XVII. IMPLEMENTATION

Monday finally brought with it a seemingly normal day; at least as normal as a day could get for such an incredible family. Dash was back in school today and Violet was dying for class to let out. 'This is it,' she though to herself. 'There's no turning back.' She was hoping to duck out of class as soon as the bell rang so she could accomplish as much as possible without raising suspicion. She looked up at the clock, 'five, four, three, two, one.' The bell rang and she ran out the door. The first thing she now had to do was reach her destination quickly and to do that she decided to try something new. She dashed into the restroom, donned her super suit which she had smuggled out in her backpack that morning, and stashed her clothes in the back of a cabinet beneath the sink. She instantly turned invisible and raced away from the school towards the highway. 'I hope this works,' she thought as she came to a stop at the road. A slow moving car passed by and unbeknownst to the driver Violet jumped on the back. The car traveled a few blocks where she disembarked and found a car headed down a different street. 'This would be a lot easier if I was Dash,' she thought. Nevertheless her plan worked and she reached her destination in a fraction of the time she could have ridden the bus or walked.

She strolled up to the gate of the mansion, turned visible, and pressed the call button. 'I hope this is right; it's the address that was listed in mom and dad's address book.'

A man appeared on the screen. "Do you have an appointment?" the man asked gruffly.

"Uh hi, I'm Vi-"

"Do you have an appointment," he asked even more firmly.

"Uh, well no."

"There can be no visitors without an appointment," he said cruelly and clicked off the monitor.

'Ok then, we'll have to do this my way,' she thought. She looked around for a way in but found none. 'Alright, I'll just improvise.' She again turned invisible and walked to the laser gate. She put up a force field to deflect the beams but instead it knocked her back. 'They're solid,' she thought, 'like metal.' Concentrating she placed a very small force field between the laser bars. Slowly she let it expand. 'Come on, come on,' she pleaded. The field made contact and began to give way. She forced it harder. Finally it became rigid and the bars started to bend like iron under the pressure. Giving all of her energy in a sudden burst she spread the bars just wide enough to pass through but returned to visibility in the process.

The alarm began to blaze. She squeezed through the bars and began running. 'I'm in so much trouble.' Immediately she was met by guards and gunfire. She screamed and instinctively put up a force field. 'Vi, get your act together.' She instantly turned invisible, dropped the field and took off. The guards lost track of her and regrouped. Violet ran up on the porch when she heard the barking of a large dog coming at her; she threw up her hands and engulfed it in a force field stopping it in its tracks. Suddenly she heard yet another dog from her backside and she lifted her other hand in defense placing a field around it too. 'Wow! I've got two force fields up; small ones but two. And I'm still invisible! It's draining but I can handle it'

Violet was shocked to find her concentration interrupted with a smack to the head from a newspaper of all things. "Show yourself! Zou just think zou can break in here and do your deeds. Show yourself!" Violet lost her concentration dropping both fields and losing her invisibility. The terrified dogs ran off but the woman continued beating her with the paper.

"Hey!" Violet screamed finally composed enough to enclose herself in a force field for protection.

"Just vhat do zou think zou are doing!" the woman screamed through the force field. "Vhy I ought to go and-" she gasped. "Zou are Robert's daughter."

Violet was relieved to be recognized and greeted fondly. "Yes, I'm Violet. I'm here to see-"

"Yes, yes dahling. I recognized the suit. Come in, come in!" she greeted. Violet obliged. "Zou chose a very unorthodox method to get in here but neverzeless here zou are."

"I need to see Edna Mo-"

"Fehk! dahling, call me E, everybody does. Zou Incredibles are so obsessed vith ze formalities humph, humph, humph, humph, humph, too much of it dahling, too much. Now tell me dahling vhat can I do for zou."

The two sat in a very open foyer. Violet started the conversation. "I need a new suit."

"Vhy Violet vhat ever for?" Edna returned. "Zere is nothing wrong vith your suit and besides, children are not allowed to do hero work." She said that last part with a contradicting smile that said tell me more.

"I know," Violet said. "I intend to change that."

It hit Edna right between the eyes. "Vhat are zou thinking of doing Violet, moonlighting hero vork?"

"Yes."

Edna stared at her crossly. "Very vell. I vill help. I suppose it is only right; after all I am partly responsible for zou no longer being allowed to vork."

"Really! Oh thank you. I-"

Edna pulled out her pen and tablet.

"Shhh!" Edna paused. "It vill be bold, dramatic"

"Yes, yes, something different. So I won't be associated with mom and dad."

"-Heroic."

"Maybe something with a cape."

Edna through a wadded up piece of paper at her. "No capes!"

"Ok," Violet replied

"Is zere anything special that zou need extra."

"Well, it would be very helpful if I had a way of concealing small items when I'm invisible," Violet replied.

"Ah yes I see, very tricky but doable. Vhat about a name."

"What?" Violet inquired.

"A name silly girl, any good super must have a name and I must have it to vork vith."

"Oh, I don't know. I really hadn't thought-"

"Then ve must make you one. Now let me see," she got up and circled Violet. "Invisibility, force fields, very defensive, but a personality like zat of zou mother's. Ah ha! I've got it! she screamed jumping on the coffee table in front of Violet. "It is mysterious."

"Yes."

"Daring"

"Yes!"

