Story 3: When Supers Go Bowling
By: Conan16
Author's Note: I don't know why I decided to write a story about them bowling. I guess it's because it's Wednesday night, and I wanted to go bowling, but my homework got in the way. So I decided that I could write about my favorite super family bowling instead! Plus I needed to update anyway. Enjoy!
It was Wednesday night, and the Parr family was enjoying a nice dinner.
"Open up Jack-Jack." Helen said, as she fed her baby.
"Yes...Isn't that good? Ummm, mmmm. Yum, yum, yum."
Dash shook his head.
"Mom, you're doing that noise thing again." He said.
Helen continued to feed Jack-Jack, but the noises stopped.
"I don't know what you're talking about." She replied.
Bob was reading the morning paper, and Violet was starring at some photos that she took with Tony in one of those photo booths at the mall.
Dash gave her a look.
"Can't you go ten minutes without staring at those stupid pictures?" He asked.
Violet just ignored him.
"Your obsessed." Dash mumbled.
"Shut up you little parasite." Violet responded.
"Kids!" Helen said in her warning tone.
Then their was a knock at the door.
Dash ran over and answered it.
"Hey Lucius!"
"How's it going guys?" Lucius greeted.
Bob stood up.
"Hey! Ice of you..." He began to say, but Lucius interrupted him.
"That one's getting old man."
"So what brings you here?" Helen asked.
"Well, it's Wednesday night, and Bob and I thought that for a change we'd actually go bowling."
"Really? So all those other times you guys haven't been going bowling?"
Helen glanced at Bob.
"I thought you knew by now." Bob shrugged.
Helen laughed.
"I know, I was only joking. You know, I haven't been bowling in years! Can I join you guys?"
"Hey why not? The more the merrier! Right Lucius?" Bob asked.
"Sure! I could use some real competition." Lucius joked.
"Can I come too?" Dash asked excitedly.
Bob thought for a moment.
"I...Don't see why not. How about you Violet?"
Violet shrugged.
"I've only bowled a couple of times before...I'm not very good at it." She said.
"Hey that's ok. It's more for fun." Lucius said.
"Well, I don't want to hang around here with nothing to do. I'll go."
When they arrived at the bowling alley, they noticed that they were the only ones there. Except for the guy behind the counter.
"Are you guys closed?" Bob asked.
"It's Wednesday night sir, no one comes here on a Wednesday night." The guy replied in a monotone voice.
"Well, we'll take lane six then." Bob said.
"Yes sir..." The guy said with a yawn.
"The bowling shoes are over on that rack, bowl as much as you want, I'll be in the back taking a nap. Just ring that bell if you need anything, or if you're done." The guy left them to bowl.
"Pssh, there's a guy who loves his job." Lucius said sarcastically.
They got their shoes, and went down to their lane.
"Hey! Hey look!" Dash said, running from one bowling ball rack to the next.
"This one looks like a giant eyeball! This one looks like a watermelon! This one looks like a golf ball! This one..." Violet put her hand over his mouth.
"Just pick out a ball." She said impatiently.
Dash picked out the bowling ball that looked like a watermelon, Violet picked one out that was black, and had mixed colors of red, blue, and purple in it. Bob picked out the ball that looked like a giant eyeball, he found it very humorous. Helen picked out a nice green and turquoise colored ball, and Lucius picked out an old blue ball that had a bunch of chips and dings in it.
"This bowling ball has been my lucky bowling ball since high school." He stated.
"Really? I thought they threw the old bowling balls out after fifty years." Bob said laughing at his joke.
"Funny Bob. Very funny. But we'll see who's laughing when I rub your defeat in your face."
Dash was up first. He grabbed his ball, and walked up.
"Wait Bob! Dash has never bowled before." Helen said.
"It's ok mom! I think I know what to do!" Dash said.
He aimed his ball at one of the arrows on the lane. It seemed like he did know what he was doing. But everyone was proven wrong, when he threw his ball in the gutter, and took off down the lane. He slid, and crashed into the pins. About ten seconds later, his ball made it to the end.
"Whoo hoo! I beat it!" He cheered.
Lucius walked up to Bob.
"Does that count as a strike?" He asked.
