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Violet is taken to her limits and beyond yet not caring slightly, as she has purely given up on herself. Her own parents are blind to her fate. This gets explicit and brutal around the middle. How can it not? It is meant to be the worst day in the life of a heroine. The one that damages her forever! The feck! There will be squik!

Syndrome is a pure hater to monologues. Well feck me but this is the opposite of him. Here is a villain that will not hush; not even if you cut the bloody tongue out of him.

You can read this all by itself as a strong and independent fic. Honestly: it is an old story slightly reframed. It was "Metroville Chase: Zep" and part of a longer chain of linked fics. Most of those fics are now inside a single tale. This one won't ram into the new format. That makes it a gobshyte sidebar to the main tale of "No Incredible Family".

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« § » — CHAPTER ONE »» FAMILY FIELD — « § »

Mr Incredible ducks and weaves through the heavy border mob; frantic to link with his family. All by his own clumsiness he has dropped a trap down on top of them. He shouldn't ever have taken this mission: not their style; not their territory and barely even their language. He'd had to do something though; after he'd seen how his kids were scrapping and understood how many rows he and Helen were having. Helen was refusing the marital bed and Violet was offering to fill it. He had seen that they'd been a team far too often and a family far too little. He had to make some action to recall them to being an ordinary family.

That was why Mr Incredible had seized on this one opportunity that had opened up and looked to bring peace: an invitation for him to launch the latest airship venture: tours across the borders, over the Great Lakes. It was an all expenses paid, luxury hotel deal and he was to be supported in promoting the enterprise; as both of the North Am Governments wanted the venture to flourish. They were so very keen on it they had even been prevailed on to allow his family and friends along with him too. The volcanic Baby Jack-Jack had been left in the, now capable, hands of Kari McKeen. All of the rest of them, though, were here with him at this moment; this moment when things went so very badly belly-up.

How he wishes that he had left Violet at home as the babysitter; rather then bring her here. Being a Super she raged against the humanity she had lost. the sterility her powers inflicted on her. Being a teen she had not been at all keen on taking a tour of the Canadian rural scene. However, he had determined that she would be a part of the family, whatever about her wants, and dragged her along to here. He had forced the issue to this instant: where, now, Violet faces the annihilation and devastation of her very self, by the mere presence of the heroine dropping out of the clouds. Rainbow is just one more of the new Supers, flourishing like poppies after the loss of the old generation. It is far from the first time that Rainbow, has been active around the Incredibles. Yet so, till this crux,,

Mr Incredible had thought he married Elastigirl but ( thanks to the Supers Act) he had married Helen Parr and has been living with her, living without the heroine. He has been so frustrated and unsated without the Elastigirl and the existence of his expectations that he never hesitates in taking Rainbow to be his new Elastigirl. He does it with hardly a pause and hardly a thought for the outcome to the family; of adding this new element to it. The seeds of destruction are easy planting: Frozone is on the outs with the Parrs, Rainbow is a natural infill, she adds skills to the team and is uncannily at ease from the start. Whatever about his lustful deceit, in every proper way Rainbow is the piece to complete the Incredible jigsaw. Helen and Dash were glad to accept her from the very start and it was actually Dash's suggestion that sees Rainbow invited here today.

Violet has never been so close or in touch with Rainbow as the others are, which is the why she has not been told of any invitation or expectation of a Rainbow. For a snatch of time all the Incredibles are content: at the same fete, enjoying their different fates. Helen takes Dash aside to the games, Violet forges ahead to the gypsy booths, while Mr Incredible dawdles, happy at knowing his Rainbow crush is coming to join them today. She is the almost perfect match for Young Elastigirl and the perfect match for Mr Incredible. She has not been his lover, not so far, not since they fell for each other, but only by chance not choice. They mean to change that, here at the fete. with no crisis to impede them. Yet so, Rainbow's mere arrival makes a crisis out of Violet: who is just about to have her fortune told when she sees her fate fall out of the heavens.

The entire horrowshow is writ plain on Violet's face, her distress echoes his dismay, as Mr Incredible grasps what Rainbow's arrival, what Rainbow's presence means to Violet. Worse than the fact that Violet has never quite felt part of the family or of the team; now his daughter is seeing what she takes to be her replacement fall upon her, even here. It is all too plain that this is how Violet judges the matter, judges herself, judges how little her family must want her or care for her. The entire family are aware of the disaster unfolding in front of them now; in front of them and within eyesight of them all — yet Violet is as distant as if she is an ocean away.

Violet must be feeling utterly abandoned and betrayed to do what she does next yet why should she not. Too many months ago, a trip abroad, a test of Dash's speed had become a fight to survive against a villain ambush. It had taken Violet all that she had to find a way out of the trap; her reward had been to overhear parents and savants whispering how her very own powers stole away any power to ever have children or a family of her own. Yes, she had heard it in whispers, but never, to this day, heard it aloud from her parents to her who had most right to hear. Nor do they even trust her with the guest list for this outing! Once before her rage flared and her power flared all the way off the scale and nearly took her family off the planet. This time it is Violet, in her own self, that is the bullseye, against which her explosion of power lashes. Facing the vision of her alter ego coming down to land: Violet does something, she becomes nothing, she blinks herself and the Soothsayer's tent entirely away and out of visible existence. There has been not a word nor a cry nor a groan out of Violet: it is a silent film show, with Violet in the Lillian Gish role.

The fortune-teller sits at her table and her occult ball; staring into open air that has no right to be there. For all of her insight she finds herself trapped inside; whether they're in sight or not the walls of the tent are still there and where the doorflap is it's hard to say and so it stays all that day and forever. In her shock and in her temper Violet has supercharged her powers and left disaster behind her. Who can say the direction in which she fled and worse yet than that: who can say if she has not made herself invisible for always?

Rainbow and the Incredibles exhaust all of their powers in their efforts to find the wayward girl all to no avail. They simply exhaust themselves and must to return to the hotel failing, despairing and grieving. The oddity of it all is how the evil of the day is bonding all of them closer together than anything else might. When the family finally discover Violet (stewing in her hotel room) the umbrage they feel and the outrage they release are the feelings that they all share and the web that links them ever more closely, one to another. Violet (by the very mechanics of events) is nothing but the focus of the storm and more isolated than even before.