Chapter 2
It had been one week since Kane's birth and already Jasper had suffered lack of sleep and been hurt by one of Kane's venomous spikes. He had fed Kane, lulled him to sleep and tried to teach him during that time. He also learned that being the parent of an alien with superpowers and some of his own genetics was difficult. On the first day of Kane's life, Jasper had tried to give him a bath. This involved chasing a lizard with super speed all over HQ and somehow grabbing Kane so that he could put him in the bathtub long enough to clean him. At least after Jasper was done, his scales were clean and even looked like they were glowing purple. The next day, the big hassle was about food and trying to find food that Kane could eat. Tech had to scan Kane and spend about two hours, checking every single item of food to see if Kane could digest it. As it turned out, Kane had absorbed Jasper's ability to digest food which allowed him to eat everything Jasper could eat. In this case, it was everything in the kitchen. And that's including the silverware. Kane tried to eat the forks and Jasper had to hold him back. Eventually, Kane got an apple, and he was content with that. Each had introduced new adventures with Kane and Jasper. It was also true that Kane would see only Jasper as a father. Jasper introduced the Loonatics as his aunts and uncles, in an effort to try and make him see them as his family. Kane accepted them, but only saw Jasper as close family. He would yell "Pa!" as Jasper had taught him to do when he needed something or needed help. But he would also say it to show that he saw Jasper as his father.
Tech knew there was something different about the baby. It wasn't growing at all, but storing everything away. But he was busy with another invention and wasn't really worried. What it was doing probably wasn't dangerous.
Jasper was trying to nap while Kane played. Tech had built a portable, lightweight, but still strong fence for keeping Kane in one area so Jasper didn't have to watch him all the time. Nobody else wanted to watch him. They had all said something along the lines of, "He's your responsibility," or, "I'm not giving up my free time to help you watch Kane." Jasper was just drifting off to sleep when he felt a tremor go through the couch. Rubbing his eyes, he flicked out his tongue and with his incredible sense of smell, discovered that it was Amber that had disturbed him. "What do you want Amber? I'm trying to get some sleep. I haven't had a good, decent rest in days," Jasper said, rubbing his eyes and opening them, showing that they were bloodshot. "Well, I sort of felt that maybe, I could do you a favor. I could watch Kane for a little while, and you could sleep," Amber said. "Really? You'd watch Kane for me? Thanks Amber!" Jasper said, jumping off the sofa and running to his room. "I'll come back in two hours," Jasper said. "Make it four hours. Your eyes are bloodshot from staying awake too long," Amber replied. "Oh, so now you're my mother? Ah, I'm too tired to argue. Four hours it is then," Jasper said sleepily, now staggering towards his room. Amber heard him fall onto his bed, and then silence.
On the other side of Acmetropolis, two villains had escaped from prison. "So, what shall we do now?" asked the first one. She was dressed in a black uniform with a black cape. Everything about her was black, even her skin. She could only be… "Patience, Black Velvet. We will have our revenge. I have a small surprise for the Loonatics about a couple of their new teammates," the second one said. She was made of blue fire, and wore a blue suit to match. "I don't want to wait Blue Inferno. I want to destroy the Loonatics once and for all," Black Velvet said. "We will. First we create some minions to do our bidding, andthen we can put the rest of the plan into action," Blue Inferno replied.
Tech was walking through the living room when he saw something he thought he would never see in his life. Amber was kneeling down on the floor, playing with Kane. She was tickling him, and Kane was laughing and rolling around on the floor. Amber was laughing as well. When Amber saw Tech she got up and walked over to him. "Hi Tech. So, what are you doing?" Amber asked, as Kane pounced on her tail. Amber brought her tail in front of her with Kane dangling from it. She plucked him off her tail and placed him inside the fence. "Aunt Amber has to go talk to Uncle Tech. I'll be right back," Amber said and walked back to Tech, who had an astonished look on his face. "Since when are you the kind to play with babies?" Tech asked. "Since now. Is that all?" Amber replied. Tech nodded. "Good. Now, I've got to go get Kane something to eat," Amber said, and walked towards the kitchen. Tech shook his head as if to clear his thoughts, and walked to his lab.
Jasper woke up as his alarm went off. He groped around for his clock, not realizing that his arm was intangible. He reached farther and farther, until he fell out of bed, his arm becoming tangible again. He got up and shut off his alarm, then walked through the wall into the living room. He was about to walk over to Amber to tell her that her time watching Kane was over when he saw what was happening. Amber was cradling Kane in her arms, gently rocking him back and forth. Kane had a sleepy expression on his face, and Jasper smiled. He decided to let Amber finish putting Kane to sleep. As Jasper watched, Kane's eyes closed, and Amber placed him in a chair that worked easily as a bed. She patted his head, then stepped back and sat down on the couch. Jasper didn't want to startle Amber, because that would mean that even though they were teammates, she would rip his throat out. So he walked back to his door, and took steps that had enough noise to be heard, but not enough to wake up Kane. As he walked over, he felt a little bit of jealousy. Amber comforts Kane, but do I? No, instead Kane makes work for me, Jasper thought. "Hey Amber. I'm back, so you can go off and do whatever you were doing before," Jasper said. Amber got up and left. Jasper took a seat. He was ready to watch Kane.
A.N: There will be something interesting that happens to Kane later. Also, I have two more couple ideas. KaneXJen and RevXJen moment. In case you're wondering how the KaneXJen thing is going to work out, it has something to do with the secret.