Before I get started, I'd like to answer Nthnightfury's question that he posted as a review. He asked me if Soundwave will be with Static and Magnetta in this chapter. Well, to answer your question. No, he won't. But, he will be mentioned in this chapter by Boom and Mirage. Seeing that you asked me that question, it sounds like you've read my Bang Baby OC's story. I'm glad to know that you've read it. Anyway, back to the story. Enjoy.
Brother-Sister Act
That night, Sharon and Ruby were sitting down in the kitchen with Ruby's backpack on the floor as they waited for Virgil to come down.
"Now, Virgil, time to eat!" Sharon yelled as Virgil opened the door and walked inside the kitchen.
Virgil sat down in between Sharon and Ruby as he put his backpack on the table and lift up the lid to see meatloaf inside the bowl with steam coming out. Virgil looked at the meatloaf with a frown as he looked at Sharon.
"And this is?" Virgil asked.
"Dinner." Sharon answered as she and Ruby put a napkin on their laps.
"Could you be more specific?" Virgil asked.
"It's meatloaf. Enjoy." Sharon said as Virgil and Ruby put some meatloaf on their plates.
"Kinda on the pink side huh?" Virgil asked.
"Look, while dad's away at the counselor's council, I'm in charge." Sharon explained angrily as she got up from her seat, took the napkin off her lap, and grabbed Virgil's backpack.
"That means you and Ruby are gonna eat what I cook. Clear?" Sharon finished as she lifted Virgil's backpack off the table.
Sharon threw the backpack at Virgil as he caught it.
"Loud and clear." Ruby said.
"Alright, chill. Could I at least have some ketchup? Since you're already up." Virgil said as he put his backpack on the floor with Sharon looking at him angrily.
"I don't need an excuse. I'm carrying sixteen units at school, I volunteer at the hospital..." Sharon said angrily as she opened the fridge.
While Sharon wasn't looking, Virgil fired purple electric bolts at his meatloaf to heat it up. Ruby did the same as she rubbed her hands together to create blue volts of electricity and placed her hands close to her plate to heat up her meatloaf.
"...you don't like my cooking? Well, then you can just..." Sharon said as she looked at Virgil and Ruby and was shocked to see them finish their meatloaf.
"...starve." Sharon said with a shocked expression as she walked back to the table and sat down as Virgil and Ruby wiped their mouths with their napkins.
"Well, gotta go." Virgil said as he grabbed his backpack, got up from his seat, and walked away.
"Thanks for dinner, cousin Sharon." Ruby said as she grabbed her backpack, got up from her seat, and followed Virgil.
"Slow down. Where are you two going? Some video arcade?" Sharon asked as Virgil and Ruby turned around and looked at her.
"No, uh, I'm gonna meet Richie to do a little homework." Virgil lied as he jerked his thumb behind his back.
"While I'm going to Allie's house for a movie night with her." Ruby lied as she jerked her thumb behind her back.
"Excuse me, did you say video arcade? That is so Y2K." Virgil said.
"Is what?" Sharon and Ruby asked.
"Y2K, last year, out of date, history. Everybody's saying it." Virgil said as he and Ruby walked out of the kitchen.
"They are not! That's just some stupid thing you made up!" Sharon yelled as the door closed.
Sharon got up from her seat and grabbed Virgil and Ruby's plates. However, when she grabbed them, they felt hot.
"OW!" Sharon yelled as she dropped the plates.
The plates broke into pieces as they hit the ground.
"Wow! Hot!" Sharon said as she kneeled on the ground and looked at the shattered plates.
"Hmm." Sharon wondered.
Eventually, Virgil and Ruby walked outside and into an alleyway as they stopped. Once they stopped, Virgil and Ruby held up their fists close to their mouths and let out a loud burp.
"Man, the things we do to keep peace in the house." Virgil said as he and Ruby took out their superhero costumes from their backpacks.
Their chests zoomed in and revealed their logos as a purple electric bolt slid through Static's logo while a white magnetic beam slid through Magnetta's logo.
It started to rain as Static and Magnetta flew around the city with Static wearing a hood from his cape and goggles from his mask.
'You told her we were doing homework? On a Friday night?' Richie asked through Static's Shock Vox.
"Think she won't believe me?" Static asked in his Shock Vox.
"No, she will. But she doesn't say much for our social lives." Richie said in his Shock Vox as he was in his room playing a video game from a Dreamcast console with an empty Pizza box and a cup laying on the floor.
'And you told her we were having a Movie Night? At least that makes sense.' Allie said through Magnetta's Solar Pole.
"It sure did." Magnetta said in her Solar Pole.
"Good thing you were able to make up a better excuse than Virgil." Allie said as she was on her bed playing Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles from a SEGA Genesis console with a bowl of popcorn and a cup on her bed.
"Hey, something's up with that new club on Warren." Static said in his Shock Vox.
"We better go check it out." Magnetta said as they were levitating in the air and saw Warren below them.
"Later." Static said in his Shock Vox as he and Magnetta flew toward Warren.
Barnsdale was talking to the manager as they started speaking louder because the manager was having trouble hearing what Barnsdale was saying.
"I said, can you describe the people who attacked you?!" Barnsdale asked the manager.
"What?!" The manager asked.
"What did they look like?!" Barnsdale asked louder as the manager was rubbing his ear.
"No, I feel alright! I just can't hear so good!" The manager yelled as Barnsdale looked at a police officer standing next to him.
Barnsdale nodded at him as the police officer and manager walked away.
"Hey, chief." Static said as he and Magnetta landed on the ground.
"Very hip place to hold a policemen's ball. Are we too late to buy a ticket?" Static said as he grabbed his Static Saucer, folded it, and put it in his pocket.
"There was a robbery here, Static and Magnetta. Metahumans." Barnsdale said as Static and Magnetta walked toward him with Static putting his hood down.
