Chapter 2 (third person)

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(This is in third person, on the border of the city and the badlands, then in space, focusing on Air Man)

The day after Fire Man and Wave Man left, it was unusually sunny. Air Man was fighting off Guts Man on the border between the city and the badlands.
"AH!"
Air Man was punched at his side, painfully, it didn't help at the fact that his only hand was gone. Guts Man laughed before charging at him, picking him up, and slamming him back on the ground. Air Man groaned and used his buster to get the giant off of him, before standing back up and taking position. All Air Man can think of is to get Guts Man off the ground and fling him high enough where he won't survive the fall. He started to use his shoulder fans to get up off the ground, and high in the sky before taking Guts Man with him at a safe distance.
"Ahahahahaa! You'll never get through with this!"
Air Man taunted, passing Guts Man around with shots of pressurized wind. Guts Man nabbed one of Air Man's fans and ripped it off, causing the air bot to scream in pain and dropped both of them. Guts Man landed and saw an opening and ran at him, his jaw open. Air Man quickly dodged and said,
"WAIT!"
And stopped Guts Man in his tracks,
"What do you mean, wait?"
Air Man was thinking of an excuse for Guts Man to not eat him,
"Listen to me, what's one of the worst things you could eat, if you were given a choice?"
Guts Man pondered, and replied,
"Well, that is easy, potatoes and my comrades."
Air Man thought of another excuse,
"Well, you wouldn't want to eat metal, right? Or antifreeze? You wouldn't want my sharp edges to jab and tear your... whatever it is..."
Air Man was convincing Guts Man to not eat him, and Guts Man was actually convinced.
"Well, if I can't eat you, then I'LL THROW YOU INTO THE OUTER LIMITS!"
And he grabbed Air Man and threw him so hard that he was flung into space, again. There was screaming, and Guts Man's task of taking down another robot was completed.

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Air Man entered the cold comfort of space, and saw the earth.
"Aw no! Not again!"
Air Man kicked his legs in anger, completely ignoring the pain in the left of his head. He sighed and stopped,
"I guess... I can't even beat Guts Man... after all I try, I'm not good enough. I can't do anything, and I'm a failure.."
Air Man wanted to cry, but couldn't, he felt the pain from what Guts Man did the damage on.
"I hope to never see the light of this horrible place again! Oh please someone take out my misery! I want to go.... I just want somewhere to be..."
He was left to his thoughts, for a while, it felt like minutes to him, but it was days of him floating through space. He opened his tired eyes and saw a weird purple and white cat-robot-humanoid, and tried to move back, but wasn't able to.
"Who... are... you...?"
He said, the unknown person awnsered,
"My name's Pluto, the Stardroid, now who are you?"
"Air... Man...."
He responded, Pluto wrapped his arms around the bot and seemingly walked for what seemed to be miles, until he got to a space ship. Pluto spoke into a communicator and got in the ship, gravity has returned. Air Man wasn't able to hear anything, and Pluto shouted,
"SAAATUUUURRRRRN!!! WE HAVE A TESTER!!!!"
And clumsily ran with Air Man still in his arms. Saturn, walked out and opened the lab door for Pluto to run into, and closed it.
"Place him on the table, where did you find him?"
"He was floating beside Earth, I heard his cries and responded."
Saturn hummed before checking Air Man's injuries, and then taking out a notebook, scrawling out different notes.
"I have to open him up and look at his motherboard, data, and determine if he can be out tester."
Saturn sighed at the amount of work he's gonna do, he took off the head platings and took out what he needed, before examining it and putting it in what looks to be a computer.
"Pluto, I need you to read this, I'll get the suit ready."
Air Man's body was now a electric husk without his data. Saturn heaved a star themed robot in, and placed a pair of visors on the helmet. Pluto was happy to find all credentials in Air Man.
"We have a winner!! Contact the others!"
Saturn sighed and picked up a phone.
"You better put in the chips and explain everything to him, oh? Hello! Yes.... that's not a problem... we actually have good news about our experiment! Yes we found a viable candidate! Don't come over yet, Star Man needs time to get used to everything, then we can do introductions."
Pluto placed Air Man's personality in Star Man's head, before adding his new abilities, closing up the head and turning Star Man online.
"Welcome to the StarShip! And welcome to the family!"
Pluto happily said as Saturn hung up the phone and sat in a chair to watch the events unfold. Pluto hugged Star Man tightly,
"Wh- whats happening? I-is that my body? What did you do?!"
Pluto stopped and explained everything.
"You were stuck in space, right beside Earth, and you cried for death to take you, so I did! You wanted a new life so we brought you in and transferred your data into another body, and here we are! You're a Stardroid now, you're our youngest brother, your name is... Star Man! Or if you want, Betelgeuse."
Star Man didn't say anything until,
"I prefer Star Man..."
Both seemed happy, and explained him all of his functions.
"Your primary ability is the Star Barrier, and you can fly into opponents with it, you also have turbo boosters to propel yourself and fly, and you have a communicator in the shape of a rose."
Star Man was happy with this, he genuinely felt better about himself, and was walked out of the lab into the main room, to see 7 of his new brothers welcome him.
"I see you're awake, welcome back. I'm glad you're ok."
Said the one with the wild green hair. They started to introduce themselves,
"Mercury!"
"Venus."
"Terra."
"Mars!"
"Jupiter...."
"Uranus."
"Neptune!"
"And you've met the two of us, I'm Pluto and this is my brother Saturn."
The cat said, Star Man smiled brightly.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's have some fun!"
The Stardroids and their newest brother got along pretty well, as they also showed Star Man each of their abilities. As they showed their abilities, Star Man stood there.

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Star Man tested out the star barrier, and everyone was impressed, Saturn demonstrated how Star can take off his helmet, which looked like a blue alien with long fluffy ears and golden fluffy hair. Star Man got the family he asked for, and didn't pay no mind to his past. Sometime later, he was playing video games against Neptune.
"I SWEAR ON ME LIFE YOU'RE CHEATING!"
"I am not! You're just mad because you suck!"
Mars passed the two bickering about the game and chuckled, gaining the attention of the two.
"Do ye want to play, chuckle tits?"
Neptune asked, earning a snort out of Star Man and a huff from Mars, who promptly took the controller out of Star's hands and started to play. They each got angrier and angrier, earning a crowd of the others. They broke into a fight that Venus had to break up. There was a pang in Star's heart, he wanted to go back to earth, but he didn't want to leave his new family, Terra saw something was bothering him and took him into another room.
"Star, is something wrong?"
He asked, Star Man replied with,
"I miss the Earth, I don't know why."
Terra paused for a moment, Star did originally come from Earth, and the suit was originally from a robot whom roamed the universe with no care, the old personality was setting in.
"I have this feeling, or a want to be free, I don't want to be tied down to something..."
Terra nodded,
"If that's how you feel, then that's how you feel. You can always seek us out."
Star Man muttered a 'yes' and walks out. He thought it was the right idea to tell this to the group.

Silence.

Then, each all said their regards, and support. Pluto wanted to stay with Star Man, but knew he couldn't, so he asked him this,
"Star... can you promise me that you will visit us?"
Star nodded with a new fire in his eyes, he wanted to live a new life, and also see his robot peers too. He exited the ship and blasted off with the jets, with the Stardroids waving goodbye. What little did both groups know, the suit's former user's personality was engrained in there, the user was a hopeless romantic that wished to travel the universe in the name of love.

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