Disclaimer: I do not own The Incredibles, Syndrome, Buddy Pine, Mirage, Nomanisan Island, Municiberg, Metroville, the NSA, or any of the Supers and I sadly and unfortunately do not make any money from these writings.

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Chapter Ten: The Worst Kind Of Sabotage

Lex did her best to distract Syndrome from worrying about Gazerbeam. Once a week had gone by he had forgotten all about it. They spent almost every second together. They worked on inventions and had fun testing them out. Mirage had called the day before saying she had contacted the next super and that they'd be there in a day or so.

"Do you want me to come back?" Mirage asked over the phone.

"No, I can handle a super all by myself." Syndrome said annoyed. "Besides you still have to meet with several of my business partners. Bomb Voyage might even be interested. You could spend a few weeks in France if you like." He suggested hoping she'd agree to it. Lex sat next to him crossing her fingers she'd say yes.

"I'd love that, I've always wanted to go… are you sure it's ok?" She sounded excited.

"So long as you keep sending supers my way… speaking of which… have you found Incredible yet?" He asked and the line went silent. "Hello?"

"No… it's hard to get anything on him. I can't even get his real name. I'm sorry. I'm trying as hard as I can." She explained sounding a bit scared.

"Well try harder!" He demanded and hung up on her. Lex wrapped her arms around him and placed a kiss on his cheek. Travis and Avian were on their way over. Syndrome wanted them there when the next super arrived just in case anything happened again.

"Lex we finally came up with a name for the new island!" Avian said happily throwing his hands about. "Kamalu Island." He smiled waiting for their responses.

"Works for me I'm horrible at coming up with names for things." She shrugged and he looked to Syndrome.

"That's Hawaiian isn't it?" Syndrome asked and Avian nodded as Travis rolled his eyes obviously annoyed by his over enthusiasm.

"It means something along the lines of secret evil. I don't know exactly but I like it. So have I missed anything fun?" He began his onslaught of questions. After Avian and Travis had finally retired to bed Buddy and Lex went to the beach to enjoy themselves.

When the next super, Stormicide, arrived the next day Lex had greeted her and sent her off to battle the Omni-Droid that she sadly only lasted an hour against.

"Well that was kind of disappointing." Syndrome sighed as he watched the Omni-Droid dispatch of her body into a pool of lava.

"Maybe the next super will be better." Lex smiled at him.

"You know you didn't have to watch if you didn't want to." He offered remembering her whole problem with him killing supers was what tore them apart in the first place.

"No I'm fine. After what you had done with Mirage I understood what it was like to want revenge…" She explained and it made his heart sink. "Not that I wanted revenge on you, I just wanted to make her suffer until she begged me to kill her…" She said looking away from him.

"I'm so sorry about all of that…" He apologized. He never did forgive himself for hurting Lex like he did with Mirage. "You can torture her all you want once she gives me Incredible, I promise." Lex rolled her eyes at him and put her hands on either side of his face.

"You need to stop apologizing. It's ok. I'm here with you now and that's all that matters." She kissed him and he wrapped his arms around her not wanting to let go. Lex pried him off of her and she looked back at him deviously. He then picked her up in his arms and carried her bridal style to his room from the main computer room. Lex giggled as he became impatient waiting for the walls of lava to open for him.

He threw her into his bed and she laid on her side in a pose giggling as he attempted to strip out of his suit as fast as he could. Once he had his boots, gloves, and bracers off he looked up to see she had already stripped completely out of her clothes.

"That's it you're making me a new suit that's easier to take off." He grumbled as he peeled out of his super suit.

"Tomorrow… but until then…" She smiled and he smiled back crawling on top of her pinning her down to the bed.

The next day Lex spent most of most of her time designing his new suit and something for her to wear under her clothes. Syndrome and Avian were busy running tests on the Omni-Droid.

"Having fun?" Travis asked peeking over her shoulder.

"Nothing too exciting. I figured I'd just send the design off to the expert this time and let her make it along with mine. That fabric is a pain in the ass to work with. Basically mine is going to be like under armor to wear under my clothes so Syndrome won't worry about me." She explained rolling her eyes.

"He's just worried about you. You never know Mirage might actually try to kill you or something if she finds out that you're both together again." Travis laughed.

"I'd love to see that, I don't even think she'd know what to do." She said trying to imagine her even attempting to hurt her. After attaching an email to her designs she sent them off to Edna Mode, the designer that originally designed most of the original super suits. She then made her way to the testing area for the Omni-Droid to help Syndrome and Avian. When she got there Syndrome had just hung up the phone with Mirage.

