With three days to go until the wedding all of the plans had been finalised and there was nothing much that anyone could do. Waiting seemed to be the only thing until the next day when Kit would take some of his stuff up to the airship and stay there until the big day. Sportacus was under the impression that he'd have to barricade Kit inside to prevent him from seeing Robyn before she joined him at the altar. As a precaution he'd borrowed a spare TV from Robbie and lots of videos for Kit to keep himself occupied with.
After spending most of the morning doing absolutely nothing to the grand disgruntlement of Sportacus, Robyn and Kit were dragged out onto the sports field for a work out. They're objections were silenced when they saw the dark look Sportacus had on his face and knew they were in trouble if they didn't do what they were told.
To start off the work out Sportacus got the two doing warm ups so they didn't get injured. Once they'd warmed up he moved on to some fast pace callisthenic exercises which got faster and harder as time went on. To his credit Kit had no trouble keeping up and even flipped when the others did.
Ché watched the proceedings with amusement. He'd recently been joined by Robbie who was watching with similar interest.
"I think the lazy gene was kicking in with Robyn earlier. She didn't move from the couch all morning and Sportacus didn't take kindly to it." Robbie said without taking his eyes off of the exercising trio.
"I can tell. Kit's doing very well for a 'normal', he mentioned that he did a few acrobatics but I've never seen him do any apart from tumbling."
"I've seen him do somersaults, handstands, headstands, walking on his hands and some other things. It's the first time I've seen him do any flips." Robbie paused and then looking up at Ché asked, "What would you make of Robyn? Is she a 'normal' or a hero?"
Ché looked down at Robbie, "As Lily was technically a hero and you aren't I'd say Robyn is half and half. She appears to have all of the capabilities of a hero; the physical prowess, immunity to such things as colds and a fairly good resistance to injury. As for sugar meltdowns she has a much higher threshold than any hero I know and she has some of our increased strength. The hero side of her appears to be the most prominent."
Robbie nodded and went back to watching the trio. It appeared that they were having a small break. Sportacus held his arm up like he usually did when he called for something from the airship and Robbie heard him call water.
Instead of a bottle of water falling into Sportacus' hand from the airship a whole torrent came down soaking him to the skin. He heard Robyn and Kit laughing at him and looked down to see them rolling around on the ground clutching their sides with tears of laughter streaming down their cheeks. They both happened to look at him and their laughter ceased when they saw the look on his face.
Kit looked to Robyn nervously, "Run!" He shouted before springing off the ground and sprinting away from Sportacus.
Robyn soon caught up with Kit and informed him that Sportacus was chasing them. Kit suggested splitting up as their pursuer could only chase one of them. This suggestion was immediately complied with and looking behind him Kit could see Sportacus breaking off too and running after Robyn. Looking behind him again Kit noticed that Ché was quickly heading his way and gaining ground on him by the second.
Thinking quickly and seeing that a tree was up ahead Kit waited until Ché was almost on top of him before throwing himself onto his stomach. As he had suspected Ché was running too fast to be able to stop and ended up running around him to prevent crushing him into the earth. It was only when he heard a loud thud that he looked up and saw that Ché had collided with the tree. With the force of the impact the tree began to topple over.
Just as Ché collided with the tree Robyn had stumbled and fell in the path of the falling tree. She tried getting out of the way but her hand and legs wouldn't communicate with each other and she couldn't get up. The tree was almost on top of her when suddenly it stopped falling and seemed suspended in the air just inches from her body.
"Pedro!" Ché shouted when he saw his eldest son holding onto the tree.
"Papá." Pedro replied before dragging the top of the tree away from Robyn and letting it drop.
With the tree dealt with Pedro walked back over to Robyn and held out one of his hands, "pretty lady?" he asked in broken English gesturing for Robyn to take his hand.
Robyn took Pedro's hand and he lifted her up onto her feet. Understandably the girl was rather shaken and Kit carried her home. Sportacus and Ché allowed him to do this as they knew he needed to shake off his own shock at seeing Robyn almost being crushed. They too were shaken by what had happened but put Kit's needs first.
Ché walked over to Pedro and put a hand on his shoulder, "Gracias Pedro. Gracias,"
"No problema, Papá." Pedro replied and after waving at Sportacus went back to his airship.
Ché stood shaking his head as he watched his eldest son climb the ladder, "I thought he'd gone back to France. We're lucky he didn't."
"What happened wasn't your fault Ché. It was no one's fault; it was just one of those things." Sportacus replied putting a supportive hand on his friend's arm.
"It was my fault amigo. How many times are you going to ignore the fact that I'm a hazard? How many times am I going to nearly kill Robyn before you see me for what I really am? I'm a big, clumsy oaf who would be better as a lumberjack and not a hero. I don't save people I just put them in danger. Go back to your niece before I hurt you as well."
Reluctantly Sportacus did as he was told. When Ché had these dramatic attacks of conscience he wasn't to be meddled with. He could go from complete sorrow to intense anger and lash out at anyone that bothered him. He was better off left alone to reaffirm what he really was, a process that could take hours.
Kit and Robyn went against Sportacus' advice and went to find Ché. They found him where he'd seated himself and sat either side of him in silence. Robyn had gotten over her shock from the incident and was dismayed to have both Kit and Ché blaming themselves for what had happened. She'd sorted Kit out and now she wanted to make Ché feel better. She didn't blame either of them for what had happened; it was an accident part of which was quite amusing.
"If Pedro hadn't had come along I'd be two and a half days away from marrying a pancake." Kit thought out loud then after a pause continued, "The wedding night would have been a little flat."
Both Ché and Robyn groaned at Kit's awful pun. Ché gave Kit a playful shove and then thanked him for lifting his spirits. He then turned to Robyn to apologise but she shook her head.
"There's no need to apologise. Kit's the one that should apologise, that joke was so bad it was painful." Robyn laughed.
Kit laughed too, "I found it funny."
"You would." Ché and Robyn stated simultaneously before laughing at their timing.
Shaking his head Kit stood up and held out a hand for Ché, "Come on big guy. We're having an early dinner."
"Big guy?" Ché answered dubiously.
Kit rolled his eyes, "It's either big guy or fat lump, which one do you want?"
Robyn laughed as Kit made a run for it when Ché tried to grab him. Ché was on his feet in seconds and chasing Kit back the house. Choosing to go at own pace at first Robyn walked but then couldn't resist the urge to run to see what Ché would do to Kit when he got hold of him.
The Watcher stood despondently watching Robyn retreat from the scene. His plan had failed. Tripping the vessel over and holding her down so she would be killed by the tree had been a good idea but his plan had been foiled by the giant. He could hear the Judges calling him and returned for punishment. The Judges hated failure.
