The Incredibles – Family reunion

Chapter 3 – Bonding Time

The five of them sat around the table, Violet was still on her date with Tony but Dash was sitting across the table suspiciously glancing at her every few seconds. Her stuff had already been delivered and lay on the bed in the spare room. Bob and Helen chatted among themselves about how the more insane criminals seemed to be coming out of the woodwork now they were back whilst Catherine sat absorbing the family atmosphere she had missed for the last eight years.

It was Bob who finally spoke to her.

“I'm glad your here anyway Cath,” he said, “I'm trying to get the Incredicar's computer up and running but you can't get the old OS for love nor money.”

“Discontinued 10 years ago,” replied Catherine, “Even the RSC doesn't use it, the newer ones have about twice as many features anyway as well as room for additions to the car later, not to mention it takes up halve the disk space and...”

“If the next words out your mouth aren't in english I'll get someone else to do it,” warned Bob pointing his fork at Catherine.

“Is very easy to use,” continued Catherine without missing a beat.

“Sounds like a sales pitch to me,” muttered Dash.

“Maybe it has something to do with the fact I had to pitch it to the board at work,” replied Catherine, “They bit the bullet hard when the computer in Rick's car crashed whilst running the old OS and he ended up walking into work.”

She got a forkful of food and started to chew when she noticed Bob and Helen looking at her suspiciously, she quickly swallowed and shot a glance at each of them.

“You don't think...” she started before she burst out laughing, “I was rooming at the RSC at the time and my four roommates all confirmed I was snoring my head of at the time his computer crashed.”

The pair stopped their glares but kept their eyes on her.

“Does it help if I mention that he was four miles away in the middle of nowhere and the nearest cable transmitter was another 2 miles away,” she continued, “I can only control electronics within a ten metre radius remember.

She waved her hand through the air and accidentally switched the TV in the next room on as an emergency bulletin came on detailing how the former super Shrieksong had arrived at a crime scene and instead of stopping the villains had actually held the police off allowing the villains to get away and was now holding an entire street hostage with low level supersonic waves. Not enough to cause serious brain damage but enough to cause headaches and make most of the crowd fall unconscious.

“Did you bring your suit?” asked Bob. Catherine nodded in reply, Shrieksong had gone rogue making it her job to stop her.

Before she could move though, Helen dropped Jack – Jack in her arms and gave her a small list of phone numbers for an emergency.

“Sorry but the last babysitter dropped him into Syndrome's arms,” replied Bob to the unasked question, “It's just until we get back, if Vi gets home first you can join us if you can get there in time.”

Gobsmacked she watched them leave the house. Dash parked himself in front of the TV to watch the action. Catherine sat down as the camera zoomed in on Shrieksong and saw something that made her blood run cold. She sat Jack – Jack in his playpen and grabbed the phone to ring Helen's mobile.