"Now remember." James said, "Superb behaviour, no pranks, trick or messing around. This is an important conference for all defenders."
"Yes, we know." Jack said, "But seriously, why is it being held in Switzerland?"
"To make us all suffer." Zsa-Zsa replied, "8 hours on a plane sitting behind the Peck family."
"Hey!" Danny shouted, "We weren't that bad!"
"Defenders!" James shouted, "This is exactly what I mean!"
Danny and Zsa-Zsa stopped arguing and silent. It wasn't their fault. They didn't even want to be here. When the Jr defenders were told about this conference, they all immediately started shouting at the respective parent. Then they were told it was in Switzerland. If James hadn't physically dragged the Jr defenders away, a riot was sure to start.
James opened one of the golden doors which lead to the conference room. Inside the room itself, had a golden design, golden wall paper and a classy golden ceiling with angels painted on, in the centre one big round table, that almost fitted the entire room, most of the defenders from the other countries were sitting down already talking about boring things like attackers and slime. Kyle noticed the big banner that said 'Defender's Conference'.
"Well Duh." Kyle whispered. He swore he said is as quietly as he could but he heard Jack chuckling next to him and shaking his head in a humorous manner.
James scanned the area and gestured that the Jr defenders follow him. Clearly, this wasn't his first defenders conference. He knew his way around this building then again, he could have just spotted the defenders.
Their parents, who were sitting smiling away with the Spanish defenders,. Their parents who had kindly signed them up for this conference because they thought it was time they took an interest in this sort of thing. Their parents who, when landed at the airport, ditched them because they wanted to make a good impression on the head of the defenders.
"Ah, here they are now." They heard Knightriss say as she stood up and pulled Jack away from the group, "This is my son Jack, leader of the Jr defenders."
Jack did his sarcastic smile, luckily none of the adults caught on even when the Jr defenders laughed slightly. Knightriss then moved onto the next Jr defender after boasting about her son.
"And these are Zsa-Zsa, Danny, Annaka and Kyle." She introduced then sat down. The other defenders minus Skabb looked far from impressed. Their children didn't get their life achievements boasted about.
"Very nice to meet you." The head of the Spanish Defenders greeted.
Well, that's what Danny thought he said. He had a very strong Spanish accent so he, along with the others, nodded politely and hoped that was the right response. Unfortunately, he didn't stop talking.
"Mis amigas here were just saying how well you defend the castle." He continued, "What proportion of slime do you use?"
All heads turned to Zsa-Zsa on this one, who smiled back and froze. Annaka figured she froze for two options. 1 being that she had no idea what the man had said and was trying to process it in her head or 2, she had no idea what the proportion of slime she actually used.
"Umm, well I don't have the…" She started saying as she glanced at Thorne for help but he was just as confused or dumbfound as she was, "Statistics at the moment. The attackers have been declining for us, so we haven't had many attacks."
"Oh, ci, ci." The Spanish defender replied, "We have had the same problem in Spain, maybe they are giving up."
This comment was clearly meant to be a joke as the defender burst out laughing along with his team mates as he said it. All of the Canadian defenders started laughing awkwardly even James, who thought this man was nuts.
After the laughter had ended, no one spoke. Jack turned to look at the Jr defenders then his parents. Everyone still remained silent until Danny spoke up.
"Do you think Batman would win a fight against Spiderman?" He asked.
All of the Jr defenders groaned, this was the tenth time this week.
"Batman and Spiderman are two completely different super heroes." Jack stated.
"So, that's like saying we're two different defenders." Danny argued back.
"Then that would be asking who would win in a fight against you and me." Jack asked him.
Everyone went silent in thought then they were all about to open their mouths. This was the one thing James didn't want to happen. Everyone (including the defenders) was arguing against one another about who would win. 'Team Danny' and 'Team Jack' were arguing against each other, rather loudly.
"Enough!" James shouted above them, "Let's all sit down and shut up!"
The Jr defenders found their seats and sat down in silence waiting for the head of the defenders to start his speech. James heard his phone vibrate. Clearly he wasn't the only one as all the of the Canadian defenders turned around and looked at him. The defenders gave him a glare while the Jr defenders gave him a smug.
"Defenders!" The head shouted. His voice boomed through the Golden hall, "Welcome! It's an honour to be here and discuss the latest problems that arise. The first being the lack of attackers."
"Here we go." Danny muttered as Kyle looked on confused, this was his first conference.
"What?" Kyle asked.
"Basically, he babbles on talking about one subject for 30 minutes in the greatest detail ever. Seriously." Danny explained, "Why did we have to come?"
James was whispering on his phone. He looked stressed and glanced at the Jr defenders. He ended the call and slowly got up to talk to Jack. He patted him on the back and whispered into his ear. Zsa-Zsa glanced at the pair the turned her attention back to the head of defenders, who was now naming statistics of the number of attacker back to 1998.
James sat back down. He wrote something down onto a piece of paper and scrunched it up. He aimed it for Zsa-Zsa. He threw it and it hit her head. She turned around and glared at him. He pointed to the piece of paper and mimed to open it up.
She shook her head in the same way; she would shake her head at Danny's pranks. She opened the note and read it.
Meteorots detected at Pearl Canyon. Need to go now!
She closed the note and threw it at Danny, who read it with Kyle. They both nodded at threw it at Annaka's hair. She glared, like Zsa-Zsa, at the pair but read it anyway. Once finished, she looked at her team mates. How were they going to sneak out of this conference?