Part 2
Bob, Dash, Helen, and Violet were all in a room with spongy white walls. They were all untied. Helen gasped. She began to panic.
"Where's Jack-Jack; oh my gosh, where's my baby?!"
"Relax, honey." Bob assured her. "I think before we left I think I saw Lucius being punched by that bad guy. I'm sure he came to by now, and is taking care of Jack-Jack." Helen just looked at him.
"Uh-oh, Dad." Dash observed. "You shouldn't have told her that."
"I'm with Dash on this, Dad." Violet agreed. "You said the wrong thing. Now, you're going to get it."
"Did you just seriously said not to worry about my baby, Bob? My own flesh and blood?" Bob sighed.
"That's not what I meant, honey. He's also my flesh and blood."
"Then what did you mean? That because he's a super, I'm not allowed to worry? That I'm wasting my time concerning over nothing? No, I'm not going to do that. I'll be a bad mother if I did, a monster. Just because he's different then others like him doesn't give me an excuse to not love him any less. The kids know not to judge people from their background," He looked at Lucius. " And skin color, among other things." He looked back at his family. "and we too, and should continue with that moral, along with future generations."
"I agree. I'm worried about him too. I, like you, worry about all of our children each and every day. What kind of parent wouldn't? You're right, they would be monsters if they don't, and I'm no monster. That was a terrible thing to say, and I regret it immensely."
"Thank you. But we need to get out of here. Jack-Jack's still a baby."
"I agree." He looked at the door. "I'll try to punch the door down." And with that, they all went to the door.
"Go, Dad!" Dash cheered him on. "Punch that door. Show it no mercy!" Bob punched the steel door with all of his might. But it didn't work, and he yowled in pain. The kids and Helen were concerned for him. Dash made a hurt face.
Ouch!" He said. "I felt that."
"You're all right, Bob?" His wife wanted to know.
"Yeah." Bob answered. "The whole room is made of spongy material, why can't the door?" He looked determined, and readied to punch again. "I'm going to try again." He tried again and again with the same result each time. He was about to try again when Helen stopped him.
"Stop before you break your wrist. We'll figure something else out." They then heard an evil laugh. They all looked up as they saw a security camera.
"I love the way that you think I'm an idiot again." Glenn's voice spoke.
"We never thought you were an idiot." Bob responded.
"Well your kids did."
"We never thought that either." Violet said. She looked at her brother. "Dash?" He shook his head. Violet looked back at the camera.
"See?"
"But you would be much easier to defeat, and outsmart if you were," The ten-year-old put in.
"Well, I'm not." Glenn admitted. "So sorry, but anyways, that's not the point. This room is specially designed to prevent you all from using your powers, much like the remote."
"He's right." Dash said as he ran in a circle. "I don't have my speed."
"And I don't have my invisibly, and can't do a force field." Violet said as well after her powers failed her. Bob grew mad.
"You better get us out of here!" He yelled into the camera. Glenn laughed again.
"You have to wait until the baby gets here and tries to save you. Oh, I forgot, he can't!" He laughed again. Helen panicked again.
"Wait, Jack-Jack's coming here? You better not lay a finger on him, or I swear I'll..."
"Relax, I won't. The raccoon will though." This confused the mother as well as everyone else.
"What!?"
"Oh, the raccoon that your baby fought in that other house you guys stayed at, is going to fight and destroy your baby when that black friend of yours comes here with him. Ask your husband, he knows what I'm talking about. Well, I got to get ready for the fight. That was the doorbell." It was now silent. Helen looked at her husband, so did Violet and Dash.
"Jack-Jack fought a raccoon?!" He wanted to know. "That is so awesome!"
"No, Dash." His mother said to him. "It's not awesome." She looked at Bob again, hands on hips. "Bob, what did he mean Jack-Jack fought a raccoon?" Bob just shrugged.
"I don't know what he's talking about." Helen narrowed her eyes at him.
"Bob, don't lie to me in front of the kids. Don't lie to me ever!" Bob sighed. There was no way he was going to win this.
"Fine, when I woke up from my nap in front of the TV, Jack-Jack was fighting the furry creature. I don't know all the details. I ran out, and picked him up, but then he multiplied. When I picked all of them up, that is when the fight ended, and the raccoon escaped." Helen couldn't believe it.
"You were asleep when Jack-Jack fought a deadly raccoon? You should've kept your eyes on him."
"You should've, Dad." Violet told him. "That's parenting 101, always keep your eyes on your kids."
