How Robby Keene wound up surrounded by a quiver of Cobra's, he didn't know. He just arrived at the dojo as his friend left, and the sole female Cobra told him to follow her. Why he did as she said without complaint is beyond him, probably self preservation.
She didn't say anything as they drove into Encino and to the biggest house in the cul de sac. Following the fierce female into the house, he admired the way it was both gothic and comfortable at the same time.
"Aisha, who's your friend?" A warm feminine voice called as a petite brunette poked her head out of the kitchen.
"This is Robby Keene, Sensei's kid." Aisha responded. The woman walked out one hand on her visibly pregnant stomach.
"Ah the reason you're going to lay down the law." Her blue eyes had a glint to them that had him on edge.
"Someone needs to keep those dufuses in check before they cross any more lines." Aisha responded.
"I already sent Bobby to reconnect with Johnny. Your uncles are out back getting the grill set up, The Larusso's will be coming over to watch the beat down at five."
As he moved to follow Aisha out back he felt a hand on his shoulder. "Come into the kitchen with me." She used the tone Aisha used earlier, velvet covered steel. With a last look at the heavyset girl he followed the brunette into the kitchen.
There were two other women in the kitchen. A tall, well built raven haired woman who barely had any greys in her hair. The other he knew was a doctor. Barbara Wilson.
"Welcome to the club." the raven haired woman smirked at him.
"Club?" These people were weird, scary, and yet something in him told him that they can be trusted. A rare feeling he never felt before.
"The honorary cobra club. Mates and family members of Cobra Kai." Barbara explained.
"I'm Jessica Benson." The brunette that led him into the kitchen introduced as she and the raven haired woman went back to dicing vegetables while Barbara prepared the meats to go on the grill. He saw steaks, pork, chicken, hamburgers and hot dogs.
"I'm Dr. Helen Dutcherson." The multi time bestselling romance novelist and psychologist he remembered from reading some of the books his mom would read when she wasn't hungover or trolling bars. Her husband co-wrote most of the books, and had his own local cable show.
"What's the beat down?" He asked.
"Aisha is about to teach those two punks a valuable lesson." A sadistic voice called from the back door he turned and saw the middle-aged versions of two of the original cobras. He saw the old pictures of them at the All Valley arena. He also knew Tommy from his radio show.
Miguel waited impatiently for Hawk to show up so they could go hang out with Aisha. He was still riding high on his win. He ignored the way his sensei tried to reason with him right before his match. What was so wrong at protecting what was his at all costs? That was what he was taught, what he trained for.
Sam is his, plain and simple, he wasn't going to let anyone come between them. He wasn't some wangless dork. Ever since he started training he felt something he never had before, power.
"Miguel be back by four tomorrow." His mother told him as he finished packing his overnight bag. He kissed her on the cheek as she left for her shift in the hospital.
After what seemed like hours he heard Hawk pull up. "What kept you?" He noticed the black eye Hawk sported.
"Did you know Moon's father is Tommy?" Miguel's eyes widened, from what his sensei reminisced about his friends Tommy was as vicious as Dutch.
"Tommy did this?" He ignored the sense of doom that crawled up his spine. Hawk shook his head.
"Apparently he trained his youngest daughter in Karate since she was old enough to walk." Miguel connected the dots, Moon wasn't happy with Hawk.
"Anyway let's head over to Aisha's." Hawk changed the subject and they drove the rest of the way to the Brown residence in silence.
When they got there the sense of doom from earlier came back with a vengeance. "Do you have the sudden feeling we should run?" Hawk asked as they exited the '08 Pontiac Vibe. Hawks parents bought on the cheap.
Yeah he did, but he was the 'Alpha Prime' of the current quiver of Cobras. Besides even if he only knew Aisha for a few months, he knew she wouldn't hurt them without a good reason. Which meant she wasn't happy with them. Now he had a choice before him, go in and get the severe beat down she was set to deliver, (which a huge part of him knew he deserved) or tuck tail and run like the wangless dork his beloved sensei found him.
"Yes." He stopped Hawk as his friend turned back to the car. "But we're not wangless dorks anymore. Whatever Aisha is pissed about, we should go in and accept our punnishments like men." even though they weren't even 17 yet. His sensei mentioned Dutch's wife in passing and how when an Alpha female told you to do something you did it or faced the consequences.
"That's what Moon said before I tried to pressure her into blowing me." Hawk admitted. Miguel 'gibbs slapped his friend.
"If she is raised by a cobra than she'll know how to lay down the law. My mom reads Helen Dutcherson religiously." He clarified at his friends clueless look.
"Let's just get this over with, so that we can enjoy the rest of the weekend off." Miguel didn't understand why they gave them a three day weekend for the tournament, but he wasn't complaining.
