Author's Note: I know a lot of you don't read the AN at the end, but do, it's very important. Read ALL of it.
Max and Allison stared at the rest of the Thunderman family expectantly, continuing to dry themselves off.
They didn't have to wait long, for then a loud shout of congratulations was heard from everyone as they pulled the two into hugs.
Max soon felt himself peeling away from the continuous hugs, saying something or other about how it was way too much touching.
"Congrats, Max. I didn't know you had it in you." Phoebe said, laying a hand on her twins shoulder as the two watched her mom and Nora fawn over Allison's ring.
"Yeah well, I love her, she's everything to me." He said softly, smiling as he watched his girlfriend - no sorry, his fiancé - smile and laugh with his mom and sister.
After about an hour or so, the only people left downstairs were Hank, Barb, Max, and Allison. Everybody else had gone to sleep, grateful that it was a Saturday.
"Max, the four of us need to have a serious talk." Hank said as Max and Allison sat across from him and Barb.
"We think you should become a super hero." Barb said slowly, staring at Max with a serious look.
"This again? Seriously?" Max said irritated as he began to get up. Allison grabbed his hand, giving him a pleading look and eventually he sat back down.
Barb took a deep breath, waiting for Max to calm down before continuing. "Max, just hear us out, okay? If you become a super villain, what are you gonna have? You're not gonna have the financial support to raise a baby, that's for sure."
Max stayed quiet, looking down at his hands.
"If you become a hero, you'll have financial support, you won't have to push your family away, and you don't have to worry about your baby seeing you grow up behind bars. Is that what you want, Max? What if you got caught? How would you be able to support Allison and a baby if you're sitting in jail." Hank said, backing up Barb's previous point.
"I don't know! Okay?" Max shouted, standing up, looking around for an exit. "I don't know..." He mumbled, running to his slide and going down it, leaving his parents and Allison behind.
Once he was down to his lair, Max let out a scream, punching the wall next to his Dark Mayhem poster. He winced, sitting down on his bed slowly. He put his head in his hands, noticing the bed dip and someone sit down next to him, laying their head on his shoulder.
"Max..." Allison began softly, but Max shook his head, lifting his head up out of his hands. "Don't, Allison."
She nodded and stayed silent, but after a few moments she spoke. "I'll support you no matter what, okay?"
He nodded, looking down as he began to think.
"Daddy! Look! I finished!" 10 year old Phoebe yelled, turning around as she saw Hank and Barb rush towards her.
Hank picked up the sheet as him and Barb looked over it. They checked the time and laughed happily. "Phoebe! You just wrote the powers of every single hero in Metroburg in 4 minutes! Looks like someone's been studying so they can get their cape!"
Phoebe laughed, but waved them off modestly.
"Let's see how Max did!" Barb said excitedly, grabbing Max's paper. The two of them frowned, seeing nothing on the paper. "Why didn't you write anything down, Max?"
"I didn't feel like it." 10 year old Max mumbled, turning away from his family.
"Max, but don't you want your superhero cape?" Hank asked, his eyebrows furrowed as he sat down next to his son.
"Not really, no."
"That's not the spirit, Max! Come on, I'll help you study and then you can catch up to Phoebe! I mean it might take awhile, she is getting pretty advanced!" Barb and Hank laughed together happily, not seeing the disappointed look on Max's face.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Max asked, trying to cover up the obvious hurt in his voice.
Barb sat down on the other side of him, wrapping a supportive arm around his shoulder. "Nothing bad! It's just that Phoebe's been working really hard! You've been-You've been slacking a bit, Max."
With that, Max got up, quickly leaving the room and rushing to his own. "Stupid, Phoebe. Making unreachable standards for me to fill."
"Maybe I can try something else, then I can make my own bar for Phoebe to have to reach!" Max thought, a devious look on his face.
Max sat in the principal's office the next day, a new found smirk on his lips.
"How could you do this, Max!? What were you thinking?" Hank exclaimed as him and Barb scolded the boy, the principal watching with a frown on his face.
"It was just a prank. A great prank at that! I finally used my super powers for something and you complain about it! So what I made the teacher flip back in her chair?" Max said, standing up and crossing his arms.
"She broke her wrist, Max!" Barb exclaimed, staring at the boy in shock.
Max felt something in him give, but held it back. "I don't get why you're not proud of the fact that I used my powers!" He exclaimed, throwing his arms up.
"Because you hurt someone, Max! That's not what future superheroes do!" Hank and Barb shook their heads, looking at him with a disappointed look on their faces.
"Maybe I don't want to be a superhero!" 10 year old Max shouted angrily.
"Maybe...Maybe I wanna be a villain! Yeah! I do want to become a villain! And that's exactly what I'll do and no one's gonna stop me."
As he went to storm out of the room, Hank grabbed him, shaking his head as he took an angry Max out of the school and to the car.
"You know he's suspended for a week, right?" The principal said awkwardly, staring at Barb.
Barb nodded, sighing as she walked out after Max and Hank.
Max chuckled darkly, his eyes downcast. Of course he had thought about what would happen if he had found a girl he loved. He had planned on making her his dark empress and together they would rule.
And yeah, he did think about what would happen if he had a kid. He or She would be trained to take over when he died and they would create a new Thunderman legacy. An evil one.
But all of this had been once he was big and successful! After he had a humongous following and tons of cash to live on! But right now..., he didn't have any of that. He had a lair and a talking rabbit.
"What am I supposed to do now?" He thought to himself as he shook Allison awake from his shoulder, taking her hand. She gave him a confused look, but did nothing as he went across his room.
"Maybe I'm just not cut out for this." Max mumbled, grabbing Colosso and his cage, walking up the stairs quietly. He grabbed the keys to the Thundervan as he walked outside and hopped in.
"Just for a little bit, I'll only be gone for a little bit." He chanted to himself before turning on the engine, putting Colosso in the backseat as Allison climbed into the passenger seat, fully confused.
"Max? Where are we going?" Colosso asked, looking over at Max as the boy put his seat belt on.
"Just for a little bit." Colosso and Allison heard Max mumble to himself.
"What's just for a little bit, Max?" She asked, shaking her fiancé, who seemed to be stuck in a dream like state.
"Just for a little bit." And with that, they were gone.
5 year old Max sat on a park bench, looking down as his feet swung back and forth. "Max!" He heard his name called and turned around to see his parents.
"Why'd you run off like that, are you crazy?" Barb and Hank asked, kneeling down in front of him, a look of pure relief on their faces.
"It was only for a little bit." He frowned, being picked up by his dad as the three of them began to walk back.
Max listened closely, straining his small ears to hear to his parent's hushed conversation.
"Why can't he stay and listen like Phoebe?" He heard his dad ask and saw his mom shake her head in response.
"It was just for a little bit." 5 year old Max thought to himself as he felt tears begin to rush down his face.
"Just for a little bit..." He whimpered under his breath, his tears rushing down harder.
"Just for a little bit..."
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