"I'm sorry, honey." He perked up. "But he didn't get a scratch on him."
"That's not an excuse, it's a miracle, sure. He shouldn't have picked a fight in the first place. And don't tell me because he's a super, I'm overreacting."
"I wasn't going to say that. But on the bright side, if I didn't take my eyes off of him, we wouldn't have known about his powers."
"That may be, but I'm still mad at you." Bob sighed with defeat.
"Fair enough."
Rocky grew testy at the door. Glenn saw this as he reached for the doorknob.
"Stay down for now, Rocky. You'll have your chance." Rocky calmed down. Glenn opened the doorknob.
"Hello." He looked at the baby. "Hello, little baby." Jack-Jack glared at the mad scientist.. His gaze then fell onto Rocky, and murder was in his eyes. He was about to jump down, and fight him when Lucius tried with all of his might of hold him back.
"Whoa, Jack-Jack." He said. "Cool it."
"Hey, baby." Rocky greeted. Lucius was confused as he looked at the animal., still trying to hold back the baby.
"You can talk?"
"All thanks to me." Glenn stated. "And my wonderful invention." Lucius looked at Glenn again.
"So why did you want me to bring Jack-Jack?"
"The raccoon is going to fight him to death." Lucius gasped.
"You must be insane! He's just a baby! What does the raccoon have against Jack-Jack?" Glenn shrugged.
"How should I know? All I know is that he was fighting with the baby."
"That little brat stole my food!" Rocky snapped. "And no one steals my food, and gets away with it, no matter who the thief is."
"Is this even necessary?" Lucius asked. "All over a piece of food? Now I don't know what all went down, but I'm sure if Jack-Jack can, he'd apologize. Right, Jack-Jack? Jack-Jack blabbed loudly at the raccoon, and blew her a raspberry.
"Well, if Jack-Jack was older, he'd apologize. I'm sure. So, where are the Parrs?"
"Locked up."
"Locked up where?" Glenn sneered.
"You'll see. Now let's go somewhere else for the fight."
"I'm going to help you know. Jack-Jack, despite being crazy powerful can't defeat a raccoon on his own."
"No, you're not." They walked off.
"What do you mean? Yes, I am."
"No you're not."
"Don't argue with me. I get enough of that crap at home with the wife. Yes, I am. End of story."
"Whatever."
They were led to the cell where the Parrs were being held captive. As soon as they saw them through the barred door, the Parrs ran to door.
"Lucius!" Dash cried. He pulled on the bars. "Help; save us!"
"That is exactly what I plan to do, little Dash." Lucius promised. As soon as Jack-Jack saw his parents, the baby cried out with joy.
"Mama; Dada!" He cried. Helen smiled at her baby.
"Don't you worry, Jack-Jack," She told him. "You'll reunite with Mommy, Daddy, and your siblings soon enough." Helen glared at Glenn. "You will let us reunite with our baby right now. You won't get away with this! The police will arrest you, and you will go to prison." Glenn laughed at this.
"Oh, I don't think so." He just said. He opened the door.
"Quick!" Dash cried. "The idiot opened the door for a chance for our escape; run" He was about to run out when Glenn quickly pushed Lucius in, and closed the door on the ten year old's face. The parents and Violet gasped.
"Ouch!" Dash howled in pain. "My nose hurts!" Glenn laughed at this.
"And once again, I'm not an idiot." He said. "The fight against baby and raccoon will begin shortly. A TV screen will come down to show you the whole fight. Just a heads up, some scenes might be too inappropriate for you kids to see. If you get squeamish as well, just close your eyes. It'll pass soon enough." He laughed again as he took Jack-Jack away. The parents watched in horror as they could do nothing but watch.
"Mama?" A concerned Jack-Jack asked, not sure why he was being taken away. "Dada?" Bob looked at his wife.
"Helen?" Bob wanted to know in a worried voice. "You okay? Honey?" Helen glared at her husband.
"No, Bob!" She snapped. "A bad man just took our one-year old away, and is about to pit him against a deadly raccoon. What do you think?!" Bob defended himself.
"Whoa, honey, I'm sorry. I just wanted to know how you feel. You're right to be upset." Just then, Helen began to cry. "Hey, honey, it's going to be okay. We'll get out of here, and save him." Helen went down on her butt, and covered her face in her lap, continuing to cry. Dash and Violet felt bad as they saw the toughest woman they knew break down crying. It was really heartbreaking. Bob knelt down, and put a hand on her. Helen saw this, and her husband allowed her to cry against his chest as he hugged her. "It'll be okay. We won't stand watch to harm come to our baby. There must be a way to get out of here."
