Longest wait for an update yet! So sorry everyone!

But for you enjoyment, this is one of the longest chapters, so I hope that makes up for it.

CHAPTER 15 15 15 15!

EmeraldTulip- Thanks so much! Awesome possum, awesome sauce, all that jazz!

Dirtkid123- SORRRY FOR THE LONG WAIT! Lexi's disappearing act is worsening in this chapter, so yeah ...

PurpleNicole531- You always have so much to tear from my story and I love that! Thank you((:

tvd1992- Muahahahaha *cough cough* I mean, sorry. Here's the next one!

Lab rats lover- Done and done. Thank you!

Leo Corp- Heyyyy! Thanks, I'm glad she had a feeling to, it makes my job easier;)

Chase rolled over, keeping his eyes tightly closed to block the daylight trying to wake his system. Upon doing so, he leaned into a small pebble, causing him to wince in reminder of his back injury, and sat up with a heavy groan. The large hospital building was tucked away behind a few trees.

Trying to reboot himself, the bionic attempted to recall where he was.

Then, it all dawned. He, Leo, another Leo, and his future bionic daughter were sleeping in a park just beside the hospital, in wait for the morning when Olivia – his future wife – would be released. Chase rubbed at his forehead, a headache brimming.

A couple of the others stirred beside him, and when Leo turned over and smacked him in the leg with a limp arm, the third bionic teen decided that that was enough. Kicking at his step brother's side gently, Chase began getting updates from his chip about the time and weather. Luckily, it hadn't rained last night, but it was calling for some today, and the time was 9:30 AM. He wasn't usually a person that slept in in the morning, he liked to get up with the sun and go to bed when it did at night. But yesterday and every day before that since Alexa arrived had been a strain on him physically, and to his dismay, mentally.

"Chase?" Leo moaned, sounding sleep deprived.

"Get up, we have to meet Olivia in a half hour," Chase sighed, stretching out his creaky joints and muscles.

Leo frantically fixed the small amount of hair he had, and did a breath check. "How do I look?" he seemed nervous.

"Geez, man," Future Leo mumbled, sitting up with dark shadows bagged under his eyes. "It's not your wife we're meeting up with today."

"She's not anybody's wife," Chase defended, cheeks reddening slightly.

"Of course, except yours," Future Leo continued, smiling.

"I still want to look my best," Young Leo argued. It was too early for either Leo to get a clue it seemed, so Chase growled and rose to his feet.

"Uh, my stomach hurts," Lexi complained, twisting at her spot on the piled up grass bed. Her gloved hands looked a lot looser today, a sign of them being almost completely gone. Honestly, it was a surprise to everyone that they had held up this long. But in better news, Alexa had adapted to her loss of hearing.

"What kind of pain?" Older Leo asked, leaning over his niece and removing her arms clutching at her stomach. She was not within eyesight, so she couldn't hear him, but the words comforted him in a way.

He failed at holding back a gasp, and pressed his lips together in fear, shutting his eyes quickly. "Mm mm." He sounded like he was denying something.

"What?" Alexa noticed his well-known worried expression, and looked down, a nearly silent wail streaming from her mouth. "My stomach ... it's ..." Gone. An translucent circle rested where her belly button use to be.

"We need to get going," Future Leo reopened his eyes, which were watery. "Maybe they checked out earlier." Chase scrunched his nose in doubt towards that, but due to the inappropriateness of the situation, and his own worry, he said nothing.

"Chase and I'll go to the waiting room, and-" Older Leo was cut off by a shaky hand. Alexa stared at him, picking up on the lip movements of what he was saying.

"No, please, I want Chase to stay here," Lexi gasped, cringing and clinging to her sides. Her large brown eyes were begging. Odd. Alexa seemed like the toughest girl Chase had ever met.

"I don't know ..." Chase was facing her, face contorted. No matter how he felt towards Lexi, the thought of being alone with his daughter left him with chills. Alexa removed her hand from her uncle and placed it on his.

"Please." That robotic monotone was back. It was her go-to in uncertain situations, but it left her father heartbroken.

