Chapter 3: Magnetically Chained

Running home had exhausted Leo, yet he needed to find Mr. Davenport before the two bionic kids at the football field drew too much attention. Leo banged the door, but Eddy refused to open it. Leo groaned, he hated the house's security system. Finally, Eddy unlocked the door once Leo started begging and was about to run into the door.

"Lazy is already too tired," Eddy marked as Leo ran into the couch instead of the door. Leo was also breathing heavily from all the running.

"Eddy," Leo growled at the screen, desperate to turn it off, "I will take your wires and tear them like Adam did before if you do not tell me where Mr. Davenport is."

Robotic laughter just emerged from the screen, "Oh no! I am so scared."

Leo moaned. He liked sarcasm, but not in a situation like this. He glanced in Mr. Davenport's office, and Mr. Davenport was not there. He was not in his bedroom either. Suddenly, Leo remembered the lab. A slight smile formed on his face as he walked out of the technology-filled room.

Leo took a deep breath as he stalked to the hidden elevator. He needed to find Mr. Davenport. Both Bree and Adam were glitching like crazy! Leo shut his eyes as he tried to ignore the horrible elevator music. Mr. Davenport still hadn't changed it, despite the house crashing down before. It seemed that the music had survived the explosion, though Leo desperately wished it hadn't.

As the elevator door opened, Leo felt his thigh try to pull him back to the wall. As he tried to resist the force, his wrist started restraining him too. Leo growled. This couldn't be happening, not when he was so close!

Leo tried to resist, yet it wouldn't work. The force pushing against him was too strong. It felt like Adam was pinning him onto the wall. Leo sighed, trying to at least peek into the lab.

"Why?!" Leo yelled to the ceiling. Why did everything have to happen to him?

"Leo," a voice Leo automatically recognized as Chase called out to him from inside the lab. "Is that you?"

The voice was a bit unsteady and weak, yet Leo didn't notice the difference.

"I can't get in the lab!" Leo screamed back. He felt like running away, squealing like a girl, as he first did when he saw the Lab Rats.

"Leo," Leo could hear Chase sigh, almost as if in defeat. "Take out any metal you have on yourself and walk inside."

Leo scrunched his eyebrows, confused with the request. Still, Leo did as he was told, taking his phone out of his pocket and his watch off of his wrist. Suddenly, it felt like the weight holding Leo back disappeared. With caution, the boy walked into the lab, unaware of what he would see.

At first, Leo only saw the lab trashed. The desks were bordering the room, almost hugging the walls. The computers were fried. The capsules were oddly twisted. Also, the floor had huge dents, the cracks between each shape lengthening. Leo's anxiety slowly turned into anger as he thought of all the work that built the workplace. Now, it was all ruined!

Then, Leo looked up and gasped. In the middle of the room, hovering in midair, was Chase. All of the bionic's concentration was wasted sustaining a force field around himself.

"Chase!?" Leo screamed in shock. This was definitely not what he was expecting before, Mr. Davenport doing something embarrassing or Eddy just pulling another weird prank.

"Leo, I don't know why, but my Magnetism App is glitching," Chase said. Leo noticed the force field around him flickered a bit. Still, before Leo could ask, Chase had an answer, "Everything magnetic is drifting away from me. The force field is preventing me from getting crushed by the force, as well as keeping the magnetic objects in the room."

Looking around the lab, Leo nodded. It didn't seem like Chase's force field was working, yet Leo knew better than to doubt his words.

"Adam and Bree are glitching too," Leo said, surprised at how calm he sounded. Inside, he was freaking out, throwing an internal tantrum.

"Really?" Chase dropped his hands a bit and the force field weakened. Suddenly, Leo could feel the magnetic force in the room between the boy and the magnetic objects in the room.

"Chase!" Leo yelled, scared for his life. "Your force field!"

Chase sighed and lifted his hands up again, "I am getting tired Leo."

Leo suddenly got an idea, "Can't you use your Magnetism App and counteract the force, balancing the magnetism in the room?"

Chase looked at Leo. His eyes were big and wide like an owl's, "I can try, but not at the same time I have my force field out! And, if I let go of the force field, I will get crushed along with more stuff in the room."

"Try it!" Leo begged the bionic. "You have used two bionics at once before."

Suddenly, Chase closed his eyes. His hand was slowly raising in front of him. The force field flickered a bit more though both Leo and Chase didn't care.

"Activate Magnetism App."

Leo stood in awe as the desks fell a bit from the wall. It was then that Leo realized that they weren't on the ground before. Still, Chase didn't seem to have enough power to counteract the force of the glitch yet.

"Try harder!" Leo screamed at him. To Leo's surprise, he sounded angry. Yet, Leo couldn't control his emotions. There were three bionics glitching, one destroyed lab, and two missing parents!

Leo held his breath as he saw the force field flicker more. Chase's eyes began to droop, and in a minute, the boy was unconscious. As Chase hit the ground gaining additional injuries, the other metal objects that were floating in the air hit the ground too. Using two bionics at once had exhausted Chase. Luckily, as Chase fell unconscious, the glitch disappeared too.

For a brief second, Leo felt at peace. Then, he realized that Adam and Bree were still glitching, the boy in front of him was barely breathing, and Mr. Davenport was still missing.

A/N: Sorry for the delay. I was out of town for the past two weeks, and I have a bit of jet lag now. However, I do plan to continue and finish this story. Thanks for the reviews, etc. They really encourage me to write more.