Henry Danger Reader Insert | Captain Man x Reader: SEASON 2
Epsiode 14: Grave Danger
~The Man Cave~
(y/n) had decided that since Henry and Charlotte had been working so hard lately (and had been to an actual parallel universe and stuff) they deserved a treat. A trip to their favourite burger joint downtown on her, they could order whatever the hell they wanted and it was a blast!
The three friends were giggling and laughing with one another all the way down to the Man Cave and were so engrossed in their conversation, they only realised that something was wrong the second they stepped out of the elevator.
For starters, Ray was sobbing and moaning and crying on the couch, looking completely miserable, probably because his underwear was stuck to the walls, everywhere. And I mean, everywhere; every wall had been target, every surface possible and Ray seemed pretty upset about it, making (y/n) drop her smile immediately and rush over to him. His sadness was her sadness and it broke her heart to see him like that.
"Ray, sweetheart, what's wrong?" She asked in her most comforting tone, as she and the kids tentatively stepped towards him.
"Ray, why are you crying?" Henry added, but the sudden arrival of his friends made Ray sniff and dry his eyes as he didn't want anyone to see him cry, especially his sweet girl. She went and sat beside him, her hand reaching for his and it helped to stop his snuffling, even if he was still a bit teary. (y/n) studied his face as he refused to make eye contact. It was killing her to see him hold back his emotions in front of her, she wanted him to be as honest and open because she'd never judge him.
"Yeah, and why is your underwear stuck all over the place?" Charlotte asked, frowning at the sight of the new "wall ornaments".
(y/n) gulped as she too took a quick look around, but scolded herself when her filthy mind started to drift onto something else. Give her a break, it's not like she would ever get to see his underwear, he did that part of his laundry on his own and she'd never get with him, so she might as well look while she can.
"I don't know!" He wailed, bursting into floods of tears again, causing his girl to grab a tissue from her purse and dab his soggy cheeks.
"Oh, Ray..." She whimpered, feeling like his emotions were rubbing off on her. All she wanted to do was kiss it all better.
"Come on, buddy. I promise, we'll figure out who did this to your underpants and we'll get them." Henry said, swearing revenge on whoever pulled such a mean prank on his boss. No one deserved this kind of humiliation, especially not when they were living with and trying to impress a pretty girl.
"No, don't you see?" He sniffed as the kids sat down, his heart pulling in two different directions as (y/n) placed a tender hand on his knee and put her arm around his shoulders. He was loving her touch and was so grateful for her attempts to comfort him, but he also felt...silly. His underwear was on the walls all around and here he was blubbering in front of her and needing her to make him feel better. What kind of protector does that?
"Ray, what don't we see?" Her honeyed voice asked gently, trying to soothe him but rubbing small circles on his back and squeezing his knee.
"I did this. I did it all by myself." He told them in a shaky voice, wailing as his emotions got the best of him.
"But why?" Charlotte question, wondering what had driven him to do such a thing in a communal living space.
"You tell me! I took a nap, right here, waiting for (y/n) to get home safely and when I woke up, this bottle was in my hand and the underwear was stuck all over the place." Ray cried, not seeing how (y/n) melted at his confession. He always waited up for her or stuck around until she got home and never failed to make her smile softly to herself. It made her feel special.
"Okay, okay, maybe you were just sleepwalking," Henry suggested, having heard loads of stories online of people doing crazy stuff whilst sleeping.
"Maybe. 'Cause, this isn't the first time something like this has happened." Ray revealed, making his best friend look at him with a confused, pointed look. Say what now?
"What? Raymond, what haven't you told me? What's happening?" She asked, shifting her body so she could look directly at his face and nothing else. He couldn't meet her eyes, he hadn't lied to her per se, but he didn't tell her about all the stuff that had been happening lately either. He just didn't want her to worry, her nerves were so fragile so he thought it best to keep it bottled up.
"The other night, I woke up at four in the morning and do you know what was in the bed with me?" He asked the kids as his stomach twisted from the intense gaze (y/n) was giving him.
"Was it Schwoz's pig?" Charlotte asked, knowing that it liked to roam around the Man Cave. Her first guess was actually (y/n), but she figured that if she said that, she'd have to watch the couple melt into goo. Yeah, they often crashed in Ray's room because of the luxurious mattress and the fact that they always slept better together, but that didn't mean anything, right?
"I wish. But no, I woke up and I found myself lying in my own spaghetti." He said in a distraught voice, but the explanation puzzled everyone.
"I'm sorry, what?" Henry asked, thoroughly confused with what he had said. He woke up in bed with spaghetti?
"Wait, are you talking about that big pot of spaghetti we made earlier that morning?" (y/n) asked as she turned around to watch him frantically pace next to the auto-snacker.
"Yeah, and when I woke up, it was all around me in my bed...there were meatballs in my pyjamas." He confessed, putting his hand over his mouth to keep in his sobs. (y/n) reached up to him as he leaned on the back of the couch and softly stroked his head, hating how wobbly his bottom lip was. He was just thankful that she hadn't been snoozing with him or she'd have been spaghettied too and he was certain she'd never had gone in his room again.
