REVIEWS - Someone Who Cares - I'm glad you like the story. I worked very hard on Violet to keep her in character. She's surprisingly dificult to work with since in many ways she's still evolving as a person. I'm glad you approve. Sean - Thanks again for the review. You know those masks cover up identities surprisingly well ;-). We'll just have to wait and see how long Violet can keep her charade up for.

XXI. Dash's Discovery

"Good morning," Bob called as he greeted his family in the kitchen. Per usual he was the last to be up and around.

"TGIF!" Dash called back.

"Good morning honey," Helen said as she put his plate on the table and gave him a kiss. He sat down and grabbed the paper. "There's an article in there that might interest you," she said. "I noticed it when I brought it in. It's about Invision." Violet's ears perked up.

"I see," said Bob. "It looks like she was busy yesterday. Three rescues – a mugging, an attempted kidnapping, and even a car chase."

Violet winced remembering the pain of a car running into her force field. 'That was so stupid,' she thought.

Bob continued. "They're not the most difficult jobs in the world but not bad for a two hour time span."

"Bob!" Helen said. "She did save our butts." Violet smiled into her breakfast.

"I know," he sighed. "It says here that she wears purple and black with black hair. She looks young but no one has gotten a picture of her yet. Her primary attributes are Invisibility and Force Fields but with above average intelligence." Violet smiled at that last comment but grew pale when her father stared up at her with piercing eyes. "Looks like she could be giving you a run for you money Vi."

Violet shrank in her chair with relief. 'Whew, they don't know,' she thought and quickly gathered her wits. "I could take her," she said nonchalantly.

Bob just chuckled at her. "Ok."

Violet was now uncomfortable. "Come on Dash or we'll be late." Violet walked with Dash to school daily since it was on her way.

"Ok," he griped but beat her to the door anyway. The two set out but as usual Dash ran on ahead.

'I wish he'd quit that,' she thought as the boy disappeared around the corner.

As Dash got within a couple of blocks of his school he suddenly realized he wasn't moving anymore. He looked down and saw that his feet were moving but his whole body was three feet off the ground. "What the-" he yelled but was cut off by an evil laugh.

"Not so super now are you Dashiel Parr or should I say Dash Incredible," followed a voice.

"Who are you!" Dash yelled. "How do you know me!"

Suddenly the voice's owner appeared around the corner with his two accomplices. "Awe," the man said sarcastically, "didn't your mommy tell you about me?" His demeanor became suddenly evil. "I'm your worst nightmare."

Dash recognized them instantly. His father had told him about Positron, Mirror, Touchforce the night before as a bedtime story and he knew what he was facing. "But how do you know me?" Dash asked. He remembered what his dad had taught him – get the bad guy monaloguing.

Positron started, "Last Wednesday night," he said. "I'm sure you remember it. We were prepared to make our grand debuts as the new supers of Metroville and the hostage situation at the new art museum was just the entrance we were looking for. We got there as fast as we could but it seems someone else was faster. Now we were disappointed but we weren't mad. In fact we wouldn't have cared at all except that there was an accident. We followed your mother to be sure you were ok, but when we later went to apply with the Super Oversight Agency and discovered we were all under age thanks to your accident things changed. We vowed revenge. We were going to start with your parents until that other super showed up, so I guess we'll have to start with you. Touchforce, kill him." Touchforce walked up and placed her hands on him. "Goodbye Dash."

Touchforce held onto Dash for ten seconds and let go. The boy then crashed through a brick wall and laid lifeless on the ground. The three villains began to walk off, pleased with their actions. Suddenly, the Dash shot up from behind the wall. "Ha ha!" he yelled. As it turned out he'd been wearing his super suit – unbeknownst to his parents – beneath his street clothes with the sleeves and legs rolled up and while Positron was monologuing he had managed to slip on the headband that Edna had given him. Now he had pulled off his street clothes and donned his entire costume which was quite fortunate as a crowd had begun to gather at the commotion. He was dazed from the impact but he took off running. "Take that," he yelled as he delivered a swift punch to Touchforce in passing. He'd been so quick that the return force only caused him to stumble. Positron started to polarize him but Dash took off at top speed for home. He could feel his hair stand up as Positron polarized him and everything around him and he ran faster and faster trying to escape. Suddenly he slowed to a walk. 'Oh no he must've gotten me,' he thought. He stopped and looked back at the now distant trio. 'They're not moving.' He looked around. 'Nothing's moving!' Then he noticed something out of the corner of his eye – it was a bee flapping its wings but he could see them move up and down. 'Cool!' he thought. 'They didn't stop moving; they just slowed up. No, wait, I sped up. But I can barely walk now. I must be thinking fast. Ha ha!' He started walking toward the bad guys. 'They'll never see this coming.'

Suddenly he felt something and he was up in the air with the invisible object. He landed what appeared to be softly to his altered vision but felt the smack of a top speed impact. 'This will take some getting used to,' he thought. Just then the world reverted back to normal.

"Get off me," came his sister's voice. He didn't even notice the space of a body that lay between him and the ground.

"Sorry Violet," he said and rose to his feet.

Violet dropped her invisibility. "That was fast even for you. I didn't see you turn around."

"Fast?" he bickered. "It was almost five seconds." He looked up at her and saw her new costume. "Violet you're Invision?" he yelled.

She was about to answer when she saw his hair rise. 'A lightning attack,' she thought. She immediately raised a force field around them and the motion stopped. "Yes it's me," she said. "Don't you dare tell mom and dad."

"Right," he said and he started to roll the bubble towards the trio.

"Curse you all," Positron said as the three retreated. "We'll be back and we'll be stronger."

With that Dash and Violet ducked inside an ally way, changed, and finished their walk to school - together.