Chapter 1: Another day with Wilbur Robinson
Disclaimer: Meet the Robinsons © Disney
The Incredibles © Pixar
This fanfic is a continuation of Team Future (Implied Willet fic) © artificus
Violet Parr didn't know how she got herself into this situation. Obviously her idea of a weekend adventure was completely different than Wilbur Robinson's, who constantly craved an adrenaline rush. Putting herself in a life-threatening situation isn't such a bad thing for her. After all, she's a Super, and being in dangerous situations are second nature to her.
Even after dealing with the risk of being erased from existence – twice in the case of Wilbur – Wilbur had not learned his lesson in time travel.
"Are you sure that this is safe?" Violet questioned with an unsure undertone.
"Sure! As long as we don't get involved in any major historical events, the side effects to the timeline should be pretty minor." Wilbur said reassuringly.
"But Carl told me about the incident with the invisible cow, and robot ants, and-"
"Oh hush! This should be completely fine. Plus, witnessing the building of the Great Wall of China could be a good collection to my photo album!" Wilbur retaliated before Violet could finish her sentence.
When the time machine landed on the ground, Wilbur hopped out of it enthusiastically, followed by Violet. He then put the time machine on invisible mode and quickly took out his camera from his backpack.
"Wow, check out the panorama!" he said enthusiastically, and he snapped a few pictures. The view of the giant structure before them stood ominously against the hot afternoon sun.
Violet noted the grueling process that was taking place as the fortress was built. Countless workers were forced to drag large slabs of stone to fill the gaps, and she even noted one of them falling from a great height and shuddered. Her train of thought was broken when Wilbur pulled her in for a photo against the Great Wall in the distance.
"We should go up the hill and take a closer look!" Wilbur signaled Violet to come along as he ran uphill.
"Wait! Don't you think it's dangerous to go any closer?" Vi protested.
"Relax, we'll just stay a safe distance from the construction site and we won't break a sweat!" Wilbur took his camera and zoomed closer to the megalithic work in progress.
Little did he know that a worker from above dropped a barrel as he was taking photographs. That barrel cause a chain reaction within the building at the level below, causing more stone slabs and barrels to roll down the hill, and it was headed their direction!
Violet hesitated, "Wil?"
"Hang on, just a few more shots of the barrels crashing down on…" Wilbur wasn't able to finish his sentence as he realized what was going on. They both screamed and ran away as fast as they could, and the steep slope they were running on wasn't the safest route either. After a while, Violet had to resort to using her force field, signaling to Wilbur to get closer, he ran inside the force field Violet generated like a protectosphere. This prevented them from getting any further cuts or bruises from the rough terrain they were on.
"Gee, we so happen to have to land on a hill, huh?" Violet screamed while holding up the force field.
"Hey!" Wilbur shouted, out of breath. "It's not easy…to know where you'll land…in these historical events!" He took the keys to the time machine and switched it on to visible mode, where they both hopped on and left immediately before they could do any more damage to themselves and the time stream.
As soon as they were back in the present of Todayland, they rode the transport tubes back up to Wilbur's room, where they were able to unwind and have a laugh at the adventure they just had. Wilbur compared his experience to when he once had a time travel trip to King Tut's tomb, and Violet threw in her comment describing that it was like her experience of running away from Syndrome's minions before she became a renowned superhero.
After a while, Carl the robot stormed into Wilbur's room, looking less than impressed. He was obviously bringing news about what his trip had altered in the present. Wilbur was planning to space out on whatever Carl pointed out, but the brassy robot's choice of words made it quite hard to ignore.
"Thanks to you and your girlfriend, the Great Wall of China is now a whole mile shorter and doesn't pass through Chang An anymore!"
"Carl, she's not my girlfriend!" Wilbur retaliated. Violet stifled a laugh to Wilbur's reaction. She, unlike Wilbur, already got used to being referred to Wilbur's girlfriend, even thought there isn't any romantic relationship going on with them at the moment.
"Oh great! There you are!" A familiar voice beamed in from the open door. "I'd love for the two of you to help me with my new designs!"
"Tallulah? I'm not so sure-" Violet wasn't able to finish her sentence before Wilbur's lively red-headed cousin dragged them off his room and into hers.
"You wouldn't believe what I've finally thought of for my winter collection – Cathedrals!"
"Do I really have to?" Wilbur whined.
"Yes, yes you do. I need an objective point of view for this W.I.P!" Tallulah beamed, but we can pretty much guess what would happen if Wilbur gave her a harsh review of her ideas anyway.
Meanwhile, in an underground laboratory, a man donning a white lab coat is rigorously researching further into the construction of Cornelius's time machine, and making modifications to another contraption that copies the time machine so that it can give a different function. Piles of books on Revised Special Relativity were open, and blueprints are scattered all over the worktable. He looked like he hadn't slept in days, but his passion and pent up aggression is what drove him forward for this project.
He took a few steps back after finishing his modifications for the new prototype machine. He got into it, and turned the engine on. The normal transporting systems seem to be functioning. He then checked the system's invisibility mode, which was working as intended. He then typed in a few numbers into the keypad, and it seemed to open a portal outside of the vehicle, so that the machine could drive into it. That portal was transparent enough to see what is on the other side, and with that, the man grinned at the result.
The two teenagers had their bodies adjusted in rigid positions according to Tallulah's liking.
"Okay, what do you think of this design?" Tallulah asked enthusiastically.
"It's fine," Wilbur lied through his teeth.
"I like the sharp accents on the headpiece," Violet played along too.
"Right," Tallulah then looked through her drawer. "Now where did I put this thing?" she said to herself.
Just then, Lazlo flew in on his propeller hat and began spray painting the room, interrupting Tallulah. "Lazlo!" she yelled. "How many times have I told you to stay out of my way when I'm working here?"
"I need to work into this space for my mural to look complete!" Lazlo argued.
The two redheaded siblings began fighting over their issue of personal space, calling each other names, and whatnot, which is typical for any sibling relationship. Seeing this as an opportunity to escape, Wilbur whispered to Violet, "Let's make a break for it before she decides to dye our hair a different colour!" Violet happily complied, taking off the props on her head – Violet refuses to acknowledge the headpieces as hats – and turned invisible and sneaked out with Wilbur.
By the time they've managed to get out, Violet realized that it's time for her to return to the Parr household.
"Well, it was quite an adventure today, wasn't it?" Wilbur asked nonchalantly.
"Yeah, I didn't expect it. Never thought that Gaston would use tomatoes during lunch this time around, and that time travelling trip was…quite a ride!" Violet replied shyly. She was really accustomed to the Robinson's eccentric family to be able to mention about Gaston, who usually uses meat as ammunition.
"I know, right?" Wilbur struck a confident pose. "Say, would you like to come over again tomorrow?"
"Well, my nieces- I mean, sisters may get bored since Dash is on a business trip. But I would love to." Violet flashed a smile before she took her bike and rode off in the sunset.
Wilbur waved goodbye to her before he entered his house.
Author's Note: I know some of you who know me don't really like crossover pairings. But I think Willet/Vibur is actually quite a convincing one, especially after reading Team Future (who I believe the authoress herself was the first to conceive that pairing) so, with permission from artificus, I've started this little sequel, which will crossover another fandom. Of course, this may sound weird first, but this is my experimental writing, just to see how far I can go without screwing up the canon too much.