This is a Henry Danger story where I am a character in the show. All the chapters will be told through my point of view. I hope you keep that in mind when you read this story and there will also be other OC's other than me. So, I hope you remember that when you read. Please Read Review and Enjoy the story!

Chapter one The danger begins.

My POV

My name is Reyli Hart, and I am 9 years old in the 8th grade. I have a brother named Henry and a sister named Piper. Henry is 4 years older than me but Piper is only 1 month older. I also have 5 friends that are my age that are also in 8th grade. Their names are Edward, Gordon, James, Percy and Oliver. Edward is my best friend and closest friend out of the 5 of them. I'm also friends with 2 of Henry's friends named Charlotte and Jasper. One day Henry, Charlotte, Jasper and I were studying for an Algebra test. It was September 7 2014. I just turned 9 a week ago on August 31.

Henry told me he was trying to find an afterschool job because he said he wanted to learn responsibility and challenge himself but really he wants money. He said that maybe if he got some money he might share some of it with me. Even though I'm in 8th grade I couldn't tell if he was teasing me or if he was being sincere. Maybe both.

"Captain Man." Jasper said suddenly. "What about Captain Man?" Henry asked with his computer in his lap. "Did you guys see what he did yesterday?" asked Jasper. Captain Man was the superhero that protected our town, Swellview. "Can we focus on algebra?" Charlotte asked, annoyed. "There was a fire at a pet store, and Captain Man ran inside, right through the flames and saved all the animals, and he didn't even get hurt." said Jasper. "Captain Man never gets hurt. He's a beast." said Henry.

I laughed. "I heard he's indestructible." I replied. "You know someday when 2 of you are cleaning my swimming pool cause you failed this algebra test then flunked out of school, I hope you 2 remember this moment cause I will." Charlotte said. I chuckled. She was talking about Henry and Jasper.

They looked offended but ignored her and Henry was still trying to find a job. "Hey, here's a cool job I could do. Foot model." he said, putting his foot in front of Charlotte. I was sitting on the couch behind her. "Ooh I like that one. I like that one." I said pointing at his foot.

"You guys, can we go over the list for my birthday party?" Jasper asked. "Sure." Henry said. "No." Charlotte said. "No." I added. Henry changed his mind. "No." he said. "But I invited 52 people, and nobody texted me back yet." Jasper looked up. "What does that mean?" he questioned.

Is he serious? "That people have been to your parties before?" Henry suggested smiling. "Oh come on, my parties aren't that bad." he told him. "Christmas. 3 years ago. 15 kids ended up in the hospital." Charlotte stated. "Because of your raw turkey." Henry added and I pointed at both of them in agreement.

I remember that incident. It happened the same year I first met Edward, Gordon, James, Percy and Oliver. I met them in the summer of 2011 at some summer camp up north in Oregon. Later that December I invited them to Jasper's Christmas party, and they were 5 of the kids that ended up in the hospital. Let's just say that that did not leave a good image of me for their parents. I was able to save my friendship with them because my mom was friends with their moms, but they certainly didn't trust Jasper after that. "It was turkey sushi." he claimed. "Percy almost died." I said annoyed. "Almost." he said, pointing at me. I rolled my eyes.

"Okay." Henry said, putting his arms up. "First person who helps me find an afterschool job gets this bowl of pinecones." he said, picking up the bowl pointing at Jasper and Jasper covered his mouth and gasped. "Why do you even need a job?" Charlotte questioned now standing up. "You know, to learn responsibility. Challenge myself." Henry said but Jasper interrupted him mid sentence.

"He wants money." he said. "I want money." Henry confirmed. Told you. "Money's good." Charlotte said. "Can we please talk about my birthday?" Jasper asked, kind of whining. Charlotte sighed and walked up to him. "Am I gonna have to slap a boy?" O..kay. I got up from where I was sitting and ended up sitting next to Henry by his feet. Then mine and Henry's mom came down the stairs. "Henry, can you please tell me how in the world- oh I didn't know Jasper and Charlotte were here." she said.

"We're studying." Japer told her. Charlotte and I looked at him. "Are we?" she asked. "Mom we're right in the middle of-." Henry started. "I'm not interrupting." she told him. Good. "Okay thanks." he responded. "I just have a question about your underwear." she said holding up a pair.

"Ew!" "Mom!" Me and Henry exclaimed. I was honestly disgusted by this, but Charlotte and Jasper seemed amused. "I'd like to hear the question." "What is the issue with Henry's underwear?" they both said smiling and standing behind the couch Henry and I were sitting on.

"You guys are weird." I spoke. "You're 9 years old, you have 5 nine-year-old friends and all of you guys are in the 8th grade." Charlotte retorted. "It's not our fault we skipped 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grade cause we knew it all." I pouted childishly. Wait, I am a child. That actually is the reason why we are in 8th grade now. "And technically Percy and Oliver don't turn 9 for weeks. I mean I just turned 9 a week ago and I'm slightly older than both of them."

Then Piper came through the door. "Mom! Mom, I'm not okay." she said. What else is new? "Piper, we're trying to study here." Henry told her, annoyed. "I'm talking to my mother." she responded looking annoyed. That is true. "What's wrong baby?" our mom asked.

"Jessica unfollowed me." she said, holding up her phone. On what? TwitFlash? EnvyGram? "No one cares." Henry said sarcastically, moving into the kitchen. If I didn't, I wouldn't have asked 'on what?'

Though technically I didn't ask it out loud I thought of it in my mind. "Henry. Why would Jessica unfollow you?" our mom asked. "Cause, she posted a pic of her with me and Allison, so I posted a comment that said 'OMG you look so gorgeous." Piper started. "Well that's nice." our mom said. "No!" Piper exclaimed. "Cause Allison thought I meant she looked gorgeous, so she posted a comment that said 'Thanks ILY.' And so then, Jessica got jealous and unfollowed me, and now I hate myself and I'm gonna die." she said dramatically. Why not just post a comment saying you were talking about Jessica?

"I'll call Jessica's mom and talk to her." our mom said leaving the room. Jessica's mom or Jessica? "No! That's not okay!" Piper said following her. Henry was now sitting on the table in the kitchen.

"Dang it! All these jobs say I gotta have skills." he said frustrated. "So, you got tons of skills." Jasper told him. Really? "Name one?" Henry asked him. "You're a great dancer." Jasper responded. I wish. "No, I'm not." Henry countered. "You could take lessons." Jasper said kind of rudely if you ask me.

"Oh my gosh." Henry said, now standing up. Is something wrong? "What?" Charlotte asked. "I'm- I'm not great at anything. This is tragic." Henry said sadly. Aw. Charlotte decided to help him. "Here let me see." she said now using the computer. "I'm just a big pile of… average."

Uhh. Charlotte then smiled. "Okay. Here's a job." She said. "Where?" Henry asked and we all looked over her shoulders. "At a store called, Junk-N-Stuff. It says 'needed part time helper for various duties.'"

"Duties." Jasper repeated, kinda laughing. Henry Charlotte and I gave him weird looks and Charlotte looked back at the computer. "And see. It says no special skills, necessary."

"That's me! I gotta go get that job!" Henry said quickly and excitedly. He started running towards the door but stopped and jumped over the couch. He grabbed the bowl of pinecones and gave them to Charlotte. "You… get the pinecones." he said. "Sweet." she replied, taking the bowl from him. "Henry, wait!" I called. He stopped and turned to me. "I've been in that part of town before. I can show you the way and tag along for support." I said. I actually have been around there before. "Cool, come on, let's go." he said.

We both went towards the door. "Good luck guys." Charlotte called. "Thanks." We both responded together and we left to get the job for Henry. What could go wrong?

When we got to Junk-N-Stuff, we walked through the door and this dinosaur head had flames coming out of its mouth which I kinda liked. We slowly walked through the store and began to look around. We saw this one man that looked like a burglar. He even had a tattoo on his neck.

"What are you looking at?!" he asked us in a tough tone. "Uh nothing. Just uh… this turtle's butt." Henry said, pointing at a moving turtle. I think that's what it was. He gave us a look. "Sorry." Henry said, looking away from him. We looked down until he was gone and when he was henry and I walked up to the counter. There was this man and he was giving juice to a… plant?

"My name is Henry Hart." Henry said, "And mine is Reyli Hart." I said. "We're here about the job." Henry told the man. "The job." the man smirked and that plant… burped? "Uh did that plant burp?" Henry pointed at the plant.

"Go back." he told us in a mysterious tone.

