Third Person POV

Danger Force came up the tube with big smiles on their faces. They just came back from defeating a few criminals, who wanted to steal a basketball but of course Danger Force took them down easily and got to keep the basketball.

"We're back!" The kids cheered brightly walking down the steps of the tube over to Schwoz and Waste-E.

The scientist turned to the kids and breathed a sigh of relief that they were alive. He was worried that they were dead because they should've been back a while ago.

"Oh, thank god you're alive!" Schwoz sighed but Waste-E groaned.

"Boo." Waste-E complained, moving away from the kids as they gave Schwoz hugs.

Delilah frowned at the robot. "Um, why is Waste-E upset we're alive?"

They all turned to Schwoz for an answer and he smiled at them.

"He wanted to eat your phones." Schwoz shrugged nonchalantly and Bose pulled out a few phones from his pockets.

"Well he can eat the bad guys phones, we confiscated them after we took them down!" Bose smiled as he dumped the phones into Waste-E's mouth.

Everyone cheered and Mika pressed a button causing confetti to fall from the ceiling.

Schwoz grinned and pulled a microphone out of Waste-E's mouth, walking over to the kids.

"Sounds like an exciting mission. Tell us what happened out there." He said pointing the microphone in Delilah's face.

"Five bad guys were trying to steal a priceless basketball, but we made them pay the price." Delilah clarified and Schwoz nodded turning to Mika.

"Yeah, credit to the bad guys they really brought their A game." Mika panted and Miles rested a arm on her shoulder.

"But at the end of the day we just wanted it more." Chapa smirked taping a sip of her water.

Again the others and Schwoz was quick to point his microphone in Brainstorm's face next.

"It was easy, but we gotta give it to coach." Bose said wiping away the sweat on his forehead.

"Facts! He drew up a great game plan. We had to, you know, go out there and execute." Miles sprayed his water in his mouth.

The automatic door opened and Ray came out holding the basketball under his arm.

"Hey!" He cheered dancing on his way out the door.

"Here's coach now, the man with the plan, Captain Man!" Schwoz hollered into the microphone.

Everyone smiled and walked over to him when he began to bounce the basketball.

Ray laughed at all the attention he was getting.

"Great win, coach. Talk about what you got in your hands." Schwoz pointed to the basketball and Ray smirked.

"Well it's the basketball the bad guys were trying to steal, this baby was painted by a world-famous artist known only as Dunsky." Ray explained, turning the basketball a bit so Schwoz could see a rat painted on the ball.

Schwoz grinned and placed a hand on his ear, like he had an ear piece in.

"I'm being told it's could be worth a Brazilian dollars." He raised an eyebrow and pointed the microphone in Ray's face.

"Could be more." Ray chuckled looking down at Schwoz. "This win causes for a human hoop!"

"I love human hoop!" Schwoz cheered running to the couch and standing on the table, making his arms look like a basketball hoop.

"Human hoop, human hoop, human hop!" The kids chanted watching as Ray got ready to throw the ball.

"Tom Brady in the house!" Ray exclaimed loudly, throwing the ball behind him.

Everyone quieted down and watched as the ball hit the top of the wall and bounced back over to the team.

Delilah furrowed her eyebrows and bit her lip, looking at her dad who was cheering himself on.

"Dude, your shots uglier than my grandpa." Chapa told him and everyone looked at her.

"Ooh, your grandpa sounds like a smoke show." Ray pointed to her and Chapa forced a smile on her face.

Chapa shook her head. "He's not. This is how it's done, old son."

She moved away from the team and tossed the ball to Bose from behind her back.

Bose caught it and twirled the ball around on his finger.

"Toss!" Miles yelled and Bose tossed it to him.

Miles dribbled the ball on the ground in between his legs then looked up yelling,

"Self pass!"

Miles threw the ball over to the lockers and teleported there and before the ball could hit the ground Miles caught it.

He passed the ball to Delilah who stood behind the couch.

Delilah caught it with ease and tossed it to Mika who had her arms out ready to catch the ball.

She ran up to the couch and propped one foot up on it and tried to shoot it in Schwoz's arms but she missed.

Ray laughed and cupped his hands around his mouth. "Oh, whiff!"

Mika turned and glared at him spreading her arms.

"Mika, the ball goes in the hoop." Delilah explained pretending like she was throwing a ball in hoop.

"I know that!" Mika huffed, "I'm just not wearing the right shoes." She pointed to Miles. "Take me home to get my sneakers."

