AN: Recently I found out that someone on this site FanFiction copied a chapter from my first Lab Rats story. The episode was Drone Alone. It was like this person copy and pasted and the read it over and added or edited it. But you can tell it's the same. So to everyone who is reading this Author's Note: IT'S NOT COOL TO COPY OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK! ESPECIALLY IF THOSE PEOPLE WORKED INCREDIBLY HARD AND IT TOOK SO MUCH TIME TYPING IT. IT'S EXTREMELY RUDE AND IF YOU HAVE TO COPY IT THEN I DON'T CONSIDER YOU TO BE A GOOD WRITER! Whew! Now that that is out of my system...onto the chapter.
So this is how my Friday night started off.
I went over to the Davenport's house because Bree wanted to have a sleepover but then Mr. Davenport had them go on a mission and I was left with Leo down in the lab. I watched from a small computer screen while Adam, Bree and Chase kicked the mission's butt. By the time they came home and the doors to the lab slid open, they looked extremely tired. Davenport smiled and clapped as all three of them groaned.
"Another successful mission. Sure you guys blew a lot of stuff up but, hey, that's the city's problem now." Davenport chuckled.
Chase sat down in one of Davenport's roller chairs and I wrapped my arms around his neck from behind and kissed his cheek "Glad you're okay," I whispered and Chase smiled.
"Ugh," Bree groaned ruining our little moment "I can't wait to just stand up and go to sleep."
"Well you guys get your rest. My big NASA presentation is this week and we still need to complete training on my gravity compulsion belt."
"I don't know what that is," Leo said "but it sounds like it does a lot more than hold up my pants."
"This is a huge contract. If NASA buys this, astronauts will be able to space walk anywhere in the galaxy. They'll probably name a moon after me or planet! Things are gonna land on me!" Davenport laughed "I'll see you guys bright and early in the morning."
"Wait, tomorrow?" Leo asked "No no, that's not going to work. I planned an awesome cyber pong tournament. I made nicknames and everything. I'm King Pong."
King Pong? Really? That's not even a worthy name. Not to mention overly used in regular ping pong tournaments. What? My dad and I used to play together before he became a workaholic. Don't judge me!
"And tomorrow's the Teen Thoynce marathon on TV," Bree said (AN: Did I type that right? Had a hard time understanding.) "And I didn't think it was possible but I actually found a group of people who's lives are more pathetic than mine."
"Yeah and I was gonna have a spa day," Adam said "According to one of Bree's girly magazine's, I have cankles."
"And I was gonna get a head start on my homework." Chase said. Really? Homework? God I'm in love with an overachiever. Everyone in the room gave him the 'WTF?' look and he backtracked "I mean play sports and talk to girls."
"What girls?" I asked and Chase looked up at me with innocent eyes.
"When I mean girls, I mean a girl, and when I mean a girl I mean my beautiful girlfriend." Chase said nervously "I love you."
"Nice save,"
"Alright look. None of that is happening. This stuff is important."
"What makes your stuff more important than ours?" Bree asked.
"Uh cause my stuff can make a billion dollars," Davenport shot back "Yeah, so, when your the boss, you can make the rules but until then," Davenport said as he started walking backwards towards the lab doors "I am the kind of Davenportia and you will all do my bidding! Hahaha," The doors ended up shutting on him while he was still standing there laughing like an idiot "Oh, ow!"
When he was gone, Chase wrapped one arm around my waist and I looked up at him. I see what he's doing; trying to suck up to me for his recent comment earlier. Not gonna happen my sly yet completely adorable boyfriend, you.
"Man this stinks," Leo said.
Bree groaned "Why do we always have to do what he wants us to do?"
"Weren't you listening? The man is king!"
"Hey," Leo suddenly got an idea "maybe you should do what those hotel workers downtown did. You know, strike."
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad idea? I mean I know Davenport kind of treats them like dirt but I have a feeling Mr. Davenport is just a little too selfish to listen to them.
