he says. maybe i could, if you'd let me go out for sports. i promise i'll slow up. i'll only be the best by a tiny bit. you always say, ''do your best.'' but you don't really mean it. why can't i do the best that i can do? dad always said our powers were nothing to be ashamed of. our powers made us special. which is another way of saying no one is. come on, violet! mom. you're making weird faces again. ow. well, we dissected a frog. nothing. nobody saw me. you could barely see it on the tape. tony rydinger. well, you are. well, she is. she'd eat if we were having tony loaf. you're gonna be toast! ow! hey, no force fields! hey, lucius! lucius! oh! i like it when it shatters. i'm not the only kid who's been sent to the office, you know. lucky. i meant about being normal. good night, mom. night, dad. hey! what's that? where'd you get that, mom? you made a cool outfit? hey, are those for us? we all get cool outfits? ha-ha! look, i'm the dash! the dash likes. yikes! this is yours. it's specially made. i don't know. why'd mom try to hide it? that's not true! mom? we're dead! we're dead! we survived but we're dead! you want to go toward the people that tried to kill us? thanks, mom. what?! as fast as i can? well, not that this isn't fun, but i'm gonna go look around. their marriage? so, the bad guys are trying to wreck mom and dad's marriage. okay, i'm gonna go look around. i'm not gonna leave the cave. sheesh! cool! cool! vi, vi! hey! hey, violet! come here, look. it talks! there. that one. what do we do? where are we going? what? what? oh yeah! ha, ha! i'm alive. yeah! uh-oh. hey! don't touch my sister! how are you doing that? whatever you do, don't stop! wow. um. dad? hey, how about a rocket? are we there yet? let's do that again. violet? dad! hey, dad! throw it, throw it! got it! it's coming back! that wasn't right. it's getting closer! it's getting closer! that was so cool when you threw that car! hey, mom! that was sweet when you snagged that bad guy with your arm and kinda whiplashed him into the other guy. it was so sweet! aced those guys that tried to kill us! that was the best vacation ever! i love our family. does this mean we have to move again? i didn't know what the heck you wanted me to do.