Chapter 8: A Turn From Bad To Worse
By: Conan16
"So, how is this supposed to help me with my speed problem?" Dash asked, as he continued to run on a treadmill.
Minx giggled.
"Silly! It'll strengthen your leg muscles and that will give you more control over your speed." She explained.
"I never thought of that. But can I run outside instead? It would be a lot more fun then this...Where am I anyway?"
"Oh! Umm, don't worry about that ok? Just keep running for now, and I'll let you rest in ten minutes. When training is over, I'll take you home ok?" Minx replied.
"Alright."
Fade and Deluge were still running to the airport. They had a couple of miles to go. Deluge stopped for a breath of air.
"Hey Fade!" She panted. "At this rate, we'll arrive at the airport around Christmas."
Fade was panting too.
"Yeah, we should've grabbed our bikes or something." She said.
That's when they heard a car horn.
They turned to see a slick Dark Blue vehicle with 'Ace' printed across the hood and the side doors. It was built aerodynamic, and had a single jet engine on the back.
The car pulled up aside the two girls, and the passenger door opened. They were greeted by Ace.
"Need a lift?" He asked.
"How did you know we were going somewhere?" Fade asked.
"I... uhh, I have a radar. C'mon get in!"
Fade and Deluge got into Ace's car and they drove towards the airport.
Meanwhile, back on the ocean.
"We're almost there!" Frozone announced.
Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl were quiet most of the trip. Mr. Incredible looked towards his wife. She turned and looked back, and he jolted his head the other direction.
Mr. Incredible sighed.
"This is childish." He thought.
He turned to Elastigirl.
"Honey..." He began.
Elastigirl looked at him.
"Yeah?"
"I...I know we've been arguing a lot, and well..." Mr. Incredible couldn't think of anything to say.
"Yes Bob, I'm aware that we've been arguing quite a bit." Elastigirl said. "What's your point?"
"I'm getting there." Mr. Incredible mumbled.
"It's just that... I thought being with you around the house would make you happier, and..."
"It does make me happy Bob. I love being with you. That's why I married you. We're just having a few problems is all. All we have to do is sit down and talk them over." Elastigirl said.
Mr. Incredible grinned.
"No time like the present huh?" He asked.
Elastigirl walked over and sat down on a bench, and Mr. Incredible sat next to her.
"Where do you wanna begin?" Mr. Incredible asked.
"Well. What about that argument we had over..." Elastigirl was interrupted when the boat was hit with an explosion.
"What was that!" Mr. Incredible asked.
"WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!" Frozone cried.
Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl ran up to the bow with Frozone and the saw a dark speedboat coming towards them.
"What in the name of..." Mr. Incredible mumbled as he squinted his eyes.
The speedboat was only a few yards away from them.
"Who's driving that thing?" Elastigirl asked.
"It looks like...One of Syndrome's henchman!" Mr. Incredible replied.
"I KNEW IT! Mirage tricked us Bob! She asked us to come so she could destroy us!" Elastigirl cried.
A jagged spike poked out of the side on the enemy boat, as it sped past Frozone's vessel and tore through the metal, shaking the supers.
"What motive could Mirage possible have to wanna destroy us?" Mr. Incredible asked as he hung on to the side.
"Umm, maybe because we killed Syndrome!" Elastigirl replied, also hanging on for her life.
"Dang!" Frozone cried looking at the damage to the boat.
"My friend's gonna pop a vain when he sees this!" Frozone ran back to the bow, and fired an ice beam at the enemies. The henchman on the boat activated the boat's twin jet engines and they melted the ice beam. Then he pushed another button that opened up a containment device. Millions of tiny Styrofoam looking balls flew out at the super's boat.
"What are those?" Mr. Incredible asked.
To answer his question, a few of the tiny balls hit their boat, and exploded on impact.
"GET DOWN!" Frozone cried, and the three supers ran to the back of the boat, and hit the deck.
The rest of the tiny balls hit the front of the speedboat and caused a huge, fiery, explosion.
The front half of the vessel was gone, and the rest of it started to sink.
Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Frozone were all dazed from the explosion, but they recovered quickly. The enemy speedboat started to make a retreat back to Nomanisan Island.
"Grab hold of me!" Elastigirl cried.
Mr. Incredible grabbed her around the waist, and Frozone grabbed Mr. Incredible around the chest.
Elastigirl stretched her arm out, and grabbed the back of the speedboat, and the three supers were back on track to Nomanisan Island.
"Keep low and he won't see us." Elastigirl whispered.
It took Fade countless tries to convince Snug, but he finally agreed to take her and her friends to Nomanisan Island.
Snug pulled his new jet out of it's hanger, and half an hour later, they were on their way to the island.
