REVIEWS: Sean - Not a bad idea. I might try to sneak it in somewhere, although I've already got a pretty good piece of underwear humor planned for the third installment. Just because they made a Superman movie and it's not at all realistic doesn't mean he doesn't exist. I'm thinking about writing a scene where the Incredibles go to see the rediculous movie made about them for the first time. Thanks again for reviewing. Person who cares - I'm really quite glad you do care because your reviews are so nice. We'll just have to see what kind of retribution lies ahead for her and Dash now that she's brought him into her little web. Soccergurl - Thanks again for reviewing. I can always expect a nice one from you. Thank you all.

XXIII. FIGHTING TIME

"Frozone, freeze up the exits and let's trap them inside," Mr. Incredible called out to his partner from just outside the main entrance of the Metroville Penitentiary.

"Right on Incredible," he called back. The two were responding to a prison break attempt gone wrong. The thieves that Dash and Elastigirl had taken out just over a week ago had stormed the guards, broken free, and taken them hostage. Mr. Incredible and Frozone had been called in to handle the situation.

Meanwhile Invision was across town handling her last case of the afternoon. It was a simple mugging, her third of the week. A rather large man had gotten a smaller man in an ally and was taking his wallet. With the wallet securely in his grasps he turned to run but a swift kick from an invisible source sent the loot flying from his hands to the ground. "What the-" he yelled as he turned to see Invision appear before him. He was deeply startled by the girl sleekly attired in purple and black with a teal hair band – that had been her personal addition but she didn't dare tell Edna. "Who are you?" the man demanded frightened.

"I'm Invision of course," she replied with a smile.

The man turned to leave but not without diving for the wallet but Invision was much too quick having put a large forcefield around it which the man bounced off hard. "Ouch!" he cried.

Invision had moved to block the man's exit. "You're not going anywhere," she told him. At that the man brandished a handgun from his pocket. Invision was caught off guard as he hadn't used a weapon in his robbery but quickly waved her left hand in front of herself to put up a force field. After two bullets the man realized he wasn't getting anywhere so he turned to the man he'd robbed preparing to fire at him.

'Oh no,' Invision thought as she realized her mistake in not protecting the man. She quickly whipped her right hand in his direction and absorbed him in a force field just in time to stop the two bullets. 'Whew,' she thought relieved. The crook had obviously planned this reaction as he immediately ran towards the wallet. 'Darn it,' Invision thought when she realized the trick but what she saw surprised her even more than the robber. The wallet wasn't there; instead looking around she found it safely with the victim behind her other force field. 'That can't be,' she thought. 'I must've moved the whole force rather than creating a new one. That's cool, energy manipulation.' She smiled. Looking back to the crook who had finally accepted that the wallet wasn't there she devised a plan. 'Time to rap this up,' she thought. She dropped her force field and instantly went invisible. She ran up behind him and kicked the gun from his hand then bent down and kicked his legs out from under him. "Run," she yelled at the other man as she dropped her other force field. The man collected his wallet and ran. Invision then ran toward the gun but the thief could hear her footsteps with his face still so close to the ground and tripped her in the process. The impact returned her to visibility. "That does it!" she screamed visibly annoyed. The man was staggering to his feet but she jumped up instantly, threw out both her hands and created a force field around herself that stretched from wall to wall. At about 20 feet across and just as high it was one of her biggest ever and effectively boxed the man in. She decided to float up into it to appear even more menacing and the man was undoubtedly startled. Suddenly she realized the gun was floating right in front of her inside the field too. 'Hmm, that's new,' she thought. She concentrated on the gun and it instantly dropped discharging as it the ground several feet below. The bullet ricocheted off of the field shot back over her shoulder and bounced back off her field into the ground. Invision winced but managed to keep her massive field and levitation going. 'Maybe, I should be more careful.' She thought of her mother's words. 'Dead supers don't make good heroes.' As Invision reflected on the incident a cop pulled up. 'Took them long enough,' she thought.

"Invision!" the cop yelled what she decided to take as a thank you. She instantly dropped the field and fell to the ground. She stumbled forgetting how high she'd been but quickly regained her balance and blushed with some embarrassment. Settling her composure she turned back to the officer smiled and nodded to one side in the fashion she'd recently adopted as her signature then disappeared. The officer stopped for a second but then quickly ran over and cuffed the man.

