Arabella's POV

"Dad, please stop crying." I begged him, holding his arm.

Recently, weird things have been happening to my dad and we both have no idea what's going on. A few day's ago, my dad made a big bowl of spaghetti and and at four in the morning he woke up and found the spaghetti all over his bed. Today, he woke up from a nap and he had a bottle of glue in his hands and now his underwear is all over the place. He is also tripping all over the place with no viable force whatsoever. It's truly disturbing and worrying. I hope something isn't wrong with him; I'm concerned for about him.

"Sweetie, don't you see what's happening?" He cried to me and I lowered my head. "My underwear is everywhere!"

"I know..."

The elevator doors opened and out walked Henry and Charlotte. They noticed the place and stopped laughing, when they saw my dad crying.

"Ray, Airy." Henry began and my dad sat up, trying to contain his sobbing. "Ray, why are you crying? Why is your dad crying?"

"Yeah and why is your underwear stuck all over the place?" Charlotte asked.

"I...I don't know!" My dad cried and I rubbed his back.

"Ray, aw, c'mon, buddy I promise, we'll figure out who did this to your underpants, and we'll get 'em." Henry promised my dad, sitting in front of us.

"Yeah!"

"No, don't you see?!" My dad questioned. "I did this! I did it all by myself."

"But why?" Charlotte asked.

"You tell me! I took a nap, right here, and when I woke up, this bottle of glue was in my hand, and the underwear'd been stuck all over the place!" My dad cried out and sank in his seat.

"Okay, okay well, maybe you were just sleep-walking." Henry guessed.

"Maybe. Cause this isn't the first time something like this has happened." My dad remarked. "The other night I woke up at four in the morning, and you know what was in my bed with me?"

"Was it Schwoz's pig?" Charlotte asked.

"I wish." My dad and I both said, before he continued. "But no I woke up and found myself lying in my own spaghetti!"

"I'm sorry, what?" Henry asked.

My dad raced out of his spot and pointed to the snack machine. "Earlier that day, I made a big pot of spaghetti, right, and when I woke up, it was all around me, in my bed! There were meatballs in my pajamas!" My dad leaned on the couch and silent cried.

"All right, just calm down-"

"I can't calm down!" My dad yelled, standing straight up and Charlotte flinched. "I'm losin' it! I put things down, and when I go to look for 'em, I can't find 'em. And I'm losing my balance too! I keep tripping over things that aren't there! I'm falling down for no reason. Ahh, look at my underwear. It's on the walls! That's not where underwear should be! Why's it on the wall?"

"Okay. Okay." I stand up with my friends and confront my dad. "Calm down-"

My dad jumped as I grabbed his wrists and he yelled. "Whoa! Whoa! Hey! Listen to me. Listen to me." I say in a calming voice. "I want you to go to your room."

"Okay!"

"Right now."

"Mm-Hmm."

"And take a long nap."

"But there's spaghetti in my bed, Cookie!" My dad cried and laid his head on my shoulder. "All right...Okay, okay!"

Henry and Charlotte came up to me to help my dad.

"Okay, why don't you go sleep in Bella's room?" Charlotte suggested.

"Yeah." Henry agreed as we walked him forward.

"Yeah...wait what?" I asked and Charlotte gave me a look.

"I bet there's no Italian food in her bed." Charlotte added. "Right, Bella?"

"I hope there isn't." I say and my dad sniffled.

"Okay. Okay, I'll try." My dad agreed. "I'll try my daughter's room."

My dad walked over to the sprocket, but he suddenly tripped over nothing and landed near the stairs. My dad flipped over, alarmed and looked at us.

"Did one of you just push me?"

"No. We're just right here..." We denied, pointing to our spot.

My dad began to cry again. "Ahh! What's happening to me?! I'm a disaster!"

My dad crawled up the stairs and once again tripped over nothing and this made us jump. He blew his nose in his underwear and the sprocket opened, he crawled inside and did a forward roll.

Once it closed, we looked around at the underwear.

