Robin Hood

By: ShalCat-Kitty

Disclaimer: See chapter 1

Ok. Don't forget. The clock is still ticking on the Bomb. My love to anyone who is still reading and anyone who reviewed. When the story is all over I'll write a poem dedicated to anyone who reviewed it will be after the last chapter.

This chapter is dedicated to "The Chip." Meaning any chip you ever see. The last potato chip in the bag. A computer chip in your remote control car. French-fries on a fish and chips platter. Even hot guys named Chip. This is for you.

Katie, Laurel or Sarah if you're reading. Remember the New Year's party and you'll understand. "The chip."

Ok here's the 5th chapter for you guys hope you like it.

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Emma: 4 days before chapter 1.

I was worried about Adam. In the morning I found him asleep in the same chair ha had been in since the afternoon before. When he got back from wherever he went after the café, he sat down with in the chair with a piece of paper. He must have read it over and over until he fell asleep. He looked peaceful so I let him be. I was the first one up and it was early. The sun hadn't even risen yet.

I made myself some breakfast in the kitchen then headed off to train. I never really did as much training as the others. But now, I had a new power to help me out. I turned on one of the simulations, a silent hologram. He came at me with a punch, I dodged and fought back with a round house kick. My kick caught him square in the jaw and sent him sprawling.

Like I had told Adam. I was tired of sitting around and playing with people's feelings. After beating a few more simulations, I wasn't tired yet so I picked up a quarterstaff. I had seen the others train with one but I hadn't ever done very much with the weapon before.

"Hey, you want some help?" I heard Jesse's voice. He must have seen me pick it up. "I can show you some basic moves." He smiled.

"Sure that would be nice." I told him. He walked up the stairs stood beside me.

"First of all. Your not holding it right. Put your hands here and here." He took hold of each of my hands one at a time and placed them in the right spots. "And your grip can't be too strong. You want to be able to move freely, but you also want to have control enough not to drop it. There's a delicate balance between a strong enough grip and too strong." His advice was very helpful.

"Like this?" I asked trying my best to hold on to it just the way that he had explained. He nodded and smiled.

"See. That will do, your getting the hang of it already." He stood in front of me and put one of his hands over each of mine. "Swing like this." He pulled the staff in the direction he wanted then stood to the side while I tried it on my own. We went on like this for a while and after about an hour, I had mastered the basics.

"If you have some time later today, I can show you some more complicated stuff, and we can spar." He started to leave.

"Hey wait up." I said putting the quarterstaff back and following him. "So your up early." I pointed out as I caught up to him. He smiled.

"Yeah. I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep." He said.

"Where are we headed?" I didn't know where we were going let alone why I was following him.

"My room." He answered casually.

"What for?" I wanted to know. I always wanted to know stuff, anything. I guess it made me feel more powerful, more complete.

"I've got something for you." He smiled. "I saw it in town and thought, I don't know why, of you."

"What is it?" all I seemed to be doing was asking questions. I didn't understand why he would just randomly buy me something. He was so sweet.

"You'll see." he said. "Well just think of it as an early birthday present." He seemed so relaxed. "I bought it a little while ago and your birthday is still too far off."

"I see." we were at his room by then. He opened the door and motioned me inside. His blue eyes watched me as he closed the door behind us. He walked over to a dresser and opened the top drawer. He took out a small box and closed the drawer again. He walked back over to me and passed the box to me.

I opened the box. Inside was a small silver locket on a thin chain. The locket was a small teddy bear with a flourished E on it.

"Wow. It's beautiful Jesse." I smiled. I took it out of the box and put the box on a shelf next to my arm. I loved it, but still. Jesse had given it to me. Did it mean something, did he have feelings for me. The thought gave me butterflies. I had caught him looking at me and then the other night, he had run his fingers down my cheek. He had stared into my eyes. Perhaps it was my imagination. Maybe it was me who had the feelings. I had admired him, without even realising it. His dirty blond hair with a cool style, his blue eyes, calm pools of light. I held up the locket to him.

"Can you help me put it on?"

"Sure." He took it and carefully clasped it around my neck as I held up my hair. I left his room after that, thanking him for the gift. He was going to have a shower or something.

