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"Hm, let's see...Yes, these'll do nicely!"
Mini Kii was on break after his just-finished rounds as mailbot. Being the kind little robot they were, they decided to collect leftover crumbs for their fellow tinies. A model wagon stored the crumbs, and a ladder connected the floor with the table should he need to make the trip. He was almost finished tossing crumbs off the table's edge and was about to head down the ladder when he was met with a rather familiar face.
It was that of his double, Kiibo. A human-sized robot with whom they'd had awkward relations at first, but who overall meant no harm. Mini Kii stared into his double's cloudy glass eyes, wondering what the latter was doing in the cafeteria, especially this late in the afternoon. Maybe he just hadn't been updated on something. Yeah. That must have been it.
Kiibo then suddenly picked up Mini Kii, shocking the poor smol quite a bit. This didn't flat-out scare him, though, and he spent a good minute continuing to stare. The two robots didn't break eye contact for even a split-second while the smaller was held delicately by the larger.
However, what happened next was enough to send Mini Kii through a mental world of hurt.
He was tossed into Kiibo's maw, and the feeling in his gyroscopic sensors of flying through the air did NOT sit well with him. They didn't even have time to register their surroundings before they heard a loud swallow. He was sucked down some tunnel, and all at once he understood what info he was missing out on. Kiibo had been given an eating function, which was now backfiring.
As Mini Kii found himself crammed in the blue-grey walls, the larger robot's internal mechanisms pushed him down the tunnel until he finally arrived at the stomach below. Now in a bit of a panic, Mini Kii tried to scream to be let out, but it proved to be fruitless as Kiibo walked back to the dorms.
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Knock knock...
"Come in, bitch."
"Oh, for the love of Atua, would you stop?"
"Kiibo! Sorry 'bout that."
"It's fine," Kiibo said, walking into Miu's lab. His steps were a bit quicker than what they usually would be. "What are you doing?" he asked, though truthfully that was only an icebreaker. The real question was that of something weird that had happened to him.
"Just workin' on some random thingie. Don't fuckin' question it."
"And what if I do?"
"Just shut up."
"I will absolutely NOT just shut up."
Suddenly, Kiibo's eyes widened. He thought it wouldn't return, but there it was. That weird feeling of something pounding against his insides made him shiver as he clutched his stomach in pain. Miu took notice of that motion and scooted her chair out to ask what was wrong.
"It's just..." Kiibo said. "Sometimes I feel this weird... it's like something is hitting my stomach from the inside." Miu pondered this for a moment, and when the realization hit, her eyes, too, widened in shock. She pulled Kiibo in by the shoulders and said, "Don't freak out, buuut, I think you may have eaten a borrower." And then, an oddly familiar voice called from Kiibo's stomach, "That's correct! And it was me!"
"MINI-ME!?"
"Shoulda thought it was him..."
Kiibo felt his stomach start to ache from fear and worry. Mini Kii was soon met with frantic apologies for the mishap. Each apologetic bow shook the space a bit, until they put a hand on the wall. At that point, Kiibo completely stopped. He was sort of paralyzed.
"It's fine. You're fine. I'm fine," Mini Kii said, running their hand along the stomach wall. "I understand your consumption of me was unintentional." Feeling the rubs from the inside was soothing for Kiibo. Hopefully the other borrowers wouldn't mind if he kept Mini Kii inside for a little longer.