AN: I don't FMA or any related characters. Any similarities with "The Incredibles" which I also don't own were purpose.


The little girl was alone.

Red hair, the colour of flames, cascaded down her back and she looked strangely fragile. The evil superhero called Envy smirked devilishly as he sneaked up on her. The daughter of Lynn Hamilton and Martin Force was supposed to be already very skilled but the shape shifter doubted that. And even if she was, he was much older and had much more experience. The little girl was barely six years old and seemed to be more interested in the flowers in the garden than in anything else. The he-she-it inhaled deeply before Envy sneaked up on her. He grabbed her and knocked her out before he started to run away with her.

Nick who had noticed it started to cry and when his mother came to look after him, a bitter smile appeared on Lynn's face. "They have no idea that they just entered hell," she muttered.

"They kidnapped Vic?" Olivier chuckled darkly as she heard Lynn's voice. "I nearly pity them if they weren't our enemies right now. I mean: how stupid do you have to be to kidnap my innocent little goddaughter? And how stupid do you have to be to steal a girl who can turn into a living torch? Honestly, Envy is even dumber than I ever gave him credit for."

"He has no idea how much he will regret that move," a calm female voice said and everyone turned around to face a beautiful blond woman who leaned against the tree. "And you should do something. Honestly, most of the time you are down and depressed. People – you are heroes!"

Olivier snorted. "Ice Bird," she hissed as she took a step towards her old rival. The main problem was that the other woman was Miles' ex-girlfriend and everyone knew that he had never gotten over her. She had broken up with him when she had left for Drachma to protect the country against an extremely terrifying menace. And the problem was that Olivier knew exactly that she had no chance to keep him with her around. Ice Bird's right name was Nerissa Hamilton and she was extremely skilled and extremely beautiful.

"Ice Queen," the taller woman smirked. "It has been a while, right? Well, I was just stopping by. I am on my way to the base of the 7S. They have something that originally belonged to me."

"Nessa," Lynn said calmly while she looked at her older sister. "Do me a favour and get Vicky back. I would do it myself but I need to stay here at the moment. And should you see Firebird, tell him that we are plotting to get him out of his prison."

"Alright, alright," Ice Bird smirked while she got up into the air. "Oh – and, Queenie, tell Benny that I said hello … I saw him when I left for Drachma. I believe that the poor guy is a little bit confused at the moment. You and Stormy messed him up. He is trying to forget you…"

Olivier's hands curled up to tight fists. "Never bring this topic up again!" she hissed and was pretty mad at herself because of her trembling voice. She hated it when Nerissa got under her skin but – sadly enough – the other woman enjoyed nothing more than torturing her.

"Oh … so it is still touchy?" Ice Bird chuckled. "Aren't you a poor little girl?"


She coughed as she fell into her cell and snapped to produce a little flame to take in her surroundings – and whished right afterwards that she didn't do it because on the bench in the corner of the dark room sat a man who was barely alive. His skin was so pale that it seemed blue and as she hurried over to him, she recognised him despite the long, filthy hair, the thin body … the eyes which didn't shine any longer…

"Oh … my … god…" she whispered as she held out her hands to produce hot air to warm him.

"Cat…Cat…her…Catherina…" he said huskily. "So … they got … you too?"

She nodded while she continued to warm him with her skill. She was a flame soul like Firebird and her alias was Phoenix. She knew him since many years and she knew that any superhero with the control over more than one element tended to get cold. Hypothermia was a serious problem for them and she could keep him warm. "Yeah…" she muttered softly. "Goodness, I thought you were dead. I saw how you fell into the water … I wouldn't save you…"

"Serena will laugh at me once I get out of here," he said.

"She will be happy and grateful that you are still alive, Peter…"


Victoria awoke when Envy was entering Roy's little cell and she immediately got the situation.

The shape shifter didn't even know what hit him as her whole body started to burn. He didn't drop her even though it hurt like hell and activated the drizzle. The fire stopped but it was replaced with icicles and frosty air that surrounded the girl. The water freeze in seconds and the fire returned. The he-she-it cursed.

