The Message

Bob and Helen stares ferociously at their children, who has no idea what's going on. Dash tries smiling at his parents, hoping they are still in a good mood after a hard day in saving the world. However, all it takes for Bob is to glare at his youngest son and Dash smile disappears and he hides behind his older siblings. Violet is the first to recover her courage and to speak to her parents.

"Hi mom. Hi dad." she starts, but her parents doesn't answer, but they kept their scowl on their kids. This scares Violet, but she keeps on talking. "What's for dinner?" she asks, but no answer. Violet sighs and tries asking another question. "So, how did you do on your mission?"

"It went well." Helen speaks softly but angrily.

"So," Sean says, "I guess we'll be in our room until dinner is ready." Dash and Violet agrees and makes their way to the stairs. Bob cracks his knuckles and Helen stretches her arms and places her hand on Violet. The three of them stops and turns around.

"We're not done with you kids yet." Helen said.

"But mom." complains Dash.

"Don't but mom me Dashiell Robert Parr!" Sean, Violet and Dash moves toward their parents. Usually, if Helen calls Dash by his full name, she is really, extremely, beyond mad at him. "I want the three of you to sit down, so we can have a little family discussion." At first, neither one of them moved. "NOW!" Helen yells which forces Sean, Violet and Dash rushing to find a seat in the family room. Helen and Bob follow them and stay standing, plus stay angry at them.

"What did we do this time?" Sean asks.

"You know exactly what you did today." Bob growls.

"What did you guys do while we were gone?" Helen asks. Sean's, Violet's and Dash's heart instantly stops beating and their faces became pale as a ghost.

"Uh," Dash explains. "Well, I first went to the field near my school. My friends and I played football there, which explains most of the cuts and scrapes I have." he giggles even though his parents are still not happy. "Anyway, I had a hot dog for lunch and then…that's pretty much about it." Helen sighs at her youngest son and then she looks toward Violet.

"And what did you do today?"

"Well," she clarifies. "After I read your letter, Tony, unexpectedly, comes over and asks me if I want to take a walk in the park. I said yes and we kind of talked about school, our date last night, and other things. When we got to the park, we watched the little kids joke around, run around, having fun. He then buys me a burger for lunch and we went to the bookstore to get something to read. Later, I watched the sunset with him and we said good bye to each other. Now, here I am." Violet concludes. Helen nods and looks at Sean.

"And you?" she asks, wanting to know about his day.

"Well," said Sean, "I decided just to stay at home, watching television and taking care of Jack-Jack, until I got bored with it, so I took Jack-Jack to Lucious's house to let him take care of him instead. Next, I walked around trying to find something to do, when I met a couple of my friends at school. We talked with each other and spend some time together. Finally, I went to the arcade to play some games there, until it was 6:00. I realized that I had to pick up Jack-Jack, so I stopped by at Lucious's house to retrieve him. Lastly, I arrived here with Vi and Dash, and then we found you guys here."

"Did you guys perform any hero work while we were gone?" Helen asks. The three of them looks at each other trying to find an answer. They shake their head slowly.

"No mom, we didn't." Violet answers.

"Don't lie to me Vi." Helen says. Violet's eyes widen after hearing her mom's statement.

"I didn't do anything mom." Violet counters.

"You stopped a few thieves from robbing a bank, isn't that right?" Helen interrogates. Violet is now speechless. She couldn't think of what to say or what to do.

"How can you say that if you are on a secret mission?" Violet asks.

"Because I actually saw you." Violet's eyes widen and she slumps back to the couch. "It is true your father and I had a secret mission, but later on, you father had everything under control by himself, so he asks me to go home and wait for the kids. I listened and I was on my way, until I heard an alarm go off. I noticed that the bank was being robbed and I was about to do something, when I heard a crash. I checked to see what's going on, and there before me, was a force field that stops the robbers in their tracks." Helen stares at Violet. "You're the only one in this family that can project force fields, Vi. I actually saw you and Tony hiding behind a car, waiting for a moment to strike. You not only disobeyed me Vi, but you also disappoint me. I'm sorry Vi, but you are grounded from hero work for a week." her voice weakens as she finishes her sentence.

Violet is shock to hear what her mom just said, and even more upset that she was there to see it. This makes her very angry, so she gets up out of her couch and begins to argue with her mother.

