Chapter six: Thunder blackout (Part two)
"Max!" Pheobe called as she entered into his room.
"Pheobe... Get out of my room," he said. "Any texts or calls from mom and dad yet?" she asked.
"No," he replied. "Hey! Where's Billy? He's supposed to get me carrots from a world famous vegetable garden in South Korea," Colosso asked.
"I haven't seen Billy since we returned from school today," Pheobe said.
"Or Nora," Max added.
"Or Chloe ah!" they both yelled.
"They must be around the house somewhere playing," Pheobe said. "Let's go find them then," Max said.
About an hour later, they met up in the living room. "Did you find them?" Pheobe asked.
"No. I even went to Splat Burger and even their school, their teachers said they didn't show up today," Max replied.
"This is terrible. I'm calling the hero league," she said and took out her phone. "No! Max shouted and snatched the phone from her.
"What? Why?" she queried. "We have to figure it out ourselves. We're not called the T force because we call the hero league everytime we have a problem," Max said.
"I get the tendency to be Heros but our family has gone missing, this is not the time to play hero," Pheobe returned.
"Pheobe we've been in worse situations than this and we have found a way out, why not this time?" Max asked.
Pheobe sighed, "fine. We last saw Chloe, Billy and Nora when they left for school and we last saw mom and dad before we went to bed last week Wednesday. I'll stay here and search for clues, you'll go around Hiddenville and do the same.
We can use the DNA probe." "Now we're talking!" Max said excitedly.
Thirty minutes later when Max had left, the thunder monitor alerted them, "Alert, alert, Mike approaching." Pheobe gasped and went to answer the door.
"Heyyy there Mike, come in," she said. "Wow I love your house," he said on entry. "Thank you Mike," she said with a smile.
"Would you like to go see a movie with me this weekend?" he asked.
"Are you asking me to be your girlfriend?" she said smiling sheepishly. He smiled back, "pretty much yeah." "Sorry I don't have any flowers with me," he added.
"That's fine. And yes I'll be your girlfriend," she accepted nodding. "What's in the box?" she asked. "Your favorite... Chocolate chip cookies," he announced and opened the box.
"Aw thank you," she said and took the box. Wait, how do you know I like chocolate chip cookies? Not even Max knows this, only my mom does," she added.
"Huh l uh... I..." he stuttered. Then Max jumped out of nowhere and tackled him to the floor. "What have you done with my family you psychopath?!" Max asked.
"What do you mean? I barely even know them," Mike defended and blocked a blow from Max.
"Max what's your problem?!" Pheobe asked stepping between them.
Max- He kidnapped our family!
Mike- That's a ridiculous accusation. Why would I want to do that?!
Pheobe- Yeah Max
Max- I don't know why. Perhaps he can tell me! And also tell me why I found this strand of mom's hair in his locker and Nora's bow?!
Mike- You broke into my locker?!
Max- Not the point!
Pheobe- How do you know it belongs to them anyway?
Max- I took the DNA probe remember?
Mike- I just got here to this town. Why would I want to kidnap your family? I don't even know them. Why would I want to kidnap anyone in the first place? If you don't want me to date your sister just say so rather than make up some preposterous lie about me.
Mike left. "Now look what you've done!" Pheobe yelled. "There's something extremely fishy about that guy. I don't like him at all," Max defended.
"You've never liked any of my boyfriends. Not Link or Cole, none. I always thought it was just you being annoying now I realize you just don't want me to be happy and that's really sick. I thought you've changed. I'm never speaking to you again," she stated then ran after Mike.
*One week later*
"It's just you and me Colosso," Max said.
"I don't like Pheobe and all but I can't believe she'd pick some random dude over you. I thought I knew her well enough by now," Colosso said with confusion.
"And she's definitely forgotten about our family too," Max added. "
I don't care about your family either and I can't believe I'm saying this but... Don't you think it's high time you called the hero league?" Colosso advised.
"You think I haven't? President Kickbutt doesn't believe that Thunderman and Elecktris the greatest superheroes of all time have been kidnapped. Each time I call, she hangs up," Max groaned.
"Wait a minute, what did you say his last name was?" Colosso asked. "Waite like the color but not the same spelling," Max answered.
