The Girl Who Tamed a Villain's Heart

by Takeshi1225

Who would have thought that Cherry of all people was capable of something impressive? Not the Thundermans that's for sure. Especially Max who actually now starts spending time with Cherry for her new talent. A story about a growing relationship between a boy and a girl and an on-going one between two best friends; and of course good old Thundermans comedy. A Chex (Cherry/Max)story.

2. An Inventor's Drive

The Girl Who Tamed a Villain's Heart

Hey, back with another! I honestly loved the doing the first chapter; it felt like writing an actual episode of the Thundermans! Anyway, I loved doing the first chapter and now I'm here for number 2!

Oh and before we start I wanted to say to sweetsimplegirl, writer of Chex stories like 'Sometimes these things happen' and 'Uncaring Curiosity', which are stories that I really enjoy, that I truly appreciate that you gave my story a chance and I'm happy that you truly enjoyed it, like how I enjoyed your stories. You were a part of the inspiration for me to write this story and I thank you for being such a great author which I bet comes naturally to you. Oh and I totally agree with you with Cherry finding out the secret to push her closer to Max; that was the first thought that came to my mind! I can't wait for season 3 either! Can't wait to read more of your Chex stories.

Now Let's Roll!

Chapter 2: An inventor's drive

Phoebe was at home bored because the family was out. Her mom and dad were at the park with Chloe, introducing her to the great outdoors. Billy and Nora went to the pet store to see the animals. Apparently Billy wanted to get a pet fly to replace Myron who 'unfortunately' died, because fly usually live and then did in less than a day; kind of messed up if you think about the fly's lifespan. Nora was of course watching over Billy so he wouldn't get into trouble.

Suddenly the doorbell rang making Phoebe get up and head towards the door. When she answered it, it was none other than her boyfriend Link Evilman.

"Link!" Phoebe said his name with joy and a grin as she then hugged him.

"Hey Phoebe." Link said returning the hug. "I finally gave my dad the slip and came here to see you." Link said as he and Phoebe separated and Phoebe let him in.

"Are you sure your dad won't-"

"Trust me, give him a sloggy and the rest of the world doesn't exist. Well, unless he hears mom's around." Link said.

"My dad's the same." Phoebe said.

"That still scares me." Link said.

"Me too." Phoebe said.

"It's almost on!" Phoebe and Link looked to see Cherry and Max running up the stairs. "Hurry Max!"

"I'm hurry as fast as my legs can move!"

"I meant your air grabby thing!"

"Oh right! Telekinesis!" Max shouted as he jumped over the couch and caught the remote in mid-flight and turned on the T.V. right before he landed on the other side of the couch. He then quickly changed the channel once Cherry was next to him. "We made it!" Max exclaimed as he and Cherry grinned as they sat on the couch.

"Why are those two excited?" Link asked Phoebe getting a shrug from his girlfriend. "Okay, better question, why were they together in Max's lair?"

"Shut it nerd!" Max said as he and Cherry focused on the T.V. Phoebe and Link checked the T.V. to see a show on.

"Joe Vann the Technology Man?" Phoebe said the name of the show.

(I bet it's pretty obvious where I got name from. If it's not, look up Bill Nye.)

"Isn't he that guy that builds stuff?" Link said.

"Yeah, no duh, Stretch." Max said.

"He's the coolest guy on the planet." Cherry said with a grin.

"But he's a complete nerd." Link said.

"Phoebe could you please hit your boyfriend." Cherry said.

"Why?" Phoebe asked, surprised that Cherry would ask her that.

"Because I can't do it since it's your job to do it." Cherry said.

"My job?"

"You know, when boy's say or do stupid things their girlfriends usually slap them on the arm or something." Cherry said.

"Cherry, I'm not going to-" suddenly Link was hit in the head with a wax apple that Max sent to him from the coffee table with his telekinesis.

"There, now we're all happy." Max said ignoring the glare Link was giving him as the Evilman rubbed his now tender spot.

"I still don't understand why this guy's so awesome." Link said.

"Today my fellow inventors, I am going to build a robot that gathers the hydrogen in the air and then converts it into fuel." Joe said getting Max and Cherry excited.

"Admittingly that sounds really cool." Link said pointing to the television. "Wait, was is he doing with that weird coil thingy thing and that flat thing."

"They're supposed to be the base for the robot." Cherry said.

"Looks like somebody needs to go back to the 'Duh Academy'." Max said.

"Burn!" Cherry said with a grin as she and Max high-fived.

"… Phoebe can I talk to you in the kitchen?" Link asked as he then dragged his girlfriend into the kitchen leaving the two inventors to watch T.V. in peace. Once they were in the kitchen, Link spoke. "I've decided we should go out because those two are freaking me out." Link said pointing his thumb to Max and Cherry.

"I know, it's gross. This is something I thought I'd only see in my nightmares." Phoebe said.

"So… to Splat Burger?" Link suggested.

"I don't know. I want to go with you Link but I'm still worried about leaving Cherry alone in the house with Max." Phoebe said.

"This show is so awesome." Cherry said.

"And distracting. I think I could stay her for hours." Max said.

"Me too!" Cherry agreed.

"On second thought I think she'll be fine." Phoebe said as she and Link left through the back door.

Later, at Splat Burger

Phoebe and Link were at a table at Splat Burger enjoying their meal. Well, at least Link was. Even though Phoebe was happy that Cherry was getting to build like she wanted to, she still was scared of what Max could do to her. Sure he risked his life to save her and stood up for her, but Max was never the kind of guy who was fully trustworthy of things. Link noticed that Phoebe hadn't touched her burger or fries so being the good boyfriend that he is, he decides to ask.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Link said.

"It's nothing." Phoebe said.

"How about a nickel?" Link said making Phoebe chuckle a bit.

"I'm just still not comfortable with Max and Cherry hanging out together… you know, alone." Phoebe confessed.

"Oh yeah, I've been wondering, how did that happen?" Link asked as he at a French fry.

"Well apparently Cherry is actually a genius when it comes to building machines."

"Kind of expected that." Link said referring to earlier.

"She's even better at it than Max."

"That I didn't expect." Link said shocked by the news.

"Ever since the invented that Brain Drain Cannon-"

"Whoa, whoa, that was them?!"

"Yeah." Phoebe said surprised Link knew of it.

"I don't believe it! I totally want that! Do you think they could lend it to me? I actually wanted to use it on my parents for about a week or two." Link said making Phoebe sigh. "Sorry… continue." Link said.

"Well ever since then they've been building more machines. She's been at my house ever since building with Max."

"Don't you hang out anymore?"

"We still do, but they're becoming so close that it freaks me out! And it doesn't help that Billy keeps saying that they're boyfriend and girlfriend. I mean could you imagine!"

"I know. Imagine those two getting married." Link said jokingly as he had more fries, but it didn't sound funny to Phoebe at all. Phoebe then started to imagine what Link just said.

Phoebe's Imagination

Phoebe was in a strapless purple dress maid of honor dress that reached down to the floor as she held a bouquet of flowers. She noticed that her mother and friend Kelsey was in a similar dress, but their dresses were a bit paler in color and they stopped at their knees. She saw Nora as a flower girl and Billy as a ring bearer, her father wearing a fancy suit, which was a rare sight, Oyster, Gideon and the strange yet nice German foreign exchange student Wolfgang; Max's bandmates/friends, wearing suits as well, but what shocked her the most was Max and Cherry in the middle, with Max wearing a fancy suit and Cherry in a strapless wedding dress and holding a bouquet of flowers.

Phoebe also noticed a tall yet strangely built man wearing glasses and had brunette hair as the priest.

"Joe Vann the Technology Man?" Phoebe said with a raised eyebrow.

(Think of Captain Man from Henry Danger. I would have chosen that Mr. Swellview guy from Henry Danger's 'Birthday Girl Down' but it seemed like people would rather like Cooper Barnes better.)

"We are here today to bring Maximus Octavius Thunderman and Cherry… last name, in holy matrimony." Joe said.

"Matri- what?" Phoebe said with shock.

"Do you Max, take this young bubbly blonde as your lawfully wedded partner in crime?" Joe asked.

"I wouldn't be here if I didn't." Max said.

"And do you Cherry take Max as your partner of tech and more as well?" Joe asked.

