Ba da da da! Part 2 baby! Sorry I kept you all waiting for so long. So I won't waste anytime here.

Let's roll!


Episode 1: Disaster's diversion.

[PART 2]

The evening was rather pleasant at The Casagrande's apartment. The children, save for Carlitos, were all gathered in Carlota's room. "Carlota, could you refresh my memory of what we are doing here?" Carl asked in an eerily calm tone.

"There is a junior fashion design competition coming up and I really want to dazzle the judges." Carlota explained as she knelt down beside her little brother and thread a sewing needle through his outfit. The others couldn't help but snicker at the sight.

"Okay. But does that explain why I'm wearing a dress!?" Carl shouted angrily. He waved his arms around his torso to emphasize the absurdity of the frilly red and white dress he was forced to wear. Following his outburst, Ronnie Anne and CJ transitioned from chuckling to full on laughter.

"It's because you're the only one who matches the same size as the models the competition will have." Carlota explained. Her voice didn't have even the slightest bit of remorse or pity in its tone. "Now hold still. I'm almost done with these final little stitches." The teen commanded as she focused on the outfit. CJ still couldn't help but laugh at his brother's misfortune.

"You look silly." Ronnie Anne nodded in agreement.

"You really walked into this you know. Who would believe that there was ever such a thing as a suit with a 'waist cape'?" The rambunctious child teased.

"It's not funny!" Carl whined as a small amount of smoke came out of his hands. Before Carl could escalate into a full on fire ball, an intense quake shook the building. The children were sent tumbling from the shock, and Carlota accidentally dug the needle into her little brother. "Ouch! Watch it!"

"Sorry, Carl. It was an accident." Carlota instantly apologized. Eventually, the shaking stopped and things calmed down. From there, things were intensely silent. No one dared to make a move in case another quake occurred. Their guards dropped as they heard their grandfather call out from across the hall.

"Is everyone okay?" Bobby walked over to the door and leaned his head out into the hall.

"We're fine, Abuelo." He reassured before looking back towards the others. "Anyone else have a sinking feeling that wasn't a normal earthquake?" He stated worriedly. Having a gut feeling her brother was right, Ronnie Anne walked over to the window and gazed upon the various buildings. She squinted as she saw some sort of purple glow in the distance.

"Yeah… I think we better step in and clean this up." She stated. With a collective nod from the group, CJ ran off to his room to log on to his computer, while Ronnie Anne and the others activated their hero watches. In a small display of light, they transformed into their super hero attire. Gazing out to the window once more, Ronnie Anne, now Relay, linked arms with everyone. "Alright Guardians… Let's do this."

Relay closed her eyes and the group instantly were warped across town, landing on top of a roof. Supernova stretched and sighed in relief. "This is more like it. I'll take my awesome costume over a dumb dress any day." He celebrated. "Alright, so where is the bad guy?" He stated fiercely as he pounded a fist into his open hand. Just then, a couple of screams were heard from the streets below. The four looked down to see a group of citizens running from a purple light. The team slowly looked towards the source of the glow and saw what was causing the panic in the citizens.

A giant blob, colored with a deep purple hue, oozed through the city streets. Its speed was incredibly slow, yet intimidating as parking meters and cars were absorbed into its body. At the top of the mass was what looked like a face. It was seemed to be frowning, but didn't indicate a true emotion in its wrinkly eyes. It stopped moving as it drew close the building the heroes were standing on, then turned its head to face them. None of them dared to make a move in front of the monster.

Nervous, Relay pressed against the communicator in her ear. "Command, any ideas?" She asked in hopes CJ would be able to chime in with something useful.

"I don't know. But maybe he's friendly?" He suggested. As if to prove him wrong, the monster's eyes narrowed and the beast let out an intense roar. The intensity of its battle cry sprayed saliva all over them. "Never mind." CJ muttered. The monster raised its arm up and made a fist to try and crush The Guardians. Immediately. Glamour raised her arms and created a dazzling flash of light. The creature then covered his eyes, blinded by the light.

"Okay, I want to make this quick so my costume doesn't get ruined." Glamour huffed. "Glacier, think you can just freeze that thing in place?"

"Not a problem, Glamour." Glacier jumped from the roof and started to create a slide of ice for him to descend from the roof and onto the street below. By the time he made it to the ground, the monster had recovered from its blindness and growled in anger. "Alright buddy this won't hurt a bit." Glacier then proceeded to spray a stream of frost that covered the monster's body. The ice grew larger and larger, slowly encasing it. "Wow, this was easier than I thought." Glacier laughed happily. However, his joy was short lived as he noticed the ice began to crack a little bit. Then, the monster began seep from the cracks and escape from the shell. Growling and letting out another roar as it escaped. "Well that was a bust." Glacier moped.

Supernova couldn't help but snicker as he went down his cousin's ice slide and followed him down to the street. "Oh, Glacier. Obviously something like this is more sensitive to fire. Watch how a real hero does it." As the young child bragged, he stretched his arm out and blasted a large fire ball at the beast. The point of impact turned a little lighter in color and had a few marks from the burn. "See? Just let me handle this and we'll be done in no time." As Supernova bragged, the burn mark continued to bubble rapidly until it spontaneously burst, trapping both him and Glacier in a giant ball of goop.