Roy got up from his place on the bench and stormed forward while he started to throw fireballs. As strong Victoria's skill was he was bound to her body while Roy had a wider range. He picked up the burning girl – unharmed because he had a related skill – and kicked Envy's regenerating body into the cell before he locked the shape shifter up. "Thanks for saving me, Vicky," Roy said.

She smiled widely and continued to burn – to avoid being grabbed and kidnapped again. "That was nothing, Uncle Roy," she said amused. "It was actually very funny to use my skill!"

He laughed as he ruffled her hair. "One day you won't have to hide that you are different any longer," he promised. "We will be accepted again, I will make sure of it."

"That would be fine…" she muttered while she fell asleep – still burning.


Catherina looked at Peter whose face had returned to its usual colour. "We need to get you out of here," she said while let the air above her burn to fight against the artificial cold in the room.

"If you keep me warm, I will be able to use my skill again," he said. "The cold is my only weakness, Cathy, but if you prevent it, I can get us out of here. They made sure that I would freeze all the time … these scheming bastards…"

"Do you have any idea why they keep taking us out?" she asked while she held up her hands to control the fire a little bit because as much as she liked the heat – she also liked her hair.

"Stormy got it before she was shot," Peter said while he put his hands against a wall to get to know the structure of the building. "She was smart enough to tell me – but that is the reason why I am here right now. They want to kill the president and to replace him with Wrath."

"That's the smartest plan they ever had," Catherina compliment unwillingly. "Usually Gluttony would plot to take over a chocolate enterprise or something like that…"

"Yeah – I am also very surprised that they could figure out such a complex plan…"

"I just don't get why they didn't kill Stormy. They had eight years when she played Sleeping Beauty. It wouldn't have been much of a problem to kill her back then…"

"To kill Storm Girl would have caused a rebound that would have brought back some memories they erased from other heroes," Peter said while he melted the wall. "They messed around in some heads, Cathy. They manipulated the memories of Ice Queen, Storm Girl and Golden Boy – and it will get pretty dirty once Storm Girl returns."

Finally, the wall was gone and he stared direct into the eyes of a tall, slim, blond woman with dark blue eyes who smirked. "It has been a long time, father," she said while she absorbed the cold around him. She stepped back and he spotted an unconscious Pride on the floor. She had followed his gaze and shrugged. "He underestimated me," she sighed deeply.

"It's amazing that they still didn't learn," Catherina said while she followed them down the hallway. "Honestly, everyone who messes with you ends up that way. It has gotten boring."


Riza exhaled deeply as they landed on top of the building. Jade checked her surroundings before she nodded and straightened herself. It had been a little bit hard for her to fly not only herself but also Riza and Jun Fan onto the roof.

"Alright," Jun Fan said with a dark smirk. "It's time to bring them down. Honestly, who do they think they are? And the timing! I could cry about such a bad timing! Lan-Lan will graduate next week and the damned 7S thinks that he can pull off such a prank?"

"Yes, we think you, Black," a deep voice said and she swirled around, ready to attack.

"Wrath!" she growled.

"Oh, the lady still remembers me … I thought you would have forgotten me…"

"How could I forget the person who takes the one who matters the most to me?" she asked before she turned her attention towards her friends. "You will go and search Roy and Vicky. I will come after you as soon as I reminded this scum of his rightful place."

"Do whatever you want to," Jade said as she dragged Riza along with her.

"Are you sure that it is a good idea to leave her behind?" the blonde asked.

"Jun Fan waited twenty years for the change to kill him," Storm Girl replied. "I know what he took from her and I always admired her strength to wait until he officially overstepped the line before she would kill him. She trembled in anticipation for the past twenty-three years – she was always polite when she saw him in the council but I knew her far too long to believe her lies."

"She will be a good distraction," Riza admitted before she nearly tripped over the unconscious Pride. "Hey – that looks like Nerissa is already on her way," she said smugly before she put both hands on his temples and a faint golden light glow in the darkness.

"What are you doing?" Jade asked impatiently.

"I erase some of his memories and make sure that he won't wake up until we are done here."

"That is really a pretty good idea."

"It is my idea after all."

"You definitively spent too much time around my cousin," Jade complained as they put Pride into a cupboard and strengthened the doors – just in case. "His annoying arrogance and irritating smugness rubbed up on you and I really don't like it at all."