"All right, just calm down," Charlotte told him in a flat voice, not knowing how to handle the emotional man. Thank God they had (y/n), she was the expert, but even her knowledgeable hand couldn't keep him completely calm.
"I can't calm down! I'm losing it. I put things down and when I look for them, I can't find them. And I'm losing my balance too, I keep tripping over things that aren't there. I'm falling down for no reason. Oh, look at my underwear, it's on the walls! That's not where underwear should be." Ray rambled himself into a frenzied mental state, his panic locking him into the mindset that he was crazy, which made (y/n) whimper at how upset he was.
"All right...whoa, whoa, (y/n) get over here!" Henry called for backup as he spooked his boss as he laid a hand on his shoulder to snap him out of the trance and the boy knew Ray needed his girl at this crucial moment.
"Okay, okay. Hey, hey, yeah, you're all right, sweetheart. Now, listen to me, I want you to go to your room..." The young woman dashed over and put both hands on Ray's cheeks, making his terrified eyes look into that familiar (y/e/c) colour that was her gentle gaze.
"Okay." He agreed, feeling much better now that his girl was with him.
"...right now, and take a long nap." She told him, her expression getting all confused again when his face contorted in pain. What now?
"There's spaghetti in my bed." He whined sadly, dropping his head into the crook of her neck so he could try and use the scent of her perfume to calm himself down. And it gave him a good excuse to feel her soft skin against his as his arms wrapped around her waist and lifted her to her tiptoes as he hugged her tightly.
"Okay, easy, easy, now. I'll go clean your bed and you can sleep in mine, 'kay?" She told him softly, absent-mindedly brushing her fingers through his hair and his hiccuping and choked sobs slowed down.
"But that's your bed, I'll get my smell on it." He whined, thinking that whilst he loved to smell her shampoo on his pillows for days after she had fallen asleep next to him, it didn't necessarily mean she felt the same. He'd die before he made her feel uncomfortable in his home.
"Doofus, I don't care, please just take a nap in my room." The young woman insisted, hoping that she'd be able to smell his cologne on her sheets. She'd sleep so much better if he did.
"Okay, I'll sleep in (y/n)'s room." He mumbled to himself, walking off towards the sprocket, but when he tried to go up the stairs, he tripped over nothing, just like he had described. Weird.
"Did one of you three just push me?" He pointed a shaking finger at his friends, who looked slightly offended at the accusation. Did he really think they'd do something so cruel?
"No, we were right here." Henry and Charlotte stuttered, feeling utterly confused about what was going on.
"Wahhhhh, what's happening to me? I'm a disaster!" Ray hiccuped as he crawled up the steps, only to burst into more tears when he somehow tripped up the stairs again. God, this was difficult to watch, particularly when he blew his nose on a pair of his underpants.
"Okay, you clearly need some assistance." (y/n) sighed and jogged up to the sprocket, and knelt down on the floor next to Ray, who had once again tripped over and was now lying flat on his back. She gazed down at him softly, putting her hand into his. She didn't know what was wrong, but she wanted to help him through it, no matter what.
"What am I going to do with you, Ray Manchester?..." She trailed off at the end when she could've sworn that a puff of warm air was breathed down her neck. She shivered in fear, but when she turned around, there was nothing or no one there. Okay, that's it, the Man Cave is haunted.
"(y/n/n), what's wrong?" Ray asked her when she didn't speak for a minute and frowned when he saw her anxiously looking around the room.
"Nothing, it's nothing. Come on, let's go have a nap." She dismissed his concerns quickly, thinking that the strange phenomenon was probably her mind playing tricks on her. A very mean trick, but a trick nonetheless. The couple sloped off to her room so they hide under the safety of her blankets, leaving Henry and Charlotte alone with their boss's underwear. One thing's for certain, Charlotte wasn't going anywhere near it, so it looked like Henry was the one tasked when prising it from the walls.
~Later that day~
Well, things were still a mess at the Man Cave. Ray was a nervous wreck and it was starting to affect (y/n) too. She could swear that there were eyes on her at all times, but there was no one else around. The thought just made her shiver, she was in the Man Cave with her not-boyfriend, where she was safe. No need to panic.
"Hey, sup?" Henry greeted Schwoz, Charlotte and (y/n) at the supercomputer as he strolled in from the elevator. Charlotte had told him to get his ass to the Man Cave asap because she believed that she had found something to explain why all the weird crap was happening. Sure, Henry had to stop watching Dog Judge and leave Jasper to play with his walkie-talkies by himself, but he was too curious and too kind not to help out his boss.
"Hello, Henry." Schwoz smiled at him warmly as (y/n) nervously bit her bottom lip. She had left Ray to nap in her bed and had made sure to check the room for anything suspicious, but she couldn't see anything.
"Hurry, come on." Charlotte encouraged the young boy over to the monitor.
