At that moment, Ash and V were running blindly through the jungle. Almost out of breath, they stopped dead in their tracks. Three high-speed velocipads were in their path. V spoke calmly in a low voice as he looked into the faces of the armed guards. "Ash. Remember what Dad said."
"What?" Ash asked, terrified, remembering the part about these guys not being like the bad guys you watched on TV. Then V disappeared.
"Ash! Run!" V shouted.
Right! Ash thought as she bolted into the jungle.
"They're Supers!" one of the guards yelled. "Get the girl!"
Ash ran at lightning speed, the velocipads hot on her trail. The vines and undergrowth were so dense that Ash was forced to stick to a narrow jungle trail. Suddenly, she rocketed through a thick, dark cloud. It was a swarm of black jungle flies. "Aggcchh!" Ash choked as the flies hit her face like bugs smashing into a windshield. She shook her head and tumbled into the undergrowth. She sat up and rubbed her bug-spattered teeth with the back of her sleeve.
"Achppt! Ptthwaagh! Pthtp!" sputtered Ash, spitting bits of fly wings and legs from her mouth.
The velocipads suddenly burst through the undergrowth, and Ash began tearing through the jungle again. She saw a hanging vine ahead and reached for it as she zoomed by. Ash swung around in a wide arc, surprising the last velocipad and causing it to veer off into the undergrowth. Immediately, another velocipad was hot on her trail. Ash grabbed another vine and was propelled forward. But the vine snapped and she rose in the air, suddenly realizing that she was no longer over land. She was falling fast off the edge of a cliff! Ash screamed.
With a thud, she landed on the hood of a velocipad. She couldn't believe her luck. She was okay! A guard turned and took a swing at her. But Ash used her Super speed to duck every punch. She was beginning to get comfortable with her Super powers. She even managed to get in a few high-speed punches herself.
Ash was feeling pretty proud until she realized that the velocipod was headed straight for a cliff wall. The guard suddenly socked Ash in the jaw, knocking her off the vehicle. Ash watched the velipod slam into the cliff wall, vaporizing into a ball of fire.
Ash fell through the trees below the cliff. She hit a branch as she fell flailing through an enormous tree. She tried to grab anything to stop her fall and finally got her hands around a vine. Then she looked down. She was about three feet off the jungle floor. How had she ever survived that? She dropped to the ground and let out a loud whoop in victory.
Two nearby guards on velocipods turned and headed toward the sound. The velocipods picked up Ash's trail as she ran toward a lagoon. Ash charged straight ahead and took a deep breath. She was ready to get wet, but when she looked down, she was surprised. She was running fast enough to skim along the water's surface.
Ash blasted across the lagoon, weaving like a speedboat around the volcanic rocks jutting out of the water. One velocipod followed as he darted into a cave. Ash realized she was in a tunnel when she saw the second velocipod coming at him from the other side. She frantically looked for a way out. She was trapped. Ash stopped running and dropped beneath the water's surface. She was relieved when she heard the boom! of the two velocipods colliding overhead.
A guard in the meantime scanned the area with her rifle, looking for any sign of Vincent. Invisible, Vincent quickly clubbed the guard, knocking away her rifle and giving himself enough time to run into the jungle.
"Show yourself!" she commanded.
She picked up her gun and fired, unleashing a barrage of bullets at a series of footprints that streaked toward the river. The guard heard a splash and fired at a rippling mass under the water's surface.
She reached down, grabbed a handful of dirt, and threw it into the river. Vincent's outline showed clearly in the murky water. The guard smiled, raised her rifle, and took aim.
But V didn't stay still – he splashed out of the river and made a run for the jungle. The guard swung her gun toward him. At that moment, Ash darted from the jungle, running full throttle toward the guard's legs.
"Don't touch my brother!" Ash shouted as she knocked the guard down. The guard managed to get a punch in as the two tumbled. Stunned for a moment, Ash looked up to see the rifle pointed at her chest. The guard smiled and the trigger clicked. Vincent leaped between them, throwing a force field around him and Ash, protecting them. Ash was amazed. Vincent floated in midair, suspended in his own force field.
"How are you doing that?" Ash asked as the bullets from the guard ricocheted off the force field.
"I don't know!" V answered honestly.
"Whatever you do – don't stop!" Ash said enthusiastically.
Ash began to run within the force field like a gerbil in a wheel, causing them to roll into the jungle, rumbling past the guards and down a hillside.
Mrs. Incredible and Elastiguy raced through the jungle side by side. "I should have told you the truth," Mrs. Incredible said, trying to apologize, "but I didn't want you to worry."
"You didn't want me to worry?" Elastiguy exclaimed. "And now we're running for our lives through some godforsaken jungle!"
But Mrs. Incredible just shook her head and smiled. "You keep trying to pick a fight, but I'm still just happy you're alive."
Mrs. Incredible and Elastiguy heard an explosion echo through the jungle, followed by a deep rumble that grew louder and louder. Suddenly, the rolling force field with Ash and V, having just barely escaped two chasing velocipods, burst out of the jungle in front of them.
"Mom! Dad!" Ash and V yelled.
The force field flattened Mrs. Incredible and Elastiguy like cookie dough against a rolling pin. "Kids!"
Vincent disintegrated the force field, and the family fell to the ground, hugging wildly.
Suddenly, a velocipod blasted out of the jungle. The family jumped to their feet and faced the fight together.
Elastiguy threw a stretched scissor kick that caught a guard in the chest, knocking her out of her velocipod. In perfect harmony, Mrs. Incredible threw a chop at a second passing velocipod and sent it plowing into the jungle floor. Elastiguy coiled his arm around the pod's pilot and whiplashed him into another guard, knocking them both out cold. Mrs. Incredible grabbed the crashed velocipod and threw it into another that had just emerged from the trees. Mrs. Incredible and Elastiguy looked around at the crashed velocipods that now littered the jungle floor.
"I love you," they were saying to each other with admiration when the jungle suddenly filled with the guards. The whole family reacted in a blur of Super powers. The guards were no match for them.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Syndrome said, stepping out of the jungle. "Time out!" she shouted, firing her immobi-ray and suspending the family motionless in midair.
Syndrome crossed her arms and assessed the scene. "What have we here?" she asked, amused. "Matching uniforms?"
She narrowed his eyes and looked at Elastiguy.
"Oh, no!" She laughed out loud. "Elastiguy? I knew you were married, but to Elastiguy?" She shook her head, then looked at the children with a smirk. "And got biz-zay!" she said suggestively to Mrs. Incredible. "It's a whole family of Supers! Looks like I've hit the jackpot! Oh, this is just too good!" she exclaimed, relishing the moment.