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Indigo started to pace around her holding cell. She got bored way too easily and it was only 6 in the morning. She sighed as she waited for one of the guards to notice her. When a shadow appeared in front of her door, she glanced over. "Ugh, what are you doing here?"
"I was told that you were up usually at this time," Officer Wilson said.
"Great, so you're here to annoy me?"
"No, I came to ask questions," Wilson stated, "And to tell you some news." Indigo rose her eyebrow at this but said nothing.
"What could you possibly have a question about?"
"The relationship between you and your brother."
"That's a different question for a different day, Officer. It's too early to dive into that." Indigo said, leaning against a cell wall.
"Fine, tell me about you. From reviewing some files, I learned that your mother has powers and your father acquired powers a few days before he was pardoned. Do you have special powers?"
"Yes, both," Indigo said with a smile.
"Wait, both?" Indigo sighed then flared up a blue-violet flame in her hand. Then a long vine emerged from her wrist and wrapped around her forearm.
"My powers are a bit different from theirs, though. Unlike my dad, my vines are restricted to only one part of my body. The vines could grow from anywhere but mainly emerge in the form of two vines on both of my sides." Indigo said as she patted the places the vine came from. "Then with the powers I inherited from my mother, I had to learn how to not make them come from places other than my hands. The fire could start from anywhere near my shoulders and run all the way down to my hand, but that only happens when I'm furious."
"So you look like Hades from Hercules when you get angry?" Wilson asked. Indigo frowned.
"If you must put it in cartoon form, then yes," she said rolling her eyes. "You people fail to realize that I am perfectly capable of breaking out of jail, I just choose not to."
"Of course," Wilson said, "Now do you remember when you got your powers and did your brother get his at the same time as you or does he even have powers?"
"Whoa, one question at a time," Indigo said, trying to stop the flow of words coming from the Officer's mouth, "Yes, I do remember when I got my powers. Now my brother may have received his powers around the same time as me but didn't tell anyone until a much later date. I'll explain the former story before the latter one, though. When I was a little girl, I used to play games with my family and I was insanely good at them..."
"Hannah?" A green tinted woman turned around the corner of the corridor. Agreeing to play hide-and-go-seek in this massive lair with two tiny geniuses probably wasn't the smartest idea but she was their mother and she had to bond with her children. Shego sighed. She was not cut out for this type of work. Then she felt a tug on her shirt.
"Mommy, I don't where Hannah is," said a small boy with messy black hair and green eyes. He looked a perfect blend between her and his father. "I think we lost her." Shego picked up her son then kissed his forehead.
"No, Dante, she's just that good at playing hide-and-go-seek," Shego looked around the corridor once more. "Dante, if you were Hannah, where would you hide?" Dante's little five year old fingers tapped his chin.
"Somewhere we would never find her."
"Like behind you?" Shego immediately jumped then turned to glare at the five year old girl.
"Annabella Marie Lipsky, do not pop up behind me like that!"
"I'm sorry, Mommy, but you guys were taking too long and I got bored." Shego placed Dante down then she sat on the floor.
"You're only five years old. You can't be bored."
"Uh-huh!" Annabella said, "When I have nothing to do, I get bored."
"Maybe if you didn't hide in such a hard place, we could've found you sooner." Dante said under his breath.
"Shut up!" Annabella said.
"Hey, hey," Shego interrupted, "Be nice." Shego stood up and started walking away. Dante then stuck his tongue out at Annabella, who responded by punching him in the arm. Then Annabella ran after her mother and followed her to wherever she was going. "Dr. D?" From his workbench, Drakken turned then lifted the welding mask off his face.
"Yes, dear?"
"You are so going to play hide-and-go-seek the next time they want to," Shego said plopping herself onto the couch. Then Dante ran into the room and sat next to Shego.
"Why is that?"
"Hannah keeps cheating, Daddy," Dante said before turning to glare at Annabella.
"I was not cheating!" Annabella yelled, "I can't help that you're too stupid to find me!"
"Annabella," Drakken said, picking up the small girl and putting her on his lap, "Those are not words you should not use towards your brother." Annabella simply crossed her arms and pouted.
