Ch 4: The start of a Love/Hate Relationship

Wilbur and Lewis struggled bringing the time machine up the hill. No matter how many times Violet offered to help, Wilbur would decline her. She thought it was nice of him to not make her do any work, but she was strong enough and it made her feel guilty letting them do all the work while she walked beside them doing nothing. As they reached the top Violet saw a wondrous building. It looked liked it had a face in the front and it looked very bubbly and welcoming.

"Is this your house?" she asked staring at it in awe.

"Yep." Wilbur smiled when he saw her expression at it.

Dash sped up a bit and thought it looked cool. "You lucky kid. You live here."

Wilbur turned the machine to the side and headed for the garage. "This way." he heaved. It was much easier now that they had gotten to the top.

"My parents are so going to kill me now." he said as they approached the garage door.

A small round door opened and out came a deep, echoed voice. "Who dare disturbs my slumber." it said.

"Carl, not the time." shouted Wilbur.

"Oh it's you little buddy." said the voice becoming less deep and the garage door opened and out stepped a golden robot.

"Is breaking time machines going to become a daily habit, because if you wanted to not…get…grounded, than this is the opposite of it." he said when he saw that the other time machine had been busted up.

"Oh haha very funny." said Wilbur sarcastically.

"How did you find this anyway?" he asked curiously.

"It came out of nowhere."

"Right and who's…." he stopped when he saw realised it was Lewis. Carl was about to scream, but Wilbur quickly grabbed him and held his mouth shut.

"If you scream than we will all be in trouble." he said.

"Ok, but could you loosen your grip. Its kind of tight." he mumbled with Wilbur's hand over his mouth.

"Oh." said Wilbur slowly letting go of him.

Violet and Dash peeked out from behind the time machine and Carl saw them.

"And your other two friends." he said pointing over to the two of them.

"That's…" started Wilbur.

"It's nice of you to do all the heavy work." Violet giggled. "But I can introduce my self. I'm Violet Parr." she said smiling at the robot.

Carl looked at her and smiled back. "Nice to meet you Miss Violet."

"And I'm The Dash." grinned Dash.

Violet rolled her eyes. Dash was always the kind who liked being the centre of attention, even if it was a small crowd.

"You know your parents are going to find out and you are still on lockdown. Enter any transporter tube and its straight to your room." said Carl.

Wilbur groaned. "Oh great, so I have to take the long way around."

Carl laughed a bit. "Yes, but you still have to avoid everybody else or they will make you go to your room."

Mission impossible. He thought. If he took the quick way round he will end up in his room and if he took the long way he had to make sure that no one saw them. How was he going to get all four of them out. The house already knew he was at home. Thanks to the tracking system that kept track at who was in the house. So entering the house was a mistake. The switch was in his dad's lab and that was at the other side of the house. If he could turn the switch off than he could get them all back to their time and return the second time machine, right after they fixed it.

Even if this was only a garage it still looked amazing. In her garage all they had were bikes, dad's tools and heaps of other junk. Here there were panels and different types of machinery that she had no idea how they worked. In the middle of the room she spotted a strange tube thing. "What is that?" she pointed.

"A transporter tube." replied Lewis.

She looked at him confused. Wasn't he from their time or did he come from this time and was only bringing back his time machine.

"Why don't we just used the other time machine and go back home." suggested Lewis.

"Because you need me to bring it back here." answered Lewis.

"He's grounded and he's on lockdown, so he can't leave the house. Otherwise the system will go off and everyone will know that he's gone." Added Carl.

"So the plan is to turn off the switch at the other end of the house."

Lewis nodded. "Why don't I go and turn it off?

"It's a complicated. The only entrance is through Cornelius's lab and you have to get through all the security systems." said Carl.

"That sounds hard." he thought.

"That's only the easy part. After that you need to defeat the guard and then you can turn the switch off once he's defeated. Or you can all just wait a month when Wilbur's lockdown is over."

"A month!" repeated Violet.

Everyone turned to her and they hadn't realise that she and Dash had been listening.

"A month doing what? Sitting in here hiding from your family." she said. "We will help you in getting us back home and trust me you will need it." she added.

Wilbur raised his eyebrow. How can she be able to help? She was just a normal girl. Maybe she was able to do gymnastics, but flexibility won't get the job done.

"look I know you want to help, but…"

"But what? That I'm a girl and I'm weak." she said looking at him.

"I wasn't going to say that." he defended.

"Than what were you going to say?" she said seriously.

"That is an excellent question." he grinned nervously.

She just gave him a look and turned away. Did he just blow his chance with her, by opening his big mouth? What chance did he have with her anyway? She was from the past and he was from the future. She might be happily married here, with her own kids in his time and he wasn't even born yet in her time. So maybe it was a good thing that they didn't like each other.

How can he say that she was wear? If he knew who she was, he might think differently of her and not think that she was a fragile little girl. She turned back and looked at him. There was something different about him. She couldn't stay mad at him for some reason. She then snapped out of her trance and thought not going to happen. They were from two different worlds. In his world he was a spoilt rich kid who had a time machine and could travel to any when he wanted, and in her world she was a superhero who risked her life saving others that she didn't know hiding behind the persona of a normal teenage girl. Plus she was with Tony now. The boy of her dreams. She has had a crush on him for ages now and when he finally asks her out, she starts crushing on another guy and not just any guy, but a guy from the future.