"Okay," Adam said and out of nowhere punched Chase in the arm.
"Ow! What was that for?" Chase asked and I had to bite down on my lip from smiling.
"Leo said strike," Adam said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Strike?" Bree asked and Adam hit Chase harder in the shoulder this time.
"OW!"
"What's a strike?" Bree asked again and Adam went to hit Chase in the shoulder again.
Chase blocked Adam's fist before he could "Stop it!"
Leo and Bree went back to their conversation as if nothing had ever happened "It's when employees refuse to work until they get better working conditions like more days off. Or in your case: a day off."
"Hey that's a great idea," No it's not "I say we all strike!" Adam, Bree and Leo hit him and I couldn't help but laugh "Oh come on!"
Later, as everyone was getting ready for bed, I went over to Chase before he got into his capsule "Why am I always the one who gets hit?" he asked me.
I kissed his cheek when no one was looking "I don't know," I replied "Maybe you make it easy for them to torment you. Isn't that how sibling rivalries work?"
Chase didn't say anything. All that came from his lips was a sigh and I smiled sadly at him "Get some rest. I'll see you in the morning." I told him before kissing his lips and then as he got in, I shut his capsule door behind him.
The next morning I appeared at the Davenport residents around nine in the morning. Chase gave me a key to their house last month incase I wanted to come by but no one was there to open the door. I was greeted by Bree and Adam hugging me and Leo saying hello before I felt Chase press his lips to mine.
Leo groaned "I think I'm gonna barf up my breakfast."
"I can't wait till you get a girlfriend Leo," Chase said "then you'll know how it feels."
Adam and Bree laughed "Leo having a girlfriend?" Adam scoffed "Like that's gonna happen."
Leo glared at him but Adam just shrugged it off "So what's all this?" I asked as I looked around the room.
Chase lit up "Adam made us signs for our strike," Adam ran over the table "Don't you dare!" Chase yelled as Adam held up his fist in the air. It was soon dropped and he went back to making more posters. I still think this is a really bad idea.
Not too long after, Mr. Davenport came dancing down into the lab and started playing his imaginary flute "Greetings people of Davenportia! It is I, King Donald to train thee!"
Bree gave me a sign "Unfair. On strike. Unfair. On strike,"
"What's all this?" Davenport asked.
Chase approached him with his sign in hand "We are on strike."
"Why would you guys strike? You have the most awesome lives ever. Except maybe for mine."
"Ha. Ha. Ha. We're serious," Bree told him "Adam even made us signs."
Adam got up from his work station covered in markers "I probably should have used a pencil."
"Okay guys, quit being ridiculous," Davenport said.
"There's nothing ridiculous about it," Leo said "They're in strike and I'm their captain."
Davenport looked to me "I'm just here for moral support."
"We're sticking it to the man," Leo continued.
"Yeah!" Adam yelled "I don't know what exactly 'it' is but we're sticking it to ya!" Adam leaned in closer "And it's going to be really hard to get off."
"Leo why are you striking? You don't even have to train." Davenport asked.
"This isn't about training," Leo scoffed at him "it's about unity and equality and getting what we want..ity."
"We're striking for a day off," Chase said "we need downtime just to have fun. As long as it doesn't effect our schoolwork." Adam shoved his elbow at him in response.
"That's right," Leo said "We are united in this cause. We will get what we deserve because superhumans are humans too! Come on guys."
"Superhumans are humans too!" They all chanted as they backed Mr. Davenport out the door and out to the elevator.
"I see," Mr. Davenport said "You guys wanna play hardball-"
"Yes we do!" Adam interrupted him "And after that we're going right back to striking."
I just watched from my spot by the doors. I wasn't getting into this. If anything I'm just gonna stand here and look pretty.
The elevator doors slid closed and Mr. Davenport scowled at them.
So...I thought striking was going to be a bit harder than what I am seeing right now.
