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[NOT TESTED]

The world inside was not a world at all. Just white. Flat and endless and too quiet. Polka Dot stood in the middle of it and did not know how she got there.

And then she turned around.

Mars Rover stood a few feet away, hands clasped behind their back, looking at her the way someone looks at a finished project sitting on a shelf.

"There you are."

Polka Dot stared. "This is... this is not outside."

"No. It is not."

"Then where." She looked down at her hands. The orbs were gone. "Where are my..."

"They are mine as much as yours now." Mars Rover tilted their head slightly. "Everything you are now is. You understand that, do you not?"

Polka Dot's eyes came back up slowly. "No."

"That is alright. Understanding was never part of the design." Mars Rover took one step closer, unhurried. "I built what you are now, Polka Dot. Every instinct you cannot name. Every urge you cannot stop. That destruction you feel when there are no orders. That is not a flaw." A small pause. "That is me. Living in the parts of you that you lost the name for."

Polka Dot took a step back. "I am... I am me."

"You were." Mars Rover said it gently, the way someone corrects a small child. Not unkindly. Just firmly. "But I am in you now. I am the order when you are focused. I am the noise when you are not. You do not get to go anywhere I do not follow."

Something flickered across Polka Dot's face. Confusion first. Then something older and quieter underneath it.

"I did not... I did not ask for this."

Mars Rover looked at her for a long moment.

"No. You did not."

They did not apologize. They did not look away either.

"But here we are all the same. You are you and I am in you and neither of us is leaving. So." They turned slightly, gesturing at nothing, at the white all around them. "The sooner you stop fighting the parts of yourself you do not recognize, the easier this becomes. For both of us."

Polka Dot stood very still. The silence stretched long.

"...I remember something." Her voice came out smaller than before. "Before. There was something before."

"There was." Mars Rover agreed without hesitation.

"Was it..." She struggled. Stopped. Started again. "Was it me."

Mars Rover looked at her one last time before the white started pulling apart at the edges, the space dissolving back into nothing.

"It was a version of you. Yes."

And then Polka Dot was alone again, standing in the dark of a world she no longer fully recognized, with something in her chest that had no name and nowhere to go.

THIS IS AN AU IM IN THE WORKS OF MAKING TO PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH ME!

Rovering Assult AU (Bot 1/6)

THIS IS A DEAD DOVE SO BE WARNED!!

Also yes i put an entire JJK reference that SUREELLLY (trusttrust/j) has nothing to do with this AU'S plotline between mars rover and polka dot...