Chapter 18 (Violet's Dead)
In the air flying in a very nice plane heading towards the deserted island, Helen was trying to make contact with the people on the island but didn't get any response.
For at least an hour or two she been worrying about her husband Bob after finding out that his been doing hero work behind her back, and now his in trouble. What make things worse was that she was back into the hero business again even though she accepted the immediate retirement when the world leaders agreed to illegalized Supers, and make them hang up their suites and blend into the crowd of normal people.
Just by remembering that day made her angry as she and girls hated that day on live TV when they saw the world leaders all signed the document and officially making it happen. It hurted them more than anything in their lives after that and wished it didn't happen but what's done is done. Sighing after just thinking about it, Helen had another thing on her mind that was bugging her for a while and that's about Violet and Wilbur.
Yeah, Helen knows for a long time that her daughter had a strong crush on Wilbur from the day they met. In honesty both Helen and Franny knew that Violet was the right girl for Wilbur but, for some odd reason that Violet never confessed or even make an effort to tell Wilbur how she feels about him. Instead of doing the odd fashion she put on that fake interest with that boy that was the star football player in high school, in order for Wilbur to be jealous and make him step up and confess.
"This generation today. Bunch of coward kids if you ask me." Helen said to herself just how disappointed in her daughter for doing that as she got that information by Vanellepe, who spill the beans after getting bribed by some bag of candy and some hardware computer tech from her. Helen just shake her head as she knew that you can get any information out of Vanellepe just by offering her some junk food. She focus her eyes on the gym bag seating beside her that had her brand new super suite that was identical to her husbands, and can't decide weather she should put it on.
"Wow easy Helen, easy girl. Everything is just fine. Everyone are out getting coffee." She told herself while taking another look at the gym bag.
With her mind made up she set the airplane on autopilot and then grabbed the gym bag, and then went to the bathroom to change into her super suite. Back at the Robinsons garage helping put the time machine back together, the boys were talking to Lewis as he was putting the parts back into the ship while listening to good music from Miguel as he was playing the guitar. "You know something you guys?. After getting to know you three, I will honesty say that you guys are my best friends. And meant it." said Lewis as push himself out underneath the time machine and grab himself something to drink that was near him.
"Wow really?. Um, thanks. We think of you the same way too." said Wilbur who feel a little bit awkward about being friends with his young dad. Then Miguel who was playing the strings on his guitar said "That's fantastic!. In fact we're already considered you as our amigo anyway." Lewis smile after hearing that from Miguel as he grabbed one of the tools and said "Gracias amigo, and can you play some De La Cruz music?. Cause I really love his music."
Suddenly the strings from the guitar was broken off as Miguel had an anger look as Hiro and Wilbur knew why. "D... D... Did I say anything wrong?." Lewis asked feeling that he just did something wrong. "Um, no, Lewis it's just that well let's say that De La Cruz has a lot of dirt on him." said Hiro as he looked back at Miguel as he was fixing the strings on the guitar. With sigh of relief, Lewis then said "Oh, good because I didn't want to upset Miguel in any other way." After returning from the land of the Dead, Miguel took all of Ernesto De La Cruz's albums, pictures, and his limited edition toys and throw them right into the bonfire like trash.
When Miguel manages to relax and resume back to playing music, Wilbur couldn't help but to think about Violet. He wanted her to be here with them and help out, and maybe give Lewis his confidence back instead of him since technically this is his fault. Feeling the urge to take out his phone he turned on, and then sees a text from her and immediately read what it says, and completely put the phone in his pocket. "Guys, we need to go to Violet's house. Now." He said being serious. "Why?. What's wrong?." Hiro asked while giving Lewis the blueprint to see what each part goes to. Wilbur said already can't wait to run over there and help his crush. "It's Uncle Bob. His some kinda in trouble and Violet told me that she and Dash were going to follow Aunt Helen to the airport."
"Wait, if they are going to some hero thing then whose keeping Jack Jack?." Miguel asked putting his guitar up and closed back. Then Hiro said after hearing what Miguel just said. "We should really need to go and get Jake Jack. Cause I seriously don't know why either Violet or Dash would leave a one year old by himself." Wilbur was thinking about Jack Jack as well as even he can't believe Violet would left Jack Jack by himself. And so after telling Lewis to stay put and telling him to not go anywhere, the trio made their way to the short cut to the Parr's house and reached the door step.
