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AN – Thank you Shadow-wolf78 for your review, as well as Em! I really appreciate it and am glad that you are enjoying it. Hope I continue to surprise you.
So, I had a really crazy week and weekend, I won't bore you guys with the details, but, if this chapter seems a bit rushed, I'm sorry for that. Just been really crazy at home lately. Here is chapter 10.
Enjoy!
It didn't take very long for the Elite Force, along with Mr. Davenport to suit up and head outside the city where the coordinates led them, not with Oliver and Kaz flying and Bree and Skylar using their superspeed, the former bringing Mr. Davenport with her. Douglas wanted to go to, but his older brother refused to let him, reminding him that he was still injured and didn't want to risk him getting even more hurt.
Once they reached the location, the saw the large pipe on the ground outside of an abandoned, industrial looking building. They looked inside the building to see if there were any clues, or anyone in there, just to be safe, but didn't see anything, telling them what they already knew. Rodissius' lair, was in the pipe somewhere.
They walked for over a mile before they found a hole in the floor, where the top of a ladder appeared. After they all climbed down, they found themselves in a normal sized hallway that was completely empty. As they walked down the hallway, they came across no doors or windows, only twists and turns.
"Anything?" Mr. Davenport asked as Skylar looked around another corner and down the hallway.
"Nope, still empty." The alien informed the inventor as she walked around the corner, the rest of the group following at her heels.
"Good." Mr. Davenport commented, holding his weapon tightly in his hand.
"Does it bother anyone that we haven't come across anyone yet?" Kaz wondered, beginning to think that this rescue was going too perfectly.
"Don't jinx it Kaz. At least, not until I know my brother is okay." Bree told him as they reached another corner.
"Wait, there's a door ahead." Skylar informed them when she looked around the next corner.
Seeing that it was also empty, she led them straight to the door. When they reached the door, Oliver used his super strength to break the lock, and forced the door upon. Inside, they saw Chase, sitting on the floor, back up against the wall, head on his shoulder as though he had been sleeping. As soon as they opened the door though, he sat up in shock.
"Chase!" Bree yelled, running and falling onto her knees beside him, wrapping her arms around him. Chase quickly returned the hug.
"Bree! Mr. Davenport! You guys found me." Chase said, looking over Bree's shoulder at his friends and father who had come around to kneel down on his other side.
"Did you seriously doubt that we would?" Mr. Davenport wondered.
"I will admit, after the last few days, I was starting to worry a little bit." Chase revealed as he stood up with Bree holding his arm to help.
"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Bree quickly asked, looking over her brother's figure for any sign of injury.
"Nothing serious. A few bruises, and some burns, but I'm okay." Chase assured them. Bree and Mr. Davenport both looked him over. There was a cut on his forehead and upper lip, bruises on his face, and burns on his wrists and arms, but they all appeared to be superficial, luckily.
"Well, we'll get you checked out as soon as we get you home." Mr. Davenport told him.
"Did you actually finish making a serum to help Rodissius get his powers back?" Oliver questioned, not really wanting to go against Rodissius and all of his kids, especially if he got his powers back.
"Don't worry Oliver, I got it covered." Chase assured him.
"Oh, do you Chase?" Everyone turned around to see Roman standing in the doorway watching them, "Cause it doesn't look like it from where I'm standing."
As he came into the room, Riker, and eight others that no one recognized came into the room. All were boys and they were in their teens like Roman and Riker. Kaz, Oliver, Skylar, and Bree all got ready to attack the teenagers, who they assumed were the rest of Rodissius' children, but Roman and Riker turned into their well known storm cloud and hit them all hard enough to shove them to the floor.
"Ow." Mr. Davenport muttered as he tried and failed to sit up. Roman and Riker then turned back into their human forms when they saw the Elite Force on the ground. Roman smirked, and looked over at his younger siblings.
"Get them up. Father's going to want to talk to them."
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One by one, the heroes were all led in a line through the maze hallways by the teenage villains. Soon, they came to stand in front of a door, that Roman opened before he ushered them all in. Inside, the room was darker, and the only thing in the room was a desk and a chair. Sitting in that chair, was none other than Rodissius. When he saw them, he stood up and walked around the desk to stand in front of them. Bree instinctively looked around for an escape, but beside the door behind her, there was only on other, behind Rodissius on the other side of the room. Locating an escape however was useless unless they could all escape the shapeshifters that were holding them prisoner.
"Well well, and here I thought I was going to have to hunt you all down. So nice for you all to come to me instead. Especially you two." Rodissius said with a smile that could only be described as gleeful, directing the look at Kaz and Oliver.
"Hate to break it to you, but you aren't getting away this time, and you are not getting whatever it is you want, from any of us." Kaz replied angrily.
"On the contrary, I already have. Chase here has already finished making a serum to give me my powers back, and once I take it, I will-" Rodissius didn't get a chance to finish his sentence before he suddenly went flying into the wall beside him, and fell to the floor, revealing another figure standing behind him, a figure that looked exactly like Chase, who had his arms out in a way that Bree and Mr. Davenport immediately recognized as him using his molecular kinesis.
"Sorry, but I don't really want to know what you would do." Chase said as sarcastically as possible, looking down at Rodissius before looking over at his Father and team, who were staring at him in confusion. It was then they realized that the back door that only Bree had taken note of, was open. He had come in from there.
