Story 4: Better Masks
Conan 16
Author's Note: The idea I was going to use, that I needed to watch The Incredibles for is being put on hold. But this came to me while I was on my thinking chair!. . . . . Perhaps I've said to much. Anyway, enjoy this long awaited story.
The Parr family were out shopping today.
"Ok, Bob, can you get me two gallons of milk? Vi, can you get two dozen eggs, and Dash, can you get two. . ." Helen was interrupted by a little boy.
"Wow! I can't believe it!" He said.
"Mommy look! It's the Incredibles!"
Each of the Parr's gasped.
Helen let out a little nervous laugh.
"Sorry kid. We aren't the Incredibles." She said.
"Uh huh!" The persistent little boy giggled.
"You're the one who can stretch herself like rubber."
He looked at Violet and Dash.
"You can turn invisidible, and you can run very super fast!" He said jumping up and down.
Then he looked at Bob and Jack-Jack.
"You're the humongous guy who his super strong, and that's the baby who has a gazillion different super powers."
"Let's get out of here." Helen whispered to Bob.
When they were driving home. It was silent for a while, until Helen finally spoke up.
"How could that kid now right off the bat who we were?"
Bob shrugged.
"Little kids have wild imaginations... Maybe he just assumed that since we were a family of five, and the Incredibles are a family of five, that we were the same people."
"Naw, that'd be to much of a coincidence." Helen said.
"Maybe our masks aren't hiding our secrete identity very well." Violet suggested.
"Our masks are fine. You're father and I wore the same type of mask in the old days, and it hid our identities just fine." Helen replied.
"Yeah, but give it a little thought honey." Bob began.
"Back then, people were aware that Mr. Incredible was a large man with blonde hair and blue eyes. But they didn't know I was Bob Parr, because their were a lot of men who were large, and had blonde hair and blue eyes. So it was easy for me alone to keep my identity a secrete. That's the same for you. But what are the odds that their is more than one family of five in this city that could match the description of the Incredibles, besides us?"
Helen thought it over.
"So what are we supposed to do? Break our family up, so no one suspects anything?"
Bob chuckled.
"Of course not. The solution to our problem is bigger, better, masks that hide more than just our eyebrows."
When they got home, Helen picked up the phone.
"Who you gonna call?" Bob asked.
"Ghostbusters." Helen replied.
"Very funny. No seriously."
"I'm seeing if I can get a hold of Edna. She can design better masks for us." She explained.
"Hello?" The man on the other line answered.
"Yes, can I speak to Edna please?"
"I'm sorry ma'am, but Edna is out on a business trip. She won't be back until Monday."
"Ok, thank you very much." Helen said, hanging up the phone.
"What kind of business trip could E be on that would keep her gone for six days?" Helen asked.
Meanwhile, at Lake Michigan.
"Oooh! I think I got one!" Edna cried reeling in her line. But it snapped.
"Heh, looks like that one will be the one that got away." Edna's gate guard said.
E grabbed her newest invention, a laser blade machete.
"The heck it is!" She cried jumping in the water.
Back at the Parr's house.
"So now what do we do?" Dash asked.
Bob snapped his fingers.
"Hey! we still have that old trunk up in the attic that's full of masks. Maybe we'll find something in their." He said.
Everyone else just shrugged. It was worth a shot.
The five Parr's went up into the attic, and opened up the old trunk.
"Hey! Look what I found!" Dash cried, trying on a Darth Vader helmet.
He grabbed a fake lightsaber that came with it.
"Violet! I am you brutha!" He said, smacking her with the lightsaber.
"Hey quit it! Knock it off you annoying little pest!" Violet cried smacking the toy out of his hand.
"Dash! Cut it out before we have a copyright lawsuit on our hands!" Helen scolded.
Violet picked up some goggles that had swirling lenses.
"How about these?" She asked putting them on.
Helen gasped and yanked them off of Violet.
"These were a gift at my...Bachelorett party." She said blushing.
"I didn't know dad wore the boxers with hearts on them." Violet thought.
Dash pulled out a mask that looked like a hairy monster, and put it on.
He walked up to Jack-Jack.
"Grrrrooooowwwlll!" He roared in a deep voice.
Jack-Jack gave Dash a dirty look, and turned into a monster.
"Grrroooowwwwwwllllll!" He roared, scaring Dash off.
Helen put a mask on.
"How about this?" She asked.
Bob shook his head.
"Wearing a rubber Elastigirl mask isn't going to hide your identity very well." He replied.
Helen took the mask off and looked at it.
"I wondered where this went." She said.
Bob pulled out an ancient, wooden, green mask.
"This one looks cool." He said, putting it on. He started to spin around real fast, and the mask formed to his whole head.
"Sssmoking!" Bob cried.
"I don't think so." Helen said pulling the mask off.
About twenty minutes later, Dash, Violet, and Helen continued to look for a good masks. Then they heard a clanking noise. The three of them turned around, and saw Bob walking up in a full suit of armor.
"Well?" He asked.
The three of them shook their heads, and Bob walked off.
"Who'd of thought that trying to find a better mask would be so hard?" Helen mumbled.
Dash put on another mask, it looked like Frankenstein.