Do back? "Come back?" Henry asked. I heard him say do back. "Go back." Oh. "Where?" asked Henry. Maybe back to the door. "To the back." the man said, making a motion with his head. Oh, I get it. "Oh go to the back. Henry said pointing to the back. "Take the elevator down." he continued. "What floor?" asked Henry. "Down" he repeated. "The down floor?" he asked. I think he means press the down button cause there's only one floor to go down to.

He nodded. "Good luck." he told us in a mysterious tone again. Then the plant squeaked or something like that. "Uh you too." Henry said and nervously pointed at the plant. We slowly walked to the back, noticing all the weird stuff it had. Then Henry's phone started ringing. "Hey what's up?" he asked the person he was talking to. He was talking to Jasper.

"Does my basement smell like chicken poop?" I heard Jasper ask. "Yes." I heard Charlotte exclaim. "What?" Henry asked, pressing the elevator button.

"I'm down in my basement with Charlotte, and she says it smells like poop, from a chicken." So, they left my house? "A sick chicken." I heard Charlotte say. "Uh what are you and Charlotte doing in your basement?" Henry asked as we both got in the elevator.

"He wants to have his birthday party down here, in this chicken toilet." Charlotte exclaimed, raising her voice at 'chicken toilet'. "This is my home." Jasper whined.

"Guys we can't talk right now. We're at a job interview so we gotta go." Henry said, pressing the button. Right when he pressed the button the elevator went down FAST and I mean REALLY FAST. It was like there was no floor anymore. We were both screaming and losing our balance.

The elevator hit the ground hard and we both fell off our feet. The door opened and we stared into the room. Jasper tried to talk to us but we didn't respond. "I'll call you back." I heard Henry say.

We walked into the room. It was like a bright colorful secret underground high tech base. We started to look around. There were lots of lights and high tech stuff like these little computers and monitors and stuff like that. It was like a superhero headquarters. Wait.

"Hello?" Henry asked to see if anyone was here. Then a round couch moved in front of us and there was this guy listening to music on it and he was kind of dancing. We both had weird looks on our faces and then he noticed we were there. "Hey. How are you? Cool. Thanks. Great to meet you. I'm doing good. What are your names?" He asked quickly and stood in front of us.

"Uh, I'm Henry Hart." Henry said. "And I'm Reyli Hart." I spoke. "We're here about the job." he told him. "Ages?" he asked.

"13. I'll be 14 on my next birthday." "9. But I'm just as smart as an 8th grader and I'm only here for support." we both said. "Ah, so the one who's here for the job is aging sequentially. I like that." I think he's talking about Henry. "Thanks." Henry responded.

"Names Ray." He told us. "Hi Ray." we both said together, shaking his hands. If you have trouble saying my name just add a 'lee' sound to the end of his and you got my name.

"You ask lots of questions." he told us weirdly.

"I don't think we've asked any questions." Henry said a bit weirdly. He walked behind us.

"Chocolate or Vanilla?" He asked. I think the questions are beginning. "Vanilla." We both answered.

"Helicopters or kangaroos?" Ray asked again. "Helicopters." We both answered though Henry was unsure while I was confident.

"Love it." Ray exclaimed. "Scrambled eggs or dynamite?"

"Both?" Henry asked. "Maybe." Ray said with an evil grin on his face. "You?" he asked me. "Dynamite." I answered confidently.

"Complete this sentence 'I'm sorry mother I didn't mean for my elephant to blank'." he said expecting us to finish. "Uh lick dad." Henry responded.

I actually want that to happen but if we get an elephant we have to be careful it doesn't spray Henry with water like how it sprayed Henry the green engine with water in that one Thomas and Friends episode 'Henry and the elephant.' I like Thomas and Friends. It's my favorite show. :) I even have lots of toys too. Thomas is even my middle name. I was pulled out of my thoughts by Henry and Ray saying that was not funny.

"Uh, is this the job interview?" Henry asked slowly as Ray moved to this spinning chair. "Do you want it to be the job interview?" Ray asked us. "Uh what is the job?" I asked. He stood up and crouched. "What do you think the job is?" He asked me with that evil grin. "Uh well the ad said part time helper." I started. Henry then finished it for me. "So I'm thinking maybe you need someone to help you part time." He said it slowly because Ray began to stand up and crouch over and over again.

"Do you ever dream about sleeping?" Uhh… "No." Henry responded.

"Good. If you did, you'd be dead." Ray said. How does that work? "I'm so confused." Henry told Ray. "David. Riley." Ray said. "Henry." "Reyli." We both corrected. "Can I trust you 2?" He asked us. "Sure." Henry answered. "Can you both keep a secret?" "Totatally." Henry responded. "So I can trust you both to keep a secret?" He asked to clarify everything. "Yes sir." Henry responded.

"What about you?" he asked me. "Yes I can keep a secret too." I answered.

I can definitely keep a secret. In fact, there's a huge one that my friend Edward and I are keeping about something that happened to us 2 months ago but the only people who know that secret are Gordon James Percy Oliver and anyone else who went to that summer camp in Oregon that I mentioned earlier, this year. Piper Charlotte and Jasper don't know it. My mom and dad don't know about it. Not even Henry knows it. When I say it's huge I mean that. Remember this. Anyway let me get back on topic.

Ray stood back. "I'm gonna blow a bubble." he pointed to his mouth which had gum in it. "You're gonna blow a bubble?" Henry repeated. "I'm gonna blow your minds." He smirked.

He started to blow a bubble. It got bigger and when it popped these green lights went all around his body. When those lights cleared he was wearing… the Captain Man suit and mask?!

"You're- You're Captain Man!" Me and Henry both exclaimed. "That's right Henry and Reyli." He smiled at us. His zipper to his suit was down and he noticed this. "Ah hold on a second. Stupid zipper." He grunted trying to zip up his zipper. "Oh, that's my skin." He cringed as he continued to struggle. Eventually he managed to zip up his zipper using a zipper lube. He breathed a sigh of relief. "There we go. Always good to keep the old zipper lude."

"I can't believe I'm standing here talking to Captain Man." Henry said excitedly and I nodded. That explains the look of this room "Why? Are you a fan?" he asked while smiling but then he frowned. "Do you both like me? Most people like me but not everyone."

Yeah! I'm a huge fan!" "I'm not as big of a fan as he is but I still like you and you're very cool." We both answered.

"Oh man! I gotta tell Jasper about this. He's gonna freak out when I tell him I'm standing next to Capt-" Henry said excitedly and pulled out his phone but he was interrupted by Captain Man pulling out a laser or something like that and zapping Henry's phone with it.

He yelped and jumped back like how he did when Percy wheeshed him with steam. Wait, wrong Henry and wrong Percy. He gave Captain Man a look. Oh, and also that was a reference to the Thomas and Friends episode 'trouble in the shed'. "Sorry but neither of you can tell your friends about this." he said apologetically. "Okay. But." Henry said but then he paused to pick up his phone. "Did you have to melt my phone?" It actually melted. "I'll get you a new one." "You can have mine." we both said together.

"Really?" Henry asked us, smiling. "Nah." We both said. I sniggered as Ray walked to the couch. "So Henry, tell me, why you want a job?"

"Uh you know, to learn responsibility and challenge myself." He answered repeating what he said to Charlotte and what I said to you guys. Ray seemed to figure out what he really meant.

"So, you want money." Ray asked. "Lots of money." Henry confirmed again.

Then the elevator door opened, and this weird looking old lady came out. "Oh is this the ladies room?" she asked in an awful British accent.

"No ma'am. You're not supposed to be down here." Ray answered. "What an interesting place." she said, looking around completely ignoring Ray.

Henry and I had weirded out looks on our faces. "Thank you but I'm conducting a job interview and you're very old so can you please just get back in the elevator?" Ray asked, making a hand motion. "I'll just take me phone out of me purse and call me nephew." Considering your age, wouldn't he be in his 40's or something?

"Great. I'll just turn my back and look at something." and that's what he did. Henry and I were looking at the lady's neck and we realized something. She had the same tattoo that the man that looked like a burglar had. The same man that asked us 'What are you looking at?!'

She turned her head and had an evil look on her face.

"Captain Man!" Henry exclaimed. He jumped on her arm right when she pulled out a weapon and shot Ray with it! Henry started to wrestle her but she threw him off her and he fell to the ground.

"Goodbye forever Captain Man!" she threatened in that man's voice.

"No!" I exclaimed and jumped on her back. "Get off of me!" she shouted. "Quit talking like a British lady. I know what they really sound like!" I exclaimed.

