~ The Lab ~

It had been days, Donald and Douglas hadn't slept a wink. At some point after Douglas had tried everything Donald already had and got the same result, they both decided it was someone they knew that had taken Chase, so they pulled out every old file they had of everyone they worked with that might, in some way, know about Adam, Bree, and Chase. Files and folders were strewn about all over the computer consoles and desks.

Davenport had three files at a time opened simultaneously, if he found no connection, he'd grab another file and replace the old with it, he hadn't lifted his head in hours.

Occasionally Douglas would bring up a memory he had of someone they worked with, he was really enjoying reminiscing.

"Hey, remember that intern we had for a day?" Douglas asked his brother, "The short one with the hair and the tattoo of… what was it?"

"A frog," Davenport sighed. "Did he know about Adam, Bree, and Chase?"

"No," Douglas replied.

"Then why are you bringing him up?"

Douglas smiled as he remembered, "I liked him, he always brought coffee right when I needed it."

Davenport let out an exasperated groan, "Look Douglas, you asked to help, but if you are just going to take a stroll down memory lane instead of looking for a connection then I want you to leave."

"I am hurt," Douglas gasped, "that you think I'm not looking, I have been through twice as many files as you have."

Davenport was only half listening to his brother, he had opened a folder containing information of his main staff in the lab at the time Adam, Bree, and Chase had been created. On the last page was a photo of four people, Douglas and himself, in the background was the slightly out of focus intern and a woman. He couldn't remember for the life of him who she was, there wasn't a file on her, yet she wore a lab coat and looked like she belonged there.

"And that is why you have no friends…" Douglas said.

Davenport moved next to Douglas and showed him the photo, "Do you remember this?"

"Oh now who's being nostalgic," Douglas said snidely.

"Who is that?" Davenport pointed to the woman in the back.

"What do you mean who is that?" Douglas asked as if were obvious who she was.

"I mean who is she, I don't remember her."

"That's because you barely worked with her," Douglas said. "That's Emily Vales, she was my girlfriend."

"Why is she wearing a lab coat?"

"She was also MY lab partner, she helped me with the projects you didn't know about."

Davenport had began to grit his teeth, "And you didn't think to mention her before just now?" he seethed.

"I didn't think she was important." Douglas said.

"Didn't think she was important? SHE WAS YOUR LAB PARTNER!"

It took a moment to click, then Douglas understood and remembered, "Oh… yeah, she actually… helped me create Adam, Bree, and Chase…" He said, retreating a step away from Donald.

"She HELPED you create them?!" Davenport was steaming at this point, how could his brother be such a genius and still be so stupid.

Douglas hesitated a moment, "Well… I actually helped HER create them, she's the one that came up with bionic humans…" he was half across the room so as to avoid the wrath of his older, but slightly shorter, brother. He viewed Davenport as an angry dwarf.

Without another word, Davenport made his way to the computer and scanned the woman's photo into the facial recognition software. He then preceded to search her on the internet and found a short article about her.

Emily Vales, Privately Contracted Scientific Administrator.

After leaving Davenport Industries in disgrace, Emily Vales used her vast scientific knowledge in many fields, including genetic alteration and engineering, to work with those that hoped to change the scientific world.

Her greatest achievement would have to be her daughter Dina. Being unable to bear children, in 1998, Dr. Vales used her own DNA to grow a human child. She received an award for taking huge leaps in human genetics.

After a dispute with a contractor in 2006, Dr. Vales no longer offered her services and has since become a ghost among he scientific community.

Davenport couldn't believe what he had just read, this woman who had created Adam, Bree, and Chase had created more children. And if she had helped Douglas, then she knew all about their bionic and how they worked, she could make as many bionic humans as she wanted. She was essentially their mother.

"Let's keep this information to ourselves for the time being," Davenport said. Adam, Bree, and Chase's reactions when they found out Douglas was their real father was less than pleasing to him, he could only imagine their reactions when he told them they had a mother. "And I do have friends!"

~ School ~

"I can't take this anymore," Bree groaned closing her calculous binder. She couldn't believe Davenport was making them go to school while their brother was missing.

