"I won the lotto," Robbie said to himself in the mirror in his room but shook it off, "No I need to be eighteen to even play that. Rich grandmother died? No then Jade would ask questions." For the past hour after running lines with Jade for the play he had been trying to come up with a logical reason for him to suddenly have so much money. Sure the DNA testing had set him back a grand but that still left him with a little under sixty thousand dollars in bills in his closet. Deciding to not think about it for a little bit he focused on the rush of robbing that bank, it felt amazing donning the personality of Master Mind but he couldn't just keep robbing banks especially since he wasn't planning on living a life style of spending a lot of money each day. He could always find a nice condo to buy, or steal since he could just make the owners give him his own place, then he could spend all the money he had acquired and not worry about anyone really finding out. Heading to his computer he sat down and began to plan. While he did his thoughts went back to the hero that had to step in. It was weird to think there were others like himself out there but not unexpected because he couldn't be alone in the world it wasn't mathematically possible. He had to figure out how he was going to deal with it once he discovered who the super hero was, could he control them like he could anyone else or would he have to kill the man? These problems kept him awake way into the night.

"You look like hell," stated Jade once Robbie came down from his room the next morning.

"Thanks a lot," he muttered still half asleep grabbing a bowl and some cereal.

"Okay but honestly, you okay?" she asked showing concern for him that wasn't translating to school hours.

"Couldn't sleep last night that's all," he said eating his honey o's.

"Something on your mind?"

"You're perceptive, you remember my old friend Beck?"

"The hair?" Jade asked and that got a laugh from Robbie.

"Yeah the hair, he asked me if you were seeing anyone." This made Jade go quiet, she had thought the boy had been very attractive but Robbie had been her rock since her parents died, even before then he had been so great to him.

"What did you say?" she asked softly.

"Well obviously you're not otherwise I'd know about it."

"Yeah you would."

"What?"

"Nothing, you think he's going to ask me out?"

"He wants to, wanted me to talk to you about it first. You've got a very powerful presence in school and it's only been one day."

"Good, he should be afraid of me."

"I'm not afraid of you," Robbie said looking up from his almost empty bowl of cereal cocking his eyebrow at her.

"Yes you are,"

"Nope because I know the real you, plus I'm pretty sure I have a picture of you wearing pink that one time my mom asked you to."

Jade blushed a little frowning and swiping at him which he leaned back a little and dodged her.

"What do you think?" he asked and she cleared her throat.

"I don't know, I like the idea of being part of a power couple but I don't know who I want the other person to be."

"Beck's pretty awesome," Robbie said in a way where Jade felt like he didn't mean it, "Good hair," he said more to himself but loud enough for Jade to hear. She might have said something but Robbie couldn't hear it, his mind was thinking back to fighting that super hero with really good hair, but that had to be a coincidence there's no way that Beck got the good looks, smarts and super powers, that just wouldn't be fair. All that and he'd get Jade too, looking up at her he saw her how he did all those months ago when he decided to kill her parents, beautiful.

"What do you think of me?" he asked cautiously, "Am I your friend, like a brother, anything else?"

"Rob, you've been the one constant in my life since my parents died. That's created a bond that no one will ever break including any boyfriends I get or girlfriends you get so don't worry about that. If you're nervous with me and Beck dating I wont go out with him," with that she washed her bowl out and left it in the sink before heading upstairs to get ready for school. Setting his own bowl in the sink Robbie let out a big breath, that wasn't really how he wanted that to go but it was better then nothing, at least now he wouldn't be losing her.

At least that's what he had thought until he actually arrived at school because there was Beck, standing against Robbie's locker kissing Jade on her mouth. Robbie actually dropped his books onto the floor, Andre came up behind him picking up his books and pushing them into Robbie's arms.

"I'd pick up your jaw too but," Andre said waving it off, then he noticed what Robbie was looking at, "Yeah that was a weird thing to see too, I was here when he asked her out. He brought her a large cup of specialty coffee and asked her out. I don't know which she was more excited about the coffee or dating what the Slap dubbed the hottest boy in the freshman class."

"The Slap?"

