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there’s something wrong (can you hear me?) by viennah
Fandoms: Gachiakuta (Manga), Gachiakuta (Anime)
25 May 2026
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The man loudly groaned.
“Shut up for a bit.”
Rudo froze.
He hadn’t understood a single word in that sentence.
Or: It’s literally Gachiakuta, except language plays a major role in it.
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- 4/?
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Bookmarked by WraithInLace
05 Jun 2026
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But Elliot made a crucial mistake, he may have killed his dad, but he did not kill Mecha Man.
Because the Mecha Man Armor was sitting in his dad’s garage right now, absent of a pilot to put it to use. People may be mourning that Mecha Man is dead, but they are also expecting a new Mecha Man to appear.
And this mantle falls to him to pick up.
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When Elliot Connors shot Robbie Robertson, Robert was only 11 years old. Instead of going to therapy or continuing schooling. Robert dedicates himself to becoming Mecha Man in his father’s absence. This leads to a 15 year old Robert being the Mecha Man that the SDN and Team Z will have the misfortune of dealing with.
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- 5/?
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Bookmarked by WraithInLace
04 Jun 2026
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Robert Robertson cannot die. When a bullet enters his frontal lobe and exits through his occipital, it takes roughly twenty-eight minutes for him to wake up in a puddle of his own blood—the team in hysterics.
Funnily enough, the chromosome mutation that means he cannot feel pain, fatigue, hunger, or fear is a genetic issue entirely unrelated to the generation-skipping powers.
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Bookmarked by WraithInLace
03 Jun 2026
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bury me low (and don't look me in the eye) by VintageV1nyl
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
01 Feb 2026
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Robert Robertson III is a dead man in the making.
Mechaman is not. The legacy will live on; even after Robert is lowered into the ground, a gravestone etched with a used name framing the soil drowning into him; Mechaman will live into oblivion.
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TLDR: Mechaman and Robert are two different people.
Are they? No, not really. He just happens to think so. The legacy of Mechaman hangs heavy on Robert, and the crushing weight of sacrificing everything he has for heroism kills Mechaman, so they're obviously two separate people with two different issues. Obviously.-
PRE-CANON: CHAPTERS 1-4 (SO FAR)
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POST CANON:Series
- Part 1 of mecha man blues
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02 Jun 2026
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Robert doesn't know who he is outside of the suit. He feels like there's nothing for him to live for after the explosion, and he has a bad habit of carelessly throwing himself into danger, passively hoping he'll kick the bucket. His dog, Beef, is the only thing holding him back from doing the unthinkable.
When he starts dispatching for the Z-Team, things start to change as he gets closer to them. They see him struggling and decide to help in the ways they can. He finds a family there that he never thought he'd have.
Meanwhile, Robert is getting especially close to Flambae. He keeps finding himself both dragged and drawn towards him like a moth to flame. He struggles with the guilt of not being able to tell him that he's also Mecha Man while their friendship develops. Oh, and he might be falling for him, too, and that just makes things worse. Can he even hope that things will turn out okay?
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Mechaman was a family heirloom with a catch, one that you didn’t get to turn down. You take the suit, you die for it, that was the deal. So when Midnight finally fell, Robert wasn’t meant to survive. Prime didn’t, Astral didn’t.
But Robert did.
He was the runt of the legacy—he fucked it up! So why did he out of all the Mechamen survive?
Now left to rot in a supers prison, Robert goes out on a limb and agrees to join the SDN’s failing ‘phoenix program’.
All because it promised him two things:He gets his suit back.
And he gets outta this cell.Problem? They’re only interested in fixing him through a collar, a contract, and an already struggling program. As long as it means they get their big-bad mechaman to flaunt once he’s sorted.
But hey, what kinda man would he be if he turned the offer down?
So he does what he needs to get what’s promised:He follows the rules.
He plays his part.
He does exactly what they expect...Mostly.
Bookmarked by WraithInLace
02 Jun 2026
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The Man Is Mecha (And Other Workplace Shenanigans) by wistyria
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
11 Mar 2026
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Now that they knew Robert was Mecha Man, a lot of things started to make sense.
(5 times the Z-Team saw the mecha in the man, and 1 time they saw the man in the mecha.)
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- Part 1 of Sutures and Scars
- Part 3 of Z-Team Found Family
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- 4/6
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Bookmarked by WraithInLace
30 May 2026
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Chase spent his early years helping a villain named MechaMan, sometimes reluctantly babysitting his son Robert. Many years later, when Project Phoenix finally started gaining momentum, Chase knew exactly who the perfect candidate for reform would be.
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29 May 2026
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On Friday, Blonde Blazer found a new sucker to try (and fail) to wrangle the infamous Z-Team at SDN's Torrance location. On Friday, they all bet he'd be gone by Monday. On Monday, he showed up. On Tuesday, he showed up again. On Wednesday, they got to put a face to the voice.
He was the most basic and boring man he’d ever seen in his life. Average height, average brown hair cut into an average look, with big doe eyes and even bigger bags underneath them, a freckled face supported by a frame so thin and frail looking a soft breeze might knock him on his ass. All in all, he was entirely unremarkable in any and every way. Kind of cute, but in the same way a malnourished puppy covered in mud on the side of the road was cute.
