Kaz POV
"I am completely fine" I assured my girlfriend another time. She insisted that I do an x-ray, although bandaging my hand was definitely enough. We were in Mighty Med 2.0, patching ourselves up. I was shot with a ricochet of the Skylar's plasma attack, but it wasn't so bad, my hand wasn't even broke. Give it few days and I can kick butts again. Chase and Calla was knocked out, but they were alright by now. Dani and Skylar weren't seriously hurt too, just got a few bruises. Gladly we made it in time, but... Oliver and Bree wasn't so lucky.
Bionic girl broke her hip on three places. We had to call Mighty Med's ambulance to take her, but now she is stable. Bree had a lot of luck, if she hit a tree from a different angle, she could break her neck. This only made me sure how dangerous Bridget Short became. She never liked me even before everything, but now I'm just glad I didn't have to fight her.
But there are not all bad news. Mentioned crazy supervillain kidnapped my best friend. Yesterday I would think it's better him than anyone else, she literally doesn't see the world beside her children. However, after everything I saw yesterday I don't think it's good thing either. Dani told me everything, woman get completely mad. Moreover, after she found out about Oliver's problem, she just went into protect-my-poor-son-at-all-cost-mode and kidnapped him. I mean it was funny for me when we were kids, but now she is the most powerful creature in the universe and definitely lost all of her brakes. We knew one thing: Oliver had to be rescue as soon as it's possible. There were only one problem - we didn't know where Terror's new base was located.
"Stop being a child, you can get hurt" Dani insisted and I sighed.
"Seriously, you are the one lecturing me, after you expose yourself to extreme danger few hours ago?" I answered and she she sat on the bed beside me.
"I'm sorry, I just thought after I tell her everything, mom will finally listen the the voice of reason. Turns out she decided kidnapping Ollie for his safety is the better way" she sadly looked at the floor. I wanted to say something to comfort her, but she continued: "And Bree is injured. It's all because of my action, now everyone is mad at me even more than before" she said.
It was true, Bree was truly important for everyone in the team. Calla was her friend practically since forever, Chase was her brother, she and Skylar were BFF literally since day the day we started the team. Now Dee and I were sitting on one bed but everyone else were around the one Bree was on.
"Hey, look at me" I grab my girlfriend's shoulder by my heal, left arm "You did what you thought was the best option" I tried to comfort her.
"And how did it end the last time? I'm so stupid, never learn on my mistakes" I could see she was close to crying. I hugged her by my health arm and whispered.
"Don't do it to yourself. Bree is going to be alright, the doctors assured us, remember?" We wanted to help her ourselves, but Dee was in schock and I was hurt too. Besides, I didn't want to leave my girlfriend alone right now "Oliver needs you right now" I added and she nodded, rubbing her head on my shirt. We were like that, not worrying about doctors. They were really busy at the moment and scenes like that wasn't anything special here anyway.
"Were you trying to reach him?" I asked and she shook her head.
"I can't even feel his mind so there's no point. I think mom locked his powers" she explained. After Oliver and Bridget disappeared, he have sent Dani a telephatic message; Mother took him to some penthouse. It wasn't really helpful. Liv was using all League's resorces, Chase contacted bionic academy, but since now there's nothing. Bridget knew how to cover her tracks and since we couldn't search every apartment on the planet, we were powerless. Oliver was quiet after giving us this clue so all we can do now is wait.
Oliver POV
I thought my day can't be more messed up, but here we are. My possessive mother has gone over herself and kidnapped me. The only thing amazes me is she didn't this earlier. After she took me, we landed in some living room. It was looking extremely prestigious and expensive, just like my mom likes; brick walls, fireplace, massage chairs, etc. There were also a large window from which one could probably admire the whole city under us. Probably, because it was covered so I couldn't see it. In that case I could tell my sister a clue. Unfortunately, all I could say was "Some penthouse" before mom's favourite minion Mort put a blue handcuffs at my hands, so I don't hurt any of them or escape.
