A/N: Sorry this chapter took a few days, I've had a few things going on and I just had to work on it until I felt it was ready. I feel like I haven't explored the characters by themselves much so that's what this chapter is about.

~ Davenport ~

Douglas was busy trying to hack the jammer and Adam and Bree had gone to bed per Donald's request even though they had argued with him. He had dimmed the lights so they would get a full rest, he watched as they slept soundly.

The lab was still filled with boxes and files, they hadn't gotten around to putting them away in lieu of finding Chase. He sat down next to his brother.

"How's it coming?" he asked.

Douglas looked up from the screen, he had been working for several hours and barely made a dent in the signal. "Slowly." He looked around the lab and wondered why his brother had kept all these files, though it was a good thing he had, but still, who hasn't gone digital by now? He noticed a box with a crossed out label, Subjects A, B, and C, and replaced with Adam, Bree, and Chase, "What's that?" he asked.

Donald turned his head, "What's what?"

Douglas stood and retrieved the box, "This," he opened the box, inside were several folders, some full of files, most of them filled with drawings and arts and crafts. He retrieved an origami crane and raised an eye brow.

"That…" Donald stood and took the crane from his brother, "was a present from Chase when he was three." He placed it back into the box and shifted some things around until he pulled out a stuffed horse, "This was Adams, he couldn't sleep without it until he was eight."

"Why do you have all this stuff?" Douglas asked.

"Because…" Donald said, "They remind me of the way things were before training and missions…"

He pulled out the folder marked Subject C, the first few pages were just data about Chase and his abilities, the information had slowly gone from a scientific view to one of personal, it listed his favorite foods, habits and quirks; later pages were more like journal entries and short stories with photos placed vicariously throughout. Pictures of robots and complex mathematic equations filled the last few pages. He couldn't help but smile.

Adams folder was more or less the same, but the pictures were of an assortment of farm animals and cheeses. Bree's was full of rainbows and sparkles and a family portrait of her brothers, her, and himself.

He placed the folders back into the box and closed the lid, he didn't want anything to happen to these memories.

Douglas saw his brother in a different light, "You really care about them," he said.

"Of course, I raised them," Donald said.

"I'm glad you took them away from me."

Donald was shocked to hear his brother talk like that, he'd never been glad whenever he took his things, "Why?"

Douglas hesitated before answering, "I wouldn't have raised them like you did, I just wanted to have bionic soldiers to sell to the highest bidder…" he looked at the ground ashamed, "You're a better father than me."

"Oh Douglas," Donald put his hand on his brother's shoulder comfortingly.

"What if we don't get Chase back? What if Vales uses him for evil purposes? What if…" Douglas had begun to ramble.

"We'll get him back, Chase is smart, even without his memories, he'll realize he's being used… hopefully," Donald said.

After a moment, Douglas returned to his hacking.

~ Vales ~

Emily sat with a pen clamped between her teeth as she typed away at her computer, she had been in her off limits lab for hours doing research on what she might need to give more power to the device Chase and Dina had procured for her. She was calling it the Nucleic Solar Power Source. Her frustration was more than eminent by the way her hair was tussled and the crumpled up pages all over the floor and desk. If she couldn't make it work, then all her hard work will have been for naught.

The only thing she wanted was for Adam, Bree, and Chase to be hers, it was the only thing she had wanted since Donald Davenport had stolen them away from her. They were her children, maybe she hadn't birthed them, but she had used her DNA to give them life. Yes she had Dina, but with everything she had done to make Dina better, it just seemed like she had failed more than anything in raising her to be what she needed her to be. She needed smart, ruthless killers, and Dina was none of those things.

Dina only seemed to care about feelings and having a mom, well, that's not why she was created, she was created to do what she was told when she was told to do it, and she barely got that right. Vales had gone over every bit of programming in her chip time and time again, but she couldn't find where she had gone so wrong with her fourth bionic creation. She had even gone so far as to think that maybe Douglas had been the reason Adam, Bree, and Chase turned out so perfectly, but she always dashed the thought that he was smarter. No one was smarter than she was, no one.

If she were so smart then, why couldn't she figure out the solution for something that should be so simple? There was nothing she could think of that could make the power source more powerful, nothing!

Maybe she wasn't really that smart. Maybe she had just come as far as she had with just pure dumb luck. If that were the case maybe it was fate that Adam, Bree, and Chase hadn't ended up with her, maybe the universe felt like she would have failed as a nurturer and militant trainer for her super soldiers. She had failed with Dina.

Thinking about her failure with Dina always made her want to remover her bionic chip and put it in someone more useful, it was such a powerful device, Dina was just such a useless person to be harnessing that much power.

"Wait…" she thought aloud.

She had laid her head on her desk out of tiredness and despair, her hair flew back as she popped up with an idea. She quickly typed in a few stats onto her computer and waited for a result, all the while holding her breath, crossing her fingers, and biting her lip. When there was a ping and a reading of 100% she threw her hands into the air and cheered.

She had done it! She had discovered a way to make her Nucleic Solar Power Source more powerful!

~ Dina ~

The night was cool with a breeze which blew her thick red hair around her face.

