Kihonne: Hey everyone. I'm kind of surprised how well most of you took the ending of my last chapter. My two best friends, Jessica and Faith, read it and they didn't react so well. Jessica even called me 'the evil witch of the west'. But then again, neither one of them are really SANE, so I guess it's to be expected. But I know that some of you must be wondering why I would do something like that, and I've got two reasons. A, every relationship will have problems at some point. It's never perfect. Calla and Chase were going to have a falling out at one point. B, I needed there to be tension between the two for this chapter. So anyway, this is Bionic Showdown. I really think you guys are going to like this chapter. It's actually a special chapter for me, mainly because I came up with this Fanfiction while watching the episode. So I want you all to know that I put a LOT of hard work into it, just for you guys.
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Kihonne: Anyway, disclaimer. Apparently, I'm running out of people to do the disclaimer. So Calla, you're up again.
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Chase's POV
"Whoo-hoo!" Adam and Bree cheered as we ran into the lab after our latest mission. It had gone pretty well, and we got it done relatively easy, but I still wasn't in the best of moods. Calla and I had gotten in an argument last night, and I was refusing to speak to her. It was her fault. She was the one that said that she didn't want to be my friend.
Anyway, I think Calla was avoiding me as well. She had told Mr. Davenport that she had packing left to do before her weekend trip to her Aunt's, but she really didn't need to take today and tomorrow off work for packing. I guess she was too proud to apologize or something. Anyway, back to reality…
"Guys! That was awesome!" Leo congratulated as we entered the lab. "You just prevented the biggest oil spill in history."
"Pretty slick, huh?" I joked. They all groaned.
"If only we could have prevented that disaster of a pun." Leo replied. Mr. Davenport walked over to us, a furious look on his face. My siblings didn't seem to notice it.
"Hey Mr. Davenport, anything you'd like to say to us?" Bree asked, smiling. "Rhymes with good job?"
"The answer's in the clue." Adam hinted, grinning. Mr. Davenport glared at us.
"What were you guys thinking?" he demanded. Adam shook his head.
"Nope, not even close. Two more guesses." Adam really wanted to play the guessing game. Mr. Davenport ignored him.
"You completely ignored my mission plan, improvised everything and jeopardized the entire mission!" he yelled.
"Mr. Davenport! We bust our buts all the time!" I objected. "And all you ever do is sit around the lab and make lists of what we do wrong."
"I do not just sit around making lists…of what you do wrong." he trailed off, looking at his IPad. Leo nodded, sitting down at his desk.
"It's true. He also practices taekwondo in his tidy-whites." Leo commented, making a disgusted face. Davenport glared at him.
"They're not tidy-whites!" he snapped. "They're breathable exercise briefs!"
"What ever they are, keep your sweeping high kicks away screen!" Eddie yelled, appearing on the monitor near our capsules. Mr. Davenport gave him a look, then turned back to us.
"Look, you guys got lucky this time, but without my precise planning you're opening yourselves up for disaster. So just follow my orders." I clenched my fists. Couldn't he just give us a damn break? Davenport started to walk away, wanting to have the last word.
"Well maybe your orders aren't always right." I called. I was never this rude to anyone, least of all Davenport, but I was in that bad a mood. Davenport and Leo both froze and turned to face me. Leo was giving me this horrified 'I-can't-believe-you-said-that' look, while Davenport was glaring at me.
"Excuse me?" he demanded. I refused to back down under his batman-like stare.
"He said 'Well maybe you orders aren't-'" Mr. Davenport cut Adam off.
"I KNOW WHAT HE SAID!" He screamed angrily. I rolled my eyes and pushed past him, stalking upstairs. It was unusually quiet on the main floor. Tasha was still gone for the reporter conference in Chicago, and she wasn't due back until Monday. Adam, Bree, Leo and Davenport were all still downstairs and hopefully wouldn't come up for a while.
I pulled out my phone to give myself something to do and found a message from Calla.
From: Calla
Chase, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. Can we please just talk? Please?
"Delete." I muttered under my breath as I got rid of the message. It was her own fault and honestly, if she didn't want to be friends anymore, why should I care? Maybe I liked her and maybe I missed her, but it was her fault.
The next morning
"Morning." I said to Leo as we headed into the kitchen. He greeted us, then went back to searching the fridge for something to eat.
"Hey guys, training after school. Four o'clock sharp." Davenport told us. I rolled my eyes.
"Oh, okay Mr. Davenport. We wouldn't want to miss another chance for you to tell us everything we are doing wrong." I said.
"Oh, and while we're on the subject, do we need a detailed plan on how to get home?" Bree picked up on my teasing. "And what are these things we're holding with words in them?"
"Oh, so is this how it's going to be from now on? You guys mocking everything I say?"
"I don't know, ARE WE?" Adam mocked. He turned to us. "Seriously, are we? I missed that part of the plan."
I rolled my eyes. "Come on guys, we'd better get going. We don't want to be late for school."
"Oh, are we going to school now?" Adam started to mock me. I glared at him.
"Don't mock us, mock him!" I told my idiot of a brother.
"Oh, am I mocking you?" I grabbed him by the sleeve and pulled him and Bree out the door. Adam continued mocking us until we reached the bus stop where Calla usually met us.
"Hey guys." Calla greeted us. I ignored her, but Adam, Bree, and Leo started talking to her as we walked to school. Calla kept trying to drag me into the conversation, but I gave up after the third try.
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"Hey, Bree." I elbowed my sister, getting her attention. It was after school and we were waiting around for Mr. Davenport to get back for training. I nodded to Adam, who was playing a game about cookies on the computer. Then I used my telekinesis to levitate his bowl of popcorn above his head. He groaned in annoyance.
"Stop it Chase!" he told me. Bree smirked.
"Stop it Chase." She mocked in Adam's voice. Adam got up and glared at us.
"Quit it Bree." He growled.
"Quit it Bree." She continued. Adam crossed his arms.
"I HATE it when you use that weird vocal manipulation!" Adam complained. He looked up at the popcorn bowl floating above his head "Give me back my popcorn!"
"All you had to do was ask." I replied as I turned the bowl upside down, dumping all the popcorn on Adam's head. He glared at me.
"You two and your new abilities…How come I haven't unlocked one yet?" he asked, frustrated.
"Adam, why don't we talk about a new ability once you've mastered keeping all the saliva in your mouth?" I suggested. He ignored me.
"You know what I want?" he asked. "The ability to talk to raccoons. There's something going on there that we don't know about."
I rolled my eyes and checked my watch. It was already four-thirty. "Hey, where's Mr. Davenport?" I asked Bree. "We were supposed to start training half an hour ago."
Bree frowned. "Yeah. He's never late for training. I'm going to go check around the house."
