Happy New Year!
Chapter 11
LET IT BEGIN!
"Nope ... Nuh uh ... No ... No ... Nope ... Aaaand nope ..."
That voice ebbed into Mittens' mind as her consciousness returned like the slow rise of the dawning Sun. She recognised it as Rhino's voice, but the hard surface on which she lay was uncharacteristically comfortable. Acknowledging Rhino and whatever he was up to would have to wait. All she wanted to do was lie there for at least a few more minutes. At the back of her mind, she asked herself why she was there in the first place.
Her eyes popped open.
"We got electrocuted to DEATH!" Mittens shrieked as she sprang to her feet.
Rhino chuckled knowingly. "Yet you feel more alive than ever, am I right? Nope ... Nope."
She wrinkled her brow as she realised that the hamster was right. She felt light, as if she weighed less than ever, but that lightness was not accompanied by the sensation of starvation that (sadly by experience) she usually associated with being underweight. Instead, she felt as though she were a spring full of pent up energy begging to be released. Before she even knew what she was doing, Mittens obliged that 'begging' by leaping as high as she could. Indeed, cats could make very impressive jumps, but her leap was scarcely more impressive than that of a normal feline.
Rhino glanced back at her. "Not exactly a 'super jump', but we can work on that. No ... No ... Nada ... Zilch."
Mittens found herself wondering what exactly he was working on, and turned to find Rhino in front of a T.V. screen. Rhino's obsession with television was no secret, but how had he managed to get a hold of one on a Parisian sidewalk? She opened her mouth to ask him that, but the question caught in her throat when she noticed that the T.V. screen was just that - a screen: no base to stand on, no plastic frame, no buttons. Just a screen. It floated in the air like some manner of hologram, but it carried an electric quality that suggested something more than a construct of light. Mittens approached the screen and discovered that instead of pixels, tiny strands of coloured lightning were congealing to form the changing scenes that it displayed. With a slight frame of red lightning, those scenes featured various areas within Paris, and every time Rhino said 'nope' or something to that effect, the image changed as if he were surfing from channel to channel by remote ... but there was no remote.
With tentative steps, Mittens reached Rhino and discovered that his eyes were casting thin streams of scarlet lightning that fed into the screen, seemingly powering it. He smiled at her, which, combined with the glow of his eyes, created an unintentionally eerie effect.
"Cool, huh?" he asked rhetorically. "I call it 'Tele Vision', for obvious reasons."
With that, he continued his 'channel surfing', leaving her to cope with the outlandish strangeness of the situation. It took her a moment to find her voice.
"R-Rhino ...?" Mittens stammered, although she couldn't articulate the words finish that question.
"Long story short, I think the power line shock gave us super powers," Rhino explained. "Bolt has a super bark for real now. He used it to save us from the collapsing buildings, so maybe his powers are the same as they were on television ... or maybe not. He was giving off this awesome yellow lightning. That's never happened before. You gotta see it!"
"Um ... uh ..." Mittens faltered. "Where is Bolt?"
"That's what I'm trying to find out now - I'm channel-surfing the city," Rhino explained as he continued to flip from scene to scene. "No ... Nope ... Hold it! Back up."
Rhino flipped back to an image of what was once perhaps a decent park, if not for the rampant destruction. There, the Big Hero 6 and The Incredibles stood around a small mountain of ice and gunky chemicals all engulfed in a bubble of force field. They spoke among themselves, some even scratching their heads as if unsure of what to do with the strange object before them.
"What am I even looking at?" asked a confused Rhino. "Okay, rewind."
The visuals reversed with incredible speed before pausing a few minutes into the past. There was Bolt, standing before the rats with a Violet and Dash-powered IncrediBall tearing towards them. Bolt lowered his head and Mittens winced as the force field collided with his skull in a shattering impact. However, Bolt held his ground.
"Oh ho ho!" Rhino exclaimed, clapping his paws with pure, puerile delight. "Invulnerability confirmed!"