After that mom ordered him to leave us and started "the talk". Like I wouldn't have enough of it for one day. So I asked her if she could leave me alone just till tomorrow - that was a middle of the night - and surprisingly she did so. Well, she locked my in weird white room but at least I was alone. I had a bed, TV and the window which I couldn't open no matter what I did - not like I could just fly away - she left me a handcuffs. I wasn't in mood on some stupid reality show from TV so I spent half an hour, trying contact my twin. Possibility of success despite the cuffs was minimal. Even if I would, I couldn't tell her anything useful. However, it's not like I had anything else to do. Besides, when our team was fighting mom, things went messy. I just needed to make sure everyone are ok. I hoped so. So here I was, lying at the big, extremely comfortable bed untill
I passed out.
I was awaken by loud banging on the door. It took me a while to understand where I was, but when I reminded happenings of the last night, I didn't want to get up. Unfortunately, iritating pounding didn't stop. I sighed and looked at the window. It was a day already and sun was quite high. I couldn't tell exactly what hour was it, there wasn't a watch on the room and mom took my phone.
"Get up kid, breakfast is ready" Mort announced before he opened the door. I sighed at got up, letting him lead me to the kitchen "How were you sleeping?" he was trying to start the conversation.
"How do you think lizard-man? You guys just kidnapped me" I said raising my hands reminding him about handcuffs. Normally I wouldn't be pissing off my kidnapper, but I'm sure with my psychotic mother in charge, my life was safer than his in there. Besides, I lied. I was sleeping very good. Although it was difficult to find a comfortable position and my hands completely numbed, bed was so soft and I was so wasted, that I had the best sleep since a long time. I know I shouldn't have especially in this situation, but yesterday was hard for me, ok?
Mort murmured something about spoiled brat and we reached the kitchen. It was nothing special, but after the decor of the room it was evident that place belongs to someone rich. But more than the furnitures, I focused at the other teo people in there. The first one was a girl with the long black hair, standing in front of the coffee machine. It was a long time since I saw her last time, but I could identify her as Lexi. After Chase, Bree and their siblings got Tank and Dani left them, Lexi, Mort and Sebastian were the only members of mom's main team.
The other person was some blond guy with a quite long hair and very green eyes. What suprised me, he was very young. I mean he couldn't be more than seventeen. Kaz, Dee and I joined the Elite Force at the same age. I had no idea who that was. Did mom found someone who will replace Dani? The boy was eating pancakes with the chocolate, which made me very hungry. When we entered, he looked up and smiled friendly. It was weird.
"Lexi, could I ask you for a moment?" Mort turned to bionic girl. She turned back with the cup of coffee in her hand.
"What is that?" she asked. When she noticed me, she sent me a wave, but she didn't seem to be happy to my presence. Did my mom tell them to be kind to me, under the threat of death? Yeah, sound like her.
"Mr. Terror has a task for us, but I can't find Sebastian anywhere. Do you know were he might be?" lizard-man asked. She nodded.
"I might have a few ideas"
"Then come with me. Timothy, will you take care of our guest? Mr Terror should be back soon" Mort turned to the boy.
"It's Tim you lizard" he answered and Mort probably considered it as yes, because he and Lexi immediately left a room. When we stayed alone, Tim's eyes lighted happily.
"Um, I'm Oliver" I said awkwardly, sitting in front of him.
"I know, Oliver Short, son of Mrs. Terror" he said looking at me. Mrs? That would make more sense than Mr. after mom's identity stopped being a secret, but I think everyone just got used to Mr Terror "I'm Tim, Tim Rossenbau" he stretched out his hand in my direction and I grabbed it despite my handcuffs.
The boy smeared the pancake with chocolate, folded it and handed it to me.
"What would you like to drink?" he asked. I shrugged. Pancake was a good choice, I could eat it in cuffs.
"Who are you Tim? Some supervillain?" I asked and he smiled. I needed to know if he had some superpowers. If not, I had a chance to escape.
"Yeah, more like an intern" he put cup of cacoa in front of me "I will be supervillain soon. I already have choosen my alias: 'The shadow' " he boasted. I frowned biting my pancake.
"Why?" I asked. He didn't answer, just disappeared.
"Because like the shadow..." I jumped when I heard his vioce behind my back "...I am behind you and boom! You are dead" I turned back to him, but he geo-leaped again and appeared at his chair "How cool is it?" he smiled to me.
