Here's the next chapter, as promised! :D Now the action starts in this one, so I hope that you like it! The soundtrack for this is: 'Hero' by Skillet, 'Rise' by Skillet, and also 'Not Gonna' Die'. Doesn't necessarily have to go in that order, but do what you want! ;) Anyway, I'll hopefully update later today, so keep your eyes out for that! ;D
Disclaimer: I do not own this. I really don't. So like seriously, just stop.
He awoke to a loud blaring sound, and immediately clutched his ears, as he couldn't adjust to it so easily from his sleep.
He opened his eyes, trying to shake off the rather rude awakening that still left his hands trembling as his ears adjusted to it. He slowly opened the capsule and stepped out, wincing at the extreme alarm pulsating in the air above him.
He moved over to the cyber desk, and only then did he realize that most the pain was gone from his 'fight' with Trent and his gang. Chase opened up the mission alert and his heart plummeted.
There were three hostages being held at one of Davenport's facilities; they were his top three scientists. And Chase knew immediately who had done it. Chase was just about to go and get the others, when the elevator doors dinged; and Adam, Bree, Leo and Donald all walked over to him in rush.
"We got the mission alert," Bree said and Chase nodded.
"Okay, I'll get the coordinates and plans, and then send them to your chip, Chase, why don't you guys get in your capsules and change into your mission suits." Donald said and the three nodded before heading to their capsules.
Chase stepped out at the same time as the others and winced as he felt the coordinates enter his chip. Donald started explaining the details to the others, when Chase zoned out from the real world, and brought up the missions plans in his head.
He liked the first part of it; they arrive there, Bree uses her invisibility app and super-speeds around the facility looking for any cameras or enemies, while the others work on getting through the front door, since Adam wouldn't be able to use his super-strength to break down the doors due to Donald's engineering to stop intruders.
But Chase then frowned at the rest of the plan; get in and get out with the hostages, leaving no time to take down their attacker, because when he realizes just what exactly he was up against, he should back down, Donald had claimed in the information. Then Bree would super speed the scientists to one of Davenport's hospitals.
But Chase didn't feel safe with that plan.
He had a bad feeling he knew exactly who it was, and they weren't going to back down so easily.
What they needed to do, was to prepare for a long and hard battle with the hostages' captor. He was suddenly snapped out of his thoughts, quite literally his thoughts, by Donald. "Chase, you need to go!" He said and Chase looked at everyone watching him impatiently.
"Oh, oh, yeah. Let's go," He said rather quickly, and grabbed onto Bree's arm like Adam had already done.
In a matter of seconds they arrived at the facility, and they all went to work; Bree speeding around the building, Adam watching Chase's back as Chase, himself, went to work on getting the door open; as Donald didn't use keys at his facilities and only eye-retina scans from himself and his employees.
Chase tried to preoccupy his mind with the details of getting the door open, but that nagging sense of doom kept coming to the forefront of his mind and grabbing his attention.
His fingers fumbled and he slipped up on disabling the scanner, causing a wire to jerk and nearly break. Stupid cautious side, he mentally yelled at himself and only jerked yet again at Adam's voice.
"Dude, are you okay?" He questioned and Chase's jaw clenched.
"I'm fine, now go back to your watching post!" He growled out, and immediately wished his words back at Adam's shocked and hurt face.
"S-sorry, just asking." He mumbled before walking away and Chase sighed. He hadn't meant to be so rude, it was just that with the way the day had turned out to be, and that stupid sense of doom that kept trying to overtake his senses, he was starting to get annoyed.
"Yes!" He exclaimed quietly as he finally got the wires disabled and the door gently swung open. Just then, with perfect timing, Bree came speeding back, and they all three walked into the building when she shook her head.
The room was ominously pitch dark and quiet. He frowned as they kept walking in, already in their fighting stances and glancing over at every object in the room.
They were a ways in, when they spotted the hostages tied up and gagged in the middle of the floor, with a soft light illuminating them. Chase frowned at the blatantly obvious act, and glanced around the room a couple more times while his siblings went ahead and untied them.
He activated his super-hearing, fighting past the obnoxiously loud sounds of feet scuffling and ropes breaking, and listening for any other heartbeats in the room. He frowned, as none seemed to be with a ten mile radius of them. He looked over to his siblings and waved them on to get the hostages out.
"Chase, aren't you coming?" Bree asked as she paused in escorting out the scientists. He nodded.
"Yeah, but I want to look around first," He said and she frowned.
"But Mr. Davenport said to get in and get out; anything else could be too dangerous." Adam said and Chase sighed.
"I know, I know. But I just feel like there is more to this than meets the eye," Chase explained and Adam and Bree both nodded.
