I only own my OC's and the plot. And yes I'm aware that I haven't updated this one in forever and it's extremely short.

The AutoKnights I: The Beginning Re-Write

Chapter 3: Special Forces

The next few days went by. And in that time, everyone was still getting used to the idea of there being a teenage boy they hardly knew living with them. Helen seemed to be fine with it since it was her idea in the first place. Trevor kept his word and he wasn't much of a hassle. But he was mysteriously silent. He only walked whenever he felt he needed to say something. He wasn't very open in conversation and kept to himself. Since he wasn't much of a talker, the Parrs found it no trouble to keep their super powers a secret.

One day they were all just relaxing inside while Bob just flipped through the channels trying to find something. Bob was in his chair, Helen and Violet were on the couch with Dash in between them. Helen was holding Jack-Jack, and Trevor was just lying on the ground in front of them. If it weren't for genetics people might think this was just an average family. But as we all know, they're not.

"How come there's never anything on during summer vacation?" Dash complained.

"It's just the way things work, son." Bob told his son. "Why that is, I don't know."

"It's because major TV networks need the whole freakin summer to think up ideas that hardly anyone in the public considers to be good." Trevor decided to voice his own opinion.

Now during the past few days, the Parrs had been able to find out the basics about Trevor Bauer. They knew where he was born and raised, who his family was, but other than that, they got nowhere with him. And no one knew why. What was with his silence?

"So that's your opinion?" Bob asked.

"I consider it to be a fact in my own eyes." Trevor said back. "But everyone's entitled to their own opinion."

Just then, the doorbell rang and Lucius Best came walking through.

"What's up, Parrs? Hope you don't mind but I thought I'd drop by." The ice-maker said.

"Not at all, Lucius. Make yourself at home." Helen smiled at him.

Lucius smiled and walked in to the living room. But his smile faded when he saw a teenage boy looking at him from the ground with a flat expression.

"Um….did you guys adopt another kid?" he asked.

Bob stood up.

"No. He's just a guy we're housing until he gets back on his feet. And he doesn't know all that much about us."

Lucius knew why Bob said that last line. The kid didn't know about their powers yet. Trevor stood up and approached Lucius.

"Well hi there." Lucius extended his right hand. "I'm Lucius."

Trevor used his own right hand to shake Lucius'.

"Name's Trevor. Trevor Bauer." He said. "The Parrs here were gracious enough to let me stay here after they found me near a meteor crash site."

"Well that's nice of them." But then Lucius noticed something shining on Trevor's hand and saw it. "Special forces?"

Trevor looked at him strangely.

"What now?"

"Your ring. That's a special forces ring. Isn't it?"

Trevor froze up as he looked at the ring on his hand. Now this got everyone's attention. That mysterious ring had a story behind it. And they wanted to know.

"Y-yeah. It's a special forces ring." Trevor said.

"Was it your father's or something?" Bob asked as he got a closer look at the ring himself.

Trevor froze up again. There was indeed a story behind that ring. But he couldn't let them in on it. Not yet at least. So he had to come up with a cover story. All he had to do was say it was his father's and that probably would have been the end of it. But strangely, he said this instead.

"No. It's not my father's. It's mine."

Trevor took his seat back down on the ground and everyone else just looked at him.

"How could that ring be yours?" Helen asked. "To get into special forces yo have to be 18 and you're only 17."

"Like I said. My parents abandoned me a few years ago and I had nowhere to go. I had to do something to stay alive." Trevor explained.

"So…you got into the special forces when you were 15. I don't buy that." Helen said.

"I didn't sign up to be a soldier." Trevor said. "And I never was. The general of the main platoon of soldiers was kind enough to give me a home in their barracks. I wasn't a soldier, but the troops treated me like a son to them. They fed me, gave me clothes, they even taught me basic weapons training. But…two years after I came there, the general got re-assigned to somewhere else and then this new guy came in. He forced me to leave and I sadly did. But before I did, the guys were kind enough to give me this ring as their way of saying good-bye."

The story sounded believable. But could they really believe it? After all, they've only known this guy for a matter of a few days. Their trust in him wasn't really decided on yet. But they had to give him a chance.

"What kind of platoon were they. Like what unit?" Lucius asked.

"The 1st." Trevor responded.

"The 1st Special Forces Group." Bob said. "Sounds like an adventure."

Trevor looked at him.

"You have no idea."

That was the story behind the ring. But it seemed like whenever they got into Trevor's past a bit, he seemed to get sad. Maybe it was really hard for him to reflect on that when it sucks that much.

But this is a fact of life. Everyone has secrets. The Parrs sure did. And they were going to wait a bit until they reveal it to Trevor. And hopefully he won't mind at all.

But Trevor was just happy everyone bought that story about his ring. It wasn't the real story. But they were going to find out about it real soon. The true back story behind that little ring was going to get these guys involved in a fight that would sure be a life changing experience. For one of them at least.