Furiously kicking up soil and grass, the IncrediBall spun like a wheel stuck in the mud, never budging. Bolt's muscles were rigid, but he grit his teeth as the IncrediBall continued to press into head. The pain on his face was evident.
"Ooh!" Rhino grimaced. "Okay, maybe not 'invulnerability' - enhanced durability perhaps."
Bolt felt as though every muscle in his body were screaming, and he screamed back. To make matters worse, his Motion Sixth Sense was picking up incoming heroes-turned-savage. He had to have his paws free, fast, but how could he overpower this thing? In short, he couldn't.
The dog slipped his head beneath the force field and it briefly rolled onto his back before he flipped it into the air, sending Violet and Dash clear out of the park, shrieking all the way. They would be okay, but Bolt wasn't quite sure about himself.
( ( (( ARF! )) ) )
Bolt barked back an arctic blast from Frozone and it solidified inches from his face as a mass of icicles reaching backwards like spiked, windswept hair. The dog's outline vibrated to a blur before he darting into the ice, only to unexpectedly stop short as he bumped into it.
"Evidently I can't phase through ice," Bolt noted. "Bummer."
Rhino tilted his head like a connoisseur analysing the sight before him. So, Bolt could vibrate through walls? This was new.
( ( (( ARF! )) ) )
The icy mass shattered at the sound of Bolt's explosive bark. On the opposite side of it, frozen chunks rained upon Frozone and Fred. The former conjured up an ice barrier to shield himself and Fred from the falling slabs, but the Big Hero was a little too impatient to simply take cover amid the monstrous hail.
"I've got this, Zone!" Fred assured before leaping into the midst of the falling ice.
The Big Hero's fire breath blazed a path through the debris as he hopped from piece to piece, until he hit a roadblock - Bolt. The playback seemed to slow as the superdog emerged from Fred's flames in a pounce, unscathed. Then he landed atop the Big Hero and kicked off of him, sending him flying into a tree. Not a moment later, Bolt had touched down in front of Frozone. His speech may have been unintelligible to humans, but his growl like a brewing thunderstorm made his message clear: 'stand down or face the consequences'.
"Heyyy," Frozone coolly responded, raising his hands in an apparent show of surrender.
Suddenly, icy blasts burst from Frozone's palms, seemingly turning the canine to an icicle. Knowing how strong the superdog was, Frozone continued to lay on the ice, layer after layer. Despite his best efforts, the earth shook beneath him. What exactly was Bolt up to?
The canine erupted from the ground a few yards away, having dug into the soil a split second before the freezing blast hit. His eyes ignited like yellow infernos before unleashing streams of lightning. However, that lightning never touched Frozone, but struck the earth near enough to the super to blast him off his feet.
"That's ... not laser eyes," Rhino commented, a small smile tugging at his lips.
Baymax touched down and the rest of the Big Hero 6 disembarked him. In spite of their numbers, they knew that this superdog could trounce them if they didn't hit fast and hard. Honey Lemon raised a chem ball destined for the canine, but was surprised to find herself surrounded by explosions of purple mist. She instinctively held her breath and activated her suit's breathing apparatus before it reached her. Her first thought? Somehow, some of her chem balls had escaped her purse. After all, colourful chemical clouds were really her style.
"NO! I'm not ready yet!" GoGo blurted out. "Get that mic away from me! I'm not ready for the podium!"
"Pink elephants! Pink elephants!" Hiro exclaimed.
"Did you see the sign?!" Wasabi screamed. "This park is saturated with pesticide! Everyone OFF THE GRASS!"
