Team Future ch. 35

For a terrible long moment, the two teenagers held their breath...
They could hear the breathing of the clone! Why did he stop? Had he heard them? Was he listening?
When the steps slowly walked away and quietly vanished in the distance, they still scarcely dared to breath...

Then it was silent.

The two breathed a silent sigh of relief. When Wilbur relaxed, he suddenly realized that he had tensed his muscles all the time and therefore almost squashed Violet. They were still sitting cheek to cheek, and suddenly he became aware of this delicate situation.
Somehow, he wished that they could still sit here for a while just like that but Violet suddenly turned her head to him so that her nose touched his cheek. Reflexively, he turned to her too, so they suddenly sat there nose to nose, totally frozen.
He could feel her warm breath. This was so incredibly real!
Nothing now stood in the way of a kiss. But ... he couldn't kiss her! He couldn't do that, right? After all, well, they hated each other! Or rather, she hated him! Why should he kiss her, then? There was no reason at all! Why did he come up with this stupid idea anyway?!
And what would happen if he did...?
He would surely get a resounding slap!
These and a thousand other thoughts raced through Wilbur's mind, but before he was aware of it, he had already begun to take the risk! He leaned forward slowly, his nose already touching her cheek and against his expectations Violet did not drew back.
She just sat there petrified, wondering what was happening ... Did he want to kiss her?!
No! Why...?! He hated her!
But what was he doing then? No matter...
Violet simply decided to wait. Nevertheless, her heart began to race and she couldn't resist a gentle smile.

Suddenly the lights went on again! It was so bright that it stung in the eyes for a moment!
Wilbur squinted and blinked, but before his eyes had adjusted to the light, Violet suddenly pulled him to his feet and thus destroyed this strange and unique moment for ever.

"What?" Wilbur asked, confused.

"Run!" Violet screamed. At that moment Wilbur felt an extreme heat directly above his head and something exploded behind them!
He jerked around and saw that a long line was melted into the wall behind him! The metal was glowing yellow from the heat and was slowly flowing down the wall!
On the other side of the aisle stood Omicron!

Somehow, the two teenagers made it to another corridor and ran, but Omicron was hot on their heels!
The only way to escape his deadly laser beams was to often change the direction, which, however, meant that they had completely lost their bearings!
And then it happened!
Wilbur and Violet ran around a corner --

"Damn it!" Wilbur cursed in shock. They had landed in a dead end! There was no way out!
They wanted to turn around, but Omicron was already behind them and cut off their way back!
Startled, the two backed away against the wall, while Omicron came closer.
Wilbur desperately looked around for anything! Anything that could save them from this situation!
And really! There was something!
Wilbur stared dumbfounded at this means of escape, which was given to them miraculously in this hopeless situation. It had the same color like the wall and therefore was difficult to discover, but it was there. And that meant they were saved!

Violet realized nothing from that. She began to give in. How often should she prepare to die today? Couldn't this guy just laser them into halves already? Then this terrible day would finally be over.
Omicron's eyes began to glow terribly red.
Violet gulped and grabbed Wilbur's hand.
Then Omicron fired his laser gaze!
But suddenly, just in time, the only thing Violet realized was that she had been roughly and unexpectedly pulled aside!
She found herself in an elevator, and in a strong embrace! The doors closed with a hiss.
Violet looked completely stunned at the door, and didn't know what should be more surprising: that she was not dead, or that Wilbur had saved her again and held her in his arms!

"Yay! This stupid clone didn't see that coming!" Wilbur laughed triumphantly as he pressed some button and the elevator then slowly began to move down.
Violet needed a moment to organize her thoughts, until she became aware that their current situation was not a bit better than in the dead end!

"Wait! Do you seriously think, you saved us?" She cried, and broke away from Wilbur.
He gave her an incomprehensible glance. This woman had always something to complain about!

"This is an elevator, a Junior! What do you mean Omicron will do when -" she had no opportunity to finish the sentence! The sudden weightlessness made her gasp!
Just like Violet had feared, Omicron had capped the lift cable with his laser gaze and the elevator suddenly raced with tremendous speed into the abyss! Wilbur only felt how Violet clung to him.
The elevator was so fast that sparks shot into the cabin until it crashed with an explosion on the lowest floor!

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Meanwhile, their younger versions ran for their lives. They were a few floors below now, but the giant killer robot was still after them!
When they ran another floor below, they stopped in a dimly lit corridor for a much-needed breather. They were both completely out of breath and Wilbur doubted that he had ever run so much in his entire life.

Violet noticed a gentle pressure on her right hand. She turned her head and saw that she and Wilbur were still holding hands. They hadn't released over the whole time.
Violet looked away quickly, but could not help but laughing silently.