"I think she's starting to notice I'm purposely keeping her away." He said looking a bit worried. "But she said the next super should be here in a few days and that she'll be staying in France for awhile. At least there's that. But she didn't sound too happy."

"She's probably just annoyed that she had to deal with Bomb Voyage for so long and she doesn't know any French." Lex shrugged and Buddy agreed and they continued their tests on the Omni-Droid.

The next couple of days everyone relaxed enjoying themselves. Lex and Buddy spent the day on the beach and Avian and Travis were off having races in velicopods and vipers with some of the other goons. The next super came and lasted longer than four hours against the Omni-Droid before getting their leg and arm blasted off and getting thrown into a pool of lava.

Syndrome was getting sick and tired of this and decided to get the stronger supers ranking just below Incredible to face his Omni-Droid. A few days later Gamma Jack arrived at the island and after a few hours defeated the Omni-Droid. Lex showed him to a room for him to stay in and bid him goodnight before meeting Syndrome at his main computer room confined behind the lava walls.

They spent most of the night re-programming the obstacle course and briefing the goons about the super. Syndrome wanted to study his strengths and weaknesses in order to make the next Omni-Droid the one worthy to beat Gamma Jack and possibly even Incredible. After a few days of observing the super they sent him back home so they could begin work on the next Omni-Droid.

Lex sat inside the frame work of the next Omni-Droid with her welder's goggles on welding the large plates of armor onto it with Travis's help while Avian and Syndrome worked on the power core and artificial intelligence. A goon ran in Lex's direction looking rather annoyed and he waited patiently for her to stop welding.

She stopped welding and lifted her goggles to look at him. "Yes?"

"I'm soo sorry Lex, Mirage must have deactivated her tracking device on her jet… she's only minutes away…" He looked down at the floor like a small child who had done something wrong.

"What?" Syndrome yelled from across the lab and briskly walked up to him and Lex grabbed him by the arm stopping him from punching the poor goon.

"Syndrome it's ok. It's not his fault. I'll just go in my room for now. It's not like she has access to any of the security feeds anyway, so she'll never know I was here." She explained but Syndrome refused to calm down. He was so afraid of Mirage finding out about him and Lex and losing his chance to find Incredible.

"Alright fine." He said and kissed Lex on the forehead and shooed her and Travis and turned to the computer on the wall and grabbed the microphone making sure the speakers were on throughout the entire base. "Attention Everyone Mirage will be here in a matter if minutes. If you value your life you won't mention Lex ever being here." He boomed over head making Lex roll her eyes as her and Travis made their way to her room.

"He's soo paranoid…" Lex sighed.

"Well can you blame him? He's wanted revenge on Incredible forever…" Travis said as they entered her room.

"I know… it's just hard for me. The one person he needs to find Incredible is the one person I'd love to just strangle the life out of." She huffed slumping down on her bed noticing two packages sitting on her couch. "Oh I had almost forgotten about these." She opened them. They were her under armor and Syndrome's new suit she put his suit back in his box. "I'll be right back." She said heading to her door with the box.

"Where are you going? Mirage will be landing soon!" Travis started after her.

"I'll be right back! Geeze it'll only take a few minutes." She said annoyed and disappeared out the door. No one was to be seen in the corridor on her way to his room. Everyone must have been keeping themselves busy so they wouldn't have to deal with Mirage, and she didn't blame them. She set the box on Buddy's pillow and made her way back to her room and ran into a goon on the way.

"Sorry." Lex apologized.

"It's quite alright. I'm terribly sorry that Mirage decided to come back unannounced. I hate when she's here… Syndrome gets too…" He trailed off trying to come up with the right word.

"Evil." Lex said for him.

"Well yes to put it bluntly. You help him with his plan but he always gets so angry when she's around… I hope she gets sent away again soon…" He smiled and she smiled back at him and they continued on their way. It was comforting to know that even the goons were on her side. When she returned to her room Travis had her laptop open on the coffee table as he watched the feeds of Mirage leaving her Jet and she joined him. As she sat down she noticed he was holding a small remote control.

"What is that for?" She asked.

"Oh you'll see." He laughed and turned his attention back to the computer screen.

Syndrome decided to stay in the lab and pretend he didn't know she was arriving keeping himself locked in his work along with Avian who kept wishing that her jet would somehow malfunction and send her crashing into the ocean never to be heard from again. He laughed to himself out loud as he imagined it in his head making Syndrome turn to him looking rather confused.

"Sorry… I was imagining her dying in a crash…" He giggled as he continued his work.