"Did you figure out what's wrong with Ray?" Henry asked worriedly as he patted (y/n) on the back. She looked so stressed, hopefully, if they could help Ray, they could help her too.
"I don't think anything's wrong with Ray." The young girl told them, making (y/n) frown.
"Come again?" She asked. It wasn't like she thought her best friend was crazy, but she wanted an answer that her scientific mind could get behind.
"Check this out. You're about to see the security camera footage from two days ago, here in the Man Cave." Charlotte told them as she played a video of Ray working out. Not a bad thing for (y/n) to watch, she loved to see him work out, flexing his muscles and being all macho.
But the video wasn't particularly hot, it was sort of sad because they watched as Ray lifted the extremely heavy weights, but when he went to sit on the bench, it slid underneath him and he fell on the floor.
"Poor Ray." (y/n) whispered to herself, feeling her heart ache as she heard him groaning in pain on the video.
"Now, watch in slow-mootion," Schwoz told her and Henry in his funny accent, making them look at him weirdly.
"Slow-motion." Henry corrected him, sounding out the "oh" in the middle, which turned into a mini-lesson as Henry tried to get him to say it properly.
"For god's sake, just play the clip in slow-mootion." (y/n) said, ignoring the boys and their silly talk. She just wanted to see what was so weird about this video.
"Now, watch when I zoom in on the bench," Charlotte told them and they all gasped when they saw the bench slide to the left as if by magic. Wait a second...
"Whoaaaa, it looked like that bench moved by itself." Henry breathed out, not seeing how (y/n) had begun to sweat and hyperventilate next to him. She had a sneaking suspicion where this was going and the thought made her sick. After all, benches don't move by themselves.
"Yeah." Schwoz agreed, as the young woman rubbed her trembling hands together and tried to take some deep breaths. Ray, she needed Ray.
"Okay, what's going on here?" Henry asked, no one hearing the superhero approaching the sprocket.
"Well, I think it might be—" Charlotte tried to tell them, but Ray interrupted as he appeared in the room. All of his friends were together, huddling in a circle and probably talking about him, this didn't feel good to him.
"Hey, I thought I heard you guys. What are you doing here so late—Argh!!!" Ray screamed as he took a nasty tumble from the sprocket opening, down the stairs and ledge and onto the floor by the supercomputer. He groaned in pain as his helper swallowed her nerves and ran to his side, helping him up with shaking hands.
"Oh my god, Ray..." She breathed out at him instinctively scanning him for injuries, even though he was the indestructible Captain Man.
"What is wrong with me?" He asked his friends sadly as Henry and Schwoz assisted in pulling him to his feet. (y/n) grabbed hold of his hand to settle her anxiety, but she was still afraid as to what Charlotte was gonna say.
"Well, I think you're problem could be...Invisible Brad." Charlotte revealed, making Henry and Schwoz gasp as (y/n) glued herself to Ray's side in terror, her hands tightly clutching his shirt as she pressed herself into his chest and his arms came to curl around her trembling form.
"No, no, no, not him, anyone but him." She whimpered into his shirt as she screwed her eyes shut and tried to forget everything that Brad had done to her and her friends in the past.
"Pfffft, what? No way, Invisible Brad is dead! He got hit by a bus, I went to his funeral, so stop worrying, sweet girl." Ray scoffed as he cradled the terrified girl in his arms, hoping he could convince her that she was safe. He wouldn't let anything happen to her, he had promised himself that that bastard would never hurt her again.
"Well, did you see him at the funeral?" Henry asked, mocking the way he had spoken the words whilst holding his girl. She was still squishing her face into his chest so it's not like she saw anything anyway.
"Yes, it was an open casket. I walked right up and looked inside." The large man told them, thinking that this theory was whack, but (y/n) had something to say about that.
"Oh, yeah? What did you see in the casket, doofus?" She questioned in a small voice, briefly looking up at him despite her instincts telling her to run and hide. It's not like Brad could injure her anymore, but he was still the creepiest dude she'd ever met, so she would never feel safe with him around.
"Nothing," Ray said softly, stroking her back with a large, warm hand. It was his go-to technique for getting her to calm down.
"Ah-ha!" Charlotte cried at the revelation. She knew that Brad was back, she just needed her friends to believe her, then they could deal with him once and for all.
"Well, he's invisible." Ray rolled his eyes, still not convinced that Brad was who they were dealing with. He believed (y/n)'s fear was genuine, but he also thought that she had been led on by Charlotte's wild theories.
"And creepy, don't forget that bit." (y/n)'s muffled voice said against his chest, making him let out a breathy chuckle as she decided that she was safe, for now, and pulled away. She still stayed close to him though, choosing to hug his arm instead.
"Maybe, Invisible Brad is not dead." Charlotte proposed, making the woman whine again. The world just seemed a whole lot scarier with her stalker back on the streets.
"All right," Ray said, knowing that he had to see this for himself. He pressed a kiss to his girl's head and she slowly released his arm from her iron grip, even if she didn't want to see him go. He had to do what he had to do.
