Chapter 06
*Anything italicized is someone singing or someone's thought bubble
*BOLDED + ITALICIZED = FLASHBACK OR MEMORY
*=lyrics have been changed to fit the story
Harper woke up, and looked around at the big white room, before she felt the rope around her wrists behind her back, and around her ankles, as she was sitting in a chair at the far end of the room.
"Uhg...where am I?" She asked, making Marcus look her way and smirk [I had been spelling his name wrong...oops].
"Oh, good, you're awake." He said, making Harper look up from her lap and growl at his presence. "What? No 'Good Morning, Marcus'?"
"Nope." Harper said plainly as she tried to break free from the ropes. "Now let me go!"
"Sorry." Giselle began to say as she walked in with a clipboard in her arms. "But you are vital to our plan."
"What plan?!" Harper yelled the question with anger lacing her voice.
"To bait Chase!" Marcus said before chuckling silently.
Harper gasped at the sound of that. Chase was in danger! Odds were they were after his chip, and there was no way for her to stop them. She was tied up and couldn't break free from it being so tight. Or, so they thought.
"I need his chip to be able to understand how his bionic smarts work." Giselle stated as she walked up to Harper. "And you are not gonna stop me from doing so." Harper glared at her before Giselle walked away and out of the room, with Marcus following behind her.
Once they were gone, Harper smirked, and used her super strength, and broke the rope on her wrists. She then untied her ankles and stood up from the chair. "Oh, lady..." She began as she fixed her red skirt (with black jeggings underneath) and shirt. "...you don't know who you are dealing with."
Harper went to go open the door, but it wouldn't budge. She tried her strength to pull it off it's hinges, but it wouldn't budge. "Okay, I guess you do." She stated as she backed away from the door.
"Oh, trust me...she does." A voice spoke, making Harper spin around to see Marcus standing there, with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Marcus..." Harper said his name like it was venom in her mouth. "...what do you want?"
"Look, I may be an android, but..." Marcus began to say as he walked closer to her. "...that doesn't mean I have feelings."
"Get away from me, you creep!" Harper yelled as she pushed him with all her strength, and then used her sound wave to send him on the floor. "My heart belongs to someone else."
"Let me guess: Chase?" Marcus asked as he stood up.
"Yeah." Harper spat out, trying to make a point.
"Are you sure he loves you back?" Marcus asked, only to receive another blow of Harper's sound wave.
"You are not manipulating my feelings for him!" She yelled. "If he doesn't love me back, then that's his loss! But I know he does because of the kiss the other night."
"Well then..." Marcus began before he grabbed a knife from a table. "...this is going to be good."
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Adam, Bree, Chase, and Leo ran into Giselle's lab, and up to the experiment chamber, only to get stopped by a door.
"Seriously!? When did she do this?!" Chase yelled in frustration.
"Stand back." Adam said as he punched the door and it fell right off it's hinges.
"Oh, come on! How did that not work for me?!" Harper's voice was heard from the other side, making the team of Bionic Heroes run in, only to stop when they saw Marcus holding her with a knife to her neck.
"Let her go, Marcus!" Chase yelled.
"Oh, I will...if you surrender your chip!" Marcus yelled back.
"Don't do it, Chase!" Harper yelled to him, with fear in her eyes. Chase saw this and almost surrendered, when Harper smirked and elbowed Marcus in the stomach and flipped him onto his back over her shoulder. He had dropped the knife in the process.
Harper stood there, with her hip popped out as her hands were on them. "That's what happens when you mess with a tough chick like me." She stated with a smirk on her face. Marcus, however, also had a smirk on his face, as he sweeped around and tripped the bionic student with his leg.
Harper fell to the floor, with a loud thud. She basically screamed in pain as she hit the floor. She hit it pretty hard.
"Harper!" Chase was about to run towards her when all of a sudden, he couldn't move, neither could the other 3.
"I can't move!" Bree yelled with fear.
"Same here!" Leo exclaimed.
"It's a new ability Giselle gave me." Marcus began as he made a staff of red light in his hand, like Chase. "Now you can just stand there frozen, as you watch me destroy your girlfriend Chase."
