Disclaimer: I do not own The Incredibles, Syndrome, Buddy Pine, Mirage, Nomanisan Island, Municiberg, Metroville, the NSA, or any of the Supers and I sadly and unfortunately do not make any money from these writings.
Ok! I've had this in my head for quite some time now and it's been eating away at me so I finally got it started. This is my Syndrome fic and I hope you all enjoy it! It's not all gore and sex like my other fics but it's still amazing I promise!
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Chapter One: How They Met
Black and white painted fingernails furiously typed away on the lit up keyboard. Each hit of the keys echoed throughout the empty room, she was the only one who still used a keyboard with keys, not that she doubted her bosses touch screen keyboards he had made himself, but she just liked the feel of the keys beneath her slender fingers and it made typing a lot easier with less errors.
She blinked her sore hazel eyes and pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose. It took her three hours, which was more than three times faster than it would take anyone else to do, but she finally finished reprogramming the security system. Sighing in triumph she ran her hand through her short brown hair.
The more she thought about tomorrow the more she realized how excited she was for it. The new employees were finally being allowed onto the island. That meant two new bodies to help her get all the work she's been doing by herself over the last year, and over one hundred new goons to help do the millions of other things that still needed to be done.
The door behind her opened letting in light from the corridor and she could hear his footsteps drawing closer. She spun around in her chair to face him, his orange hair standing up like flames.
"All done." She stood from her chair folding up her keyboard and putting it in its little cubby under the desk and stepped to the side. She wore a long sleeved black v-necked shirt with white cuffs and stitching with baggy matching cargo pants. He looked her up and down with a smirk like he always did and sat in her chair.
"How can you wear those pants?" He mocked eyeing the large pockets. "I can't even see your feet."
"How can your wear that? Spandex is evil." She eyed him wanting to tug on the shiny black and white material, but she knew he didn't like to be touched, so she kept her hands to herself. Her eyes unfortunately set on his and she had to blink away. No matter how long she knew him his fierce penetrating blue eyes always seemed to pierce right through her locking her in place.
"You made it." He flexed his arm.
"But you designed it." She glared at the cape attached to his shoulders. Capes were bad. When she agreed to make his suit for him she did her research as she always did and found that over sixty percent of supers deaths were caused by 'suit malfunctions' the less demeaning way of saying 'they were stupid and their cape got sucked into or caught on something'. He shrugged his shoulders knowing what she was getting at and turned his attention to the computer screen quickly scrolling through over a hundred pages of programming she just typed.
"Brilliant. As usual you've outdone yourself. Let's just hope our new assistants are half as good as you." Syndrome smiled his crooked smile at her and she purposely focus on his freckles beneath his eye mask avoiding his eyes. He stood from the chair walking out of the room with his usual prided gait. He stopped in the doorway and turned back to her.
"You should take the rest of the night off. Actually get some sleep for once." He stepped out into the brightly lit corridor. "That's an order." He said firmly and walked off as the doors shut behind him.
Lex let out a small laugh once the door was closed. Yeah right like she'd get any sleep, there was too much going on in her head and she knew it would take forever for her mind to shut up. She sat back at the computer and brought her keyboard back out lining it up with the touch screen on the control panel. She spent the next hour looking at all the information on the two coming to aid her and Syndrome. The first was a man, twenty five, his name was Daniel Norris Avian. He majored in building and programming computers, but he secretly built robots. He would be in charge of overseeing the construction and programming of the Omni-Droids.
The other was Mirage, twenty three, her real name wasn't listed. She had powers yet she wasn't a super. The NSA thought her powers weren't useful enough to help fight crime. If someone was weak, tired, or disoriented she could choose make them see a mirage of what they feared, loved, hated, or wanted. She worked as a secretary at the NSA and promised to help them locate the supers that Syndrome wanted to test the Omni-Droids on.
Lex finally went back to her room changing into her pajamas and sat in her bed leaning against the headboard. The walls were painted black with white shelves and a large dark oak bed sat in the middle of the room with matching nightstands and on either side. It was only two in the morning, and they would be arriving at eight. Taking her glasses off she set them on the dark oak nightstand beside the bed. She laughed out loud knowing that Syndrome told her to sleep when she knew very well that he was in his lab working on his final designs for the Omni-Droid. She could imagine him hunched over his workbench drawing out schematics.
She had known him when he was still Buddy Pine, the super obsessed inventive little boy. They met when she was twelve and he was eleven.
Lex lived in the bad part of Municiberg and her family was rather poor. She had taken a liking to fixing the appliances around the house since her parents refused to buy new ones. She would raid the dumpster behind the local electronics stores for spare parts and such. It was there that she ran into Buddy quite often since he collected things to make his inventions with, which his parents refused to acknowledge. They became friends and always helped each other find the parts they needed.
They even collaborated every now and then and he made her an electric scooter to ride around so she didn't have to walk all the way to and from the alley. She would always poke fun at him for being so obsessed with Mr. Incredible. Her favorite super was Elastigirl, they often argued about who was the better super but she usually let him win.
