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ROB'ed for pleasure in Worm by BatRou-Dawg

Misc » Book X-overs Rated: M, English, Drama & Humor, Words: 267k+, Favs: 112, Follows: 128, Published: Jan 26, 2023 Updated: Feb 8, 2023

30Chapter 1

Benji never had much trouble waking up, no real grogginess or sleepiness, he was fully up when he wakes up, while he often returned to sleep or refused to wake up when younger, he never had the 'booting time' somewhere in his life he changed from a heavy sleeper to a light one, he blamed it to his first high school year in a boarding school, the place wasn't nice nor the room private, wasn't even a room either.

His sleep changed drastically then and when possible he liked having as close to total darkness as possible when sleeping, even minor lights bothered him, sounds were also a issue, if wasn't one that he learned and acclimated to, he would wake up, often suspicious, wary and reaching for the nearby weapon in the room, a machete and a knife.

So the lights and noises of the hospital room immediately woke him up, his memories are a mess, his body aches and hurts, he could remember a crushing pressure and a stench, he could also remember some sort of argument and deal being made, a negotiation on his part, a sacrifice made by a waifish girl.

A rhythmic beeping noise speeds up, it also jumps in speed when he recognizes the sound of the EKG machine, the surge of adrenaline hits him like a freight train, and his mind speeds up dramatically, he is surprised with the clarity that he gets and how his memories get untangled.

He remembers that he was ROBed, the girl sacrificed herself to the unknown entity, he was given a massive boon package after being told that he was going to replace her in her life, her existence rewritten to fit him and that her world had superpowers and she would get them, he had the freedom to pick his because the apex of the girl's torment would have given her powers.

He selected a few packages in a single mix, from Perry Rhodan the Gucky package of telekinesis, telepathy and teleportation, then Ranma's martial arts talent, ability to learn, improve, and use martial arts, and in general learning abilities and talent, including the more exoteric powers and abilities, minus curses, Benji believed that if properly nurtured Ranma would have been a prodigy, a genius in theory and physical abilities.

Essentially the kind of person who would both gain sportive scholarships and become a expert on his chosen scholar fields, then a jedi package without the dark or light side, just the powers to a Force Unleashed level, plus the knowledge to fabricate lightsabers and more basic blaster weaponry, finally the ability to not lose progress, meaning no loss of performance if not training and exercising, or recovering from wounds, with full knowledge to use all his skills, abilities and talents.

He was given everything, including the memories of his supposed life as Benji Hebert, properly altered to fit his adult mindset, which gave him a well trained, but not peak fit, body, he now knows why he is in the hospital, his heart rate doesn't really drop as he angers at the prolonged bullying campaign at him, his memories telling him that he didn't really fought back because his bullies are headed by females.

One that was supposedly his past best girl friend and former childhood sweetheart, his attempts to stop it were more passive than he would normally indulge, he was a fight back type of person when it comes to bullies, still he approved the gathering of evidence and that his memory self had a digital watch with a hidden recording function, one with high capacity batteries, and it recorded everything, he had months worth of audio evidence, plus weeks of video evidence from a recently purchased pair spy glasses.

Benji hears the door being open in a rush, two nurses look at him. "Mister Hebert?" One asked nervously. "Are you okay?" "No." Benji said holding back his anger, the poor nurse wasn't to blame for his condition. "Or I wouldn't be in this bed right now, what happened? The last that I remember I was kind of suffocating to death because Sophia Hess shoved me into my locker, which I think that was filled with rotting used feminine hygiene products."

An older nurse takes over. "You were removed from the locker in a critical state." She explained. "Indeed very close to death and with rather acute cyanosis, you have been in a coma for the past week, I won't list your injuries, but you did hurt yourself very badly trying to escape the locker, fortunately nothing permanent, a few pulled or torn muscles and broken bones."

"Explains the pain." Benji commented forcing himself to calm down. "Where are my glasses?" "Here." The younger nurse said picking them from the nightstand and handing it to him, Benji takes the glasses and thanks the nurse, ignoring the pain of his IV line, he puts them on relieved at the new focus on his sight. "What happened to the bullies?" He asks. "I trust that they were at least suspended, right?"

"As far as I am aware the incident is being treated as an accident." The younger nurse answered, Benji's heart rate spikes after that. "I see." Benji said checking his watch, the recording symbol on the digital face isn't present signifying that the watch ran out of space to record, but is still the same watch and is a perfect copy of a G-shock DW-5600E, which was a copy of the 5600C which was a cope of the DW 5000, he bought because was a copy of his own watch a 5600E.

To access the memory card he would need to remove the back plate, the microphone is discreet and unless you are actively looking for it you couldn't find it, plus it was water proof and shock proof, so Benji took comfort that he could bring them down.

Sophia, Emma and Madison actively taunted him as Sophia shoved him there, he doesn't openly smiles, but he knows that he has them down now, and as soon as he is out of the hospital or get access to a computer he will release the evidence, after backing it up, for now he waits and lets the nurses check him up.

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Alone in the room Benji begins to practice his mind skills, it was surprisingly easy, apparently the skill level of Gucky was considered part of the package, which prevented the unwanted flood of thoughts scenario, however Benji realized that he wasn't used to mind reading, he could hear the thoughts similarly to hearing conversations on a party, the frontline was the thoughts of pain and suffering, then came the surface thoughts, he couldn't or wasn't able yet, to access deep thoughts and essentially read memories.

