Invisible Inc. by charles duncan In investigating some of the scientific dealings on Okura, Casey and Carolina took a visit to personally find out what daftec, still trying very hard to stay out of jail and keep inventing his unbelievable things, was up to.. while trying not to be caught and told to go home, as Gazlennia was having a bad day with some of the many visitors that kept trying to come by the house lately, and she wanted indeed to not have to worry about things so much!!! But indeed, making sure Daftec was kept from causing havoc was a very high priority, especially since Daftec knew how to make things lighter than air for some reason... So Casey like , took it upon himself to track daftec down, and found him in the main city where a few sangurians had been seen, namely obstentatious for one who was indeed on a like, crime spree and he wanted, to like, go postal or something.. and if daftec managed to get in touch with daftec it would be a bad thing or something to like, indeed, magnify a bad situation into a worse one. He called Gazlennia to personally, like indeed, go follow him into the mall area of the central city.. because daftec needed to be stopped a lot better, especially considering daftec was being criticized for ending the life of wokon chone and forcing a new wokon chone to be made to deal with the gaping hole in the ambassadorship that daftec had made.. And at a food court, while casey was trying to maintain inconspicuousness, Halifax joined them for a while as he'd been kicked out of the house, too, for not keeping it cleaner... which could have been a bad decision as Daftec and Obstentatious also seemed to appear there in the hallways... though casey could barely see them for some reason. "Is it me or is someone here that's not supposed to be here", said casey, who was busy eating a bit more nowadays after his time being weightless or something.. "and indeed, I'm not the least bit interested in floating away, no matter how nice it would be to fly!" Gazlennia said, "i'm not sure myself.. I have bad dreams while I was being flown here, of things happening beyond the reality i seem to wake to every night." "of what?", casey said. "Of our futures. of maybe even our pasts changing before our eyes." Casey replied. "I have that bad feeling all the time someone out there is messing with everything I've ever done.. but don't worry, i'm sure we'll get over it someday. Halifax brought them some chinese food and said.. "Well, at least my money's still good, but man, did they look at me odd especially considering I'm wearing my mining gauntlets on while going out." Just then they saw Daftec come by a rival table while the incorporateds ate, who had a pile of energy bars stacked up that uglixor was trying to devour. They really tried to not look conspicuous but uglixor kept making loud noises. "Ohhh", said Casey, "they're really trying to tempt fate today, aren't they, well I'll give them a piece of my mind..though I might regret it later." So casey got up while Gazlennia and Halifax dined, and Casey said, "Well, aren't you two supposed to be.. Incarcerated?" "We got out early on Parole", said Daftec who wanted indeed to punch casey in the mouth, but he had a surprise waiting for them under the table...that casey wasn't able to detect at the time. "Yeah.. and we also have diplomatic munity or something", uglixor said. Daftec yelled, "uh.. not quite.." as Casey stared at the two.. "But I think we have a nice surprise". Suddenly, casey felt a blast from the window come right at him.. as everything in the room seemed to vanish in the blink of an eye.. "Surprise", daftec's voice said. As chaos engulfed the mall, Carolina stepped out of the bathroom to find almost nothing in the food court but she heard a lot of chaos, so she glared into the distance and saw faint afterimages and said.. "What the..", and heard lots of voices and chaos. Why, she even saw the tables being turned over as people who couldn't see themselves kept crashing and panicking, and she yelled "Casey, where are you? Halifax? Gazlennia?" as she saw the faint outline of Casey being thrown at her..as well as a mysterious patch of blue run by she wondered about sometimes... Later that night, Speedster picked up the Incorporateds, mostly by scent alone and having to spend at least a couple of hours going through all the dazed and confused and invisible people to find Casey... as they sat there in the main room playing games... "I wonder if i could write this off", Speedster said, "As a bad day, for i have no real idea how to undo Invisibility". "Then go contact someone who can undo this", said Gazlennia, "for I've contacted my home world and that computer there who used to like, run a lot of things, but it took a vacation.. and it said "It really didn't have any eartly idea". "Well, maybe Lawrence knows something about all this!", Halifax's voice said, as Longneck, who was considering calling himself Long-Glory as well though he had a bad feeling the future would derail him due to his attempted nick change..tripped