"Do you know what kind of powers they have and what they can do with them?" Magnetta asked as Static put his goggles over his head.
"One of them was like a human loudspeaker. The other one somehow conjured up a pack of tigers." Barnsdale explained.
"Huh, Soul train meets the Discovery channel." Static said.
"Hey, it's Static and Magnetta." A man said as Static and Magnetta turned around to see a bunch of new reporters coming out of some vehicles, including Shelly Sandoval.
"Static. Magnetta. Over here, please. We need a question." A woman said as two cameramen, Shelly Sandoval, and a male reporter ran toward Static and Magnetta with the male reporter and Shelly Sandoval holding out microphones.
"It's Barnsdale." A female reporter said as Static waved at the camera while Magnetta smiled.
Meanwhile, Sharon and her two friends were inside Get Your Grub On with thunder rumbling outside as they sat down in a booth while drinking coffee.
"I tell you, he is working my last nerve. Every dinner I make, he gives me grief about it. While my cousin doesn't complain about what I make for her." Sharon explained angrily as she grabbed her coffee cup.
"It's not like my cooking's that bad." Sharon said as her two friends looked at each other.
"Course not." Sharon's African American friend lied as she drank her coffee.
"No, it's fine." Sharon's other friend lied as she flipped her blonde hair.
Then, Sharon looked up and saw something that made her smile.
"Hey, it's Static and Magnetta!" Sharon said as the tv revealed Static and Magnetta with a bunch of microphones in front of them.
"Oooh wee, talk about electric." Sharon's African American said as she waved her hand at her face like a fan.
"Not to mention magnetic." Sharon's other friend said.
'Who do you think did this, Static and Magnetta?' Shelly Sandoval asked on the tv.
'Slipstream? Replay? Teleportra?' Shelly Sandoval guessed as she held her microphone in front of Magnetta.
'No, these are new Bang Baby's. They didn't create gusts of wind, teleport, or make copies of themselves. One of them can fire sonic blasts while the other was able to conjure tigers.' Magnetta explained on the tv.
'Besides, we got those other guys chilling in jail. They are totally Y2K.' Static said on the tv as he got close to the microphone in front of him.
"Y2K? Like what's that mean?" Sharon's blonde-haired friend asked.
"He's saying they're history, it's an expression. Virgil uses it all...Wha?" Sharon explained until she realized something.
Sharon's friends noticed this as they looked at her with confused expressions.
"Sharon? You alright?" Sharon's African American friend asked in concern as Sharon turned around to look at her.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Sharon said as she put her hand on the side of her head and looked at the tv.
'But don't worry, we'll do whatever it takes to find those two Bang Baby's before they cause any more trouble.' Magnetta said as she held her hand up to assure everyone that everything was alright.
'Wait a minute. Whatever it takes? Ruby says that line all the time.' Sharon thought.
"Catch you later, guys." Static said as he gave a salute and flew away while putting his hood and goggles back on.
"Sorry, we gotta go." Magnetta said as she flew after Static with reporters clamoring and ran toward the spot where Static and Magnetta took off.
Sharon looked at the tv as she felt like Static and Magnetta were reminding her of her brother and cousin.
"No way." Sharon said in denial.
Sharon was driving back home while listening to music on the radio. However, when she stopped at a red light, the car engine started sputtering as the lights, windshield wipers, and radio turned off. Meaning that the car battery was dead.
"Aw, come on, don't die. I'm only five blocks from home." Sharon said as she tried to start the car, but it was no use.
Suddenly, she saw two balls of light from the rearview mirror. One was purple while the other was white.
"Static and Magnetta?" Sharon asked as Static and Magnetta flew past her with Static surrounded in a purple electric aura.
A bunch of small purple electric bolts rain down on the car and restarted the engine as Sharon had a shocked expression. She looked up to see Static and Magnetta flying to the left as the light turned green.
"Hm." Sharon said as she put her foot on the pedal with the tires screeching.
Sharon drove in the same direction Static and Magnetta took as she was driving at 60mph. Static and Magnetta turned around and flew inside a window of their house. Meanwhile, Sharon got back home and parked where the window is. Sharon got out of the car and looked up to see Virgil and Ruby standing in front of the window. After Virgil closed the window, he and Ruby walked away.
"Virgil? Static? And Ruby? Magnetta?" Sharon asked.
"No, couldn't be. Could it?" Sharon wondered.
The next morning, there were two Bang Baby's who were inside an apartment. These Bang Baby's were Byron and Miranda, otherwise known as Boom and Mirage. Boom became a living soundbox with a speaker on his chest while Mirage was able to create illusions. Boom was sitting on the floor looking for some dollar bills as he ended up finding credit cards with a sack next to him.
"Credit card. Credit card. Credit card." Boom said as he ended up creating a pile of credit cards.
Until he managed to find some dollar bills inside a wallet.
"Boo-yeah! Now, that's what I'm talking about." Boom said with a smile as he took out the dollar bills from the wallet.
"What are you doing?" Mirage asked as she walked inside the room while rubbing her eyes.
"Taking inventory." Boom said as he looked at his little sister.
"Now go eat breakfast or something." Boom said as Mirage sat down on a chair with a sad expression and looked down with her eyes closed.
Boom put a credit card into the wallet until he saw Mirage looking down as she felt sad.
"What is your problem?" Boom asked.
"Why this all have to happen?" Mirage asked with her head up.
"Yeah, one day we're living large in the burbs, next we're here in this pit. Stinks, doesn't it?" Boom explained as Mirage got on her knees and created an illusion of her, Boom, and their parents.
"First mom goes, then dad..." Mirage said as the illusion of her and Boom's parents disappeared, leaving just her and her brother.
"...then this." Mirage said sadly as she swiped the illusion away with her hand.
