Iron Giant: You Are Who You Chose To Be (Female Reader Inserted)

Something Big

The next day the kids are in class where Hogarth is drawing the giant robot he saw earlier, (Name) writes down what happens in her journal, as the whole class watches an educational film.

"A peaceful, stay-at-home kind of day in a town very much like your own. But then suddenly without warning." The bomb exploded. "Atomic holocaust! But how does one survive an atomic attack?"

A boy in the class whispers to another boy. "Hey did you hear about crazy Mr. Stutz? He says his boat ran into a sea monster." "I heard it was sunk by a meteor." The boy replies. Another boy shakes his head and says. "No, no, no. It was a metal meteor. It ate his boat. My dad says...."

Hogarth and (Name) have an annoyed look on their faces. Hogarth turns in seat to interrupt them. "It wasn't any of those things." One of the boys is annoyed, and says. "What would you know about it Poindexter?" Mrs. Tensedge speaks to Hogarth sternly. "Hogarth!" She shushes him. "Don't make me come over there."

The chorus on film, sings. "Hands over your head, Keep low to the ground, Time to duck in cover, The bombs are coming down." The bomb exploded. "Duck and cover."

(Name) whispers to her classmates. "It's about 50 or 60 feet high and it only eats metal." Another one of the boy is annoyed by her joining in as well and whispers. "Shut up, you little spaz!"

"It's probably been sent by foreigners to take over the country." One of the boys suggested. "Yeah, we should bomb it to smithereens before it does." A other boy says.

"Cause all the kids who don't, Will cease to be around." Hogarth draws a giant robot eating metal. While (Name) writes: 'idoits in class don't believe us.'

In Chant 'n' Chew, Annie makes Dean some coffee. "What a nice girl serving coffee to a guy like me." He asked her. "Particularly, I have the right to refuse the service to anyone." She says referring to the sign. "I'm sorry about yesterday. I usually..." Dean trails off searching for the right words.

"Not like that?" She asked. Dean chuckles. "Right." They chuckle softly. "It wasn't your fault. Hogarth is... I think he's lonely. He has (Name), but... I don't know he's been acting different around her at times."

Dean feels sympathy. "Yeah. Well, he's a good kid. At least he's got her. When I was his age I didn't have any friends." They smile at each other. Earl approaches Dean by placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Hey, c'mon outside. I've going somethin' to show ya." Outside the Diner, Dean is examining a eaten tractor. "Thanks for the scrap, Floyd. I can't pay you more, but well, it's.... it's got this um... this large bite out of it."

"That's why I'm selling it, it's got a large bite out of it." Floyd told him. Dean chuckles softly. "That's... Who could have done this?" Earl is quick to respond. "I told you what." He reminded him. "Oh, yeah. Strange invaders." Dean says as he walks to his truck. "Thanks for believing me. I really did call the government. They're sending someone to take care of the whole thing."

"Jeez, Earl. You really are crazy. I mean, who in the hell would the government send?"

Answering Dean's question, someone closes the car with the goverment seal with 'BUREAU OF UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA'. Kent Mansley, a government agent, who is smoking his pipe. He takes out his ID to show it to Marv.

"Kent Mansley, United States Government, Unexplained Phenomena department." Kent said putting his ID away. "Marv Loach. I the...." Marv tries to talk, but Kent interrupts him. "What happened here?"

"Not sure. Sometimes the line'll snap if the weather is bad, sure." Marv and Kent walk through the wreckage of the power station. "But for a whole tower to get twisted up like that.... It's got me beat. It's almost like it was bitten off by some enormous beast."

Kent writers the notes down. "Enormous beast, yeah. What do you think? Escaped gorilla?" "Err, what department is that again?" Marv asked. "Frankly, I'm not at liberty to reveal the particulars of the agency I work for... and all that that implies." Kent told him. "You mean the...." Marv then speak softly. "...national security?"

"Let's put it this way. Once in a while, things happen... that can't be rationalized in a conventional way. People wanna know that their government has a response. I am that response. So were there any witnesses?"

"Well, sir, if you'll just follow me." Kent follows Marv to his truck. Marv opens his truck and takes out what's left of Hogarth's BB Gun. "We did find this." Kent examines the damaged BB Gun.

"United States Government, huh? Guess that means something big's happening here, eh?" Marv asked. Kent looms at him amuse. "No, Marv. Big things happen in big places. The sooner I fill out my report, the sooner I can get back to them."

Kent walks away with the BB Gun. He talks to himself, sarcastically. "Enormous beast, yeah...." He chuckles as he enters his car, placing the BB Gun in the seat next to him. "Biggest thing here is probably the homecoming queen...."

Kent notices, his car has a chunk bitten out. "OH MY GOD!" He jumps out, terrified, and his fedora falls off. He then quickly runs back to the power station. After he left, the giant robot's arm emerges from the trees.

Kent is escorting Marv to his car. "Come on Marv, I need a witness. It's around the corner." He said pulling Marv along. "Don't pull so hard." Marv told him.

Kent is panicking as he says. "It's like a big chomp out of the side of the car. It's like a bite out of a ham sandwich, like a..." He became lost for words when his car is no longer there. Only his fedora and the BB gun remains. Marv is confused. "What err- What are we looking at here, Mr. Manley?" Kent narrows his eyes. "Something big, Marv." He picks up the damaged BB gun.

"Something big."