The Incredible Future The Next Generation
Chapter 4
Bobby watched C.A.R.L. tell Lewis about the story of how his parents met. He remembered how they had once told him that story long ago when he was still very young. it was always one of his favourite stories. He continued listening, when Helena came in.
"mommy says dinner's ready soon." she then looked and saw Lewis, which she suddenly became quiet. Bobby knew what that was, she was always shy when meeting new people and he apparently liked it when guest came over because of that. He learnt that she got that from their mother. His mom was shy when she was a kid and became confident when she became a super. Helena however didn't have any powers and he wondered if she'll ever be confident.
"Okay Helena, we'll be down in a minute." he said.
The little girl than skipped out of the room and Bobby shut the door behind her.
"Well I better get going, I might be requested to set up." said C.A.R.L. standing up and stretching. He was then out of the door.
He leaned on the wall when he heard a car door slam. Dad couldn't be home already, could he? He went over to the window and gasped. He fell to the ground and started complaining.
Lewis was wondering what could be so bad, he came over to the window and all he saw was a group of people. They didn't look so bad, in fact they looked pretty normal to him. There were heaps of people. Were they having a party or something. He didn't recognise any of them, maybe they were Violet's family. He looked over to Bobby who was still on the ground complaining. He was definitely Wilbur's son alright.
"Why? Why? Of all nights why?" he cried.
Lewis watched him, "What's your problem?" he asked.
Bobby got up, "My mom's family is here, that's what." he said.
Lewis again looked down at them, what was wrong with them. "So what if their over, they seem normal to me."
"Normal, they are no where near normal!" shouted Bobby.
"So you're telling me that they are like your dad's family. Is that it?"
"No they are not, my dad's family is normal compared to them."
"What do you mean? I have met them and they don't act like the average normal family."
"Look they are SUPERS!" Bobby then realised what he said and held hi hand over his mouth.
"They are what?" asked Lewis with a look of shock on his face.
"Oh nothing, forget what you heard." he said.
"You said they were supers and that's not something I can easily forget." said Lewis crossing his arms.
He knew it was too late now. He had just blabbed out his family's secret. He sighed. "Fine most of the people on my mom's side are supers. They have all these powers that you can only dream about."
Lewis was surprised. Did Wilbur know that he had been married into a family of supers or did they keep that a secret from him? " I see why you made a fuss, it's because you didn't want me to find out. "
"Yes, that was kind of the point." he sighed.
"Do you have a super power?" asked Lewis.
Bobby gritted his teeth. He wasn't sure if he could tell Lewis or not about his powers.
"Come on I can keep your secret. It's not like you exist in my time anyway."
He had to admit Lewis was right about that, but then again they never told his future self either.
"Are you a super or not?" asked Lewis impatiently.
"Fine I can time travel."
Bobby can time travel. So that's how he got to the future. When he grabbed Bobby earlier he must have grabbed him when he was going back.
"Okay, then why did you go the past?" he asked.
"That's something I don't know. Because one minute I'm in the future and the next I'm in the past. There has been something wrong with my powers lately." he answered.
"Then why don't you tell your parents?"
"Because it happened only twice, the first time was about a week ago and it stopped, so I figured that it was nothing to worry about and then it happened again today."
"I see." nodded Lewis.
"Boys dinner's ready." said his mother through a speaker.
"We better get going." said Bobby.
The two boys went downstairs and headed for the dining room. It was pretty crowded in there. Lewis saw that it was only a little bit smaller than the Robinson dining room. Bobby grabbed Lewis and took him over to where Violet was about to sit.
"Hey mom, I kind of let the super thing slip and accidentally told Louie."
She looked at him than at Lewis. "Do you promise to keep our secret?" she asked him.
"Well, yes." replied Lewis.
"Good, otherwise we might have to get the government involved and we don't want that to happen."
The government knew about supers. He wondered what they would do to him if he told someone else. He tried not to think about it. Bobby had ran off after that and took a seat somewhere. Lewis was left on his own. He went over to an empty seat and didn't pay attention to where he was going that he bumped into someone. "Oh sorry." he said.
The person he bumped into turned around. It was a young girl who looked to be about eight or nine. She was wearing a pink and white dress and she had long, wavy, blonde hair.
"It's okay." she giggled. "Say I don't think I've met you yet. I'm Ebony, Ebony Parr." she said taking her hand out to be shaken.
"I'm Louie." he answered reaching to shake her hand. He was getting use to saying that name. He looked at her an noticed she was blushing.
"you know you're pretty cute." she blushed.
"Ahh… thanks." he said awkwardly.
"We should probably hang out some time." she said dreamingly.
"Um…sorry, but I'm only here for a few days."
"Oh" she sighed disappointedly. "maybe we could do like a long distance relationship." she suggested.
"I can't, I already like someone." he said thinking about Franny.
"What is this person your girlfriend?" she asked.
"Well…yeah." he answered. Him and Franny were still on the close friends stage and they both were starting to really fall for each other. Anyway Ebony was a nice girl, but she wasn't the one for him.
"Okay then. But just so you know I always get what I want." she said and she skipped away.
Lewis found a seat by Bobby. He asked Bobby about his family and he learnt that Ebony was the daughter of Chip and Sarah. Chip was Violet's nephew, but because she was frozen he was her cousin. Chip's father was Dash and Violet's real brother or in this case her uncle. Dash was married to Katarina. Violet also had another brother, his name was Jack-Jack and he was married to Amy and they had twins named Jamie and AJ. He got it after a while. He kept getting confused because of her being frozen.
For dinner they had lasagne. Everyone spent most of the time chatting.
"Hey Louie do you think you could take your hat off?" said Ebony who was walking pass his seat.
She didn't like being rejected earlier and she kept watching him and noticed that he kept fiddling with his hat. Maybe he was hiding something and if she could get him to take it off than he would be embarrassed in front of everyone. It was the perfect revenge plan.
Lewis got nervous. He could feel himself sweating. He looked over to Bobby and hoped he had a plan. It was déjà vu. Last time they only managed to get out of this thanks to Wilbur's quick thinking.
"Well go on." urged Ebony.
Only a while ago she seemed so innocent and now she was trying to make him reveal that he was from the past. Come on Bobby he thought.
Everyone was already gathering around Lewis and bobby needed to think fast. He grabbed some lasagne with his fork and flicked it across the table. It hit Chip and he looked around to who hit it. Bobby pointed to his mom. Chip had a sneaky grin on his face. He grabbed his plate and disappeared.
"Ugh"
He looked over to his mom and saw that she had a smear of sauce on her face. He then saw Chip who had a reappeared in his seat. He tried to look all innocent.
"Surely that is not the best you can do." said Violet.
"Who said I did it?" Said Chip smiling back at her.
"You don't fool me."
"Oh it's on." and he started teleporting around the room with his plated and kept throwing the food at her, but she had blocked them all with her force fields.
"It's always defence for you." teased Chip.
Violet smiled and grabbed her plate. She then disappeared with her plate. Her powers had progressed over the years that now everything she wore and touched would disappear completely with her. Chip had stopped throwing his food, but he didn't stop teleporting. He didn't stay in one place too long in case Violet would attack him. it was hard to find her when she was invisible. Violet waited patiently on the side. She waited for Chip to teleport near and WHAM. She had smashed the plate on his face. She reappeared and said "How's that for defence."
Chip's face was covered in lasagne. Everyone was laughing and cheering. Bobby sighed. They had completely forgotten about Lewis.
Lewis was relieved. He was also astounded by their powers. He never thought that Teleporting and invisibility could be possible but for them it was very possible.