19 Works in Dispatch fics with fun friends and HR violations
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The first Mecha Man to grace L.A. was titled Mecha Man Prime, being the first in the legacy of non-powered humans to make a difference as a hero. The second Mecha Man named himself Astral and made his debut in L.A. as the leader of a group of heroes.
Robert was supposed to be the third Mecha Man. His father would have wanted that for him, but disappointing his father isn't new to him anyway.
In Robert's defense, he had a very valid crash out after his dad was murdered a decade ago. In his opinion, this leads to his very reasonable agenda of hunting down the man who murdered him. It sucks, because it's his target is beloved by the entire damn State.
L.A.'s third Mecha Man, Elliot Connors.
(OR: Robert Robertson is L.A.'s most wanted supervillain, hunting down the newly retired Mecha Man one dispatch call at a time.)
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Five years after Shroud is defeated, Waterboy lives comfortably as a high-ranking SDN hero. The Z-team, now a well respected hero troupe, lives on in something just to the left of glory. Everything is peaceful. Or, at least, as peaceful as it can be.
And then he's flung violently back into the past, forced to watch as old wounds open. Okay. Whatever.
There's really not much he can do without messing up the future, but... maybe there's some comfort he can provide. Some life he can bring to his past teammates' eyes.
It's the least he can do.
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- Part 1 of broken pot symphony
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Robert was human.
He felt pain, emotionally at least, felt joy, occasionally at least, and he even looked after Beef. Because why would he care about a dog if he wasn't human?
Yes, his body was made up of metal and wires, and he didn't eat or drink or breath. But what did that matter?AU where Robert is an AI that controls the Mecha Man armour.
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- Part 10 of Ai's Tester chapters
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Another reason the poster is so wildly expensive, even months later, is because that specific line of merch was also the release of Track Star’s first official merch line. He had only debuted a month earlier. Robert himself had only met the hero a week before his birthday. A week after his birthday, Track Star had started babysitting him.
Months later, he still does, even if Robert had grown too old for a babysitter.
“Call me Chase, kid.”
Robert removes his hands from his hips and crosses his arms instead, just like how Chase is posed in the poster.
It feels better than Dad’s pose.
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If you were to ask a young Robert who his favorite hero was, he would say Mecha Man, just as everyone expected it to be.
However, his real answer is Track Star.
That answer hasn’t changed, even over 15 years later.
(Or: Five times Robert knowingly imitated Chase (and the one time he didn’t))
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- Part 2 of Who am I, If Not Bits of My Loved Ones?
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It's My Right to Be Hellish, I Still Get Jealous by Colorfullyminded, InkAndSmudge
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
23 Jan 2026
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But Robert knew no matter how much he wanted it, kindness wasn’t something he, or his stupid, broken down body, deserved.
He pulled away again, averting his eyes self-consciously whenever he remembered why he was really there tonight. The last thing he wanted was for Waterboy to see him like that. To see what the hero that he idolised was really like behind all the smoke and mirrors.
Herman’s smile fell at the same time as his lighter-coloured eyebrows rose, “D-don’t you want to dance-join in?” He glanced around the place where Robert was still leaning against the counter, “You’re all by your-alone.”
Not for long, if I’m lucky, Robert thought bitterly. The ache that had been building in his gut all day felt like a ravenous, gnawing hole now. It twisted something inside of him, made him feel sick and rotten and wrong. And a thousand miles away from the sweet-faced, wetsuit-wearing hero currently giving up his Saturday night to help keep a bunch of villains safe at a crappy metal night.
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Because Robert said he wanted to grow closer with the z-team, Chase has decided to bring cartridges with embarrassing videos from Robert's past. At least, they're supposed to be embarrassing, but the z-team has a bad habit of picking the traumatic ones.
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Dispatch (roughly after the events of episodes 3 and 4 but if THAT didn't happen)
Trigger Warning: Blood, poison, child endangerment, implied neglectful parent, mentioned chronic pain -
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After that first night where Robert comforted Waterboy in the janitor's closet, Robert finds himself in that room with Waterboy more often than anticipated. Somewhere along the line amicable affection turns into something much deeper.
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The couch, the locker room, the SDN Christmas party, and much more... So many opportunities to get laid, and so many ways in which it could go wrong. Especially when one works with the most chaotic band of misfits imaginable. Flambae and Waterboy find out the hard way how difficult it can sometimes be to find some time alone.
Well, they'll have to get lucky eventually. Right?
Or: 6 times someone interrupts them, and the one time they actually manage to fuck it out
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- Part 11 of Set Fire to the Rain
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“That's…” Mandy coughs in her hand, “Word for word what Chase said.”
Robert huffs out a little laugh. “He’s been complaining about these two since I first started. Don’t take it to heart. Ask him again in, say, like an hour or so, you’ll get a better answer then.”
“That’s… smart actually.”
“Thanks, I’ve been known to be smart every few thoughts are so.” Robert crosses his arms on the divider, one arm leaning down and the other cushioning his chin.
The same thing Chase did when he checked up on her.
Mandy blinks. “Did you..? Did you do that on purpose?”
Robert blinks in return. “Did what on purpose?”
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Siblings are weird. Mandy may be an only child, but even she understands this.
