Let's Find My Parents!
Chapter 5
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"No, stop!" Ryan struggled furiously as Spyder and Harris dragged him by the arms. "Let me go! Come on, guys, snap out of it!"
Mark couldn't take it anymore. He wouldn't just stand by and watch them hurt his brother. With a cry he leapt forward, crashing into Spyder and Harris and knocking them all to the ground.
"Mark!" Ryan hugged his older brother and they both stood up.
"How?" Seth demanded, looking furious. "How. Are you. AWAKE?!"
"Thank your old buddy, Leo", said Mark. "Our minds are now off-limits."
Seth growled, and then took a deep breath.
"No matter", he said. "I can still destroy you. Better yet, your friends can do that for me."
Ryan and Mark cried out as they were suddenly launched into a wall by Megan's telekinesis. The two boys groaned and rubbed their arms as Spyder, Harris and Megan advanced towards them.
"Wait!"
Seth's outburst made them stop.
"Not here. Take them to the robot. They can all be destroyed at the same time."
…
Leo hit the throttle on the Mech-X Mobile, flying as fast as his invention would go towards Cairo, Egypt. Suddenly, he received an alert on his phone.
"On-screen", he commanded his voice-activated computer.
It was a security breach on Mech-X4. Leo gasped as he saw Megan, Harris, Spyder, Lucy, Robert and Seth pushing forward Ryan and Mark, who had their hands tied behind them. Following closely behind them was Seth Harper.
"Full thrusters!" Leo cried out. "NOW!"
The Mech-X Mobile activated its rockets and flew even faster to its destination.
…...
Mark and Ryan grunted as they were both thrown to the floor of the robot. Harris and Spyder stared back at them, their eyes glassy. They tried crawling away, only to have Megan block them with her telekinesis. Seth Harper chuckled as he saw the two boys desperately trying to escape.
"Give it up, boys", he said. "As long as I'm around, you'll never win. Now, which one of you should I destroy first?"
He looked from Ryan to Mark, who both glared daggers at him, and chuckled.
"Let's begin with the one who started it all."
Seth shifted into his goo-like monster form and charged at them.
"No!" Ryan cried as Mark was knocked to the side. "No, NO!"
CRASH! The robot was knocked to the side as the Mech-X Mobile crashed into it. Everyone was thrown off-balance, save for Seth, who silently slipped into the walls of the robot.
"What was that?" said Mark, trying to right himself.
Ryan used his powers to connect with the Mech-X Mobile and gasped.
"It's Leo!" he said.
"It's about time", said Mark.
"It's too late!"
Ryan and Mark turned to see Seth activating the self-destruct button.
"You'll never be Mech-X4 again."
He cackled as the countdown began. Megan used her telekinesis to wrap Ryan and Mark in some loose cords on the floor, binding them together.
"Say goodbye to your friends, boys! I'm off to change the world."
Ryan and Mark could do nothing but watch helplessly as Seth left with his mind-controlled zombies.
"What do we do?!" said Ryan.
"I don't know!" said Mark. "You're the technopath! Try to shut it down!"
"I knew that."
Ryan tried using his powers to deactivate the self-destruct sequence, which only made the countdown go faster.
"Okay, that didn't work!" he said, his voice panicking. "Got any more bright ideas?"
"No", said Mark, his voice cracking. "Mark Walker is too popular to die!"
"Would you cut it out? We are not gonna die!"
"Ryan!"
Leo's face came to life on the screen in front of them.
"Mark! Are you boys okay?"
"Far from it!" Mark cried. "We're about to explode!"
"Leo!" said Ryan. "Can you get us out of here? I can't shut it off! The countdown just goes faster!"
"How much time is left?" said Leo. "I might be able to reboot the system from here."
Ryan and Mark glanced at the clock: one minute and thirty seconds.
"Not a lot!" Mark cried. "Less than two minutes!"
"I can do it!" said Leo. "I'll just need some sort of electrical connection, a walkie-talkie or a walkman, maybe."
"What is this, the eighties?!" said Ryan. "No one has that stuff anymore!"
"Two words, dude", said Mark, "cell phone."
Ryan's face lit up.
"Me and my big mouth", Mark mumbled as Ryan hacked into his phone.
"Connect me with the main satellite program in your brother's phone", said Leo to Ryan. "I'll take care of the rest."
"And you might wanna-oh, I don't know-HURRY IT UP?!"
Mark glanced nervously at the clock: twenty seconds. Ryan did what Leo asked, and the scientist immediately went to work. Ryan and Marked exchanged nervous glances. 5, 4, 3, 2-
"GOT IT!"
"System rebooting", said a robotic voice. "Self-destruct sequence terminated."
Ryan and Mark whooped and cheered.
"Hang tight, boys", said Leo, parking his invention on the roof. "I'll be right down to get you outta there."
Leo used his powers to short-circuit the coils used to hold the two boys together and untied their hands.
"Any idea where Seth went?" Mark said.
"One guess", said Ryan.
…
Back in Bay City, Seth was standing at the pool of ooze with Spyder, Harris, Megan, Robert and Lucy.
"Soon, I'll have a new and better world, one that I control", he said. "And no one will stand in my way."
That's all for now, guys! Thank you for reading!
-Imagigirl20