"Well, we should probably take Ray's underwear off the wall." Henry suggested.

"Yeah..." Charlotte said.

"Let us know how that goes." I tell him and Charlotte and I walk away from him.

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That night, Charlotte and I were trying to figure out what's happening with my dad with Schwoz helping. We've checked everything that's been happening the last few days and I think we've narrowed it down to one thing.

Or more like one person.

Anyway, once we figured out the problem, I called Henry on his Whiz Watch to tell him to get down here.

He answered. "Hey, Airy. How's your dad?"

"I'm not sure. But I think I found out something. Can you come to the Man Cave?"

"Uh, yeah. I'll be there in fifteen."

"Okie!" I grin and he ends the call.

—-

Fifteen minutes later, Henry walked out of the elevator doors and over to the three of us.

"Hey, sup."

"Oh. Hi, Henry." Schwoz greeted him.

"Hurry, come here." Charlotte rushes Henry.

"Did you figure out what's wrong with Ray?" He aske us.

"I don't think anything's wrong with my dad." I tell him and show him the video of my dad from two days ago. "Okay, what you're about to see is security camera footage from two days ago, here in the Man Cave."

I played the video and my dad lifted up a barbell. He was about to sit down, but the bench moved making my dad fall back and the barbell crashed his face.

"Ahhhh! Owww! My face!"

"Now watch in slow moootion." Schwoz sad and I glanced back at him.

"Slow motion." Henry pronounced.

"Mooootion."

"Mo-shun." Henry pronounces, slower.

"Moooooo-sheuuun."

"Okay, show me in slow-moooootionononeaw." Henry said, mocking Schwoz and I smiled in amusement, before playing the video in slow motion. I paused it right before he sat down.

"Now, watch when Bella zooms in on the bench." Charlotte advised and I played the video. We see the bench get moved back, but it moved with no viable force.

"Whoaaa, it-it looked like that bench moved by itself." Henry gasped.

"Yah, yah." Schwoz said.

"Okay, what's going on here?" Henry asked.

"Well, I think it might be-"

Cutting Charlotte off, the sprocket opened and my dad was standing there.

"Hey, I thought I heard you guys." He said and stepped forward. "What are you two doing here so late-Ahhhh!" He tripped down the stairs and rolled down to us, landing face fist.

"Dad," I say and immediately help him up to his feet.

"What is wrong with me?" He asked and I pulled him over to Charlotte.

"Well, I think you're problem could be...Invisible Brad."

Henry gasped at Charlotte and I patted his arm.

My dad scoffed. "What?! No way! Invisible Brad is dead! He got hit by a bus. Bella and I went to his funeral."

"I did?" I asked.

"Did you see him at the funeral?!" Henry asked, copying my dad's gestures.

"Yes, it was an open casket." My dad replied. "I walked right up and I looked inside."

"Hmm, What did you see?" Henry asked.

"Nothing."

"Aha!" Charlotte said.

"Well, he's invisible!" My dad protested.

"I agree with Char, I think Invisible Brad is not dead." I predict.

"All right." My dad said, before taking out his gum container and walking into the middle of the room.

"What are you gonna do?" Charlotte asked as we followed him

"We're going to the Swellview Semedery." My dad declared as his and Henry pop a gum ball in their mouths. We all look at my dad, who pronounced 'Cemetery' wrong.

"Cemetery." I corrected him.

"Both pronunciations are acceptable." My dad objected.

"Nah, I don't think they are." Henry denied.

"Well. I think you're wrong." My dad argued.

"White Shadow to Sweet Kumquat. White Shadow to Sweet Kumquat. Over."

We looked at Henry who chuckled nervously before tossing a mini walkie talkie to me.

"Airy, Charlotte, talk to Jasper.

"Okay." I hesitantly agreed before talking to Jasper. "Hang on, Jasper. Sweet Kumquat is busy."

My dad and Henry blow a bubble and it pops, transforming them into Captain Man and Kid Danger.

"Let's go, kid." My dad declared and they run under the tube slots.