"What are you gonna do?" Charlotte asked as (y/n) folded her arms around herself. She wasn't sleeping tonight that's for sure.
"We're going to the Swellview cemetery," Ray said, although he pronounced cemetery wrong.
"Ce-met-ery." Henry corrected him, thinking that his way of saying the word was just plain wrong.
"Well, both pronunciations are acceptable. Ray argued, not wanting to let this one go.
"Well, I think you're wrong." The boy retorted, making Schwoz and Charlotte roll their eyes with (y/n). Children, they worked with children.
"White shadow to sweet kumquat, white shadow to sweet kumquat, over?" Henry's hand flew to his pocket as Jasper's voice came from his walkie-talkie. He really picked his moments.
"Here, Charlotte. You talk to Jasper." Henry chucked the walkie-talkie to his friend as he and Ray chewed their gum.
"Uh, hang on, Jasper." The girl spoke into the device, hoping that Jasper was listening.
"Yeah, sweet kumquat is busy." (y/n) chuckled as Henry glared at her, but let it go since he was relieved to see her laughing and joking around. If Brad was behind this, he would make sure he wouldn't scare his best friend.
"Let's go, kid." Ray nodded to Henry once they had transformed into their super suits. They ran to the tubepad and slapped their belts, but Charlotte didn't want to be stuck with Jasper on the radio all day.
"Wait...catch!" She smirked as she threw the walkie-talkie back to Henry.
"No, no, Charlotte, you keep the walkie-talkie." Henry stuttered as he tried to throw it back, but it was too late the tubes had already been lowered and they were seconds from lift-off.
"Good luck." (y/n) smiled at Ray sweetly as his face disappeared up the tube. She prayed that he was right; Brad being alive spelt only one thing: trouble.
~Swellview Cemetery~
So, Ray had decided that he didn't feel like doing any digging that evening, so he had left Henry to do all the hard work. Yep, the poor kid had to shift six feet of dirt to get to Brad's coffin and he was starting to get pissed off at how Ray was just lying next to the hole, snacking.
"Wow. Look at the stars. You ever just look up at the stars and think, hey stars, I'm better than you?" The superhero mentioned as Henry shovelled the last of the earth to the side. He couldn't give a crap about the stars, he just wanted to sit down.
"Okay, I've finished." He panted, letting his exhausted arms have a break. Man, he was beat.
"What? You're done digging?" Ray asked in surprise, his voice garbled from his mouthful of food.
"Yeah, I'm done digging. All by myself, while you laid there, looking at the stars and stuffing your face with fruit grapes!" Henry hissed at his boss, chucking the shovel to the side angrily.
"Who calls them fruit grapes?" Ray scoffed, thinking that you don't say "fruit apple" or "banana fruit".
"I do," Henry told him, not seeing anything wrong with the way he spoke.
"Well, it's weird." Ray retorted, his jibes not helping Henry's irritated mood. He wouldn't like it when the kid snitched to (y/n) that he was being a dick.
"Whatever. The deal was I dig the dirt, you lift Brad's casket out of the hole." Henry reminded him of when they shook on the deal. He was strong for a boy of his age and size but he wasn't so strong he could lift a well-built, sturdy coffin. Plus, he found the idea of touching someone's resting place a bit spooky.
"All right. Move." Ray nodded a stood up and at the same time, revealed that he had brought along a little gadget to help him lift the casket. He didn't want to do any work, he'd been having a hard time lately, he didn't want to strain himself more.
"Whoa, man. You brought the anti-grav?" Henry asked his boss as he recognised the glowing stick. Ray kneeled and locked it to the casket, switching the device on so he could easily lift the immense weight.
"Yeah." He grunted as the coffin floated up, feeling no heavier than a feather.
"Wait, I just spent two hours digging a six-foot deep hole and now, all you gotta do is lift the casket with the anti-grav, which takes no effort?" Henry frowned at the devious superhero, who had already placed the casket on the grass next to the hole.
"Yeah," Ray smirked, thinking that he had just been smart. Why work when there's an easier solution?
"I had to struggle and you just laid there and daydreamed about (y/n) and her eyes and her butt and other gross stuff..." Henry cringed and shivered as he imagined Ray's thoughts, traumatising himself into feeling a bit nauseous.
"Shut up!" Ray blushed at his sidekick's words, feeling like he had been caught out. He couldn't help it if his filthy mind often drifted to his girl and her...finer features. He wanted her, even if he could never have her.
"Anyway, you ready?" The superhero cleared his throat and looked at the coffin. This was gonna get creepy, but then again, Brad always made things creepy.
"I guess." Henry swallowed his fear and stepped to the coffin so they could both lift the lid. They groaned from the strain, but they finally got it open, peering inside to see...nothing. Well, duh, he was invisible, looks like they'd have to reach in and check somehow.
"We should...feel inside." Henry stammered, not wanting to be the one to feel a human skull if Brad really was in there.
"You feel inside," Ray instructed his sidekick, also not wanting to stick his hand in something as unnerving as the place where a dead person was laying.