Tuning out the 'screams' took some effort but wasn't hard, the 'chatter' remained, on the upside he could tell distance from the thoughts, and he kind of had a mental map with the positions, with rather crude floors, no walls though and for the moment a somewhat limited range, which was artificial and not real, as Gucky had a range of thousands of kilometers, for all his psychic powers, still Benji doesn't mind the limit at the moment, after all instead of a party he would have a mad rave at his mind.

He finds conversation about him and focuses on it, the other voices fall on the background, barely whispers, yet he has awareness of them, apparently the older nurse was calling his father and giving him the news, Benji had a bit of a issue with his father, his true memories of his real father were slanted to the negative thanks to how his father treated him, his new memories of his father, the one that the girl, Taylor, had are far more positive, Danny was a good father, a touch distance after his wife's death, Benji could remember how the man fell apart afterwards and he was taken in for a while by Emma's father, they were that close that him living with her family for a few months weren't a issue at all.

Still Benji doesn't hold that against Danny, his memories of his parents, Taylor's parents, showed that they were very much in love with each other and he was honestly unsure that Taylor never had siblings, after Annette's death Danny turned a bit distant as their interests weren't the same, more dramatically with him as his memories of Benji Hebert showed that Taylor didn't have the same interests as him and was closer, though still somewhat stranged, from Danny, Benji in the other had influenced by himself has dramatically different interests, and Danny's father, was closer to Benji when growing up, as the older man was a former soldier and a pro-gun person as Benji.

Danny was indifferent and Annette wasn't against, but she wasn't fond of it, though she allowed Benji's interest as his personal choice of beliefs and because it made the grandfather and grandson closer, Benji now suspects that Annette allowed those hunting and fishing trips to happen to have private time with Danny, which he doesn't blame her at all.

Still Danny tried, to the point when Ryan Hebert passed away and willing Benji his entire gun collection Danny readily took ownership of the handguns and special license guns to give them to Benji once old enough to legally own those, the ones that didn't require Benji were his, including the gifts from the old man, Benji's personal rifles.

Benji made a note to try to bring their relationship to a healthier state, the mix of Taylor's actions Benji's owns, that were altered to fit status quo, is part of why the bullying got so bad. Benji tunes down the telepathy, keeping himself aware of the nurses and doctors and shifts his focus to telekinesis, the mix of Gucky's level telekinesis and Force Unleashed level of Jedi/Sith/Force powers would make him a fearsome fighter, once he learns to properly harness his abilities.

So Benji begins simple, a crumpled ball of paper from the room's courtesy legal notepad, Benji learned his lesson from that one Freakzoid episode, he wasn't going to levitate heavy objects with his mind until he has a grip on his powers, no risk of giving himself concussions repeatedly with the remote control of the TV, the water glass or anything else, no, a nice, light and harmless paper ball will do the trick for him, yes sir.

By the time that Benji learned of his father's presence he had already able to 'juggle' six balls, orbiting them and playing catch with them, he floated five of them to the trash and got the sixth on his hand, timing things right he tossed the ball at the trash can near the couch when his father entered the room, giving a illusion of boredom.

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Benji was happy that Ranma's 'regeneration' was something that he already had and was passive, once the drugs wore out he began to feel the pain, he held back on asking for more, and the pain dulled and the nurses mentioned that he was healing quite fast, two days after he woke the pain wasn't much worse than the after pain of a bad cramp and the broken bones are knitted, and he was let out.

Once in the house Benji started his computer, it was a older model, Benji didn't mind that, he had the same computer for nearly five years before it died out on him, he wasn't picky about always having the newest machine, for his needs a rather basicish PC does the job, and without the internet cable on it Benji didn't fear to be hacked while backing up his evidence.

He made several copies, three on flash drives, one in a micro SD card, two on his computer alone in two different folders, one of them compacted and passworded, the final one was into his MP3 player, it is a older model as well, one that uses a AAA battery, it has no fancy gimmicks, it plays FM, MP3s, record voices and that was all that it did beyond being a fancy flash drive, the copy there was also compacted and with a password.

Benji also decided to make copies of the 'journal' that he kept recording all the instances of bullying, same with the e-mail copies, though the copies will require money which he doesn't have much. A sad parallel between his past life, his new life and Taylor's life is that money was pretty short after a certain point in their lives.

Childhood was pretty nice on the middle of the middle class, then falling to the lower end of the middle class, his new life and Taylor's life showed that it could descend lower than his past life did as they fell into the upper bracket of low or poor class after their mother passed away, the loss of her income, the funeral expenses and other factors caused the fall.

Benji can remember that what used to be a fun hobby with his grandfather became a method of easing the burden and providing food for the house, hunting became necessary, fortunately they already owned guns, at hunting season Benji and Danny would go hunt as often as possible, bringing back as much game as possible, from deer to squirrels, meat is meat, and whatever they didn't need to buy helped their budget, he could still remember frequent weekend hunting trips to kill squirrels, rabbits and whatever small game that he could with the Ruger 12/22 takedown model that his grandfather gave him.

Plus his memories tell him that the little money that he managed to save and squirrel away were used to buy his spy gear and he has very little left, less than ten dollars. 'Well with my powers stealing from an ATM machine isn't impossible.' Benji thought while stretching, he winces at the soreness and aches of his muscles. 'Maybe after I am fully healed, though scouting a bit won't hurt, I have a full week before having to return to class, tomorrow I begin jogging again and scout possible locations.'

With that decided Benji begins to run a mental checklist of possible hiding places in the house, the coal shut is a possibility, but not really a secure one, under the floorboards is overused and a cliché, in dead spaces in the walls is also cliché, ceiling gaps as well, the mattress wasn't a place for it, going with an idea from a old fanfic of his the inside of his PC cabinet isn't a bad possibility for a nearby stash, not that easy to access, but not impossible either.