"That's awesome" I lied. I mean geo-leaping is cool and useful, but literally every bionic human beside the Davenports could do it (I was always wondering why they didn't have this ability). I pretended to be exciting because of his powers, so I could learn more about him "What else can you do?" I asked.
"I have a super strength" he seemed to be very happy because of my interest "It's awesome in compare with teleportation, I can assassinate immediately" the way he was bragging something like that was disturbing "But my best super power is telekinesis. It's extremely powerful, look" suddenly three knives and forks rose and started levitating. They were flying around him with a large speed. I never seen Chase doing something like that and Tim wasn't even using his hands.
"How did you get your power?" I asked concerned, if mom found a new way to give people powers. Meantime I was trying very hard to eat, what was very difficult if I couldn't stretch my hands.
"Do you want to hear my backstory? Great!" I could see he loved being a villain. Hearing him wasn't my on my list of things to do, but I could see how he much desperate for attention he was. Mayby I will be able to reach some important information or even better, a way out of here?
"I always wanted to be supervillain. I hated that whole 'I wanna be superhero like Tecton when I'll grow up'." Woo hoo, where is he now? Dead, because good never wins" he explained.
"It's not true, we stopped the responsible..."
"You put them in jail, there is a difference. Do you know my dad was a superhero too?" he asked "Of course you didn't, I never told you. So, my dad was a superhero: The Blue Lance" the bell rang in my head.
"I remember him. In very old comic edition, he was..."
"...killed by his nemesis, Red Slaughter" he ended "I was 7 then" I felt bad for him. Our dad left us, but that was very slow process. At the beginning we were seeing him every day, later every week, every month and finally he moved to Great Britain. Losing parent from day to day must've been awful. We did lose mom this way but we were 17 and she didn't die, so it's not exactly the same.
"I'm sorry Tim" I said honestly.
"Funny fact, my dad caught Red Slaughter two times, but somehow he was able to escape Mighty Max twice. Moreover, killing his nemesis wasn't enough for Red Slaughter. The villain tracked us down three years later and he set fire to our house with me and my mom inside. Somehow I survived, but she didn't. Now it's a good time for I'm sorry" he shrugged.
"Life was hard for you, but you are still so young. Maybe we could..."
"No, we could not" he interrupted "Dad could take him down for good but no, that's not the hero way. That's why I decided to be supervillain, and honestly, I really liked it. Back to the topic, I was in the child care homes by three years. I've been living with few foster families, but nobody wanted me. It's not like I blame them; I became... specific person" he explained.
"You lost your parents, it's understandable" I assured him. I was thinking how could I convince him to abondan evil way. I could say something like it's not what your father would want, but I could see he blamed his dad. But Tim it was my way out. Besides, he didn't deserve for being brainwashed by my mom, I had to try.
"When I was 13, I was adopted again. I know, surprising, people usually wants younger children, but we will get there. That was a couple: Elizabeth and Samuel. They even had a daughter, Chloe. She was year older than me. Girl was their biological child, but they decided adopt another one. It was mainly Elizabeth initiative, she was an orphan too. Woman lost her mother when she was 11 and nobody wanted her, because she was too old. That's why she decided to give a chance some older child" he took a deep breath "So, they took me in. I could see this jerk Samuel didn't want me, he was showing it whenever he could. But despite all troubles I made, Elizabeth insisted that it was 'calling for help' and stood by me" he laughed "Problem started when I started looking at their daughter not like at sister. I mean we were hormone teenagers when we met, what did they expect?" It wasn't hard to imagine.
"I guess they didn't like it?" I smiled, ending my pancake.
"We never told them. I was bad kid; starting fights, failing tests, stealing just for fun and the worst problem; Apparently I'm emotionally unstable, but I'm fine with it. The other kids at school were like "Hey, lets not piss Tim off or he is going to burn down our homes" he laughed as I was trying to drink cocoa in handcuffs "Chloe loved that. Her parents were control freaks and after my arriving it's all became so fresh for her. She was the only one who wasn't treating me like a weirdo, so I liked her too. After some time we fell in each other" he smiled while he was talking about her.
