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“That’s right I knew there was something I liked about you, Mike! And you two bots, you just keep em flying and remember Joel, alright?!”
Joel was on the way out. Sure Joel didn’t want to leave again, but the fish shop owner had important things to do on earth. At least that’s how Joel justified it.
Joel had been free of that place for five years, and simply wanted to stay as far away from the satellite of love as possible, but was unwilling to admit it. Joel had a lot of good memories there. Crow, Tom, G, and Cambot were some of the greatest friends anyone could ask for. Leaving the satellite meant leaving them, and if Joel was going through with it…
Joel pushed away that awful implication that actions did in fact have consequences, and continued out until hearing someone who’d forgotten to wish her creator goodbye.
Back on Earth in Castle Forrester, Pearl was watching as Frank and Bobo played soul ring toss, when Observer pointed out to her that one of the robots was trying to escape.
“What?! Which one?” Pearl asked.
“The one who runs all the life support functions on the ship and keeps Mike not dead.”
“Ugh! Are you serious? I can’t keep showing him bad movies if he’s not not dead! Brain Guy, do your stuff.”
“Gladly.”
G had come to wish Joel one last goodbye. Joel, whose heart was hurting now, wished she didn’t. G was one of Joel’s best friends, and seeing her again, NOW, the former prisoner on the Satellite of Love couldn’t take it, couldn’t take never seeing her again, or at least never being friends with her again.
Until Joel had of an idea.
“Why don’t you come back to Earth with me?”
G was unsure at first. The satellite was the only home she’d known, but she had missed Joel so much. It’d been so long since they’d seen each other, and G felt no one on the ship understood her as much as Joel did.
“Umm… umm…” G pondered.
“It’s okay G. I’m not gonna hold it against you if you don’t come to Earth.”
“Ummm…. Okay! I’ll go!”
Joel and G shared a hug and made their way towards the ship Joel had used to come up here, only for it to malfunction as soon as G made her way inside.
“The hell?!” Joel exclaimed.
Mike, Crow, and Servo were talking amongst each other about Joel when they noticed Pearl calling. Again. She just showed the movie. What else could she want?
“Hey Mike,” Pearl greeted. “Just calling in to make sure you and your little Transformers know that there’s no way off Mrs. Pearl’s Wild Ride!”
Mike squinted at the video feed. “What?”
“You know what I’m talking about Nelsonny,” Pearl said, wagging her finger. “One of your robots almost escaped!”
“Escaped? But we’re all right here, who could have-”
And at that moment, the bridge door opened and out came Joel once again, accompanied by G!
“Change of plans guys,” Joel said, keeping his cool. “I’m gonna stay here!”
Crow and Servo were ecstatic, but Mike was focused on G.
“You tried to leave?!” Mike lectured “G, you control the higher functions on the ship! If you’re not here I’ll die!”
G looked as much like a student who had forgotten that there was a test today as a robot of her design could look. “Oops! Sorry Mike! I forgot about that!”
“Well at least no one got hurt,” Mike said. “Just don’t do it again, okay?”
G nodded.
Unfortunately, the reunion was interrupted as they noticed something bang on the screen. Bobo ran to pick it up and showed off the item, his soul, to the crew on the satellite, when he realized something.
“Wait, Lawgiver,” Bobo said. “Doesn’t this mean that you have two people to perform the experiment on?”
Pearl yanked the soul from Bobo and flung it off somewhere, causing Bobo and Frank to chase after it.
“Anyway,” Pearl continued, “I just realized that I now have two of you fuckers to perform my experiment on. So Mike, you and Joey-”
“Joel.”
“Whatever. Mike, you and Johnny get along now. Or… don’t.”
And there went the transmission.
Everything was silent until Servo spoke up.
“So Joel, you wanna see how things are different around here?”
“Oh! And after that,” Crow said, “we should have a welcoming party!”
And thus a tour of the satellite and a welcoming party were had, and they all had a good time until everyone on the satellite was tuckered out and ready to go to sleep.
As Crow went on to his room, he thought about how he’d really lucked out. He hadn’t seen Joel in centuries and almost forgot that face sometimes! He didn’t want Joel to just show up and leave him again like tha-
“Hey, Wait a minute!”