Disclaimer is on the first chapter.
Chase comes to and sees he's surrounded by white walls with black lines and dots. He instantly recognizes the place as Giselle's lab. He tries standing up, but finds he's in the same position as the last time, on a black and silver metal examination table with cuffs around his ankles and wrists.
He looks around and spots the release, right where it was before. He smirks and moves his hands to use his molecular kinesis. But nothing happens. "What?"
The door opens automatically and Giselle walks in. She completely ignores Chase's presence and starts checking a few of her monitors. Chase glares at her back. "You shouldn't have told me how you escaped, Chase," she states calmly, turning around.
She walks over to him.
"I put bionic dampeners in the cuffs. No molecular kinesis," she emphasizes her second statement so it sinks in deep that she cut off his means of escape.
"My family will find me," Chase says.
Giselle chuckles at his statement, like it's amusing to her. "I'm sure they will find you, but it will be in vain."
"We've defeated you once, we'll do it again."
"…I'm not so sure about that," Giselle says, turning back to the computers.
Chase watches her every movement, while looking for any possible escape route. But he can't access his super intelligence. "Why?"
Giselle brings up a couple pictures on the large monitor. They are two bionic infrastructures; one is red, one is blue.
'Adam and Bree,' Chase puts together. But upon more inspection, he notices something is different about them.
"What?" Giselle asks, feigning innocence. She saw his expression change. She looks at the monitor. "Ohh… so you don't usually have nanobots swimming throughout your bionic systems?" She asks.
Chase tenses at the question. That's what he saw. Tiny white specks floating around his siblings' forms. He yanks at the cuffs, but to no avail.
"I programed the nanobots to attack anything bionic. So, when activated, they will swarm to their chips," Giselle explains, "eating at anything in their way. And as you can see," she motions to Adam's picture, "that would include a lot of them."
"That's what the pulse was," Chase says out loud.
"Yes, Chase, that is what happens when-"
"Stop talking to me like I'm seven," Chase says, "I'm still smart, even without my chip."
Giselle gives him a glare for interrupting her. "The pulse was originally meant for all of you. My plan was to take you all out with just, one, switch." She taps her finger on a clear cover of the switch in question on the control panel. "But then I realized that would have been foolish. I can benefit from my android's blunders for missing you in the shot."
"You'll never get my chip," Chase states, knowing full well that his words are empty.
"I don't have to," Giselle states. Chase is surprised by her words. Giselle brings up a recording and plays it.
"Please, I scanned these things before we started. They have more holes in their system than a sponge. I could have done way better than this."
Giselle turns off the recording. "I want you to do just that, Chase. Why take intelligence from the one person that knows how to harness it best?"
"…Because, you could let said person go?" Chase asks, unable to hold back. Giselle looks on, un-amused. "Why would I help you?" Chase asks coldly.
Giselle places her finger on the case over the switch. "You wouldn't have time to save your family."
Chase scoffs. "Leo doesn't have a bionic chip, so he's immune to your nanobots," he states arrogantly. He beams as he believes he has the upper hand. "Ha!" He adds.
Giselle smiles at him, smug. Chase's smile falters. The adult brings up a third picture; Leo. "Leo does have a bionic arm. And leg, it would seem. So, they would be attracted to that. …And if not, they'll find Adam and Bree's, which gives the same effect."
She looks at Chase. He's furious, staring her down with a look close to Adam's heat vision. She barely bats an eye at it.
"What are you going to do, genius?" She asks. Chase looks at the screen with his family on it.
"Mr. Davenport, what do we do?" Bree asks.
"Chase wasn't there when we woke up," Adam repeats, "Awe man, I knew we'd need a magnifying glass to find him. C'mon Bree, let's check again." Adam starts to turn away, but Bree takes his arm and swings him back.
"Big D…?" Leo asks. The tech mogul is at the console, thinking.
"If it's Giselle, he'll be at her lab," he decides while looking up, "that's a good place to start as any."
Everyone's quiet, but then Bree voices what they are all thinking, "She may already have his chip."
"But we have to try," Leo states, "we can't just give up."
"We won't," Adam says.
"Guys be careful. Giselle would have upgraded her security system from last time," Donald says. The team starts out of the tunnel. "And guys," Davenport states, stopping them. He waits until all three are looking at him. "Bring your brother home." They nod and start out.
Chase is in a pickle, and the team's off to save him.
...Will they?
~CtW