"Yeah it's a social network site for the school, another thing to sign up for and get on, any way there's this one girl who rated all the new guys in the school, Beck was number one. I am number ten."

"And me?"

"Uhh you're smart?" Andre teased stopping when he got the angriest glare from Robbie, "Uh you're number eighteen, out of twenty five."

Twisting his neck a little before turning and walking away Robbie couldn't be around anyone right now. He felt so betrayed and needed some way to blow off some steam, Andre reached out to stop him but Robbie moved so fast he didn't stand a chance. Shaking his head he approached the new couple to see what was going on with them. Almost destroying the doors to the parking lot Robbie made sure no one was around before leaping up into the air and flying off. Feeling the wind whip around him Robbie pushed himself harder then he'd ever tried before as the land beneath him sped by as if he was in a bullet train or something. He stopped only when he got to water, realizing that he had flow east instead of west and was now at the Atlantic Ocean. Checking his watch he was amazed to see that it had taken him only thirty minutes to cross the country.

Then it hit him, what he wanted, all night he was trying to figure out if he wanted fame, or women, Jade in particular, or money. He was even contemplating taking over the city, moving out to the state, country, world but not anymore. Now Robbie wanted one thing, power. With more power he wouldn't have to fear anyone anymore he figured that he could train himself, make his powers stronger but there had to be other ways to get more power. His new plan would be to look for others like him and the masked hero, if they were here there must be more like them around and if there were and he found them. Smiling Robbie fell backwards a little before zooming off back towards LA.

Since he missed first period he pushed his English book into his locker, closing it and seeing Jade leaning against hers.

"Yours is still bare, you need to figure it out before the end of the week. Missed you in English, we left about the same time where did you go?"

"Just needed to get some air," he muttered slamming the locker close startling her a little. Frowned she grabbed his arm as he turned to walk away and roughly pulled him back.

"What's your problem?" she growled at him and he just yanked his arm away.

"Why don't you go ask number one and leave number eighteen alone," he snapped walking away from her, not seeing her face drop as she realized why he was mad. She started to go after him but stopped, they were at school and she had a reputation to keep up so instead she got out her books and went to her next class. Cat watched this unfold from her own locker as she combed the three dimensional unicorn's mane and tail and followed after Robbie to see if he was okay. She found him sitting outside at one of the tables.

"Skipping class again?" she asked taking a seat next to him.

"Again? So you heard Jade yelling at me then?"

"My locker is only a few down from you guys, did you want me to help dress up yours?"

"Sure kitten," he said taking a notebook from his bag.

"Kitten? That sounds like a good nickname because I'm Cat," she said with a giggle to which he looked at her funny.

"Where's Rex?"

"His locker, getting used to it," Robbie said but stopped thinking about a new test he could try, "Actually Kitten he's right there next to you." As she looked Robbie went into her mind and made her eyes see his little wooden friend.

"Oh Rex, there you are. What do you think we should do for Robbie's locker?"

"I don't know toots I don't think anything can be done to make him cooler."

"Oh Rex you're so mean to Robbie," she said with a laugh and Robbie smiled, he was the master of minds. Looking back at his notebook he heard Cat gasp then turned to see Rex wasn't there anymore, he should have known that as a new power it would take time to focus.

"Something wrong Kitten?" he asked and Cat shrugged.

"Where did Rex go?"

"Bathroom?"

"Kay kay," she said either not caring what happened or maybe she was really that naive. Reaching down Robbie focused and brought Rex up in his hands.

"I just fell over from amazement that a cutie such as yourself is hanging out with this guy," Rex said and before Cat could say anything Robbie said.

"That's it backpack for you," and put him away. They spent the rest of the period designing Robbie's locker. By the time he had to face the gang again he and Cat had decorated his locker by turning it into a working guitar that you could strum, like Andre's piano it was playable. Strumming a few cords out of it Beck came up holding Jade's hand.

"That sounds and looks awesome Robbie."

"Yeah thanks a lot Beck," he said sarcastically, Jade rolled her eyes.

"You actually got a locker for your puppet."

