[A box of cake pops is delivered to Syx’s home. Except, there isn’t cake inside any of them. They are all chocolate dipped brussel sprouts with sprinkles on top. There is a note that is attached to the box.] Making sure you don’t think I forgot you. Signed, Harrison’s Wayne.

Syx’s eyes lit up at seeing the treats. Seeing that they were from Wayne, and not the one he had The Game going with, he popped one in his mouth without thinking any further about it. Normally this time of year Syx would have geared up for some epic prank, but it seemed in poor taste with his Wayne being out of sorts and Syx wasn’t sure if he was ready to battle Wayne right now emotionally speaking anyway.

He’d just been thinking that he needed to do something nice for Harrison’s Wayne when the taste hit him. Doubling over and gagging, Syx spit the disgusting thing out, “MINION! I’VE BEEN POISONED!”

“LOOK!” the frantic villain waved the box in Minion’s face.

“I don’t know, Sir.. they seem fine to me,” Minion shrugged a robotic shoulder as he bit into one, “An acquired taste, maybe.”

“Minion, you’re impossible!” Syx stalked off to prepare his revenge. It seemed the game was on after all… just with a new, but similar, target.

🌑 – Fears? ☕️ – Hot or cold beverage? 🍭 – Childhood memory? 🐍 – Choice of pet?

🌑 – Fears? 

“Bot flies and anything like them.”

☕️ – Hot or cold beverage? 

“Well generally the cocoa was supposed to be hot but it’s usually cold sludge when I remember to drink it.”

🍭 – Childhood memory? 

“I could never understand why the other children hated me when they loved Wayne. That me being blue was so much worse than the ways he wasn’t human. I used to come home with black eyes and bruises from those damn dodgeballs… Daddy would always wrap me up in my favorite blankie with the space ships on it and read me Principles of Physics. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized how much that meant that he’d read it to me even if he couldn’t understand it himself. He’d always let me explain or complain about the writing until I could fall asleep. Promising that tomorrow would be better… it never was.”

[ illustration ] {{ pimping old art ;P }}

🐍 – Choice of pet?

“Dog. The original brain bots were actually all modeled after a dog I had as a teen…”