Ch. 1
"And that's how you make a Proton Particle Accelerator. We are so gonna ace the science fair!" my brother said, his strange royal blue eyes gleaming with excitement as he pointed at a blueprint.
"What?! Why don't we do something simple, like an ant farm? Caleb, you've explained this to me like five times already and I still have no idea what you are even saying! Me no habla blah blah. Me only hablo English. " I said.
I slumped down into a spinny chair and spun in circles while tugging at my hair.
"OKKKK, maybe we won't ace it." Caleb said with a tired sigh
I turned in the chair till I was facing him again. We stared at each other for a minute. Caleb rolled his eyes at me, before snatching the blueprint off the table.
"Oh fine, I'll just make it. Sit back and watch Aaron. I'll have this thing finished in no time." he said, scrunching up his eyebrows at me in irritation.
He looked up at the clock, running his empty hand through his blonde hair. He stretched his arms behind his head, muscles rippling slightly in his arms and back.
I watched in amusement as he stomped to the table with our science fair project parts on it, his back to me. He set the blueprint down on the table before looking at it, studying it once more before he started to work on the P.P.A thingy that he wanted us to work on. While he looking at the blueprint, I saw him reach to grab some big accelerator thingy. It must have been heavier than it looked. When he tried and pick up the accelerator thingy, I saw it slip from the table. It started to fall to the floor.
"No!" Caleb yelled, his voice echoing across the room
I jumped out of my spinny chair, ready to try and grab the big accelerator thingy. I saw Caleb reach his hands out to grab it. It was obvious that he was too far away to grab it. As he reached out his hands to grab it, it stopped about an inch from the floor. Me and everybody else turned to stare at him in shock.
What the heck? How did he just do that?
We all stared at him in surprise as he drew his arms closer to his body in surprise. The accelerator rose a few inches from the ground before flying strait at him, quickly. His eyes widened in surprise. He held out his hands to try and stop the big accelerator thingy from hitting him. It stopped right in its tracks. Everybody's eyes widened even more with surprise. Caleb looked at his hands with a scared but thoughtful expression on his face.
He slowly moved his hands over to the table. The accelerator thingy followed his hands and landed on the table, softly. He looked at his hands. He stared at them for a minute, his royal blue eyes shining with confusion. I could hear people whispering.
"How did he just do that?"
"He's some kind of freak."
"What the fu-! "
Aliens! Its go to be aliens.
I walked up to him from behind. I grabbed his shoulder and spun him around to face me. I must have had a goofy look on my face by the way he looked at me.
"Bro, are you an alien?" I asked
"No! I am not an alien! I have no idea how I just did that!" Caleb yelled staring at his hands.
"I do. You are an alien." I said looking down at him with a wide smile
"I am not an alien!" Caleb yelled up at me
He turned around and threw up his hands in frustration. Suddenly all the tables and chairs in the room flew up into the air. He dropped his hands to his side in surprise. All the tables and chairs fell to the ground with a loud clattering crash. Everyone else in the room fell into a panic. They all ran outside before the tables could hit them.
I saw the table with the big accelerator thingy on it started to fall towards Caleb. He fell onto his knees with his hands over the back of his neck, eyes shut tightly, waiting for the table to fall on him. I reached out and grabbed the table before it could hit him. With the accelerator thingy on it, it must have weighed about 2 tons according to Caleb's blueprint. I lifted it up off the floor with one hand as if it was a paperweight.
Caleb looked up at me and the table slowly. Caleb put his hands on the ground and got to his knees as he tried to crawl out of the way of the table. My black eyes widened and I dropped the table in surprise at my own strength. It fell and hit Caleb in the back of the head. Caleb's arms crumpled beneath him and his body slammed against the ground. His face let out a sickening crack as it hit the ground. Blood poured out of a cut over his eyebrow.
With a shout of shock, I looked down at Caleb's limp body in surprise. I had forgotten that he was under the table. I leaned down and picked Caleb up, carrying him out of the school on my shoulders. Everyone was staring at us when I ran outside. Not knowing what to do, I ran home. When I got there I pushed the door open. Our parents looked at us with large startled eyes. When our dad, Dr. Parks, saw Caleb he told me to put him on the couch. Dr. P ran to the kitchen to get the first aid kit. When he got back with the kit he asked me
"What the hell happened?!"
"What happened? Well I have no clue! Caleb did some awesome alien mind thing and I have some kind of super strength! So I have no clue what happened. Maybe you can tell me." I said, dropping Caleb on the couch with a loud thunk.
