Chapter 5: Nano-bites Good or Bad
Finally Donald had figured it out. He injected Adam and Chase with nano-bites programmed to repair their chips. The first couple hours was rather painful for both brothers. Bee at with Adam and Leo sat with Chase. Donald, when he wasn't sneezing his head off, watched the monitors to keep track of the nano-bites progress.
Since Donald had been able to get out of bed he had not rested and it had begun to show. Tasha was getting worried.
"Donald, just take a short rest. I'm sure Douglas wouldn't mind watching the monitors for a little while." Tasha said and Douglas nodded in agreement.
"No. No. I caused this I need to stay and make sure they are ok." Donald said and turned his attention back to the monitors.
By the next morning both Adam and Chase had both stopped glitching. Chase was out of bed and able to leave the med units. But chose to stay until he knew Adam was ok. Donald had went to bed, as soon as both boys were awake and arguing like usual, and no one had heard from him the entire day.
When Adam got the glasses off and could see normal again he was as mischievous as he could be being he was still stuck in bed with his leg. "Hey Bree." Adam said and tossed her a bed pan he had poured his apple juice in.
Bree caught the pan, but when the liquid sloshed onto her hand she dropped it. "Adam, that's gross." She shouted at him and then realized when she had dropped the bed pan she had spilt the liquid all over her shoes and jeans. She let out an aggravated squeal and stomped off.
Even though it hurt some Adam still busted out laughed. "Bree got some pee pee." Adam laughed out across the med unit as she went out of sight. Adam was still laughing when Chase walked over to Adam's bed. "Did you see that bro?" Adam asked pointing in the direction Bree had went. "She went all eww and it was just apple juice. This is great. I have been pranking Bree, Leo, and Mr. Davenport all day and none of them will try to prank me back because they feel sorry for me."
Chase made his laugh seem as real as possible. He wasn't sure if Adam was really as ok with his situation as he seemed or if it was an act. "They are just trying to be nice. Cut them little slack." Chase said understanding why they wouldn't prank Adam back.
"But if I do that they will think I'm not ok. So… Chase can you help me fix this sheet." Adam asked.
"Sure." Chase said and walked up to Adams bed. When he did Adam pulled out a can of shaving cream and sprayed it all over Chase's face.
"Where did you get shaving cream?" Chase asked aggravated.
"I got to stay clean shaven." Adam said rubbing his face with a big grin.
"You are impossible." Chase said angrily, but then smiled. "At least I know you're ok."
It was almost a week before Chase was able to go on missions again and they came in full force. The only thing that slowed him down was the darn cold he had. He seemed to sneeze at the most inopportune times.
Adam had started healing well and was able to get the pins out of his leg and ankle. It took a second surgery, but he went through it well. Since the pins were out he was able to get out of bed and on crutches. He was also able to start therapy. The therapy was a lot harder then he had thought it would be and he was struggling at having so many limitations. They had discovered his bones were healing normal, but his muscles not being used in a few weeks weren't gaining strength or movement as quickly as the therapist and doctors would have liked. But when Bree, Leo, and Chase were there everything was fine. He had made Douglas and Donald promise not to tell Bree, Chase, or Leo about his issues in therapy. He hated hearing about the missions too, but didn't tell them that either.
Then they told Adam that if he didn't start improving faster the doctors would be forced to do another operation. Adam got scared this time and tried to sneak off the island, but was caught by Bree.
"Where are you going?" Bree asked right before Adam was able to get on the hydroloop.
Adam cringed at being caught. "Umm. I decided I wanted cheeseburger."
Then Donald walked in on Bree and Adam. "Adam, where are you going? They have been looking for you for an hour to prep you for surgery." Donald said forgetting his promise to Adam.
"Surgery? What surgery?" Bree asked concerned.
This time Donald cringed. "Sorry Adam."
"It doesn't matter now. Guess I'll go get hacked up again. Three strikes I'm out." Adam said sounding really down heading toward the med unit on his crutches.
Donald felt really bad when he realized how scared Adam was of having a third surgery. "Adam, maybe there is a different solution. Let me talk to Douglas."
Adam smiled. "Yes sir Mr. Davenport."
