Author's Note: Hey guys! How have you been? So here is Chapter four and while it's action less, it fleshes out Chase and Marcus' (and Douglas') personalities a lot more than the last three chapters and it's got some father and son bonding time. However, the next chapters are going to bring more action I promise! I just want you guys to really know them properly in this AU.
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It was rare for Chase and Douglas to spend any time together. Unless training counted but Chase didn't count that since he wasn't spending time with his dad but more on working for his dad. But even that didn't matter to Chase. Maybe a part of him wanted to be more than a weapon and be an actual teenager but he had always pushed those thoughts aside. What he cared about more was impressing his dad and if that meant being a weapon of mass destruction then so be it.
Most of him willingly wanted to do everything Douglas threw his way. Maybe it was the power he felt over people. All Chase knew that he liked it and didn't want it to change any time soon.
"Hey Chase, pass the monkey wrench, it's upstairs." Douglas' voice knocked Chase out of his thoughts. Chase just shrugged and speeded upstairs before coming down and handing it over to Douglas, who hadn't even looked up and still had his goggles on from the soldering he was doing two minutes ago.
"Thanks Chase. You know if most of my customers weren't mad men or dictators, I would have rented you out as a handyman." Douglas joked, removing his goggles to talk to his son. Douglas knew he had made it perfectly clear that he preferred Chase over Marcus.
After all, Chase was the last one of the original trio. When he got to Chase, he had figured out how to build in the capacity for upgrades. His brother had taken away Adam and Bree but he didn't take Chase. At first he was furious at his brother for taking away the chance to be easy millionaires and soon billionaires but what he lost with super speed and super strength, he simply put those abilities into Chase. Along with other hidden abilities Adam and Bree had.
Of course, it all had a price. Chase couldn't use too many of his abilities at once. The human body could only take so much. And if he used his abilities for too long without his capsule, he would simply collapse due to exhaustion and if it got too bad, then he would slip into a coma. Douglas couldn't let that happen under any circumstances.
He didn't face that problem with Marcus. He could pack an unlimited number of abilities into Marcus and at greater power levels but he wasn't going to make it to his sixteenth birthday. That was the trouble with androids, they burned out too quick. But Marcus and Chase didn't know that. He needed both the boys now. He needed Chase for his long term plans and Marcus for his short term plans.
Besides Douglas could always make more and more androids.
"You know me and you make a pretty good team. We should seriously start attending those father and son supervillain seminars I keep getting emails about." Douglas was still joking and Chase playfully rolled his eyes in response, smiling. "We do make a good team dad which leads me onto my next point."
"Why do I still have Marcus as my brother? I mean I make a pretty great team by myself and you've seen how ugly our fights can get. And you also know that two brothers constantly at each other's throats isn't going to turn out pretty. Example: you and uncle Donnie." Chase could do everything by himself. In fact he did take over two small countries two weeks ago when Marcus got stuck with the flu and couldn't even get up let alone cause any destruction.
"Look no one knows better than me how ugly two brothers fighting can get. But at the end of the day he's a weapon and so are you so for now I would suggest you ignore him and just take out all rage at him during training. And if you're really annoyed then do what Donnie did with me when we were younger." Douglas paused for a moment before continuing. "Build a robot to beat him up." And at that point, he looked away from Chase, his voice breaking because of the painful memories.
To his surprise, Chase just snorted and raised an eyebrow. "Your brother built a robot to beat you up?" That was surprising but as much as Chase could build a robot, one blast from Marcus' heat vision would render it useless.
"Hey El Fisto Roboto was as cruel as he was cold. He gave me more wedgies than all the high school bullies combinedever did."
"El Fisto Roboto? What did he throw hot salsa at your face as well?"
"No!" He paused. "He threw pillows at me." Douglas replied weakly but at this point Chase was just fed up of the conversation so he put his hands up to try and stop it. "You know what forget I even asked about Marcus, I'll just deal with him myself."
"You do know that when I capture Adam and Bree, you'll have a brother, right?" Douglas asked but Chase just shook his head. "Yeah but Adam's about as smart as bag of bricks so he'll be easier to push around and Bree probably won't annoy me." Seemingly satisfied with the answer, Douglas just nodded and shrugged his head.
And Chase wanted to move away from the conversation of siblings so he asked about his dad's latest invention. "So what exactly are you building?" Douglas picked up what seemed like a small cylinder inside and hour glass type box.
"Glad you asked Chase. You see the inner tube right here? Once opened, it releases a bunch of nanobots that can do anything I program them to do. And that could range from cleaning the windows to taking over any piece of technology like a virus and giving me full control. The possibilities are endless."