"Stop pulling me wig over me eyes!" As I was on her, well his back, Henry grabbed him and dragged us to the elevator. I jumped down when Henry opened the door and charged at him. He bumped him inside the elevator and closed the door. We both turned around and saw Captain Man unconscious on the couch. "Captain Man!" we both exclaimed running towards him. "Captain Man! You okay?!" Henry asked frantically. Then he got up. "Captain Man is always okay!" he said proudly. Me and Henry smiled and he put his hands on our shoulders.

"Nice work boris." he said. We turned around and realized that the elevator door opened and the man stepped out but he took off his wig. "The boys did good job."

"Wait, you know-" Henry started to ask. "That's Boris. He works for me." Oh okay. "What?" Henry said confused but waved at him.

"How'd you 2 know he wasn't really an old lady?" Ray asked us. "Uh, because of the tattoo on his neck." "We saw it on him on up in the store." We both said. "And his boobs are too wobbly." Henry added. Me Edward Gordon James Percy and Oliver shouldn't know what that word means but since we're in 8th grade and we know 28 different cuss words we do. I can't list all of them because there are too many and they are too inappropriate.

Also, when we use them me or Edward whistle censoring the word so technically no one really knows when we say them.

"True go get those under control." Ray ordered. The man saluted and walked away. Ray wrapped his arm around Henry. "Henry Reyli, you both have sharp eyes, good instincts, nice shirts and you're both brave." he told us. "Thanks." Henry said. "Henry, are you the one looking for the job?" Henry nodded. "Do you know how to make sandwiches?" He asked.

"I do!" "We both do." both of us said. "Then you have all the qualities I'm looking for." he said. Henrys the one getting the job right because he was asking me all those questions. "But I-I don't." Henry stuttered but Ray put a hand on his shoulder. "You're the one Henry." Henry lit up. "The one to make you a sandwich?" he asked. Ray laughed. "No." he said between laughs then he frowned. "Well, yes." he sighed. "But everybody gets old someday. Even Captain Man." He walked over to these monitors and sighed again. "I can't do this forever." He said. "Do what?" Henry asked. "Protect our town, Swellview, from bad guys, bad things, bad smells." He answered. "Smells?" Henry repeated. We probably shouldn't ask. "You want to be horrified?!" He asked with a slight glare. "No." Henry protested.

I told you we shouldn't have asked and also it doesn't really matter for me because remember that secret I mentioned earlier? Well let's just say that the reason Edward and I are keeping it secret is because it was horrifying and traumatized us. Well, it was mostly traumatizing but it was also very horrifying.

But we recovered and are both fine now but we're still keeping it a secret. "Watch this." He said and he pulled out this remote and pressed something and then the monitors were showing these videos with a freaky man in a toddler outfit doing all kinds of crazy stuff. He was even wearing a diaper.

"Who's the freak in the diaper?" Henry asked. "The toddler." Ray answered. "And don't let the diaper fool you two, he's pure evil." I can tell. "Wow." Henry said.

"I'll show you both wow." He said sitting in the chair. "Watch this secret video that was intercepted by my people who intercept secret videos." he said quickly. Then he started playing this video. It had some guy in footie pajamas tied to a chair and the toddler was walking around it.

"You were supposed to bring me my apple sauce two minutes ago."

"I'm sorry, toddler." the man said. Henry and I stared at this video. "Sorry, don't make baby happy." He said starting with a high pitched voice but using a deep man's voice at the end. He then started blowing raspberries in the man's face.

Then another man in footie pajamas walked up behind him. "Toddler good news. The radioactive Zenite is here." He spoke. "Really. Whoo-hoo." He cheered. "That means we can begin phase 2 of my plan." he continued. "Will someone wipe my face?" the man tied up asked hopefully. "No." The toddler replied and continued blowing raspberries into his face.

"Dang that takes so much effort." The toddler said. He then grabbed the other man by his neck. "Have one of our scientists build me a device to do that." he ordered. "To do what sir?" The man asked. "This." The toddler said and started blowing raspberries into his face. Ray ended the video with an angry grunt. "You both see that?"

"He's a maniac!" Henry exclaimed. Ray then stood up. "And there's more maniacs like him, all dangerous to the good citizens of Swellview."

I should know. That secret I mentioned earlier was caused by one of those 'maniacs' even though it happened up north. And I'm being serious. It was literally caused by a legit maniac. That is why it was so horrifying and traumatizing. That's also why we swore everyone to secrecy about it. "Well yeah but we got you to stop them." Henry responded to what Ray said. "True but I'm not as young as I used to be." He sighed. "I'm almost 34." Henry and I stared at him. "I need help and someday someone's going to have to take over for me."

No way! That's what the job is?!

"Like…" Henry started and Ray looked at him. "Like me?"

"What do you say Henry? You wanna be my sidekick?" Ray asked, putting a hand on his shoulder. Henry looked excited and chuckled.

"How much does it pay?" He suddenly asked. "$9 an hour." Ray answered. "Woah." "Nice." We both said. "I know right?" he said excitedly. We all laughed and had big smiles on our faces. "A bucket of swords." We turned around and saw on the monitors Jasper and Charlotte were upstairs in Junk-N-Stuff and were looking at a barrel of swords. "What are they doing here?" Henry asked rhetorically. "Friends of yours?" Ray asked us. "Uh huh." I answered.

They got into like this talk about if Jasper could buy the barrel because he thinks its a bucket. Oh I completely forgot to say this but he collects buckets and is really obsessed with them. To use his words he's a ugh he's a bucketeer. "Ah they seem like nice kids." Ray said. Henry chuckled. "Yeah, their names are Jasper and Charlotte. I've known them ever since I-" Henry said. But Ray interrupted him right there. "Get rid of them." He ordered. "We'll get rid of them." I said.

Henry and I went back into the elevator and went back up to Junk-N-Stuff. Oh, and also the ride up the elevator was a lot calmer than the ride down. We got up to Junk-N-Stuff and walked over to Charlotte and Jasper. "Hey." Henry called out to them. "Hey Henry Reyli." "Did you get the job?" they both said. "Why are you guys here?" Henry asked quickly. "You hung up on us." Jasper told us. "Did you get the job?" Charlotte repeated more slowly.

"Yeah." Henry answered. "Cool." she smiled. "Does that mean i can get a discount on this bucket?" Jasper asked. It's a barrel and I really doubt it's for sale since it holds the swords.

"Dude it's my first day here you gotta- '' But Jasper interrupted Henry. "Excuse me, mysterious forgeon man? Do Henry and Reyli's friends get a discount here." The man and the plant thing both shook their heads,

"That plant just shook its head." Charlotte said, amazed and pointed at the plant. "Woah!" Jasper exclaimed and ran up to the counter. "Will you get him out of here?" Henry begged Charlotte with his hands on her shoulders. "How much for the plant?" Jasper asked excitedly. The plant then made a noise. "The plant is not for sale." The man protested. I don't know his name. "Bye guys." Henry said, grabbing Charlotte's arm. "Come on. I'll give you 7 bucks for it and 1 canadian loonie." Jasper said, trying to make a deal but the plant sprayed water in his face which was kinda funny. "Ah! It spit in my eye!" he cried. "I told you Canadian money upsets people." Charlotte said.

This began to stress Henry out and he led them towards the door and talked over them and I couldn't really understand what they were saying until they were out of the store. Henry and I walked back towards the back but stopped at the counter. "Carry on." Henry told the man before we got back in the elevator and it went down fast again.

When we were in the superhero room Ray and I were sitting on opposite sides of the round couch and I had to keep looking over my shoulders. Since Henry was going to Ray's superhero sidekick he needed to wear a costume and was trying them on.

The first one looked like the American flag and it even had the stars on it. Henry looked at himself. "I gotta wear this?" he asked in disbelief. "All good sidekicks wear costumes." Ray said. "And you're gonna be a superhero." I added. "Sorry but." Henry apologized and looked at himself in the mirror.

"This is bad." "I have more options." Ray told him. The next costume was all purple and glittery. But I didn't like it. "Too sparkly." Ray said. The next one was red with a red cape hanging onto Henry's head and had also had some black on it and the mask was black too.

"It's a little broadway." Ray said.

The next one is one I don't even want to talk about but it was way too tight.

"Too tight." Ray said. "Way too tight." Henry said in a strained voice. "Oh man." Ray breathed. "I ate a lot of fruit." The next one was actually really good and I liked it. Though it kinda makes Henry look slightly younger than he actually is.

