Gold Star for Robot Boy

[Robin Stanton]

"It was Otuga the Stomper. I mashed him together from a bunch of different ones. I was real proud of it."

[Samantha McManus]

"I can tell why he missed you so much. We're going to do our damnedest to make sure you all make it back."

"I'll... well, I'll miss him, but you're the ones he belongs with."

[Robin Stanton]

"Yeah... And don't worry too much about the state he's in. I can tell he's being a dum-dum about some stuff, but once I find Mum in this mess she's gonna screw his head on right and proper, no telepathy required." she laughs.

[Samantha McManus]

"I didn't even know that was an option."

[Robin Stanton]

"It'd probably work. He's pretty literal."

[Samantha McManus]

"Like what, convince one of them to turn into oil, the other into vinegar, and make salad dressing?"

[Robin Stanton]

"Hey, that's a pretty good one! Yeah, possibly!"

[Samantha McManus]

"And stuff like that just... works? Everything falls into place?"

[Robin Stanton]

"It might take a bit and I'm pretty sure our Sam smoothed things over plenty of times to help it along, but I watched him hurl himself into a black hole, yet here he is, only slightly banged up. He's my Dad. He's invincible."

[Samantha McManus]

"...I was trying to come up with an argument against that and then I remembered he's a billion years old now."

[Robin Stanton]

"Built Stanton Strong." she grins.

[Samantha McManus]

"So... aye. Maybe this will just... work."

"I wouldn't mind something just going right for once."

[Robin Stanton]

"Bad day?"

[Samantha McManus]

"Not had too much in the W column, lately."

[Robin Stanton]

"Got your butt kicked?"

[Samantha McManus]

"Had my body taken over by a version of myself from a parallel universe, for one."

[Robin Stanton]

"Then how are you still here if you lost?"

[Samantha McManus]

"Got my girlfriends to kick the crap out of me until she was weakened enough that I could get control back," she smirks wearily.

[Robin Stanton]

"Okay that's not the most graceful win in history, I gotta admit."

[Samantha McManus]

"Honestly, finding you and other people that know your father's been kind of a high point for freshman year."

[Robin Stanton]

"I mean, that goes without saying, obviously." she smirks. "We are pretty awesome." she says, flexing are intentionally noodly arms.