"Okay, okay, the first one to say "not it", doesn't have to feel inside, so—" Henry was cut off as Ray said the magic words, leaving it up to Henry to do the deed. Ah, geez, he didn't get paid enough for this.
"Okay, we'll both feel inside." Ray proposed, neither of them seeing how Brad had picked up Henry's shovel and was stalking towards them. So he was alive, oh god...
"Okay." Henry nodded and they both bent over to reach in, but they nearly died from shock as a sinister voice called out behind them.
"Looking for me?" Brad asked rhetorically, his voice full of hate and revenge for Captain Man, the man who ruined his life and took away the girl he wanted.
"Ahhhhh!" Ray and Henry screamed in terror as they felt the nearby air to see if Brad was around them, but they were caught out as he whacked them from behind with the shovel. They both fell into the coffin and Brad chuckled evilly as he closed the lid.
"Nighty-night." He quipped as the lid closed and Henry and Ray banged on the wooden walls. It was claustrophobic in there, to say the least.
"Yeah, nail, nail, nail, nail, nail...and now, I'll just lift up the casket and down you boys go. Have a nice rest of your lives, jerks. Hope you're comfy in there." Brad chuckled maniacally as he nailed the coffin shut, lifted it back into the hole and began to replace the dirt that had been dug out. Oh, shit.
"I think Charlotte was right. Invisible Brad is alive." Ray whispered to Henry as they lay next to each other in the cramped space. His heart was beating rapidly as he realised that with Brad back, (y/n) wasn't safe and that terrified him more than the situation he was in.
"What was your first clue?" Henry asked sarcastically, annoyed that he was trapped in there with Captain Genius. Ray nudged his arm in frustration as they heard Brad chuck shovelfuls of dirt onto the box they were stuck in and they both gulped. This wasn't good at all.
"Brad, Brad, this isn't funny!" Ray banged against the "ceiling", but his pleading fell on deaf ears. Brad didn't care if they were freaking out, he wanted to take his sweet revenge.
"Just a little more...one more scoop. Oh, that's pretty." Brad dropped the shovel as he admired his work. With Captain Man and Kid Danger out of the way, he could now carry out the second part of his plan.
"See ya, ballerinas! I'm off to see my girl. Oh yeah, that's right, Ray. With you gone, (y/n) is gonna need a new boyfriend and I'll be the one she turns to." Brad taunted the large man, who had started to furiously pound against the box with Henry.
"No, wait, Brad! Come back!" Henry yelled at the top of his voice, hoping that by some miracle, the deranged guy would let them out.
"Brad! Come back here, I mean it! Don't you dare touch her!" Ray growled as his rage began to burn at the thought of the man comforting his girl and stealing her away. Not that she'd ever go for him, he knew she hated him and the idea of him closing in on the Man Cave made his blood boil and heart hurt. Yes, she wasn't physically vulnerable, but Brad was unpredictable and wouldn't stop at any length to take away the woman he loved.
Not being able to see in the pitch black, Ray panted and strained, but managed to get a light above their heads.
"At least now, we can see." He said, struggling to get air into his body as the supply became limited. They couldn't stay in here for very long, well, Ray could because he was indestructible, but Henry would die after a few minutes.
"What are you doing?" Ray asked as he felt the boy wriggling and squirming next to him. He realised how nice it was to have your own space as he struggled to move in the tiny box.
"I'm trying to get my phone," Henry told him and Ray nodded at the good idea.
"Oh, yeah, I'll get mine." The man reached down to his utility belt and struggled to unclimbed his phone. Even if he couldn't call for help, he at least wanted to tell (y/n) to get herself to safety before Brad could reach the Man Cave.
The two began to argue as their movements restricted one another and they complained as they grasped their phones, but couldn't find the room to pull them out. Geez, this was sucky.
"I'm first in seniority." Ray snapped, making Henry screw up his nose in annoyance. What had that got to do with anything? The superheroes managed to get their phones to their faces eventually but were disappointed with the results.
"No signal. How about you?" Henry sighed. They were too deep for the reception to reach them, and it rendered his phone practically useless unless he wanted to spend his last few minutes playing a game or taking selfies.
"Mine's dead. Forgot to charge it last night." Ray admitted, leaving out the part that he had forgotten because he had stayed up until 2 AM watching movies with (y/n). She was way more interesting than his dumb phone and he had drifted off to sleep to the thought of her and him, together on a beach, walking hand in hand as golden rings glinted in the dying light of the sunset.
"And now we're trapped in the middle of the Swellview Cemetery, six feet under the ground," Henry whined as he and Ray continued to fidget in the confined space.
"Thanks for clearing that up, 'cause I thought we were at the Taylor Swift concert in New Mexico." Ray hissed in response, his emotions getting the best of him as his panic grew.
"Hey, it's not cool to be sarcastic whilst we're buried alive!" Henry snapped back, also feeling too frustrated to take some stick and not saying anything about it. He was in a life or death situation and all the while his friends were about to get a surprise visit from Nutjob Brad.