Harper sat up slightly at this point and watched as Chase just stood there, frozen with no way to get to her. She saw the staff of red light in Marcus' hand, and glared.
"The only way to save her, Chase...is to surrender your chip!" Marcus yelled.
"Good work, Marcus." Giselle stated as she walked into the room. "Now, destroy her. She's the only one who is willing to protect Chase"
"Why kill me?" Harper asked, making them all look at her, including Chase. "I mean..." She stood up from the ground and got into a fighting stance. "...but why take his chip with his bionic smarts...when you already had someone with them!"
"You have bionic intelligence?" Marcus asked.
"Yes...I do." Harper answered as she settled her stance.
Chase looked at her before scanning her with his eye. He didn't see any sort of Bionic Intelligence in her, but what he did see...was the Music App. "Guys..." Chase began to whisper. "...she's lying. She's just saying this to protect me."
"Wow...she must really like you." Leo stated in a whisper as well.
"I think it's more that...she loves me." Chase added.
"So what are you waiting for?! Take my chip!" Harper yelled.
Giselle looked at Marcus for a short while before grabbing a small knife and walking towards the girl. She went to cut the chip out when Harper said: "But Marcus' new intelligence will only be about music...considering I have the only Music App in existance."
"Wait...you lied!?" Giselle yelled, only to get a smirk from Harper and a sound wave to come out of her hands, throwing both Marcus and Giselle out of the way. With that motion, Adam, Bree, Chase, and Leo were able to move again, because Marcus had lost control over it, and ran up to Harper.
Chase immediately hugged her, making her hug him back. "Don't you EVER, trick someone this dangerous again! Okay?" Chase stated as he pulled away, but kept her in his arms.
"I won't make any promises, Chase...if you're involved and in trouble." Harper stated before: "A million thoughts/in my head/finally let my heart/start listening/cuz up til now/I found the light/and it's you/that made me see what's missing/couldn't/decide/what was wrong/what was right/didn't know/where to go...If only I knew what my/heart was/telling me/didn't know this feeling/until this moment in time/uh-oh/yeah/if only I could read the/signs in/front of me/but now I can see you/clear as day and the sky/uh-oh/if only...I'm not lonely."
"It really was you all this time." Chase stated as he smiled.
"Yeah...sorry I didn't tell you sooner." Harper said before looking down with sadness.
"Hey, don't be. I enjoyed the journey." He stated as he lifted up her head by the chin. She looked him the eyes and smiled slightly, before she could hear Marcus getting up from the floor.
"You're a strong chick!" Marcus stated before making a ball of blue electricity form in his hand. "But not strong enough!" He then threw the ball of light, making Harper quickly go in front of her friends, and make a shield of purple light go in front of them. The blue ball of electricity hit the shield and bursted into sparks.
"What abilities DON'T you have?!" Leo yelled in shock and anger. More shock than anger really.
"You know what, Leo..." Harper said before letting the shield fall and as she glared at Marcus. "...you are about to find out. Chase, cover your ears!" She stated, which made the boy in question look at her confused. "The next thing I'm about to do, will hurt your ears. So please, do what I'm asking!" Chase nodded his head before he quickly covered his ears right as Harper screamed with a sonic scream that made Marcus fall backwards, making hit his bionic android head on the floor with a loud bang, and sparks coming from his neck.
Harper started to breathe heavily as she looked at her friends, only to get a hug from Chase and spin around.
"Nice job!" Bree yelled. "I think it's safe to say you are ready to graduate from the academy, Harper."
"Thanks, Bree." Harper said as Chase pulled away from her and looked over at his friends. But what he saw was shocking.
"Oh, great! Giselle is...!" He began to say when...
"Right here!" Giselle came in with a glowing blue whip in her hand, and went to swipe it at Harper and Chase, when Harper pushed Chase out of the way and she backed flipped away from it, only to have it clip her leg slightly.
Harper fell to the floor and grabbed her cut leg, as the whip wrapped around Giselle...and was no more [Yeah, I took that from the final episode of Bionic Island. I just had added Harper into the mix.]