Checking his chest of drawers Benji ponders on it, it was also a cliché location, but could work, hollowing a book would do too, if her buys a couple of hardcover books that he has no intention of reading, glue the edges of the pages together and cut the core of them, leaving some pages as cover, it is a possibility for a easy to access plain sight hidden stash, given the amount of books on his shelves it wouldn't look out of place either.

'It also depends on how much money I would get from the ATM.' Benji says to himself, while pre-arranging stashes isn't a bad idea, going overboard with it isn't smart either, unless he gets huge amount of money, more than a few medium to small stashes would do the trick. 'My closet can work as well, shifting some boxes here and there to hide a shoebox with money, isn't like Danny rummages there.'

Benji was responsible for the upkeep of his room, closet included, Danny hardly enters on his room, the few times that he did he announced first. With the stash issue settled Benji plugs his computer back to the internet and decides on finding what was being said about the locker incident, then train, he wants to start the teleporting end of the Gucky's trifecta, and it will make robbing the ATM much easier as well.

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Teleporting turned out to be easy, he visited all the rooms in the house before trying it out first he tried on his room, going from one side to the next, after half an hour of effort he figured the trick and did it, it was quite quiet, a rush of air following his disappearance, similar in sound to 'bloop' of a grenade launcher, just a little lower.

Increasing the distance proved to be easy, he teleported from his room to the basement several times, then around the house that was empty, his father working, with the curtains drawn he could go wild, after checking the backyard and finding it empty, with a high enough fence so no one could peer into it, he teleported to the fence, a couple of inches away from it, then back to the basement, then to the fence and lastly to his room.

He felt a bit weary after the long practice, but it was worth it, instant teleportation at will, if he visited the place once or could 'see' it from someone's eyes using telepathy, locking from distance using telepathy to pick a mind as target location for long distance blind jumps, without the danger of teleporting into something solid or into someone, those were part of Gucky's methods, and the beaver-rat was able to teleport between spots separated by thousands of kilometers.

Benji would have to train more to get the telepathy assisted jumps, plus the other methods that he recalled reading Gucky doing, for the moment line of sight and past visited places were the ones that he could do. Pausing for a snack and a short break Benji makes a sandwich using telekinesis for everything save buttering the sliced bread, picking up the cold cuts and putting on the bread were using the telekinesis just in case to avoid hiccups like in that Freakazoid episode.

While eating Benji begins rummaging on his memories again, this time going through the rolodex of Jedi knowledge and Gucky's knowledge, the beaver-rat was positively ancient and was a PHD or similar several times over, surprisingly Gucky's knowledge didn't only cover highly advanced space technology, the brunt is, but Terrania's University also taught low tech technologies, essentially how to build basic versions of their vast array of handheld or portable weapons without the highly advanced level of base tech, a must for spies, infiltrators or when you are stranded in a low tech world without access to the good stuff.

It proved to be far more useful than the Jedi's memories, while the knowledge to build any type of lightsaber from scratch was there, there wasn't that many plans for a true low tech approach, most cases of 'low tech' still used 'junk' of the time period, read highly advanced space stuff, still could be done.

Still Benji managed to select a few useful, though basic, designs, ironic enough, the hilt's shape didn't have to be the iconic tubular shape, a more closer to a real hilt shape could be used as long the internal components fit inside. 'And I will start with a trainer saber with a switch to change from harmless mode to lethal mode.' Benji mused while using the telekinesis to write down his plans, once again Gucky's knowledge came handy, Gucky had a shitload of languages learned on his memories Terran or alien, and Arconite was alien enough to no one be able to read, which is good, knowing both Arconite, Terran and English allowed Benji to know the equivalent of each letter, he can save Intercosmos for less secure data.

"I wonder if I can scavenge enough material here before needing to buy any." He muttered on loud, the basement and attic had a lot of stored stuff and junk, he also owns a lot of stuff as his packrat habits remained true, sure he won't find superconductors lying around, but given the sheer amount of tinker tech available, including the few easy to reproduce bits, it shouldn't be impossible to find, and some of the other bits should prove easier to build or find similar.

"School has a electronic shop class too…" Benji recalled grinning wickedly, after all the crap that he went through in Winslow he was more than willing to steal from it, and he 'had' already visited school and could teleport there, and being the wretched cesspool of crime and villainy that it is the school doesn't have cameras, barely even has a security guard doing rounds at night.

Benji then considers the low class but virtual mall that the school is, the items that he could steal there to cannibalize for his needs, the computers of computer class weren't the best, but were somewhat new, slightly older than his own, and they could be cannibalized for parts for his own computer or he could assemble a new one from a few machines there, the principal's was certainly new and shiny, and the bitch allowed the bullying to go on, actively stomping his attempts to transfer out, help or get attention to the issue.

His telekinesis came with a 'side effect', when using it he could see through things, allowing him to locate details, including the inside of a person, he could easily tear a vein or artery on someone's brain and leave no evidence beyond the burst vessel, and that is just the beginning of the uses of telekinesis beyond what Gucky mostly used it for, so he could find hidden stashes to say the least.

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By the time that Danny returned from work Benji had already gathered a lot of things that he felt that would be useful on assembling a lightsaber, including plenty of somewhat old but in good state tools, his grandfather's old toolbox, similarly to his 'real' grandfather, Ryan was also the do it yourself kind of guy and a good handyman, and taught Benji a lot in how to do small repairs in the house, fix minor stuff and install some larger stuff, the box has a soldering iron which is good, sure it won't solve everything but it is a beginning, he stuffed his findings on the basement near his old tire 'sandbag' Danny didn't use the basement much, mostly using the washing machine and drier, beyond the storage part of it Benji was allowed free reign of the remainder space, it was his gym and training room after things got tight and they couldn't afford him continue going to martial arts class.

