AN - This story has been bouncing in my head for a while especially since I am in the middle of my other hero story. Unlike the other one this puts Robbie in the good guy role. I will be finishing BOS but find that I write better when writing Robbie stories so Robbie Shapiro, Supervillian will continue along side of this one. Once again I own nothing, please support the official release and R/R.
Crawling over to the crater in the ground he had created just a little while ago when his body smashed into the earth. It was over and now he would lose her again, his soul mate, but that was law. Each planet that supported life got their own pair of protectors, immortal protectors. Whenever there was a earth ending event the protectors stepped in and saved the day. On the anniversary of the day that they arrived on Earth they would give each other a new power. With the power of super strength, flight, healing, you name it and they probably have it. However their strength came from each other, if separated their power weakens and they forget, separated long enough and they become as weak as the humans they are trying to protect however they cannot die. When they turn forty they reset into fifteen year olds and thus the cycle continues on and on, forever. Pulling himself into the hole he slid down it coming to a rest next to the girl laying at the bottom who slung her hand out and pulled him closer to her, which he allowed.
"It's over," she said rolling her head to look at him. smiling as he did
"Yeah but that means I lose you again," he started only she pulled herself out of the ground, rolling and catching his lips with her own.
"You will never lose me Robert," she said laying back down hearing the sirens in the distance. It was true their 'parents' or handlers or whatever you called them would be here soon but not yet. Taking his hand in hers she saw his face appear over her and felt his warm tears dropping down onto her face.
"I love you Jade," he said with a small smile, she brushed the tears from his cheek and smiled.
I love you too Robert."
Arthur West sat at his computer looking up todays stock quotes, but distracted by a new picture that his daughter had placed on the wall of his study. It was an acceptance letter to that prestigious Hollywood Arts High School along with a snap shot of her getting the letter in the mail that Judy had taken. Don't get him wrong, he loved Jade as if she was his real daughter but he knew about what she really was even if enough peace had passed to where she didn't. The Wests and the Shapiros were the families who took care of the protectors since they first arrived on Earth. It was a long standing tradition that these families took care of the protectors each generation. Picking up a picture of him, Judy and Jade in a normal family pose, each with one hand on Judy's bulging pregnant belly he sighed setting it to the side before standing up and moving over to his book shelf. Pulling out the Grapes of Wrath he opened a secret room where he kept all the news articles from the last hundred years about Jade and the other one. As he was taking a trip down memory lane a beep came from his computer. Making his way back he clicked on the mail icon and saw it was a message from Kyle Shapiro, sitting back he began to read the email from his old friend.
Arthur,
All is good with the Robert boy though I will never understand your attachment to Jade Robert has always been an assignment to me and my family. I did want to give you a heads up that the boy has started to take an interest in acting and I know Jade got into that Hollywood Arts school. He, somehow, got in too so they might be close again. I double checked things and as long as they don't start dating or getting really close their memories shouldn't be restored. However if you want I can deny his request so they wont be close together. Let me know soon okay? I hear your wife is due, have you picked a name yet?
Kyle.
Leaning back and thinking on the words Kyle had said to him he wondered if it would be safe to keep the two separate, but Kyle didn't hear Jade at night. Didn't hear her moans of pain and fear as she cried out through the nightmares, yet another by product of the separation. Arthur shouldn't have fallen in love with Jade, the love felt between a father and a daughter, but he had and he wanted Jade to be happy so he quickly wrote his reply.
Kyle,
Thanks for the heads up, it's a boy and we were thinking Jason. Thanks for the heads up but it's been at least sixty years since an incident has occurred that required them to be together. The way they grew up, the clique that she was into, some type of horror Goth thing there's no way they'd end up friends let alone dating. What did the boy do to get in?
Arthur
Sending it he rose and after closing his secret room he went into the living room where Jade was lounging with a pad of paper and a pen in her mouth. Since she was starting over this year she wanted to change her image. She dyed her hair and gotten a tattoo which Judy was fine with since it wasn't obscene, she had freaked out when Jade had gotten the eyebrow piercing. She settled down later when Arthur reminded her that Jade wasn't their own child, that she wasn't even human. Eventually, hopefully not in their life time, when Jade and Robert were back together she'd regain her healing powers and those piercings and tattoos would vanish completely. In a way that had calmed Judy down but she still wished it would happen soon so she wouldn't have to see that piercing again. Looking up from her notepad she smiled at her dad who smiled back nodding.
