Thank you everyone for your support and to members of CU and others telling me to leave this site, fuck off and let people enjoy what they enjoy as this story isn't hurting anyone. Especially since you go out of your way to look for stories like this only to whine that we aren't obeying you and that anyone who supports stories like this is a "rule breaker".
Anyways, I have started a new story with Katana on quotev just to be safe, it's having the group from Lex's side of the react-verse watch Agents of SHIELD. The prologue is up there and it is set a few months after the Christmas special. I will be working on the first episode alongside this.
First, reviews:
Joanne Frances Tiano Cjilig: Thank you and Katana did an amazing job with her reactions and suggestions.
Crescent777: Of course and thank you.
Gamelover41592: Thanks dude!
Katana of the Blade: Thank you again for your help. "Sweeter" how? Like "wholesome" sweeter?
Chronosign: Actually, I think my mother told me that it's called "Poetic Justice".
Matt: Nope, they are actually polar opposites. If you don't believe me, look up Everything Great About The Incredibles. The guy is drastically different from "scene does not contain a lap dance" and "whining about logos/credits".
Critical Darling: Damn….that is a really good way to look at it.
OmnipotentAbsoluteUIGodzilla: This is sadly true but politicians make the public see what they want to be believed aka The Sokovia Accords in the MCU.
ZadArchie: No, it's called bullying and scaring others into making the stories into the way you want them done aka micromanaging. Those things have been extremely outdated for well over 10 years now.
The Keeper of Worlds: Thanks and actually it's something I set up in the first chapter of Lessons.
Felipe1402XZA: Unfortunately, they are.
Ainz oal gown: They truly are, Lord Ainz.
Vld: Huh, that's actually really cool to know about that line. And that's something I plan to do down the line.
Sorry if I didn't respond to your review personally but know that I am really happy with all the support whether it's faves, follows or just reviews.
Anyways, on with the reaction!
Bob entered his home office and turned on the light to reveal it was full of memorabilia of his glory days.
"Damn, the SRA really hit Bob hard." Qrow said in sympathy for the retired hero.
Emerald nodded. "From saving people's lives to being stuck behind a desk." She said before sighing. "Makes you wonder how bad things would be if something like that happened on Remnant."
He put his briefcase on his desk with a heavy sigh before he loosened his tie. He pulled out his Insuricare Employee Manual and looked at it in disgust before he tore it in half. He threw it in the trash can with the rest of his paperwork soon following the same fate.
However, right as he finished emptying out the briefcase, a heavy thud came from the can.
"Huh?" Bob said in surprise. He looked into the garbage can before taking out and opening the package, only to find a tablet. As he held the tablet, a light began slowly flashing with a phrase on the screen. "Hold still?" The device emitted a sound and a facial recognition scan.
A robotic voice came from the tablet. "Match: Mr. Incredible." Bob was startled and dropped the tablet on the floor. The tablet scanned the room for a few seconds. "Room is secure. Commence message."
A video began playing of the mysterious woman from the previous night as Bob slowly approached the tablet. "Hello, Mr. Incredible. Yes, we know who you are. Rest assured, your secret is safe with us. My name is Mirage." Bob carefully picked up the tablet, in awe of the device. "We have something in common. According to the government, neither of us exist. Please pay attention, as this message is classified and will not be repeated." Bob quickly went to his desk to grab something to write with. He accidentally grabbed a carving tool before switching to a pen. He became frustrated when it wasn't working before he found a pencil and quickly began making notes.
"He had a good pen and just chucked it for a pencil?" Weiss asked in shock.
"The ink was probably dry, which happens when it isn't capped or is used too often by others." Ren said before looking at Pyrrha who acted nonchalant at his accusing glare.
"I represent a top secret division of the government, designing and testing experimental technology, and we have need of your unique abilities. Something has happened at our testing facility."
Unfortunately, as he was trying to listen, Helen called for him through the door. "Honey!"
Bob quickly responded while still trying to listen. "Huh? What?"
"Dinner's ready!"
"Okay!"
"Really bad timing there, Helen." Qrow said.
The message continued. "...has escaped control. Although it is contained within an isolated area, it threatens to cause incalculable damage to itself and to our facilities, jeopardizing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment in research."
Helen was still outside the room. "Is someone in there?"
Bob was getting irritated at his wife's poor timing. "It's the TV, trying to watch."
"Because of its highly sensitive nature, this mission does not or will have ever existed."
Helen was being persistent. "Well, stop trying! It's time for dinner!"
Bob was trying to keep calm. "One minute!"