Benji even started a basic power cell, so far it was a cannibalized circuit board that he removed the needless components and began adding the needed ones, it would take more work and part before it could work as a somewhat low capacity battery when compared to the stuff in his memories, but with simple components and tech level, it was still miles beyond the stuff available around.

Dinner was uneventful beyond Danny being surprised at Benji's cooking, his true memories added a lot of experience and dishes to his new ones, blaming the internet solved any issues, and Danny liked the meal anyway. After the older man is asleep Benji began preparing himself for visiting the school, a plain hoodie, a pair of gloves, a backpack and some small tools and he is done, he did write a note that he wasn't able to sleep and was taking a short walk, just in case.

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It took Benji several trips to get everything, six computers from the computer class, complete with screens and peripherals, the principal's and her secretary's computers, the contents of teachers' desks, read confiscated stuff, a good amount of parts and tools from the shop classes, both the electronic shop and the wood and metal shop, whatever money that he found on the teachers' lounge, chemicals and tools from the chemistry lab, food and equipment from the kitchen/cafeteria, after all free food is free food.

Benji also located several stashes of drug and money in the school, all of which he took, the drugs were dumped in the sewers after busting the packs to ruin the dope, the money was kept and a couple of guns that he found were also kept, a GLOCK 19 and a Beretta M9 style, in 45 ACP and 9mm, with a total of four magazines, must one in each gun, a swift check showed them to be loaded, which he unloaded, checked the state of disrepair of them, they weren't all that clean, but nothing critical, plus he has the cleaning gear for them, and untraceable weapons doesn't hurt.

Benji final stop was in the gym depot, where he took exercising weights and other smaller gear for his personal training routine, the depot had a lot of stuff from the school's clubs, so he took everything that he felt needed. Hiding the stuff wasn't easy, but his side of the basement has space, with a proper box arrangement and some sheets he hides the computers, exercising tools and machines, in the 'communal' area of the basement, inside a freezer chest he stores the larger and frozen foodstuffs that he stole, cans and non-perishable items were placed in the pantry area, very little went to the kitchen, and the soda fountain machine was stashed on the attic, he would later find a place to set that one up, he also stole a copying machine and its toner cartridges, plus paper, after all why waste money with it when the school had a perfectly good machine for him to use?

It was pretty late when Benji actually went to bed, fortunately Danny wasn't up, content with his first raid, Benji lies on his bed, his stolen guns hidden inside the tire sandbag, the money on his bag in the closet, he could begin copying evidence later, then he could go and try getting some answers.

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After Danny left Benji moved the copy machine to the basement where he set it up, he found how to make it run continuously without him needing to operate it, the useful setting to mass copying several pages, with it fed a lot of paper and his 'journal' Benji left it running, he rigs the soda machine to a corner of his space and gets it operational, the diet variety of flavors were left behind and in their place the regular ones from a second machine were taken, with the easily accessible beverage source in working order he begins the long process of sorting the tools, equipment, parts and chemicals to then begin working on building shit.

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Winslow High was a mess, the police was in there because of the mysterious robbery, the lack of busted doors hinted that a insider was helping, which made the principal and staff very worried, Benji had deliberately vandalized his locker with offensive messages with spray paint, located in the perimeter, permanent markers and other foul things, linking that with the locker incident bringing more attention to it.

While it wasn't the smartest thing around to link himself to the incident, Benji felt that the risk was worth it, no one could place him on the school at that night, the stolen goods were easy to teleport away if the police comes knocking, and he did vandalize 'his' computer, desk and chair, painting a picture of aggressive bullying.

And uncomfortable questions were being asked to Blackwell and the staff, Benji almost planted some evidence on Emma's, Madison's and Sophia's lockers, nothing too big, just some small bags with hemp and cocaine, enough to cause them trouble if found, but he decided against, not wanting to push things too far and signal that he had powers, after all he has no idea if the girls had alibis or could prove that they were being framed with the drugs.

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Benji was a bit surprised when the doorbell is rung, he had a rather productive morning, the power cell was halfway there, he assembled a good computer out of the parts from the others that he took and boosted his own PC, the leftover parts would be repurposed, the bulky cabinets were disposed after stripped of everything useful, and the copying was done.

A telepathic scan shows that it was the police, a couple of plain clothes officers, Benji swiftly hides everything, a short teleport upstairs and a call for the doorbell adds to his façade. Wearing a pair of knee length shorts, a plain blue t-shirt and his indoors slippers he opens the door. "Whatever you are selling I don't want to buy." Benji said firmly. "I am happy with my religion as well."

The two policemen chuckle at that. "We aren't salesmen or clergymen." The one at the left commented, he is younger and is wearing a dark grey suit, he shows his badge at Benji. "We are policemen." "Okay." Benji said wary. "Why are you here? I wasn't making any noise and I am excused from school for medical reasons."

"It is about your school." The older one in a brown suit said levelly. "A theft happened on it and your locker was vandalized." "Again?" Benji said with weary surprise. "It is the sixth time!" The two raise eyebrows. "Can we come in?" The older one asks. Benji sighs. "Am I in trouble?" Benji asks. "Do I need to call my dad?"

