New Civil War based Story
Robbie Baldwin was in his specialized cell in a maximum security federal prison some place unknown. He had been kept there ever since he had been blamed for starting a war so to speak. The war was between super humans and the government, but ended up turning into the super humans fighting against each other as well. Everyone had been choosing sides. Robbie had word that Captain America was leading the so called rebels the ones who did not want to unmask and they were fighting against Ironman who led the ones who were unmasking. Robbie has been blamed for starting it when he accidentally killed six hundred innocents plus the New Warriors, the group he was affiliated with. Did people honestly think that he would kill his own people on purpose? He knew that they just wanted a scapegoat for their bigger plan. He had to find a way out of here. Even if his bubbles did work, they wouldn’t be breaking him out of here.
Robbie had the superhuman power to create bubbles. They just protected him really. As long as they were around nothing could touch him which was how he survived the blast. He called it the speedball effect and that also happened to be his codename. In his Speedball state he also has a blue and gold lab uniform on which became permanently fused to him in the accident that made him this way. It wasn’t like he was going to blast himself out of here or anything. He knew that some of the super humans had to be on his side. They had to see the light on this whole thing. They were just looking for someone to pin everything on to start their whole plan and it happened to be Robbie. He really was sorry that he had killed so many people. That was his fault, but it wasn’t like he meant to. He didn’t belong in here. He sort of had a gut feeling someone was going to come break him out of here. He just didn’t know when.
Robbie heard someone coming to release him for the moment. It was a daily routine he got to come out to eat a meal with the other inmates. He hated this part. The others didn’t exactly take too kindly to his suit. They were either too stupid, too blind, or too something else to comprehend that it was permanently fused to him. It wasn’t like he was getting any special treatment. Some actually liked how he looked in it. He figured those were the ones who’d been locked up a real long time. Too long away from the outside world and the guards didn’t exactly care what they did to Robbie. No one bothered to stop the last guy who pinned Robbie against the wall and started to have his way with him. I guess they only cared if someone tried to kill him and seeing how he had his bubbles except when he was in this specialized cell, that wouldn’t happen.
This time things were a little different. Instead of the usual guards who roughed Robbie up and then took him out to the mess hall, there was a man dressed in a white lab coat. He accompanied the guards of course they had to be there too. Robbie was sort of nervous as he was restrained. He tried to fight back but the guards were too built and the man dressed in the white lab coat injected him with something. He had no idea what it was. “Now, you can be in a regular cell,” he said as he left and the guards led him to the mess hall.
Robbie reluctantly entered the mess hall and looked around at all of the angry looking inmates. Some of them actually looked up to Robbie for killing so many people. He didn’t exactly like that, but at lest he was safe from those ones. He sat down at a table after getting his disgusting looking food. He tried to put up his bubbles, but realized they weren’t working. He should have known. He was injected with something that was obviously prohibiting him from going into his speedball state. He wondered if it was permanent or not. He doubted it was. He suddenly felt queasy as he pushed his food away. The room was sort of spinning which he guessed was a side effect from whatever they injected him with. He didn’t remember anything but being against a wall and the same guy as before behind him sort of having his way with him. Someone please get me out of here. Was all that was going through his mind.
Chapter 2
Sam Guthrie had organized a secret meeting at the X Mansion. Scott insisted that the X-Men remain neutral in this whole thing, but others didn’t think that was a good idea. Scott was the designated leader of the X-Men now and no one really wanted to go against him. Logan had gone off on his own to figure out things for himself and had told some of them the truth. Robbie was just the scapegoat and an excuse for the whole thing to go on. Sam didn’t approve of that. Before the whole thing happened he and Robbie had become close. Sam missed him a lot actually. He decided he would ask the ones he trusted the most in organizing a plot to break Robbie out of Prison. He had asked Iceman, Havok, and Pyro to meet him here. He hoped they would agree with him. He’d have asked Logan but he had not returned yet.
Sam sat in an empty chair and tapped his foot impatiently as he waited for the others to arrive. He wasn’t quite sure how keen Bobby and Alex would be about working with each other but he trusted the both of them and that was how it was going to have to be. He didn’t quite know how some of the others would take to seeing Pyro around again, but he knew he would be their ticket out if they were to be caught. Pyro was basically a criminal so to speak and he could cover for them. Sam was growing increasingly impatient when suddenly the first of them arrived. It was Iceman.
“Bobby, thank you so much for coming,” Sam said as he greeted him. “I knew some people around here would see things my way,” he added.
“Yeah, I just wanna help you know. It’s kind of boring keeping out of everything,” Bobby said as he sat down in another empty chair next to Sam. “I don’t think it’s fair if what Logan says is true that Robbie be kept locked up. He did kill all of those people including some of our own, but I think that was truly an accident,” Bobby said.
Sam was about to tell Bobby how he completely agreed when the door opened once more and Havok entered. Sam could tell that he and Bobby were both slightly shocked to see each other. He had sort of neglected to let them know they’d both have to work together for the mere fact that he needed them both and he wasn’t sure that they would have both came if they knew that. “Drake? What are you doing here?” Alex asked with both surprise and anger in his tone.
“Well, I was just about to ask you the same thing. It seems I’m helping a friend out, but I dunno about you,” Bobby responded in his typical smart-alecky tone.
“Well, I thought I was helping a friend out. It turns out we have at least one thing in common, Drake,” Alex responded not really wanting to fight. He was here for Sam and that was that. He took an empty seat on the other side of Sam not next to Bobby.
“Thank you Alex, I mean it,” Sam said. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell the two of ya you’d have to be workin’ together on this. I just was scared y’all wouldn’t come if I said it is all,” Sam explained.
Before either of them could respond the door burst opened once more and a tired looking Pyro entered. “Yeah, hey I’m late I know, but what can I say getting away from the Brotherhood is a bit of a bitch especially when they ask a lot of questions,” he said feeling that was explanation enough as he took a seat next to Bobby.
“Hey, Drake, think I wasn’t comin’?” he asked with a bit of a smirk as he placed his hand on the Iceman’s thigh.
“Oh, John, I knew you’d be here give me a break,” Bobby responded rolling his eyes a bit. He didn’t try to push John’s hand off of his thigh he rather liked it there. He was among friends anyway. It didn’t exactly take a genius to figure out Iceman and Pyro had been an item before and were just recently reunited.
“Well, now that that’s settled, I’ve got a plan,” Sam said as he ignored the fact that Bobby and John were an item and how one of his exes was sitting next to him. That didn’t really matter right now. All that mattered was helping Robbie and they were just the four to do it.