Teen Gary Au (Final Space)

Face Hugger

Gary groaned loudly, stopping after a moment to listen to the dead silence before groaning loudly once again, repeating this until-

"What is it, Gary" HUE asked, you could hear the sigh in his voice. Gary stood up from the floor he layed in, glad to finally get some attention

"Can I have a cookie?" He asked, looking up despite knowing the AI was the whole ship. HUE hummed in thought, pausing before finally answering

"No"

"Why not" Gary whined flapping his legs lightly in a small tantrum.

"You know why, Gary" HUE replied with his usual monotone voice.

It had been nearly 5 years of listening to that monotone voice that Gary could now tell the difference and emotion behind it.
The 18 year old groaned yet again, laying back down only to roll on the floor. He was bored and wanted something sweet to eat- he could barely remember the taste of anything sweet, sure, but he wanted it. Gary threw himself a pity party, the amount of times his days had been added for trying to steal a cookie should be a crime.

"Gary" HUE warned "you can't fix the satellite 1891C, can you?"

"Very funny, HUE" Gary stopped rolling about "not gonna work on me, I've grown much wiser now! Such tricks won't work on the Captain" he laughed, standing far too quickly.

"You are not the captain, Gary" HUE reminded as Gary used the wall for support, trying to blink the black dots away.

"Get off my cheeks, HUE" Gary put on his helmet on to go do his job.

"Get off my cheeks, Gary" the AI replied, having learnt the vocabulary from the youngest.

Part of Gary believed the Infinity Guard was just training him, the moment he were to set foot on Earth he would be sure to be forced to fix all the ships he destroyed.

"Ah- damn, missed it" Gary layed ontop of the satellite, watching the hologram of a Spanish novela "so it was Ricardo all this time? No way- can'tbelieve he was the one who killed Eduardo's father all this time" he commented to himself, ignoring everytime HIE seemed to scold him.

"What the-" Gary squinted "there's a glitch...some kind of pixel is- woah its like in 3D! Wait-" Gary sat up as something flew straight to his face.

"Chookity"

And with that Gary began to scream in a way only a teen who spent his whole life by himself running away from thugs then proceeded to spend 5 years with nothing but robots would.

"IT'S EATING MY FACE!! OH MY GOD- ITS A FACE EATER!!" He shrieked, the helmet protecting him wasnt enough to calm his nerves. After a few moments of the green poker face staring at him and him screaming alone in space, Gary finally calmed down.

"Huh...You're not a face eater, you're  a face... hugger" Gary smiled squeezing the alien's cheeks with a small smile.

"Chookity" the small alien answered, finally backing away with a small twirl

"Huh...I need a face hugger in my life" the lonely teen was quick to accept whatever this species he had never seen as his new companion

"Wooaaaoooo!" The little alien cheered

"You know...you remind me of a friend I used to have a long time ago" Gary smiled at the memory he still held close to heart "how do you like the name Mooncake?" Gary asked

Another cheer was heard as the alien wiggled its tiny feet (or were they hands?) Happily

"Mooncake it is" Gary chuckled, taking his new friend in his arms as he made his way back to the ship "Im pumped! Super excited- you don't, by any chance, speak real words do you?"

"Chookity pa" Mooncake replied

"Works for me" Gary decided, stepping back in the Galaxy One "now....the less HUE knows about you the better" Gary whispered to Mooncake "he's like super strict dude- nice but strict"

Gary looked around his room attempting to hide Mooncake in several places

"I hide there sometimes, I'm like a mattress ghost" Gary whispered, allowing Mooncake to sit under his mattress "Don't tell anyone"

"Ooooooh" Mooncake imitated a ghost quietly

"Oh! Perfect!" Gary grinned "Per- Actually no its not perfect- why does that suck so hard?" He groaned, looking around yet again "okay how about this?"

Gary picked up his little friend and some underwear he forgot to tidy up
"Sometimes I like to hide from myself by putting underwear on top of my head" Gary placed the briefs ontop of Mooncake, of anyone were to see this they'd assume he had lost his sanity "how about that? Hoes it fit?"

"Chookity" Mooncake smiled

"Perfect!"

HUE watched the whole thing, remaining quiet and allowing Gary to do his own thing for now. Perhaps a therapy pet would do some good for Gary.