However, Robert and Chase's relationship is even weirder, especially when Mandy starts to notice some weird similarities between the two.
Or maybe that's just another sibling thing Mandy is unaware of.
(Or: 5 Times Mandy noticed Robert (unintentionally) imitated Chase (And the One Time Blonde Blazer noticed Chase (unintentionally) imitated Robert))
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- Part 1 of Who am I, If Not Bits of My Loved Ones?
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“So, Robert, I hear you went out on a date.”
Robert chuckled into his receiver, at Invisigal’s opening for today’s bout of requisite Z-Team inane-ass smalltalk.
“I don’t know about any of you guys, but I am getting a very weird sense of déjà vu. Do we think Shroud is waiting somewhere round a corner, to try and kidnap Beef again?”
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(AKA: once Robert Robertson's Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs is met, he finds himself starting to wonder if... maybe, just maybe, he might be little bisexual).
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- Part 1 of fuck it! dispatch fic collection
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Rarely does Robert ever get a moment of time to think. Rarely does he let himself. Because he knows the moment the noise quiets and the lights are dim that his mind will race. It will remember. And yet, when the memories resurface, they don’t hurt as bad as they used to.
Or; 5 times Chad speaks to Robert in his native language + 1 time Robert speaks to Chad in his native language.
(Or actually: 5 times Robert is forced to do domestic activities + 1 time he returns the favor)
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The doors swing open.
"S-sorry I'm late!"
Mandy holds back a sigh of relief, before turning to smile at the newcomer. "No worries, Waterboy. Take a seat and we'll… start…"
She blinks. Once, then twice. Then—
"Oh. Wow. You look—"
"You actually look fuckable, what the hell," Courtney wheezes, sounding just as stunned as Mandy feels. Neither notice the sound of Prism's phone shutter clicking multiple times.
((Waterboy gets the teenage movie makeover treatment via Prism; eventual Flambae/Waterboy))
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- Part 1 of the waterbae franchise
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Flambae shares a look with Prism, she raises an eyebrow at him. “You sound like shit, Robert.” She says.
A sigh. “Thanks, Prism.” He doesn’t offer up anything more which causes more eyebrows to raise. “Have a good shift, everyone.”
Sonar mutes his comm to look at the others. “That’s weird, right? I’ve never heard him this depressed since like, the time Chase was in the hospital.”
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- Part 1 of One step forward, five steps back
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The humble truth is that Robert Robertson III has never had a real Christmas.
Not a real one.
He’s celebrated the holidays, obviously, in a variety of different ways, but even when he thinks about it, the truth is… he hasn’t, actually.
His father was never home, not over Christmas. He’d always be out as Mecha-Man, saving the world, protecting people, his present to Robert being nothing more than staying alive.
Robert might have had a proper Christmas once, but without his mother, and with his fathers total inability to care about anything other than the future of Mecha-Man, they never had a tree, never had any decorations, really Christmas wasn’t so much as acknowledged because what would be the point? He didn’t remember it anyway.
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When Robert was around 10 years old, his Uncle Elliot gave him a... Gift. An AI lodged into his brain. Powers, technically.
After the coma, he can't really hear his "brain twin", and decides he should probably fix that. Besides, "Oracle" would definitely fit right in with the Z-Team.
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- Part 1 of Dispatch
- Part 1 of The Oracle Files 💾
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After catching Waterboy doing some... unexpected activities after work, Robert realizes the newbie might be the most perfect sub in the whole world. Too bad Robert is his boss.
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It was refreshing, he thought. It felt nice to set down the roles of heroes for a night and just be people, go out into the world without the expectation of helping whoever needed help at that moment.
That didn’t stop Prism from attracting lost, recently heartbroken girls in the bathroom of whatever club they’d go to and making it her personal mission to talk them into making better decisions, but at least it was a choice, then. She would return to find Flambae on the dancefloor, often accompanied by some other man, and whoever she didn’t approve of would be pushed to the side and told he was taken, because she’d apparently made it her mission to get him to make better decisions, too.
Hence the dread. Hence the gradual fade of her music as she read his silence exactly for what it was.
“Okay,” she said, “get your ass over here and tell me what’s up.”
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Or: Flambae has a confession to make.
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It hurts and he’s not even sure why. The feeling of shame – of disappointing – burns hotter in his throat than the liquor in his hand. His life is too good for him, he’s too bad to deserve it. He is, isn’t he?
Robert really needs to stop placing his self-worth in the words of a dead man.Or, Robert self-worth is six feet under on the 16th anniversary of his father’s death now that he’s no longer Mecha Man and no longer having to worry about Shroud, the Z Team is there to comfort him.
Or, or, some consequences of Robert “Robbie” Robertsons shitty parenting
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- Part 2 of Dispatch Z-Team&/Robert
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Flambae doesn’t cope well with the fact that he’s attracted to Waterboy. Somehow that ends with the both of them getting off in the SDN bathroom.
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"Ever had someone suck you off before?"
Flambae’s knees hit the cold tiles as he looked up at Waterboy, who was by now shaking with what he could only assume was excitement and an unhealthy amount of anxiety.
"N-No?"
"Then sit back and let me blow your world."
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- Part 1 of Set Fire to the Rain