"But, how, Dad?" Violet questioned her father. "We lost our superpowers." Bob looked at his only daughter.
"Relax, sweetie. We don't need superpowers to get out of here."
"I know, but, how exactly? What are we going to do?" Bob shrugged.
"Don't know, that's why we need to think." The kids groaned.
"Don't think that's the answer she wanted, Dad." Dash said to him.,
"I know." Bob said to his eldest son. "But we're Parrs," He smiled at Lucius. "And one Best. If we put our heads together, we can do anything. We don't need to have superpowers to be super. We just need to have faith that we can." Helen smiled at him. "Now, come on everybody, think!" They all began to think of a way to escape.
Glenn had put a struggling Jack-Jack into a cage, and brought the cage to where the fight was going to be, a big lab room.
"Okay, Rocky!" He called to the raccoon. "The fight to the death is about to begin." Rocky scurried to the scientist.
"Finally!" The raccoon said. "I've been waiting for this moment." She looked at the baby in the cage, who upon seeing Rocky again, went wild in the cage, trying to get out. "I can't wait to murder you, little human." The baby blew a raspberry at her. They then went to their sides to start battling from.
"The battle," began Glenn. "Will begin in 3, 2, wait, I forgot to turn on the cell scene so the baby's family can witness the whole thing." Rocky groaned as Glenn brought out another remote, and pressed it.
Violet got an idea.
"I know!" She said. "One of us should break the bars with their hands." She looked at Bob. "Dad? You're the strongest."
"But I don't have my super strength." Bob reminded her. "You know that."
"You don't need your super strength to break the bars." Helen told him. "You just need to break them, or bend them, or whatever that can get us out of here."
"I don't know, Helen." Bob stated. "I want to, but I just don't know."
"Please, Dad?" Dash pleaded. "I want to do stuff."
"Yeah, like homework." Violet pointed out. "You know, he never finished, and didn't bring any of it here." Dash glared at his sister, and punched her in the shoulder.
"Shut up; I was talking about fun, exciting stuff, not super boring stuff."
"Please, Bob." Helen said. "Try, for me?" Bob looked at his children, wife, and Lucius.
"I think they got a great idea." He admitted. "I can't think of anything better, can you?" Bob sighed.
"Fine!" He declared. Everyone cheered as he went to the door.
"You're my hero, Dad!" Dash cheered. "Literally, or you were, but are going to be once again!"
"Thanks, Dash!" Bob said. "I appreciate that."
"I'm your hero too, right?" Helen asked Dash.
"Yeah, you are too, Mom." Helen smiled.
"But you didn't stay up all night figuring out math." Bob told her. Helen just glared at him, and Bob sighed again. "Right, because you were out sacrificing yourself in order to legalizing supers." He turned to the door, put both hands on the bars, and with all of his might, tried to bend them. Everyone cheered him on again.
"You go once again, Dad!" Dash cried.
"You got this, Bob!" Lucius added.
"I believe you, honey!" Helen cheered.
"Me too!" Violet put in, She then noticed a screen coming down from the ceiling. "Uh. Mom? Dad? Everyone?" Everyone looked as the screen turned on, showing Glenn opening the bars to Jack-Jack's cage, and he and the raccoon running to each other. They looked at Bob again, and the cheers turned to panicked encouragements.
"HURRY, BOB!" Helen screamed. "Oh, my poor baby!"
"Can't you see what I'm trying to do?" Bob questioned. "This isn't easy you know. I'm so used to my power."
"Guys, settle down." Lucius told everyone who calmed down. "Can't you see Bob's trying his best? This ain't easy as he said."
"Thanks, Lucius." Bob thanked his friend. "I appreciate it."
"Always got your back." He told him. "But seriously, you need to hurry. Your one-year-old's life at stake's here." Bob sighed yet again.
"And there it is."
Just then, Bob managed to bend the bars. And yet again, everyone cheered.
"I knew you had it in you, honey." Helen said to him.
"Thanks, honey."
"Think you can punch the door from the outside?" Violet questioned. "I know this cell prevents our powers, but your punch will be from the outside, so it should work, right?"
"Only one way to find out." Bob declared, and did just that. With one powerful punch, the lock loosened. Bob brought his arm back, Helen helped him up, and he opened the door. Everyone cheered.