"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!" Violet asks with rage. "I JUST PUT UP ONE SIMPLE FORCE FIELD TO HELP OUT, AND YOU'RE PUNISHING ME BECAUSE I…" (slap).

Helen gave a vicious slap to Violet's face and Violet was sending to the ground. She rubs her face and begins to sob. Violet slowly gets to up and stares into her mother's eye again.

"What was that for?" asks Violet. "I did what I had to do and this it the thanks I… (slap).

Another ferocious to Violet's face is delivered by Helen. The impact causes Violet to fall back into to the couch. She rubs her face and wipes her tears, even though the pain is unbearable. Violet gets back up to her feet and she then glares at her mother.

"Never talk back to me like that young lady." Helen orders "Go to your room, now."

"For doing what?" Violet argues. "I just helped the police foil a robbery and you're punishing me for something everyone is thanking me for? What kind of mother are to treat me like that? I get this feeling that you don't…"

Helen lets out a scream and she grabs Violet's hair and pulls it toward her. Violet screams in pain as she tries to release her mother's grip. But before she has a chance to untangle her mom's fingers, Helen pulls back her arm and rushes towards Violet's face with a (slap). The smack on Violet's face sends her to the ground, sobbing. Violet looks at her mother with guilt and sorrow. Without hearing another word, she takes off in running upstairs. She enters her room, slams the door and locks it behind her.

Helen gives a long, hard sigh, and then glares back at her sons. She then looks at Sean, who is looking nervous and anxious. Sean doesn't try arguing, or fighting back with Helen or Bob, because he does not want to get slapped. However he knows he's grounded for sure, so he can't really argue about that.

"All right," Helen says. "What did you do this time?"

"Nothing, except hanging around with my friends." Sean answers.

"Weren't you involved in anyway between the robberies?" she asks. Sean stares at the ground with less confidence, until finally, he slowly, shakes his head. "Are you sure? Because I saw Vi, stopping the car with her force fields, but somehow, only three escape. I thought it was my turn to intervene, but instead, I found you cornered by the three of those thugs." Helen then raises her voice, "You also disobeyed me by taking out the thugs yourself. You disappoint me even more when you tried to runaway. You almost exposed yourself and the whole family after what you've done."

"It was just three of them." Sean complains. "It could have been worst. I mean, I've handled…" (slap)

Helen anger continues to intensify. The smack to Sean's face felt like she used a whip instead of her hand.

"Those guys are dangerous. Even if it's only the three of them, you could have been hurt, or worst, killed. I never want you to do something risky like that again. Right now, you and Vi are grounded for a week. Now please go to your room and think about what you just did." Helen finishes her orders with another vicious slap. Sean rubs his face from the devastating blow, but stays where he is, not moving a muscle. The two of them glares at each other until Helen begins to scream. "DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID? GO TO YOUR ROOM RIGHT NOW!" Helen pulls her hand back, ready to slap. Sean takes off in running up the stairs. When he reaches the staircase, he felt a (slap) on his face. He turns and he sees Helen stretching her arms to slap him. Sean scowls at her one last time, before he rushes up the stairs and into his bedroom, where he viciously slams the door, causing the whole house to shake.

Helen ignores the commotion upstairs and stares at her youngest son, Dash. She shakes her head knowing how disappointed she is and again, releases a long and hard sigh. Before she can open her mouth to speak, Dash quickly jumps out of his seat and runs toward his mother, where he gives her a great big hug, letting her know that he is sorry.

"It is true mom!" Dash whines. "I did save someone while you were gone." He looks at his mother who is silent and staring at him. Dash turns his attention toward Bob, who has one of his hands over his eyes.

"What happened Dash?" Bob asks.

"When I said I had a hot dog for lunch," Dash explains, "there is more to it. I was walking down the sidewalk, passing by, minding my own business. Then, I was walking passed an ally and I saw my friend getting beat up and is getting mugged." Dash starts speaking faster and less fluent. "I told them to stop and they dropped him and started to take it out on me. I was to fast for them and I delivered a couple of blows of my own. Then they tried tackling me, or ramming me into a wall, but I moved to quickly and the two of them were knocked unconscious. I helped my friend up and he…" (slap).

Dash receives a slap from his mother, just like she did to Sean and Violet. It wasn't as hard as the ones Violet and Sean had received. Dash does his best to ignore the pain.

