Author's notes: Hi guys! I just what to let you know that I'm sorry for the wait had to paint the rooms inside the house so did had much time to sit an type. This is an interesting chapter to create but I nonetheless steps up the events to come in the next chapters.
Now on with the movie . . .
CHAPTER 5
Dante opened the door of his office and looked both ways to make sure the coast is clear. He stepped out with his suit in duffle bag and made his way out the door. He got into his car and started the engine and pulled out of the drive way. Mirage told him to meet her at the airport where a plane will be waiting for him. Upon arriving at the airport Dante parked his car in a secluded spot where he got out and takes out the pod form of the suit from his duffle bag and with a click of a button of the pod laser signals scan Dante's body and begins to transform into the Dragon suit. It latches onto Dante and hums as eyes of the suit light up with a growl-like hum. Now that he was suited up he needed only to find the location of the plane. According to Mirage for the phone a plane would be waiting for him at the far eastern section of the city's airport. As after at least ten minutes of searching he finally found it and it was not what he expected. He expected a plane, yes, but not one shaped like a giant manta ray. For such a strange-looking vehicle he thought someone wound is around to gawk at it, but given how empty this place is and given the secrecy of this meeting it was without a doubt all by design. The side door opened with steps extending down to the ground with a pair of long brown legs in black high heels walking down the steps to meet him. She wore a light violet suit and she was every bit as elegant as she was on the video message.
"Hello, Mr. Incredible. It a pleasure to finally meet you in person." Mirage extended her hand in greeting.
Dante smiled from behind his helmet while shaking her hand. "It a pleasure, Mirage, is it?"
"Of course." Mirage nodded with a seductive smile. "If you please board the jet I would brief on the way."
The two board it and in a few short minutes the jet turned onto the runway and fired up its engines and took off into the sky on its way to base of Nomanisan Island. Inside the futuristic plane Mirage briefs Dante's mission. The front windows closed as a tactical display was set up between the two of them. Mirage bring up a schematics for the threat he was about to face. Dante studied this carefully.
"The Omnidroid 8000 is a top secret prototype battle robot." Mirage explained, "Its artificial intelligence enables it to solve any problem it's confronted with. And, unfortunately..."
Dante interrupted her with a guess based on his experience when he was still in the Avengers and Ultron was created. "Let me guess. It got smart enough to wonder why it had to take orders."
Mirage didn't hide the fact of this mistake. "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."
No people on the island means Dante can let loose, against a giant robot no less and earn his keep again. "How am I going in?"
Mirage brought up a layout of the entire island as well as the flight path of the jet and the falling of the pod he was in. Dante studied this carefully also.
"The Omnidroid's defenses necessitate an air drop from 5000 feet. Its cloaking devices make it … difficult to track. Although we're pretty sure it's on the southern half of the island."
A dangerous force, that can cloak and is in the jungle? Man Dante missed being hunted by the Yautja.
"One more thing. Obviously it represents a significant investment." Mirage stated.
"I'll say, all this that did all that must have worth 10 private islands. Anyway, you want me to shut it down without completely destroying it."
Mirage smirked. "You are Mr. Incredible."
They offered a pod for him to go in but Dante decided to take the express way down. The jets back hatch opened up like an iris and the rush of window blew at them. Dante in his iron suit loosed up before approached the exit. Mirage's silver-white hair moved about in the wind as she stopped him to offer one last piece of crucial advice.
"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."
Dante walked to the edge and turned around. "Shut it down. Do it quickly. Don't destroy it." Dante repeat.
"And don't die." Mirage added in case he forgot while he's down there.
Dante saluted a peace sign. "Great. Thanks."
Dante leans backward and falls down to the earth. He turns over and sees Nomanisan Island and makes his way to it via gliding down to it. Finding the southern half of the island Mirage pointed out Dante aimed for the edge and flipped over to land in a style pose. He stands and pops his neck.
"Showtime."
He explores through the jungle, trying to find the Omnidroid. He decided the best way to catch Omnidroid is on ground, that way its range weapons won't catch him off guard and blasts him out of the sky. A more down to earth boots on the ground tactic was the better option. Deeper and deeper in the jungle he trekked until there only thick tress and a light veil fog in the air. He stopped to catch his breath and survey the area again. His masks scanners once again detected no sign of unusual activity.
I wondered if I run into the cast of LOST out here. Seems an ideal place to encounter the smoke mon-
Dante looks over at the tree his right hands was against and sees a blade mark on a tree and a cross on the grass.