"Even more reason to run...rumor has it she's more vicious then her husband." While Miguel didn't doubt it, he wouldn't even be able to face their sensei if they didn't face down their angry best friend.
"Who'd you rather face right now? Aisha or our Sensei who'd make us do several extra drills through a junkyard of angry dogs?" Or be forced to sink or swim in a pool when you had Asthma or didn't know how to swim. He knew he'd rather face her than their sensei right now.
"Aisha is scary though!" Hawk whined. Miguel snorted but didn't correct his friend because truth was that he was right. They didn't hear the door open until the most sadistic voice he ever heard, called out. "Welcome to the quiver boys! Do your best to gain our approval probies!" He firmly denied any yelping Hawk may or may not claim that he did.
Dutch wondered when the Cobra Kai devolved into pussies who wouldn't even face their mate's wrath. Hawk the 'mohawked' one his other goddaughter barely started giving a chance to was scrawny at best, pushy at worst. Still, he feared Helen will be..displeased if he scared off this generation of cobras.. He looked at himself as 'happily domesticated', While he still won't ever hesitate to protect what's his, he wasn't entirely stupid. He liked having 'relations' with his wife on a daily basis if you got his meaning.
"Your trial awaits out back, do yourselves a favor boys and prove your worth!" Dutch chuckled as he guided the two Cobra finalists outside, then he promptly yelped as he was walloped over his head by his beautiful (read: fearsome) wife.
"I'm going to talk sense into that numbskull! Do see to it that these two are in one piece when I get back Eugene!" Helen crisply spoke. He firmly didn't pout as his wife revealed his birth name, nope not at all.
"Take all my fun away why don't you!" He knew he was playing with fire with her, which is why he was surprised when she leaned up and huskily whispered in his ear. "Play your cards right and you'll have even more fun at home." His wife had him by the fucking balls and knew it! So he couldn't let his honorary niece rip them new assholes, but if they survived her wrath it didn't mean he couldn't psychologically test them.
"Don't even try it if you want relations before new years!" OK someone must've pled their case to Helen.
"You sure are whipped, Mr. Dutch!" The Hispanic one had a wide-eyed look to him which softened him up minutely to the kid. The kid was scrawney as hell but he had a healthy dose of paranoia to him.
"Kids, if you survive the trial ahead of you, you have a lot to learn about women." His wife quipped briskly as she brushed by them. Clearly his old friend warned them not to ogle other 'Alphas' women. As neither boys ogled his wife's backside, which saved them a beating at his hands.
He handed the boys his business cards so they'd know where to go come June. "What are these for?" Hawk asked.
"I run 'dating for the clueless Alpha male' courses twice a year. Besides I prefer the term 'happily domesticated'." Dutch saw the Larusso's coming up behind the two boys. He saw the scowl on Sam's face as she brushed by Miguel and hugged him.
"Sammy!" He greeted his favorite niece. "Uncle Dutch!" Sam cried as she headed into the house. He saw the quickly masked hurt in Miguel's eyes and deduced that someone gave him bad advice.
"Daniel, Amanda." He gruffly greeted the couple. Amanda gave him a quick hug before she gave Miguel and Hawk stern looks.
"You two better be grateful to have Aisha care enough to set you straight. But if you ever hurt my baby again you won't have to worry about the uncles!" Dutch bit back the growl that wanted to escape him as he remembered the promise he made his wife.
"The other night I got stupid drunk, and when Sam showed up with someone else, I lost it." Miguel sounded regretful, how much of that was from hurting her or getting stupid drunk.
"He didn't mean to hurt her, he meant to come after me. But she tried to stop him. He thought I was interested in her." He caught the scowl on Miguels face.
"Kid if you've an ounce of self -preservation you'll get back inside the house." He locked eyes with Daniel who nodded and shot the two boys sympathetic glances.
"Robby, good rule of thumb when dealing with Cobras.." Daniel began as he led his old friends kid back inside the house.
He gripped the boys by the ears and led them out back to where he saw Aisha being coached by Tommy with Jessie adding her two cents in. He smirked as he heard Jessie encourage her to show no mercy.
"Don't go too hard on them, Helen wants them in one piece when she returns." Dutch announced as he shoved the two probies into the makeshift ring Jessie had Bobby make before she got pregnant. Bobby is on his way to being 'happily domesticated'.
"Ah phooey! I wanted a messy brawl!" Jessie scowled as she scrunched up her freckled nose. Tommy chuckled as he patted her on the shoulder as he sat next to her on the porch.
"From the look of 'Hawk' my daughter already got one in. Besides Miguel looks like he regrets his actions." Tommy consoled his fellow blood thirsty, enthusiast.
