Authors Note- I hope people are enjoying the new chapters and how it's re-written. Not a lot really changed but I think people will see some changes in my work and more added on then it was before. But let's continue with the chapters.
~Episode 1- The Danger Begins Part 2~
The next day, Henry was sitting in his living room with Charlotte and Jasper.
He was still beyond excited from yesterday and was shocked that he was now Captain Man sidekick. What was even more crazy was that Riley was Captain Man daughter. Ray had already stressed to him how important it was that nobody can find out about his new secret or Riley's secret. Henry completely understood why Riley was now so quiet and just stayed to herself. Nobody could really be trusted and if people did find out then they probably would just befriend her just to meet Captain Man or use her. Not only that but criminals would target her and use her against Ray all the time and that was the last thing Ray wanted.
It was a lot to be Kid Danger but Henry was gonna do his best at it. A good part was that he would actually be around Riley more but he didn't want her to think he was just being friendly because of the job or that he knew her secret. The only bad part about all the good news was he couldn't really look at her in that way anymore. Henry didn't need to hear it but by the way Ray acted he could tell that his sidekick dating his daughter was off limits.
( Doorbell rings )
"I got it." Henry got up from the couch, he walks up the step and opens up the door to see Riley.
"Hey, Henry." Riley waves with a smile.
Henry eyes widened as he quickly started babbling. "H-Hey Riley. I was just um, hey Riley."
Riley giggles with a nod. "Hey."
"Yeah.." Henry continues to stare at her. "Hey."
Riley shakes her head with a chuckle. "You said that already." Henry made a face like he had mentally slapped himself, she smiles and points inside. "Um, can I come in?" Henry quickly nods and opens the door to let her in, she walked past him. "Thanks."
Charlotte looks back. "Hey, Riley."
"Hey." Japser waves.
"Hey you guys." Riley waved at them.
Henry closes the door behind him. "Does Ray need me for something? Please tell me I didn't get fired already."
"Relax." Riley giggled, she hands him a navy jacket. "You forgot your jacket at work yesterday and I was already going for my walk so I brought it to you."
Henry smiles taking it. "Uh, um thanks." His brows furrowed as he looks up at her. "But if you were coming, how come you didn't just call?"
"My dad zapped your phone yesterday." She plainly said.
"Right." He nods now remembering. "Forgot about that but you're welcome to stay if you want. That's if you want to, I'm not forc-"
"I would like to stay." Riley stops him.
Henry clears his throat and motions to the couch. "Cool."
Riley shakes her head at him amused and walks to the couch and sat down.
"Hey Riley, I gotta question for you." Jasper says. "How do you feel about buckets?"
Charlotte looked over giving him a look.
Riley laughs at him. "They are pretty okay."
"See, she doesn't judge." Jasper says, Charlotte rolls her eyes. Henry sat on the couch between Charlotte and Riley. "Hey, did you guys hear what Captain Man did yesterday?"
"Oh yeah, the Dandy Bridge? Charlotte continued.
"So, if you divide nine X by the square root-" Henry points out in the book to try and change the conversation.
"They say he pulled seven people out of the river and saved their lives." Charlotte said.
Jasper nods. "Yeah and he has a new sidekick."
"There's a story about it on my newsfeed." Charlotte pulled out her phone.
"Hey, hey, let's talk about your birthday coming up Japser." Riley said trying to help Henry out. "I really look forward to coming this year."
"It's gonna be huge, let's talk about that instead." Henry agreed.
"Shhh! Here it is-" Charlotte started reading the article. "For the first time ever, Captain Man was not working alone."
Henry quickly picked up a glass cup and threw it across the room. It smashed against the wall, they all looked at him wide eyed and confused.
"Whoa, how'd that break?" Henry asks.
Riley just shook her head trying to think of something else.
Charlotte continued before giving Henry a weird look but starts to read again. "According to witnesses on the scene. Captain Man was heard calling his new sidekick Kid Danger."
Riley nudged Henry and points to the phone.
Henry quickly slaps Charlotte's phone out her hand across the room to crash into some things.
Riley's jaw dropped, she slightly slaps his arm. "I meant take it, not break it." She says in a hushed whisper.
"Your signals were very confusing!" Henry retorts.
Charlotte looks at him crazy. "You just slapped my phone right out of my hand." She said giving him a look.
Henry sighs and nods his head. "Yeah, sorry, sorry, it's just you are supposed to be studying with Jasper. I should be studying with Riley right now and I'm worried about Jasper's party and just, I don't know. I-" Before he could continue his rant, his watch started beeping. He stood up before looking back at them. "Uh, why don't you guys go to the zoo?" Henry asks them.
"Why the zoo?" Riley brow raised.
