Chapter Thirty Eight: The Senior Supers
The Nightmares ran to join the Omnidroids, and the team regrouped in front of the convention center after getting Tadashi's friends to safety.
"Here!" Callaghan yelled, shoving a petri dish holding a small microbot into Wilbur's hands. "This will lead you to the others! Maybe we can win if we have their help!"
"We can't leave you!" He protested, but Emma flew past and blasted a Nightmare away in a spray of ice.
"Yeah you can!" She yelled. "Get your team and go!"
Wilbur teleported up to Penny and brought her back down to Hiro and Violet, and the four split off as the rest of the team kept fighting the sand monsters and robots.
"Alright uglies!" Dash grinned, fist bumping with Edith as he skidded to a stop. "Let's dance,"
Using the microbot, Dimension led Phantom, Barker and Rocketeer down the streets, taking out lone Nightmares if they had to. The microbot seemed to understand the situation, taking them through alleyways instead of the main roads until they reached a back entrance to another building.
"Wait a second…" Wilbur realized. "This is Deavor Labs!"
"We've never fought anything from Deavor before," Penny said.
"My dad is friends with the Deavors!" Wilbur protested. "This has got to be a set-up, the Night's using their building or something,"
"Callaghan did say that Screenslaver hypnotized their victims," Hiro said. "They probably have lairs all over the place,"
"Come on!"
Hiro dismantled the locks with his powers, and Wilbur and Violet teleported the entire group inside using a force field bubble. Penny took control of the microbot, calling out directions as it led them deeper into a sub basement in the building.
Creeping through the lab, the group stumbled upon a hallway of glass covered cells. At the end of the hallway was another locked door, presumably leading to another lower level.
"Hello?" Penny called. Everyone held their breath, then let it out all at once as someone inside the cells replied.
"Kids? Wil?!"
"DAD!" Wilbur yelled, running towards the cells and sliding to his knees. "Dad!"
"Wilbur!" Cornelius cried, slamming his hands into the cell front. "What are you doing here?!"
"Vere are the girls?!" Gru yelled from behind Wilbur's dad. "Is everyone alright?!"
"Where's everyone else?" Violet interrupted. "My parents?"
Hiro made short work of the locks, letting Gru and Cornelious out. The older Robinson immediately grabbed his son, hands clenching tightening into the back of his suit.
"They got the jump on us," Cornelius explained. "But Screenslaver said they wanted us… awake for what they planned to do,"
"Get the door open," Violet told Hiro, who ran to the end of the hall.
"I'm getting you out of here," Wilbur said. He grabbed his dad and Gru, then nodded and teleported away. The trio appeared on the street outside of Deavor Labs, the adults squinting in the sunlight. "Hide - but stay in the sun!"
Wilbur teleported back to his team, just in time for Hiro to break open the lock. Beyond that door was another staircase, then another set of glass fronted cells.
With the unconscious senior supers inside.
"We found them!" Penny cried happily. Hiro used his powers to break open the cells, releasing the older heroes.
"Mom? Dad?!" Violet asked, looking into the cell. Instead of answering, her parents suddenly looked up - eyes covered with glowing blue goggles. At the same time, the rest of the senior supers stood up and lunged forwards.
"RUN!" Wilbur yelled, and the four tore out of the lab, the hypnotized heroes following behind.
"We've located the Senior Supers!" Violet yelped into her comm, going invisible to stay out of sight. "But they're not okay! SOS! S O S!"
The younger four burst out of Deavor Labs into the alleyway they'd entered from. Penny tripped, but Hiro hauled her to her feet, moving her just before a sunblast from Solarflare hit the ground where she'd been.
As Mr Incredible leapt out of the building, Phantom caught him in a force field. She shook every time he slammed his fists into the wall, but the field held. Violet let out a guttural yell and forced her hands closer together, shrinking the field to hold her dad back.
Seeing Violet's advantage, Elastigirl struck out and tried to grab her. Before she could make contact, Wilbur was able to tackle the teenager out of the way and the two teleported to safety.
Frost flew out towards the battle, heading straight for Flurry. He started to launch icy shards and winds at her, throwing the younger girl off her game as she tried to fend off both him and the Nightmares.
One lucky hit struck her in the side, and Emma shrieked as she almost tumbled to the ground.
Archer and Nightfury also ran towards the battle, but instead of helping their team, they just started to defend the omnidroids. Frozone joined them, undoing any walls or structures Emma had been able to create.
Penny dove away as they broke out of the building, rolling and crawling away. She mentally called out to Bolt and Mittens, trying to get them to help her.
There was a small explosion as Solarflare followed the younger hero, firing sun blast after sun blast.
Catching a glimpse of a parking garage door left half open, Penny pushed herself to her feet and dove for the door. Once inside the dark building, she ran to hide again.
Mr Incredible and Elastigirl regrouped and turned on Hiro. He stumbled back and yanked metal doors away from other buildings to use them as shields.
It wasn't slowing the Parrs down. In fact - they just kept going.
Hiro ran out into the main streets again, ducking and weaving away from Elastigirl's attacks. Finally he hit the main battle, running into Kanjo in front of the SFIT exhibit.
"What's going on?!" Riley demanded. Before Hiro could answer, the Incredibles turned the corner and attacked. Elastigirl grabbed a manhole cover and used her arms like a slingshot to throw it towards the two younger heroes.
"NO!" Hiro yelled, tackling Riley back. They hit the ground, and Hiro's head made contact with the concrete. As he groaned and tried to recover, Riley hauled him to his feet and pulled him back into the convention center.
Mr Incredible and Elastigirl stopped attacking as Kanjo and Rocketeer toppled back into the Nightmare infested building, disappearing back into the darkness.
Authors note: So did anyone predict what was going to happen to the senior supers? Let me know! Now that we're into the final fight, things are going to get a lot crazier!