If Wasabi were the only one suffering a neurotic meltdown, Honey Lemon might have written off the screaming as relatively normal. However, Hiro and GoGo were a different story. While GoGo's stage fright was no secret, Honey Lemon did not expect Hiro's phobia to be so ... unusual. Clearly, they were hallucinating - seeing their worst fears brought to life. It didn't take a ChemiCal analysis to figure out that the mist was responsible, and the mist's source was as clear as the tiny figure throwing what appeared to be mini chem balls that expanded and gunked up Baymax's jets and joints the moment he tried to fly. So, the red rat was responsible? This critter was full of surprises! A little knockout gas would keep her out of trouble, though.
"Sorry, lil' fella ..." Honey Lemon muttered as she readied her chem ball.
The rodent's sharp ears flicked towards her. Maybe she shouldn't have said that.
With a quick toss, Honey Lemon's chem ball went flying at the rat, only to burst midway when the rodent met it with an explosive chemical of her own. More projectiles came the Big Hero's way. If not for her ChemiCal, she would never have spotted them. If not for her armour upgrades, she would never have avoided them.
Back and forth, the human and rodent traded chem balls and berries, narrowly escaping each other's attacks. One of the advantages to being a rodent was that small animals tended to possess incredibly swift reflexes. Combined with skill and athleticism, those reflexes made that rat an incredibly difficult target.
"Check those moves!" Rhino cheered. "I'm telling ya, she's 'The One', Mittens!"
Despite the red rat's strengths, she was limited to what she had in her bag, while Honey Lemon could create a plethora of chemical effects on a whim: from crystalline shields and bubble barriers to icy bursts and bouncy bulbs fashioned after kitty squishies (no lie). Bit by bit, the rodent found that she was losing ground. Finally, the rat fell with a squeak when Honey Lemon's latest attack covered the grass with slippery ice.
With deft fingers, the Big Hero punched a formula into her purse and it produced a pale chem ball. After pelting that ball onto the floor, its mist quickly dissipated the purple smoke. After a few moments, the Big Heroes began to calm down and turn their attention to the red rat. It didn't help matters that Baymax had managed to remove the last of the disabling gunk from his body.
"Uh oh," the rat whimpered.
Hiro stepped forward, but Baymax held him back.
"Huh? Buddy, what are you-? Let go!" demanded Hiro.
{Do you wish to be crushed by a flying tree?} asked the robot.
"Yes! I mean no! I mean ... What?" asked Hiro.
The aforementioned flying tree came crashing down between the heroes and the rat. Grasping its base was Mr. Incredible himself, who had carried it there with a leap. He swung the tree like a madman, keeping the Big Heroes at bay.
"What part of 'alliance' don't you understand?!" Demanded GoGo.
"It's not me!" Mr. Incredible explained. "It's the rat on my head!"
Sure enough, Remy was there, pulling his hair like the strings of a puppeteer, until Elastigirl darted in with an stretching leap and entrapped Mr. Incredible with her elastic limbs. One problem, though: once he was immobilised, she was scratching her head, wondering to where on Earth the rat had disappeared? Rather, she would have scratched her head if it were more convenient. That would have led to the discovery of who was on top of it, but the minuscule weight on her skull and tiny paws pulling hair were enough to help her put two and two together. Remy smiled. She wasn't the only flexible one here.
Much to the rat's surprise, Elastigirl had some extra stretch in her coiled limbs and used it to snatch at him. He tugged her hair and diverted her hand, but it made a U bend and latched onto him from behind. Something was wrong - unlike Dash's speed and Mr. Incredible's strength, he had no idea how to control her power! It wasn't a simple matter of motor skills.
Holding on with all his might, the rat twisted a few strands of her hair and her fingers released him. Okay, Plan B. She stretched her neck high into the air before rapidly withdrawing, throwing Remy off of it. The blue rat fell, flailing helplessly until the soft glob of a Tigger Berry cushioned his fall and he bounced to the ground, skidding across the grass face down.
The red rat was at his side in an instant. "You okay?" she asked.
"My left eyelid peeled off," he stated, his face remaining flat on the grass.
"Great, that- Your eyelid WHAT?!" she shrieked.
