Some big famous hero, as part of some PR deal with SDN, has been making the rounds to all the local branches for a kind of hero conference/training thing spending a week or two at each office.
The Torrance branch is next, and since the Z Team has recently become front and center after the whole teaming up with Mecha Man and saving the city from Shroud and the Red Ring thing, they are the poor bastards that are going to be spending the most time with the guy.
None of them are happy about it - except for Waterboy. Which isn't surprising really considering their history as villains and which heron it is they're going to be dealing with for the week.
While this hero has a pretty stellar reputation in the eyes of the public, most people who are or have been in the villain scene know that the guy is kind of a major dickhead. Not evil or anything, just more of a bastard to criminals than even most other heroes.
Flambae complains about how much he hates (hated) Mecha Man, but even he will admit that Robert was at least decent enough to immediately jump into field medic mode to try and minimize the damage of the whole finger slicing thing.
The hero coming to visit them? Yeah, that asshole probably would have taken Flambae's whole hand and then left it to the EMTs to figure out how to get Flambae out of the burning building and stabilize him. Guy is famously tough on criminals.
What is surprising is how much Robert is annoyed and grumpy about the whole thing.
Their dispatcher going so far as to try and take the week that the hero was going to be visiting off (though failing, poor man hasn't actually accrued enough PTO for that). Visi swears she overheard Blazer having to talk Robert down from just outright quitting in his attempts to avoid the hero in question.
When pressed on why Robert seems to dislike the guy so much and is so desperate to get out of meeting him, he reluctantly shares that the visiting hero is his ex.
The team is totally normal about this and not at all becoming feral gremlins. Flambae in particular is completely indifferent and not at all jealous at the news (shut up Prism, he's not!)
He's just annoyed by Mecha Bitch being even more of a loser than he thought by dating that guy (even if the news that he apparently isn't as straight as Flambae thought is promising... you know, if that mattered to him. Which it doesn't.)
Flambae: Wait, seriously? You actually used to date that asshole?
Robert, sighing: Worse. I used to be married to him.
This news, as you might expect, doesn't go over well.
Chase is furious that Robert got married and never told him. The Z Team is losing their shit over the drama of it all. Flambae is all but throwing a tantrum over the whole thing.
It only gets worse when Robert's ex-husband shows up and it turns out that oops, looks like they're still technically married. And the Ex? Yeah, he's actually looking to rekindle things with Robert.
It's anyone's guess on if Robert or Flambae kills the guy first.
(Prism has a hundred dollars on Robert and Flambae finally getting together and their first date being the two of them working together to hide the body. Royd put two hundred on Chase taking the guy out first.)
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