"Now let's get the f..." Lucius began, and looked at the kids in the room. "Let's get out of here."
"You sad it my friend." Bob agreed, and they all walked out of their prison.
"Now, let's find Jack- Jack, and help put a stop to this." Helen declared. The family and Lucius agreed, walking off. Dash ran ahead of them, glad to have his power again.
"I'll go on ahead!" He declared. "Man, it's good to have you back again, speed. I missed you." Everyone smiled as they went after him.
After Jack-Jack and Rocky lunged at each other, ready to tear each other's throat's out, Glenn pulled out the remote to take the baby's superpowers away, leaving him helpless. He pressed it, but the baby still combust himself. Glenn pressed it repeatedly, but it didn't work. Jack-Jack chased after a terrified Rocky.
"Why...isn't...this...stupid...thing...working?!" Glenn was tapping the remote now. He tapped it so hard that the batteries came out. They dropped, and rolled on the floor.
"Hello?!" A still horrified Rocky asked as Jack-Jack still chased her. "I'm still being chased by this super powerful demon baby. Do something; take his powers away!"
"I can't!"
"What do you mean you can't?"
"I have to change the batteries first."
"What?! I don't know what that means, and I'm pissed!"
"Clam down! I'll get the batteries. Just be patient." Rocky sighed.
"Fine, but hurry, I don't want to be burned to a crisp."
"I will you pesky raccoon!" And with that, Glenn went off as Jack-Jack tortured a scared Rocky.
The Parrs and Lucius saw the fight happen right before their eyes.
"Oh no, you don't!" Helen stated as she grabbed Rocky with her outstretched hand. As soon as Jack-Jack saw his mom, he turned back to normal.
"Mama!" He said, and crawled right over to her.
"Oh, hi Jack-Jack!" Helen greeted, then looked at the raccoon in the eyes. She narrowed her eyes. Rocky gulped.
"You stay away from my baby; understand?!" Rocky then grew mean again.
"Then you need to teach him some manners!" She hissed, and struck her with her razor sharp claws. Helen yelped in pain as she threw her behind her. Lucius and the Parrs' were now horrified by what just happened.
"MOM!" The kids cried while as the same time Bob and Lucius shouted her real name. Jack-Jack was confused to what happened.
"Mama?" The infant wanted to know.
"And tell him that it's not nice to steal from a thief!" Rocky continued. She then laughed. Jack-Jack grew determined. He stood to his feet, and started to grow as he stomped towards her. The raccoon saw this, and gulped again.
"Uh-oh, not again!" Once again, the raccoon tried to scurry off but Jack-Jack grabbed her. He then smashed her repeatedly from the tail. He laughed; he was enjoying this! The rest of the Parrs and Lucius ran to Helen.
"Are you okay, mom?" Dash wanted to know. "Are you hurt?"
"She just been clawed at by a raccoon." Violet told him. "So, what do you think?" Dash shrugged.
"I was just asking."
"I'll be better when I get my baby back." Helen answered. They looked at up as the enormous baby whacked Rocky over and over.
"Well, let's get him back then." Bob said. He was about to run to his youngest son when Glenn ran onto the scene.
"I have new batteries in!" He announced proudly. He looked at the Parrs and Lucius. "How did you guys get out? Never mind about that. Now you can see the death in person. Now prepare to watch as your pathetic baby turns powerless as Rocky rips him to shreds!" He laughed as he pointed the remote at Jack-Jack, and pressed the remote.
"NO!" Lucius and the Parrs cried, but it as too late as they watched in horror as the baby turned normal sized again.
"Now's my chance!" Rocky observed. She lunged at the baby again. She was about to slash at the infant with her super sharp claw when Helen grabbed Jack-Jack in the nick of time with streatching her arm. Rocky fell to the ground. She stood up on all fours, turned to Helen, and hissed at her.
"I had my chance, stupid woman!" She hissed. "And you are not going to ruin it!" She lunged at Jack-Jack again.
"I got this." Bob offered, and punched Rocky in the nose. Again, the raccoon fell to the floor.
"Ouch!" Dash observed. "Dad just punched a raccoon in the nose; that's so awesome!"
"Don't tell your school friends." Bob told to him. He looked back at Jack-Jack in his wife's arms, and patted him on the head with a smile. "I'll do anything to protect my kids, no matter how many superpowers they have, they're still kids." Helen smiled.