"Chase? But," Bree stopped, looking at the Chase that had come from behind Rodissius to the one who was being held by Riker and Roman. The Chase that was being held by Roman and Riker smiled, and suddenly turned into a massive sandstorm, instantly pushing the two shapeshifters away before moving to attack all the other shapeshifters in the room. Once they were all on the ground, the Elite Force, along with Mr. Davenport being the only ones standing, the sandstorm turned into a darker skinned, red headed, teenage girl.
"Told you I could fool them." Reese said to Chase with a slightly smug smile.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Chase muttered as walked towards his family and friends and hugged his sister and father both at once. When he pulled away from them, Mr. Davenport looked over at the girl who previously looked like his son.
"Hi, I'm Reese." The red headed introduced herself, actually holding her hand out to shake Mr. Davenport's, but he made no move to shake her hand.
"So, you're the one who almost killed my brother." Mr. Davenport said. Reese immediately looked guilty and embarrassed.
"Yeah, sorry about that." Reese apologized as she lowered hand.
"Get them kids, get them." Rodissius ordered as he started pushing himself to stand up, the rest of the shapeshifters getting ready to do the same. Chase stepped forward, grabbed something from his coat pocket and threw it on the ground. The was a small crash, like glass breaking, and a greyish purple vapor filled the room.
When the cloud cleared, they saw that all of the shapeshifters had gotten to their fight, including Roman and Riker who immediately grabbed hands, getting in position to turn into a storm, like they normally did, but nothing happened. They just stood there. When they realized that nothing was happening, they looked at each other, and let go of their grip on each other.
"What, what's going on? Why can't we shift?" Riker asked no one in particular, staring at his hands as though he was waiting for them to do something. All of Rodissius' children were doing the same thing. None of them could shift.
"Because I just took away your powers." Chase immediately had everyone's attention when he said that and continued to explain, "Instead of creating a serum to give you your powers back, I created one to take away your children's powers, using the DNA samples from your kids that you gave me. Now, they're just as powerless as you."
Everyone stared at Chase in shock, including his team. When he told them that he had everything covered, they never imagined that this was his plan. His family smiled with pride while his friends smiled with cockiness. The now, former, shapeshifters expressions however ranged from shock, to disbelief, to anger. No one looked more furious than Rodissius, but Chase ignored everyone's expressions except for one red headed shapeshifter who was standing only a few feet away from him. He took a few steps toward Reese, who finally looked up at him.
"I'm sorry Reese, but you were a risk I couldn't take." Chase apologized sincerely. Reese still looked extremely stunned, like she didn't know what to think, but nodded, a somewhat understanding look coming upon her face. At that moment, the door to room burst open and several people that Chase didn't recognize came rushing in, seizing the shapeshifters as they went.
"Who are these guys?" Chase questioned as he turned around to face his team.
"They're from Mighty Max, a super villain prison. They're here to take Rodissius and his evil family into custody so they never hurt anyone again." Mr. Davenport explained, coming over to stand in front of Chase. The bionic teenager nodded, but suddenly appeared to be conflicted, especially when he looked over his shoulder to see two of the men grab Reese's arms.
Chase then felt a hand on his shoulder, a hand he knew to be Bree's because it was too small and light to be either Kaz's, Oliver's, or Mr. Davenport's, and too gentle to be Skylar's. He didn't look at her though. Instead, he watched all thirteen kids being rounded up like criminals. The youngest was a girl, just like Reese said, who was probably only about ten years old. The only thing Chase could think, was that she didn't deserve this. Barely any of these kids deserved to be locked up in a prison for something their Father and older siblings did. As Chase turned his gaze over to Rodissius, he saw that the villain was already glaring at him.
"Traitor!" The villain shouted as he ripped his arm away from one of the guards and grabbed the gun-like weapon that was still attached to his bet, the one that Chase had forgotten about and everyone else didn't notice, and held it up, pointing it not at the bionic, but at his own daughter.
"Reese! Look out!" Chase yelled as he broke into a run. Reese barely had time to look up at see her Father aim his weapon right at her before Chase collided into her, the blast hitting Chase in his shoulder as they both fell to the ground.
"Chase!" Bree yelled as she rushed to her brother's side, Mr. Davenport following right behind her. Skylar was about to blast Rodissius, but found that the guards had already taken the weapon from the villain and were in the process of restraining him. Seeing that, she, along with Kaz and Oliver, turned their attention to Chase.
"Is he okay?" Kaz asked, him, Oliver, and Skylar all coming over to see for themselves if Chase was alright.
"I think so. The shot just hit his shoulder, but I need to get him to the lab." Mr. Davenport said after checking his son's pulse and looking at the teenager's injured shoulder.
"I'll superspeed you guys." Bree told him, wanting to help her brother in any way she could.
"Great. The rest of you, help the officers get these guys back to Mighty Max." The three superheroes nodded and watched as Mr. Davenport lifted Chase into his arms, and Bree supersped them away.
AN – So, I was unsure if Mighty Max had guards and am assuming they did. If they didn't, I'm sorry to get that detail wrong, but since Mighty Max was rebuilt in this story and had security upgrades, the guards are then a part of that. Sorry if this bugs anyone, but it's the way I've always visualized this scene and story. Three more chapters left.