"But?" I knew it was something more.
"Some day her father saw us kissing in the living room. It was two years ago, I was 15 then. When Sammy found out he was... unhappy. Let's say my jaw still hurts when I'm laughing too hard" he explained "So, I did what every logically thinking person would do"
"You ran away from home?" I asked. I don't think Tim was a type of person which would try to talk with someone or look for help. Boy smiled.
"Yeah, but not before I stabbed him a kitchen knife. Multiple times, just for sure" he smiled very proud of it, like he would win a competition or something.
"Ow" I wasn't expecting that. One thing if someone wants to be a villain because of some sad backstory, it happens all the time, but being a cold blood killer with no trace of remorse is something else. He must've seen fear at my face, because he frowned.
"I can see you have a problem with that. You're just like your sister" he sighed. So he knew Dani? Well, that makes sense, she was here by nine months.
"I'm sorry if sitting next to someone who doesn't see anything bad about killing people is little disturbing for me" I said before I could hold myself back.
"Ok, so I choose being a cold sociopath to deal with my problems. At least it's healthier than cutting myself" he smirked. How did he knew?
"Can you read in my mind?" I hoped not, because he could see how extremely terrified of him I was in the moment.
"Unfortunately not, but it would be cool" he got up and he began collecting dirty dishes from the table, seeing I don't want to eat anymore. It was somehow weird that he was acting like a good home help "Your mother told me yesterday. She was seriously broken by that" he said it like he would care.
"My mom confides to you?" I found it hard to believe. He nodded, putting dishes to the sink and started cleaning them.
"Yes, she once told me I am like a son she never had. I mean she obviously had you and your sister, but I'm sure she meant someone who will follow her without hesitation" he explained. Yeah, that sounds like mom. I don't know if I should be hurt or happy because she missed us so much that she took in this freak "She also told me about yesterday's battle. Man, I would like to be there so much, to see how your little team is being crushed" he sighed.
"How did she even found you? You came across an ad for a job: I am hiring a supervillain?" I asked.
"Actually, I was the one who found her. Like I said, since my both parents died, I wanted become a villain. Thanks to my dad I knew comics were true, so I was reading them very carefully. While kids like you had their favourite hero, I had my favorite villain" he explained.
"Mr. Terror" I said. He nodded with a smile at his face.
"Mrs. Terror sounds better right now. I don't understand why she stick with it even after her secret identity stopped being... you know, secret. Anyway, I wasn't a fan of blunt brutes like Annihilator, Megahertz or Catastrophe. They were just powerful, but Mr Terror was a genius. Ruthless, intelligent, resourceful and insidious, rulling the villains world without them even knowing it. And that plot with the wedding and revealing? Masterpiece" now he sounds like a fanboy.
Kaz, Dani and I were part of few comics stories. Ambrose was able to change our appearance a little, so nobody would recognize us, but "Mr Terror Arc" was one of fans favorite. I'm not gonna lie, Dani and I felt little bad that our life tragedy became a well know story. If it's some consolation, people loved it. They liked Mr. Terror. When shapeshifters attacked and killed Ambrose, Gus's father bought copyright and ended the arc, but honestly, I was never able to read it.
"I was following Mr Terror's doings for years and I knew more about her than you do, Oliver" Tim continued "When she revealed herself I could connect the dots. I found out she lived in Philadelphia, the name of company she was running and the most important; The fact that she used the company's headquarters as a secret bases. So, after I became a wanted murder, I came to visit the place. I was observing it for weeks until she showed up" ok, now I was impressed.
"And that's how she hired you?" he nodded.
"I didn't even have a superpowers back then. Stupid mom's normo genes" he sighed "But Mrs Terror was impressed by my for finding her. So much impressed that she let me be her student. After all, she also started as a weak normo" he explained.
"But you have powers now" I pointed. He stopped cleaning the dishes and moved to the living room, giving me sign to follow him. I got up and did so.