"School starts tomorrow are you ready for it?"
"I guess, it's no big deal dad."
"Alright well I'm here if you need me, for anything okay Jade?" She looked up at him a little bit of confusion in her eyes but she nodded. Leaving the room he sighed, his thoughts floating over to Kyle and his ward. He and Kyle had gone to military training together and grown close after discovering that they were both protecting a protector. As Arthur grew closer to Jade he sensed that Kyle thought of Robert as nothing but a burden, a tool to be used to save humanity when needed. Sitting back down at his computer he continued to work on a project to see if he could pinpoint the place where Jade and Robert first arrived on Earth.
The first day of school was going as well as it could be for Jade as she crammed her many books into her locker. There was a note taped to the outside of the locker reminding her that she needed to decorate it. There was a note on every locker where the owner hadn't been to it yet this included the locker right next to hers. Staring off into space she slammed her locker close, catching her hand causing her to cry out in pain.
"Are you okay?" came a concerned voice behind her. She turned to say something sarcastic about liking blood but her voice caught in her throat. Standing there were a pair of boys, the first one was amazingly handsome with perfect brown hair. The one behind him was pulling out a handkerchief from his backpack, he was cute in a way but not as much as the first boy. The second boy was just as tall as the first with curly black hair and glasses.
"I" she started but stopped as the first boy took the handkerchief from his friend and wrapped Jade's finger.
"Just hold that there and it should stop." said the first boy looking down at her finger then back up at Jade, "My name's Beck by the way."
"Jade," she finally said.
"It's fine Beck, just forget I'm here," came the voice of the second boy which got Beck to laugh and Jade to scowl.
"Yeah and your medic here is Robbie, in fact you're bleeding all over his locker right now."
"Wait what?" Robbie called out stepping forward, examining his locker as Beck laughed at him.
"You two brothers or something?" Jade asked.
"Nope, we just met in first period, and it looks like we're flanking you," Beck said moving to her left and taking the note off his locker.
"Beck, what am I going to do for my locker?" Robbie lamented as jade turned her back on him and faced Beck.
"So what are you in for?" she asked softly.
"Well this isn't prison," Beck said with a smile.
"All high schools are," commented Robbie to which the couple ignored. Seeing that he was ignore Robbie pushed his books away and closed his locker as well. Maybe he'd try to find the theater or that Andre kid he and Beck had met before class. Pushing himself off his locker and walking off he failed to notice his finger tips slip through the metal as if he was a ghost.
"I'm here to be an actor," Beck said completely entranced by Jade, she was different then most girls he went to school with. She appeared to be an individual, creative and independent, exactly what he was looking for since he was trying to be more independent himself.
"I want the whole gambit," explained Jade, "Writing, acting, singing, you name it."
"Well this is the place to be, do you want to go to the nurse about your finger?" he asked lifting her hand and unwrapping it. The blood was still there and drying but there was no cut to be seen.
"Either you are a fast healer or it wasn't as bad of a cut then we thought," Beck mused holding her finger up and seeing no cut. Pulling away she looked at it herself, swearing that she had cut it pretty badly.
"Fast healer I bet," she said as the bell rang and she gathered her things, "Acting with Sikowitz?"
"Cool I have that too, so does Robbie," he said finally looking for his friend, "Oh I guess he already went, want to walk there together?"
"Well we are going the same way," she said with a small smile before they went to class.
Apparently Sikowitz was out for the day, something about a truck carrying coconuts and a yellow light so they were told to work on their lockers and designs. Jade found herself once again flanked by the two boys which was a nice feeling. Next to Robbie was a boy named Andre Harris and across from her was a peppy young girl with dyed red hair talking a mile a minute about everything except what was going on right now. Jade's paper was empty because she already knew what she was going to be putting on her locker, scissors.
"Scissors?" Beck had asked.
"Yeah they're sharp and dangerous and beautiful in their own way, like me," she smirked.
"Yeah," said Beck as he looked down at his which was just a blank rectangle, "I'm going to go with a see through locker, to show that I'm not hiding anything."
"Well I'm here for singing and playing instruments so I'm making mine a keyboard," said Andre as he finished drawing it and set down the pen, "One you can play."
"I'm going to have a pony whose mane and tail are real so I can comb them and add ribbons and stuff to it," said Cat who held up her drawing upside down.
"Cat, we cant read that," said Beck to which Cat replied indignant.
