Violet studiously watched Dash as she concentrated on not hearing what he was actually saying or stealing at glance at Wilbur to see his reaction to whatever Dash was saying. Since they had gotten in the car to pick-up Dash from track practice, Dash had been on a roll of telling Wilbur the greatest hits of the most embarrassing moments from Violet's life starting from birth. At first Violet had tried to downplay or distract Dash, but that had only seemed to spur him on. She was now trying to wait him for him to grow bored or run out of stories.
"Oh! And then there was Violet's first date with Tony Rydinger! Okay, so she spent all day hauled up in her bathroom-" Dash began before Violet loudly said, "Okay, that's enough story time unless you want to tell him about why your Spanish teacher never calls on you to speak.
Dash glared at Violet and didn't say anything as he avoided looking at anyone. After a moment Violet heard him grumble, "Spanish is hard…Why can't they use G's like normal people…" Violet made an attempt to smirk as she felt her chest painfully constrict.
He just had to bring up Tony when we're all trapped in this car. Violet thought to herself.
Next to Dash, Wilbur perked over Dash's head to meet Violet's eyes, "Whose Tony?"
Violet felt her face go beat red as she answered, "He was….a guy at my old school." As Violet ducked her head, she saw Dash once again open his mouth to say something.
"So is anyone hungry? We can meet up with your father and Jack-Jack for lunch somewhere before we head home." Violet's mother interrupted. Violet snapped her head up and caught her mother's smile before turning and seeing Wilbur still watching her.
"Anywhere but that Chinese place by our house. The entire menu is in Chinese and I think I keep ordering stir fried dog." Dash answered successfully distracted.
Everyone in the car laughed as Violet's mother stopped at a red light. A split second later the windows from the upper floors of a building a hundred feet ahead of them shattered from an explosion. All around from their car to the building there were screams as two figures calmly strutted out of the entrance of the building several floors below where the explosion had gone off.
Violet's mother rolled down the car's window so they could hear a woman's voice with an extremely heavy French accent amplified by a megaphone declare, "We have taken the workers of this bank as hostages. We demand one billion dollars from this bank in exchange for their freedom. Mon grand, Bomb Voyage, himself has wired the room the hostages are in and if anyone tries anything we will blow it up."
Violet's mother immediately sprang into action and turned to Violet, her brothers, and Wilbur and said, "We're going to all run down the next street as terrified civilians. When we get to the first alley we come across, Violet and I will change. Dash, you and Wilbur will make sure no one sees us change. Wilbur, do you mind watching Dash while Violet and I take care of this? My husband should hear about this on the news and be here soon, but I don't want to take the risk waiting while there are hostages."
Wilbur nodded and said, "No problem" but was interrupted Dash who yelled, "Again! Why am I stuck on the sidelines again?"
Violet's mother narrowed her eyes and said, "Do not take that tone with me. You know you are still grounded for the spaghetti can incident. If you want to save the day you need to at least be able to responsibly watch your brother for a few hours."
Dash glared off to the side and sunk into the seat before grumbling, "Yes ma'am."
"Okay, let's go. Now remember, we are all normal terrified people running for our lives, okay?" Violet's mother said as she retrieved a small bag from the car's glove box and threw open her door with a horrified expression. She then paused long enough to see the rest of them following suite. Several minutes later, Violet was finishing up putting on her mask as her mother and her hurried to the entrance of the alley they had chosen. There Dash and Wilbur were all watching for "danger".
Seeing her, Wilbur gave a sly smile and dramatically said, "Thank God you're here Supergirl! There are evil-doers who have innocent citizens and they've got a bomb!"
Violet playfully rolled her eyes and replied, "That's Invisigirl, thank-you very much and I think these 'evil-doers' will have quite a few bombs."
Violet's mother then signaled for them all to come over as she said to Dash, "Okay, now Wilbur and you can watch the action from a distance, but you stay at a distance. We'll be back as soon as we can."
Wilbur gave a quick nod while Dash made more of a head bob with a disgruntled expression.
Just before Violet and her mother left, Wilbur tapped Violet on her shoulder and said, "Remember to smile for the cameras once you've saved the day."
Violet laughed and shook her head, "I want to be half-way to wherever we're eating for lunch before the mob of flashbulbs and cameras show up."
With that, Violet and her mother ran back around the corner to the building where Bomb Voyage and the mysterious woman had apparently disappeared back into. The immediate area surrounding the building was deserted with a group of onlookers forming about fifty feet behind where Violet was. Looking back, Violet thought she could just see the tops of two heads with one of spiky blonde hair and another black-haired with a point melding into the crowd.
