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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 4

In his basement Benji works with a soldering iron, surprisingly he managed to find a few parts that he could use to begin the project, he had to order some such as vacuum tubes few other 'retro' and more exotic parts, yet nothing really unique, some parts were actually from old short wave radios and served to disguise the real project.

At the moment he is building the skeleton of the power bank, thanks to the Star Wars tech, he could replace the Perry Rhodan more exotic, and mostly atomic based, energy sources, without special adaptations he wouldn't be able to use the more potent computers, but he is somewhat confident that a basic old gen positron computer could at least surpass a modern day non-military and maybe some military non-tinker computers.

He would still need to wire six lightsaber grade batteries into the system, with amplifiers and find a way to build a small generator, the batteries will do for a short while, but if he plugs the computer into the power grid the consumption will be large and that would get attention, and the batteries would give a week or so of constant use and would need constant recharging to operate wirelessly properly.

Then Benji falls into the same pitfall as before, lack of infrastructure, materials and resources, the 'low tech' approach would only go so far, working with mundane materials as well, for better equipment he would need to manufacture specialty alloys, pure materials and dedicated machines, it was a pain to make the alloy for his armor, making even the most basic plasteel alloy would get a lot of attention, and smelting has a very distinct scent, it can't be done secretly in a residential area.

His proximity alarm rings informing him that Danny parked his truck in the garage, with a sigh Benji finishes the last spot of welding and call it a night, storing the halfway built part into a metal box, it was time to fraternize with Danny and see if he can convince the man to get them to move.

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Given his earlier rummage for parts and old electronics in the house, Benji knew that they didn't keep their old mobile phones, Danny and Taylor had a rather irrational dislike towards them and from his memories he could see that Danny hated them shortly after Annette's death, so him tossed them out after canceling the numbers was believable, such hatred caused Benji loads of trouble, many meetings on the school where the trio's parents and the principal bashed on him happened without Danny being there because he didn't own a cell phone and couldn't be reached for them.

Since his life is changing and he is transferring out of Winslow, no longer having to worry about the students there prank calling or texting him, Benji felt that having a cell phone wouldn't hurt, it would make easier to disguise the undersider phone, then there is Uber and L33t who kind of bombarded his non-ninja PHO account with messages, PMs and random meeting requests, a phone to contact the two would help, and Benji had to admit, the two weren't bad company after you get over their rather immature gamer façade and ignored their most stupid acts when in camera.

"Dual SIM or more…" He mused looking at the available phone models in Wal-Mart, then he feels a familiar 'ping' on his passive telepathy range, oddly enough it wasn't Lisa, but Amy.

"Phone shopping?" She asked once close enough.

"Because of reasons," Benji started, Amy doesn't ask if they are masked ones or not, "I feel that I need a phone that can hold more than one SIM, and I don't own a phone because of more reasons, and until recently didn't have the need."

Amy nods understanding. "I happen to own a dual one." She pointed out. "It helps keeping my Panacea number separate from my Amy number, but given how my team operates, my personal civilian number doesn't get that much use." 'And isn't like I have that many friends to call me.' Benji heard her unvoiced thoughts.

"Back in Winslow I never had a need, thanks to some issues there." He commented. "But I am transferring to Arcadia this money and felt that a personal number wouldn't hurt, and given my hatted self having another SIM wouldn't hurt, then there is two guys that would likely flood me with spam about games and stuff, so a number for giving them wouldn't be bad."

"My sister was commenting on this quad SIM phone." Amy replied, Vicky certainly went through public numbers a lot, mostly tossing them after breaking up with her temporary boyfriends from the times that she and Dean weren't together. "She wanted to get it to replace her current trio SIM one, claiming that isn't modern enough."

"Well I am not looking for those new and fancy smartphones, a flip one will do, if not a regular little brick one." He commented, "As long it makes calls I am okay with it, so why are you here anyway?"

Amy sighed wearily. "Mom was giving me trouble because of our little lunch date." She explained. "About how I cost Vicky face for standing up the guy that she wanted me to meet, for not caring about Vicky and lots of things that I don't want to think about right now, so I decided to take a walk, I then remembered that my current phone's battery is already old and isn't holding its charge well, I thought to spoil myself a little and get a new phone, then I spotted you mulling over the display."