Mostly made by the Omnidroid when it passed through here … or it could be-
Suddenly, the Omnidroid surprises him from behind, as it tries to impale him unsuccessfully. It slashes a 3rd time, only cutting through the armor mesh fabric leaving a mark on Dante's arm. Dante leaps over the robot, and throws a good punch that sends it flying to a tree.
"Yeah!"
The robot gets up, and the real fight begins.
"Uh-oh."
The robot charges at him, as he leaps over. Dante decided to switch it with another attack once he landed. The robot unfortunately calculated his leaping arc, and that allowed it to swat him mid-air, slamming Dante into another tree that topped onto the Omnidroid. But the robot rolled out of its way, and reformed. Mirages Intel was sound but Dante expected nothing less from any AI based on his experiences.
Normal AI units are tricky. AIs that are made for warfare are dangerous and the fruits of their bloody labor are far more easily tallied in the thickness of fighting. For some there is no artsy or grace to the AI's blow. Each projectile and melee attack is driven by the desire of optimum efficiency. Odd an AI's attack is unintentionally spectacular; if it calculates that three enemies could be slain swifter with one blow that three individual strikes, then a single blow from its melee or projectile weapons is all it will make. Normally any human would perhaps bout at the risk this entails but for an AI like the Omnidroid, who has calculated success down to a degree, there is no rick remaining - Only a certainty as pure a death itself.
But to Dante this was a good thing: the greater the enemy, the greater the challenge.
The robot curled up again to crush him, only for Mr. Incredible to dodge it, as it knocks down some trees before charging at him quickly. Dante sprints his way off, but he almost gets crushed by the robot as he jumps over a cliff, slides on it, and lands. The Omnidroid arrives at a similar pace, as he receives a boulder from our hero. The Omnidroid does the same 3 times, the latter hitting Dante. Dante uses his powers to charges up the suit more fires several energy blast from his gauntlets. It almost impales him unsuccessfully. Its claw is lodged in the cliff, as Dante runs for safety. The Omnidroid pulls its limb out of the cliff and leaped high into the air, intent on crushing Dante, who leaped out of the way and landed in the lava fields. The Omnidroid lands making Dante stand his ground and smile and summon Rebellion in his hand.
The robot changed forth and Dante parried it strikes away from him. Dante rolls and slashes a wave of red energy at the robot that stumbles before targeting the ground in front of him. The robot spears its claw into the ground creating an explosion of rock toward Dante. He shields himself run into the wall jump to it and pushes off to deliver a power sidekick those sides to robot rolling. The robot takes advantage of this and changes into a ball to bounce of the wall like a pinball flying towards Dante only to reform upon landing and makes an attempt to push Dante into the lava as he tried to push back. This strategy was unexpected and Dante dropped his sword to catch the claw with both hands. After a few seconds however, he lets out a scream while using his maximum strength and jerk-pulls the robot aside into the lava. Dante laughs in what he thought was his victory,
"Ha! Eat lava bitch!"
The Omnidroid suddenly bursts out of the lava through a place of the stone platform, making it crack.
Dante sighs in exhaustion. "Of course. I hate it when they can do that."
It proceeds to spin its claws, as Dante leaps on a chunk of rock. He dismisses Rebellion and thinks of a plan. 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. But Dante jack-knives, ripping the claw off its arms. He runs under the robot, as it uses his lower sensor cluster to find him.
Just as it spots its target, he rips it off, and climbs inside the robot, as it unintentionally starts damaging itself. After a while, it stops, weakened. Dante punched off its upper sensor cluster, as it whistles while riding the robot. The robot tries to pull him out, but it accidentally tears its brainpan out. The nephilim jumps out of the robot and casually walks away, as the Omnidroid motionlessly falls down.
Not much of a challenge but a good workout nonetheless
Nearby on a tree branch near the lava pits a mecha-macaw watched everything, as it zooms on the scene. On the other end watching Dante's progress was Mirage she was greatly impressed by Dante work. She then turned around to see what her boss thought on the Super that he was searching for a long time.
The boss scratched his chin before answering. "Surprising. We must bring him back. Sound the all clear, and … invite him to dinner."
Dante exited the area and was meeting by a helicopter to come pick him up. The helicopter flew to the base that was built in the side of the tallest peak of the island. Dante got off the helicopter and walked into the base, talking into at how big and advance it is. Waiting for him was Mirage who offered and invitation to wine and dine with her. Dante accepts for it gave him the chance to meet the headhancho of this place and the one who contacted him so mysteriously.
The staff showed Dante to one of the guest rooms for the VIPs that would visit the island. Dante to a hot shower and put on a robe and watch TV until it was time. Dante walked to the closet and saw rolls of suits in different sizes. He was bout the pick one when he saw a machine in the closet with a label: THE CUSTOMED FIT. He pressed the button and the eye-like scanner extended out and scanned his entire form with blue lasers before the machine hummed and the doors opened up to reveal a clothes line with a suit, tie, pans and shoes ready for him.