"To complete her new team, your mom organized a break out from UPSEI. I mean she was controlling whole villain world, but let's be honest, most of them are bad jokes" he was talking as we reached another room. I'm aware, that classic villains would not match our Elite Force. I suppose finding the 'Elite Terror's Force' made sense "Mort wasn't more useful than most of them, but he was a great Trojan horse" he sat at the coach, but I was still standing. Earlier we thought mom sent Mort there just to lure us out from Mighty Med while the attack. Turns out he had another purpose "Mort smuggled the messenger, found out where bionic prisoners were kept, and then he reported it to Mrs. Terror. She was perfect, when the backup from bionic island arrived, it was already too late" he smiled very proud of his mentor.
"Tim, we already know it" I reminded him, meantime trying to look through the curtained window. If I could find out where I was, maybe I would be able to tell that to Dani somehow later.
"You've asked about my powers, right? So, one of prisoners was Dr Gao" a mad scientist, I've heard about him too "He created amazing thing called liquid bionic. He had to visit another galaxy to get the necessary ingredients, but your bionic friends destroyed all of his liquid. Well, expect one little syringe" he smiled. It had to happen on Davenportia, Mr's Davenport space colony. I had no idea that Victor Kryne and Dr Gao needed some ingredients from there. But thinking about that, it made sense, they took a lot of trouble to get there.
"So, you decided to become a experimental rabbit for that last sample?" I asked not very suprised.
"Exactly. And viola, here I am" he smiled. I wanted to ask him why he wasn't in the field ever before, but then I heard a voice behind my back.
"I'm glad you two have a nice chat" my mom spoke and I turned back. She went through the door with a friendly smile. She was wearing typical business outfit, like she would be back from an important meeting. I suspected she was still controlling the company, but I thought after she fell underground, she wasn't showing up personally anywhere. However, more than by her outfit, I was surprised by her smile. I haven't seen her smile since... forever. I could see it was fake. Could it be caused by my 'problem'?
"Mrs Terror" Tim smiled very happy to see her, taking his legs off the couch "How was your meeting?" he asked.
"Excellent. I got everything we needed" she responded.
"What have you done?" I asked, but she only smiled to me again.
"Do not worry sweetheart, soon it all will be over" she assured me. Typical. She was consumed by her evil schemes again, while it was the only moment in my life when I really needed her attention.
"What have you done?" I replied the question. She got closer to me.
"When your sister told me what happened, I thought she was lying" she changed a topic "But when I saw your scars... I couldn't believe that" her fake smile disappeared, replaced by very real worry. But the way her voice sounded... I could see what it was representing and I hated that.
"You are disappointed by me" I noticed. Even after everything she've done, it was still hurting me.
"No no honey, of course I'm not" she said putting her hands on my shoulders "It's not your fault, it's mine. I should never leave you out of my side" she sounded honestly sorry. It wasn't right. It all wasn't right, first Dee, now she... I couldn't fully forgive my sister, not when physical and mental scars will always remain in me. How could I forgive the person which started it all and hurt me much more? But on the other hand, it could be her only chance to see her wrongs and give up evil. I've decided.
"Mom, it's ok. Let's fix it, just take those off..." I raised the hands with the handcuffs "...and come with me. It all can be stopped now" I was trying to convince her, but she just smiled sadly.
"My actions weren't wrong Oliver" here we go again "I will take over this planet very soon and it's out of discussion. I just regret I didn't take you two with me so I could keep you safe in the meantime"
"That's it mom" I stepped back from her and totally lost my temper "I always loved and respected you. But today? You made me do it!" I shook my sleeve, revealing my scars one again "You managed to achieve the exact opposite of what you were aiming for. And still, you are too proud to admit you were wrong! You don't exist for me anymore!" I exclaimed totally surprising her. In opposite to my sister, I was never raising a voice at her and now, I basically told that I hate her. To my surprise, in the meantime Tim pulled out the phone and started to write something on it, giving us a sign, that he didn't want to be part of it.
"I am really sorry you feel this way, but I was ready for it since I started planning the wedding" she reminded about the second worst day of my life "And honey, you and your sister just proved me right. You can't take care of yourself without me looking out for you" she said and I seriously started questioning her sanity.
"You are such a hypocrite! Those were your actions which caused..." I tried to argue, but she just rose her hand giving me a sign, that she is not going to continue this conversation. It was weird, but despite all of my anger, I was still unable to object her.