Dr. P yelped and ran over to Caleb giving me a sharp look. He opened up the first aid kit. There was a screen under the lid, and a small black button next to the bandages. He grabbed a bandage and wrapped up Caleb's head tightly. Then Dr. P pressed the black button. The bottom of the first aid kit slid to the side revealing a small space at the bottom of it. Dr. P pulled out some type of scanner thingamajig. He turned Caleb over on his belly and scanned the back of his head. He ran the scanner thingamajig down his spine. He was staring at the monitor murmuring to himself.
I stared at the monitor and asked, "What the hell is going on?" my voice high
Dr. P put the scanner thingamabob back in the small space in the first aid kit and gave a sigh of relief and then turned to me. He had a reproachful look on his face.
"I've tried to keep this from happening." He said to more to himself then to me
"Tried to keep what from happening?" I asked.
"I thought I fixed it. I thought I at least held it back for longer than this." Dr. P said.
"Fixed what?" I asked
"All of you!" Dr. P shouted, turning with a furious glare fueled by fear, to look at me.
I looked at him with a shocked look on my face. My mouth gaped open. I looked at him expectantly.
He looked down at the floor. He looked back up at me with an anxious look on his face. He fiddled with his hands a little before standing up and taking a step towards me. His eyes were tired.
"You guys. I thought I fixed you. You see, you have never been normal. Always getting checkups from me. Never going to the hospital when you got hurt. Me and your mom always keeping a close eye on you guys. That is because you are different. You are what we call bionic. You're basically superhuman. You have super strength, Caleb has super human intelligence and telekinesis, and Brandon has super speed. His bionics must have not come out yet. You probably also have some bionics that I don't know about yet." Dr. P said.
"Bionic? We're super human? Is that what all that weird alien thing was?" I said confused
"Yes." Dr. P said.
Caleb let out a groan and opened his eyes. He slowly sat up rubbing the back of his head.
"Wha-?" He said
"Caleb, are you ok?" me and Dr. P asked in unison
Dr. P walked back over to Caleb's side. He pressed the small black button again. The bottom of the first aid kit slid back in place closing the small space. He put the first aid kit on the coffee table. He grabbed a small flashlight from the kit and shined it in Caleb's eyes. Caleb sat still staring forward into the light dazed. The black part of his eyes was huge. Dr. P put the flashlight back in the kit and closed it.
"I think I'm fine. I tried to stop the table right as it hit me so I don't think it hit me as hard as it could have." Caleb said
"That's good. But I'm pretty sure you have a concussion." Dr. P said.
"Yeah. Now what do we d-?" I asked
Suddenly the door burst open. My other brother stood there. His long black hair swayed crazily around his face. His fluorescent green eyes were wide.
"Brandon!" we all yelled
"What the hell is happening?" He asked us in a quiet voice
"Why? Why are you here? You're supposed to be in school right?" Dr. P asked
"I left school and ran home. The teachers said something weird happened at the high school. We could see the government all over the high school from the middle school. I heard the teacher say it had something to do with them." Brandon said pointing at me and Caleb.
"Yeah." Caleb said looking at the ground.
"But what the hell is happening? Something crazy just happened to me." Brandon asked stepping into the house and closing the door. His hair settled down across his forehead. His eyes shined as he looked at us.
"Well, what happened?" I asked
"I was running home. I had just turned the corner at the end of our street and suddenly, the next second, I was on the porch and my legs were burning like I had just run a marathon or something." Brandon said confused
"I see. So your bionics have awakened too." Dr. P said with a sigh
he buried his head in his hands. Mrs. P walked over to Brandon slowly and hugged him. Brandon stood there, face blank. When she let go of him he reached up. He quietly combed his hair, with his fingers, to neatly cover up his eyes.
"What the hell are bionics? Like superpowers? You saying all of us have them?" He asked, stepping away from Mrs. P and walking over to sit on the couch on the other side of the living room by himself.
"Kinda. It means you are basically superhuman. The only ones I'm aware of ya'll having is, for you super speed, for Caleb super human intelligence and telekinesis, and for Aaron super strength." Dr. P answered
"So that's what that was. Super speed?" Brandon said to himself, popping his knuckles.
"Ok guys, for now ya'll just go to your room. I need some time to think about how to fix this." Dr. P said leading Mrs. P away to the kitchen.
"Why do you need to think about this? You're not the one who has all this crazy shit happening to you." Brandon said quietly standing up, his head lowered.
"Just go to your room, all of you… Please" Both Dr. P and Mrs. P said at the same time, turning to look at him.