Chase stood up quickly and ran up to Harper, kneeling down beside her in worry. "I'm fine, Chase. Just a slight burning cut on my leg from her whip." Harper stated as she showed the bleeding cut and sighed. She was grateful that the whip Giselle used didn't cut her leg all the way off. She needed her legs to train more at the academy.
"I'm just glad you're okay." Chase said, making Harper look up at him.
"Same for you." She said with a slight grin before they shared a kiss. Bree squealed with excitement at the sight of this, which made the couple pull away and laugh at her antics.
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The day of the Bionic Talent Show came shortly after the battle with Marcus and Giselle. Harper was standing backstage, wearing a red and black spaghetti strap dress with black leather combat boots on her feet. She had a black hollowed out heart dangle ears in her ears, and a black chocker with a silver crescent moon in the center. She even had one fingerless black leather glove on her right hand, and a black spike bracelet on her left wrist. She may have been a good girl now, but she still had that bad girl image she wanted to keep.
She took a deep breathe, as Bree went up onstage, with the audience applauding her arrival.
"Hello! Welcome to first annual, Donald Davenport Bionic Academy Talent Show!" Bree stated into the microphone, which made the audience applaud again. "Tonight, we have so many amazing talents, and we are going to start off, with a girl who has a lot to say in her singing and music. She was rebellious at first, but had grown to be a grade A student here at the academy. Please, put your hands together for, Harper Craig!"
Harper's eyes widened when she heard this. She wasn't ready! What if she messed up the words!? Or what if she tripped going up the stairs onto the stage?! She couldn't do it. But then, she looked out into the crowd from behind the curtains, and saw Chase, smiling up at the stage, making her fears melt away, and a smile of her own appears onto her face.
She looked back straight, at the wall behind the stage, and took a deep breathe, before cuing the music start playing.
(SONG: "You don't know me" – Elizabeth Gilles)
You think you know me/but you don't/know me/you think you own me/but you can't/control me/you look at me and there's just one thing that you see/so listen to me/listen to me!
You push me back/I'll push you back/harder/harder/you scream at me/I'll scream at you/louder/l-l-l-l-louder/I'm dangerous/I'm warning you/but you're not afraid of me/and I can't convince you/you don't know me.
You think you got/but you don't/get me/you think you want me/but you don't know what you're getting into/there's so much more to me than what you think you see/so listen to me/just listen to me!
You push me back/I'll push you back/harder/harder/you scream at me/I'll scream at you/louder/l-l-l-l-louder/I'm dangerous/I'm warning you/but you're not afraid of me/and I can't convince you/you don't know me.
And the longer that you stay/the ice is melting/and the pain feels okay/it feels okay/yeah-he-he-he...
You push me back/I'll push you back...you scream at me/I'll scream at you
Louder (x9)
You push me back/I'll push you back/harder/harder/you scream at me/I'll scream at you/louder/l-l-l-l-louder/I'm dangerous/I'm warning you/but you're not afraid of me/and I can't convince you/and I don't have to...
The moment the song was about to end, Harper looked straight at Chase, and grinned at him as she sang the last part of the song.
...I think you know me.
(End of song)
Once the song was over, everyone went crazy wild, and were cheering really loudly for her, which made her smile widely. She looked over at Chase again, and right away winked at him, as he smiled at her performance.
As the days went on, Chase and Harper had grown stronger as a couple, until he and Bree left to form a new group of heroes. Harper was then left at the academy as a new mentor with Adam and Leo, alone. She was also the first bionic human to be a famous singer who got to travel the world, touring.
Ivy was also a mentor at the academy. She was also famous...a famous author with the book she had been writing since she showed up at the academy published. She had finally named it and published it. It had done a great success, and she gave credit to Chase and Harper for giving her the idea, since it was about them.
Oh, the name of the book! It was called...Bionic Love.
~THE END~~
Yeah, I guess novellas are my specialty now a days. Anyway, I hope you liked the story still. I'll be posting a Epilogue really soon, I just need to write it.
But thanks for reading it anyway, it really means a lot to me. See you guys in my next story. Bye!
~Brittany Bauer