They walked slowly and silently through the basement. Jed following his father, Joann following Jed. 

“So,” Jed started, trying to ease out of the awkwardness. “How’s li-”

“You don’t get to talk to us about how life has been Jedidiah. You have been gone for three and a half weeks. You have been neglecting your duties of the clan and now you come back and expect everything to go back to normal.” Dyna turned on him and Jed could see plainly that fury was written all over his face. “You will be punished and you will never do that again. Do I make myself clear?”

Jed has frozen and was sure that his eyes were wide and his mouth was slightly open. This was what he hated about Dyna. He had a temper just like Joann. 

Joann was Dyna’s blood daughter and Jed was his adoptive son. Joann had obviously inherited her temper from her father and must have gotten her looks from her mother because she looked nothing like Dyna. Jed wouldn’t know because her mother died even before he was born. Joann was three years older than him despite the situation being flipped in height. 

So, he did what he always did when Dyna was mad. He tried to creep into his mind. 

To distract Dyna, he started to nod his head, agree with him. But instead of paying attention to him, Jed slipped through the cracks of Dyna’s metal wall. He edged near the area of his brain that controlled emotions. 

“Don’t you dare!” Dyna yelled, startling Jed out of his thoughts. “I can feel when you are in my head, Jedidiah. Don’t try it again.” 

“Yes, sir,” Jed said, using the title that he always used when Dyna was mad because he knew that Dyna would not hesitate to hurt him. 

Suddenly, blaring lights and alarms started. Dyna grimaced. 

“Get to the main room, you two. It depends what tier hero it is if you’ll go out Jo, but you’re not going at all,” Dyna said. The last part was obviously directed towards Jed.

They ran through the open space called the basement until they got to a door labeled ‘storage room’. They opened it and dashed down the multiple stories of stairs they found after the door. 

At the bottom, there was a sort of mini-city about the size of a football stadium. It was a wide-open area with rock-like cabins every 12 feet created by someone’s gift. There were only 2 exits, the one they were coming through, and one on the far side of the cavern that was only used as a fire escape if the heroes found them. On the side that they were on were two big buildings connected to the wall and created by the same material as the houses. One of the buildings was Dyna’s living quarters. The other was the computer room where all of the supervillains did their super villaining. The walls and ceiling of the cavern were smooth. It was damp and desolate, but it was home. 

People were running around trying to get their suits on and ready to fight if need be. Dyna, Jed, and Joann joined the crowd and rushed towards the computers. The door squeaked when they entered and the inside was dark and filled with the gloomy light of technology. 

“What’s happening?” Dyna said going to the nearest computer. The person at it, a man with brown hair, glasses, and a big nose, started and addressed Dyna with a quivery, “Sir.”

“We have visuals on a girl that has entered the apartment. She seems to be in her late teens and looking at some sort of device. Our systems are still searching the database to see if she is a threat,” the man said. Dyna nodded, seeming pleased, and the man relaxed a little. 

Jed moved closer to another monitor and what he saw made his eyes widen. 

“Ella?”