Complicated... Feelings? (Roz x Vontra)

Searching...

Silence filled the research lab. Pure, utter silence... apart from the aggressive typing of a certain tentacle robot. Each click and clack echoed through the white room, practically shaking the walls and everything inside of it. That included shaking up another certain robot, a taller one, known as Rozzum.

The taller of the two was sitting on the work bench from before, trying to recall every single memory of her past wild life. Her most prominent ones being, of course, those of her adoptive son, Brightbill. While she recalled moments of struggle, sorrow, and even failure, those of joy and triumph shone through brighter than a thousand suns.

        Roz's fond memories were rudely interrupted, however, when a certain tentacle robot decided to yell out.

"Useless!" Vontra exclaimed, sweeping the desk she was working at, causing a hefty keyboard to fall on the floor with a thud. The smaller robot then hovered away from her work station, two of her limbs on the sides of her head.

          "Are you alright?" Roz asked after a moment of silence.

        Vontra turned her attention to the taller bot, lowering her tentacles from her head. "No, I'm not alright. None of this is alright," she stated, her voice having an unfamiliar amount of aggression in it. "It's been three days. Three days and we've made no progress whatsoever."

        The taller bot stood there, unsure if saying something would make the situation worse.  But as she stared at the smaller bot, she realized that nothing would be much worse than what's already happened.

       "You've been researching about love, right?" Roz asked, trying not to sound too aloof about the situation.

        Vontra's camera eye adjusted as she glared at Rozzum. "Yes, I've been researching about love," The tone of her voice was agitated, but she somehow maintained her programmed cheerful pitch. "What else am I supposed to research, Rozzum?" The smaller bot asked, the way she said it making it seem more like a snarky remark than an actual question.

       "Well, what exactly have you been searching for?" Roz asked in a calm manner, ignoring the other robot's aggression.

        The tentacle robot's eye adjusted once more, narrowing on the taller bot's face. She wrapped one of her limbs around Rozzum's arm, leading her to the wall of computers. Every screen was filled with articles about the history of love, questions about the philosophy of it, and everything in between.

Another one of Vontra's limbs extended out, gesturing towards the wall of computer screens. "This is what I've been searching through. All of this and I have no solid answers as to why love would alter the programming of an android."

Rozzum stared at the screens for a moment, her hand resting on her chin as if she were pondering something. After a moment of uninterrupted staring, the taller bot stated, "I think I know why you haven't found your desired results."

"And why is that?" Vontra asked, her voice shifting back to her intrigued programmed tone.

"You've been focused on the ethics of love, the idea of it, rather than the emotion itself," Roz noted, speaking as though she were smiling at the sudden realization.

"Elaborate," Vontra said, sitting (or hovering) at her desk chair. Her pincers were right above the keyboard, ready to type whatever Rozzum was about to say.

        "You never researched the effects of love; what it feels like to experience love, how to experience the feeling of love," Rozzum shared, her eyes lighting up as if she just discovered the missing piece of a puzzle.

        The tentacle robot paused, raising a nonexistent eyebrow. "And how would I begin to research that?" She asked, her tone of voice optimistic yet still skeptical.

        "May I?" Roz asked politely, hovering her hands over the keyboard.

        Vontra gave a nod, moving away from the desk, allowing Rozzum to take a seat. The tentacle bot watched as the taller one typed out a sentence, her eye narrowing at the screen.

        "Do you really think that'll provide the results we need?" Vontra remarked, reading the sentence that had been typed.

        "Yes, I do," Roz replied, pressing enter.

Author's Note: I finally updated it! Yay TvT

I promise there will be a new update soon! :]