"Wow, take the hint that he'll be there soon. Not everyone has superspeed like Dash, Helen." Blake said.
Ruby blinked at that. "Why do I feel like that was almost directed at me?" She thought to herself.
The message continued. "If you accept, your payment will be triple your current annual salary. Call the number on the card. Voice-matching will be used to ensure security. The supers aren't gone, Mr. Incredible. You're still here. You can still do great things. Or you can listen to police scanners. Your choice. You have 24 hours to respond. Think about it."
The device shut off with the message's conclusion. Bob slowly sat down in his chair in shock as Mirage's message sunk in. He slowly looked at his memorabilia, feeling that this was his one chance to possibly be a real hero again.
As everyone saw more of Bob's memorabilia, Yang realized something before looking at the two resident celebrities. "Pyrrha, Weiss? I just thought of something." Pyrrha and Weiss both looked at her. "You've done autographs, right?" They both nodded. "Have you ever had to deal with those kinds of fans? The ones that ask for certain inappropriate areas to be signed."
It took several seconds before the heiress and champion blushed and groaned in unison as they understood what Yang was asking them. "Unfortunately, I have had to deal with it from both genders." Weiss said which made both Penny and Winter clench their fists at the thought of someone asking Weiss to do something so inappropriate.
"Ditto, while I can kind of understand their enthusiasm, they need to learn that there are limits." Pyrrha said in agreement before Jaune held her closer. "Oh my. Our training sessions have been doing him wonders for his muscles. He's my own 'Mr. Incredible'." Pyrrha thought while in her boyfriend's muscular arms. (1)
Bob looked at his old suit before a beeping from the tablet caught his attention and Mirage's business card was printed out. Unfortunately the beeping continued as the tablet spoke again. "This message will self-destruct."
Bob's eyes widened. "Uh-oh." A minor explosion went off before Bob stumbled out of the office in a cloud of smoke. Unfortunately, the smoke triggered the fire alarm and sprinkler system. Helen called him out from the dining room, while Dash whooped.
Later on that night, Helen walked over to her husband after propping the chairs to dry off while he was using a hair dryer to dry several books carefully. She put her hand on his shoulder. "You are one distracted guy."
Bob looked at her. "Hmm? Am I? I don't mean to be."
"I know you miss being a hero and your job is frustrating. I just want you to know how much it means to me that you stay at it anyway."
"You mean he hasn't told her that he was fired from his job?" Weiss asked incredulously.
"It's not something that can easily be brought up in dinner conversation, Weiss." Winter said as she remembered telling her family about her application to Atlas Academy and how angry Jacques had been that she was somehow disobeying him.
Bob looked conflicted. "Honey? About the job?"
"What?"
"S-Something's happened."
Helen slowly looked at Bob. "What?"
"See what I mean?" Winter said as she gestured towards the screen.
"The, uh…"
"What?"
Bob quickly thought up a lie. "The company is sending me to a conference."
Helen blinked and a hand on her hip in confusion. "A conference?"
Bob nervously continued his lie. "O-Out of town. And I'm just gonna be gone for a few days."
"They've never sent you to a conference before." Bob readied himself for her calling him out on the obvious lie. "This is good, isn't it?" She was smiling.
Bob was surprised that she bought his lie. "Yes."
Helen slowly walked up to her husband. "You see? They're finally recognizing your talents, you're moving up!"
Bob smiled at her. "Yes."
Helen hugged him. "Honey! This is wonderful!"
"Yes, it is."
"This is going to come back to bite him in the ass." Glynda said while shaking her head.
"And not in the fun way nor gently." Penny said in agreement.
Later that night, Bob was in his office calling the number on the card. Someone answered and Bob smiled before looking at his suit. "This is Mr. lncredible. I'm in."
Later on, Bob and Mirage were inside a futuristic plane where she was briefing him on his mission. She sat down and typed into the keyboard before showing him the information. "The Omnidroid 8000 is a top secret prototype battle robot. lts artificial intelligence enables it to solve any problem it's confronted with. And, unfortunately…"
Bob held up a hand and smirked. "Let me guess. It got smart enough to wonder why it had to take orders."
"We lost control. And now it's loose in the jungle, threatening our facility. We've had to evacuate all personnel from the island for their own safety."
"Wait, you created an AI that heavily sophisticated?" Penny asked in shock. "That's just asking for trouble!"
"Yup, it's a comic book movie alright." Jaune sighed.
Bob got serious. "How am I going in?"
