The Davenport family, including Adam who had jumped up when he heard Spike, looked at each other and gulped.
This wasn't good!
"Hey Spike", Adam said nervously "Broken anything lately?"
Spike grinned as he answered: "Not really. How about I start with your spine?"
Adam gulped as Leo stepped forward: "Or maybe you should just sit down for a moment and take a nice calming breath?"
Spike growled and pretended to bite, which made Leo jump and hide behind Donald.
"Chase?", Bree asked carefully "Can you hear me?"
"Chase is gone", Spike said, grinning "And he ain't coming back!"
Suddenly, Tasha spoke up: "Wait, remember when Adam, Bree and Chase were being controled by that Triton app thing? Leo got Chase out of it by talking to him. Maybe we can try the same thing?"
Douglas, now holding onto Adam to keep his balance, looked at Tasha: "That idea is so stupid it might actually work!"
Donald nodded: "It's worth a try." Then, he took a step forward and faced Spike: "Chase, listen to me. You've got to snap out of it!"
"Honey, please listen to us", Tasha added.
This only seemed to anger Spike even more, resulting in him tackling both Donald and Tasha to the ground.
When they were down, he stood up and walked over to Leo.
"Chase, come on! Remember us!", Leo said, not even trying to hide his fear "You're my brother! Remember all the things we did together?"
"Oh, I remember all right!", Spike replied, glaring at Leo "How you always laugh at me behind my back, using me..."
Leo frowned, turning around to face Donald: "Big D, how can Spike know about us and what we did?"
"They share their brain and memories", Donald explained while standing up "Spike knows everything Chase knows, but not the other way around."
"Exactly!", Spike said "Now, where was I... oh yeah!"
Before Leo had the chance to turn around, he felt himself being lifted and thrown into Donald.
"Chase! Stop it!", Bree yelled "Try to remember me!"
"Oh, I remember a lot about you, princess", Spike spat "Whenever you see your 'friends', you're off and making fun of me. But at the end of the day, you come crawling back to ask for my help."
"Chase please… I'll make it up to you!", Bree pleaded.
"Too late!", Spike yelled back. At that moment, he lifted Bree with his molecular kinesis.
"How is it that Spike can control Chase's abilities?", Leo whispered to Donald.
"No idea!", Donald replied, also whispering "Maybe because it's a huge glitch?"
In the meantime, Adam stepped forward, fury in his eyes: "Put her down!"
Spike grinned evilly: "As you wish". As soon as the words had left his mouth, he dropped her on the concrete floor.
Adam gasped: "You didn't just do that!"
"And what if I did, meathead?", Spike asked, still grinning.
Adam glared: "I don't care if you're my brother or not. You're going down!"
He shot his lasers at Spike, who quickly put up his force field and deflected the lasers straight back at Adam.
Adam dropped to the floor, clutching his stomach in pain.
"And that's what you get for using me as a punching back for sixteen years! Now, where is the other one?", Spike said, looking around.
"Now, where is the other one?", Spike asked, now looking around.
Douglas, who was kneeling on his good leg next to Donald and Leo, stood up: "Here I am"
"What are you doing?!", Donald asked, slightly panicking "Did that fall damage your brain?!"
But Douglas just ignored him and glared at Spike.
Spike smirked: "An easy target! This is gonna be fun!"
He lifted Douglas with his molecular kinesis and threw him into the corner.
While Douglas struggled to stand up, Spike grabbed the plasma blaster Donald had been working on from the table. As soon as Douglas stood completely straight, Spike pointed it straight into his face.
As soon as he saw this, Donald jumped up and prepared himself to fight his youngest son.
But before he could make a move, Spike spoke up: "If anyone moves or makes a sound, this porcupine over here is a goner!"
Donald stopped moving and looked at Douglas with fear in his eyes.
Douglas spoke up with a rather calm voice: "Chase, I know you can hear me."
"Chase ain't here", Spike replied "I would ask you to leave a message, but he won't return so what's the point?" After that, he laughed darkly.