"Hey." Ray stood up. "I like it." "I like it." I said standing up. "I like it." Henry said. "But… it takes a long time to put on." it actually looks like it does.

"And that's" Ray exclaimed and pointed. "Why you'll need this special bubble gum." He pulled out a gumball tub and he handed it to Henry.

"Special?" Henry asked. "Read the instructions." Ray told him. "Chew gum. Blow bubble. Fight crime." Henry read aloud. "Now." Ray said and all 3 of us looked at the wall. Then Ray put this wristband thing on Henry's wrist. "What's this for?" Henry asked. "It means we're engaged." Ray told him. What? Henry looked at him. "Nah I'm just kidding. That's how I'll contact you." Ray said, getting up from kneeling. "Well why can't you just call me?" Henry asked. "I melted your phone." he answered. "Right." Henry said in understanding.

"Now listen closely." Ray told Henry. "That wristband flashes." "flashes." Henry repeated.

"A triple flashing light means emergency. Like major sitch going down so get here fast."

"Right." Henry responded.

"A double flashing light means it's just important."

"And what does a single flashing light mean?" Henry asked.

"Just to you know, shoot me a text whenever."

"Got it." Henry replied.

Ray turned to me. "Now since yours isn't as important as his, we'll do yours first." He spoke. "Do what?" I asked. "Raise your right hand." I did that. "Repeat after me. I Reyli Hart." "I Reyli Hart." I repeated. "Pledge to never tell anyone that my brother Henry is Captain Man's secret sidekick." He said. "Pledge to never tell anyone that my brother Henry is Captain Man's secret sidekick." I repeated.

"Yours is done. As for you Henry. Raise your right hand." Henry did that. "Spread your fingers." He did that too.

"Turn your head and cough." Henry turned his head but looked back at Ray. "What." "Ha ha. Joke." Ray laughed. "Place your left hand over your right lung." Henry did that too.

"And repeat after me. I Henry Hart." "I Henry Hart." Henry repeated. "Pledge to be an awesome sidekick to Captain Man." "Pledge to be an awesome sidekick to Captain Man." He repeated.

"And to never ever ever tell anyone that I am Captain Man's secret sidekick."

"And to never ever tell anyone that I am Captain Man's secret sidekick." He repeated. "You left out 1 ever." Ray told him. "Ever." Henry said. "It is done." Ray said. Cool. Henry put his arm down and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Feels good!" He said while making it sound like a catchphrase. All of us chuckled and smiled. Then this alarm started going off and there were red flashing lights. Oh, also the regular lights dimmed when Ray put the wristband on Henry's wrist.

"Uh oh." Ray said before we all ran over to the monitors. Ray pressed one of the buttons and the man appeared on one of the screens. "What's up Gooch?" So, I'm guessing his name is Gooch. "Someone sabotaged the bridge over the Jandy river."

"The bridge is down?!" Ray asked. "Affirmative." Gooch answered. "That means 'yes'." Ray whispered to us. "We got that." We both whispered back. "Situation." Ray demanded. "Cars in the water. Lives in danger."

"Understood." Ray said before pressing the button and the screen turned off. "Phase 2 of the toddlers plan." He told himself. "Let's ride." He said before running off. "Wha- ride where?" Henry asked. "We got people in the Jandy river that need saving. Come on!" He ordered.

"You mean we're going there. Together. Like right now?" Henry asked again. "Yeah! Henry, you're going with me. Reyli you're going home. Both of you get under the tube." Ray there was this tube pad and Henry and I stood on it and Henry looked up. "Reyli wrap your arms around Henry." He ordered and I side-hugged him. "Ready?" He asked. "For what?" Henry asked. Then Ray tapped his belt buckle, and this tube came down on him.

"Up the tube." He said and the tube sucked him up. Henry was very confused and after many failed and quite honestly pathetic attempts to do the same thing Ray told Henry what to do.

"Just tap your belt buckle." We heard Ray say. Henry looked down and saw his belt buckle. "Ah." He spoke. I side hugged him again he tapped his belt buckle and another tube came down. "Up the tube." Henry said as the tube sucked us up like how it did to Ray. Well I don't know where exactly we ended up after that but it was like an abandoned street and it was so close to Junk-N-Stuff that you could actually see the store. When we got there Ray told me he and Henry were going to save people at the Jandy river. I had to go home but I had to go by myself. I said that I knew how to get from the store to where I lived but it wasn't really far from where I lived. It was like 10 to 15 minutes by walking. Or like 7 by running.

When I got home my mom asked me what I was doing. I lied and said Henry was still being interviewed since I couldn't tell her about the job. Luckily, she believed, and I told her in a way that made me sound confident.

After that I went upstairs and went into my room.

Well technically it was really mine and Henry's room. I didn't say that Henry and I shared a room earlier but we do share a room. It was like your typical teenage bedroom.

But it was also like a 9-year-old bedroom because both a teenage boy and a 9 year old shared this room but neither Henry nor I have a problem with that.

There are a few important things I have to say about his room. First off, I'll start with the bed. There were not 2 beds that Henry and I had for ourselves. It was a bunk bed that we shared but it is a bit hard for me to describe it. There is a detail, but I don't know how to describe what ours looked like. Here just look at this picture to know what ours looked like.

That is what ours looked like. It was at least one foot taller though and at the most 2. The reason I said it was hard to describe was because you could sit on the edge of the bottom bunk, and nothing would be in the way. It also had different bed sheets and covers. It only had the same bed frame. Oh, and also Henry has the bottom bunk and I have the top bunk.

Now that I talked about the bed there is something else, I need to say.

Remember how earlier I said I first went to a summer camp in Oregon for the summer of 2011? Well, I also went for the summers of 2012, 2013 and 2014. In fact the summer of 2014 just passed. It's now September of 2014. Also remember how earlier I said that I like the show Thomas and Friends? Remember I said that I have lots of toys? Well, the brand of toys I like is called Thomas Wooden Railway. The reason I'm saying this is because it would help you better understand the important thing.

The important thing is in the summer of 2012 we had to make a wood project or something like that. Whatever that project was we had to make a few things out of wood, and they could be either something that already existed or something we made up ourselves as long as it looked like we took time on it and believe me I really took a lot of time and effort on mine.

At first, I didn't know what to make but then I realized I had a few Thomas wooden railway models in my pockets. Models are what they call each toy made from this brand and since they were made out of wood, I decided to make my project based on these models.

The first model I made was of Edward the blue engine. First this is not my best friend Edward, it's just a name of a character from the tv show and second this one was the hardest to make because he has this thing attached to him. I know what it is but it's a bit hard to explain if you don't watch the show. Basically, it's a coal car attached to him to help him move.

That hard part was to carve the piece of wood to make it look like him, so I decided to use more than one piece. I used one piece of wood for the main body, another for the wheels and another for the face and any other small pieces. I carved out all the parts I needed for Edward, but I still needed to put them together and paint over them to make them look like him. I didn't know what I was gonna do with the pieces till I was done but I had an idea.

I decided to put the pieces for Edward in one small pile and put the pieces for the other models in other small piles too and then later put them together when I was done carving all the pieces.

The next model was of Duck, the great western engine. Like Edward I carved his pieces out of 3 different pieces of wood. Though the piece I used for his main body was a bit easier to make since this 1 wasn't as round as the others but was only a bit round at the top. I finished the parts for him so I started the next model.

The third model was of Toby the tram engine. And trust me this one was the easiest one to make. It was because it's literally a wooden box with wheels on the bottom. It also has these things covering the wheels and I had to put them on after I put the wheels on the model even though I literally had all the pieces ready.

The fourth model was Percy, the small engine. First there are characters named Edward Henry Gordon James Percy Toby and Oliver in the show and I know people named Henry Edward Gordon James Percy Oliver and Toby- uh uh I mean I don't know no one named Toby.

Second this model wasn't as hard to make as Edwards, but it was harder to make than Duck and Toby's models since this model wasn't as square. All I pretty much had to do was remake the Edward model but without the coal car and make it slightly different. I finished making the pieces for the Percy model and made them into a 4th pile. So, the pieces for the 4th model were done and I just had to make the pieces for 1 more.

The 5th, last and most important model was of the main character Thomas the tank engine. But that wasn't the reason it was the most important one. It was harder to make than Duck and Toby's models but easier to make than Edward and Percy's models. I basically had to combine Edward and Duck's models because this one had 6 wheels instead of 4 and was just as round on the top as Edward but on the sides were flat though. I finished with the pieces for his model but I'll explain the important reason in a bit.