"Sweet." Dante commented as stood in the mirror with attire all in a perfect fit.
Dante head for the elevator he was told to go to that would take him right up to the floor where dining room is. In a pod Dante arrives and walks to the dining room. Inside he sees a long table with two Easter Island heads frame a wall of the volcano's magma flow.
For some reason it feels nice in here and not hellishly hot like it appears. Huh.
He looks at his watch before he steps inside to wait for Mirage and her boss in a huge dining room. Suddenly the lava wall open up in the middle causing Dante to a move backward in the door with it just opened a crack while peeking to see who was engaging out of it. Judging by the shape it was Mirage who stepped out and turned at talk to whomever it was that was behind her. They were whispering but Dante's heightened sense of hearing could pick up part of the conversation.
"Most important, keep things light. Praise him. Make him feel like we appreciate his abilities."
Strange. Dante closes the door slowly and carefully hides back in the pod. Dante then gave the side of the pod a good knock loud enough for Mirage to him. Mirage upon hearing it rushed over to the door and opened it to find Dante sitting in the pod pretending to have waited long enough.
"Am I overdressed?" Dante asked.
For this dinner with the beautiful Mirage and her boss Dante decide to pull the entire Bond traits in order to make a good impression. Suit, cologne, shine, dress, shiny dress shoes and needed was Ebony & Ivory concealed within the suit in case this turns out to be a shame. He hoped not. The last two things on his last were the most important. Wearing a mask and leaving his wedding ring on. For starters, Dante looked the shiny gold band around his ring-finger. He remembered his wedding day well; the love, the commitment the fact that it was unknowingly on the horizon of a great change. Dante would do anything for his family but even now he must do everything he can to keep them a secret. The primary rules of the Superhero life are to not have anything give away your secret identity, as a Super or as a normal person. The wedding ring indicated that he is married and to protect he removed his ring and put into a pocket on the inside that has a flap with a button. As for the mask … well the mask or anything of the like it was essential to what he is. A mask is designed to protect him and those he cared about. But given that they know who he is a personally and nothing else (as far as they let on), means that he didn't have to wear his iron mask.
Mirage looks him up and down and smiles. "Actually, you look rather dashing." he comments.
They head to the dining table and sit. Dante pulls Mirages chair out for her to and she comments on being gentlemen before he goes to the other end of this long table and sits. Dante took noticed that the Boss was nowhere to be seen
"I take it our host is …"
"Oh, I'm sorry. He won't be dining with us. He hopes you'll understand." Mirage apologizes for her employer's absence.
Why he is not surprised. Dante understood but expected this despite the fact he wanted to meet the boss. "Of course. I do usually make it a point to know who I'm ricking life and limb for."
Mirage rotates the wine in her glass when she answered. "He prefers a certain amount of anonymity. Surely, you of all people understand that."
'A certain amount of anonymity'? Sound like one of the lectures Professor X gave that I was awake for. But I think it was total anonymity he said. Whoever this is like to be in the public domain before slipping away quietly where no one can track him. That usually fits controversial world leaders, terrorists, politicians and anyone who basically has a similar streak.
Dante decided to address the elephant in the room. "Oh sure. But … I was just wondering, of ALL the places to settle down, why live ..."
"With a volcano?" Mirage said, she waiting for Dante to ask the glaringly obvious question. "He's attracted to power. So am I. It's a … weakness we share."
"Seems a bit unstable." Dante pointed out.
Mirage's lip light touch the tip of her glass and said: "I prefer to think of it as … misunderstood." she purred.
Dante chuckled a bit to that. "Aren't we all?"
"Volcanic soil is among the most fertile on Earth. Everything at the table was grown right here." Dante takes a sip and nods in agreement. The fruits, the vegetable, and the streak all the freshness is very … sensual. "How does it compare?" Mirage asked while tracing her fingers around the rim of her glass.
"Everything's delicious." Dante said raising his glass in a toast. Mirage could only smile back and raised her glass in agreement. The two like each other already.
With Dinner done Dante received his pay and boarded a plane that would take back to the airport the he left. As Dante at in the passage seat and looked out in the dark ocean and night sky and saw a very strange sight. Large red lights flashed and glowed underneath the ocean waters. Curious about them Dante activated the suit helmet to encase his head and scan the sight below. Long range scans reveal it to be large serpentine creature that bioluminescence that for some reason had other creatures around it as it about the area.
