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Disclaimer: I have no claim over the intellectual property of Lab Rats.
There's violence in this piece, as well as abuse. And ableism, on my part, because...well. I'm able-bodied and was rather unaware of certain things at the time of writing this.
A/N: Hello, hello. Been a few weeks…or a couple or…something of that nature, hasn't it? But now I have a new story! This one! It should be interesting, because I'm going to be…well, I'll just let y'all see what I do in this story. TO warn you though, the characters will be very out of character (particularly a few of them) and that's on purpose. The reason behind it will be revealed as the story goes along, but for now I'm just giving you a heads-up. Enough of my rambling, so now I present to you the story you've probably skipped this for!
Davenport rubbed the sleep from his eyes as he tapped away at his computer. It was late at night and an alert had popped up in his inbox after he had finished chatting with the quite beautiful Tasha Dooley. He had assumed it was one of his foolish employees having done something quite stupid again.
Davenport now wished one of his workers had messed up.
The email had been an alert from one of his warehouses, alerting him that it had been broken into. Davenport had been trying to hack into the security feeds, but whoever it was there was a professional.
This isn't good…that's one of the more…sensitive warehouses…, Davenport thought. The warehouse had mention of his secret experiments on the kids in the lab below him, and that wasn't something he wanted to get out. This meant he had only one option in finding out what was going on.
I hope they're ready…, Davenport thought with a sigh, hanging his head in frustration as he got up and walked over to the elevator hidden in his house.
Davenport entered the elevator and quietly made his way down there, trying to figure who would have known what was in the warehouse (he made it look like to the unknowing eye that it was filled with the garbage of his "failures") and what they wanted. He groaned, not liking this whole not knowing thing, because it wasn't fun for a billionaire genius. The elevator dinged at last and Davenport stepped out. His frustration grew as he surveyed the scene before him.
Adam was holding Chase upside-down by the ankle, laughing as he made the boy bounce up and down.
"Put me down!" Chase demanded as his face flushed.
"What can you do about it?" Adam jokingly challenged. Chase growled low in his throat and Adam stopped, fearing that Chase's...little friend was about to rear his ugly head. To Adam's relief, all Chase did was summon a force field and Adam bounced him again.
The force field went flying out of Chase's hands and bounced around the room. It knocked out a light and Davenport had to drop down to the ground to avoid being hit by it. Bree finally fell over it, having run over to try and mediate the situation because of the flying orb, and she ended up knocking into her brothers. Adam laughed and Chase wheezed as he was crushed between his sister and Adam.
"ADAM! BREE! CHASE!" Davenport bellowed as he got back up. The three siblings looked up quickly. Adam popped up and Chase and Bree tumbled to the ground.
"Ow…," Bree mumbled as she rolled away from her brothers. Chase glared at the two of them and stood, trying to retain what little dignity he had left.
Davenport glared at the three of them, his face beet red.
"What was just going on?" Davenport asked in a dangerously low tone. Adam perkily opened his mouth, but Bree answered faster.
"Mr. Davenport sir, I was looking over some of the new training techniques you gave us to study and I wasn't aware anything had happened until I heard the light break," Bree said a little hurriedly. Davenport narrowed his eyes at her. Chase stepped forward.
"Bree was doing that…but she was totally aware of the fiasco Adam calls 'Brother Bouncing' and I think she should be in as much trouble as Adam," Chase said, looking pointedly at Bree. Bree looked at him crossly and opened her mouth to say something when Davenport cut them off.
"Look…This isn't what I came down here for. I…need you to get into your pods. I'm sending you on your first mission." The three forgot their woes for the moment and all three let out jubilant yells. They had been in training for years, and now they could finally get a taste of the real world! Davenport put out his hand and waited for them to be quiet…which didn't happen.
He cleared his throat once, then twice, and then three times. Davenport sighed and opened his mouth.
"SHUT UP!" he shouted, which got all three of the bionics attention. Chase turned a little red, clearly ashamed that he hadn't been paying attention to Davenport. Bree rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.
"Whatcha need?" Adam asked, chewing on something that no one had an explanation for where he found it.
"Look…I'm sending you to one of my warehouses, because for some reason the security cameras aren't showing anything and I received an alert that it had been broken into," Davenport said, forcing his frustration down.
"We just need to check it out and report back to you?" Chase questioned, already figuring out a plan.
"Exactly, don't take any unnecessary risks," Davenport said, "Get into your pods and I'll give you your mission suits. Bree clapped her hands together and sped into her pod, Adam swallowed whatever he was eating and lumbered into his pod, and Chase quietly went to his, still thinking over the plan.
"Chase, Bree," Davenport started as he started up the clothes-changing part of the pods, "I'll download the coordinates into your GPS and Chase, I'll give you access to the files for the blueprints of my warehouse." The two nodded an affirmative that they had heard him and the pods began to whir.
