3The next day, Stephanie woke up, thinking that it would be the usual routine.
To wake up early in the morning, get dressed in her clothes as fast as she could, and to cook breakfast those two brats back at 'home.'
But before she could get up, however, Stephanie smelled something cooking from the kitchen.
It stopped Stephanie for a moment to rethink what she had smelled, thinking that someone is cooking for themselves.
But, after her grogginess died down, she saw that she was in someone's room and laying on top of a bed.
Remembering what happened yesterday, Stephanie sighed as she laid her head back down on the LEGO pillow, which was not hard by how it looked to her, but it was soft.
Since Stephanie was tossed into a LEGO universe after turning on a portal-like machine, she had been uncertain about her difference in this realm.
She is a human, as they are LEGO mini-figures, and shorter than her that only reaches up to her stomach or her hips.
Stephanie rethought the word 'human' in her head repeatedly to herself, glancing down at her right metal hand in judgment.
A knock knocked on the door of her room, snapping Stephanie out of her thoughts on her 'human' features.
"Stephanie?" It was Emmet's voice. "Are you awake? I just made breakfast for you if you are hungry!"
Stephanie perked a little from Emmet's words, looking confused from what he had said.
It was unusual for a 'roommate' of hers to cook food for her.
Sure, Stephanie is hungry, but she did not expect someone to cook food.
She thought she had to cook her own food for herself.
Stephanie sat up in her bed with her elbows, saying, "Thank you, Emmet. I'll come out of the room after getting into my clothes."
"Awesome!" Emmet beamed from the other side of the door. "I'll wait for you in the kitchen!"
With that, Emmet walked off, leaving Stephanie in a makeshift room that Emmet had built for her.
Since she is staying in his apartment with his girlfriend, Wyldstyle, after being tossed into his world.
Brushing back a stray of messy wire hair, Stephanie got up from her bed and pushed the blankets away.
She is amused at how creative Emmet was with making this room for her.
Even though she was an alien to everyone else, he showed compassion to her no matter what.
After changing out of her pajamas and into her usual, Stephanie opened the door of her makeshift room while pushing back another stray hair.
It was up to her height so that she would not feel like Alice being stuck in a tight room.
She entered the living room once she had closed the door of her room behind her back.
Oddly, it changed a little to her confusion when she noticed.
The roof above her head was not making her feel uncomfortable, but enough to make her move freely.
She walked into the kitchen through the doorway, which was also altered to allow her to enter.
Stephanie hates it every time she bumped her head against the frame.
When she entered the kitchen, Stephanie was surprised at how much food was there on the table from Emmet.
There were waffles, pancakes, orange juice, milk, eggs, bacon, sausage, and other breakfast items that were on the table.
"Uh, Emmet?" Stephanie asked as he placed down a skillet filled with hashbrowns. "Did you make all of this food for me?"
Emmet glanced over at her and answered, "Well, I didn't know what you like for breakfast, so I cooked everything for you!"
A sheepish and slightly confused smile appeared on Stephanie's face as Emmet named off the food he picked and cooked.
"Ooh, I even made this," Emmet picked up a wok filled with grounded meat and potatoes, along with sunny side up eggs. "It's chorizo and eggs. I read this off the internet earlier before I woke you up."
Stephanie paused for a moment after Emmet finished naming off of the breakfast items he either made or cooked before smiling, a soft but sad smile.
"I appreciate all the food that you have cooked for me, Emmet. " Stephanie explained. "This isn't the usual things I always get whenever I am staying over at someone's apartment."
Emmet looked confused as he placed the wok down from showing her.
"What do you mean?" Emmet asked.
Stephanie rubbed the back of her neck while sighing through her teeth.
"Sometimes I have to cook food for myself or for the person I am staying with because," she quoted the words she repeatedly heard from her former roommates. "'That is what cyborgs and robots are good at.'"
Emmet looked surprised after Stephanie explained to him, but mostly from the quoting from her fingers.
"Well, that is rude of them!" Emmet exclaimed as Stephanie nodded her head in agreement. "But never mind about them! Consider this as a change! Eat as much as you like!"
He walked over to the breakfast tray on the counter, which has two plates of waffles, two coffee cups, one orange and one black, blue, and hot pink, and picked it up.
"Except this." Emmet smiled before walking to his room and entered inside, closing the door behind his back.
Stephanie chuckled slightly to herself as she gently shook her head slightly, amused at how generous Emmet is with his girlfriend.
