It had been several moments since Sportacus had come into the lair, and while waiting for Robbie to return it gave him the chance to kinda look around, and see if he could learn alittle about the other man. Though the lair had been a total mess last time he'd been down there, it seemed to be cleared out at the moment, and...organized.

Walking over to the work bench bench he began to look at the bundles of wire on the desk, they were wrapped, much how he himself would have wrapped them... That was quite confusing to him, but he discarded the thought and walked around the other side of the table and looked down at a box, smiling softly he did a back flip over the table, and began to walk around the lair.

When Robbie and 10 returned, Robbie was quite annoyed to find Sportacus up and about, looking at his things...

" Sportaflop! Stop touching my things!" Robbie shouted, as he rushed over and pulled a remote out of Sportacus's hand, "You don't even know what this does!" Robbie hissed, as he carelessly tossed the remote over his shoulder, into 10's hands.

"Do you Robbie?"

"O-of course I do!" Robbie said indignantly as he stood up straight and adjusted his vest.

"Ah! So you brought your new friend." Sportacus said as he motioned toward 10

"...He isn't my 'new friend', I do not have any friends. He's my... My..." Robbie paused at the look of hurt on 10's face, "...Yes, I suppose he is my friend." Robbie said as he cleared his throat.

10 brightened up instantly as a grin spread across his face. "Ah. I see." Sportacus said, continuing to regard the android with a look of... disdain?

That was quite a surprise to Robbie. He'd never seen Sportacus look at something like he ddin't like it before. Maybe... he knew they were, or Robbie, was planning. Robbie grinned maliciously at the elf, as he folded his arms over his chest. Perhaps the elf was smarted then he'd originally suspected...

"Sportacus, 10 and I were thinking, maybe you could look at the plumbing or something? Do some real work, instead of playing with the children all day. Seeing as the city is paying you and all..."

"Robbie, I'm sorry you are so dissatisfied with me, but the fact is I do exactly what the city pays me to." Sportacus said as he grinned, and bounced on the balls of his feet, "But I will gladly take a look at your plumbing, and see if there isn't something I can do about it."

"Sure. Sure..." Robbie said waving his hand, as if to brush Sportacus's comments away, "Follow me." Robbie said as he began to walk away, slightly annoyed when he noticed that 10 was following as well.

"No 10, wait for me in the kitchen." He said pointing toward the kitchen, trying not to sound too annoyed as he said it, which apparently worked, because 10 responded with a quick 'Alright.' before flipping off in the direction of the kitchen.

Robbie mean while led Sportacus to a room in the back of his lair, not bothering to explain why the door let out a screech when he forced it open. Leaning on the door panting, he wiped sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand.

"Robbie you need to eat healthier." Sportacus said, as he produced an apple from seemingly no where, and offered it to the other man.

Robbie frowned as he took the apple and regarded it with disgust, "Sure. I might eat that later." he said throwing the apple over his shoulder when Sportacus looked away, "... Now Sportadope, I want you to look at my boiler... so get to work." Robbie said as he pointed to a boiler that had obviously not been used in years.

"...Uhh..." Sportacus frowned slightly as he entered the dark room, and began to make his way to the boiler. "It's a bit dark in here Robbie, could you turn the light on?"

"...sure." Robbie said, as he chuckled quietly.

Sportacus frowned slightly, as he glanced back over his shoulder in time to see Robbie slipping into the confines of the shadow, squinting to try and see better he turned back toward the boiler, why didn't man use this? Was it some sort of trap? Or was he simply wishing to get a free repair while Sportacus was down here?

It was awfully dark, the dark had the tenancy to make Sportacus slightly nervous, though he had never figured out why. As he approached the boiler, going further and further into the shadows, and out of the light as he did so he couldn't help but swallow slightly, a deep feeling of foreboding washing over him as he reached out to tough the boiler.

Trying to inspect the device in the dark was pointless, that much he was sure of. Deciding it was a waste of time to stand around and fiddle with this device in the dark, Sportacus decided to ask Robbie to turn the light on, again.

Just as he opened his mouth there was a beeping, and he flinched hard, before realizing after a second or two that it was his crystal.

"Looks like some one's in trouble..." Robbie's voice rasped behind him, and he felt his mouth go completely dry when he heard an odd sound, it almost sounded as if someone were jump roping with great enthusiasm... or as if someone were swinging a bat through the air with a great force behind it.

Before Sportacus had time to turn completely around the bat connected to the back of his head, knocking him unconscious immediately. Tossing the bat aside Robbie knelt beside the man, and pushed him onto his back, pushing the release for the crystal he tugged it out of it's protective casing, and stood up, walking out of the room quickly he went to the kitchen where he found 10.

"Here." he said as he put the crystal into 10's holder, "Sportacus said he wanted you to have this. Borrow it I mean, and go out and play with the kids. He's going to stay here and help me with a few things. You can spend the night in his air ship. Go have fun." Robbie had spoken so quickly he was beginning to wonder if 10 had even understood him, when the android nodded enthusiastically, before flipping out of the room.

Leaving Robbie there to do as he pleased to Sportacus...

A/N;

Little chapter is little. Sorry for the crappy update. Eh, things are a little better this month then they were last month, but for some reason my computer keeps crashing . Meh, either way, I hope you like the chapter, personally I think it's pretty lame. But yeah. I'll try to work on the next chapter more then I worked on this one though... monthly updates don't make anything easier...

~Ciao