"That's right." She agreed, while trying to prevent her baby from getting Rocky. The mom looked at Rocky. "You must not have any children of your own, otherwise you'll understand."
"If I have kid, I'll teach them not to steal food from Mommy." Rocky said. She tried to do a sneak attack when Violet spoke up.
"Look out!" She warned.
"This time, I got it." Lucius said. He looked at the raccoon, and froze her in a block of ice. Violet then saw Glenn aiming the remote at them all.
"Look out again!" She warned. Just as Glenn was about to push the button, Lucius froze him, but not the remote.
"Way to have our backs like that!" Dash once again observed. Lucius turned to him.
"Of course, little dude." He said to him. "Always." He grabbed the remote from out of Glenn's frozen hands. "Now, let's see about giving your baby brother's his powers back. This device gave them away, maybe it can give them back." He looked at Helen. "Care to do the honors? I can hold him if you like."
"Nah, you can do it." She told him, She looked at Dash. "In the meantime, you should find a phone, and call the police. They won't be frozen for very long."
"Whatever you say, Mom! Make my brother a super again!" He then ran off. Lucius looked at Jack-Jack, pointing the remote at him.
"Here goes!" He pressed the button again, zapping Jack-Jack.
"Did it work?" Bob asked a moment later. "How are we gong to find out?" Jack-Jack then blabbed loudly at the frozen raccoon, and fired his laser beam from his eyes at it. The ice thawed, and the raccoon tackled Jack-Jack to the floor.
"Jack-Jack!" Yelled a horrified Helen as everyone watched the fighting raccoon and the baby rolling on the floor.
"Get ahold of your baby, and I'll refreeze the raccoon." Lucius spoke.
As soon as Helen found an opening, she picked up her struggling baby, trying to keep hold on him.
"Now, Lucius!" She ordered, and Lucius refroze the furry animal.
"It works." Violet infant was disappointed as the fight was over with, but grew happy again as Helen hugged him.
"I'm glad." They then waited for Dash.
"I called the police." Dash announced when he came back. "They're on their way." He looked at his baby. "Does Jack-Jack have his powers back?"
"Yes." Helen answered,
"Oh, that's good. Can you show me?" He then saw their irritated faces, prompting him to change his mind. "You know what? It's fine. I believe you." And with that, they waited for the police.
Fifteen minutes later, they heard police sirens go off. They all smiled.
"They're here!" Dash said, thrilled.
"Bob, would you show them where to go?" Helen asked.
"Sure," With that, he went off.
"What about me?" Dash wanted to know. "I'm faster."
"The police wouldn't believe this." Violet told him. "Would they?" Dash was about to argue when he realzed she might have a point.
"Yeah, you're right. They might since they know supers exist, but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry."
"Yeah, better safe than sorry."
Before they came in, Glenn and the raccoon both thawed out.
"Just on time." Lucius observed with a smile. He then realized something. "Hold on." He zapped Rocky with the remote so the raccoon couldn't talk again. "Sometimes, silence is golden." Jack-Jack blabbed at Rocky yet again. Powerless now, and unable to talk, Rocky grew terrified, and scampered away.
"Coward!" Glenn shouted after her as an officer came in, and cuffed him.
After some interviews, the Parrs and Lucius went to their homes. Helen saw on her watch that it was two in the morning. Dash yawned.
"What a day! I'm tired. There's no way I can get eight hours of sleep in now before school." He looked at his mom, hopeful. "Unless I can play hooky today, mom? I didn't even get the chance to finish my homework, and most of it is due in a few hours."
"If you go to sleep right after we get home, you'll get some hours in before school starts. As for homework. I'm sure your teacher will understand, and extend the due dates. I'll send a note. You and Violet are still both going to your schools, no exceptions. Maybe a bit late, but still going." Dash groaned, and sighed.
"Fine!" Jack-Jack broke out laughing. Dash eyed him.
"You can laugh now, but you'll regret it in a few years." Jack-Jack laughed again.
The kids fell asleep in the police ride home, so Bob and Helen took them to bed.
"Isn't Jack-Jack so cute when he's asleep?" Helen asked Bob as soon after they kissed the baby's forehead in his crib.
"Yeah." Bob agreed. "He sure is. All of our kids are. And I know they have superpowers, and can fend for themselves, but that's no excuse, they're still kids, and should be treated no differently to non-super kids." Helen kissed him on the lips with a smile.
"And don't you forget it."