Wilbur sat in the middle of an interrogation room. He had his hands cuffed to the table and all of his weapons had of course been confiscated. In hindsight starting off with the future story may have been a bit much. Probably should have eased in to it. Now he was… well, he didn't exactly know where he was, but it had to be some place important.
He looked down at the cuffs. They were uncomfortable, and he was debating whether or not he should just pick them or not. He decided against it. He didn't want to get into anymore trouble than he already was. The door opened and suddenly an old man with a wrinkled face entered. Wilbur raised an eyebrow at the man. "Who are you?"
"My name is Rick Dicker, and from here on I'll be the one asking the questions." He said pulling his chair out and taking a seat.
Wilbur sighed. "Could you at least tell me where I am?"
Rick looked at him curiously, debating whether he should tell him or not. He figured by the end of this the kids would probably have his mind wiped anyway, so there was no harm in it. "You are within the custody of the National Supers Agency. You are being contained because you apparently have information that you're most definitely not supposed to have."
He lifted up a file and then opened it, quickly skimming through it. "Now you claim to be Cornelius Robinson's son, but seeing as he's only just turned nineteen, and you look about sixteen, you'd have to have been conceived when he was three."
Wilbur looked confused and muttered under his breath for a few seconds, then snapped his fingers. He quickly snapped out of it and looked back towards Rick. "I'm guessing you're just gonna glaze right over than from the future story huh?" Wilbur said leaning back in his chair. "Can't blame you, I forgot how crazy is sounds to the average person."
"Well, I'm not exactly an average person. I've seen quite a few crazy things in my day. For all I know you could be telling the truth. But you got no proof, so why should I believe you?"
Wilbur knew he was right. If he wanted to get anywhere he'd have to start showing some evidence. "Okay, here's the deal. I need your help, and even though you don't know it yet, you're going to need mine. So I'll cooperate in any way you want. Whatever info you want to hear, I'm game for sharing. But, I need three things first."
Rick narrowed his eyes. "You're trying to make demands in your position?"
"More like request."
"Okay, let's hear them, and I'll see what I can do."
Wilbur placed a finger on the table. "Number one, I want you to contact Cornelius Robinson. He can vouch for me coming from the future. I don't care if you wanna bring him in or not, but tell him Wilbur sent you, he'll understand."
Rick sighed. "I'll send some people to talk to him." Maybe talking to Cornelius would clear up some of this time travel business. "The second thing?"
"There should be a man stationed at one of your bases named Johan Schmitt. I need to talk to him. He played a huge role in the events that will unfold."
Rick looked irritated. Did this kid really have info on their agents too? He had no idea who this Schmitt guy was, but he knew he'd have to run a search for him. "The third."
"I want a cheeseburger." Wilbur said. "I know that sounds ridiculous, but I'm serious. I haven't had one in years, I'm starving, I want a cheeseburger. And I mean like double patties, secret sauce, bacon, all that jazz."
Rick looked like he wanted to strangle this kid. Was this a joke to him? "Yeah, I'll get on that."
Wilbur watched as he got up from his seat and then headed for the door. "Oh, and could you send that Violet girl back in? Could use someone to chat with. Keep my mind off my stomach, you know?" He said with a smirk.
Rick didn't answer him and just walked out of the door. He turned to Violet who had been staring through the class. "You think he's telling the truth?" Violet asked. Rick was much better at reading people then she was.
"All the signs I'm picking up say he is. But it's still a pretty hard pill to swallow." He said rubbing his chin. "You did a good job bringing him here. If his story is false he could end up being a real threat to not just that NSA, but to national security in general."
"It's not like I knew what else to do with him." Violet said staring at the boy. He seemed so laid back, despite being in such a dire situation. "Should I go in there or…?"
"If you want. It'll take a few hours to get into contact with Cornelius. And if this Johan guy really is with us we'll have to bring him in for questioning as well. Your call." He said making his way down the hall.
Violet turned back towards the boy who was whistling and staring up at the ceiling. She signed and started making her way to the door. She knew her dad probably wouldn't approve being in there with a potential threat, and she wouldn't even try and pretend she was some top notch interrogator, but her curiosity was getting the better of her.
She had to figure out if this guy was serious, or just plain crazy. And besides, maybe she would get lucky and could get some more info out of him. When she entered the room, Wilbur smiled. "Well, if it isn't Ms. Force field herself."
Violet frowned and took a seat across from him. "Why did you want to talk with me?"
"Do I really need an excuse to talk with a pretty girl?" He asked.
She looked annoyed. "I'm leaving."
"Oh come on, I'm just joking. Look, you're the first person I met since I got to this time, and I'd like to start off on the right food." He said. "You know, the foot that doesn't lead to you hitting me in the head with a force field."