"Timothy" she turned to the teen. He immediately put down nie phone and got up "We are reaching the last part of my plan, but first there's one thing you need to do for me" she announced as he smiled.
"Finally!" he exclaimed and mom looked at him "I mean, I won't fail you" he corrected.
"Without Tank and my daughter, my strike team is running out of members. After almost two years of training, I would like you to lead them. I mean let Sebastian think he's leading, but lead them" she ordered. He nodded excited.
"What would you like me to do?" he asked, but mom turned to me.
"Like I said, leaving you and Danica out of my radar was a mistake. Mistake which I'm going to fix right now" she explained and I understood.
"Stay away from her" I threatened, but Tim didn't seemed to bother. After our conversation I knew he was a dangerous psycho and I didn't want him anywhere near of my sister.
"Timothy, I need you to bring my daughter home. Unharmed of course. I need both of my children safe here, while the last part of my plan will begin" she announced.
"I'm on my way" mom nodded giving him a sign that he can go and so he did.
"Be careful" she added when he was leaving.
"Mom stop, you can't sent this psychopath after Dani!" I explained when Tim was out of hearing range. She smiled.
"Don't worry Oliver, she will not be hurt. Unlike you and Danica, Timothy always follows my instructions" she assured me. I faked a laugh but she ignored it "Let's talk about something more important. Your problem"
"No. We are not going to have this conversation. You made your point completely clear, you think everything you've done was a right thing, so we're done mom" I said sitting at the couch.
"Danica did exactly the same and yet, you forgave her" she pointed.
"At least she admitted it was a mistake and now she's doing everything to fix it. And how can you know if I forgave her?" I didn't even knew it myself.
"Would you be so worried about her if you didn't?" she sat next to me. I bit my lip "Let's get rid of it" she decided, and waving her hand, she opened my handcuffs. I looked at her suprised "Don't look at me like that. Your ice powers cannot harm me and about your super strength, even if you are very angry, I know my son would never raise a hand at his mother"
"You are right" I agreed, I would never get on hitting her. She knew I will not be able to escape, with her power she could easy stop me, but... She probably didn't know about twin thelepaty. I could get help, I just had to find out where I was. I slowly got up and moved to the window. Mom stretched, clearly afraid if I won't try to escape, but when I just opened the blinds, she calmed down. I glared suprised by the view.
"The darkest is under the lantern, am I right Oliver?" Mom smiled clearly proud of herself. I could see the Centrum City's streets under me. The view of the national bank on the other side of the street confirmed where I was.
"Centrum City?" I couldn't believe it "I expected us to be on the second part of country and we were five kilometers from Elite Force's penthouse" I was keeping my mom busy by the conversation and I spoke in my mind:
"Dee, can you hear me?"
Dani POV
"Liv, you can't leave us on ice right now" I argued with my best friend by the phone. Beside Bree, our all team came back to the mission command. We didn't want to leave her, but there's nothing we can do for her right now, but for Ollie we could. Besides, her condition was stable, she will be back to full functionality and she had Jaden keeping her company. Oliver needed us more in this moment.
"I'm not leaving you guys, just please, understand that New League's resorces aren't so big as the old one's" she was explaining.
"Then spare more people to looking for my brother" I demanded.
"Most of them is taking down Mr. Terror's facilities thanks to date you gave me. If we will be lucky, Oliver will be holding in one of them" she explained.
"Liv, I there are just abondan warehouses or money launderings. I told you Ollie is in some penthouse" she sighed.
"Dani, what do you exactly expect from me? We can't check every rich looking building in the world and let me remind you, Mr Terror was able to stay hide from the old League for years" she reminded me.
"Just do whatever you can. You owe it to me" I said hostile and hanged out. Next I moved to the elevator and commanded MISS to send me underground. I shouldn't be so hard for Liv, I know she was doing everything in her power to help. Ollie was her friend too after all. But still, I couldn't help myself to blame her, but not for sending me on this mission. It was my choice, as an adult person I could say no. But she PROMISED me she will take care of my loved ones when I will be off the radar. How did it turn out? The team split up, my boyfriend was looking for me hanging out with God knows who and my brother could kill himself! I know she couldn't exactly be keeping eye on him 24/7 but c'mon, when someone is cutting himself, he is giving a signs. She was assuring me everything is fine with everyone, but now I see she wasn't even talking with Ollie. If she did, she would definitely noticed that something was on. She doesn't know yet about him, it's not the best time to tell her and I didn't want to do this without Oliver's permission. But I really wished she would find out and feel the same pain which I do.