"No just Charlotte and Jasper go to the zoo." Henry says. "Not you. You can't go to the zoo."
"That's messed up, I wouldn't mind going for the heck of it." Riley shakes her head. "I still don't see what's the real appeal in the zoo though."
Henry snapped his head back to her wide eyed and points at the watch with a cough. "Ah-hem."
"Ohhh." Riley stood up. "There I go judging again, I take it back. The zoo is actually a good place to go today, just for you two though. I heard they just opened the uh...new, new, exhibit." She says not to sure with her own lie.
"Again, why the zoo?" Charlotte asked. "And the, new, new, exhibit?"
Riley nods. "Mhm!"
"You know I got banned from the zoo." Jasper said plainly.
Riley raised a brow. "I wanna ask so bad why but I fear the result."
"What is that?" Charlotte pointed to Henry's wrist.
He scoffed. "Oh what, my thumb?"
Charlotte shakes her head. "No, the bracelet that's beeping and flashing on your wrist."
Henry looked at Riley for an answer.
"Uh, it's uh. It's a timer." Riley quickly answers.
Henry hums in agreement. "Y-Yeah my timer."
"What are you timing?" Charlotte asked clearly not buying it.
"Muffins?" Henry says unsure, Riley did a double take as she gives him a 'really' look. "New, new, exhibit?" Riley hands went up in defense as she shut her mouth on that note.
"Your making muffins?" Charlotte folded her arms over her chest.
"Uh, birthday muffins." Henry laughs awkwardly.
"Yes!" Jasper said excited.
Henry throws his hands up. "Dang, there goes the surprise. Right Riley?" She nodded trying to act disappointed. "I'll just turn this off." Henry pressed the button a couple of times, he snatched it off and shoved it in his pocket.
"It's still on." Charlotte said.
Henry shook his head. "No it's not."
Charlotte pointed to his pants pocket. "We can see it flashing through your pants."
"And we can still hear it beeping." Jasper says.
"I know, uh...I need a pickle." Henry grabbed Riley's hand and pulls her with him. "Let's go get one before we study Riley!"
"But I don't like pickles!" Riley says being dragged out.
"Oh would you!" Henry tugs her out the door with him.
"Wait!" Charlotte exclaimed. "I thought we all were gonna study here."
"Bring me back a pickle." Jasper calls out.
Charlotte turned back to give him a look.
'A little while later, outside'
Henry and Riley were walking to Junk N Stuff together.
His eyes kept drifting awkwardly over to Riley as he really didn't know what to say her.
"Um, so your dad...is Captain Man?" He asked.
Riley nodded. "Yup," She shrugs her shoulders.
"So does your mom live there to?" Henry asks.
Riley looks down. "No um, she left when I was younger. Me and Ray haven't seen her since I was five I think." She shrugs. "It really has been pretty much me and Ray for half my life basically. I barely remember what she looks like in person but my dad says I look just like her."
"Wow, well I know she must be pretty then." Henry says, Riley smiles and looks at him out the corner of her eye. When he realized what he said his eyes went wide. "I mean-well you know, your pretty so it must mean she's pretty since Ray said you look just like her."
Riley nods looking ahead. "I get it Henry, I get it."
"Okay, whew." Henry sighs.
"You know I think this is the first time you talked to me without being nervous." Riley points out. "Did I look mean to talk to or something? Or do something to you one time?"
Henry quickly shook his head. "No! Not it wasn't that, it was just." He thought about it. "You are just...really hard to approach. I mean I know why you were so distant and quiet now. You didn't want anybody to know your secret, I mean that's a pretty big secret to keep and carry around with you. I know that has to be pretty hard for you to live with all the time."
"Yeah it is." Riley thinks about it. "I can't really have friends like I want because I will always feel like I'm hiding something big from them and that never really works out to good. Not only that but if I were to tell them, who's to say they would keep my secret? Or even be my friend because of me and not because of who my dad is." She shook her head and looks back ahead. "So yeah, it sucks, but that is my dad and I would never wanna put him in that bad situation. Which means if my life has to be a secret...that's fine."
Henry gave her a sad look and nudges her. "Well, hey." Riley looks over at him. "If it makes you feel any better. I been liked you before I found out who Ray was to you."
Riley brow raised with a smirk. "Did you?"
"Y-well as a friend." Henry quickly says, Riley chuckles. "I wanted you as a friend before I found out Captain Man was your dad, like way, way, before. I mean I liked you but-ah jeez, how do I put this?"
Riley laughs. "I'm teasing you Henry."
Henry looks over at her. "You are?"
"Yes." Riley says with laughter. "I know your not just talking to me now because of that. Crazy that it took this for us to finally talk but I'm glad it happened." She smiles at him. "Kind of weird now since I never had anyone to share my feelings about my secret with besides Gooch."
