The robot attempts to be obliged to chase it.

The duck permits this.

"Again?"

New duck!

This one the robot attempts to let sail past.

Should the robot not move, the duck will still somehow find its way to it.

Rubber duck, I choose you!

The robot attempts to give it an even wider sailing-past margin.

The duck obeys the laws of physics.

"Okay, I'd want to do that about ten more times to come to any really firm conclusions, but it seems like your power can calculate ballistics, it'd just... rather not have to?"

"Why? What were the results?"

"When the robot didn't try to catch it but it was near where a real object would have traveled, it juked into the robot to be caught anyway. Had to give it a wider berth to not catch it."

"Huh." The various ducks disappear. "So it does break the laws of physics, but only a little. I wonder if I can make it break them more by adding more energy? More entropy and such."

And without waiting for an answer, they close their eyes and throw a new duck directly up.

The robots, not expecting such a thing, do not attempt to catch it.

Unless the robot that tried to catch it the previous times dodges at the last second, the duck will fall on and bounce off its—head? Top?

"Landed on the same robot that was playing catch before."

They open their eyes. "I was meaning to have it catch the duck but I suppose I can't really force the robot to do it, so I guess the duck did its best."

"Can't you? Could you not give one of the robots an extra arm?"

They tilt their head. "Probably, I wasn't really thinking about that in specific. My power can be creative but I still need to be broadly expecting something to happen."

Eyes closed, chuck duck up—

—new robot arm, not under robot's control until it has caught the duck.

The robot attempts to move its new arm.

It moves under the robot's control.

"...You just gave my bot an arm. That my bot can move. That's. Really something. You don't know how the bot's trying to move it, I do but your power can't read my mind, and the bot - shouldn't qualify as having a mind..."

They open their eyes again. "Is it that different from creating bullshit parts for a forcefield tinker's forcefield basketball or inventing a stun gun? Hell, the fact that my power doesn't care that you think this should be impossible is probably helping a lot, here."