Recount – The Incredibles! By: Kelrin Li ~ 8J
It was morning, the sun was bright and the sky was clear. I woke up and found myself lying on top of my sister. Had I fallen asleep on her? Ew! How gross was that! I quickly got up and felt disgusted. I looked around and saw clearly now, the jungle we ran to, from the cave last night, as the rocket took off.
Then all of a sudden, a blue bird perched on a tree talked. In a robotic tone, it said, “identification please”. I was so amused by it that I instantly woke my sister up to tell her. The bird spoke again but this time is said, “Voice key incorrect” over a few times. I thought that was odd. Then the bird’s beak opened, a red light flashed and then an alarm sounded. Suddenly my sister and I started to panic and we ran. I had no idea what was going to happen now. The alarm was very loud and my ears started to hurt.
As we continued running, I was terrified inside. Then flying saucers with rotating blades around them flew right past our heads and stopped. We were surrounded. Then men with guns pointed them at us and Violet whispered to me “remember what mom said, run”. I was so caught up in what was happening that I forgot what she said. Violet said it again but this time she vanished. I then realized that I was supposed to run as fast as I could. So I started running for my life. I ran past the enemy and continued on. I was fearful for my life. I ran as fast as I could over the bumps and ditches, under fallen trees, and past branches and bushes. But then, as I was looking back to see if they were still following me, I stumbled into a swarm of mosquitoes and fell. I stumbled and rolled across the dirt. The mosquitoes we squashed against my face and in my mouth. It tasted disgusting but I had no time to wipe them off or spite them out because the guys were coming. So I quickly got up and started running again. I thought they were going to get me.
As I kept running, past trees and ducking under branches and bushes, I came up to a vine. I grabbed the tree vine and swung around a tree. I thought they were going to lose sight of me but I was wrong. They were still following me, so I headed in the opposite direction until I suddenly realized that I was running in an open field. Since it was easier to run on, I tried to speed up even more. Palm trees and boulders lay on the dirt surface as I bolted through the terrain.
Moments later I was back in the jungle and dodging tree branches and bushes again, when I grabbed another tree vine. This time there was no tree to swing around and I was belted up over the trees and into the sky. I was flying right over the jungle… and falling fast down a cliff! I was screaming at the top of my lungs as I was falling to the earth. As I was praying for someone to save me, I suddenly landed on one of the flying saucers. The man operating it turned around was startled to see me there. He then tried to grab and throw me off, but he missed each time as I dodged his attempts. Then out of nowhere, I punched him in the face. Smack! Right in the middle, and it felt really good. Then he tried to attack me again, but this time I dodged him and punched him again even more. I threw a few at him first and then a dozen. This was getting fun! As it continued on, I looked ahead and saw that we were approaching a cliff! I was panicking! Then the guy punched me in the face when I wasn’t watching. I fell off the saucer, and started plummeting to the earth’s surface…yet again. I started screaming and closed my eyes to make the scene go away.
As I fell, I grabbed hold of a vine and held on for dear life. When I stopped, I jumped to the ground and to my relief, I was still alive! I was bursting with joy but the celebration came to quick halt, as I saw two bad guys that were waiting, start to chase after me.
So I started running again. Through the bushes and trees, when I jumped onto a palm tree, swung off of it and continued on. I looked back and saw a saucer hit the tree and explode. Yes, one down…and a few more to go. I kept running as we hit the jungles again. Looking back again, I saw pieces of the saucer that exploded wheel at me and I tried to dodge them, but I stumbled. I got back up quickly, and kept running. Then I looked to my sides and saw two more saucers. I was really afraid now. When was this going to stop?
As I tried to pick up the pace, we hit water. I was so stunned and fascinated that I was actually running on water. I thought that was pretty cool. I giggled at myself and picked up the pace. I ran around caves and boulders when they started firing bullets at me. I tried running in a zigzag pattern to dodge them. Then I ran into a tunnel and continued running as they chased me. Then I ran against the side of the tunnel and in the other direction. I was heading back out of the tunnel when, at the entrance, a saucer was waiting for me. I put the brakes on and quickly turned back in the other direction but the saucer that was chasing me before, was coming straight at me. I quickly ducked into the water and the two saucers collided with one another and exploded. Phew, I thought to myself that was close.
I got back up and headed back for land. After I got back, I saw a man trying to shoot my sister. So I ran over him first and then came back around and attacked the guy, as I did to the other one when I landed on the flying saucer. I punched and yelled at him, “don’t touch my sister!”, but he punched me back and I hit the ground and into a tree. The man got back up and picked up his gun. He tried to shoot me but just when he did, my sister jumped in front with a force-field. I was so thankful that she did it because she saved my life. I told her to continue as I pushed the force-field ball in the opposite direction as the enemy. We kept going and hit saucers along the way until my sister realized that we were running over our parents as well. So we suddenly stopped. We were glad to see each other but more saucers came and interrupted our reunion. They surrounded us but we battled back. My dad, with his strength, threw saucers at others, my mom, with her flexibility, grabbed guys and threw them at each other, my sister, with her invisibility and power to create force-fields, created yet another one, and I, with my speed, created a cover by running in circles.
But the real bad guy, Syndrome, came and froze us. He envied the real supers and tried to kill them by creating machines and weapons. He captured and locked us in a room. He said he was going to go save a city that he sent machines to go terrorize, so he could be the real hero. He was going to take our identities away from us. Now the real battle began. How were we going to get out of this mess? And then be able to save the city as well and stop Syndrome?