Chapter 2: To the Future?

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The Incredibles © Pixar

This fanfic is a continuation of Team Future © artificus

Wilbur looked up at his room's ceiling. He wasn't able to sleep just yet, as his mind wanders on imaginary scenarios played in his head.

I would've loved to just walk up to her and surprise her with flowers one day. He thought. Nah, that's kinda boring, and too obvious anyway. What if I had time travelled to her past and saved her from being cryogenetically frozen?

Wilbur had arrived just in time to notice the building Violet was in was beginning to collapse. "Future Boy is in!" he talked into his earpiece as he ran into the building. He kicked through the elevator doors and slid down a rope, tracing out where Violet's scream could be heard.

"Don't worry, ma'am," he struck a pose. "Future boy is here!" He saw how she was teetering on the edge of a breaking platform and gave her a hand. He then shot up a grapple hook from his belt and it began to reel them both upwards. All the while Violet was hugging against his body tightly and could feel her heart beating against his chest. He felt truly heroic. "Just like in the comic books," he thought to himself. But the problem is…they wouldn't have become close, and by the time he's gone back to 2037, Violet would've been much older than he.

He groaned at that realisation. "So much for playing the hero." He flipped his body over and looked out the window. Maybe he could catch a star out there and make a necklace out of it to give to Vi. His imagination was beginning to go out of this world, and before he knew it, he was already sleeping.

The next morning, Wilbur woke with a start. He realise he had minutes left before Violet would come to his house for another round of his time travelling adventures. He immediately ran to his bathroom and did his morning routine, taking extra care for his cowlick as he heard a ring from the doorbell.

"Good morning, Lefty!" Violet chirped as the one-eyed octopus butler opened the door to allow her in. He murmured his greetings before handing her a few light bites.

"Oh, it's ok. I've had a big breakfast this morning, thanks." Violet respectfully declined Lefty's offer.

Carl slipped through the transport tube into Wilbur's room and knocked on his bathroom door impatiently, "Wilbur, your girlfriend's here."

"Gimme a sec!" Wilbur replied as he continued to gel his hair so the tip stays sharp. He stuck his fingers out like guns at his own reflection before opening the door and rushing to the transport tube. Little did he know that poor Carl was slammed against the wall by the door when he opened it.

Strangely, Violet found herself talking to Spike and Dmitri, as they normally would've been arguing with each other about everything. They talked about which flowerpots were their favourite. Predictably, it had been the ones at the front, because it would give the visitors a fright most of the time.

Wilbur sneaked on Violet from behind and gave her a jab in the stomach. This caused Violet to scream in surprise.

"You're really asking for it, Wilbur!" Violet held her stomach, suppressing a laugh.

"Yeah. Hey, about today…I actually need help with my history homework." Wilbur said while holding his hands behind him.

"Why couldn't you have done it the day before?" Violet asked.

"It slipped my mind! I can't help it, Vi."

"Procrastinator." Violet shrugged. "You'll be dead as soon as you start college."

"And that's the last thing on my mind." Wilbur and Violet rode up the tube to his room so that his homework could be finished.

The man in the white coat watched the two teenagers closely on his new machine. It was set on invisible mode so that neither the teens nor the entire family could detect him.

He was waiting for a suitable time to execute his plan, all the while grinning at a thought.

As soon as lunchtime was over, Wilbur brought Violet down to the garage once again, ready for another time travelling adventure without discretion from his parents.

"You know, Liz and I haven't been talking so much lately." Violet began while rubbing her left hand, looking a bit worried. "She thinks that I'm spending way too much time with you than with her."

"Heh, why so?" Wilbur said casually.

"And in return she's spending more time with Pete and occasionally ignoring me while he's around." the raven haired girl rubbed the back of her neck.

"Yeah, those two are dating, and oblivious to their surroundings most of the time."

"They are?" Violet exclaimed. "Why am I the last to know these things?"

"Pete told me all about their first date 2 months ago and she hasn't? That's…bad." Wilbur pondered a bit. "But what could be a better way to distract yourself with another round of Captain Future style adventure?"

"I guess," Violet said. "Please tell me we're not going to witness the French revolution."

"Nope, keep guessing."

"Mexican revolution?"

"Nu-uh."

"Russian revolution?"

"Stop throwing in guesses relating to my history homework."

Violet rolled her eyes, "Okay, I give up."

"Oh, you'll love what I have in mind." Wilbur winked. "This one's going to be completely different than all of my trips so far."

"Oh no," Violet said with a tone of nervousness. "We're not going…to the future, are we?"

"Oh yes." Wilbur hopped into the blue time machine. "Besides, aren't you curious to how life would be like after 20 years or so?"

"Maybe, but I'm worried that we might still damage the time stream." Violet hesitated. "Maybe only two years ahead just to see our graduation?"

"Gosh, you can be so meek sometimes. Be a bit more daring, won't you? Who's the super heroine here?"

She folded her arms and only gave Wilbur a glare, obviously expecting him to not go that far into the future.

"Maybe just ten years ahead?" he bargained. She still didn't answer.

"Five?"

Violet looked up in thought a while. "That won't hurt too much."

"Great. Five years to the future it is!" He started the engines of the vehicle, and the rooftop of the garage opened, ready to let the time machine to take off. He punched in a few numbers in the keypad to indicate that they're going 5 years ahead.

"To the future!" he chanted as he accelerated the time machine forward. A bubble formed around the machine as it entered a portal into the time ahead of them.

They did not expect that the future looked completely different, even if it has only been half a decade forward. Violet looked outwards to notice that there was a whitewashed, Victorian building to their left. What's even scarier was the fact that beyond the building was actually the edge to outer space.

"What happened to Earth?" Violet exclaimed.

Wilbur murmured something incomprehensible, having mixed feelings of curiousity and worry going on at the same time. He put his time machine on stealth mode so he could take a closer look at what was below them.

It was a strange sight indeed. Anthropomorphic aliens were walking about the white building, and beyond them was a port for a space ship in shape of a boat, Beyond all that were little planetoids, floating archipelagos, and a crescent moon that seemed to look down on the two teenagers unpromisingly.