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Stayed on the line with you the entire night
'Til you let it out and let it inDon't let this darkness fool you
All lights turned off can be turned on
I'll drive, I'll drive all night
I'll call your mom -
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In the fragile aftermath of the battle with Shroud, the literal and emotional armor finally comes off, leaving Robert and Chad to navigate a new landscape of vulnerability and unspoken truths.
Intimidated by the prospect, Robert steps into a sleek corporate promotion, which he attempts to use as a shield to isolate himself and keep Chad's fire at a safe distance. However, the pressure of the impending re-launch of the Mecha Man unit makes Robert’s stress reach a boiling point, fracturing his control. What begins as a desperate, high-friction attempt to use a single night of physical release to burn Chad out of his system instead traps them both in a web of missed connections and mounting, unreciprocated feelings.
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- Part 2 of Waiting on You
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After everything went down with Shroud, Robert decides he has no reason left to stay.
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Behind the SDN dispatch desk, former pilot Robert is playing a high-stakes game: wrangle a chaotic team of ex-villains in exchange for rebuilding his legendary Mecha armor. He expects a grueling management job, but he doesn't expect the Z-Team to become a family - and he certainly doesn't expect Flambae, the team's volatile, pyrokinetic ego, to violently derail his boundaries after a weekend encounter changes everything.
As a dangerous sexual tension ignites between them, both men find their carefully constructed walls rapidly collapsing; Robert struggles to protect the secret of his hero past, while Chad fights a losing battle against a softer, fiercely protective side he's terrified to show. But when the chaos of the front lines bleeds into their fragile new reality, they’ll have to decide how much of themselves they’re willing to expose before their carefully guarded worlds completely collide.
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- Part 1 of Waiting on You
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20 Jul 2026
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Earlier that week he had received an envelope. Official looking. Bright read letters on the front of “FINAL NOTICE”. Stern wording. It was not the first time he had received such envelopes. It was, however, the first time it had been sent to his workplace rather than his mailbox at his apartment. Maybe because it was so crammed full that it couldn’t hold anymore. He couldn’t exactly have late payment notices if he had nothing to pay for. He paid his far-too expensive-for-the-amount-of-drafts rent on time thank you very much.
A brief, impolite summary of the letter would be “Get your shit out or we will fine you and sell off everything inside”. It was a tempting offer save for the fine.Or Alternatively: Robert is condemned to spend his Saturday cleaning out a long abandoned storage unit he didn’t even know existed. Punch-Up and Coupé volunteer to help! Surely there will be nothing important in this storage unit.
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