looked down.
“I like this one. He’s sassy.” the same person admitted from earlier.
“I do too.” Another person admitted.
“Can I have your names please?” Nico asked.
“Shannon.” The first person said.
“Sayge.” The other person said.
“Alright. I’m putting your names into the hat.” Nico told them, placing two names in.
“Alright.” Shannon told him.
“What does this one do?” Sayge asked.
“He’s a fighter. But he likes other things like costumes. He’s a theatre animatronic.” Nico explained.
“Are they meant to have personalities?”’ Shannon asked.
“Well…”
“Excuse me?!” Roman reacted.
“YES...He was.” Nico replied. “We are quite surprised at how strongly the personalities effect the animatronics, however.” Nico added.
“I see…” Shannon responded.
“Do you have spare swords?” Sayge asked.
“Yes we do.” Nico got Sayge a sword. “What for?”
Sayge ran up to Roman and started dueling with him. “EN GARDE, ROMAN!”
“EN GARDE!” Roman yelled back, perrying the sword.
Shannon giggled at this while Nico sighed in slight annoyance. Of all the things to start during the auction…
Soon, people started flocking up to the human and the animatronic, and started watching with curiosity and excitement. It didn’t take long before people split themselves into separate cheerers. Some of them cheered for Roman, others cheered for ‘Roman’s Foe’.
Roman smiled and winked at Nico before spinning the other sword out of Sayge’s hand. Sayge jumped and put his hands up as Roman pointed his sword to him. “Give up, mortal.”
Sayge, feeling there was no other way out, grabbed onto the sword and pulled it out of his hand. Funnily enough, the sword slid right out of Roman’s grip! It was like he had no grip at all! “How about now?”
Roman widened his eyes and put his hands up. “Okay okay, I give up! I give up! Mercy, oh powerful one! Mercy!” Roman begged.
“Alright.” Sayge smiled and started to bow as cheers filled the room.
Shannon widened her eyes. “Saaaay...this gives me some ideas:” Shannon turned to Nico. “I am a costume designer, and I would like to use Roman as my costume dummy.”
Roman turned to her with his jaw dropped. “DUMMY?! WHO ARE yU CALLING DUMMY?!”
Shannon jumped and put her hands up. “I mean tester! My costume wearer! Or mannequin!” Shannon explained.
“Oh...Continue.” Roman told her.
“Okay…” Shannon hummed and looked back to Nico and Roman. “I would like to take Roman to be my mannequin for my business.” She explained. “Now, is Roman able to be gender neutral in any way?” Shannon asked.
“You can say that, yes. I can give him a more round chin and a different shaped nose, if you prefer.” Nico offered.
“Cause I would like to put dresses onto Roman as well.” Shannon explained.
“DRESSES?!” Roman gasped and clapped his hands. “HECK YES YOU CAN PUT A DRESS ON MY GORGEOUS BODY!” Roman made a sexy pose.
Shannon giggled. “Good! I’ll happily adopt Roman then.” Shannon told Nico.
“Wonderful!”
“HA! I got adopted before Patton!” Roman declared, as if being bought was a challenge. “Take that!”
Shannon handed over the money and started to explain to Roman all that she had planned for the next coming weeks for costumes and acting roles.
Meanwhile, a guy was looking at Logan and quizzing him. “How tall am I?” Andrew asked.
Logan looked at Andrew, looked him up and down and smiled. “You are 164 centimeters, or 5ft 4 inches.” Logan replied.
“Wow! And what is 150 x 38?” Andrew asked.
Logan smiled and turned his head a bit. “5700.”
Andrew grabbed out his calculator, and checked the answer. Sure enough, he was right. “That’s amazing!”
“Logan was a creation made to counteract the manipulative Janus. He knows plenty of facts, can educate many, and has never told a lie.” Nico told Andrew.
“Would you ever consider making Logan a teacher?” Andrew asked.
Nico widened his eyes. “I never thought of that!”
Logan turned to Andrew. “Can you make me a teacher?” Logan asked, sounding unusually eager.
“I can...It’ll take some steps, but it’s worth the try.” Andrew replied. “I think you would make a great teacher. Or a great professor!” Andrew told him.
Logan smiled at the thought.
Andrew soon walked over to the guy working in the back, listening to headphones. “Hey.” Andrew greeted.
The guy removed his earbuds. “Hi, how can I help you?” Virgil asked.
“Oh nothing. Nothing. What are you listening to?” Andrew asked.
“Wanna listen?” he asked.
“Sure!” Andrew replied.
Virgil and Andrew would be seen listening to music through the rest of the auction together. They would even wind up exchanging phone numbers so they could stay connected with each other! Talk about a match made in emo heaven!
Meanwhile, Patton was showing off his hairstyling skills to a lady with long, wavy hair. “And that’s how you do a big bow out of your hair!” Patton told them, showing her the hair-made bow with a mirror.
The girl smiled proudly and showed it off. “You did amazing!” The girl told him.
“Thank you Mela!” Patton replied. “Thanks for being my hair mannequin!” Patton told her.
“No problem!” Mela replied.
Suddenly, an army of kids came sprinting to Patton, knocking him over. “PAAAATTOOOON!” They shouted!
“Ohohoho myhyhyhy gohohoodnehehess! WOHOHOW!” Patton reacted.
“Really, Fizzy?” Mela asked, referring to one of the kids.
“YES!” Fizz replied. “Is Patton ticklish?” Fizz quickly asked as they clicked a few buttons.
Patton giggled and squirmed a bit, but widened his eyes as he felt his sensitivity increasing more and more! What in the world-
“Hey! Get off him! Be careful what you’re clicking!” Nico ordered.
“There’s arrows for sensitivity! Uuuup-” The kid kept clicking the up arrow, throwing Patton into laughter and hysterics. At first it felt like nothing. But now it felt like every hair and material on the kids’ skins and clothes were tickling every inch of his body! Patton quickly fell into hysterics.
“Aaaaaand doooowwwn!” The kid said, clicking the arrow button only a couple times. “But we all want Patty’s sensitivity UUUP!” They said happily.
Patton laughed and giggled hysterically as he was tickled and doggy piled by kids. “GUHUHUHUHUYS! PLEHEHEHEHEHEASE!” Patton begged.
“Off off off off off.” Nico ordered. “I will not have Patton get broken by a bunch of evil kids.”
“EEEVIL?!” Fizz smirked and casually walked away. As Nico started walking away, Fizz grabbed his foot and pulled, making Nico faceplant the ground! Nico squealed and yelled loudly for the kid to let go while Fizz whistled innocently and tickled his foot.
“AAAEEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHE! KIHIHIHID WAHAHAHAHAIT!”
“Yeah! Cheer up old man!” Fizz teased.
“Tickle Patton!” a kid declared.
“Lee Patton!” Ashlee declared, having joined the group.
“Senit ivee’tee!” a toddler said.
Patton and Nico both bursted out laughing as kids started piling on the robot and the human, and started tickling, tickling, tickling! It was probably really embarrassing for Nico’s case. But for Patton, this was all part of the job. Kids just loved being silly and playful! And he was created perfectly for the kiddies!
Roman got a recording of the whole thing, and sent it to Virgil through text.
[How much you wanna bet Patton’s gonna be sold?]
Virgil looked down at his phone and chuckled while he texted back:
[I bet $10 bucks one of the kids parents buys them.]
...Sure enough, a daycare lady ended up purchasing Patton as a fellow worker at a local daycare! With a little bit of fixing, Patton was gonna be the greatest entertainer!
Sorry Ro!