"Does a mech-suit need a proper electrical current that provides proper signals to the brain?" Cherry retorted.

"Yes. Yes it does." Joe said. Phoebe raise an eyebrow at this. "By the power invested in me as a licensed priest I now pronounce you a duo. You may now kiss the blonde." Joe said. Max then grabbed Cherry and did the dip and kiss move as everyone cheered.

As Phoebe stared at the sight she had a look of horror as she then screamed at the top of her lungs.

Back In Reality

Phoebe screamed at the top of her lungs freaking Link out while everyone had their eyes on her. Once she finished screaming, the manager, Jay Jay,quickly made his way to her.

"Is everything alright? Did you find another cockroach in your burger? I knew that exterminator was a fraud!" The heavy manager said bringing looks of disgust to both Phoebe and Link as they pushed away their food.

Back at the Thundermans house

Link and Phoebe came back to the house, with Link brushing his teeth and mouth with a toothbrush, to see Phoebe and Cherry still on the couch watching their show.

"And they're still there." Link said as he then continued to brush his teeth.

"Here you two go." Barb said making her way out of the kitchen and placed a bowl of popcorn and placed it on the coffee table.

"Thanks mom." Max said.

"Thanks Mrs. Thunderman." Cherry said as she and Max dug into the bowl.

"Hi Mrs. Thunderman." Link greeted the older woman.

"Oh hi Link. You can use the bathroom sink to spit out the ick in your mouth." Barb said.

"Thank you." Link said as he extended his neck and right arm towards the bathroom upstairs.

"Hey!" Hank shouted from upstairs.

"Sorry, next time I'll knock." Link said.

"Mom, how long have they been like this." Phoebe asked her mother.

"I don't know, but I'm happy. All Max has been doing is watching T.V. with Cherry; no evil inventions or supervillain habits whatsoever. Isn't that great!" Barb whispered to Phoebe with joy as she then left for the kitchen. Sudden Billy super speeded next to Phoebe.

"Told you they were boyfriend and girlfriend." Billy said.

"No they are not!" Phoebe shouted as Billy super speeded away from her. Phoebe then looked at the two as she saw Max do the old yawn and stretched arm wrapped around Cherry's neck. Cherry then turned to him with a smile that Max returned as they then lead into each other. Phoebe then suddenly screamed at the top of her lungs making Cherry and Max look at her.

"Phoebe what's wrong?" Cherry asked making

"You know, besides the usual." Max said. Phoebe noticed that they were in their previous position with the popcorn in front of them, which meant she imagined it all.

"Phoebe is everything alright?" Barb asked as she came from the kitchen. There was a spitting sound from upstairs as Link's head and arm returned back to his body.

"Is everything alright?" Link asked his girlfriend.

"Oh… yeah, it's just I'm mad that there's no room on the couch." Phoebe said.

"What are you talking about?" Max said.

"Yeah, there's plenty of room." Cherry said.

"Although I guess I could squeeze in here." Phoebe said as she got in between Max and Cherry. "So what are you guys watching?"

"We're watching the same thing we were when you left." Max said as if it was obvious.

"Yeah, it's a whole marathon! Isn't that awesome?!" Cherry said with excitement.

"Super." Phoebe said with a smile as she took some popcorn. Link then sighed as he made his way to the couch and sat in between Max and Phoebe.

"And who invited you?" Max asked.

"Like you care." Link said nonchalantly as he took some popcorn.

The next day at school

Phoebe, Max and Cherry were sitting at a table in Science class.

"This is boring." Cherry said with a bored tone with her face resting on her hand.

"What do you mean? We're in science class, and I know how much you two love science." Phoebe said with a cheery tone.

"We love inventing, not science." Max said.

"Inventing's a type of science!" Phoebe exclaimed a bit.

"Oh I almost forgot!" The science teacher said. (Not putting in who it is because currently no one knows who the current science teacher is now after Hank Thunderman.) The teacher then faced the students and spoke. "Next week is the science fair, so for any of you who wish to invent something for the fair and a chance to win top prize. So just letting you guys know." The teacher said turning back to the board.

Cherry and Max perked up at this as they then turn to each other with a grin and high-fived.

"Let's build a laser that can melt titanium like a Popsicle!" Cherry said with excitement.

"Oh we'll build something that can do something more than that." Max said with an edgy excited grin. Phoebe looked at the two with despair written all over her face.

"Oh no." Phoebe said as she planted her head against the table.

At lunch

Phoebe sat with Max and Cherry at lunch outside again. Apparently Max and Cherry like the outside because the fresh air help them think. Well actually it helps Cherry, but Max wanted to stay as close to Cherry whenever she was in her rare brain storms.

"Anti-gravity boots?" Cherry suggested.

"Nah."

"Mind reading helmet?"

"Clichéd."

"Oh, how about super fists that hit harder than your dad?!" Cherry said with excitement.

"Not a bad idea, but let's save that for a personal day." Max said getting an agreeing nod from Cherry. Phoebe was annoyed by their closeness; it still didn't sit right with her.

"Oh, oh, Mechanized Arms!"

"That shoot out burning hot concentrated plasma!"

"I have no idea what that is!"

"I'll tell you later!"

"No! No plasma arms!" Phoebe said ending their excitement.

"Why should we listen to you? It's our project." Max said.

"Hey, I'm okay with you getting expelled for burning down the school, but not my bestie." Phoebe said making Cherry blink and raise an eyebrow.

"We could think of something at your house, I mean we have until next week." Cherry said.

"Yeah, and at least she won't bother us in my lair." Max said referring to his sister.

"Hey, what if I-"

"No." Max and Cherry said.

"Oh come on I could-"

"No."

"But-"

"No!"

"I'll be quiet then."

"Yes." Max and Cherry said making Phoebe sigh.

Later, Max's locker, end of school

Max was taking stuff out of his locker and once he was done, he closed it only to see a familiar face that he didn't like whatsoever.

"Hey Maxie~" Veronica said his name cutely.

"Oh hey, it's Spit Ball Mouth." Max said pointing at Veronica with a joking grin. Even though the insult irked Veronica, she kept her smile up. Cherry was making her way to Max's locker because she had gotten a great idea, but then she heard a girl's laugh coming from his locker, so she checked around the corner to see Veronica.

"Oh Max, you're so funny." Veronica said. Veronica then started doing that finger climbing thing on Max's jacket. "Listen, I was wondering if you could be my partner for the science fair." Veronica said shocking Cherry.

"Yeah, not going to happen." Max said. Cherry cheered a silent yes as she pumped her fist.

"Oh come on~ please Maxie~"

Max always hated when someone called him 'Maxie'.

"Would a date change your mind?" Veronica said.

"Not a chance." Max said.

"How about two?"

"How about none." Cherry whispered as she came up with an idea.

"Come on, what's going to change your mind?!" Veronica raised her voice.

"Hey Veronica, want to try my new perfume?" Cherry asked from behind. Once Veronica turned around Cherry sprayed her perfume into Veronica's eyes making her scream and then cover her eyes. Veronica ran off as Cherry smiled with satisfaction at her plan working. Max stared at Veronica as she ran away with pain in her eyes before turning to Cherry.

"You did that on purpose!" Max said with shock. Cherry had a worried look on her face as Max stared at her. "I like that." Max said with a grin. Cherry gave an unsure grin, because she wasn't sure if she should be happy that Max liked what she did or feel guilty for doing it. "Oh, I know that look." Max said making Cherry sigh.

"I'm sorry." Cherry said.

"Hey don't sweat it; these feelings are natural." Max said waving it off.

"So you even felt sort of bad when you first did a bad thing to someone?" Cherry asked.

"Oh. No, I just thought that you needed to go to the bathroom." Max said. "But trust me, you shouldn't feel bad. After all, it's just Veronica." Max said as Veronica then came running down the other side screaming as she held her eyes. Max laughed at this. Cherry didn't feel good that she caused someone pain, but she guessed it was okay as long as that person was mean like Veronica.

Right?

With Phoebe

Phoebe closed her locker when she heard screaming making her turn to see Veronica running her way before the blonde stopped in front of her.

"Your idiot friend sprayed me in the eyes with her stupid perfume!" Veronica exclaimed.