"Not enough, He needs to learn women aren't possessions!" Jessie looked about ready to jump in the ring before He saw Bobby come out the screen door.
He pulled her into his arms and whispered apparently naughty things in her ear judging by how her creamy, pale skin turned scarlet.
After he calmed his irate woman down enough to not worry that she'd teach the punks a valuable lesson herself; Bobby observed the two 'probies' as Dutch called them. They were scrawnier than the originals, and from what his naughty woman came clean to him about knowing where Aisha was really going after school and on the weekend. They were the social outcasts, that they would've picked on in high school. He ignored the nagging guilt that he hadn't bothered trying to keep in touch with his friend. Did Johnny even finish college, he was all set to go into business management.
He grunted as he was elbowed in the stomach. "No self-deprecating thoughts!" Jessie hissed as she climbed down into his lap as Dutch officiated the 'beat down'.
"I should've at least attempted to help him, I mean I knew how abusive Sid was emotionally and verbally to him. Not to mention Kreese." Jessie was silent as she digested what he said.
"Well...From what Aisha told me about him, He is the typical Alpha Prime who won't accept help or charity. Besides, I asked Helen to go to him. I know what it was like to be raised by verbally and emotionally abusive alcoholics. You remember how stubbornly proud I was when you met me? How I never asked for help at all? If I couldn't afford to buy or bring lunch I did without." Bobby scowled as he still wanted to track down her mother and give her hell for the way his woman turned out.
"Don't even think about it, I forgave her long ago and talk to her regularly on the phone." Jessie told him before he could even complete his thought. Despite his worries about their age gap, he was glad to have her in his life.
He did not yelp like a girl when he was Gibbs slapped. "Stop it! I tire of reminding you that I'd rather have forty or fifty years with someone who makes me feel in ways I've never felt before, than be alone or with someone who only wanted sex. Face it Bobby, you're stuck with me." He nuzzled into her neck to breathe in her natural scent, before he turned his attention to his goddaughter and her friends. The probies clearly knew what they were in for and accepted their punishment. He had hoped they'd put up more of a fight, but he was glad there was hope for them.
"I'm not 'stuck with you'. As you eloquently put it. I love you Jessie, but I can't help it. I know it was the norm in centuries gone by. But I see how the more judgemental women in Encino look down on you, I know that despite how much you say it doesn't bother you, that it does. I want you to be happy. Even if it's not with me." Bobby knew he was looking at a night with rosey right hand. He yelped when he was 'gibbs slapped five times over. He shivered as he felt the glares of doom from the other mates.
"Jessie is one of us! Jessie Loves you!, so suck it up buttercup!" Helen snarled from behind him as he heard Johnny chuckle.
"So Aisha won?" Johnny asked as he took the attention off his old friend. He stiffened reflexively as Robby stood next to him. He wanted to hold his son in his arms, wanted to scold him for entering a tournament he wasn't remotely prepared for; unaffiliated no less. But more than anything he was proud that Robby made it as far as he did, even if he was trained in Miyagi-do.
"Are you going to stop me from training under Daniel-sensei?" Robby asked. As much as it gauled him to admit it to himself, Robby was better off being off Kreese's radar.
"Your mom has sole custody." He reminded Robby bitterly. Yet another point of failure for him. He should've fought harder for him, shouldn'tve prioritized the booze over his only son.
"She said earlier this year that you wanted to take custody of me. Is it true?" He didn't want to feel hope that his son would consider living with him. From the corner of his eyes he saw that Aisha finally stopped her onslaught on his other top students. He saw the scowl Miguel sent his son, he sent one back just as Aisha grabbed both of them by the ears and dragged them over to Robby.
He also saw the wide eyed way his son stared at Aisha. "Robby these two numbskulls have something they need to say to you." even he shuddered at what she could do with the combination 'Alpha female timbre' and his teachings.
"We do?" Miguel stupidly asked, kid had to learn that there was no fighting an Alpha female. "Yes you do Miguel!" He growled at the boy who was like a second son to him.
"Sensei?" Miguel and Hawk questioned in unison. He sensed more than saw Tommy and Daniel come up behind him with the 'Alpha females' in tow.
"Miguel, Hawk I never thought I would say this, especially to you Miguel; but I'm sickened at the fact that you two would outright cheat to win. Bobby and I were threatened to cheat in the 84 tournament. But you too cheated on your own. Against my own son no less!" The fact that he never let on that he had a son was no excuse for the cheap tactics. Now he saw the guilt enter Miguel's and Hawk's eyes.
"Look I'm in no shape to be a healthy role model to you boys and girl." He added as he saw Aisha about to interject.
"I'm going to get and stay clean. I'm also going to start attending Dutch's classes. I highly recommend you do the same."