She started crying as she covered her face with her hands.
"I know, sis, I know. I miss 'em, too." Boom said sadly.
"But maybe us stepping in that spill from the Big Bang was payback. Almost a gift." Boom said.
"You call this a gift? We're freaks!" Mirage yelled as she got up.
"Okay, maybe not a gift. Then how about an opportunity?" Boom said as he stood up.
"Now we got a way to get back what we had and a way to help grandma. Thanking her for taking us in. We're all she's got." Boom explained as Mirage sat back on the chair.
"(Sniffle) I know that. I just wish Scott was here. He was always there for us when we needed him." Mirage said sadly as she looked down.
"What did you say, sis?" Boom asked angrily as he got close to Mirage's face.
"Uh, nothing." Mirage lied as she leaned closer to the chair with a scared expression.
"I told you to never ever mention that name again." Boom said angrily as he pointed his finger at Mirage.
"Besides, he goes by Soundwave now. If he really did care about us, where is he now?" Boom said.
"I don't know." Mirage said sadly as she looked down.
"That's why we're doing this. So we can buy her a nice place." Boom said as he walked to the side of the chair.
"You just gotta trust your big brother, okay?" Boom asked as he kneeled in front of Mirage with his hand on the headrest.
Mirage just nodded yes with tears in her eyes as Boom smirked.
Meanwhile, Sharon put two stacks of pancakes on two plates as Virgil and Ruby walked into the kitchen in their pajamas.
(A/N: Ruby's pajamas are the same ones she wore in Shock to the System. A white long-sleeved pajama shirt, midriff exposed, red pajama pants, and barefoot.)
"Breakfast, Virgil and Ruby?" Sharon asked as she held out the two plates of pancakes.
"Uh, sure." Virgil said as he sat down.
"Yes, please." Ruby said as she sat next to Virgil with Sharon putting the two plates in front of her and Virgil.
"Here's syrup, blueberry jam, butter. I can make bacon and eggs if you want." Sharon said as she put the syrup, butter, and blueberry jam next to Virgil and Ruby.
"Um, this is good. Thanks." Virgil said as he poured some syrup on his pancakes.
Ruby took out a knife, sliced through the butter for a slice, and spread it on her pancakes. Once she was done and has put the knife away, Virgil put the syrup back on the table.
"Yeah, I'm good too." Ruby said as she grabbed the syrup and poured some on her pancakes.
"You're welcome." Sharon said as she rubbed Virgil and Ruby's heads with Ruby finished with the syrup as she put it back on the table.
Sharon sat down and looked at Virgil and Ruby with a smirk. Virgil and Ruby looked at her suspiciously as they took a bite out of their pancakes.
"Oh, do those need a little warm-up?" Sharon asked as she pointed her finger at the pancakes.
"No, they're fine." Ruby said as she and Virgil took another bite.
"So, how was your evening? Do anything interesting?" Sharon asked with a smirk.
"What do you mean?" Virgil asked with his mouth full as he and Ruby looked at Sharon.
"You know...When you both went out to...Where did you two go again?" Sharon asked.
"Uh, a movie." Virgil answered as he took a bite out of his pancakes.
"And I went to Allie's house for a movie night." Ruby said as she took a bite out of her pancakes.
"Ah! Was that after you and Richie did your homework?" Sharon asked.
"Mm..." Virgil mumbled as he swallowed.
"Homework? No see...No, after that we went and saw..." Virgil tried to explain but stopped when he saw Sharon looking at him and Ruby with a smirk.
"Are you okay, Sharon?" Ruby asked.
"Me? Oh, sure. And you two?" Sharon asked.
"Fine." Ruby said.
"Well, I'm gonna go now." Virgil said as he got up from his seat, jerked his thumb behind his back, and walked away.
"Me too." Ruby said as she got up from her seat and followed Virgil.
"Oh, off on an important errand, are you?" Sharon asked with a smile as Virgil held the door with Ruby standing behind him.
"Uh, no. I'm just going up to my room." Virgil said as he looked at Sharon and jerked his thumb behind his back.
"Same with me." Ruby said as she looked at Sharon.
"Okay?" Virgil asked.
"Okay, little brother and little cousin. Bye." Sharon said as she waved goodbye to Virgil and Ruby who walked out of the kitchen with the door closing.
Once Virgil and Ruby were gone, Sharon put her finger on her chin with a frown on her face.
"Well, that was weird." Ruby as she was in her room and sat on her bed.
She looked at a radio on her bookshelf as she held out her hand. Her hand glowed white along with the radio as she made the radio levitate toward her and laid it next to her. Once her hand and the radio stopped glowing white, she sat in front of the radio in a crisscrossed position, pushed a button on the radio, and turned it on.
"WDK FM Dakota city!" A group of women sang from the WWDK-FM studio.
"Yo, check it out! You're back with Dr. Mac on the BDK." Dr. Mac said into a microphone.
"Now, I am gazing at a stack of green like you've never seen. No lie, right here in the studio. A hundred and two thousand dollars!" Dr. Mac said as he looked at a man standing in front of a stack of dollar bills.
'We are looking for the twenty-seventh caller. If that's you, you are a one oh two DK winner!' Dr. Mac said through the radio.
"I'll pass. Not like I'm interested in money anyway." Ruby said as she heard her Solar Pole rang.
She held out her hand at her desk where her Solar Pole is as she used her gravity powers to make the Solar Pole float toward her. Once the Solar Pole was in her hand, she placed it on her ear.
"What is it, Allie?" Ruby asked in her Solar Pole.
'Hi, Ruby. I wanted to tell you that Richie is going to be the DK winner.' Allie said through Ruby's Solar Pole.
"Really?" Ruby asked in her Solar Pole.
"Yeah, he said that he's been speed-dialing WDK for an hour." Allie said in her Solar Pole as she sat on her bed with a radio on her nightstand.
