Interlude 4: Cody Burns
Two days had passed since the incident below the island's surface and the island was returning to relative normalcy. There hadn't been a single incident, well, of the geographic kind. There was still the malfunctioning tech that the island had to deal with, but nothing that seemed to indicate that the laboratory underneath the ground was on the fritz. Cody Burns still couldn't believe the story that was told to him by his family, even though Heatwave had brought back footage.
The video was still bizarre to say the least.
The Rescue Bots had encountered the infamous Brother.
Had worked with him to find the center of lab.
Something had happened, something that no one could explain, despite going through the video multiple times.
Brother had vanished, with a warning to lay low, lest they had any attention from 'those who wouldn't be so hesitant or nice as he'.
No one heard a thing from him since then.
All was quiet. Too quiet.
There was a knock on the garage door. Cody, who had been relaxing in the empty garage stood and leisurely made his way towards the door, thinking that Frankie had come by to do homework. When he opened the door, however, he was greeted with an empty driveway.
"Hello?" he called out, but there wasn't anyone out. His brow furrowed before something at his feet caught his eye.
When he glanced down, his eyebrow shot up in curiosity at the sight of the envelope. It had his family's name scrawled on the top. Cody was hesitant to pick it up, but curiosity won out. He walked back into the house, looking over the envelope as though it held more clues.
"Cody? Whatcha got there?" His dad entering the room had him glancing up.
"Someone left this out on the mat outside," Cody answered, holding up the envelope. "There's no return address or anything."
Cody handed the envelope to his dad, and watched him turn it over in his hand before opening it cautiously. He pulled out and unfolded a sheet of paper. Cody watched his eyes roam over the paper, each moment passing had his eyebrows getting closer and closer together.
"Dad?"
"Cody, do you know where the others are?"
"I think they're down in the basement?" Cody answered.
His dad nodded silently before walking towards the elevator. Curious as ever, Cody trotted after him.
When they reached the basement where everyone was relaxing and doing their own thing, Cody's dad got their attention.
"Everyone, listen up!"
Their heads whipped around, especially at the tone the greying man used.
"Dad?" Dani asked hesitantly.
"Chief? Is there a situation that requires our expertise?" Chase asked.
"We've got a letter."
There was silence as the older Burns siblings turned, giving each other a look before turning back to the chief.
"Okay…...what does that have to do with us?" Graham asked.
"It's from Brother."
That seemed to inject new energy into the room. Everyone stood up and crowded around the chief, the Rescue Bots being as careful as they could. There was a moment of shushing, a moment when Chief cleared his throat before he started to read the letter out loud.