"That can't be possible," Colosso said whilst searching the villain league web site. "What do you mean Colosso?" Max inquired.
Colosso gasped and looked from the screen to Max in shock. "Colosso?" Max asked again.
"Years ago, few years before you were born, the villian league had a major breakthrough in form of a family of villains who were so powerful that even the strongest and best members of the Z force couldn't defeat them. So as a last resort, the hero league sent your parents undercover to place bombs in the house the family had chosen to hide out in. Hank and Barb didn't want to do it but the hero league felt they were the best ones for the job. They went and did it. Everyone believed they had all died in the explosion. Now I see the name Nathan Waite registered here in the villian league list of young supervillians. This is him right?" Colosso narrated.
Max looked at the screen, "OMG it IS him. That means I was right and he kidnapped my family. That means... Phoebe's in danger!"
*Phoebe's POV*
I opened my eyes slowly. I was tied up. "Pheobe! You're awake!" I heard a familiar voice say. "Mom?" I called.
I turned and saw my mom and dad equally tied up. "Guys what's going on? What happened?" I asked in confusion.
"Seems the past has finally caught up with us," dad, now a shadow of his former self replied. He had lost so much weight.
"Dad? What's going on?" Pheobe asked. "It's a long story," mom asked. "Yes, yes very long," Mike said literally appearing out of nowhere.
"Gah!" I cried in shock. "What's going on?" I asked. "I thought you were smarter than this peaches?" he asked with a smirk. It registered, "you kidnapped my family!" I yelled and tried to use my freeze breath on him.
It reverted and I felt a brain freeze. He held my jaw and kissed me but I didn't respond, "you see Peaches, your mouth's only good for blowjobs an kisses." I was instantly mortified.
"What's he talking about Pheobe?" dad asked. I closed my eyes in embarrassment.
*Normal POV*
Mike walked over to Hank. "Well Thunderman, while you were here, in torture and at the risk of getting castrated, for the past two weeks I've been fucking your daughter!" he revealed with a blow by blow technique.
"THAT'S A LIE YOU MONSTER!" Barb yelled and the lights went off for some moments and came back on.
"Aww it's so adorable when you do that," Mike said grinning. "Why don't you ask her yourself?" he added.
Hank and Barb looked at their daughter who was sobbing uncontrollably. "Pheobe say something," Barb said.
"Aww she's ashamed," he cooed and laughed.
"What do you want her to say? While y'all were suffering in here, she was under me screaming 'oh don't stop, give it to me, fuck me harder, oh that's so good'?" he added and laughed again.
"You're sick Nathan, very sick," Hank said.
Mike gasped in mock surprise, "I'M sick, that hurts Hank, that really hurts". He said looking away from Hank. "But you are not wrong," he added suddenly turning around and placing a hot metal rod on Hank's arm for a while laughing maniacally then stopped.
Hank's pained screams made Pheobe cry a lot more. "Why don't you just kill us?!" Hank yelled.
"Nah that will be all too easy. I want you to suffer as my parents, my siblings and I did," he said looking Hank in the eyes.
"Where are MY siblings Mike?" Phoebe finally spoke up. "You'll know in good time Peaches," he answered.
"But why, Mike? Why?" she asked in a pained whisper. "I thought you'd never ask," he began.
He sat on a chair, "well, a few of years before you were born Pheobe, my family was the most feared villain group in the world. We were so awesome, even the Z force feared us. We were unstoppable. Till one day, a couple joined us our house staff named Anthony and Tricia Stanfoman," he paused looking pointedly at Barb and Hank.
"They lived with us for months, they were like family. I was 9 and I saw them like an aunt and uncle," his eyes darkened.
"Then one day, my family and I went to the park, we returned and walked into actual fire. I was lifted off the ground and landed painfully beside the body of my dead father, I smelt his burning flesh. It was like grilling meat in an open field, his face mutilated beyond all recognition, freks of black and pink flesh on his skin. My mother and two sisters were at my right side but the agony of the pain in my body wouldn't let me turn to look at them. I wanted to scream for help but I was frozen still by the body of my dead father. For 24hrs I was tormented by the whimpers of my mom and sisters and the rotting carcass of my father. I wished for death but it wouldn't come. My mom and sisters died the next day and I heard her last whisper, 'avenge me Nathan'.