Bree is on her tablet watching her Teen Thyonce marathon while eating a bowl of popcorn and Leo and Chase were playing cyberpong. They were currently shouting comeback words as they hit the cyber ping pong. It was actually quite enjoyable to watch.
In the end, Chase won and Leo ended up losing.
"Could you guys please keep it down? Teen Thyonce is on. Jimmy John is about to pop the question at the taco shack. He hid her ring in a churro." Bree said then started squealing.
Just then Adam came in with white gunky stuff all over his face "Who wants burritos!" and then used his super heat vision to heat his burrito up "Fresh out of the eyeball."
"Okay that's kinda gross," I mumbled.
Adam went over to one of the chairs and sat down while turning on the feet soaker "Ah that's the stuff,"
All of a sudden the power shut off "Hey!" All of us exclaimed.
"What gives?" Chase yelled.
"My canckles!"
As if on cue, Mr. Davenport walked into the lab "And darkness falls across the land of Davenportia!" he laughed.
"Turn our stuff back on," Bree said.
"I think you mean turn my stuff back on," Davenport told them "because you can't strike against me without striking against Davenport Industries and that means ya can't uses Davenport Industries equipment. Ha! Boom!" Davenport then pretended to blow off his gun and stick it back in it's holster "So! If you don't mind," Davenport took the cyber paddles away from Chase and Leo "I will take that and that," Davenport then went over to Bree and took away the tablet and the bowl of popcorn "and this and that," hue said holding up the tablet.
"No!" Bree said.
Davenport ignored her and went over to Adam and picked up a tub of something "Hey that's my face cream!"
"Adam this is sour cream," Davenport said and I cringed. Then what was that stuff on his face?
"Yeah and when it's done on my face, I use it on my burrito." Adam then took the burrito and wiped off some of the sour cream off his face.
Davenport took it from him just as Adam was about to take a bite "And that is also mine."
"Hey!"
"Yep, now all you have to do is end the strike and you can have the stuff back," Davenport explained .
"Sounds like a win win," Adam said and turned back to us "I think we should go for it."
"No!" Leo said "What about your day off? Come on guys! Stay defiant! Stand up to the man!" Leo said point to Davenport.
"But the man has my burrito!"
"And the man is having it for lunch," Davenport said taking a huge bite of it. It was gross to watch considering the sour cream was on Adam's face "Now if you don't mind. I'll be up in my well lit mansion playing with all my toys that still work. Hahahaha!"
"Well that went well," I said and everyone turned to me "What? Have you ever heard of sarcasm?"
The next day I came back to find all four of them huddled together in Chase's capsule "Okay what did I miss last night?" I asked trying so hard not to laugh at my friends predicament.
"Davenport turned the air conditioning up in the lab," Bree told me.
"So cold," Adam replied.
"It's freezing down here,"
"I can't feel my toes," Adam shivered.
Chase looked up at him "Because those are mine weirdo."
Davenport came in with a heavy coat on and ran to the control buttons "Guys! NASA called," he rushed.
"They want their nerd back?" Bree asked and then everyone in the capsule started laughing. How was that even funny?
"Look, they moved the gravity belt presentation up to tomorrow so we have to put all this ridiculousness behind us and get back to work. Strike's over."
All four of them got out of the capsule "Oh contrare Big D," Leo said "You obviously don't know how a strike works. It's not over because you say it's over."
"Guys," Davenport tried to tell them "the biggest contract of my life is on the line here."
"Oh," Chase said "we'd love to help you Mr. Davenport but since you didn't care about our needs , why should we care about yours?"
"Uh, because I, and listen closely now, said so!" He yelled.
Ow! I think my ear drum might have burst. I rubbed my ear tenderly and winced. I might not have hearing for the next few days "I'm gonna go get the gravity belt and when I come back: Strike's over."
"Did we win?" Adam asked.
"Great plan Leo. We lost." Bree blamed.
"No that's what he wants you to think but now we have all the leverage."
Chase snapped his fingers "You're right. He can't do the presentation without us."