Chase's heart dropped down to his chest and his breath got stuck in his throat. Instantly he was filled with guilt about even having the idea about leaving Alexa's side. "Okay, Leo's, go get Olivia." Unwillingly, the bionic's tone cracked. "Now." Lexi relaxed a little when she realized her dad was planning on staying. She leaned down and ignored the empty space where her gut was suppose to be.

Future Leo got up, slapping at his younger self's arm to raise him awareness of their departure. "We'll be back as soon as possible." The two semi-bionics took off, passing through the bushes when they could have circled the path and walked clear from the shrubbery.

"You know you have to recreate the feelings you were suppose to get," Lexi mumured quietly, her pale cheek shimmering and turning a shade clearer. She kept her eyes on Chase's mouth to catch what he said.

"Hm?" Chase had plopped himself beside the brunette, gazing in every which direction anxiously. He rose an eyebrow in question to respond to the deaf girl.

"From the day you were suppose to meet Oliva," Lexi was careful not to call Liv by the original one she herself was use to. Chase had proven himself not capable of handling the word, or any other that had to do with the future. "That's the only way to seal my fate."

"I know."

"Do you?" Alexa questioned, unable to resist poking at her cheek bone. It felt weird to touch. She manuevered her head to be able to see Chase's full face. He was steathily inching away from her line of sight.

"In the back of my head, yeah," Chase mumbled. "The part that I've been trying to ignore and-" His head swivelled when a loud gurgling noise came from Lexi's throat. Her hand was at the base of her neck, her vocal cords being strained by the garbage disposal sound she was making.

"My throat feels funny," she whispered, jaw opening and shutting.

"Okay," Chase examined it with his x-ray vision. The sight was unwelcoming. He hesitated, but couldn't stay silent with a pair of big brown eyes staring on at him. "Your vocals cords are disa-"

Alexa turned her head away before she could see him finish the rest of that sentence. Situations like hers had been done in movies and T.V shows all the time. The experience was never quite so painful and drawn out like this, however. It was almost like this was her kind of torture. Though it was near impossible, Lexi wouldn't put it passed her nemesis to do something like this to her to worsen the process.

The future girl got caught up in the memory of her present, adjusted her position, and leaned into Chase while putting her head on his chest for support.

Her father licked at his lips nervously, lifting a hand and hovering it over her head. It was an awkward pause of nothing for a second, before Chase placed a soft hand on his daughter's tangled brown hair and let himself melt into the moment. It felt strangely natural, like it was his job to comfort Lexi.

There was brief, quiet movements on Alexa's part, as she dug into her pocket for a crumbled piece of paper and a shortened, stubby pencil. Her baggy, gloved hand scribbled a mess of words on the paper, before jetting up in the air at Chase's head. He took it silently, somewhat out of the uselessness of talking when Lexi couldn't read his lips.

"I missed you." The third bionic read Alexa's words in his head, scanning them over and over. It seemed like an unimportant remark to waste a little piece of paper on, but it somehow made something get lodged in his chest.

With full warning as to not scare her, Chase removed the pencil from Alexa's hand and jotted down his response, which he hadn't a clue what it was until it was down.

"Don't." It was simple and a little tacky, but it made Lexi smile when she saw it. The future girl sighed, scrunching her hands into fists and stared up at the clouds.

Chase squirmed a little, not knowing how to position himself for both their comforts, but initially allowed himself to be pressed down awkwardly as to not disturb the peace on Alexa's face.

Minutes went by, and the past bionic tried to occupy the stillness with a scan of his stored information. His bionic mind shelves were full, so it lent a suitable way to pass the time by.

Footsteps stomped up the gravelled pathway leading to the bushes where Chase and Alexa sat, alerting the former out of his thoughts. "Leo?" It was addressed to whatever one heard him and responded.

"Chase," It was an odd whisper, that sounded like it came from Future Leo, but it was hard to tell at this point. Those two were slowing becoming one. A few more seconds and foot shuffling and Small Leo peeked over the bushes with his older dobbleganger beside him.

"Where's Olivia?" He hadn't realized, but Lexi was completely limp as her head lay on his lap. Somehow, sometime she had fallen asleep. The time traveller stirred, but just rolled onto her side and continued to sleep.