I was found that evening by a woman who took me in. Every single waking day was devoted to getting my revenge. I was very excited to find out they had a daughter, you have no idea what plans I have for you Pheobe," he finished, rubbing his palms together then laughed.
*Hiddenville High*
"Max Thunderman!" their Chemistry teacher startled Max out of his stupor yet again.
He blinked and stared at the teacher.
"I see you have better things to think about than Organic Chemistry which is crucial to your final exams," he said.
"Sorry sir, there's so much going on in my life right now. I'm stressed up," Max said. "Aw I'm sure you'll have time to relax in detention," the teacher deadpanned.
"But I can't get detention, I have so much to do at home. This is ridiculous. I've read the school handbook, you can't give me detention for not paying attention in class,' he defended to the surprise of all present.
"You're right, but I can send you to the principal's office for constituting a nuisance in my class. I'm sure Principal Bradford would love to see you," the teacher deadpanned.
Max stuttered, "B-b-but..." "The principal's office NOW!" the teacher cut in. "Men fuck this school," he muttered as he left.
"Come in," Principal Bradford groaned when he heard a knock on his door. Max entered, looking pissed.
"Well, well, well. Max Thunderman. To what pleasure do I owe you being in my office today?" he asked sarcastically.
"Mr Beg boudé said I should come here for 'constituting a nuisance' in his class," Max replied.
"Hold on, where's Phoebe?" he inquired. Max panicked, "uh I thought my parents sent you a message to inform you that she's in Dubai for an organ transplant."
"Really, what organ?" Bradford probed. "What organ?" Max repeated. "Yes, I believe, in English," he replied, his voice dripping with scorn.
"Kidney transplant," Max finally answered.
"I haven't opened my email in a while but I'll check. I'm letting you off with a warning because I have an appointment after school today and I don't want you in my school after school hours, capise?" he stated.
"Thanks Principal Bradford," Max said excitedly and exited the office.
After closing he went home to review his rescue plan with Colosso. "Don't you think it's better I come with you? This isn't a one-man job. You're going up against a literal psychopath with advanced technology and rescuing 5 people. Let an old super villain help you out. I know how his mind works," Colosso offered.
"Not gonna happen Colosso. So you can betray me and switch sides halfway? Not gonna happen again," Max said dismissively.
"But you're right, I do need help," he added.
He then contacted Simone Kickbutt and Link to come over. They arrived in 30minutes.
"What's the big emergency?" Simone asked.
Max cleared his throat, "This is not a joke and what I'm about to tell you is top secret. Three months ago, my parents went missing, a couple of days later, Nora, Billy and Chloe went missing. I went searching for clues cause I found Mike very very fishy. In his locker, I found one of Nora's bows and a strand of mom's hair. I came back home to tell Phoebe but I found that son of a bitch here and I confronted him. Phoebe, oddly enough took his side and left me here. About two weeks ago, Colosso found him on the villain league website registered under the name 'Nathan Waite' which confirmed my suspicions..."
"So you're trying to say Phœbe and your entire family are in danger?" Link asked.
"Yes, yes, you're getting it!" Max said triumphantly. Simone and Link looked at each other and burst into laughter.
"Alright, alright, alright. Where are they? I almost fell for it. Pretty good prank though" Simone said.
"It's not a joke," Max remained stoic. "You're serious?" Simone asked raising her eyebrows.
"Yes I'm fucking serious!" Max yelled at them. "Max, language!" Colosso scolded.
"Shut your pie hole before I shove my entire fist in your mouth," Max returned and Colosso recoiled.
Link stood, "So Phœbe and the rest of your family are really in danger?" "Yes Link, they are," Max said.
"Why haven't you contacted my mom ever since?" Simone asked. "You think I haven't? I tried calling but she doesn't believe that Thunderman and Elektris, the greatest superheroes of all time and nearly all the members of the elite T force have been kidnapped. Everytime I call, she hangs up," he ranted.
"I wouldn't believe it either," Link said. "Same," Simone added. "What can we do to help?" Link inquired.