"Gotcha!" he exclaimed, getting up with little more than a grass stain. "Although I think I swallowed a pill bug- Ow!"
For such a small creature, she really packed a punch - literally.
"This is serious!" she snapped. "Any second now, they'll pin us down!" she pointed at two things beyond his line of sight. "Case in point!"
From one side, Frozone released a burst of white. From the other, Honey lemon hurled three chem balls. Faster than thought, Bolt dove and curled around the rats, shielding them with his body. He grunted as Frozone's attack crashed into him with all the fury of a hailstorm and then some. With half his body frozen, and the ice quickly spreading to the rest, there was little he could do in the fraction of a second before Honey Lemon's chem balls hit him ... or was there? Two blasts of laser-thin lightning stopped two chem balls cold, but his sight blurred as the ice reached his eyes just before the third chem ball blocked his vision with pink gunk. The rats remained safe in the tiny, unfrozen pocket created by Bolt's curled body, but with Frozone and Honey Lemon compounding their confines with more and more goop and ice, the prospect of escape grew all the more dismal. Violet's force field was the icing on the cake, completing the mountain of ice and chemicals that imprisoned the animals, and the rest was history.
"And so fell the mighty Bolt," Rhino summarised with the solemnness of an elegy, "or did he? Ha ha, suit up, Cat! Rhino and his sidekick, Mittens are bringing the awesome!"
"I ain't got no suit and we ain't got no prayer!" Mittens insisted, shrinking back.
"You 'ain't got no' grammar either," Rhino quipped with a chuckle.
Mittens would have slapped him under any other circumstances, but instead she settled for giving the hamster a good shake.
"Rhino, now's not the time!" she insisted. "Seriously, what are we gonna do? The heroes-gone-bananas have probably dug out the rats and Bolt by now! We wasted too much time watching the replay! You even wasted time on a slow motion shot!"
Rhino blinked. "Um ... no. As awesome as that that would have been, I never slowed the replay. In fact, I sped up the whole thing."
"By what? Half a second?" demanded Mittens.
"More like 15x," Rhino corrected.
Mittens was about to argue when she noticed a bird flying overhead, if you could call that flying. With wings that scarcely moved an inch, it effortlessly hung on the air. What was wrong with it? Was it gliding? No, it was ... practically frozen! The cat looked around and found that the trees scarcely swayed; the air scarcely stirred; even the fly that dared to try landing on her nose was moving at only a few millimetres per second. Time had slowed to a crawl, or maybe ... maybe she was thinking and moving so quickly that it only looked that way.
"As fast as we are, we don't have time for the montage where you get used to using your new gifts," Rhino stated. "Don't worry - you'll pick things up on the fly. It's more fun that way."
The hamster stared at the partially melted remains of his plastic ball a short distance from him. "We're gonna need a bigger ball," he commented.
Without warning, Mittens' world was engulfed by a blinding flash as red lightning roared from the sky, seemingly striking her and the hamster. It took the cat a moment to comprehend that she was still alive, and that the lightning had struck Rhino instead. As opposed to perishing on the spot, Rhino radiated the electrical energy and it took shape around the creatures until it formed a ball of brilliant, red electricity. With 'I'm a boss' written all over his face, Rhino rose into the air and floated at the centre of the ball. The electricity didn't hurt, but that didn't stop Mittens from being terrified out of her wits by the blazing lights and deafening din. When the bolt from the sky disappeared, Mittens' screams quickly rose above the ebbing echo of its boom.
Rhino's Tele Vision rapidly changed its perspective so that it looked down upon the mountain of ice, chemical and force field from a daunting height. The visuals seemed to somehow solidify as the image began to change into something more real.
((~Let it begin! LET. IT. BEGIIIIIN!~)) Rhino screamed, no longer able to contain his excitement.