She spent most of her time in the alley making things doing all she could to avoid going home not wanting to deal with her parent's drunken ranting and fighting. A few times Buddy invited her over to his house and he'd show her some of his plans for future inventions or his vast collection of Mr. Incredible memorabilia. After awhile she found that she really liked Buddy but she wasn't sure if he felt the same way. She was only twelve but he was the first real friend she had. Even at school she had barely any friends. It was a large school and Buddy was a grade below her so she rarely saw him there.
One day on her way to the alley to get parts to fix her parents TV she saw Buddy flying past her and he landed a few feet in front of her. She noticed the bulky rocket boots he had on along with his usual Incredi-Boy costume.
"Lex look what I made! Rocket boots! I can fly now, just like a super!" He sounded so excited. She couldn't help but smile at him.
"They look heavy." She eyed his boots skeptically.
"Well they're only my first version. The next version will be even better! Oh I can make you some! Then we can fly around together and fight crime!" He smiled big and pulled a black eye mask out of his pocket and handed it to her. She took it and blushed as she put it on.
"What if I don't want to be a good guy… I'd rather be the villain." Buddy's expression turned into confusion.
"Why would you want to be the bad guy? They always lose, supers always win." He took a step back and eyed her strangely.
"I don't know, the bad guys always get to do all the fun stuff and they don't have to play by the rules. How about I'll be the bad guy and you have to catch me." She smiled and he smiled back instantly forgetting about their argument.
"That'll be too easy." He smirked placing his hands on his hips.
"Then what's stopping you?" She taunted knowing he'd take the bait.
"Nothing, how about just to make it fair I'll give you a ten second head start?" He said pulling his gloves tight and she nodded. "Ok ready… go!"
Lex took off down the alley on her scooter. She could hear him counting behind her. "Two, four, six, ten!" Quickly looking over her shoulder she saw him take off on his rocket boots after her and she turned down another alley. Before he rounded the corner behind her she jumped off her scooter and hid behind a trashcan.
"Come out come out wherever you are." He landed a few feet from her hiding spot and she picked up a rock and threw it across the alley clanking against the trashcans on the other side.
When she saw that his back was to her she ran past him and rounded the corner and kept running until arms suddenly wrapped around her from behind and she felt herself being lifted up off the ground.
"Gotcha! Good guys always win!" He laughed in her ear taking them higher. She gripped his arms tightly.
"Buddy…" She said shakily as she looked down noticing how high up they were.
"Relax Lex don't you trust me?" And soon the rooftops were in view and they landed on top of one of the buildings. "See." He released his grip on her and she reluctantly released him as well.
"I trust you, I just don't know how well those boots of yours will hold out." She eyed the unprotected wires on his boots.
"I wouldn't be flying around in them if they weren't safe. These are what I've been working on this whole time." He smiled proudly putting an arm around Lex's shoulders walking her to the edge of the rooftop that overlooked the city. They stood there in silence looking off into the distance.
"What other things are you planning on making?" Lex asked breaking the awkward silence suddenly aware of how close Buddy was to her and turned to look him in the eye.
"Well… I've been working on a few things…" He stared back into her eyes and blushed. "One of them is for you."
"Really? What is it?" She asked her eyes lighting up.
"I can't tell you it's a surprise." He smiled and pulled the pencil out of her hair making it fall out of its little bun and into her face. She shied away from him and they both put their hands on the ledge almost touching fingers. They both looked away from each other nervously letting their eyes wander to the tall buildings out in front of them as their hands met on the ledge. There was the sound of police siren coming around the corner making them jump and their hands separated.
They looked at each other and laughed nervously staring after the police cars that were chasing an unknown car. "I wonder if they'll catch 'em." Buddy flew into the air to get a better view. "Hey! I see the Incredibile! It's Mr. Incredible! I should go see if he needs some help!" Buddy flew off leaving Lex on the rooftop calling after him.
Lex stood there staring after him sadly. She found a ladder on the side of the building and retrieved her scooter. After she gathered up the parts she needed she headed home. As she sat in her living room anxious to fix the TV before her dad got home she pondered what Buddy could be making for her. If he was making something for her that meant he liked her didn't he?
Her thoughts were interrupted as she tested the TV flipping through the channels and saw on the news that Bomb Voyage had robbed a vault at the bank and gotten away from Mr. Incredible. In the background she could see Buddy being put into the back of a police car looking rather upset. Her heart stopped fearing the worse. She quickly screwed the back panel onto the TV and grabbed her scooter and headed to Buddy's house.
When she got there he still wasn't back and his parents weren't there either. The next day was Monday and she did her best all night to convince herself that he was ok, but when she didn't see him at lunch she began to panic and left school to go to his house. Luckily his parents worked during the day and after knocking on the door a few times it finally opened revealing a very angry looking Buddy. His eyes had lost their bright spark and was replaced with something she couldn't recognize.
Lex without hesitating rushed to him and hugged him tight. "Buddy what happened? I saw the news and I though Bomb Voyage had hurt you and…"
"Lex… you were right…" She took a step back and stared at him in confusion.