Violet was next to bowl. She grabbed her ball, went right up to the limit line, and threw it. It landed with a loud thud, and began to roll.
Violet sighed.
"See? I told you I wasn't that good!" She said.
She heard her ball hit the pins.
"She got a strike!" Lucius said.
"Wow! Wait to go Vi!" Helen cheered.
Helen was next.
She sat Jack-Jack on one of the seats, and grabbed her ball.
"Ok, refresh my memory about some of the rules." She said to Bob.
"Well, aim your ball at the arrows on the lane. Don't aim it at the pins, that'll only mess you up. you can let go of the ball whenever you want, just make sure your feet don't touch, or go pass the limit line, or we'll have to mark your score as zero." Bob explained.
"Got it." Helen said, as she went up to bowl. She aimed her ball, and slowly walked up, as she brought her ball back. She stopped behind the limit line, but stretched her hand out until it was about one foot away from the pins, and she let go of her ball. She got a strike.
Lucius grabbed the rule book.
"There's got to be a rule against that." He said, flipping through the pages.
Now it was Bob's turn.
"Ok hot shot! Let's see what you got!" Lucius shouted.
Bob was aiming his ball. He step to the right a bit, but continued to aim at the same arrow. He slowly walked up and brought his ball back. He rolled his ball, it went into the gutter. Lucius laughed.
"What? Are they paying you to clean out their gutters?" He joked.
Bob just ignored him.
He grabbed his ball, aimed, and rolled it. This time he got eight of the pins.
Lucius was next.
"Hey Bob! Watch a pro." He said. Without aiming his ball, Lucius walked up there and tossed it. The ball swerved left and right in the lane, and hit the pins dead on, it was a strike.
Now it was Dash's turn again.
Bob went up their with him.
"Now you saw how I bowled." He began.
"Just stand right here, and aim at the arrows."
Dash did exactly what his father told him.
"When your ready, slowly walk up and bring your arm back, and release your ball when you get to the limit line, and your arm swings forward."
"Right." Dash said, trying to remember everything.
"Slowly walk up, and swing my arm back." He said, doing the actions.
"Release my ball when I get to the limit line!" He said letting go of his ball. The ball flew backwards, and smacked Bob in the jaw. It landed on the ground and cracked to pieces.
"Honey! Are you ok?" Helen asked.
Bob spat out a wisdom tooth.
"Yeah! Go ahead and cancel that dentist appointment tomorrow!" He replied.
It was now Violet's turn.
She walked up and threw her ball. It started to go towards the gutter.
"No.. No. Go that way." She whispered as she waved her hands. Without meaning to, she formed a force field around the ball, and it went where she wanted it to go. She got another strike.
"Daaaang!" Lucius said surprised.
Bob laughed.
"Good job Violet!" Then he mumbled to Lucius.
"It runs in the family."
Helen was next.
"Hey! None of that arm stretching what not!" Lucius hollered.
Helen shrugged.
"If you say so." She said.
She did the same steps as last time, but instead of stretching her arm, she stretched the three fingers inside her ball. Her fingers went halfway down the lane and she let the ball go. She got nine of the pins.
"Man, I thought you said you'd cut that out!" Lucius complained.
"Hey! You said no stretching my arm! I stretched my fingers." Helen laughed.
She played fair on her second turn, but she missed the last pin.
Bob's turn.
He grabbed his ball.
"Well, seeing as how there's no rule against using your superpowers to help you out." He said throwing his ball like a baseball. It shot off like a rocket, and the pins scattered. A strike.
Lucius shook his head.
"I swear, it seems like Violet, Dash, and I are the only one's playing fair." He said grabbing his bowling ball.
Violet laughed a little.
"What's so funny?" Helen asked.
"Nothing." She replied.
Lucius threw his ball, it did a bunch of fancy maneuvers, and hit the pins straight on again. Another strike.
"YEAH! That's what I'm talking about! And that's with playing fair too!" He said.
It was Dash's turn.
He tried to get it right this time. He did every step his father told him to do, and rolled the ball. It was a gutter ball both times.
"Ahhh..." He whined.
"Hey don't worry Dash. It just takes practice." Bob said, encouragingly.
Violet's turn.
She threw the ball, and it headed towards the gutter.
