Imagine Robert needing to go undercover in a Supermax because he heard that a suspicious amount of Red Ring members got sent there, even those who were hard to catch where all somehow caught and got sent to this specific prison. Something wasn't adding up, and he needed to investigate.
So he did a little bit of crime, just enough hacking to steal from banks, leaving obvious traces, allowed himself to get caught and sent to Supermax despite not being meta himself. It was all going according to plan. Now he knew that a lot of these metahuman prisoners may or may not have been caught by Mechaman, but he didn't expect to be roommates with one of them.
The fire guy, the one he had to cut his fingers off. Man, he was unlucky, but he's used to that by now. The guy, Chad (of course that's his name) was surprisingly easy to deal with. He made it very clear day one, don't mess with his shit, and he won't mess with him. Easy enough.
They ignore each other most of the time, Robert sneaking around and watching Red Ring acting covertly suspicious, getting pushed around by the other prisoners for being "new meat" (he let's them, he can't be put in solitary yet), Chad doing his thing usually at the gym. Robert hoped it'd be like that until he gets out when he needed to (he contacted a pretty good lawyer that owed him), until Chad came back to his cell after visitations, hunched over his bed, and tears were flowing.
Robert, kinda hesitant, asked if he was ok.
That opened the flood gates. Chad started spewing a lot of curse words, a lot of them directed at Mechaman. When he couldn't find anymore curse words in English, he started speaking in a different language. Probably to curse at Mechaman even more. He was sure if the guy didn't have the collar, the whole room would be blazing by now. Then he told Robert to fuck off, and turned to face the wall.
Robert kinda felt bad for him, started silently giving him his desserts (the only food that can be considered edible enough in the prison). Chad didn't bite a couple of times, just looked at him weird.
Finally took it after the fifth day. Told Robert he was wasting the only food the prison actually gives. Robert just shrugs it off. They started getting friendlier with each other after that. Not too friendly, but friendly enough. He told Robert about how he got caught (fucking Mechaman), Robert told him he got cocky with the hacking. Chad started acted like a guard dog, his usual tormentors backing off once they see he who he was with. Robert just kept giving him his dessert, told him he rather have a twinkie (Chad's face contorted in disgust). At times, when they got bored, they talked about life outside of prison. Chad talked about his sister, his new niece (the reason he started crying last time was that because his brother-in-law came with pictures, his sister was still at the hospital), Robert talked about his dog Beef. It was kinda nice, having someone to talk to about these things.
Only downside of this newfound friendship was that he couldn't sneak around watching the Red Ring's actions without Chad noticing he was acting off. Eventually, something happened, Robert managed to stop them from making it worse, Elliot had unfortunately still managed to escape, and Robert didn't need to be in prison anymore.
So he got acquitted. Said goodbye to Chad, told him he'd visit, and just left. He did start going around every month or so, got him a couple of sweets (Chad told him if he gives him a twinkie he will escape prison just to shove it up his ass). Chad told him about the news Blond Blazer was going around interviewing a couple of low-level villains, and he was getting an interview next week. They kept that up.... until Robert got into a coma.
Mech gone, Mechaman retiring. Blond Blazer offering him a job (though she did have to ask about the time he got sent to prison, he had to explain what happened). And now he was a dispatcher.
First time introducing himself, Chad (Flambae) fucking exploded. Rushed to the Dispatcher Center and tore him up for leaving him high and dry for months. Robert kinda had to take it, he feels bad (even if it wasn't exactly his fault but he can't tell him that). This was going to be a tough thing to deal with. Robert just can't seem to take a break.
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