"What are you talking about?" He just stared back at her and led her inside and up to his room. She gasped as she entered his room. What once was a shrine to Mr. Incredible had been completely destroyed making her notice that Buddy wasn't wearing his usual Incredi-Boy costume. "Buddy what happened?" He was silent with his back to her. "Buddy…" She put a hand on his shoulder.
"Fly home Buddy, I work alone… that's what he said to me. To me! I was only offering to help!" Lex realized who he was talking about. "You said you'd rather be the villain. Then let's be the villain!" She was scared now. What could they possibly do?
Lex finished middle school and went into high school. On her first day she was surprised to see Buddy in her advanced math class. He smiled his crooked smile at her when she walked in the room and motioned for her to sit next to him. Buddy had tested out of middle school so he could graduate high school with her. They had most of their classes together and they were always plotting and re-plotting trying to come up with a master plan for his revenge on Mr. Incredible all while Buddy still worked on inventions and Lex helped. She was the only one who knew about his plans and she liked it that way.
A week before graduating from high school he finally came up with the ultimate plan. Soon she began to notice his random changes in behavior when he was working on things involving his plans for revenge, but didn't really think anything of it. He sold his first invention, a special explosive device, before going into college. They both had scholarships but Lex couldn't afford to stay in an apartment and refused to stay in the dorm. So she got a job to pay for rent. When Buddy found out he sold another one of his inventions and gave her half the money and forced her to quit her job because he said needed her to help him with his inventions and plans, but she knew it was really his own way of showing that he cared.
Their second year in college is when Buddy really started to change the most. His darker attitude really started to take over. That's when he finally gave his darker persona a name, Syndrome. It was almost as if he was two different people at times. He started selling more of his inventions and soon started building his lab on an island he had bought with the money he made.
Lex never got the chance to be close with Buddy again like she did the day he flew her up to the roof. He was always busy doing schoolwork or inventing. After they graduated his new lab and most of his base had been finished and they moved all their things to Nomanisan. With all the new resources at their disposal bigger and better inventions were made.
After being there for a month Syndrome gave her the design for his suit and after researching super suits she made sure to make his suit out of a material that was almost impenetrable. She tried her best to convince him to get rid of the cape but he was stubborn and always got his way no matter what.
In the beginning she hated that she was the one that put the whole villain idea in his head, but now all these years later she was glad it was her and not someone else. She turned the lights off with the remote on her nightstand and stared into the darkness for a few moments. The intercom on the wall near the bed switched on snapping her out of her trance.
"Why aren't you asleep?" Syndrome asked sounding slightly annoyed.
"Why aren't you asleep?" She mocked crossing her arms across her chest.
"Lex go to sleep already! You've finished what I asked of you and more! What else is there to do? Nothing! Now go to bed!" He sounded more concerned than he did angry. Little things like this let Lex know that he still cared, even if he showed it in strange ways.
"If there is nothing to be done then why are you still awake?" She smirked and stuck her tongue out at the intercom.
"I saw that… Alexandria Jayne Prithor please get some sleep. You've barely slept in the last week." Lex cringed when he said her full name and slumped against the headboard for a moment before straightening back up.
"You, Buddy Pine, need to stop worrying about me. I can take care of myself. I'm not even tired and I have plenty of things to keep me busy." He was silent. She knew she crossed the line calling him by his real name, but it was only fair he had done it to her first.
A faint hiss echoed throughout the room. "Goodnight Lex." Was his emotionless response before the intercom shut off. Lex rolled her eyes knowing he'd do this and quickly pulled a gasmask out of her nightstand and slipped it on before the knockout gas reached her. She hoped he had already stopped watching the camera. After the first time he used the knockout gas to put her to sleep she made sure to have a gasmask handy incase he decided to do it again.
Her reason for not getting any sleep lately was that Buddy's birthday was in a month. Yes Buddy's birthday not Syndrome's. Syndrome didn't recognize his own birthday because he didn't think of himself as Buddy Pine anymore. She was usually pretty good over the years at tricking him into having nothing to do the day of his birthday and try to do something special for him. Unfortunately last year he purposely planned a meeting with some weapon contractors and he was gone on the other side of the world. This year was going to be different.
Her plan was to get everything that absolutely needed to be done before Buddy's birthday and make sure he had the entire day free. The only thing left to do was to figure out what exactly to do with him that day. At least this year luck was on her side, he was so distracted with working on the Omni-Droid and tracking down the locations of the retired supers that she was sure he wouldn't notice the date when it came and catch him off guard.
The knockout gas was finally sucked back out of her room and she removed her gasmask glad that Syndrome had obviously stopped watching the camera. She grabbed a notebook and pen knowing that if she put any of her plans on her computer that he would find them eventually. She slipped on a pair of slippers and headed down the dimly lit corridor and into the kitchen to brainstorm and enjoy a late night snack.
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Please review and let me know what you think so far! I've been dying to do this fic cuz all I really see out there is Synlet (which I do enjoy greatly) but it's rare to see Syndrome/OC so I hope you all like this!