"Get away while you still can!" Dash warned the Snow Scouts.
"Don't listen to them," said Count Buddy in a friendly voice, "I'm Syndrome, a new superhero, and my friends and I are here to help you celebrate False Spring."
"They're cakesniffers," said Kari Melita. "They just want to spoil my False Spring Queen dance. Why should I believe people who are too stupid to take off their masks when the snow gnats are gone?"
Violet, Dash, and Quigley looked at each other. It would blow their cover, but they had to take off their masks to have any chance of convincing the snow scouts to trust them. They removed them.
Esmé was in a fury at being fooled. "I thought it might be you, but seein' three of you threw me off."
"What? You're dead!" said Count Buddy. "I dropped you from the plane. And you, Rydinger, you're the twin who died when I set your house on fire."
"Nope, I'm a triplet," said Quigley. "And I'm alive."
"I know you, Violet and Dash," said Kari Melita. "You called me over to your house and then stupidly went off to the beach and left the gas on or something so the house blew up in my face. You're just cakesniffers out to ruin my day. You were mean to me at school, too."
"Treachery!" said the woman with hair and no beard. "The deal is off. Tell us where the sugar bowl is right now or these two guards will throw your baby brother off the cliff."
"No," said Tocuny, "I draw the line at killing babies."
"Me too," said Budd. "I resign." She set the casserole dish down on the ground.
Syndrome caught the two women in a zero-point energy beam and tossed them far down the mountain.
"I accept your resignation," he sneered.
Violet only had a moment to make a force sphere to grab one thing; she chose the casserole dish. (I'm not sure what happened to the women, but I fear the worst). The dish came open as the force field dragged it to Violet. Only a large eggplant was inside.
"Is that you, Jack-Jack?" Violet asked. "Did you morph into an eggplant?"
"Not eggplant," said Jack-Jack, appearing from behind the wheel of the plane where he had hidden.
Dash zipped over to Jack-Jack, picked him up, and brought him back to the others before the villains could do anything.
"What's going on?" demanded Uncle Bruce.
"As I said, I'm a superhero," said Syndrome. "I and my associates are protecting you from those supervillains so you can hold your False Spring celebration. Those two white-faced people were supervillains, too: Bomb Voyage and his evil sister Bette Noir."
"Now that you mention it, I did read something in the paper about supervillains," said Bruce. "Yes, two of those children's faces were on the front page."
"Go ahead with your celebration," said Esmé. "We'll hold them off. Our security guards will join your dance to keep you safe."
"We will?" said Hugo.
"Sure, why not?" said Kevin. "I can dance with two equally-strong feet."
"I don't know..." Uncle Bruce hesitated.
Kari snatched the Spring Pole that Uncle Bruce was holding, "Come on, Uncle Bruce. I've been looking forward to this for a long time and I don't want it ruined by a few cakesniffing supervillains. I'm not afraid with a real hero around to protect me. I crown myself False Spring Queen!"
Kari marched to the edge of the ice with the Spring Pole and stuck it deep into the ice. The ice began to creak and groan and cracks appeared in it.
"You have guts, and you're cute," Syndrome said to Kari. "Would you be interested in being my sidekick?"
"Oh, please do," said Esmé. "I'll buy you lots of nice things and treat you like the daughter I never had."
"Sure," said Kari. "Life's been sooo boring at school. I'll try adventure for a while."
"No, Kari!" said Violet. "He's evil!"
"You're the one who's evil, you cakesniffing supervillain!" said Kari.
Seeing that Kari had already started the celebration, the Snow Scouts moved forward and began to dance, while chanting, "Snow Scouts are accommodating, basic, calm, daring,..." and the whole group of Syndrome's guards moved out to join them.
WHEEET! Suddenly the woman with hair and no beard blew her whistle and the sky was full of eagles. The eagles grabbed up a net that had been camouflaged in the snow and carried it up into the sky, lifting up the entire set of astonished Snow Scouts, along with the hook-handed guard, Kevin, Hugo, and Colette. Eagles landed on each padded shoulder of the menacing man and woman, lifting them off the ground.
ZAP! Quigley began firing his cutting beam, trying to cut the prisoners loose. He made a few holes, but the n et was too large to break all at once.
SCREEE! Eagles directed by the woman with hair and no beard dived at Quigley's face. He ducked, and his finger beam, still blasting, hit the cracked and creaking ice.
CRAACK! The ice split as the edge began to fall. Syndrome, using his rocket boots, pulled Kari and Esmé to safety. Dash tried to run, but the slippery slush gave no traction. Just as they were sliding off the edge, Jack-Jack reached out with the stretching power he had copied from his mother, grabbed the toboggan, and pulled it under them.
"Rosebud!" cried Jack-Jack.
Then they were sledding down the icy slope that was melting and disintegrating from under them. Violet used force-fields to guard them from hitting rocks; Dash used super-fast reflexes to steer. Quigley fired off one last beam that punctured the tires of the plane so that Syndrome couldn't use it to pursue them.
"Jamebond!" said Jack-Jack, suddenly remembering his spy mission. "Safeglace Hottle Derrerr! Narsonists!"
"Good work, Jack-Jack!" said Violet. "The Last Safe Place is the Hotel Derrière, and the villains plan burn it."
That was all they had time to say, because the toboggan struck the bottom of the frozen waterfall with a hard smack, and the waterfall above them broke completely free from the ice.
A freezing downpour of water hit them, forcing them underwater. The cold shock stunned them so completely that all thought of using super-powers was driven from their minds. Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack found themselves clinging to the toboggan as it headed down one branch of the stream, while Quigley was swept down the other.
"Quigley!" called Violet.
"Don't worry!" Quigley called over the raging flood, "I'll meet you at the --"
That was all the Incredibles heard before he was swept away down the other tributary of the raging stream.