'I thought he'd do something like this. He'll do anything for money.' Ruby said through Allie's Solar Pole.
"You got that right. He said that he's on hold and is gonna..." Allie said in her Solar Pole until she heard a high-pitched sound that made her cringe.
"What was that?" Allie asked in her Solar Pole.
"I'm not sure. Let me see." Ruby said in her Solar Pole as she turned a nob on the radio to turn up the volume.
In the studio, there was a big hole in the wall with three men groaning while covering their ears as Boom stood in front of Dr. Mac.
"Uh, listen up, y'all, we got us a special guest in the studio." Dr. Mac said nervously as he looked at Boom.
"Calls himself Boom and I..." Dr. Mac said nervously as Boom grabbed the microphone.
"I just won a hundred and two thousand big ones. Right?" Boom said with a smirk.
"Uh-huh." Dr. Mac said nervously.
"Uh-oh, that can't be good." Allie said in her Solar Pole.
"Don't worry, Virgil and I will be on our way." Ruby said in her Solar Pole as she got up from her bed and put her Solar Pole on her bed.
However, when she grabbed her backpack and took out her superhero costume, she heard Sharon's voice.
"Ruby, are you listening to the radio?" Sharon asked as she ran toward Ruby's room.
"Ruby?" Sharon asked as the windows in Ruby's room glowed white and opened with Magnetta flying out of the window.
When Sharon opened the door, she saw that Ruby was gone as she walked inside.
'Magnetta, are you there? Magnetta, come in.' Allie said through Ruby's Solar Pole
Sharon saw the Solar Pole on Ruby's bed as she walked toward the bed and grabbed the Solar Pole.
"Allie?" Sharon asked in Ruby's Solar Pole.
"Oh, hi Sharon. Sorry, I must've gotten the wrong number. Bye." Allie said nervously in her Solar Pole as she hung up.
Sharon looked at the Solar Pole as she walked toward the open window and looked outside.
"Gotcha!" Sharon said with a smirk.
Police cars, jeeps, and a helicopter arrived at the WWDK-FM studio as a bunch of soldiers ran inside with guns. A soldier was hiding behind the side of a jeep with a car parked next to him as Barnsdale walked out of the car and walked toward the soldier.
"Any sign of them yet?" Barnsdale asked as the soldier nodded no.
But then, they turned around after hearing a loud noise and saw an explosion from the studio.
"Nevermind." Barnsdale said to the soldier as Boom walked toward the broken window.
"Back off, five-oh, I got the drop on you!" Boom yelled as he opened his jacket to reveal the speaker on his chest.
Boom looked down with a smile as he saw Mirage hiding in an alleyway.
"Ok, sis, make it big." Boom said as Mirage looked at him.
Mirage closed her eyes and put her hands together as she was surrounded in a purple energy aura. She put her hands up and created a purple portal.
"Elephants." Mirage said as three Elephants came out of the portal and walked toward the police officers and soldiers while trumpeting.
The soldiers chattered in shock as they couldn't believe what they're seeing.
"Fallback!" A soldier yelled as three soldiers ran away.
Static and Magnetta flew toward the scene as they stopped and levitated in the air, looking at the Elephants.
"Looks like the circus is in town." Static said as he fired purple electric bolts at the Elephants, while Magnetta fired white magnetic rays at them.
However, the electric bolts and magnetic rays went through the Elephants as they continued trumpeting.
"They're not real!" Static yelled.
"It's an illusion!" Magnetta yelled as Mirage looked at the scene with a purple energy ball in between her hands.
She made the purple energy ball and purple energy aura disappear as the Elephants faded away. Boom looked at the soldiers as Static and Magnetta flew toward the studio.
"Cover your ears before he..." Static yelled as he cupped his hands in between his mouth.
But it was too late as Boom fired a sonic blast from his speaker. The sonic blast caused the soldier's guns to explode while they got on their knees and covered their ears as they screamed in pain. Boom aimed his sonic blast into the air as Static and Magnetta covered their ears and screamed in pain while flying higher into the air. After a few seconds, they fired a purple electric bolt and a white magnetic ray at the sides of the window as Boom ran away with smoke coming out of the window and causing a small explosion. Mirage saw this from the alleyway as she became concerned for her brother.
"Byron!" Mirage yelled as she was surrounded in a purple energy aura and created a purple energy ball in between her hands.
Mirage threw the ball into the air as the ball exploded and created a flash of white light that blinded the helicopter pilot. The helicopter pilot screamed as he couldn't see where he was going, causing him to fly the helicopter around the air as the white light faded away and two large pieces of a building broke off with Mirage on her hands and knees. Mirage looked up and saw the two building pieces about to fall on her. Static and Magnetta saw this as they flew toward the alleyway. Static and Magnetta fired a purple electric bolt and a white magnetic ray at the building pieces as they exploded and surrounded the alleyway with smoke as Static and Magnetta flew inside the cloud of smoke. Static and Magnetta flew up into the air with Static carrying Mirage, who was unconscious. Boom ran out of the studio with a sack of money as he looked up and saw Static and Magnetta flying away with Mirage. Once they were gone, Boom ran away with the sack of money.
A few hours later, Static and Magnetta were inside a hospital room, standing next to Mirage. She was laying in bed wearing a hospital gown and a bandage wrapped around her forehead as Static and Magnetta asked her a few questions.
"Look, I didn't wanna do it. But Byron made me help him." Mirage confessed.
"Uh-huh. So what is he? Your boyfriend?" Static asked with his finger on his chin.
"No way! He's just my brother." Mirage said with her arms crossed.
"I see." Magnetta said.
"Guess he can be a real pain sometimes, huh?" Static guessed as he and Magnetta sat down on a couple of chairs.
