"What do you mean Colosso is gone?" Max asked as the Thunderman family walked into their home.
"He was here, now he's not. Keep up." James told him annoyed that they had something else to deal with.
"Worst of all, he took the animalizer." Barb said opening the secret door, which was of course, empty.
"But who turned him human? You guys were the only ones home tonight." Phoebe asked. As she did, Chloe walked into the kitchen and they all connected the dots. "Chloe, have you seen where Max's bunny went?" Phoebe asked in her cutsie voice.
"He turned into a person." Chloe whispered so their mom wouldn't hear before leaving.
"Colosso trick her?" Barb asked.
"Of course he did." Phoebe responded. Barb groaned and sat down at the table. "And he took the Thundervan so we can't track him." Everyone was silent for a few minutes. "You kids go on to bed, you must be pretty tired."
"You had me at bed." James said walking down to his and Max's room. Max followed him down while Phoebe and Billy went upstairs. James plopped down on his bed over by where the rocks in Max's room used to be. He was too tired to even change his clothes.
"Before you go to sleep, we need to talk." Max said entering behind James. "What was that back at the dance?" Max asked, as he began removing his clothes (he only slept in a t-shirt and boxers).
"I'm not sure what you're referring to." He said, his face still buried in his pillow.
"Don't play dumb, I'm talking about when you almost killed Strongdor."
"He hurt Billy." James said sitting up.
"I'd be pissed too, but I wouldn't almost kill a man. That's not how we do things."
"No, it's not how you do things. I'm not a hero remember?"
"You fought off three major villains tonight. Sounds like a hero to me. Besides, you live in this house, you're a hero, that's the rule."
"I see. Thanks for the update 'world's greatest villain.'" Max and James sat quietly glaring at each other. "I'm going to sleep." James lied back down and pulled the covers over him. Max gave him one last death glare before going to sleep.
Everyone slept in the next day, some of which still tired from the night before. James went upstairs to check on Billy who had yet to get out of bed, likely do to the hammer to the back incident. He quietly entered his boyfriend's room, "Hey BillBill? Are you awake yet?" He asked quietly. Billy only raised a hand in response. "Still in pain huh?" James said walking over to the bed.
"I said I heal fast, I never said it wouldn't hurt again in the morning." Billy groaned.
"Is there anything I can get for you Babe?" He asked gently.
"No, just let me rest for awhile."
"Ok, I'll come check on you in an hour." James kissed Billy's cheek and left the room and met Nora who was standing in the hall.
"Can you move? I'd like to see my brother now."
"Not a good time. He needs his rest."
"What makes you the one to decide when he can be seen?" Nora asked clearly getting annoyed.
"Maybe his boyfriend that saw him take a hammer to the spine?" He shot back.
"When can I see him?" She demanded.
"Come back in an hour." He said walking passed her and going downstairs. She watched him angrily before stomping off the her room.
"How is he?" Phoebe asked as she watch James come down the stairs. She was in the process of getting ready to go out with Link, Cherry, and Oyster.
"Well, nothing's broken, but he said his back still hurts, so he's gonna sleep for awhile longer."
"Ok, could you tell my mom I'll be back before dark?"
"Sure thing."
"Thanks," Phoebe was running late, so she left in a hurry.
Max sat down in his lair, alone. It had been awhile since he'd been completely alone. Colosso was always with him in his room, having him gone felt so strange to him. Where did you go Colosso? He thought to himself. Why did you leave without saying anything? And taking the Thundervan too? That just makes you look even more guilty. Max didn't want to believe Colosso had gone back to being evil, but he feared he may have to face that as a very real possibility.
"That stupid boy!" Nora screamed, while punching a pillow in her room. She was still upset James didn't let her see Billy. He's her best friend and her brother, why shouldn't she be allowed to see him? Because some guy her brother started dating said so?
"Nora?" Nora turned towards the door to see her baby sister Chloe had entered her room. She wondered how long she'd been there. "Is Billy gonna be ok?" She asked worried, Billy had always been a hero to Chloe.
"I'm sure he will, we just need to wait i guess." She told her, Chloe seemed to accept that and left. Nora was sure who she was trying to convince with that last sentence. While she new Billy healed fast, he'd never been hurt this much before. Would he really be alright?