Davenport stepped back and crossed his arms, tense about sending the Lab Rats on their first mission. He knew it would come eventually, but couldn't it have been a robot cat getting stuck in a tree?
Fate clearly had other ideas as the teenagers emerged in their new suits, admiring them as they stepped out.
"Go," Davenport said, dismissing them. The three left through the tunnel and Davenport went over to his laptop to try and get through the security feeds again.
Chase and Adam had climbed onto Bree and she ran to the warehouse, Chase checking her coordinates as she ran off-balance with both of her brothers on top of her. Bree nearly threw him off, but they finally made it to the warehouse without incident.
"Whoa…," Adam said, looking up at the shiny metal building looming over them. Chase rolled his eyes.
"I found some of the cameras…but they look…dead," Bree said, noticing two security cameras by the main entrance.
"That's not a good sign," Chase said, stepping up, "Adam, come with me and we'll find another entrance. Bree, watch the cameras." The two nodded and the boys lumbered off around the building while Bree remained.
Chase searched for a door, and finally found one. It had no window, so Chase couldn't peek in and see what was going on.
"Why aren't there any windows?" Adam asked, voicing exactly what Chase had begun to wonder.
"It must be incredibly important for Davenport to have not installed windows," Chase remarked.
"Or he forgot," Adam said with a shrug. Chase rolled his eyes at his brother.
"Right then, Adam, take the door down." Adam smiled and punched the door down with a loud smash. Chase winced and Bree dashed over to them.
"Could you morons be any louder?" Bree harshly whispered, clenching her fists. Adam clumsily stepped into the warehouse, causing the wood of the door to crunch. Chase winced again, but followed his brother through. Bree made a frustrated noise, but then followed the other two. Better to be together than separated, after all.
Chase looked around, taking it all in.
"It's…empty," Chase remarked. He turned around several times, but there was nothing in that wide space.
"Chase…," Adam said, "There's a man coming out of the floor." Chase and Bree quickly turned to see where the man was. There was indeed someone rising out of the floor. Bree and Adam couldn't make out specific features, but Chase could see his hair was spiky that appeared to be brown and seemed to have stubble on his face.
"Hello…My name is Douglas," the man announced, starting to approach them. The three got ready to fight him and the man laughed, bending over. A noise behind them caused Chase to turn his head and he saw a boy not far behind. The boy raised a dark eyebrow at them.
"Say hello Marcus," Douglas said as he got closer, stopping once he was merely a few yards away and all three could distinguish what he looked like. Marcus simply nodded at the three. Bree and Adam had turned to see who it was, and now all three turned back to Douglas.
Douglas glared at Marcus, but smiled at the bionics.
"Has my dear big brother told you anything about me?" Douglas asked with a smirk.
"Who's dear big brother?" Adam asked, lowering his fists. Douglas opened his mouth to reply, but Chase beat them both to it.
"Look, it doesn't matter…We're here to stop you," Chase said, summoning a force field into his hands.
"Well…Looks like we'll be doing this the hard way," Douglas remarked. He nodded at Marcus and suddenly the boy was in front of them.
"Oh no, you don't," Bree challenged, running at him. Marcus quickly grabbed her arm and flung her across the room.
"That's my little sister!" Adam shouted, rushing at him. Marcus punched Adam in the gut, knocking the bigger boy to the ground. Marcus looked up at Chase, raising the eyebrow again.
"A bionic…?" Chase mumbled, taking a step back. Marcus let out a harsh laugh and rushed at Chase, but Chase blocked him with a force field. Marcus kept his balance, and was about to shatter the shield around Chase with a punch when Bree came running up. She crashed into Marcus and brought them both to the floor.
Marcus was about to push Bree off when Adam sneezed, burning through Marcus's shoe. The boy yelled out in pain, but threw Bree into Adam.
"Hey!" Adam yelled as he was knocked back over. Marcus's eyes started to glow green and Chase began to fear what this boy was capable of.
He's better than us…He's better than us!
"MARCUS!" Douglas shouted from across the warehouse. Nobody had noticed him leave them, but now they saw him. Bree started to get up to run to him, but Marcus was faster and was out the broken doorway before they could react.
"I'll-"Bree started, but she stumbled to the ground. Chase screamed and clutched his ears as noise filled the room. He fell to his knees and couldn't stop screaming.
"What's going on?" Adam shouted as the rumbling got harder. Then the world was suddenly on fire.
Chase throws a force field around Bree and Adam, but then the pain intensified. He fell down to the ground, barely able to keep his sibling safe.
I'm going to die…, Chase thought before he threw up one final shield. He blacked out not long after it went up.
A/N: Ah…a cliffhanger. In such a great place to, eh? Hahaha…Well, review and let me know what you think about this. Au revoir!