His tiny paws paddled the air as if running, causing the ball of red lightning to kick into high gear. With astonishing speed, it accelerated into the screen. Mittens didn't know what to expect: maybe the screen would break, or allow them to pass through it like a hologram. Instead, she and Rhino entered the image like walking through a door - no, a portal, and that portal had plunged them into the skies above the ten heroes.
Moments Earlier ...
The heroes stood around the mountain that encased the rats and the superdog, exchanging clueless glances.
"Sooo ... how do we get at the rats?" asked Mr. Incredible.
"We just dig em out," Fred stated.
"Well, that's one way to start the hoopla all over again," Violet argued.
"Yeah, about that," Fred began. "We came, we saw, we wrapped things up in a few minutes and hardly broke a sweat. I expected more - the battle of our lives."
"We fought the Incredibles tooth and nail, chased the mutt across the city and you want more?!" GoGo demanded. "That's it! I vote we kick him off the team! If anything he can be our mascot and nothing more!"
"I'm just sayin'-!" Fred began.
"I know what you're sayin', and I want you to stop sayin'!" GoGo interrupted. "It's been a long day and I want my bed!"
Fred sighed. "Well, I guess you got your wish. It's over."
((~Let it begin! LET. IT. BEGIIIIIN!~))
That voice met the heroes' ears with the resonant boom of thunder. Looking up, they witnessed a ball of red light emerge from a portal in the sky shaped much like a screen. Like a meteor, it plummeted towards them - or more specifically towards the mountain in which they had trapped Bolt and the rodents.
"What. Is. That?" asked Wasabi.
"My wish has come true!" Fred exclaimed.
When the ball of lightning was battered by a battery of flame, ice, mag lev discs and a tree (the latter courtesy of Mr. Incredible), the only thing louder than Rhino's maniacal laughter was Mittens' incessant shrieking.
Rhino paused his laughter just long enough to assess the situation.
"Okay," he began, "I think the ranged attacks are cutting down too much of our momentum. We probably don't have enough speed to smash the mountain and its shield. Any thoughts, Cat?"
Mittens made no attempt to answer. She was a little too preoccupied with the thought of her perceived eminent death. Besides, she probably didn't hear him with the appropriate screeching and what not.
"For the life of me I can't figure out how, but you just gave me an idea!" Rhino declared.
With that, Rhino conjured up a new screen below him, bearing four markings angled towards the centre. Each mark on this screen was composed of two connected triangles attached to a rod. They made the screen's purpose clear enough.
Fast-forward.
All saw when Rhino's ball shattered the screen and accelerating to staggering speeds. However, none heard the roar of the sonic boom until Rhino crashed through the mountain's force field. Melded with the impact, the two shockwaves thundered as one, tearing the air, blasting trees bare of their leaves and bringing the super heroes to their knees as they fruitlessly covered their ears.
The mountain of ice and chemicals collapsed and the heroes were forced to flee or be caught in the raining debris.
"How's that wish workin' out for ya?" asked GoGo over her communicator.
"WHAT?!" asked a half-deaf Fred.
Meanwhile, the newly freed Bolt rose to a tottering stand, partially stunned by the impact.
"Aw man … that felt terrible," the dog commented. "What hit us? What- what is this?"
Lying a few feet away, the red rat opened her eyes and rose to find Mittens nearby. Physically, the feline seemed fine, albeit standing stock still with her mouth open, frozen in the position of what looked to be a petrified scream. However, no sound escaped Mittens' open mouth, as if she had screamed until there was nothing left to scream. For all intents and purposes, she seemed to be catatonic.
The red rat looked around. It seemed she and the others were surrounded by a large sphere of scarlet lightning, cupping several bits of debris within its base. Being this close to that much electricity made her rather uneasy, especially since she was only beginning to get accustomed to Bolt's lightning. However, this wasn't Bolt's lightning. It was red, not yellow, but it wasn't harming her either. The way it surrounded her and her allies ... was it protecting them?
