Yusuf hesitated for a moment, but as they entered the midway zone the somewhat introvert came out of his shell to become a bit of a motormouth: "When a senior citizen's bag got snatched carrying an adorable kitten she just adopted from a booth in front of an oldie but goodie Sens-O-rama slow-moving public domain banshee themed attraction I was reconditioning during some hands-on OJT, I used tools at hand including the ride-about-in-the-dark to subdue the run-of-the-mill baddie. It was the impetus to ask myself if I'd lived my life all wrong and build an advanced prototype hybrid machine to help those in need..."
"As one would."
"... Not a fan of half measures, like if I have an Achilles' heel it's that I care too much; I bought the mobile amusement company with some change found under the couch cushion and retrofitted the rides to transform into a robotic vessel, which I can infuse myself into and become an experimental crime-fighting vehicle called RIX because it sounded cool when I made it up and even cooler when I said it out loud. Touring the show-of-shows carnival through countless, sprawling, bowing at the altar of mediocrity, nondescript suburbs of tract housing filled with chain store and strip mall parking lots provide perfect concealment to move ostensibly from place-to-place month-to-month unnoticed. Last night on patrol the jewelry store's alarm went off. The thieves escaped unseen by rigging laser tripwire sticky bombs that eluded my nano surveillance drones, but a fishtail skid mark made me suspect Angaar. My first theory turned out to be a rabbit hole I went down way too long about a gang of surfers. Had the map with pinned red yarn and everything. Got to admit I enjoyed catching vertical swells in waters infested with men in gray suits -- sharks, to the layperson; and shaving with a seashell. Broke my leg in two places. Still wear the baggies."
"I'm more of a dog person. Killers sometimes insert themselves into investigations. So you're telling me..."
Yusuf continued with a haunted gaze, "I should have done more to help my broheim from his chemical straight jacket. I should have kept going to Friendsgiving."
"That got dark."
"I can fix --" He called to his mech, "RIX! Let's ride!" The variety pack of complex machinery roared to life at high-velocity locking together to form a colossal weaponized composite robot.
