Rising Stars: A Fandroid Fanfic

Chapter 01: "All Aboard"

Fritztown: Circuit Station
"The start on our rise to fame Melody! Can you believe it?" said Fandroid gesturing to their current surroundings, an expansive station that housed multiple railways above and below them. The tracks suspending on air using their magnetic suspension units to stay up.

More noticeable were the people... er robots that encompassed them. All of them being distinct models, ranging from tall spiny androids, to short stocky heavy lifting bots, or even other similar floating models like Melody herself.

"I can scarcely believe it too Fandroid, but we won't be getting anywhere at all if we miss our train!" she searched frantically for their station, spotting it near an empty booth. "Come on lets go!"

"Argh, almost forgot why we we're here!" he internally scolded himself for letting his amazement get the better of him.

Both started to speed walk, or in Melodies case speed float, over to the gate that blocked them from their destination. A reminder came up from the speaker system above:

Last call for railway C16, Last call for railway C16, Headed for the district of Showtopia.

The pair stopped in front of 2 large ATM like machines to insert their verfication tickets, and since Melody lacked any sort of limbs, Fandroid had to insert the tickets for both of them.

The screen flashed with a green check mark for both and slid open the gate leading to the railway platform. Sitting 5 feet in front of the yellow line was a bullet train. It had smooth curves to reduce aerodynamic drag, allowing for it to reach speeds of up to 700 kilometers an hour. What propelled it were the magnets in the tracks that pushed on the train, allowing it to seamlessly glide and build up speed.

Both bots took their respective seats, Fandroid taking a padded L shaped seat. With Melody getting the seat next to him, similar in build but with a booster seat that allowed Melody to lock on. Letting her truly "sit" and not just floating tethered to a pole or in this case the seat.

Once Melody had magnetically locked into place she instructed the seat to raise onto eye to eye level with Fandroid. The terminal beeped, and then the chair rose. It's electric motors hummed as it slowly inched upwards.

"Soooo Fandroid... now that we're on the train and not stressed out, what do you wanna talk about?"

"I dunno, maybe a new song we could write up?"he dismissively responded.

"Come on Fandroid, we have the next whole year to do that, I wanna talk about something fun to do!" slightly increasing her volume for that last word, giving it extra emphasis.

"Hmmm," scratching at his lower TV screen, "How about we visit the hub after we settle in at the housing complex?"

"Oooo," the train started moving as both bots could feel the inertia. "What are we going to do?"

"Look we'll find out when we get there okay?" his eyes darted to the pink robot that was currently right next to his head, "And please, lower your seat. It's going to be hard for me to update my drives if you're 2 inches from headphones."

He pointed at his pair of headphones, "These contain my antennas, remember?"

Melody resentfully glanced downward and ordered the terminal to lower her seat. The seat was back to it's original spot, allowing Fandroid to lay his hand on top of her chassis. Her eyes pointed upwards and she smiled at him, Fandroid reciprocating.

"Now it's time to update my drivers," his hand pulled on a hatch that was located on the side of his left speaker, opening a USB port. He pulled out a wire from his headphones and connected them to the port. His screen turned blank and rebooted with a loading bar. But to him all he was able to see was a sudden darkness, and then blinding light.