Both didn't speak in fear of swallowing the material by mistake. But Glacier was able to shoot his little cousin a disapproving gaze while the monster's wound regenerated. Relay shook her head in frustration and pressed the communicator in her ear again. "Command, if Glamour and I distract that thing, can you get us an analysis?" She asked.

"I'll see what I can do." CJ responded. Relay looked straight at the monster and teleported right in front of its face. She then proceeded to deliver a kick to one of its eyes. Unfortunately, her foot got stuck within the slime as a result. The monster gurgled and tried to grab Relay, but Glamour shot a few beams of light into it and caught the monster's attention. Glamour ran to the edge of the building and leaped off the side. As she fell, she made a series of platforms out of light to help her move to the next rooftop. Relay took advantage of the opportunity and warped down to where Glacier and Supernova were trapped.

Relay reached into the blob and pulled both of them out by their heads. The boys took deep breaths of air as they crawled out with their now freed arms. Glacier hugged his little sister and gasped. "I don't think I'm eating PB and J sandwiches for a while."

"Guys! I think I found something!" CJ shouted through the communicators. "That thing is made of a giant blend of different things. It makes it very sensitive to certain elements like when Supernova made it burst."

"Anything that can help us stop it without making the town look like a vineyard?" Glamour asked as she fired another beam at the monster. The beast managed to block her shot and slammed its hand on top of her. When it lifted him, Glamour was trapped in a bubble of jelly like material.

"Well, it looks like whatever it's made of is also sensitive to water." CJ noted. Upon hearing that fact, Glacier and Supernova looked at each other and grinned.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?"

"You know it." Glacier and Supernova looked up at the monster and both fired streams of ice and fire respectively. The two elements collided mid flight and the fire melted the ice into a torrent of water. As the clear liquid collided with the monster's jelly like skin, it roared in discomfort as it jiggled and began to shrink. Glamour managed to free her head from the jelly bubble and saw her family push back against the beast.

"It's losing steam, but I don't think it's going to stay still for long." Glamour noted as she saw the monster adopt a frustrated expression. Relay looked around in hopes of finding something that would help. Her eyes settled on a single red fire hydrant and a hardware store. A smile grew on her face as she ran inside the building and scanned the aisles as quickly as she could. Eventually, she spotted a wrench and quickly grabbed it off the shelf. Quickly glancing back to the fire hydrant outside, she teleported next to it slammed the wrench into place. Relay groaned as she turned it and loosened the bolt, causing a torrent of water to burst out of the hydrant.

The monster roared as the water started to melt it more rapidly. "Nice thinking, Relay!" CJ complimented as the monster shrank. Its size being drastically reduced as the water overwhelmed it. As it shrank, CJ saw something through the video feed that seemed peculiar. The monster's purple coloring was fading to that of a peach shade. Its shape became more humanoid. Looking closer, CJ realized what was happening and gasped. "Guys, stop!" He pleaded. Upon hearing the desperate cry, Relay closed the hydrant and the boys stopped their attack.

"What's wrong, Captain C?" Glacier asked. The heroes looked down where the monster used to be and were appalled by what they saw. In place of the gooey monster was a simple man. He was lying face down and shuddering. The sight was made more troubling with the fact he had no clothes on. No one found the strength to speak as they were too stunned with the reveal. Glamour, who had managed to free herself from the jelly bubble, came down onto the streets with the others.

"What's going on? Did we win?" Glamour asked in confusion. Her gaze drifted toward the ground and she saw the man lying there. Immediately, Glamour screamed in terror. "Wait, that thing was a person!? Is he… dead?" She asked nervously. Relay dropped the wrench and walked over to the man. She thought back to the basics of nursing she saw her mother employ and grabbed the man's wrist.

There was still a pulse. "G-g-go away…" The man mumbled to himself. Relay breathed a small sigh of relief.

"He's fine. But he looks pretty shaken up." Pressing the communicator in her ear, she contacted CJ. "Captain C, can you call an ambulance for this guy?" She asked.

"Of course."

"Thanks buddy." Relay turned to the rest of her family. "I got to go put this wrench back in the hardware store where I found it. Hopefully the police will cut this guy a break." She stated as she walked away with the tool in her hands. A troublesome thought popped into her head as she walked away.

'Why do I feel like he didn't do this on purpose?' Relay thought to herself in fear.

'And why do I feel like this was just an omen for something worse?'


Thus the battle comes to a close. And Ronnie Anne is right to listen to her gut here. She has no idea what rude awakening is yet to show their face.

Now before I leave, I would like to say a few things.

First, I want to write a few more episodes of this series before I go adding more full length adventures for The Sound Barrier. Though I will occasionally still throw in mini-sodes for them.

Secondly, If the reader who thought up that theme song for The Sound Barrier is reading this... I would love for you to work your magic again here!

See ya around, everybody!