"Who? Cherry?"

"I said your idiot friend! What other moron do you hang out with?!" Veronica exclaimed before she ran off as she continued to scream with pain. Phoebe watched Veronica run off only to see her slam into a wall and fall onto the floor. Phoebe then turned away and thought about what Veronica said.

"Cherry doing a bad thing? That's not like her. Unless… *gasp* Max! Now he turning Cherry into a villain!" Phoebe said with worry. "No… that can't be it. No way, Cherry would ever become evil, and Max would never change her into a villain, right?" Phoebe said, but then her imagination took a hold of her once again.

Phoebe's imagination

Max and Veronica were standing next to Max's locker when Cherry came up from behind Veronica.

"Hey Veronica, want to try my new perfume?" Cherry asked from behind. Once Veronica turned around Cherry sprayed her perfume into Veronica's eyes making her scream and then cover her eyes. Veronica ran off as Cherry smiled with satisfaction at her plan working. Max stared at Veronica as she ran away with pain in her eyes before turning to Cherry.

"You did that on purpose!" Max said with shock. Cherry had a worried look on her face as Max stared at her. "Excellent. Your descent into darkness is going great." Max said evilly with an evil grin.

"I usually don't do this stuff, but hurting Veronica felt so good! I just might do it again." Cherry said sadistically with an evil grin. Once Veronica was running back, Cherry called to her. "Hey Veronica." Once Veronica looked at her, Cherry sprayed her perfume into her eyes again making her scream in pain again as she ran off again, covering her eyes from the pain. Cherry then turned to Max and said. "Who knew being evil felt so good?"

The two then started to laugh evilly as Phoebe's imagination started to end.

In reality

Phoebe had a fearful and majorly worried look on her face as her imagination ended.

"Oh no." Phoebe said with great worry and fear.

Later at the Thunderman's house

Max and Cherry were slumped on the couch as they discussed their plans for the science fair.

"But why? ~" Cherry whined as she was repeatedly kicked the back of her legs against the couch.

"Because I'm not going to build something that advanced at the science fair. Do you know how many nerds would hunt me down to join their… ugh… geek clubs." Max said.

"I thought nerds and geeks were two different things." Cherry said.

"Not to me." Max said. Suddenly Phoebe ran through the door only to stop to see Max and Cherry on the couch.

"Hey guys~ whatcha doing? ~" Phoebe asked with an all too cheery grin.

"Nothing, just trying to come up with ideas." Cherry said. "Where's the remote?"

"Right in front of you." Max said pointing to the remote in front of Cherry. "If you can't notice that then you might need some glasses."

"Ew, and look like geek? Not a chance." Cherry said. Cherry then extended her hand towards the remote, but it was out of her reach making her groan with annoyance. "See, this is why I want to build gloves that bring things to me~" Cherry whined. "I came up with the idea remembering that I wanted my soda to come to me yesterday so I wouldn't have to move from my seat." Cherry said turning to Phoebe.

"And I told you 'no'." Max said as he used his telekinesis to bring the remote to his hand. "And there's nothing in this world that's going to make me actually put effort into building something just to impress a bunch of nerds. Especially since I don't want to impress those learning suckers." Max said as he changed the channel to Joe Vann's show.

"Hello there my dear fellow inventors." Joe said to the camera. Cherry then immediately sat up from the couch as she stared at the T.V. with wide eyes.

"Joe Vann is talking to us!" Cherry said as she was in excited shock. Max and Phoebe looked at her with slightly disbelief expression at her with Max then face palming himself at her low intelligence.

"Before I start today's construction, I want to make a very important announcement." Joe said.

"Shush!" Cherry said.

"Nobody was talking." Phoebe said.

"I said 'Shush!'" Cherry shouted making Phoebe and Max flinch.

"You see I've been called upon by Hiddenville to host a science fair where I will give the first prize to the most extravagant invention of the bunch." Joe said. It was Max's turn to sit up straight as he stared at the T.V. with an utterly shocked look along with Cherry. "So if any of you are from Hiddenville and a student of Hiddenville High School, then I will see you there." Joe said with a wink.

Max and Cherry then quickly turned their heads to each other.

"We can build those gloves now?" Cherry asked.

"What do you think?" Max rebutted.

"I think, you're thinking yes."

"What else do you think I'm thinking of?"

"The same thing as me."

"And how would you know that?"

"Because you're thinking it."

"To The Lab!" The two exclaimed as they stood up from the couch and ran down towards Max's lair. Once they were gone, a confused Phoebe was left standing alone as she thought of what had just happened.

"Huh?" She said with confusion etched all over her face.

At Splat Burger

"Wait, how did that conversation even make any sense at all?" Link asked with major confusion as he stopped cleaning the floors of the restaurant.

"I don't know." Phoebe said still feeling confused. "Either way, now I'm worried."

"Because they're building a machine that could spark questions or that they're now on the same wavelength?" Link asked.

"Both! Well mostly the last, but first is still bad!"

"Phoebe, calm down, I'm sure everything's fine." Link said.

"Are you saying it's all in my head?"

"What?"

"Because it is not all in my head! *Gasp* My Head! I could use my genius to build something amazing that'll make there machine look second rate!" Phoebe said with excitement.

"And how is that going to keep them from being super close?"

"I have no idea!" Phoebe said realizing the flaw in her plan.

"Phoebe, maybe it's best that they should be left alone." Link said.

"But… Oh~ I get it. Left alone." Phoebe said as she emphasized alone along with quote fingers.

"Huh?"

"You really are a smart guy. I'll leave them alone." Phoebe said as she headed for the door.

"No Phoebe, I meant-"

"I got it. Alone~." Phoebe said before leaving the restaurant. Link shook his head after she left.

"I have a weird girlfriend." Link said as he then stretched his arm to grab a customer's soda, bring it back to him, took a sip and used his powers to put it back before the customer even realized it was gone.

At the Thunderman's house

Phoebe was sitting on the couch with a pen and a pink covered notebook in her hands.

"Now let's see, what's better than anti-gravity gloves?" Phoebe said to herself.

"Nothing." Max said walking out the kitchen with a big bag of chips and then went down his lair slide. Phoebe glared at the entrance of Max's lair before going back to work.

"Let's see… a pulley system? Nah, too lame. A ray gun? No, too dangerous. Jet boots? No, too complicated. Gloves that toast bread... How'd that come up in my head?"

Suddenly the door opened to reveal Barb coming in with Chloe wrapped around one of her arms and grocery bags wrapped around both arms.

"Phoebe, do you think you can help me?" Barb asked her eldest daughter.

"Can't right now mom, I have to come up with a mind blowing science project that'll outshine Max and Cherry's invention." Phoebe said. "*Gasp* Minds! I can invent a mind reading device!" Phoebe exclaimed with enthusiasm.

"Do you even know how to build one?" Barb asked.

"I do not." Phoebe said as she slumped back into her seat.

"What's this all about?" Barb asked as she tried to make her way to her daughter as she balanced the bags and Chloe.

"I'm trying to invent something that can beat Max and Cherry's invention." Phoebe confessed.

"Is this another competitive Phoebe episode?" Barb asked.

"No this is concerned for best friend Phoebe episode, rubbing the award in Max's face is a bonus." Phoebe said.

"Phoebe, I thought that we were passed this." Barb said as she almost dropped a bag.

"Well, I thought so too… until I learned that Cherry… she… she…"

"She what?"

"She sprayed perfume into Veronica's eyes!"

"Oh… well accidents do happen."

"It was on purpose!"

"Oh My Gosh!" Barb shouted with shock. "We are talking about Cherry, your best friend, right?" Barb asked wanting to be sure. Phoebe nodded in confirmation. "Are you sure? Do you have another best friend named Cherry?"

"I wish I did." Phoebe said.

"Oh my goodness." Barb said, but then her arms slumped a bit making her summon strength to pick them up. "Can you please help me?!" Barb exclaimed. Phoebe got up and grabbed Chloe and then carried her with one arm before using her telekinesis to send the bags towards the kitchen where they landed atop the kitchen table. "Thank you." Barb said.

"Mom, I'm freaking out, I'm scared that Max might change Cherry." Phoebe said.

