Chapter Thirty Two: Double Agents
The day without the Senior Supers was pretty relaxed. The teens played around, went through their normal amount of training, then just mostly split off into their own groups to do whatever they wanted.
Violet spent most of her day trying to keep Jack Jack entertained. The two year old was talkative, always running, and easily distracted. Violet was able to put him in a force field and let him run around like a giant hamster, which in turn gave her a chance to catch up on her reading.
After lunch, Tooth joined her, bringing along her own daughter Babienne. Babi had been caught in the Omega Blast, but she was too young to join the team. Her mom had been slowly training her though, teaching her how to use her colorful feathery wings with the help of Nightfury.
"You're very good with your brother," Tooth commented as Violet played with Jack Jack. The other girl shrugged, moving her hair aside so the toddler didn't grab onto it.
"Mom and Dad get busy with the hero stuff sometimes," She said. "Also with life stuff. I don't mind though, I like my brothers,"
"It prepares you for your own family, if you want one," Tooth said. "Although I don't suggest being a teen mom with superpowers,"
"Powers are genetic too," Violet mumbled. "At least with us,"
"No, I think it's across the board. Babi was born before I had my powers, so you have to remove her from the lineup. Your family had two supers, but Tip only had one,"
"Mama look!" Babi interrupted. The little girl was floating about two feet off the ground, wings beating at hummingbird speed to keep her in the air.
"Good job!" Tooth cheered. She stood up and picked her daughter up to put on her hip. "I'll go start dinner if you want to find and tell the others,"
"Okay," Violet smiled.
The team made and ate dinner, but the Senior Supers still didn't return. They stayed up until midnight waiting, even though some of the younger kids drifted off to sleep in the lounge. The older ones went through a movie marathon, but eventually had to tap out before the last one finished.
When the teens woke up the next morning, the others still weren't back.
"Didn't mom say they'd be home by now?" Dash asked as he and Violet handed up breakfast. His sister just shrugged.
"I'm sure the mission is just going a little long," Tooth said. "They'll be home soon,"
"If my dad's first superhero mission goes dramatically wrong then I'm going to break something," Wilbur yelled from his spot on the couch. The TV in front of him was playing Saturday morning cartoons, and both Emma and Babi were engrossed in the show while they shoveled in cereal.
"Who's here today?" Riley asked. "I'm picking up less emotions,"
"Um… Sandy and North were at Robinson Industries yesterday, but they'll be coming back soon," Penny rattled off. "My dad went to visit mom, but Dr Calico's here. Tadashi's here,"
"My mom was going to visit, but she got a new job interview and had to cancel," Tip added.
The teens finished breakfast and split off again. Tooth offered to handle Jack-Jack so Violet had more time to herself, which the teen was thankful for.
They met up to play a quick training game before lunch, then checked the logs for any sign of the senior supers. Still nothing. No check ins, no messages, just radio silence. The last gps location showed them over an island in the pacific, but that had been last night.
"Think they're okay?" Tip asked. The others shrugged, but she could tell they were just as nervous as she was.
"Are you sure about this?" Tip asked as Penny opened up the computers in the briefing rooms. "Maybe they're on their way back,"
"I just have this feeling that they're in trouble," Penny muttered, typing and scrolling through the various programs. "Hey what's this?"
Tip leaned over as Penny clicked on an unfamiliar set of files. Instead of opening like the others, a new password slot appeared. Penny frowned, then typed something in.
"Dad gave me an override code," She muttered. The screen loaded for a moment, then opened. "This is so weird,"
The files had collected information from the reports on the Robinson Industries explosion, to the omega super's files, to other mission reports. It was too scattered to be one file, and it looked like someone had picked over the bigger files to steal information. It covered everyone inside the POLE.
"What?" Tip muttered as the files and pictures continued to cycle through on the screens above them. Videos of the explosions, a weird shape through smoke, a police report for Jackson Overland, Merida with her face covered in scratches and cuts, Hiccup before and after the serum, Dr Moone. There were ones of Rapunzel and her healing hair, security camera footage showing the teens in the employee's lounge and one of Wilbur following his dad down to the lab. Tadashi, Hiro and Riley all working on Baymax, complete with the robots stats and blueprints.
"Wait… someone not here…" Penny realized. "There's nothing on Cali-"
"You girls should have stayed with the others," Dr Calico snarled.
"No…." Penny breathed. "But they trusted you, my dad trusted you!"
"Sean never knew when to leave well enough alone. He's the one who gave you that access code, didn't he?"
Before Penny or Tip could answer or really finish processing what was happening, Calico pulled something from his coat pocket and lunged at the girls. Dodging out of the way and pulling Penny with her, Tip recognized it as the same type of taser baton Tortazo used.
Calico turned towards them and swung, but Tip used her sonic scream to push him back. Penny lunged for the intercom system in by the door, frantically pushing the button and hitting the 'everywhere' function.
"EMERGENCY! CALICO'S A SPY! EVERYONE GET OU-AHHHH!"
The taser connected with her back before she could finish the warning.
"EMERGENCY! CALICO'S A SPY! EVERYONE GET OU-AHHHH!"
Scattered around the POLE, the various supers and scientists heard Penny scream before a loud thump. More fighting in the background, then Tip's sonic scream and another pained yell.
Emma and Tooth locked eyes as the latter grabbed her daughter close.
The Hamada's and Wilbur stopped their work on their projects in the lab.
Violet, Dash and Riley stopped playing their game in the kitchen.
Calico yelled into a comm that wasn't the one he'd been given by the Big Four.
"Pitch, I've been compromised," Calico hissed, voice suddenly filling The Nights lair. Everyone in the warehouse stopped, turning towards their leader as he addressed the situation.
"Is that Dr Calico?" Edith hissed to Margo. "I thought he was in the POLE?!"
"Execute the contingency plan," Pitch told Calico. "We've prepared for this possibility,"
There was silence, then a buzz as Calico replied.
"Final bombs will go off in ten minutes," The mad scientist smirked.
"We shall send someone to retrieve you shortly," Pitch responded. Gothel bounced and started to giggle in her own weird, twisted way. The other villians started to laugh or cheer, and Margo and Edith stopped in their tracks.
"Agnes is still inside the POLE," Margo whispered. Edith's eyes widened before zipping around the room like she was weighing her odds.
Antonio stopped and quickly glanced at the sisters, remembering the stories about their youngest sister. Before his father could notice and his conscience could catch up, he moved back.
Across the room, Yokai looked up from his seat and saw both exchanges. Unbeknownst to the others, he had the same doubts. A group of supervillains might have sounded like a good idea at the beginning, but they clearly didn't share the limits he thought they did.
Pitch turned to the group.
"Mindness, take Yokai, Tortazo, and Hastemaker with you to pick up Calico. You should know the route to take,"
Authors Note: Its the beginning of the end! These next few chapters are my absolute favorites! g