"White shadow to Prancing Pony, White shadow to Prancing Pony, over?" The two stopped squabbling when the last voice they had ever expected to be happy to hear sounded in the coffin. Holy shit, it was Jasper on the walkie-talkie!
"What's that?" Ray asked as he failed to recognise the voice over the warbled signal.
"It's my petite walkie-talkie!" Henry smiled happily, feeling overjoyed to have been the one Jasper had picked to be his radio buddy. Thank god he didn't leave it with Charlotte or they would've been in deep shit.
"Who's Prancing Pony?" Ray asked in confusion. Obviously, he hadn't been listening to what was happening in the Man Cave earlier.
"I'm Prancing Pony, I'm Prancing Pony!" Henry felt dunk on happiness and he reached down to his pocket to grab their saving grace.
"Hello, hey, Jasper? Can you hear me?" He panted into the walkie-talkie as he started to feel lightheaded. The air was quickly disappearing and they need to get out sharpish.
"Can you hear me, over?" Henry growled irritatedly as he realised that Jasper always required him to say the stupid "over" bit. Geez, he was about to die, he didn't have time to fanny about.
"Yeah, I copy ya, over." The two supers breathed a sigh of relief as they made contact. These walkie-talkies were good if the signal could reach underground.
"Okay, listen, listen. I'm trapped underground in the Swellview Cemetery. I'm in a box with Capta—my boss, Ray, from Junk-N-Stuff. Now, the headstone above us says "Here lies Bradley Belcher". Now, I need you to get a shovel, find a way to get here and dig us out!" Henry instructed him, making sure to catch himself before he revealed that he was with Captain Man. That would make headlines in the morning if word got out.
"When?" Jasper asked, not realising that time was of the essence.
"How about before we run out of air and slowly die?!" Ray hissed as he snatched the walkie-talkie from Henry's fingers. This kid really knew how to test his patience.
"O-Okay, I'll get there as quick as I can. White Shadow out." Jasper's voice crackled out as he dashed off to get himself ready and luckily (or not so luckily) he would have Piper to help him.
~In the Man Cave~
"Oh god, oh god, where are they?" (y/n) ranted nervously as she paced around the supercomputer area. She had taken the liberty of donning her super suit just to make herself feel a little better, but without Ray or Henry back home safely, she couldn't switch off her worry.
"Come on, Henry, Ray..." Charlotte mumbled to herself and Schwoz as they anxiously tapped on the computer, looking for any signal or sign as to where the pair might be. They had lost contact ages ago and they were all starting to panic, especially (y/n).
"I bet that invisible freak is behind this, I just know it." (y/n) hissed to them as she put her hands on her hips and chewed her lip. Her gut told her that Brad had his dirty mitts all over the situation and her adrenaline was sky-high, waiting for a fight. He scared the shit out of her, but if he had hurt one hair on Henry or Ray's head, so help her, there would be hell to pay.
"Relax, there's nothing to worry about." Schwoz tried to keep her calm, despite his own niggling sense that something wasn't right. But he could show her his concern, that would just make her tremble more.
"It's been two hours, why won't they respond?" Charlotte pondered out loud, not meaning to upset her friend by reminding her of the situation.
"Maybe something terrible happened to them. Schwoz suggested, causing (y/n) to snap her gaze to him and glare, and in her superhero getup, it was pretty intimidating.
"Schwoz, that's why we're worried." She seethed, feeling like splitting his bald head open like a coconut. He seemed to be an expert at saying the wrong things at the wrong time.
"Ohhhhh." He said and shut his mouth as the tube alarm sounded and a tube came down.
"Oh, thank god, they're here." (y/n) breathed out, but her smile fell when just one tube came and down and no one appeared to be in it. Wait a damn minute...
"Hmm, that's weird," Schwoz commented, knowing that the tubes were working perfectly. They shouldn't have come down on a false alarm.
"Shhh, listen," Charlotte told them and they fell silent. Straining their ears, they made out the sounds of footsteps echoing on the cold floor and they gulped as the noise walked over to a cabinet and pulled out one of Ray's spare gum tubes.
"Ahhh, this place's haunted!" Schwoz screamed in terror as he watched the tube float. He climbed onto Charlotte's lap in fear, much to her disgust and irritation. That was no ghost and she knew it.
"He's here." (y/n) breathed out as they all tiptoed forward and saw the tube opening.
"Brad? We know it's you!" Charlotte yelled at him as he chuckled and popped a piece of the special gum into his mouth and began to chew.
"Actually, it's Captain Brad." He gloated as the uniform materialised around him. To be honest, it wasn't very smart to take away your invisibility, particularly when you were in your enemy's hideout.
"Hey, babe." He purred at (y/n) in a disgustingly flirty tone, making the woman feel sick, but she kept it well hidden. She wouldn't dream of giving him the satisfaction.
"Piss off, Brad." She growled, clenching her fists as her body tensed up. She was the only one present with a superpower, meaning she was the only one who could protect her friends.