"No trouble and if you feel that you need to you can call your father." The younger replied. "But is just some questions." "Fine." Benji sighs. "Come in, want something to drink? Water, juice, tea?" "Water is fine." The older said as they walk in, Benji closes the door after them.

Benji serves the two cops cold water from the fridge and some apple juice for himself. "So what happened?" Benji asks. "I heard the news that the school was broken in, but that was it." "Apparently a gang stole into your school, stole several computers, tools and even food, vandalized your locker, desk and stole from the teachers' lounge." The older one explained. "Any reason why you would be targeted?"

"Given that I am being bullied for the past year and a half by this group of girls and most of the school body?" Benji asks wryly. "Remember the case of the student nearly being killed by being shoved in a locker?" The two nod. "That was me, hence why I am not in school right now, I got out of the hospital yesterday."

The two are startled at that. "So I am not really surprised that my locker was vandalized again, at least by now there wasn't anything in it." Benji sighed tiredly. "I long learned to not keep anything in it." "Can you give us details?" The younger one asks. "Hold on." Benji said. "I wrote down everything from last year's September forth."

When the two cops left Benji was pretty happy with the results, he managed to play the role of a weary boy suffering under the staff approved bullying who is trying not to hit back girls, they left with a copy of his digital evidence and physical one, plus his statement, one bundle of evidence was safe with his father and her media friend, Benji then decides to talk to the man that his new memories often joked that would be his father in law in the future.

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The meeting with Alan Barnes was uncomfortable and mentally draining, Benji saw and felt that the man had no idea of the bullying until the locker incident, where Emma was panicking, the man barely hanged to his decency and didn't try to ruin Benji's reputation to save Emma's, the memories of their childhood stopped the man, Benji saw and felt that Alan really saw him as a son, and saw why Emma changed, Alan suspected that the near rape that Emma suffered through when he was in the nature camp to decompress was the reason why Benji didn't visit anymore, that Emma was keeping some distance from him to heal from the incident.

Benji learned that Sophia was Shadow Stalker and saved Emma, which honestly Benji can't see happening given her personality, Alan had negotiated Sophia's deal with the PRT in good faith, the girl was a vigilant hero, Alan honestly believed that the girl was good, seeing the evidence saying otherwise really hurt the man, hearing his daughter wishing Benji's death wounded him, and Benji could see the faded dream of a marriage between the two of them dying a painful death, especially when Benji said that he came to hate Emma and believed that the girl that he once loved was dead for a reason that he didn't know about, Alan didn't tell about the near rape and Benji respected that he wasn't telling Emma's secret.

Alan promised to investigate Emma himself and didn't oppose that Benji gave the evidence to the police, the girl that attacked him and his daughter weren't the same, Alan could have forgiven if Emma didn't go as far as almost murdering someone, even as a divorce lawyer Alan still have some limits and lines that he won't cross, Emma did.

After the meeting Benji checked a few ATM machines, checked for cameras, essentially scouted a bit, he also purchased some parts, items and equipment to further his progress with his projects, he has some financial leeway thanks to the money that he got from the school.

At the basement Benji boots his new laptop computer, he wasn't fond of laptops, but the portability is a good asset, a couple of peripherals and he was much more comfortable with it, the 'generic jedi/sith' knowledge paired with Gucky's helped a lot, but also frustrated Benji, he wanted to write on Arconite, but he doesn't know how to code that.

So the laptop would have to do with English and he would save his sensitive stuff on a external drive and only when not connected to the internet, the laptop doesn't have a internal wireless card, he got a small USB internet card and the computer has a cable jack, he picked that model because the absence of the wireless card.

Using his custom PC Benji does some surfing trying to locate the parts that he needs that he can't find locally, it takes him a couple of hours before he stumbles on a possible solution, two somewhat small time criminals/youtube channel owners, Uber and L33t, they work with tinker tech, which means that they have access to parts.

Checking his watch Benji decides that he has time to go out to a internet café and send them a message with a throw away account, see if he can score a meeting with them to see if he can buy parts from them.

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Armed with the GLOCK, a large duffel bag and some ball bearings Benji leaves the basement clad with black clothes, a ski mask under his black hood and tinted protection goggles over his eyes and glasses, on a ATM not close to his house he destroys the cameras with the bearings using telekinesis, opening the machines to access the internal safes weren't hard with it either, as it pretends to be official use as Benji could see the rights combinations and settings, using wires he 'damages' the keyholes to pretend that tools were used, in five minutes he empties the money boxes and leaves, teleporting once in a alley, he repeats the operation four times before calling a night, and didn't take more than an hour.

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After his morning run and breakfast Benji saw the news of the breaking of the ATM machines, it was being attributed to some tinker tech equipped thief and the amount stolen three hundred twelve thousand and seven hundred and fifty five dollars from all the three machines, averaging around sixty thousand dollars and change per machine.

It surprised him to see the amount, it wasn't that much money that he got the bag was mostly empty save the random tools that he placed on it to pretend to be a tinker thief, the bills were between five dollars to one hundred dollars bills, with everything between, unmarked and unspoiled by the anti-theft ink.

Given Brockton Bay's crime rate he was honestly surprised that he scored that much money with a not that well planned theft, though he has to be careful to not slip down the slope of making a habit of stealing from ATMs, as sooner or later his MO would be figured or he would stumble on a hero or a police patrol.

Most of the morning was spend between stashing the stolen money, the book idea wasn't used, he stored most of the money on his computers, his closet and behind the bed's headboard, some was on his desk inside a empty candy tin as the easy access stash, his wallet was padded as well, five hundred dollars in mostly ten, five and twenty dollars bills, with a couple fifties and one one hundred bill, and assembling the needed parts for the lightsaber with what he has on hand.