Hiro quickly bent down and pulled the welcome mat up and grab the spare key, and went to unlocking the door as fast as he could. Then after unlocking the door they all ran in to search for Jack Jack, and found him being hold by one of their classmates named Kari. And from the looks of it she was on the verge of going insane. "Oh, thank god you guys are here!. Violet's baby brother is a pure demon!." Kari showing Jack Jack to them as the little fella was giggling. "Demon?." said Wilbur as he and the others were confused as to what Kari was talking about.
For one, they already know that Jack Jack does not have any super powers or show any signs of him having one. Then second, they all knew that Kari was one cuckoo away from being in a nut house and so she's showing them that by having her hair messed up and having her eye twitching. "Yes, a demon!." Kari said as she continue. "Not to long ago he shot out eye lasers at me and then he started to catch on fire without any help from a match, and he turned into some red little monster!."
Each one of them were holding their laugh in as Miguel pull out his phone and started recording Kari as she continue talking. "I'm not lying to you guys!. Violet left me with a lab tested baby brother!." Hiro as holding his laugh in hard as his laugh was spilling out a little. Wilbur who was able to lock down his laugh said "Huh, well from the looks of it you're doing just fine with Jack Jack, so we're just going to be like a tree and get out of here." The boys slowly backed away from Kari as she was walking up to them begging for them not to leave.
"Guys please don't leave me with this little demon. Please guys I'm your friend." said Kari reaching out for help. Miguel grabbed the door handle and slowly closed the door, while Kari was still begging for them to not leave them. When done fully closing the door they all broke out laughing and just can't stop. "Man, Kari's crazy than a man in the moon!." laughed Wilbur as he fell down on the ground holding his diaphragm. "Yeah, and she's claiming that Jack Jack has powers?. Boy, that's a knee slapper!." said Hiro as slapped his knee while laughing.
Miguel who manage to calm down from laughing so hard while wiping away some tears of joy. "As much as I babysit Jack Jack there was no signs of him having a slightest bit of power. Oooooooo, that just made my day right there." He said taking a last minute laugh. When done laughing at the poor girl they reached back to the garage as Lewis was having some difficulties repairing the time machine. "Oh, thank goodness that you guys are here. I don't know if this baby is going to be operational or not." said Lewis as he went back to the hood and started doing repairs on the motor. "Oh, no sweat Lewis. Just keep moving forward." said Hiro as he took a seat on the soft chair. "But what if it doesn't work?. What if I mess up?." Lewis said feeling no confidence in himself no more.
Miguel chuckled and said "Dude?. Just keep moving forward, and keep trying?." Then Lewis poked his head out underneath the hood as he wiped the oil grease from his hands, as he didn't understand why they keep saying the same thing. "Why do you guys keep saying that catch phrase?. What's so special about it?." He asked. Wilbur smiled as he took off the hat that Lewis was wearing and replace it with a better one in which was a green cap. "That's easy my friend. You see my dad invented that catch phrase when he was upset when his inventions don't work." He said putting his arm around his young father and guided him to the steps where he can show him the tower.
When reaching to the balcony, Wilbur set up his favorite telescope while adjusting the vision lens, and then turn around to look at his dad. "That tower you see standing tall in the town of Todayland is my dad's company. It's called the Robinsons Inc. Home of the next big invention of the future." Wilbur pointed out as he let Lewis take a look through the telescope. "Cooooool!. Your dad owns that?. You guys must have trillion dollar net wroth." said Lewis as he still looking at it. "Actually our net wroth is about in the zillion dollar range." Wilbur pointed out as Lewis turn his back to see him with his mouth dropped. Lewis then said with happiness "Your one rich kid like Richy Rich." Wilbur couldn't help but smile knowing that money doesn't bring happiness but still it's good to get the praise ever once in a while, but he really do hate being compared to that old cartoon kid named Richy Rich.
While telling Lewis how much accomplishments that his father done by not giving up on himself and how the catch phrase was key to making it, back at the plane and just getting out of the bathroom. Helen switched into her new super suite as she can't lie as it fits like a glove, and it was nice to be back wearing tights. She threw the gym back to the empty passenger seat and getting ready to head back to the controls until. "Ow!." said a voice. Helen recognised the voice and immediately knew who it was as it made her mad.