"Colosso built a machine that tracked him down using some stuff from his locker. He's nowhere near Hiddenville, he's in Las Vegas," Max informed.
"Ooh, road trip!" Simone said excitedly. "No, we're going by plane. We need to keep a low profile. "We can't risk him finding out we're coming. He's a technological genius," Max said.
"Alright what's gonna happen when we get there?" Link asked.
Max brought out some latex suits, "He's gonna see us before we even get within 15 miles of his house so I made these camouflage suits, they're gonna make us undetectable to any computer device of any kind then we can literally walk in through the front door. That's where the problem starts, he has an army of robots waiting and everything the robots see, he sees. If we can sneak past them to the control room cause they can't see us if we don't touch them or they don't touch us, then we can go to the control room and turn off the power to the building. Then we have literally five minutes which hopefully will give me enough time to go into the control room and reprogram the robots. While Simone you go to the cell he has my parents in and Link you go to the one he has my siblings in. I suspect he'll have Phœbe in a separate room, I'll go after her with the bots if I can reprogram them," he explained.
"If he's that obsessed with her, he'll be in the room with her, what if you can't reprogram the bots in time?" Simone stated.
Max sighed, "then I'll fight him."
"Alone? You don't know the extent of his powers," Link queried.
"If Harrison and your parents, no matter how evil they were are in danger, won't you save them?" Max asked, very seriously now.
"Yes I'd do whatever it takes to save them, even give my life," Link replied firmly.
"Thanks guys, this means so much to me," he said his voice choked with emotion. "You'd do the same for us and your family would too," Link said.
*At Nathan's fortress*
In a cell, Pheobe was helplessly hanging from the ceiling by chains. To the left of her is a table full of different torture items.
She seems to be in a restless sleep. Nathan poured a bucket of water on her, "Rise and shine Peaches!" She gasped, choked and spluttered.
For a few moments, the shock of the water that got up her nose made her unable to breathe and her heart failed.
"Nah Peaches, you ain't going that easily," Nathan said and hastily clapped his hands together.
An oxygen mask came out of the walls and placed itself on her face, after a while she started breathing normally.
"Just let me die!" she cried as soon as she started breathing normally again. "Where's the fun in that?" he asked.
Suddenly the lights went off, there was a system failure. Nathan tapped his tablet frantically to no avail.
"It will restart again in five minutes," he said calming himself down. He put on the emergency flashlight on his tab, he looked Phœbe wasn't on the chains or on the floor.
Then he felt himself being lifted off the floor with telekinesis. For a split second he panicked then he regained himself. She was weak so it was easy for him to revert her powers and so he did.
"Ah!" she screamed. "That's my main super power, reverting other people's powers. When I was younger I thought it was lame but after the woman that took me in died of cancer and I had to fend for myself, it came in pretty handy. That and the fact that I don't age," he explained.
"System breached! System breached!" an automated female voice came on.
"Who dares break into my fortress?" he questioned. He literally flung a helpless Phœbe on the floor, went out and locked the door.
*In the control room*
"System breached! System breached!" the automated voice kept on saying.
"Oh shit," Max said as he tried to reprogram the robots before Nathan could get them under control.
"What's happening in there?" Link asked Max through their communication.
"Not right now Link I'm in the belly of the beast. Lawd I wish I had brought Colosso with me," he groaned.
The power came back on that moment. "Fuck," Max cussed.
"Max? Billy and Nora are unconscious, I can't fight robots and carry them at the same time," Simone said.
"And your parents can barely move. This wasn't the plan. What's happening in there Max?" Link asked again.
"The code is harder to crack than I thought but I have the computerized blueprints of the fortress right here with me. I just copied them to your phones so you can see the robots moving and avoid them. Go out the back door," he explained.
"Thanks Max, but what about you?" Simone asked. "I have to go after Phœbe," Max sighed. "On your own? That's a death sentence," Link said.
"Family comes first," Max said.
"There has to be another way," Simone pleaded.
Max laughed mirthlessly, "I'm afraid there's no other way." "Max no!" Simone and Link cried but Max disconnected.
He sighed and stood up. The robots were already headed his way. They entered the control room and looked around, there was nothing.
