Franklin's teeth were clattering, his head gently rocking back and forth while he laid sitting with his legs up, forth as his fingers clinched at any follicle of hair on the top of his head they could get. All of the fear and anxiety that came with seeing the mask rushed through him. The very thing that to this day he still sees a therapist for once a month. It surrounded him, and seemingly stayed there, playing with his emotions like it was a musical instrument. Franklin was on the verge of tears...

But then something he wasn't expecting happened, he was saved from a villain, by the son of another villain...

[i]"Franklin, I saw you drop when Doom came on. Trust me, I wanted to do the same. But these chucklemongers, they're not Doom. Not even close. Now stand up, you've got to teach them a lesson for ruining your party!”[/i]

For all it was worth, Franklin tried to find that center of courage his parents distilled in him. However with the masked men furiously banging away on Faen's protection shield, Franklin looked up before his head sunk right back “I...I can't I...” Franklin felt his words choking his own throat and gave up, only suddenly HERBIE rushed over. Using one of its robotic limbs it brought up Franklin's face.

Then repeatedly slapped the shape out of it, back and forth like a paintbrush.

“FRANKLIN! DO SOMETHING!” HERBIE called out, clearly afraid for its little robot life. Franklin quickly shook his face back to normal and took some breaths. “Thanks HERBIE, I needed that...” Franklin sighed giving his robot friend a high five. Quickly Franklin got back to his feet. Rolling up the sleeves on his suit. “Drop the shield, and duck.” Franklin gave the command, now he wasn't quite so afraid anymore. Now,[i]he was just plain pissed...[/i]

As soon as the bubble shield was gone Franklin made both of his hands expand out, tripling in size before with a grunt Franklin spun his upper body like a top, the fists flying out and almost instantly connecting with any man who was surrounding them. They each got knocked away by a good foot, leaving Faen, HERBIE, and himself all cleared. “Thanks to you too... by the way.” Franklin calmly said to Faen before he took a moment to counter rotate his upper body back to normal, afterward straightening up his clothes. Sure he was a little dizzy, but he had practiced with his dad on a lot of these kind of things...

A LOT of these kinds of things. Reed wanted Franklin prepared for anything.

“You know I'm not going to lie, before all this I totally had you pegged as the party ruin-er... no offense.” Franklin told Faen being honest.