Above her, something loomed closer. She looked up to see Rhino floating towards her, emanating the lightning that sustained the ball. He touched down before her with angelic grace, extending a paw to help her up and smiling as if he were the greatest thing since CGI animation.
For a second, her jaw went slack and her eyes popped with a sense of 'whoa', but she quickly shook off the moment of awe as a more pressing subject popped into her head.
"Where's Remy?" she asked.
The hamster's smile fell.
"He died," Rhino lied.
Shock flashed across her face before she almost automatically began to sniff the air. Refusing Rhino's paw, she crawled about until her nose led her to a piece of ice the size of a football. Bolt quickly lifted and tossed it aside, revealing the blue rat underneath it, eyes closed, lying motionless.
"Remy? Y-you okay?" she asked hesitantly.
He wordlessly raised a paw in a thumbs up and she breathed a sigh of relief before helping him up, much to Rhino's chagrin.
"Oh come on!" the hamster exclaimed. "I'm the super hero, and the hero gets the girl! It's like a rule or something!"
"I'm not 'the girl'. I have a name!" the red rat asserted. A flash of awkwardness passed over her face before she quickly continued. "You wanna be the super hero? Then be the super hero! Forget about what you 'get' for this! Help us end this because you know it's the right thing to do!"
Rhino stared at the ground in mild humiliation and nodded. She was right. Then he stood a little taller, rediscovering his nobility as he fired off a salute.
"Aye aye, Mon Capitaine," Rhino agreed as he created a Tele Vision screen within the lightning shield. "One portal to the Eiffel Tower coming up."
The landmark quickly appeared on the screen and the raspberry rat took a moment to process Rhino's new ability. Well, she didn't know what she thought of the hamster, but at least he was useful. Eager, she jumped through the portal, only to find herself on the other side of the screen, still within the force field. She popped her head back through the image to face Rhino.
"Why isn't the portal portalling?!" she demanded.
"The longer the distance, the longer it takes to work," Rhino explained, "as much as I adore your pretty peepers, I think sticking your head through the screen is interfering with-"
Too late.
The jarring impact of a speeding force ball sent the lightning sphere rolling, and it was a wonder that none of its more fragile occupants weren't crushed by the debris bouncing about within it. The lightning ball crashed to a stop upon hitting and splitting an ornamental boulder. Its electric shielding dissipated, leaving its occupants exposed. It seemed the shock was enough to jolt Mittens back to normalcy.
"Wuzzat?!" the cat yelled.
Bolt and Rhino were the first to collect themselves and see the ten supers advancing over the icy rubble.
"Eleven to five - I don't like our odds," the red rat commented.
"Most supers have one or two powers. I have several," Bolt assured. "The three of us held the line on our own. With Mittens and Rhino, maybe we can win this time."
"Speaking of 'powers', hit me with your repertoire!" Rhino requested.
"No time," Bolt dismissed.
"Then-let's-make-time," opted Rhino, accelerating his speech to a couple dozen words a second. "We'll-coordinate-better-if-we-know-what-we-can-and-can't-do."
Bolt rolled his eyes before nonetheless speaking at a similar speed. "Fine. So-far,-I've-discovered-that-I-possess-super-speed;-strength;-invuln-I-mean-enhanced-durability-as-well-as-the-power-to-phase-through-solids-with-the-exception-of-ice. I-can-also-sense-anything-that-moves,-I've-got-a-Super-Bark-and-"
"Thunder-Bark," Rhino corrected.
Bolt raised an eyebrow. "Um,-what-now? We-both-know-it's-called-a-'Super-Bark'."
"It-was," Rhino agreed. "However,-I-don't-think-your-TV-powers-ever-realised-your-true-potential. Your-name's-'Bolt',-but-none-of-them-had-to-do-with-thunder-or-lightning-or-anything-like-that...except-the-'Super-Bark'. That's-like-a-thunder-boom,-but-they-just-got-lazy-and-gave-it-such-a-generic-name! I'm-your-Cisco,-so-I'm-naming-your-powers,-full-stop! You've-got-a-Thunder-Bark,-your-lightning-vision-is-called-'Strike-Stare',-and-your-motion-detection-is-called-'Motion-Sixth-Sense'."