"Okay, but if you're not out within two minutes, I'm coming back in and super-speeding everyone back home." She declared before walking out with Adam and the others.
Chase took a cautious step forward and glanced around the empty room. He looked around every little thing, trying to pick up on any little detail to prove that whom Chase had thought had done this, was correct.
He even activated his fingerprint scanner, and found nothing other than that of the scientists; that was certainly suspicious.
A minute went by, plenty of time for him to look around, and for a moment he almost thought that maybe Mr. Davenport had been right. But then that unsettling feeling returned to his stomach and he knew that that wasn't the case. He just knew that this was a trap.
Over two minutes had passed by now, and he was just about to make his way out to check on them, when suddenly two hands appeared behind him and slipped on bionic-disrupting handcuffs, too fast to be an ordinary human.
He quickly turned around, and found no one to be there, but his hands still stuck behind his back, he heard a 'whoosh' sound, and immediately turned around to find Adam and Bree right in front of him, in the same predicament he was in. They were struggling to break free, and when they looked up, they were suddenly shocked by their new surroundings.
"What happened?" Adam asked as he tried to break free, but not being able to, and even though Chase didn't have his super-senses at the moment, due to the handcuffs, he was used to having them, therefore he could pick up on the being in the shadows beside them all.
"Krane," He growled out, and ignored the fear that raced up and down his spine as the maniac laughed.
"Very good, Chase. I wondered if you had suspected my intervening with this all." He said as he walked out of the shadows, revealing his mangled face, and stepped closer to Chase.
"Only a man with super-smarts could figure that out. I understand that you tried to use your bionic-hearing to pick up on my heartbeat, correct?" Chase just glared at him, wondering how on earth he knew that.
"I figured you would. You see, I used one of my special abilities to cover up my heartbeat and fingerprints. Pretty genius stuff, isn't it?" He asked and Chase's jaw clenched.
"What do you want with us, Krane? This is too elaborate for a battle, even for you," Chase stated and Krane merely grinned.
"My, my, Chase, you are quite the prodigy aren't you? Already figuring out my plan. If only everyone else realized how brilliant you are," Krane said with a sigh, and Adam and Bree exchanged puzzled glances, while Chase merely glared at Krane.
"That isn't going to work on me, Krane." He ground out; already knowing what he was trying to do. Krane took a step closer until he was nearly in his face, but Chase never flinched nor looked away.
"Are you sure about that," He paused and smirked, "Davenweak?" He questioned, and Chase's heart skipped a beat, shock rolling off of him in waves, and he was sure his face held the same feeling.
"Y-you know about that?" He stuttered out, realizing that Krane must have been there. Krane smiled.
"Dear Chase," He started, mockingly offended as he placed one hand over his heart, and the other one on Chase's shoulder. "I invented that term." He said, and Chase's heart nearly stopped completely. It couldn't be...
"No..." He breathed out in shock. "You couldn't have been," Chase said and Krane smiled yet again. Chase wondered just what exactly Adam and Bree were thinking.
"Now, Chase, who else besides Adam would possess such strength to hurdle you into those lockers?" Chase's jaw tightened and for the first time he looked away.
"Where is Trent?" Chase asked, changing the subject, and Krane frowned.
"Do you seriously care what happened to your bully? To the one who mocks and-"
"Where is Trent?" He grounded out, and Krane took a step back at the threatening tone of Chase's voice.
"He's at home. He was sick with the flu." Krane's smile grew back. "How convenient he got sick the same day I decided to attack you," Krane said and Chase glared at him.
"Yeah. Almost too convenient." He said and Krane chuckled.
"Back to the real reason as to why you're all here," He began as he took another step back. "I will release you soon enough; as my plans to take you down aren't yet complete. But you still won't leave until some...damage is done." Krane said and Chase scoffed.
"What? Are you gonna' torture us?" Chase questioned in almost a mocking tone, and paid no mind to the looks on Adam and Bree's faces that possessed the feeling, 'really, genius? Give him ideas, why don't you!?'.
He didn't care.
This is what a leader does; he'd learned from his past experiences that it helped to act overly confident. Just not in every situation, otherwise that could definitely get him into some trouble. But he had forgotten all about his black eye, which had probably kind of ruined his act.
"No. Well," Krane paused, a snide smile making it's way into his face, and Chase felt a shiver of fear run up and down his spine at the look. "Not physically." He finished, and before he could even try and process the meanings and possibilities of that statement, a blue electricity shot out from Krane's hands and encompassed them all in a pit of darkness.
Ta-da! Did anyone know that it was Krane!? That Trent was Krane, or that Krane would be the hostages' captor!? Please let me know in the comments! Does anybody have any idea just what exactly Krane's talking about? If you figure it out I'll give you a shout-out in the next chapter! :D