It was yet another sunny day in LazyTown. The weather was perfect, and it was summer break, which mean they kids played outside all day, dawn till dusk. Sportacus woke up in his airship as usual, ready for another day of flippity-floppiting, backflipping for no reason, and saving the kids when they got into trouble. Yep, everything was how it was supposed to be.

Robbie Rotten was stewing in his lair. He hadn't had any brilliant ideas of how to banish Sportacus from LazyTown forever for the past week. The laughter of the children outside made his ears hurt, and the frustration of being villan number one but having no evil ideas was torture. Robbie flicked through the latest copy of villans digest, trying to find just a speck of inspiration of how to get rid of Sporta-flippity-flop. Nothing. Robbie sighed in frustration as he threw the magazine against the wall. "I need to get rid of sportaflop. It has been 10 YEARS. Why is he still here?" Robbie moaned to himself.

He decided a walk, to see what the kids were doing, would help, as he often had success by putting the kids in danger and therefore bringing Sportacus in to LazyTown to save them. He climbed the ladder from his lair up to the open land of LazyTown. His eyes burned at the sunlight as it hit his face. He hadn't been outside for days. He began walking towards the centre of the town, and in the distance, he could hear squeals of excitement from Stephanie. "That stupid little girl. Why must she squeal so loudly?".

All of a sudden, Robbie felt a dark shade pulling over the sky above. He looked up in confusion, and saw that dark clouds were covering the sunny blue sky. Why was this happening? It was always sunny in LazyTown. Robbie smiled. Finally, maybe the kids would go inside and shut up for once. It was what he had dreamed of for ages. The kids stopped laughing and looked up at the sky. Huge raindrops started falling on the town, and the kids scrambled into their house. The kids all knew what rain was, but it was a very rare sight, which frightened them. Robbie cackled with laughter. "Yes! They are gone! And rain happens to be my favourite kind of weather" He smiled to himself, basking in the beautiful wet drops surrounding him, watching the kids with sad faces staring out their windows. Robbie felt a firm thud behind him, and turned around to find Sportacus. Robbie cried out in shock, and quickly stopped laughing. Sportacus gave Robbie a strange look, and Robbie knew he was about be interrogated by flippity flop.

"Robbie, do you know why it is raining all of a sudden?" Sportacus asked

"I've got no idea, but isn't it GREAT!" Robbie threw his hands up in the air, just as a lightning bolt struck a sportscandy tree in the distance. The tree was fried. Sportacus stared at Robbie in shock.

"Robbie, stop this right now, you are scaring the children!" Sportacus said to Robbie in an angry tone that Sportacus almost never used. His crystal began to flash. Sportacus suddenly stared straight ahead "Someones in trouble"

"Well maybe it's the children. They're terrified!" Robbie laughed. He was loving the weather. It made him feel like a true villan, even though he hadn't even caused the sudden change. Robbie turned around to look at the windows where the children were hiding. He could see that Stephanie had started crying in terror. Sportacus quickly flipped over Robbie, and ran towards Stephanie, doing more backflips and handstands along the way.

"He would get places so much quicker if he just RAN instead of flippity flopping all the time" Robbie mocked Sportacus' moves. He saw Sportacus was over with the children, comforting them and trying to explain to them what lightning was. Robbie made a sound if disgust.

"Well, Sportacuck can stay over there with those children, while I enjoy this wonderful-" Robbie was cut off. He felt a hand on his shoulder. It was ice cold. He turned around, expecting to see Sportacus. However, the person that stood before him was most certainly not Sportacus. He saw a very tall person, wearing a jet black cloak. He couldn't see much of his face, but he could see that the persons face was very thin and pale, but he did notice a pointed chin that stuck out.

"Wh…Wh…Who are you?" Robbies voice was riddled with fear, staring up at the person. Robbie didn't get an answer. Before he knew what was happening, the person pulled up his other hand and hit Robbie fiercly across the side of his head. Robbie suddenly felt a surge of pure pain run through his temple. He fell to the ground, and could faintly hear Sportacus' crystal beeping in the background, before he passed out.

Robbie opened his heavy eyelids to a blinding bright light. He grimaced at the pain he felt in his head. He suddenly saw a familiar face come into view. He saw a blue hat, a point mustache. Was it really Sportacus? Robbies eyes focused on what he was seeing, and he saw Sportacus, leaning over a hospital bed, staring into Robbies eyes. Sportacus looked tired, almost like he hadn't gone to bed at 8:08 the night before, and his eyes were bloodshot. "Robbie?" Sportacus said softly to Robbie "Can you hear me?"

Robbie was confused, he had no idea what was happening. Where was he? Why was Sportacus here? "Sportacus?" Robbie managed to reply. He felt a surging pain pull through the side of his head. He squeezed his eyes shut as the pain passed through.

"Oh my gosh, Robbie, I'm so glad you're awake. You're in the hospital." Sportacus replied. Robbie opened his eyes and saw that Sportacus had tears beginning to fall down his cheeks. "I tried to save you, Robbie. I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked out the window and saw you lying on the ground. I didn't know what had happened. And then you wouldn't wake up. I thought…" Sportacus' voice trailed off.

"You thought what, Sportacus?" Robbie edged Sportacus to continue speaking. Robbie had never seen such pain in his eyes before. Sportacus was always so happy, so full of energy, so ready to help. Why was he like this?

"I thought you were dead, Robbie. I thought I had failed." Sportacus quickly stood up. "Its my job to protect the people of LazyTown." He turned around and stopped at the wall behind him. His face filled with anger and his eyes filled with tears "It's MY JOB to make sure NO ONE GETS HURT!" Sportacus threw his fist into the wall. The plaster crumbled to the ground and left a gaping hole. Sportacus turned away from the wall and began pacing back and forth "I failed Robbie. I failed you. I'M A FAILURE, ROBBIE!" Sportacus screamed. He leaned his head against the wall and began sobbing.