She blushed slightly and looked down at the table. "I… I thought you were attacking."
He chuckled. "It's cool. I shouldn't have reached out to grab you like that. I was just a little scrambled and wasn't thinking clearly. So, what do you say to starting over?" He somehow had slipped out of the cuffs and held his hand out towards her.
She looked shocked. "When-?! How did you…?"
"It's a handshake. I'm pretty sure they have those in this time." He joked. She hesitantly reached out and shook his hand. "Wilbur Robinson."
"…Violet Parr." It wasn't like he didn't know her name already. Violet was slowly beginning to realize this kid wasn't lying. Or rather, she hoped he wasn't lying. He was the type of easy going guy you just wanted to trust in. But from what her parents had told her, they were also the most dangerous type of guys to deal with. "Your future story, is it real?"
Wilbur grew a serious look on his face. "I honestly wish I could say it wasn't. But yeah, I'm telling the truth." He said. "So far though everything seems to have just gone terribly wrong."
Violet offered a sympathetic look. "What exactly went wrong?"
Wilbur looked towards the class. He hoped they were all listen. He didn't want to have to explain this twice. "Like I told you earlier, I came from a time where human have almost been wiped out, by aliens. And I know how hard it is to believe in aliens when you're still trying to swallow that time travel thing, but it's true."
"They came, and they pretty much wiped the floor with us. I mean even with the united forces of the entire world, we were completely outgunned and out matched. We went from being the dominant species on the planet to being run to the brink of extinction."
Violet looked surprised. "What? No, that's impossible. We would have stopped it, the supers-"
"Give it their best shot. They really did. But they could only hold them off for so long." Wilbur said looking sad. "I became friends with a lot of them, and it was hard when…"
Violet looked a bit nervous. "M-my family. What happened to them?"
Wilbur scratched his head. "Your dad sacrificed himself to help a whole troop retreat back to safety. You're brother, the shape shifter, was captured. Your other brother went after him, and I never saw either of them again. Your mother was killed during an attack on one of our bases. You… I don't know what happened to you. You were assumed dead."
Violet grabbed her head. Her and her family, all dead? That couldn't be possible. They were the Incredibles. Her parents were the greatest heroes on the planet. They couldn't have been taken down by some aliens. She shook her head. No, she couldn't let something that hadn't even happened yet get to her. And for all she knew this kid might really be lying.
"O-okay. So you came back here to make sure that didn't happen, right?" She said trying to cover up the worry in his voice.
"We were supposed to come here a year before they invaded, but somehow ended up further back then intended." He said crossing his arms. "He said my dad was nineteen, meaning I should be in the year 2014, right?"
Violet nodded.
"Okay, so the aliens don't invade until 2040. Which means I'm stuck here for twenty six years, with pretty much nothing to do but-"
Violet held up her hand. "Wait, you said we earlier, didn't you?" He nodded. "You're not the only one here then? There are other people from the future who came with you?"
Wilbur grew wide eyed. "Holy crap! I forgot about mom!"
"Mom?"
He got up and headed for the door. "Our communicators should still work in this time, I need to try and contact her to make sure she's okay! She could have landed anywhere!"
Violet got up and made a force field. He bumped into it and stumbled back. "Calm down, there's about five armed guards on the other side of that door. The only reason they haven't come in and handcuffed you again is because of me."
Wilbur took a breath and then headed back to his seat. "You're right, you're right. Panicking now won't do anything. I was just… worried." He said sitting back down.
"Why would you're mother come back with you?" Violet asked.
"She and I were the only ones who knew how to work the time machine." He explained. "It had to be one of us, we were just both lucky enough to make it."
Violet still had a million questions. "If you have a time machine, why don't you just go to the time you want? And why do only you and your mother know how to work it?"
Wilbur sighed. "It was destroyed. You know that thing that crashed in front of your school?" Vi looked surprised. So that's what that bright light was. "As for why it had to be me or my mom, my dad was the one who built it. And since him and the rest of the family…" He stopped as memories of the Robinson family flooded his thoughts.
Violet saw a look of hurt on his face. "I'm sorry, I brought up some bad memories didn't I?"
Wilbur quickly shook his head. "No, no, I just… This is my chance to fix everything. To keep it all from happening. I need to get out of here and start gathering the others. Maybe if I can-"
There was a loud crash and the entire building began to shake. Both of them stumbled and fell to the ground. When the shaking finally stopped, Wilbur was the first to get up. He offered Violet a hand and pulled her up to her feet. "What was that?!" Violet asked.
"I don't know." Wilbur said looking worried. "But I have a bad feeling right now." More shaking came and the two barely managed to stay on their feet.
