A/N: Slight AU here folks, starting with Dash's exploration of the cave. Note that he started exploring a lot sooner than in the movie. Also, a tiny sliver of OOCness w/Dash and Violet on some parts.

Disclaimer: I own Chains, not The Incredibles. I also own my version of Violet, Jack-Jack, and Dash's superhero names.

Chains of Love

By Corvus no Genmu the Prince of Slumberland

Chapter One:

The Beginning

It had been two weeks since the defeat of Syndrome and the apparent death of the superhero son of Universal Man and Blazestone, Chains. At first, none of the family wanted to even consider the idea that Chains was dead but rather that he was severely injured and needed medical attention. Agent Dicker wanted to analyze the fallen hero's chain so that Edna could make a device to track its specific type of metal but Violet wouldn't let it out of her sight much less in the hands of anyone else. Out of all the Incredibles she was hurting the hardest, so much in fact that she failed to notice how her school was abuzz with rumor after rumor concerning the disappearance of the Rydinger family.

When their house was rebuilt the following day, Mr. Parr spent his time in his study, which had been the only room that remained intact, and stared at the various trophies along the wall. Mrs. Parr had taken to cooking enough food to make every night for the next few weeks left-over night while Jack-Jack merely sat in his highchair and watched his mother sadly. Dash had taken to pranking his teacher and a few school bullies with a vengeance, trying his absolute best to not think about the death of his friend and how much his sister was hurting. Soon, as the days went by, the Parr family started losing hope of finding Chains. So, to get their minds off the hero's valiant death, Bob and Helen proposed that they have a small picnic near the Metroville Stadium. Dash went along with it since he had run out of ways to prank anyone at school and Violet went along because her parents refused to let her stay home by herself in her state.

Imagine their surprise when a large drill burst from the parking lot of the Metroville Stadium.

A small port opened on top of the dirt encrusted drill and a small stand rose up from the machine with a little man standing quite proudly on it. The guy had mechanical shovels for hands and his four front teeth and his hard helmet gave him a mole-like appearance. His outfit was a simple miner's outfit with a cape, both of which were dirtier than the drill.

"Behold, the Underminer!" said the little man into his microphone, "I am always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me! I declare war on peace and happiness and-" As the Underminer went into the classical stare of monolouging, the Parrs changed into their uniforms and got ready to attack when something most unexpected happened.

"You all will bow down before the greatness that is me-ACK!" The Underminer was roughly grabbed from behind and whipped around the air like a yoyo. Another of the strange whips with an odd shape at the end, shot down into the giant drill and, apparently, began to tear the insides apart for sounds of metal being torn asunder reached the Incredibles' ears. Suddenly, the Underminer shot past them and the Incredibles could see exactly what it was that was treating the Underminer like a rag doll.

It was a chain with a dragonhead-shaped weight.

The chain jerked to a stop and slowly retracted back so that it rested in front of the Incredibles. The dragonhead weight dropped the very green faced Underminer with a thump in surprise as it stared at the superhero family.

"Oh crap!" Turning, the Incredibles saw that little under a hundred meters away was what appeared to be an old bum with chains attached to his wrists. The illusion disappeared instantly when the figure saw that the Incredibles had heard him. Thus, Chains accidentally revealed himself.

"Oh double crap!" Retracting his chains quickly, the teen turned tail and ran like heck across the parking lot while the Incredibles stood there in surprise. They snapped out of it when Chains shot one his chains towards a skyscraper and swung up into the city.

"Quickflash!" yelled UltraV.

"I'm on it!" With an accompaniment of a sonic boom, Quickflash took off after the fleeing Chains with UltraV following far behind. Elastigirl made to go after her kids but Mr. Incredible stopped her by placing a large hand on her shoulder.

"Don't. This is something only they can do. They've known him longer than us and it's only them that can convince him to live with us." Elastigirl blinked in surprise before a knowing smirk spread across her lips.

"I thought you said three kids were more than enough."