"Right here," Liv's soft voice chirped in, her rounded eyes looking over the shrubbery to come eye to eye with Chase. A faint smile spread across her cheeks, but was snuffed out by her own self consciousness. Tucking a few strands behind her ear, she crept around to the hiding place and sat down. "Alright, I'm ready." Her shoulders slouched and the dark bags were still resting under her eyes, but Olivia appeared determined through her weakness.

"For what?" Chase raised an eyebrow. The two Leo's followed after the once-hospitalized girl and plopped down on the opposite side of the third bionic. Future Leo bit back a grin when he saw Lexi asleep on her father.

"For you to tell me more of your ridiculous story and to back it up with proof," Olivia smirked, inching in closer.

"Proof?" Chase's eyes trailed to Alexa for a moment. "What would be proof enough?"

"The time machine," Liv joked.

"... Okay," Future Leo decided.

"What? Really?" Olivia gaped. "You really have one of those?"

"How else can I get from the future to the past," Tall Leo inquired simply, rising up. Olivia shrugged. It was a solid answer in her books, at least today. Usually, a bell would be going off in her head right about now, warning her of the crazies she was surrounding herself with, but something wasn't right about her life.

Nodding at Chase, getting his acceptance on this, Liv lifted her small figure off the ground, only to catch a glimpse of Alexa's stomach. "Ah!" Her eyes popped. "What happened to her! Is she ... dead?"

The Leo's were confused, until they set their eyes on their niece. "No ..."

Lexi was startled awake, blinking back grogginess. "How is she not?" Liv backed up.

"Future and past reasons," Chase murmured. Oliva frowned, pressing her pale lips together. Maybe common sense should have been used instead of listening to her stupid head.

"Nope ... nope," Liv's hands raised in surrender. "I'm done. I don't know what you people have gotten yourselves into but-"

"She's disappearing," Leo blurted. Chase shut his eyes and winced. Great.

"Excuse me?"

"Lexi here is being erased from existence," Leo glanced down at the future girl as he said her name. "And by the looks of it we've wasted enough of her time already."

"Uh," Liv was speechless.

"Trust us," Leo pleaded. "You did before."

"Yeah, that was until-"

"You were given proof," Chase finished for her, though it was obvious that that was not what she wanted to say. Olivia peered at him with sad eyes.

"I-" Pulling back her hair, Olivia went through a series of controlled breathing methods to calm her nerves. "Okay .. um ... yeah. Proof. Proof indeed." Liv nodded several times, though distraughtly. "Yep. Yeppers. Proof. Mmhm, I wouldn't be insane at all to let you strange people lead me to a strange place to see a strange machine." The blonde girl breathed out, and sucked a huge gulp back in.

Chase lowered his head in defeat. There was no way Olivia would come with them now. It was stupid to even think from the beginning they could fix this.

"Okay, let's go." Chase looked up to see Oliva stiffling a reluctant look at her sentence, and waited for her to back out immediately. Instead of doing so, Liv started to march away, waving at the Leo's to lead the way.

Besides gnawing on her fingernails the entire way, Liv handled herself really well. The group, with Chase holding up Lexi at the rear, soon made it to the other side of Mission Creek and near the oceanside.

"Isn't that the loopy thing that leads to the bionic island?" Liv observed. As soon as she asked it, pieces of the puzzle dawned on her. "You're some of those bionic teens that live there, aren't you?"

Chase and Leo nodded, and Future Leo shrugged. The island was apart of his past, but technically in this timeline, he did live there.

"Makes sense," Olivia said, hesitating at the doors to the hydroloop. "You go in first." The blnde girl hovered awkwardly, waiting for someone to walk in ahead of her.

"Always the nerd," Future Leo snickered quietly. He ushered Liv inside beside him, his niece's unbalanced state a reminder of the situation when Chase limped in trying to steady her.

"Close your eyes," Leo advised. Olivia folded her arms together.

"Why?"

"First timers tend to get a little ... motion sick," Leo mumbled.

"Oh ... oh!" Liv shut her eyes quickly, puffed up her cheeks as she held her breath, and poked her forefingers into her ears.

"Extensive," Leo sighed, lowering Olivia to a sit and taking one himself. The loop then took off with a quiet zoom, flashing them to the academy.

