This is the third chapter already! To be honest, I did not expect to have more than 15 reviews... Not that I'm complaining, you're all awesome and the reviews keep me motivated! And to express my gratitude, I always reply to them whenever I can/have the time. Just like I'm doing right now before the beginning of every new chapter:

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The next morning was a Monday morning, so everyone had to get up early. Everyone, except for Henderson. For him, it wasn't obligatory, but he too woke up early – Leo and the team were ready to go to school, but it still was rather early. It had never been a choice of his to get up early. When people chase you through all the States, you had to get up early to avoid being captured by the bionic soldiers.

Henderson had slept better than ever. Since they were on the run, they couldn't afford to stay in a cozy bed all the time. He almost forgot his worries and everything he had seen during his trip after meeting Dooley. The things he'd seen… he would never forget those. He knew the horrible things happened, he knew horrible things still happened, but he could do nothing to stop them.

Yes, he could. He could try and defeat Davenport.

Henderson shook his head. On his own, he would never defeat him. And the closer he came to Davenport, the more horrors he would see, and the more personal these horrors would be. And if he lost control, if he got to scared or too nervous, Spike would show up, and things never ended well when Spike showed up.

He decided not to think about that and go downstairs; he was hungry.

When he came downstairs, he only saw Donald sitting at the dining table. He took the first thing he saw in the fridge and sat down in front of the genius billionaire. Donald was paying attention to newest toy in which Henderson wasn't interested. The non-bionic was bored, but he knew that Adam, Bree, Chase and Leo should come in any minute to take his boredom away.

It took him more than half an hour to eat his breakfast. They didn't come.

Henderson was getting suspicious. He had no idea what took them so long. They certainly would be woken up by Tasha or something. He looked at Donald, who still was tinkering with his newest toy. Nah, it probably didn't need to be finished today.

"Donald?" he said, and Donald looked up. He looked a little surprised the other Chase actually said his first name, but Henderson didn't notice that. "Where are Adam, Bree, Chase and Dooley?" Donald frowned, wondering how Henderson could ask that without feeling too stupid – the answer was so obvious. But he saw the non-bionic had no idea where they were, and Donald had no idea what the kid's been gone through, so he just answered without any other comment.

"It's Monday. They're at school." For a moment, Henderson was confused, but he dropped the expression almost immediately.

"Right. School," he sighed "I didn't to think of school in a few months." He wondered how it was possible he truly missed Mission Creek High. Well, it was the place where he was loved by all students. People cared about him, other than his family and the tag-alongs Dooley and Marcus.

"I miss the cookies." Henderson eventually said. Donald looked up again.

"Cookies?"

"Principal Perry's cookies," he explained, "I don't know how she is in this universe, but in mine, she's the nicest woman you can imagine. She cares a lot and takes her time to make the school a better place. She bakes cookies and gives them to those who did something great. I often got some because I'm in the football team. Those are some tasty cookies."

Donald looked confused "I presume she isn't like that here," asked Henderson. Donald sighed and shook his head, indicating she wasn't like that in this universe.

"No, she's not. She's the meanest person you can meet without being evil. She hates most students, was in prison and she is the worst principal ever. She also knows the secret about Adam, Bree and Chase's bionics. She blackmails us – if she doesn't get her money, she'll spill the secret."

"I can't believe people like her are allowed to walk around in a school," Henderson said, and Donald shrugged. Then, he remembered something. The soldiers in front of his prison cell were talking about school. He had no idea why they had talked about school and he didn't hear the other words, but there had to be some sort of connection.

He wished Adam was here. He'd immediately get what this was about and would try to explain it to his younger brother, who wouldn't really pay attention. And then, Henderson would go to school only to see the freshmen and pick on everyone he saw.

Henderson remembered.

"I can't believe people like her are allowed to walk around in a school," he repeated, and he stood up. How could he have been so blind. Off course Davenport would have placed a spy in the school if he knew about the other universe. He would've spied on the siblings, and what better cover was there than a hateful principal, who knew about the secret?

"Wait, where are you going?" Donald asked. Henderson didn't even look back.

"I'm going to school." Henderson replied. He needed to take out the spy in the school.

Adam, Bree, Chase and Leo were all at Mission Creek High. The team was chatting with each other about what happened during the past periods, and about their last mission. They barely paid attention to Leo, who was standing close to them. He wasn't really listening to their conversation, because he had other problems he had to take care of.

Chase Henderson dominated his thoughts. Why not? He showed up last night, managed to gain everyone's trust (except Leo's) and immediately got a bed in the spare bedroom where grandmother Rose normally resided when she was visiting the Davenports. The part of the story Leo remembered didn't add up. How easy was it for him to get away? Who says he isn't an evil spy for Douglas and his new partner? Who says he wasn't lying? Why should they immediately trust him because he just happened to be Chase's counterpart.

