Chapter 14: Revelations

Violet groaned, then opened her eyes to find she was in one of the advanced cages they had, designed for the supers they captured. The metal box was made of a powerful mineral, greater then steel, and had a powerful shield around it, keeping them in. there was also a handful of monitors set up by the cages, allowing the guards to check infrared, X-ray and even administer electric shocks and sleeper gas.

Looking around, she found herself in some room, one she had never been in before, and saw her parents and another small woman, which she instantly recognized as Edna Mode after a minute, in their own cages.

Over by the door was Edge, who was polishing one of his prized pistols, and seemed a bit downcast. Then she saw him. Standing near Edge, working on a computer, was Shade.

"What's going on here?" Violet asked in confusion, desperately trying to understand what on earth was happening, and not liking where things were going.

"This" Shade said calmly and casually. "Is called a double cross" he stated as he continued typing on the computer.

"Bu...But why?" Violet asked, feeling like her safe world was once again starting to crack and shatter.

Edge reflexively made a move towards her, only for Shade to bark a command and he, with a great deal of hesitation, went back to leaning on the wall. "Who are you! Why did you steal my daughter!" her father yelled at Shade.

The wide rimmed hat wearing head agent turned and calmly met Mr. Incredible's stare. "That is not important, and I didn't steal her. She chose to come" he then returned to his work.

"Why Shade?" Violet asked, sounding broken. How did this happen? Why did this happen? What was going on?

Shade simply stared at her, not even looking at the computer while he typed. "Why what?" he asked, sounding generally confused.

"Why...Why all of this? Why did you..." she said softly.

The agent sighed. "I thought it was pretty clear. I used you to do what I needed, and then dropped you like a sack of rotten potatoes when you were no longer of use to me" he said calmly. "Just like Mist..." he muttered.

Violet gasped. "Y..You?" she asked in shock.

Shade simply nodded, most likely tired of talking. "What? No speech?" her mom said in a mocking tone.

Shade just sighed once more. "Waste of time" he stated before going back to his work.

"Oh your one of those villains" she said suggestively, causing another groan. "So, how did a guy like you get alll of this and all these servants? Kill a bunch of people to get to where you are huh? I bet you never e-"

"QUIET!" Shade growled, looking positively ticked. He hit a button on the desk the computer was on, which was shaped like a L, and her mother started screaming as her cage's shock emitters activated. A few seconds later and the other three turned on and Violet and the rest of her family, along with Edna, began screaming as powerful shock currents ripped through them.

After a few minutes the shock waves ended and Violet slumped to the floor. Now that she could hear something other then her own screams, she noticed Edge was arguing with Shade

"You said she wouldn't be tutored! Heck, you said she wouldn't end up like this!" Edge yelled at him.

"I cannot help it if my security are buffoons who can't keep tourists out of a top secret base. The fact that they arrived here is chance." Shade said in his normally calm voice and continued his typing.

Edge just grumbled. "This is getting out of hand" he muttered. "First Whisper and now Violet? Next it's me right?" he said sarcastically as he slumped down into a chair.

Shade just growled. "If you don't stop, then it will be..." he warned. He then turned towards his captives. "Since you won't be alive in the next few minutes, I suppose I will grant your wish and tell you my plan...though it is rather distasteful" he said, staring at Mrs. Incredible.

"Your daughter, is actually to thank for most of what was accomplished. She retrieved for me a Russian computer program that controls their nuclear defense array. She also did another favor for me. She shot the President..." he said smugly, as both of the elder Parr's gasped.

"LIAR!" Violet shouted, while her parents stared between Shade and her in shock and confusion.

"Oh I am afraid it's completely true. But you knew the president as a 'Terrorist Supplier' " the grin he gave her was truly sadistic.

Violet froze. Her heart stopped and her fists clenched. She had...he had...no. "You..." the words died in her throat. She had shot the President. She had...no. No . No. No!

"You Monster!" her father yelled.

