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While Elec is still at the Mall Rock has time to set up a perfect way to gift his baby brother the surprise.

He hikes up Pillows to make rows of seats. A teddy or two is set down, things Rock managed to purchase out of curiosity. But turns out they make great seat fillers.

Then the stage is set. A table is dragged to the middle of the room and the guitar set is hoisted on top. Where the light will shine best on it. There's bed sheets sown through some of the ceiling to make it look like curtains. Rock really wants this to be good.

and as Rock waits. And waits. His recharge clicks in and he winds down on the pillow seats stealing some of the audience to snuggle to.

Its okay he's sure he'll wake up and fix it before Elec shows up.

His brother and himself are so far from home. It... its good to have moments like these.

The movie ran a little longer then Elec expected. Despite the fact that he wasn't able to eat any of the tempting and delicious smelling popcorn, he'd had a good time. The movie was fun, had a couple twists he hadn't been expecting too. Plus it was nice seeing Kagerou having a good time. That ninja could get gloomy.

He'd almost forgotten Rock's suspicious little act until he got to his room again. He laughs a little. There's his baby big brother, he must have gotten himself tuckered out and fallen into recharge. He's kind of cute, and this is definitely a rare moment of him not bouncing around like he's made of rubber. So Elec sneaks a quick little picture of him.

He steps back then to examine the state of his room. Rock certainly out his all into...

Oh.

Oh Rock.

Elec walks up to the carefully constructed 'stage', feeling something prickle at his optics (he's too cool to cry though he swears) and carefully lifts the guitar up. No wonder Rock had been vibrating. His brother really is too good for his own good.

He lifts the strap over his shoulders and fishes a pick out of his pocket. It's the one the clerk told him to keep. Rock still has his old one and Elec thinks he'll let him have it.

His fingers hesitate over the strings for a moment.

And then he strums. A soft cord, nothing particular, but it's a happy sound.

It's a sound that starts to stir Rock. Sleeping cutie rubs the tiredness from his eyes and with a plush still in his arm he slowly rises up. His hair poofs out his helmet as he takes it off, and then a yawn to reset his fans.

"Aaw you showed up while I was out," Rock says disappointed but there's the hint of tired excitement for the fact Elec has found his gift.

"I knew you'd like it," is more confidence from the hero of Light Labs. Something mundane, something good. He stands and hold the bear to his side as he steps up over to the stage. "Oh! Did you cry?" Is the part that wakes Rock enough to tease.

Elec opens his mouth, fraction of a second away from thanking him and instead he balks, his face heating up. Why did the Doctor even GIVE them the ability to blush when embarrassed? Why didn't he give them the ability to manually override it and turn it OFF? Is this some kind of look more human BS? Cut probably doesn't have to deal with this/

"I wasn't crying," he replies, a bit quickly, suspiciously so. He resists the urge to touch his face to check. His optics are dry. So dry. They have been this entire time, "You don't have any proof."

Rock's face has that innocent smile but it doesn't hide too much of his playful prodding. "Oh, maybe I'm mistaken. Clearly my baby brother is too tough to cry even when overwhelmed with happiness." Rock says like a brat.

"But, your eyes look happy and glistened. So, maybe its just the lighting." He shrugs at him.

"Okay, I'll be nice. I'll stop." Rock chuckles tiredly and lays his arms over the table turning to look at him. "You looked content with music in your hands, so I wanted to make sure you stayed that way."

Even when he's playing 'brat' Rock really is way too sweet.

"I love it Rock," he smiles and crouches down just long enough to ruffle his brother's hair, "I do feel like that, when I've got music. It makes me happy, more then almost anything. I guess the only thing better is hanging out with my dorky older brother."

He straitens up and lets his fingers play over the strings again.

"Any requests? Since this is a special concert and all."

Rock chuckles at him and his face gets all shy with red fluster. "Can you do the one about the Bittersweet Lemons?." Rock shines up with sparkled interest.

"It's soft song but I like it." He puts his hands over the desk and hums happily. "It's such a silly one too and makes me happy in a sad way."

