Chapter Forty Five: The Robinson Reopening Gala
Two Months Later:
"Do you think tha' Moone would be proud o' us?" Merida asked, letting another box of files drop down on the table. While the POLE was being rebuilt, North had put the Big Four on sorting duty.
"I think he was always proud of us," Rapunzel said. "Hey look, it's our applicant profiles!"
"Wow, forgot how much I used to look like Emma," Jack muttered, leaning over his girlfriend's shoulder. "We were basically twins,"
"I think Moone would be proud of us," Hiccup finally said. "We trained the next generation of heroes, they did pretty well,"
"We also let Pitch escape," Jack muttered. "He's still out there,"
"But we wouldn't have gotten the Omega's without his plan, however messed up it was," Rapunzel added. "And we captured everyone else!"
She was mostly right. After the battle of San Fransokyo, the only two to escape were Pitch Black and El Macho. Evelyn Deavor and Cecil Calico had already gone through public trials and taken to a high security prison where they'd been sentenced to lots of solitary confinement. Syndrome and Gothel on the other hand, had been kept under strict containment until they'd been shipped off to the super prison off the coast of Japan - the Koduko no Ana.
Robert Callaghan had also been sentenced, but at a different prison and for a significantly shorter time. The entire group of supers had testified in his favor, as well as some of the civilians he had saved, which had worked in his favor.
"I think we did a good job," Hiccup said.
"Yeah, that's what ah thought," Merida grinned. She plopped down to open her new files, but didn't get very far before the door slammed open, revealing Emma, who glared and crossed her arms over her glittery blue dress.
"We're going to be late!" Emma yelled. The four young adults shared a look before leaping up in a hurry and barreling out of the room, shoving past Emma in a whoosh of superpowers to get ready. "Why am I the most responsible one here?!"
With the reconstruction of Robinson Inc having just been completed, the Robinson family had decided to hold a massive reopening party for all the employees and their families. In a way, it was like a rehash of 'bring your child to work day', where everything had gone wrong the first time.
"Thank you all for coming!" Cornelius said into his microphone. Reporters and cameras flashed off to the side, and the employees and other guests cheered. "I'd like to thank everyone who worked so hard to rebuild our labs, and of course my family who's stood by me in this turbulent time,"
"Woo!" Vex and Wilbur cheered. Next to her boyfriend, Violet groaned and rubbed her forehead. Cornelius looked at his kids and shook his head, then gestured to Franny, who was wearing a long red dress that matched her husband's tie.
"Now, my lovely wife has prepared a selection of music to kick off this evening's festivities, so I'll turn it over to her,"
Franny clapped her hands and pulled out a baton, then started conducting. Her frog choir started up a jaunty tune, the surprisingly melodic warbling filling the ballroom as people started to dance and others headed off to the side tables to eat.
"Care to dance?" Wilbur said, offering his hand to Violet. Her hair had been pulled up into a crown braid, and she looked absolutely beautiful in a dusty purple-blue dress.
"That," Violet grinned. "Is an excellent question,"
Wilbur pulled her out onto the dancefloor. He twirled her around before settling into some sort of waltz, where they ended up in the middle of the room. As they swayed, Violet raised her hand and traced a light gray streak that had appeared in his hair.
"I still don't know why it's like that," Wilbur muttered. "I mean, isn't time travel supposed to be part of my powers? Riley didn't age when her extra powers kicked in,"
"I think it makes you look sophisticated," Violet said. "Besides, Riley had a mental block, you pushed yourself too far,"
Wilbur rolled his eyes and laughed, then twirled her again. Behind them, the rest of the team had joined the dancing, albeit in several different ways.
Dash and Edith - wearing orange and pink respectively - were engaged in some sort of speedster dance battle. They were moving just fast enough for Helen to not yell at them for exposing their secret identities, and almost crashed into Tip and Penny, who rolled their eyes and stepped away to avoid getting their matching coral dresses ripped.
"We all clean up pretty well," Wilbur remarked, then nodded towards the Big Four. Jack and Rapunzel were dancing with Emma, and Hiccup and Merida seemed engaged in some sort of traditional folk dance.
"Emma said they were all late," Violet grinned. "Hey look at Riley and Hiro!"
Those two were wearing matching yellow, and dancing some sort of shuffle while her parents, Tadashi and Aunt Cass watched. With a whoop, Tadashi pulled their aunt out to join them, spinning her around while she yelped loudly.
Closer to the shadows (well, as shadowy as it could get in a bright room), Margo and Antonio danced slowly. With his father having escaped with no trace, he'd been staying with the team, moving around until someone could get him a permanent spot. Either way, the two had clearly reconciled since the battle.
"Things worked out," Wilbur said, smiling as he spun Violet around, her dress flaring out. "I mean, we all lived,"
"Yeah," She laughed. "I'd say it did,"
Later that night, close to one am:
"Alright Baymax, fire up the sensors," Hiro said. The robot pulled up the files, and Riley pulled up the scans of Wilbur's brain from his time in the space-time dimension. "Lets see what we've got,"
"Everything working?" Riley asked. She'd left her dress in her room, but had kept her hair curly, even if it was now half pulled out of her eyes. She was now comfortably dressed in a loose shirt and skirt, sitting perched up on a worktable.
"Perfectly!" Hiro grinned. He hadn't fully changed, still wearing his dress shirt and loosened tie. "I can't believe it is!"
"Hey, trust the process," The blonde grinned, tapping the side of her head.
The two fell into a comfortable rhythm as the program sorted through the dimension, figuring out the pathways. Their goal was to find a safer way for Wilbur to use it, so he wouldn't get a new gray streak everytime he used it. Since it was going to take awhile, Hiro settled into his desk to wait out the long haul.
It was closing in on three am when a beep echoed in the lab, waking the two teens up. Riley picked up her tablet and checked the anomaly, then looked up in surprise.
"Hey, there's another life force in here!"
The End
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The world of the Omega Project will return
(read the authors note)
Authors Note: The last chapter of this massive story! Did you guys enjoy it? I loved writing it and getting to explore all these new characters.
And you'll get to see them again! Not only will a short two-shot (Mariposa and the Super's Convention) be coming out soon, I do plan on both a sequel to this story as well as a prequel about how the Big Four got their powers. It'll just be a while because I need to outline, write and then edit before I post. I've said this before, but I never plan on posting a story unless the entire thing is already done. The worst thing I could do is start something, lose interest and then leave it unfinished for years.
So I'll see you all next week! New story, some of the same people!