"But he's not acting like his normal self. Lately, he sorta scares me." Mirage said.
"No offense Mirage, but it looks like your brother has gone crazy. Static and I have seen it happen to a lot of Bang Baby's. The Bang Baby Gas can affect a few of the Bang Baby's minds and make them unable to think straight. It can make them feel angry, scared, or confused. And it looks like Byron is one of them." Magnetta explained.
"He's still my brother." Mirage said.
"We understand. Families still care for each other, no matter how much trouble they get into. We can see that you still care about him." Magnetta said softly.
"You get some rest while we go talk to the Chief. We'll talk later and figure out what to do with you." Magnetta said as she and Static walked out of the room, leaving Mirage by herself.
Meanwhile, Static was leaning on the door with his arms crossed while Magnetta stood next to him with her hands on her hips as they explained to Barnsdale what Mirage told them with two police officers standing next to them.
"Her brother? That could be a problem, family ties and all." Barnsdale said as he walked toward Static and Magnetta.
"Yeah, I've seen kids go through this before. A person forcing their little brother or sister to do things that their young sibling doesn't want to do. It can make things difficult between them." Magnetta explained.
"But she's coming around. At least she's not in any hurry to see him." Static said until they heard a high-pitched sound as he, Magnetta, Barnsdale, and two police officers looked up.
They turned around to see the door behind Static and Magnetta as a huge explosion came out of the room, covering the hallway in a cloud of smoke. Once the smoke cleared, Static, Magnetta, and Barnsdale were sitting on the floor with their backs behind a fallen bench. They saw a big hole in the wall where the door was and a hole inside the room as they saw that Mirage was gone.
"But the way I see it, it doesn't look like she has much of a choice." Magnetta said as she, Static, and Barnsdale got up and walked inside the room.
A few hours later, Virgil and Ruby were in the living room, sitting on the couch as they watched a movie called Night of The Killer Cows with Virgil eating a bag of chips. Then, they saw Sharon sitting on the headrest as Virgil and Ruby saw her. Virgil and Ruby kept watching the movie as Sharon looked at them. However, when Virgil and Ruby looked at Sharon, she just looked at the TV.
"Why are you sitting here? You hate this kinda movie." Virgil said.
"I just think we should spend some more time together than just me and Ruby." Sharon said.
"Really?" Ruby asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Gee, thanks. But, no thanks." Virgil said as he turned around and put his leg on the armrest.
"Would you say no to these?" Sharon asked as she showed Virgil and Ruby some tickets.
Virgil and Ruby looked at the three tickets in shock as Virgil grabbed the tickets.
"The Dakota Destroyers? Incredible!" Virgil yelled in shock.
"It sure is! I can't believe you were willing to pay for the tickets, Sharon!" Ruby yelled in excitement as she looked at Sharon.
She loved going to basketball games and remembered all the times she went to basketball games with her parents as it brings back memories of all the fun times she had with her dad when it came to sports.
"Hold on, why are you taking us to a basketball game? That was Uncle Stuart's thing." Virgil asked suspiciously.
"Because I'm your sister and Ruby's cousin, silly." Sharon said with her hand on her hip.
"Right, so exactly when did the aliens replace you with this clone?" Virgil asked as he and Ruby watched Sharon walk upstairs.
Meanwhile, Boom and Mirage were inside the apartment with Boom pacing around the room while Mirage sat on a bucket watching her brother.
"Yeah, that's right, next I see Static and Magnetta, I'm gonna give them a world of hurt like I did with Soundwave." Boom said angrily.
"Listen to you, you're not some gangster from the hood. We're from Southfield. Byron, I know it's not your fault. It's that Bang Baby thing. It made you sick, you need help." Mirage explained.
"Ah, okay, baby sister. This next thing, it's the last one. In and out, then we'll be done." Boom said as he kneeled down and grabbed Mirage's hands.
"You promise? No trouble?" Mirage asked.
"It'll be no trouble at all." Boom said with a smirk.
A few hours later, Virgil, Ruby, and Sharon were in a food aisle with Virgil getting a bag of popcorn.
"Thank you." Virgil said as he grabbed the bag of popcorn and walked away with Sharon and Ruby following him.
"Virgil, stay close." Sharon said as she put her hands around Virgil's arm with Ruby walking next to Virgil.
"Any closer and we'd be wearing the same pair of pants." Virgil said as he, Ruby, and Sharon stopped with Virgil pulling his arm away from Sharon's grip.
"Sharon, what's going on?" Ruby asked
"Yeah, why you hanging on me and Ruby like this?" Virgil asked.
"Because, Virgil and Ruby, I know the truth." Sharon said as she pushed Virgil toward a pillar with Ruby following them.
Once they stopped, Sharon looked to the side while Virgil ate a handful of popcorn with Ruby standing next to him.
"I know that you're both Static and Magnetta." Sharon whispered as Virgil's eyes widened.
Virgil dropped the popcorn bag on the floor and coughed up some popcorn as Ruby leaned back with her hands up. While Sharon turned her face to the side with a disgusted expression and her hands up.
"Now, what makes you say that?" Virgil asked.
"Static looks like you, Static talks like you, Magnetta looks like Ruby, Magnetta talks like Ruby, and the other night I saw them flying right into our neighborhood." Sharon explained.
"That's all just coincidence." Virgil said as he walked away while Ruby stayed with Sharon.
"Then how do you explain these?" Sharon asked as she looked through her purse and held out Virgil's Shock Vox and Ruby's Solar Pole in each of her hands.
"I found it in your room. I heard Richie's voice coming out of it and he was saying 'Static, Static.'" Sharon explained as Virgil turned around and looked at her.
"And I found this in your room, Ruby. I heard Allie's voice coming out of it and she was saying 'Magnetta, Magnetta.'" Sharon explained as she showed the Solar Pole to Ruby.