Violet picked out a mask from inside the trunk.
"Here Dash, try this one on." She suggested.
"I'm already wearing a mask." Dash replied.
Violet squinted her eyes.
"Wow! Since when did they make a mask in your likeness?" She laughed.
Dash tore the mask off.
"That's not funny." He grumbled.
Bob found an old Halloween mask of a witch.
"Hey Helen look!" He said putting it on.
"I'm your mother!" He laughed.
Helen gave him a dirty look.
"Bob my mother looks just like me." She said.
"Uh oh." Bob removed the mask.
"You know, maybe we should wait for Edna to return and make us new masks. I mean, this is getting ridiculous." Helen said.
"Helen, finding a mask up here is only temporary. Besides, I'm sure whatever E's doing right know is very important." Bob said.
Back at Lake Michigan.
Edna was laying on the dock of her boat in a two piece swimsuit.
"C'mon dawling, that suntan oil isn't going to rub itself on my back." She said.
Her gate guard grabbed the bottle, looked at Edna, and shuddered.
"And to think, I could have been a science teacher." He mumbled
Violet walked by Helen, plugging her ears.
"Annoying little twerp." She grumbled.
Right behind her, Dash was wearing a replica hat from "The Cat In the Hat."
"Violet's ugly on a boat. Violet's uglier than a goat. Violet's ugly here and there, Violet's ugly everywhere!" He chanted.
"Dash...Cut it out." Helen warned.
Bob came out of the corner wearing a hat with moose horns sticking out of it.
His family gave him strange looks.
"What? To much moose in my hair?" He asked, laughing at his own joke.
Helen rolled her eyes.
"Bob. We have to find good, identity hiding, masks before we get a call. Can we please be serious?" She asked.
Bob took the hat off.
That's when the phone rang.
Helen ran down to answer it.
Then the family heard her yell.
"Ok! It's time for action!"
Which meant that they needed to suit up.
"What about the masks?" Violet asked.
"Just grab one that you think looks good." Bob replied, reaching for one nearest to him.
Helen was the first to suit up. She put on the only mask she could find on short notice. It was one of those big, feathery, Las Vegas showgirl masks.
Then she put Jack-Jack's mask on him. It was a rubber Richard Nixon mask.
"C'mon guys! We have to go!" She hollered.
Violet came running down the stairs. She had a pair of pantyhose on over her head.
"I didn't like any of the masks I saw." She said.
"It works for robbers."
Helen shrugged.
"Hurry guys!" She cried up the stairs.
Dash ran downstairs, he had on a gorilla mask.
"Sweetie, I don't think you'll be able to see very well with that on." Helen said removing the mask.
He had the Frankenstein mask on under it.
"Or that one." Helen removed that mask as well. He had a Charlie Brown mask on under it.
"Good grief Dash." She removed that mask, and he had the X-Ray goggles on.
"DASH!" Helen ripped them off his head.
"Alright, alright." Dash mumbled putting on the Darth Vader helmet.
Bob finally came down the stairs. He had on a giant, foam, Bass head.
Helen had to hold back her laugh.
"Honey?" She began.
Bob looked at her.
"Yeah?" He answered.
"You...Do know you have on a giant fish head right?"
Bob sighed.
"...Yeah." He replied.
They left to fight crime.
Later, when they returned. Each of them tore off the mask they were wearing and threw them in the trash.
"That...Was...Humiliating!" Violet said.
"I still can't believe how easy the villain went down." Dash mumbled.
"Yeah, who'd of thought that laughing so hard could literally put you in a coma?" Bob asked.
"Well, one things for sure. Even though they may be a little revealing, we should probably stick with our old masks." Helen said.
"But what if someone finds out?" Dash asked.
"That's a chance I'm willing to take." Bob replied.
The doorbell rang, and each of them grabbed a robe to cover up their super suit.
When Helen answered it, a woman was standing there with the little boy they saw earlier.
"Is this the Parr's residence?" She asked.
"Yes." Helen replied.
The woman looked at the family.
"You're...All in robes?" She asked.
"Yeah, we just got out of the shower." Helen replied, then she realized how stupid that cover up was.
"Oookay. Anyways, I noticed that my son caused a little scene at the supermarket, that made you guys leave in embarrassment, and I just wanted to apologize." The lady explained.
"You see, he's a big fan of The Incredibles, and he goes around saying that every family of five he sees is The Incredible family. I hope this hasn't been an inconvenience for you."
Helen shook her head.
"Oh, not at all." She said.
"Great. Well, we must be going." The lady said, grabbing her sons arm.
The little boy glanced back, and saw the top of Incredibles symbol peeking through Helen's robe.
He gasped.
"Mommy! They really are the..."
"I don't want to hear it anymore Jimmy." She interrupted.
The End
Author's Note: Yeah... Sorry for the long wait. I just registered on Fanart Central so I could post some drawings I did, and it's been keeping me busy. Anyways. My writers block is still hovering above my head, and I think it's here to stay. Needless to say, it's not helping my story ideas one bit. I promise my next stories will be just as good as my first ones, if not better! If you want to see my drawings, go to http: and look for the name Conan 16. I only have a couple of pictures up now, but I'll be putting more up soon. See ya.