As the day wore on I thought constantly of the mornings happenings. After much consideration, I decided to put a picture of Jesse in the locket. He had given it to me, and it only seemed fitting that it be his picture to occupy the space. The picture I chose was one of Jesse Brennan and I. Shalimar had taken it one day when we had the day off.

Looking at the picture, I remembered vividly that afternoon.

It was raining and we were all going to the mall. Shalimar and I had convinced the begrudging boys to come along with promises of pizza afterwards. When we left the mall on foot, it was pouring. Half way to the pizza place, Shalimar decided we needed a picture. So there it was. We were smiling like idiots and totally soaked.

I liked the picture so I copied it before cutting out Jesse to put in my new locket.

His soft eyes glittered with happiness, his hair was matted to his forehead by the downpour. I could see the individual rain droplets frozen in time before his face. It was a great picture.

Later Jesse and I trained like he had said. As we sparred we moved as one. Fainting, dodging, striking. The whole time, I was caught in his eyes. It was as if we had practised the match a thousand times before. In the end we decided on a truce even though we both knew he could beat me.

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Brennan:

I was sitting in a chair reading in the main area of sanctuary. Jesse and Emma were sparring with quarterstaffs, they were really working hard. My day had been relatively calm. I had lazed about mostly, just content to relax for once.

Shalimar entered the room, pulled a chair up beside mine and sat down. "Hey. How's it going?" she put her hand on my leg suggestively. I looked up from my book.

"You shouldn't do that." I said cautiously, but I didn't try to remove her hand that was resting on my thigh.

"It's fine." She smiled motioning to Jesse and Emma. "They're too busy beating each other with sticks. They probably don't even know we're here." Her voice was sarcastic and sexy.

"You're right. They seem really into their match." I put my book down and smiled. "If we made out right here, right now, do you think they'd notice?" I joked.

"Don't joke about that." Her eyes flashed yellow in warning. "It's not funny."

"I know." I said. "We are going to have to tell them eventually. But for now I like this. It's just ours." I put my hand over hers and played with her fingers.

Shalimar looked over to the training area and quickly pulled her hand away. Jesse and Emma had stopped their match. I hoped they hadn't noticed Shalimar's hand. It had been quite highly placed on my thigh.

Adam came into the main area then. "Good. You're all here." He smiled and motioned us all to a computer. He had information for us.

"I've gotten word from Robin. Ashlock is planning something." He pressed a few buttons on the keyboard. A map came up of the city. "There's something big going down here tomorrow." He pointed to a spot on the map. "Fourth and Central."

"Ok. What's going down?" Emma asked.

"Well I don't know. That's why I'm sending Shalimar and Brennan to check it out. Find out what Gabriel is up to and report back. Pretty basic stuff."

"Sure. What time? I asked.

"Seven a.m." Adam answered. After that we all dispersed. I went to my room, it was almost nine o-clock. I thought it would be a good idea to have some extra sleep under my belt for tomorrow. I still didn't completely trust Robin and Will.

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Adam: 3 days before chapter 1.

I woke up early and ate breakfast before any of the others woke. My thoughts would not stop. Robin's prophecy ran through my head over and over again. Brennan and Shalimar came into the kitchen as I was leaving. They were up and ready for their mission.

I could tell that Brennan had some misgivings about Robin and Will, but once we got this info from them I was sure he would learn to trust them. Also Robin had yet to give me the files she was copying.

If Ashlock found out about it and tried to trace my software; the virus I designed would burrow deep into his computer system. After copying everything it would corrupt it all. To see his reaction would be entertaining, but I doubted that I would be there when it happened.

When six a.m. arrived, Brennan and Shalimar had already left, Jesse and Emma were waiting by the computers to hear from them and I was in the lab.

At quarter to seven I went out to see what would go down. As I came up behind Emma and Jesse, I heard Shalimar over the Com Ring. "Ok guys. We don't want to give ourselves away so we'll be going radio silent until it's done, then we'll report."

Jesse looked over his shoulder to Emma and I, "Both Shalimar and Brennan have deactivated their Rings."