"Well don't be, I'm sure that this has nothing to do with Max." Barb said. Phoebe gave her mother a dull 'are you serious?' tone and look. "Okay… maybe he does have something to do with it." Barb said. "But this won't help. What you should do is confront Cherry about this. Besides, the last time you messed with their things you kind of almost killed everyone." Barb said.

"Yeah, you're right." Phoebe admitted still feeling about the incident. "I should be honest with them." Phoebe said giving Chloe back to her mother.

"You don't have to be honest with Max." Barb said.

"Thank you." Phoebe said with relief.

The next day at school

Phoebe made her way to Cherry's locker to see her best friend closing it.

"Cherry." Phoebe called out to her friend making her turn to her.

"What's up Pheebs?"

"I heard something yesterday."

"Oh~ gossip?" Cherry asked with excitement.

"No."

"Oh…" Cherry said with disappointment as her shoulders slumped.

"I heard from Veronica, who was screaming from pain, that you-"

"I'm sorry! Please don't turn me in!" Cherry begged her best friend.

"So you did spray perfume into Veronica's eyes!" Phoebe said with shock with Cherry giving an extremely worried and fearful nod complete with look. "Did Max put you up to this?! Did he force you to do it?! *Gasp* He brainwashed you didn't he?!" Phoebe bombarded her best friend with man accusations against Max.

"No, no, he didn't do anything… it was all me." Cherry confessed feeling remorseful as she remembered what she did.

"You… you… you… I can't finish my sentence." Phoebe said shellshock by what she heard.

"I sprayed Veronica's eyes with my perfume." Cherry confessed. Phoebe was still in shock for a moment before speaking.

"Are you sure Max wasn't involved?" Phoebe asked.

"Well he was kind of involved." Cherry said.

"Ah Ha!" Phoebe said with a victorious tone.

"Veronica was trying to steal him from me as his science fair partner so I got a little… miffed… so I took out the first thing from my bag, which was my perfume, and I sprayed it in her eyes." Cherry said.

"Oh…" Phoebe said. "So you got jealous? Because of a girl talking to Max?" Phoebe questioned.

"No, I got jealous because I thought that she was going to steal him from me as my science partner." Cherry said.

"But you don't spray someone in the eyes just for trying to steal you science partner." Phoebe said making Cherry hang her head in shame. Phoebe was now a little worried, but not because of what Veronica said was true, but about what has been on her mind for a while. "Cherry… do you have a crush on Max?" Phoebe asked.

"What? No~. Me and Max? As if." Cherry said playing it off like it was some kind of joke.

"Cherry… be serious." Phoebe said feeling unconvinced. Cherry dropped the joking nature act and looked at Phoebe for a moment before sighing.

"Okay… I might have a little, tiny, mini, not-so-big, super, super, super, super, super, super-"

"Cherry."

"Yes." Cherry immediately answered. Phoebe looked at Cherry with shock, then disgusted, then with fear… then she screamed.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Phoebe!" Cherry shouted her friend's name, but the young heroine continued screaming at the top of her lungs bring attention to her, so Cherry clapped loudly in front of Phoebe's face, successfully making her stop screaming. "Remind me never to tell you a secret." Cherry said.

"You… crush… Max…" Phoebe then screamed again, so Cherry clapped in front of her face again getting her to stop screaming. "Sorry… it's just… ew~"

"This is why I didn't want to tell you… or anyone for that matter." Cherry said.

"How long?" Phoebe asked.

"Well I always thought that he was cute, but I never got the crush until later, although I did think he did have a thing for me once-"

"Cherry."

"Since we started working together." Cherry said.

'I knew it was bad idea.' Phoebe thought with despair.

"I know that this freaks you out."

"A whole lot!" Phoebe exclaimed.

"But me and Max are just friends." Cherry assured.

"Yeah, for now." Phoebe said still freaked out.

"Oh come on, like Max would ever be into me."

"Yeah, that's true." Phoebe admitted, but then she noticed the offended look on Cherry's face. "I mean… oh come on, it's Max, I always thought the only girl that would ever be into him was the practice dummy he keeps buried behind his closet." Phoebe said getting a 'weirded out' look from Cherry. "So you're going to ask him out later?" Phoebe asked feeling worried about her possibly saying yes.

"That's weird; what girl asks a guy out?" Cherry said. Phoebe nodded understandingly at the logic. "Besides, what's between us is strictly business."

"Are you sure?" Phoebe asked with Cherry nodding in confirmation. "Okay… I believe you." Phoebe said.

"Bestie hug?" Cherry said with a smile and her arms out open.

"Bestie hug." Phoebe said with a smile as she and Cherry then hugged each other. After a few moments the hug ended.

"Well, see ya." Cherry said as she turned and left around the corner.

"Okay good, there's nothing between them. It's all just been a part of my imagination. Especially the married part." Phoebe said as she turned and left, but then she turned around and walked the other way. "And my class is actually that way." Phoebe said pointing ahead as she was about to turn the corner, but once she did, she was shocked to see Max on one knee in front of Cherry as he extended a golden ring up to her with the blonde having both hands over her heart. Phoebe's jaw fell at the sight before she then screamed at the top of her lungs.

Max and Cherry turned to Phoebe with shock as they saw her scream for a moment before she turned and ran off.

"What's with her?" Max questioned as he stood up.

"I don't know." Cherry said with a confused expression. "Thanks for picking up my ring." Cherry said taking her ring back.

"No problem." Max said still wondering what was wrong with her sister… more than usual.

(Last part was his thoughts.)

Later at Splatburger

Link was mopping the floors of the restaurant as he listened to his music. The manager of Splatburger then came walking by when he heard the music that Link was hearing and it sounded really familiar to him.

"Hey Link." The manager, Jay Jay, said the teen's name making the young teen look at him. "Are you listening to Lady Gaga?" Jay Jay asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Ha!" Jay Jay laughed before walking away. Link had a confused look on his face.

"You were singing to her songs just last month." Link said before continuing to clean the floors. Suddenly Phoebe came running into the restaurant and stopped in front of Link, babbling stuff that he couldn't understand. "Phoebe… annunciate… my power is super stretching, now understanding… whatever the heck that is." Link said.

"I need to split Max and Cherry!" Phoebe said sounding frantic.

"Wait, they're a couple?" Link asked.

"No, but Cherry has a crush on Max!"

"Seriously?! Poor girl, I always thought that she could do better." Link said.

"I thought so too!" Phoebe shouted.

"Okay, calm down."

"I can't!"

"Now is this a small crush or a big one?" Link asked.

"Well she tried playing it off as a little, tiny, mini, not-so-big, super, super, super, super, super, super small crush, so that means it's huge!" Phoebe shouted.

"Look, Phoebe, if Cherry has a crush on Max, then what can you do?"

"Maybe I can-"

"What I mean is, if this is how Cherry feels than let her feel what she wants. Remember how our dads didn't like that we had a crush on each other? Well that didn't stop us from dating at all. Our feelings for each other was so pure, our dads allowed us to date, you know after they shot each other with splat sauce. In fact, a lot of good came from it, so you never know, ya know? And if they end up together, well what can you do, if it happens it happens. After all, it's like my mom always says 'things happen for a reason'."

(My mom always tells me that.)

"So what your saying is, is that if I can't invent a machine, I should steal one from Max that's better than his and Cherry's so that way Max would consider their partnership a mistake, dumping Cherry and I'll come to her rescue and she'll see that being Max's partner was the worst deal she ever made! Thanks Link! Love ya!" Phoebe exclaimed with new vigor as she kissed Link's cheek and then ran out the restaurant and back home to initiate her new plan leaving a very confused Link.

"How did she get that from what I said?" Link questioned.

Later at the Thunderman's household

Phoebe entered her house to see Cherry and Max sitting at the couch again watching the Joe Vann show again while enjoying another bowl of popcorn.

"Do you guys ever get enough of that show?" Phoebe questioned, but it appeared that neither of them heard her. "Uh… hello… guys?"