"Sorry if I caused you trouble." He apologized.

"No need to." Amy replied. "I made the decision and don't really regret it, I certainly had more fun talking to you about the serious subjects that we talked about than I would have with a vapid rich boy talking unimportant small talk."

"Still sorry." He repeated.

"You are forgiven, and it is better than the option." Amy pointed out, if he haven't acted she would likely be a high profile hostage in the robbery. "Speaking of options, had a busy afternoon, haven't you? Any wounds?"

"Nothing more than some soreness." He answered casually. "It was more of a workout than I am used to."

Amy reached to him, "May I?" She asks, he nodded and offered her his right hand, she rested her hand on his, palm facing palm. "Hhmm, surprisingly nothing really serious," She commented impressed, "If I didn't know better I would say that you just had a very intense work out session, and there you go, I healed the little strains and issues, I advice that you practice landing a bit more, I saw some minor stress in your legs from falls."

"Will do, when I find a good place to run courses." Benji replied, his body did feel better, "Finding a training place is hard." Amy nodded understanding, it was indeed hard for independents to train with their powers. "Now back to shopping." He said changing the subject. "One dual, two duals, or one trio with a duo, or a quad?"

Amy removed her hand from his and taps her chin lightly with her right hand, holding her elbow with her left. "I can see where two duals would work, one with your hat wearing numbers and one with your unhatted ones." She pondered on loud, "But fiddling with two phones is pretty annoying, what if you leave one behind or is with the wrong one for the clothes that you are wearing?"

"The wrong for the clothes would also be a issue with the quad or trio." Benji pointed out. "And when wearing the hat I put the phone on silent."

"That could work." Amy replied. "But the trio and quad would have the issue of having all the numbers on it, if someone notices you getting a call that you shouldn't in the outfit, then there is risking your ID if it gets taken from you."

"Point." He agreed, having his civilian SIM in his caped phone could cause trouble if the phone is captured or lost, then there is Dragon to worry about. "So a duo for casual and a quad for formal." He commented, "How that sounds?"

"Better having some empty slots just in case." Amy agreed with a nod. "Might get myself a quad as well, and a new SIM for you to contact me when with a hat, that way we can keep the illusion that you are a regular guy."

"Won't that cause trouble for you?" He asked worried.

"Not really." Amy responded, "I can use that SIM as a burner if I feel that someone might be looking at my phone, keeping a clandestine number wouldn't be bad, for sure beats having to give my number to guys that Vicky hooks me up with, speaking of that I might try and get a new personal number, most of my calls there are from guys wanting to hook up with me or Vicky."

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After the rather enjoyable meeting Benji had two new phones charging on his hideout, a flip open quad SIM phone to use as Captain Ninja, and a more modest bar style dual SIM, he purchased five pre-paid SIMs, he gave Amy the personal civilian number, the one that he named casual ninja and the one called business ninja, so she would know when he called her what level of priority to give him.

Benji 'named' his numbers very simply, the casual ninja was the one line that he gave to Amy and plans on giving to Lisa to meet and talk mostly of civilian things and approaching non-emergency cape things, the business ninja was strictly for cape things, serious ones like requesting masked meetings, discussing plans, telling about emergencies or plain calling for aid, he made clear to Amy that if she needed his help as Captain Ninja she could call him and he would heed it, regardless of the situation.

Then came the geek ninja, which was going to be his main contact with Uber and L33t, not that they would know that he was Captain Ninja, for them he was casual gamer, just a guy that needs odd parts and like talking about games and gaming, lastly was the throwaway ninja, that one was to call the police or emergency services if needed, he felt the absence of it when raiding the ABB, ambulances would have helped those women.

Lastly came his public civilian number, the number that he will give to any friends that he makes in Arcadia, his other civilian number would be his personal one to close friends or family, which would be alongside on the dual SIM bar, the undersider number would be on the quad with his ninja numbers.

He sends a text to Lisa with his casual and business numbers using the undersider one, on it he explains the system, he got a text back with her acknowledgement and word that she won't give those out to the others without his say so, his undersider phone would be kept as a backup.