"Well now you you do." Henry says.
Riley was thinking about it. "I can finally have a friend around me now that knows my secret." Her smile drops a little. "We are friends right?"
Henry gives her a small smile to hide his excitement and nods to her. "Yeah, yeah we are."
"Good to know." Riley looks back ahead with a smile. "Just so you know, I think your going to be a real good sidekick."
"You really think so?" Henry raises a brow.
Riley nods. "Mhm, I just got a good feeling about it for some reason..."
{ Later that night }
Riley was walking to Jasper house for his party with a gift in her hand. Since her dad texted her and said he and Henry had a emergency to take care of she had to walk instead of getting a ride. The only good part was that Jasper didn't live that far and it was in good walking distance.
Henry rounded the corner but stops when he spotted her.
"Riley!" Henry waves and runs down the street towards her.
Riley raises a brow as she starts to slow her steps. "Henry?"
He stops in front of her a little out of breath. "Quick, I need your help. Like really need it."
"Aren't you supposed to be with my dad?" She questions.
Henry sighs and gives a nod. "I was but I made a mistake and let him go by himself. Now he's been kidnap by the Toddler and I have to rescue him somehow."
"Henry." Riley gave him a look. "That's why he got you to be his sidekick in the first place. So he wouldn't get kidnapped. Your aware of that right?"
"I know, I know." Henry agrees, he gives her an apologetic look. "I just didn't want to let Jasper down but I don't want to let Ray down either. I want to go help him but I don't know where he is, can you just help me find the Toddler?" Riley gives him a stern look, he puts his hand in a praying motion. "Please Riley. You can give me that look all you want later but right now I want to save Ray. So will you help me?"
Riley rolled her eyes. "I'm gonna get in so much trouble for this." She takes out her phone and punches in a couple of numbers before putting it up to her ear. It rung a couple of times on her end before someone picked up the phone. "Hey Gooch, you still got that tracker on Ray's belt?" Henry made a face of confusion, Riley caught this and smirked. "Hey it's not the first time he's got kidnapped before and needed me." Gooch comes back on the phone making her listen again. "You got it?...Really, there? Alright, text me the rest of it." Riley hangs up the phone. "I know where he is, let's go."
They went to the location where the Toddler was keeping Ray and it was on the other side of town but still not that far. Once they got there, Henry had found a way inside but the only way in was to work their way up through the vents.
The only good thing was both of them could fit through, they crawled inside of them side by side and was careful not to make noise.
Henry kept looking to his side at Riley as this was his first time seeing her dressed up.
Riley wore a sleeveless light blue summer dress with a pair of flats and and white sweater. Her hair was straightened out and curled up at the ends with one side pinned behind her ear.
"Is that the dress you were gonna wear for Jasper's party?" Henry asks.
Riley stops making him do so. "Yeah, is something wrong with it?" She looks at him.
"It's pretty and you hair-"
"Henry." Riley smirks. "My dad?"
"Right, let's keep going." He changed his mind and continued down the vent, Riley just smiles following him with a headshake.
They got to a safe part, Henry opened the hatch and jumped out onto the large bean bag. He shook his hair out as he got up to his feet.
"Alright." Henry held his arms up over the opening. "Jump down, I got you."
"Okay." Riley slowly edged out to where her feet was dangling. "Ah, dang it." She curses.
"What is it, what's wrong?" Henry tried to get a good look.
"My sweater is stuck on this thing." Riley struggled as she tugged at it. "Wait, wait a second. I think I got it."
"Try pulling it-oof!" Henry was cut off by Riley falling down on him. He was able to catch her so she wouldn't hurt herself but still paid for it. Riley opened her eyes to realize she fell on top of him, he looked down at her nervously and saw pretty blue eyes staring back at him. "A-Are you okay?"
"Um y-yeah, I'm okay." Riley slowly snaps out of it and finally breaks eye contact. "Thanks for catching me."
"No problem and not to be rude but you landed very hard on top of me." Henry groans.
Riley eyes widened. "Oh yeah! I'm sorry." She gets off and helps him up to his feet. "Alright, it should be down here somewhere." Riley adjusted her purse on her shoulder as they walked past the graffiti walls.
The sounds of Ray showed they were getting close, Henry points to the blue bared windows that showed into the Toddlers room. They slowly raise up between the bars to look inside, both of their eyes widened when they saw Captain Man being suspended in the air by a bouncer over a ball pit.
All the Toddlers men were wearing their onesies as they stood by and watched.
Captain Man struggled with a grunt.
"Naa, naa, naa, naa." Toddler teases, walking from behind one of his henchmen.
