Love and Insanity

Disclaimer: Zevo 3 isn't mine.

Jason was free running through Stankville. He headed straight there after school was over. He was going to do it as much as he could but he knew it would be limited as soon as he started working on making money in preparation for the baby. It was strange not having Matt running with him anymore. But the younger teen had to be careful since his powers were gone and Stankfoot's treatments had it's side effects despite being a step-by-step cure. Jason never wanted to lose his powers. Being Z-Strap only made his life more awesome. And his girlfriend being Elastika only made things better. As long as they weren't fighting.

"Still running through this trash heap?"

Jason turned to see Bug. The mutated teen sat on a roof lazing away. He looked different from his streetwise homeless self. He wore a grey jacket, white buttoned shirt, black pants and laced shoes. Even his hair was now dyed a regular brown and neatly combed. He looked like he was going to a prestigious private school.

Jason burst out laughing. "What are you wearing?"

"Don't hate the player, I'm not hiding, I'm not hiding these threads 'cause they're not cool to you." Bug felt mature in his Our Future Children Home uniform. He was sceptical at first but now only had praises for the areas the president made available to mutants. Technically the home was just an old church building that still needed renovations but the fifty kids going there were well cared for and got to go to school out in the human populated world.

His friend Bobby wasn't as lucky. He had to stay on lockdown in a human populated hospital, though his floor was blocked off from the others. The blue mutant was kept inside at all times like the twelve other severely physically handicapped mutant kids under twelve. Bug did his best to visit when he could. Bobby often got lonely and usually didn't have prosthetic limbs unless in treatment. Leaving him with no hands or feet.

Jason snorted. He always found Bug annoying. The green skinned mutant teen always found a way to act cool no matter the situation.

"How's Ellie?" Bug asked. He hadn't spoken to her since she said some awful things to him after her pregnancy was confirmed at a clinic.

"Stay away from her."

"Whoa, I'm not going to break a good relationship. As long as you're there for her, I won't interfere," Bug informed Jason, "but stay away? No, not unless she tells me to."

Jason made his hands turn to samurai swords. "You want me to make you?"

"How's Laura?" Bug countered superiorly.

Jason's hands went back to normal. He hadn't told Ellie about Laura yet. Laura wanted him to wait and he just couldn't find the right time. Not that he was trying too hard.

"Just watch her, she wants you." Bug jumped to an adjoining building. "Tell Matt I said hi and to let me know how that invention for Bobby is going." He went off swinging from building to building until he was out of sight.

Jason clenched his fists. He had no intention of losing Ellie and his baby to some love sick punk. As far as Laura, he didn't see how Bug came to such a stupid conclusion. Laura would never make a move on him when he was with Ellie. She wasn't that kind of girl.

As for Matt, he planned to find the genius blonde and get some answers.


Ellie and Cotilla stood outside a baby clothing store. They stared at the different styles and sizes at the window. Clothes for boys, girls, plus size babies.

"My baby will not be fat," Cotilla emphasized.

Ellie laughed. If Matt had his way a baby wouldn't enter the equation twenty years later. He loved playing with babies but always shrunk back at the mention of him having any. "Good luck with that."

Cotilla nudged her and they both laughed.

"Lady he said he was only looking and for the last time we're not together andi'm not expecting!" a voice exploded from inside.

The store door burst open and a red faced teen stormed by. Ellie and Cotilla watched her in silent shock as she stepped unto an escalator shaking in anger.

"Laura wait!" another voice, make, said and ran out after her.

"Matt?" Cotilla asked recognizing him immediately.

But Ellie was frozen. The name uttered by her brother matched with one person. Laura, the girl whose family tried to kill Zevo-3 before turning on their boss Brett Ronson III. During that time she also got really close to Jason. Too close for Ellie's taste though she never mentioned it. Then Laura and her family decided to leave New Eden City. Ellie had hoped the move was forever but now Laura had returned. And she was out with her brother at a baby store. Then another fact hit Ellie like a tank.

"Hey you two!" Cotilla called out, "looking for a surprise gift for Ellie with a new friend?" she teased Matt.

The other pair of teens turned around. But instead of answering Matt and Laura suddenly paled and ran off as if demons had started chasing them.

A confused Cotilla turned to Ellie. But instead of her happy friend she saw an infuriated Ellie whose eyes now looked like those of a serial killer.

"MATTHEW MATRIN! DID YOU TELL THAT BLONDE TRAMP I'M PREGNANT!"


I'm happy that all readers loved the premiere. Let me know how this chapter went and if you think Matt will live for long?