Adam tapped his foot anxiously, wiping away the beads of sweat that kept accumlating on his forehead. His other self had been gone for an hour at least, and there was no news on Bree and Douglas. They had to have been captured, who else was threatening enough for this guy to imprison them?

"Oh, that's it!" Adam flung his head back in tiredness, preparing to run off in the direction he saw M1 leave.

"Adam!"

"Oh, no, Bree must be dead," Adam cried. "I'm hearing her voice from the beyond!"

"No, you idiot," Bree growled, jogging up behind him, her cheeks flustered red. "I'm right here."

"Bree!" Adam exclaimed, grasping onto his sister and twisting her around in a hug.

"Put me down before you blow our cover!" she hissed, whacking him on the shoulder. As soon as her older brother put her down, however, she allowed a smile at his concern.

"You'll never guess who I found!" Adam whispered in excitement.

"You future self?"

"Aw, you have to go and spoil everything," Adam whined. "How'd you know?"

"He caught Douglas and I in one of the corridors on his way to somewhere, and he immediately stopped us," Bree explained. "I thought we were made until I saw his face and he told us where to find you and that we needed to leave straight away."

"Where's Douglas?"

"He stopped on the way cause he found a penny," Bree sighed. "He thinks the luck will bring him back to the top."

"It will," Adam said seriously. "The power of the penny is greater than anything." Bree rolled her eyes.

"So this mission came to nothing," she mumbled. "I say we don't leave until we get some sort of answers."

"But don't you see," Adam said. "I'm on our side-"

"You weren't before?"

"No, I'm on our side, the other me, me but older."

"Your future self? M1?" Bree offered him easier titles. Adam shrugged.

"He's our inside man," Adam went on. "Cause if he's not helping us, he's not helping me, and if he's not helping me, he's not helping we."

Bree closed her eyes to catch up and try to understand her brother's brain function.

"Got it," she concluded, reopening her eyes and preparing for another mess of words.

"He can give us intell," Adam finished with a grin.

"That's actually really brilliant, Adam," Bree congratulated, surprised.

"Thank you, Bree." The first and oldest bionic then frowned at another thought.

"What's the matter?"

"If you and Douglas weren't captured ... who was?"

"Pizza delivery men," M1 answered from the end of the sewers, gripping his weapon nervously as he peered around. The very thought of being a double agent to his boss was unnerving and very dangerous.

"But that guy said they were intruders ..." Adam stumbled.

"Yeah, everyone's intruders here unless you're a brainwashed zombie," M1 growled in disdain, biting his lip. Apparently, the news of his past life unsettled the once passive-follower instinct fed into him.

"So, no pizza was ordered?" Bree asked.

"No, Master ordered ten pizzas," M1 said. "But he's super cheap and very cautious, so he thought it was safer to kidnap the men and turn them into prisoners. That way, he won't have to pay."

"Hey, Bree, thanks for waiting," Douglas mumbled, rushing over to the three in fear. His hand was clutched around what could only be assumed as the worthless penny.

"No problem," Bree smiled.

"Sarcasm," Douglas sighed. "You never leave a man behind, especially if that man is me."

"Exception, that man bends down to pick up a penny and to make a wish, causing him to risk exposure," Bree retorted.

"Exception to the exception, that man is your biological father and uncle, and he doesn't want to be left alone in the dark, stinky sewers," Douglas said, his voice cracking near the end. His biological daughter growled.

"So which one is he?" M1 whispered into his younger self's ear.

"I honestly don't know," Adam sighed. "We call him Uncle Dougie, but he also addressed to us as our father when he captured us and we came face to face for the first time so ..."

"My life is messed up," M1 stated quietly. Adam pursed his lips and nodded his agreement.

"You all need to leave," M1 interrupted the argument. "Now." He wouldn't be so prideful as to say that was all out of worry for his newly found family, it was mainly from his fear of ending up disliking his life beforehand and wanting to stay a mindless minion. Bree and Douglas evidently had to capability of doing that if he let them be any longer.

"Right," Bree remembered, leading her brother and uncle down the passageway to the opening in the sewers.

M1 breathed out a sigh of relief. He had founded a family and now he felt like he belonged to one, cause they were already driving him insane.