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A Mirage of Violet
Chapter 2
At the dinner table, it was very quiet. Syndrome read plans and ate at the same time, and Mirage had nothing to do but eat.
Syndrome finished reading and pushed the plans aside.
"So," he started, "What have you been up to?"
"Well, I bought a house with the money you gave me, and I haven't worked any where, so basically nothing."
"Oh," he said, "sounds boring."
"It is, when you're alone..."
She sighed and got up.
"I'm finished, I think I'll turn in early,"
"Fine, be in the conference room by 10:00."
She walked out.
Mirage easily awoke at 8:00, as she usually did. This gave her plenty of time to eat, get ready, and of course, relax.
A few minutes before she left her room, she decided to ask Syndrome why he had called her back here.
She wanted -no- needed to know. Why would he call her after she betrayed him? They had had a relationship, but she figured it had ended after the whole betting-her-life situation. Did he still have feelings for her? Did he ever? She needed an answer, but how should she ask the question?
I'll figure it out when I get there, she thought, and headed to the conference room at 9:50. She always liked to be on time.
When she got there, the room was empty, as she expected it to be.
Syndrome was always late. Not too late, but late all the same. This annoyed her, as she was always early or on time, and had to wait for him.
She thought this time would be good for thinking of how to ask the right question to him.
"Why did you call me back here after what I did?"
No, too long.
"Why do you want me here when you could easily find another person to help you?"
No, once again too long. And too wordy.
What about something simple, like:
"Why did you call me back?"
It was ok, but it didn't say everything she wanted it to.
The door busted open.
"Sorry I'm late," he said as he walked to his seat.
"I'm used to it," she replied.
It was now or never, she had to ask.
"I wanted to ask you something..." she said, staring at the table.
Ugh, why did I say that? That was dumb... she thought
He looked up from his plans.
"Yes?"
"Why did you call me back here?"
"I needed your help-"
"No, I mean why me?"
"I don't understand," he said
"You know what I did to you, I let them escape. Why would you call someone who betrayed you?"
Now she was so curious she didn't care what she said or how she said it. She wanted an answer, and she was going to get it.
"Because," he said quietly
"Because what? I need an answer Syn-"
"Because I needed to see you," he blurted out.
"I couldn't give up what we had, even if we don't have it anymore," he stated, looking at the table.
She was shocked. No, she was beyond shocked. She didn't know he still had feelings for her. In fact, she didn't think he ever had.
The room was silent.
"Well, you got your answer. Can we go over the plan now?"
"Yes, now we can," she said, coming back from her world of thoughts.
He pressed a button on a remote making a hologram of a robot appear on the table. It looked like the last one, only now it was flying and had more legs.
"This is the new Omnidroid 10,000-2. As you can see, I've made more modifications. It can now fly, teleport, and of course, it's stronger."
He clicked the remote again and the hologram disappeared.
"But for it to be that strong, it's almost uncontrollable once you unleash it..." he said with a sigh. "So I've found one way for it to be in combat without bringing it to Mr. Incredible and his family. If we did bring it there, it might go on a rampage and destroy other targets, maybe even my plane. So I needed to make a sort of 'arena' for it to be in."
He pushed a button revealing another hologram on the table. It showed a hole under the island where the 10,000-2 was stored.
"Did you build any other robots?" Mirage asked.
"Yes, one other that we'll use later. But anyway, I was thinking when we unleash the omnidroid 10,000-2, after it kills the Incredibles, we'll need to destroy it before it wreaks the lair."
"So what's this?" Mirage said looking at the hologram.
"Oh that. I've built a huge trap right outside the island."
"Great, so how are you going to get it to catch them?" she said.
"That was my only mistake. But, I've found a way to fix it."
"Go on."
"I need to lure them over here right? What made Mr. Incredible's family come last time?"
"Well," Mirage started, "Obviously they thought he was in trouble. so they came to rescue him-"
"Exactly. If another member of their family was somehow-I don't know-kidnapped here, the rest of the family would come to get him or her." said Syndrome.
"So you're saying-"
"Yes. We bring the smaller robot to their town, and while they're fighting away, one of them has to be hurt on the ground at some point. And when that happens, we'll swoop down and pick them up."
"Which one?" Mirage asked.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean which Incredible will you get, or prefer to get?"
"Well, it doesn't really matter..." he said.
"Sure it does. You need to program the robot to attack that one person the most so there'll be a better chance of them being knocked out." Mirage explained "Which one do you want?"
"You choose one, I don't care." Syndrome said.
"Well, I was thinking one of the children would be easiest to grab..."
"Which one though? The both have powers to try to get away from us."
"Right. Well, if you have some of that dis-invisa powder, we could equipt the robot with some and always know where the teen-aged girl is." said Mirage.
"True, and that running kid is way too fast for the velocipods anyway."
"So the girl it is." Mirage announced.
"Yeah, what's her name anyway?" Syndrome wondered.
"Her name? Well, I never really knew.."
"Uh, it doesn't matter. We'll find out later."
"Alright," said Mirage, who was a little curious why he'd want to know anyway. What did it matter?
"See?" he said, turning in her direction, "This is also why I needed you here. I would have never thought of dis-invisa powder, we actually have some in the back room."
Wow, thought Mirage, Saying he needed to see me and a compliment?
Mirage smiled at the thought.
Syndrome smiled back, then snapped out of it and gathered his plans from the table.
"So," he said, still straightening up his plans, "That's all of my plan for now. Any questions?"
"Yes, did you build the smaller robot that you're going to send to the Incredibles, or did you already have it made? Is it a duplicate of the 9,000?"
"Actually, I saved the blueprints for the 9,000 and built it within these three years. So yes, it is a duplicate."
"Oh, I see."
Syndrome grabbed his plans from the table.
"Well, I've got to add the dis-invisa powder to the 9,000, so I better hurry on that,"
"Yes, and I would also like to see the area where the 10,000-2 is being stored." she said.
"So, I guess I'll just see you at dinner them," he said, and turned and walked out.
Mirage sat there, looking at the hologram on the table which he forgot to turn off. She grabbed the remote and clicked the off button.
She was overwhelmed by emotions now. Surprised, confused, impressed, excited, and for some reason, happiness.
She thought of his very bright blue eyes, romantic and powerful. How he used to hole her and spread his warmth through her body, how...
No. No, no, no.
I can't do this, I won't do this. I'm not making the same mistake twice. She thought
She snapped out of her thoughts and headed for the area where the 10,000-2 was.
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Chapter 3 will be up very soon.