The Incredibles

♢ Chapter 4 ♢

Mom's and Dad's eyes looked like it had more of sadness than happiness. I have expected them to be happy, but i was utterly wrong.

"Sherrie, come here for a while.." Mom's voice trailed off as she hastily walked to her room with Dad. I obeyed them.

Dad had shutted the room and drawed all the curtains. There was a moment of awkward silence then mom decided to start the ball rolling.

"Darling." She said in a stern but certain voice. "Don't go to school telling your classmates about your ability,"

Before she could say anymore, I interrupted her. "But yeah you have been telling me not to tell anybody at school about the existence of Incredibles since young. I haven't been telling anyone too. Ha.. Ha..." I was trying to make the atmosphere more informal but failed terribly.

Mum sighed. "Not the town school Sherrie, it's the Incredibles school." I looked at Dad. He nodded. Questions were burning inside of me but I could not phrase them properly to ask.

"May I know...the reason why?"

"Darling... If you could understand the seriousness here I would, but we feel that you are still too young for it. Just keep this in mind, don't tell anybody about your ability. Regarding school... Just pretend that you are have not discovered your ability. Until the last day of you being 15th then...we will tell you what is going on and you may reveal your ability." I nodded obediently. What else could I do?

When we came out of the room, Shawn and Sasha were outside, sticking their head onto the door. As I was in a bad mood, I ignored them. I shut myself into my room and laid on my bed. I heard mum and dad calling Shawn and Sherrie into the room too, and reckon that they were being called inside to be told that my ability was to be kept as top secret. And perhaps mom and dad would tell them the reason why too, given that they were older than me by at least 5 years of age, and they could understand.

Then, I had an idea. I could use the invisibility incredible stone Sasha gave me and slow the time of it to get inside the room and listen to the reason why. It was a new concept, trying to only slow the time of a particular object, but I had to try it, for my inquisitive nature is bugging me. I might even find out the answer to the "however..". I was prepared for the worse anyway. Even if the answer was absurdly horrible, I would still accept it.

"Please.. I want time to go slower on this incredible stone.." I wished as I held the invisibility stone tightly in my clenches.

I opened my eyes. There was no other ways to try out whether the ability worked just like how I wanted it to other than using the stone. However what if it did not work? I would have wasted an incredible stone, even if it was only 1/∞ of it.

"Invisibility stone, activate! User Sherrie3762." Sherrie3762 was my incredible ID code. For an incredible to use an incredible stone, he has to log in with his ID code.

'ID found.'

'ID identified.'

'ID accepted.'

'Undergoing transformation..'

Words consecutively appeared one after another.

'Tranformed.'

I held out my hands. It was no where to be found. I looked down, only to find the stagnant floor. I have became invisible.

I counted for a second. I was still invisible. I had succeeded in focusing my time manipulation on an object. I was elated, but there was no time for celebration. I had a job to do.

I tip-toed to the room. The door was closed. I then combined the incredible stone of elascity with the invisibility stone. The elascity stone's time was of course also slowed down due to my power, and I went through the same stages to get myself to become elastic and therefore change my shape at will. I made myself look like a pancake and slipped through the hole under the door. It was a piece of pancake. I decided that I loved my siblings' presents the best as it could help me in my mission.

However, once I reached the room I felt a little dizzy. I felt as if the whole world was spinning a second later. I did not even get to hear what mom and dad was saying to Shawn and Sasha. I then looked down at my hands. It was translucent now. I knew something was going wrong but I didn't not have the energy to move back to my room while everybody had not yet found me out. Luckily my family doesn't include one incredible with sharp eyesight, but includes one with sharp hearing. I have not panted enough for my mom to hear me with the extra protection the invisibility coat is giving me, plus my mom would be too engrossed with telling the story of me to Shawn and Sasha to even want to hear the surroundings. Just 15 more seconds mom would be able to hear me. I couldn't hide my panting from her at this rate my energy is being used up. I tried to change my shape to escape through the hole under the door again, this time, I was not in the dream shape to escape, or rather I was too fat to go through the small hole. I was nervous. Mom could have heard me in less than 5 seconds, and dad would rush to pick me up before I could squeeze through the hole without getting caught. I was dead meat.

I surrendered and rested on the floor for the effect to go out. It went out within another 5 seconds, and mom had already picked up noises that sent dad moving around to search for the intruders. I laid there, motionless. I had already lost consciousness.