"Im afraid Violet is the monster. Not me" Shade said as he walked back towards the computer. "With both the President dead and the control over the Russian nuclear warheads, I am set to rule the world. All I have to do is use my identity as the Vice President, and then nuke America, then I shall nuke Russia and begin my conquest of the world" he said calmly, but his voice still had a evil, sadistic twist to it unlike any other villain she had ever known.

Shade then hit a button on the computer. "There" he said as a countdown began. "Just enough time to become President. I can see it now, 'Russia Attacks America and New President With Nukes, President Barely Escapes' ah it will be wonderful" he said and headed for the door. "Kill them" he stated to Edge, then left.

Violet stared hard at Edge, who was visibly struggling. He moved towards the master controls and slowly turned the dial up to the maximum level, a setting that would kill them within seconds. He then moved his hand towards the red button, gulping as he did this, his hand moving back a inch for every two inches his hand moved towards the button.

"Don't Edge!" she yelled, causing him to momentarily stop and look at her. "You can't do this! What about all of that stuff you said about preserving peace, justice and freedom huh? What about the fight against evil! Stopping corruption!" she asked quickly. "What about me!" she demanded.

Edge slowly came to a halt once more. "I'm...I'm sorry Violet" he said softly, but loud enough for her to hear. He then reached down again.

"Can you live with yourself, can you deal with all of all of the deaths your going to allow to happen, all the deaths and destruction Shade will cause. Your not a true super if you let that happen!" Violet shouted.

Edge just sighed in defeat. "I've never been a true super Vi. Just a guy that makes do with what he's got" he said softly, then moved his hand towards the button, before moving it aside and hitting the green release button.

Violet watched the shield disappear and the door swung open, then ran towards Edge. Her father got there first and socked him right in the jaw, sending the man into the wall with a groan. "Dad!" she yelled and through up a shield just in time, as her father slammed his fist inches from Edge's nose, the shield barely holding.

"Stop!' she shouted.

"He almost killed you!" her father yelled.

"He just let you go!" she argued.

With a comforting hand placed on his shoulder by his wife, Bob slowly nodded, then stood back. Violet let the shield drop, and Edge warily stood up, only to be hugged tightly by Violet. "Hey" he said with a groan, "No need to crush me..." he said.

Violet just chuckled softly, stared into his eyes, then slapped him. "Ow! What was that for?" he asked with a glare.

"For knocking me out, trying to kill me, working for Edge..."

"Your point?"

"Just kiss me..."

Both Parr's and Edna then watched as the two shared a brief kiss, which caused a smiling Helen to lean against a slightly angry Bob. "What are you doing?" Edna yelled.

Both young adults turned to her, breaking their kiss. "Um...Kissing?" they said innocently.

"The world is at stake and you two are kissing?" Edna shouted in shock. "You should be stopping the evil villain from fleeing!" she yelled.

"Right..." Edge said and then took Violet by the hand and ran after Shade. Bob and Helen in toe.

Then Edna pushed Bob aside. "Move, Edna will deal with the missiles" she shouted and began working on the device while the other supers ran past her.

The group of Supers quickly ran down the halls of the base, forced to fight groups of Supers and squads of Policemen that they ran into, before they made it to a pair of double doors that led out onto a landing, where they could see a Chopper preparing for takeoff.

Before the doors stood Bolt. "I don't know what's going on" he said slowly as electricity drew around him. "But your not passing" he warned them.

"Go" Edge whispered. "I'll deal with him" he said and kissed Violets cheek. "Hey grumpy come get some" he yelled and fired his twin revolvers at him, missing, but forcing the now distracted super to attack him.

Violet wanted to help him, but she knew she needed to stop Shade. Running with her parents, they made it out onto the landing and found Shade just now getting onto the chopper. "Fair well!" he called, though it was obvious he was confused as to how they were alive and well.

Violet immediately created a shield around the Chopper's rotors, causing them to be crushed to bits. "Oh no you don't" she shouted and Shade dropped to the ground, just as the chopper flew off and crashed into the fence around the base.

