Dispatch Fic Prompt #06
Mid Season 1 AU - Boberto was a Phoenix?!
Before the Z-Team finds out Robert is Mecha Man, they have a bet going about which washed-up hero he used to be. That is until Sonar overhears Bobby-Boy talking with Chase about his back problems.
"Well you wouldn't have fuckin' back problems if you still had your goddamn mattress."
Robert just rolls his eyes and smirks "You dangle one guy off a building and suddenly the world is against you."
"Damn right. Waste of a good mattress on that toxic piece of shit."
Hmm interesting. Maybe Bobby-Boy wasn't a hero after all...
So Sonar changes his bet and of course the rest of the team wants to know why. He explains what he heard and how "Robbie hacks into intricate security systems like its no promblemo - I would know - saw some serious tech nerds at Harvard."
So now the z-team is wondering if Robert was an ex-villian like them. It would explain all the scars Invisigal said he had. So the team comes up with increasingly crazy ways to find out what kind of crimes Robert committed and how much time he spent in prison.
Meanwhile Courtney is dying of laughter (on the inside) and lets Robert know the team's theories. When the questions get to be too much, Robert fucks with them by being honest about some of his 'crimes' as Mecha Man:
Breaking and entering
Assault & Battery
Kidnapping
Cybercrimes: unauthorised access
Stalking
Intimidation
The Z-Team now firmly believes Robert 'is one of them'. Prism even says "You're not like those bitch-ass dispatchers they gave us before. You get us."
So they start treating Robert like one of them and ask him more genuine questions like "What made you decide join the Phoenix Program?"
Poor Robert doesn't know how to break it to his team that he never spent time in prison, he just had a fucked up family tradition...