We all silently walked to our room. I went over to my bed on one side of the room and threw myself down onto it, bouncing up and down on my back, with my hands behind my head. Caleb and Brandon walked over to the other side of the room, to their bunk bed. Caleb plopped, loudly, down on the bottom bunk while Brandon silently crawled onto the top bunk. I watched as Brandon hung his head over the rail on the side of his bunk. He stared down at Caleb, curiously. I looked at Caleb. Caleb was staring down at the floor, shoulders sagging tiredly. Brandon narrowed his eyes at Caleb's bandage. Caleb tensed his shoulders a little and looked up at Brandon. Brandon's face flushed a little, embarrassed to be caught staring, and his hidden eyes widened under his hair.
"What happened to your face?" he finally asked
"A 2 ton table fell on me. I kinda fell and bust my head open after it hit me." Caleb replied, nonchalantly, relaxing his shoulders
I watched as Brandon jerked his head back in surprise. His hair uncovered his eyes momentarily, widened with surprise, before falling back into place.
"How are you not, like, crushed?" he asked
"My… bionics… saved my life, I guess. I didn't think about using them till the last second though. The table still hit me, just not near as hard as it would have if I hadn't used my… bionics." Caleb replied
"Cool." Brandon said. He pushed away from the rail and lay down on his back, staring up at the ceiling thoughtfully.
"Yo, Brandon, I think that's the most I've ever heard you talk at one time." I said with a playful smirk.
Brandon turned his head to look at me, hair falling to one side uncovering one fluorescent eye. He looked at me for a while before giving me a half smile. My black eyes glittered happily. We both turned our attention back to the ceiling. After a few minutes I heard a noise coming from Caleb's direction. I turned to him. Caleb brought his hand up to his head. He slowly removed the bandage. He walked over to a mirror on the wall over our dresser in the back wall of the room. I watched his refection as he reached up to touch the cut over his eyebrow. My eyes widened as I saw the cut.
"Bro, that cut is really deeper than I thought it was." I said
Brandon turned onto his side to get a look at it. I saw Brandon's refection grimace when he saw the cut. The cut almost split to the bone.
"I have an idea about closing it up. I can't stand having my face ripped open like this." Caleb said, gesturing for us to come to him.
"What's your idea?" I asked as I crawled off of my bed.
"We can use our powers. You use your strength to keep me from moving my head while Brandon uses his super speed to sew up my cut and I use my telekinesis to keep the blood from getting everywhere." Caleb said
"Oh. Will that work?" Brandon asked as he climbed down from the top bunk.
"Yeah. I have super human smarts remember." Caleb said with a smirk
"It seems more like you've always had that power, nerd." Brandon said quietly
"Hey, I was trying to stick to my speed just like you guys were. That's why I skipped a grade. Even if I had to pass you up, big bro." Caleb said in a sarcastic tone to Brandon.
"That's why Aaron failed a grade. Stuck to his own speed, you know." Caleb whispered in Brandon's ear.
"Hey, I heard that!" I said
Brandon combed his hair over his eyes with his fingers, trying to cover up a smirk with his hand. Caleb ran out of the room quietly. He ran back to the room a minute later with the first aid kit in his hand and quietly closed the door.
"Ok. Get the stitching stuff out." Caleb said handing us the kit.
I watched as he walked over the mirror, surprised to see that blood was already starting to flow out of the cut again. Brandon grabbed the stitching stuff. It just looked like a needle and some strange thread, or whatever it's called to me.
"Are you guys ready?" Caleb asked holding his hands to the cut with a concentrated look on his face.
"Yeah." We said at the same time walking to Caleb's side.
"Jinx!" I said tapping Brandon on the shoulder with my fist
Brandon turned his head to look at me and I saw his face head move in the familiar fashion of his annoyance.
"Ok. Let's do this." Caleb said with a wince
I grabbed the back of Caleb's head. The blood started to slowly flow back into the wound. Caleb held it there. Brandon started stitching the wound back together. When we finished Caleb looked at his reflection in the mirror.
"Man, that's gonna leave a scar." He said. His royal blue eyes shined
"It's harder to activate my bionics when I want them to turn on." He said turning toward us. He tilted his head to one side and closed his eyes smiling at us.
I looked at the stitches closely. Suddenly my eyesight glazed and all the noise around me disappeared. Everything suddenly began to feel very far away. A strange calm fell over me. I was floating in emptiness. I stood, frozen, staring straight ahead but I couldn't comprehend anything I saw, almost like it wasn't right there in front of me. I distantly feel me reach my hand toward Caleb's head.
"What are yo-?" Caleb asked
As I ran my finger along them, the stiches slowly fell off of his head revealing the cut. The cut slowly began to close and soon there was nothing left but a big scar.
"Wow." Brandon said
"If you could do that then why in the hell did we go through all that trouble to jab a needle in my face?!" Caleb yelled in my face
I came back to my scenes when I felt him shove his hands into my chest, pushing me slightly away from him.