Riley and Henry ducked down a little more to avoid being seen by any of them.
"Come on Toddler." Captain Man continues to struggle. "Let me out of this thing before I puke." Henry nudges Riley who nods as they ducked and continued making their way around on the outside.
"No! This is my playroom, my toys." Toddler snaps. "My rules!" He says in a dark tone.
Riley and Henry got to a better spot where they could see more through the bared large window. Henry took his gum tube out from his pocket.
"You sick underdeveloped maniac." Captain Man says angrily.
The Toddler got mad and through his rattle to hit Captain Man upside the head.
Riley smirks amused at the sight. "That is not something you see every day." She shakes her head.
Henry opens the cap and pops one of the gumballs in his mouth.
"Ow!" Captain Man rubbed near his eye. "Geez man."
"Ooh!" Toddler teases in fake shock. "I thought the famous Captain Man couldn't be injured."
A big henchman wearing a tiger, koala, and giraffe onesie had quickly approached Toddler and taps his shoulder. "He can't but he can feel pain."
"Your not allowed to talk unless you raise your hand and I call on you!" Toddler throws a tantrum, he grabbed the beard of the henchman. "You stupid head."
Henry taps Riley. "I'm ready, lets go." She nodded and walked ahead. Henry follows and pops his bubble to turn into his Kid Danger outfit.
The Toddler used his tongue spit gun in his henchan face for talking out of term.
Riley and Henry got to a decorated part that led around to the Toddlers play room door.
Henry stops. "Is that a picture of baby food?"
Riley gives it a look as she stops next to him. "Huh, it is. You know you got to give it to that Toddler. This place is well decorated. Look at the carpet." She points down. "I wonder is this the-"
"Riley, Riley." Henry stops her, Riley looks up. "Ray?"
"Oh right." Riley nods. "But still the paint job on this place..."
"I know." Henry puts his hand on her center back and starts pushing her ahead as she continued talking.
"Remind to get the number of his decorater." Riley continues.
"I will." Henry nodded.
"Then there's the silverware and baby nips on the wall, that's so cute." Riley points out.
Both of them round the corner and stay back against the wall. They peek around to see through the blue barred door but they still couldn't get in without being noticed.
The Toddler finally pushes his man off to the side. "That's what you get!"
"Come on Toddler." Captain Man speaks back up. "Your insane plan won't work."
The Toddler laughs. "Haha, a lot you know."
"What do we do now?" Riley whispers to Henry.
"Brains not there yet." Henry says.
"Can you tell it to go faster?" Riley brow raised. "We are kind of in a hurry."
"Brains don't work that way!" Henry retorts with a hush.
Riley thinks about it. "Maybe yours just doesn't work that way?"
"Drop it." Henry points, Riley hands went up in defense. His phone vibrated on his side making him quickly take it out and answer it. "What?"
"Who is that?" Riley asks.
"It's Japser." Henry sighs.
"Aww, tell him I said hi and happy birthday." Riley smiles.
"I'm not gonna-" Henry saw her pout and sighed. "Riley said hi and happy birthday...he said hi and said thanks." She smiles in victory but looks back when she heard Ray again. "I'm in the middle of something here Jasper."
"There's something more important then my birthday party?" Jasper asks on the other end.
"Forty eight hours from now..." The Toddler speaks getting their attention. "Every baby in Swellview will be a hideous monster."
Riley eyes widened along with Henry when he said this.
"Yeah this is pretty important." Henry says on the phone back to Jasper.
"You promised me that-" Jasper gets cut off.
"Henry, will you and Riley get your butts to this party." Charlotte voice came in. "Because so far it's just me, Jasper, and two dorks who keep slapping each others boinks."
"I gotta go." Henry quickly hung up the phone before Charlotte could say anything else. "Okay, we gotta get this done quick. Jasper is waiting on us."
Riley brows furrowed. "They are waiting on us? You mean you, I was just randomly invited."
"No." Henry looks back at her. "Both of us, they think of you as a friend now to."
"They do?" Riley searched his eyes for a lie. "But they don't really know me yet."
"So." Henry shrugs. "Your fun to be around and they like you, just like I do." Riley smiled at him. "Even though they don't know like I do, I'm positive they like you just because of you and still would even if they found something like that out."
"I guess you're right." Riley had to agree with him on that. "Thanks, Henry."
The voice of Ray made them look back around the corner into the playroom.
"Come on Toddler, let me down off this thing." Captain Man begs. "Ugh, it's squeezing me in bad places."
"No!" Toddler says to his request. "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." His voice went dark again.
Riley eyes widened. "Boy does baby need a spanking."
"I swear." Henry agreed.
"You idiot!" Captain Man yells at him. "I can't be destroyed."