"He's not a puppet," Robbie snapped looking at the drum that was fused into Rex's so you could play it as well.

"Where is he?" she said and before Cat could say the backpack he pulled Rex out of his locker.

"Right here, why do you want to flaunt you and Beck in front of Rob and I to make two people feel sick?" Beck looked surprised, Jade looked like she had been slapped.

"I do feel sick guys, I'm going to go home for the day." Before anyone could say anything he was out to the parking lot, inside his car and drove off. Pulling around to the back of Bank of Southern California which was much smaller then the first bank he sit pulling on his costume and walking inside. Instead of making a threat he pushed out a thought into everyone's mind, making him invisible to them. The camera was still on and recorded everything as he walked up to the counter, jumped behind it and started to load money from the vault into a pair of bags. Focusing this much was giving him a headache as he boosted it up to make the money and bags invisible to the patrons. He walked out with thirty thousand dollars, throwing them into the front seat and crawling into the back. Pulling his mask off he closed his eyes and waited for the pain to go away, it slowly did and was replaced by happiness. School was what it was and probably going to end up being a drag so he would have to set things up now. Pulling up into the front seat he drove to a richer end of town and began looking into town houses.

After seeing a few houses he liked he actually found a less expensive townhouse that was being sold for one hundred thousand. Using his powers to convince the owners that he already paid them the money he received the keys and all legal documents making him the owner. It was a decent two story townhouse, two bedrooms, two baths as well as a sitting room and a library. The house was fully furnished but he would be making a lot of changes. The next thing he did was call in an emergency alarm company to come in and set him up with a new security system, after spending twenty thousand of the bank's money he felt safe a secure. Checking his watch he saw that it was already four so he decided to head to his parents to get some more things as well as telling his parents and Jade that he was moving out. Not knowing what was coming out of this he smiled wondering just how Jade would take this.

"Bullshit," she screamed at him when he arrived home and told her that he was leaving, "I get that you're mad at me for agreeing to date Beck and for making out with him but you didn't tell me no. You didn't tell me you wanted to date me,"

"I never said that," he cut her off but she just rolled over it.

"So you're jealous and because of that you're going to run away, what are your parents going to think? Do you even care about them?"

"Of course I care about them but I cannot be around you anymore, what if you bring Beck over?"

"So you are jealous."

"Screw you Jade, you don't see it. In one moment I lost my old friend and my best friend to each other. I'll ask you to hang out, you cant you're with Beck. You might even ask me to tag along since we're not at school but even then I'm not going to be your third wheel."

"You're mad at me, don't take this out on your parents you will regret it. I regret not saying I love you to my parents more, letting them know how much I cared for them. I feel guilt because if I had maybe they wouldn't be dead." This caused Robbie to get so anger that he let something out he never wanted to admit.

"Your parents didn't love you, they dismissed you and abused you. I felt your hate towards them and you only say these things because they aren't around anymore. Nothing you could have said would bring them back because I killed them!" he screamed at her. She sat back, tears now streaming down her face at his confession.

"No, my dad killed my mom then himself," she said softly.

"Because I told him to. I'm a bad person Jade, I'm the villain. Every story has one and in this one it is me," Robbie said calmly walking closer to her. "I lost my best friend, my closest relative, uncle Henry and now I'm losing you so if that doesn't make a great origin story to a villain I don't know what would."

"Shut up you cant make anyone do anything!"

"You shut up," he shouted his eyes flashed and Jade's eyes widened because she couldn't open her mouth no matter how hard she tried. Leaning close he smiled slightly.

"I'm the bad guy, and you will forget this entire conversation, you will remember nothing and it will be as if I just got home, right now." Stepping back he watched Jade's eyes unfocus then focus before blinking and looking at him.

"Why did you ditch school Robbie?" she demanded.

"Sorry I was just unhappy, you told me you wouldn't date Beck and Beck told me he wouldn't ask you out until after I spoke to him, I just felt betrayed."

"You idiot, you're my best friend and if Beck tried to come between that I'd dump him. My parents are gone and you are my everything, don't forget that Robbie."

Robbie looked sad but smiled a little.

"Thank you Jade, for everything."