"Violet?!." Helen yelled as Violet became visible and in her super suite. "It's not my fault mom!. Dash took off and I know that was going to get blamed for it. and so I have to." Dash popped his head out as he was in the very back hearing the lie that Violet was saying, as he wasn't and refused to take the blame as this was Violet's idea from beginning. "That's not true!." He yelled as he ran in super speed and sat behind Violet as both of them was talking to fast at the same time. The only thing that hit Helen's mind at that very moment was her third child and shocked her, after releasing that both of her older kids were on the plane with her.
"Wait, wait, wait hold on. You two left Jack Jack alone?!." She said now upset. Then Violet said with a surprise look on her face after hearing that question. "What?. Of course not mom why did you think I leave a one year old by himself. Geez thanks for trusting me." Dash then said "We didn't Jack Jack by himself. What are we a couple of irresponsible siblings?." Calming herself down before speaking, Helen then said "Ok, then who did you kids call?. And please tell me it's Miguel or Vanellepe." Violet was seating back down while her mom was on the plane phone talking to Kari, while Dash relaxed in his seat texting Rosa and asking her what's going on.
Violet took her phone and then scroll down her contact list and speed dial Wilbur and talk to him, feeling that this might be the last time she will talk to him. In the garage, Hiro and Miguel were playing some UNO while waiting for Wilbur to get done explaining to Lewis as of a sudden they heard Violet's ring tone playing. They paused their playing and checked their phones and see that it wasn't coming from them, and then looked at the other phone on the table near them as Hiro grab it and put it on speaker.
"Hi Vi. How's it hanging?." He asked as he and Miguel resumed back to playing. "Hiro?. Hey where's Wilbur?." Violet asked her best friend and none blooded cousin. "Well Violet you see his kinda busy trying to motivate our young Uncle Cornelius, since he lost his confidence mojo." said Miguel as he had his eyes on his cards. Violet took the moment to put her feet up on the arm rest while resting her head up against the window, and continue talking to Hiro.
"Oh, well I hope his doing a good job for our future sake. Anyways, the reason why I was calling him on his phone was because I wanted to talk to him." She said mentally prepared for one of them to ask her why. Hiro put his draw two card down on the table as Miguel double the draw twos, making Hiro snapped his fingers as they were playing the today's version of UNO. "Is this conversation private or none private?." Hiro asked while drawing from the deck. Violet put her hand on her head while shaking as she was dead on right and glad to be mentally prepared for it.
"Yes. Yes, this was suppose to be a private chat. But unfortunately he got his hands full right now, so I can just hang up." She suggested. "Nah, none sense Vi we don't mind talking to you. By the way where are anyway?." Miguel said plucking another card and put it on the stack. "UNO!." He said as Hiro smirked and put down a draw four card. "Draw four!." Violet heard them playing a game of UNO and said "I'll let you guys play your game and I just wait for Wil." Helen interrupted what Violet as yelled at the kids after hearing a warning signal, indicating that a missile was heading towards them. "Quick buckle up your seat belts now!."
Without questioning they obey her command as they sat down and put their seat belts together. "Disengage!. I repeat disengage!." Helen said who was back in the pilot seat and had her head on the head set. Both of the boys completely stopped playing UNO and couldn't ignore the panic in Aunt Helen's voice as they were on the edge of their seats. In the air trying to avoid being hit by one of the missiles, Helen figure out that the people that's she'd try to contact from the deserted island were trying to shoot them down and want them dead. In her mind she was panicking as she don't know what else to do except.
"Vi I want you to put up a force shield around the plane." She said pulling the plane to the other side, avoiding the missile. "What?." Violet asked as she then said "I never put up a big force field this big." Helen turn her head and yelled "Do as I say!. Breaker, breaker, breaker please hold your fire!. There's children on this plane, disengage!." Violet tried to manage to put up a big force field but can't do to the fact, she has never practiced on creating a huge force field and she too was panicking as well.
Hiro and Miguel was hearing on as they can tell that they were in some deep crap and neither of them can't do anything about it except listen. "Ohhhhh man, Aunt Helen, Vi, and Dash are in some serious trouble." said Hiro while biting down on his cheek, while Miguel was shaking his leg nervously. In about less than a minute, they heard Aunt Helen repeat the same thing to to the people that were trying to shoot them down and telling Violet to put up the shield, and then suddenly boom!. The phone on the other end hanged up letting the boys know the shocking reality.
