A/N: sorry for the long wait! But here it is! And thank you all for the reviews, you make me want to write even more.

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Bolt: The Super Human

Chapter 5: The Lonely Boy

The first thing that greeted the chubby short boy with brown hair that morning was like every morning was the floor. The twelve year old that seemed to look younger then he was, was thrown onto the ground viva his mattress being flipped by his older roommate. "Yo! Rhino wake up Man! You're gonna be late again! And you know how the teach is about that!" The short boy on the ground groaned and was trying to blink the sleep out of his eyes then slowly got up off of the floor knowing that he couldn't stay there forever. Rhino knew that he shouldn't have been up all night reading his comic books but he couldn't help it when his favorite hero was battling evil-doers while looking cool and never going against his mortal believes! Sighing as he got caught up in that world again knowing that he had classes to attend to. The energy generator wasn't going to build it self! Sighing again the twelve year old marched to the bathroom across from his room only to be beat by one of the other kids living in the boarding house of orphans and geniuses that had the 'luck' of being found in this world to explore or as they put it expand their gifts.

After changing and loading his back pack with his comic books and his bundle of snacks he kept hidden knowing that he couldn't keep them here while he was away. Rhino grabbed his sweater backpack in hand he headed for the empty bathroom to wash his teeth and face then headed for school to waste another long day away.

Pulled into something strong and warm, that was what Mittens felt at once after waking up. Groggily she turned to face the warmth since the thing that was holding her was around her stomach pushing her back against it. Turning slowly she came face to face with a still sleeping Bolt, bringing both of her hands to cover her mouth to keep her from yelling in shock and outrage she looked down to his shoulder noticing that his arm was leading somewhere she followed it down to where his arm circled her waist. Right eye twitching slightly in irritation she wiggled trying to get loose but it seem that Bolt won't have any of it seeing as he tightened his grip and pulling her flush against him. Mittens put both of her hands on his chest ready to push him away from her but stop when she felt his muscles, she blush while quickly pushing him away. Bolt still asleep let go of her turning to rest onto his back, Mittens still blushing sat up staring down onto his sleeping face then rubbed her face with one of her hands. Deciding that enough time had been wasted she got up and grabbed her backpack before heading for the bathroom to start her day, well afternoon seeing as it was already past twelve.

Yawning Bolt opened his eyes, blinking twice to remove the bleariness from his eyes he sat up. Bolt looked around the motel room in search of something but wasn't sure of what, as sleep still lingered in his mind. The door opened startling Bolt into alertness as Mittens walked in with a plastic bag in one hand and a regular size cup of coffee on her other one "What?" she asked bewildered when she saw a rigid Bolt sitting straight on the bed. Relaxing himself Bolt got out of the bed as Mittens looked around the room in search for something they could use to eat their food.

It seemed that the small desk was going to do unless they wanted to eat of the floor, and that wasn't happening! Placing the bag on top of it she grabbed the sides of the desk as she prepared to lift it up until two strong arms appeared beside her. Surprised she whelped and dropped the desk this caused Bolt to laugh "Here let me." He said while glaring at him she moved out of the way letting him move the desk. Once it was near the foot of the bed Mittens quickly dragged the only chair in the room to the other side facing the bed "I hope you're hungry, I brought some breakfast." She said as she started to pull things out of the bag and placing them on the desktop, a low rumbling was her response followed by his sheepish chuckle as he scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment. A small blush dusted across the bridge of his nose, Mittens blinked for a moment then laughed finding that amusing "All right here is your share." She pointed at the foam platter "And your coffee." She said placing it in front of him as he sat on the bed. "I didn't know what you would like so I took a shot in the dark and got you coffee, since I didn't know how you like to take it I brought six creams and six sugars." She said not looking at him but the bag as she took out her box of orange juice and a platter for herself.

After sitting down she didn't make a move to start eating like Bolt instead she stared at him after a moment of silence she spoke "I know where Penny is at." Bolt paused the black plastic fork midway to his mouth as he raised his gaze to look at her shock. Millions of thoughts rushed through his mind and yet nothing was clear to him. Mittens had lied to him.

Realizing what it sounded possibly to him she stood up in a rush leaning closer to him "It isn't what it sounded like! I mean when THEY had me I heard them talking." Bolt put his fork down not taking his gaze off of her "What did they say?" he asked softly, Mittens gulped hoping that he wasn't mad at her "They said and I quote "Lenny is being held in Vegas." Or at least that's what I think they said. Penny is in Vegas." She stated as she stared at him as he looked onto the desktop as if searching for something. "I need to get there." He mumbled "About that I went to Penn station and bought two tickets for Ohio." She said now fiddling with her food "It leaves in three hours." She said nonchalantly while she stabbed her juice box with more force than necessary trying to hide her embarrassment.