Miles smiled and ran over to her, teleporting away. Once they left everyone turned to Ray.

"I think I know the problem here." Ray sighed walking over and grabbing the ball, he then ran and through the ball behind him again.

"Lionel Messi!"

Everyone's heads flew up and watched as the basketball bounced around on the ceiling.

They were so busy looking at the ball they didn't notice Officer Walnut walking in.

"What's everyone looking at?" She asked looking at the ceiling everyone turned to the woman and smiled.

"Officer Walnut, what you need?" Ray asked staring at the woman.

"I need that Dunsky basketball, I have to use it for evidence." Officer Walnut told the superheroes and Ray frowned.

"But I was gonna give that ball to the MVP." Ray complained and everyone looked at him puzzled. "It's be me." He pouted.

Delilah rolled her eyes at him and leaned on Volt.

The red cladded superhero smiled and pulled Delilah's back against her chest.

"Yeah, well on the way to booking those five bad guys. One of them escaped so we want to pull fingerprints off the ball tomorrow and find that bad guy's identity."

It was silent as the superhero processed what she said.

The only sound was the sound of the basketball still hitting the ceiling.

Officer Walnut looked at them. "So, can I have it?"

The ball fell from the ceiling and Schwoz caught it and threw it to Ray who tossed it to Officer Walnut.

"Fine, whatever. Didn't even want it anyway." Ray muttered angrily.

"Sure you didn't." The officer rolled her eyes and with that she walked out of her Man's Nest.

Ray glared angrily and turned around. He went to walk through the metal door when Waste-E began to speak.

"Now that the vibe police are gone, anybody want to karaoke?" Waste- E asked in his adorable robot voice.

The five looked at each other and shrugged. Delilah leaned over and took the microphone from Schwoz with a smile.

"Dibs on going first!"

——

After hours of karaoke Ray, Schwoz, Bose, Chapa, Delilah, and Waste-E we're still going at it and having a blast but Miles and Mika teleported back inside interrupting their fun.

"Oh boo." Waste-E groaned and Bose patted his head.

Miles and Mika discarded the comment from the trash can and turned to everyone else.

"Now that I got my kicks past me the rock." Mika grinned holding up her arms.

Delilah opened her mouth to tell her the basketball was gone but Schwoz started to speak before she could.

"On it." Schwoz grunted reaching in his pocket and pulling out an actual rock.

He went to throw it but Chapa grabbed his arm.

"We can't pass you the basketball, your Aunt took it back to the station. She's gonna dust it for prints tomorrow." Chapa informed the twins.

Mika stared at her shock, her eyes going wide.

"What?!" Mika's super scream activated and sent Ray crashing into the metal door.

Miles turned to his sister and gave her a look but she brushed him off.

Waste-E happily rolled over to Ray.  "May I eat your phone?"

Ray stopped struggling to sit up and looked at him. "I'm still alive, man."

"Boo." Waste-E whined rolling away.

Schwoz left but on his way out he promised to get Waste-E old radios until someone actually died.

"So the basketball that we all touched with our fingers is now with the police who want to pull fingerprints?" Mika asked frantically as she paced the floor.

Delilah nodded, confirming it was true.

"I might not be an empath, but I can see by the way you just said that it's bad." Bose pointed to Mika and she turned to him angrily.

"It is bad!"

"Remember three weeks ago the Vice Mayor said that someone took a sandwich from his fridge and he took the fingerprints of everyone in Swellview to see who did it?" Mika quickly asked.

Bose laughed remembering the event. "Yeah. He ate it in his sleep."

"So the Swellview PD has all our fingerprints." Miles lowly said, realizing that this was bad.

"And when they take the prints they're going to realize the only people that touched it was the bad guys and Danger Force." Mika continued for her brother and everyone but Bose gasped.

Chapa turned to the Bose and saw him trying to process what Mika was talking about in his head.

"Cue Bose not getting it in three, two, one." She pointed to Bose and he perked up.

"Then they're going to know that we don't wash our hands!" Bose gasped.

"There it is." Chapa sighed and disgusted look formed on her face. "You don't wash your hands?!"

Bose shrugged and waved her off leaving Chapa staring at him in disgust.

"They're going to know that Captain Man, AWOL, ShoutOut, Brainstorm, Jinx, and Volt are actually Ray Manchester, Miles Macklin, Mika Macklin, Bose O'Brian, Delilah Manchester, and Lula Elena Chapa De Silva!" Mika yelled all in one breath.

