Chase was excited, today was going to be a fantastic day. Early that morning, Adam had brought up the birthday party they had thrown for Leo and how fun it was, it prompted Bree to ask if they were ever going to have a birthday party for themselves. Mr. Davenport had said no, training was way more important than celebrating your age, but Adam, Bree, and Chase and even Leo badgered him until he said they could have one. He didn't know their exact birthdays, so he told them that the anniversary of the day he saved them from his brother Douglas, was coming up in the next couple of days and they could have a party then.
This excited them all, especially Chase, he immediately began planning what kind of gifts he was going to get his siblings. Bree would be difficult to shop for, she liked girly things, but he wasn't sure exactly what to get her. Adam on the other hand, he wasn't going to get a gift, Chase was going to prank him with the best prank ever pulled, he just had to make sure he had everything he needed to make it work properly.
The whole time in school, every chance the three had, they got together to plan for the party.
"I think we should have a petting zoo," Adam said with a huge smile on his face.
Both Chase and Bree looked at him with eye brows raised.
"A petting zoo?" Bree asked.
"Yeah, and we can fill it with goats and cows and ducks… Oh! And an emu!"
"An emu?" Chase blurted.
"Yeah, I've always wanted to pet one."
"Ok… well we'll keep that on the table as a maybe…" Bree said writing it in the corner of the paper they were writing all their plans on.
Leo approached, "Hey guys."
"Hey Leo," Adam, Bree, and Chase all said together.
"How are the birthday plans coming?" Leo asked leaning over to see what they had written.
"We're getting a petting zoo… with an emu," Adam said.
Leo looked confused.
"Maybe," Chase quickly said, he shook his head no.
"Oook… what kind of cake are you going to have?" Leo asked, "Cuz I was thinking a triple tiered cake with each of your favorite flavors, it could be decorated with…"
"Unicorns!" Bree said.
"Calculous!" Chase said.
"Cheese!" Adam said.
"I'll see what I can do…" Leo said.
The rest of the day went smoothly with no complications. After class they went straight home to get things pre-prepared so they wouldn't have much to do the next day. They printed out the invitations, which Chase had designed, using the best wording so everyone would know the schedule of the whole party. Adam and Bree quickly threw those invites out and printed ones with more of a party theme and less schedule of events. They would pass them out the next day.
Tasha was pouring herself a bowl of cereal when Adam, Bree, and Chase ran into the kitchen, they were pushing and shoving each other to be the first to hand her one of the invitations.
"Hey guys…" Tasha said with a bemused look on her face.
Adam, having the bionic strength, won the scuffle. As he held his siblings back, he held out an invitation.
"What's this?" Tasha asked.
"An invitation to our birthday party!" Chase blurted before Adam could.
"Birthday party huh," she said impressed. "I thought Donald said those were pointless."
"They are pointless," Davenport said entering the kitchen. "It's a pointless activity that takes up precious training time."
"Oh come on Donald, they are teenagers and they need a little fun every once in a while," Tasha defended them. She turned to the three, "Now, what kind of cake do you want? I can do vanilla, chocolate, or swirl."
After arguing over the cake flavor, they headed to school and passed out all the invitations. At one point Principal Perry got her hands on one, but they got it away from her before she could read it, they definitely didn't want her crashing their party.
When they got home, Davenport had them train extra hard to make up for all they weren't going to get in the next day. They were exhausted by the time they got in their capsules.
Adam, Bree, and Chase were sound asleep when a mission alert sounded.
"Ugh!" Bree groaned, "It's the middle of the night!"
"Yeah and I need my beauty sleep, I have a test in the morning," Adam said.
"How does beauty sleep help with a test?" Chase asked.
"If I look good enough, my teacher just gives me an A."
Bree and Chase rolled their eyes.
The lab doors opened and in walked Mr. Davenport, "Why aren't you three ready?" he asked. "Didn't you hear the alarm?"
Adam smirked, "I thought it was Chase's annoying alarm clock."
Ignoring that statement, Mr. Davenport continued. "There was a massive chemical spill at one of the docks in New York, hundreds of gallons of chemicals are being poured into the ocean as we speak so it is imperative that you contain the leak and find a way to clean the chemicals that have already gotten out."
The three nodded and returned to their capsules to put on their mission suits.
The docks were quiet, too quiet. Chase scanned the area for any sign of the spilled chemicals, the area was completely clean, there was no spill. There was however a dozen or so figures moving in on them from all sides.
"Chase?" Bree asked, seeing her younger brother go rigid.
"There is no chemical spill," Chase said as the figures emerged from the shadows.
"Wait, if there is no chemical spill then what are we doing here?" Adam asked confused.
"It was obviously a false alarm to lure us here," Chase said.
"Why would anyone want to do that?" Adam stood there with a confused look on his face.
"Adam!" Bree blurted to get his attention. "We'll worry about that later, right now we just need to get out of here."
The figures attacked. There were three attackers each for Adam, Bree, and Chase to fight, and it was quite challenging.
Adam was having a difficult time keeping them at bay, even with his increased strength, it was as if they were absorbing his punches. He managed to toss one off the pier with a loud splash just as another one managed to punch him in the gut, causing him to fall to his knees. Adam managed to use his force ability to blow them away and into a tower of shipping containers.
Bree was having a little bit more luck, her speed and invisibility gave her an advantage, but she couldn't land any threatening blows, the most she could do was try to find their weak points while avoiding their jabs at high speed. She was focusing on pressure points and managed to incapacitate two of them, the third, out of pure luck, managed to grab her while invisible and throw her into a pile of rope. Adam rushed over and helped her up, then used his increased lung capacity to blow the attacker away.
Chase was using his molecular kinesis to make his attackers float, then his energy rod to attack them. He was quite enjoying himself. Just like hitting a piñata, he thought, then he decided they would need one for the party, he'd tell everyone later. While he was preoccupied, he felt a small prick in the back of his neck, he turned to see a blurry figure, then fainted.
Once they were sure their attackers were out, Adam and Bree ran to help Chase, but he was nowhere to be found.
"Guys, is everything ok? What's going on?" Mr. Davenport spoke through their mics.
"We can't find Chase," Bree responded.
"What! What happened!?"
"There was no chemical spill, we were ambushed and now we don't know where Chase is."
"Hold on, I'm checking for his GPS location." Davenport was silent for a moment.
"Well, did you find him?" Adam asked.
"His GPS is turned off… I have no idea where he is…" Davenport sounded defeated.
"If his GPS is turned off how are we going to find him?" Adam asked.
"Just come back to the lab and we'll figure something out."