over Halifax who was under a blanket to keep him from sorting himself into too many pieces.. landing just short of the window. "I don't think Lawrence is into making things invisible", Long-neck said.. "just shorter. But I suppose I could give him a call." "Well, I wouldn't", said Speedster... "By the way.. Daftec... and Uglixor.. where did they go?" "How should I know, Long-Neck.. I didn't find them when we went to sort out all that mess.. Mostly I had to get them sorted by smell alone." "Well, tell the authorities to go look for them, because who knows what that ray may do.", Speedster said... "for I indeed have my curiousities about it." And that's when Ann walked in and said... "Are you ok? because I seem to see a lot less of my fellow heros in this place than usual.. is everyone like having a vacation?" "Not really, most of them are invisible. Do you know anything in your travels about undoing such things?", Speedster said, as Long-glory went to the kitchen for some more popcorn.. he had an awful craving for some, especially this new maple ranch brand he wanted soo much." "Well, if everyone was blasted, perhaps sometime It will wear off.. but until then I'd keep a watch on every one who was afflicted." "How about those who weren't afflicted, "Ann said, "because they're really gonna fall over each other if they can't see themselves.. and they haven't really the skills of getting around." "Maybe if we covered them in flour we'd be able to see them better.", Casey's voice said over the intercom as Long-Glory came out of the kitchen... with a big bowl of popcorn that hadn't been washed in a week, but what the heck, he was kinda immortal." "THAT'S NOT REALLY A GOOD IDEA, CASEY!! MAN, ARE YOU GETTING WIERD THESE DAYS!" , Carolina said. "Well, I've had better ones, I'm just trying to keep it simple... uh, where did they go?" Speedster looked around as he saw the living area door open and close, and they felt kinda alone save for halifax who was still mostly under the blanket. "I think they all went to bed for a while.. I hope.. But if anyone goes near the engine room I'm going postal on them.": Later that night, Speedster, who looked in on Casey's room, heard him snoring in his room a lot... and wondered.. "What if it's pernament, indeed, being invisible? And of those others who were zapped.. will they ever recover?" Casey then got up, sleptwalked right towards Speedster, and Speedster was pushed aside as Casey sleepwalked towards the kitchen. Longglory, who had a rough day, was sleeping on the couch and trying not to emit gas that might set off the sprinkler system, wasn't really roused. Wilson was maintaining the actual reality chamber of legend, trying to see if any distortions in the chamber could be useful for 'creating new devices' useful in future exploits.. especially should technology fail them. "What the heck are you doing,", Speedster said.. as he could barely make out Casey due to his senses, But Casey wasn't able to rouse.. and eventually Speedster felt he was surrounded as others came in... and the most Casey said was "Memmdo medom eodmeodmeofh iefnienf iemn ferg.." as he opened all the cannisters and began tossing them to the floor.. as well as the others who were invisible, moaning in gibberish..then Speedster sensed Halifax was in, who moaned "erjoew jdoiej doiejdoe jdo", as he, barely visible, started stomping and rolling in the mess.. forcing Speedster to say "you're out of your minds and invisible, ohh my", as they made a disaster that only he could settle by knocking some of them out. THat morning as they flew over Dogelia to get resupplies, and got some reports of chaos being caused, Casey came to.. and found himself tied to the giant ceiling fan in their ship, faintly visible now.. as well as some of the others.. and he yelled, "GREAT GRAVY, what the heck am i doing here? "You're chilling", Speedster said. "And I hope you're gonna recover.. because we've got a lot of things to deal with if those others made invisible by this ray have been causing chaos subconsciously. But don't worry.. I'm sure everyone will get over this in time." "INDEED", Casey said.. "But what about those two who did this to us?" "Let's just say", Speedster said, "I think they're having some problems of their own... for Ann said whoever blasted you all apparently found those two, put them in jail, and left on some errands.. and she said there was someone named Bluescreen there who had witnessed a lot of things going on.. for whom noone knows where she came from." "Oh, good.. " .. Casey Replied.. "BUT WILL YOU GET US DOWN FROM HERE", as the Incorporateds turned visible, and found themselves hung from the ceiling in pretty .. humorous ways.. "Well, let's see.. Can i take a picture first? You never know when I might need a laugh." "SPEEDSTER!", casey yelled, as the scene faded to blank, and later on, as the ship took off to the stars and the next great adventure.. Ann had a laugh, too, especially when she watched Longglory try to clean the kitchen up in spite of being very, very groggy that morning...