He only paid attention to the conversation of his step-siblings when the topic was Henderson.

"What do you think of him? Because I think he's a cool guy." Adam said. Leo immediately joined the conversation.

"I think we shouldn't trust him."

"Why not?" asked Adam.

"Just think about it! He conveniently shows up when the lab's just rebuilt, and he says he's here to protect big D. That means he stays around him all the time, which means he can strike at any moment."

"I remember he was running from Douglas," said Chase.

"Maybe," began Leo "but he could also work with him! Doesn't it sound a little to convenient he got away? And if he was running from Douglas and a bionic army, and if he really was such a big threat, why wasn't he guarded better? Why did they just let him escape?"

"He had a little bit of luck!" Bree said, "He saw a chance and took it. What's so wrong about that?"

"And if it was controlled?" Leo continued, "They could have given him the luck to end up here." there came no reaction. "Seriously? You don't think this is suspicious?"

"Until we have proof, he is innocent," Chase said, "for all we know, it really happened like that."

"You know what?" Leo said, not happy with the lack of support, "The next time we see him, I'm gonna ask him how it happened and you see if he lies. You can recognize yourself when lying, can't you?" Chase nodded. Off course he's able to recognize it when he's lying, he knew what he did when he was lying himself.

The doors flew open, and people watched as another Chase, completely dressed in black, entered the school as if he was in a hurry. The team also noticed how Henderson burst into the school as if he didn't even cared about his cover being blown – if he even had a cover. Leo turned to Chase.

"Time to hear the truth! Hey, Henderson!" He called out for Henderson, who immediately reacted upon hearing his last name. He quickly joined the team, ignoring the looks of the ones who saw there were two Chases now.

Before Henderson even had the chance to say why he was here all of a sudden, Leo took his chance to ask his question.

"How did you escape?" Henderson was taken aback by this sudden question. Why did they need to know? He already explained it yesterday, they should know by now how they escaped. Unless they forgot. He didn't want to go in detail, there was a spy to take down, he had no time for these stupid questions he could easily answer at the Davenport house.

"I don't have the time to explain that, there's…" he was interrupted by Leo.

"But we got all day, so start talking." Henderson didn't want to talk about it, but when none of the siblings said anything, watching him with crossed arms, he knew the spy case had to wait until he was done explaining. He knew they might doubt it. Even Henderson himself knew it was way too easy, knew he should've been caught after leaving the cell.

Henderson sighed. "Fine. I escaped. I can't say more. I walked out of my cell and I ran away when I was chased… heh, got it?" He continued when they weren't laughing, "they followed me and I just ran in different directions, right into that room with the different inventions of Donald. I recognized the universe-hopping device because I've seen it on a picture. I went through it after activating it and I suddenly was in the lab. I'm sure Davenport has another, a more improved device to hop from universe to universe.

I'm not saying I used it, I just know he has another model. And I will admit it was an easy escape with a purpose, but I'm not entirely sure what cause that is. That's it." They looked at Chase expectantly, and he shrugged.

"He's telling the truth." Chase confirmed, and Henderson sighed; if this was all about trust, then maybe he should say something about the spy which he should've said seconds, minutes ago for everyone's safety.

"There's a spy in here, at school, who's been spying on you for a long time. Orders from Davenport," Henderson then said, not wasting any time anymore. Their faces were filled with shock.

"There's a spy at our school?" Bree almost exclaimed, lowering her voice because there could be people listening. They didn't need to know there was an evil spy from another universe in their school for who knows how long already.

"No, there's not. If there was, we would've noticed it." Adam said, convinced they would have known if there was a spy, because they would have discovered him or her already. But if there was a spy in their school for a very long time, it had to be someone they had to have a lot of contact with.

"Is it a teacher?" Chase asked. They better worked with elimination. If it wasn't a teacher, he'd ask for a member of the staff; if that result was negative, it had to be a student. It would have been a smart move if it really was a teacher, because nobody would suspect him or her to be spying on the three bionic kids and their family. Henderson shook his head.

"It's not a teacher. It is someone who knows you very well, a person you see almost daily, who almost daily talks to you. But also someone who probably hates your guts, since you're the enemy. From what I've heard from Donald, there are two options.

There's Trent and Perry. I don't think it is Trent because he showed weakness. Eddy told me about the time you were ghost busters. The spy shouldn't show any sign of fear, so it can't be Trent. Guys," he paused for the dramatic effect, "I think principal Perry is a spy from my universe."