"Oh, that...What, no...Heh-heh!" Virgil stuttered as he grabbed his Shock Vox.
"See, this is just an old walkie-talkie Richie and I are trying to fix. And he was probably complaining about the static." Virgil lied.
"You know, the... shhh...All that." Virgil said.
"What about you, Ruby?" Sharon asked Ruby.
"Well, the truth is...we..." Ruby said as she was about to confess until Virgil interrupted.
"...think that you must be imagining things 'cause there's no way that me and Ruby are Static and Magnetta." Virgil lied.
"Virgil." Ruby said with a hint of anger.
"Well, okay, Virgil, you play it your way. But sooner or later, you two are going to change into Static and Magnetta, and I intend to be right there when you do." Sharon said.
"Hey, V, R, I didn't know you two were going to be here." Richie said as he walked toward Virgil, Ruby, and Sharon with a drink and a hotdog in each of his hands.
"Hi, guys, nice to see you here." Allie said as she walked toward Virgil, Ruby, Sharon, and Richie.
"Whatcha doing?" Richie asked as Virgil and Ruby saw Boom and Mirage.
They both saw Boom pulling Mirage with her through the hallway.
"Uh, going to the bathroom and so are you." Virgil said as he pulled Richie with him, causing Richie to drop his food and drink.
"You girls should go to the bathroom too." Virgil said.
"Sorry, Sharon, we gotta go." Ruby said as she and Allie ran toward the girl's bathroom.
Once they were inside, Ruby went inside one of the stalls and started changing into her superhero costume.
"Did you and Virgil see something?" Allie asked as she stood in front of the stall that Ruby was in.
"We just saw Boom and Mirage in the crowd." Ruby said through the stall.
"Uh-oh." Allie said.
"But that's not all. Sharon has figured out that me and Virgil are Static and Magnetta." Ruby said through the stall.
"Sorry, Ruby. I should've known that Sharon would be in your room and found your Solar Pole if I didn't stay quiet." Allie said as Magnetta opened the door.
"It's okay, Allie. It wasn't your fault. I was in a rush to not hang up and put my Solar Pole away where Sharon wouldn't find it." Magnetta said as she and Allie ran toward the exit.
Magnetta grabbed Allie's wrist as they flew up into the air and flew toward the men's bathroom where Virgil, Richie, and Sharon were at. While Virgil and Richie were in the bathroom, Sharon waited outside near the entrance. They levitated in the air as they looked down to see Sharon waiting next to the men's bathroom with Virgil and Richie looking at her. They saw Virgil holding out his finger and firing a purple electric bolt at the sprinklers, causing them to go off and spray water. The people who were standing below the sprinklers ended up getting soaked as they ran away while putting their hands over their heads.
"Huh? Hey!" Sharon said as she looked up and got soaked from the sprinklers.
"Ugh, my clothes." Sharon said as she ran toward the girl's bathroom.
However, Magnetta and Allie didn't get wet as Magnetta surrounded themselves in a white magnetic force field that kept them dry. Once the sprinklers turned off, Magnetta undid her magnetic force field and landed on the ground before she let go of Allie's wrist with Allie standing next to her as her magnetic aura disappeared.
"I hope her clothes won't get ruined." Allie said as she and Magnetta heard a high-pitched sound with their jaws dropped and looked up.
Then, they saw a nearby bench fall down from the vibrations caused by the high-pitched sound.
"Sounds like Boom and Mirage have gotten started." Magnetta said as she walked away.
"But what about Sharon?" Allie asked.
"That'll have to wait until Static and I stop Mirage's brother." Magnetta said as she flew toward the hallway and managed to catch up with Static.
Static and Magnetta stopped as they saw a sign that said 'ARENA MANAGER' with an arrow pointing left.
"Arena manager this way." Magnetta said as they flew toward another sign that also said 'ARENA MANAGER,' but with an arrow pointing right.
"And that way." Static said.
"So where did the door go?" Static asked as they levitated next to a glass wall.
Static and Magnetta looked at the glass wall as Static touched the wall and saw his hand go through it. Static and Magnetta phased through the wall to see a door burst open.
"Huh, nice cover-up." Static said.
"Looks like this is Mirage's doing." Magnetta said.
Inside the room, Boom was putting some dollar bills inside two rectangular boxes while Mirage kneeled next to a man sitting behind a water jug who was covering his ears and groaning in pain.
"This guy is hurt. You said there wasn't gonna be any trouble." Mirage said as she looked at her brother.
"And there wouldn't have been if he had done like I told him." Boom said as he closed the two boxes and grabbed them.
"Now, let's go." Boom said as he walked away.
However, Mirage was angry that her big brother broke his promise and had enough of her brother's actions as she stood up and looked at Boom with an angry expression.
"No!" Mirage yelled angrily as Boom turned around to look at her.
"Static and Magnetta were right. You are crazy." Mirage said angrily as she pointed her finger at Boom.
"I should've gone with Scott when I had the chance." Mirage said angrily.
"Quit saying that and quit saying that name!" Boom yelled angrily as he turned around to face his sister.
"Who you gonna listen to? Your own brother or some flying freaks?" Boom asked angrily as a purple electric bolt was fired at the first box while the box stacked on top of it glowed white.
The two boxes were pulled away from Boom as he and Mirage looked at them flying away.
"Uh, Alex, we'll take flying freaks for two hundred dollars." Static said as the first box floated in front of him while the second box floated in front of Magnetta with her hand glowing white.