"Mom, I only tried to protect my friend. He was in trouble, and he'll probably be disappointed in me if he sees me standing there just watching him as the boys attacked him. I'm doing him a favor."

"Honey." Helen said. "I know it was the right thing to do. And yes, your friend would probably need help in a situation like this. But what you did was risky. You not only almost risked your life, but you almost risked your identity. You're friend saw you defending him, but did he see beyond that? Did he see who you truly are?" Dash frowns and shakes head, in a meaningless way.

"I guess that means I'm grounded right?" Dash asks. Helen nods and drags himself up the stairs. He gets to his room, shuts the door behind him and falls on his bed. This has been a good day gone bad for Dash, Violet and Sean. The rest of the night, neither one of them comes out of their room, not even for dinner. The house stays quiet, until it was time to go to bed.

Violet silently gets changed into her pajamas. She is still crying after her mom had slapped her in the face ferociously for a couple of times. Without saying good night to any of her parents, she turns off the light and climbs on her bed. Twenty minutes has passed and still, she couldn't sleep. Somehow, she can't thinking about what her parents had said to her and what they had done to her. Every time she thinks, anger and frustration increases inside her mind and the more she feels not being loved. She throws her pillow at the ground, when she couldn't take it anymore. Her pillow lands on her backpack and everything spills from her bag. That includes books, papers, homework, and…a brown envelope. It begins to glow in blue light. This catches Violet's attention and she gets out of her bed and approaches the package. She opens it and sees a rectangular shaped device about the size of her math textbook. All of the sudden, an arrow appears in front of the screen. Violet thinks about it for a little bit, before she decides to follow the arrow. She leaves her room and the arrow disappears, leaving an X. She looks around the dark hallway and she sees two more bluish lights to the side of her. As they draw closer to her, Violet gives a sigh of relief, only to find Sean and Dash.

"What is this thing?" Dash asks.

"We won't know until we find out." Violet answers. "Come into my room so we can have a look."

The boys agreed and they enter Violets room. They turned on the lights and stare at the device. Suddenly, the three parts begins to attract to each other and they connect with each other, making it three times as long. The kids look closely as small words appear on the screen.

"Hold still?" Dash reads.

Suddenly, the screen begins to glow and a ray of blue light shines at Sean's, Violet's and Dash's face. A mechanical voice says, "Match Incrediguy, Incredigirl and the Dash. AKA, the Incredikids." The three of them jumps back and the rectangular shaped screen falls on the floor. It then shines the same bluish ray around Violet's room. Sean, Violet and Dash almost froze to death as it scans the entire room. Finally, it says, "Room is secure. Commence message." At that point, a girl about eighteen years old appears on the screen. Slowly, Sean, Violet and Dash approach toward the mechanical device.

"Hello Incredikids." the girl says. "Yes, I know who you three are. Best assure, your secret is safe with me." Sean picks it up and holds it in front of him so Violet and Dash can see. "My name is Silk. I am an undercover agent working for the government. I am on a mission to investigate the Eviles' territory and uncovering secret and dangerous weapons. Please pay attention as this message classified and will not be repeated. We found out that their base is actually somewhere in Nomanisan Island, in which I'm sure you're all familiar with. Just recently, during my investigation, I've discovered that the Eviles has created a robot that is able to terrorize the entire city. I'm sure you guys are familiar with the battle robot, the Omnidroid, which was created by Syndrome. The Eviles plan to use the same technology and ideas your archenemy has once used. The robot that they designed is called the Evidroid."

the girl says. Sean picks it up and holds it in front of him so Violet and Dash can see.

On the screen, a picture of the robot appears. Sean, Violet and Dash examine it carefully. It is very different from the Omnidroid they faced four month ago. Instead of a circular shape the Omnidroid has, it is shaped like a regular robot with a body, two arms, two legs and a head. After a long minute of studying the robot, Silk reappears on the screen.