"So who is that woman Bomb Voyage is teaming up with? Every time I've seen him, he's always been solo." Violet asked between breaths as they neared the building.
"No idea. I've never seen her before either. Be careful around her until we know what she's capable of. We know Voyage isn't afraid to kill people and she could be the same."
Violet and her mother veered to the side of the building to find a way into the building without being seen by Voyage or the woman. Their goal was to find the hostages and safely separate them from danger before engaging either of the villains. A few feet along the side of the building, Violet and her mother found a cracked window that Violet's mother was able to shrink and stretch her arm into and opened the window enough for them to get into. They entered a large empty room filled with cubicles and silently made their way out into a long carpeted hall. Here they were able to hear the muffled talking from a pair of people closer to where the entrance to the building was.
Violet mouthed, "Voyage?" to her mother who gave a terse nod. The appearance of an approaching shadow caused both Violet and her mother to jump back into the room with the cubicles. They caught the figure move down the hall and then make a turn.
"They might be going to check on the hostages. Follow and then come right back." Violet's mother whispered.
Violet nodded and then turned invisible. She silently ran and caught up with the figure, which had been the woman. Up close, Violet was able to get a good look of her. She looked to be about Voyage's age, but was very fit. She wore striped top and a pair of tight black pants. Her dark hair was pulled into a tight bun that was mostly hidden by a black hat. Her face was paled with white make-up and black accents around her eyes. She had on deep red lipstick on her frowning mouth. In all, Violet thought she looked almost exactly like a female version of Voyage, except for the long black bow she carried and the holster filled with arrows on her back. Violet trailed her for a few feet before the woman opened a door into what looked like a conference room. The woman only kept the door open for a few seconds before letting it close, but Violet was able to see a group of people huddled on the floor who all seemed to simultaneously shrink back from the woman's appearance. Off to the side, there was a man lying on the floor with a woman hovering over him, obscuring his upper body. However Violet was able to see the black arrow sticking out of the man's abdomen and a large red stain surrounding where it penetrated. The Voyage-looking woman gave a satisfied nod and turned on the spot as she began strutting back down the hallway, nearly knocking into Violet. Violet went straight back to her mother and told her what had happened.
"Okay, I'm going to go distract Voyage and the woman while you go and get the hostages to safety." Violet's mother instructed and Violet nodded.
Violet's mother then sneaked back out of the window they entered in while Violet made her way back to the conference room with the hostages. Cracking the door, she caught the initial looks of fear in the hostages' faces and then the immediate spill of relieved thanks. Violet glanced back down the hall before making a "shh" motion as she entered the room.
She first moved to the injured man and saw that the arrow was buried deep in his abdomen and the amount of blood surrounding the wound had grown significantly in just the short time Violet had been gone.
"He tried to call for help on the phones and that psycho woman shot him!" said the woman who had been standing over the man.
Violet surveyed the room as her mind raced. In total there were about 20 people including the injured man and from the position of the arrow, Violet was afraid to move him too much in case it caused further damage.
"Everyone, I will be right back. I'm going to get something so we can get out of here safely, but be ready to move when I get back." Violet instructed as she headed back for the door.
As she started down the hall, she heard a voice say, "Looking for a pair of these?"
Violet's head whipped around and she nearly busted out laughing. Before her stood Wilbur, in his normal t-shirt and jeans, but he was also wearing a pair of black supersuit boots and gloves with a mask that awkwardly fit him around his eyes. In each hand, he gripped the handle to a pair of empty mailroom carts.
"What are you wearing?" Violet halfway giggled.
"Seriously? A fellow hero comes to lend aid and help in a crisis and he is asked what he is wearing?" Wilbur answered in a fake hurt voice.
"I never said I needed help from another hero." Violet countered with a smile.
"Okay, fine. Call me the wanna-be sidekick that helps speed things along for the real superheroes to save the day. And these are Dash's by the way." Wilbur said as he gestured to his gloves and mask.
"Well then, my eager sidekick. Let's go save some people." Violet said heading back to the other room. Wilbur followed behind, pushing the pair of carts.
Entering the room, Violet saw the group all standing and waiting by the injured man. Seeing Wilbur, most of the people's faces changed to slight looks of confusion.
" This is…my partner superhero." Violet said introducing Wilbur.
"I don't even get a cool superhero name? What about a lame sidekick name?" Wilbur teased as they moved the carts over to the man.