"Thanks again Snug." Fade said.
"Hey it's no problem. I felt kind of bad for the way I turned your mother down when she asked me for help...It's the least I could do." Snug replied.
Fade nodded.
She looked back and saw Deluge taking a short nap, and Ace polishing something. She got up and left the cockpit.
When she stood next to Ace's seat, he looked up.
"Hi." He said with a smile.
"Hey." Fade replied. "Is this seat taken?" She pointed to the seat next to him.
"Oh not at all."
Fade sat down.
The two of them were silent for a while, as Fade looked at her feet, and Ace continued to polish whatever it was he was holding.
There was no sound except the hum of the jet engines.
A few minutes later, Fade broke the silence.
"So...What are you shining up there?"
Ace moved his rag, and showed Fade what it was. It was a combat dagger.
"Oh...You use a weapon?" Fade asked.
"Yeah, but not in combat. This blade has never shed a drop of blood in it's life. It belonged to my father, and my grandfather. It's more of a tool then a weapon..." Ace explained.
"That's interesting. Hey! Is that a last name inscribed on the blade?" Fade tried to get a closer look, but Ace quickly sheathed the dagger.
Fade scoffed.
"Why won't you tell me your secrete identity?" She asked.
"Why won't you tell me yours?" Ace countered.
"I don't know... I just have this feeling you don't trust me." Fade said.
"Of course I trust you." Ace moved his hand towards her face.
"W-What are you doing?"
"Do you trust me?" Ace asked.
Fade nodded.
"Of course I do. I knew I could trust you when I first saw you." She replied.
That was all Ace needed to hear, and with both hands he carefully removed Fade's mask. He took a good look at her and grinned, as he blushed bright red.
"Heh heh, V-Violet Parr. Heh, I c-can't believe it." He muttered.
Violet smiled a cute little smile.
"So I take it we have met before?" She asked.
Ace was still bewildered by his discovery, but he finally replied.
"Well, why don't you remove my mask and find out?"
The enemy speedboat arrived at Nomanisan Island, and Mr. Incredible and the others watched the henchman depart from the boat onto the beach.
He stood there for a while. Then he finally spoke up.
"You three can come out of hiding." He began as he removed his helmet. It was Lucifer.
"I know you're there."
"Mr. Incredible! It's the villain who was robbing Main Street!" Frozone cried.
The three supers attacked Lucifer head on.
Lucifer shot back, and fired his purple plasma beams at the sand. A giant wave of sand swept the heroes off their feet.
"Elastigirl stood up and grabbed the branch of a tree. She swung around, and kicked Lucifer in the back.
"Agh!" He cried, as he grabbed Elastigirl's arm, and slammed her into the ground.
"He shot his beam at her a couple of times, before he was interrupted by a flying rock from Mr. Incredible.
The rock hit Lucifer upside the head, and fazed him.
"Honey! Are you ok!" Mr. Incredible cried.
Elastigirl stood up weakly, and winced in pain.
"Y-yeah...I think so." She replied.
Frozone threw up a wall of ice around Lucifer.
"Let's retreat for now!" He cried.
"And go where?" Mr. Incredible asked.
"I don't know! As long as it's away from here!"
A plasma beam shot through the ice shattering it to bits.
"Your not going anywhere!" Lucifer cried. "You made me look like a fool! I will not disappoint Tsarkon again!"
Mr. Incredible gasped.
"Tsarkon." He whispered. A flashback shot through his mind. "Richard...It can't be."
Frozone knocked Mr. Incredible out of the way, as a beam hit the ground where he was standing.
"Are you blind Mr. I! We're in the middle of battle!"
Mr. Incredible shook the memory out of his head.
"Sorry. Let's get him!"
Inside the base. Tsarkon was waiting patiently for the next step of his plan to succeed.
He looked as though he was in deep thought.
"Soon Robert...Very soon." He whispered over and over again.
"Sir..." A henchman said interrupting his thoughts.
"What is it?"
"A jet sir. A government jet is headed towards this location. Could they be passing by?"
Tsarkon stood up.
"Hmm, possibly. But regardless, I think I'll have a little fun with them. I'm getting bored anyway."
Deluge woke up with a yawn.
"Hey! What's going on?" She asked sheepishly.
Violet removed her hands from Ace's mask.
"Violet? You removed your mask? Why?"
"Actually Ace did. He's going to let me remove his mask too." Violet explained.
Deluge shrugged and leaned her back against the window.
"Five bucks says he's someone we know." She said.
Violet laughed.
"I already know that." She said placing her hands on Ace's mask.
Before Violet could continue, the moment was ruined by a loud, scratchy voice on the radio. It was nearly impossible to make the words out.