She sped off jut as the elevator doors opened. Leo stepped out. "Hey guys." He said before Bree sped right by him, making him spin and almost lose his balance. "Would it kill you to keep it on the fifty-five?" he demanded, glaring on a fifty-five?"
"I couldn't find Mr. Davenport anywhere." Bree told me. Leo frowned.
"Well have you looked closely?" he asked. "He is a small man. He may be obscured by a houseplant or perhaps a family sized can of tomatoes."
I smirked. "Let's ask Eddy." I suggested, walking towards the screen. It flickered on, but instead of Eddy's face staring at us, it was Marcus.
"Don't bother. I deactivated him hours ago." Marcus told us. I looked at my siblings in confusion.
"Marcus!" Leo exclaimed. Adam looked at Leo.
"Wait, he has his own TV show? What channel is this?" he asked.
"How did he…" Bree seemed as shocked as I was.
"What do you want, Marcus?" Leo demanded, giving him the usual death glare. Marcus smirked.
"I'm just checking up on my favourite bionic friends." He replied. I looked at my siblings.
"He knows we're bionic?" I said. They looked surprised as well, so I knew that they didn't tell him.
"I don't-I mean-that is-wow…" Leo stuttered. I looked back at Marcus.
"I heard you were looking for your daddy." He continued. "He's right here."
Marcus turned and I gasped. Mr. Davenport was standing in a cage, surrounded by bright blue laser bars. Marcus kidnapped him, but how could he? He was our friend…or so we thought. "And if you ever want to see him again," Marcus smirked cruelly "I suggest you come get him."
"Guys, don't fall for it! It's a-" Mr. Davenport was cut off as Marcus cut the connection. We all exchanged shocked looks.
"Whoa." I said.
"I know." Adam replied.
"I can't believe this." Bree breathed.
"I know." Adam said again, getting a little more obnoxious.
"Adam, that is so annoying." I told him.
"I KNOW!" He exclaimed. I sent him a glare.
"We told you Marcus was evil! 'Leo, he's a nice guy.' 'Calla, give the guy a break.'" He mocked us. "Wool, eyes, pulled over!"
I sighed. "Look, Leo, we're sorry we didn't believe you." I apologized. God, if Calla was here, she probably would have demanded that we all get on our knees and grovel for her forgiveness.
"I don't get it." Bree said, still confused. "What would Marcus possibly want with Mr. Davenport?"
"I know. It doesn't make sense." Adam agreed. "Why would someone hold an incredibly wealthy man against his will?"
I didn't stop to check if he was being sarcastic or not. "It doesn't matter." I snapped. "We have to go rescue him."
"Hey, no worries. It'll be easy." Adam assured me. "Marcus is just a scrawny little twerp. Even you can take him…actually, on second thought, we all should go." I ignored his comment and we started to walk to our capsules to get our mission suits.
"Guys!" Leo called us back. "Um, before you go, there might be one teensy-tiny thing I forgot to mention…Marcus is also bionic."
"What?" we all demanded.
"And he has all your abilities combined." Leo finished guiltily.
"Are you serious?" Bree demanded. Leo nodded.
"He sort of revealed himself to me and Calla a month ago." He admitted, looking down.
"Whoa." I sighed.
"I know." I glared at Adam angrily before turning to Leo. Bree glared daggers at the shorter boy.
"How could you two not tell us that Marcus is bionic?" she demanded, sounding hurt and betrayed. Adam shrugged.
"Well, to be fair, they don't tell anyone we're bionic." Adam reminded her, not upset with Leo in the least. Bree rolled her eyes and turned back to Leo.
"We both wanted to tell you! But, he threatened to report your secret to the authorities." Leo informed us. I nodded.
"That makes sense. You guys were just looking out for us." I said, feeling guilty for arguing with Calla like I did. That was why she was so upset the other night. Because she was worried about us and was frustrated that she couldn't give us a warning. She'd only been caught up in the moment when she said that she didn't want to be friends. Adam nodded.
"Look, we have to figure out a way to take Marcus down." Adam said. Leo's eyes widened.
"Wait. I know something that might help." He exclaimed. "Calla made me promise to keep it a surprise, but she made you guys new, even better mission suits. You were going to get them for your birthdays."
Leo walked over to Calla's desk and accessed her laptop, which she had forgotten when she last left the lab. Leo pulled open a file and showed us diagrams of the new suits. Already I could see that they were more durable, better designed, and cooler than the old ones. "The new suits are way more protective." Leo explained. "They can withstand just about anything. Enemy fire, scorching heat, mustard stains." He looked up at Adam. "I'm guessing that one's for you, Adam."
Adam grinned. "Nice. Oh, what's it do for Italian vinegaret? That's my real enemy."
We all looked at him. "Come on guys, let's go suit up." I told them. They nodded and we ran into our capsules. We came back out wearing our brand new uniforms. This time, they didn't look identical, much to our relief.
"Finally!" Bree exclaimed happily. "Something that doesn't make me look like part of a French circus!"
"These are awesome! And look! They come in men's, women's, and junior misses." I glared at him as he made yet another crack about my height.
"Guys, how are we supposed to pull this off?" Bree demanded. "We've never had to fight against bionics before. We're not trained for it." I nodded in agreement.
"I guess we do need Mr. Davenport." I admitted, feeling bad that the last time I spoke with him I was being so disrespectful.
"I got this." Leo said. "I can't train you, but I can guide you. I've been in that lair so I can help you navigate on the comm set." He handed us each an ear piece.
"Good call. Okay guys. Are you ready to do this?" I asked. They nodded. "Then let's go get our dad back!"
We all started running out, including Leo. Adam and Bree pushed him back to the table. Then we ran to Marcus' house.
Leo's POV
The second everyone was gone, I pulled out my phone and hit the fourth speed dial number. I started pacing while I waited for someone to pick up.
"Hello?" Finally! Took her long enough!
"Calla, I need your help!" I exclaimed. I heard her sigh on the other line.
"Look Leo, usually I love to help you guys do stupid things, but I'm sort of busy right now." She told me.
"It's an emergency! Concerning Marcus!" I exclaimed. That caught her attention.
"Please tell me they finally believe us and we get to tell them I told you so." She requested cheerfully. I sighed.
"Later. Right now, Marcus has kidnapped Big D and Adam, Bree, and Chase are going to fight him." I explained.
"What?!" Calla demanded. "Okay, hold on."
She started talking to someone else. I didn't catch much of the conversation, but I heard a few words, like Leo, crash, hospital, and panic attack. I guess she was making an excuse to whoever was in charge of her for the weekend. Then she was talking to me again.
"Listen, I'll be right over. Might take me about an hour, but I'll be there as soon as I can." She promised me before hanging up. I breathed a sigh of relief and briefly wondered what her excuse to her parents was.