"What's wrong?" Wilbur gasped breathlessly. But instead of responding, Violet squeezed his hand briefly. He looked down and then up, a little scared, at Violet, who beamed at him with her bright blue eyes. Now he could not help but giggling too.
And so the two stood there in that dark hallway, and laughed as if there was nothing to worry about.
The situation was so absurd! They were in mortal danger, several miles high on a floating platform, chased by a giant killer robot, whose only target was to kill them, and yet there was no reason for Wilbur to despair as so long as they stood here together and held each others hands. Somehow he knew that everything would be all right again.
He didn't know it yet, but from this moment on he would forever combine this crystal clear, intense feeling of security with Violet, as soon as he looked into her eyes.

Suddenly one of the legs of the robot crashed beside them into the wall and caused a lot of destruction. Wilbur winced and pressed Violets hand. Violet, of course, enabled her shield, so they had nothing to fear. The robot had missed them again and had struck another huge hole into the building. Then the two ran around a corner into another corridor.

"Slowly it's getting pretty boring, don't you think?" Violet cried with a wry smile. But she had hardly finished the sentence, when a pair of glowing yellow eyes appeared directly in front of them.

Sigma! The clone girl with super strength!

The two teenagers squealed in shock and ran back. But behind them was the giant robot! Suddenly he rammed his legs in front of them into the ground, so that metal and stone pieces flew around and so cut off their way!
They turned back again, but Sigma was right behind them! She came closer and closer!
Within a short moment she was standing right in front of them!
The two time travelers were trapped!
Sigma suddenly swung out for a mighty blow! Wilbur squinted his eyes and clung to Violet!
Then, suddenly, they both lost the ground beneath their feet. It felt as if they were forcefully speeded up in a transport bubble!
But then the bubble seemed to burst all of a sudden and the two teenagers fell not very gently to the ground.
Wilbur struggled on his feet and immediately pulled Violet up too. Then the two stared in disbelief directly through the circular hole in the wall in front of them. Sigma's tremendous force, which could easily be compared with the strength of Mr. Incredible, had smashed the two through four walls and Violet's force field had left a perfectly round hole.
Now, Sigma stood at the other end and looked a little irritated over to the two uninjured teenagers.
Obviously, it bothered her that her attack didn't have the desired effect.

"Are you okay?" Wilbur asked, worried.

"Yeah, I'm -"

Suddenly a deafening, shrill scream filled the room!
Wilbur and Violet jerked around!
They had landed in a room with a huge runway that stretched out into the black night sky.
And right in front of them stood the time machine!
Cobra was about to enter, under his arm he held the handcuffed, little Wilma, who screamed incessantly!
The two teenagers ran to the time machine to help Wilma, but all of a sudden they were surrounded by a white, icy mist, that suddenly froze to ice! But Violet had formed a force field just in time, so that she and Wilbur stood in a cavity made of ice for a moment. Then Violet increased the size of the force field, so that the ice broke into thousand pieces and flew in all directions!
On a balustrade two floors above them stood Delta and Lightning!
Omega suddenly rushed out of a wall right next to the two teenagers and shot towards them! Just before he reached the two frightened time travellers, Violet generated a force field right in front of him, so that Omega ran head-on against it, and was violently thrown back! At that moment, Delta and Lightning lunged at them!

"Get her! I'll manage here!" Violet cried quickly over her shoulder!

For a brief moment Wilbur doubted whether Violet could take them on alone, but then he thought of defenceless Wilma!
He ran to the time machine and climbed onto its wing!

"Wilbur!" Wilma cried relieved!

At this very moment, Wilbur became aware for the first time what it meant to be a big brother.
He had to save his little sister! No matter what happened! Even if she wasn't even born in his time!
But suddenly, just when he wanted to attack Cobra, Wilbur stared right into the barrel of a radiation gun in front of him!
Cobra fired, Wilbur dodged in time, but he lost his balance, fell backwards from the wing of the time machine on the ground and landed painfully on his back!
Cobra bent over the wing and aimed at Wilbur again! He was furious! His clones were just too stupid! They weren't even able to kill these stupid kids and now he had to do it himself!
He fired again, but Wilbur rolled aside just in time!
But then he was almost hit by a red laser beam, which left a red-glowing hole in the metal ground, only a short distance from Wilbur's head!
Omicron had now appeared on the upper balustrade and had it in for Wilbur!
Wilbur rolled under the time machine in the hope that he would be safe here, at least for a moment!
At the same moment Lightning shot bolts into the ground just in front of Violet. She tried to protect herself with a force field, but the electric shock went on through the ground, so that Violet cried out in pain and collapsed!

The situation was hopeless!

