Mr. Davenport pulled up the live recording from the security camera the next morning, but he and his waiting family were astounded to see only an empty metal room, a rectangle with burned sides cut into one wall.

Startled comments exploded from the Davenports and Leo, but the billionaire quickly calmed them down.

"What happened? Did Chase discover that he has laser vision now too?" Adam asked in annoyance.

"Why would Chase escape? He locked himself up so that he couldn't get out, even if he wanted to," Bree said, frowning.

"Maybe he finally cracked (which didn't take long)," Leo commented.

"Or maybe it was Spike who escaped," Bree theorized.

"Let's look at the tapes from earlier and find out," Mr. Davenport said, retrieving the wanted files.

They started where they had last seen Chase and worked forward from there. They sped through him doing more pacing, sitting, laying down, and more glitches than they could count. Finally, at four a.m., Chase got up and was fighting a holographic figure, but after a few exchanges, he shut off the hologram and simply stood there angrily. He instead started practicing his basic forms and worked his way up.

It really got interesting when he froze and looked to the wall, and the rest of his family followed his lead, seeing someone from the outside begin to cut through the metal with a laser. Mr. Davenport slowed the tape to normal speed.

"Someone broke in!" Bree exclaimed. "They kidnapped Chase!"

Chase said something, and in a few moments the metal that was being cut out of the wall fell inwards, revealing a figure that they couldn't see on the camera because of their position.

Chase looked to be talking to the mysterious person, and slowly the person walked into the room, stepping over the slab of the thick metal wall laying on the ground.

"It's Evil Uncle-Daddy!" Adam exclaimed.

"Douglas," Mr. Davenport cursed, and they watched intently as the bionic and his evil father had a conversation. Chase's family wished more than ever that they could hear what was being said.

To their astonishment, the two on screen shook hands, and Chase in turn followed Douglas out of the room and out of view.

"Did we just watch Chase go over to the dark side?" Leo asked disbelievingly.

"It's got to be some kind of trick – maybe he wanted us to think that he went with Douglas. He might be acting as a double agent again," Bree suggested hopefully.

"No," Mr. Davenport said softly, and everyone turned to look at him. "I doubt Chase even knows about the security cameras – otherwise he would've made sure we couldn't watch him."

"So Chase really went with Douglas?" Adam asked, dumbfounded.

"I guess," Mr. Davenport said, looking down in hurt and shame. I guess I really screwed up, he thought to himself mournfully.

"So how long have you been out of your capsule?" Douglas asked Chase as he guided the visually impaired bionic. To Douglas' benefit, Chase's super-sight had glitched (causing him to see only in large pixels) while they were still in the helicopter, and even then in Douglas' lair Chase's sight hadn't yet returned.

"Something else the records don't tell you when you stalk us?" Chase retorted snidely.

"No, and must we go over this again? I'm not stalking!"

"Whatever."

"I seriously need to know, how long has it been since you've been in your capsule?"

"About fifteen hours."

"And Donnie tried fixing you the day before?"

"Yes."

"And you reinserted your chip that night?"

"Yes. Why are you interrogating me? What does this matter?"

"Because it means my older brother is stupid and knows next to nothing about your bionics. You can't just alter a chip, you have to also alter the capsule; otherwise it will repair the chip. It was in the process of doing just that when you were awoken, I assume, so being stuck in an in-between stage, your chip is malfunctioning. And because your cell had no capsule, you couldn't have recharged or repaired, so you probably would have worn away within the next couple of weeks, if that," Douglas explained effortlessly.

Chase was impressed. He would need to report to Mr. Davenport this new information.

"Okay, step carefully, we are going down stairs," Douglas warned Chase, who nodded somewhat appreciatively. "You can't afford an elevator?" the bionic asked mockingly, prodding his biological father verbally.

"No, I can't, not yet," Douglas pouted.

At that moment Chase's vision returned and he said "Okay, the glitch is over, so you can let go of me." He quickly shook off the man's grasp as he voiced that statement. Douglas looked hurt, but not surprised.

They reached the bottom of the stairs, and after a couple of crude hallways and a heavy metal door, they walked into a lab similar to Mr. Davenport's, but it certainly had a darker feeling to it. Chase suppressed a chill of foreboding.

"Why don't you go into the middle capsule over there so that I can extract your chip," Douglas instructed. "You can sleep in there while I work on your chip and recalibrate the capsule."

Chase gave him a grateful look, doing as he was told. He noticed that a chip extractor was already in the capsule. Before he could say a word, he heard the capsule lock up, and his heart rate doubled. Oh no, I was wrong about him!

"Douglas let me out!" he screamed through the glass, but his diabolical captor simply smiled sadistically, hitting a button on his cyber desk. Immediately some kind of gas filled the capsule, and with that, Chase fell unconscious.

AN: This is where it gets good! It's a little AU, but that's what FanFiction is for, right? Oh, and to answer possible future questions, Douglas didn't know why Chase was in the facility but had a chip extractor ready anyways... suspicious? Don't worry if you didn't catch that, I missed it too as I was rereading this from six(ish) months ago - and I wrote it :S

Many of you predicted something along these lines, and a shout out to ShyMusic, who is practically psychic - Evil Uncle-Daddy! By the way, and this might be getting annoying by now, but thank you yet again for all the kind reviews, the favorites, and the follows! I can't forget about ya because you all make my day (even though I don't reply because I don't dare spoil anything!)

So, on that note... what's going to happen next? You'll have to wait until Chapter 16 to find out! See you all then!