"Quiet Nora, we're busy." Max said as he ate a handful of popcorn. Phoebe just looked at the two with a raised eyebrow, but then she realized that this was the perfect opportunity to go into Max's lair. So she started tiptoeing her way towards Max's lair, but then her foot hit the small table that held the lamp, making it fall and shatter into pieces. Phoebe looked up to see that the two still continued to watch the show. Phoebe wondered how absorbed they were into it, that she waved her hand in front of Cherry, only for the blonde to just move her head to the side to continued watching the show. Phoebe then took some popcorn and threw it at Max's head, expecting him to retaliate, but he didn't do a thing. Phoebe then just shrugged her shoulders and nonchalantly made her towards Max's lair down the stairs.

Barb then came downstairs, wondering what was the breaking noise from earlier only to see that the lamp was destroyed.

"Max, what happened to the lamp?" Barb asked her eldest son.

"Sh, Billy, this is the good part." Max said getting a confused look from Barb.

Downstairs

Phoebe made her way downstairs to find a machine that could beat Max and Cherry's invention. She then looked around to see any good yet harmless inventions, but she couldn't find anything that fit either category.

"Darn it, there's got to be something that could beat Max and Cherry's invention."

"Perhaps, I could be of assistance." Phoebe turned around to see a revolving chair, turn around to reveal Dr. Colosso next to a machine.

"I'm not stealing anything!" Phoebe quickly said.

"Yeah, and I'm Madonna." Colosso countered. "Now I may be willing to give away this fine piece of tech for a little something in return."

"I'm not bargaining with a villain!" Phoebe raised her voice. "What do have in mind?" Phoebe whispered to Colosso.

"If you win the science fair, I want you to get Joe Vann to fix the Animalizer."

"And if I don't win?" Phoebe asked.

"You clean my cage for three months." Colosso said.

"Ew! No!" Phoebe said with disgust.

"Fine then, let Max and Cherry win. Perhaps they'll share victory smooch once they win." Colosso said making Phoebe developed a disgusted look on her face.

"Nothing is more disgusting to me than that. You got a deal." Phoebe said.

"Excellent. Mwahahahahahahahaha!"

"That's not making me think this was a good deal." Phoebe said.

Next Week at the Science Fair

Phoebe and her family, minus Max, entered the large building where the science fair was being held, with a box carrying 'her' invention in it under her arm. Barb had Chloe in a stroller since she didn't feel like carrying her around the place.

"Wow, I never thought I'd actually be in a place filled with so many people with no lives." Nora said.

"Hey, Cherry has a life." Phoebe said.

"What about Max?" Billy asked.

"What about Max?" Phoebe asked.

"Um, Barb, are you sure it's a good idea to bring Chloe along?" Hank asked his wife.

"Well when you find a babysitter who specializes in super babies, then I think of leaving her home." Barb said. "So Phoebe, what's your special project about?" Barb asked her eldest daughter with some excitement.

"Oh it's a surprise mom." Phoebe said with a grin as she patted the box. "Even I don't know." She mumbled that last part to herself.

"How come this science fair is being held here instead of the school?" Hank asked.

"Because Joe Vann is giving away the grand prize." Phoebe answered.

"Joe Vannis here?! I love him!" Hank exclaimed with new excitement.

"Really?" Phoebe asked with surprise.

"He invented my favorite product. The Ultimate Toaster, which toasts everything from bread to a Thanksgiving turkey." Hank said as he then squealed with excitement.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa… it toasts bread? I love Moe Tann!" Billy exclaimed with new excitement.

"Joe Vann." Phoebe corrected.

"Joe Vann."

"And he's so handsome. Mm~" Barb said with a smile, but then she noticed the look on her husband's face. "But he's not as handsome as your father." Barb said with a quick grin trying to satisfy her husband.

"Phoebe!" The family turned to see Cherry making her way to them and hugging Phoebe, but then she noticed the box under her best friend's arm. "What's that?"

"Um…"

"It's Phoebe's invention." Billy said.

"You made an invention to compete against me and Max?" Cherry questioned with disbelief.

"Uh…"

"That's great!" Cherry exclaimed with joy confusing Phoebe and the others.

"Really?" Phoebe questioned.

"Yeah, Max and I could totally use a rival and who else but you can be smart enough to give us a challenge." Cherry said with a smile.

"Wow, Cherry, I'm surprised you're taking this so well." Phoebe said.

"Are you kidding?! Look at this place! If it was filled with cute boys and free cell phone, then this would be heaven!" Cherry exclaimed as she then headed back to where Max was leaving shocked and disbelieved Thundermans at Cherry's behavior.

"I can't believe I'm going to say this about Cherry, but… what a nerd." Nora said.

"You're right Nora… I can't believe what you said." Hank said.

"Okay, I'm going to go set up, I'll see you guys later." Phoebe said as she left.

"Good luck sweetie! We believe in you!" Barb called out to her daughter with a smile. "Oh and tell Max we said the same thing to him." Barb quickly called out not wanting to make Max think that's she's playing favorites.

"She's gone Barb." Hank said.

Phoebe made her way to an available booth and placed the invention there, but unfortunately the booth was right next to Max and Cherry's.

"Well, well, well, looks like Phoebe came to be a little greedy." Max said causing confused looks on Phoebe and Cherry's faces wondering if Max was trying to rhyme.

"Huh?" Phoebe said with a raised eyebrow.

"Admit it, you're here because you want to beat me again like you did in our first science fair. Well forget it, because this time I-" Max then wrapped his arm around Cherry's shoulder and brought her close to his side until they were physically touching. "Have a secret weapon." Max said with a smirk making Cherry smile as she blushed. Phoebe gave him a blank look as she used her telekinesis to take Max's arm off Cherry's shoulder. "I knew you were scared." Max said. "I'm going to go scope out the competition." Max said to Cherry.

"That's code for go to the bathroom." Phoebe said with a smirk and her arms crossed earning a glare from Max and a disgusted look from Cherry.

"Keep an eye on her." Max said as he then left.

"I can't believe I'm going to be in the same building as Joe Vann. He's so hot!" Cherry cheered.

"Yeah... super." Phoebe said with a forced grin.

"So Phoebe… why did you decide to enter the science fair?" Cherry asked curiously.

"Oh… because like you, I love science!" Phoebe lied with a forced grin.

"Sweet!" Cherry cheered.

"I mean I love it, like fell in love with it, I want to marry it, goes with me everywhere-"

"I get it." Cherry said.

"Alright nerds, listen up!" Everyone turned to see Principal Bradford on the stage with a microphone in his hands. "Now normally I wouldn't pay for something this big, in fact I'd rather rent out the janitor's closet… but since we have such a special guest here, we thought, what the heck. Plus he also paid for most of it, heh heh, sucker. Anyway, let me introduce, Joe Vann the Technology Man." Joe then came out making everyone cheer like crazy making Bradford cover his ears. Once the cheering died down, Bradford laughed. "All that for a nerd." Bradford said with a grin, but then he felt Joe's strong grip on his shoulder. "Averystrongnerd."Bradford said with surprise as he then grabbed Joe's arm, but then he felt his muscles. "A very strong and muscular nerd." Bradford said with shock. Joe extended his hand to Bradford. "Alright, sure, you can have my lunch money." Bradford said with fear as he reached into his pocket and pulled out his money.

"Actually, I wanted the microphone." Joe said.

"Oh, and here I thought you were going 'Revenge of the Nerds' on me." Bradford said.

"I don't even know you. How can I get revenge?" Joe said.

"Good point." Bradford said giving Joe the microphone.

"Welcome students and young scientists of Hiddenville High!" Joe said as everyone then cheered like crazy. "Good crowd." Joe said to Bradford.

"You're getting more applause than when there's fajita day at school, and it comes only once a year." Bradford said.

"Well who doesn't love fajitas?" Joe said with a smirk before bringing the microphone back up to his mouth. "I have to say, I am very proud to see such a turn out and so many wonderful inventions."

"We Love You Joe Vann!" Barb cheered making Hank look at her with jealousy and Nora and Billy have looks of confusion. "Sorry~ I'm just real excited." Barb said with an embarrassed grin.

"Hate to see how excited you'd be if he took off his coat." Hank said still jealous.

With Phoebe and Cherry, the blonde of the two was staring at Joe Vann like he was a precious treasure.

"Did I miss him?!" Max said as he ran next to Cherry and saw Joe Vann and gasped. "He's even glorious than I imagined." Max said as he stared at Joe Vann with admiration like Cherry.

