"Principle Perry," Chase tries again. "I have to go. It's a family emergency."
Chase has been trying to get Principle Perry to let him go for three minutes, which is how long ago the FBI agents left.
"Too bad, Thumbelina. I can't let you go without a parent to release you," she shrugs and doesn't seem to care.
"Fine," Chase says finally. "You've left me no choice." He turns, walks back to the round table, and grabs his backpack, causing a scene.
"If you leave, I have no choice but to give you detention for skipping class," Perry calls after him.
Chase ignores her and keeps walking. He runs straight to Mr. Fitz's room to get Bree from English.
The door is already open, so he leans in and tells Mr. Fitz there's a family emergency. He lets Bree go with no problems. Bree quickly puts her stuff back in her backpack and walks to Chase with worry in her facial expression. Chase pulls her aside as soon she gets out into the hall with him.
"Please don't tell me this is what I think it is," she says quietly. The hall is completely empty.
Chase doesn't have time to waste. "Some FBI agents just came into mine and Sloane's study hall, like, five minutes ago. I told Sloane to run and get out of here. She's on her way home," he says urgently.
Bree looks like she's about to cry. "We have to get out of here and help."
"I know. We have to get Adam and Leo first."
Bree takes Chase's arm without hesitation. She super speeds with him to Leo and Adam's fifth period.
Chase says the same thing as before to their teacher. He's not sure of her name because he doesn't have her himself. Bree was the one who knew where they were. Chase explains to them what's going on, and then Bree super speeds them home with Adam and Chase in each of her hands and Leo on her back. When she stops, she collapses and Leo falls on top of her. Leo gets up immediately and Chase helps her up.
"Are you okay?" Chase asks with his hands on her shoulders.
"Yeah," Bree balances, "It just took a lot to do all that at once."
Adams already pounding on the locked door. Tasha finally opens it for them.
"What are you all doing here?" She asks angrily. "Why aren't you at school?"
"Where's Mr. Davenport?!" Bree pushes her way past Tasha and sits on the couch. She feels a little light headed from running here.
Chase fills her in, "FBI agents came to the school and they were looking for Sloane. Isn't she here?"
"No, she's not here," Tasha answers with wide eyes.
"I told her to come here! What if they already caught her?" Chase rethinks, "No. They couldn't have. I told her to shape shift into me. I've got to get down to the lab," He walks towards the elevator, and everyone quickly follows behind, even Tasha.
When they reach the lab, Davenport immediately looks up from what he's working on, "What are you all doing here?" He has a worried look on his face.
Chase tells him for the last time what's happening. "She should be here by now."
"So we have no idea where Sloane is?!" He says.
"Can't you track her chip?!" Bree shouts.
"No!" Chase shouts, "He doesn't have her software in his database. We never added her chip to his computer."
"Yes, I do," Mr. Davenport says and pushes everything off the counter on the floor, causing loud clanks. He does it with no hesitation and pulls up his cyber desk. He starts tapping right away.
"What are you talking about?!" Chase yells. "How do you have her chip installed to your database?"
"That's not important right now, Chase!" Davenport shouts back. He goes back to a regular voice, "She's passing Wally's now." He looks at Bree. Wally's is a small convenience store six blocks from the school.
"I take it I'm supposed to go get her," Bree says.
"Yes," he answers and she turns to run. "And hurry."
Bree stops and flashes him a look. "Really?"
"Go!"
Bree super speeds and finds Sloane just past Wally's. She still looks like Chase. Bree grabs her shoulder. Sloane looks scared as hell at first, then realizes it's Bree.
"How did you find me?!" Sloane shouts with Chase's voice.
"Sloane, Mr. Davenport had your chip installed to his computer. What are you doing down here?!"
"Running away," Sloane says exasperated. "I have to get out of here! I have to get away from Mission Creek! I've obviously been here too long." Sloane wants to run again. Her legs were aching like crazy, but stopping almost makes it worse.
"Why?!" Bree's exasperated now. "You're with us so we can protect you!"
"I was with you because it was a hiding place! You can't actually think I was going to be able to stay there forever!" It hurts Sloane to say this, because she actually believed it herself before the horrible wake up call she received today. Bree's hurt too. She almost feels like Sloane just punched her in the face.
Bree grabs Sloane's hand, hesitating a little since technically it's her brother's hand. "You are still with us. You're one of us now, and it's too late to run away. We care about you too much. We're not going to let you go back on your own."
"Let go, Bree," Sloane says. "I care about you guys too much to ruin your family."
"No way," Bree almost laughs. "You're not going anywhere but home."
Before Sloane can say anything, Bree has her arm and is dragging her home with super speed.
They're back in the lab in no time, and Bree's family is looking even more frantic then they did when she first left. Davenport had pulled up a surveillance of the main entrance to the house so they could see when the FBI agents arrive.