Soon it drawled on everyone what she was getting at.

Delilah rolled her bottom lip in between her teeth nervously.

"Then they will leak it to the news." Miles whispered quietly.

"We're the top story on KLVY." Chapa added in bluntly.

"Suddenly everyone knows our secret identities." Delilah squeaked out in a high pitch voice.

"And that's the end of Danger Force." Bose exclaimed.

Chapa ran a hand down her face in panic and Delilah gripped her hair in her fist tightly.

Ray clapped earning all of their attention. "Well our covers blown. Time to start our new life in Mexico."

The kids watched as Ray pressed something on a remote and a wall full of accessories came out of the floor.

Ray grabbed a passport and looked inside, heading over to Bose.

"Okay, your new name is Umberto Fishsticks. You're a a gravy farmer from Oaxaca."

Bose grabbed his passport and smiled, bouncing up and down.

Ray took out another one and turned to Chapa. "You are gonna be Melisandre Oak-tail, you're a gravy doctor. You live with your pet giraffe."

Chapa walked over to Ray and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Dude, Ray calm down." Chapa advised and a shock looked made it's way onto Ray's face.

"Ray?" Ray repeated flabbergasted then he looked at his card.  "Ray—I don't know Ray...I'm Sinbad Thunderbear I'm an admiral in the Gravy Navy."

Mika sighed and shook her head. "We don't need to start a new life."

"We just need to call your good buddy, the Commissioner." Delilah smirked, grabbing the remote and switching on the screen.

A picture of the Commissiorner popped up and Ray scoffed.

"Maybe your bud—not my buddy."

"You told me he was your best friend." Delilah replied sassily.

Ray pointed at her quickly then turned back around. "You better watch your mouth little girl."

Delilah rolled her eyes and turned off the screen, tossing the remote on the couch.

Mika perked up with a smile, and began walking around. "Hey if AWOL can teleport into the evidence locker down at Nakatomi Tower, he can wipe our prints before she can pull them tomorrow."

The rest of the kids smiled and agreed with her, loving the plan.

Everyone turned to Ray and saw he was wearing a fake mustache.

"Oh, okay. I mean I wasn't that excited to start a new life either" Ray rambled and Chapa turned and ripped the mustache off of him.

Ray yelped and covered the top of his mouth.

Bose walked over to a cart and grabbed a cloth and cleaning spray, he walked back over to his friends and handed the supplies to AWOL.

"Birb!" AWOL cheered then teleported away.

The team looked at each other in confusion not knowing what birb meant.

After three failed attempts to teleport into the evidence locker Miles teleported in between Mika and Chapa with a bouquet of flowers.

"Not sure what happened there," Miles chuckled awkwardly. "I went to a florist." He turned to Delilah and handed her the flowers.

"M'lady."

Delilah smiled at the sweet gesture and thanked the boy before he teleported away again.

"Why would he—"

"It's a nice thing to do." Mika interrupted Volt who crossed her arms and glared at her. "My brother-"

Miles teleported back into the the room panting and out of breath.

Everyone raised an eyebrow and he looked around and stomped his feet.

"Not even out of the room." Miles grunted, he teleported again but a little closer to the team this time.

Chapa and Delilah shared looks and looked back at the yellow superhero who kept teleporting around the Man's Nest.

After a few more failed attempts Miles laid limp on his stomach, exhausted.

Ray started to laugh. "Well that's not good."

The team sent him unamused looks causing him to look down and go mess with the wall of accessories.

Miles slowly turned around on his back and looked up at the ceiling.

"I don't know what's up. It's like my teleportation gas tank is empty." Miles wheezed out and Mika pulled her brother up.

"Now we can't get the basketball." Mika sighed out, wobbling slightly because of Miles.

"Don't you worry about it, Josephina Puddlebaker." Ray responded, turning around and giving Mika her passport with her new identity. "You are a frozen gravy sculptor."

"What?" Mika mumbled as she looked at it.

Chapa turned to Ray in utter disbelief and confusion, out of all the things he could've picked they all had stuff about gravy.

"Why are our new occupations all gravy based?" Chapa questioned and Waste-E rolled over and joined the conversation.

"Yeah, that's weird man."

"Shut up Waste-E, you're weird." Ray glared at the garbage can and Chapa ripped his fake mustache off again.