"Myself along with other teachers, don't worry Bradford you won't be one of them."

"Thank you." Bradford said breathing out a breath of relief.

"We will be observing your inventions, you present their function to us, and then we do our thing and after every invention has been judged, we will give out the 3rd, then 2nd and then finally the grand prize, with the latter being given by me. So all I have left to say is, I cannot wait to see what you all have created. Let's begin!"

"He's so humble." Cherry said with admiration.

"Why couldn't he have been a super villain? The world would have been so much worse." Max said with some sorrow even though he was still in awe.

"But a good Joe Vann is better than no Joe Vann." Cherry said still in awe at the scientist.

"So true." Max said with new joy. Phoebe just looked at them, weirded out by their behavior. "We've got to prepare." Max quickly said as he and Cherry examined their invention before Joe Vann came their way.

Phoebe went back to her booth and was opening the box, preparing to reveal it, but she then thought about what Colosso told her about the invention.

Flashback, Max's Lair

A while after making her deal with Dr. Colosso, she then decided that it was best to ask the talking bunny about the invention.

"Um, Colosso, what exactly does this machine do?" Phoebe asked after putting it in the box.

"Something incredible, does it really matter?" Colosso said.

"Well yeah, because Max is a supervillain and so are you, and now that I think about it, why am I even making a deal with a psychotic bunny rabbit who was once my dad's arch-enemy, I'm starting to really consider the consequence of what might happen."

"Oh Max, I'm so glad we won, let's kiss!" Colosso said with a horrible Cherry impression.

"I do not care about the consequences of what might happen!" Phoebe immediately said. "So what do I do to get it working?" Phoebe asked.

"Just press the little yellow button in between the blue one and the one that looks like a clown nose and leave the rest to the machine." Colosso said before he started to laugh maniacally.

"Once again, not making me think this deal was a good idea." Phoebe said.

Flashback Over

"This deal better have been a good idea." Phoebe said.

After waiting and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and…

Joe Vann's pretty popular so a lot of people entered.

It's going to be a while.

Later

After all the waiting and waiting, which wasn't as torturous considering people have phones to occupy themselves, it was finally Max and Cherry's turn; and to which, they were completely psyched that Joe Vann was right in front of them.

"Alright, Max Thunderman, oh like the famous hero Thunder Man." Joe said with a grin.

"Yeah… he's my dad." Max said with an admiring daze. Phoebe had a shocked look on her face with her mouth gaped.

"Aw, I get it. Nice joke kid." Joe said with a chuckle. "And Cherry… just Cherry, okay."

"You are so awesome." Cherry said in an admiring daze as well.

"Thank you. I've been told that before, but it's an honor to be told that from young people like you Miss Cherry." Joe said with a smile and giving Cherry a slight bow making her giggle with much giddy.

"Wow… the guy's so humble." Phoebe said shocked that Joe Vann was such a nice guy.

"So, what have you both invented?" Joe asked.

"Invented?" Max questioned still looking at Joe with awe.

"Oh, Max!" Cherry shook him from his daze.

"Oh right." Max said getting out of his daze before they turned to their booth.

"Excuse me son, but I think you still have some toilet paper stuck to your foot." A male judge next to Joe said. Phoebe laughed at this, but apparently Max ignored the guy.

"Behold!" Max exclaimed showing off a pair of mechanical gloves that extended to the user's forearms and were covered with white plastic. "Presenting the anti-gravity gloves!" Max exclaimed followed by Cherry clapping her hands.

"Ah, an oldie, but goldie; now this should be interesting." Joe said with an impressed smile as he and the judges wrote down on their clipboards.

"Me and my lovely assistant here (that comment made Cherry blush) had developed these in less than a day!"

"A day?!" A woman judge questioned with shock.

"Well a day and a half, we still had to go to school." Max said earning understanding nods from the judges who were still shocked that the two technically did make the invention in a day.

"Here are our notes!" Cherry quickly said giving her and Max's notes of their invention to Joe and the judges.

"Notes?" Phoebe whispered with new worry as to why she didn't prepare notes, but then again she doesn't even know what her invention does.

"Like you say your greatness, notes are always important." Max said with a grin.

"'Whether your device burns out, explodes, malfunctions or anything else bad happens, notes will always save the day' as quoted by you, sir." Cherry said quoting Joe's words.

"Excellent work you two, and I'm impressed by your notes. I believe it's safe to say that you two are a pair of true geniuses." Joe said with a smile.

"I could faint." Max said with an opened mouth grin. Suddenly Cherry fainted making everyone turn to her. "Eh heh, excuse my partner." Max said as he got down and tried waking up Cherry.

"Happens all the time." Joe said understandingly. Phoebe looked at Max and Cherry with some new emotion. She felt bad for doing what she was doing.

"Come on Cherry, wake up." Max said. Cherry then opened her eyes and looked at Max.

"Oh hi dream Max, you look cute." Cherry said surprising Max. Then she notice Joe Vann looking down at her. "Oh look, its dream Joe Vann. You're so cool." Cherry said with a big smile.

"Thank you." Joe thanked with a smile and nod.

"And this isn't a dream." Max said.

"Oh! Whoops." Cherry said as she quickly got up. "Presenting-"

"We already did that." Max said.

"Then what are we doing?" Cherry whispered.

"And now with the help of my lovely assistant I shall demonstrate our invention!" Max said as he strapped on the gloves.

"Are you sure I'm not dreaming because all this feels too good to be true." Cherry said. Suddenly Cherry was shot by a blue beam that surrounded her in a blue aura. Max then slowly raised his hands up with Cherry floating as the gloves continued to rise.

"Well I'll be a son of a marsupial." A male mustached judge said with shock.

"This is incredible!" The woman judge said with amazement.

"Wow! Check me out! I'm Wonder Woman!" Cherry cheered as she did a flying superhero pose. (You know, one fist extended forward, one cocked back and a knee raised up). Max then rose Cherry into the air as he made her travel around the air. Everyone around came and looked in amazement at the invention. Max then brought Cherry back down to Earth, right next to him. "Aw~ why'd you stop?" Cherry whined to Max.

"Because the nerds are over their eyeing us." Max said pointing to the giddy nerds of Hiddenville high with their excited grins and the spectacled ones having their glasses fogged up in excitement. "It's only a matter of time before they ask us to join their chess clubs and offering us retainers." Max said as he and Cherry had shivers down their spines.

"Impressive, but first I'd like to ask a very important question with a completely honest answer in response." Joe said earning Max and Cherry's complete attention. "Did you two have any problems with your invention?" Joe asked. Max and Cherry turned to each other and then back to Joe Vann.

"Joe Vann… I can't tell a lie… at least not to you." Max said. "Yes, we did."

"Say what?" Phoebe said.

A little away, the Thunderman family was having cotton candy that surprisingly there were a few food vendors that Joe Vann hire for the event so the young scientists and their families and possible friends could have something if they felt peckish. Hank suddenly stopped eating his cotton as a look of shocked appeared on his face.

"Honey, what's wrong?" Barb asked a bit worried; usually when Hank stops eating, that's never a good sign.

"I think I just heard Max say something honest." Hank said still in shock as his words shocked the others.

Suddenly Billy dropped to his knees and cried. "What kind of backwards world is this?!"

Back with where are story was, Max and Cherry were listing the few errors they had with their machine.

"I mean it was bad, I don't even know what's worse, the fact that we accidently made them into laser gloves that turned things into ash and melted goo or that whatever the gloves held in the air suddenly get compacted into a sphere." Max said.

"Like a trash compactor." Cherry said.

"But we got it to work after the eighth hour." Max said.

"I see." Joe said as he wrote down the details on his clipboard. "Thank you for being honest." Joe said with a smile.

"Thank you for existing." Max said with an admiring eyes and open mouth grin.

"And being on T.V." Cherry said with the same look. Joe Vann gave them a nod with one last smile before moving on to the next booth. "This is the best day of my life." Cherry said before she fainted again.

"You earned it kiddo." Max said smiling down at Cherry.

"So, Phoebe Thunderman, what do you have for us to view?" Joe asked Phoebe.

"Oh well, in this box I have…" Phoebe then reached into the box and took out a blue box like machine with several buttons on it. "Zeus' box!" Phoebe annouced.