As Invision walked out of the ally – still invisible – she noticed more police cars coming. 'It was only one crook,' she thought, 'why so many cops?' When the cars passed the scene it became apparent they were headed elsewhere.

She walked over to the empty unit of the officer who was taking care of the crook and listened to the radio. The only words she heard were "jail break." 'Aha,' she thought. She glanced at her watch. '5:50, the prison is across town but just two blocks from the theater; if I hurry I can make it.' This was one of those rare moments where she wished she was her brother Dash. 'How to get there with maximum speed,' she thought. Her biggest downfall besides her lack of offensive abilities was that she was always on foot, but now she had an idea. She raised both hands over her creating a force field and floated up in it. She concentrated and it began moving forward slowly. 'There's too much friction,' she thought. She looked up, concentrated harder, and the whole field rose a few feet above the street. One more thought and she was off; it wasn't as fast as a car, let alone her brother, but she was moving at least as fast as a bike.

Invision soon arrived at the prison. By this time her transport was so second nature that she barely had to think about it and had even incorporated her invisibility into it. Dropping out of her field she dashed into the prison and returned to visibility. She ran from room to room finding nothing. For several minutes this continued until she reached the office of the guards. There she found three guards out cold but also two crooks in the same condition, not to mention a whole in the wall where one had hit it hard. As strange as this seemed it was the window that caught her attention. Something was wrong with it. She walked towards it. 'Is this a trap,' she thought. She put her hand on it and found it was ice cold. "Lucius," she said out loud without thinking. She suddenly heard voices behind her at a distance talking jovially but she knew who they were.

Mr. Incredible reentered the guards' office talking to Frozone but stopped abruptly when he saw someone in front him. Initially it looked like his daughter with her back to him with the long raven hair that left him speechless; but he quickly regained his voiced and recognized her when she put on the gray fedora from her bag – she already had the trench coat on. He shook the previous thought from his head. "Invision!" he said. She turned to him. "What are you doing here?"
"What and leave the saving of the world to the men?" she quipped. "I don't think so." She had been dying to use that line that she'd heard her mother say in an old interview once and this was the perfect time. The line instantly clicked with Mr. Incredible but he wasn't sure from where. Cutting short the chat and the risk of being caught she turned invisible and made for the door.

"Oh no you don't!" Mr. Incredible yelled as he jumped in front of the door blocking the only exit.

"What are you doing?" Invision yelled back. She then realized she'd given away the fact hat she was still in the room. 'Violet be more careful!' she yelled at herself in her head.

"You're not going anywhere," said Mr. Incredible. "Not until we find out who you are and get you properly registered with the SOA." Invision knew she couldn't do that and wasn't about to be found out without a fight so she said nothing. After a moment of silence Mr. Incredible spoke up. "Zone, freeze this place up, you'll hit her eventually."

"Right," he replied and began firing. Invision couldn't believe it, her own father having her shot at – even if he didn't know it was her. Frozone hit several places including her last known position but she'd managed to keep out of the way each time. They kept up the cat and mouse for some time until the whole room was covered in ice.

"You're not getting out!" Mr. Incredible yelled.

'Oh really,' Invision thought now that she'd developed a plan. She knew how much her father loved to do things himself and was going to use it against him. She positioned herself partway between her father and Frozone but just out of her dad's reach. 'Three, two, one' she counted. She instantly turned visible, yelled "Hey Frozone!" turned invisible again and ducked." It worked. When she turned visible her father reached for her moving away from the door and Frozone turned and shot at the sound of her voice freezing the arms and torso of Mr. Incredible who had gotten in the way. Invision then escaped between his legs. She laughed as she ran off.

"Aw man! That ain't right!" Frozone said examining his partner.

"She got away!" Mr. Incredible said as he broke the thin layer of ice that Frozone had laid on him.

Outside Invision had sat down invisible on a bench to rest. 'Oh no, Tony!' she thought jumping up. She checked her watch again '6:32 I'm late! He's going to hate me,' she thought as she began to move quickly inside a force field. She made it to the theater just in time to see Tony getting into his dad's car to leave. She would've run up and stopped him then if she wasn't still in her costume. Instead she just turned to go back to Kari's where she waited invisible in the bushes until her dad arrived almost two hours later to take her home.