𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗯𝗶𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

The Burdens We Bear

Jason wheeled along the hallway grimacing. He had been busy thinking up a plan when Robbie tried to exact his revenge on him. Now he had forgotten his plan. "How exactly does someone steal from a person who can hear blood run through a vein?" Jason wondered. Ignoring the various stares that he got, he wheeled along, seeing a boy with pitch black hair and a red and white school jacket and some other people behind who he could only assume to be his gang. Keeping his head low, he wheeled right by them, resulting in him getting some hushed snickers from the group. Going into the cafeteria, he found an empty table, parking behind it. Just as he was about to eat his lunch, two girls came by, sitting at his table, staring at him expectantly. Jason sighed internally, before switching over to his Franklin persona. "Hello, what can I do for you?" He asked, a bright smile on his face. The girls gushed with excitement. "Uh, Emily and I were wondering, if we could touch your leg? Y'know, to see if you feel anything?" Jason ran his hand through his hair. "I guess there really is no rest for the wicked, huh?" He mumbled underneath his breath. "Uh, yeah sure, go ahead." He said, wheeling around to their section of the table. The girls quickly got to work, poking and prodding at Jason's feet. If he didn't have special training, he would have cried out in pain, more than once. After they were satisfied with the results, they smiled at Franklin, thanking him for allowing them to touch his legs. Jason nodded, watching them leave. Now there was no more time for lunch. Sighing, he decided that he was going to personally kill the next person who prevented him from eating.

Robbie hopped out the bathroom window, slowly floating away from the school, so that he didn't make much noise. He needed a distraction. After he was a good distance from the school, he blasted off, flying through the cloudy skies rapidly, almost crashing into a returning Jessica. Jessica hovered in the air, watching as Ribbie slowed to a stop. "Your reaction time is quick, but your stop is really slow.  Fortitude shrugged. "I just started learning to fly for the past few weeks. I suppose I'll figure it soon. Jessica shrugged. "I could teach you, if you want of course." Robbie nodded. "Why not. It's not like I'm making any major progress in school today."

Jessica raised an eyebrow. "Thanks for reminding me. What's up between you and the new guy? You were getting really mad at him for no reason back in class. And where did you go yesterday? Robbie lifted his goggles. He wanted to tell Jessica, but he couldn't assure her safety if he did. Shaking his head, he laughed slightly, trying to change the subject. "Does Jasper know about your powers as yet?" Jessica bit her lip and looked down, observing the cars moving beneath them as they hovered in the air. Robbie sighed. "I take that as a no then." Jessica sighed. "It's just, I don't know how he will feel about it." Robbie nodded. "I get you. But you can't make a relationship on a lie. Even a necessary one. I can't tell you he's gonna accept your abilities, but you can't force acceptance, y'know?" Jessica smirked. "Look who decided to talk motivational speech classes!" Robbie laughed. Bowing his head, he pretended to be receiving an award. "Thank you, thank very much!" The abberants both burst out into laughter. Jessica grinned. "You're a riot, y'know?" She commented, causing Robbie to smirk. The two flew off into the direction of the city, making sure that it was safe.

Jason wheeled his way around the school. As some gave him weird gazes, others looked at him in mild excitement. Then there were those that simply ignored him. Jason looked at the various classes in the school, soaking in his first experience of a real school. His parents homeschooled him, sometimes getting expensive tutors to teach him, all he needed to know, so he was way more advanced than all the other students. Still, he enjoyed the experience of having regular classmates, ones that weren't constantly trying to spar with him or  testing his wits, wanting to best him. Jason sighed. All this idle thinking and he still had to complete his plan. All he needed was one hard drive. True, it would have been way easier to steal it on his own, but if he got caught by Superion, then that was it. At least with Fortitude, he could have the two fighting each other until so that he could get away. He couldn't fail. Not after what his parents had been through. He had to help them clear their ledger.

In the middle of a mall in New York, a figure came cratering out of the sky. As the terrified people ran, something rose from the debris. The dust from the crash obscured the figure's identity. As the dust cleared, from the heart of that pile  of rubble and debris, emerged a tall young man with blonde hair and blue eyes. His body was sculpted, like the statue of a Greek god. Tearing off his already half burnt suit, the young man walked out into the clearing. He had absolutely no clothes, bar the small tattered strips of torn cloth that were on his body. Behind him was the sillouette of what appeared to be a space pod.  The man ran a hand through his overgrown blonde hair, which grew down to his back and over his shoulders. He furrowed his eyebrows, looking around at the terrified people. People were videoing, pointing and one person even gently threw a small rock at him, only for it to bounce off him and onto the ground. Suddenly, the sound of sirens were heard, with a police car pulling up near the scene. The officer stepped out, walking directly over to the man. Rolling his eyes he snorted. "Public nudity is against the law sir. You're going to have to take a trip down to the station with me." Grabbing on to the man's arm, his eyes widened when he realized that he wasn't budging. The man looked down at the officer, who was shorter that he was, mimicking his action by grabbing onto his hand. The officer winced in pain, trying to wrench his hand from the man's grasp. However despite his numerous attempts to retract his hand, it was stuck. This strange man's iron grip made sure of that. The officer cried out in pain, prompting people  to start throw things at him, trying to force him to let the officer go. Instead of the man attempting to shield himself from the onslaught of rocks and (soda)cans, he simply stood there, allowing them to hit him. As the people saw that it had no effect on him, they stopped, watching as he dropped the officer(who's hand was definitely injured) and bent down, picking up a can. The crowd watched in suspense as he picked up a can, flicking it at a tree, narrowly missing the man, causing the tree to break, and the can to fly off into the atmosphere.

Yeah!!! Got this chapter done for a while now lol but I was holding on to it for a bit. So, next chapter, I'll be doing a summary. Just to make sure everyone understands what happening so far. This includes a Q and A session which I will have, so if you want to know smthn, just ask😂. Thank you all for traveling along with me on this long journey, the book is almost done, I promise. Stay strong y'all! Peace ✌️!