"Well time to do some spying on Amy's place as she asked." He groaned, Amy wants answers about her family, so he has to start finding them, given the recent argument it was a good opportunity to start, he dresses on his mark 0 suit and puts his mask and goggles on before teleporting away.

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Floating in the Dallon's house attic for a while Benji writes down notes from what he was picking up from Carol's rants, the woman was a mixed ball of hate, trust issues, control issues and complexes that made him glad that he haven't figured how to do a in depth trawling into memories and thoughts.

Mark Dallon's mind wasn't a walk in the park either, if Carol's could be compared with a barely contained fire inside a firepit, Mark's is a quagmire or a tar pit, heavy with depression, apathy, self pity and more issues than Benji cared to count, he could feel faint emotional responses to Amy's and Vicky's names, the poor man tries to try and do try making a effort when in his good days, but his brain doesn't cooperate with him, his wife doesn't cooperate or help either, between Carol's henpecking, the man's lack of discipline with his meds, and a natural apathetic personality, it was surprising that Mark was even alive to this day, he had to wonder if Mark thought that suicide was too much effort to go through it, because he could tell that the man barely muster enough effort to read a newspaper.

On a bright note for the psychic spy, is that Carol's mind was running a mile a minute and he learned plenty of background information about Amy's 'adoption', he actually chalked it as a hairsbreadth away from kidnapping, certainly it was under duress, Marquis -for all his evil gang lord days- certainly wasn't expecting such an assault at his own home by so called heroes taking advantage of his personal code of honor, much less Brandish's/Carol's ignoring ongoing negotiations and attacking the closet where Amy was hiding back then, learning that Carol fiercely wished that she had killed Amy alongside Marquis made hard for the ninja to feel sorry for the woman's issues.

'She should have gotten therapy at the very least.' Benji thought scribbling down, 'Why the hell she wasn't undergoing therapy after weeks kidnapped? Are people here that stupid?' In Carol's eyes she didn't see Amy, her mental image of Amy is a mix of a mini Marquis and that one kidnapper that she bonded to when young, there was nothing of Amy there, even looking at the girl Carol doesn't see her, period. 'And Amy's abuse wasn't a accidental thing, it is meant to make her dependant of them, Amy is not even a person on Carol's eyes, just a tool to give New Wave fame, to be destroyed as soon she shows her "true colors" as Marquis' daughter.'

Surprisingly enough Mark had no negative feelings for Amy, he did consider her his daughter as he does with Vicky, he just can't express it well, that earned the man some respect points from Benji, in the other hand, Vicky was spoiled rotten, her feelings about Amy are a mess, deep, deep down there was sisterly affection, buried under layers and layers of desire to control and possess the girl, feelings that were supported by Carol, she doesn't even think that she is wrong by dosing Amy with her aura, knowing full well that it works on the healer, Vicky wasn't even shy of using it on her parents and extended family, she has to be the center of the attention, hence her chosen cape name Glory Girl.

Benji had filled several pages with information before Carol stopped, Amy had returned from her walk, a new wave of negative thoughts came from Carol, he managed to catch the brief dialogue which ends with Amy going to her room, Carol then shifted to complaining about her work, which doesn't interest Benji beyond learning the name of a law office that works for rogue capes and criminal capes, which is nice to know.

Amy gets to her room, with Vicky distracted in her room listening to her choice of music and daydreaming about pretty boys Benji calls a night and teleports away to his hideout. Tossing the notebook over his desk he ponders on his next step, then he grins when hit by an idea, he swiftly changes into one of the battle dresses, one with woodland camouflage colors on the pants, an army green t-shirt, and worn out, second hand black leather coat, he dons his camouflaged cap, fishes some money from the drawer and picks that one wallet that according to his memories he picked in a garage sale, a wallet with the USAF pararescue metal badge/shield, painted to match the patch, he stuffs with money and slides into the jacket's pocket.

His sabers get stowed into his belt over the small of his back covered by the jacket, he finds a nice and deserted alley close of a Tim Horton and teleports there, "Operation Mindfuck is a go."