"Hannah, you're mean," Dante said. Then Annabella turned to him and stuck her tongue out.
"Wait, that doesn't explain how you got your powers." Indigo looked over to the Officer.
"I was getting to that before you interrupted me. I got my powers later that night." Later that night, Annabella walked into the kitchen and found her mother sitting at the island eating cookies.
"Mommy, can I have some cookies?" Annabella asked.
"No, Princess," Shego said, calmly, "You're about to go to bed. Maybe tomorrow."
"Okay," she sighed before leaving the kitchen. Annabella then walked down the hallway. After a few minutes, she ended up at a door. She reached for the doorknob and opened the door. "Daddy?" From his bed, Drakken looked over to the door.
"Yes, Annabella?"
"Can I have a cookie?"
"Sure, go ahead." Annabella smiled then ran back in the kitchen. She was about to grab a cookie when her mother push the pack away.
"What are you doing?" Shego asked.
"Getting a cookie," Annabella said innocently.
"I just told you no," Shego said, narrowing her eyes. The smile that Annabella had was immediately wiped off.
"Daddy said I could have one, though." Shego frowned.
"Oh really?" Shego then grabbed the cookies and placed them on top of the refrigerator before leaving the room. "Drakken!" was suddenly the sound that boomed throughout the whole lair. Annabella then looked over to the fridge. Even with the help of a chair, she couldn't possibly reach those cookies. Then a thought crossed her mind.
"Dante!" Dante, who just so happened to be near the kitchen to see what happened, walked in.
"What?"
"Help me."
"With what?" Annabella pointed to the cookies on top of the fridge. "Didn't Mommy say you can't have any?"
"What are you? A parrot? Help me get them down."
"Why should I?"
"There'll be a nice reward if you do."
"No thanks," Dante said, "I don't want to get in trouble." Annabella shrugged.
"Suit yourself, more for me," Annabella then grabbed a chair then pushed it to the fridge. She climbed on top of it and looked up to the cookies. Then she started jumping for it.
"You're gonna fall."
"Shut up!" She was about to give up on cookies but she want to give it one more jump. Annabella bent her legs then jumped and she miraculously had the cookies in her hand. "Ha! In your face, Dante! That's what you get for doubting me!"
"Um, Hannah," Dante said nervously, "I think you had a little help."
"Huh?" Dante pointed down below her. Annabella looked down and noticed that she was no longer standing on the chair but being hoisted into the air by four vines.
"You look like Dr. Octopus with those things coming out your sides."
"Shut up! At least I have cool superpowers now. What power do you have? The power to whine?"
"I'm getting Mommy and Daddy," Dante said as he walked towards the exit of kitchen. Then one of the vines shot towards Dante and grabbed his arm. "Hey, get it off me!"
"Don't get Mommy and Daddy, then!" Annabella said as another vine shot after Dante.
"Mommy! Daddy!" Dante yelled. Immediately, the two adults appeared in the kitchen.
"Dante?" Drakken asked, "Are you okay?" Drakken then looked over to Annabella who had vines coming out of her.
"Dr. D," Shego said slowly, "I think your daughter has superpowers..." Drakken was about nod in agreement until he caught what she said.
"Wait, my daughter?" Indigo sighed.
"So after I was scolded for trying to turn my mom and dad against each other, I was then told that I had to control my powers. Before that day, I didn't even know my mom and dad had powers but I kind of suspected it. Also, after that, my mom started to show her anger through plasma blasts more often." Officer Wilson nodded.
"Well, that explains the vines but what about the flames?"
"I threw a tantrum the week after and incinerated half the lair."
"And your brother? Dante, was it?" Indigo nodded.
"I suspected he had his powers longer than I did, given his reaction to mine, but he just didn't tell anyone."
"When did you and your family find out?"
"About a few months later,"Indigo said, "I was starting to get suspicious about his apathic attitude towards my powers. So one day, I decided to find out if he had them or not..."
"That's it! I quit!" yelled an old woman leaving the lair.
"Wait!" Drakken yelled after her, "I'll triple your pay!" The woman turned to Drakken.
"No amount of money is enough for me to continue teaching that...thing you call your daughter! Perhaps if she was as civil and well-behaved as your son then maybe I would stay but, until then, good day to you, sir!" And with that, she slammed the door.
