"So, this is it?"
Seán held up a syringe filled with a dark colored liquid, JJ nodding grimly as he carefully took it from the Irishman.
"Marvin likes to lure us to places, how're we going to lure him to us?" Chase wondered aloud, JJ frowning thoughtfully.
"Bad man know where Robbie is, Robbie scared of bad man. Bad man hurts Robbie, calls Robbie stupid." Robbie whimpered, Chase hugging Robbie tight.
"I know you're not stupid, I'm going to keep you safe bud." Chase soothed Robbie, smiling sadly as he ruffled Robbie's hair.
JJ took his notepad back from Robbie and wrote something down, Seán peering over his shoulder to see what he had written.
I don't think Chase ever stopped being a dad.
Seán chuckled quietly as he looked over at the pair, Robbie and Chase sitting on the floor rolling a bolt they had found on the ground to one another.
"Bad man hurts Robbie with shiny chip." Robbie spoke up, tapping a finger against the side of his head.
"Let's see." Seán murmured as he used his x-ray vision, finding a small tracking chip located in Robbie's head.
"Chase, think you can get that out of him? If Marvin loses track of us, he might try to come looking for us." Seán shrugged, Chase nodding slowly.
JJ created a surgical scalpel in his hands, as well as a pair of pliers, before giving them to Chase.
"Do you trust me bud?" Chase asked Robbie gently, Robbie nodding with a reassuring grin as he held perfectly still.
"Robbie be okay." Robbie promised, Chase biting his lip as he carefully got to work opening up Robbie's head.
Seán couldn't bear to look, much less listen, as Robbie would occasionally cry out in pain before falling silent.
"There." Chase grunted, holding the bloody tracking chip in between the pliers before dropping it to the ground and stepping on it.
"Robbie free from bad man?" Robbie asked hopefully as JJ worked on sewing Robbie's head back up.
"He won't bother you anymore." Chase nodded, Robbie grinning happily and humming in content while JJ finished patching him up.
"He clearly knows where this place is, so now we wait for him to come to us." Seán declared, JJ setting the syringe down on the desk as he wrote on his notepad.
What do we do if this doesn't work? I can't risk losing any of you, you're all family to me.
Seán didn't answer as he tried to think of a back up plan, a cloud of smoke interrupting his thoughts.
"So, you finally found the tracking chip. About time." Marvin remarked casually, Chase standing protectively in front of Robbie.
"What are you doing all of this for? World domination?" Chase demanded, Seán inching towards the syringe while Marvin was distracted.
"World domination? What am I, a villain from a shitty nineties movie? No, this is just the beginning of my plan to make everyone pay for the pain they made me suffer through." Marvin countered fiercely.
"The hell are you talking about? You brought all of your pain onto yourself!" Chase argued, Seán reaching for the syringe.
Marvin glanced out of the clever of his eye and pointed his wand at Seán, sending the Irishman flying across the room.
"Nice try." Marvin smirked, picking up the syringe and examining it in his hands.
"You made this JJ, didn't you?" Marvin prompted JJ, the mute hesitantly nodding.
"Well then, maybe you should have a taste of your own medicine." Marvin remarked, striding towards the mute.
Chase shot at Marvin until he ran out of ammo, the magician easily dodging Chase's bullets without breaking stride.
"No!" Seán shouted as JJ staggered backwards and fell onto the ground, his eyes squeezed shut as he braced himself.
When JJ dared to open his eyes, Seán was standing in front of them with the syringe embedded in his neck, Marvin pushing the lever down to inject the liquid into the Irishman.
"Seán!" Chase cried as he ran towards Seán, Marvin pulling the syringe out as Seán fell to his knees.
"You better hope that your serum only reversed the effects of the antiserum JJ, or else your precious hero is in for a bad time." Marvin cackled before leaving in a cloud of smoke, Seán numbly holding a hand over his neck where the needle was injected.
"Seán, are you okay?" Chase questioned, Seán chuckling weakly as he looked into Chase's concerned blue eyes.
"You only called me Seán when you were worried about me back in the hospital." Seán murmured before his eyes fluttered shut, JJ catching his head.
"C'mon, we gotta get him to the hospital to make sure he's okay." Chase stated as he picked up Seán in his arms bridal style.
"Robbie scared." Robbie mumbled as he followed JJ and Chase out, JJ's gaze fixated on his shoes as he walked.
"Me too bud...me too."
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Beneath the Mask
Fanfic"I'm...not dead? How?" Seán questioned Schneep as he sat up, a small smile lighting up Schneep's face. "That serum..." Seán trailed off as he pressed his hands over his ears, wincing in pain as Schneep shot up to his feet. "Jack, are you okay? Are...