"Mhm and we can use that to get what you guys want and more." Leo persuaded "Trust me guys. I smell a victory."
"Oh! No those are my feet. I use, uh, rose water in my canckle bath." Adam said.
"You should write a list of demands down and show it to Davenport," I told them "That way some sort of deal can be made."
"How do you know all this?" Leo asked.
"My dad is a lawyer, remember? He uses these kinds of strategies all the time in court." I explained.
And so that's what they did. When I witnessed what they wanted, I had to admit, some of them were pretty out there. They even put down a 401K even though they don't know what it was.
We all sent Leo up to do their bidding and after a while of waiting, they got antsy.
"Leo should have been back by now," Bree paced the floor "His lungs are way too tiny to be talking this long."
"The negotiations must be grueling," Chase said.
"I knew I shouldn't have demanded that bucket of sour cream!' Adam said and I just rolled my eyes. With how many times I've hung around him, I've grown accustom to Adam's randomness.
"Yes," Chase patronized "I'm sure that's the sticking point."
The elevator doors slid open and Mr. Davenport came through "Oh finally," said Bree "Is the man with the fancy belt ready to buckle?"
"Nope, actually, I'm ready to begin training for the big presentation." Davenport said.
"You can't do that without one of us," Chase told him and Bree and Adam nodded their heads.
"Actually I can," What is he talking about? "Because you have been replaced."
Again the doors slid open to reveal Leo in a silver Davenport Industries suit along with the same color helmet "Boom!"
"Boom."
"Wait," Bree said almost fuming "You're replacing us? You were suppose to negotiate for us."
"To be fair you demands," Leo gave a little chuckled and at that moment I wanted to punch him "were ridiculous."
Bree took in a deep breath "They were your demands. When did they become ridiculous?"
"When I got what I wanted. Boom!" Leo then started dancing over to the lab with Mr. Davenport.
"Huh," I said to know one in particular "When did Leo become a little snake?"
"He's not a snake Katie. He's human." Adam turned his head to Chase "And here I thought your girlfriend was smart."
"Adam," I warned giving him my best glare "Watch it."
"Yes ma'am," he coward behind Bree and I smiled at how intimidating I could be.
Back up in the Davenport's living room, Bree and Chase were pacing while Adam and I were seated on the couch "This is unbelievable!" Bree said "We had Davenport right where we wanted him and Leo just handed him all the power."
"I know," Adam said "What was he thinking? Now we're never gonna get matching hats."
"If Leo succeeds as a test pilot, Davenport gets what he wants and we lose. I need my T.V. I am a highly irrational teenage girl and it is the only thing keeping me from unleashing all of this," Bree said motioning to herself "on you."
"Guys," Chase said smirking. Oh how I loved that smirk. What am I thinking? Now is not the time for me to go mushy about my boyfriend "I think I've figured out Mr. Davenport's game. He can't use Leo to present the gravity belt. He's bluffing!"
"You're rightm" Bree smiled "Davenport needs up because we're trained, fit and conditioned to wear it and Leo's...Leo."
"Mr. Davenport knew Leo was our leader. He thought if he cut off the head of the beast, the beast would die."
"Wait there's a beast and we're gonna die? I did not train for that."
"I say we call Davenport's bluff and at the same time get revenge on Leo. We kill two birds with one stone!"
"Wait, are we killing birds or beasts? I am so confused." Adam asked and I but my lips from laughing.
"Can I help get revenge on Leo? What he did was so not cool."
Chase smiled "The more the merrier."
So we put our little plan into action.
As we came through the lab doors Mr. Davenport greeted them "Oh hey guys. Did you come here to grovel? Proceed."
"Uh, no, actually, we came to check on your new test pilot."
Leo was lifting a small weight like it was at least fifty pounds "If you really want to replace us with Leo we should really make sure he's up to it." Bree said.
"Oh he's up to it," Davenport slowly said. We all looked to Leo who dropped the small weight in pain.
"Hand cramp."
