What was strange about McMaster High, they had an entire football stadium, but their football team was never very good. Adam, Chase, and Gabby walked into the stadium looking around.
"The Eagles pre-game party," Chase said. "I guess it's as good a place as any to start the robot apocalypse."
Gabby scowled at him, "No, it's not."
"Bree is Albert's mission commander, she can shut him down. When I tell her that, I'm sure she'll listen," Gabby said reassuring herself.
They all began looking around to find Bree. Adam turned around and saw her walking with Albert, holding his arm, being greeted by everyone, as if they were royalty.
"Yeah, I'm not sure you're Bree's mission commander anymore," Adam commented. Chase and Gabby turned around and looked in shock at Bree. They quickly ran over to see Bree.
"Look who's here," Albert said smiling at them. "It ain't a party 'til Gabby shows up."
Gabby ignored him. "Wow, Bree. New dress?"
"Oh, Albert took me shopping on the way here," She said smiling at her boyfriend.
Just then, Marnie spoke up. "So, Gabby, we heard you found Bree this perfect boy. Could you work your magic for me and Ella?"
"I think I've done enough," she said although she knew the girls had no idea what she meant.
"I'd like a guy who's five-nine-ish, scruffy but not smelly," Marnie said ignoring Gabby's comment. Then she added, "And vegan. But not like, snobby vegan."
"Yeah," Bree agreed. Just as Gabby was about to talk to Bree, she was interrupted again, this time by Ella.
"Oh, and I'd like a guy who's bbbbbbllllrrrbbbb! You know?" Gabby would never stop thinking Ella was weird with words.
Finally, fed up with all these interruptions, she ran to Bree and said, "Bree, I need to talk to you. Alone."
Gabby dragged her away from the crowd, leaving Adam and Chase alone with Albert.
"So," he said putting his arms around them and gripping their shoulders. "You're Bree's brothers."
Chase looked tense, "I mean you no harm," He said. "Please, don't hurt me."
Then, Albert looked away for a moment. "Excuse me for a second." Then he walked away from the Davenport brothers.
"It was a good talk!" Chase called after him, pretending to be a little stronger than he came across. Adam gave his younger brother a look. "What?"
Adam just shook his head and began walking towards the field.
Over by the concession stands, Gabby tried explaining the situation to Bree. "Bree, listen."
"Look, I know what you're going to say! I know you're upset, you feel like Albert's come between us and you don't want things to change." Bree said, before Gabby could go on.
Actually, that was exactly was Gabby was thinking, right before she found out Albert was a robot. She shook her head,
"Look, Albert is not a normal boy!"
Bree laughed and nodded, "I agree."
"No!" Gabby said in frustration. "I need to tell you what's really going on! Albert is a robot!"
"I know, he can be a little bit formal," Bree said. "But I think that's cute! And you don't even understand boys, you think they're a distraction!" she sighed. "And that's fine, but I, love, Albert. And I know he feels the same way about me."
Gabby looked at her in surprise. It was true, Gabby always thought of boys as a distraction. But, at the moment, she felt herself getting a little distracted. She had no idea what was happening, and she didn't know why, but after all this craziness going on, Gabby was spending a lot of time with Chase. It kind of scared her how she was feeling. In some deep part of her mind, she knew she was falling for Chase Davenport. She just didn't want to admit it.
But the thing that surprised Gabby the most was when Bree used the word 'love'. She hadn't realized her friend cared so much about this boy. It made her wonder what other things about Bree she didn't know. Gabby always though Bree felt the same way as her, boys were distractions. Up until Jaden, she knew of no boys Bree liked. All of this was confusing her too much.
"Albert can't feel anything for you! It's impossible!" Gabby practically shouted at Bree.
Something inside Bree broke. Gabby's comment hit her like a freight train and it hurt, a lot. "You know, I should probably go. Albert's looking for me."
Gabby caught her arm and said, "Bree, just trust me. You have to end things with Albert, and it's really simple. All you have to do is, take him by the hand, look him in right in his eyes, and say 'initiate self-destruct."
"Okay, that is ridiculous and I'm not gonna do that," Bree said wanting to walk away from Gabby immediately.
"You have to!"
"I need a best friend, not a boss!" Bree looked really hurt. She was tired of Gabby doing this all the time.
"Well, you know what? Right now, neither one is a very fun job," Gabby told her.
Bree felt tears welling up in her eyes, but she tried to not show it. "Well, then maybe you should quit." With that, she walked away.
Gabby stood watching her walk away, and felt her heart break. She just lost her best friend… her only friend, and she knew she might never get her back.
It was the end of the third quarter of the football game and McMaster High was losing by 25 points. Bree stood with Albert watching the game, while Gabby stayed with Chase and Adam.
Gabby watched Bree, sadly as she and Albert cheered on the team.
"Did you tell Bree about Albert?" Chase asked Gabby.
"No," she said, avoiding eye-contact with him. "We didn't get around to it."
"My sister is dating a lethal robotic soldier, and you didn't get around to it?" Chase asked, not believing Gabby didn't tell her. "It just didn't come up?"
Gabby rolled her eyes at him, now was not the time he should be pestering her with questions.