"A sea serpent? You don't see that every day." Dante said. The plane flies from the area and the dawn blue early light on the horizon caused Dante to feel tired. Nothing else to do he reclined his seat back and went to sleep.
What followed was a brand spring in his step as well as the families' steps. The first thing when he got back home was embrace Helen who was watering the plants. Helen was surprised by this but relaxed and embraced him as the hose water showered. The passion has reignited in them and they could not get enough. Even the kids started to notice the difference. Momo and Dad were laughing again and it did stop there. Dante found out he had more time with the kids and he made the best of it.
Dash was playing Fornite when someone online starts to troll Dash. Dante overheard and sat beside his son. Dante offered to teach this 'NoobMaster' a lesson he'll never forget. Dante and his son Dash teamed up and doubled team this troll with ambushes and relentless melee that the troll rage quitted, a victory for father and son. Once they played football in a field away from the city and Dante want to test how fast Dash could go to catch the ball. Dante used his super strength to launch the ball far out there. Dash saw it at took off and soon came back with the football. There's sports player in the making and Dante was proud of him.
Dante even went out in his old car and came back with a now black slick sports car and nice red one for her to use as well as the whole family to get use for outing and trips.
Dante and Helen's love life sure did get more erotic. Sure there sex, but they start to go out more on night out and even thing during the day time. They haven't walked in the park together for three years. They began to talk to each other more where they didn't before.
Now Jack-Jack was an interest case. Dante know his young child had powers somewhere in there and the only they ever come out is by being with him. Feeding him, changing him, cleaning up after him, changing him again and just loving him for what he is even if there are no powers within.
Violet asked to go to the mall to go shopping for clothes. Having to sit and listen to a teenager talk is tiresome enough but Violet wasn't hyper verbal like other teens. She will speak her mind when she good and ready. When she does it is profound. She gets that from her uncle V among other things like his black hair and shadow energies and love of poetry (funny how genetics of the father can include the genetics of his siblings also). When violet saw the clothes she wanted her face, though half of it was covered by black hair, lit up … and a smile. Dante feared she would never smile again when she began a teenager. But to see his daughter safe and happy was one of the greatest things he could have right.
But what of Dante and what changed for him personally? Dante stood in the mirror and looked at himself. He seemed to have lost some of his muscles to these years of peace and being a family man. He still has his inhuman strength but he guest he should start look like it. So between the time of him go out to work, flying to the Island to do the jobs Mirage and her employer have for him, he would also find time to work out before coming home. He worked out with things his strength class - Trains. When the train yards were empty of workers he would go there and train. He would connect cars together and spend hour pushing and pulling. His super strength made a bit easy so he connect more cars to make it harder so he can build up a sweat. Results were small but he kept going. He drank protein and ate foods that help with muscle building. He lifted the weight of the heaviest Metroville Union train until it was sunset. When he heard a train entering the yard he quickly stopped lifting it with his feet and flipped back into place. He leaned against it to rest as the trains passed by, gesturing to it and the advertisement: SUPPORT OUR VETERANS. This work began to show and Helen was starting to get clingy; pulling him back inside the house just to get some of Dante's ass before letting him go. Finally after doing the bitter work Dante Sparda was back in his slim but athletic fighting shape of the demonhunter. All he could say was: "Jackpot."
Later on in that week he checked out his suit he needed it fixed, badly. "Ah, jeez."
"Hurry, honey! Or you'll be late for work!" Helen called.
Dante gather the duffle bag and tossed out the window nearest to the garage. He grabbed his briefcase and head to the front door.
"Have a great day, honey." Helen said with a smile.
"Thanks." Dante replied with a smile.
"Help customers, climb ladders..."
"Bring bacon?"
"All that jazz."
They kiss and he grabs the duffle bag and drives away. He did have a assignment this day but he figured he could take this day to visit a old friend that living a bit away from the city and not without good reason.
In a high-tech artistic house on top of a hill protect by a lethal laser gate resides perhaps the most famous influential fashion designer of this time. Her name is Edna Mode aka E and she is renounced for her creations in the fashion world. But before the Superhero Relocation Program went into affect she was the power all supers came to when they need a new suit that was both fashionable and functionally.
Dante pulled to the gate a screen displays a video feed of a guard who greets all who visits.
"You have an appointment?" the guard asked.
Dante began to explain his reason for being here. "I'm an old friend. I just wanted to..."
"All visitors are required to make a reser—"
Suddenly E appears and shoos the guard away. "Hey, get back to work! Go check the electric fence or something!" E then gets up close to the screen to see who this is. "What is it? Who are you? What do you want?"
Dante lowers his sunglasses to show his grey-blue eyes, with them flashing red for a moment, show it was indeed some she knew VERY well.