Mostly, it made Stephanie feel like she is being left out.
But she shook the thought away and went into eating.
Stephanie surprisingly ate through the large plate of waffles, which each was filled with different types of fruits or chocolate chips mixed inside the batter.
She even enjoyed the cup of coffee Emmet poured her, despite only having one scoop of sugar and filled with milk instead of half-and-half.
After she finished the chorizo and eggs, which she had saved for last, Stephanie was past full, but satisfied.
Being generous to Emmet for cooking the breakfast, she washed every plate, skillet, and forks she used to eat for the large breakfast.
Once the last fork was washed, Emmet entered the room with the breakfast tray in his hand, with empty plates.
"Hi, Stephanie, how was the-Oh my gosh!" Emmet exclaimed, almost dropping the items in his hands before Stephanie caught them.
"Be careful!" Stephanie warned as she stood up. "You might accidentally break the plates, including these cute mugs."
Emmet shook his head with surprise, mentioning a clawed hand over to the empty table.
"You finished everything?!" he exclaimed.
"The large breakfast you made for her?" Wyldstyle asked.
Emmet turned his head around to her without moving his body and answered, "Yes, even the large skillet of hashbrowns!"
Stephanie blushed a deep neon pink color, feeling sheepish for overeating and instead of saving.
Emmet turned back around to Stephanie and asked, "How come you are not stuffed from eating all that food?!"
She only replied with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Fast digestion?" Stephanie guessed.
Emmet shrugged too, and turned her back around to him, washing the plates and coffee cups for him.
He was surprised at how gentle Stephanie was with the fragile dishes in her large hands, even placing them in the drying rack too.
Once the last dish was cleaned, Stephanie stretched out her back carefully, without accidentally knocking anything over.
"Now that you are… weirdly normal after eating that large breakfast, let me show you to the Masterbuilders!" Emmet perked, despite being concerned or suspicious of her.
Wyldstyle, on the other hand, was suspicious about Stephanie, after she got out of the room, dressed in her clothes.
Stephanie felt worried about herself that she might have shown a little of her powers to them, making her more of a threat than a friend.
So, she stuck herself with a mental note to not show any more powers to everyone to make herself look like a freak.
After getting into Emmet's car, which was still in the same condition it was in since yesterday, Stephanie was sitting at the back as Wyldstyle was sitting in the passenger seat.
Despite the new size, Stephanie has to keep her knees up to her chest to be comfortable.
Emmet drove through Syspocalypstar towards the outside of the city, as Stephanie glanced around at the civilians.
Everyone looked happy and full of energy as they bought coffee, pastries, and many other things.
Stephanie, on the other hand, wanted to fit in with the crowd as she watched them with slight sadness, feeling less like a human to them.
Emmet drove over to a bridge that is a rainbow that leads up into the sky.
'Whoa,' Stephanie thought to herself, drifting her mind away from the civilians. 'Now that's awesome!'
Once they reached into the sky and in the clouds, Stephanie was amazed that a whole cloud has a city inside!
After Emmet parked his car, he and Wyldstyle stepped out of the car first, but Stephanie hesitated.
He noticed Stephanie did not step out and walked over to her side of the car.
"Hey, aren't you coming out?" Emmet asked, sounding confused.
Stephanie hesitated for a moment after Emmet asked her, watching as other LEGO figures danced, talked, laughed, everything they wanted.
Emmet noticed the people around and opened the door, assuring Stephanie, "Don't worry. I'll explain to everyone that you are not a threat."
Stephanie gave an unsure expression to Emmet, but he looked trusting in her, so she gave in to him.
"Alright," Stephanie sighed. "I trust you, Emmet."
Emmet smiled and held his hand out to Stephanie as Stephanie gently took it.
Once Stephanie took his hand, she stepped out of the car Emmet parked, still holding his hand.
But, the music immediately stopped when she had stepped out, as the noises of clicking too.
Stephanie nervously started sweating when she noticed everyone saw her.
Her hand on Emmet's tightened with fear, worried about what everyone else could think.
She had her hood up since she is a little ashamed of being different, but Emmet continued staying by her side.
"Everyone," Emmet spoke to everyone. "Let's make a meeting in the Dog."
A slightly confused expression appeared on Stephanie's face after Emmet explained, as the clicking noises started heading away from where she was.