Boom opened his jacket to reveal the speaker on his chest and fired a sonic blast at Static and Magnetta as they were blasted outside of the room and through the glass wall along with the two boxes. Static and Magnetta hit the wall with their backs and fell on the ground as the boxes hit their stomachs and fell on the ground next to Static and Magnetta. They looked up to see Boom walking through the glass wall and walked toward them. Boom stopped for a second as Static and Magnetta got up with Static putting his hand on the side of his head. Boom opened his jacket to reveal the speaker on his chest and walked toward Static and Magnetta as Sharon ran out of the girl's bathroom and was standing next to him. Boom fired his sonic blast at Static and Magnetta along with the two boxes as they were blasted into the stadium and smashed into the scoreboard. The crowd screamed as the players ran away with the two boxes falling to the ground as the lids burst open with some dollar bills flying out.
"This guy is hard on the ears like a Rap Metal Concert." Static said as he and Magnetta got up and were inside the scoreboard while looking down with Static putting his hand on the side of his head.
"Maybe even louder than the Hard Rocker's in Volcano Rock City." Magnetta said.
"You're done messing with my plans, Static and Magnetta." Boom said as he walked down the stairs with people running away in fear.
Boom stopped and fired a sonic blast at the scoreboard as Static and Magnetta got out and flew away. The sonic blast hit the scoreboard and caused it to explode. Everyone ran out of the stadium in fear as Sharon walked through the crowd of people and ran inside to see Static and Magnetta flying around the stadium while dodging Boom's sonic blasts with a few people staying in their seats. While Sharon was watching the scene, Richie and Allie ran inside the stadium.
"Wrong way, Sharon." Richie said as he grabbed Sharon's arm, causing Sharon to turn around and look at him.
"Richie, let go." Sharon said with an annoyed tone as she pulled her arm away from Richie's grip and watched the scene.
"Shar, it's dangerous in here." Richie said as Static and Magnetta flew above the dome while dodging Boom's sonic blasts.
"You wanna see dangerous? Touch me again, I'll show you dangerous." Sharon said angrily.
"Trust me, you do not want to make Sharon mad." Allie said to Richie as Static and Magnetta continued flying around the stadium, dodging Boom's sonic blasts.
"Stay still, will ya?" Boom asked angrily.
"Sorry..." Static said as he and Magnetta levitated above the dome with the sonic blast flying over their heads.
"...we didn't quite catch that. But you can catch this." Static said as he held out his fists and fired a purple electric bolt at a bunch of chairs and ripped them off.
While Magnetta held out her hand at some chairs on the other side as her hand glowed white along with the chairs and ripped them off. Static and Magnetta made the chairs fly toward Boom as they were surrounded in purple electricity or white magnetic energy. However, Boom fired a sonic blast from his chest at the chairs and destroyed them.
"Whoo, yeah! You go, bro and cous! Whoo!" Sharon cheered as Richie and Allie stood next to her.
Sharon was jumping up and down as Static and Magnetta flew backwards and was firing two purple electric bolts and white magnetic rays from both their hands before they stopped firing their electric bolts and magnetic rays as they saw Sharon, Richie, and Allie standing by the entrance.
"Get out of here you three, uh, whoever you are." Static said as he and Magnetta got hit by Boom's sonic blast and fell on a bunch of chairs as they groaned in pain.
"Virgil! Ruby!" Sharon yelled in concern as Static and Magnetta got up and put their hands on the bar with Static putting his hand on his head and their eyes closed.
When they opened their eyes, they ran away to avoid getting hit by a couple of Boom's sonic blasts as Static jumped onto his Static Saucer while Magnetta's body glowed white and jumped into the air as she and Static flew away while dodging Boom's sonic blast. Static and Magnetta flew out of the bleachers and into the basketball court as they dodged Boom's sonic blasts. Meanwhile, Mirage stood by the entrance as she watched the scene and knew that she had to do something to end this madness.
"This has to stop." Mirage said as she closed her eyes and was surrounded in a purple energy aura while levitating a few feet off the ground and surrounded Boom in a purple energy vortex.
"Wha? Yo, Mirage, I can't see! Quit it!" Boom yelled as he rapidly fired a bunch of sonic blasts in different directions.
Static and Magnetta flew around the dome while dodging the sonic blasts as Boom kept firing sonic blasts at random places. The first sonic blast hit a bunch of chairs while the second sonic blast hit a wall with a bunch of people dodging the sonic blasts or running away. Static and Magnetta flew toward the glass windows as Static fired a purple electric bolt at a glass window. While Magnetta held out her hands at another glass window as her hands glowed white along with the window. Static and Magnetta ripped off the glass windows and bend them. Static and Magnetta combined their glass windows together to form a giant glass sphere. Static groaned while Magnetta didn't as the glass sphere was surrounded in purple electricity and white magnetic energy.
"Whoo, I gotta work out more." Static said as Boom was still firing sonic blasts around the stadium.
"Yeah, you really should." Magnetta said as she and Static turned around to move the glass sphere over Boom as he stopped with his body glowing purple and floated up.
"Mirage quit it!" Boom yelled as he floated inside the sphere with a purple electric bolt fired at the hole to close it.
Static and Magnetta undid their powers as the glass sphere fell down and rolled on the court for a few seconds before it stopped. Boom got up as he saw Static and Magnetta levitating in front of him.
"Let me out! I'm warning you!" Boom yelled angrily as he fired a sonic blast from his chest.
However, the sonic blast bounced back and hit Boom as he hit the back of the sphere and kneeled on the floor while covering his ears and screaming in pain. Static and Magnetta lowered a few inches below the ground and levitated toward the glass sphere.
"Fun fact, soundproof glass like these can reflect soundwaves." Magnetta said as she knocked on the glass.
"And you just got a taste of your own medicine." Magnetta said as the crowd cheered with Boom covering his ears.
Static and Magnetta turned around to see the crowd cheering. However, they saw Sharon looking at them with her arms crossed and a smirk on her face as Richie and Allie stood next to her with worried expressions. Static looked at Sharon with a frown while Magnetta looked at her with an uneasy expression as she knew that Static wasn't going to like Sharon finding out his secret identity.