"Hey Phoebe, you there?" Phoebe snapped out of her trance at the sound her boyfriend calling her. The two of them were at the park on their double date, but Phoebe kept spacing out thinking about everything that's been going on. A lot of changes lately as well as super duties. Not to mention she froze last night during the fight. How was she supposed to be a good leader if she can't think of what to do when the situation calls for it?
"Uh, yeah Link, I'm fine. Just kind of distracted right now."
"Hey, if you can't do this right now, I'm sure Cherry and Oyster will understand."
"Yeah, I think I'd better head home." She pulled her phone out and texted Cherry who was over by the pond with Oyster before her and Link left for home.
Billy sat up in bed. His back still hurt like hell, but at least he felt as if he could walk around his home. He got up and walked out of his room to head downstairs and found James sleeping on the couch. He couldn't help but smile noticing how cute his boyfriend looked. He leaned down and tapped him lightly. James's eyes opened slowly and looked up at Billy.
"Hey BillBill, are you sure you should be walking?" James asked, slowly sitting up.
"I'm fine Jamie. You can stop worrying." He said sitting down next James and resting his head on his boyfriend's shoulder. As they sat in silence, Max came upstairs from his room and saw them sitting together on the couch.
"Hey, Billy. You feeling any better?" He asked while James attempted to avoid making eye contact.
"Well, enough to move around."
"That's good. I think Nora was looking for you."
"I'll go get her." James said, getting up from the couch, likely to get away from Max,
"How's everything going?" Billy asked his brother.
"I wish I knew where Colosso went. Other than that, I'm fine I guess." He said walking over and joining Billy on the couch. He didn't feel like telling him about the fight he had with James last night. Or that his boyfriend was ready to kill a man.
Nora and Chloe ran downstairs when they heard Billy was up and moving. Nora knew he was probably still in pain from last night. Chloe, however teleported right into his lap and hugged him as tight as possible causing him to wince in pain. He didn't say anything though and let her hold onto him until she felt better and let go. Everyone sat in a slightly uncomfortable silence for some time as Phoebe entered the house.
"Am I interrupting something?" She asked upon walking in, since everyone's head turned towards her.
"Nope, we're just channel surfing." Max told her.
"Where are Mom and Dad?" She asked, putting her things down and taking a seat next to Max.
"I think Mom's with Dad up in her secret room in case something goes wrong."
"Barb," Hank said as he faced away from her.
"What is it?"
"Do you think that our children are ready for what they're up against?"
"I'd hope so. Phoebe did freeze up last night."
"That's what I'm worried about."
"Hank, why are you-"
"Barb," He began, cutting her off. "Run." He said turning around with his eyes beginning to turn purple.
Downstairs, the children were all relaxing and watching TV. "Hey James," Max started.
"What?" He said not looking back.
"You need to tell Billy what you did." James sat in silence and didn't respond. "Tell him that you almost-" Before he could finish his sentence there was a loud crashing sound and the whole house shook. Their mom came running downstairs, looking more worried then they'd ever seen her.
"Kids! You have to go!"
"Mom? What's happening?!" Phoebe asked first, jumping from the couch.
"It's your father! He's-" CRASH! They all turned around to see their father had broken through the floor. "Gone bad." She finished her sentence. He looked up at all of them and the purple in his eyes seemed to shine.
"Purple eyes?" Billy said confused.
"It's the way to tell someone's under Colosso's ray gun. But like I said, you kids need to get out of here."
"What? Mom, we're not leaving you!" Max protested.
"I've dealt with your father like this before. I can handle it, you're all in danger. Now go! Chloe, I want you to teleport you all to Cousin Blobbin's house, understand?" Chloe looked at her, phisibley worried. "I'll be right behind you, I promise." Chloe took a deep breath and nodded. She walked over and everyone held on to each other. "One last thing. Whatever happens to me, don't turn back." All of them closed their eyes as Chloe teleported.
When they opened their eyes, they were indeed at their cousin's big house. Speaking of their cousin, here he came walking into the room they were in whistling a happy tune. "AHHH!" He screamed when he saw all of them unexpectedly in his house. "Oh, hi guys. I wasn't expecting company, what are you all doing here? And who're you?" He asked point to James.