"That's the fifth one this week," Dante announced in an annoyed tone.
"I think that's a new record, huh, Danny?" Annabella said in snarky tone.
"Annabella," Drakken whined, "Daddy pays good money for these teachers and all you do is scare them off."
"I'm sorry, Daddy," Annabella said in feigned innocence, "But I can't help showing off."
"Yes, you can," Dante said, earning a glare from Annabella, "She knew the last teacher hated snakes so she kept tricking her into thinking that Hannah's vines were snakes."
"Thank you, Captain Snitch," Annabella said sarcastically, "You can sail back to Tattletale Island now."
"Annabella," Drakken said more sternly, "All I ask from you is to not scare any more teachers, please."
"Fine, now go to your room. Both of you."
"What did I do?" Dante asked.
"Just go. Your mother's not going to be happy when she hears that we lost another teacher." Dante and Annabella nodded and started walking towards their room.
"Mommy's going to yell at you when she comes home," Dante said to Annabella. Annabella rolled her eyes.
"Of course she is," Annabella said, "But at least I had fun, right?"
"No," Dante argued, "Your powers are going to get you in trouble."
"So? Don't you wish you had powers?"
"I would like to stay out of trouble, thank you."
"Fine then, party pooper," Annabella teased, "But you didn't answer my question." Then Dante shrugged.
"We don't exactly have a choice on those type of things." Annabella stopped walking.
"What is that supposed to mean?" She asked confused.
"Nothing," Dante said cryptically, "But everything at the same time. I don't know." Then he continued towards the room.
"It was then that I thought that maybe Dante had his powers already but didn't tell anybody." Indigo saidg her position on the wall.
"You guys were only five, right? You guys don't sound like children." Officer Wilson said confused.
"Once again, that's another story for another day," Indigo said, "Let's me finished this one. Where was I? Oh yeah...I wanted to find out if he really had them or not so I devised a plan. At the time, Dante was afraid of the dark. Or at least he hated the dark, which was enough to get this plan rolling..." Annabella followed her brother very quietly that night. When he was by himself in the hallway, Annabella turned off the light behind him. The hallway became pitch black. Then she lit a finger and put the blue flame in front of her face.
"What's wrong, Dante? 'Fraid of the dark?" Annabella gave a wicked laugh.
"Hannah, turn back on the lights!"
"Hmm," she pretended to think about it, "No." Then the flame went out. Annabella's vines then gripped onto the roof then pulled her up. Although he couldn't see it, Annabella was smiling at Dante's pain. Responding to her subconscious, Annabella's vines grabbed Dante's legs and pulled him into the air. Getting the almost perfect reaction, a blue green flame sliced into the vines thus releasing Dante from its grasp. Then the lights suddenly came on.
"What is going on?" The twins looked over to their mother. Annabella, who was still on the roof, looked down to her brother.
"Hannah turned off the light then attacked me," Dante said. Annabella rolled her eyes. This kid is always telling on her. Shego sighed.
"Just go to be-" Her sentence fell short as Shego stopped to stare at Dante, "Um, Dante? What is that?"
"What is what?" He asked confused.
"On your neck."
"Don't worry, bro," Annabella said with a pseudo helpful smile, "I got it!" A vine shot out to get whatever it was off Dante's neck but the vine was immediately stopped by another getting there. However, the vine didn't belong to Annabella. "Ha! I knew it! Dante has powers too!" Shego looked over to the sight before her and sighed. If she thought parenting was hard now, she certainly didn't take in account her two twin geniuses both having superpowers.
"And so, my brother and I had powers," Indigo said, ending her little stories of today. "Okay, story time's over. Breakfast will be soon and I'm starving." Officer Wilson nodded.
"Okay, stay out of trouble."
"No promises," Indigo sighed in response. Wilson rolled her eyes and walked away. When she was far away, Indigo contemplating escaping now. Then she shook head. "Just a few more days and I will get to leave soon enough."
Huh, I thought this was longer. Anyway, hope you enjoyed! How do you feel about Indigo and the story so far? We'll get to the main part of the story soon enough but until then, read and review and I will see you next time!