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Robert was openly gay, and people knew Mecha-Man had been in relationships with men before, mostly superhero’s of course.
But the team never really asked about it, they were too busy shitting on him to focus on any love life he may have had in the past.
That’s why it came as such a shock when they witnessed a superhero talking to Robert at his desk rather flirty.
The superhero was known as “flare”
He’d been a superhero since he was fourteen and had a blinding power ( he could control light ) and has been in a relationship with Mecha-Man—or Robert for five years.
Nobody knew why they broke up, the news tried asking both men but all they said was “Mutual agreement for the better of both groups” and didn’t want to get deeper.
And that’s exactly why the Z-Team was crouched around the corner listening into their conversation.
Or rather half of them,
Sonar, Prism, Coup, Malevola and Invisagal who just entered.
“So what’s exactly happening?”
Invisagal asked curiously, the man at Robert’s desk was obviously flirting.
“Shhhh we’ll fill you in later girl.”
Prism raised a hand and put her face closer to the corner of the wall.
“What do you hear Sonar?”
Sonar leaned closer, before answering Malevola’s question.
“Flare is asking Robert on a date, Robert isn’t interested.
Apparently some past drama about how their relationship ended.”
Invisagal sighed, rolling her eyes before standing up.
“I’m heading over to find out myself.”
She took a deep breath with her inhaler and walked up, right to Robert’s desk.
She did crouch under the wall so if she needed a quick breath nobody would notice her.
“I’m not going out with you Flare, not dealing with that shit again.”
Robert took a sip of his coffee and looked up at Flare.
“Come on baby, I know we had our ups and downs but don’t you wanna try again?
We’ve matured and are better people!”
Robert sighed and rolled his eyes.
“So you’re not gonna grab me and practically show me off to the whole world again?”
“You liked that don’t lie~”
Flare teased.
“Yeah, every once in a while.
That doesn’t mean every day, besides you kept me from my work.”
This time it was Flare who rolled his eyes.
“You’ve always been such a work alcoholic, don’t you want someone to take the stress of your shoulders?”
“If anything you added onto it.”
Flare laughed and walked closer to Robert.
“That’s not what you said every night~”
Robert blushed red and looked away.
“Let’s talk somewhere in private…and no that doesn’t mean what you think it does.
It’s because I’m trying to be a mature adult and don’t want my annoying team to listen in.”
He shot daggers at Sonar and stood up—Flare following behind him.
Invisagal took a deep breath with her inhaler and rushed over to the others.
“You guys heard that right?”
She asked, still calming down after the stuff she just found out.
“Yeah Sonar just filled us in.”
“I think they’re heading to the gym?
It’s usually empty in the break since no one wants to waste their time on that.”
Prism raised an eyebrow.
“Isn’t Flambae working out?”
She smiled and looked over at the others,
drama.
Their favorite.
“I’m following them, you suckers without invisibility can stay here.”
Invisagal flipped them off and ran into the gym following after Robert and Flare.
“For the last time no, it ended badly and i don’t want to deal with that again.
You were far too energetic and I felt I couldn’t take a breath without you getting all up in my space.
I set clear boundaries and you still ignored them.”
Robert was standing against a wall, crossing his arms with Flare smugly looked at him.
“Come on you loved my personality!”
Robert pinched his nose and shut his eyes.
“This is exactly why it didn’t work, you can’t understand that a person doesn’t practically worship you!!”
“I’m pretty sure I was the one doing the worshiping in our relationship, especially at night.”
Robert’s face turned red and he looked away.
“You can’t just say shit like that, we aren’t dating and that’s final-“
Flare kissed Robert harshly, pushing him against the wall and trapping him between his arms.
Invisagal was about to step in but before she could do that she saw Flambae show up out of nowhere and punch the shit out of Flare, knocking him hard.
“Fuck, man.
You have shit taste in men.”
He stretched his arm and looked over at Robert.
“Did you just offend yourself?”
Oh.
Oh.
The realization hit Invisagal like a truck.
Flambae and Robert were…?
“No, of course not bitch.
I’m the exception.”
He smiled proudly.
“Yeah sure, Flare and you are alike.