"What's what supposed to mean?"
"Just that it's not the right way up."
"You're so mean," she said taking her things and storming off.
"Weird," said Andre to which Jade agreed. Looking over at Robbie's paper she noticed it was blank as well.
"What's wrong mop top, cant think of anything original to have?" she remarked getting a laugh from the other boys.
"I just don't know what to have," he said not looking away from the paper.
"Why are you here?" Beck asked, "Andre did a music theme one, are you here for that?"
"Nah, I already told you Beck I'm here to act or direct."
"Oh," says Cat who plops back down next to Andre, "How about that slate thing directors use, you know," she says raising her hands and clapping them together, "Action! But something you can write on as well."
"That's a great idea, thanks kitten."
"Kitten?"
"Yeah, kitten, Cat, it's a nickname."
"Oh, I love it, thanks Robbie."
For some reason Jade felt a pang of jealousy that Robbie should pay more attention to her and not Cat. As fast as it came it was gone and she turned her attention back to Beck.
Later in the halls Jade was gluing scissors to her locker by herself when she heard someone talking about her.
"Check out the Goth, she thinks she's so cool because she was hanging out with that hot guy Beck," came the voice. Looking around Jade couldn't see anyone, holding the scissors in front of her she made her way around the corner pausing when she saw only one girl leaning against the wall deep in thought. She was about to leave when she heard it again.
"Who does she think she is." But the girl's lips weren't moving. Moving over to her Jade thrust the scissors in the girl's direction.
"Don't mess with me," she warned causing the girl to look fearful at her.
"What do you mean?" Yeah that voice was the one she had heard.
"I don't care what grade you're in just spread the word that Jade West isn't someone to mess with okay?" she growled and the girl nodded running down the hall. Smirking contently Jade went back to her locker to finish gluing the scissors on to find Robbie using his own glue to place the director's film slate to his locker painting the rest of his locker black and white to make the rest look similar. Stepping up to her locker she finished gluing things onto it and realized this was the first time that she had spent any along time with Robbie without Beck or anyone around. For several minutes she tried to think of something to say to him and when she finally turned she discovered he was watching her. Looking away quickly and blushing he cleared his throat.
"Sorry I was just, nothing." he stammered out.
"Look since you seem to be best buds with Beck you should know now that I plan on sticking around for a long while, maybe dating the guy. So if you have some problem with me you better spit it out now." she said to him. Turning to look at her he smiled a strange half smile.
"No problem at all, I mean I have no problem with you. Also Beck and I aren't best buds we just met each other in the parking lot before school, so except for at our lockers I don't think we'll be seeing much of each other. Oh and in Sikowitz's class unless he never shows up and we end up going to different classes."
"You're funny, why don't you try being a comedian?"
"I doubt my father would like that very much, he's not really into this whole acting thing. I think the only reason he agreed to this was because I told him I was writing a military action movie thing."
"Your dad's military?" she asked surprised that she was liking this conversation and not trying to get away.
"Yeah, really strict too."
"What about your mom?"
"I don't have one," he said softly turning to his locker and writing the name of a movie onto it, "Black Hawk Down"
"Sorry," she said now wanting to both get away yet hug him as well, that was very strange of her.
"It's fine, I never knew her any ways and dad doesn't like talking about her that much." Wiping a tear from his eye he smiled down at her, "Don't worry about that though, life moves on right?" Nodding she closed her locker and walked towards the parking lot.
"See you later Shapiro," she called back.
Lifting his eyes Robbie watched as she walked down the halls, blinking the scene changed. He was in a city and the world was white, buildings turned to rubble around him. Looking down he saw that he was now dressed in all white, he would have examined further but a woman's scream snapped his attention upwards. Someone was running towards him, her hand outstretched and calling his name. She was absolutely beautiful but she was also pointing at something. Raising his eyes he saw the smoke trail as a missile flew through the air right towards him. Screaming he covered his head with his hands and crotched down preparing for impact.
"Robbie," shouted Cat as she placed her hand on his shoulder, "Robbie, what's wrong?"
Opening his eyes and looking around he saw that his was crotched down in the hall of Hollywood Arts, with a concerned Cat behind him. Slowly standing up he slung his backpack over his shoulder trying to blow it off as nothing.
"Just rehearsing for a part," he explained which sent her off on a rant about her brother and play dough. Shaking his head he followed her out of the school.