"Considering you're not supposed to be here right now, we'll work on names later." Violet replied as she pushed the carts together forming a make do stretcher. Turning her attention back to the other people she said, "Okay, we're all going to lift him onto the carts on three. Try to keep him as level as possible."
Violet, Wilbur and a few of the other people managed to get the unconscious man onto the carts and carefully moved as a group to the door.
"Does anyone know how to get out of here besides the front entrance?" Violet asked.
"There's a parking garage attached to the back of the building." A voice in the crowd said.
"Perfect. Now, everyone's going to head out there while my partner and I go to help Elastigirl defeat Bomb Voyage and his new partner. That should give you all enough cover and time to get out of here." Violet said and handed the carts off to one of the people and the group quickly left down the hall.
"You probably need to also get out of here so my mom doesn't see you." Violet said to Wilbur.
"She already has. I ran into her when I was sneaking in the building. How do you think I knew to get the carts?" Wilbur replied with a smirk.
Violet felt the shock register on her face. "Wow, you better watch it or she'll adopt you into the family."
Wilbur laughed and said, "You better hurry and meet up with your mom and let her know the hostages are safe. I'll see you in a couple of minutes." He then started down a new hallway.
"And where are you going? We came in through that way." Violet said pointing behind her.
Wilbur paused and said over his shoulder, "We've still got to apprehend Bomb Appetite and his little chickie-poo and let's just say you're not the only one who can become invisible."
Wilbur then disappeared down the hallway. Violet stood in the hallway a moment longer, feeling both confused and intrigued, before taking off towards the building's main entrance. As she breached the building's doors, Violet saw Bomb Voyage and the archer woman standing together as the woman took shots at Violet's mother. It looked like Bomb Voyage was activating bombs and attaching them to arrow for the woman to shoot. Violet raced over to her mother and threw up a shield.
She could hear the shocked reactions from the other pair as her mother said, "Everyone's safe?"
"Yeah, by now everyone should be in the building's garage. What's going on here?"
"I got Voyage's detonator to the building. Voyage and his new girlfriend-" Violet's mother began before being cut off by the woman.
"Mon amour and I have told you and everyone else a hundred times. It's Arrow-voir. As in au revoir but with your English word for arrow" said the woman in her almost unintelligible accent. She then shook her head exasperatedly.
Next to her Voyage gave an assenting superior nod before adding, "Ils sont trop occupés brusque sortie dans leurs costumes stupide."
As the pair were talking, Violet saw a shadow creep sprint close to Arrow-voir. As it paused, Violet caught the top of Wilbur's hair peeking out around the woman's legs. He then backed up a few feet and Violet saw in his arms were the quiver. Making eye contact with Violet, Wilbur gave gaging gesture as he pointed to Voyage and Arrow-voir, who were looking like they were seriously considering giving up fighting Violet and her mother so they could make-out.
"-ma biche." Voyage finished saying to Arrow-voir. Wilbur's head snapped around to Voyage.
"Dude, what did you just call her?" Wilbur said in bewilderment. Voyage and Arrow-voir turned to Wilbur with shocked faces. Seeing the quiver in his arms their expressions became twin whited masks of rage.
"Uhh….Parley? That's French right?" Wilbur said.
"Tu es completement débile! Ce qui est mauvais avec vos cheveux?" Bon Voyage replied
Arrow-voir snickered and turned her aim with her only arrow to Wilbur. Wilbur then began running to Violet still cradling the quiver. Violet raced to intercept Wilbur and created a force field around both of them as the arrow flew from the bow. Violet staggered back as the arrow exploded across her field.
"You okay?" Wilbur asked out of breath as he carefully placed the holder on the ground
"I'm good. Let's just say our newest power couple's creations aren't fun to block." Violet said letting the field drop. Across from them Violet's mother was quickly neared Voyage and Arrow-voir. The pair were now scrambling to arm themselves with bombs as Arrow-voir was now weaponless.
"Yea, sorry about the little commentary back there, but, hey, I did get the arrows!" Wilbur finished with a grin.
"Job well done, Invisiboy. Let's wrap this up because I'm starving." Violet teased.
"Come on, I think I've earned at least a slightly cooler superhero name than that. I sound like a member of your fan club!" Wilbur complained between breaths as they ran to Violet's mother.
"Okay, you want a lame supername? Bon Voyage's 'chickie-poo' is named Arrow-voir; as in au revoir but with arrow. It's that so clever?" Violet replied sarcastically.
They met up with Violet's mother and carefully made their way towards Voyage and Arrow-voir. Voyage and Arrow-voir were desperately hurling bombs while obviously looking for a way to escape. When Violet's group got close enough, Violet a field this time around Voyage and Arrow-voir.
