Invisible Problems

The next day, Michael was at the computer before Robin even woke up. For precaution, she had turned her cell phone off last night. She couldn't talk anyway. When she did wake up, the first thing she had to do was remember just where she was. She freaked and squealed, but no sound came out. She sighed and looked around.

'Michael's gone to work already...' Robin thought. He was the first person and last person at work all the time. So it made sense. She put her hair up. She could still see herself so it wasn't hard. She took it that any clothing or accessory she put on would vanish as well. She sighed again before heading over to Michael's little fridge. It didn't have much in it. Some milk, an egg, a pizza that she remembered she bought for him the day she vanished, a few bottles of water, and some bottles of soda. She thought she saw beer until she picked it up and it said 'IBC Root Beer'.

'Michael..' she groaned. She looked around the room while she heated a pizza slice. The laptop was sitting on Michael's bed, all ready. She knew no one was at work yet so she opened it up and typed.

"Michael. How do you get food? It seems like all you get is junk food, what you usually eat, and what I bring you." send. In no time, Michael was back with..

"That's basically it. The drinks usually comes from here though.. They can't keep me here and starve me after all." It had this cool smiley face and that was it. Robin wrote back again.

"Okay. I'll leave you alone now." She closed the laptop. Michael left her note on it that said that it would tell her if she got mail anyway. After setting it on Michael's desk, she went to eat her pizza.

People entered work like an ordinary day. Dojima was last. So far, no hunts. Amon was sitting, brooding, on the couch. As time ticked by he seemed to fidget. "Michael!" He finally stomped over to the hacker. "Yeah?" He looked up, headphones blaring, about to eat a puffy cheeto.

"Where's Robin?" He glared into the Hacker's calm eyes. Michael was thinking about that one all morning. "Robin? She's on business. Out of town... ya." he stuttered a little at the end. 'If Amon finds out I'm lying I'm gonna be is serious trouble.' Michael and looked at his computer screen so Amon didn't see his momentary anxiety.

"Out of town.. Business... Right." Amon secretly swore to figure out what was going on.

No one asked about Robin all day, to Michael's satisfaction. He might mix up his story.

Robin had already finished 2 pizza slices. She was still hungry but she knew it was because she was bored. She was invisible, her clothes too. She couldn't talk. She went over it in her mind. Then she had an idea. What about her powers?

In 5 minutes she had set up something flammable that wasn't important across the room from her. Around it was some not flammable foil. Where she found it... don't ask. She didn't want to catch anything on fire except her target. Wearing her half-moon spectacles, she concentrated and her eyes flared. The target caught fire and disintegrated almost instantly.

'YES!' Robin cheered. Cleaning up as fast as she could, smiling. She ran over to her desk top and before she could even start to type, she got an email.

"Kay. Kuroon escaped! He's running around downtown where we caught him before. The guys are on it." That was all. She quickly wrote back.

"What! Michael can I go? I just tried it, I can still use my powers." She waited and waited. he must be having a hard time deciding. Ting. Mail.

"Ok fine.. but how will you get there?" Michael was looking for reasons to keep her there.

"I'll use.. Sakaki. Bye!" she said and quickly shut the laptop. She was already out when the computer said she had mail.

Amon and Karasuma got in their cars. Sakaki was revving up his motorcycle and he felt a little extra weight on it. Robin wasn't wearing her big pilgrim dress, she was wearing a tee shirt and jeans so she wouldn't make as much noise and wouldn't get in the way. Sakaki looked around him and saw nothing so he shrugged it off, telling himself that he should go on a diet.

Amon and Karasuma drove out then Sakaki speeded out Robin holding onto anything but Sakaki. She saw a bump in the road and took a chance. When they hit the bump she grabbed onto Sakaki. Luckily she didn't fall off and all Sakaki did was shrug a little.

When they got there, Robin let go of Sakaki when he stood up and then got off herself. Sakaki kept smoothing out his shirt. "That was weird.." he mumbled. But nothing escapes the great ears of Amon.

"What was?" He turned to the hunter beneath him. "I.. it was.. nothing.." Amon glared at him when he felt someone or something kick him in the ankle. He looked at it, shook the pain away, and ignored it. He also left Sakaki alone and headed out to find the witch, the others on his tail. Robin had resolved not to help unless she was needed.

It wasn't hard to find Kuroon. It was like he wanted to be found. He was laughing to himself as he looked at the people surrounding him. They shot orbo at him and he dodged everyone. Robin even set one of his sleeves on fire when he rushed past her, but he quickly put it out. He was soon up to a wall cackling, the hunters having cut off his escape routes.

"And just what the hell is so funny?" Amon snapped. "She's not with you." Kuroon cackled.

"What?" Sakaki raised an eye brow but tried to seem serious and calm.

"The fire girly! Gone forever she be! Lost for good, bad for your attitude!! Ha ha ha ha!" The only thing worse than his rhyming was his incessant laughing. Amon moaned. This guy was annoying.

"Robin's out of town right now. On business." Karasuma said coolly, she had overheard Amon and Michael.