"Invincible"

"Yes! Yes!"

"You are – Invision"

"I like it!" Violet said. It was the most original idea she had heard yet.

Edna went back to her doodle. "Ve vill accent ze V, highlight ze mystery vith purple and black. Yes, yes this vill vork vell."

She was then interrupted by a voice over the intercom. "Your three o'clock is here."

"Very vell, very vell, send zem in," Edna said. She then clicked off the intercom. "By the vay dahling, how does your mother feel about zis?"

"She doesn't know."

"Hmm, I figured as much," Edna said in a hushed voice.

Just then the door opened and two people came in. Violet's jaw dropped when she saw who it was. "Mom, Dash! What are you doing here?" She was totally shocked. 'How am I going to explain this,' she thought. 'I'm in so much trouble.'

"Dahlings come in, come in, I am so glad to see zou; and zou little Dash feeling better, no?" Dash nodded

"Hello E," Helen said. "Vi, what are you doing here?"

Violet hesitated. "Mom, I was just- I mean I was – er uh I -"

Edna came to the rescue. "Your daughter here has a bit of a project for me shall ve say. She dropped in on me rather unexpectedly about a half hour ago." Violet just smiled nervously.

"Oh really," said Helen unimpressed. "What kind of project?"

"Vell your daughter has pointed out ze problem of using invisibility - defensively of course – in her normal outfits. So I have agreed to make her a whole new vardrobe of disappearing clothes." Edna grinned slyly at Violet whose eyes were now wide with surprise.

'A whole wardrobe!' Violet thought. She had never imagined such a thing.

"Oh no E," Helen started. "We couldn't let you I mean the time and the money-"

"Fehk, dahling! Money is no problem. The government will pay such an expense to protect a young super; especially when she is your and Robert's daughter. Now for your boys suit. Follow me."

The three obliged but Helen spoke up. "E, about Dash's suit. Since he won't be doing any more super work anyway we're really not sure."

"Elastigirl, dahling you can't be too prepared." She glanced at Violet with a grin, "you never know what fate may bring." Helen just sighed with defeat as Edna tapped in a code on a keypad, ran a palm print, did a retina scan, and walked over to a microphone. "Edna Mode," she said as laser guns dropped down on the family. "And shree guests," she finished. The guns retracted and the four walked into a room and sat at a small setting. "Cream and sugar?" she asked as she poured Tea.

"Thank you," replied Helen as she and Violet each took a cup.

"None for me," Dash said.

Edna smacked him on the head with a paper she had picked up from the table. "Shush, ve are beginning." Then she hit him again.

"Hey! What was that for?" he complained.

"That vas for ze other day. Now your suit." The suit appeared. It looked the same as before except it now included indiscreet knee pads and elbow pads highlighted only by gold, jagged lightning bolts shooting up off the pads. The suit now also included a red helmet like the ones in a bicycle race except it came down on the sides and didn't have a strap. On the front, the helmet bore an unfamiliar golden symbol in the form of an italicized D with the connecting line formed by a lightning bolt. The black mask also dropped below this spot. "I started vith ze same suit. I first vorked on safety by adding top quality but sleek, reinforced padding on ze knees and elbows. I zen added a helmet that both protects and provides aerodynamic support. Functionally, I also completely redesigned ze boots for a vater tight seal and traction so good zat you can run vertically for as long as zou choose. Finally I decided it vas time to give ze boy a bit of his own personality. Ze family crest is still on ze chest but lightning bolts can be found on all ze padding and ze helmet bears ze emblem of-" she rose for a triumphant finish, "ZE DASH!"

"Cool!" Dash said. "But do I have to wear ze, I mean the helmet?"

"Yes," Helen chimed in sternly. "Thank you E. This design makes me feel much better."

"It is no problem dahling," Edna said as she handed Helen the suit which had been boxed by a machine. "I do it any time. Now you must run along, I have vork to do on zou daughter's outfits." She shooed them out the door but stopped Violet. "Zou vill come back tomorrow after school first zing," she said in a near whisper. "Ok, goodbye!" she said as she shooed her off too. "Oh, Dash one last zing." He hurried back to her. She slipped a red headband bearing the Dash logo in his hand. "Zou have your father's stubbornness and like him I know zou will never vear zat helmet. Zerefore I made you zis. It is made of a special new material made especially for zou zat vill absorb an impact just as good as zat awful helmet. Zou may use it as zou please, just don't let your mother find out or I vill never here ze end of it."

"Thanks!" Dash exclaimed as he stuffed it in his pocket and ran off to the car. Edna smiled and closed the door.

"What was that about?" Helen asked as he got in the car.

"Oh, she just told me more about head protection."

"Mmm-hmm," Helen said as she started off. She knew both her kids were hiding something from her now. "Oh Violet, one more question."

'Oh no,' Violet thought, 'the cover didn't work.' "Yes?"

"Why are you wearing your super suit?"

"Oh." 'Whew, that one I can handle.' She told her mother about what she'd done to get there.

"Hmm," Helen said. "Very impressive young lady; but also very dangerous. I'll discuss this with your father later. Now I want you to turn invisible and stay that way until we get to your school so you can change and get your books."

"Ok, mom," Violet said sorrowfully as she complied.

"Violet's in trouble," Dash teased and the two started bickering and did so for the entire ride home.