Chapter 1
"Chase!" Bree's screams after hearing the gunshot.
"Bree, calm down it missed him. He'll wake up in a minute. He always does." Adam reminds her. This causes Bree to re-focus on the mission. The man with the run is running to the plasma gun on the ground. The gun shot powerful energy. It caused Bree to almost become road kill and Adam almost to become a pancake. Bree super speeds to the plasma gun and throws it to Adam. He catches and crushes it. The rest of the mission is simple. Grabbing and tying up the mad man before any more damage can be done. Bree holds onto the man and takes him to the Davenport Jail back home. When she gets back Adam is standing above Chase who still has not woken up.
"I hate it when he saves our butts." Bree mumbles to Adam.
"Yay, me too. We're muscle and hustle. Muscle and Hustle are supposed to save Chusle. Not Chusle save Muscle and Hustle." Adam complains.
"Ummm yay. Anyway grab sleeping beauty. I want to go home." Bree jeers.
"Hay cool look. Chase is smoking." Adam laughs.
"What? Where!" Bree asks quickly. Adam points to the back of Chase's neck.
"Adam I don't think that's good. We need to get him to Mr. Davenport." Bree tells him.
Seconds later they are walking into the lab. Where a smiling Mr. Davenport and Leo are waiting.
"Great job guys." Mr. Davenport complements.
"Woah, what's up with smoky?" Leo asks. Mr. Davenport suddenly notices Chase and his smoking neck.
"Please don't tell me that's his-"Mr. Davenport starts.
"Chip? I think so." Bree informs him. Mr. Davenport's face drops.
"Put him on the counter. Quickly quickly." He orders. He starts looking at Chase's neck and pressing buttons all over the lab.
"I need you to tell me what happened." He demands.
"All he did was use his dual ability thing to… uuummm, save us." Adam admits. He was hoping no one would have to find out about the being saved thing.
"I told you guys not to use 2 abilities at once." Mr. Davenport yells at them. A couple more seconds and the smoking stops on a groan comes from Chase's body.
"Chase? Can you hear me?" Mr. Davenport ask him softly.
"Yay" He groans as he sits up.
"Chase I told you that you can't be using two abilities at once. It overloads your chip." He scolds softly.
"Sorry." He mumbles. Mr. Davenport hooks up some cords to his chip. A couple minutes later. He unhooks that cords.
"You are very lucky. You almost overloaded your chip." He tells him.
"What happens when they overload there chips?" Leo asks.
"It implodes." Mr. Davenport tells Leo. "Listen to me very carefully Chase. You cannot use two abilities at once anymore. And until farther notice you are banned from using your abilities."
"What! Why?" Chase asks him.
"You chip is very delicate right now. If you use it, it might implode." Mr. Davenport directs him.
"What about missions and training?" Leo asks.
"None of that until I says so." Mr. Davenport says.
3 days later….
The first day was easy. Chase was too tired to use his abilities anyway. The second day was a little harder. But only because it was a Monday and he had to go back to school. School was so much harder and less fun without using his abilities. By the 3rd day it was impossible.
"None of these questions make any sense." He complains to Adam and Leo during lunch. "Tahm raey saw uep uilkuarf urod? What does that even mean?"
"That says what year was Ben Franklin born." Leo tells him. It turns out Chase is extremely dyslexic, but his super smarts decoded it for him. And since he is not supposed to us bionics Mr. Davenport turned off his chip completely so he would be tempted to use it.
"Ha I'm smarter than you Chase. Even I can read what that says." Adam jokes. Chase stares at Adam until the smile on his face disappears and then he picks up his tray dumps it in the trash and walks out of the lunch room.
Later that day Chase was walking down hall. It was in-between classes so no one was in the hallway but him. Chase was in the middle of the hall when he heard a noise.
"Come on you stupid Corn Puffs. GET OUT!" Adam demands. Chase walks over to the vending machine. Adam was standing in front of it trying to shake a snack of it.
"Adam, why aren't you in math class?" Chase asks him.
"Why would I be in math class?" Adam asks him. "Why are you out here? You hate missing class?"
"School is a lot funner when you can read the board." He tells him.
"Makes sense." Adam agrees. Who finally got his Corn Puffs out of the vending machine. Adam starts to walk away. Unknown to him while he was shaking the machine his pant leg got wrapped around the leg of the machine. And when he turned to walk away the machine tripped him onto his stomach. And the machine came with him.
"Adam! No!" Chase screams. Instantly Chase overrides to block on his chip and activates his molecular kinesis keeping the machine from crushing him. Although the second he used his abilities a loud pop followed by pain, smoke and darkness.
"Chase? Chasey!?" Adam panics. He turns his brother onto his stomach. Smoke. Then blood. Then fire. Chase's chip is on fire. Adam grabs Chase and practically throws him into the bubbler (water fountain). The fire goes out. What is left almost makes Adam puke. There is a little melted hole in the back of his brother's neck. He can clearly his chip. Without thinking Adam leaves Chase on the ground and runs to Bree's class and then Leo's. Bree super speeds all of them to the Lab.
While Mr. Davenport is in the lab fixing Chase everyone in the kitchen. Leo is on the coach playing his games. Bree is doing homework and Adam is making a food castle.
"Should we be worried?" Leo asks.
"I don't think so. Worst case scenario Mr. Davenport fixes Chase's chip and we get grounded." Bree tells him.
"I don't know. It look really bad." Adam says.
"Don't worry Chase always bounces back up." Bree comforts him.
"Yay like the Avalanche" Leo reminds them.
"And when Douglass took us over." Bree says.
"Oooohhh and all those times I throw him." Adam reminds himself.
"See everything is going to be fine. "Bree smiles. After a while though things got more tense. Mr. Davenport is not up and it's been awhile, almost a couple hours. The hope that was once there is now all but gone. Mr. Davenport finally walks up stairs.
"So what's up?" Leo asks. Although he meant to be cheerily he realized by look on his face it was not the time or place.
"I told him not the use his abilities." Mr. Davenport voice cracks.
"What-"Bree starts. Mr. Davenport shakes his head.
"Why don't we eat something first" Tasha suggests. She arrived an hour ago.
Nobody talks during dinner. Finally the silence is broken.
"Mr. Davenport, tell us what's wrong with our bother." Bree demands. After silence and a deep breath he gives in.
"Your bionic chips control your bionics. But they are also intertwined with you human systems, especially your nervous systems. So when his chip exploded it not only destroyed his bionics it has so messed with his nervous system."
"How much messed up?" Adam asks.
"I'm….I'm not sure." He signs "but I would suggest if you are going to talk to him, sooner is better than later."