"Look, if you're replacing us with Leo shouldn't he be doing the same training that we did?" Adam asked and I smirked as I leaned my head on Chase shoulder. It was the only thing I could do to prevent me from laughing out loud.
"Oh, no, I mean, I don't think that's necessary." Davenport stumbled over his words
"Oh! But we do," Chase smirked "Ha, I mean, unless, of course you've been bluffing this entire time and you really have no intention of letting Leo test the gravity belt."
"Okay," Davenport nodded "Fine. Why don't we start with some push ups," We all looked at Leo's scrawny little body "or a push up."
"No," Chase said "Leo has to train exactly as we did." Okay so even I knew that Leo was going to die after this just from the tone of Chase's voice. Plus, have you seen the way Mr. Davenport has them train? It's like they're entering the Marine Corps "Throw him in the deep end."
"Yeah Big D! Throw me in the deep end!" Leo told him "Just give me a second to get my floaties,"
A little while later Leo was starting up his training. Davenport started off my throw, gently might I add, a medicine ball at him. Leo caught it and Davenport clapped "Good work," he said "that was heavy."
I sat next to Chase who was holding my hand and smirking "That's not heavy." Adam said and lifted up a Davenport Industries yellow barrel over his head and Leo dropped the medicine ball in shock. Adam threw the barrel and Leo ended up getting squashed "That's heavy."
"I'm okay!" Leo shouted from underneath the barrel.
The next thing Mr. Davenport had Leo do was concentrate under pressure by building up blocks into a tower while being timed. He was almost there "Okay Leo, ten more seconds. Way to focus under pressure." Davenport encouraged.
"That is not pressure," Chase interupted and started up the tennis ball machine. Tennis balls shot out of it and ended up knocking down his tower. All of us laughed at Leo and Davenport. Kind of serves them right "That's pressure."
Davenport's head popped up from behind the counter and we heard Leo panting "I'm okay!"
The next thing Leo's training required was blocking shots from this floating sphere that shot lasers. Leo was dodging them quite well. I stood behind Chase's chair and put my hands on his shoulders watching the scene unfold "This is awesome!"
"That's because you're in beginner mode," Bree replied cockily "Why don't we test your reaction time in, uh, combat mode." Bree pressed a button and Leo looked confused. The lasers shot out even faster as Leo tried his best to dodge them all.
Leo was actually blocking them all "Yes! Wasting my life playing video games finally paid off."
The sphere shot him in the chest "Here we go," and Leo fell to the ground.
Okay so now I am going to say it: Poor Leo.
"I'm okay!"
Finally his tests were done and we all went back up stairs to the living room. Adam, Bree, Chase and I were talking quietly when Leo and Mr. Davenport came in with the gravity belt in his hands "Congratulations Leo. You have completed every training test necessary for the gravity belt presentaion."
"How many did he pass?" Chase asked.
"He completed them!" Davenport shot back.
All four us jumped up from our seat and I watched as Bree started talking "Just give it up! We all know you're not letting Leo go up in that thing."
"Oh yes I will Missie. The NASA rep will be here any second now and Leo is good to go." Davenport turned back to Adam, Bree and Chase "Unless you want to end this now and help me with the presentation?"
"Not unless you're ready to give us more time off."
"Not a chance," Davenport shot back.
"Alright fine," Chase said "then let's belt you up Leo."
Am I the only person in this room who thinks this is a totally bad idea? Nope? Just me? Alrighty then.
All three of them basically attacked Leo "Don't mind if I do."
Mr. Davenport kept studdering over his words "Yup, hey, that's fine. You know, I am a hundred percent comfortable with this."
The doorbell rang and Davenport shrieked "NASA rep! Okay! Take it off! Take it off! Take it off! Help me with the presentation and I will give you anything you want!"
"I want a purple pony named Blue!" Adam burst out and Davenport looked at him in confusion "What you said anything."
"We want you to be fair," Bree said "we work hard and deserve time off. Just think about that the next time you automatically say no."
