Chapter 02

*Anything italicized is someone singing or someone's thought bubble

*BOLDED + ITALICIZED = FLASHBACK OR MEMORY

Ivy walked into the training area when she noticed a young boy sitting on the little stage area there, with brown hair and white skin. He had on the t-shirt with the Bionic Academy logo on it, and the green color on the shoulders of the shirt. She smiled as she walked up to him and sat down by his side.

"Hey Spin." She said as she placed her hands in her lap, making Spin look her way and smile.

"Hey Ivy!" He said.

"Why aren't you training with everyone else here?"

"It feels like a sluggish day today."

"Yeah. I feel ya." Ivy said before she got an idea. "Why don't we go get some food from the food court?"

"I'd like that." Spin replied before they stood up and ran towards the food court, right as Chase walked in and looked at everyone there training.

"I have to find that girl with the voice." He said to himself before he started scanning everyone's bionic chips to see what bionics they had. And none of them showed a special ability. "Ah, shoot." He stopped scanning their chips and left the area, but stopped the moment he saw Harper sitting by the window with the book she was reading the other night.

"Seriously!" He yelled, making Harper look up at him, roll her eyes, and go back to reading.

Chase stormed up on the landing by the big bay window, and just looked at her. "Why aren't you training?!"

"Because I don't want to! And plus, I'm already the level red! I'm fine!" Harper retorted before closing her book with the bookmark holding her place.

"But you have...!" Chase began before the hydro loop stopped, opened, and out popped...

"Hello Chase." Chase looked and immediately went in front of Harper. Why, he didn't know, but his mission was basically to protect the students now that they had the Bionic Academy.

"How are you alive!? We destroyed you!"

"Let's just say, I have a new handler." The boy said with a smirk before throwing a punch to Chase's stomach and making him fall backwards.

"Hey!" Harper yelled before she stood up and went to throw a punch at the boy, when said boy grabbed her fist in mid-air.

"Harper, stay out of this!" Chase yelled to her.

"Harper, huh? Is she like your girlfriend?"

I wish. Harper thought to herself. "Please! He is the bionic fun killer!" She yelled back, before making her fist (the one the boy was holding) glow a little bit, before making a super sonic sound wave come out and blew the boy to the ground, hitting the hydro loop with his back.

"Whoa!" Chase yelled.

"This place is my home! You leave it alone!" Harper yelled.

The boy looked up at her with the stink eyes before gio-leeping out of there.

When he was gone, Harper ran over to Chase and helped him stand up. "You okay?" She asked.

"I'm fine. How'd you do that?!" He asked.

"Uh, well, you see, you know that secret ability I kept from you the other night?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, that was it. I can make sound waves." But that's not all I can do. She thought to herself.

"That is actually pretty cool. I like learning about abilities that I have never seen before." Chase said.

"You're not mad?"

"Of course not! But, I'd be more careful with that guy. He's just mean and cruel and will destroy anyone who gets in his way."

"Okay. But who was that guy?!"

Chase took a deep breathe before replying with: "His name is Markus."

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"How is Markus back?!" Adam asked with shock and anger as they all stood in the mentors' quarters, with the company of Harper.

"I don't know! All he said was he has a new handler!" Chase responded.

"Mr. Davenport, what do we do?" Bree asked her dad.

"I don't know." Donald responded, even more shocked than they were. Douglas was there as well, and Harper could tell he had a feeling who it was that could have made Markus come back.

"Mr. Douglas, what are you hiding?" Harper asked as she placed a hand on his shoulder. This shocked Chase a little bit, for she was showing compassion and not being mean like she always did.

"Well..." Douglas began as he rolled his shoulder to get Harper's hand off. "...I may have told my evil ex-girlfriend Giselle about him." He looked like a puppy in trouble when he said that.

"Oh, I remember that! I wasn't apart of it, but I remember the academy being attacked around that time." Harper declared.

"Yeah, and that was the time I almost died!" Chase declared as well. "You think Giselle brought Markus back?"

"I think so." Douglas answered.

"Alright, I'll figure something out. In the mean time, you guys just keep mentoring the students like nothing is wrong." Donald said, before leaving the mentors' quarters.

Chase just sat around, thinking of ways to crush Markus again, but was coming up empty since his brain was ocupied by the realization that he was back.

Harper walked out to the pool, and began to hum a little bit of a song. Bree heard this and looked at her.

"Remember me/once in a while please promise me you'll try..." Harper sang under her breathe. Bree walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. Harper looked up at Bree, and saw a smile on her face. "What?"

"You have a very pretty voice, Harper." Bree said.

"Thanks." She said.

"You know, I bet every student has a talent, besides their bionics." Bree began.

"I know my roommate Ivy does. She's a writer."

"Then this idea just might work." Bree said with a smile on her face.

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"Wait, so let me get this straight, you want to hold a talent show to showcase hidden talents that the bionic students might have?" Donald asked as he stood by the panels in the commons.

"Exactly! I heard Harper sing a few bars earlier, and she was really good. I bet the other students have talents that we don't know about too...besides their bionics." Bree declared.

"I don't know, Bree. I mean, how do you suppose we fund that?"

"You're a millionaire! I'm sure you can part with some of your money!"

"But..." Donald began before Bree gave him a look, telling him that she would be very disappointed if he didn't. "Fine."

"Thank you!" Bree said with excitement. "Alright, now all that's left is to hold auditions, and get some people to come see their talents! Thanks again, Mr. Davenport!" Bree added before she quickly hugged her father and ran back to her room at super speed.

Harper walked in right as Mr. Davenport left the area and smiled slightly. "There's going to be a talent show?" She asked to no one specific. "And it's all because of me?" Harper smiled even more, before she saw Chase walk in with his tablet, and hid behind the wall by the door leading out of the training area.

Just then, she heard his annoyed grunt and a slam of his tablet on one of the panels out there, which made her look behind the wall, and watch him.

"Dang it!" Chase yelled.

"What is wrong with you?" Leo asked as he walked by.

"None of these students has a music app."

"Uh, Chase, there is no such thing."

"Actually, Krane wanted one of his Bionic Soldiers to be more unique then the others. So, he gave one of them an app that none of the others had." Douglas said from the other panel.

"What app was it?" Chase asked.

"I can't remember." Douglas answered before leaving the room, going through the training area.

"I need to find that girl. Her voice just sounded to perfect to be natural." Chase declared before grabbing his tablet and walking off with Leo following suit.

Harper walked out of hiding, and was surprised. "He-he's looking for a girl with a pretty singing voice." She said to herself. That's when it hit her. "He's looking for me." Her eyes widened when she realized that, before super speeding up to her dorm, to tell Ivy the news.

Alright, Chapter 2, done! I hope you all liked this chapter. This one shows a side of Harper that most of you might not see much of after a while. Note that I said "might". So...yeah (lol).

Oh, and another thing...I haven't seen the episodes with Markus in them. But with the way Douglas described him in "Bionic Action Hero" (that hour long episode), I think I have a pretty good idea of who he is. But if any of you want to tell me who he really is like a description of his personality, please, by all means, leave a review or PM me to tell me. I would appreciate it greatly.

Anyway, thank you all so much for reading, have a great night, and God bless all of you.

~Brittany Bauer