Luna, Lincoln, and Mason were walking with Yakov for they wanted to help him warm up to other people in life. Although there were a few people that knew about Yakov's secret, he needs to realize that times have changed and there is nothing to worry about and there are other people that have lost many parts of their body from accidents, or wars.
"I don't know about this, kids." Yakov sighed. "They will just think I am a mechanical beast, like most of the people when I was younger."
"Come on." said Luna. "Our place isn't really that perfect either. No one is. And most folk will think you're pretty cool with the robot body attached to your head. You could... even use it for good Yakov."
"Besides," said Lincoln, "there is a superhero in my comic book that has a hero named the Droid, and he is kinda like you; robotic body, but normal head, and everyone loves him."
Yakov was a little silent for a moment, and he said: "well, Lincoln, I hate to break it to you, but I am not an avid comic book fan like you are."
"What he means is," said Mason, "you can be something great if you just use your suit to fight off evil. You can be a bigger person."
Again, the mostly robotic man was silent and he didn't respoy say anything, probably because he was thinking of the words these heroes were telling him. Can he be a bigger person with this cyborg body, and use it to fight off villainy? Or would it just be his downfall eventually?
"Well, I suppose I can meet more people, but i don't know what good it will do."
"Trust us." Lincoln said. "You have not seen what me and my sister's family is like."
"Very well. But if they all get scared and cause an uproar, I blame all you kids."
At last, when they reached the house, Yakov looked very nervous, and the other sisters were watching Dream Boat in the living room. The poor man's heart sank and he was starting to look a little nervous. "Oh. You must be Yakov." Rita said. "Would you like anything?"
"Thank you for the hospitality, but I do not want anything right now." said the man in reply.
""You're Yakov huh?" asked Sam. "You're a little taller than I thought."
"Heh. Everyone says that. I have heard about you, Electrifier."
"Can we see the robot body?" asked Lana, and she got bonked on the chess by Lori.
"Lana, don't literally be rude." she scolded him."
"They told you about it, did they?" asked Yakov. "Well, I suppose there is no reason to hold back any longer." He tucked his winter coat, and revealed his cybernetic body to the rest of Luna and Lincoln's family.
The kids and Sam looked surprised by this man's appearance. "Wow. That's so awesome!" Lynn said. "Look at those guts in there."
"Well, go ahead and shun me, and antagonize me." Yakov sighed. "Bring on the rocks if you plan to through any at my head."
"What?" said Lynn Sr, "no, we would never do that."
"Why would we throw rocks at you?" Lola asked
"Because, who can love a monster like me? Just look at me! I am an Abomination, a curse to society. Everyone I have come in contact with since I had this robotic filth attached to me, everyone I have encountered treated me with hatred like I was the ultimate evil."
"How long has it been since you have been in self-isolation?" Lisa asked him curiously.
"Twenty-five years I have kept my distance from most humans. Although, I do have a son and former lover. Alas, I cannot show myself to them like this."
"Oh come on." said Leni. "I think you look totes stylish in that thing."
"So, you do not think I am a monster?"
"No, of course not." said Sam. "Luna told us about what happened and we're all sorry that you have suffered like this. But, you shouldn't hate everyone or have a problem with them."
"I am not the one with the problem, dear." Yakov clarified. "Most of the world has a problem with me. People run and scream as soon as they look at me, like Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. I'm... supposed to be dead."
"Don't be so hard on yourself. Don't be so Frank, Frsnkenstein!" she laughed. "Get it?"
Everyone, minus Lynn Sr, groaned. "Oh that was hilarious." said Yakov sarcastically. "No, really, that is very funny that I forgot to laugh."
"Never mind Luan." said Lucy. "We put up with this all the time."
"Come on, all my jokes are funny, right?" Luan asked
The kids, Mason, and Sam all turned away, whistling in the air as if they never heard that question. They obviously didn't want to hurt Luan's feelings. "Well that's not really important." said Lisa. "What matters is that Yakov here has great potential."
"Well, I honestly don't know. I'm not really a fighter... anymore."
"What do you mean?" asked Sam
"After I fled Ukraine, I decided to join the French Foreign Legion for ten years, and I served in the United states military for at least ten more years."
"Wow. That's awesome!" said Lynn. "The legion and the Us military? You have a lot of guts, man."
"Well, thanks to what I am now, they say I have no chance in being in the miltary anymore. And besides, those days are long behind me now. Just look at me now. A living cyborg."
"Come on, don't be so hard on yourself, mister Yakov." Lana said. "You look awesome! I always wanted to meet a man that was half-robot."
"Me too! They are so cool." Lynn added.
"I concur with them fully." Lisa added. "That kind of science always intrigues me."
"Well, thank you for not judging me at first glance." Yakov said. "Now, I really must be going."
"Wait, wait, come on. Don't be such a loner." said Lynn Sr. "We want to show you our hospitality."
Yakov looked at the three heroes with him and they nodded a Yes to them, telling him that he should stay a little longer. "Ah. Very well. I have nothing better to do anyway, besides talk with my little friend here." he then pulled out Grigori from behind him and he said: "Grigori, should I listen to these kindly neighbors?"
"Oh da, Yakov. You need to get out of the house more often than you should."
The others looked a little weirded out by how this man has a little puppet "friend" with him.,
"Ah. Nice Grigori."
"Oh no," said Lola. "Not another ventriloquist." she felt Lana roughly bumped her elbow. "Ow!"
