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“Bl-Blazer, wait—” he calls out and struggles, chains clanging together. "Blazer, come back, I-I can—”
“You can what, Bob Bob? Pass out and fall on your dumb face?”
The air in Robert’s lungs leaves him all at once.
He had expected Blonde Blazer.
He had not expected to see six familiar criminals standing in the doorway.
___What if the Z-Team came woth Blande Blazer to save our beloved dispatcher?
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The Z-Team has been banned from every bar in the city, so the team decides to spend the evening at Robert's apartment instead. Someone suggests a drinking game and the team might find out a little more about their fearless leader.
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- Part 1 of Dispatched
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The destruction of the Mecha Man prototype hits Robert hard. He didn't get caught in the explosion this time, but part of him wishes he had.
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- Part 2 of Dispatched
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Robert Robertson had failed. But, he was granted a second chance! And if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And again. And again. And again.
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Blood drips from his mouth and nose, running into his eyes and matting his hair. He feels as much as hears his ribs crack, and only then does he cry out. It’s a desperate, strangled thing, clawing its way from his throat more from the shock than the pain itself. Through the bleariness of his vision, he thinks he sees Coupé smirk with satisfaction.
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Episodes 7 & 8 but the torture was worse and had actual consequences.
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Robert Robertson does not have superpowers. He was born completely normal, regular, plain. No deviations, nothing new, nothing special. Following the schematic.
But just because someone is born normal doesn't mean they stay that way.
An accident with the Mecha Man suit in his teenage years leaves Robert down a heart, and cybernetically enhanced, his ability to continue living tied to the suits power- and to the Astral Pulse.- Language:
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Every power has a price. Something that would make you laugh at the irony if it wasn't so damn infuriating. A man with the strength of ten at the height of half of one. A woman with asthma who needs to hold her breath to stay invisible. A walking fireball who can lose his eyebrows to a rogue flame.
So of course when Robert realized he wasn't powerless, he could only laugh at the irony.
An immortal man who wishes he was dead really was the icing on the cake.
Updates weekly (mostly), 2/16 post delayed
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Tired of Comparisons, Trying to Learn the Lesson In by Anonymous
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
16 Dec 2025
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AU where Robert has powers his dad forced him to suppress in his youth. Upon stepping into the role of Mecha Man Blue, Robert runs himself into the ground physically, mentally, and financially to uphold his family’s legacy. It’s what he was born and raised for, after all. He can’t afford to fuck it up. He’s nothing outside of it. His dad was so keen on drilling that into his head.
…with that kind of pressure on him, is it any wonder he starts to act out? It really shouldn’t be surprising that he needs to let off some steam, some charge, so he doesn’t lose his cool doing real hero work. Call him a hypocrite. Call him a supervillain in a hero’s suit. Robert’s long since past the point of caring.
It’s just a shame he’s working so closely with people who know the hallmarks of a real villain a lot better than he would like them to. He’ll have to keep his work and his fun separate, for the team’s sake if nothing else. They mean a lot to him. He genuinely wants to help them succeed in their redemption arcs.
But he has no intention of stopping. Not when he’s finally back in his prime.
Not for anyone.
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Z-Team is paired with X-Team for a joint operation to track down and bust a child smuggling operation spanning across their bordered districts.
Z-Team may be ex-criminals, but everyone can agree a pedophile is a waste of a cell room and is much better off rotting six feet under.
How Robert Robertson can look at the perps marched through their doors with indifference is what rubs Z-Team the wrong way.
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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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It’s Broke and You Can’t Fix it (alone) by IneffectualOmens
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
02 Feb 2026
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Robert climbs out of the smoldering wreckage of his father’s legacy only to find that he's no longer needed. Mecha Man is, of course. But Robert Robertson? Ha. No.
So he tries to piece his life back together, however hopeless a cause it may be. But then it's time to announce his--hm, not retirement. Convalescence? Close enough--and it goes just a little too well. Chase never calls in the favor with Blazer so Robert never gets the job at SDN. Purposeless, he lets himself backslide. Forces himself to focus on the suit and only the suit because it's the only way he'll ever let himself live again (as if Mecha Man was much of a life beforehand).
Then a couple assholes bust down his door because the neighbors called for a wellness check and now Robert's plans of dying in a landslide of pizza boxes will have to be put on pause.
TLDR: Robert and Z-Team fix each other. They fuck up a lot along the way.
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5 Times Z-Team Members called Robert for dumb reasons + the one time they didn't by Olive_of_Vanders
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
24 Nov 2025
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Robert Robertson want to give the Z-Team a chance, to see the potential within them rise up– and so, he gives them his number for emergency purposes.
He should've known they'd never use it for that.
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- Part 3 of Dispatch
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Robert wakes up to his back pain flaring up and has to call out from work, only for some nosy co-workers to find him.
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- Part 1 of Dispatch
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Robert reflects on how far he’s come, realizing the life he thought he’d lost might finally be worth living.
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Robert has been Mecha Man for over a decade, and being a hero without powers has left him covered in scars. One night after dinner, Mandy finally notices just how much pain he’s in—and gently starts asking about the stories written across his skin.
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Robert's whole life had been about upholding the mantle of a hero. A legacy that was forged by his grandfather, strengthened and upheld by his father and now it was destroyed by him in his pursuit for vengeance against Shroud. He didn't have powers. Hell, he didn't have his suit anymore. So who was he now without the suit?
Maybe helping others would help figure out who the hell he was.
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An exploration of Robert's life as a hero and its burdens, and how slowing down and letting people in is actually a healthy way to live.
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A fic in which Robert makes sure that everyone but himself gets fixed and a few people have different ideas about that.-
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"The difference between a martyr and a hero is that one of them is dead.
Mecha Man was strange in this sense. Whereas the body dies, the hero lives. And after a decade, Robert, the body, felt like he already had one foot in the grave."
The aches of more than a decade of hero work catch up to Robert. He comes to realize that he now has people he can lean on when he starts to stumble.
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“That’s kind of depressing,” Blonde Blazer murmurs, shuffling a stack of papers.
“You learn to deal,” says Robin. She leans towards Blazer, tone conspiratorial. “One time, a villain said I was ‘the Mecha Man version of Scrappy-Doo?’ That was my actual low point.”
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It was searingly obvious that Dad would have preferred another strapping young boy, Bobby’s stock, but giving fate the finger was an old family tradition by that point.
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Really Hope You’re On Our Side (Really Hope You Get It) by C4t1l1n4
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
29 Nov 2025
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The story behind these lines from A Brawl is Surely Brewing
“The point is: the members of the Z-Team range from overprotective to downright possessive of him. Blonde Blazer asked him to cover the shift of another dispatcher when they called out sick, and the Z-Team almost went downright feral upon finding out he had worked with a different group. Needless to say, that wasn’t going to happen ever again. Robert is always happy to help, but it would probably be more helpful for all of the SDN if he just stuck to his group.”
Or, an excuse to write more overprotective/possessive Z-Team lmao
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Threesomes only work in pornos and one-off one-night-stands influenced by too much alcohol and too loose morals. There's no way there are actual functioning relationships without a metric fuckton of jealousy and miscommunication and whatever else could possibly ruin what is, in theory, the perfect solution for them.
Right? There's no way this could work. No fucking way.
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[formerly 'feel the way i do', with revamped title and summary]Switches POV between Robert, Visi, and Blazer/Mandy every chapter to get the whole mess of complicated feelings. Starts with Robert.
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- Part 2 of i'm tuning into you (two)
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