Chase's POV
"Trust me, this is the house." I confirmed as we stared at a blank wall. Adam frowned.
"Are you sure?" he asked. "I don't hear Mr. Davenport crying like a baby." I rolled my eyes.
"Well, how are we supposed to get inside if there's not even a door?" Bree demanded. Adam grinned.
"Ooh! I know! Let's order a pizza and see what happens." He suggested. I gave him a look.
"Adam, that's ridiculous." I told him. He shrugged.
"Okay, it doesn't have to be pizza. It can be Chinese, Mexican, whatever you want." I sighed. Why did he have to be so stupid?
"Guys, focus." Leo told us. "You need to look for a way inside. Once you're in, I can tell you where to go."
"I got this." Adam told me seriously. He stepped in front of the wall, his arms tense and standing in a fighting stance. He raised his arms to punch the wall open…
"Open sesame!" he shouted. I shook my head and was about to call him a dumbass, except well, the wall disappeared, replacing it with a door. I stared at it in pure shock. Adam turned to us, a great big grin on his face.
"Congratulations." Bree told him cheerfully. "Your hidden ability is talking to vinyl siding."
Just then, Marcus stepped through the door. We jumped back, ready to fight. "Well, well, well. Look who's here."
"I should warn you," Adam said seriously. "I can control vinyl siding."
Marcus pretended to be afraid of him mockingly. "Where's Mr. Davenport?" Bree demanded, getting right to business.
"Aww, do the little bionic babies miss their daddy?" he teased. I glared at him.
"Why would you do this, Marcus?" I demanded. "We thought you were our friend."
Marcus smirked and crossed his arms. "Yeah, you fell for that one hook, line, and sinker." He agreed. "Who would have thought that pathetic little Leo and stupid little Calla were right all along?"
"Thank you!" Leo exclaimed. "Hey!"
"She's not stupid." I growled. Marcus chuckled.
"Of course not." He replied, rolling his eyes. "But you know what the best part of all was? That none of you had a clue that I'm just like you."
"Half Irish?" Adam questioned. I gave him a look, wondering what was going on through his head.
"Bionic! I'm bionic!" Marcus snapped. Bree sped over to him.
"Well, you're going to take us to Mr. Davenport." She told him. She grabbed him and pushed him towards the wall. He spun and ended up leaning against comfortably.
"You're going to have to move faster than that." He smirked. Adam glared at him, furious.
"Let's see how you handle this." He said, preparing to shoot Marcus with his heat vision. But Marcus was fast and shot a laser from his eyes at Adam. It over-powered Adam's heat vision and sent him to the ground. Bree ran to Adam's side, helping him up. I turned to Marcus.
"You wanna give it a shot?" he asked cheerfully. I gritted my teeth.
"I thought you'd never ask." I replied. I jumped into the air, using my new found levitation ability, and kicked him hard in the stomach. He fell back and hit his head on the house. He hit the ground, unconscious.
"I didn't know you could do that." Adam commented, getting to his feet.
"Another hidden ability I discovered." I explained proudly. "I was just in the shower one day and there it was."
"Ah man!" Adam complained. "All I get in the shower is pruny fingers."
"Guys, come on." Bree urged us, reminding me why we were here. We ran inside, leaving Marcus on the ground.
"Alright Leo, where now?" I asked. Silence. "Leo?"
I looked at my siblings. Where was he? "He must have no connection here." Bree realized. I nodded and led my siblings down the only hallway. Suddenly, my foot hit something.
"What's that?" Bree asked. She knelt down and picked up what appeared to be a video camera. It had a white tag on it.
"Property of Leo Dooley." Bree read it aloud. "He must have dropped it."
"Here." Adam took it and put it in one of his jacket pockets. Good thing Calla thought to include those…I wonder if she would help us if she was here. I wouldn't blame her if she didn't.
Leo's POV
"Guys? Can you hear me? Chase?" Nothing. Something was blocking the transmission. Suddenly, Eddy came back on his screen.
"Eddie! You're back!" For the first time in my life, I was happy to see him. He groaned.
"Whoa. What happened?" he asked. "And enabled my cookies?"
I frowned. "Long story. Big D got captured and Adam, Bree, and Chase went to go rescue him."
"What?" Eddy gasped. "If anything happens to my Donny…what do you say you and I hit the road and blow the bankroll on Italian suits and fast cars?"
I chose to ignore what he said. "They're at Marcus' house. I lost contact with them when they went inside." Suddenly, I realized something. "Wait, how was Marcus able to show up on your screen?"
"I don't know." Eddy replied. "He must have hacked into my network. I feel so violated."
"That's it! Marcus and whoever he's working for have been spying on us." I decided. "That's why they're always one step ahead of us."
"It really doesn't take that much." Eddy remarked. I nodded; unfortunately, he had a fair point.
"Can you reverse the relay signal and put it up on the monitor?" I asked suddenly.
"Can you not talk to me like I'm a three year old?" he countered. I sat down at my desk as he did as I asked. A few seconds later, and Marcus' lair was in plain view.
I noticed Big D right away. He poked one of the laser bars, then pulled it finger back, crying out in pain. I smiled. "Now we can see them, and they can't see us. Bam!"
"You know what?" Eddy said suddenly. "We make a great team."
"Thanks, Eddy." That was the nicest thing he'd ever said to me since I'd moved in over a year ago. Maybe I was growing on him.
"Oh, and by the way, I want off the team." He added. Happy moment gone. I watched in silence as Big D argued with this really ugly dude, who I guessed was Marcus' employer.
Chase's POV
We turned the corner into a large room. Mr. Davenport stood in the center of a large laser cage off to the left, some idiot standing next to him, outside the bars.
"Mr. Davenport!" Bree exclaimed. The dude grinned.
"Oh goody! Everyone's hear! Party time!" he shouted. Suddenly, Marcus pushed his way into the room from behind us. I frowned at him. Hadn't I knocked him out?
"I've secured the perimeter." He told the guy. "They're ours now."
I turned to Mr. Davenport. "Mr. Davenport, what is going on? Who is this guy?"
"Who is this guy?" the man repeated, sounding slightly offended. "Donny, you never told them about me? I'm deeply offended." He turned to us. "Adam, Bree, Chase…I'm your father."
We all stared at the man. He was nuts! He had to be! But Mr. Davenport wasn't denying it. When I turned to demand answers from him, he just looked away, shame written on his face.
"What do you mean you're our father?" I demanded.
"Yeah, he's our father." Bree said, pointing at Mr. Davenport.
"No." The guy replied. "That's what he's been telling you."
"Well, I don't know who you are, but you're going down." Adam ran at the man, but suddenly, we were inside the cage. We looked around. How the hell did that happen?
