Chapter 5: Rats on a Train
A/N Rewrite. When I rewrote this I really didn't feel like actually rewriting it so I copied and pasted the chapter and edited it. When I did this button thing showed up and I couldn't erase it so if it shows up when I post it just ignore it, it's nothing
Disclaimer: I own nothing except my OC
The next day my alarm clock decided to not work and I slept in, and Leo who I supposedly thought was my best friend decided not to wake me up. I got up, got dressed and went down to the lab angry, something awesome probably happened and I wasn't there to see it. When I reach the house I immediately go downstairs to the lab to see everyone gathered around the counter. "Hey best friend!" I shouted to Leo
He slowly turned around and waved "Hi Cassie"
"Why didn't you wake me up" I Asked irritated
"Well, you looked so peaceful sleeping-"
"He was afraid you'd hit him with a spoon again, if he woke you up" Bree cut him off.
I rolled my eyes and turned to the other three in the room "Well" I Stopped "I like the new suits what's the occasion"
"Hey Cassie, I'm about to send Adam, Bree, and Chase on their first mission" Mr. D explained. "The train I created is speeding down the tracks on its way to blow up Welkerville"
"Well, that's great… That they're going on there first mission, not that Welkerville is about to blow up" I rambled "Anyways…"
"This stinks" Leo said looking upset and a little angry. "Everyone gets to go on an adventure but me"
"I'm here too Leo" I reminded him.
"Leo, just because you can't go on the train doesn't mean the three of us can't have fun here." Mr. D told Leo and I "I'll pop in the 'Goober the Spunky Caboose' DVD"
"We're 14" Leo and I said at the same time.
"Okay, than pop it in yourselves" Mr. D said not getting the message. "Come on, guys, we don't have a lot of time"
I watched as Mr. D led Adam, Bree and Chase out of the room, I turned to Leo you was unpacking a duffle bag. "What are you doing"
"Going on an adventure, wanna come?" Leo asked gesturing to the duffle bag.
"I am not squeezing into that duffle bag with you"
"Come on, Cassie. You know you want to" He told me. Sometimes I really hate how well Leo knows me.
"Scoot over" I told him as I got into the bag and he followed.
"Cool, we're travel size" Leo said said happily.
"Leo" He looked at me. "Shut up!" I yelled at him.
The Davenport didn't suspect a thing as they loaded the bag into the helicopter and caught up to the train. Mr. D lowered us down on a rope just not all the way. We were stuck up there until I heard Adam say "Uh=oh I don't know where I left our mission bag"
"It's on the rope" Leo shouted back. I mentally face palmed because I didn't really have the room to do it.
"Thanks, bag" Adam said before he loosened the rope and we fell to the floor, I groaned in pain as Leo unzipped the bag and we climbed out.
"I am never doing that again" I told Leo as I tried to get feeling back in my arm.
"Leo! Cassie!" They all shouted in shock.
"Which way is the dining car? I'd like to get a bite to eat before I save the town of Welkerville" Leo shouted the last part.
"That doesn't sound as cool as I thought it would" I thought out loud.
I stood by Leo as Chase searched through the bag.
"What are you two doing here?" Bree asked us with her hands on her hips
"We are joining the mission" I told them, smiling proudly.
"I wanted to be like you guys" Leo added smiling as well.
"But, you're not like us. And I don't mean that in a bad way, we just have really cool super fun features and you don't" Adam said bluntly.
"Uh, Leo, Cassie" chase said from behind us, I whipped around "Where's the decelerator we need to stop this train?"
"You mean the pointy metal thing that was poking me in the butt" Leo asked wide eyed.
"I told you that was important" I shouted at him with a frustrated sigh. The three of them looked at us with their arms crossed
"Leo, Cassie I'm supposed to be watching you" Mr. D shouted through the communicators.
"And you are in glorious HD" Leo twisted his words.
"Actually I'm supposed to be watching you, so me sneaking on this train was technically requested by Tasha" I told him with a smirk.
"Without the decelerator we can't stop the train" Chase explained to us and my smirk dropped.