"I know that!" Toddler stomps his feet. "But you can be dropped." He raised his remote and hits a button. Captain Man yells as the bouncer starts to move and dangles him directly above the pit. "Into my bottomless ball pit."
Captain Man nervously looks down. "T-T-Todd!"
"Toddler." He corrects him upset. "Play time is over Captain Man!" Toddler laughs menically
Henry gets an idea and starts doing something on his phone, Riley was confused as she raised a brow. The sound of a ice cream truck played from Henry's phone. Riley caught on with a smirk and they looked back inside.
Toddler stops when he heard this song. "Oh wait, listen!" The Toddler exclaims excited. It's the ice cream man!" He starts to jump happily with his henchman. "Yayy!" Riley holds back her laugh and low fived a snickering Henry. The Toddler frowns back at Captain Man. "I'll destroy you in a minute." The dark voice made Captain Man draw back, Toddler smiles again and looks back to his men. "Come on fellas, ice cream man!" They all eagerly run out the front entrance. "I hope they have mint chocolate chip."
Captain Man started trying to get out, Henry cuts off the song and opens the door, he ran inside.
"Captain Man!" Henry makes his way over.
This made him look up. "Henry!"
"It's Kid Danger." Henry corrects to a smile from Ray.
Riley came running up behind him. "Dad, you okay? Other then that thing squeezing you in bad places." She points out. "You look so ridiulous by the way."
"I know that and wait, Riley? What are you doing here? Man you are so grounded!" Captain Man scolds her.
"I needed her to help me find you." Henry admits. "I'm sorry."
"Well she isn't hurt, so I guess I'm fine with that." Captain Man says.
"I'm also not the one in a baby bouncer over a ball pit." Riley smirks, she snaps a picture on her phone with a nod. "I'm so sending this to Gooch for a next Christmas card." She types on her phone.
Captain Man eyes went to slits. "Okay, now your really grounded."
Riley shrugs. "So worth it." She puts her phone away in her purse.
Henry looks up at the bouncer. "Now quick, how do we get you down from there?"
"Yeah, is there a switch?" Riley walks closer to get a better look.
"I don't know." Captain Man looks down at it. "This is the first time I've been trapped in a baby bouncer over a bottomless ball pit." Riley snorts a laugh, he caught this. "Zip-it." Her hands went up in defense as she held back her laugh. Captain Man saw something across the room and points to it. "One of you try that lever!"
"Right!" Henry runs over and went to pull it.
A door slammed catching all their attention, Henry froze in mid motion.
"There was no ice cream truck!" Toddler walked in upset with his men, Riley slowly backs up and over by Henry. "Who tricked me?" He looked over at Henry and Riley with a glare. "And who's that boy and girl near my lever?"
"That's my sidekick, Kid Danger." Captain Man stated.
Henry smiles and looks to Riley who giggled and gave him a high five.
"And the girl?" Toddler pointed in a obvious matter. "Who's the girl?"
"Oh yeah the girl." Captain Man looks at Riley. "Well she is his girlfriend I guess." Riley and Henry eyes widen, they slowly turned their heads to him. "Hey at least I'm coming up with something! You two could have jumped in at any time."
"Eww! His girlfriend, girlfriends and girls period are icky!" Toddler made a face at her.
"Hey." Riley puts a hand on her hip and points at him. "Your no prize either."
"Yeah." Henry agreed, having her back.
Toddler spits his tongue at them making Riley and Henry jaw drop offended. He looks back when Captain Man's first words rung through his head.
"Wait, I didn't know you had a sidekick." Toddler says. "Why don't I have a sidekick? I want a sidekick!" He throws a tantrum.
"You have us." His henchman smiles.
Toddler wacks his stomach. "Shutup your dumb!" The guy rubbed his stomach with a pout.
Riley folded her arms over her chest. "The nerve." She shook her head and looks at Henry.
Captain Man looks at Hnery and Riley. "Uh, Kid Danger & mysterious girl I don't know?"
"Yeah?" They both answer.
"Why don't one of you pull that lever?" Captain Man encourages.
"Oh right, and it's Riley man." Riley reaches for it.
"Noooooooo!" Toddler yells.
Riley turned it off, the bouncer started to move.
"Whoa!" Captain Man yells as he was sent flying to the side, he knocks down the line of the Toddlers henchman.
"Ooh." Henry and Riley made faces.
Toddler turned his angry look to them. "Squish the boy and his girlfriend!"
"I'm not the girlfriend!" Riley objects.
Henry pushes her when the big guy ran for them. "Riley run!"
"Ah!" Riley screams running from the big guy that was coming after them.
They ran up the stacks of pampers as two more henchman took a leap for them.
"Kid Danger! Riley!" Captain Man shouts. "Look out!"