Mirage typed more commands before Bob was shown how to infiltrate the island. "The Omnidroid's defenses necessitate an airdrop from 5000 feet. lts cloaking devices make it difficult to track. Although we're pretty sure it's on the southern half of the island. One more thing. Obviously it represents a significant investment."
Blake sniffed twice. "You smell that?"
Yang suddenly sneezed. "Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit." (2) The Bumblebee duo bumped fists.
Bob smirked. "You want me to shut it down without completely destroying it."
Mirage chuckled. "You are Mr. Incredible."
Bob was strapping himself into an advanced seat before the seat shifts into a bed and starts to move towards his pod. However, his belly stopped him from entering 6 times before the faceless grunt increased the seat's power and it successfully let Bob into the pod.
Glynda and Qrow chuckled as that reminded them of Peter Port and how he had let himself go since becoming a teacher at Beacon.
Mirage walked up to the pod and spoke to Bob. "I've got to warn you, it's a learning robot. Every moment you spend fighting it only increases its knowledge of how to beat you."
Bob quickly recited his orders. "Shut it down. Do it quickly. Don't destroy it."
"And don't die."
Bob gave an annoyed smirk at her lack of confidence in him. "Great. Thanks." The shuttle ejected and rocketed down to the island before quickly activating its propellers.
After a while, it landed and Bob tried to get out, but his belly wouldn't let him out. He went back in and grumbled before he punched the shuttle open. He flexed and stretched a bit, showing how out of shape he really was.
Bob narrowed his eyes and smirked. "Showtime." He explored through the jungle, trying to find the Omnidroid.
"Sorta reminds you of our initiation, huh?" Pyrrha asked.
"Only without someone screaming like a girl." Yang joked.
"It was one time and that was my first Death Stalker encounter, okay?" Jaune groaned.
RWBY and NR turned to him. "That was you?!" They asked as one which unfortunately made the blonde knight blush in embarrassment.
He soon found a blade mark on a tree and a cross on the grass.
Suddenly, the Omnidroid surprised him from behind, as it tried to impale him unsuccessfully. It slashed a 3rd time, managing to cut Bob's arm. Bob realized how serious this was and leapt over the robot before he threw a punch that sent it flying to a tree.
Bob grinned in satisfaction. Unfortunately, that didn't keep it down for long as the Omnidroid got up, and the real fight began. Bob immediately lost his grin. "Uh oh."
The robot charged at him, and he tried to leap over it again. Unfortunately, he didn't realize how fast the AI would learn how to fight him as it calculated his leaping arc, which allowed it to swat him mid-air and ended up slamming him into another tree that fell towards the Omnidroid.
But the robot rolled out of its way, and reformed. The robot curled up again to crush him, only for Bob to dodge it, as it knocked down some trees before charging at him quickly.
Bob quickly ran away to avoid the Omnidroid crushing him, he narrowly avoided getting flattened as he dove over a cliff and slid down it before landing and leaping out of the way again. The Omnidroid stopped and looked for the Super before a boulder hit it courtesy of Bob. Bob quickly ducked when it retaliated by throwing three boulders of its own at him. Unfortunately he was too slow when the third one was being thrown and it knocked back towards the cliff wall. His eyes widened and he avoided almost getting impaled by the 'rogue' robot.
The Omnidroid's claw was lodged in the cliffside as Bob ran away for safety. The machine pulled its limb out of the cliff and leapt high into the air, intent on crushing Bob, who leapt out of the way and landed in the lava fields.
"How is he not instantly on fire if he's that close to that much lava?! Even Hazel would avoid lava like that!" Cinder said.
"Comic book logic." Jaune and Glynda said in unison.
The Omnidroid landed right behind him and slowly pushed Bob towards the lava as he tried to push back. After a few seconds however, he let out a scream while using his maximum strength and tugged the robot into the lava. Bob laughed in victory after seeing it sink, but after he tried to quickly turn away, his spine cracked. "AH! Oh, my back!" He cried out in agony and held a hand to his back.
Everyone winced at the sound. "And that's why you need to stay in shape, guys." Nora said as she started thinking about her training regimen.
RBY and JPR slowly glared at her. "There's a limit to being in shape, Nora." All of them said.
Unfortunately his victory was short-lived as the Omnidroid bursted out of the lava through the stone platform with its body being initially white hot and slowly cooling down to red hot. It lifted two claws out of the lava to reveal them being white hot before it proceeded to spin its claws like propeller blades. It moved towards Bob and he quickly spotted a chunk of rock which he quickly leapt towards and landed on his belly.