Moving her head up slightly, Stephanie noticed that the LEGO mini-figures were heading away, entering the Dog, which was the face of a dog and a building.
Emmet continued holding Stephanie's hand as they entered the Dog, seeing many familiar faces of either celebrities, TV characters, movies, etc.
After everyone else had been inside the Dog, Emmet released Stephanie's hand and walked forward.
"Hello," Emmet greeted. "I have some strange and shocking news to reveal. Has anyone heard about the Man Upstairs?"
'Aw, great.' Stephanie mentally groaned to herself. 'Here we go again…'
Everyone murmured to themselves, nodding in agreement.
"Okay," Emmet nodded. "Someone or something, made my friend, Stephanie, who is over there behind me," Stephanie hunched up slightly. "Entered into our universe, but shrank down to our size. I want to introduce her to everyone so that they would not see she is a threat to everyone else and make things worse."
Stephanie was silent as Emmet walked over to her, saying, "Go ahead, Steph. Oh, and pull your hood down, okay?"
Stephanie nodded her head once to Emmet and stepped forward, taking each little step.
She felt eyes staring at her with judgment, mostly with fear.
It scares her with the feeling of it around her.
But, she could not judge them.
She would be scared too if someone alien had entered her world.
Stephanie stepped onto the platform and glanced up slightly, seeing everyone staring at her.
Goosebumps rose against her skin as she clenched her hand into a fist to force herself to calm down.
"Take off your hood, Steph!" Emmet whispered from behind her back as Stephanie glanced over at him from her shoulder. "You forgot to take off your hood!"
Stephanie remembered what she had forgotten and reached up to her hood before taking it off.
Her long brown hair and wires fell after she had taken it off, revealing her half cybernetic side to everyone.
To her guess, everyone gasped as some covered their mouths with their hands, others their cheeks, and some just stared.
More goosebumps rose against her skin as she nervously chuckled.
"Um, hello, everyone?" Stephanie greeted, waving her hand to them. "I'm Stephanie Nova Rose Allen, and I, uh, am from the outside world."
Everyone glanced at each other after Stephanie introduced herself to them sheepishly and mostly scared.
Stephanie forced herself to be calm again and show no fear to them.
But, with all the judgment around, she is showing fear.
"She seemed to be friendly," one of them whispered.
"Is that hair or just fur?" another muttered, causing Stephanie to feel self-conscious and reach for it, feeling it between her fingers.
"Where are her hands?" another murmured.
Soon, the whole building was filled with whispers, making Stephanie feel more anxious as her hair from the roots started turning purple.
She started trembling from head to toe, as she listened to the whispers, hearing the judgment in their voices.
Emmet watched with worry as Stephanie's hair turned purple, before stopping in the middle, wanting to come over to Stephanie to comfort her.
But, Wyldstyle placed her hand on Emmet's shoulder, assuring him that Stephanie could do this.
"That's strange…" a Dumbledore minifigure spoke. "Her hair is turning colors."
Stephanie blinked with confusion when she heard that compliment from the Dumbledore mini-figure glancing at a strand in her hand.
It was slowly turning purple almost at midway.
Surprised and startled, Stephanie was about to shove her hair back into her hood, and put it over her head to hide her hair from showing she is scared, when a voice said, "She's scared, isn't she?"
Stephanie stopped herself before she could do it, glancing around at the figures.
"'Scared?'" an Abraham Lincoln minifigure asked. "Why is she scared? Stand up, whoever you are who said that."
After Abraham Lincoln demanded the person responsible for telling everyone what Stephanie was feeling, a mini-figure stood up from the stands.
The man was a gypsy, wearing a long violet-purple cloak with gold embroidery along the edge, and a dark violet uniform that looked like it was from the Victorian-time.
"Ah, Manfri." a Gandalf mini-figure spoke softly. "You could have told us you were coming here."
"Forgive me," Manfri apologized as he turned to Gandalf and bowed slightly. "I have a tendency to forget to warn others."
He cleared his throat and turned back around, walking over to Stephanie as she waited patiently.
She was nervously rubbing her left hand with her hand, as her long hair and wires are still halfway purple.
"I have a mythical vision that allows me to tell other's past, present, and future." Manfri continued, as Stephanie listened to him. "And, Stephanie has a past, which is rather gruesome to be exact."
Stephanie flinched after he had explained, as Emmet looked confused.
Wyldstyle, on the other hand, looked more suspicious.