"Mr. Davenport what are we going to do?" Bree asked him through her communicator
"I'm coming to get Leo and Cassie. If they blow up on that train I'm gonna have to get Tasha some puppies" Mr. D shouted angrily. "And Eddy a new friend, I'll bring the decelerator in my high speed helicopter" He laughed. "Wow! How many guys can say that they have chased there high speed train in their high speed helicopter. I'm awesome"
Chase sighed than turned to us "Okay, so I downloaded the train's route before we left the house. Let me pull it up so I can calculate how much time we have left." Chase raised a finger to his head and a hologram shot through his eyes, it showed the train route in a giant graph right in front of us. We looked at it for a second, before it disappeared. "Oh, no! There's only a two percent chance that we can save the train . And if the train goes , we go. Brace yourselves!" He shouted as he clung to a metal object beside him. "Bionic people do not explode well"
"Chase relax" Bree told him as she and Adam stepped forward "I mean there's a chance we can survive the crash"
"Leo and Cassie won't: Adam said casually. My head snapped to look at them so fast I think I got whiplash.
"Oh, right" Bree said awkwardly, "never mind"
"I'm sorry you guys have to see me like this" Chase apologized to Bree and Adam. "I know you think of me as your Ultra-competent, unwavering, fearless leader"
"Uh, not really" Adam said at the same time Bree said.
"Yeah, just the opposite really"
Chase glared at them as I chuckled quietly, "its okay Chase, I always saw you as there Fearless leader". I smiled at him which he returned.
"Chase, look, everything is going to be fine" Bree reassured him.
"Yeah! I mean, Big D's on his way in his high speed helicopter" Leo said mimicking Mr. D when he said High speed helicopter.
"But… what if we can't attach the device? What if the sudden stop causes the train to tip? What if Mr. Davenport gets caught in a traffic Jam?!' Chase rambled.
"In a helicopter" Bree asked him
"there could be birds" Chase said like it was the most realistic thing ever.
"That drive cars. I don't think so" Adam scoffed while shaking his head.
"Chase!" Leo and I shouted simultaneously. "you're over thinking this, the answer is simple; If Sally's on a train traveling at a certain speed –X- she's going to reach the curve at a certain time –Y- All you need to do is multiply X by Y to find out if we have enough track left to stop " Leo added.
"Okay…." Chase trailed off thinking, before he walked over to the Nuclonium tanks. "But what if Sally is sitting on enough Nuclonium to reduce an entire city to a stain?"
Leo paused "Then Sally should have taken the bus"
"How did I let you talk me into this" I asked Leo crossing my arms.
I was leaning up against the wall next to Leo and Adam as I watched Chase and Bree pace back and forth.
"Oh, I know" Leo shouted suddenly, "In the movie 'Sparkman and the train from tomorrow' Sparkman hops in front of the train and stops it with his pinkie." Leo turned to Adam "Just do that"
"Leo that's just a movie, Adam can't do that" I told him but paused, "Can you?"
"No, I don't have that ability" Adam said shaking his head,
"Well, then you need an upgrade" Leo said sitting back against the wall just before there was a honking sound.
We all jumped up "Guys! Davenports here! He's really here! I'd told you we'd be fine" Chase shouted happily, which was actually kind of cute. But no town about to blow up by high speed train, Concentrate!
They all said something about how Chase didn't say that before we all ran over to see Mr. D hover over the train. He dropped the Decelerator but it missed and fell off the train.
"Okay, this just went from 'Comic book cool' to real life terrifying" Leo said starting to worry me. This would have happened by now if it wasn't for the fact that I was standing next to three bionic teenagers. We'd be fine… I hope. "Our new mission is to get the heck off this train!" Leo said to me
Mr. D dropped a ladder and Leo ran over and grabbed it "Come on guys, let's go home" I looked to see that Adam, Bree, and Chase weren't moving so I stood in my spot. "Guys? Cassie? Cocoa!" He whined.
"We can't just quit now. " Bree protested.
"If we do, it means we failed our first mission." Chase added
"Yeah, we've been training our whole lives for this moment now and were not giving up." Adam backed them up
"Come on, this thing's about to crash, we've done everything humanly possible" Leo reminded them, trying to convince them to come.
"But there not human Leo"" I told him
"Exactly" Chase agreed "Mr. Davenport made us superhuman, because when all else fails we can't"
"Yeah. We put ourselves in danger for the sake of humanity" Bree added.
"Well, if you guys aren't going, we're not either" Leo told them looking at me, I nodded in agreement.
"This is too dangerous for you two" Bree tried to explain
"Please, my middle name is 'danger'" Leo told them.
"I thought it was Francis" Adam said.
"It's pronounced Danger" I laughed at that attempt. "We're coming" Leo shouted up the ladder before he hooked a medical kit on the rope and tugged on it. "Pull us up" as soon as the rope was fully up Leo closed the opened top.
