A/N: I'm really sorry for the delay. I think I'm updating after like what? six months.
Ch- 13: Forked-up
Omega and Nova made their way to the huge noise erupting in the common room, and found it a mess. There were a couple of seventeen or eighteen inches robots fighting with a huge crowd around them, cheering. The couch of the room had been shifted to one of the corners, sitting on top of which was Richie, sipping some sort of energy drink, not at all appalled by all the commotion.
"what the fuck?" Sam said seeing all that, his mouth hung open.
"who did this?" he asked, looking at his girlfriend.
"I think I know," she said, with gritted teeth. She went up to Richie, and picked him up by his collar, "what the fuck Richard? What did you do?"
"why do I have to do anything EVERYTIME something is out of order?" he asked, struggling.
"because you have a long convincing history of it." she snapped.
"you know, you're not so nice yourself either," he coughed up.
"well, I guess then we know where it comes from." She said.
"let me go!" he said, and she did, out of mercy for her half brother.
"okay, so you say you've had no hand in this commotion?" Sam asked.
"nope. Not a single one! See, both my hands are here." He joked, showing them his hands.
"quit it."
"okay."
"what do we do now? If the commanders see this, then they'll kill us all."
"well, I can make them stop…."
"you can?"
He slanted his eyebrow, as if asking, 'try me'.
"do it." she said, and he raised his fingers to his temples, and suddenly, everybody froze, they turned around, and all the young cadets, apart from Ruth and Sam turned around, saluted, and scurried off as if they had such important tasks to do. Richie went to the robots, picked them up, and shoved them into the cupboard.
"whoa! How'd you do that?" Sam asked,
"my power. Gives me control of minds. Mass control, like Slade." He explained, and Sam realized that yes, he had in fact, never seen Richard Tate use his powers.
"wow!" and Sam had thought his powers were amazing.
Suddenly, the commanders came into the room, Z running, and Sky chasing her.
"what happened?" she asked, out of breath.
And all of them looked at Richie.
"Why the hell does everyone look at me when ANYTHING goes wrong? You people need to learn that even if I screw up once or twice, I don't do it EVERYTIME. And definitely not on intention." He said, and stormed off.
"you think we've been treating him too harshly?" Sky asked.
"he deserves it." Ruth replied.
"he needs a second chance" Sam said, he seemed to steal words from Z's lips.
"yeah, he's right" Sky said, "remember when you guys were new at the academy and I acted all stuck up, if you hadn't tried to reach out to me, Z, maybe none of us would've been here right now. Z, you tried to get to me, tear my walls down, and well, I found out I was more than whom I thought. I was just a pig headed egomaniac, you made me Sky Tate," he looked at his wife, it was more than evident why he had fallen in love with her.
"we need to reach out to him," Z said, placing a hand around him, "we have been so busy with Bridge and SPD and God knows what else that we forgot about our kids" she looked at him, "they need us, we need to reach out to them," he nodded.
"Ruth, can you get Richie for us?" Z looked pleadingly at her daughter.
"yeah, sure" she said, and ran out to get him, she knew that her parents were finally going to give them the apology they owed her, and her brother for a long time.
A/N: I thought I'd make it a huge deal, the commotion, but then I felt like it'd disturb my storyline, cuz I have something else planned. So… I think i royally forked up the story, i mean i basically screwed it up, with the Unexplored chapters, i lost my interest in it. I think i'm going to continue now, i shouldn't give up, right?