Anyway, since I now had all the pieces for the models I started to put the models together. Then I used toothpicks to connect the wheels together. I drilled little holes through the bottom where the wheels were supposed to go so I could slide the toothpicks through them. I slipped the toothpicks through each of the holes I drilled.

After I slipped all the toothpicks into where they needed to go, I still needed to actually build the models. At first I was going to put the pieces first and then paint the model but I decided to paint the pieces first so that way none of the paint would get onto different pieces.

When I was painting them, I'm not kidding here but I used waterproof paint because even the actual models can lose their paint so I used waterproof paint. Then after I finished painting the pieces I painted over them a few more times so that they each basically had like 3 different coats of paint but all 3 coats were the same color.

I painted the main colors 3 times but after that I painted the details 3 times, and these models still look good and have great detail even now. Anyway, I had all the pieces painted and ready and all I had to do then was to put the pieces together. I said earlier how I drilled holes at the bottom and slid the toothpicks through them. I then used superglue to glue the wheels to the toothpicks so now the chassis for each of the models were done. If you don't know what that word means, look it up.

All that was left was to put the main bodies together. The pieces I used for the main bodies were cut out from big pieces of wood till I got close enough to the shape. Then I used sandpaper to smooth out the pieces. That is how I got the pieces ready before I painted them and since most of them were not made out of one piece of wood all I had to do was to superglue all the pieces together.

Soon I superglued the pieces that made the main bodies together and then I superglued the bodies to the chassis and the models were officially done! And in case you don't remember the models were already painted.

There are so many things I have to say about these models. First is even though they were clearly fan made the resemblance between them and licensed models was just uncanny. The main difference is that on licensed models' parts like the faces were plastic, but they were wood on mine.

Second, you have to realize that I made all of these when I was 7! Well technically I was 6 but I was turning 7 that August. Third, the real models have magnets so that they can connect to other models, and I actually cut off the magnets from models that were knockoffs that I had in the cabin where I stayed in and glued those magnets onto these models.

Now I'm about to tell you why these models, especially the Thomas one, are so important. Everything I just told you is only how I made these models. You might be wondering where these models are today? For the Edward model, after you were done with your project you had the choice of either taking it home after the summer was over or leaving it there and they would put it on display in a glass box. I left the Edward model there and they put it in a glass box and it's actually still there.

For the Percy Toby and Duck models after I got home in September of 2012 the drawer knobs on 1 of the dressers in our room broke off. This dresser had 3 drawers and needed 3 new drawer knobs. Then I had an idea. I found more superglue and used it to super glue these models to the drawers. So, these models became the new drawer knobs. My mom and Henry, both thought it was cute and encouraged it. But you have to remember that I was 7 and Henry was 11.

The Percy model was on the top drawer. The Toby model was on the middle drawer and the Duck model was on the bottom drawer. And those models are still the drawer knobs today.

As for the Thomas model this is the reason why it's so important. All of the licensed models have the characters' names on the bottom. I painted their names on the bottom of the other models but then when I got to this model, I thought about why a character didn't have my name. I then realized that I didn't have to write Thomas' name. So instead I had the idea to actually engrave my name so it would resemble me and when I engraved my name on the bottom I painted it white.

So, it was a Thomas model with the name 'Reyli' on the bottom. But that's only part of the reason why it's so important. Since it had my name on the bottom, I keep it in my pocket all the time and I take it with me wherever I go, and I call it my travel model. And I still take it everywhere I go to this day. Sometimes I take it out of my pocket but most of the time I keep it in there.

That's the reason why it's so important to me and any true friend or close family member of mine knows how much sentimental value my travel model has to me. So, if you don't know how much sentimental value it has to me then you're technically not my friend. But don't worry Henry, my mom and dad Edward Gordon James Percy Oliver Charlotte Jasper and even Piper know why it's so important to me.

Also, you don't want to know what would happen to me if I lost it. If I did lose it let's just say I would have a panic attack. I hope you understand why the models are so important to me.

That's everything I had to say about these models. Other than that, there's not much else about mine and Henry's room other than it had posters and stuff like that on the walls. Like I said it was both your typical teenage bedroom and 9 year old bedroom. It even had a stereo and a couch.

Anyway, that night Henry was still not home. I figured that he might still be on the mission with Ray. I went downstairs and mom was watching the news. It was called KLVY but honestly it's silly and not taken seriously. I mean someone could talk about something happening followed by someone else saying something weird unrelated silly or ridiculous. Anyway I sat on the couch side but one side of the couch faced the tv and another side faced the wall.

"And we're gonna come back to that story so we can take you live to the Jandy Bridge which mysteriously collapsed a little over an hour ago." They said on the news but that was like over 2 hours ago because when I got home it was still light out. Then my mom called over to my dad.

"Jake honey, come look. The Jandy bridge collapsed." "What? Oh no! That was my favorite bridge." my dad whined as he sat next to my mom. Did I mention he's a bit childish and silly? The news said that people were injured and in the water. Then this boat passed by and I heard the toddler laughing but I couldn't see him.

"What happened?" My dad asked my mom. "They're not sure. They think…" But she was interrupted by Piper coming halfway down the stairs. "Mom dad, I hate my life and I'm not okay." She said and came over to us.

"Not now honey. Daddy's favorite bridge collapsed." My mom told Piper. "Who cares?!" She asked rudely and bluntly. Did I mention she has anger issues? "Your daddy cares." Our dad told her offended. "But every time I try to watch a video on my phone, it keeps freezing cause our stupid WIFI signal only gives me one bar in my room." Piper has her own room and since she's the girl and Henry and I are the boys Henry and I have to share a room but again neither of us have a problem with that. Oh, also she's one of those girls that is obsessed with social media and the internet even though she's only 9 but since I'm in 8th grade it kinda makes sense. "Then just wait til the video loads before you watch it." Our dad told her simply. "Oh so we're living like animals now." She pouted. "Later." Our mom told her sternly. "I'll run away. I'll do it." She said before running back up the stairs. I rolled my eyes.

"Rescue workers were unable to get their equipment down the muddy embankment. Luckily Captain Man arrived on the scene, leapt into the water and saved the endangered citizens from drowning." The guy on the news said.

"And Ron, is it true? That for the first time Captain Man wasn't working alone?" The lady asked. Oh here comes the part with Henry. "That's correct." the man answered. "It appears Captain Man has teamed up with a new sidekick who apparently goes by the name 'Kid Danger." Huh, nice name for Henry's superhero identity.

"Well once again Swellview owes a big thanks to Captain Man and apparently Kid Danger."

Then Henry came through the door in a mess. His face was muddy, his hair was dirty and he was only wearing a black long sleeve shirt since his plaid shirt was slung over his shoulders. Weird, usually only I am slung over his shoulders. And yes Henry has carried me over his shoulders before. He closed the door and laid against the wall.

"Hey Henry." Our dad said to him, and our mom raised her hand but neither of them turned to him. "Did you get the job?" Our dad asked him. "Yeah. I just finished my first day." He said before slowly walking towards the stairs and held his side in slight pain. "So how was work?" Our mom asked. "Huh it was pretty" He hesitated. "Interesting." He began to slowly walk up the stairs. I got up from the couch and decided to help him. But he said he was supposed to help me when I needed it, not the other way around. But still we both went up to our room.

The next day Charlotte Henry and I were studying again. "Ok George has 6 times as many dimes as quarters in his piggy bank." Charlotte read the problem to me and Henry. "Oh yeah! Oh yeah!" Jasper said, coming inside the house to where we were. "I got 2 responses." he said as if it was impressive. "To what?" Henry asked him.

"My birthday party invitations." Jasper answered. Oh right, his actual birthday is today. "Two guys said they might come." he said with a big smile. Well they did say they might come. "Who?" Henry asked and gave a small smile.

"Sidney Birnbaum and Oliver Pook." Jasper responded. "Ugh." "Those guys eat bugs." Charlotte and Henry both said disgustedly. No wonder why they said they might come. And before you ask no this Oliver is not my friend Oliver. This is Oliver Pook and he's around Henry's age, eats bugs and is dimwitted. My friend is Oliver Grayson and is my age skipped 4 grades because he knew it all and went to a summer camp in Oregon with me Edward Gordon James and Percy since 2011.

"So?" Jasper protested. "They're people." He said. Yeah gross and weird people. "When did you get a new phone?" he asked when he saw the phone Henry got after what Ray did to his old one and Jasper picked it up.