"'A gruesome backstory?'" Emmet repeated in confusion. "I don't think Stephanie is that dangerous! She has awesome hair, a metal eye, a metal arm… wait a minute."
Stephanie sighed as she gently placed her hand against her forehead, feeling embarrassed and scared.
With the strand in her hand still, it slowly mixed in with pink and violet.
Manfri watched with curiosity as her hair added in another color, before adding, "But, I am not going to reveal it. It is painful for her to bear."
Stephanie mentally nodded in agreement with Manfri.
Manfri walked up closer to Stephanie, despite her height, and said, "For the present, I only see her being scared from our judgment."
"WELL, DUH!" snapped a voice which startled Stephanie as she yelped.
When Stephanie glanced up, she could see a football player mini-figure.
"SHE'S A ROBOT! ROBOTS HUNT AND DESTROY THINGS IN THEIR PATH!" He continued. "THEY DON'T KNOW SH-"
Before the football mini-figure could continue, Stephanie cleared her throat intensely, which made him stop and stared at Stephanie with bugged eyes.
"Sit. Down." Stephanie demanded, glaring at him while pointing a finger.
His face weirdly paled after she demanded at him, and he sat down in his chair, stammering, "Ye-Yes, ma'am!"
Once he had sat down in his chair, Stephanie sighed and pushed back a strand of her hair.
"I knew that was about to happen," Manfri sighed, before turning back around to Stephanie. "Now, Miss Allen, what are you about to do means that you have to prove you are not a threat to us, but a friend."
Stephanie perked a little from Manfri's words, as her hair and wires turned back to normal.
"What is the test?" Stephanie asked, shrugging her shoulders.
Manfri glanced down at his crystal ball and said, "The test is to build something out of scratch from the surrounding pieces we collect. You have to build a new place for us."
Stephanie hesitated for a moment to herself about the test, as Wyldstyle said from behind, "I don't think she is-"
"Sure!" Stephanie nodded. "I will take the test!"
Manfri nodded his head and said, "Then, let us begin!"
Wyldstyle looked unsure after Manfri announced, as Emmet looked more worried about Stephanie.
Manfri led Stephanie out of the Dog and over to a large patch of emptiness, that has a large pile of random LEGO blocks.
Each one is in a different color, size, shape, and even there were some statues in it too!
Once they had stopped at the area, Manfri turned around to Stephanie.
"There are rules for creating a building from scratch," Manfri explained.
He cleared his throat and began explaining the rules, as Stephanie listened to him.
"The rules of this test are simple; no instructions, and no cheating," Manfri explained, as Stephanie shrugged.
"Alright," Stephanie paused for a moment, scanning the whole place for a moment before smiling. "This is easy."
She ran off towards the nearest pile and started going through the blocks, sorting through it.
Everyone watched with surprise as Stephanie connected some pieces together and started building a building from scratch.
But, during her time building a building, Stephanie used some of her powers to kick things up more, and because she was a little lazy.
Every time she would flick her right metal hand back, and her hand would disconnect from her wrist, whizzing towards where she had moved it towards.
When her hand grabbed what she was reaching for, Stephanie flicked her hand back, and it connects with a gentle click.
Everyone watched with surprise and amazement as Stephanie continued building the building that Stephanie is creating, kept repeating the same process with her right metal hand every time she flicked it back.
Once the last brick was placed at the top of the building Stephanie created, she glanced down at the others and called, "What do you think?"
No response came from them as they stared at her with complete shock on their faces.
"Excuse me?" Stephanie called again before sighing. "Do I have to use my water powers to snap them out of their shock?"
Stephanie mumbled to herself at the end of her sentence, which was low enough for anyone not to hear what she had said.
After a few minutes of silence, Manfri finally called up to Stephanie, saying, "I think you have passed the test, Stephanie!"
"I did?" Stephanie called to him from the top floor.
"Yes, you have!" Manfri called back to her. "But, I didn't suspect you to use up all the leftover bricks, too!"
Stephanie smiled with a sheepish smile as she rubbed the back of her neck with her hand, feeling shy from using up all the bricks.
"The building is awesome!" Emmet called up to her. "What do you call it?"
Stephanie smirked and jumped down from the building, before hovering back down to the ground, landing without making a crash.
Everyone looked surprised after Stephanie landed on the ground without breaking her limbs or herself in general.
"I don't know the name, but I do know it is a random building that I made!" Stephanie shrugged.