"Very well. I suppose I could stay here a little longer. But, I would like a seat on the sofa if you little girls don't mind."
Lucy, Luan, Lisa, and Lola got off the sofa to let the Ukrainian man sit on the cushion to relax. "Here you go." said the twins.
"Thank you. I wasn't always like this. I was once a happy, two-year-old boy born on a farm near Pripyat, right before the disaster happened. Way back."
"I thought you were Russian at first," Sam admitted. "No offense."
"Heh, none taken, Samantha. I know, I know, Eastern European accents sound a little alike. Although, Ukraine was once part of the Soviet Union before it died, long before you were all born. My father was a soldier, a hery formidable soldier in the Red Army. Leon Trotsky himself called him one of the best men that he had trained and wished he could give my father leadership of Russia with Lenin. But, enough politics. I came here because of the great purge when Stalin was targeting so-called "enemies" of the Ural-Soviet. I was still about two years old when it happened, and I moved to America with my mother."
"How did you turn into a robot?" asked Luan
"Not robot, per se. A cyborg. Anyway, I lost my parents to Stalin's secret police, and I was raised in an orphan home, where I was raised. I was living a happy life in the United States when... it happened." he cleared his throat, and added: I have got in a terrible car accident with a reckless driver, and my vechile exploded while I was in it. Miraculously, my head made it, and it almost killed me. However, a scientist found it and used his invention to revive me."
"The suit?" asked Lynn
"Da. The suit." Yakov replied. "But I wasn't supposed to he like this. I was supposed to die. This... wretched body attached to my head is nothing but a curse and a taboo." he turned his head away in shame, "it is like Frankenstein, he wasn't supposed to be made, and tamper with the laws of nature and physics."
"We understand your pain," said Lisa. "But Luna is absolutely right when she says that your robotic body is a gift, and you can use it for redemption."
"Look at those claws, brah." Luna smiled with encouragement. "You can make the bad guys listen to you with those babies. Tooth and nail, that's what it would be."
"Maybe."
"You know what you need?" said Lincoln, "you should look for the Jackal, if you are looking for money."
"The richest man in Royal Woods?" asked the cybernetic human. "I suppose I could so i will jotbgave to rob people again."
"Color Fire and Luna Frost!" called a voice from outside: "I know you are in there! Come on out and face me!"
"Oh no." Luna said in annoyance. "Is that the guy again, Mason?"
"I think it is, Luna." Mason replied with a sigh and his eyes closed. Both of them went outside de to see who it was, and to their annoyance, was Prince of Pop himself, looking pompous and exaggeratingly. "Oh mon dieu." Color Fire breathed. Luckily, he didn't expose his gave because he had his mask on.
"I am back and I am out for revenge against you talentless peasants!" said Prince with a maniacal laugh.
"That's just what we need." Luna said under her breath. She readied her hands for another fight with this pompous villain and she charged at him by creating an ice slide and punching him as she landed on his glider.
After evading one punch from the hero, Prince punched her in the face in retaliation and ot was powerful enough to almost knock her completely off his glider. However, Luna grasped tightly at the right tip of it with her two hands, and she held on tight
"How did you even find me here?'
"Because I am a people person." Prince replied before he tried stomping her fingers to pry her off. However, Luna, being quick as she was, used her agility to hop back on the machine and began punching and kicking him once more before knocking him off with a powerful kick from her left foot.
Suddenly, the glider flew off under Luna's feet she she almost fell from midair. She greeted a big pile of snow below her on the ground to cushion the impact.
The glider immediately came back to the snobbish boy and he was angrier than ever. "You stupid peasant!" he shouted. "I will kill you for that! Nobody's smart but me!"
Fro m behind him, Color Fire punched him in the back with a fist of green fire, knocking him radically off-course. The glider seemed go have a mind of its own, and it immediately rushed to the aid of it's Master, saving the snobbish villain from falling.
He wasn't giving up yet and he noticed Sam as a new superhero. "Oh no, Sharp? You're a hero now?"
"That's right, Raleigh."
"I am not Duncan anymore Samantha! I am the Prince of Pop!"
Sam then flew after him and decided to have a little fun by using her electrical powers to short-circuit his glider, causing it to overload, and spin out of control, and the Prince was magnetically attached to his boards and it was why he was spinning out of control as well.
Everyone laughed at this villain's misfortune as he incidentally flew away from the suburbs. "Good one, Sam." Luna said.
"Thanks. I came up with it myself."
Yakov was watching this and he realized that it looked fun fighting crime like this. "Well, you are all powerful than I thought." he said to the three teens.
"Merci beaucoup, monsieur." Mason said. "We're very capable heroes. So, what do you say? Will you he a hero?"
"Well... let me tell you all something." Yakov said. "I have a son named Leon, and after I had an accident, I didn't want him to see what monster I have become, so I made him believe i died in the crash. Before the accident, I promised him I would be his hero."
"Wow. We're very sorry to hear that." Leni said.
"Well, now you can be a hero for your son." Mason urged him.
Thinking about this a little more, Yakov made up his mind and remembered the promise he made for his son. Maybe that since he can be a hero with his cybernetic body, he can fulfill that promise. "I'll do it." he answered boldly.
Lincoln, Luna, Sam, and Mason all smiled with hope, glad to have a powerful ally on their side. Of course, the man might need some training in combat to fight the bad guys.