Despite to what was happening Mittens brought a small smile to his face as she tried not to look at him in fear that he would tell her that she wasn't coming with him. Bolt wouldn't dream of telling her that, they both started to eat in comfortable silence.

Stepping out of the comic book store Rhino letting the door close softly behind him. Pressing the new comic book to his chest he let out a small squeal of excitement, the new Bolt comic book had come out! Rhino had rushed out of school as soon as the final bell had ringed trying with all of his might to get there before any other kid. Wanting to be the first to get it and it paid off! Skipping he didn't notice two big male teenagers following him until he was pushed into an alleyway. One of the teenagers grabbed the front of his chocolate brown jacket pulling him up to the teenager's face "Give me your money!" he demanded. Rhino Blinked up looking into his attacker's eyes.

Mittens walked on the busy sidewalk not looking at where she was going then accidently bumping into a business man yelling into his cell phone, she wrapped her arm around him to keep herself from falling onto the ground "Oh! I'm so sorry! I wasn't looking where I was going!" she apologized quickly retrieving her hands and stuffing them into her giant pockets on her green jacket.

The man waved her off walking away, as soon as he was out of sight Mittens smirked before whistling as she walked away to where Bolt was waiting with their packs. Sitting down on the bench next to Bolt who was looking at her curiously as she pulled out the wallet she had picked pocketed from the business man "This is why they call me Mittens! My hands are quick and so soft that you can't feel them!" she stated proudly but a bit guilty and it seemed that Bolt didn't like it too. He frowned at her crossing his arms in a scolding manner "That isn't right! Didn't your parents teach you not to steal?" he stated angrily not wanting her to do things like this. Instead of looking guilty Mittens glared at him before turning her gaze away from him to look at the people passing by indifferently "No. they were busy." She said nonchalantly while shrugging, standing up when she caught her prey. It was another business man who was reading a newspaper on a bench and every once in a while would look at his wrist watch, smiling she started to walk away "Hey stay here I need to do something really quickly!" she tossed over her shoulder to a stunned Bolt "Wait! What are you going to do?" he asked worried but all he got back was a smile.

"Give me your Money!" Bolt perked up. His bionic hearing activated allowing him to hear it. Closing his eyes he tried to pinpoint at where it had come from. "Come on Pip-squeak! Hand it over!" not sparing Mittens or their things a second thought he took off to where the voices where coming from.

Stopping in front of the alleyway Bolt glared at the two teenagers emitting a low growl of warning. The teenager who was looking at the short boy and his friend who was holding him up turned to look at Bolt "Beat it! We saw him first!" he shouted at him. Seeing as Bolt didn't move he walked closer to him ready to swing a punch at him. Bolt moved blocking it with his forearm then quickly grabbed the boy's arm twisting it onto his back, while ignoring the grunts of pain that the teenager made. "Set the boy down, gently." Bolt ordered coldly the older boy turned to look at Bolt in anger but quickly changed to surprise seeing as he was having no problem holding onto his large friend. Rhino opened his brown eyes wondering why he hadn't been robbed or beaten up yet only to gasp in awe at seeing his savior.

Mittens tripped falling onto the business man she had targeted earlier, slipping her hands onto his pocket retrieving his wallet quickly and softly. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to trip on you! My mother told me to be more careful…" she started to babble on making the man agitated in the process since she had hit him too "It's fine! But please I need to be somewhere right now and I'm afraid I have to go." He cut her off and stood up before walking away quickly. Mittens smirked while prying the wallet open to retrieve the cash in it before setting it down onto the bench. Whistling Mittens strolled over to where Bolt had been only to stop when she didn't see him only their stuff, luck being on their side nobody had stolen it. Angry Mittens grabbed their stuff then started to search for him to give him a piece of her mind! Something caught her eye stopping her search, a man dressed in black seemed to be heading her way.

It was Nat! Mittens in fear started to look everywhere in hopes of finding Bolt but no such luck until she saw two thugs running out of an alleyway in fear. Bingo! Quickly Mittens dashed to where the alleyway was, turning every now and again to see if the man was following and how close.