"Who's box?" Cherry asked as she sat up from the floor.

"A box named after the Greek god of men and lightning; now this should be interesting." Joe said with a smile.

"You're so knowledgeable." A female judge said dreamily with her fellow female judge nodding with a happily dazed look on her face.

(In case you're wondering there are two female and two male judges along with Joe Vann.)

"So what's its main function?" Joe asked.

"Well, this box can collect the hydrogen and oxygen from the air, compacting it inside and generating enough heat to create a miniature cloud and adds a hint of electricity to for the clouds to create lightning within the clouds." Phoebe explained.

"Wow… that sounds incredible." A spectacled female judge said with shock.

'Yeah, I hope it is.' Phoebe thought with a grin.

Flashback, Max's Lair

"So are you sure this will guarantee me victory?" Phoebe asked.

"Of course. It's a complete Dr. Colosso's super powerful, electrifying, ultimate, mega guarantee of excellence!" Colosso said as he placed an orange sticker that had his face on it with his name under it and the words 'super powerful, electrifying, ultimate, mega guarantee of excellence' surrounding the head. "Try saying that five times fast."

"Dr. Colosso's super powerful, electrifying, ultimate, mega guarantee of excellence, Dr. Colosso's super powerful, electrifying, ultimate, mega guarantee of excellence, Dr. Colosso's super powerful, electrifying, ultimate, mega guarantee of excellence, Dr. Colosso's super powerful, electrifying, ultimate, mega guarantee of excellence, Dr. Colosso's super powerful, electrifying, ultimate, mega guarantee of excellence." Phoebe said five times fast.

Colosso just stared at her for a moment with shock before glaring at her.

"Show off." Colosso said which made Phoebe smile with pride.

Flashback over

"What's with the sticker?" The mustached judge asked noticing Colosso's sticker.

"Oh that… you see I have a very valuable source who examines my inventions for any malfunctions and when he does he puts that sticker on them. Sadly I don't know how to get it off." Phoebe 'explained'.

"… I believe it." The mustached judge said with a shrug.

"Wow. Phoebe's a genius! How come we never thought of that?" Cherry wondered out loud as she stood up straight from the floor with her arms crossed.

"Wait… Zeus' box… that's my invention!" Max realized making Cherry gasp with shock.

"She stole it." Cherry said with shock at her best friend's actions.

"But how? I hid it in a place that only I would know." Max said as he rubbed his chin wondering how, until he noticed the sticker of Colosso's guarantee on it. "And a bunny supervillain!"

"Your pet rabbit sold you out? How mean." Cherry said.

"I know, he's great, but how dare he help Phoebe over me?" Max said with annoyance.

"So~ anyway, let's turn this thing on." Phoebe said as she pressed the yellow button.

"Phoebe wait!" Max called out, but then holes in the boxes sucked up the oxygen and hydrogen in the air and after a few moments, the top of the box opened with a small storm cloud coming out of it. Everyone looked amazed and impressed by Phoebe's invention and truth be told Phoebe was impressed that Max created it.

"This is bad." Max said with new worry.

"I know, it's so cool~. I guess there's always next year." Cherry said with some disappointment.

"No, I mean the invention's going to go bad any moment now. I made that thing in the third grade, but after a few problems I gave up on it. I haven't touched it since I move to Hiddenville; it's still got its bugs." Max explained worrying Cherry.

Everyone observed the cloud in amazement as it got bigger.

"How do you cancel it out?" Joe plainly asked.

"That's… an excellent question." Phoebe said now worried because in her pursuit to make sure to stop Max and Cherry's bonding gets any stronger, she forgot to ask Colosso how to stop it. Suddenly a bolt of lightning hit the floor near someone, nearly hurting them.

"Maybe you should turn it off." Joe said.

"Yeah, I really should." A worried Phoebe immediately said. Phoebe then turned to the buttons and wondered which one it was. She decided to go for the one that looked like a clown nose.

"Phoebe wait! Not that one!" Max shouted, but unfortunately Phoebe did press it as fire, water and lightning was shot into the cloud making it grow to gigantic proportions.

"That's not good." Phoebe said with new worry. Suddenly lightning hit a banner causing fire, which made everybody scream, but then suddenly strong wind started to pick up.

"You didn't invent this, did you?" Joe asked Phoebe appearing unfazed by the dangerous cloud.

"Well, I, uh-"

"Max, is this yours?" Joe asked.

"Yeah, but I haven't worked on it since the 3rd grade." Max said.

"The third grade? Wow." Joe said very impressed. "So how do you stop it?" Joe asked.

"Yeah… I never got that far ahead." Max confessed. Suddenly the judges were blown away, except for Joe who surprisingly stood his ground.

"I got this." Joe said as he took out a futuristic cube, pressed his thumb against it as out from the top came a tiny futuristic gun that grew in Joe's hand. He shot the cloud with it, concealing it in a force field bubble as it then shrunk and shrunk until it and the cloud popped out of existence. "Contestant Phoebe Thunderman, disqualified." Joe wrote down.

"Mr. Vann I am so-"

"Don't be. It doesn't affect me in any way, but it does affect you and your relationship with your brother." Joe said.

"But, we don't have a relationship." Phoebe said.

"Yeah we don't like each other." Max said.

"Oh, you're one of those siblings. Well expect the unexpected from the future." Joe said.

"I will live by those words forever." Cherry said with an admiring look on her face and a hand over her heart.

"I like you. I can tell by how much respect you give and how much care in your eyes that you're a good person." Joe said. Cherry stared at him with much admiration and joy reflected in her eyes and expression, but then she fainted. Joe was about to help her, but Max did it instead.

"I got this." Max said helping up Cherry.

"Well then, I'll be moving on." Joe said with a smile before he bowed and then walked away.

"… He really is a great guy." Phoebe said, surprised by how kind hearted Joe was.

"Yeah~" Max and Cherry said in unison with much admiration.

Later, after the judging

Joe went up to the stage and grabbed the mic as he brought it up to his mouth which made the room go dead silent.

'Wow. It's so quiet I think anyone could hear a penny fall to the ground.' Phoebe thought, but then with a bit of curiosity she took out a penny and dropped it on the floor to hear the echo of the penny hitting the ground. "Whoa." Phoebe said, but then suddenly the whole room was filled with shushes which made her jump at the magnitude of the shushing.

"First off I'd like to say that I am proud to have met so many young scientists and science enthusiasts and to have seen so many spectacular inventions. I'm proud to present the awards."

Phoebe looked at Cherry and Max who had their fingers crossed in hopes that they had won. Phoebe felt bad for what she had done. Why was she being a pain to them lately? She's usually the good girl. She was starting to accept that Cherry was hanging out with Max now, but the thought of them both together just didn't sit well with her. She felt that she could never accept it.

'Does not wanting Cherry to be with Max make me a bad person?' Phoebe thought. 'Or is letting her be with a supervillain wannabe make me a bad person? Why can't things be less confusing?'

"Hey." Phoebe turned to see Link.

"Oh, hey ink, what are you doing here?" Phoebe asked.

"Well I was a bit concerned about the idea you got the other day and decided to check on you and see if things didn't backfire and you getting hurt." Link said.

"Aw~ you're so sweet." Phoebe said with a happy, lovey-dovey smile as she hugged Link.

"And first place goes to… Max Thunderman and Cherry for their anti-gravity gloves." Joe announced.

"YES!" Max cheered as he and Cherry jumped for joy with the blonde then hugging him which he returned. The two then ran up to the stage to get their award.

"Wait, did they already say who won 3rd and 2nd place?" Link asked.

"I'm sure they did, but we didn't bother paying attention." Phoebe said.

Max and Cherry made it up to Joe who presented them with a pair of real gold medals around their necks.

"That's my baby boy!" Barb cheered.

"That's my son! He gets his brains from me!" Hank called out.

"Max's brain tells him to eat all the time too?" Billy asked getting a pout from his father.

"Along with your recognition and medals, I present you both with this fabulous golden trophy filled with fifty thousand dollars." Joe announced giving the two a large trophy half their size with the cup being filled with money making Max and Cherry gasp with shock and joy while the Thundermans and Link were just completely shocked.

"Maxlandia, here I come!" Max cheered as he held the trophy close.

