Siblings reunited (might make a part 2)

Collector and Astra were in one of the citadel's landing areas watching a modified cargo ship land. Astra was jumping up and down in excitement while Collector was simply glad to see Astra this happy, neither her or collector had heard from the two on-board in a long time

After a minute the ship's door finally opened, and two familiar figures began to walk out while guards began inspecting the ship to make sure nothing illegal was on-board.

The taller of the two was carrying crates out of the ship with seemingly minimal effort

Collector: now that they've landed it should be safe to go down there

Before collector could finish his sentence Astra immediately bolted down the stairs to the ship, collector followed shortly after

After a moment one of the two figures recognized Astra as she ran towards the ship, and immediately spread her arms for a hug

Data: LITTLE SIS!

Astra: DATA!!!

The two hugged in front of the ship while Collector caught up to Astra

Collector: it's been a long time, data.

Data: yep! And Astra's grown a lot since I last saw her!

She notices Astra is slightly taller than her, and let's go of her

Data: (to self) maybe a bit too much...

Collector: so how have you and earth been doing?

Data: we've been good. She's unloading the ship with- hold on.

She turns around

Data: EGGS! Get out here and help earth unload!

Soon a robot resembling eggyhead walked out and began moving crates

Astra: isn't that the eggs-icutioner?

Collector: yep. That thing always finds a way to come back.

Data: I don't see why you still hate him so much, he's been completely reprogrammed.

Collector: I am simply cautious about that thing. I'd rather not have it kill you and earth a second time.

Data: I helped give him free will, he wouldn't do that.

Collector: the tyrant always finds a way to cause pain. Even long after his demise.

Data and Astra both gave collector a concerned look

Astra: ... Did you really have to ruin the mood with that sentence?

Collector: am I wrong?

Astra: you could've at least worded that better.

Data: yeah, definitely.

Collector: fine.

Collector walked away to help earth and eggs-icutioner unload the ship, leaving data and Astra to catch up for a bit.

Collector: what were you transporting anyway?

Earth: various supplies that'll be sent to resistance camps, it'll hopefully help with the war that's going on since it's calmed down a bit now.

Collector: hopefully this ends soon. I'm getting tired of seeing these planets terrorized by the inkpire.

Earth: ... yeah

Collector: so how have you been doing?

Earth: I've been doing well, although data hasn't been... The best.

Collector: what do you mean?

Earth: she's been thinking about tech support a lot recently, especially how the team just... Fell apart after gamma 3 left.

Collector: how do you know?

Earth: sometimes she leaves her screen on while she charges, I've seen various dreams of tech support whenever this happens. And when she wakes up she's always sad.

Collector: I was never told what happened to him.

Earth: me neither, he just disappeared shortly after I joined.

Collector: I believe I've heard of a new team of robots, maybe you and her could join

Earth: I'm not sure I could convince her. She's really stubborn about stuff like that.

Collector: we'll see.

He put the last couple of crates into the loading area, and the group began walking over to Astra and data

Earth immediately knelt down and gave Astra a hug

Earth: IT'S BEEN SO LONG!!!

Astra: I KNOW!!!

Earth let go and noticed how much taller Astra had gotten since they last saw each other, then gave data a smug look

Data: yeah. I know. She's taller than me.

Earth: you could easily fix that...

Data: but I like being smol :(

Earth: if you like being smol why do you hate headpats?

Data: I like it for the convenience, not the attention. Unlike you, I don't have to bend over to fit through doorways.

Earth: fair enough...

Eggs-icutioner looked at Astra and tilted his head in confusion

Collector: wait, he hasn't met Astra?

Data: he has, but he was in the workshop for a while after somebody turned his code into spaghetti and he went on a rampage. A lot of his memories were lost in the process. I think it had something to do with the exotic creator.

Collector: so his reign didn't just effect us...

Data: yep. And he lost a lot of memories in the process.

During this conversation eggs-icutioner was looking at Astra with curiosity, seemingly trying to access lost memories.

Astra was simply confused since all she remembered about him was that he existed

Collector: how about we continue this back at home? You also have a couple new siblings I think you should meet.

Earth: ooh!

Data: let me lock the ship first.

Data pointed her hand at the ship, then a green light flashed and the cargo door began to close. Once it did it made a large beep like a car locking irl

Collector opens a portal to the realm of creation, and the group walks through.

Upon entering they see hakai and rizu making a fort out of plushies

Hakai: uhh...

Rizu: we didn't think you'd be home yet...

Collector: I'm just surprised your first question wasn't who they are.

He points back at earth and data

Hakai looked at the two of them confused, then saw eggs-icutioner in the back and was even more confused

Collector: these are your sisters, earth and data. They left a while back.

Hakai: hello

Earth and Data: hi!

Hakai: so Astra wasn't the only one you made?

Collector: FAR from it. I wouldn't be surprised if more of my creations survived the destruction of my planet-

Collector stopped the moment he realized what he was saying

Collector: ... Anyway...