Riley and Henry jump down making the two men go flying in the boxes of pampers, Riley grabs one of the Toddlers toys and does a back to back flip over Henry. One of the Toddlers men ran for them but she threw the toy, it him in the face and sent falling back with a yell. She swung her purse to uppercut one guy under the chin her bad, she spins and smacks him down across the face of it with force.
Henry picked up the spit toy and points it in the big guys face as it spits in his eye. He screamed holding his face and falls to the floor.
Henry and Riley looks at the toy.
"What is that?" Riley brows furrowed together.
Captain Man saw some of the guys getting up and used the bouncer to his advantage to kick them down.
Toddler eyes widened when he saw what Henry had. "Oh, my God! He's got my thing that goes pfft!"
The Toddler tried to reach for it, Henry moves and turns around uses it on the other two guys that came.
Riley ducked out of the Toddlers reach and spanks him hard with her hand.
His jaw dropped as he held his backside. "Did you spank me?!"
"What you gonna do about it tiny Todd?" Riley drops her purse.
"It's Toddler!" He shouts.
Toddler yells, he ran and jumped on her making her scream as the two of them rolled around on the floor fighting.
Henry ran away from the other two guys that came for him.
Riley got the better of Toddler as she was on top until one of the henchmen pulled her off. Another one came to grab her legs.
Ray came and kicked him away. "Stomp and duck!"
Riley stomps on the guys foot making him cry out and let her go, she ducks down. Captain Man bounced and double kicked him back into another one who was getting up.
"Get them! Get them!" Toddler stomped.
Riley runs into Henry as they both looked back to see more guys coming.
"When and out, you throw stuff!" Riley says.
Henry was confused until she picked up a box of pampers, she slapped a guy across the face with it and threw the pampers in the stomach of the other. The two of them went crashing and falling down on the floor.
"Whoa, nice." Henry says shocked.
"Look out!" Riley points.
Henry picked up the toy guitar and threw it on the head of the guy coming but he got back up.
"Use the truck!" Captain Man calls out.
"Come here!" The guy reached for him.
Henry picked up the huge toy truck and throws it on him and sent the guy crashing down.
"Hey, I hate you two!" Toddler snaps at them from the sidelines.
Captain Man comes over near them and kicks a henchman down the small hill of pamper boxes. "Yeah, you been kicked."
"Nice!" Riley laughs.
A man got up from behind him and went to go after a bouncing Captain Man.
"Captain Man!" Henry warns him.
Captain Man bounced up just in time as the guy leaped and he went falling on the big bounce ball before crashing to the floor.
Riley jumps down with Henry, she sees the remote to the bouncer and points to it. "We gotta get that!"
Toddler jumps in front of it. "Your getting nothing!" He went after her but Henry got in the way.
Riley saw her chance and ran pass, she picks up the remote to the bouncer.
Henry and the Toddler fought over the toy he had.
"Get him kid!" Captain Man cheers him on.
"Give me back my spit pistol!" Toddler demands.
Henry did just that by using his toy to let it spit in his eyes. Toddler yells letting go to wipe the spit out his eyes.
Riley points the remote and press the button sending a yelling Captain Man forward, he used this chance to punch one of the henchmans in the face. The Toddler ran for Hnery again, Riley threw the remote hitting him in the head.
"Ouch!" Toddler fell back holding his head. "Somebody get Kid Dangers girlfriend!"
"I'm not his..." Riley saw a big henchman coming for her. "Ah! Nevermind!" She ran away from him.
Henry runs up the diaper boxes, he picks up a letter and breaks it across one of the guys head as Captain Man delt with the rest.
"Coming through!" Riley ran past him. "Might wanna run."
Henry saw the guys coming and ran down the boxes behind her with a yell.
Toddler saw none of them could catch them and sighs. "Ugh, you guys are seriously the worst henchmen ever!"
Captain Man knocked into the other guys and sent the three of them falling to the floor.
Riley hits a tuck and roll away from one of the guys and allowed her dad to kick him to the floor. Henry was dealing with a guy until Riley pulled him out of his grip, Captain Man came down with two boots in his back. The henchman hit his face before falling to the floor along with the other as all of them were now down.
Henry grabs a hold of Captain Man and pulls him down to a stop next to them on the boxes.
"We kicked butt." Henry smiles.
"Yeah we did, I taught you well." Captain Man nudges Riley who giggles.
The Toddler glares and snatches up a bottle as he walked over to them. "You three think your so spiffy!" He kicks over the pampers in his way and steps down, their smiles dropped as they looked at him. "Well have a look at my Bang Bottle." He showed a medium sized, glowing green bottle.
Captain Man looks back at the kids and scoffs along with them. "Bang Bottle?" He turns his head back to Toddler.