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When she signed up for her shift Jean wasn't expecting anything beyond the usual boring night shift, certainly she wasn't expecting the new and notorious new cape of Brockton Bay to walk in line and calmly wait for his turn to get served, especially given his reputation. "Go, good evening." She squeezed out when it was his turn. "H, how may I help you tonight?"

"Hmm…" Benji replied. "I want two of those blackberry jelly filled donuts, two of the peanut butter filled ones, four chocolate stuffed ones, six of those regular ones with lemon glaze, do you have cinnamon rolls?"

"Y, yes…" Responded Jean slowly getting a little less nervous. "We got a fresh batch not even five minutes ago."

With a pleased nod he then said, "Then throw four of those in my order, the lady likes those." Looking at their menu he adds, "One large hot chocolate with extra cream for the lady, I will take a large strawberry shake and two boxes of plain milk, make that to go."

"Okay." She replied tallying the order. "It is twenty three dollars and sixty four cents."

Benji pulls the wallet and opens it, taking a fifty dollars bill from it and handing to the pretty cashier, he eyes the usual charity donation boxes by the register. "hmm…" he let out making the college student nervous. "I remember the days that I was a boy scout." He commented pulling two one hundred dollars bills and stuffing it into the donation box for the local boy scouts chapter. "Good days..."

Jean was surprised in seeing the acclaimed villain casually donating money for charity, even taking his change and stuffing it on the make a wish foundation box, when his order is ready he had donated in all the boxes and haven't even made a dent on the thick wad in his wallet.

"Thanks and have a good night." Benji said after storing away his wallet and taking his order.

"Thank you for the patronage." Jean automatically replied watching the cape leave just as any other client. "Please come back again."

"Well they never mentioned this kind of thing on the training." Amanda commented wryly from her station. "Nice guy for a supposedly vicious murdering machine."

"Ahh…" Jean slumps down in her spot. "I am not sure if I want to do this again."

"Come on the guy just came for some snacks for himself and his girlfriend or wife, even left more tips for the boxes in one visit than they get in a full day." Amanda pointed out. "He wasn't even wearing the clothes that he wore when assaulting the Empire."

"Amanda you are black." One of the cooks said from the back. "He raided the Nazis, it is no surprise that you are in favor of him."

"And you are Mexican or something." The black girl shot back. "Support the crazy but somewhat friendly ninja guy who was once a boy scout and likely was a military man."

"You think that the captain thing was real?" Jean asked from the floor. "Not just something picked as a fancy name."

"My old man is ex-military, he has a wallet similar to that one, not the same badge, and is worn the hell out too, it isn't uncommon guys in a unit having custom wallets like that." Amanda explained seriously. "So yeah, I think that the guy is former military, which explains his aggressive stance."

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"Tats get here!" Alec's voice reaches Lisa's room. "Your boyfriend is on the TV again!"

"He isn't my boyfriend." Lisa replied without heat, moving to see what else Benji did that was news worthy, especially with Alec laughing his ass off. "What happened this time?"

"He walked in costume into a Tim Horton's, ordered some food, paid for it, donated a thousand or so to random charities and left." Brian answered with a mild chuckle. "Wasn't even the costume that he wore to fight or the one that he met us with, he claimed that he was buying stuff for a lady friend."

"Got a date that you haven't told us about?" Alec teased. "Bad tats you should let us know about stuff like that so we don't worry if you aren't here at night."

"I got nothing." Lisa replied wryly, paying attention to the report. "Maybe he is fucking with the PRT or something, showing that he isn't a killing happy maniac."

Brian snorted at that. "Like will help, if anything he might have pissed off an entire military unit, as he paid with a wallet from this military rescue jumpers unit." He added.

Lisa smiled her vulpine smile, "He is laying false tracks." She explained, "Paratrooper unit wallet would lead people to believe that he was part of formal military when he isn't even old enough to join the basic infantry, much less a specialized unit like that, the girlfriend or wife thing is likely to make people assume that he is on a stable relationship, throwing people off from the slightly socially awkward and shy teenager without a girlfriend on his name."

