chinaroses | FE 2024 Prompt Table 1 Fill #5

"Dummy! What are you doing?" Pepper exclaimed as she walked into the bedroom.

The robot gave a happy sounding chirp from his position aloft on the bed. Unfortunately, his single grasp claw arm was all tightly tangled within the bed's sheets, while the now torn linens were wrapped around his struts forming a halfway cocoon.

As DUM-e made a vain try at freeing himself. the move caused the bedframe to jerk violently. Pepper grimaced as she heard the distinctive crack of the bed's snapping metal brackets. Then before she could try to halt the impending disaster, an entire of the custom frame collapsed inward.

"Oh no no no! Easy! Take it easy!" she called out, but it was already too late. DUM-e was thrown off balance and he toppled sideways, causing his claw arm to slice straight through both of the pillows. There was an explosion of white feathers as a result, which blocked the robots ability to see as the feathers settled on him.

Pepper shook her head and give a long suffering sigh as she looked at the mess of tangled sheets, and goose feathers everywhere. She was still brushing feathers off of her clothes when Tony wandered into the room.

"Hey honey, have you seen my... WHOA!" Tony halted. "What happened in here? Did pigeons get made with us and decide to TP us or something?"

From his spot, DUM-e let out a dejected, sad beep as he was still trapped sideways, underneath the sheets.

Pepper shook her head, annoyance and amusement both on her face as she said, "Your bot tried to help us by making the bed but as you can see, things didn't go as planned."

"Did he now?" Tony's eyebrow went up. He stepped carefully through the feathery mess on the floor, and made his way over to help his forlorn robot get untangled from the sheets. "Nice try and solid effort, Dummy. But next time, bud, maybe you should start with fluffing the pillows, and not gutting them, huh?"

As he was freed, the robot drooped in apology and did so until Tony gave him an affectionate pat. Pepper rolled her eyes from where she was watching nearby. If he was to be their new bedding bot, DUM-e was going to need a lot more practice and programming.

"It's okay, bud. We'll just try this again tomorrow. Okay?" Tony said.

DUM-e chirped enthusiastically in agreement.