"You might want to deactivate those." Wilbur said as he pointed to all of the blinking red light. Voyage glared at Wilbur through the field before hastily deactivating the bombs.
Out of the corner of her eye, Violet saw at least four different colored with antennae protruding out of their roofs rapidly approaching. The reporters had arrived.
"M-Elastigirl?" Violet said uneasily.
Violet's mother regarded the vans before saying to Violet, "Let your field down and I'll handle things here. It'll be easier for me to brush off them than you, especially if we have to explain both a new villain and a new superhero." As she finished she looked pointedly at Wilbur.
"Okay, see you at the van." Violet let down the field and her mother gave two swift punches to knock both Bomb Voyage and Arrow-voir out. Violet pulled Wilbur away and saw the ground in front of her light up as the first flashes of cameras started.
As they ran back to the alley so they could change, Violet said, "Well, that was one plan that didn't go off totally as planned."
"Hey, I thought we made a great team. That was a total rush!" Wilbur replied with a grin.
"Careful, you're starting to sound like my brother. Speaking of whom, how did you manage to leave him?" Violet asked.
"It was easy. He said he was going to wait for your dad and I could go help you. I think he was hoping your dad could say he could fight and didn't want to risk me repeating what your mom said."
As they rounded the corner into the alley, Wilbur was suddenly knocked to the ground as a fully-costumed Dash rammed into him.
Dash blinked in surprise for a second at seeing Violet and Wilbur. Helping Wilbur up, he said excitedly, "Is dad here? Do you guys need help?"
Violet loudly whispered to Wilbur, "I think I missed the apology for hitting you in there."
Dash didn't seem to notice as he continued to wait for a reply to his questions.
Finally Wilbur said, "Actually, your mom should be handing the evil lovebirds off to the police as we speak."
Dash's face fell and he abruptly turned and stalked off complaining to himself while angrily taking off his supersuit.
*Creeps out of the shadows*
Umm…yea, let's start off with the HUGE, "I'm sorry". Real-life junk over Christmas break got in the way of me even starting to write this. Then school happened and before I knew it, it's half-way through January. Then I start to write this monster and oh gosh, I hate this chapter with a passion. It was just overall a pain to write and I had the worst case of writer's block through it all (and I blame like 99.99999999% of it on Arrow-voir, but we'll get to her in a second.). So there are all of the pathetic excuses I have for why this is late and I am sorry. Thank-you to all who have been reading this since my last update, the reviews are what has been pushing me to get this done and move on to better chapters. Also a huge thank-you to all who tried to offer help with the French. That was during the time when I was M.I.A so SORRY for not getting back to you guys, but you guys are awesome for offering! In the end, I tried to make Voyage's talking very minimal and since he was with Arrow-voir, I didn't want to write it anyway. The only real part you might be interested in the translation is the "ma biche" part which means "my doe" but sounds like to my English ears a less flattering name.
Okay, so let's talk for a bit about my horrible OC Character and her creation. Basically when I envisioned Bomb Voyage in the future when this all takes place, I originally made up that he had two daughters by now, one who was into the whole super villain thing and one who was just okay about it, but was always reminding her dad she had things she needed to go to. They were replaced because I just plain couldn't think of TWO French-y puns. Arrow-voir was hard enough to come up with. Also briefly, I was going to have Voyage's girlfriend be Spanish and pregnant. There was going to be a little part where in Spanish she says she's pregnant (embarazada) and Wilbur was going to be like, "You're embarrassed about something?" She was then going to point to preggo belly and Wilbur was going to be like, "Oh! No, you shouldn't be embarrassed about being pregnant with Voyage's kid. It probably won't look like him too much." But then I thought about it and was like yeah, an OC who is fluent in Spanish, French and English, oh, and she's pregnant with a villian's kid. HELLO BAD FAN FICTION! So I stuck with a mediocre female Voyage with a bow and arrow and a really bad name whose big claim to fame was giving me writer's block. Hopefully she won't be back.
If you guys are wondering, Superhero Wilbur will be back. I just have no idea about a superhero name for him right now and as you saw the last name I came up with was…yeah…any suggestions there would be appreciated. I am trying to make it something alluding to speed/time since he's from the future.
If anything think of this as my Valentine's Day present to you guys!...I wish it was better….Have a lame poem with it!
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Arrow-voir
Makes my head sore!
I will try to make the next update soon(-ish?) See you guys then!
~Claire