This randomly came into my head first thing in the morning, apropos of nothing.

Which I’ve no idea what that crossover entails

A giant robot car piloted by a forsaken child powers the city?

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    Megas XLR is a children’s animated TV series from the mid 2000s about a guy from New Jersey who finds a broken giant mecha and fixes it, and “improves” it by replacing the head with a Car and the control scheme with a Xbox Controller (for weapons and fighting and flight) and Steering Wheel (for navigation.)

    The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas is a serious sci-fi short story by Ursula K le Guin, about a utopian city named Omelas and those who walked away from it after they learned of the dark secret that keeps it utopian

    <the dark secret>

    it’s powered by the suffering of a forsaken child