"You're not very helpful…" Syndrome said dryly wishing that it really was that easy. Just send her away with a bomb on her Jet and duplicate her laptop so he could steal any useful files she had. It was extremely tempting. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard the airlock door open to reveal Mirage. She was wearing something extremely skimpy and it made him want to open the window closest to him that faced one of the lava pools and throw her out of it with his zero point energy. He flexed his hands and did his best to collect himself before he turned to face her.

"You're back. I wasn't alerted. Is there something wrong with the jets homing device?" He asked knowing she had most likely purposely deactivated it so she could surprise him and see what he was up to while she was gone.

"I'm not sure. You should take a break from the lab I brought you some things." She winked and Avian had to fight himself not to make a loud gagging noise at her little innuendo. Syndrome reluctantly followed her out the lab and down the corridor. He then soon realized that she was leading him to her room. He had to think fast if he wanted to get out of it. She had her hand on the handle to her door and he couldn't think of anything that didn't sound completely fake. She was just about to open the door to her room when something rolled past them and quickly disappeared down the corridor.

"What in the…" He stared after it thanking whatever the hell it was for saving him for the moment. "I'll be right back." He said and ignoring Mirage's protesting he went after it with his rocket boots. Whatever it was it sure could move fast. Turning the corner he saw a mini Omni-Droid staring at him in the middle of the hallway. It retracted its legs and rolled further down the hall and the doors to the lab opened and it rolled in. Entering the lab he found it standing beside Avian who was laughing maniacally with Travis standing beside him. Syndrome stood there looking rather perplexed at the two.

"I believe the words you're looking for are, thank you for saving me from that evil she devil." Avian smiled and patted the little Omni-Droid on its head and Travis held the remote and hit a button making it wave one of its arms at Syndrome. He sighed realizing that they really did just save him in a way and he smiled at them.

"Thank you… when did you make it?" He asked pointing to the mini droid.

"Well I was really bored one day and I had always wanted a pet to play with and I thought a mini Omni-Droid would be soo cute." He smiled. "He's still remote controlled, I haven't had time to work on his artificial intelligence yet." He explained looking rather proud.

"Interesting I never thought of making one so small… May I?" He asked and Travis handed him the remote control. The next half hour the three of them were playing with the mini Omni-Droid having it clean up the lab for them and taking turns controlling it. Lex came into the lab rolling her eyes.

"Are you boys going to play with your new toy all day or are we going to get back to work?" She asked placing her welding goggles on her head.

"Lex what're you doing? What if she sees you?" Syndrome was suddenly in a panic making Lex give an annoyed huff. She rushed over to him and slammed him into the computer console and kissed him making Avian and Travis go wide eyed and they began to make their way to the door. "Its fine she's in her room all pouty because you got distracted and is busy unpacking. I'm fine. Everyone is keeping a close eye on her and will warn me if she's coming." She reassured him and he shook his head to clear it from their kiss. "You worry too much."

"I know I can't help it." He rubbed the back of his neck. Lex noticed Avian and Travis inching their way towards the door.

"Where do you think you two are going?" She asked.

"Um… We got scared. I thought you two were going to…" Avian trailed off not wanting to finish the sentence.

"Oh come on you really think we'd do that in here?" Lex raised an eyebrow at them.

"I don't know you two are crazy!" He threw his hands up in the air and Syndrome looked at him in disbelief.

"You're the crazy one." Syndrome laughed making everyone else laugh in agreement. They called some of the goons back into the lab and they continued their work. Almost the entire round body of the Omni-Droid was done in a few hours. Luckily they were able to salvage most of the arms from the previous one making it easier to focus on other things. It was getting late when one of the goons announced that Mirage was now in the kitchen and wanted Syndrome to meet her there. He sighed and attempted to think up an excuse not to go.

"Oh just go or else she'll know you're trying to avoid her. It'll be fine. Just don't let her take you back to her room." Lex said and he slumped his shoulders.

"I know… alright I'll go. You all can be done for the night if you like. I'll try not to take too long. See you later in my room?" He asked placing a gloved hand on her cheek. She nodded and kissed him before shooing him out of the lab. Once he was gone head of security pulled up the feeds in the kitchen on the main screen so everyone could see what was happening.

"I kinda feel like this is wrong… spying on them all the time, but I really don't care… I don't trust her one bit." Head of security said enabling the audio. Mirage was now in a normal long sleeved shirt and pajama pants which everyone was thankful for.

Syndrome made his way to the kitchen as slowly as he could dreading talking to her. When he entered she smiled at him as she ate a box of fancy chocolates she had obviously gotten from France.

"So I heard that Gamma Jack actually destroyed the last Omni-Droid?" She asked.

