Eventually his well-earned reputation brought him to the notice of even bigger bullies than him, who decided to discover what he could do. Robert was made an offer to join for the price of stealing a television from an electronics shop. In the process of committing the crime, his Telemechanics ability displayed for the first time, flooding him with dozens of images of schematics and circuits. Rob dropped the tv and ran from the store. When the police came to question him about attempting to rob from the store, Robert could hardly deny it; he had forgotten to wear a mask and they had several clear images of his face.
Robert spent eighteen months in juvenile detention and was far behind his class when he returned to high school (at night). He had been caught escaping once and was given an extra 3 months. When he finally finished his sentence, Robert was nearly 18 and hated being in jail. He had seen how corrupt police and prison guards treated anyone in their way, and he was very certain that no court would ever even see evidence if he could even find any. Having little to do in jail except read and lift weights, Robert had done lots of both; now out, Rob took up American Style Karate and won some smaller championships.
Once he had his GED in hand, Rob applied to as many colleges as he could as an economic hardship case and finally found one school that would accept him in spite of his strange situation, Georgia Polytech. At 21, Rob entered the one place he thought he would never be, college. During college, Rob tried some adventuring in downtown Atlanta, GA but just couldn't get the hang of it, plus every single perpetrator that he caught went free due to some technicality or another. Even so, in only 5 years Rob had his M.S. in Applied Electrical Engineering, but found that he was completely unable to find solid lasting work, ostensibly due to his bizarre past. After 5 years of see-sawing between near bankruptcy and wealth being just out of reach, Rob finds himself desperate for work.