"Oh uh." Henry stuttered. "Mine broke so" Henry trailed off when he saw Jasper doing something to his phone. "What are you doing?" He asked. "You gotta get this new app." Jasper said and walked behind the couch. "Wait wha- app?" Henry asked.

"Hey, you and Reyli haven't told us what you do at your new job?" Charlotte inquired. "Oh right, right." Henry said in understand ment and just stared. She stared back at us. "What do you do?" She emphasized. When I say that I mean she said it as if we couldn't understand her. Henry began to stutter. "App installed." Jasper declared. "Great the app. Tell me about the app." Henry said using it as an excuse to not tell Charlotte about the job.

"It plays a billion sound effects." He began to look for 1. "Like 'school bell'." We then heard a bell similar to the one we have at our school. "Cat choking on a hairball." And then we heard this really disgusting noise. "Ice cream truck." and then Jasper began to sway from side to side. I smiled and began to do the same but only with my head. "You have the brain of a hamster." Charlotte insulted after he stopped playing the music. "I wish." Jasper sulked. "Give me my phone." Henry laughed as he put it back on the coffee table.

"Hey, did you guys hear what Captain Man did yesterday?" Jasper said. First after he said that Henry went into nervousness. Second, oh my god we don't need to know everything that Captain Man does. I would have still said that even if Henry didn't get the job. Because we were literally talking about this exact same thing yesterday. We don't need to talk about Captain Man and what he did the day before that day every day.

"Oh yeah, the Jandy Bridge." Charlotte pointed out. "Uh so if you divide 9x by the square." Henry started trying desperately to find an excuse to avoid this conversation. Jasper interrupted Henry and jumped on the couch.

"They said he pulled 7 people out of the water and saved their lives." "Yeah and he has a new sidekick." Charlotte added. "There's a story about it on my news feed." Henry began to laugh really nervously. "Hey, let's talk about your birthday party." He told Jasper before he and Charlotte shushed him.

"Here." Charlotte said finding the story. Henry was still really nervous. "For the first time ever Captain Man was not working alone." Henry then grabbed a glass cup and threw it at the fireplace and it smashed to pieces.

"Woah how'd that break?" He asked rhetorically and answered the weird looks that Charlotte and Jasper gave him. But they did not fall for it and just continued reading the news story. "According to witnesses on the scene Captain Man was heard calling his new sidekick Kid Danger-" Charlotte was interrupted by Henry smacking her phone out of her hand.

"You just slapped my phone out of my head." Charlotte said after she and Jasper turned to Henry. Henry began to stutter again. "Yeah sorry it's just I'm worried, you and I gotta study and I'm worried about Jasper's party and there's… I don't know, I just…" But Henry was interrupted by his wristband flashing 3 times. We both stood up remembering what Ray told us what that meant yesterday. "Uhh" I stuttered. "Why don't you guys go to the zoo?" Henry suggested. "Why?" "You both know I got banned from the zoo." Charlotte and Jasper both said.

"What is that?" Charlotte asked. "What, my thumb?" Henry asked nervously. "The bracelet that's beeping and falling on your wrist?"

"Uh it's a…" Henry stuttered. "It's a timer." I lied. "What are you timing?" Charlotte asked. "Muffins." Henry answered, going along with my lie. "You're making muffins?" Charlotte asked weirdly. "Birthday muffins." Henry emphasized. "Yes!" Jasper cheered.

"Dang there goes the surprise." Henry lied. "I'll just turn this off." Henry said, starting to mess around with the wristband eventually sticking it inside his pants. "It's still on." Jasper said slowly. "No it's not." Henry lied. "We can see it flashing through your pants." "And we can still hear it beeping." They both said. "I know." Henry said weirdly and slowly and used a pillow from the couch to cover where you could see it.

"I uh." Henry began to stutter again. "I need a pickle!" I exclaimed before grabbing something off the coffee table and running out of the door. Henry ran after me realizing I came up with a chance for him to escape.

"Wait Reyli, I thought you hated pickles! I thought we were gonna study." Charlotte called out after us. Jasper also called out something but I didn't hear him.

"Ray. Ray, what's wrong?" Henry called out when we got down to the room, but Ray was sitting on the couch with a girl and a Hawaiian themed background. They were singing something and playing ukuleles. "Uh Ray?" Henry asked impatiently and he held up a finger. Soon Ray and the girl were done singing and playing their ukuleles. "Dude!" exclaimed Henry.

He and the girl laughed, and he looked at us. "Henry. Reyli." He greeted us smiling. "What goes on?" He asked. "You triple beeped me." "You said that means there's an emergency." We both said. "Oh right. Sorry." He said. "I was just getting a ukulele lesson from Laylani." He told us. "Take a break." He told her as the Hawaiian themed background went up. "So what's the emergency?" Henry asked.

They got a bit flirty before Laylani moved to the back room. "So, what's up?" Asked Henry. "We have a situation." He said getting up from the couch. "And be 'we.'" He continued. "I mean city. All of Swellview." he said before putting the lei he was wearing on my neck. "Check this out." he told us before he pressed a button and a hologram of the toddler came up in mid air a few feet behind the couch. "The toddler." Henry asked. "He's the 1 that destroyed the Jandy bridge yesterday." Ray told us. Why?" I asked. "To set up phase 3 of his plan." Ray answered. "What's phase 3?" I asked.

"It's the phase that comes right after phase 2 but before phase 4 if there is a phase 4 but if there's no phase 4 then phase 3 would be the final phase."

I know what phase 3 means but that's not what I meant. What I meant was… "What happens in phase 3?" asked Henry.

That's what I meant. "Listen." Ray turned around. "Okay." Henry said. "While you and I were pulling people out of the river, the toddler's men stole 5000 packages of diapers. Can you guess why?"

"Uhh." Henry said. "To bombard the diapers with radioactive zenite particles." Ray answered. "I would not have guessed that." Henry said flatly.

"You wanna see what happens when a baby pees into a diaper that's been bombarded with radioactive zenite particles." Ray asked us and bent his knees and Henry and I bent our knees too. "No." Henry said. "Watch this." He said before moving to the monitors "Why does he ask us?" Henry asked me. We walked over to the monitors.

There was this baby in a high chair and the toddler was upset with 1 of his henchmen because he wanted the baby to cry.

"Wait I-I think he's peeing." The man said running off screen. Then the baby started crying. "Goodie. Here comes the fun." I heard the toddler say. What happened then was really scary. All I'm saying is the baby turned into a scary monster baby with dark green skin and red eyes.

"Oh my gosh." Henry murmured. "Uh huh." Ray agreed with him. You could even make out the monster baby saying the words 'kill you' 'kill everyone'.

"Monster babies?!" I exclaimed. "That's right Reyli." Ray said. "Unless we stop the toddler, Henry. Are you with me?" "Well yeah." Henry responded.

"Good meet me here tonight at 7 sharp." Ray ordered. "Wait. wait wait tonight. No, no I can't do tonight." Henry said, remembering something. "What? what do you mean?" Ray asked. "My best friend jasper. He's having his birthday party tonight…" Ray interpreted Henry. "p-p-party." he stuttered, laughing. He grabbed Henry's shoulders. "Henry there's a freakish man toddler out there about to turn all the babies in Swellview into that." he said referring to the monster baby.

"And you're worried about a party?!" He said. "But." Henry stammered and turned around. "Jasper's been my best friend since we were 5 and he's been friends with Reyli since Reyli was 3." Henry told Ray.

No, I was not 3 when Henry was 5. When Henry and Jasper first became best friends I (and in that case Piper) were only babies less than a year old. He's known me since I was a baby. It's just he couldn't be my friend until I was 3. Though Henry and Jasper were 7 by that time. That's what Henry meant. That's also around the same time Henry met Charlotte.

"Okay okay." Ray said in a weird voice. "It's cool. You go to Jasper's birthday party. I'll handle the toddler by myself. Don't worry about it." He said walking away. "Are you sure?" Henry asked. "Yeah I handled the toddler alone before." Ray said, faking a smile. "Almost killed me but whatever." He said walking to some stairs near this sprocket thing.

"Well now I feel all bad." Henry said as Ray pressed a button on a remote. "Nah, don't feel bad. I'll save the world. You, go have a fun time at Jasper's birthday party." He said with a hint of sarcasticness in his voice. "Dance. Drink some fruity punch." He said walking on the other side of the sprocket. "Laylani! Turn on the hot tub!" Ray exclaimed when he was on the other side. "Yay." Laylani said in a corny way and I cringed. Henry just had a look of guilt on his face.

