Just hear me out as someone always asking why MePhone abandoned MePad and never tried to look for him. Why did MePhone never go back for someone he saved from Cobs? Does he not care?
What if he does care?
MePhone thought it was Cobs when what we know as aliens showed up in s2. He ran off and hid with MePad in that cave. Then MePad left the cave only to later get taken out by Taco. The Alien Debacle happens, then MePhone resurfaces, too busy hiding his nerves and having said nerves to process anything. Then he realizes MePad is missing and brushes it off.
As the viewers, we have all the context of both Aliens and Taco.
Did he? No.
What it probly looked like to MePhone was Cob's alleged spaceship showed up and all he knew he could do was hide with MePad. MePad left the hiding spot. The next thing a very terrified MePhone processed was what he thought was Cobs leaving. He then goes to the vote session, sees no MePad, gets all the more freaked out and can't process any further truth because of how worry works.
He then puts all this misinformation together and assumes Cobs took MePad, making saving him infinitely more complicated than just finding Taco.
Like.....??? Am I grasping at straws or does this line of thinking make sense? Like, a lot of sense?
He might care about MePad a whole lot more than we're lead on to believe, he's just either
Too scared of Cobs OR
thinks Cobs just scrapped his buddy because Cobs probably would do that to an old creation that didn't end up serving it's purpose.
And why in the world would MePhone go back for a (hypothetical) pile of scrap thats just gonna make him feel more things when he can live in ignorance? (aka s3)
(theory kinda supported by his not wanting to go back, I guess?)