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Disclaimer: I do not own any of the charaxcters from the Incredibles. I do, however, own Blackfyre, the new super in town

Chapter 2 Incredible discoveries

As Invisigirl, Mr. Incredible, and Dash returned home in normal clothes after a slow patrol night, Robert Parr headed straight up the stairs. When he knocked on Violet's door, Robert was surprised to find no answer. He opened the door slowly, freezing as he found it empty but for the note on the bed. "Helen!" he called immediately. "Come here, quick! Violet's gone!"

Helen Parr's head snapped up so fast her neck elongated for a moment, but as fast as she could move, her son was much faster. He had already run upstairs and read the note Violet had left before she got anywhere near the stairs. He ran back to her holding the note and said three words that struck terror in the hearts of both his parents, battle hardened superheroes that they were. "Violet ran away."

Helen's face firmed, and she said the words that described the only hope the family had of finding Violet. "We have to call E. We need to find out if there's any way she can find Violet."

Robert Parr nodded slowly. "You do that. I'll go see the supers and tell them to keep an eye out for her." And with that, Robert Parr turned around and left his home.

Violet hadn't gotten too far yet, but she was well-hidden in a secluded section of the park where she lay asleep, her head on the backpack she carried and was now using as a pillow. As she slept, she dreamed again of the faces of the innocents she had allowed to be hurt. Awakening with a start, she formed a violet force shield around herself and began to work with it. She discovered that if she focused right, she could use her force fields to reshape the plants around her to hide her from sight. With that, she decided that she would stay there until she could figure out how to move on.

In another city, halfway across the continent from where the Incredibles were searching for a way to find their wayward member, another super was fighting a giant robot. With a burst of black energy, this super, new as he was to the job, melted his way inside the robot, and set off an explosion in it's power core. As it exploded, though, it also struck him heavily, knocking him into a high trajectory out of the city. While he could handle the acceleration from the explosion, his costume could not, so when he finally landed, half a continent from where he had saved his home, he was wearing no more than rags, and to his surprise, he skipped several times before landing with a thud in front of a set of gates.

Edna Mode saw her gate alarm go off as usual, but she frowned when she saw that instead of a car, it was a super in a ragged uniform. "Very badly made," she commented to herself. "If it had been done right, he'd still have a uniform." She opened the gates and went out to them for the first time in years. Usually supers came to her, not the other way around. When she got to him, she saw he was still conscious, if only barely. "Well, dahling. Let's get you inside, yes?" she said with what for her passed as a smile.

The unknown super stood on wobbly feet and followed Edna inside. Within moments, he was on her couch, beginning to recover from his rather abrupt arrival at her home. Once he was fully aware, Edna looked up at him with a smile. "There's no use asking me to make you a new suit. It won't work. I know I'm known for making the most mahvelous uniforms for supers, but I am retired."

The super, one Andrew McEwan, blinked. "I wasn't going to ask you to. I just wanted to…"

Edna interrupted him. ""Oh, all right. You twisted my arm. I'll make it for you. I need to know what your powers are, though."

Andrew blinked again, but dutifully summoned a sphere of the black fire that was his main power. "Not a whole lot. I can do this, and I'm immune to all forms of energy and plasma based attacks, including fire."

Edna nodded, already beginning to draw on her pad. "Black fire. Yes. Your name will be just that. Blackfyre. And for your costume, we will have something dark yet elegant. Striking, but simple. And of course, no cape." Then, she looked up at him, and pointed to his mask. "And of course, a mask better than that crude imitation you are wearing."

Andrew shrugged. "I liked the basic idea of the mask, with the curves suggesting a bit of a dark edge, but I couldn't do it or the uniform like I wanted."

Edna nodded. "We will use the basic shape, but add a bit." Then, before Andrew could stop her, she had raced off to begin work on the suit.

While she was working on the suit, the phone rang. "Yes?" she said, picking up the phone.

On the other end, Helen sighed. "E, it's Helen Parr. You know, Elastigirl. We have a problem. Vi's missing."

Edna frowned. "This is not good. You have tried the homing device?"

Helen replied instantly, though not happily. "You don't understand, Edna. She ran away and left her suit here."

Edna frowned. "You be here in two hours. I will see what I can do before then."

Helen cheered up a good bit. "We'll all be there. Even Jack-Jack."

Then, knowing she could do little to help Helen except calm her down a bit right now, Edna returned to her work on Andrew's suit.

When she returned to Andrew, she brought with her both suit and mask. "You try this on. Afterwards, we meet a friend of mine with trouble. Her daughter is missing. You will help find her, yes? I knew you would."

Andrew blinked, but tried on the suit. When he finished putting it on, he found it was a basic bodysuit but with the appearance of a slightly more complex outfit with flared shoulders, boots, and even a belt with his chosen symbols of the runes for the letters B and F on the buckle. Then, as he put on the flared mask with its double semi-circle shape with serrated edges, he spoke. "Do you have a picture of the missing girl?"

Edna smiled, pulling out a printout of Violet's pictures from her files, both in and out of costume. "These will show you enough yes, dahling?" she asked with a smile.

Blackfyre, for that was who he was in costume, nodded. "I'll look around town. If I find her though, do I take her home?"

Edna shrugged. "You find out why she ran away. You get her to go home by choice. That's what I'd say."

Then, since Edna had already opened the gate for her before bringing the suit, Helen spoke from the doorway. "E's right, sir. If you find Violet, try to get her to come home. We'll be looking too, but we also have other things to take care of."

Blackfyre turned. "Hello. Call me Blackfyre. I'll see what I can do for you."

Then, Helen turned to Edna. "Is there anything else you can do, E?"

Edna shook her head. "Supers can not be traced except with a homing device. You and your friends take care of the town. Blackfyre will look for your daughter."

The new super nodded. "She's right. It's the least I can do."