"I didn't know I could do that." I said, pushing Caleb away from me
Caleb had a surprised look on his face.
"Your eyes-!" He said before he was cut off by Brandon
"But you were right, you do have a pretty nasty looking scar now." Brandon said
"Yeah I do, don't I?" Caleb said, forgetting what he had been saying before and admiring the scar in the mirror.
"You proud of that?" I asked, amused
"It makes me look manlier." Caleb said with a cocky smirk on his face
"Sure." I said, rolling my eyes and laughing at him
"Hey, meathead, not everyone thinks only about trying to look cool and strong. I actually care about my grades unlike some." Caleb yelled at me
"I noticed, shrimp." I replied, not realizing he had just called me stupid
Brandon let out a quiet laugh.
"Why you-?" Caleb said pulling his fist back, ready to punch me.
"Hey, guys. Come out here, we need to talk." Dr. P yelled from the living room.
Caleb stopped and turned to the door. We walked out of the bedroom into the living room. They sat down on the larger couch while Dr. and Mrs. P sat on the smaller one. We sat on the couches staring at each other for a while.
"Well. Are you gonna tell us what is going on?" Caleb asked
"Yes. Sorry. We never thought we were ever gonna have to tell you this so we don't really know how to tell you everything." Dr. P said looking at the floor.
"Just tell us." Brandon said
"Ok. Well 15 years ago I decided to try a new experiment, ya know, me being a scientist and all I wanted to try something new. Well I incubated human organs till I was able to build a handmade human child with those organs. I don't know why I wanted to do it I just know I did it. I put small microscopic wires all throughout the child's body. I also put a microscopic chip in its brain. And suddenly the child had bionics. It had superhuman strength." Dr. P said
"Um, could you talk English please?" I said looking at him dumbly
Caleb sighed loudly. He turned to look at me on the couch.
"15 years ago he made people guts. With them he managed to make a child. He put tiny metal wires and a tiny computer chip in the child. Then the child had bionics like us. It had super strength." he said
"Hey that's me." I said
"Yes it was. Anyway, it was a major breakthrough. Just me being able to build the child was a breakthrough. But I soon realized that the child was pretty normal other than the bionic power. It began to grow and do other normal things. I was surprised. I expected it to stay in the infant state I made it in forever till the organs just died. But it began to do normal things. Be a normal child. So I decided to try and find a way to stop the bionic power. So I found a way to stop them from showing. I don't remember how anymore but I did. I thought I stopped them for good. Then I made another child a year later. He had super speed." Dr. P said
I turned to Caleb again. Caleb rolled his eyes.
"You were normal other than the bionic powers that you had. That surprised him. He thought you were just gonna be a child till you died." Caleb said
"He is gonna be a child till he dies." Brandon said, combing his hair in front of his eyes with his fingers again.
"Yup. Anyway you became a normal child but he wanted to hide or take away your powers so that you could live a normal life basically. He found a way to hide the powers but he doesn't remember how he did it. Then he made Brandon." Caleb said
"Yes. Just like the first child he began to act like a normal child. Then a year later I made a third one. He had super human intelligence and telekinesis." Dr. P said
"That is me." Caleb said
"Yes. He was the same also. He began to act like a normal child to. So I blocked all of your powers. But I never expected them to come out again." Dr. P said
"I made you all different. In appearance I mean. I wanted to see if I could change the appearance of the children that I made or if they would always turn out looking alike. I made the first have brown hair and tan skin. The second had black hair and Mexican skin. The third had blond hair and pale skin. Your eyes, well you all know you have uniquely colored eyes. I had nothing to do with your eyes. They were actually white to begin with. The colors came in themselves. So, if you have ever wondered, those are your natural eyes. No artificial pigments or anything were implanted in your eyes." Dr. P said
"Oh, I always wondered how we looked so different. And about our eyes. I've never met anyone who has eyes that are naturally like ours." I said
"Yeah. So now that is all I can tell you. That is all I know. But the question that is bugging me the most is, why was the government at the school looking for you? All I know is that it can't be good." Dr. P said with a thoughtful look on his face.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Everybody jumped to their feet in surprise. Brandon got up and ran over to the wall opposite of the front door and crouched there, in the shadows. He was half hidden behind the coats hung on the coat rack. He had a surprised expression on his face. I walked over to the door and opened it slowly. In the doorway stood a woman wearing a black blazer. She smiled sweetly at me and held out a badge.
"Hello. My name is Lisanna Heartfilia. I'm with the CIA." She said, tilting her head and body to one side, and smiling in the house at me and my family.