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First the older Violet was not sure what she felt exactly. She had no pain, so she apparently wasn't injured, although she felt a heavy, warm pressure on her chest so that she couldn't move or breathe. But then the pressure suddenly vanished and something moved. She opened her eyes and saw that Junior had been this pressure.
He had more or less lying on her, but now he sat up and looked at her confused. This confusion was the type someone felt when they didn't have the slightest clue what was actually happening.
Violet also had no idea what had happened, she just knew that Junior had never ever looked so cute - !
His raven black hair was white from dust, just like his face, the only dark were his warm, hazel-coloured eyes!
While the dust slowly died away, Wilbur looked around in disbelief, trying to understand what had just happened ...
The entire elevator ... the whole construction of several tons was destroyed. Nothing was left except of a pile of rubble from fist-sized pieces! But they both were in perfect condition apart from a few scratches ... He at least.
He looked down at Violet, who was staring at him with her big, ocean blue eyes. She looked just as shocked as him. Hopefully she wasn't injured!

"Are you hurt...?" he asked hesitantly.

Violet couldn't answer. She bit her tongue so hard that tears almost shot into her eyes and managed to shake her head jerkily. With all her might she tried not to smile! She didn't know why at all, she just had the strong desire to grin from ear to ear! It was like millions of laughing butterflies chased each other through her belly!
She was only peripherally aware of the fact that they both had survived this crash unharmed. Her reaction was actually caused by her current situation
Wilbur lay half on her, he had protected her with his embrace, his arms still around her shoulders, he really seemed concerned about her and he just looked so damn good! She just couldn't stop looking into those gentle, hazel eyes! Her heart raced 180 miles per hour, and she felt how her cheeks became warm!
But when she became aware of this rather unusual reaction, she abruptly began to feel ashamed.
What the heck was wrong with her?

At that moment, she forced herself back into her old role, and tried not to dissemble.
She cleared her throat impatiently and gave Wilbur an extremely irritated glance, whereupon he slid down from her with slightly red cheeks.
The two scrambled to their feet and brushed the white dust from their clothes in silence.
Only now did Violet see the chaos around them. Everything was full of debris!
She looked incredulously up, while she slowly backed away from the pile of rubble. They had crashed down about six floors.
They were supposed to be dead! How could they have survived that?
She had no powers anymore, so it wasn't because of her that they had survived this crash.
Violet had to admit that they would have been pulverized long ago if it had been up to her... She had already given up...
She! A super hero! Usually she never gave up! Defeat had never been an option!
But apparently her self-confidence had vanished together with her powers.
Fortunately she was with Junior...

"Keep moving forward..."

These words echoed silently though her mind like a distant memory. With a wry smile, she looked at Junior out of the corner of her eyes. He still looked a little stunned after the crash, but right that made him look so incredibly cute, because he didn't have his usual "I-am-better-than-you" mug... He just looked confused and just a little bashed-up. He had holes in his jeans and was still dusty from top to bottom.
That was not the Wilbur Robinson, she thought she knew. Robinson Junior hadn't even dared to leave the house with holey pants at Halloween!
But everything - clothes, appearance, status and the years of their differences - all this was no longer important.
Wilbur awkwardly stumbled through the rubble after her.

"Thanks ..." he suddenly heard a sheepish, quiet voice. He spun around in surprise.
Parr looked a little exhausted, her dark hair was completely dishevelled, her dress was torn, she had a few bloody scratches on her knees...and yet it seemed to him as if he was seeing her for the first time.
When he didn't respond, however, Parr raised an eyebrow sceptically. Only now he realized that he was staring at her.

"No big deal..." he finally replied a little uncertainly, looking at his feet and rubbing his neck uncomfortably.
Suddenly, a thought shot through his mind that made his face turn hot.
The kiss ...
Or rather, the almost-kiss...or whatever that had been a few minutes ago.
But exactly because he didn't know what it was, there was room for speculations.
Wilbur noticed how he was about to get pretty nervous.
An awkward silence filled the room that was almost unbearable for Wilbur. It seemed as if Parr was only waiting for him to bring up this juicy incident...However, he would have liked to pretend as if it had never happened. But he couldn't ignore it, could he? How could he ignore it if she knew about it too? If she knew about it at all! Maybe he had only imagined it!
Somehow, he suddenly felt dizzy; he slipped on a rock and stumbled before he found his balance again.

"Are you okay?" Violet asked anxiously.

"Yeah! Yeah! Everything's fine!" Wilbur burst out a bit too keenly, as if Violet had just mentioned the kiss. Violet jerked and looked puzzled at him. He looked away and pointed to the next best corridor.

"I say we go this way!" he said determined, only to change the subject, and went to the corridor before Violet could say anything.
Violet looked after him, a little confused before shrugging and tripping after him on her high heels.

Then the air was suddenly cut by a distant, yet horrifying scream!
The cry of a young child!
The two terrified teenagers looked at each other questioningly - when suddenly an unspeakably awful certainty came to Wilbur's mind.

Wilma...!
His little sister was here!