"How'd-you-know-about-my-lightn-I-mean-'Strike-Stare'?" asked Bolt.
"I'm-like-a-phantom,-remember?" Rhino boasted. "Besides,-I've-got-Tele-Vision. It-lets-me-use-screens-to-watch-what's-happening-at-other-locations. It-can-even-let-me-rewind-and-see-the-past,-fast-forward-things-and,-as-you-know,-create-portals,-but-I-feel-like-there's-a-lot-more-can-do-with-it. I've-also-got-this-weird-comic-awareness-that-almost-feels-like-breaking-the-'4th-Wall'. If-I-say-things-that-I-shouldn't-know-about-or-that-seem-to-have-no-context-in-this-world,-it-could-be-a-clever-reference-or-something-so-just-assume-it's-awesome-and-roll-with-it. Of-course,-you-already-know-about-my-'Ball-Lighting',-named-after-the-mysterious-phenomenon."
Rhino summoned a bolt of red lightning and it crashed right into him before expanding into the spherical force field.
~((Hey!))~ Dash protested from within force bubble of a vehicle. ~((That thing's a blatant knock off of our IncrediBall!))~
Rhino smiled as he began to visibly vibrate, his eyes glowing an ominous red.
((~Oh, this is nothing like the IncrediBall at all,~)) Rhino stated, his voice amped and warped for a menacing, theatrical effect.((~Some would say it's the reverse.~))
The other animals blinked, raised eyebrows and stared at the hamster in mild confusion.
"It kinda does seem like the IncrediBall to me," Remy commented.
"I- well, yeah, but-! It's just that I love a good pop culture reference in a moment of crisis!" Rhino explained defensively.
"What are you referencing, exactly?" asked Bolt.
The hamster frowned with a sigh. "We're definitely not vibing today, guys."
~((A 'Reverse Dash'?))~ commented Dash. ~((I like it!))~
"See! They get it!" Rhino exclaimed. "Also, it seems I can now speak to humans. Cool! Great for trash talk to keep things interesting! I'm calling it 'Voice Over'!"
Before anyone could think to stop Rhino, the damage had been done.
((~Hey kid!~)) Rhino called. ((~Yo' parents are so fat, Thanos had to snap twice!~))
If the Incredibles were 'savage' before, that jab threw them into an absolute frenzy. A war cry tore from Dash's lungs, and it took him about half a second to reach Rhino. The hamster's allies willingly stepped (or dove) aside as the IncrediBall rammed the Ball Lightning into next week. Well, that more or less destroyed his chances of using his Voice Over to reason with the heroes.
Seeing The Incredibles and Big Hero 6 surging forth was like standing on a beach, staring up at a tsunami in the split moment before it devoured the shore.
"We. Are going. To die," the red rat commented.
I'm sure some of you guys are well-aware that I didn't come up with the "Thanos had to snap twice" trash talk, but I did modify it slightly.
Can you figure out the sources of the following Easter eggs and references? Reveal them in the comments.
1) "Evidently I can't phase through ice," Bolt noted. "Bummer." (It's a slight reference, but here's a hint: another fictional dog tends to say things like that.)
2) "Pink elephants! Pink elephants!" Hiro exclaimed.
3) "We're gonna need a bigger ball," he commented.
4) ((~Oh, this is nothing like the IncrediBall at all,~)) Rhino stated, his voice amped and warped for a menacing, theatrical effect. ((~Some would say it's the reverse.~))
5) "It's just that I love a good pop culture reference in a moment of crisis!" Rhino explained defensively.
6) The hamster frowned with a sigh. "We're definitely not vibing today, guys."
Thanks for reading! I hope you're enjoying the holidays.