"Out of town! Business! Ha ha ha! That's a good one.. I think I'll use it." Kuroon was more like a really ugly and bad rhyming clown. He looked like a tall goblin, so to speak.

"All gone, can't be seen, can't be heard. They've gone away, like a bird." Kuroon snickered.

Amon couldn't stand the laughing anymore and shot him with a full round of orbo. He dropped almost instantly.

"Thank God." He moaned.

'..Can't be seen, Can't be heard...' The words danced in Amon's head. He thought about it. 'Out of town! Business! Ha ha ha!' Kuroon must've done something. The same thing he'd done to all the people who had vanished, working with him before.

The factory came to take him back and the gang went to their vehicles. Sakaki sat on his bike and he felt something on his waist again. He thought about it, shrugged, and drove off.

On the way back, Sakaki was also thinking about what Kuroon had said and the thing around his waist. He remembered following Kuroon down an alley and... His sleeve caught fire! Robin must've been around.. But where? Kuroon had said something about not being seen or heard. He got it! Robin was.. invisible! That was Kuroon's power!

When they got back to work Sakaki got off his bike and just before Robin let go, Sakaki grabbed her wrist. She didn't try to pull, maybe he'd let go. He grinned, his face away from her.

He waited till Amon and Karasuma had left, saying he had to check his tires, before turning on Robin. He looked around behind him, and saw nothing.

"I'm guessing you can't say 'I'm right here' can ya?" Sakaki looked at his hand, holding onto an invisible girls arm. Robin's jaw dropped. Shoot, Sakaki had figured it out.

"Robin if your here, try to pull away from me." Robin stayed still and thought about it.. He'd be her way to get around. It'd be nice to have someone on the field know. She tugged her arm. Sakaki's eyes widened a bit before returning to normal.

"That... is.. so cool." He said, in his excitement, letting go of Robin. In her bewilderment, she didn't go anywhere. He calmed down and noticed just what he'd done.

"Robin?" He looked around. She tapped him on the shoulder. "Oh.. ok.. how bout we go inside?" Robin put her finger on his shoulder so he knew where she was and followed him into the building.

Inside Amon was brooding and trying to figure it out. Despite his hard thinking, Sakaki beat him to it. :-) When Sakaki came in, Amon didn't ask what had taken so long because he was too busy making lines on a paper and thinking too hard.

Sakaki strolled up to Michael and Robin left. He didn't much mind, he figured she would just stand there, instead she was going to Michael's room to email him. Sakaki had this big grin on that meant 'I know something you don't know'. Michael looked at him with the look that said 'Are you on drugs?'.

Sakaki wrote Robin's name on a piece of paper. Michael now had a look that said 'And?'. Suddenly he had email.

"Michael it's Kay. Sakaki knows. Explain is secret, bye." Michael and Sakaki read together. Michael deleted it and dragged Sakaki into the empty conference room. All the way to the back.

"Who's Kay?" Sakaki whispered, knowing it was something.. cough cough secret. Duh. Michael rolled his eyes.

"It's Robin's code name for now. So no one knows she's here and starts asking questions. So how'd you do it?" He sat down. Sakaki sat across from him.

"On the way to the hunt I hit a bump and something had a hold of me but I ignored it. During the hunt I saw Kuroon's shirt catch fire and on the way back something was holding onto me again. When we got back I grabbed her wrist and got her to talk." Sakaki rushed. Michael had a disbelieving look.

"She can't talk dummy." "Well.. she kinda tugged her hand on command.. that's not the point." Sakaki hit himself in the head. "How'd you find it out?" Michael raised an eye brow, wondering what his point was and what it mattered, but answered anyway.

"She tripped over the cords to my computer and the screen went black, I saw her in the reflection and asked her to type on a computer if she was really there. That's it." He leaned back. "She still reflects."

"Where is she?" "If she hasn't gone anywhere, my room." "Your room?!" Sakaki said a bit too loudly as Dojima walked in.

"Who's room?" she asked with a sweet smile. "No one's" they answered in unison. She glared and then shrugged. "Whatever. I know when I'm not wanted." She sat down at the end, hoping to hear more but they stood up and left. "Man.." she leaned her head into her palm and her elbow on the desk. She sighed.

In Michael's room, Robin had just beat a video game online. With Michael downloading so much stuff, it was easy to find the games. More difficult to chose one. When she heard the door being opened, she quickly closed the computer, set it down, and stood up. Michael walked in and she sighed in relief.

"Robin? You in here?" Robin nodded then remembered they couldn't see her. She opened the laptop and typed yes.

"It's like talking to ghosts." Sakaki stared at the computer in obvious delight. Michael picked up a small mirror and moved it around till he found her.

"There you are." He put it up, facing her. Sakaki stared at her reflection.

"Interesting. Cool." He looked where Robin was standing. "Hmm.. wont I have to communicate with her too?" He looked at Michael who nodded. "You can use a different computer upstairs to talk to her. Robin I'll give you the email address for him." Robin nodded and they saw it in her reflection. "Back to work for us." They turned and left. Robin frowned. All alone again.

Hey... What pairing do you people want for Robin? M/R or S/R?