The door opened and one of the guards burst in. "Invisigirl, we need you above ground! There is some kind of… robot, attacking the base!"
Violet immediately headed for the door, but Wilbur grabbed her wrist. "Wait, I think I might know what we could be dealing with, I could help!"
She looked at him nervously and bit her lip. "I'm sorry, but it's too risky. Just stay here for now and let me deal with it." She said running off.
Wilbur sighed and watched as she left out of the room.
Violet made her way out of the building and tried to spot whatever it was she was supposed to be stopping. She didn't see anything. Suddenly an explosion went nearby. She shielded herself and then looked up and saw a large machine whizzing by. It turned around and floated there for a while.
Then it suddenly began firing again. Violet made another force field, and when the shots made contact she winced. These definitely weren't bullets. It looked like some kind of energy blast or something. She took a deep breath, concentrating, and strengthened the force field.
She raised her hand and made another one right over the robot, then swung down. The force field smashed down onto the robot, sending it spiraling towards the ground. It stopped just inches before crashing, and then sped towards her.
Violet quickly got rid of the shield and jumped out of the way, barely avoiding the robot. It kept going and crashed through the front of the building, and looked like it was going to keep going. Violet frowned and raised her hands. She made a force field around the robot and then pulled her hands back.
The robot was pulled back by the force field and then lifted into the air. Violet swung her hands down and then smashed the robot into the ground. She made a force field above it and then kept slamming it on top of the robot. Now that she could move her force fields, she could use her power more offensively.
She prepared to slam down on it again, but suddenly the robot rose up, smashing the force field into pieces. Violet gasped and backed up as the robot began hovering towards her. It prepared to fire, and Violet got ready to shield herself, but suddenly a figure smashed into the robot sending it crashing right back to the ground.
Bob sat on top of the robot and smiled at his daughter. "Need some help?"
Violet smiled, never so relieved to see her father. "Looks like you had a busy day Vi!" She looked beside her and saw Dash standing beside her. "Why don't you take five, let us handle this!" He said smiling.
"And let you take all the glory? Yeah right." She said raising her hands.
The robot managed to shake Bob off. Helen suddenly appeared and stretched out, grabbing a nearby tree and catching Bob before he hit the ground. "Thanks honey."
"No problem." Helen said.
Dash moved forward and caught the robots attention. "Hey, robo-dork! Over here!" The robot fired but he easily moved out of the way. "Come on, I'm over here!" It kept firing, but Dash easily avoided the blasts.
Helen and Bob made their way over towards their daughter while Dash distracted the robot. "Vi, you have any idea what this thing is?" Helen asked.
Vi shook her head no. "It just showed up and started attacking. It looked like it was trying to get into the building for a second, but why would…" She stopped and looked back towards the building. Could it have been after him?
"What is it?" Bob asked.
"I just… nothing, we need to stop that thing." She said.
"Then let's go!" Bob and Helen charged in while Violet prepared to back them up.
Wilbur stood in the room looking irritated. A giant robot, attacking here of all places? He certainly couldn't be sure, but it seemed too coincidental to him. He turned and then knocked on the door. A small slot opened and he saw one of the guards looking through. "What?"
"You have to let me out of here. If the robot out there is what I think it is, they're going to need my help." Wilbur said hoping they were listen to reason.
"Invisigirl said you stay here, so you stay here." Wilbur sighed and then headed back over to his seat. He reached down and grabbed his chair, before throwing it at the class. The chair simply bounced off, not even making a scratch. "Hey!"
The door opened and two guards walked in, both holding up tasers. The first kept his aimed as Wilbur's while the second grabbed a pair of handcuffs. "Since you want to be so rowdy, you're going back into cuffs!" He snapped.
The first guard snorted. "Did you honestly think that was going to work? That chair breaking glass things only works in movies." He said angrily.
"It wasn't supposed to break the class, it was just supposed to get you guys in here." Wilbur turned around and twisted the man's arms behind his back. The second guard fired at him, but he pushed the first forward into the shot.
The guard's body tightened up and as he fell to the ground Wilbur grabbed both his taser and his baton. He fired taking down the second guard and made his way out of the door. There were three more guards, all waiting for him. He threw the baton, hitting one in the head and knocking him out.
The other two fired, but Wilbur jumped out of the way. He slide towards one of them and kicked him in the back of the leg. The man fell down to one knee, and Wilbur grabbed his baton and struck him in the side of the head, only enough to knock him out. He then grabbed his taser and shot the last guard who had tried to charge him.
Wilbur walked over to the table and saw a number of his gadgets spread out on the table. Time was of the essence, so he just grabbed a few key ones. He looked towards the last guard who was twitching on the ground. He bent down and grabbed his security pass. "I just want you to know, that none of that was personal."