Other than the fact that you know boundaries and Flare clearly doesn’t.”
Flambae shrugged and leaned closer, kissing Robert.
“Ain’t letting you walk around with his lips last being on yours.”
Robert scoffed and rolled his eyes.
“You’re almost forty you can’t just say shit like that it’s weird.”
Flambae was about to say something when Invisagal coughed and broke her invisibility.
“Oh fuck.”
Both men immediately turned their attention towards her, watching her quietly.
“Courtney I swear to god if you say anything-“
Invisagal ran out of the gym heading towards the break room where the others most likely were.
“Holy shit guys!”
Invisagal burst into the room, taking a deep breath with her inhaler.
“What?!”
Sonar jumped and looked away from his rat.
Flambae burst into the room a second later, reaching for Invisagal.
“FUCK GUYS PROTECT ME IVE GOT GOSSIP.”
Invisagal jumped behind Malevola as Flambae tried to grab her.
“Okay wait a second whats going on girl?”
Prism asked, looking over at Flambae.
“ROBERT AND FLAMBAE HAVE BEEN GOING AT IT!!!”
“We have not been ‘going at it’ for first, and second of all you had no business spying on me.”
Robert walked into the room angrily.
“Oh damn, for how long?”
Malevola looked down at Invisagal.
“I don’t know but enough for them to do weird, cringe, sexy couple shit.”
“Girl give us something more, ‘weird, cringe, sexy couple shit’?
That can mean so many things.”
Prism walked over, giving death glares at Flambae.
“Okay so basically-“
Flambae tried to grab Invisgal but Robert grabbed his wrist.
“They already know, and were bound to find out at some point Flambae.
It’s alright,”
Flambae was basically burning at this point, steam jumping off his body.
“Fine.”
He stepped back and scoffed.
“Okay so, Robert very boringly but also sternly, kinda hot as well, tells Flare off and says he doesn’t want a relationship.
In response Flare makes weird comments-“
Robert scoffed.
“That’s hilarious coming from you.”
Invisgal turned to him defensively.
“Yeah well-it’s different when it’s me!!”
Robert put his hands up in defense and stepped back towards where Flambae now was.
“Okay so as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted.
Flare was saying weird shit and Robert wasn’t standing for it so he told him off again which we all know Robert loves to do-“
“Only because you all give me a reason to-“
Robert defended.
“Shut up I’m trynna hear this!”
Prism interrupted and glared daggers at Flambae.
“And then Flare kissed him.
Now I was of course about to step in and defend Robert when Flambae comes out of nowhere and punches Flare so hard he gets knocked out!”
Malevola hisses in pain as if she was the one that got punched.
“And then Flambae does some weird, cringe couple pick up line towards him and kisses Robert!”
Everyone looks over at Robert.
“I FUCKING KNEW IT WHERES MY MONEY?!”
Sonar shouted out happily.
Half of the team sighed and handed him whatever they had in the pockets.
Of course they were betting on them.
“You bitch you owe me! How dare you not tell me about you and him, the hell?!”
Prism stormed up to Flambae and got into his face.
Flambae looked away nervously over to Robert.
“Well-Bobert wanted to keep it a secret!”
Prism glared over at Robert.
“Oh so you the reason my bestie ain’t telling me shit?! Boy I’m ‘bout to whoop yo ass!-“
“Did we forget about the asshole that kissed Robert?”
Punch-Up asked with his arms crossed.
That got the attention of the team—moving everyone’s eyes towards the door.
“You said he was in the gym?”
Coop asked.
Robert nodded and looked towards Flambae.
“Let’s beat his ass!”
Prism moved from Flambae towards the door with the team following behind her.
The others cheered and followed after fast.
“Wait!-“
Robert sighed and rubbed his forehead.
“I’m not stopping them are I?”
Flambae grinned.
“Nah…but let’s enjoy the time we have while they’re distracted before they move onto the topic of us.”
Robert chuckled and leaned into Flambae.
“…you do know this means that we’ll have to tell Blonde Blazer right?”
Flambae tensed and sighed.
“Let’s do it before she finds out from one of the idiots…”
They both left the break room—heading towards Blonde Blazer’s office.