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Robert Robertson was an ordinary man, sure, he was Mecha Man, but that hardly meant anything when you didn't have superpowers. He knew that he was stuck deep in the mask, but couldn't find who he truly was as Robert. After getting the job with SDN, he realizes just how deep it goes. Just how far in the past it went. After the suit was destroyed, he was left without anything; now he has a band of misfits to look after. Despite their dispositions, they do care for Robert. When he is kidnapped on his way home, they search relentlessly for him. However, who they find isn't their normal dispatcher.
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Robert thought the hardest part of working at SDN was dispatching unstable heroes and preventing city-wide disasters from a chair.
He was wrong.
When SDN hires a new emergency dispatcher, Robert recognizes him immediately as the neighbor who disappeared in his childhood.
Most people don't notice anything wrong.
But Prism does.
The team begins to suspect the new dispatcher isn't just a bad memory.
He's a threat.
And this time, Robert isn't the only one who sees it.
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don't go gently into that good night. don't you fuckin' dare. by DefinitelyNotACryptid
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
20 Feb 2026
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Robert thought that if this was what the end of the mecha man legacy looked like, well. He didn’t think his father would be proud, necessarily, but he thought Robbie would have at least appreciated the irony of it all. An arch enemy beaten and another Robertson lost to the suit. The scales balanced once again.
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Robert loses his leg in the final battle against Shroud and has to find himself within the long and hard recovery afterwards. Will he let those around him help him, or will he push them all away? There's been a lot he's ignored about his body and past injuries, and now it's all catching up to him. But it's Robert, which means he definitely won't be going gently into that good night.
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Robert Robertson is a man who puts himself in situations where powers would be pretty useful.
But he doesn't have them. What he does have is a mortal body made of breakable bones, cuttable skin, bruisable flesh, and other generally damageable stuff.
Maybe, at some point, he'll realize that he's got his limits. The way things are going, it's likely that the Z-team will identify them all before he does.“Hey Golem,” Invisigal called out. “What were you listening to while you were outside?”
Golem turned away from him to go join up with her, and Robert followed-- or he intended to. Something went wrong when he took a step to the side. He felt his body swaying.
“Woah.” Robert caught himself on the bench, next to Prism.
“Watch it,” said Prism. “The bar fight’s over, boy. Don’t go knocking yourself out now.”
Robert laughed under his breath. “Yeah, that would be stupid, huh.” -
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Proto-Pulse test 19. Here we go.
What could’ve happened after Robert’s suit malfunction during that test? How would the Z-Team react?
A slightly altered retelling of the events at the beginnig of episode 6, with a bit more angst and whump to it.
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- Part 1 of Robert Robertson: Hurt
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Golem wasn’t fast enough
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A what-if scenario about that one scene in Episode 5 where Robert reveals he is Mecha man.
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Torrance isn't supposed to have snow storms, actually, it isn't supposed to have snow at all.
During all of the chaos, dealing with car crashes, frozen pipes, people snowed into homes, backup breakers not working, etc etc... The Z-Team is a little too distracted to offer their dispatcher a ride. One of them usually did, but they were busy, and Robert was a grown man who could take care of himself, he had made that clear a hundred times.
When he's grabbed off the blizzard filled streets after their shift, nobody notices until the next day. He's been kidnapped for longer, but a lot can happen in 25 hours. -
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What if Shroud tried a different approach to getting the astral pulse?
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Oh, how satisfying it was to see Shroud trembling on the ground in pain as his augments shut down. To see him waver as he was pathetically trying to pick himself up. To see him so wobbly on his feet, clutching his side, reaching under his coat-
Wait.
“Sorry, kid… We both lose.”What if Invisigal wasn't fast enough on that roof? Will Robert survive? To what lengths will Shroud go to get his revenge?
A whumpy what-if scenario + me trying to patch up the plot holes from the last episode
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- Part 2 of Robert Robertson: Hurt
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09 Mar 2026
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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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It's too easy to forget, with everything that's happened since meeting him, that Robert was fresh out of a coma.
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09 Mar 2026
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Flustering A Stone Wall
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Z-Team's dispatcher has been described, both by them and others, as a 'perpetually dead inside motherfucker'. He never seems to get bashful, or worked up, at any of their goddamn flirtations.Maybe they've just been going about it the wrong way
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08 Mar 2026
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You and your dreadful little polycule haven’t seen the last of me
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Robert rolled his eyes. “Guys, I have responsibilities. I told you, we can go out on Fridays.”
“Responsibilities,” Visi mocked him. “You’re not responsible for the whole freaking world, Robert.”
“You do know you’re not getting paid for it?” Coupé added.A few months after Mecha Man officially joined SDN, the Z-Team is quickly rising to fame under his leadership. But the full-time job isn't full-time enough for Robert - not when it comes to being a hero.
Unfortunately, some off-the-clock missions might turn out too dangerous to go solo.Robert sets off alone on a rescue mission. Things only get worse from there. Will the Z-Team learn what happened to him? If they do, won't it be too late?
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- Part 3 of Robert Robertson: Hurt
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Medical Analysis: How Is This Guy Still Alive? by Sp1derMothes
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
21 Feb 2026
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It baffles her how he didn't notice. How did he not notice he couldn't hear out of one side of his head? What is wrong with him? “How the hell do you do that?”
He tilts his head, not unlike a dog. Like Beef. “Do what, exactly?”Robert is not stupid, he’s not oblivious. Lord knows he isn't, he uses the teams’ feelings for him against every single one of them. “How you can just- not notice stuff like, I don’t know, not being able to fucking hear.”
“I can hear fine. It’s just quieter with my left ear on its own, apparently.” And she wants to kill him, just a little.
Or, Robert gets to experience the consequences of not-his-actions, and suffers. Z-Team helps him out.
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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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06 Mar 2026
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Ch.1 - like it a lot but rn want smth shorter
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Robert Robertson goes missing and while the Z-team tries not to fear the worst, if it's Robert, it's only going to be bad.
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Bookmarked by Emo_Gremlin
06 Mar 2026
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Cute amnesia fix :D the Ang’s isnt super good but it’s engaging and fun
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Robert does not survive the encounter with Shroud in the bar. However, such a silly little thing as death will not keep a true workaholic from returning to his job.
Or: Robert’s ghost, oblivious to his fate, haunts the dispatch network.
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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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Robert fufills a legacy.
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“You did a good job today.” The monotone voice brought him back from his thoughts. Robert. Alive and breathing Robert, who shouldn't be alive or breathing at all.
Or: Robert dies, a bunch of times, and Flambae tries to stop it.
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04 Mar 2026
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Omg timeloop au is so good I love this sm ch.4