"Clever girl" he said, dusting himself off. Just then, the double doors blew open and Bolt crashed through, his arm bleeding and his face covered in bruises. Shade actually gaped when he saw Edge walking up to him, his revolvers smoking. "Traitor!" he shouted, his face going red with rage. He then glanced at the four supers. "Very well. I suppose you two should die together!" Shade shouted and flung his cloak aside, revealing a M60D, one of the more powerful machine guns they had been trained to use. "Goodbye supers!" he shouted, starting to lose it now that his plan was falling apart, then his gun roared to life and a stream of bullets shot out, hitting Edge in the arm and chest, and her mom in the legs, disabling both.

"Edge!"

"Helen!"

"What? Not so super now?" he asked and fired again at them, only for Bob to run at him, dodging the bullets, and managing to smack the gun to the ground, before delivering a uppercut to the jaw. Shade flew across the landing, but stood back up and blasted her father with a dark purple force field, then chuckled at her expression.

"We are more alike then you may think" he said and then blasted her to the edge of the landing, where he captured her within a force field. "Now where is-" shade was then blasted across the landing again by her father, who had gotten back up and was now running at a now downed Shade, only to be blasted again.

Violet, meanwhile was trying to escape her shield. This was were the flaw in shields became dangerous, they kept pretty much everything out, but that included air as well. And she was quickly running out of it.

Back with her father, he was once again landing hits on Shade, only to be blasted over and over by Shade's shield turned energy blasts. However he eventually jumped backwards, away from her dad. "Let's try something new" he said and his body deformed and then shifted to that of...Frozone? "I have more then just one power" he said smugly, then began to shoot ice at Mr. Incredible.

The bigger man began to jump and dodge with a grace unexpected for someone with his gait and height, but he still managed to do it. Growing frustrated, Shade jumped onto an ice board and flew right at Mr. Incredible, ice trailing behind him.

Just when he was about to impale the super with a ice pike, Mr. Incredible jumped out of the way and grabbed him by the ankles, then began spinning him over and over before throwing him across the landing.

The ice melted and Shade changed again, this time into Mr. Incredible himself. "What is it with you? Can't you just accept your outmatched?" Shade roared, losing his mind a bit more, then he ran at her dad and the two clashed like a pair of massive and super powerful sumo wrestlers. Trading punches and kicks and jabs they fought, equally matched in strength and speed, Shade possibly being a bit faster.

After another ten minutes, Shade stumbled back from a powerful punch and returns to his normal form, just as Mr. Incredible kicked his legs out and prepared to finish his foe. Just then, Shade switched to Violet, and the super froze, just long enough for Shade to grab his discarded gun and fire it up at her dad, sending him flying backwards with numerous bullet wounds.

Violet, who was nearly out of air, screamed. "NO!" she yelled and with a great amount of will, broke the shield around her and ran at Shade, tackling him as he tried to shoot her, sending his shots wild and his gun flying. Shade returned to his normal form and blasted her off him.

"You...people are cra...crazy" he muttered and shot another blast at the downed Violet. "But i'll fix that..." he whispered menacingly as he began crushing Violet with the new shield he had placed around her. "Say goodbye sweetheart! This is th-" suddenly a gun shot went off and Shade froze, his shield vanished.

Violet turned her battered head and saw Edge holding one of his revolvers with his good hand, the barrel smoking. "Goodbye Sweetheart..." he coughed out, then fired the gun twice more, sending Shade flying backwards, where he landed on his back and coughed up a small mist of blood.

Violet slowly stood up, clutching her arm, and moved towards the Villain. "This...This isn't over...mark my words...Violet...i will..get...my re-" Shade's eyes froze and his mouth hung as his body locked up, then slumped back down as his chest stopped moving, a bloody spot forming where Edge had hit him in the chest.

Violet continued to stare at his cold, lifeless eyes while her family managed to slowly stand up, Edge helping her mother over to her dad before he came over and held her, both of them staring at Shade, the man that had been their friend, boss and enemy.