Delilah laughed and pointed at her dad who cried out in pain.

"We can still get the ball. All we have to do is sneak into the precinct the old-fashion way." Mika said.

"On horseback." Bose pointed at her with a smirk.

"Not on horseback."

"On horse front." Bose tried again and Mika shook her head.

"No, we just sneak in. Shouldn't be that hard." Mika shrugged.

"My sister is right. There won't be much activity at the precinct, because every third Wednesday is, famously the slowly crime night of the month." Miles said slowly as he continued trying to catch his breath.

"Famously." Danger Force said together.

——

The team got to the precinct and walked over to the elevator. Luckily the elevator was big enough to fit all of them.

ShoutOut pressed the button and the elevator doors closed and started to move up.

When the doors opened the heroes piled out of the room and saw the police eating soup.

The team looked around confused until ShoutOut spotted her aunt.

"Hey! What is going on here?" She asked, walking over to her aunt and her aunts partner.

Officer Walnut's partner looked up from her bowl and glared at the teen. "It's Soup Bribe Night. It's a rule, the Swellview Constitution says that cops can't take cash."

"But it doesn't say anything about soup." Officer Walnut smirked.

The team gave the cops looks but kept quiet.

"Is that right?" Volt asks sarcastically.

"We let the criminals of Swellview give us bribes in the form of soups and then we wipe their charges."

"It's famously on the third Wednesday of the month." Officer Walnut adds in.

"Famously." All the cops yelled and Officer Walnut and her partner chuckled.

"Yes famously." The team awkwardly mumbled.

The evidence locker door opened and the Commissioner walked out with an empty bowl.

Jinx snickered when the Commissioner spotted Captain Man and gasped in excitement.

"Captain Man, buddy!" The commissioner shouted and Captain Man tensed up.

Captain Man turned around and shook his head mumbling under his breath.

The commissioner ran towards Captain Man but he backed up and started to throw the passports at him.

"No, no, no, no." Captain Man yelled running into the elevator and pressing the button multiple times, so it would close faster.

The rest of the team watched amused as the commissioner banged on the elevator door and started to sob.

——

The next day the team was back in the Man's Nest sitting in chairs watching as Ray drew a game plan on the white board.

"Alright team. If we don't get the Dunsky basketball by tomorrow everyone's going to know our secret identities and you can all just kiss Danger Force goodbye." Ray looked at the kids.

"-But Miles still cant teleport so we're going to have to enter through the elevators." Ray circled a spot on the board. "Our problem are those soup slurping cops!"

"Stupid soup-slurpers." Bose glared at the board and Mika laughed under her breath.

"But were going to try and pull off a little maneuver I like to call the old Techachepi-to-Tonapah." Ray quickly said turning to the board.

"-We start with Miles doing a spin, spin, triple Lindy, nyah." Ray drew random circles on the board and Miles nodded.

"No problem." Miles said before taking a sip of his water.

Ray smiled in tribute at the boy.

"Meanwhile, Chapa's in the corner calling out 'Help, Help! I have misplaced my tongue medicine.'." Ray gestured to his tongue, muffling his voice.

The team gave Ray blank looks.

"You're overthinking this more than my grandpa." Chapa blankly said.

Ray scoffed and pointed at her. "You're grandpa sounds like a really smart fellow."

"Well, he's not." Chapa smiled, she glanced around at her friends with a smirk.

"All we need to pull this off..." She paused and put on a fake mustache,
"Is Delivery Joe."

——

"Just a little to the left!" ShoutOut told Brainstorm as he levitated Chapa in the air, after she jumped off the balcony of the precinct.

Captain Man and AWOL added in their own comments of where to move Chapa and Brainstorm turned to them angrily, dropping his hand.

"Hey, don't tell me where to—"

"Ah!" Chapa yelped as she fell onto the ground. Jinx walked over and helped her up.

"Did you get in the evidence room?" Captain Man asked the angry teen who just scoffed.

Chapa put on her hat and sighed. "I was almost there then some guy named Joe showed up with a real mustache and a real delivery!"

"There's a real Delivery Joe?!" AWOL asked in a weird tone of voice his voice cracking.

"I thought I made this guy up, but now I'm like.." Chapa paused and shook her head, confused. "Did I create this guy with my mind? Am I in the metaverse right now?"

Delilah couldn't help but laugh at how confused and lost Chapa looked.

She looked adorable.

"Who cares?"