"Yeah he'll be back in a few days for another training session. So… have you found anything on Incredible yet? After I get rid of this Super I want him and only him. So you better find him soon." He demanded as he eyed some of her chocolates.

"I know I've been trying. I've been working on getting a full list of the supers secret identities so all we will have to do is search them all out to find which one is him. It's not easy…" She explained sounding a bit afraid of him knowing how sensitive he was on the subject. "And I've been wondering, why can't I access any of the security feeds anymore?"

"Because with so many supers being here lately I don't want to risk anything. The only people who can access them now are me, head of security, Avian, Travis, and…" He contemplated saying her name for a moment but quickly decided the sooner she knows that Lex is still helping him the better. "…Lex."

"Lex? Why her? I thought you two weren't even talking? She's been gone for over two years!" Mirage said angrily.

"Because she's been helping me build the new Omni-Droid. We both still have issues but this is too important for her to just walk away from the whole thing and I really need her help on this." He explained and she furrowed her brow at him.

"So she's been here this whole time I was away?" She asked a bit deviously.

Lex and the others sat staring at the screen listening to Syndrome try and explain why Lex was there and so on. It really was starting to bother her how far he was going to protect what he had with her. She knew it was because he needed her to find Incredible, but it was just so difficult to even see them together in the same room. She took in a deep breath to calm herself. After a few moments though she realized just what Mirage was eating. A box of chocolates from her trip. Outside food yet again, she stood and every one's eyes shifted to her and Travis and Avian both grabbed her by the arms and pulled her back and sat her down she huffed and sat with her arms crossed staring at the large screen in front of her.

Syndrome couldn't stop eyeing her chocolates they looked and smelled so delicious, Mirage noticed and held the box out to him smiling. "You want one?"

"What kind are they?" He asked suspiciously.

"There's all different kinds mostly truffles though." She said stuffing another one in her mouth. He checked the lid of the box and noticed that there were several strawberry ones. He knew if Lex noticed that she would be furious and he looked up at Mirage. "I already ate all the strawberry ones if that's what you're worried about."

"Thanks. You're lucky Lex is busy working in the lab or else she'd kill you." He laughed and Mirage didn't so much as smile at his little joke. He finally decided and chose a simple cherry filled one. He bit into it and it was delicious. He then grabbed another and another and swallowed them down realizing how hungry he was. "Maybe just two more…" He said childlike and stared at the selection she held in front of him indecisively.

"Here try these two. They're my favorite so far." She handed them to him and he ate them quickly and attempted to thank her with a full mouth and as he swallowed he quickly realized what he tasted.

"Those were..." His eyes went wide and he could feel his throat begin to close up and his tongue begin to swell. Mirage turned and calmly walked out of the kitchen mumbling under her breath not even looking back as she closed the door behind her.

Lex was in a panic and she ran as fast as she could from the lab to the kitchen. She saw Mirage walking her way and her eyes looked like they were going to pop out of her head the second she saw her. Lex didn't even stop her fast pace and punched Mirage in the face as hard as she could making a satisfying crack from the impact. She then swept Mirage's feet out from under her and slammed the back of her head into the hard floor making a loud thud. Lex didn't slowed and continued on her way leaving Mirage unconscious in the middle of the corridor. The others following behind her watched in fear as she took Mirage down. They all walked past her as if she wasn't there leaving her alone and bleeding.

Lex had the needle ready when she entered the kitchen and stabbed it into Syndrome's neck as he lay on the floor struggling to breathe. Once she injected the adrenaline into him his eyes went wide and he sucked in a breath. Travis and Avian ran into the kitchen after them with a few goons following behind them.

Buddy was focusing on breathing as the adrenaline coursed though him. He couldn't process what had just happened. He could hear Lex talking to him and the next thing he knew he was in his room with her undressing him and putting an IV in his arm.

"Buddy… buddy can you hear me?" She asked looking frightened above him as she readied another needle and he nodded before she could stick him again and she let out a breath of relief. "You scared me for a minute there." She admitted stroking his face as she set the syringe on the nightstand. "Thought I was going to have to stick you in the chest like last time."

"Is it just me or does it seem like whenever this happens it's my sweet tooth that gets me in these situations?" He asked wearily recalling all the times that this had happened.

"No you're right… it's always been chocolates and candy that get you and I remember once strawberry syrup." She smiled down at him and he looked down at his IV she had put in his forearm and groaned.

"Do I really need an IV?" He whined.

"Yes, I don't want you to get dehydrated from the epinephrine." She explained and he pouted for a moment before his face went stern.