E's eyes widened in surprise at how was at her gate. "My God, what has the world done to you? Come in, Come, come!"
Gates open and Dante drive up the house. Dante gets out in his black shirt and talks out the dufflebag full of his suit. He walks up to the front door which opens to find E waiting for him.
"Yes, things are going quite well. Quite well. My God, no complaints. But, you know, it is not the same. Not the same at all." E said.
Dante and Edna had known each other for a long time. Back then when she younger they two did date for a time. It was nice as one would come to expect. But then broke up and that was it real. The other supers would ask why they part but Edna and Dante never gave a straight answer.
"Weren't you just in the news? Some show in Prayge...Prague?" Dante asked.
"Milan, darling. Milan. Supermodels. HA! Nothing super about them. Spoiled, stupid, little stick figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves. FEH! I used to design for gods!" the bitterness in her heart toward her current job has caused her to go from a short young moody designer for supers to a short middle-aged moody designer for supermodels (So her occupation hasn't really changed but is certainly not the same). "... But perhaps you come with a challenge, eh? I was surprised to get your call."
"I just need a patch job." Dante said as he opened the duffle and placed the suit on the floor for her to examine.
E saw it was indeed the suit tailor made for Dante by the late Tony Stark. E placed her hand other armor and found battlescars but still there. She and Stark were also good friends, a bit at odds with each other but still good friends.
"This segmented armor plating. Outmoded, but very sturdy. And you've torn right through it! What have you been doing, my little Dante? Moonlighting hero work?" Edna asked suggestively.
"Must have happened a long time ago." Dante lied. E was very perspective.
"This is a hobo suit, darling, you can't be seen in this! I won't allow it! Fifteen years ago, maybe, but now? How would Tony feel?"
"What do you mean? He designed it."
"Yes, he like me, we never look back, darling. It distracts from the now." E walks over to a chair and hops in. "You need to evolve. You need a new suit. That much is certain."
Dante sits in the chair adjacent from her. "A new suit? Where the heck am I gonna get a new suit?" he asked.
"You can't! It's impossible! I'm far too busy. So ask me now, before I again become sane." Edna Mode gave her one time offer of a life time.
"Wait ... You want to make me ... a suit?" Dante asked.
"You push too hard, darling! But I accept." Edna grinned wickedly. The first time she seen her grinned like that when they had anal sex.
That was creepy.
With pen and pad at the ready she began her sketches. "It will be bold. Dramatic!"
"Yeah." Dante nodded.
"Heroic!" she added with glee.
"Yeah, red and black with a race car feel with a hint something classic, like Dynaguy! Oh! He had a great look! Oh, the cape and the boots-"
"No capes!" She declared while throwing a paper ball to him.
This puzzles Dante. Though he never wears capes why the sudden declaration of 'NO' to the mention of capes. "Isn't that my decision?" he asked.
Edna would allow her clients have a say in the design but there are exceptions where she must but her tiny foot down. "Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers, friends with Thor and Storm. Nice man. Good with kids."
"Listen, E ..." Dante began.
"November 15th of '04. All was well, another day saved when his cape snagged on a missile fin. " she pointed out.
"Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb ..." Dante said in Thunderheads defense.
"Stratogale! April 23rd, '03. Cape caught in a jet turbine." she added.
"E, you can't generalize about these things." Dante said almost laughing.
E was going to generalize it because it can be generalize. "Meta Man, Express elevator! Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex! NO CAPES! Now, go on. Your new suit will be finished before your next assignment." E began to walk away up the steps.
"You know I'm retired from hero work." Dante stated.
"As am l, Dante. Yet, here we are, my Nephilim." she turns back at him.
"E, I only need a patch job. For sentimental reasons. I think in this case you can understand." Dante said.
Edna finally sighs. "Fine. I will also fix the hobo suit. For Tony's memory."
Dante smiled in satisfaction. "You're the best of the best, E."
"Yes, I know, darling … I know." Edna said before disappearing upstairs with a drone to carry Dante's suit.
It is a common thing to have someone's legacy passed on to the next generation. But it is a rare thing to pass it on to some who can take of the legacy and improve for better rather than butcher it for worse. Just ask Disney. But something that is shattered can be re-forged by a skilled mind and a good heart.
Edna Mode never disappoints her clients and fans.
Author's Notes: I wanted to ask you all a question that I really want to hear from you.
If the in the film the Supers are all in hiding is it possible that there are people in the cast who may perhaps been Super in some way or form? The reason I ask this is that there is clues to secret Super in the movie that went over everyones heads like the Rebel Blockade. Just like, WHOOOSH!
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