"Douglas, you mastered short-range teleportation before I did? I've been working on that for years!" Mr. Davenport complained.
Douglas smirked. "I know. I'm awesome."
"No, you're not awesome, I'm awesome!" Mr. Davenport objected.
"I'm awesome!" Douglas protested.
"AWESOME!" Mr. Davenport shouted, turning away from the guy.
"You're still going down!" Adam exclaimed. He started towards the bars, but stopped, confusion on his face. He looked at us. 'My super strength…it's gone."
Bree frowned and tried to run as I tried to access anything from my database. "So is my speed."
"I've got nothing." I told them.
"That's because I designed these lasers to block the signals from your bionic chips." Douglas explained. "That's right. Daddy gave you toys, but he can also take them away."
Marcus smirked and walked over to the cage. "Yeah, in here, you're not super-human. You're just a bunch of pathetic kids."
"Hey! Sad clown!" Douglas snapped at Marcus. "This is my moment! Save it for the stage!"
I glared at Marcus. "I can't believe you lied to us like that." I growled at him. He smirked.
"Really? I thought you were the smart one, but then again, you did miss the most obvious clues. Leo and Calla hating me. The two car 'accidents' that nearly got rid of them. Me always inviting you over here." He smirked. I frowned.
"Two car accidents?" Bree repeated. "There was only the one the night of the Fro-Yo shop's grand opening."
"It would have been two, if that damn new kid Caleb hadn't pushed the nosy little nerd girl out of the way." Marcus muttered. I stared at him. He tried to hurt, no kill, Calla. My…our Calla. If it wasn't for the cage that blocked out bionics, I was certain that Spike would have attacked Marcus.
Leo's POV
"Eddy, they're trapped! What am I going to do?" I exclaimed, staring at the screen.
"Well if I know you, I'm sure it will involve a sad little plan and an epic fail. Good luck." I glared at Eddy.
"This is serious!" I shouted.
"Well, how do you think I feel?" Eddy demanded. "If anything happens to them, I'm stuck here alone with you and Tasha! Not even computers are meant to suffer that much."
I started pacing, trying to think. "Alright, if I go to the authorities…I'll blow their bionic secret. And I have no idea how long until Calla's back! Her aunt's house is about an hour away!" I sighed, knowing exactly what I'd have to do. "I'll just have to go rescue them myself."
Eddy started laughing. I looked at him, and he stopped. "Oh. You were being serious?"
"Yes." I replied, slightly offended. "But I won't stand a chance against Marcus' bionics if I go there empty handed."
"You're not going to." Eddy said seriously. I turned to him in confusion.
"What?" I asked.
"Donald told me that in a worst case scenario, someone has to push this button." Eddy shrank and a large red button, the size of my fist, appeared on his screen. "And you being the only one left, is the worse case scenario."
I tried not to be hurt by that comment and poked the red button. It turned dark blue, and a large, see through, light blue version of Big D appeared in the center of the room.
"Whoa." I said. "A hologram."
"Adam, Bree, Chase…if you're watching this, something terrible has happened." Holo Big D said as I waved my hand threw his body. It felt cool.
"It's time for you to become the heroes you were always meant to be, and whatever it is you're about to face, I know you can handle it without me."
"That's not what he told them yesterday." I sung to Eddy.
"Though your bionics are amazing, they may not always be enough. So step into the elevator, and Eddy will take you to a secret floor below the lab; my weapons vault."
"He has a secret weapons vault!" I exclaimed. Oh, this was going to be fun. Very fun indeed.
"And Calla, Leo, if you two are watching this," Holo-Big D leaned down to my height. "I DO NOT HAVE A SECRET WEAPONS VAULT!"
I stood there for a second. Then I grabbed a sticky note, wrote a quick note for Calla in case she got back before I returned, then ran to the elevator to stock up on weapons.
Eddy brought me down to the floor. It was pretty impressive. Every inch of every wall was covered with guns, lasers, grenades, you name it. "Look at all this." I said to Eddy.
"A room full of stuff you can use to hurt yourself. I should have shown you this a long time ago. Can we show Calla?" Eddy asked. I looked at him.
"No!" I told him. "She'd use the weapons on me!"
"Exactly!" Eddy said happily. I rolled my eyes, grabbed a bag off the floor, and started filling it with weapons.
"Wait, how am I supposed to use it if I don't know how it works?" I asked.
"When has that ever stopped you before?" Eddy pointed out. I nodded.
"Good point. Let's do this." I agreed. I picked up a weapon that looked like a cross between a light sabre hilt and a blaster and held it up.
"Ooh! That's a good one!" Eddy exclaimed. "Here's a hint; aim it away from yourself."
I turned the weapon around quickly, then put it in the bag. I started to walk away, but tripped over the bag.
"Ow." I complained.
"Yep. Every great journey starts with a single step and a face plant." Eddy said.
Chase's POV
"Well Marcus, we finally captured them." Douglas smiled vainly. "Actually, I captured them. Me, me, me, me, me."
I snorted in amusement and shot Marcus a sideways glance. "You got one of those too, huh?"
"You have no idea." He replied. It was one of the few things we had in common; a self centered…I was going to say father, but I wasn't so sure anymore.
"Come on; we've got work to do." Douglas said, walking out of the room. Marcus followed him, although he was still annoyed. The second they were out of the room, I turned to Mr. Davenport.
"Mr. Davenport, why did that guy say that he was our father?" I asked slowly. Mr. Davenport sighed.
"Because technically, he is your father, and my brother." He answered.
"What?" Bree sounded hurt. I looked at him in confusion, not a common feeling for me.
"How is that even possible?" I demanded. Mr. Davenport took a deep breath.
"Years ago, Douglas and I started Davenport industries together. It was great, we had a cute little lab…not as good as the big lab we have now, but then we didn't have nearly as much money as-" he started to ramble, much to our annoyance.
"Get to the point!" Bree snapped. Mr. Davenport sighed again.
"We developed bionics so that robots could do the jobs that were too dangerous for people, but then Douglas went behind my back and implanted them into genetically engineered humans." He explained. Adam frowned.
"You mean us?" he asked. Bree rolled her eyes.
"No, Adam, the Greenbay Packers." Adam nodded.
"Your bionics were never designed to be interfaced with the human nervous system." Mr. Davenport said.
"So that's why we glitch." I realized. Mr. Davenport nodded.
"Exactly." He confirmed. Adam nodded.
"Oh, and all these years I just thought it was because you were a terrible scientist." He said. I didn't call him an idiot for that one; I'd thought the same thing.
"Douglas also hid all kinds of secret codes in your chips." Mr. Davenport continued. "That's why you have all these mysterious new abilities popping up out of nowhere."
"So, if your brother created us, how did we end up with you?" Bree asked quietly.