"Well I would take it for you, but calculous isn't my strong suit," Adam retorted.

"No, I can't take just sitting here while Mr. Davenport and Douglas are home looking for Chase."

"I know, it really sucks, I'm having a hard time making up excuses for why Chase isn't here."

Bree was confused, "I just told everyone he was sick… what have you been telling people?"

"Man, that's a good one, I told the cafeteria lady he won a free cruise, and earlier I told that girl over there that we lost him in a crowd because he was soo small."

Leo walked up, "Any news on Chase?" he asked. He had been helping as much as he could, but not having bionics made it difficult for him to convince Davenport that he was capable of doing anything but destroying his inventions.

"Chase is in the news?" Adam said brightly, "No way, what page?"

Leo and Bree just ignored him, "No," she said crossing her arms.

"This isn't fair, we should be there helping," Leo said.

"Dooley!" the scratchy voice of their squat principal echoed throughout the halls.

Leo's eyes grew wide with fear, he ducked behind Adam to avoid her. She spotted him when Adam decided to walk around the other side of the bench they were occupying.

"Dooley! There you are," she approached and put her hands on her hips.

"Heeeey… Principal Perry…" a fake smile crossed his face.

"I need you to explain why your nerdy friend Chase has been missing school."

"What do you mean, I told his teachers he's sick."

"Then why did I just hear from the lunch lady that he went on a cruise?"

Bree looked up at Adam.

"Uuuuuu… because… he… did go on a cruise… that's where he got sick," Leo thought quickly.

Perry squinted and leaned in closely, "I'm not sure I believe you… I will find out where he is, and when I do…" she turned and walked off while laughing maniacally.

"That little woman has problems."

~ Vales Lab ~

Chase jumped out of the way as a plasma blast headed right for him, he created a force field energy ball and threw it at his attacker.

Dina dodged the attack but was blown back by the shock wave created by the impact. She retorted by sending a double dose of plasma blasts at him on both sides.

Chase used his molecular kinesis to redirect the plasma to shoot right back at Dina. She was hit full blast and flew into a stack of empty crates.

When she didn't attack immediately after, Chase became concerned and ran to see if she was ok. He approached the crates, Dina jumped up and used her bionic strength to punch him across the room.

"Didn't I tell you to never let feelings get in the way?" she asked with a smile on her face.

Chase was laying motionless where he had landed. She realized she must have hit him too hard and rushed to his aid, Vales would kill her if anything happened to him.

She crouched down next to him, "Please be ok, please be ok," she leaned in to see if he was breathing.

Chase quickly grabbed her and tossed her down, he crouched over her and looked down with a smile, "What was that you were saying about feelings getting in the way?"

"You jerk!" she pushed him off, "I thought I really hurt you."

"Are you kidding? Being bionic is awesome! I barely felt that punch," He spun around with his arms out. The goofy smile on his face made it impossible for Dina to be upset at him.

She smiled back and brushed her red hair out of her face, "Well just be careful and don't over exert yourself, I've had a few mishaps with that, its not fun."

"Then I won't do that," he said playfully.

After the initial shock of waking up with no memory and learning he had a girlfriend, which seemed like something that would never happen to him, Dr. Vales explained to him what had happened to him.

~ A few days earlier ~

"So I'm… bionic?" Chase asked skeptically.

Dr. Vales nodded.

"And so is she…" he pointed to Dina.

"Yup," Dina said happily, then blushed slightly.

"I created you to be raised as a bionic soldier and help people," Vales explained. "Unfortunately the bionic technology I used to create you was also used by someone that planned to use it for evil purposes… they captured you and altered your chip so you wouldn't know they were using you. It's a miracle Dina found you and brought you back home."

Chase wasn't sure he could trust them, it took him a few hours to accept the fact he was bionic, Dina had showed him how to use his force field. With the way she acted around him, he began to believe her and Dr. Vales, he became more comfortable and less weary that something was going on. The longer he spent with her, the more he began to fall for her… she was supposedly his girl friend after all.