"Uh, think fast, hero, your sister has you right in her sight." Static said as Sharon leaned on a bar with a smirk on her face as Richie and Allie looked at her.
A few hours later, there were groups of people crowded together in barricades with a couple of police cars and fire trucks near the building. There were also some people walking out of the building as Sharon, Richie, and Allie stood in front of the barricades, waiting for Virgil and Ruby.
"There's Virgil and Ruby. The last ones out." Sharon said with a smirk as she pointed her finger at Virgil and Ruby walking out of the building.
"Proves my point, see?" Sharon asked.
"Sure looks like it." Allie said.
"The only point I see is the one on top of your head." Richie said to Sharon as Virgil and Ruby walked toward them and stood next to Richie, Allie, and Sharon.
"So, are you two gonna admit it?" Sharon asked with her arms crossed.
"Admit? Oh, are you still going on with that crazy Static and Magnetta talk?" Virgil asked as he and Richie laughed while Ruby and Allie didn't.
"Static and Magnetta talk." Richie said as he and Virgil stopped laughing.
"Cut it out, Virgil. First you and Ruby disappear then Static and Magnetta show up. Static and Magnetta disappear, you and Ruby show up. You can't tell me those sprinklers went off by accident." Sharon explained.
"Sprinklers? Oh, that explains the hair. I thought you just had a perspiration problem." Virgil said.
"Fine, tell you what? We'll just let daddy figure it out when he gets home." Sharon said with a smirk and her hands on her hips.
However, Richie saw something that gave him a shocked expression.
"Wait, look." Richie said as he pointed his finger at something with Virgil, Ruby, Sharon, and Allie turning around to see where he was pointing.
They saw two police cars and a car driving away with Static and Magnetta flying over the car behind the two police cars.
"Now, what were you saying?" Virgil asked Sharon as she had a surprised expression with Ruby looking at her.
"They are...You two...But if...You can't be..." Sharon said with a shocked expression.
"Did you two hear me shouting at them? Oh! They must think I'm bugging big time." Sharon said as she walked away with her head down.
"That would be my guess." Virgil said as he watched Sharon walk away.
"Come on, Allie. Let's go check up on Sharon." Ruby said to Allie as they ran after Sharon.
Sharon kept on walking as she was confused about how she saw Static and Magnetta flying away with the police while Virgil and Ruby were in front of her.
"Sharon, wait up!" Ruby yelled as Sharon lifted her head and turned around to see Ruby and Allie.
"What is it, Ruby?" Sharon asked as Ruby and Allie stood in front of her.
"Listen, Sharon. What you saw wasn't Static and Magnetta." Ruby confessed.
"What do you mean?" Sharon asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Look." Ruby said as she pointed up with her, Allie, and Sharon looking up.
They saw Static and Magnetta flying over three cars as the third car had a sign on the door that said 'DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SERVICES.' Mirage was inside the car as she looked at Static and Magnetta while surrounded in a purple energy aura and a purple energy ball in between her hands with a smile on her face. After a few seconds, the purple energy aura and the purple energy ball disappeared along with Static and Magnetta as they were actually illusions made by Mirage. Once the Static and Magnetta illusions disappeared, Mirage wrapped her pink jacket around herself as the car drove off.
Sharon saw the Static and Magnetta illusions disappear as she gasped at what she saw.
"As you can see, it was just an illusion." Ruby said as she and Allie looked at Sharon.
"Wait a minute, if they weren't the real Static and Magnetta, then that means..." Sharon said.
"Yep, Virgil and I really are Static and Magnetta." Ruby said.
"And to prove it to you. Let me show you something." Ruby said as Allie gave her a coin and grabbed it.
Ruby's hand glowed white as the coin floated up while glowing white as Ruby made the coin spin around in a circle. This shocked Sharon from what she saw. After a few seconds, the coin stopped glowing white along with Ruby's hand as the coin fell on her hand.
"Ha, I knew it! I knew you and Virgil were Static and Magnetta!" Sharon said with a smile.
"I have to say, I was impressed how you managed to figure it out on your own." Ruby said with a smile as she gave the coin back to Allie.
"Thanks, it surprised me at first to figure out that Static and Magnetta are actually my brother and cousin." Sharon said.
"You got that right. Now that you know our secret identities, there are a few things you should know and what you shouldn't do." Ruby said.
"And what is that?" Sharon asked.
"First of all, Richie, Allie, and Adam know our secret identities while Frieda and Daisy only know mine." Ruby said.
"Wait, Adam knows that you and Virgil are Static and Magnetta?" Sharon asked in shock.
"Yes, he does. However, Copy Cat aka Kathryn Collins also knows their secret identities. Thankfully, she hasn't told anyone who they are." Allie said.
"That's a relief." Sharon said.
"And finally, don't tell Uncle Robert. Promise?" Ruby said.
"I promise." Sharon said.
"Good. But first, you'll have to pretend that you've been fooled by those illusions of Static and Magnetta and that you don't know our secret identities. Virgil doesn't seem to be comfortable with you knowing that we're Static and Magnetta. So just play along until the time is right." Ruby explained.
"Don't worry, I won't tell dad and I'll make sure to act like I don't know your secret identities." Sharon said.
"Thanks. Now that that's taken care of, let's go home." Ruby said as she, Allie, and Sharon walked away.
That's right, Sharon knows Virgil and Ruby's secret identity. I've been planning to do this for a long time. As you can see, Boom and Mirage have mentioned Scott Wilson aka Soundwave a few times. This won't be the last of Boom and Mirage for I have some plans for Mirage. I'll also be publishing an OC episode where Boom and Mirage will see Soundwave again. The next two chapters will be OC episodes before I get to Frozen Out. The first OC episode will replace Static Shaq. Please Review.