"That's right." Toddler nods. "And it's filled with exploding juice." He turns the nipple as the bottle now glowed red and flashed on top.
"Kid Danger, get Riley and get out of here!" Captain Man says.
"I'm not leaving without you." Henry stops him.
"Neither am I." Riley shakes her head. "We came to get you so we are leaving with you."
"But that nipple is flashing." Captain Man points to the Toddler bottle.
"No one leaves!" Toddler yelled pressing a button on the bottle. All the exit doors slammed shut and locked themselves with a beep aking the the three of them go wide eyed and look at him. "Now were all gonna go boom together! Especially her!" He points to Riley.
"I spanked you, get over it!" Riley throws her hands up.
"You get over it!" Toddler argued.
Henry looked to Ray in question. "What do we do now?"
"Both of you give me a push." Captain Man got an idea.
Henry and Riley look at each other with a nod and push him forward. The Toddler screamed as Captain Man came forward and kicked him into his own bottomless ball pit. They caght him when he flew back over and kept him steady.
"Ah, help me! Get me out, oh these balls smell like feet and pee!" The Toddler rants going down still yelling. "This is it for me, I been hoisted by my own petard!"
He let out one last muffled scream, Riley and Henry wave him goodbye along with Captain Man as they all wore smiles.
Henry and Captain Man both let out heavy sighs. The sound of beeping got their attention.
"The bang bottle!" Captain Man points at it.
"Oh man!" Henry jumps down and picks it up. "What do we do with this?"
Captain Man looked at the ball pit. "We give the baby his bottle."
"Ah, good call." Henry agrees with a smile.
Riley raised a brow. "Hey Hen."
Henry nodded. "What's up?"
"Hurry." Riley and Captain Man both say.
"Oh-yeah, right." Henry threw the bottle as it landed inside the ball bit.
"Guys!" Captain Man called out, Henry and Riley ran over to him as he covered them the best he could.
The bang bottle went off followed by the Toddlers scream. Balls from the pit flew out along with the Toddlers hat as it had landed on Captain Man's shoulder.
They all pull away to see it was finally over. Captain Man pulls the hat off his shoulder and gave it to Henry who tossed it over his shoulder.
"Nice work, Kid Danger." Captain Man smiles at him, he points. "You got skills."
Henry grins. "Thanks, Captain Man."
"You do got skills." Riley agrees.
"I never would have found him without you. So thanks." Henry fives her.
"No problem." Riley looks at her dad. "Seriously we gotta get you out of that thing."
Ray chuckled putting his arm around her shoulders as he hugged her. "You alright Riles?"
"Yes, I'm fine." Riley pulls back and looks around. "This really looks like a cool place to have a three year olds party." She chuckled before her and Henry's eyes widen.
"Jasper!" They looked at each other.
"Oh, yeah." Ray nodded. "You two better get to that birthday party."
"Right." Henry agreed. "Uh, Ray? Will you do me a huge favor?"
"And by he." Riley goes to stand next to Henry. "He means we."
Ray raised a brow. "What kind of favor?"
Jasper's Party
"Ah! Ah! Ah! Arf! Arf! Arf!"
"Roo! Roo! Roo!"
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
Riley, Henry and Charlotte stood on the other side of the room watching Sydney and Olivier make sounds through the two cans tied to a piece of string. All of them had creeped out expressions on their face and had even back up a little more away from them.
"They've been doing that for two hours." Charlotte tells them.
"Wow." Henry had his arms folded.
Riley stayed behind him as she made a face. "Those are some disturbed boys." Henry and Charlotte nodded their heads in agreement.
"My party's a flop." Jasper said in dissapointment as he walked over to them. "I'm just gonna go upstairs and sit in my closet with my cat."
"Why is your cat..." Riley starts to say.
"Pardon me?" Captain Man calls out as he walks down the steps. Everybody in there except Henry and Riley eyes widened as they had instantly turned their attention to him. "My Man Van broke down out there in the street. So I walked into this house and came down to this basement."
Riley rolled her eyes knowing that sounded even more suspicious then anything.
"Holy, chunks!" Jasper exclaims. "Your-Your Captain Man!"
"Thank, you." Captain Man points to him as he walked over to
"You're my hero." Jasper says in awe.
"Of course." Captain Man nods
"Mine, too." Charlotte agreed. "Um, I'm Charlotte. Hi...Mr...Cap..Maptain..Can. I mean-" She starts laughing uncontrollably.
"That's enough." He put a hand up.
"I'm so sorry." She apologizes.
"And um, I'm Henry." Henry shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you, Henry." Captain Man smiles.
Riley waves at him. "I'm Riley, nice to meet you."
