Hold Me to Your Ground (Metalloid Maniac x Reader Fanfiction)
by Jenna Jaco
Tags: Metalloid Maniac (TV - Cartoon); Metalloid Maniac (TV - Game Show); Metalloid Maniac; Metalloid Maniac/Reader; Hurt/Comfort; Light Dom/Sub; Bottom Reader; Vers Metalloid Maniac; The Wall; Crying; Bird Abduction
You are pinned to a panel
(to the panel with the pink
dot on the wall that he built
(THE WALL THAT HE BUILT)).
From the galaxy smears
he zips up to you, stoic.
“[Y/N], you are so beautiful, and I
am so worried.
They are making my wall,
my life, my ground, into
a game. A game people
will play and spy on. And
most horrifically, darling–
The game that will be
will not be my ground.
And I did not build it.”
He sheds now a silicon tear.
It drips, glosses up his big
left pec. He is so strong!
And so sad.
“I am sure they will figure it out,”
you say. “I can help!
Let me down from your wall
(which is your ground)
and put me on the ground
(which is my ground,
and maybe yours as well,
or could be, one day).”
“Thank you, [Y/N],” he says,
voice thick as his right pec,
which is as big as his left,
“but I do not want to.”
You nod. You know he must
not break the physics. He
is not cruel but requires
a frictionless zoomin’.
In another life he would clunk
and drudge. He would not
be impressive. Here
you suspend each other.
Here he is full of grace!
Pinned to your panel
on the wall that he built
you crane your neck all directions,
watch him zip and zap
and pirouette (as the wall
is his ground) until the
birds nip you away.
Jenna Jaco (they/she) is a poet and technical writer from Texas. They are the author of Mall Water (Kith Books, 2024). She has had poems published in Ghost City Review, Peach Mag, Foglifter, and elsewhere, and writes unmarketable content at Cherub Microplastics.