"He wanted to make you into cyber-soldiers of mass destruction." Mr. Davenport replied, an angry gleam in his eye. "But I knew that if I raised you in a safe environment, I could train you to be bionic heroes…so I built the lab and I hid you there."
"Wow." I said. "So everything you've ever known about ourselves, about you, it's all been…"
"One big lie." Bree finished for me.
"Wow. This changes everything." Adam got this awestruck look on his face. He gasped. "Am I Jewish?" he asked excitedly.
We all stared at him for a moment. "Please tell me there's another unexpected twist where it turns out I'm not related to him." Bree begged. I nodded in agreement.
"Oh, this one with the fussing and the complaining." Adam said in an Italian accent. I shook my head at his idiocy.
"I wanted to tell you guys, but I figured the less you knew, the safer you would be." I stared at him. How could he think that made up for everything he did?
"But we trusted you!" I objected. "I mean, if you were lying about this, then who knows what else you were lying about."
"Yeah!" Adam grabbed Mr. Davenport's hair and pulled. When Mr. Davenport cried out in pain, my brother turned to us. "He's not lying about the hair; it just looks fake."
Mr. Davenport pulled away from him and looked at the three of us desperately. "Could you ever forgive me?" he asked. We all looked away, unable to answer.
"Hello happy family." We turned to see Douglas walk back in. Marcus did too, but instead of speaking to us, he walked to a capsule in the back. He fell asleep the second he placed his hands on the inside of it.
"We're not your family." Bree told Douglas, a tear in her eye. "Let us out of here."
"Yeah." I agreed. "You can't force us to be your cyber soldiers."
"Actually, I can, Boy Wonder." Douglas replied. I grit my teeth. Only Calla was allowed to give me super hero nicknames. I hated it when anyone else did. "You see, when I created you, I installed my Triton app on your chips. Once it's activated, I'll control your bodies, and your minds. You'll do whatever I want; whether it's start a world war, or some light house cleaning."
"YOU CAN NOT MAKE ME VACUUM!" Adam shouted. For whatever reason, he was more scared of that device than Calla's new born kitten.
"Why do you need us?" Bree questioned. "You already have Marcus, and apparently a barber with a sense of humour."
I snickered at her comment, but Douglas chose to ignore it. "Marcus is just an android." He replied. We looked at said boy, confused. "He's not sleeping; he's recharging. The trouble with androids is they burn out too quick. He won't make it to his sixteenth birthday. But don't tell him that, he thinks he's getting a car."
For the first time, I felt bad for Marcus. To only live fifteen years…well, I was fifteen. It would be horrible to die now, before I'd actually accomplished anything great. Not telling the guy was probably the lesser of two evils. But then again, he tried to kill Calla. The thought of her dead just kept running through my head, and I couldn't get the devastating image out of my mind.
Suddenly, an alarm went off. Douglas' monitor turned on to show his hidden entrance, with Leo trying to get inside. For whatever reason, his little red wagon was sitting in the lawn next to him.
"Oh, look who showed up to be a hero." Douglas mused. "And this one's not even bionic. I could take him out with the sprinklers."
"Leave him alone! He's just a kid!" Mr. Davenport yelled. Douglas rolled his eyes.
"A nosy kid that keeps getting in our way!" he paused for a second. "But, his body would be messy to clean up…Marcus!"
Marcus raised his head, his green eyes glowing. He ran out of his capsule/recharger. "Yeah?" he saw the screen. "Can I kill Dooley?"
"Nah, just capture. We'll keep him alive until we get to the shore line, so we can dump his body." Marcus nodded.
"You leave him alone!" Bree shouted. Douglas ignored her, and stepped back so we could see Marcus and Leo.
Marcus stepped out from the hidden door, while Leo was looking the other way. "Hello Leo."
Leo screamed and spun around. "You came all this way, just to see me?" Marcus mocked. "Why don't you come in?"
"I'm here for Adam, Bree, Chase and Big D." Leo told him. Marcus smirked.
"Not gonna happen." He replied.
"Oh yeah?" Leo smirked and pulled a high-tech gun out of the little red wagon. "Well I've got this."
I sighed. He wasn't even holding it right! Marcus waved his hand and the gun flew out of Leo's hands. Leo looked pretty surprised. "No, you had that." Marcus corrected.
"Oh yeah, well I still have all of these." The pointed to the wagon and Marcus shot his laser vision at it. It disintegrated. "No!" Leo kept reaching for the wagon, as if it was invisible.
Marcus rolled his eyes and used his telekinesis to lift Leo up in the air. Leo looked down, then at Marcus. "What are you doing?" Leo demanded. Marcus didn't reply, instead throwing Leo through the air.
My stepbrother flew into a tree, and crumpled to the ground. "Leo!" We all screamed. He didn't move as Marcus walked towards him. Marcus pulled out a remote, the same remote that teleported us inside this cage, and aimed it at Leo. A second later, he was lying at our feet.
"Leo!" Bree exclaimed, kneeling down. He groaned in response and opened his eyes.
"Oh hey, Bree…Bree!" he sat, looking around confused. He frowned. "How'd I get in this cage?"
I helped him up. "Marcus knocked you out, then teleported you here." I replied. Leo nodded, rubbing his head. "Are you hurt?"
"It's just sore." Leo replied. I glared at the door as Marcus walked back in. He crossed his arms and looked at Douglas.
"I still don't see why I can't just kill him now, and dump his body in a trash can or something." He complained. Leo stiffened beside me, but there was no way we were going to let Marcus or Douglas lay a finger on him.
"Finger prints would be a problem." Douglas replied. Marcus sighed, shot Leo a glare, and stormed off.
Leo looked around again. "So, question; was that whole 'Luke, I am your father' part I saw on the monitor real, or a lie?"
"It was real." Adam, Bree, and I growled, glaring at Mr. Davenport. Leo nodded.
"Okay then. So, anyone else got any plans? 'Cause that was the best I had." Leo said, looking around. Adam glared at Douglas.
"When I get out of here, I'm taking you and Marcus down!" he yelled, trying to intimidate him. Douglas smirked.
"Good luck with that. Once I press this," he held u a white remote with a single button on it, "it'll activate your triton apps and I'll control you, permanently."
He pointed the remote at us. "No!" "Stop!" "Do Chase first!"
My siblings then proceeded to use me as a human shield, except Leo, who stepped in front of us in hopes of blocking the signal. I shut my eyes and we waited. Nothing happened.
"Marcus, did you put batteries in this thing?" Douglas shouted suddenly.
I opened my eyes. We were still in control, but how? "HA!" Mr. Davenport exclaimed. "I went into their chips and put a block on their app a long time ago! Oh, it is so good watching you eat it!"