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Bookmarked by WraithInLace
26 May 2026
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Realistically, Robert should have known better.
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Robert gets dosed with an aphrodisiac made for supers. The Z-Team is there to take care of him.
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26 May 2026
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Sonar spoke up. “If we do good, do we get paper birds?”
Robert gazed at his monitor with a thousand yard stare. “You know what, sure. Whoever is the highest on the leaderboard by the end of the day gets a crane. Now, go do your jobs or I’m not paying for the first round of drinks on Friday.”
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Robert accidentally bribes the team into a better performance with origami cranes. Surely a physical representation of how well he thinks each person is doing won't come back to bite him.
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26 May 2026
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my body's made of crushed little stars by DaQuirklessBeauty
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
24 Dec 2025
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Robert has always treated his body like something temporary—maintained just enough to keep going. Then one run-in with a passing villain leaves him younger, unscarred, standing in a body that no longer carries the visible proof of the pain he survived. As the Z-Team watches him move through the world in a way he hasn’t in years, concern sharpens into something heavier. Others begin to notice what Robert himself has long learned to dismiss, and the truth becomes harder to avoid: whatever hit him didn’t just revert him—it revealed how much pain he’d been living with, and how quietly he let it happen. Because if this is who Robert used to be, then the version they’ve known has been surviving far more than he ever admitted.
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Or: Robert gets caught in the crossfire of a fleeing villain’s power—and wakes up in the body he had at twenty-one.
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Bookmarked by WraithInLace
23 May 2026
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Robert’s sure he could turn it into a joke. A group of ex-villains walk into a bar and harass their ex-hero boss on off hours. Not that they know that. Not that he’s technically even still ex-hero now he’s got the suit back.
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The Z team don’t like the fact that Mecha Man’s about to take their dispatcher for his own personal tech support. They have a lot of loyalty for the man keeping them from going back to some less than comfortable cells.
Robert was unaware of his “promotion”.
The Z-Team find Mecha Man at a bar.Temporary Hiatus: Will be back in the June-July range. NOT ABANDONED! I refuse to abandon a fic I just got hit with the ao3 curse and trying to sort out health stuff so I can get back to writing, I have plans for this whole fic.
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- Part 1 of 8 Heroes and Related Works
- Part 1 of V’s Dispatch Fanfics
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Bookmarked by WraithInLace
23 May 2026
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When a child that looks oddly similar to the Z-Team's dispatcher- nearly attached to the back of Chase's leg and guarding himself from prying eyes- is introduced to the team as a deaged version of Robert, chaos expectedly ensues.
If not the jokes, the endless teasing and chiding, the Z-Team also learn some...despairing things from the child form of their dispatcher.
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In other words, where Robert Robertson the Third learns that loving his father doesn't mean that he always had a great dad.Bookmarked by WraithInLace
18 May 2026
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18 May 2026
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“it’s him or me,” and other false dichotomies by UtterPandamonium
Fandom Dispatch (Video Game)
05 Jan 2026
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18 May 2026
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18 May 2026
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Robert Robertson has been living the past few months for two years. It isn't like every day is the same, but it isn't like he has total control of his actions or the things that happen. The suit breaks, he wakes from a coma, dispatches a little, then locks up Shroud to do it all again. He's learned a lot, done a lot, and failed a lot all through six four month loops. What he's learning this time, is he's tired, this time all he wants to be is tired.
His definition of being tired might differ from the usual, just as the key events start to differ from their usual.
Chad is confident he knows who this man is, has seen his face, known his walk, heard his words before. But at the same time he can't quite put his finger on it. But Chad is no quitter.
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Robert is stuck in a timeloop and is admittedly very sick of it, he's just going to do what he wants this time, no researching just bullshitting.
Chad really wants to know who the hell this dispatcher is and why he radiates déjà vu.
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17 May 2026
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Stood right where Robert Robertson III had been only moments earlier was a small, scraggly… child? A small kid with pale skin, unkempt cropped hair, and an uncomfortably familiar notch missing from his ear. He stared up at them with wide blown-out eyes, flicking between all the adults in front of him.
“Robert? Are you-“
“Who the fuck are you?”
Uh oh.
After Visi accidentally drops a villain's weapon, Robert is transformed back into his ten year old self, both physically and mentally, remembering nothing of his future self. The Z-Team and co. must now deal with a half-feral and deeply traumatised child while they figure out how to get their beloved dispatcher back, and also learning a lot about why he is the way he is.
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17 May 2026
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The first thought Robert has upon crashing is this: fuck.
When he realizes the extent of the damage, it's: I should be dead.
After barely managing to pry the astral pulse out of the suit, he thinks: fuck.
Upon seeing the sizeable crack running down the side of its housing, it's: I kind of wish I was.
Lastly, when he embeds the barely-contained energy core into his chest cavity, it's: I most likely will be.
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Or: Robbie Robertson wanted to secure the Mecha Man legacy in the most surefire way possible; a hyper intelligent android with the capability to do no wrong. What he got instead was Robert.Bookmarked by WraithInLace
17 May 2026