I finally reached Mission Command and left an elevator. Kaz, Skylar, Chase and Calla were standing around the table, fiercely discussing about something. Skylar noticed me first.
"Any news?" she asked with a hope in her voice, but I was sure she could read it from my expression.
"League is still looking" I sighed resigned and looked at Calla and Chase.
"Any luck here or in bionic island?" I asked them, although I already knew the answer. If they found something, Skylar wouldn't ask me. I don't know why I asked then; Maybe I needed a reminder how much I messed up?
"We are checking the cites footages, but there nothing" Chase explained. I was surprised nobody was yelling at me for causing this situation. Honestly, I really hoped somebody would, I needed someone to punish me, but nobody did.
"We are wasting time, while his psychotic mom might be brainwashing him" Kaz noticed, then looked at me compassionately. I was hoping she won't do something like that. Mom was going to do it to me, but it was a punishment: First for infiltrating her base, than for my "lie". She would probably never hurt her beloved son like that, but on the other hand... When she was taking him away, I saw it on her face. The insanity. Perhaps she will tell herself that the taking control over Oliver's mind is the only way to keep him safe?
I've noticed earlier that she changed after touchig the Arcturion. Before that she was a villain, but villain with a code. She was trying to avoid of human casualties when it was possible, her only goal was to protect us. But while last months which I've spent with her had learned me how much she've changed. She became ruthless, which great example was yesterday's fight. My mother was never a good person, but when the Arcturion filled her with it's power, he might've change something more than her body. I think it affected her brain as well. I'm not sure how, but after nine months I've spend with her I can tell for sure, that after she died, the person Horace resurrected wasn't 100% my mom.
I've noticed that the others were talking when I was drawing in my thoughts, but they were just trying to stay positive, nobody said anything clever.
"Dee, can you hear me?" Suddenly I heard a familiar voice in me head, which almost made me jump.
"Ollie? Are you ok?" I asked him quickly, afraid we can lose our connection again.
"I'm fine, but mom went completely insane. She sent some teen named Tim after you" he warned me. Tim? I've never seen that guy leaving the base before.
"Little Timmy? Don't worry about him, he just talks a lot" I assured him "Is mom with him? Are you safe?" I was asking.
"Dani, are you ok?" Calla probably noticed I'm not paying attention to the conversation.
"Ollie just contacted, shh" I gave her a sign to be quiet. Everyone looked at me with relief, but they hadn't said anything.
"Mom is talking with me right now, I'll try to keep her occupied. But Tim isn't alone, she sent the whole team after you" he warned me.
"I will be ok, the others are with me. Do you know where you are?" I asked with a hope.
"I'm here, in Centrum City. The apartment in front of National Bank" wow, that was only 5 kilometers from us. "Are everyone alright? Mom was pretty hard for them yesterday" I could sense how much worry he was.
"Everyone are ok" I assured him. Well, Bree isn't exactly ok, but she will be and he don't need to worry right now "We're comming for you. Just hold on in there"
"Guys, he is in this big penthouse in front of National Bank" I announced.
"Here?" Calla looked at me skeptically.
"What are we waiting for? Let's go after him" Kaz turned to us.
"How could he contact you?" Chase also didn't look convinced.
"Probably mom let him use his power, so he would feel more comfortable. She is aware his powers can't harm her and she doesn't know about our telepathy" I explained. A couple looked at each other and I fast added: "We don't have time, Ollie says mom sent her team after me"
"Then let's go before they will get here" Kaz suggested, but Chase stopped him.
"Wait a second, Sebastian, Lexi, Gao and Mort are heading here?" he asked me.
"Gao isn't type of field guy, but she sent a guy you haven't met before, Tim" I claimed.
"Tim who?" Skylar turned to me.