Captain Man waved. "You too Riley."
"Hey, Captain Man?" Jasper excitedly pats his shoulder.
Captain Man turned around. "Yes? A question."
"Can I hit you in the head with a baseball bat?" Jasper asks excitedly.
Riley eyes widen. "Huh?"
Charlotte sighs. "Jasper."
"Dude." Henry groans
"No, no, it's okay." Captain Man waves it off.
"Woo!" Jasper said happily.
Riley raised a brow. "You sure?"
"I am, but remember kids. Never do this to anyone but Captain Man, because regular people could be badly inj-Ow!" Captain Man yelled as Jasper broke a bat over his head.
Henry and Riley winced looking on but Captain Man just cleared his throat.
Jasper looked down at the broken bat. "Wow!"
Captain Man makes a face. "I wasn't done talking."
"Did that hurt?" Charlotte asks him.
"Yeah." He stated. "But I'm okay." Captain Man smiled. "Well, I should call a tow truck to come pick up my Man Van."
"Or," Henry speaks up. "It's my best friend Jasper's birthday party."
Jasper nodded. "Oh! Oh! Yeah! Yeah! It is."
"You can stay and party with us, if you wanna." Charlotte says.
"Will there be soup?" Captain Man asks, Riley brows furrowed together.
"I'll open a can." Jasper offers.
"Then I'd love to stay and party with you guys." Captain Man agrees.
Oliver and Sidney hollered in the cups making them look at them weird.
"Uh, Captain Man?" Henry asked.
"Yes, boy?"
"Would it be cool, if Jasper texted a few friends from school and told them you were here at his party?" Henry asks him.
"Yeah, can I? " Jasper quickly asked.
"Sure, I love being used." Captain Man was all for it.
"Yay." Charlotte was excited.
Jasper takes Ray hand and shakes it. "Wow, thanks. This is like the coolest thing that's ever happened to me."
Captain Man nervously continues to chuckle. "Ah-ha, are your hands always this sweaty?"
"Yes-sir." Jasper nods.
"He takes medicine for it." Henry tells him.
"Well," Captain Man fake smiles. "It's not working." He takes his hand back and wipes it down Jaspers shirt creating a large wet spot.
"Ooh." Riley makes a face.
The party started as Captain Man had signed autographs while others were just dancing and just having fun and it started to look like a real party. Everybody had watched Jasper blow out his birthday muffins, they all noticed Captain Man was gone but all figured it was due to a emergency.
Riley waved bye to a couple people who had came over to talk to her.
Henry excuses himself and goes over to the small mini bar. "Hey."
"How goes it?" Riley puts her drink down after taking a sip.
"Eh, you know." Henry shrugs, he looks at her as they both stare at each other for a brief second. The two of them start laughing. "Thought you would cave first. Some crazy day huh?"
"Yeah, but I actually liked it." Riley thinks about it. "I do know that I can get used to you being my dads sidekick." She nudges his arm. "Thanks for going back for him Henry."
"Couldn't do it without you." He nods.
Riley waves it off. "Nah, I'm sure you would have gotten done."
"Probably." Henry says. "I wouldn't have had much fun though." Riley smiles and looks over at him. "So thanks. And one more thing." Riley raises a brow. "You wanna hang out after school tomorrow?"
"To finally study I'm guessing?" Riley jokes.
Henry shook his head. "No, I mean to just hang out. What do you say?"
Riley cracks a smile. "Yeah, I would like that. You like Celebrities Underwater?"
"Heck yeah." Henry nods.
"Then it's a go." Riley low fives him as they both share a chuckle.
Jasper comes over to them with Charlotte. "Hey, where'd Captain Man go?
"He's gone." Riley said plainly.
"Aw, why'd he leave?" Jasper pouted.
"He probably had to go do superhero stuff." Henry shrugs as him and Riley exchanged amused looks.
Charlotte thinks about it. "And you did break a bat over his head."
"Yeah." Jasper smiles, Riley simply shook her head.
"Hey." Henry put his cup down. "If it makes you feel any better. Me, Riley, and Charlotte got you something."
"What?"
"Look." Henry rolled around the barrel.
"Oh! You got me the bucket." Jasper says excited.
Charlotte sighed. "It's a barrel."
"So, you happy with your party?" Riley asked.
"Heck, yeah, but for a while there, I thought you two weren't gonna come Henry." Jasper says.
"Come on, man, I'm always gonna be here for ya." Henry patted his back until his watch started beeping and Riley's phone vibrated.
Riley pulls out her phone and reads the message.
Dad - Grounded. That means, Cave-Now.
Riley sighs and looks over at Henry.
Henry nodded. "We've gotta go Birthday boy!"
They ran up the steps and headed over to the shop.
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