Penny's eye-twitched. "What is that thing made of to resist being melted down by lava?!" She questioned.
But then the Omnidroid grabbed him by his feet with one of its claws and slammed him to the ground before grabbing his arms with another. It began to pull him apart... until it stopped when it accidentally fixed his back. Bob cried out in relief before grinning and laughing at his fortune.
He then jack-knifed and ripped the claw off the Omnidroid's arm. It looked around for its target and used it's lower sensor cluster. Bob was hiding right underneath it and waited for the right moment before he ripped the bottom head off and climbed inside the robot, as it unintentionally started damaging itself while he grinned at outsmarting it.
After a while, it stopped and wobbled from its self-damage. Bob punched off its upper sensor cluster before he whistled and patted its body to gain its attention. He ducked back in and stayed close to the wall when it reached inside for him. The robot grasped something and yanked it out only for it to be its core that was accidentally torn out of it. Bob jumped out of the robot and casually walked away as the Omnidroid fell down while still grasping its core.
"Okay, that was both clever and surprisingly brutal. That was the equivalent of ripping out a still beating heart." Penny said as she looked a little queasy.
A mecha-macaw watched everything, as it zoomed to the screen. Mirage had seen the whole thing and looked behind her towards a shadowy figure who spoke to her. "Surprising. We must bring him back. Sound the all clear, and invite him to dinner." He told her and she nodded.
Later on, Bob was in a pod and wearing a loose suit but thankfully kept his mask on. He checked to see if he was early or late but saw no one was there. Just as he was about to go sit down, the magma walls split apart and he saw someone was whispering to Mirage.
Those that didn't have enhanced hearing struggled to hear what was being said to her.
"Anyone catch what they were saying?" Ruby asked.
"He said, 'Most important, keep things light. Praise him. Make him feel like we appreciate his abilities', Ruby." Velvet answered.
"So they want to stroke his ego to the point of overconfidence? Sounds like something Salem would do." Glynda stated.
Cinder and Emerald sighed. "She has done that, unfortunately. To both myself and Arthur Watts." Cinder told her.
Bob hid back to try and listen to what was being said before closing the door which spooked Mirage and her boss. When she went to see what that noise was, she saw Bob acting like he had just shown up and was getting out of the pod.
Bob gestured to himself. "Am I overdressed?"
Mirage smirked at him. "Actually, you look rather dashing."
"She better not try to make him cheat on Helen." Qrow said.
They were soon dining with the lava wall providing mood lighting. Bob looked at her. "I take it our host is…"
"Oh, I'm sorry. He won't be dining with us. He hopes you'll understand."
"Of course. I do usually make it a point to know who I'm working for." He was hoping to make her slip up and reveal who her boss was.
Mirage swirled a champagne flute. "He prefers a certain amount of anonymity. Surely, you of all people understand that."
"Oh, she's good. She's skirting around the topic without revealing his identity." Blake said.
"I was just wondering, of all the places to settle down, why live…"
"With a volcano? He's attracted to power. So am I. It's a weakness we share."
"Seems a bit unstable."
"Oh, good hint there to his personality, Brad Bird. Didn't catch that until now." Sunset thought to herself. (3)
Mirage smirked. "I prefer to think of it as misunderstood."
Bob chuckled. "Aren't we all?"
"Volcanic soil is among the most fertile on Earth. Everything at the table was grown right here. How does it compare?"
"Everything's delicious."
"So, whoever's hired Bob for this has been searching for him specifically for some time." Jaune said.
"Not to mention, he knows his powers and already knows who Lucius is." Glynda added.
"The question is, who are they and what are they really after?" Ren asked.
"Well, we won't know until we continue the movie, right?" Coco asked.
"We will but first, I need to check up on something. So take this short break to stretch your legs or use the bathroom." Sunset said as she got up and left the theater to see her wives about something.
(1) - This was something suggested to me by Katana and is a very good lesson to remember. KNOW YOUR BOUNDARIES!
(2) - Little hint about something they'll possibly see in the future.
(3) - I actually didn't catch this until now but it's a perfect way of describing Buddy, he's VERY unstable like a volcano especially since he had likely never been told no until Bob kept denying him.
So sorry this took so long everyone, I finally quit my job but needed time to get my writing mojo back. Unfortunately, life just kept saying "Fuck you" for the past several months as we lost several family members and other personal problems.
Though the good news is that I can start working from home now which means I can work on this more often without being burnt out. Hopefully this means that I can get the next chapter of this out sooner than it took for this one to come out.
Stay safe out there, Guardians.