"This is James. He's my boyfriend." Billy said, pulling James closer.
"You look like you've lost wait Cousin Blobbin." Nora chipped in.
"Oh really? Thanks, you know I've actually-"
"Look, I'm sure it's very interesting, but we're in the middle of a crisis here." Phoebe interrupted.
"You are? Where are your parents, now that I think about it?" Phoebe and Max told Blobbin about everything that's happened from Dark Mayhem's breakout (which Blobbin was aware of) all the way up to just before they teleported to him. "Oh wow. I've never imagined an evil Thunderman. Are you sure your mom will be ok?"
"We're not sure, she just told us to run." Phoebe said looking down.
"Ok...um...you kids stay here. I'm gonna go give your mom some backup."
"What? Blobbin you could get hurt."
"I'll be fine. Invincible remember?" He said walking out of the room.
"Max, we should go with him just in case. The rest of you, stay here." Phoebe said walking after Blobbin with Max following behind her. The remaining four waited behind patiently for them to return.
"Billy? Are Mommy and Daddy gonna be ok?" Chloe asked tugging the bottom of his shirt.
"Chloe," He began kneeling down to look her in the eye. "Everything's gonna turn out just fine, I promise. Here, let's check out Cousin Blobbin's house until they get back." He picked her up and put her on his shoulders before speeding off, leaving James and Nora alone in an awkward silence.
"He's lying you know?" Nora told James.
"What?" He asked.
"Billy. He's lying, Mom can't beat Dad. Not when he's like that anyways."
"Don't tell your sister that."
"I don't plan to. But I thought you should know."
Blobbin was landed his helicopter in Hiddenville in front of their house. Or where their house should have been. "It's gone!" Max cried in front of the big, smoking crater where their house was. "Mom!? Dad!? Are you there!?" They all ran into the hole and tried to look around for any sign of Hank or Barb but couldn't find anything.
"Well, guess we better get any of our stuff is still in tact." Phoebe said with a sigh.
"What? Why?" Max asked.
"We can't stay in a hole. Blobbin can we stay with you for awhile?"
"In situations like this, of course."
"But...but…" Max tried to protest.
"Max, we don't have a choice." He let out a groan, but went along in collecting any of their stuff that's still in one piece.
Billy and Chloe had returned to James and Nora and were waiting to hear back from Blobbin, Phoebe and Max when the three of them entered the room carrying a bunch of suitcases. "W-what's going on?" Billy asked when he saw them walk in. The three looked around at each other not knowing how to tell them.
"Let's try again. What's going on?" James said standing up.
"Our house is gone." Max said. Billy's eyes shot open and Nora's jaw was practically hitting the floor. "Nothing left. No sign of Mom or Dad either."
"What are we supposed to do now?" Billy asked. "Phoebe?"
"I-I don't know."
"Aren't you supposed to be our leader?" Nora asked walking closer.
"W-well yes..."
"Then what do we do?" Billy asked desperately.
"I don't know ok?!" She yelled and ran off leaving them all standing there. They all turned to Max.
"Just go get some sleep guys. We'll talk about it in the morning." All of them grabbed what was there's and followed Blobbin to where they'd all be staying.
At the Villain League Hall, Candice was reporting back to Dark Mayhem about their failure at the dance. "My lord, I regret to inform you that Lady Web and her allies have been re-captured by the Hero League."
"I know, my dear. I know. The were never meant to succeed." He told her.
"W-what?" She asked, her voice trembling.
"Those three had no chance of taking down the young heroes. They were merely to test out their capabilities. They are more impressive than I imagined. But, also, they lured out the real target." With a snap of his fingers, the door the the room open and a figure entered and kneeled down to Dark Mayhem next to Candice. When he rose to his feet, she saw that it was none other than Thunderman.
"What's he doing here?" she demanded, taking a step back.
"Worry not, he's with us now." Thunderman open his eyes to reveal they were a deep purple coloring. "All we need now," He began as the wall opened up behind him to show a window leading to a room with a bond up Electress. "Is turn his wife."