They couldn't see Max cause he was still wearing his suit. 'If I use heat breath and fry their circuits, Mike would find me for sure. TK is a no go but freeze breath however,' he thought and froze them.
He exited the control room. He sneaked past the robots and got to the cell Phœbe was in.
'How do I open this without alerting the bots or Nathan himself?' he thought.
'What could his password possibly be?' he thought. "You have only one shot Max," he whispered. Max closed his eyes and inputed 'For my family' on the keyboard lock.
It opened. 'Wow, that's his motive?' Max thought and entered into the cell.
He walked into fire, the room exploded in his face. He flew backwards, unconscious by the wall. It was only by a miracle he wasn't burnt to death.
He opened his eyes and coughed. He was badly wounded and could barely breathe, he took gasping deep breaths from time to time.
"See this is exactly how I felt when your parents bombed us," Mike said, appearing out of nowhere.
"You want to die but your adrenaline won't let you... Ah! " he suddenly screamed.
He turned around to see Phœbe shakingly holding a gun. She had shot him in the leg.
He looked shocked, "wow Peaches, I didn't know you had it in you." "Powers don't work on you but a gun does," Phœbe said in a parched whisper and shot him in his other leg.
He screamed again and dropped to the floor. He tapped his tablet in panic. Phœbe was lifted off the floor and dropped back with force by a bot. She let out a yelp as she fell.
Mike staggered to her, and pointed the gun at her head, "is that anyway to treat the love of your life?" he mocked. "Well, you wanted to die so bad, here's this," he added.
There was the sound of a gun shot. Phœbe screamed. Mike looked down at his bleeding chest, his mouth began oozing blood. He collapsed on the floor.
"Now you can be reunited with your family. I'm sure they'll still be proud of you," Max said still choking on his breath.
Mike smiled, "I think so too," then he stopped breathing.
"Phœbe, are you ok?" Max asked rushing to her after freezing the bot. "I don't know," she cried.
"Self destruct in 5 minutes," the automated voice said. Max turned to Mike's body.
It turns out that Mike had set the building to self destruct before he died.
"That son of a bitch! Phœbe we gatta get out of here," he said and took a deep painful breath to soothe his aching lungs.
"I don't have any fight in me Max, just leave me here," she whispered.
"To die with that psycho and waste my efforts? Mom, dad, Billy, Nora and Chloe are already safe. Am not leaving you here," he said.
"I can't walk," she whispered. "I'll carry you," he said then proceeded to do so. She was crying and so was he as they ran out of the place. "2 minutes left," the automated voice said.
"We're never gonna get out of here alive, leave me," she said. "We just passed the control room, we'll make it," Max said.
They got out just as the building exploded and collapsed outside. "At least we didn't get burnt to death," Max said smiling ruefully.
Phœbe turned to him with tears in her eyes, "I'm so sorry Max, I shouldn't have left you. We would've come to rescue mom and dad and our siblings together but instead I ran off and was fucking the enemy. I should've believed you Max," she sobbed.
"There's no need to be sorry. I don't exactly have a good reputation with your boyfriends," he said. "I guess I'm the worst sister ever," she sighed.
"Uh nope, you've always been there even when I was a jerk and shit. You're the best sister ever. Plus you didn't die. I would've been really upset if I came here and you were already dead," he said and they both smiled at each other. They held hands and everything went dark.
Max shot up suddenly. Needles of pain coarsed through his body, he collapsed back with a groan.
"Max! You're awake!" a voice said. He opened his eyes, it was his mom. "Mom?" he called, tears in his eyes.
She went closer and caressed his face softly, "my boy." "Wait, where's Phœbe?" he asked.
"She's in another room. Doctor's said she's been through a lot of trauma. To her brain, her throat and other parts of her. It'll be a long healing process. Your father and I decided it'll be best if you don't school here in Hiddenville. Once Phœbe recovers, we'll enroll you both in Hollywood Arts University," she informed.
He smiled, "I thought you said that wasn't a realistic university?" "You two have always been wanting to go there, so why not?" she said. "Thanks mom," he said.
It was indeed a long recovery. Luckily HAU postponed their resumption date till the next year. So Max and Phœbe had enough time to heal from their physical traumas, their parents hoped HAU would heal them mentally and emotionally.
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