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In which we explore some of the off-screen time between game scenes. Team bonding, dispatching, character studies, and various donuts eaten while on the job. Focus is mostly platonic and team-dynamics because I really really want more screen time with the other members of Z-Team... but I am also an action and angst writer, so buckle up. Not ACTUALLY writing a non-romantic Robert so much as Robert who is too fucking exhausted to do anything about, like, dating in Season 1? Something like that. The one-sided crushes go fucking HARD tho.
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18 Jun 2026
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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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17 Jun 2026
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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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14 Jun 2026
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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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14 Jun 2026
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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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14 Jun 2026
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This whole thing was probably a bad idea. Probably a really bad idea. It was a hard sell. The higher ups raised eyebrows before they could finish with their proposal. Even those enthusiastic about the Phoenix program showed some hesitancy. The program barely worked as is. The “villains” they had repackaged into heroes were barely holding on. To pull a villain off of death row, it all seemed a little…stupid.
If it wasn’t for Track Star, the only remaining member left alive from Brave Brigade, the proposition would’ve been flushed and treated like nothing more than a fever dream. After all, the villain he was advocating for had taken down Track Star’s team one by one. Hunting them down like a feral dog until the Brave Brigade wasn’t enough for him anymore. So many heroes were lost, and everyone was ready to turn a blind eye to his death penalty.
The conditions came quick, but they had agreed.
There was to be no more Mecha Man, and Robert Robertson would not be allowed out in the field. Instead he would work as a dispatcher.
AKA
Another Villain Robert Robertson Redemption arc Au.
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12 Jun 2026
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The story of Dispatch as told through mainly Robert and Courtney’s perspectives, alternating here and there between other members of the Z-Team when post canon begins at Chapter 15.
Plot, fluff, smut, angst, and more all slowly and haphazardly stitched into something that resembles an overarching narrative!
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12 Jun 2026
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Robert finds a puppy in an alley. He doesn't know what to do with it but he can't leave it there, so he takes it home for one night before taking it to the shelter in the morning. He can't keep it, he can barely take care of himself. It'll be gone by tomorrow.
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12 Jun 2026
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Later in the evening following Shroud’s defeat, Robert and Courtney grab tacos for dinner. Then get up to a bunch of other wholesome activities like meeting the Z team for celebratory drinks and fucking. Things get a little domestic. Mecha Man takes his place at the head of the Z team while the last vestiges of the Red Ring accept a dangerous offer for a chance at revenge. Malevola confronts her past. Visi pushes herself to be more. Robert tries to solve a mystery. Golem learns painful truths.
Post-Canon Epilogue to help cope until s2 formerly titled “embarassing” because it started as a 1shot fluff scene of the same name and morphed into more of my interpretation of the post-canon story.
It’s gotten a bit out of hand with the world building but it’s a lot of fun to write.
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12 Jun 2026
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So people like me? The average Joe whose granddad wasn’t exposed to experimental radiation or fell into a toxic river, or was born under the star or Orias or something? We’re the soap bubbles. The thin paper people who still get torn, punctured, burned, and broken when not handled with care.
It sucks. But that’s also true of life. So it's not a huge deal.
It just means you have to be smart.
I'm Robert Robertson the Third, and I'm Mecha Man.
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One part novelization, one part character deconstruction, two parts world-build and juuust a dash of AU reinterpretations. All from the mind of an author feral for the Dispatch universe.
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- English
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- 48/?
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12 Jun 2026
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It's been Four years since the events of the Red Riots, and Robert, Courtney and Mandy are happy together, working towards better futures. But a new villain scatters their happiness across time, and who knows if they can be reunited.
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- Part 2 of Indigo Hearts
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12 Jun 2026
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Courtney has no idea how to have a relationship that isn't built on lies and deceit. Robert has no idea how to have a relationship period. Mandy has no idea how to have a relationship when the two people she cares for are dating each other. None of them understand the concept of a work life balance.
These three fucking idiots are gonna go through the shit to get there, is all.
Takes place in a Cut Coupe, Invisigal Romance/Good Invisigal playthrough post episode 8. Explicit content comes in later but will be present.