Donald and Douglas teamed up and after working on it most of the day finally figured out a way to reprogram Adams nano-bites to heal his leg faster.
Chase was sitting with Adam trying to convince him that burping the alphabet backward was not a good way to impress girls. "Ok Adam you ready? This shouldn't hurt." Donald told Adam attaching some leads to his temples. "The most you should feel is tiny shock."
Donald walked to the side and picked up his tablet. Chase started to walk away, but Adam grabbed his arm and stopped him. "Chase don't you want to stay and see me get shocked?" Adam asked.
Adams eyes looked desperate so Chase just shrugged. "Fine, it might be fun to watch you squirm some." Then Chase punched Adams arm.
"Ouch." Adam said surprised Chase had got in a sneak punch. He started to punch Chase in the gut, but Chase grabbed his hand stopping the punch. When the brother's hands touched the leads on Adams temples shocked him and his hand shocked Chase's. They both hollered out, "Owe."
Donald looked up from his tablet. He hadn't seen what had just happed he had just heard the two bickering as usual. "Ok, it's done. Adam, your nano-bites should start healing the bone in your leg and then will move down to you ankle to repair it. Hopefully you will be healed enough to try therapy again."
"And then I will be able to chase down Chase. Ha ha. Chase down Chase. It's like it was meant for me to chase you Chase." Adam said and laid back his head laughing.
Not amused Chase crossed his arms and rolled his eyes. "Mr. Davenport, can't you program the nano-bites to repair Adam's since of humor?" Chase asked and headed toward the door.
"Oh did I hurt little Chasey's feelings?" Adam mocked Chase even holding his nose so he sounded stopped up like Chase.
Chase stopped at the door and looked back at Adam. "No I just need to talk to someone with a brain." Chase said and then left. He shook his head as he walked toward the training area. He would never admit it but he did miss having Adam on missions and in training. Chases thoughts were interrupted by him letting out a loud sneeze.
"Chase is here." Leo said and Bree laughed.
"It's not funny. This cold is driving me nuts. I can't breathe, my throat is always scratchy, my nose runs constantly, and this infernal sneezing. Leo I am so sorry for the time I called you a wimp for complaining about your cold." Chase vented.
"Oh it's ok." Leo said putting his arm around Chase's shoulders which was very uncharacteristic of Leo unless he wanted something.
Chase removed Leo's arm from his shoulder. "What do you want Leo?" Chase asked in a lower more serious tone.
"Who says I want anything?" Leo said and almost a squeak.
Bree stepped in. "Yeah, who says Leo wants anything? Maybe he was just being nice because you are such a great brother."
Chase looked at Bree skeptically. Now he knew that something was up. "Ok, just spill. What do you two want?"
Bree rolled her eyes. "We can't get anything past you since you're so smart." Bree smiled a sweet smile. Chase just stared at her. "We want you to unlock some abilities for us. You know as good as I do we need the extra help without Adam on the missions with us."
"I can't do that Bree. First, I would get into so much trouble. Second, since the little Sebastian incident Mr. Davenport and Douglas both changed the codes. You know we could just tell Mr. Davenport how hard the missions are without Adam." Chase told Bree.
"Chase, you know we can't do that. What if we do and Mr. Davenports gets one of the students to help? Adam might think we are replacing. Then he'll never come back." Bree said. He lip had started to quiver.
"Then I guess we'll just have to keep going like we are until Adam comes back." Chase said. Leo and Bree just frowned. Then the mission alarm sounded. "That's our queue." Chase and the three went to suite up.
It was almost six hours before they returned from the mission. When they stepped off the hydroloop they were met by Mr. Davenport. They could tell by his expression that he had another mission for them.
"Big D. Look at you worrying and making sure we got back ok." Leo said messing with Donald.
"Leo you know that not it. I wish that's all it was. An emergency just came up. The satellite that controls the space station Helio was hit by lightening. It is now unsecure. The same storm blocked the road out to it so no crewmen can get the proper equipment out there to repair it. You three are the only chance to get it secure. If it loses its signal with the space station the station and its crew could hurl uncontrollably out into space or get caught in earth's gravitational pull and plummet to the ground." Mr. Davenport explained to them. Wasting no time he helped them get the equipment they needed together and saw them off in the Davencopter C-12 (a larger version of the original Davencopter).