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Amy strained to keep her laughter in as she watched the news in her room, she had to admit that she wouldn't have the courage to do that after an afternoon killing Nazis. A knock on her door distracts her from the news. "Coming." She called leaving her bed. Opening the door she doesn't see anyone there. "I must be tired if I am hearing things like this."

Closing the door and turning back she spots something that wasn't on her bed before. "Come on!" she hissed in mock annoyance. "Fucking ninja…" In her bed is a box from Tim Horton's and a large cup of hot chocolate, on the paper cup holder is a note, she picked the note and read it.

"You need to eat more, so have some rolls, donuts and hot chocolate. Your sneaky as hell ninja friend." Amy chuckled at the note, at one hand she wants to strangle him for sneaking in and out of her room without her even noticing, at the other she did like cinnamon rolls, checking the box shows that it wasn't all that he bought, less than half, still far more food than she regularly ate. "I can't eat all this."

She sets the note down and notices that there was something else written on the back. "Eat all of it, you are too skinny." She reads. "I will know if you don't." Chuckling wryly she makes a mental note about smacking Benji when they next meet. "I will get fat." She complained, then she hears another knock, this time at her window, she doesn't go there, but when she turns back to the food she finds another note. "You need the weight." It said.

"You are going to do this until I stuff myself, aren't you?" She asks in a flat tone, then her TV turns off, she turns to face it and find another note. "Yes I will." It said.

"Fine, I will eat as much as I can and I will have the rest in the morning." She replied. "You are paying for this."

A light brush at her toes make her look down and she looks around confused, until she finds another note gently floating down over the open pastry box. "Technically I already did." It said.

"Fucking ninja." Amy chuckled wryly, he was toying with her and she can't find hide or hair of him, the note mysteriously flips over.

"It is in the name after all." She read, "Just don't spy me in the bathroom or changing." A soft tug on her hair make her turn again and she finds another note on the box when turning back.

"Unless you purposely show yourself to me like that knowing that I am watching with you seeing me, unless by accident or emergency I will never see you naked or in the bathroom, or in other less than modest states." She read. "I won't abuse my ninja powers like that."

"I wonder." Amy chided playfully. "You are a healthy teenaged boy with super sneaking abilities, why not sneak peeks?"

Amy's phone ring, she picks up when seeing the called ID, "No real interest." Benji replied. "Seriously, if I want to jerk off I will do with porn that I get from the internet and not spying on unknowing girls."

"Just teasing." Amy said honestly. "You have to admit that you gave me that one with this little game, just how can't you do it?"

"Mad ninja skillz." Benji responded casually. "Anyway, eat those, while I don't have awesome healing powers, I can tell that you don't eat anywhere near enough for your needs."

"Why the stunt?" She asked curiously. "I mean why walk masked into a shop and buy stuff?"

"To fuck with the PRT PR machine mostly." He explained. "It was a spurt of the moment thing, then I decided to throw in a faux female partner, when I left and stopped to think about it I had a load of pastries that was far too much for me, since my other friend who is a lady doesn't have the same problems with eating, I decided that you needed them more."

"Well I appreciate the thought, and I do like cinnamon rolls." Amy picks one from the box finding that it was still warm. "I prefer grape jelly donuts though, but blackberries aren't bad."

"I will keep that in mind the next time." Benji commented. "I picked randomly, unless you want 'company' eating I will hang up."

"I rather not speak while eating." Amy agreed, "We can talk some more later, again thanks for the pastries."

"You are welcome." Benji replied.

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Operation mind fuck was a random idea that popped on my head, for those unware of the character, Captain Ninja was always a comedy centered character, always joking, teasing, playing around, quipping and so on, in battle or not, kind like of Spider-man.

So it came to me that I needed more 'skits' of Benji fooling around as Captain Ninja, in interviews with the creator/character, he once stated that the way of dressing, ninja with a baseball hat, was in purpose as people wouldnt believe if you complaing that you saw a ninja with a baseball cap beating an alien.

Another quirk of the source is that Captain would often eat, do stuff and even bath with the mask on, trick that Benji havent figured out yet, in future chapters Benji will be having a 'ninja' wardrobe, of outfits to wear as Captain Ninja in different situations that arent battle, as part of the charade.

The playing around with Amy also came out of the blue, but felt nice to have.

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