~Swellview Cemetery~
"I'm so uncomfortable." Henry moaned as he and Ray tried to elbow their way out of the casket. All they were doing was wasting their energy and what little air they had left. There was nothing but dirt around them, so any attempt to escape was futile.
"Can we switch places?" He asked his boss, hoping that a shake-up of their positions would soothe his cramped muscles.
"Yeah, all right." Ray agreed, also wanting a change, but their movements proved to be difficult and awkward as Henry roughly crawled over Ray's body, accidentally whacking him in the face as he did. This day was going swimmingly.
"This is much worse." Henry groaned as his face had ended up in Ray's armpit. He should've stayed where he was, he couldn't even see now.
"What?" The boy asked in confusion as Ray giggled at something random. Had he said something funny?
"It tickles when you talk into my armpit." Captain Man confessed, feeling a bit giddy as Henry tortured him with tickling.
"What do you mean it tickles?" Henry asked, wondering how on Earth it could affect him like that, but Ray just laughed in reply.
"Stop, stop, stop, stop!" He begged as his body shook with mirth. Thankfully for them, Jasper was nearly done digging them out, even if Piper was annoying him by not helping out. She argued that since she had driven them to the cemetery with her sent-by-mistake driver's license, she didn't have to work.
"What was that?" Ray asked happily when Jasper's shovel hit the lid of the coffin. Salvation had come.
"Jasper's shovel!" Henry realised and they both grinned in delight at the thought of being rescued after two long hours.
"Finally!" Ray breathed out, but they had forgotten one, immensely important factor.
"Jasper! Was that your shovel?" Henry yelled to his friend, praying that's it was.
"Yeah, I'll get you out in a second!" He reassured them, making Henry realise that they had a major problem.
"Aw, geez." His laughter stopped as he caught sight of Ray's costume. Jasper couldn't see them like this.
"What?" Ray asked, wondering what had spooked his sidekick so much.
"We're in uniform. We can't let Jasper and Piper see us as Captain Man and Kid Danger!" He panicked. Jasper was opening the lid any minute and it would no doubt end in a memory wipe if either he or Piper saw them and realised the truth.
"Aw, geez. Quick! Our gumball tubes!" Ray prompted and they both scrambled for their gum, shoving a ball in their mouths and chewing it rapidly.
"Okay, get ready to be rescued!" They heard Jasper shout, just as they returned to their civilian clothes. The curly-haired boy was rising the lid open just as their normal outfits appeared and thankfully, he was none the wiser as to their secret identities.
Coughing and spluttering, Ray and Henry crawled out of the casket and breathed in the fresh air. Ten more minutes and they probably would've been goners.
"Aw, man. Thanks, buddy." Henry said to his best friend, feeling exceedingly grateful that he had been around to save them.
"Yes, thank you, Jasper. Prancing Pony and I couldn't have done it without you." Ray said too, admitting silently that sometimes, Jasper had some good qualities. Henry sighed at the dumb nickname, it looked like it was gonna stick for a while and he'd never live it down.
"So, how did you and your boss get trapped here and buried in a casket?" Piper interrogated, feeling miffed that she'd had to drive all the way across town to save her stupid brother and his dumb boss.
"Well, uh...it's, it's, uh...weird story."
"Uh, yeah." They stuttered in response. They couldn't tell them that a crazy, invisible man with a serious grudge had buried them alive so he could take over Captain Man's life and steal his girl, they'd think they were insane.
"Actually, we were watching, we were at Junk-N-Stuff, earlier..."
"Watching TV."
"Right and the news and stuff, and turtles!"
"Turtles!"
The rambling went on and on as Henry and Ray tried to blag their way through an excuse, slowly backing away as they did. Jasper and Piper stared at them in confusion as they mumbled nonsense, eventually disappearing into the trees and bushes. At least they had gotten away; sure, it would be difficult to explain later, but right now, they had to kick Brad's ass.
~In the Man Cave~
"Haven't you missed me, (y/n), or should I say, baby?" Brad cooed at (y/n) as she stood in front of Schwoz and Charlotte, shielding them from anything he could throw at them with her super-healing body.
"Like a hole in a parachute. You're supposed to be dead." She replied flatly, hating all the revolting nicknames he gave her. She only liked one and that came from Ray, no one else could call her theirs.
"We thought you got hit by a bus." Charlotte jumped in, glaring at the invisible man, who was still wearing Ray's suit.
"You thought wrong." Brad hissed, making (y/n) protectively keep Charlotte at a safe distance. If this guy made one wrong move, she'd give him a taste of her new power combined with the sweet techniques Ray had taught her in self-defence.
"That's what Ray said." Schwoz whimpered, feeling terrified at the prospect of having a madman in the Man Cave.
"Yeah, I wanted him to think I was dead so that later I could sneak back into his life, take over as the new superhero here in Swellview and have (y/n) as my beautiful girlfriend," Brad revealed his evil plot, making (y/n) gulp silently as Charlotte's phone began to ring and vibrate.