After noon he went out to eat and check if his message got a reply, it did and Benji started a private conversation with the criminal duo, finally arranging for a deal in Fugly Bob's for the parts that Benji needed from them, the remainder of the afternoon was used for training and studying, there wasn't much more that he could do.

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Meeting with Uber and L33t was a bit strange, they negotiated the superconductors and other parts, Benji had to pay between twenty to sixty dollars more per part than if he had bought from their contact, but he was willing to pay more for that separation, he also requested two blocks of synthetic sapphire from them, between ten by fifteen inches rectangles up to fifteen to twenty inches, plus quartz blocks and few more crystal items, those were hard to get but the duo could get them from their contact, as it was considered basic tech stuff, the parts were considered harder to get, a second meeting is arranged and Benji parted with five thousand dollars for the parts, after he convinced the duo that he isn't a tinker, as they enquired about him being the one behind the ATM heists.

Once back home Benji began working on what he could, using a laser crystal from a DVD burner and some parts from a small flashlight Benji made a light pen knife, the blade it wasn't longer than a large Bic disposable lighter, but it is still deadly, still able to cut anything, and being portable he could carry it around to use when needed, and most importantly, at the moment was not only the proof of concept, but what he has now.

With the on/off switch inside the flashlight case, the light pen can only be activated with use of telekinesis, likely solely by him as he is the only one who knows about it, the power cell is smaller than a AAA battery and with the same capabilities, though not storage capacity, as the regular sized ones for lightsabers, it would still function for virtually forever without a charge unless it is cutting for months without end, the blade is green, not his favorite color, but again is what he has and it works.

The flashlight isn't that much thicker than a AA battery, with a length of two AA batteries, long enough to fit comfortably on his hand, with the 'head' wide enough that he can't accidentally touch the blade when using, testing on cinder blocks, rocks, wood, steel, it all got cut, sighting in contentment Benji turns off the blade and relaxes, now he just needs the crystals, and some polymers to make the hilt and the insulating and shock protecting layer inside the hilt, those shouldn't be that hard to buy, his research showed that good polymer wasn't hard to purchase, most wasn't intended for weaponry use, but could easily be used as such, and using his telekinesis shaping a metal frame to house the innards of the saber and coat with polymer won't be that hard, and he will get training during it as well.

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Three days after Benji got the crystals from Uber and L33t, Benji finished his first lightsaber, the hilt was covered with a dark, wood colored tan to brown polymer carved carefully, the pattern was large scales or plant buds, the guard is amethyst covered machined steel in a Jian pattern, the hilt is two and a half hands long, the pommel is circular and following the pattern like a layered budding bud that isn't fully open.

With a minor treatment on the polymer it has a really good sweat proof grip, the inside was filled with inert and heat resistant polymer, Benji had carved the polymer to house the innards, to protect it from shock as well heat, to dismantle the saber he would need the telekinesis to move the restraints of the metal skeleton sandwiched by the polymers, still nothing is shaking or moving, no play or rattle when shaking it, the blade has three different lengths, a short sword blade, a much longer traditional length as the normal length, and a great sword length that is three times the normal length, for when he needs the extra reach, all modes are affected by the training mode, where it changes from being the ultimate cutter to the ultimate stun baton, it would leave painful welts and moderate burns when hitting someone, but wouldn't kill or maim.

Benji was honestly pleased with the results, sure the carving could use more finesse, but it wasn't a bad job, as his first blade and his main trainer, it was pretty good, now he needs to find a good place to train with it, swinging a wooden sword in the backyard helps, but he can't do the same with the lightsaber, the basement has no space for it in the normal length.

Plus Benji had memories of sword drills from the Jedi/Sith, plus what Ranma knew, which wasn't little, the problem is finding a place to train. "Time to investigate those abandoned houses in more detail now." Benji said to himself, twirling the unignited sword on his right hand, practicing it. "They work as a temporary and makeshift training hall."

Benji's memories and his observation showed that his neighborhood had more than a few empty houses, thanks to the gang violence many moved away, or were forced away, as the area is closer, if not, considered Empire 88 territory, using his telekinesis Benji exams the empty houses, finding the one with the biggest basement with no windows.

It was both another exercise for his psychic powers and intel gathering, he finds the best option at the edge of his current range, close to the border of the Empire 88 official territory, it is empty and devoid of furniture, no signs of electronic surveillance devices, it is boarded shut quite heavily with no signs of entry, so no homeless person, junkie or teens looking for hidden spots to drink, smoke, fuck or whatever used it.

A swift check on his watch tells Benji that he has time to check the place out, having already mastered the 'telekinetic' assisted teleport, Benji teleports into the other house's basement, he ignites the lightsaber, this one glowing with a dark blue color, the blade instantly incinerates nearby cobwebs and the light scatters away all sort of bugs and pests.

"Cleaning up this place will take time." Benji commented dusting himself, the jump somehow moved the cobwebs where he was and after it they fell on him, the basement is completely dark beyond the light radius of his blade, fortunately he is wearing shoes and the floor isn't littered, oddly enough when examining the place he could see perfectly.

Benji raised the saber over his head and the tip of the blade was a good foot away from the ceiling even with him standing upright and holding the saber vertically above his head, moving his arm sideways Benji smiles seeing that the walls are also pretty far away, sure more acrobatic styles wouldn't work inside, but regular styles will, that after he cleans the place up, jury rig back power to the house and bring in some needed training aids, but for the moment, as a basic location will do.