That night Henry and I were about to go to Jasper's birthday party and Henry was talking to Jasper on the phone. "Okay yeah." Henry said on the phone. "Jasper. Jasper Reyli and I are on our way." he assured him. "No, I'm not bringing the muffins." He said with an annoyed look on his face before he grabbed a jacket. Then when Jasper said something else Henry's eyes widened. "What about Captain Man?" He asked worriedly. "He got captured." I heard Jasper faintly say and my eyes widened too.

"What?" Henry and I both exclaimed before we ran over to the T.V and Henry turned it on to the news.

"While the reports are unclear, we do have confirmation that Captain Man has been captured and is being held in a location. "Captured?" "Dang it Ray." Me and Henry both said though Henry was slightly annoyed.

"Next." The guy continued. "Why, squirrels love nuts." What did I tell you? Weird, unrelated, silly and ridiculous. Henry turned off the T.V and picked up his phone since Jasper was still on it. "Uh I can't talk, I'm naked." he said quickly before hanging up his phone grabbing his jacket and both of us ran out of the door.

I ended up following him to where Ray was being held hostage. Even though he said it was dangerous for me to be there and he told me to go to Jasper's party, I kept making distractions until Henry and I got there and he realized what I did. He wasn't angry with me, more like he was worried about my safety which is why he didn't want me here. Anyway we found Ray being held in 1 of those baby bumper jumpers. He was inside this playroom with a lot of baby stuff and the toddler and his henchman. The toddler then began to taunt Ray as Henry and I made our way to 1 of the doors and Henry got out his gum blew a bubble and when it popped those green lights went around his body and when they cleared he was wearing his suit and mask.

"Come on, toddler. Your insane plan won't work." Ray threatened. Then Henry's phone started ringing. Luckily it was on vibrate and no one could hear it but us. "What?" he asked, slightly annoyed when he answered it. "You and Reyli are late." I heard Jasper say. Oh god.

"Well sorry but we're kinda in the middle of something here." "There's something more important than my birthday party?" I heard Jasper ask. Uh I can think of like 20 things more important. "48 hours from now every baby in Swellview will be a hideous monster." The toddler said. Like that. "But you promised me tha…" "Henry will you and Reyli get your butts to this party cause so far it's just me Jasper and 2 dorks who keep slapping each other's bonks." Charlotte said, taking the phone away from Jasper.

I wasn't sure if that was the exact word she said but it sounded like it.

"I gotta go." Henry said, hanging up his phone. We looked inside the room.

"Come on, toddler. Let me down from this thing. It's squeezing me in bad ways." Ray said uncomfortably. "No! And now Captain Man I have thousands of babies to monsterize. And to make sure that you don't try to stop me I will now destroy you." he said in that deep man's voice. "You idiot. I can't be destroyed." Ray told him. "I know that!" he pouted.

"But you can be dropped," he continued. He pressed a button and Ray was hanging over a ball pit. "Into my bottomless pall pit." "t-t-todd." Ray stuttered. "Toddler." he corrected. Then I had an idea. I made Henry give me his phone and I found that app from earlier. I then started playing the ice cream truck sound effect.

He gasped and lit up "Wait listen." he said happily. "It's the ice cream man. Yay!" he cheered and his men started hopping excitedly. He stopped laughing and turned to Ray.

"I'll destroy you in a minute." he said in that deep voice again. "Come on fellas ice cream man." He said happily and he and his henchman ran out the other door. I stopped playing the sound effect and gave Henry back his phone. "Nice plan buddy." he congratulated me. I can't believe that actually worked and he calls me buddy a lot. He opened the door and we both went in there. "Captain Man." Henry said to let Ray know we were here.

"Henry. Reyli." He said happily. "It's Kid Danger." Henry corrected. "Wait Reyli wait are you doing here?" Ray asked. "I distracted him until we got here." I answered. "Be careful." Ray warned. "Don't let the toddler see your face. If he comes back, don't try to run. Just hide." He told me. "Got it." I said. "Now quick. How do I get you down from there?" Henry asked. "I don't know." Ray told him. "This is the first time I've been trapped in a baby bouncer over a bottomless ball pit." Ray said. "Try that lever." He said pointing to 1. "Right." Henry said and we both walked over to the lever.

Then we heard the door open. Without thinking twice I ducked behind a pile of diaper boxes and stayed quiet. "There was no ice cream truck." The toddler exclaimed right before I hid. "Who tricked me. And who's that boy near my lever." the toddler said, referring to Henry. Oh phew he didn't see me. "That's my sidekick, Kid Danger." Ray told him.

"I didn't know you had a sidekick. Why don't I have a sidekick? I wanna sidekick!" He pouted. "You have us." 1 of his men told him. "Shut up. You're dumb." Then Ray grabbed Henry's attention "Uh Kid Danger?" Ray asked. "Why don't you pull that lever?" he asked. "Right." Henry said and pulled it. "No." the toddler cried. After that a huge fight started. Rays baby bouncer kept knocking into the heads of the toddler's men and Henry had to fight off the toddler and his men and after 3 to 5 minutes of fighting the men and Henry whacked them with stuff from the room all of his henchman were on the floor unconscious and they still didn't realize I was there.

"You boys think you're so spiffy. Well, have a look at my bang bottle." The toddler said.

"'Bang bottle'?" Ray repated. "That's right. And it's filled with explody juice." The toddler said. Then the bottle started flashing and making a beeping noise. "Kid Danger, get out of here." Ray ordered. "I'm not leaving you." Henry exclaimed. "But that nipple is flashing." Ray pointed out.

"No one leaves!" the toddler exclaimed and then he made 2 exclaiming noises and both doors closed. "Now. we're all gonna go boom together." The toddler said. "What do we do?" Asked Henry worriedly. What happened next is something that Henry and not even Ray would expect me to do.

Time seemed to slow down as I jumped out from my hiding place behind the diapers charged at the toddler and knocked him into his bottomless pit of balls. Then time returned to its regular speed.

"Ah! Who are you?! What are you doing here?! Help me! Get me out of here! Ah these balls smell like feet and pee. Oh this is it for me." He mumbled something else but I didn't hear and he sank inside the ball pit and we couldn't see him anymore. Henry and Ray looked proudly at me and then Ray noticed something. "The bang bottle." He exclaimed.

"Oh man." Henry cried picking it up. "What do we do with this?" He asked. Ray looked at the ball pit and back at Henry. "We give the baby his bottle." He said through gritted teeth. "Ah. Good call." Henry chuckled. "Hey." I said. "Sup." Henry greeted. "Hurry." Me and Ray both said. "Oh right."

Time seemed to slow down again as Henry threw it into the ball pit and when time went back to its regular speed it started flashing and beeping faster. "Kid Danger. Reyli." Ray called. Then Henry protected me and Ray protected Henry and then the bang bottle blew up and plastic balls went everywhere. Then Ray let Henry go and Henry let me go. Then the baby beanie that the toddler was wearing landed in Ray's hands. Henry just took it out of his hand, looked at it and then tossed it over his shoulder.

"Nice work Kid Danger. You got skills." Ray congratulated Henry. "Thanks Captain Man." Henry thanked him. Both Ray and Henry even congratulated me for pushing the toddler into the ball pit even though I risked him seeing my face. Then Henry got a text from somebody. "Jasper." He gasped. "Oh yeah. You both better get to that birthday party." Ray told us. "Right." Henry said and we were both about to leave when Henry had an idea. He turned around. "Uh hey Ray. Will you do me a huge favor?" Henry told Ray his idea and Ray agreed to it.

Henry and I went to Jasper's party and he and Charlotte were so happy to see us and they kept asking where we were and we made up an excuse. Anyway those 2 guys Sidney and Oliver were here and they were making animal noises into 1 of those cup phones. Henry Charlotte Jasper and I all cringed and Henry had his hand on my shoulder (which is something he does a lot for those of you wondering) Then Charlotte turned to me and Henry. "They've been doing that for 2 hours." She groaned.

"My party's a flop." Jasper said sadly. "I'm just gonna upstairs and sit in my closet with my cat." he began to walk towards the stairs. "Pardon me." We all heard Ray say and he walked down the stairs and stopped at the stairwell. The looks on the others' faces were so happy and shocked but Henry and I just smiled.