She formed another force field around the ball, and steered it towards the middle of the pins. Another strike.
"Wow! Would you look at that? I got a turkey!" Violet cheered.
"I thought she said she hasn't bowled much." Lucius said to Bob.
Helen went up, and actually bowled normally. Out of both turns she got seven total pins.
Bob went next, and bowled normally as well. He got six pins total.
Lucius was next.
"Well, it's nice to see we're all playing by the rules again." He chuckled.
He walked up and tossed his ball. It rolled straight down the lane, and hit the middle pin dead on. This time it was a split.
"What!" Lucius cried.
"How can that be?"
"C'mon now Lucius. Don't be a poor sport." Bob said.
Lucius rolled the ball on his second turn. This time it went right between both pins.
Bob stood up and threw his arms in the air.
"GOOOAAAL!" He cried.
Lucius laughed.
"Good one Bob. But...Well, I guess I have no comeback." He said.
They bowled a few more frames. Now they were on frame seven, and it was Bob's turn.
He was trying his best to concentrate, but it was hard to do.
"Hey batter batter batter.." Lucius whispered, from behind him.
Bob tried his best to ignore him.
He walked up, and as he threw his ball, Lucius made a loud sneezing noise, and threw him off, he only hit three of the pins.
Bob glared at him, but he just acted innocent.
"Do they always act like this when they hang out?" Violet asked her mother.
"Only when they compete." Helen replied.
Bob stood to the left, aimed at the middle arrow on the lane, and had his thumb to the side. He figured this would put a left hook on the ball, and it would curve and hit the middle pin, knocking the rest down. Just as he was about to make his move, Lucius started to make loud, constant, coughing noises.
"Oh forget it." Bob mumbled, and he threw the ball down the lane again. The pins scattered, and Bob picked up a spare.
Lucius walked up and picked his bowling ball up.
"Ok, you want to use your powers." He said to Bob.
"That's cool. But check out this curve I can put on my ball, without the help of superpowers." He rolled the ball. It swerved left, then right, then left, then right again. At the end, it hit the pins, and he got a strike.
"How do you do that?" Bob asked.
"Years of practice." Lucius replied.
Dash got up to bowl next.
"Hey." He said.
"Why is the lane wet?" He asked.
"Huh?" Bob kneeled down, and saw a trail of water going in the same directions as Lucius's ball.
"Lucius! you've been steering the ball on an ice rail again, haven't you?" Bob asked.
Lucius walked up.
"You mean the water didn't evaporate?" He asked looking down at the lane. He saw the water.
"Crud." He mumbled.
"You've been criticizing us about using our powers through the whole game, when the whole time, you've been doing the same thing?" Bob asked.
"Oh c'mon man, it's just a little joke." Lucius replied.
"How about we just finish the game, without the help of any powers?" Helen suggested.
"Fine by me." Bob said.
"Ok." Lucius said.
When the game was over, Dash came in last with 45 points. Which still wasn't bad for his first time. Helen placed fourth with 102 points, Bob placed third with 146 points, Lucius came in second with 152 points, and Violet came in first, beating everyone with 248 points.
They put the bowling balls away, and were taking off their bowling shoes.
"Man Violet, you did better than any of us, and you didn't use your powers once. I'm impressed." Lucius said.
"Thanks." Violet blushed.
"All that matters to me, is that I beat your father." He laughed.
"Yeah, you just got lucky. Next Wednesday we'll both play without using our powers at all, and then we'll see who's the better bowler." Bob said.
As the guys went up to put the shoes away, Helen grabbed Jack-Jack, and went up to Violet.
"You put a force field around the ball every time, didn't you?" She asked.
Violet shrugged.
"All except the first frame." She replied.
Helen laughed.
"Well, I guess that's what happens when you bowl with Supers." She said.
The End
Author's Note: Ok, this one wasn't as funny as my first two, but I'm having a serious case of writer's block here, so please bare with me, and please, if you know the rules of bowling, don't point out any of my errors in my story. Plus it's late, and I just want to get this story up before I go to bed. Anyways, I have a great idea for story 4, but I need to watch "The Incredibles" a couple times and take notes, so I can get it just right. I'll update as soon as I can. See ya then!