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Chapter 3: The Launch (Chase)

Today was the day. We were in the limo, Bree and I, on the way to the launch site. Mr. Davenport was up in the front playing with the windows, which is ironic because when Leo went to the other dimension, that's what the other Mr. Davenport liked to do. I almost had enough nerve to laugh.

I didn't laugh, though. We were all very tense and nervous. We had been to the space station before, but our flight on the way back kind of ruined the experience for us. Now, Bree and I were just worrying that something like that could happen again. Even my math calculations couldn't predict what was going to happen. I didn't tell the others that, though. I needed to stay strong for them. What we need is a special ability that lets us see into the future, I told myself. My brain, or rather, my bionic chip, was starting to whir with data and info on how we could do that.

"That might work," I said outloud.

"Oh, thank you, Chase. See, Bree? Chase thinks that my flying bionic might work!" Mr. Davenport exclaimed crossly.

I snapped back to life at the mention of my name. I looked over at Bree, who was looking at me skeptically.

"Oh, no, I was talking to myself," I explained to Mr. Davenport.

"Oh, and you couldn't have just gone along with it to make me look good?" Mr. Davenport snapped. Bree rolled her eyes and sighed, as if his ego was not worth trying to fix.

"Not really, no," I laughed.

Mr. Davenport, who had been glaring behind at us both from the passenger seat, turned around and crashed back into his seat. The door window that separated the front from the back closed.

"So," I said to Bree. "Do you think we're going to get another flight like that?"

"No, I don't think so," she told me solemnly. "If they were going to, I think that we would know. We have security cameras on the ship, and alarms, and if someone unauthorised gets on, we could see them through the cameras and alarms would have sounded through the lab, academy, and Davenportia's control center."

"How do you know all this?" I asked her, astonished. How could she know all this when I didn't even know what the new ship even looked like?

"I broke into Davenport's cyberdesk," she said with a sly smile on her face.

"What a rule breaker you are!" I wagged my finger at her, then let it drop, laughing. "Oh, who am I kidding, we've all done it."

"Yeah, like the time you discovered you molecularkinesis?" Bree told me.

"Oh yeah, I remember that. Didn't I send that tool we needed for the space mission into space?" I asked, smiling as I remembered the mission.

"Yeah, something like that," Bree giggled. "And here we are, going into space again. I think we'd be sick of it by now."

"We probably will be by the time we get back from Davenportia," I reminded her. "And we'll be pretty lonely."

"Well, if we find that other bionic person like we're meant to we won't be as lonely," Bree reminded me.

Right, the mysterious bionic girl. Besides our 'rebuilding Davenportia' mission, Mr. Davenport also gave us a secret mission that the president couldn't know about: the 'find the unauthorized bionic girl' mission.

I had tried to find her on the internet, but she was nowhere to be found. It was as if she had never existed.

Mr. Davenport tapped on the glass that he had just closed and slid it open.

"We're here," he said, pointing at a rocket that seemed like it had just materialized out of thin air.

I stared at it. It was pretty much like the one we had before, but since this one was made by the president, it was covered in patriotic colors, and by Davenport's request, a giant blown up picture of his own face.

"Do you like it?" Davenport asked, smiling.

"I wouldn't go straight to like," I said, and Bree groaned.

A few minutes later, we were suited up and ready to go, and cameras broadcasting to the entire word were rolling.

"Hello, world," I stated, always a good way to start.

"Hi mom!" Bree called into the camera. I glared at her. "What? I've always wanted to do that."

"Anyway, today, as you have probably heard, we are going into space to re build Davenport Industry's first space colony. We are suited up and ready to go now, and we will get back to you when we take off." I finished, and the camera man walked away to report on something else. I looked back at Mr. Davenport, who was crying.

"It's okay, Mr. Davenport! We'll text you!" Bree said, and we silently agreed that we wouldn't do that. She hugged him for one last time, then super-speeded away, leaving Mr. Davenport with me.

"Um, yeah, I'll text you," I said.

"Two of my children gone!" he sobbed. I grimaced and ran away after Bree.

I found Bree at the loading dock.

"How was he?" she asked, batting her eyelashes innocently at me. I frowned at her.

"Thanks for leaving him with me," I said, sticking out my tongue at her. The camera man walked up to us.

"We're rolling," he said in a gruff voice.

"Oh. Ok. Hello again!" I called into the camera.

"Hi mom!" Bree exclaimed, waving and smiling at the camera.

"Will you stop that!" I exclaimed, exasperated. Bree rolled her eyes. I turned back to the camera. "We're about to board the ship. I'm turning on my and Bree's face cams from our helmets right now, so you can see us." Me and Bree put on our helmets in synchronization and turned on our face cams. "Ok, here we go," I said, and Bree and I got on the ship.

We headed to the front, talking about the launching procedures, and sat down, strapped in, and turned on the ship.

"I'm turning autopilot on to Davenportia," Bree told me.

"Ok. Ready?" I asked Bree. She nodded. "Ok. T-10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5! 4! 3! 2! 1!"

The rocket blasted off, and me and Bree got cooked in our chairs- not literally- but they were full of sweltering hot heat.

As soon as we were out of the atmosphere- which was pretty much one second in this ship- the heat died down. We could see Earth falling further and further behind us.

A tear glistened in my eye, but I shook it away. But soon I couldn't help it- I was sobbing. The Earth was no longer my home.

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I also wanted to start doing Question of the Day, even though I don't update everyday, so it'll be Question of the Chapter ;)

QOTC: Who's your favorite Lab Rats Character?

AOTC: Douglas!

Comment who your favorite Lab Rats character is! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!

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