Rhino gaped at Bolt, standing in front of him was his hero! "I knew I would meet you one day!" Rhino squealed out in all of his excitement, his comic book forgotten in all the chaos. Bolt turned to look at him in shock "You know me?" he asked bewildered stepping back a bit. Rhino stared up at him with huge eyes filled with admiration while giving him a swift nodded of the head "Sure! Many kids know of you! You're Bolt the superhero! I read about yo…" he was cut off by a slam to his side. Mittens bumped him "Bolt! We have to leave! Like now! Nat is following us!" she yelled at Bolt franticly not even noticing the short boy until he cleared his throat, blinking she looked down a bit since he reached up to her chest which wasn't saying much seeing as she was short. "Who's the kid?" she asked and soon as she did three men came into the alleyway Nat following behind languidly "Good men! You found them." He said cheerfully Bolt turned before moving to stand in front of Rhino and Mittens. Everything seemed to move in a flash for Mittens seeing as the three men were now laid on the floor unconscious with Bolt standing next to their bodies.

"Now I get it" Nat whispered as realization hit him confusing Bolt as he stared straight at him as he said it. Rhino sneaked behind of Nat then swung his backpack down onto him distracting him. This made Nat angry bring up his fist to hit Rhino, seeing this Mittens reacted moving closer and pulling Rhino to her faraway from Nat's fist hitting her arm instead. Bolt punched him knocking him out in the process when his head made contact with the wall. "Are you alright, Mittens?" Bolt walked closer to them concern clear on his face and voice. Mittens waved it off smiling "this is nothing! But we do have to get to the train station soon, it's almost time." She said looking around for her backpack trying not to let the pain show on her face but Bolt's gaze never left her. Once finding it and shoving it onto her shoulder she noticed the kid again never mind that she saved him not moments ago. Puzzled she pointed at Rhino while turning to look at Bolt who had also moved to search for his pack "Who's the shorty?" she asked curiously. Rhino glared at her offended "I'm Rhino! Bolt's number one fan!" he sniffed turning away from her, crossing his arms with indignation.

Rising one eye brow Mittens turned all of her attention to Rhino "What do you mean by biggest fan?" she demanded, Rhino huffed letting his arms drop in defeat before reaching for his backpack then pulling out one of his comic books. "I mean by this Bolt is a hero in this comic book! But his looks just like him so this Bolt must be the same as in the comic book right?" he asked handing it over to her so she would be able to see it as well.

Skeptical Mittens grabbed it and flipped through it before stopping in shock. There stood Bolt in a heroic pose, Bolt curious went to stand close behind her to look at it as well before widening his eyes in shock as well. Quickly grabbing it Bolt flipped through it trying to find the creator of the comic "Why are you in this?" Mittens demanded as soon as she snapped out of her shock turning to look at him angrily, thoughts running through her mind more like doubts. He had lied to her, playing her like a fiddle! She glared at him "I don't know! I'm trying to find the creator." He said still searching but stopped bringing his gaze to her "Believe me I had no idea about this." He told her seriously. Mittens held his gaze for a moment searching his then grabbed the comic book out of his hand searching for the name.

"The name should be in front or in the back. Aha! Here it is! The name is Penny?" she said in disbelieve staring at it, Rhino nodded proudly. He had tried to tell them but didn't seem to catch the attention from either of them "Yes, Penny is new in the comic world but she has made quiet the impression! What with her art and story line!" he continued to rabbled on but Mittens and Bolt tuned out turning back to each other "Do you think this is…your Penny?" she asked hesitantly "Yeah. It's says right here Penny Williams. Why wouldn't she tell me about this?" he said softly a ring of hurt filled his tone as his attention was still pinned to the comic book in his hands. Mittens' gaze soften "It's normal for girls not to tell boys close to them everything." She comment to him "Penny isn't like that." He said with conviction "But that isn't important right now. What is important right now is to get her back." He concluded "We have to get to the train." She nodded not knowing what else to do. "Um… can I go too?" Rhino asked nervously hopping from one foot to another, poking his pointer fingers together.

"No." Mittens said firmly as she started to walk away but stopped when she realized that Bolt wasn't following.

"What?" she demanded after catching the gaze that they gave her.

"Why not? If he wants to come, it's his decision to make." Bolt stated while Rhino nodded agreeing wholeheartedly "Yeah! And I want to come! If that isn't a bother to you Bolt?" he said hoping that he wouldn't mind. Bolt shook his head smiling down to him showing that he in fact didn't mind but Mittens was another case. "What about his parents? He looks to be ten years old! I'm pretty sure his parents would have a heart attack if they find their son missing!" she shouted agitated while shifting her backpack so it would rest comfortably on her shoulder, Bolt sighed rubbing his temple to avoid a headache that seemed to want to manifest ever since he met her.

"I don't have parents so don't worry about getting into trouble." Rhino piped in "So if that is all, can I go with you?" he asked again as he fidgeted a bit, Mittens opened her mouth to say something but thought better of it, turning away from them "Whatever." She said as she started to walk again out of the alleyway and onto the street heading for the train station direction not checking whether they were following or not.