Chapter 05

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

*BOLDED + ITALICIZED = FLASHBACK OR MEMORY

*=lyrics have been changed to fit the story

Harper took a bite out of an apple as she sat there, in the cazebow with Chase by her side. The stars were shining bright up in the night sky, as she smiling with happiness, for the first time in ages, she was actually happy.

"Hey, do you remember that ability you were about to tell me a while back?" Chase asked, making Harper look over at him.

"Yeah. What about it?" She asked.

"I think I'm ready to know." He added.

"Chase..." Harper began before she could hear Ivy telling her in her brain to do so. "...yeah, I think you're right." She finally said, giving Chase some hope.

"Okay, then what is that ability you are hiding?" He asked.

"Before I tell you, you have to promise me that you won't think I'm crazy, or just...leave me all together." Harper said.

"I promise you, I won't do anything like that." Chase promised.

"Okay..." Harper sighed, and was about to tell him, when she saw the North Star, twinkle in the night sky, making her get up, walk up to the edge and look at the sky. "What a beautiful sky." She said under her breathe, but with Chase's bionic hearing, he heard her just fine.

He smiled as he followed her to the railing and looked at the sky with her. "Haven't seen it in a while, haven't you."

"No. I forgot how beautiful it was at night time. I was just a normal kid before Krane took me as a bionic soldier. And after that, I could never see the sky anymore." Harper explained.

"That's sad." Chase said.

"Yeah, but it didn't hurt that much. At the time, I remembered what it was like, and just kept that to heart...but then, everything changed, and I couldn't remember."

"Wow. Some life."

"You want to know how I feel now?"

"How?"

"Happy." Harper said as she looked back at Chase, and got lost in his eyes. "For the first time in a long time, I feel happy."

"What about?"

"About everything. I'm happy to be apart of the Bionic Academy, and I'm happy to have made friends...with a terrific, smart guy."

"What guy is as smart as me?"

"Chase, I'm talking about you." Harper said, which made Chase smile.

All of a sudden, Harper's smile disappeared and she looked away from Chase. "What's wrong?" He asked.

"Nothing...it's just..." Harper began before she took a deep breathe, and was about to start singing, so he'd know it was her, when all of a sudden, Chase turned her head and kissed her. She was shocked at this action for a while, but after a minute or so, she melted into the kiss, and kissed him right back.

[Please tell me I didn't rush their first kiss. I figured since it took 5 chapters to get here, it was fine!]

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Markus woke up on the table and sat up. He looked around and saw Giselle sitting in a chair, and reading a book on how to create bionic smarts, but he could tell she wasn't getting any of it.

"Anything good?" He asked, making her jump a little bit as she dropped her book. "Sorry."

"Don't ever do that again!" She yelled as she grabbed the book from the floor and set it on the table next to her. "And no. I don't understand any of this."

"Then I guess Chase's chip is required." Markus said with an evil like smirk on his face as he got off the table and used his new bionic arm...that had Leo's abilities in it.

"Yes, when wasn't it." Giselle stated.

"But that girl. The one that protected Chase before. She is most definitely going to try to protect him again." Markus stated as he turned on the camera for the academy and saw that Chase and Harper weren't there. Thankfully he had cameras all over Mission Creek, and turned on each camera, until he found them in the park, at the cazebow, kissing.

"Well, there's only one way to get Chase to surrender his chip." Giselle said, as she watched the two bionic teens kissing. "We have to kill that girl."

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The next day came, and Chase was back to work looking for the Music App, while Harper kept it a secret for a little longer. She was going to tell him last night (like you all saw) but didn't get the chance to.

Harper was rehearsing with everyone else that made the talent show, and thankfully, again, Chase wasn't around for her turn. She was going to tell him it was her singing, but never got the chance to. So, she was keeping it a secret for a little while longer.

After Harper sang her song, she went out into the commons, and leaned up against the panels. She was thinking about last night, and how he kissed her. That was her first kiss, and she didn't know how to comprehend this.

"What do I do now?" She asked herself. "A million thoughts/in my head/should have let my heart/keep listening/I don't/know what/to do now/you're stuck/in my mind." She began, not realizing that Chase had walked in but stopped and hid behind a pillar. He could only see her back and he didn't recognize it, for their hair was in a French braid this time. But what he did recognize, was her voice. "If only I knew what my/heart was/telling me/don't know what I'm feeling/is this just a dream/oh-oh/yeah/if only I could read the/signs in/front of me/I could find a way to/who I'm meant to be/oh-oh/if only...if only."

After a while, Chase walked away and headed back to his room. He was excited that he got to see who she was (barely), but he wasn't ready to confront her yet. He needed more time to figure out who she was first before saying that he liked her.

Harper pushed herself off of the panels and was about to go back into the training area, when she heard someone gio leaping into the room she was in. She turned around, only to get knocked out, and everything around her, got dark.

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Chase kept looking in his tablet for an answer to who the girl was. But no one in the school seemed to have a Music App. However, he did remember Harper's sound wave ability, and typed that in to the search engine he used. Nothing came up. He sighed as he looked out at the pool, before deciding enough was enough and ran out of his room, going to go get Harper, and scan her to see if she had the Music App.

The whole reason why he didn't scan her the first time around, was because he didn't think she had the app. So, he wasn't going to even bother. But now, he was desperate, and needed answers. He ran into the training area, and up to Bree. "Hey Bree, have you seen Harper?" He asked.

"Uh, I think she went into the commons after she rehearsed for the talent show." Bree answered before Chase ran into the commons, and didn't see her anywhere. Not even by the big bay window reading her book. He looked around some more, before noticing a little piece of paper taped to the wall, making him run to it, and tear it off. Leo, Adam, and Bree walked in right as Chase started to read it.

Chase,

I got your little girlfriend in my grasp right now. Come to Giselle's lap and surrender your bionic chip if you want to see her again. She is quite the catch.

Markus

"NO!" Chase screamed, as he punched one of the walls out of frustration. Thankfully, he didn't have super strength with his bionics, so he didn't leave a hole, only a dent.

"What's wrong, dude?" Leo asked.

"Markus captured Harper, and is demanding me to surrender my chip to save her life!" Chase yelled as he showed his family the letter. Bree immediately felt worried. Harper was just starting to feel like the sister she never had, meaning Harper was starting to be nicer now a days.

"What are you going to do?" Adam asked, for once being serious about something.

"Well, I can't just leave her there!"

"Chase, relax!" Leo said. "We'll save her."

"I hope we can. Because if we end up falling for a trap...I might just have to give up my chip."

~END OF CHAPTER~