(yes that was an excuse to make more robot OC's. Shut up.)

Eventually they all sat down and started catching up about recent events, and when the two would move back in.

After everything had quieted down Collector asked data to follow him into his workshop

Data: so what do you need my help with?

Collector: this.

He pulls the head of the exotic creator out of a box, along with various parts

Data: O_O

Collector: I want to completely disarm his AI, even though he doesn't have a body anymore he can still deal considerable damage to nearby electronics if I power him on. Maybe even transfer into them.

Data: disarming an AI with that much power is gonna take weeks.

Collector: that's why I asked you about this now rather than while you and earth were exploring the multiverse, we can work on this occasionally and when it's done I can start his punishment.

Data: what's that gonna be

Collector: it's a surprise, but everyone is gonna LOVE it.

Data: ok then. Tomorrow I'll analyze his code and see what I can do.

Collector: I'll show you how to access files without waking him up. I used that to find various secrets about the inkpire. And some very... Disturbing experiments.

Data: oke

They left the workshop and upon getting back into the living room they found earth hugging lay, simply amazed that robot cats exist now

Astra: she has been holding him for the last five minutes and refuses to let go

Earth: and I'll hold him for FIVE THOUSAND MORE

Hakai: just let go of the frickin cat.

Earth: never!!!

Collector simply crossed his arms and lightly glared at her from across the room

Earth: ... Fine.

She let go and lay immediately ran to Astra and climbed on her shoulder

Lay: FREEDOM!!!

Earth: -_-

Astra: he doesn't like being held. Especially by people he doesn't know well.

Lay's LEDs began flashing green and he began saying random numbers, then they went back to yellow and he fell off of Astra's shoulder

Lay: O_Q

Data: ... What the heck???

Astra: that's been happening for a while, he saw the internet and decided to delete some memories. I guess something went wrong and now there's another AI in his head.

Data: I can fix that, just give me a few minutes.

Lay: oke...

Data picked up lay and sat down on the couch, she pulled a few cords out of her bag and connected them to him, and then to her. Her screen began showing various bits of code for the next half hour.

After she finished, her screen went back to normal and she connected the cords to a small black sphere, after a couple seconds it glowed green, and data disconnected the cords

Data: and there we go, now lay is the only one in there. It was REALLY tangled up in the code. If it had gone any further he'd be overheating every ten minutes

Astra: so what are you gonna do with the other AI?

Data: I'm probably gonna make a smaller copy of lay and put it into that. I think I'll call him yal.

Collector: yal?

Data: yeah, it's lay reversed. Yal.

Hakai: clever!

Data puts the sphere and the cords back into her bag

Data: also, lay, I need to teach you how to PROPERLY delete memories. Just so this doesn't happen again.

Collector: while you were working on lay I set up you and Earth's room, come see!

Data followed collector upstairs to see the new room, it had quite a bit of space and a bed on each side

Data: 0_0

Collector: pretty nice, isn't it?

Data: HOW DID YOU MAKE THIS IN HALF AN HOUR??

Collector simply pointed to the crystal of creation in his chestplate

Data: fair point.

Collector: I only put some beds in here because I wanted to let you and earth customize it

Data: cool.

Earth and eggs-icutioner came upstairs shortly after

Collector: right. That thing.

The eggs-icutioner simply sat down next to one of the beds and powered off

Earth: he always sleeps like that, it seems he doesn't see much point in having a bed.

Data: either that or he just wants us to have them, he's very sweet sometimes.

Collector walked back downstairs into his workshop, and after a few hours everyone went to bed

Strange noises started, like if a plasma gun was charging up

The sound got louder and louder until it stabilised with a high pitched white noise

SAP: I DID IT! I MADE A SELF SUSTAINING, NON-POLLUTING, RENEWABLE SOURCE OF ENERGY

AND I FINALLY MADE MY ADVANCED NETWORK! I CAN TRAVEL TO DIFFERENT PLANETS NOW!

And i have cool new functionalities!

Eggs-icutioner is probably just trying to exist peacefully but Collecter is still angy at him for what he did.

Collector: what part of "I am simply cautious about that thing" did you not hear?

*Eggs-icutioner looks at him nervously, he isn't sure he can trust Collector to tamper with his programming*

Collector: ... I guess I'll leave that to data then

*Eggs-icutioner looks kinda sad and his head hangs down*

Collector: |:(
(Slightly less mad)

*Eggs-icutioner sits down, he still takes up a ton of space*

Collector: I need to give you a speech module at some point. I have no way of knowing what's going on inside that metal head of yours, even if Earth and Data can guess pretty easily.

Wholesomeeeeeee

i shoulda probably made a story explaining data and TROLL CO

>:(

Good story

Also wholesome

:)

Cute

:)

Y'all

I like this story :)

Pretty good story

Oh yeah I forgot about this-

*Notices data's old design*

AEUGH

I like Data's newest design the best

Same. It's a lot easier to draw too.

Wholesome!