"My man-van broke out there in the street. So I walked into this house and came down to this basement." Ray announced. "Holy chunks! You're- you're Captain Man!" Jasper exclaimed happily. "Thank you." he said pointing and walked down onto the floor. "You're my hero." Jasper continued. "Of course." Ray smiled. "Mine too." Charlotte said excitedly. "Um, I'm charlotte." She said, shaking his hand. "Uh hi Mr. cap- uh Maptain Can." She greeted weirdly and after that she tried to correct herself but instead just laughed uncountably in a cringeworthy way.

"That's enough." Ray told her. "I'm so sorry." She said, stopping. "And uh I'm Henry and this is my little brother Reyli." Henry said, shaking his hand but it was a bit weird since we already met him.

"Nice to meet you and Reyli, Henry." Ray said, shaking his hand. "Hey hey Captain Man?" Jasper asked a bit too eagerly. "Yes, a question." He responded. "Can I hit you in the head with a baseball bat?" Jasper asked excitedly. I groaned. "Dude." "Jasper." Charlotte and Henry both groaned.

"No no. It's ok." Ray said and Jasper went to grab a bat. "But remember kids never do this to anyone but Captain Man because regular people could be badly in-AHHHHHH." He got cut off by Jasper whacking him with the bat. Everyone was amazed. "Wow." Jasper exclaimed. "I wasn't done talking." Ray said, clearly irritated. "Did that hurt?" Charlotte asked.

"Yeah." Ray squeaked. "But I'm okay." He continued and we all clapped our hands. "Well I guess I should call a tow truck to come pick up my man van." Ray stated. "Or." Henry said. "It's my best friend Jasper's birthday party." he added. "Oh oh yeah yeah it is." Jasper said, clinging on to Ray's arm.

"You can stay and party with us if you wanna." Charlotte offered. "Will there be soup?" Ray inquired. "I'll open a can." Jasper responded. "Then I'd love to stay and party with you guys." He responded. Then those 2 guys started making more animal noise into the cup phones. "Uh Captain Man?" Henry asked. "Yes boy." Ray asked. "Would it be cool if Jasper texted a few friends from school and told them you're here at his party." Henry asked.

"Y-yeah, can I?" He asked hopefully. "Sure I loved being used." He said, faking a smile and sent me and Henry a look. Japer squealed in excitement. "Yay." Charlotte cheered. "Wow, thanks. This is the coolest thing that's ever happened to me." He said, shaking Ray's hand excitedly. Ray chuckled nervously. "Are your hands always this sweaty?" he asked weirdly. "Yes sir." He responded, still shaking his hand. "He takes medicine for it." Henry informed Ray. "Well, it's not working." He smiled and stopped shaking his hand and he wiped it on Jasper's shirt which made a stain.

Later a lot of people from school came and it started to become a real party with music and dancing and stuff like that. Some were dancing while others were getting Ray's autographs. I even invited Edward Gordon, James Percy and Oliver. Though I have something to say.

Earlier I said how at Jaspers Christmas party in 2011 they ended up in the hospital. Though I got a few things wrong. First after the summer of 2011 we were sad that we would never see each other again. But we all had the same 1st grade teacher. After the first day of 1st grade my friends and I told our families that we were now friends and our moms were happy because when they were in school they were like besties but after we were born they didn't hang out as much to raise us and our siblings. Yes my friends (well 3 of them) have siblings but I'll talk about them in a later story.

Anyway when they found out Edward Gordon James Percy Oliver and I were friends they started visiting each other again so me and my friends could see each other outside of school. They even started talking again.

Also I didn't really invite them to Jaspers party, they invited themselves. When they got to the hospital Edward Gordon James and Oliver recovered quickly. But Percy almost died but he got better. Their parents blamed the entire incident on Jasper not on me. It's just that since Jasper was always at my house, they warned them to be careful when they visited me and he was there. And they still don't trust him. I wonder why they let them come here.

After they got their autographs from Ray, I met up with them in the corner of the room. "Reyli, it's so cool how Jasper got Captain Man to come here." Percy said happily. I laughed. "Well technically he showed up after his van broke down." I said. "Wow. that makes so much more sense." James laughed. "Wait, why is the other Oliver here?" Gordon asked. "Yeah do you have any idea how many times I got mistaken for him?" Oliver asked.

"I do." I responded. "And he's here because he was the first person to answer Jasper's invitations." I told them. "Wow, that says a lot." Gordon laughed. "Wait guys how are you here? I thought your moms don't trust Jasper?" I asked. "They still don't but they were okay when they found out Captain Man was here." Edward answered. Then an awful thought struck me, and Edward and we both looked at each other then at the others in fear.

"You guys didn't tell no one about 'the incident' did you?" He asked worriedly. "Oh no no no no no. The 4 of us kept it a secret like we said we would." Percy said quickly. Edward and I both breathed huge sighs of relief. "Good. Finding out that we were skipping 4 grades was enough for our families but if they find out about this." I said in a dead serious tone. "Don't worry Reyli and Edward. We're keeping the incident a secret. Besides we don't want to break the trust we built between bros since 2011" Oliver assured us. "But remember we promised each other that eventually 1 day we would tell our families what happened." Gordon reminded us. "Wait guys, I just realized something." James said. "What?" I asked.

"When we tell the others about the incident it would be impossible to talk about the incident without telling the full story since the story builds up to the incident. And it would be impossible to talk about the full story without mentioning the incident because without the incident the full story will just end on a cliffhanger without the incident." he explained.

"What are you saying James?" Gordon asked, slightly annoyed. "I'm saying that if we tell them the story it has to be Reyli or Edward telling it since it's impossible to tell that story without talking about the incident. And since the incident concerns Reyli and Edward. You, see?" Edward Gordon Percy Oliver and I began to understand what James was saying.

"So, you're saying that if anyone is going to tell the story it has to be Reyli or Edward since the incident is their story to tell?" Percy asked, clarifying what he was saying. James nodded. "Eh makes sense." "I mean the incident traumatized them, not us." "Exactly, we didn't even hear about the incident until after they were traumatized." Gordon Oliver and James all said.

"Are you 2 fine with telling it on your own?" James asked. "Actually, when we recovered after the incident, we actually thought this might happen." "And Percy's right. The incident is our story to tell." We both answered. Oh, James is saying that since the incident is mine or Edward's story to tell that makes the full story not just the incident our story to tell. "But we'll have to wait for just the right time to tell them." Reminded Oliver. "When is that 'right time'?" Percy asked. "We really don't know." I said to myself.

Then Henry came down with muffins that had birthday candles. "Okay okay. Kill the lights." He called and Charlotte turned them off. "Happy happy happy happy birthday." he started singing.

"Happy happy happy happy birthday." We all continued. "Everybody wants to wish you a happy birthday." We all sang and clapped our hands when we finished. "Muffins." Jasper cooed. "Well make a wish." Charlotte insisted on him. We all encouraged him to blow out the candles. Then he blew out his candles and we all cheered and clapped our hands again.

"Okay flip on the lights." Henry told Charlotte and when she did, we all noticed something. "Hey? Where'd Captain Man go?" Jasper asked. We looked around and started to murmur. Ray was gone. "He's gone." Charlotte stated. Jasper whined. "Why'd he leave?"

Charlotte shrugged. "He probably had to go do superhero stuff." she stated. "And you did break a bat over his head." Henry added. "Yeah." Jasper said in understanding. "Hey if it makes you feel any better, me Charlotte and Reyli got you something." Henry told Jasper. "What?" He asked. "Look." I answered and I pointed at Charlotte who was carrying that barrel from Junk-N-Stuff. Jasper gasped.

"You got me the bucket." he exclaimed happily and picked it up and hugged it. "It's a barrel." Charlotte said annoyed. "Will somebody turn on the music?" she called, and the music turned back on, and everyone started dancing again. Jasper then put the barrel down.

He walked over to me and Henry "So you're having fun at your party." Henry asked. "Heck yeah but for a while there I thought neither of you were gonna come." He spoke. "Come on man. I'm always gonna be here for you." He said and he and Jasper bro hugged. Then Henry's wristband started flashing again and he quickly let go.

I knew what this meant so I went to my friends to say goodbye. "Guys, Henry has to leave and I'm leaving with him." I told them. "Alright bye buddy." "See ya man." "Later bro." "Bye." "Later Reyli." They all said. "Birthday boy." Charlotte exclaimed and everyone cheered. I saw Henry look over the party from the bottom of the stairwell and I walked to the stairwell too. Henry smiled and noticed his wrist band and ran up the rest of the stairs, but I continued to look at the party.

I watched everyone partying. Then I saw Henry at the top of the stairs, and he turned into Kid Danger. I can't believe it. Henry is a sidekick to a superhero now!