Douglas was mad. "Very clever Donny, but I'll get around it. I've always been a better programmer than you." He started typing things very quickly on his computer. "There! See! Only eight minutes until my cipher key decrypts your amateur block and activates the triton app."
He laughed. "What are you going to do, call mommy? If you do, don't tell her I'm alive."
I looked at Mr. Davenport for an explanation for that last part, but his expression told me it was a story for another time. If there would be another time…
Calla's POV
"Leo?" I called, running into the lab. "I'm sorry I'm late, but some idiot crashed on the highway and…Leo? Are you even here?"
I looked around. The lab was empty. The only sound came from the computer monitor. "This had better not be a prank guys!"
I walked over to Leo's desk to turn off the screen, but froze in shock when I saw what was on it. Adam, Bree, Chase, Leo and Mr. Davenport, all standing a laser cage. Mr. Davenport was hugging Bree, while the other boys were arguing with Marcus and some dude with really bad hair. I listened in on what they were saying.
"…gonna come looking for us!" Leo was shouting. Ugly-dude smirked.
"Like who?" he demanded.
"Um, my mom…Chase's girlfriend…" Leo trailed off, out of people already. My cheeks heated up at being called Chase's girlfriend, but I didn't exactly object either. Seeing them in trouble made me forget about our argument completely.
Ugly-dude just laughed. It was then that I noticed a yellow sticky note next to the keyboard. I picked it up. It read:
To Calla,
Marcus and Douglas kidnapped Adam, Bree, and Chase too, so I went to go rescue them. I took Eddy with me.
From Leo
PS: Douglas is Big D's brother.
PPS: Douglas is also Adam, Bree, and Chase's dad.
I reread the note a couple of times. Obviously, Leo had been caught in his attempt to save his family, but the last part confused me. Mr. Davenport never mentioned a brother, except for when he lied to Leo's grandma last year. He also lied about adopting his brother's kids. And if his brother was real…then what about the whole adoption story? Was that real too?
"Okay, now I'm just confused!" I muttered. A thought occurred to me. "And I've really got to stop talking to myself. Makes me seem crazy."
I sighed. I couldn't just sit here and let them try to rescue themselves. I had to do something, but what? Marcus was bionic! I'd get myself killed the second I arrived. And obviously, I couldn't call the cops without exposing Adam, Bree, and Chase. I needed something that could beat bionics.
I went through my mental list of anyone or anything Adam, Bree, and Chase had faced before. Nothing came to mind. Except…
I debated it in my mind for a minute. It was strong. It had weapons. It could beat Marcus. But it was a prototype and I wouldn't be surprised if it glitched. Not to mention the fact that I'd never used it before in my life.
Well, Leo was able to make it work…sort of. And I knew more about its mechanics and technology than he did. "If I die, I'm SO going to come back and kill those guys." I muttered to myself before running off to do something stupid, reckless, and probably suicidal.
Leo's POV
I looked at Douglas' computer, watching the timer count down. "Guys, there's only four minutes until the block is decrypted. We have to get out of here!" Bree exclaimed.
"What if we deflected one of these beams?" I suggested. I'd seen it in a spy movie and figured it might work. Big D nodded.
"We could take out the control consol and deactivate the cage." He agreed. "I don't suppose anybody has a mirror on them?"
We all looked at him. "If any of us had a mirror on them, it would be you." Bree told him. He nodded, but he had nothing with him.
"There must be something we can use." Chase said. Adam shrugged.
"Well, I can't think on an empty stomach." He said, pulling a granola bar from his weapon holster.
Suddenly, the shiny part of the wrapper caught my eye. Bree saw it too. "Hey, we can use this as a reflective surface." She suggested. Big D smiled.
"Yes, but it will never withstand the intensity of these beams. We need something to support it. Something hard and flat."
"We could use Adam's head." Chase suggested, smiling for the first time since he'd been captured. Bree gasped.
"What about your belt buckle?" she looked at Big D. Big D nodded and pulled off the belt buckle, shaped like his head. I'd comment about how weird that was later.
"Yes…wait. It's custom." He actually considered using something else. I rolled my eyes and took the buckle from him. I handed it to Bree, who flattened the granola bar wrapper on it.
"There. Now we have a mirror" she said. Chase smirked and took the mirror from her.
"Step aside, Bree. Let the big boys handle this." He said. Bree smiled.
"Oh, okay. When are they getting here?" she asked in response. Chase ignored her and went to shove the mirror under the laser. But he stopped.
"Without my bionics, I can't figure out the precise angle. We're just going to have to…guesstimate." We all grimaced.
"Look, we can't get this wrong. We've only got one shot." Big D told him. Chase lined the mirror up with one of the lasers.
"A little to the left." "Back on the Z axis" Big D and I started giving Chase advice. Adam sighed suddenly.
"No, not that one. That one!" he pointed to a different beam. We looked at him. "I've had my snack. I'm ready to help. Hold this." He took the mirror from Chase and gave me the granola bar. He lined it up with the other beam, but we couldn't decide the corrected angle.
Suddenly, Bree snatched the mirror out of Adam's hands and shoved it under the laser. It shot a laser at the computer, and the lasers deactivated. Bree smirked at us. "Yolo."
Chase grinned. "Our bionics are back!" he exclaimed, obviously happy to be the smartest person in the room again.
"Come on, let's get out of here!" Bree grinned. We started to follow her out, but were stopped by Douglas and Marcus.
"Bravo." Douglas congratulated us. "But just because a dog gets out of his cage, doesn't mean he's going for a walk."
"Wait, you have a dog?" Adam gasped. "Where, where, where, where, where?"
"Douglas, you're not getting these kids." Big D said, pushing Adam behind him slightly. It was weird to see him try to protect someone much bigger and stronger than him, but sweet too.
"Wrong again Donny." Douglas smirked. "Look; the decryption is complete. Now I'll have total control of their…"
Acting on what was likely instinct, Big D kicked the remote out of Douglas's hands. It went flying onto one of the catwalks. "Ow! Man, not cool!" Douglas shouted, shaking his hand. "What are you wearing? Clogs?"
Douglas then attacked Big D. "Guys, run!" Big D exclaimed.
"No way!" "We're not leaving without you!" "Not gonna happen!" "Never!" we all argued. Big D glared t us.
"Go!" he shouted.
"Marcus, stop them!" Douglas shouted. Marcus sped in front of us in an instant.
"Get out of our way, Marcus!" Chase growled. Marcus chuckled.
"Not a chance. I'm more powerful than all of you." He smirked arrogantly. Adam rolled his eyes.
"Oh, he's lying. I haven't seen him at the gym once!" Adam exclaimed before trying to punch Marcus. That was a mistake.
Chase's POV
Adam realized the hard way just how strong Marcus was. He tried to punch Marcus, only for him to stop Adam with ease. Adam gaped for a moment, shocked that Marcus could stop him like that. Then Marcus grabbed him by the collar, lifted him above our heads, and slammed him into the ground.