Everyone paused for a moment as they thought to themselves for a moment, before Benny answered from inside one of the rooms, "It's a motel!"
Stephanie looked confused about how Benny got up there when the other Masterbuilders gently pushed past Stephanie and Manfri, entering the inside the motel.
She watched with surprise as they entered the motel, going through the elevator and looked around the rooms.
Manfri walked up to Stephanie's side and watched along with her, as she was nervous, rubbing the back of her left hand.
After a few minutes of looking around, they came back outside and said, "She is good!"
A soft smile appeared on Stephanie's face after one of the Masterbuilders announced, feeling a little confident.
Stephanie twirled one of her hair strands between her fingers as she glanced away, feeling a little shy.
Everyone stepped out of the hotel and came over to Stephanie.
They congratulated her for creating such an astounding building they have never seen before.
Stephanie was shy after everyone had praised her for her creativity, blushing a deep neon pink color on her cheeks.
Emmet chuckled softly from the shyness Stephanie was having, thanking each Masterbuilder for her creativity.
Soon, Stephanie, Wyldstyle, and Stephanie stepped out of New Cloud Cuckoo Land, as Stephanie, on the other hand, was blushing deeply, her hood over her head and covering her face slightly.
"Are you okay, Steph?" Emmet asked, noticing she was covering her face with her hood.
"A little," Stephanie answered, pushing her hood up slightly. "I just never expected them to be impressed by my creativity, even though I am a cyborg to them."
Emmet stopped for a moment after Stephanie explained to him about what the Masterbuilders said to her, saying, "Don't you usually get remarks about it?"
Stephanie shook her head no after her blush disappeared.
"Not really," Stephanie answered. "I usually get disses about what I am instead of who I am. Not many people liked my talents either, since they all said, as I said before, 'Cyborg is better than us.'"
She quoted the words people said to her repeatedly with the fingers of her hands.
Stephanie felt angry about what the people had said to her from behind her back.
Emmet understood her anger and said, while walking up to her, "You don't have to be angry at those people, Stephanie."
Stephanie perked after Emmet assured her, looking confused but mostly thoughtful.
"They just don't understand who you are," Emmet placed his hand on her arm. "You are not a cyborg to me."
Wyldstyle watched with surprise as Emmet continued assuring her, as Stephanie knelt down on one knee to him.
"You are a human being on the inside." Emmet gently poked her collar with his hand, moving it away from her arm. "Don't think about what others think of you, don't say what others say about you, be who you are, which is the best thing to do."
Stephanie looked surprised by the words Emmet had said to her, looking like he did say something that made her realize something that she would have thought in her past.
She glanced away from Emmet, thinking to herself for a moment about what he had said, before glancing back over at him and said, "Thank you, Emmet."
With one arm, she gently wrapped it around Emmet carefully before giving him a gentle hug.
Emmet, on the other hand, was surprised that Stephanie gave him a hug, before smiling and returning the hug to Stephanie, the best he could since Stephanie was taller than him.
Wyldstyle softly smiled as she watched her boyfriend, and Stephanie hugs for a moment, before releasing.
Stephanie stood up from kneeling to Emmet's height after they released their hugs.
"Alright," Emmet smiled before realizing something. "Oh, I forgot! Clay Moorington is coming to Syspocalypstar tonight!"
A slightly puzzled expression appeared on Stephanie's face when he mentioned the name 'Clay Moorington.'
"Who's 'Clay Moorington?'" Stephanie asked, shrugging her shoulders slightly.
Emmet glanced up at Stephanie with a shocked expression on his face.
"You never heard of Clay Moorington, Stephanie?!" Emmet exclaimed.
"Hey!" Stephanie sighed as she shrugged her shoulders again. "Remember, I don't belong here?"
Emmet realized what she said and excitedly grabbed her thumb, dragging her to his car with Wyldstyle behind.
"Then let me show you who Clay Moorington is!" Emmet happily smiled. "Come on, Wyldstyle!"
Wyldstyle hesitated for a moment after Emmet dragged Stephanie towards the car, before following along with them.
Stephanie sat in the backseats again, shifting a little, but eventually got comfortable.
Wyldstyle took the passenger seat next to Emmet.
Even though Stephanie is curious about who Clay Moorington is, she was not too sure of what everyone else might think of her.
But, she took a deep breath and looked out of the window as Emmet left New Cloud Cuckoo Land.
She is going to go through this no matter what and find a way out of this world.
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