He wasn't going to lie, Chase was genuinely somewhat impressed with the invention but he knew that he could and would make some improvements to it. After all, he was the smartest man in the world. Although he couldn't say that in front of his dad because apparently "your bionics are what makes you smart Chase and if I gave them to you, I can also take them away."
"But I do need your help in making it deadlier so you have until this Saturday to wow me or it's Triton App time!" Douglas did a little dance at the end of the statement but Chase wasn't happy or in the mood to dance. He didn't actually know what the Triton App did. Just that he made his dad pretty happy whenever he used it and Chase could never remember what happened when the app was activated. So he figured it was a mind wiping app or something.
But he hated not being in control of his own body and bionics so he just silently nodded as he kept the device to the side and watched as Douglas went up the stairs.
Douglas came back after thirty seconds. "Oh and keep your Friday night free. It's when that meeting I was talking to you about upstairs is." And with that Douglas was finally gone and Chase felt like he could breathe. He would have to work on the nanobots soon or it would be the Triton App.
Upstairs, Marcus was doing homework as he listened to some guitar riffs playing softly in the background. While he could join his dad and brother, he didn't really care much for being the third wheel in their father and son time. Besides it was nice for him to have some time for himself.
Marcus could also use his intelligence and speed to do his homework in one minute but he preferred to just use his intelligence and do it all slowly so he wouldn't be bored and forced to go downstairs. After about ten minutes, Trigonometry was boring him so he switched to Chemistry. But after just five minutes, Chemistry was boring him too, so he chucked his books aside and headed to the kitchen to grab left over pizza from the night before.
Pizza Night was the one day a week that he looked forward too. The other nights were training and hearing Chase' endless taunts about how he was more powerful and having his dad just stand there. Either he was listening and smiling or just not listening at all.
He could cause as much damage as Chase could and he was a lot more powerful. Chase got tired if he used his bionics in excess but he didn't. Well not a quickly anyway. But did their dad care about that. Nope. He only cared is poor Chasey wasn't too injured or about to burn his chip.
Pizza without television was getting boring so Marcus grabbed the remote and switched it on, putting on an episode of Funeral Mishaps. Another small light in his life. He wanted to call somebody and go out some place. And pretend he was a normal teenage boy for once. He had some friends too since he managed to make friends as opposed to Chase who was more focused on capturing Adam and Bree.
But who to call? Matthew? Logan? Sebastian?(1) Out of all of those, Sebastian seemed the most fun and he actually had some things in common with him but he acted way too much like Chase at times.
Gee even his inner thoughts were somehow linked to Chase. Great.
Maybe his social life could wait a bit and he could just keep watching the TV and playing the guitar for a bit.
Another 10 minutes passed by and as soon as Marcus was about to telekinetically bring his guitar over, he could hear Douglas coming up the stairs. And surprise, surprise, no smug Chase behind him.
"What? No favourite son behind this time? Have the inseparable father and son pair finally separated?" Douglas just rolled his eyes at his other son. "No I've just given him a job to do so he's going to stay down there for a while. Or at least come back up later in few minutes anyway. But what's got you so snarky and moody."
"Two reasons: I am a teenage boy and I live with you so I consider this a coping mechanism."
"Chase doesn't act like that."
"Yeah well Chase doesn't know how to be normal and he's the only one who benefits from your ego around here."
But before Douglas could defend himself, Chase super speeded upstairs. "Marcus what are you complaining about now?" He smirked but instead of a response, he just got a grunt and a forced sigh before he walked off into his own room.
"Chase I need you to move faster with this plan and get yourself invited to my brother's house and plant the cameras and explosives. Or at least get Marcus to do it, preferably both. The point is that I don't care who does it, I just want it done."
"Well I guess I could try and get me and Marcus invited over for dinner or something. Shouldn't be too hard, Adam and Bree already love us. Leo does too, I'm sure but he doesn't trust us but it's two, soon to be three against one so it's still not a problem." Chase explained.
"Good. Also, the Bialyian dictator needs your help. So super speed over there now or I lose a lot of money." Douglas placed his hand firmly on Chase's shoulder. "About 15 million so speed over there now and fast." Chase didn't know if it was the fear talking or what but he knew that it was in his best interest to get moving and soon he was gone too, leaving Douglas all alone in the living room.
Authors Note: Okay that was a lot of thinking but there is going to be action in the next chapters and the chapters after that are going to pack in a lot of action in them as well as have some cute bonding moments between various characters.
Now was that Sebastian from the show or an OC? I'm going to answer that pretty soon so keep reading!
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