"Oh, my little cousin returns from her trip to Comatose and the first things she does is to complain about me," Roy said. He had just come around the corner and smiled widely before he handed Victoria to Jade before he kissed Riza.

"Roy, as happy as I am to see that you are fine – stop making out with your wife in my presence!" Jade ordered and her annoyance was once more very, very impressive.


"…so they messed up the memories?" Catherina asked while they ran through the base.

"Yeah," Peter replied. "From what I got before they got me, they mixed up the memories of Jade and Bendix – tricking them into believing that they were meant to be."

"Claudio and Olivier will throw a fit once they hear that," she said dryly.

"Claudio, yes, because they couldn't mess up his memories, so they just locked him up here somewhere. You know that it is pretty much impossible to screw up the minds of heroes with strong mental powers," he said while he broke down another door. "They tried it with Riza in Xing and failed epically – and I never understood why they tried Riza after failing with Claudio before." He sighed deeply. "They got Liv – and that will cause trouble because Nessa is no one who would give up on someone that easily … and as far as I remember she has way more experience than Olivier."

"They dared to mess with Nerissa?" Catherina chuckled darkly. "That will be ugly, believe me."

"Of course it will be," he agreed. "They also exchanged some memories of Olivier and Jade – so Jade really thinks that she and Ben were meant to be…"

"I have to admit that they chose their targets wisely," the red-haired woman admitted. "Claudio and Jade, Olivier and Bendix and Nerissa andLawrencewere always especially careful to hide their relationships … so no one of us could suspect foul play…"

"I hope you know what that means for us," he said calmly before he looked at her. "This time they hired something with brain to plot everything for them – because in all honesty: none of these … clowns would have been able to create such a plan … especially not after Greed has left them for his own crew. No … our true enemy has way more brain than Pride, Envy, Lust and Wrath together…"

"You are right," she said while she went trough the drawers of the desks before the whole office suddenly burnt. "They have someone to help them … someone who was smart enough to outsmart all of us … and I have to say … my pride is shattered at the moment. It can't be!"

"I am more concerned about the fact that they were able to sent Nessa away before they started their sacrilegious methods," he said. "My daughter is very stubborn … and I usually don't see her as someone who is tricked easily. They must have manipulated her."

"That sounds logical enough," Catherina agreed. "But I highly doubt that they could mess her up as bad as they messed up the others. Nerissa has no mental powers, of course, but she is one of the most stubborn women I ever met … and I know nearly everyone from our scene."

"If I would try to manipulate Nessa, I would use a little bit of suggestion and never direct control because she has proved her stubbornness on countless occasions … as well as her pride which is one of her few weaknesses," he said while he unlocked another door. "I would say it that way: let's find Claudio and then we should get the hell out of here because I don't feel like staying."

"That's too bad, Mr Hamilton," a seductive female voice purred. "Really, how foolish of you to free him, Miss D'Artagan. You should have known that we keep our prisoners … you, Phoenix, you on the other hand were never important enough to keep you, so I will just dispose you…"

Peter shook his head, freeing his mind from her Siren-voice which could manipulate the mind of a man quite well. "I don't think so, Lust," he said sharply while flames appeared around him. "I think that you overestimate your own skill a little bit," he said smugly as she glared at him.

"No unbound man could ever resist my voice!" she shrieked. "I just need to concentrate!"

"Darling," Catherina chuckled while she folded her hands to get a better access on her power. "I think that you forgot one of the most important parts: Peter and I are bound for centuries."

"Im…impossible!" Lust yelled at her.

"She is right," Peter stated calmly. "And I really hate that but … you are in the way…"

A huge flame, bigger than any flame Roy Mustang could produce appeared and erased Lust.

"Foolish woman," Catherina muttered. "Well, two down, five more to go."


Jun Fan specialised in classical martial arts and possessed a speed which was far above the average and unusual great strength. And she was young and angry. Her anger about her loss burnt hot as ever and Wrath didn't really stand a chance as she just all her power. Her sadness had vanished over the past twenty years – the thirst of revenge had stayed.

Finally, after half an hour, she used her strength to her advantage, broke through his defence and stabbed her little dagger right through his heart. He stumbled backwards and fell down. She didn't waste a second more and made her way into the building to help her crew.