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Arriving at his home at 5C Robert looked around at all the furniture, "You got to be kidding me.."
"What you don't like it?"
Robert turned to chase as he crossed his arms, "How long have you been there?"
"Since I've finished setting up your bed, ungrateful prick," Chase said with a laugh still ecstatic with how it felt to fly around due to Blazers gem.
"Yeah well, I was content with just the plastic chair," Robert said while looking at the bed.
Honestly, it looked great and probably felt really nice to..
"Alright well I'll let you be now, Beef hasn't eaten dinner yet." Chase interrupted his thought as he walked to the balcony.
"Too good for the door?"
Chase laughed before pointing towards the glass sliding door. "Still a door."
"Yeah, I guess when you have the ability to fly.. I suppose."
As Chase opened the sliding door he paused, "You got checked right?"
Robert smiled as he gave a thumbs-up, "A clean bill of health."
Chase nodded as he took off from the balcony. Collapsing on the bed Robert let out a sigh as he felt the pain of the internal bleeding still kicking in. 'The truth is I never went to the hospital.'
His thought was louder than he wanted but no one was there so what was the big deal? He was fine, if the pain continued tomorrow he would head over to the hospital.
"I'm exhausted.." Robert said to only himself as he closed his eyes and took in one final breath before snoring.
Tuesday Afternoon
Knock
Knock
"Alright, dork open the door, don't make me break it down," Visi said annoyed at having to miss a taco lunch with the rest of Z-Team but after noticing that Robert wasn't at work she worried.
"That dork never misses work unless he's in the hospital," she said out loud before banging on the door till her hand damn well felt like it was going to fall off.
"Damn it, I swear Robert if you're in there I'm going to punch you when you open the door."
A moment passed as she pulled out her phone and called him. Something she should have done first but knocking felt like the right thing to do.
Ring...
Ringgg...
Ringggggg..
Ringggggggg...
"Answer your phon-"
Click.
"Finally, damn you Robert you almost scared me, please open your damn door," Visi said in a calm voice that even surprised her.
"Courtney?"
The voice nearly broke her heart. "Mandy, what the fuck why do you have his phone, don't tell m-"
"No, I found it in the parking lot this morning just charged it too. Blazer paused before speaking again. "You'd think I take him away from you?"
Visi felt her heart rate slowly come down as she sighed, "Is Chase there?"
"Yeah, I'm here whatda want?"
"Damn Blazer, are you on loudspeaker?" Visi chuckled as she heard a slight low curse come from Blazer.
"Well if you get Chase over here, I can't open Roberts' door."
"Can't you just fade through the door?" She heard Chase say which irritated her but instead of coming up with a sparky remark she just sighed.
"Yeah he'll be there, sorry gotta finish this taco before next dispatch." Blazer said as she ended the call.
'Dont rub it in.' Visi said feeling her stomach rumble.
A moment passed as Chase flew up next to her, "was getting a cat down the fucking tree.. now what are you doing here?"
Visi glared at him and sighed, "A wellness check, what does it look like..." She paused and sighed.
"What?"
"Well I was going to call you einstein, but that hair isn't cutting it for that name."
Chase laughed slightly as he took out a key from his pocket and placed it into the keyhole turning it.
As Chase opened the door, he felt something was off immediately. "Well damn Chase he must've really liked the bed." She said staring at Robert still in the bed with a smile plastered on his face.
She watched Chase pause for a moment and then saw him fall to his knees. "Chase?" Worried that for some reason the gems ability to keep Chase alive was falling she walk in front of him to look at his face.
'Tears?' She thought as she started to shake him. "Chase what the fuck old man.. why are you crying, you sad that he's getting more sleep?" Her questions rolled off the top of her tongue as she watched him point to Robert.
"He's n..not."
Visi grasped his shoulder, "He's not what?"
Chase let out more tears more than he did when Robert was knocked out in his suit after a bad test. Which at that time was zero. "He's not sleeping..."
'The fuck? Does that mean, is he playing a cruel... no.' "NO!" Visi yelled as she raced to the bedside of Robert.
Quickly feeling for a pulse she felt hot tears run down her cheeks as she kept checking, "Please.. please you cant die.. your fucking mecha man, you cant.. you cant leave me here.."
Chase floated over and knelt next to her still tearing up.
Eventually her arms gave up as she felt numb from the crying. Looking over to Chase she watched him wipe away his tears.
'I failed him.' He muttered.
'We both did.' Visi muttered back as she stood up and called Roberts number again.
Ring...
Click.
"Invisigal, everything okay?" Blazer said this time at Roberts desk filling in for him to the dismay of the other heros.
"Ro-" She paused unable to speak his name. "Mecha man is.. dead." Those four words echoed through the whole office and especially through the dispatch computer.
"Visi wha-"
Click.
Blazer sat there as the other dispatchers stared at her still recoiling. Punch Up called out through the computer with the slight static noise with his irish accent. "What does she mean by mecha man is dead?"
"Finish your missions and return, we need to talk as a team." Blazer said coldly before muting herself as she let out a sob.