Checking if nothing is on fire Benji teleports back to his own basement after turning off the sword, he cleans himself some more after pocketing the sword, no heat detected on the guard, which is perfect, he would have to touch the emitter to feel any heat. "Now discover how to rig electricity." Benji said to himself. "Maybe Uber and L33t would know."

A short trip out gives Benji the needed answers as a link for a series of videos on how to steal power from the posts and city lines, and cheating by using telekinesis would prevent a lot accidents and possible death, he doesn't want to see if Ranma's endurance would be really up to taking all that juice.

'I might have to steal some training mats and find some thing to use as training dummies.' Benji mused internally while walking back home, suddenly he is 'hit' with rather strong thoughts, he pays more attention and sees a unknown car parked in front of his house, a female figure standing at his door pressing the doorbell.

It takes a couple moments for Benji to recognize the figure, it was Miss Militia, one of the iconic and main heroes of the city, her 'uniform' is recognizable, her thoughts are rather rushed and confused, with a undertone that he can't understand under the normal human frequency and range, most focused on Shadow Stalker, with angry undertones there, frustration at not only his absence but Shadow Stalker and the PRT, shame at what Shadow Stalker did, then some surprise at the sound of his steps and she turns towards him.

"Is anything wrong?" Benji asks as he walks towards the house. "Benji Herbert?" She asks. "Hebert." Benji replied. "And yes, did anything happen to my father Miss Militia?" "Oh no!" She swiftly replies figuring that she assumed that her presence meant that his father was caught in a cape conflict. "I am here to ask some questions about that incident with the locker."

"Is there a reason why the protectorate is interested on it?" Benji asks confused. "I already gave a statement to the police and evidence about it." "I am aware of it, but I had some questions that weren't covered on the statement." She answered. "It is important."

"I don't really see how." Benji replied running his right hand on his hair. "But fine, join me inside?" "Yes, please." The heroine answered. Benji makes a offer for something to drink, which Miss Militia refuses, not that he blames her, it would reveal her face after all, he gets himself some pineapple juice.

"Are you recovered from the incident?" She asks as Benji sits down in front of her in the kitchen table. "As you were out." "Way better than I was when I was released, I always healed somewhat fast, my former martial arts teacher commented that I have a very strong life force." Benji replied. "In which a fast healing is a effect of."

Miss Militia nods at that, not a real believer about the supernatural, but she doesn't dismiss it either. "I am having issues with my usual training routine, but I am getting back there." Benji continued. "At least I don't have crippling pains as I did in the first day."

"And you kept training?" Miss Militia asked surprised. "I once read this quote, 'Pain is a great teacher for human beings. The soul grows under the breath of pain.', I don't really recall where it came from," Benji says and then sips his juice. "And then there is this other one 'Pain is temporary, giving up is forever.', so I keep working through the pain, no pain no gain."

Miss Militia is speechless, it does explains why he weathered the prolonged bullying campaign without snapping and trying to do the right things through the official channels, only to be rebuffed by then. "Plus martial arts is about discipline and perseverance." Benji added seriously. "Reaching your limits, then pushing a bit more, raising the limits."

"That is very admirable." She said honestly. "Is that why you haven't retaliated at your attackers?" "That and the fact that I would come out losing one way or another." Benji answered. "Three girls which are fairly attractive, two which are popular, one is a sport's star, against a loner nerd, yeah, beating them would end really well for me, honestly I am surprised that they never tried to frame me with rape, given how the staff takes their side for everything, they could show up with clothes that they torn themselves and say that I was the one responsible for it and they would punish me for it."

Miss Militia frowned at that, she could see why he thought that. "Still is admirable that you haven't responded with violence." She said. "Others would." "I was very tempted." Benji commented. "I have a makeshift sandbag downstairs that I wore out, and I prayed every day to god give me patience because if he gave me strength I would kill those bitches."

Miss Militia could relate to that. "And I admit that wouldn't be that hard to go and kill those bitches." Benji added wryly, leaning forward and covering his face with his hands wearily. "I mean I inherited a sizable gun collection from my grandfather, my father has the licenses for the ones that requires them, but I have full access to them and I have a Beretta 92 on my nightstand as my personal home defense gun, dad has a 1911 eleven on his room, not counting the shotguns in our closets, it wouldn't be hard to take my gun to school and go postal."

"But you didn't." Hannah said levelly. "You proved to be a responsible gun owner and good person." "Wasn't easy." Benji admitted. "I had to often remind myself that I was and am better than then and I wouldn't swoop so low to ruin my life because of them." Benji takes another sip of his juice. "Anyway, what you wanted to ask anyway? I am sure that you didn't come here to listen how often I brushed the line of wanting to go Columbine on school, or my dark fantasies of revenge on them."

"I wouldn't mind lending a ear for that." Hannah said honestly. "But if you rather not talk about that, I wanted more details about the times that your locker was vandalized or broken into." "Any reason why?" He asks curious. "It isn't that major unlike the last one before this breaking in." "I am curious." Hannah answered.

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"How was it?" Piggot asks levelly when Miss Militia entered on her office. "I almost left without asking anything because he was out on a walk." Hannah answers as Piggot gestures for her to take a seat, which she does. "He arrived when I was about to leave." "Reason for a walk?" Piggot asks.

"A break from studying, as well to work back up his muscles, he is still suffering from effects from the incident, no surprise there, after he returned he invited me in and I chatted to him, letting him talk about the events and asking questions towards them." Hannah answers tiredly. "He is a surprisingly strong young man." She places a manila envelope on Piggot's desk. "In there you can find a copy of his handwritten report of the bullying campaign from September of his second year in high school, the campaign began in his first year, happened non-stop even after Shadow Stalker joined the wards, I think that soldiers would have snapped long before Hebert did, there is also a DVD with audio and video evidence of the abuse, they cover a few months before the locker incident."