"Wait! Catch!" I call and toss the walkie talkie to Henry.

"No, I don't want the-No,no!" Henry stuttered. "Girls, you keep the walkie-" Henry got cut off by my dad pressing his held and tubes encased them.

"Up the tubes!"

"No, I don't want the walkie-"

Before Henry could finish, they got shot up the tubes and I shrugged.

——

It's been two hours and Henry and my dad haven't returned from stopping Brad. We were getting worried and we were having issues locating them both, so our worries increased. I hope they're okay.

"C'mon Henry, dad!" I groaned. "Where are they?!?"

"Relax, there's no reason to panic." Schwoz assures us.

"But it's been two hours." Charlotte reasoned. "Why don't they respond?"

"Maybe something terrible happened to them." Schwoz wondered and we glared at him.

"Well, that's why we're worried!" I snapped.

"Oh!" Schwoz said. "Oh. Okay."

The alarmed beeped and we turned over to the tubes.

"The tube!" Schwoz beamed when we see one tube get shot down.

"Maybe it's Ray and Henry." Charlotte said and we heard the noise of someone getting shot down, but no one was there and the tube lifted up.

"Hmm, that's weird." Schwoz commented and I heard faint footsteps.

"Shh. Listen!" I whispered and listen to the footsteps walk.

Brad.

The cabinet draw opened and Schwoz gasped. The gum container for my dad got lifted out and Schwoz yelled.

"The place is haunted!" He cried and hopped into my lap. I pushed him off and groaned

"Shh." I shushed him and I stood up with Charlotte.

"Brad!" I called out and we see Brad pour himself a gum ball.

"We know it's you, Brad!" Charlotte exclaimed and we see a bubble form and it popped. Captain Man's uniform appeared on Brad's invisible body and my eyes grow.

"Actually, it's Captain Brad." Brad corrected and I glare at him. "Hahaha! Yeah!"

Oh, crap.

——

"But we thought you walked in front of a bus and got all y'know, dead." I told Brad.

"You thought wrong." Brad said.

"That's what Ray told us." Schwoz remarked.

"Yeah, I wanted him to think I was dead. So that later, I could sneak back into his life and take over as the new super-hero, here in Swellview." Brad explained to us. "Haha, so now-"

My phone buzzed and I looked at it.

"Wait, who's that?" Brad asked.

"Who texted?" Schwoz asked me.

"Henry! He says he and my dad'll be back here in just a minute!" I smile.

"Aw, man!" Brad panicked and ran to the side. We looked at him and we see Brad removing my dad's suit.

"What are you doing there, Brad?" Charlotte asked him.

"Taking off the uniform so Ray won't be able to see me!"

We heard beeping and the tubes got shot down and my dad and Henry landed on the ground inside them.

"Where's Brad?!" My dad asked.

"He left!" Brad called and I see floating pants near the couch.

"No, he's right there!" I point to the pants.

"The pants! The pants!" Schwoz yelled.

"Get the pants!" Henry called and my dad raced after the pants around the couch.

"Leave me alone, Ray!" Brad cried and they stopped when they were looking at each other, I think. It's hard to tell when one of them is invisible.

My dad ran again, but Brad was unable to be seen and we lost him. My dad felt around for him and the rest of us see a pair of pants tip toeing by us. We point and call out to my dad that Brad was right there.

"He's right there, dad!" I call and my dad points to me.

"Bella, use the bear spray!"

"Okay! Okay!" I say and grab the spray from the cabinet.

"Come on, Ray. Not the bear spray. I was just kidding around-"

I pointed the spray at Brad and sprayed his top half

The pants fell to the floor screaming in pain and we just watch Brad freak out on the floor.

"Help me! It burns so bad! Ahhh!"

It was a little odd to watch a pair of pants kick and thrash around.

"That's not something you see everyday." Henry mentioned and we all agreed it was very strange and unusual.

"How do bears deal with this? It's horrible!"

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Danger and Thunder is coming up and I'm a little excited for it😏