"Yeah," Chase said "You have to know when to be our boss and when to be our dad. And our dad would know when we need a day off."
"Mhm," Adam agreed.
Davenport looked back at the door where the NASA rep was waiting for him "The dad card; well played." The doorbell rang again "Oh come on! Guys please?"
"Do we have a day off every week to do whatever we want?"
Adam walked over to Mr. Davenport and put a hand on his shoulder "I'll let you ride Blue."
"Fine!" Davenport caved in "Whatever you guys want, uh I hear you, more dad less boss, listening, yada yada yada! We good!"
"Deal," Chase.
"Done," Bree.
"Yes," Adam "Wait what just happened?"
"Leo give the belt to Adam," Davenport rushed.
Tasha walked over "Isn't anybody gonna get the door?" She said.
Davenport squealed again "No!" and rushed over to the door.
The NASA rep was this old bald man. He definitely fit the description for a NASA nerd.
"Hey Jerry, good to see you." Davenport shook hands with him and then turned to Leo "Leo give the belt to Adam."
Leo tried to get it off but instead I think he activated the belt "What was that?" Leo asked and everyone looked at each other in alarm.
"The on switch," Adam replied calmly.
Davenport heard and his head snapped back "What?"
Leo was pulled into the air as Bree called up to him "Leo hold into something!"
Leo yelled as he took a hold of the chair but was sent back into the air. He bobbed up and down towards the ceiling and the floor "No! No! Stop it!" He yelled and was then suspended over the glass table. It shattered when Leo accidentally dropped it.
"Why do we keep getting glass dining tables?" Leo shouted from the air.
"As you can see it works pretty well," Davenport said to the rep "Comes in black, gray, green..." He kept naming off colors while Leo kept floating in the air.
I watched as Leo was lifted into the air. I thought he was going to hit his head on the cieling quite a few times. The rep looked frightened and Chase looked at him "It works well on a normal sized person."
"Leo!" Tasha yelled and belt started beeping.
"Here we go," Leo said before he was lifted up into the air and went through the cieling.
Debris fell "He went through the roof!"
"Hey!" Adam yelled "See if my football is up there!"
"Here he comes!" Bree and I yelled as we watched Leo flying out of the window.
"How did I get outside?"
He kept floating until we heard "There's the off switch." and then we watched Leo crash to the floor.
That had got to hurt.
Leo shot up "I'm okay!" We all ran to hug our small little friend. Adam was near tears.
"Where's my football?"
"And that concludes our presentation." Davenport said.
The rep patted him on the shoulder and headed for the door. I kinda felt bad for the guy having to witness this insanity.
"Wait! Wouldn't you want to be able to do that on another planet?" Davenport shouted after him "Oh come on! You buy all kinds of junk that doesn't work!"
After that whole fiasco, we all went down to the lab to chill. We were laughing at something Bree had told us when Leo came down "Hey guys," we instantly stopped laughing when we saw him "I'm really sorry. I just, I wanted to be like you guys so much that I lost track of what was more important; our friendship."
"Aw," Bree said "That's so sweet it makes you wanna, blah!" she pretended to throw up on him and Leo shrunk back from her "Yeah, I guess I can forgive you."
"Yeah me too," Adam said.
"It's all good," Chase said.
Aww! They're hugging!
"So are you ever planning on taking that outfit off?" Chase asked.
"Well no," Leo said "It's the closest I'm ever gonna get to a mission suit."
"Ya can't get it off can ya?"
"It's adhered to me in a way I am no longer comfortable with," Leo shivered and walked away.
"So what are you guys gonna do now that you have a day off every week?" I asked.
Bree smiled "Girl stuff with my bestie,"
Chase scoffed "No, Katie and I are going on a study date." I looked at him and raised my eyebrow "You know since I kinda changed our last one."
"Well while you two do lame stuff I am going to ride Blue through the house." Adam replied.
"Good luck with that Adam," I said.