"Leo –Cassie- are you crazy? What are you doing?" Chase asked us.
"We're going on an adventure" I told him as I smiled at Leo than back at them.
"We're completing our mission" Chase said into his communicator before they all threw there's on the ground.
Chase re pulled up the hologram "Okay, we have approximately three minutes to slow this thing down" He explained. "before it hits the turn and flies off the tracks" He turned it off.
"Okay ley's thin" Leo said walking away "objects in motion remain in motion…" Leo trailed off thinking.
"Unless an external force blocks it!" I finished for him
"So what could block our path?" Bree asked us.
"Oh, I got it!" I turned to Adam waiting for what he was going to say. "We can put the Nuclonium tanks in front of the train!"
"Then the train would blow up" Bree reminded him
"Thus, stopping it" Adam explained with a smile. I shook my head and looked back at Leo.
"if only Wile E. Coyote was here, he'd have a giant rubber band he could tie around two trees to stop this thing. "
"Wait a minute" Chase said getting an idea. "Leo, that's it! The reid-bennett bridge is 19.8 miles ahead. Our rappelling ropes are unbreakable. So if Bree ties them all together"
"I could use my super speed to run ahead and wrap around the bridge supports!" Bree shouted catching on to what Chase was saying.
And Adam can use his super strength to hold the rope and stop the train. "Chase continued
"Let's do this thing" Bree told them smiling, I watched as they all ran over to the door.
"Did I mention that Wile E. Coyote dies in every episode" Leo informed them.
"You really know how to ruin a moment, don't you" I asked Leo as I crossed my arms.
Adam opened the door and Bree took the ropes and jumped out and was back in less than 10 seconds and gave the other end of the rope to Adam. Adam wrapped the rope around his waist, sat down and clung to the train.
"Hey, guys, what if this doesn't work? I mean, I know I'm strong but this goes way beyond our training scenarios—What if I can't do it?" Adam asked looking back at all of us.
"Adam, strength doesn't just come from your muscles. It also comes from your mind" Bree told him.
"Okay, maybe someone else should take the rope" Chase said, way to give him confidence.
"This is everything we've prepared for. You can do this, just believe in yourself. I believe in you" She reassured him as she sat down and wrapped her arms around Adam to help.
"I believe in you, too" Chase said as he did the same.
"I'm standing on a train that is about to blow up, if I didn't believe in you guys I would have left" I explained as I copied them.
"I just spent four hours in a bag without a bathroom—I think my support goes without saying" Leo said as he followed us.
We waited for the train to come intact with the rope, when Bree's phone rang. She answered it, like really were not on a train traveling 400 miles an hour or anything. Chase threw her phone out the train and we resumed our positions just in time. When the train hit the rope we all got tugged to the side, and I'm pretty sure I just lost all hearing when Leo screamed in my ear. As the train came to a stop all the lights went off, I was on the floor in-between Chase and Leo when the lights kicked back on. I slowly stood up with a groan with everyone else.
"Were alive!" Leo shouted as I helped him up. "You guys did it!" Leo said to Adam, Bree, and Chase
"We completed our first mission" Bree said excited.
"We did it!" Chase turned to us "That includes you too, Leo. If you didn't waste your life watching cartoons every day, we might all be dead right now"
"He's right Leo, you were a real hero" I told him.
He smiled at me knowingly and we both turned back to Adam, Bree, and Chase "So, when our next mission?" We both shouted.
"A runaway rocket or a sinking battleship" Leo continued
"How about trying to explain this entire thing to Tasha" Chase offered.
I winced and Leo's smile dropped "That's a mission we'll never return from"
Mr. D came running into the Train, we all ran over to him.
"Thank goodness the train is okay" He said smiling
"Excuse me?" I scoffed as I crossed my arms
"And you guys too" He added. "All right first one back to the lab gets a pellet smoothie!"
I laughed as they all ran out; I started to follow but turned back to Leo "You coming"
"I'll catch up I haven't whizzed since Reno" Leo told me
"And I regret asking" I said before I followed the rest of them back out.
Back at home I was down in the lab with Chase sitting at the counter "So, Bree won the race for the pellet smoothies"
"Wait that was real? Mr. D wasn't just saying that?" I asked, they really raced for pellet smoothies
"Of course we take our pellet smoothies very seriously."
I laughed which was replaced with a groan when Tasha called for me "Cassie time for bed!"
"Ugh, I got to go" told him as I got up and started to walk away. When I reached the door I turned back "That new suit looks nice" I winked at him before I continued upstairs.