"Adam!" Bree cried. She and Leo ran to Adam's side to make sure he was okay. I stayed where I was, feeling the boiling anger rush through me. How dare he hurt Adam!
"No one touches my brother, you freak!" I growled at Marcus. He smirked, daring me to attack him. I fell for it, launching forward and attempting to kill him. Marcus dodged both my punches, then punched me hard in the spine. While I was distracted, he grabbed me from behind and the next thing I knew, I was flying through the air. I hit the railings of one of the catwalks, just barely managing to grab on to it in order to stop myself from crashing into the ground.
Marcus sped up onto the catwalk half a second later. "Let's make this fun, huh?" he suggested before kicking me in the ribs, successfully stopping me from pulling myself up. He then walked cheerfully walking over to a control panel and tapping some buttons on it.
I looked down and yelped when I saw the floor beneath me give open up, revealing a massive, human sized saw. "Who has that in their house?" I demanded. Marcus laughed.
"This place used to be a sausage factory! You can fit a whole cow in there!" he grinned. Gulping nervously, I tried to pull myself up, even though I knew it was no use.
"Chase, hold on!" I heard Bree yell. "Leo, go see if any of those buttons will close the floor."
"On it!" He replied just as Marcus hit my hand, making me lose grip. He was about to knock me down completely, but Bree sped into. She then reached over the rail and grabbed my arm. She started to pull me up, but had to let go so that she could dodge one of Marcus' punches. Luckily, I was able to grab onto the rail with both hands again.
I was about to pull myself up when Marcus knocked my hand away. Again. Seriously dude, give me a break! I looked at Leo, who was sitting at the computer consol, Adam slowly making his way over there.
"I think I got it!" Leo called to me. He pressed a button and flames exploded out of the floor. "No, still working on it."
"Well work faster!" I shouted at him. I turned away from Adam and Leo and grabbed onto the rail with both hands just in time to see that Bree and Marcus were still fighting on the catwalk above me. Bree tried to punch Marcus, but instead got pushed into the wall behind her.
"Nice try, cupcake." Ooh. You don't call Bree cupcake. At least, not unless you're suicidal. Bree glared at him, just as he knocked my hand off the rail for the third time.
"Guys, hurry!" I shouted. I wasn't sure how long I would be able to hold on for. Bree kicked Marcus away as he tried to knock me off for good. He jumped, grabbed a bar above him, and swung at her, trying to kick her in the chest. Bree blocked him, and tripped him. He ended up on his back. Bree went to attack him again, but he kicked her in the stomach and sent her to the ground. He looked me in the eye.
"Say goodbye, Chase." He kicked my hand off the rail and I felt myself falling. I heard Adam and Leo shout as I was falling. Thankfully, instead of falling into the flames and the deadly saw, I hit solid ground. It may have knocked the air out of my lungs, but at least I was alive.
Adam ran over to me and I glared up at him. "Ow!" I complained. He offered me his hand and helped me up. Marcus sped onto the ground in front of us, Bree following close behind. Leo ran over to us too, carrying a fire extinguisher.
"Where did you get that?" Adam questioned.
"Calla tried to kill Marcus with it last time we were here and I remembered where it landed." He replied, holding it as if it was a baseball bat. Adam nodded approvingly, then turned to Marcus.
'You might be strong, but let's see you take on all three of us." He challenged as we all started to circle.
"Go ahead, creep. Take your best shot." I dared him. Marcus shrugged.
"Gladly." He replied as a light blue glow came from his hands. He shot it into the air, static electricity coming off of it in waves. Only Leo had the sense to move back. Suddenly, the orb split into three, hitting me and my siblings. It was as if we were hit by lightning, the pain was that strong.
Leo's POV
I looked at my siblings worriedly. They were down for the count. I turned to call Big D for help, but he was busy fighting Douglas. I watched as he wrestled with his brother for the remote, until they both hit the rail on the catwalk and the remote fell onto the ground. With Douglas distracted for a brief second, Big D kicked him and knocked him to the ground. Douglas smirked and rolled off the catwalk. He grabbed the remote and jumped to his feet.
"Ha! Now their bionics are all mine!" Douglas exclaimed.
"No!" Big D shouted in despair.
It was over. Douglas had , I heard a voice. And it wasn't imaginary. It was coming from my ear piece. "Hey Leo, mind giving me an intro?"
I laughed. Just when I thought we were all done for, she actually shows up. Classic. I raised my hands at Douglas. "Wait!" I shouted.
"What for?" he demanded, about to click the button on the remote. I grinned.
"I have to say the line 'you won't get away with this'." I explained. He rolled his eyes.
"Who's going to stop me? You?" he laughed. I shook my head, smiling.
"No, she is." I replied with a grin. Douglas and Marcus frowned, unsure if I had gone completely insane. Suddenly, the ceiling above us broke, a large form falling through. Douglas stumbled back, dropping the remote. It was crushed under the foot of the massive exoskeleton.
"Exoskeleton in the house…if you can call this crazy stink hole a house." A familiar voice called, the mask flipping upwards. I glared at her.
"Hey! That's my line!" I snapped.
"Calla?" everyone else gasped. I looked to see that Adam, Bree and Chase getting up slowly. Calla turned to Marcus and Douglas.
"Hey, you DO know that kidnapping is like, really rude, right?" she asked. "Oh, and illegal, but mainly rude."
"You're Donny's assistant, right?" Douglas questioned. Calla rolled her eyes.
"No," she replied sarcastically "I'm just some random kid in an exoskeleton who decided to take on a mad scientist because she was a bored. What do you think?"
"Hey, you want a job?" Douglas offered. Calla pretended to think about it.
"Um, no!" she shot a plasma blast at Douglas, who ducked out of the way. He shot a look at Marcus.
"Deal with her!" he ordered.
"How did Calla know where we were?" Big D questioned, running over to us as Calla shot more blasts at Marcus.
"I needed back up." I explained. "Who else was I supposed to call? The ghost busters?"
"I've had it with you!" Marcus yelled, dragging our attention back to them. He sent a plasma blast at Calla, which sent her flying. She hit the wall behind her, collapsing onto the ground. She struggled for a few moments, trying to get up.
"Worth millions of dollars. Can't stand up. Wonderful." She commented dryly. Marcus advanced towards her, miniature saws sliding out from his fist.
"Don't worry. After I'm through with you, you won't be standing ever again." He promised.
"Leave her alone!" Chase yelled at him. Marcus smiled mockingly.
"Aww, is someone worried about their little girlfriend?" he teased, before stepping closer to our helpless friend.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Adam yelled. I looked at him in shock. He was shaking with fury. It seemed as if electricity was being drawn to him as the building began to shake.