Violet slid back and panted as the robot once again tried to make its way into the building. She wasn't sure before, but now she was confident this thing was after Wilbur. There wasn't any other reason she could think of that it would be here. The NSA was incredibly secretive, no super villain had ever been able to discover who they were, or even their base location.
And on the off chance that one had, it just seemed way to off that they'd attack the exact day a so called time traveler showed up and started spilling all types of top secret information. Bob grabbed the robot from behind and threw it back. "What's up with this thing?" Dash said as he picked up a armful of rocks and began throwing them.
They sped through the air like bullets, but they just broke against its armor. Bob leapt into the air and then brought both fist down smashing down on the robot. He started punching it, but couldn't make a dent. "It's even tougher than the Omnidriod!"
The robot glowed for a second, and sent a pulse of energy out from its body. It sent Bob flying for the third time since the fight start. Helen stretched her arms out and covered the large red spot which she guessed was its eye.
It turned around trying to shake her off, but only got further entangled in her arms. "I can only distract it for so long!" Helen said struggled to keep her grip. It was pulling her along, and she decided to just jump on top of it, using her entire body to wrap around it. "Does anyone have any ideas on how to stop it?!"
Before Violet could answer, someone right by her. She looked up and saw Wilbur heading rights towards the robot. He was wearing rocket boots, and had some sort of weapons. "Hey, get out of the way!" Wilbur shouted towards Helen.
She clearly looked confused, but jumped off the robot. Wilbur fired his weapons, and though none of them had any idea what they were, they seemed to be effect. Each shot set the robot further back, and when it fired at Wilbur, a force field appeared around him. They looked towards Violet who shook her head. "I-I didn't do that."
Wilbur pressed a button on his watch, and the force field disappeared. He started firing again, but the robot began moving and avoiding some of the shots. It fired a large laser at Wilbur who held his weapon up. He twisted a knob on the side, and the minute the laser made contact with it, it was absorbed into it. "Right back at you!"
Wilbur pulled the trigger, and the blast was fired right back at the robot. It hit the robot sending it spiraling to the ground, where it crashed into the nearby fountain. The Incredible watched in awe as the boy made his way back towards the ground. "Whoa, who is that guy?" Dash asked.
Violet looked amazed. "Wilbur Robinson…" She answered nonchalantly.
Wilbur landed and then ran his hand through his hair. "Man that was a close one. I wasn't expecting one of their scouts to have followed us. I should run a sweep just in case there are more of them around here." He said to no one in particular.
The scout also seemed weaker than the others. It must have gotten rattled up doing its trip through time. He had made sure to be extra careful not to completely destroy it, otherwise it could have sent out a homing beacon. He had no idea if they would have picked up the signal in this time or not, but better safe than sorry.
"Whoa! What was so cool man! How did you do that?!" Wilbur jumped slightly and saw Dash standing in front of him. "How did you take down that robot?!" He zipped over and grabbed his arms. "What's with this cool looking tech?!"
Wilbur lifted his arm. "Hey, be careful. These are high tech weapons that could-"
Bob walked over and looked towards where the robot had crashed. "Nice job son. What are you, a new agent of the NSA? Little young aren't you?"
"My name is Wilbur Robinson and-"
"Violet, how did you know this young man?" Helen asked.
Wilbur fired his weapon into the air. "Hey! I'm trying to say something here! Something kind of important and life threating! But you people keep-" He heard a click and then felt something pointed at the back of his head. "Jesus Christ…" He said sighing.
"Don't move!" One of the NSA agent shouted. "Drop your weapons and get on the ground, right now!"
Wilbur looked over his shoulder. "Seriously? I just saved the Incredibles and you're going to arrest me? I know that you're the big wig government types, but seriously."
"Get on the ground now!"
"Wait, what's going on? Violet, who is this kid?" Bob asked.
Violet felt nervous as her family turned towards her. She hated being put on the spot. "He's… a time traveler?" She offered meekly. They all looked totally confused. "His words, not mine."
Before any of them could say how insane that sounded, a loud noise caught their attention. They looked over and saw the robot beginning to rise again. Wilbur grew wide eyed. "No!" He shouted raising his weapon. He fire, but before he hit the robot it shot out a glowing ball of light.
The light shot up into the sky, and kept going until it reached the atmosphere. Then it dispersed into a large pulse of light, visible to even them. Wilbur looked up in total shock. "Oh no…"
"What happened? What was that?" Helen asked.
Wilbur ran his hand over his face. "That, could very well be the end of the world as we know it."
A/N: So, there you go, the second chapter. I hope you guys enjoy it.