"And those are in the hands of the police as well." Piggot said with a frown. "How bad was it?" "Bad enough that I wouldn't have blamed that poor young man if he took a gun to school and shot his bullies and the school staff." Hannah answered seriously. "And he has access to guns, it takes strong moral fiber to endure and resist the temptation, god knows that I am tempted to shoot Shadow Stalker myself and I am not the victim here."

Piggot is reading the notes, boung together with a bulldog clip. "God damn it…" Piggot cursed. "And this is just half an year…the boy can destroy our PR…" "Rightfully so." Hannah commented. "We dropped the ball here, and I gathered that he is suspecting cape involvement on this, he is smart, I don't doubt that he will figure which ward is behind this now that he has reason to suspect cape involvement."

"And it was unavoidable that we questioned him." Piggot said wryly. "And with Shadow Stalker threatening to call the Youth Guard we can't just toss her in a cell." "We should anyway." Hannah said firmly. "She broke probation, and it was in purpose, with several accounts of assault, aggravated assault and attempted murder, with conspiracy to commit murder, if anything she is already fit to be tried as an adult, because those aren't small crimes, and she came to the wards because attempted murder."

"I know, but she is already posed to get the Youth Guard involved even if we arrest her." Piggot countered. "We need more evidence, with this we might speed things up, but will still take time, at least these notes are clearly handwritten, though copied, and he added more from his own hand at the end, adding more weight to it, the video and audio evidence will also help once we go through it."

"The problem is that Shadow Stalker could go after him." Hannah pointed out. "She is fitted with a tracking device and electric cuffs, she can't go intangible, if she goes after him, she will have to do it without her powers." Piggot replied. "And if what our background check says is true, if she does go after him with the intent to kill, I believe that now he will respond in kind, it is no longer close to being schoolyard bullying."

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Benji felt much better and stronger when his convalescence period was over, thanks to the thefts on Winslow the classes were canceled, since Benji did return to steal the gym mats stored in the depot alongside the exercise machines from the gym reserved for the sports clubs, plus some more computers, including the principal's new computer.

It was underhand but Benji wasn't keen on returning to class yet, his 'base' already has power and since isn't connected to the house's power meter and there isn't a real way to detect his line, he even tied it on the previous line, giving the house power, so he could use as his training hall, his basement is better to keep the important stuff, weights and gym machines aren't easy to transport without powers.

Benji had rigged the basement as a gym and dojo, the machines closer to the walls, with a square of mats on the center, at a corner Benji hung a makeshift sandbag made of old tires, rope, tarps and duct tape, that he can tie to the rafters in other spots if needed, he ransacked the old trainyard for train tracks, for both raw material and training dummies, Benji also purchased several lengths of PVP pipes between one to two inches of girth for other training purposes, alongside glass marbles, candles, twine and other odds and ends.

Thanks to his Jedi/Sith memories Benji had a large arrangement of memories of training methods for lightsabers, Ranma added a good amount of sword methods, and surprisingly Gucky also added to the pot, while swords were obsolete and not very present on the books that Benji red, the military was still trained in the use of 'obsolete' tech, as regular guns, bow, swords and other melee weapons, while the use of high tech melee weapons weren't common, it was still there, and Benji could remember special knifes showing in the books in a occasion or another, and dozens of civilizations added to a very massive pool of techniques, the military styles were good as well, and even with his unique body shape Gucky could use it and studied the more standard humanoid techniques, plus the more exotic ones as well, time and experience made the beaver-rat a believer of knowing your enemy and yourself.

Benji is currently setting up a simple training method, it is a basic precision course, marbles are attached to the smaller bore pipes with plasticine and held up on dirt filled PET bottles, the objective is to strike the marbles and not damage the pipes, later more advanced course of that line require the same with many more marbles and done with speed and flowing non-stop motion, at the moment Benji has ten poles and marbles at two meters of distance between each, plenty of room to move and strike.

And Benji would both have a harder time training with his version of the saber than with a more classic one, the reason why, the blade itself, the classic lightsaber 'blade' is essentially a rod of light, the reason for it was both political and practical, the political side was the Jedi's pitch and PR of not having an edged weapon yet the entire blade was an edge, there was an entire spiel over the conundrum about that.

The practical reason was much simpler, the rod has more surface area in total than a regular rectangular blade, essentially causing more damage and making repairs harder, as one to two inches of missing or melted material made repairs or healing that much harder. And being honest the design have very few downsides, one of which is the rather large surface area and issues with minor and accurate damage, which was why Benji wasn't using the classical design.

Benji selected a design to make a comparatively thin and rectangular blade, closer to a real sword blade, while theoretically and practically it cuts from all sides as well, it has a much smaller edge profile, one and a half centimeter to half a inch on the edge, with two inches on the flat sides, while that design made 'demolition' works harder if he wanted to cause wider wounds or cuts, it also allows for smaller cutting profiles and lines, and the problem for Benji, is that he has to be more accurate and in control of the edge to hit the marbles, unlike the classical design that is a bit more forgiving there.

The reason that Benji picked the very unconventional blade design for the saber is to throw a degree of separation from the cliché lightsaber image, he would already have trouble with his powerset being heavily Jedi-ish, moving to the beginning of the course Benji takes a deep breath, ignites the blade and begins his first real training session with his lightsaber beyond moving through the forms.