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    “He’s still fucking mad at me; are you trying to get me killed when I have a headache? I thought we were good, Mal.” Ordinarily, she’d take those words as playful ribbing. Unfortunately, he genuinely seemed to mean it.

    “We are good, Robbie, he’s going to help.”

    “He’s going to kill me.”

    “No. He’d have to go through me.”

    “He’s going to put me out of my misery. That’s the only way he can help.”

    Mal blinked. “Rob, he was a physiotherapist. You know that, right?”

     

    OR: Rob has a bad pain day right after taco bell night (& identity reveal) and has to spend time in the precarious presence of Flambae in hopes of getting less OW

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    18 Jan 2026

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    It's 2007 and the story shifts. Robert Robertson flees his childhood home and follows Elliot Connors.
    The lessons he learns are cruel and put him on a path he was never meant to take. It's a slow downward spiral to become the man he is today: Red Mongrel, wanted fugitive, criminal and vigilante.
    He hopes for a change when Shroud escapes after twelve years of prison, and gets more than he bargained for. Maybe fate is stronger after all.

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    03 Jan 2026

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    “Tell me. Robert Robertson the Third. Mecha Man. Hero.” There’s something soft in the thing’s voice. Almost reverent. “What do you want?”

    His body wants to shut down. His mind wishes for oblivion. The answer is obvious.

    “Put me…back into…the fight.” He rasps.

    “Very well,” he can hear it smiling, “let’s get to work.”

     

    Or, in simpler terms…let’s do it all over again.

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    30 Dec 2025

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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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    Trigger Warning: Blood, poison, child endangerment, implied neglectful parent, mentioned chronic pain

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    29 Dec 2025

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    Thirteen seconds.

    Thirteen seconds of anger. Thirteen seconds of hurt. Thirteen seconds of fire because Chad is fire. And fire is unpredictable, hard to contain, and it usually does not care about what it burns. Thirteen seconds later, the world has been altered and shifted off its axis forever. Because Robert was standing in the fire with him this time.

    This has always been a story of redemption and second chances. Of breaking the curse of potential. But when somebody pulls a trigger, the bullet can’t go back in the gun. Right?
     

     

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    Flambae’s fire attack actually hits Robert after he reveals his identity, nearly killing him on the spot. Six months later, Robert will risk what’s left of him to offer him his last chance at redemption. If not him, who else would?

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    27 Dec 2025

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