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Shalimar:

"So. What ever shall we do while we wait?" I asked Brennan, smiling and leaning over to kiss him.

"It was a good idea to come early." He said kissing me back.

"Too bad it wasn't early enough." I spotted Gabriel Ashlock entering the building. Disappointed, Brennan and I moved in to get a better view.

We stood by one of the windows peeking in. I couldn't see Gabriel. I turned to Brennan. "Maybe we should try a different window." I suggested.

"Maybe you should." I heard the voice from behind us. Brennan and I both turned to see Ashlock. He was standing at the entrance to the alley, blocking any attempt of escape we might try. It was hopeless. We would have to stand and fight.

Sparks appeared in Brennan's hands and I turned my eyes yellow, ready to fight to the death. 3 more people entered the alley to stand beside him. The first flashed his eyes yellow at me. The feral we had fought while trying to rescue Kelly. The second held out her hands to show sparks flying.

My mind raced. How had Gabriel known that it would be Brennan and I let alone that we would be there in the first place? Then I recognised the third person. It was Will Cunningham.

His smile was aggravating. Brennan had told me about Will. At the moment, his analysis seemed perfectly correct. I could see in the corner of my eye; Brennan's jaw muscle flexed. He was extremely pissed.

I saw him reactivate his ring. "Hey guys." Before he could say anything else, the two new mutants with the copycat powers of our own charged at us. As I countered my opponents attack, I saw sparks flying from both ends of the alley. We fought furiously with high flying kicks and punches, all four of us.

Will and Gabriel just stood by and watched. I jumped up spinning around to kick the other feral in the jaw knocking him to the ground. He got back up and threw a few punches. I dodged them but as I was about to throw one of my own, he caught me in the gut. I bent over in pain and he smacked me over the head.

I struggled and got up. I placed one nice punch knocking my opponent against the wall. Then kicked him in the head. He was done this time. Around the same time Brennan shocked the other elemental with enough force to knock her out. She didn't get up either.

I wondered what the others were getting from all of this, how much could they hear from Brennan's ring.

"It was a set up." I heard Brennan say, probably directed at Emma and Jesse. Brennan's hand sparked again, he was ready to attack the traitor and Ashlock I was prepared as well.

"Well you've got that right Sparky, but don't get overexcited. You wouldn't want to short yourself out." Gabriel remarked snidely. Brennan put out his sparks.

"Our powers are fine. I wouldn't short myself out. You should know that Ashlock." Brennan shot back.

"Are you sure?" Will's voice was sarcastic but still there was something that made my confidence flicker for a second.

Brennan motioned with his hands to make an tesla coil to throw at Ashlock. Nothing happened. "Shal there's something wrong." His voice was worried.

When my eyes changed colour, I could see better. I couldn't make my eyes change colour. "Brennan, my powers won't work." I was worried now too.

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Jesse:

We heard Shalimar tell Brennan that her powers wouldn't work. Then the sound went dead.

"Emma" I turned to the young psionic. "Are you getting any sound." I asked.

"No nothing." She answered. "Brennan. Are you there?" she asked to mid-air.

"What's wrong Jesse?" Adam asked me. He was standing close by.

"It was a set up. Gabriel knew they would be there. But just now, his com went dead. The locator is still active, I'll track them." I told Adam.

"I can't get a read on either of them." Emma said shaking her head.

"Ok." Adam was a little worried. Nothing really ever seemed to rattle him too much. "If you can't contact them in an hour go looking for them." He left.

I smiled at Emma, we had been in this situation before. "Looks like the brain is going to have to rescue the brawn once again." It wasn't a funny situation, but she laughed light-heartedly anyway. It was better to keep a good attitude when things like this happened.

I thought for a second about what I had given her the day before, she was wearing it. That made me happy that she liked it. I would much rather that the locket were shaped like a heart and not just a teddy bear, also that it was a picture of me inside.

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TBC

Ok chapter five is finished. Thanks guys. I wrote the major part of the first four chapters during Christmas break, so don't expect the rest of the story to come up as quick. But I promise that I will try my best to finish it before getting too involved with any other stories.