"So, with mom's obsession about controlling and protecting her children, after Ollie and I refused to join her, she took this kid in and focused it all on him" I explained.
"And I thought she can't turn out weirder. No offense" Kaz added quickly.
"It's just a kid?" Calla wanted to make sure. I smiled a little.
"Not exactly. He is 17 now and has bionic. Gao made him his test rabbit. But he never left the base before"
"Do you know all of his powers?" Chase continued and I nodded.
"He told me everything, this guy loves the sound of his voice" I confirmed "Geo-loop, super strength and telekinesis. Just..."
"Just what?"
"His telekinesis is nothing like yours. It's extremely powerful, he can even use it as invisible shield, I've been never able to break through it" I said and when Kaz he looked at me questioningly added "We were training together few times. Timmy can move extremely heavy objects like they're nothing, he even claimed being able use telecinesis to completely crush human body, but I wasn't willing on demonstration. I think he was making up"
"You think?" Skylar sounded not sure.
"Yeah, he was telling me a story how he killed his stepfather multiple times, like it was something amazing. I'm sure he was making up. I think that with telecinesis he was making up too. Kid is just desperate to attention and unfortunately, my mother was the only person in his life which give it to him" I explained.
"Are we going or not?" Kaz asked inpatient.
"I don't think we should right now" Chase responded.
"What?!" Kaz, Skylar and I yelled, but Calla didn't look suprised.
"We no match Mr Terror and her team, especially without Bree. But now we know they will come here, so we can set a trap, capture them and then take down Mr Terror when she will be alone" bionic genius have told us his plan.
"Do you want to use her as a bait?" Kaz didn't sound like a fan of the idea.
"It's a good plan, let's do it" I agreed despite his hesitation. I knew Ollie was fine and Chase's plan sounded logical. Besides, I wanted to punch someone so bad. If I can't harm my mom, her minions are good as well.
"I think we should go after Oliver while Bridget team is out of her base" Skylar disagreed. Calla looked at her.
"Defeating her is not going to be fast or easy. It's very close, what do you think is going to happen when they will come back in the middle of the fight?" she was right. We would be without a chance. Skylar looked like she would like to argue, but Chase interrupted her.
"Who says we should set a trap?" he asked and rose his hand, just like Calla and I. Kaz and Skylar were in the minority.
"It's going to be ok" I assured my boyfriend, seeing worry at his face. He faked a smile.
"I hope so"
Tim POV
I was incredibly excited all the way. My first mission for Mrs Terror! After two years of studying and training, I will finally get a chance to prove myself. When we were taking the elevator, I've almost geo-looped to their door, but I had to stick with the plan.
"We are heading the target" I turned to Mrs Terror telepathically. Actually, it wasn't me, I didn't have telepathy, she did. My boss had an ability to connect with any person she wanted and talk with him or her. It was our little secret for now, no one else needed to know.
"Keep me updated" she commanded.
We silently left the elevator and stopped in save distance from the door so their AI couldn't detect us. Sebastian gave us a sign and we split on the sides; Mort and I on the left, he and Lexi on the right. The best idea for kidnapping sweet little Dani would be geo-leaping inside but we couldn't do it. Just like our base, UPSEI, bionic island or any other facility which had to deal with superpowers had signal disruptors, which were making teleportation inside impossible. But it's more like the shield surrounding the building, when you're already inside, teleportation is not a problem.
"Two thermal signatures, fitting to Arcturion's radiation. One of them is our target" Sebastian announced silently. I smiled. For a guy with bionic super intelligence, he was damn naive.
"Mrs Terror, it's a trap. Just like you've predicted" I submitted. Poor Oliver didn't knew his mother could hear him talking to sister in their minds. We knew that they knew we were comming. It's so good!
"Excellent, come into it. Grab my daughter if you can, it have to look convincing, but don't forget why you're really there" she reminded me. I was so happy my mentor gave me such responsible task. The others didn't knew true purpose of this action. Well, one of them is not going back, so it's logical.
"I won't fail you" I promised, when Sebastian pointed at me and at the door. I smiled and moved forward. Before anyone could detect us, I used my telekinesis to pull the door out of the hinges. Time to start the game.