Dina stood on the rooftop of her mother's lab taking in the night sky, they were miles from the nearest city, so the stars shone brightly above. She would occasionally come out here, where it was nice and calm, to think about life and decisions she had made, those she was glad about and those she regretted.

Lately she had made a lot of regretful decisions, most of them concerning Chase and how she had to lie to him on a daily basis. He was the first person she had known in her life that treated her as something more than a device to reach a means. She loved the way he made her feel and how he would smile at her in just the right way to make her feel better, she felt like he actually liked her, in a sincere way that she would never have thought possible by the way her mother talked about her.

She could remember at a young age how Vales had pushed her to train and be a better soldier, and she just getting the hang of her bionics would occasionally hurt herself, she would go to her mother for support and a hug, but only receive a glare and a cold shoulder. She would constantly be told to "Man Up" and to stop being so "Emotional" and "Feely". She felt like she wasn't worthy of her mother's love and was constantly striving for it.

She felt like she had done a pretty good job at keeping an eye on Chase and telling him exactly what Vales had told her too, she kept waiting for a "Good Job" or "Well Done", but she had yet to hear either of those.

Did her mother really love her, or was she just using her to get Chase, Adam, and Bree?

Taking a deep breath in, she thought about before they had left to retrieve the device Vales needed. Her mother had told chase there was a glitch in her bionics, which obviously wasn't true, which is why they needed Chase's help to break into the storage facility. She totally could have gone and retrieved the device all by herself, in and out without any trouble. Why had she been kept in the dark about how badly her mother needed the device until Chase was around to help?

Ugh! Chase, the perfect, handsome, smart, sweet, adorable, bionic boy she was only supposed to pretend to like. Instead she had fallen head over heels for his charm, curse his charm.

When he had asked her how they had gotten together, she had literally frozen from surprise of him asking, she had never anticipated him ever asking her, she had had no idea what to tell him. Certainly not the truth, or he would know everything else was a lie.

A knot had formed in her stomach, she knew she would continue to have to lie to him as long as he was here, her mother would kill her if she told him anything. She stole one more glance at the stars and sighed, she had to tell him the truth, her mother would be angry all she wanted, she knew she would never actually kill her. Chase deserved to know the truth.

Her phone buzzed, Vales was calling her.

"Hello?" Dina answered.

"I need you in my private lab."

"Be right there."

~ Chase ~

Dina had stayed in the room for a little bit, they talked about things they liked about each other and other general topics, she had told him of how she liked fake tattoos because she wasn't brave enough to get a real one, he helped her put a butterfly on her wrist, she put a frog on his. When their conversation had died down, she left him in the room to recover, she had told him she was going to get some fresh air and asked if he wanted to join her, he thought it was a great idea, except he could barely hold himself up at the time, so he told her to go alone.

After a bit of rest, he felt his bionics had kicked in and healed most of his soreness so he decided to do some exploring. Despite being here for about a week, he had seen very little of the facility, Dina or Vales were always ushering him between three or four different places, he felt like he was being kept in the dark and babysat.

He decided he wanted to find the lab and take a look at his chip, find out what the other bionic soldiers had done to him that caused him to lose consciousness, and why Vales had not yet removed it, which seemed like the obvious thing to do unless there was a reason not to.

The halls were deserted at the late hour, but even in the day they never had much activity he had noticed. From what he could recall, he had only ever seen one other person and that was a day janitor Dina had called Phillipe, he didn't speak much English. He had been told all the workers were located in a separate part of the facility so as to keep them separate from Vales own work, which he still didn't what she did.

How could he have been here so long and not know what she worked on? She had told him she was a scientific inventor and that her creations were used for good, but he had yet to see a single of her inventions.

Throughout his exploration, he had found the kitchen, a fitness room, a storage closet, and a garage, when finally he opened a door that lead exactly where he wanted to go, a laboratory. Crossing the room, he noticed it was fairly bare, a few tables with test tubes and beakers, a strange doodad here or there, a curtain in the corner covering what looked to be a bed, and a computer.

The computer was exactly what he was looking for, and to his surprise did not require a password to access. He wirelessly connected to his chip and began running a diagnostics check. All sorts of files appeared on the screen, he had to sort through them to determine which ones would be relevant to his search and which ones wouldn't.

He came across a file called "Abilities" he clicked it opened. Not to his surprise, this file contained a list of active and inactive abilities he could poses, there were quite a few, he was surprised he didn't have more activated, especially Acid Spit, he thought that one would be fun to use. He closed that folder and moved it to the side, revealing behind it a file that made his heart skip a beat, "Memories".

Checking to make sure no one was coming, he clicked the file, a box appeared on the screen requesting a user password. He scrunched his brow, why would this file be locked? And if it were possible to access his memories here, why had Vales not opened the files before so he wouldn't be so confused about everything? He set to work and quickly hacked his way into the file, it was easy work for a bionic super genius.

The file opened and immediately his head felt like it was about to burst, suddenly the diagnostics search pinged to signal that it had found something that didn't belong and asked if he would like to delete it. The pain had caused him to lose focus, but just as he passed out, he hit the enter key.

A/N: Ok, so this chapter was a little emotional and intense at the same time, please let me know what you think in the reviews. I will try to get the next chapter out quicker.