After witnessing on what just happened. The boys can not keep the thought out of their heads as it was telling them that Aunt Helen, Violet, and Dash were dead and theirs nothing they can do. Miguel shaked his head no and not believing the evil reality that some memmembers of his family were now dead, despite tears coming down. Hiro got up and went to hugged his best friend as he too was tearing up as well. At the right moment, Wilbur and Lewis just came back down after done talking to one another as both of them stopped and see their friends crying.
"Guys why are you two crying?." asked Lewis with concern. "Yeah, you guys are crying like someone just literally died a few seconds ago." Wilbur chuckled on what he said. He stopped chuckling as he see that Hiro and Miguel wasn't fooling around when they were crying, and this was making Wilbur take it seriously. "G... Guys what happened?." He asked. "It's Vi and the others. Their...Their... ." Miguel was chocking up in pain as he can not say it to him and cried more.
"Their what?. Their what Miguel?." Wilbur asked again feeling a scary chill. Hiro hold it back the tears and cry as he said "Their dead!. Alright, Violet and the others are dead." Wilbur dropped down on his knees with a pale look on his face as he can't believe what he just heard. Violet his one only worthy girl to be the next Mrs. Robinsons and his only true love died, and theirs nothing he can do about it. Let alone can't save his cousin Dash nor Aunt Helen or Uncle Bob. "V... V... V.. Vi?. N... N... N... No, no, no it can't be. Violet!." He yelled and broke down crying hard as Lewis felt very sorry for their lost of their best friend.
For once in his life he never knew what it felt to loose someone that he cared about and found out that they just died, and based on the situation that his seeing. Lewis took a look at the almost fixed time machine and look back at them who were hugging Wilbur who was crying the most. So with that being said, Lewis pulled back up his sleeves and went to finish putting the machine back together. "Hey guys?." Lewis said getting their attention. The three trio stopped laughing and looked at Lewis who was inside the time machine pushing some buttons. "What?." they said at once.
Lewis gave them a big wide smile as he was done doing whatever he was doing on the controls. "I fixed the time machine!. Now, you guys can go back in time and prevented your friends and her family's death, and then you guys can send me back to the year 2007." He said. With quick thinking from Lewis, the boys got up and realized that he had an idea. If they go back in time and prevented Violet and the others from getting on the plane and maybe help them save Uncle Bob, then it won't be a total lost. "Lewis you're a genius!. In fact why I didn't think about it?!." Hiro said slapping his head as Miguel hopped in and offered Lewis to do a fits pump, in which Lewis happily obliged.
Wilbur smiled as he was happy that his young dad helped out by fixing the time machine. "Alright, let's ride!." He said starting up the engine. The time machine manage to lift up off the ground and begin to hover until all four heard some popping noise and then start seeing and smelling black smoke, and then boom!. The time machine hit the ground hard as it made one more pop noise and a last boom. "Great!. For once I try to do something for someone and I can't get anything right!." said a upset Lewis as he got out of the vehicle in frustration.
Disappointed they were the boys sighed as they things can't just get any worst. But sadly it just did as they heard Franny's voice from intercom. "Boys dinner is ready." She said in a mother tone. Wilbur sigh and said "Not now mom will eat later." Not taking that for answer from her son, Franny then said with warning. "If you kids don't come up stairs and at the dinner table in five minutes, I'll come down their."
"We should probably go. Before she gets here." said Lewis. Nodding back they jumped off from the time machine and headed up to join the family of the Robinsons. Meanwhile swimming in the middle of the ocean, Helen and the kids survived from being killed and after she made them stop panicking with a motherly threat, she looked up at the sky and see jet streams going forward. "Those are jet streams heading towards that direction. That's our best shot." said Helen who was determine to follow the people that tried to kill them.
"You want to follow the people that wanted to kill us?." asked Dash as he can't believe what his mom just said.
"Yes." Helen said seeing the fear in his eyes and as well in Violet.
"Do you truly want to follow them mom?. Because we're not seriously considering on going with it right?." Violet asked.
Helen smiled as she realized that neither one of them didn't have the guts to take on real danger. "All that I'm asking you two is to trust me." She said. Just after saying that she stretched herself into a boat as Dash was behind peddling while Violet was on her mother's back riding, as she wished that her friends were having the best of luck than her.
"This is just bull crap. Just plan old bull crap." She thought while pulling her hair away from her face.