MCC

I'm a golden-green, with robotic eyes, legs, and head. My neck, tail, and body are plant-ish flesh. I'm a croc-like creature. They don't feed me enough. They never let me onto the battlefield because 'I might get crazy'. Whatever that means. And they gave me the least creative name ever.

'Mecha Chomper Croc'? Wow. Many creatives.

I pace around my room. The floor is dirt. The ceiling is nonexistent. And the walls are basically just.... really high stone walls. I nestle down on a patch of mud, burying my tail into the dirt to suck up some nutrients. I yawn as my stomach rumb-

"DINNERRRR!!" A panda with an eagle hat and metal claw shouted. Bouncy Loudmouth, I grumbled to myself. She climbed a ladder to the top of the wall with a tray with a simple dollop of mushy black stuff snuggled into his claw. She's my 'Keper' (it's supposed to be spelled oddly). Kepers are supposed to 'befriend' their subjects in order to keep us content, but.... she pretty much forgot about me and only serves me barely enough phantom goop because of how much she hates touching that stuff.

"You're late," I growled, my metallic voice-player vibrating. I stood on my hind legs and stretched my neck towards, desperately starving. "Give me that."

"DO YOUR THANGGG," she shouted in my face, handing me the tray. I downed the stuff immediately. almost accidently downing the tray and Bouncy's claw with it. Bouncy pulled out her phone and began shouting into it. "OMGGGG.... HE JUST...."

I sighed. "Can you shu-"

"Gudbai, I gotta go." She left, forgetting to take my tray. I grinned. That's a decline in her pay and some more food for me. I gobbled it down, then lay back down. Some days are better than others.

Chapter 1 [The New Keper]
I bathed in the sun, soaking up all the sunlight. Still, I was hungry. That's when I heard some thumping outside my enclosure. A ladder peeked over the top of the wall, and an unfamiliar furry head soon appeared, a metal claw holding a tray of phantom goop. I stared at it.

"Umm, hi. I'm Dancing.  Dancing Quietllama," she said. "Uh, Bouncy moved to Jamaa Township, so I'm your new keper." Using her metal pink claw, she held the tray down to me. "Here's your food." I snatched the plate, then noticing that, for the first time in a long time, I was given the amount I was supposed to be given (a full tray of phantom goop). I gobbled it all down, then handed the tray back to her.

She pulled out a packet of papers, glancing down at it. "Ehh.... according to my manual, I'm supposed to spend at least two and-a-half hours with you every day." She looked back up at me. "So... what's your name?"

"Mecha Chomper Croc," I answered coldly.

"Mecha Chomper Croc? That's.... kinda long.  Nickname?"

"MCC." Go away!!

"Uhh.... That's more of an abbreviation that a name.... But.... Okay." She crossed her front legs awkwardly. "Am I supposed to come into the enclosure?"