"Mirage… I can't believe she did this… she did it on purpose too. Now after the fact I can tell that she was debating it our whole conversation until I mentioned you and pressed the subject of her finding Incredible. I even heard her as she left she mumbled to herself. Serves you right. I swear the next time I see her I'm gonna…

Lex put her hand on his shoulder pushing him back down onto the bed.

"I'm sure she'll leave you alone… I'm pretty sure I broke her nose and possibly a cracked her skull or gave her concussion…" She smiled evilly. "She's being carried off to the medical wing now I believe." Syndrome looked to her with a smile and squeezed her hand.

"I love you… you had time to beat the hell out of her and still get to me within minutes… I don't know what I'd ever do without you." He explained lovingly and pulled her into a kiss.

"Love you too. So what are we going to do about Mirage?" She asked.

"I don't know… but whatever we do we need a way to keep her out of the main lab. I can't risk her sabotaging anything else." He explained before yawning.

"That won't be too hard. I'll just have to activate the card reader on the lab doors and revoke her access to it along with the main computer just in case. Then I'll just have to reactivate every ones cards." She explained while Buddy looked at her longingly. "So you take a nap and I'll take care of it." She kissed him on the forehead and stood to head for the door.

"But I'm not tired… you know I hate being stuck in bed… especially without you…" He pleaded.

"Buddy Pine less than an hour ago you were in anaphylactic shock, you need to rest." She said firmly and he crossed his arms across his bare chest in defiance.

"Fine Dr. Prithor." He pouted and stuck his tongue out at her making her raise an eyebrow at him.

"Real mature Buddy." She rolled her eyes and attempted to grab his tongue but he slipped it back into his mouth before she could. He smiled childishly up at her and she kissed him on the tip of his nose. "Now you stay in bed or else I'll have to knock you out." She threatened playfully.

"You wouldn't." He dared her.

"If it was for your own good yes I would." She said sternly and he knew she wasn't joking.

"Ok, ok. I'll stay in bed." He said knowing her patience was wearing thin.

"Thank you." She smiled kissing him one last time before leaving the room. Buddy sat in bed not knowing what to do with himself. He finally decided to do something he hadn't done in years, watch a movie.

Lex had found out that she did indeed break Mirage's nose and fractured the back of her skull. She'd be stuck in the medical wing for a week or two to recover. After the annoying process of scanning everyone's clearance cards and fixing all the security access she returned to Syndrome's room to find him watching the movie Fantastic Four.

"Now I remember why I stopped watching cartoons and movies…" Syndrome began sounding rather annoyed. "Because no matter how amazing the villain's plan is they always lose or turn good in the end." He clicked the movie off and stared angrily at the blank screen.

"Well that's not going to happen to you. If you've noticed almost all villains don't have an amazing, caring, and smart girl at their side to make sure their plan goes through no matter what." Lex said sitting next to him putting a hand on his shoulder and looking into his deep blue eyes. His face softened and he smiled at her.

"I'm keeping you forever…" He said kissing her gently on the lips. "Now can you take this annoying thing out?" He smiled sweetly holding his arm out to her. Lex rolled her eyes at him and took his IV out and disposed of it and the empty saline bag. She undressed and crawled into bed with him and they fell asleep rather quickly exhausted from the day.

The next day Lex revealed his new suit to him and he even stripped for her with it a few times to make sure it was up to his standards. He was extremely happy to learn that she had her own protective wear now as well. Of course not only did she make his new suit easier to get out of, but it was also a lot more damage resistant than his other suit. Two new things about his suit that she decided to keep to herself were the homing device along with making it so his cape would detach if it were pulled on or caught on something, an extra feature courtesy of Edna Mode since she was so incredibly anti-capes and Lex had put into the notes that it had to have a cape or else he wouldn't wear it. If only the lady had known just who she was making it for she might not have done it, but she seemed so eager to make a super suit Lex didn't want to ruin her fun of making the thing she longed to make for the past fifteen years.

The next week everyone was dedicated to finishing the Omni-Droid and testing Gamma Jack. Things were moving quite nicely and everyone seemed to be in a rather good mood since Mirage was still stuck in the medical wing. They had the Omni-Droid 9.0 finished and were on their third day of testing when Mirage was let out of the medical wing. She had a large bandage around her head and strips over her nose. Luckily for the first week she was out she stayed mostly confined to her room. Syndrome had yet to confront her about what had happened and had decided that he wouldn't until she talked to him first.

It was in the afternoon and Syndrome, Lex, and Avian had just finished testing the Omni-Droids artificial intelligence with simple exercises in the obstacle course when Mirage hesitantly approached the three of them.

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