"They are, but this kid saved our children's lives, it's the least we can do…"

"I guess you're right…" said Mrs. Incredible said somewhat sadly as she remembered what her daughter had said about Chains.

"That and it seems that the Underminer has thrown up all over your shoes," snickered Mr. Incredible.

Chains was having a very hectic time trying to run from the little speed demon that was Quickflash. Turned out that the little bugger could not only run on water but he could run up walls! 'There should be a rule for that somewhere blast it!' thought Chains venomously as he swung up the Lozano Records building and ran across its roof before using his chains as springs and launching himself up towards the roof of the Clumps building. Chains kept repeating this process over and over until, eventually, he reached the roof of the Thendrickson Tower and decided to pause for a breather. Looking behind him, Chains saw that he had finally lost Quickflash.

"Good… I finally lost-AH!" Chains turned around to come face to face with none other than UltraV who stared at him with tears in her eyes before she took a few quick steps and wrapped her arms tightly around his torso, sobbing into his shirt. Chains wrapped his arms around the sobbing girl. "Violet…"

"Why did you do that to me…?" she sobbed.

"I… I didn't want to keep hurting you…" murmured Chains sadly.

"So you faked your death?! Do you honestly think that your death wouldn't hurt me?!"

"Violet…"

"Dad would have let you stay! He still will! You didn't have to put us through such pain!" Violet hugged him tighter and whispered, "You didn't have to put me through such pain…"

"Violet… my staying would have given you pain too…"

"How? How would it?" she asked.

"Because… I would have to show you… what my illusion for school is… and in so doing…" Chains gently eased Violet off him so that he could look into her blue eyes, "cause you pain that I couldn't bear to give you…" Angelon sighed sadly and turned his back to Violet but didn't make any move to leave.

"Dash and I are kind alike, y'know… We both dislike our first names but, unlike Dash who uses the shortened version of his first name, I use the shortened version of my middle name…" As he spoke, Angelon began to slowly create an illusion around himself. His jeans became a darker shade of blue and his jacket and t-shirt faded away to be replaced by a regular black shirt that had a high collar. His hair soon looked shorter and he seemed to shrink an inch or two so that he was only slightly taller than Violet.

"What's your middle name…?" asked Violet slowly. Angelon took a deep breath before slowly turning to face Violet and answering in the same voice that had soothed the raven-haired girl back on Nomanisan Island.

"Anthony…"

"T-Tony?!" Indeed, it was Tony Rydinger, Violet's secret crush, standing before her.

"Yes…" sighed Angelon sadly, letting the illusion drop away. He watched as a myriad of emotions flickered across Violet's face as she stood there stunned. "… I'll be going now…" Angelon turned and started to walk away.

"Back on Nomanisan…"

"Huh?" Chains turned to look at Violet quizzically, "What?"

"Back on Nomanisan… I had a nightmare of everyone at our school laughing at me… hating me… Even To- … Even you…" Angelon blinked in surprise. He had not expected her to accept that he and Tony were one and the same so easily…

"But then… I heard Tony's voice… your voice… saying to me… that I wasn't a freak… that I was a… angel…" Violet's face went scarlet at this but she continued on anyway, "You said that you… loved me…" Violet looked up at Angelon, tears in her eyes, "Did you really say that…? Or was I deluding myself again…" Chains felt like the biggest jerk on the planet. The girl that he had been crushing on just as long she had been to him was in pain because of him…

"I said it…"

"… Did you mean it…?"

"Yes… I love you, Violet… and I'm sorry I-" Chains was cut off by Violet who had wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and had her lips on his own in a soft kiss. After pulling himself together, Angelon kissed her back just as gently. When the two parted a few minutes later, Violet smiled, her blush still on her face, and looked up at Angelon shyly.

"I love you too, Angelon… The real you…" she whispered. Angelon smiled happily and was about to kiss her again when…

"Oh yuck! I'm telling dad!"

To Be Continued...