"Island tower. Could you repeat that? You're not coming in very clear." Snug said on the radio. No answer.
"Island tower, this is Bravo Yankee Niner Five. Would you please repeat your message?"
Still no answer.
"What's going on?" Deluge asked.
"I have no clue." Violet replied.
Ace gave Violet her mask.
"You'll be needing that. I have a bad feeling about this." He said.
"Island tower, please repeat your message or..." Snug was interrupted by the voice on the radio.
"This is Nomanisan Island tower. Bravo Yankee Niner Five you're clear for landing."
Snug looked bewildered.
"Nomanisan Island tower, I never requested permission to land." He replied.
The voice on the radio started to laugh.
"You're landing whether you like it or not."
After the message was over the jet started to shake violently as part of the tail wing was ripped off.
"What caused that!" Ace cried.
"I don't know! Take cover kids!" Snug cried.
The plane shook again as a side panel was torn off.
"This is just a warning Snug. Send the supers to my island, or in a split second I'll tear you plane apart piece-by-piece, and all of you with it." The man on the radio threatened.
Snug didn't know what to do. The plane was back on course with only a little damage.
"This is Snug. I don't know how you know my name, or how you found out that I'm hauling supers, but I will not land this plane and let you take these kids hostage."
"You'd be surprised how much you can learn when you have telekinetic powers snug. Last chance...Turn the teen supers over to me, or you'll all die!"
Snug would not give up that easily.
"Kill me if you want to. But I will not let you har..." Snug was interrupted when Ace took his headset off.
"We're dealing with an unnatural weirdo here Snug. The girls and I can handle it."
Ace ran back with his friends, and the three of them put on parachutes that were hanging near the cockpit.
"After we jump head for safety Snug!" Ace cried as he opened the door.
Snug nodded to show that he understood, and the three teen supers jumped when the plane was over Nomanisan Island.
Meanwhile, Tsarkon was watching from the radio tower.
"Looks like Violet Parr has arrived. Along with some friends." He said.
A henchman typed something in on the computer.
"I found information on Fade's friends sir." He began.
"And?"
"The girl is the super known as Deluge. She is Frozone's daughter, and the one with water powers. The boy is known as Ace. He's a fairly new super hero so no one has ever really heard of him. Ace in inevitable to any kind of attack or pain. His body is virtually indestructible." The Henchman explained.
Ace really caught Tsarkon's attention.
"Virtually indestructible, eh? Now there's a useful feature." He said.
Meanwhile, back in Metroville at the Best residence.
Jack-Jack was fast a sleep, and Honey quietly left the room.
As she closed the door behind her Knave, Tsarkon's imp helper, snuck out of the closet.
"Heh heh heeeh. This will be easier then taking candy from a baby." He whispered as he snuck over to Jack-Jack's baby bed.
He got onto the bed, and went up next to Jack-Jack. He opened up his porthole back to Nomanisan Island, and grabbed Jack-Jack. But there was one problem.
"Ack! He's so heavy." Knave grumbled as he tried to scoot Jack-Jack into his porthole.
Knave tried with all his might, and fell backwards. This made Jack-Jack hit the bed with a thump, waking him up.
"Huh?" He said shortly looking around through sleepy eyes.
"Mommy?"
Jack-Jack didn't get an answer, and he didn't see anybody, so he started to cry.
Knave shot up.
"There there little guy. Your ol' buddy Knave is here to take you somewhere fun." He said. But is dark, rasp voice only scared Jack-Jack some more.
"Jack-Jack?" Honey said as she came towards the room.
"Crud!" Knave jumped off the bed, and locked the door.
He ran back to the bed.
"Now listen up twerp! You're coming with me whether you like it or not!"
Jack-Jack's sobs simmered as he gave Knave a dirty look.
"NO!" He cried.
"YES!" Knave cried back.
"NO!" Jack-Jack argued.
"YES!" Knave cried at the top of his voice.
"Jack-Jack! Are you ok sweetie? Oh my lord! The door's locked! JACK-JACK!" Honey cried from outside the room.
Jack-Jack started to cry again, and he shot his eye lasers at Knave.
His laser hit Knave in the butt, making him run around the room screaming in pain.
"Who's that! Darn it let me in! Leave Jack-Jack alone!" Honey cried.
Knave jumped up on the bed, and grabbed Jack-Jack.
Jack-Jack teleported out of his hands.
"Huh?" Knave looked around and saw him on the floor.
Jack-Jack stuck his tongue out.
"Grrr." Knave leaped at Jack-Jack, but he teleported again.
Jack-Jack was on the bed by the porthole laughing.
Frustrated, Knave leaped head on at Jack-Jack and shoved him into the porthole.
Thus another super was captured.
To Be Continued