"Chase, please!", Douglas said "Remember our talk last week? You wanted to know why I went to the dark side!"
The rest of the family looked at each other, but didn't dare to make a sound.
"But I never got the chance to tell you why I came back", Douglas continued.
Spike slightly lowered the gun, which made Douglas continue.
"Back when I was working with Krane, all I wanted was to have you kids back with me and some revenge on Donnie. Krane wanted to kill you and Don! When he told me that, I started thinking about what I had achieved since I had switched sides. And the answer was shocking: nothing! I didn't have you guys, I didn't get my revenge and I had lost my house, lab and money. I had nothing left!"
"So you switched back because you were a tramp?", Spike asked, while laughing.
Douglas rolled his eyes: "No... I realised I had made a terrible mistake. So I started trying to make it up between the family and me. It took some time, but at least it worked eventually."
"Touching, you're even softer than his belly", Spike said with a sarcastic tone in his voice, while pointing to Donald.
"Now you're exaggerating!" Douglas replied immediately, which earned him a glare from his brother.
"You are nothing like me, Chase!", Douglas continued "You're better than that! I promised Don that I would make sure you wouldn't go to the dark side and I'm gonna stick to that!"
When he heard this, Spike glared and lifted the gun again so it once again pointed straight at Douglas' face.
Now, Douglas started panicking a little. But he decided he had to try one more time.
Trying to keep the fear out his voice, he pleaded: "Chase, I know you are down there and I know you heard every word I said. You are stronger than you know! Forget about what everyone called you, forget about what they did to you. Listen to what I'm gonna tell you right now."
Lowering his voice to a whisper and looking Spike straight into his eyes, he continued: "Even when you mess up and you're down, I believe that you can accomplish anything. Not just because you're my son, but because you're just that kind of guy... You're a fighter! And I'm proud of that!"
Suddenly, Spike dropped the gun and stopped moving.
"Adam, get him!", Douglas yelled.
Adam grabbed Spike from behind, Spike slightly struggling.
Donald took the chip extractor from the closet under the cyber desk and took Chase's chip out, which resulted in Chase falling limp completely.
"Adam, put him on the bed in the infirmary. Gently!", Donald said. Adam nodded and left.
"Why don't I take the kids upstairs so you guys have got some room to work?", Tasha proposed "I'll take care of them".
Donald smiled and nodded: "Thanks."
As soon as the brothers where the only ones left in the lab, Douglas let himself slide down the wall, put his arms on his knees and his head on his arms.
Donald at first just ignored this, but after two minutes put the chip on the cyberdesk and sat down next to Douglas.
Douglas looked up and smiled tiredly at his brother: "Hey."
"Hey", Donald replied "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine", Douglas replied "Who knew that having your youngest son pointing a gun at your hed could drain you like that?". He tried to smile, but it quickly faded.
Donald at first hesitated, but finally he put his arm over Douglas' shoulders.
Douglas put his head down on Donald's shoulder.
They sat there like that for about twenty minutes, just thinking about the events of the day.
Finally, Donald spoke up: "I should get working on the chip."
"Can I help?", Douglas offered.
"No, you go to Chase. He shouldn't be alone when he wakes up"
Douglas nodded.
Donald stood up and pulled Douglas back to his feet.
After he had handed Douglas his crutches back, Douglas left to the infirmary while Donald started working on fixing the chip.
Once in the infirmary, Douglas sat down on the chair closest to the bed and just looked at Chase.
While he was looking at his son, he couldn't help but smile.
HE had gotten Chase out of his glitch.
HE had saved the day.
For once, HE was the good guy.
And he could never have imagined how good that felt…
Author's note: Hi! I know, it's been a month… College is loads of work, but still really fun :)!
Anyway, to make up for it: an extra-long, extra-emotional, extra-fluffy chapter ;).
I wish that I could promise you guys that the next update will be faster, but I can't…
I really appreciate it that so many people are liking what I'm writing!
You guys mean so much to me! :D
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