"Where can they be?" Bree exclaimed in annoyance.
"Maybe you could let me take a shot? I am the mission specialist, so I know this computer like the back of my hand," Leo said proudly, taking Bree's place at the computer monitor.
"You know the back of your hand? What's its name?" Adam asked in fascinated curiosity.
The younger teenagers rolled their eyes, Bree snapping "Adam! It's just an expression!" Bree had noticed right away that things were different when Chase was gone. For starters, now she was the one stuck with correcting all of Adam's (literally) mindless comments and questions.
Twenty minutes later, Leo hadn't been able to come up with anything that they didn't already know, and the younger two groaned in defeat.
"Why don't we just ask Mr. Davenport for help?" Adam asked.
"Because Big D already gave up," Leo said angrily, and it was for the most part true. Since they had seen the video clip of Chase and Douglas, the billionaire had been moping around the place in visible distraught, looking for any excuse to leave the house so that he wouldn't be reminded of his absent nephew.
"This is a rescue mission – we have to rescue our brother from Douglas, even if we're on our own," Bree explained. "Chase may have chosen to go with Douglas, but we can still try to talk him out of it and help him realize his mistake."
"Assuming we can find them!" Leo burst out in frustration, pounding his fist on the desk. "Owww…" he said quietly in his high-pitched voice he used when he was in pain, shaking his hand. The other two teens sighed in exasperation.
"I don't get it – how hard can it really be to find an evil genius? Do we have to look at some kind of black market or something?" Bree asked.
"Well, if Douglas' really a genius, I should think he would be able to hide himself from the public eye," Leo said, and there was a long pause in the conversation. "Why did Chase go with him? Do you think Chase would actually change his mind if we talked to him?" Leo asked wonderingly.
"This is Chase we're talking about, of course he would," Bree retorted resolutely, astounded that Leo could think that.
"Really? Look at them: Douglas and Chase, father and son. They're both a younger sibling, they're both super smart and cocky about it, and they even look alike," Leo pointed out. "Are they so different?"
"Yes, those two are nothing alike!" Bree argued furiously, disgusted with the younger boy.
"Leo is right though," Adam said. "I mean, they both have the same outdated haircut."
Bree simply scowled, turning away from her brothers. She refused to believe that Chase was evil. "If this is how you guys are going to be, I'll just go find him myself," she huffed, storming out of the room.
"First Chase, now Bree – Adam, I'm keeping my eye on you!" Leo threatened good-naturedly.
"Only one? I thought most people watched stuff with both eyes," Adam stated, confused.
Leo sighed, tired of having to be the brain for the two of them. Bree had been gone for hours now – and there was no telling where she could be. She had turned off her GPS signal just as Chase had.
Leo had already tried his hand at looking for the missing two bionics again, but he had come out unsuccessful. With nothing else to do, the two boys had decided to go upstairs and try to assume the face of normalcy – video games.
"What do you want to play?" Adam asked as he dug through their small library of video games.
"I don't care," Leo said truthfully. He wasn't sure he wanted to play any games at all, but being that the Davenport-Dooley kids had been home from school since Chase's disappearance, they were starting to get tired of being numb and were, quite frankly, bored. They needed something to get their minds off of the current state of their family.
The two felt a strange wind, and Leo shouted "Bree! You're back!" But when he spun around to look for their sister, he instead saw his older brother, the youngest bionic, and none other than Chase Davenport.
"Chase!" Adam and Leo exclaimed simultaneously, but they froze when they caught the bionic's facial expression.
"Chase?" Leo asked weakly.
"I'm not here for hugs, numbskulls," the bionic growled, and Leo realized his mistake. This in fact was someone other than Chase – this was Spike. "The pretty boy is coming with me," the app snarled.
"Where are you taking me?" Leo asked, wide eyed.
"Not you," Spike sighed in vexation.
"Oh, thanks," Leo sulked. "Where are you taking him?"
"That's none of your business."
"It's every bit my business!"
"Where's the other one?" Spike demanded, changing the subject abruptly.
"We don't know – Bree turned off her GPS signal when she left to go looking for you."
Spike glowered at him, and in a whoosh! he was at Adam's side, grabbing the oldest bionic before whooshing off, leaving Leo alone in the house.
"Noooo! Whyyyyy?" Leo cried out. "I even kept both of my eyes on him!"
He stopped suddenly when he heard beeping, and movie-based instincts kicked in. He made a beeline for the outside world, not even making it all the way down the driveway before he was thrown to the ground as the house blew up.
Bree Davenport was stunned when she saw her leveled house. She quickly spotted Mr. Davenport, Leo, and Tasha in the crowd that had gathered around the yellow tape that circled their house. She ran up to them as swiftly as she could without using her super-speed, frantically asking "What happened?"
"Spike kidnapped Adam and bombed the house," Leo said bluntly.
"What!" Bree exclaimed in astonishment, looking back at the blackened rubble that was her home. "When?"
"About an hour and a half ago," Mr. Davenport said, staring longingly at what used to be his mansion. Turning back to her, he demanded "Where were you?" His concern was evident in his tone.
Bree looked away uncomfortably, saying "I was looking for Chase."
"Where?" Mr. Davenport questioned, asking moodily "Were you expecting to find him?"
"No, but it's better than not looking at all," she shot back, glaring at her father figure.
"They don't want to be found, Bree. Chase has made his choice."
"But now Adam's been taken! And that wasn't his choice. Are you just going to let Douglas take me too?"
"No, Bree, never!" Mr. Davenport said quickly, putting his hand on her shoulder in reassurance. "We are going to try to protect you even more now, if anything."
"But what about Adam? We have to rescue him at the least! What's the point of being bionic if you're just going to hide us away anyways?" Bree looked at her father steadily, waiting for his response.
"Donald, you know she's right," Tasha pitched in.
"Yeah, you can't be serious about abandoning Adam now!" Leo added, scowling at the tech mogul.
Mr. Davenport looked at the three of them, his face softening before he sighed. "Fine, you're right, we do have to go find them and at least get Adam back."
"And Chase," Leo said firmly.
"And Chase," Mr. Davenport relented, though he still looked doubtful.
"But how do we find them? I thought you weren't able to find them before; how is this time any different?" Tasha questioned.
Bree's face brightened, and she said "Chase may have turned off his GPS signal, but Adam didn't."
"Yeah!" Leo exclaimed with a newfound hope; a grin encompassed his features. "Now if only we could get to…" his smile faded.
"The lab," Mr. Davenport finished, and the four of them looked to the ruined house.
"Do you think the lab is alright since it's underground?" Bree asked.
"Even if it is, we risk a cave-in while we're down there," Mr. Davenport replied.
"But we don't have to be down there very long," Bree said. "I have super speed, remember?"
"But how do we get down there without anyone seeing us?" Leo asked.
"How do we get down there, period?" Tasha added.
"We'll come back tonight, when it's dark. No one has to know," Mr. Davenport assured them.
"What if someone finds the lab by then?" Leo asked.
"They won't," Mr. Davenport scoffed.
"What if it caves in by then?" Leo pressed.
"Let's hope it doesn't."
"What if it's already caved-in?"
"What if the sun explodes before we can make it to the lab?" Mr. Davenport sarcastically asked in annoyance. "Everything will be fine, Leo."
"I hope so; but what if-"
"We get it, Leo!" Bree cut in. "It's the best plan we've got, and we'll just have to see how it turns out."