Authors Notes: If you haven't watch Season/series 4 (Team Turbo) this is going to be a bit weird. Its on Youtube you should go watch it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Max Steel, Mattel does!


Key

Chapter 1

I made it

Hovering in front of Max and Steel was that of a shadowed form. It was completely un-moving and honestly looked as if it were asleep. It lay there in the air as if it were laying on an invisible bed. No color but a heavy dark silhouette as if it hadn't decided on what it wanted to look like yet.

Jim stood not to far away with a datapad in one hand and a stylis in the other. He tapped a few times onto the datapad and handed it to a technician who walked back over to a computer and attached it.

"She's a key."

"She?" Max asked his father. The man looked a lot like Max except a few features and height.

"Yes we figured that if we were to continue to use connect tech we needed to work smarter at it. She will be connected to its interfacing tool. She will decide weather you are going to use the tech. We figured a key with a conscious would be best. Mortum nearly enslaved the whole world. I'm not going to make the same mistake twice."

"So fire her up and lets see how it works." Steel said rubbing his 'hands' together.

"Well we're having a bit of trouble with that I'm afraid. She won't turn on. We've tried everything, now we're going back to check to see if we did something wrong with her." Jim opened up something on her chest cavity and shook his head looking over the panels and wires. Max wouldn't be able to help him with this sort of stuff. He just wasn't an engineer like his dad.

"You tried to use Turbo?" Max asked his dad he put his head on one of his hands and nodded. "bringing the new connect tech over?" Max asked. The old one having been destroyed.

Steel looked down at her from his higher view.

"What about her..." Their was an electric arch between him and the girls chest.

Jim jumped from his spot having been shocked by the connection. He looked up at Steel who was rubbing his 'hand'

"Maybe since it was created from you...it needs you to activate it?"

"This was also created from Steel? Wouldn't that make it his daughter or something?" Max joked. Jim however nodded his head and shrugged.

"Yes it would."

"My own...ultralink?" Steel said looking down at the Key and reached down again. The arch came from her head this time attaching itself to Steels own head. The heat from the connection was so intense and bright they couldn't see what was going on.

"Steel?" Max called out having to cover his eyes from the discharge.

Finally after a few moments the light dimmed showing a young girl pulled in on herself. Hugging Steel to her chest. A soft smile across her lips, and dark black hair.

"Key?" Jim asked. Her bright blue eyes tiredly opened and she looked down at Jim.

"Steel?" Max asked reaching for Steel. Steel waved at him not really wanting to break the hug between himself and the Key.

"She's so...cool." He said looking up at the girl.

"I'm afraid my activation might have depleted his turbo reserves." The Key said holding Steel out to Max who took him.

"Key if you'll follow me we'll run some tests to make sure your running smoothly." Jim said holding out his hand to her. That was when Jim noticed that she wasn't walking, she was hovering much like Steel would.

"Is this...unusual?" She finally asked landing on the floor.

"No one else flies around like that." Jim chuckled and held up his hand.

"Although I think it would be fun." Max said and looked at Steel.

"Oh you love it when we go flying all the time." Steel chuckled waving at his Linked friend.

The Key sat on a bed watching Jim and several of the nurses, doctors, even a young man whose hair was wild, and his clothing was ripped up. She wondered if he just liked his clothing that way.

Key jumped when she felt someone sit next to her. She turned seeing that white, black, and blue armor she saw earlier. Her other fathers friend. No bonded brother is the word Steel had used in her mind. She smiled looking up at him.

"You looked confused."

"His clothing." Key said pointing at Barto. Barto looked up from his work and smiled at her.

"its just my style." He said running his hands over his lab coat. "Also keeps my sleeves out of my work." He shrugged and went back down to what he was doing.

"Clothing...should I be wearing them?" She asked looking down at her black jump suit that looked a lot like the black mesh under his armor.

"We'll go into that when dads done."

"Dad? What is...dad?" She look confused.

"He's Maxes male creator."

"Like you are mine?" She asked looking at Jim nodding his head.

"Well we all had a hand in creating you. But your mind, your activation, even your coloring is souly Steel. If anyone is your uh...male creator...its him." Jim said feeling like he dodged a bullet. What would Molly think if he arrived home to a young woman calling him dad.

"Do I call Steel dad as Max calls you dad?"

"Thats up to him." Jim said looking at Steel who had his 'hands' over his faceplate.

"I'm a daddy..." was the squeaky reply.