CHAPTER SIX
Syndrome began to notice a change of behavior in Mirage. The more he spoke about how brilliant his plans were, the more she seemed to turn away from him. What was it she wanted? His blue eyes flashed as he stepped out of the darkness of his lair and into the tropical sunlight of Nomanisan. After a couple of moments spent blinking and rubbing his eyes, they adjusted to the brightness of the sun. The jungle extended, acre upon acre, he and Mirage owned all of this. His hands clutched the metal railing as if he could never let go, never loosen his grasp. She had all this, what more did she want? what more did she need? His eyes held a distant look as the sun began to set on Nomanisan. He didn't even notice when Mirage came and laid her had on his shoulder. When he was young he had wanted so much to be known as Incrediboy, the sidekick of Mister Incredible. He had been the self-proclaimed number one fan of the super-strengthed hero those sixteen years ago.
He shook his head. "Is that you, Mirage?"
"Yes. Is everything okay?"
He turned to her, bright blue eyes blazing, "No it isn't, nothing is okay, Mirage, nothing!"
Mister Incredible held the note in his hands, reading it time and time again. It couldn't be possible, no, Syndrome had been dead twice. One can't come back to life so many times, no, it was impossible. But somehow the supervillan had managed it. He read the note once more:
Come to my island, alone, if you ever want to see
your family alive again. Oh, and if you dare
bring anyone with you, lets just say I have
no qualms about killing each and every
one of them. You have only two days to comply.
Or else.
- Syndrome
He crumpled the note and threw it down on the table. He would personally murder Syndrome if anything happened to his family. Quickly he changed into his superhero uniform and was out the door in a moment. He hopped in his car, racing through traffic to get to the nearest private airport.
"OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD, MORON!"
"LOOK WERE YOUR GOING!"
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
"THEY SHOULD HAVE YOU ARRESTED!"
Mister Incredible sighed, curses and yells combined with the constant honking of horns, all at him. This was probobly going to jepordize his reputation. Fairly close, he heard sirens and sighed, pulling over to the side of the road. The police officer stepped out of their car, shaking her head back and forth as she approached him. "Um sir, doing eighty in a fifty miles per hour zone... uh -- " Mister Incredible muttered something. "I can explain, officer, its an emergency! My wife and kids are in trouble!" She raised one eyebrow, "Need an escort?" He nodded. "To NSA Private Airport." She went back to her patrol car and pulled in front of him, lights flashing as they began the ride towards the port.
Syndrome walked slowly into the holding chamber, his left hand grasping his right wrist behind his back. His smile was cruel and Mirage followed him quietly, her gait was slow and unsteady, as if she dreaded to know what he was going to do next. She noticed that his walk was proud and he was much different then when she had seen him earlier. She figured that he must have found something new to gloat about or something. He walked over to the control panel, pressed the large green button, and watched as Elastigirl, Violet, and Dash all fell to the floor. She gasped, wondering what he was going to do.
"Were you having fun hanging around?" Syndrome asked them with a smirk as he paced before them in a semi-circle, keeping his wits about him at all times.
"Whats it to you, jerk?" retorted Violet, standing up and brushing herself off.
"Temper, temper, now." He shook his head, making a tsk tsk noise for the sake of being painfully annoying. Mirage shook her head, this man was so ruthless and yet at times downright childish!
Elastigirl held a steady gaze. "What do you plan to do with us?"
Syndrome gave an enormous sigh. And looked at her with malice in his eyes. "Must I explain it to everyone? Alright, I suppose I can spare the time to monologue," he kept his finger near the activation button for his zero-point energy beam, "you see, I've slowly captured almost all of you. Once your husband, Mister Incredible, hears of your kidnapping, by me of course, he'll come to rescue you as fast as he can. But I'll be waiting with a surprise... a big surprise... " He broke into an annoying chortled evil laugh. Mirage turned around and walked out. Why had she married this guy anyhow?
I think Catalyst is the absolute perfect name for Mirage and Syndrome's child! Review and tell me what you think of it. Sorry for the fairly short chapter, I'm annoyed with myself now. Oh well. -smiles- Catalyst is going to be extremely evil! My writing style is getting on my nerves, I'll see about trying another one for the next chapters.