When they arrived at the dish they could hear it creaking on its almost shattered base.
"It's about to go. I'll use my molecularkenesis to stabilize the dish, Leo you lift and hold the new base in place, and Bree you attach the base to the dish as quickly as you can." Chase said and the two went straight to work doing what they were told.
Bree and Leo were a little over half way done with the repairs and Chase was still holding the dish stable when a shooting pain surged through his head and chip. He let out a moan of pain, grabbed his head, and dropped to his knees. He didn't lose his concentration though. Leo heard Chase and looked over at him. "Bree, hurry! Something is wrong with Chase." Leo shouted to her.
Chase held the dish as long as he could, but when another wave of pain shot through his head and chip he lost his hold on the dish and collapsed to the ground.
Bree had tightened the last bolt just in time. As soon as she and Leo had gotten down from the dish she super sped over to Chase's side. "Chase, are you ok?" She asked touching Chase lightly.
Chase moaned and tried to stand, but grabbed his head instead. "Owwe." He groaned again as Bree and Leo both helped him to his feet.
"What's going on?" Leo asked.
Chase was still a little hazy from his headache. "I'm not sure. It might be I'm not fully recuperated from my cold and have used by bionics too much."
"Well let's get back and get some rest." Bree said. She was worn out herself. It seemed all they had done lately was sleep and go on missions. She was almost looking forward to school starting back up in a couple weeks. Hoping maybe Mr. Davenport would give them a break and start letting the students at the academy help.
They got into the Davencopter C-12. Chase thought he was feeling better so like usual he synced his GPS to the helicopter so it could auto-pilot them back to the island. Then another pain shot through Chases head. He grabbed his head with one hand and hit the seat with the other hand. He cried out. "Bree make it stop."
Leo was in the pilot seat and noticed the GPS had gone haywire and the helicopter was now preparing to land in the middle of the ocean. "Bree what's going on back there?" Leo asked
Bree, half panicked answered Leo. "Chase is having another headache. It's causing his chip to glitch."
"I'm going to manual so we don't land in the ocean." Leo said in a commanding tone taking over the controls.
"Ok." Then Bree's eyes got big. "Wait, Do you know how to fly this thing?" Bree asked sounding even more panicked.
"Oh Bree, Of course I do. Big D has been training me." Then in a lower tone added. "On the simulator."
Bree calmed down until she realized the last part of what Leo had just said. "The simulator? Leo this is not the simulator!"
As Leo took over the controls and successfully stopped the helicopter from landing in the ocean Leo calmly said. "I was highest scorer for in air flight even during attacks. And that was against Big D and Douglas. I only have trouble with one part." He voice started to sound nervous as the island came into sight.
"And what part was that?" Bree asked sounding a little calmer herself. She was still trying to comfort a moaning Chase.
"The landing." Leo squeaked wide eyed and pointed to the island almost under them.
"Get on the radio and see if you can get Mr. Davenport or Douglas to talk you down." Bree said. She was scared but she was more worried for her brother. He was pale, clammy, and had started to the face that came before a pain. She rubbed his forehead not knowing what else to do . Chase's eyes shot open and hollered out in pain again grabbing his head with both hands.
As Leo reached for the radio control he heard Chase holler and the radio sparked. "Uh, oh." Leo said.
Bree looked up at the front to see the radio box smoking. Try your comm." Bree suggested.
Leo tried his but got nothing. "Bree it's dead." He said in a frantic tone.
Bree tried hers. "Mine's dead too. You're just going to have to do the best you can. Leo, Chase needs you."
Leo whined a little. "Why me?" Then he collected himself, took a deep breath, and focused. "You can do this Leo." He said to himself.
"Bree . I got. I'm going to land us." Leo said with a smile. He almost had the helicopter on the ground.
Bree smiled also, but her smile quickly turned to terror when Chase hollered out in pain again and she saw the stick being jerked out of Leo's hands.
Leo looked at his empty hands and screamed his most girly scream. Then he held tightly to his seat belt. "We better brace ourselves we're about to crash…" Leo said right before the helicopter slammed into the landing pad. Will the three make it out of the crash? How is Adam? What will he do if they don't?