Chapter 31: Revelations.
Dash glared up at the Underminer as his robot hovered over him.
"Now, Speed Demon, time to die." the helmeted madman said.
"But first, let me let you in on a little secret." Dash was surprised as he sat on the floor, clutching his bloody head.
"This whole thing, except for you and Miss Stealth meddling where you shouldn't have, was my plan." the Underminer said.
"You see, after my most recent setback, I wondered why I just couldn't beat you. Then, it hit me. I didn't have to beat you. I could just have someone do that for me, and who better than your own fans? So, when that fire was started at that building, I planted it there, knowing one of you was bound to find it. I controlled it remotely from down here and made you panic as it got closer and closer to detonating. Once you threw it away, I had it blow once near those citizens' cars. That was phase 1, to make them angry at you and ruin your reputation until you stopped showing up. Phase 2 was to make it worse and take care of your parents easily by creating a robot of you. I knew that Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl had no experience against something with super speed, so I built it to rival you in speed, both running and attacking, that way it could defeat both of them easily. This was also meant to make the people hate you completely, even though you showed back up and destroyed it. It worked like a charm. The ones who hated you have now forsaken you, driving you out of town, with your petty sister going to find you. With you two out and your parents in the hospital, I was free to initiate my plan. The only problem was I didn't count on you and your sister coming back to see your parents at the hospital. No matter though. Now that you're both crushed, I can get back to my master plan!" he said before he floated up in the robot, laughing maniacally. Dash glared after him before he struggled to his feet and limped through the room, stopping to look through the hole where he saw Violet lying in front of what looked like some sort of computer amidst a pile of rubble thanks to the bomb, motionless and injured. Her suit was torn and her head, arm, side, and left leg were either badly bruised or bleeding.
Dash smiled at her, "Thanks, sis, for all you've done for me. I'll take it from here." he said before he limped out of the room. Suddenly, his NSA communicator went off in his pocket. He reached in and grabbed it.
"Hello?" he said into it.
He then heard his mom's voice, "Dash, honey, are you okay?" she asked.
"Forget me, you need to send someone into this giant hole for Violet. She's unconscious, but she'll be fine with a little medical treatment." he said as he cut on the holo-camera feature and showed them the unconscious Violet.
"Oh, my baby!" Elastigirl said as she saw her daughter.
Dash then heard his dad's voice, "Mirage, Edna and Rick are here with us at the hospital. We'll have someone down there for Violet right now." he said.
Mirage then appeared beside his father, "Dash, what about you? Let us look at you." she said. Dash turned the holo-camera to face him and his mom and Mirage had to keep themselves from screaming at his face, which had one side covered in blood and was looking really bad in other spots. They also got a view of some of his suit, which was torn in some spots, some showing wounds, especially in his legs.
"DASHIELL ROBERT PARR, LOOK AT YOUR FACE! How can you say that you're all right?!" his mom cried in horror, tears brimming at her eyes.
"I'm going to finish this. The Underminer was behind all this. He made a fool out of me. I'm going to the surface and beating him alone." Dash said into the communicator.
"Dash, you are NOT! Your face is half bloody and you probably can't even walk right! You can't fight the Underminer like that! Let us send Frozone and some other Supers after him!" Mr. Incredible said.
"I'm tired of someone always fixing my problems. This time, I'm gonna fix it!" Dash declared and, before anyone could protest, he cut off the communicator and limped to an elevator. He used it to go to the surface and, as he stepped out of it, saw people running for their lives from the Underminer's robot as he shot the cannon and smashed things with the drill. He looked closely and saw that he didn't have the glass dome protecting him. Despite the pain in his legs, he managed to run at super speed up the robot's back and jumped/stomped on the Underminer's head, giving him a splitting headache. The madman held his head for a bit as Dash landed on the ground before collapsing to his knee, hissing in pain as he clutched his head. The Underminer recovered and looked around for what hit him when he saw Dash in front of the robot. He screamed in shock before pointing at the injured Super.
"You're ruining my master plan, you stubborn freak of nature! Will you just give up and die already?!" he shouted before he pressed a button that lifted the cannon, as if to try to crush him. Dash sped out of the way before it came down.
He then looked up at the Underminer with fury and shouted at the top of his lungs, "I WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY OUR WORLD! YOU'RE GOING DOWN!"