Chase immediately rushes over and hugs himself. "This is kind of weird," he says. Sloane shifts back to herself right in his arms. "Ahh!" Chase lets go of her, even more freaked out then before. Sloane surprisingly holds back a laugh at time like this. "And that was even more weird," he puts his hands on his hips. He looks at Sloane's face, still a little red and puffy with dried tears. He hugs her for real this time. "Why didn't you come here like I told you?" Chase asks her quietly.
"All right," Davenport breaks things up. "If those agents were at the school they're probably on their way here now."
"What are we going to do?" Leo says.
No one says anything. Sloane looks at Chase, who is standing next to her. She doesn't feel anything but fear. Chase looks at her too, and takes her hand. Sloane looks away to Davenport.
"We have to take out my bionic chip," Sloane says with sad eyes.
"What?!" Adam, Bree and Chase all say at the same time.
"What else are we supposed to do?! If I check out as normal—"
"No," Davenport interrupts her, "We can't do that."
"We have to!" Sloane says.
"It's not an option, Sloane!" Mr. Davenport says sternly.
"Why?! It's the only way I can stay here!" She shouts.
"Because you'll die!" Davenport shouts back, causing everyone but him and Tasha to exchange shocked looks.
"What are you talking about?" Adam asks.
"What do you mean she'll die?!" Chase shouts now.
"We don't have time to explain all of that," Davenport replies.
"Tell me, now," Sloane says seriously. Chase squeezes her hand. Silence falls over them.
Davenport looks at Tasha, who nods after a moment.
"Sloane," Davenport says slowly. "If we take out your bionic chip, you'll die because your bionics are the reason you're alive."
"What are you saying?" Sloane shakes her head.
Davenport takes a deep breath. "When you were four, you and your parents crashed on one of my remote islands in a small plane. Your parents and everyone else on that plane died from the impact. Besides you. You were the only one who survived, but just barely. At that time Douglas and I had already given Adam, Bree and Chase bionics. I knew how to do it, and I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I let you die. I gave you bionics to keep you alive. It was the only way."
Sloane takes a small step back.
"So that's how Dr. Evans knew who you were," Chase says quietly and looks at Sloane.
Sloane can't look at him or anyone.
"That's why you're bionic," Mr. Davenport says. "I did it myself."
Sloane still can't look at anyone.
"Sloane, say something," says Chase.
"Have you known where I was my whole life?" She finally says, still without looking at anyone. She's on the verge of tears.
"Yes," Mr. Davenport sighs, "But I had no way of knowing you were in danger."
Sloane covers her mouth with her free hand.
"I didn't know you weren't happy with your foster family," he continues.
"You had to have known I was on the road alone for three years!" Sloane says immediately and finally looks at him. "Why didn't you do something?!"
Davenport doesn't say anything, and everyone but Tasha looks quite a bit disgusted with him.
"I know this is an emotional moment," Leo says, "But we've gotta do something before those FBI Agents show up here."
"Leo's right," Chase says reluctantly. "I think I have an idea,"he says, trying to push away his disappointment in Mr. Davenport for now.
"What's your idea?" Bree asks as Chase lets go of Sloane's hand and walks over to Leo's computer.
He turns to everyone, "Mr. Davenport and I can create an image with Sloane's face as a base, then alter it so it doesn't resemble her old identity picture from when she was with her foster family. Sloane can then shape shift into her."
"That might work," Davenport says.
"Okay, what?" Bree asks annoyed.
"We'll basically make someone who looks like Sloane on the computer," Davenport says, "but not enough that she resembles her twelve year old self. Sloane can shape shift into fake Sloane and hopefully we'll be able to trick the FBI agents."
"That'll never work," Bree says. "Especially if they know she can shape shift."
"There's a good chance my old foster brother told them," Sloane says. "But they only saw me using my gravity defiance."
"Well does anyone else have any bright ideas?!" Leo says, not expecting any answers.
After no one says anything, Chase turns back to the computer with Davenport and they start working on it. After five minutes of no talking other than whispers of Chase and Davenport and keyboard clicking, everyone else is getting worried.
"Are you two almost done?" Tasha asks. "They could bust down our front door any minute."
"We're working on it, honey," Davenport says with an annoyed tone to his voice.
Bree comforts Sloane by putting her arm around her.
A few minutes later, Chase finally turns and looks at Sloane, "It's done."
Sloane walks forward and looks at the screen once they step aside. On the screen, is a face that she's never seen before, but it seems vaguely familiar. It looks like she could be Sloane's cousin, or a Sloane look alike. She glances at Chase and not Davenport, not wanting to look at him. She barely has a sliver of hope this will actually work. She stares at the fake face, analyzing it enough to shift into it. She does, but no one knows it until she looks up. The only thing that had to change was her face. She looks at Chase first, who gives a forced crooked smile. Sloane doesn't smile back; she turns around to face everyone.
"Guys," Adam says. He's looking at the screen on the wall that is showing the front patio. The same two men from school are at the front door.
"I'll go get it," Davenport says and leads the way. Everyone follows him upstairs.