Robbie turned round when he heard Bessie scream and seeing her standing there screamed himself. They stood screaming at each other for what seemed an age before Robbie tried to hide his manhood behind a loofer he'd grabbed from a hook on the wall.
Hearing all the screaming and thinking something was dreadfully wrong the Mayor and Sportacus came running into Bessie's house and saw the scene in the bathroom. The Mayor was trying to contain his laughter while he handed Robbie a towel. Robbie snatched the towel from the Mayor's hand and stormed out of the bathroom. Slamming the door behind him Robbie inadvertently shut the back of his towel in the door so when he walked a few steps away from it the towel didn't follow. The kids who'd heard the screaming had come to the house and were greeted with Robbie standing buff naked in the corridor. Stephanie opened her mouth and eyes wide in shock and all the others did the same. Robbie looked down and saw exactly what the kids were looking at, his cheeks turned furiously red.
"Hi kids, I didn't mean to do that." Robbie said in a shy fashion. Robbie then grabbed his towel and ran into the nearest room with a door, slamming it hard.
The kids stood in shocked silence for some time after Robbie had gone and Pixel was sure he'd been scarred for life. Walking slowly out of the front door like a small group of zombies, the kids tried to find some way of removing the picture of Robbie naked from their heads.
Sportacus left the bathroom when he was sure that Bessie had been sufficiently calmed and went in search of Robbie. Hearing a great deal of rustling and bustling Sportacus went over to the door Robbie had gone through and put his ear to it. He was about to gently knock on the door when it flew open and out came a rather hastily dressed Robbie.
Sportacus looked into the room and saw that Robbie had left his waistcoat behind. Grabbing the waistcoat from the bed Sportacus ran to catch up with Robbie. Sportacus looked around when he left the house and quickly spotted Robbie.
"Robbie! Wait! You left your waistcoat behind," Sportacus called running up to him.
Robbie turned at his name being called and when he saw Sportacus had his waistcoat in his hand he looked down and realised he'd forgotten to put it on. Things weren't going Robbie's way at all today and he was quickly getting fed up with it. The worst part of the day so far was the whole town seeing him naked which would be hard to forget and live down.
Sportacus caught up with Robbie in no time at all and handed Robbie his waistcoat which was accepted gratefully. Sportacus was going to ask Robbie something but didn't know what kind of answer he'd get. Robbie was still fuming but either way the question had to be asked.
"Robbie, would you like to stay with me in the airship for a few days until your lair is fixed?"
Robbie's jaw hit the ground at this question. Promptly picking his jaw up Robbie was about to give a scathing answer but thought better of it when he thought of his situation. In a reluctant and not overly enthusiastic manner Robbie shrugged and then nodded his head. Robbie didn't like the idea but he had no choice, little did he know that Sportacus wasn't exactly looking forward to it either. He'd asked Robbie purely out of the goodness of his heart and wondered how long they'd be able to tolerate each other.
Ten minutes later Sportacus and Robbie were stood in the airship. Robbie looked about with disdain at the brightness of the room and bland colours that decorated it. Robbie had been in the airship once or twice before and had never had the chance to fully study it before. Apart from the piloting station everything was tucked away in alcoves in the walls and made everything look quite boring if not disgustingly tidy. Robbie grimaced when he came upon a rather unwelcome realisation.
"What are the sleeping arrangements going to be? You only have one bed don't you?" Robbie muttered knowing and fearing the answer.
"There is only one bed and we'll have to share it unless you want to sleep on the floor." Sportacus spoke in a deadpan tone; he was serious about Robbie sleeping on the floor. He wouldn't trust him sleeping in the piloting station and wouldn't sleep there himself.
Eventually Robbie agreed to share the bed, it was getting late and after his earlier ordeal he was tired. He let Sportacus choose which side of the bed he wanted to sleep on and slept on the other. Once they had agreed on sides Robbie jumped into bed while Sportacus did some last minute exercises until it was time for him to go to bed.
Sportacus crept up to the bed and got in his side very gently so as not to wake the soundly sleeping Robbie. Sportacus covered himself with his half of the duvet but felt it sharply snatched away seconds later. He turned to see Robbie hogging the duvet and Robbie seemed completely unaware of what he was doing. Sportacus tugged softly at the duvet to get back his half and laid down when he'd managed to get it. Yet again the duvet was pulled away from him and he sat up shaking his head. This routine happened several times before Sportacus' patience were exhausted. Giving an almighty pull Sportacus wrenched the duvet from Robbie's hands with so much force that both men fell out of the bed and onto the floor. Sportacus got back into bed and looked over the other side to see if Robbie was awake after being propelled out of the bed, he was surprised to see that Robbie was still fast asleep. Sportacus shook his head and then went back to sleep ensconced comfortably in his duvet.
Robbie woke up with the sun the next morning. Looking around him Robbie tried to remember how he'd managed to get on the floor. He was sure he'd been sleeping in the bed the night before and was confused about his transition from bed to floor. Looking around Robbie could see that Sportacus was already up and was doing his exercises. Robbie watched Sportacus with a plain look of disgust on his face. He couldn't understand what possessed Sportacus with the idea that doing healthy stuff was fun, for Robbie it was painful.
Sportacus noticed Robbie looking at him and stopped his exercises. Both men stared at each other for what seemed like ages trying to figure out why they did what they did. Sportacus couldn't understand how Robbie could be so lazy and Robbie couldn't understand why Sportacus had to be so active. They were complete opposites.