"The Evidroid may have a mind of it's own, which makes it capable of doing whatever it wants, but the Eviles somehow manage to find a way to control the robot's every moves. The Eviles plan to unleash the robot tomorrow at Metroville, so I was given orders to call you three kids to stop the Evidroid, before it releases it's fury on the city, uncontrollably. Now I know there are a few questions popping in your mind, so I will be happy to answer them. Perhaps one of your questions will be, "Why can't you take your mom and dad or the whole family instead of the three of you?" Well, here's the deal. Sometimes, I spy on you kids to see what's going on and to differentiate between your normal life and your life as a super. I've discovered recently that you kids are grounded for perform hero work, when you're parents forbid you to. I know that if you chose to agree to this mission, your mom and dad will probably punish you. Also, this is a very dangerous mission. The Evidroid shows no mercy on things it wants to destroy, including you. However, if you accept and accomplish this mission, you will be a bigger hero than your parents were. Your mom has lived a glorious life and in your father's time, he was the all time favorite super hero in the entire world. This is your chance to be just like them. You kids can accomplish great things like your parents did. Then again, you can just stay home locked up in your room all alone with nothing to do, but to sit and watch your parents get all the glory and fame. It's your choice. You have until midnight to respond. Talk about it and think about it. Think about the life you are living right now, and think about the life you will be living in the future. Make your parents proud." At that point the screen goes blank.

Sean, Violet and Dash looks at the mechanism one last time, then the cock and then at each other. The clock reads 11:30 pm, so they have half an hour to think about the mission. They stare at the ground, and pace around in Violet's room. Finally Dash, gives his suggestion.

"Mom and dad saved the world by themselves and we saved the world together as a family. If we can do this as a team, then I say we should vote yes." he says.

"I don't know Dash." Violet thought. "It's too dangerous for all of us. That robot over there can probably kill us in one blow. Besides, their base is in Nomanisan Island. And you know how we all hate going into that place again."

"But Violet," Dash complains. "Do you want to stay here in this room alone in the dark, locked up and watch as mom and dad receives all the glory or do you want to set off on another adventure out in the wild, attempting to do something you have never done in your life?"

"Staying here feeling miserable is so much better than getting myself killed." Violet points out.

"Violet, think of your boyfriend, Tony. If he sees you in trouble or getting beat up, he will do anything, to keep you safe from any injury. If you stay here for the rest of your life, the Eviles, especially Ultra, will take it out on him. Since you are not there to help him, I have no idea how he will survive. Please Vi, it's for the best."

"I don't know. What do you think Sean?"

"I don't know what to do either." Sean replies. "Dash has got a point about how it feels staying here in this boring house with nothing to do. We can do something for once that even our parents would be very proud at."

"Ha, you see Vi?" Dash laughs.

"Hold it there Speedo," Sean says. "Vi is right about the dangers out there. Not only that, but we can get ourselves killed." he stares at the ground thinking. "Then again, I'm sure the three of us has been in situations much worst than this. I mean, when the Evilads first assaulted us, we have no idea what we were up against. We have to use all of our powers to stay alive, and prevail. I say, if we work together as a team, we will emerge victorious. And the next time, we fight against the Evilads, we will prevail. Because we're the Incredikids."

Dash, quietly cheers and places his hand on top of Sean's. The boys' smiles and turns to Violet, who is still having her look of concern on her face. Sean nods at her and Dash grins at his sister. Violet closes her eyes to think about it. A smile plants on her face and she put her hand on her brothers'. Then, a small piece of paper slips out of a slot on the device. Dash takes it and reads it. It is a phone number. It says, "462-7334". Sean and Dash leaves Violet's room and the three of them suits up. They meet each other in the dark quiet kitchen. Sean picks up the phone and dials the number.

"Hello?" a voice said.

"This is the Incredikids." Sean calls. "We thought about it and we talked about it and we come to a decision." he looks back at Dash and Violet, who just puts their mask on their face. Sean smiles at them and says, "We're in."

"Good." the voice said. "Meet us at the harbor at 2:00 am. Two of my men will escort to a small boat, in which you will use to travel to the headquarters."

"Thanks a lot."

"See you there."

The phone hangs up and the Incredikids checked the clock. It is now 12:05 am. Sean, Violet and Dash, tiptoes out of the house and away from their parents. The three of them looks at the house one last time, before they embark on their journey to the Evile headquarters in Nomanisan Island, where the Evidroid, along with the Eviles are waiting to launch their attack on the Incredikids.


Author's Notes: Don't try dialing this number. I just use the numbers on my phone to spell the word, EVILADS. Also, I own Silk and the Evidroid.