“Good morning,” yawned a still half asleep Elasticgirl. She stretched her right arm up, extending it several feet up by accident. The elastic superhero blinked when she saw that she wasn’t in her bed, but rather a dark filthy alley. Smacking her lips, Elasticgirl picked up the last trace of the late Fire Swallower on her breath and everything that had happened in the last few minutes came rushing back to her. When Elasticgirl’s memories of the events that had unfolded returned, Mr. Incredible made his presence felt by coughing loudly. Elasticgirl's head snapped towards her buff husband, the sight of him impatiently staring at her made the mother gulp nervously.

“Hi honey,” she timidly smiled and got to her feet. She was silently glad that Edna, the woman that had designed her suit, had made it washing machine washable. Falling asleep in a grimy alley way left the most unimaginable of stains. Noticing her husband still silently staring at her, Elasticgirl put her dirty uniform out of her mind and focused on the disgruntled man watching her.

“I’m guessing you saw my stomach?” Elasticgirl bashfully grumbled, feeling stupid for letting herself fall asleep after eating a criminal. If a police officer or reporter had seen her the bulge in her midsection that resembled a person, she could kiss all the good publicity super heroes had away. Or worse, her kids could have seen a man digesting inside her. That would have been very hard to explain.

“I suppose you had a good reason to digest the Fire Swallower?” Mr. Incredible asked sternly. It was usually his wife that did the scolding for endangering their secrets, but today the shoe was on the other foot.

“Um, he looked delicious,” Elasticgirl sincerely answered. Mr. Incredible sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose as the frustration built. It wasn’t so much to do with him being angry with his wife for eating Fire Swallower, but more to do with him having no idea how to respond. Elasticgirl was the one that did the chewing out in their family when they made a mistake. He wasn’t used to taking the role of strict leader and didn’t know what to do. Mr. Incredible looked up and took one glance at his wife pouting cutely in front of him and his frustration washed away.

“Was he as delicious as me?” Mr. Incredible swept Elasticgirl into his arms and off her feet. Elasticgirl squealed as her powerful husband spun her around. She was delighted to see that he had forgiven her for her blunder. When the kids had started crime fighting with them, they agreed to keep the part about her digesting criminals a secret.

Dash and Violet both knew she could swallow people, but didn’t think anything of it. They knew their mother could do many things, like roll up into a ball, stretch for a mile, use her arms as lassos and turn into almost any object imaginable. When her kids found out she could swallow people, they thought it was neat, but not as cool as her other powers. If they had known what she could do with her super stretchy insides, neat would not have been the word they would have used to describe it.

“I’m sorry honey,” Elasticgirl whispered into her husband’s ear before wrapping her arms around his bulky shoulders. She loved enveloping her husband, either with her arms or with her body. Her head came to rest on his shoulder as she continued to apologize. “I shouldn’t be eating people out in the open, I know better. But he was so arrogant and looked so tasty. You know most of the villains we fight are either greasy, or ugly or smell. I just wanted to have one handsome man inside me being digested.”

“Well, I’m not sure about the digestion part, but I know one man that you can have inside you when we get home.” Elasticgirl smiled sultry at her husband. She liked his suggestion very much. She was so lucky to have such an understanding and sweet husband that didn’t just empathize with her kinky behavior, but actually supported it. Elasticgirl uncoiled from her husband and the two of them walked out of the alley together. They would grab the kids and head home, maybe send both children to the movies or something. Tonight was a nice of romance and a lot of stretchy fun.