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- Part 1 of Indigo Hearts
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- 37/37
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12 Jun 2026
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A FAN-MADE DISPATCH SEQUEL PROJECT: 2 years after Shroud's defeat, Z-Team is LA’s flagship hero squad and a new federal agency—the Department of Powered Humans—has arrived to put capes under a microscope. On paper, SDN Torrance is thriving. In reality, everything’s starting to crack.
It’s been 2 years since the girl Robert fell in love with went too far and vanished. He’s been holding the line ever since—smiling at work, drinking at home, and quietly chasing every whisper of her codename through LA's underworld. But his search for Invisigal has never paid off. Until now.
Meanwhile, Z-Team is evolving whether they like it or not. Robert splits his time between the dispatching chair and the sky: the voice in his team’s ear and, when things get bad enough, Mecha Man himself leading them in the field. Mandy runs SDN without powers, Chase now wears Blazer’s necklace, and former villains like Malevola, Coupé and the rest of Z-Team are trying to make their “hero” titles stick while a charming new DPH liaison starts asking the wrong kinds of questions.
As old ghosts return and new rules close in, Robert and his friends are pushed to redraw the line between hero and villain before someone else draws it for them.
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- English
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12 Jun 2026
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Make the Man Mecha Again by Burreaux
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game), DCU (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, Batman: Arkham - All Media Types
05 Dec 2025
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Robert is not an idiot with tech. He’s actually a bit of a genius in regards to the stuff. Surely, this wouldn’t change much… would it?
Or; What if Robert is just really, really prepared, like a certain other armor-wearing superhero in another universe, but every bit as messed up as the two of them combined?
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- 16/?
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12 Jun 2026
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It's Always The Superhero, Its Hard to Live Up To by Thatguy274
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
20 Jun 2026
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The events of dispatch, as experienced by Mandy, AKA The Blonde Blazer. Some stuff we see onscreen, some we're only told about, and some stuff I just made up.
I Love Blonde Blazer so much, and I'm so glad she wasn't some sort of twist villain. I kinda wished she had a bigger role in the plot, and was more central to the story, like Invisigal. So here we are.
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- English
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- 100/?
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12 Jun 2026
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Mecha Man is dead.
Well, not exactly.
Robert Robertson III survived the explosion of Llewellyn Steel Works against all odds. The same couldn't be said for the others there.
Except one.
Invisibitch is on the run. Having collected the Astral Pulse from the bomb site and inadvertently taken over as public enemy #1 of the Red Ring since Shroud's demise, her priorities had shifted from "be the right hand woman to the man who finally gave her a chance" to "survive, whatever it takes." But running and hiding was only going to get her so far.
Robert Robertson III scavenged together scraps of the demolished Mecha Man suit to repurpose at his late father's lab, located within the Robertson Industries campus. With the Astral Pulse in the wrong hands, there was no telling what damage could be done. He had to get it back. Whatever it took.
They both are fighting for the same thing.
Truth.
But when the truth starts to get complicated for Robert and Courtney, two people who meet by complete chance in the shittiest dive bar in town, will they keep chasing it?
And when the truth comes out...
Something's got to give.
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12 Jun 2026
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After Episode 8, saving the world was the easy part — it’s everything after that gets complicated.
‘I’m Tuning Into You’ collects the quiet, messy, intimate moments between Invisigal and Robert as they figure out what it means to choose each other when the danger is gone.
Found family, soft chaos, awkward affection, late-night feelings, and two idiots learning how to love each other for real.- Language:
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- 32/?
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12 Jun 2026
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Years before losing the suit and working for SDN in return for said suits return, Robert Robertson the Third met a girl in a bar. Her name was Courtney
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- Part 1 of HR Is Going To Have A Field Day
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- English
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- 57,376
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- 25/?
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12 Jun 2026
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AU - No powers
Rob and Courtney meet in a bar. Things progress from there.
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12 Jun 2026
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An alternate retelling of the story of Dispatch from Malevola's point of view, daring to ask what would happen if the devs decided to let Robert fall in love with the demonic muscle mommy the rest of us all fell for.
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- Part 1 of The Devil From Down Under
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- English
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- 39/?
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12 Jun 2026