"Wait, who's that?" Brad growled as his dark monologue was interrupted. Schwoz and (y/n) crowded around the girl and looked at her phone, although the young woman made sure to keep one eye on Captain Dickhead at all times.
"Who texted?" Schwoz asked, hoping it was their saviour.
"Henry. He says that he and Ray are getting here in just a minute!" Charlotte told them in delight, making her friends sigh in relief and Brad clenched his fists in anger.
"Aw, man!" He cursed and quickly tried to strip himself of the uniform that counteracted his invisibility.
"What are you doing, asshole?" (y/n) asked as she wrinkled her nose up at the sight of him getting undressed.
"Taking off the uniform so Ray won't be able to see me!" He replied, making the woman frown. To her relief, the tubes came down, just in time, bringing Ray and Henry with them.
"Where's Brad?" Ray demanded to know, scouring the Man Cave with his eyes.
"Not here," Brad said nervously as he removed the blue shirt of the costume.
"No, he's right there!" Charlotte pointed to the man and Ray noticed that his trousers and boots were walking around by themselves as Brad dilly-dallied about what he should do next.
"The pants! The pants! Get the pants!" Schwoz and Henry directed him, making Ray leap over the couch as he went after Brad.
"Ahhh! Leave me alone, Ray!" Brad whined as he was chased around the sofa, the real Captain Man desperate to grab him and tan his ass for trying to take his girl.
"Ooo, try and get me!" Brad taunted him and ran around in circles to confuse Ray. With his enemy disorientated, he tried to tiptoe away but failed to realise (y/n) was also on the warpath.
"Come here, you dirty little freak!" She growled, stalking him with a murderous glare.
"Oh, baby, don't be mad at me. I love you..." He tried to butter her up, but it just infuriated her more and Ray, well, let's just say he wanted to rip him apart with his bare hands. (y/n) wasn't a "baby"; she was his sweet girl and he'd be damned if this asshole tried to take her away from him.
(y/n) threw a punch at Brad, but he quickly blocked it, making her switch tactics and give him a sharp liver shot as he tried to uppercut her. He howled in pain as his ribs throbbed, but he still managed to take her by surprise and land a forceful, invisible fist on her cheekbone. He smirked as she winced and doubled over as she clutched her face. A punch like that would surely knock a young lady out and he smirked as she stumbled back, causing Ray to panic as she stopped fighting.
"You're mine (y/n), just submit to your fear..." Brad told her tenderly, but it had a pernicious undertone and to the old (y/n), it would have been her breaking point. Brad raised another fist to literally beat her into submission, but to his shock, when it came down, (y/n) caught it with an iron grip and twisted it harshly behind his back.
"I'm sorry, Brad, but you can't hurt me anymore." She told him in a quiet, solemn voice, not seeing the way Brad's eyes widened as the bruise and tiny cut on her cheek healed over and faded before his eyes. He had no power over her anymore, she had found her bravery.
"Quick, Henry, the bear spray!" Ray shouted to his sidekick, who scrambled to get the formidable spray from the cabinet whilst Brad was still in (y/n)'s tight hold.
"Aw, no Ray, not the bear spray—ahhhhhh!" Brad screamed as Henry used the weapon and the fine mist made his eyes burn and weep like they were burning, melting and freezing all at the same time.
"It burns!" He shouted on the floor as (y/n) stepped back and blinked to remove the small amount of spray that had landed in her eyes. He was right, it stung like one thousand hornets in her eyes, but for her, it only lasted a few seconds as her souped-up genetics sorted the problem out quickly.
"I'm so proud of you." The young woman heard from her right as Ray walked over to her and lovingly squeezed her body against his in a quick embrace. She had been super and he couldn't be more pleased with her courageous actions, Brad certainly knew who was boss now.
"I just did what you would have done." She replied humbly, relieved to have him with her again, safe and sound.
"Oh, it burns so bad!" The sound of Brad's complaining, groaning and flailing about as his skin seared made the couple break apart and walk to his side. Although, Ray still kept an arm around her waist; when Brad was finally able to open his eyes, he wanted him to be able to see that she was off-limits to guys like him. She deserved the best man to give her a damn good life and Brad would never reach Ray's standards. It physically ached his heart to think about letting her walk off with someone else, but he thought that she needed the perfect guy and that wasn't him.
"That's not something you see every day," Henry commented as everyone watched Brad writhing on the floor, or rather, a pair of pants and boots writhing on the floor.
"Not it's not, kinda weird," Ray said as his thumb gently stroked over (y/n)'s hipbone. She was only half concentrating on the man in pain as she much preferred to admire the way Ray's shirt perfectly accentuated his chest muscles.
Brad was a fool for thinking she'd ever love him. She'd found her perfect guy and he would always be the one for her. If only she saw the way his eyes subtly raked over her curves in her super suit as she gave Brad a pasting, she might have kissed him like she sorely wanted to.
"How do the bears deal with this? Oh god, it's horrible!" He complained, making the Man Cave crew giggle since he totally deserved this.
As if anyone could try to take away Captain Man's girl and not suffer his wrath.
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