Thanks all for the encouragement to continue.

Delorean 88, I changed a few first and last names here and there to fit SOUA better. In the movie, Violet's friend's name was Tony, but here he's Quigley. Lucius Best has become Monty Best, and so on.

As always, the characters belong to Daniel Handler and Pixar, not me.


Book the 2nd of A Series of Incredible Events The Rap-Tile Room

Dash chattered excitedly all the way to Frozone's home.

"That was sooo great!" Dash said. "Did you see the way Violet and I combined our powers and did a rolling force-field ball! And the way Jack-Jack ripped into that robot was awesome. What a team!"

"We did pretty good," Violet said. "But you don't have to keep telling him over and over."

"Goolbah!" agreed Jack-Jack.

Frozone created an ice slide up onto a back-alley fire escape. From there, he led the way into his high-rise apartment.

"Honey, I'm home!" he called. "And, er, I brought a few guests."

Silence was the only answer.

"I guess she went out," Frozone said. "You kids hungry?"

The Parrs realized they hadn't had anything but a lumpy oatmeal breakfast more than a day ago. They nodded, stomachs growling.

"Let's see what we have in the fridge. How about some coconut cream cake?" Frozone offered. He served them all large slices.

Dash devoured his in a moment. Looking around the kitchen for something more to eat, he spotted a note that had fallen to the floor. In an instant he rushed over to it, picked it up, and began reading it aloud.

"Monty," Dash read, "I told you when you spoiled our time together to go fight that robot 'for the greater good' that I'm the greatest good you're ever going to get. You need a lesson by not getting any for a while. I've gone to my sister's."

"Hey," said Frozone, his skin flushing a darker brown, "That's a private note from my wife. It's for me, not you."

"Sorry," said Dash.

"Your name is Monty, Mr. Frozone?" asked Violet. "Pardon me if I shouldn't ask, but you look a lot like Monty Best, Dad's bowling buddy."

"The same," said Frozone, removing his mask. "I've known your family for ages, secret identities and all. But now that you're supers too, I'll tell you a secret. We weren't really bowling. We listened to police reports and secretly fought crime."

"We heard that," said Dash.

"Mom and Dad were arguing about it one time," said Violet. "But now they're both in big trouble. Do you know anything about what happened the last couple of months? Somehow Syndrome got on Dad's trail."

"I don't really," said Monty. "After your Dad and I had a close call in a jewelry store, getting mistaken for burglars after saving people from a fire, we laid off the superhero gig. I hadn't heard a word from him about any trouble."

"We've got to get to Nomanisan Island and help them," Violet said. "Syndrome is holding them prisoner there!"

"Gaazoom!" said Jack-Jack, meaning "And we'd better hurry!"

"I'm game for an expedition to Nomanisan Island," said Monty. "It's somewhere in the Pacific, so we'll need a fast jet. I know an old pilot buddy of your mother's, Gustav Snug, who might fly us there."

Frozone got on the phone with Gustav. From what the Parrs could hear of the conversation it didn't seem to be going well. "Elastigirl already borrowed your last plane to go looking for Mr. Incredible?... Well, how are you going to get it back unless we go out there and get it?... There's really no other plane?... Aha, that could be just what we need!... Could you call him to the phone for a minute?"

Frozone conversed a few more minutes in a low voice.

"We're in luck," he said. There's a guy at the airport with a fast jet who's willing to do a charter flight to Nomanisan. At a very reasonable rate, too."

"Perfect!" said Dash.

"Geem geem," said Jack-Jack, which meant, "A little too perfect."

"While we're waiting for him to come over, want to look around the house?" asked Monty.

"Sure!" said Dash. "I wanna see the snakes!"

"Follow me to the Reptile Room," said Monty.

It was a large room with green glass windows, full of cages with rare reptiles of every kind. The children saw a fat toad with two wings coming out of its back, and another that looked like a church with stained-glass eyes.

"Back here is a new snake I discovered," said Frozone. "I've decided to name it the Incredibles' Deadly Viper, in your honor. Here, have a look." He popped open the door of a cage that filled the back of the room.

Jack-Jack crawled over and put his head inside the cage. Instantly, a huge black snake slithered up and bit him right on the chin!

Dash and Violet gasped, but Jack-Jack seemed pleased rather than scared or hurt. He morphed into another Incredibles' Deadly Viper. The two slithered around together, hissing to each other in snake language.

Monty laughed. "The 'Deadly Viper' part is a misnomer. It's the most harmless creature in the animal kingdom."

After they put the snake back, Monty said, "Let's have some fun while we're waiting. Come on, this way."

He led the way to a smaller room full of sound equipment.

"Here it is, kids," said Frozone. "I love rap music, but it bugs my wife. So we covered the walls in acoustic tiles so I can play all I want without bothering her. I call it my Rap-Tile Room."

He put on some music and grabbed a microphone.

"My name is Frozone, I'm cool as ice,
So you criminals take my advice,
Before you act you better think twice,
It's not just ice-cubes I can slice and dice."

"Whoa, that's cool," said Dash. "Let me try!"

"It's not as easy as it look," said Frozone. "Better take this rhyming dictionary just in case."

"My name is Dash, and I am fast, umm.."

"If you race him you'll come in last," chimed in Violet.

"Yeah, and you're going to get passed!" said Dash.

"Goo goog gah!", said Jack-Jack. (Which meant "You sure will get sassed!")

Violet went to the mike next, a little nervous.

"My name is Violet, I turn invisible..." she said, then realized she was really stuck.

"She tries to rhyme, but she's just miser'ble" Dash put in.

"Gaah gog!" said Jack-Jack (Which meant, "That one was risible.")

They all burst out laughing, forgetting their troubles for the first time in a long while. I wish I could tell you that they lived happily ever after, but it was not to be. There was a knock at the front door of the apartment.

Dash and Violet ran to answer it. The man at the door had a shaved head and no eyebrows. His glittering eyes seemed strangely familiar.

"Hello, my name is Stephano. I'm the guy with the plane. I'm, uh, an Italian man."