One of McMaster's running back's ankles was injured and they needed a backup.
"Where's my second-string running back?" The coach asked through his headset.
A scrawny kid sitting on the bench raised his hand.
"You've got to be kidding me," the coach said. Then his eyes drifted towards the stands and he saw Albert. A crazy idea came to him.
"Alaska!" he called. Albert looked around, and then realized he was talking to him. "Suit up!"
Doing as the coach said, Albert removed his shirt and many of the girls around him squealed or drooled. Marnie actually fainted after seeing his bare chest.
"What? No, we can't use him," Jaden said from down on the field. Ever since he found out Albert was dating Bree, he disliked him.
"Oh yeah?" The coach asked. "Tell that to the score board, kid."
Gabby watched in horror as Albert ran down the stands and onto the field, grabbing a jersey and helmet. "Oh, no. This cannot be happening."
"I'm sure it'll be fine," Adam said, eating a hotdog. "As long as no one tries to tackle him.
"Where did you get that?" Chase wondered aloud.
Adam just shrugged.
When Chase looked to Gabby again, she was gone. He saw her running after Albert and on to the field. She shoved her way into the huddle where Albert was talking to the team.
"Alright guys, battle time! Download me an action plan," he said confidently.
"Stay out of the way," Jaden told him. "Last strike, twenty-one 'c' on two."
"Albert!" Gabby shouted as she entered the huddle.
"Hello, Gabby," he replied.
"You cannot go into this game," Gabby told him.
"Yeah, she's right. You haven't even been to the practices, you don't know the plays," Jaden said agreeing with Gabby.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Bree breaks into the huddle as well. "Gabby, what are you doing?"
"Hello, Bree," Albert said.
One player laughed, "Bestie vs. Boyfriend! Grab your popcorn, dudes!"
Gabby ignored him. "Albert should not be playing football, he could think someone's the enemy and take them out."
"It's all in good fun," Albert said simply.
Then Nevaeh roughly barges into the huddle, too, wearing her cheerleading uniform. "Hey!" she called to Bree, "Get your boyfriend out of my homecoming game!"
"Hello Nevaeh," Albert said. "That's heaven spelled backwards, guys."
Just then, the ref blew his whistle and called, "Penalty, delayed game!"
The crowd 'boo'ed and the three girls stomped off the field. Nevaeh went one way, but not before scowling at the girls and glaring. As she left, Gabby tried to talk to Bree.
"Bree-,"
"Don't even talk to me," then she ran off the field to stand with Marnie and Ella.
As Gabby approached the stands, people began throwing their trash at her. "Hey! I am just trying to help you guys out! You don't even know!" but they just kept on throwing stuff.
Back in the huddle, Albert said, "Alright guys, we're gonna win this game!"
"Break!"
As soon as they put Albert in the game, the team ultimately got better. He moved like a speeding bullet. Jaden ducked a player that was trying to sack him, and then turned to throw to Albert, but Albert kept moving. Angling himself a few times, Jaden managed to pass the football to Albert who caught it in the end zone, scoring the Eagles a touchdown. Everyone cheered, except for Gabby and Chase. Adam wouldn't have cheered if he actually understood what was going on.
Play after play, Albert scored touchdown after touchdown. At one point, Albert literally flipped over the line of defense and into the end zone with the football, scoring a touchdown and tying up the scores. He ran over to Bree and put his arm around her, waving to the crowd.
Back at the Davenport household, General McFee and his agents were still trying to track down the X-17.
"Jenks! Get in the game," McFee called the sergeant over to give the Sheriff the folders full of information about Black Sigma.
"These are the men we believe broke into the residence," she said handing him the folder.
"It's imperative that we find them," the general said to the Sheriff.
"Awful lot of fuss for a burglary," the officer commented. "What's this about, general?"
"That's classified."
Davenport was running down the hall trying to keep anyone from finding the Lab. He never planned on bringing anyone from the government to his home, but there he was anyway. One wrong move and he could put all of his kids in danger.
"Whoo!" A police officer near him shouted, causing him to jump a little.
Everyone turned their attention to him, "Oh, sorry Sheriff, but the Eagles just scored another touchdown!" He said pointing at his phone excitedly.
"What?" the Sheriff said grinning from ear to ear. "But they never beat Unity High!"
"Look, I have a video," the officer said as the Sheriff came over to watch the video on his phone. "They've got this new kid. He's a modified beast! Look, what'd I tell you? This kid can do some serious damage." He said pointing to the video.
Davenport stared at the phone in shock, over the police officer's shoulder. He snatched the phone away from him to get a better look at it. "It's the X-17's empowered assault mode!"
He brought the phone to the general so he could see. "We found the prototype," McFee said to Sergeant Jenks.
Then Davenport saw the X-17 run over to Bree and wrap his arm around her shoulders. Suddenly what Adam said about her being with a boy made sense.
"And he's dating my daughter!" Davenport said in shock.
Sorry I haven't updated in a couple days, I was working on another story. Don't worry, I'm still working on this one. So, if any of you like Girl Meets World you should check out my other story called Girl Meets the Language of Flowers. Please review, follow and favorite. I'll probably have chapter 11 up in the next couple of days.
-Peyton