"Guys? What's happening?" I asked, frightened. Chase and Bree exchanged looks.
"Adam just discovered his hidden ability!" Bree realized. Chase looked at his brother, then at us.
"I think we should get behind him." He suggested, pulling me, Bree, and Big D behind Adam as a large, blue pulse flew from his body. Douglas, Calla, and Marcus were all hit with it. Marcus screamed, stumbling back as he was electrocuted. The exoskeleton seemed to spasm for a second, but then stopped. Douglas wasn't even affected.
Adam grinned. "Wow. All that from one granola bar." He grinned. Seeing that it was safe, Chase bolted to Calla's side, pulling her up. Then we all turned on Douglas.
"Give it up Douglas. It's over." Big D commanded. Douglas looked like he was going to fight us, but changed his mind when the room once again started to shake.
"The ceiling's coming down!" Bree yelled. A piece of the crumbling ceiling fell right next to me, distracting us long enough for Douglas to escape.
"We need to get out of here!" Chase yelled. Marcus stood up, a plasma ball appearing in his hand.
"No one's going anywhere." He shouted over the rumbling. Calla gasped besides me.
"Marcus, look…" she was cut off as the main part of the ceiling broke, burying the android beneath piles of it. "…out." There was no way he could have survived if he was human. Being an android, I wasn't sure.
"Let's get out of here! Now!" Big D started pushing us all out the door, staying in the back in case Marcus was indeed still alive. We ran for it, not stopping until we were in the safety of the lab.
We stood there, gasping. Chase was the first to recover, and started helping Calla get out of the large suit.
"Is everyone alright?" Big D questioned, worriedly. We all nodded in affirmation. The only injuries we got were superficial, nothing that would be a serious problem in the future. I sat down in my chair, Bree in Calla's, and Chase on the counter. The only ones who still stood were Adam, Calla and Big D. There was a moment of silence, then Calla turned to all of us.
"I'm glad you guys are okay." She said quietly, still a little shocked. I didn't blame her; it had been a crazy night. "But since you are, and I can tell there's a sappy family moment coming on, I'm going to head on home."
"Calla…" Chase started. She smiled.
"Oh, don't worry. Tomorrow, I will expect you guys to get down on your knees and grovel for my forgiveness." She assured him. "Oh! And maybe a box of chocolate. But not the Nestle kind. That really good Godiva kind. Yeah, I like that stuff. Then I'll consider forgiving you all for being idiots."
She started to walk out again. I expected Chase to stop her again, but Big D beat him to the punch. "Stop." He ordered. Calla did as she was told, looking at him curiously. "I need to talk to you."
"Okay." Calla walked back over and pulled herself onto the counter next to Chase. "But if this is about what happened to the exoskeleton, you can take it out of my pay check."
"It's worth a million dollars." He told her. Calla shrugged.
"Easy come, easy go." She replied.
"Look guys…" Big D turned to Adam, Bree, and Chase. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have kept the truth from you."
"It's alright, we understand." Bree assured him. Big D nodded.
"At least you know now that Douglas is your real father." There was a moment of silence, then Chase slid off the counter.
"No, he's not. You raised us. You're our real dad." He said. We all smiled.
"Come here." Big D held out his arms, and the four of us (minus Calla) hugged him. Suddenly, there was a bright flash. We turned to see Calla holding her camera phone, a grin on her face.
"What? I couldn't resist." She protested. We all chuckled. Big D turned to me.
"As for you, what you did today was really brave. You really did your job as mission specialist. I'm proud of you." He told me. I grinned proudly. Big D turned to Calla.
"Same goes for you. That was absolutely brilliant what you did back there." Calla smiled at his praise.
"Brilliant enough for a raise?" she asked hopefully. Big D shook his head.
"You broke my million dollar exo-skeleton." He reminded her. Her smiled didn't so much as waver.
"Fair enough." She agreed.
"Great, now who wants ice cream?" Big D offered. Adam and I raced to the elevator, Big D and Bree following us.
"I'll be up in a minute. I just want to text my mom first. My excuse was that Leo was in a car crash and that Adam, Bree, and Chase were having panic attacks." Calla called after us. Chase also stayed, most likely because he was still worried about her.
Chase's POV
"Are you alright?" I asked Calla worriedly. Her hands were shaking ever so slightly as she sent her mom the message. She nodded.
"Hmm? Oh yeah." She clasped her hands together. "Just a little adrenaline still in my system, I guess."
"What you did today…it was amazing." I commented, sitting down next to her. She shrugged.
"More like reckless." She replied modestly. I chuckled.
"You fought an android and a mad scientist wearing an exoskeleton with the worst possible weapon system in the world. That's brave."
"Reckless." Calla sang softly. I rolled my eyes.
"I still don't know why you did it." I said. Calla frowned at me.
"What do you mean?" she asked, confused.
"You could have gotten killed!" I exclaimed. "And you knew that. But the second Leo told you that we were in trouble, you came to our rescue."
"Chase…" Calla said, but I continued on.
"Well, I guess it makes sense. You really hated Marcus. And revenge is most definitely one of your favourite words." I smirked.
"I didn't come to get revenge on Marcus." Calla told me, smiling gently.
"Yeah, I know. Leo called you-" Calla shook her head.
"I didn't come because he asked me either." I frowned.
"Then you really do have a death wish." I informed her. She laughed, and grabbed my hand.
"Guess again." She told me, pulling me close. I frowned.
"I'm not sure what you mean…" I said slowly. She sighed audibly.
"Wow, for someone so smart, you can be so oblivious." She said. Before I knew what was going on, she was kissing me and I was kissing her back and I felt like I was in heaven.
She pulled away after a minute. I stared at her. "Whoa." I breathed, shocked.
She laughed. "Seriously Chase, I've been waiting, what? A year? Just for you to FINALLY kiss me?"
"Well, I…um…" I stuttered. She got this worried look on her face.
"Uh, you DO feel the same way, right?" I was still a little shocked to find the words. But she took my silence as rejection. "Oh. I-I'm sorry. I just thought…well, that you…I'll just go…"
I finally was able to react when she started to walk away. I grabbed her hand and pulled her back towards me and this time, I was the one kissing her.
Kihonne: For the record, this was always part of the plan. I've planned that kiss since the first word of the first chapter. I know I've kept you all waiting, but I think that it was worth it, right? Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this and that it will satisfy you for a bit because I will likely not be able to update until the 17th due to a broomball tournament coming up. Either way, your next three chapters will be…
Memory Wipe
Avalanche
Prank You Very Much
Oh, and guys? It was pointed out to me by Marvellous Shrinking Vampire that I'm almost at a hundred reviews. Let's try and hit that third digit before I update again. It would be awesome!