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The choice makes Elec laugh and he nods, "I know the one."

It is a funny little song, and Elec can tell why his brother likes it. Especially singing it himself, at the edge of the stage he set up so carefully.

"You'd make friends with them all if you could, wouldn't you?" he asks, as he lingers on the last few cords of the melody, "The Lemon Boys."

"Of course, I think even bitter people have a lot of love to offer. They're just harder to befriend, but I think I can." Rock's eyes twinkle so bright. So full of optimism, not yet broken and tired.

Maybe he'll be lucky and it'll never break his spirit.

"I... like some of the Wilybots. I like that I got to meet them before I hurt them, so maybe this way things will be better for everyone." Rock says with full belief. "I think we could all be friends someday. Bitter lemons and all."

Elec wants to tell him no. No it's a terrible idea. But... he thinks about Gemini. Once he'd made it clear he wasn't planning on attacking him without provocation and the other number had calmed down a bit they'd had a pretty normal time listening to music and swapping opinions.

He sighs.

"Just promise me you'll be careful," he finally replies, voice quietly serious, "I don't know how Doctor Light managed to cram so much compassion and hope in such a small body... or maybe he didn't and you just became that on you own. I just don't wanna see you get hurt, you hear?"

"Of course, I can't make friends if I'm dead." Rock says bluntly leaning his arms over the table stage. "I know ways around it. They only have orders to kill Megaman, there's nothing there about Rock Light." He says as if that's the perfect solution to everything.

As if its so easy to seperate Rock from Megaman. So easy to say they are different.

He doesn't fully understand the flaws. All he has is that hope on his face brightly shown. "Me and Gemini are starting as pen pals. Then some day I hope to see him in person."

"Just remember, the two sides of a coin may look real different but they're still the same coin," he reaches down and ruffle's the boy's hair affectionately, adding a bit of static with a smirk to make it fluff up a bit.

He's like to wrap him up in bubble wrap so nothing bad happens to him but... that's not reality.

"Hey, let's do something fun, see those over there," he grins and points to a few bags near the door, "Went to the craft store earlier and got some spray paint. I was going to stencil some lightning bolts on one of the walls but I got a another idea. Grab me the black one and pick one out for yourself."

Rock shivers and his hair poofs about. Making the little robot pout, his cheeks puffed out and his hair dancing off electic pulses. It's enough to make him not argue back against Elec's correct logic on Coins.

Though Rock didn't quite get what Coins had to do with himself.

"I'm always up for fun, but if you zap me again I'm stealing your power and zapping back." He warns with a smirk. Standing back to smooth out his hair. Which never worked before and won't work now. So he shrugs and goes to collect the sprays. The black, then Rock collects a nice baby blue. Predictable.

You're the Coin Rock. You're the coin.

"You know I have to treat my hair with special products so it doesn't stand on end all the time when my mask's off, right?" he laughs. That's one retaliation that's one hundred percent ineffective on him.

With Rock grabs the paint, Elec pulls the guitar off his shoulders and flips it upsidedown on the table.

"Thanks, now watch..." he takes the can and thinks as he shakes it up and pops the lid off. He makes a shocker with his free hand and presses it flat to the back of the guitar. A quick spray of paint and he lifts it, the shadow of his hand left on it.

"Your turn next," he nudges it closer to his brother, "If our other siblings show up I'll get them too."

He waves his colored hand a bit and a quick buzz of charge practically vaporizes the paint on it.

"To much hair product makes hair crusty. So I guess you must really know how to keep it silky instead, huh." And then Rocks' face lights up as he watches what fun thing Elec wanted to ask of him. Something for them to do together.

Rock looks at his hand, placing it carefully over the Guitar, and sprays over. Lifting slow, it's not often he thinks of the differences between him and Elec.

But the hand prints sure do point it out. He smiles, Ice's will be even smaller. Cut would probably put his right next to his. Bomb goes there, and they'll have to use teh back for Guts. Time and Oil might got over there.

And Roll might even put her hand somewhere on it.

The way his optics shift around, its quite obvious he's been deducing spots and predictions.

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