The Incredibles

♢ Chapter 10 ♢

As if he had wanted to strike a conversation with me, Isaac suddenly approached and asked if I still wanted to know of George's ability.

"Are we still going to revenge on teacher?" I enquired.

"He did warn us not to do anything funny though, and if we are not going to, I have no rights to have you tell me about his ability..." I continued, even though it was hard to suppress my inquisitive nature inside of me.

"I would like to, because my parents had died while trying to complete a mission which that old man had forced them to, in order to acknowledge my mother's powers. He was so full of himself and the Tunnick family that he did not even care a bit about their safety. Little did he know that there were assassins inside of the building where the mission took place, specially placed to assassinate my parents, who had given birth to me...." He hesitated.

What did he mean by that?

"It was 2 to many, and eventually my parents lost. It was him. If he did not send my parents to that mission they wouldn't have died." I looked into Isaac's eyes and could see water filling up to the brim of his eyelids. They were tears of anger and sadness.

I pitied him. I wanted to do something for him and his parents, and were in a dilemma on whether I should or should not assist him in his revenge.

"I'll assist you... Tell me what I could do." Isaac turned his head away from me to wipe his tears away. "Okay, come to my room at night... We cannot let the old man hear of this." He was determined in his tone.

The night soon came. Tip-toeing through the whole journey, I crept into Isaac's room. His room was blue in colour, and quite modern; in contrast with my old and tattered room. What kind of unfair treatment is that?

"I heard you could see the future...can you help me see the outcome of the revenge?" Isaac broke the ice between us.

"Only if the battle is right after we finish talking, like recently. You see, my ability works by fast forwarding the time around me...and it's kind of impossible for me to wait until the revenge day, which could be like forever from now. I don't have that kind of patience, and I'm not sure what will happen to all of you when I do that..." I explained.

"Then I'll make it right after we finish talking. It's the best time for revenge anyway, since the old man is more vulnerable right now. It's night. I'm planning to have a battle with the old man at his weakest. After you see the future, if I happen to lose in the battle...or if he was severely injured after the fight.. Tell me honestly."

If George was at his weakest when this battle took place, isn't it unfair? Moreover, what does he mean that George was weakest at night?

"Hey. What do you mean by George was weakest at night?"

"It's his ability. He was born with an empty incredible locket. That means that he could have any ability implanted inside of him. The Credijudge found it interesting and took him for experiment. They implanted a bundle of abilities inside of him..and as you have already noticed, the strength and hearing abilities were included in the bundle too. However, since a person was not made to handle so many abilities at once, he lets the abilities out at night temporarily before he sleeps, to regain his energy. That's why he is the weakest at night without all his abilities and his energy drained."

Incredible locket is a space beside an Incredible's heart. It contains your ability, and only Incredibles have them. However I have not heard of an empty incredible locket. The thought of it sends a chill down my spine.

I got to know of George's ability, that means I definitely must help Isaac to see the future. I thought of the will that would spur me on to use my ability, as I did not want the history to repeat the third time. I thought of mum's, dad's and George's warnings to not use my ability. Now that George is also unable to calm my ability down, it was a difficult decision. My safety was at risk.

On the other hand, I thought of Isaac's hidden care for his grandfather. Not wanting the outcome to be undesirable, Isaac had asked me to use my ability. He did not want George to end up suffering much too. He had just merely wanted to have a battle with George with some hope that he would win. I couldn't convince him to not battle as it was my idea after all. After hearing about his story, I thought that it was the perfect chance for the matter to resolve, since no matter what the outcome would be a win-win situation. If George were to be severely injured, I would stop him or he would probably stop himself first. If he loses, I doubt he will even want to battle with George.

"I'll use my ability now..." I took in a deep breath.

"Time o' time, go faster......" I halted. The next sentence that I was going to say would be embarrassing. It would be fine if I said it while nobody is looking, but Isaac is staring at me now.

I decided to delete the parts that sounded idiotic.

"Haha...restart." I forced a smile as Isaac look at me curiously.

"Time.. Go faster now. Time manipulation, activate!"

As I blinked my eyes, the time went faster.