Superhero Blues

Forty-Two Years Going Forward

Alright. Another reviewer wanted to see how Wilbur and Kendra handle their parents as babies. Here it is!

"Come back here!" Kendra chased after Baby Franny. She tried to zap her back to an adult, but Franny kept running away, causing Kendra to turn flowers around the halls dead and newly painted doors rotting and chipped. "Come on, Mom! It's not going to hurt!"

Wilbur probably had more trouble than what his super powered sister had. Baby Cornelius started to gnaw on everything. "I didn't know my dad could have a big appetite as a baby!" Wilbur tried to pull his father away from eating Wilbur's bed. Cornelius flung out of Wilbur's grip, and Wilbur wondered where he landed on.

"Dad? Where are you?" Wilbur almost freaked out, but found Cornelius dangling off the balcony. He was giggling and kicking the air. "Oh my God! Dad, I'll save you!"

Cornelius must have thought it would be fun to let go and land down the first floor. Wilbur's heart jumped, but slowed down when his little father landed safely on the couch. Cornelius laughed. Wilbur sighed. He looked down the balcony again, and found his dad gone. Wilbur took the nearest travel tube.

Kendra had no luck finding Franny. Sometimes, she would find her hiding in the most unusual places, then running away. Kendra could track Franny where she was, but Franny would get away from her. Kendra walked down the hallway, trying to find Franny somewhere in a door. Kendra could sense someone in the door next to her. She opened it.

"Ahhh! Do you mind?" Kendra saw Carl the robot taking a bath in a bathtub. He wore a shower cap on his metal head.

"You take baths?"

"In oil, yes."

Kendra nodded. "Have you heard a screaming baby pass by you somehow?"

"Yes, I have. She was probably taking the next travel tube on your right. Why? Something wrong?" Carl scrubbed some oil on his arm.

"Nothing, I guess. But thanks." Kendra replied.

"Okay, now let the shower faucet and I have some privacy." Carl rubbed the silver shower faucet across from the bathtub.

"You have a date with a shower faucet?" Kendra thought.

"Personal reasons. You won't understand unless you are me. Now go!"

Kendra closed the door. She sighed and ran to the nearest travel tube. The next thing she knew, she found herself in the garage. She found Franny playing with her dad's tools. Baby Franny decided to put a screwdriver in her mouth.

"Mom, stop that!"

Franny saw Kendra and ran around screaming. Kendra lunged at her and held the baby up. She stopped crying for a little bit. "Got you!"

Franny kicked and screamed, causing the showcase glass that covered her Dad's failed projects to shatter and litter all over the floor. Kendra became stunned and almost lost her grip. She did not know her mom could scream like an opera singer. Franny managed to escape and run away from her. None of the glass pierced her skin. Kendra flew after Franny, but Franny ended up being sucked into the travel tube. Kendra remember that it must have lead to the lab, and followed her.

Wilbur landed from the other end of the tube. He found himself in Cornelius's lab. It was cluttered with spectacular inventions. Inventions that could be dangerous to a baby. No wonder Dad didn't let me in here when I was a baby. He thought.

He found a giggling baby near an invention. "No, Dad! Don't touch that! It's the—"

Wilbur found himself floating into the air. He would have enjoyed it, but he had a baby to get. While still in the air, Wilbur found Baby Cornelius sticking onto the glass dome ceiling. "Dad!" Wilbur tried to figure out how to fly toward him, but struggled.

Kendra came out of the travel tube after Franny came out. Both of them floated to the ceiling. "Wilbur, what happened?"

"Dad turned on the Gravitator!" Wilbur yelled, finding himself floating upside-down. "The thingy that adjusts gravity in a room!"

"I'll go turn it off!" Kendra yelled back. She looked like she swam in the air and down to the bottom where the machine was. She flipped it off.

Wilbur did not expect to fall to the ground, but Kendra soon caught him along with Cornelius and Franny. Wilbur landed safely on the ground, but both babies managed to sneak out of Kendra's arms. Wilbur saw Cornelius and Franny bang on the glass with some power tools. Cornelius held a battery-powered drill while Franny held a battery charged screwdriver.

"The glass is going to crack!" Kendra predicted. She noticed some cracks from the glass. The large glass in the middle of the lab held a bubbly green chemical. As the babies banged on it, some of the liquid leaked out.

"What is that stuff?" Wilbur asked.

"I think Dad told us it was…" Kendra explained when the glass cracked and immediately flowed out the green chemical. "Those kind of chemicals that make stuff glow!" Kendra picked up Wilbur and then flew right where the glowing chemical could have wiped them out.

Wilbur called, "Where is Mom and Dad?"

Kendra looked around as the hovered in the air. "Over there! They are sitting on a wood board!"

Wilbur saw a wave of green coming toward Cornelius and Franny. "We need to save them!"

Kendra tried to avoid the overflowing chemical to splash onto them. She found a large metal part float by them. Stretching her arm, she grabbed it and stood on it. Wilbur tried to grab onto Kendra's leg. "Hold on, Wil. And try not to swallow any of the glowy stuff!"

As if Kendra knew how to surf, she rode the green wave up to where Cornelius and Franny were. They were under the wave. Kendra grabbed her father, then struggled to get her mother. Wilbur held onto them just so they do not loose each other.

"This is going to be a bumpy ride, guys!" Kendra warned. She tried avoiding the large splashy wave and tried to ride over it. Since she was not a professional, she got herself, Wilbur, and her baby parents wiped out into the small sea of green. Wilbur swam up to the surface with only Franny on the metal board. The chemical was splashing Cornelius, hanging onto a broken metal support beam. He was crying.

Wilbur swam with his metal board, and reached Cornelius. He was pulled safely with Wilbur and Franny. Wilbur could see Kendra swimming down the surface. He knew she did not drown because of her water ability to hold her breath for a long time. Down under, Kendra kicked herself to open the lab door. With a super-hard push, the green chemical flowed out of the lab. The chemical ended up in the nearby drains. Wilbur and the babies sat on the metal part as the green stuff drained out. Kendra shook herself dry.

"I think we are going to be in trouble when you turn our parents back to adults." Wilbur told Kendra.

"It can't be as worse as destroying the house." Kendra thought. She zapped her parents, who fell tired and went to sleep in Wilbur's wet arms. Wilbur soon found himself with weight on his legs. Their parents were asleep when Kendra got them off Wilbur.

***

Before the whole family knew about what happened, Kendra and Wilbur cleaned the whole lab, making sure the floors do not glow in the dark. Kendra placed their parents in bed because they were still tired. After dinner, Wilbur and Kendra took a shower and went to bed.

Cornelius and Franny quietly opened the door to their rooms. After finding themselves in bed, they decided to check on them in their own rooms. They were in deep sleep, and strangely glowing like a glow stick.

Okay, so maybe that's not how parenting is like, but at least it's the exaggerated version of it! Something tells me Kendra and Wilbur is going to change their minds about parenting. Not!