"I think Max is my new favorite." Hank said eyeing the money in the trophy.

"And you both will get to be on an episode on my show where we get to invent an invention from your young noodles." Joe said making everyone cheer for the true. Max and Cherry cheered with pure excitement with Max fist pumping and Cherry jumping for joy. Cherry then suddenly hugged Max and then kissed him on the cheek shocking Phoebe and Max with Phoebe being grossed out and Max to suddenly develop a grin and then suddenly faint. "Oh. Excited one, isn't he?" Joe said with a grin as he and Cherry helped Max up.

"Wow… those two look really happy." Link said. Phoebe looked at her brother and Cherry and couldn't help but smile as she saw the joyful looks on their faces.

"Yeah… I guess they are." Phoebe said with a smile.

Later

Joe Vann was putting away his stuff in his bag when he sensed someone behind him.

"Can I help you?" Joe asked as he turned to see Phoebe. "Oh, Miss Thunderman, may I help you?"

"Actually, I wanted to say that I'm sorry about lying my invention."

"Oh don't worry about it, you're not the first who's done it in a competition I sponsored and I have strong feeling you won't be the last." Joe said.

"Well, the truth is is that I was worried about Cherry and Max getting closer."

"Let me guess, you were worried that this victory would bring your best friend closer to your brother which would end up with the two going steady, which is the last thing you want so you thought that taking their victory away would keep them from being official." Joe said.

"Yeah... wow, you're good." Phoebe said with Joe shrugging as his response. "And now that you say it out loud it does sound mean of me." Phoebe said now feeling guilty.

"Mean, yes, but you were just concerned for a friend, but let me ask you this: can you see the future?"

"No."

"Then how would you know that it might end up being bad? Relationships are kind of like inventions themselves. Sometimes it'll work, sometimes it won't, there will be a few bugs her and it could break apart or blow up in your face, but that's how everything is; what matters is is the end result. If it works then good, but if it doesn't then you could either try again or move onto something else, but it all depends on the inventor, anyone else doesn't really have a say. They can give advice or speak their ideas of it, but it all still matters on the creators." Joe explained.

"Huh… I think I understand what you mean." Phoebe said believing she got the picture. "Thanks."

"Anytime." Joe said picking up his bag. "Oh, and tell Thunder man I said hi." Joe said with a smile shocking Phoebe.

"Uh, Thunder man. Good joke, I mean I totally get it, because my dad's last name is-"

"Phoebe, I know the truth. I have for many years. I mean I did used to go to school with him. In fact back then he called himself Hankosaurus rex." Joe said shocking Phoebe.

"You knew?" Phoebe asked still in shock.

"Well not at first, but after a few years after high school I saw a picture of your dad that said Hank Thunderman wins food eating contest."

"I can believe that." Phoebe said.

"Being curious after seeing that your father looked familiar, especially since his last name was the same as the superhero, I ran some tests on his features and I found a complete match." Joe explained.

"Wow. That's really smart." Phoebe said, impressed by Joe's intelligence.

"You know I once helped your father defeat his arch nemesis." Joe said.

"Really?" Phoebe asked with shock.

"Yep. I created an invention that had the ability to change a human being into any kind of animal." Joe said.

"You created the Animalizer?!" Phoebe exclaimed with shock and amazement.

"That's correct. I Colosso still a bunny?"

"Heck yeah he is!" Phoebe said with a grin.

"Nice." Joe said as he and Phoebe high fived.

"Max and Cherry were right. You are the coolest guy ever." Phoebe said with a smile.

"Well, I wouldn't go that far." Joe said with a shrug, being modest.

"It was nice to meet you Mr. Vann." Phoebe said with a smile as she extended to Joe her hand.

"Same to you Miss Thunderman." Joe said with his own smile as he shook her hand. After their hand shake, a beeping noise came from Joe lab coat, making the scientist taking it out to reveal his cell phone. "I better go' my niece is getting married soon and I cannot be late."

"Aw~ you're such a family man." Phoebe said with a smile.

"Family is important." Joe said putting away his phone. "Plus I'm the priest, so I better hurry. Good day Miss Thunderman." Joe said as he then left leaving a surprised Phoebe at the fact that Joe really was a priest.

'I have one good imagination.' Phoebe thought remembering the disturbing daydream she had a few days ago.

The next day at the Thunderman's house

Max was sitting on the couch, strumming his guitar to pass the time. Suddenly Billy and Nora appeared next to Max.

"Max, can we borrow some money?" Nora asked.

"No." Max said. Nora's eyes started to glow, ready to use her laser eye beams, but Max used his telekinesis to bring up a mirror in front of his guitar as Nora shot her eye beams, only for it to ricochet off the mirror and hit a statue.

"Mom, Nora destroyed a statue." Max called out.

"Nora." Barb said as she came and saw thee now destroyed statue. "Aw geez. Max do you think I can borrow some money from you to buy a new one?"

"Depends. How much did that statue cost?" Max asked.

"Two thousand dollars."

"I don't think you'll be able to pay me back until November." Max said.

"Max, I'm going to need some money for a meaturduckballizza." Hank said coming down the stairs.

"And the asking never stops." Max said.

"Well I'm leaving." Phoebe said as she head for the door.

"I'm not lending you money." Max said.

"I wasn't going to ask, but if you're offering." Phoebe said as she then opened the door only for Cherry to come right through the door, run up to Max and suddenly hugged him.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you." Cherry said as she continued to hug Max.

"Okay, why are you hugging Max?" Phoebe asked.

"Max gave me forty thousand of the fifty thousand dollars so I could get something I always wanted." Cherry said as she walked a bit away from Max and stomped her feet as she started floating in the air. "I used it to create anti-gravity shoes!" Cherry cheered as everyone looked at her with shock, except Max who just smiled. "They're both functional and super stylish!" Cherry exclaimed as she then descended to the ground. "Oh and here." Cherry said taking out money. "I had a left over ten thousand, so I wanted you to have it." Cherry said extending it to Max.

"Nah, I can't take that." Max said shocking Cherry and his family.

"Thank you~." Hank said as he took the cash and started counting the cash with a grin.

"Wait, so Max actually did something nice?" Phoebe asked still in shock.

"Yeah~." Cherry said with a smile as she turned back to Max. "You really are a nice guy Max." Cherry said with a smile.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Max said placing his guitar on the side and standing up. "First off I'm not a nice guy, I'm-" but then suddenly Cherry kissed him on the cheek. "A very nice guy when I feel like it." Max immediately said.

"Ugh." Phoebe said with disgust at the kiss. "Anyway I'm going to meet Link at the park."

"Bye Phoebe." Cherry said.

"Later Dweebe." Max said.

"Bye Mr. and Mrs. Thunderman. I Mean Max and Cherry! That's what I meant, heh, heh, later." Phoebe said as she quickly left leaving everyone confused.

"There is something seriously wrong with that girl." Max said shaking his head.

"Yeah." Billy agreed. "So when did you two get married?" Billy asked Max and Cherry getting blank looks from the two.

As Phoebe was ready to leave, she heard an 'ahem' making her turn to see Colosso on one of the porch plants.

"I believe we still have some business to be taken care of; and my cage is extra filthy today." Colosso said.

"Ugh~." Phoebe whined with disgust. "Look, I'll clean it up after my date with Link."

"Hank! Barb! Phoebe Cheated Yes-"

"Okay, okay!"

Inside Max's Lair

Phoebe stared at the mess that was Colosso's cage and it wasn't pretty.

"I think whatever innocence I had left is now gone." Phoebe said with her face twisted in disgust.

"Now get to cleaning." Colosso ordered as Phoebe then grabbed the cleaning supplies. "Oh and I took the liberty to use you toothbrush to clean it a bit." Colosso said as he then chuckled evilly.

Phoebe groaned as she then put on a gas mask to be prepared for the horrifying mess she was about to encounter.

End of Chapter 2

Now this was a fun and great chapter. I enjoyed making Joe Vann.

I'm just happy that I got to post this bad boy before season 3 premiered. To all you Thunderman fans, I want to say that I hope you're all excited about the new season like I am. And for Chex fans, fingers crossed that there will be moments between the two this season.

All I can say now is I hope you all enjoyed and thank you all for reading.

Takeshi1225, out!