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Because this part is where all the fights start breaking out

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Throw Me. Chapter Fifteen. It's All Relative – Part One

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It takes a while for Helen to slip into super mode. She's been faced with villains of all sorts, thinking it was them or her and it was always them. Now she's not so sure.

"Bob...honey?" she calls to him hesitantly as he makes his way down the street to her. It's chaos around her but she tries to stay calm. "Bob, it's me."

He stops in front of her. She sees almost a faint glimmer of recognition in his eyes but then he swipes one of his huge fists at her.

Helen ducks it, just in time, flattening herself against the tarmac road. It was him, she recognised the tiny scar by his eyebrow. But something was up...someone else was inside.

"Helen!"

"Mom...Mom!"

She turns to see Mirage standing there with a masked Jack-Jack and her two older children, ready to go.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't stop them coming." Mirage calls apologetically.

"Hey Mom, what's going on?" Dash yells.

"Please get out of here, kids. Please get somewhere safe." Helen shouts back at them.

But her back is to her husband and she doesn't see him pull a mailbox from the paving slabs and lift it over his head. He brings it down, fast, aiming for his wife.

"Mom!" Dash screams.

Helen turns in horror to see the blue mail box come crashing down above her. It clangs loudly as it hits the purple force field around her.

"Hey, Dad!" Dash speeds off down the street behind his father. "Hey, Mr Incredible!"

Bob turns in confusion, leaving his wife alone.

"Vi..." Helen begins, stunned as she faces her daughter who removes the force field with a slight smile.

"Hi Mom." Violet grins.

"We could do this, if we work together." Helen says, looking fondly at her oldest daughter. "We always knew we couldn't keep you from doing what you were born to do. Be careful. Please be careful; we don't know exactly what's going on. Just be careful."

"Of course I will. I'm an Incredible, isn't this what we do?" Violet beams before chasing after her brother who is racing through backstreets and between parked cars to avoid his father. Bob Parr simply smashes through the cars, leaving flattened messes of metal and glass behind.

"Bob!" Helen calls, finding a new energy. Her husband doesn't respond.

"Mr Incredible!" She tries again, and he turns, begins to come after her. Knowing her husband probably better than the person somehow controlling him did, she knows she can outrun him, being more nimble, more flexible.

As she springs between streetlights and shop-fronts she thinks to herself. What has she got so far? It isn't him in there, she knows it, it's not the man she married. That part is easy enough to see. So who was it? There hadn't been any major jailbreaks, any news of supers slipping from their side.

It didn't take long for Mr Incredible to tire of chasing after Elastigirl, who eluded him everytime and skipped far ahead. Turning away from the super, he looks to start simple, one of the smaller ones perhaps, they look an uncomplicated enough target.

"Vi – quick he's coming our way." Dash grabs his sister's elbow and Violet turns to see her father charging down the street. "Run!"

It was a rookie mistake. In any other situation they may have been forgiven for it. They kept their eye on the enemy as they ran, rather than where they were going.

"Dash..." Violet finds herself faced with a wire fence. "Dash, it's a dead end." She swallows, feeling a mix of fear and anger at their own stupidity sink in her. The only way out of the alley, the way they came in, is now cast into shadow as the overpowering figure of their father stands in the way.

"There's no way out, there's no way out..." Dash murmurs nervously to himself.

"Dad...Dad don't..." Violet begins to plead.

Helen, now out of Mr Incredible's reach quickly turns back to check up on what's going on. She had been lost in her own thoughts and shouldn't have left Vi and Dash alone. It is a passing thought but it blows up in her mind when she returns to the scene.

"Dad!" Dash yells. Mr Incredible reaches for one of the parked cars. Violet begins to scream as he lifts it over his head. Frozen in shock, the pair of them just stand there. And he brings it down on top of them.

"Vi! Vi, your force field!" Helen screams at her, leaping across to the alley where her children are. But when she arrives she sees.

Perhaps it was just that her oldest daughter was too scared. And that faced with her father brandishing a Tahoe, looking into a face she'd looked into as a baby and had only ever seen safety, maybe she just couldn't do anything. The scream rings in Helen's ears and her legs buckle and shake.

This was never meant to happen. Not to them, not to her children. She shouldn't have had to watch them die.

With rasping breaths Helen finds the numbness fades slowly from her body and she realises: she can still hear the screaming. Around the corner of the alley, Mirage finally stops, falling to the ground. With all her energy concentrated on keeping the shimmering image in front of their eyes to act as a diversion for the children, she had had to stand against the electrical shock being passed through her from the chip whilst she used her powers.

"Run! Now! Go!" Mirage gasps to Vi, now holding Jack-Jack, Dash and Helen. Pulling herself together, Helen runs to her friend, helping her to her feet and follows her children away.

"Thank you," is all Helen can repeat, dumfounded when they duck behind a hot dog stand. Mirage smiles at her, shrugs her shoulders and passes out on the concrete.

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