Episode 4: The Krane Sisters

At the diner, Harper is at the counter reading, Adam is beside her, making a battery of coffee cups "hey, Harper look at that!" Adam says he starts playing a song with the mini cup drums, Harper looks at him but she looks distant "Harper!?" Adam says "uh!?" She says "are you okay?" Adam asks "uh...yeah" Harper says "why didn't you laugh at my cup battery? I know you love this....especially when I play Guns and Roses" Adam says, Harper smiles.

"I know, it's just..." Harper says "What? You can tell me...we are best friends!" Adam says "Adam you don't have to remind me of this all the time" Harper says "I'm sorry I've never had a friend before....especially a girl" Adam says "although you're not much different than the boys I hang out with" Adam says "excuse me?" Harper says closing the book "they're nice, that was a compliment!" Adam says "Wow you really know how to please someone" Harper says sarcastically.

"Really, what's bothering you?" Adam says "nothing.." Harper says, she looks at him thoughtfully "Adam, I need to tell you something..." Harper says "what?" Adam says "it's just that I..." Harper says, she looks at her bracelet and remembers what that bracelet does "uh...never mind" Harper says "you can tell me!" Adam says putting a hand on her shoulder "it's just that I need to leave early today....can you cover my shift?" Harper says a little upset "Sure!" Adam says.

Harper takes her bag, she starts to leave, but she comes back and gives Adam an unexpected hug "what is that for?" Adam says hugging her too "just...remember that in any situation you are a great friend!" Harper punches his arm friendly and she leaves.

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Everyone is in the Lab "So did you get any sign of the Krane sisters?" Mr Davenport says "nothing set yet....but I got a signal this morning it must be them trying to get our attention" Chase says.

"Let's go after them" Adam says "it could be a trap" Leo says "it sure is a trap" Chase says fiddling with the cyber desk "but then how else are we going to get them?" Bree says "If we're going there we need to be prepared" Chase says "prepared for what they're not Bionics" Adam says "according to my research being bionics or not doesn't matter here" Chase says "So let's go" Adam says "No, I mean they are as dangerous as bionic people" Chase says "wow!" Leo says.

"well these girls grew up being raised by Krane what do you expect from that?" Mr Davenport says "It would be nice if he was a surprisingly kind and caring father" Bree says "they must be like that for the nightmares they had seeing Krane's face every night before bed when they were babies" Leo says.

"I took a look at the skills, maybe we still have an advantage because of the human flaws they have and we don't" Chase says "what about their weapons?" Leo says "Yeah you said the one that attacked you had high tech skates..." Bree says "they have a bit of Krane's Arsenal but from what I understand they make their own weapons...so we can expect anything" Mr Davenport says "So are we going after them or not?" Adam says "we need to be in their sights" Chase says "guys I think it's them" Leo says seeing a sign on the monitor "yes it's them" Mr Davenport says.

"Okay let's go there but I'm staying outside....these girls belong in prison so as soon as you catch them I'll call the police, they've been looking for them for years" Mr Davenport says "Police?" Leo questions "they can go to a regular prison, they aren't bionic" Chase says "let's go!" Bree says.

"the plan is simple to go in there, get them and hand them over to the police" Chase says "Oh and without letting the police discover about your bionics!" Leo says "of course Leo" Chase says "you didn't say that" Leo says "it's because it's implied" Chase says "you need to specify these things Chase, it's too dangerous to...." "IT'S IMPLIED!" Chase says impatiently "okay needless to say it's implied I'll be watching everything from my desk" Leo says "Come on we don't have much time" Mr Davenport says.

They go to an abandoned shed, Mr Davenport is hiding in front of the shed about to call the police if necessary "hi!" Adam says "Adam! Be quiet we don't want them to know we're already here" Chase says "but this place echoes! It's like another Adam playing the imitation game with me" Adam says "let's hand him over to the killer girls please!" Bree says.

"get ready guys, they're in the building" Leo says from the Lab, everyone gets ready "are you guys listening to this?" Chase says "it looks like someone approac..." Bree is interrupted by an invisible force that pulls her and throws her against the wall "Bree!" Chase screams and tries to run over to her, but when he gets close, a girl in a blue biker suit, come down from the ceiling with a rope and kicks Chase he falls to the ground.

At that moment the girl in the red clothes activates a transmitter that cuts the communicator signal from Leo and the rest of the team, Adam tries to help Bree, he feels a presence and punches the air, revealing a third girl in green clothes who had a device that makes her invisible, Adam breaks the device "guys!?" Leo yells from the Lab he can't warn Mr Davenport about what happened.

Chase gets up and starts to fight with the girl in blue, Adam and Bree try to face the girl in green, the two make Adam, Bree and Chase go to the middle of the place, the girl in red uses her skateboards, running around them, to tie the three together with a shining string "what is that?" Adam says "I can't run" Bree says "my bionics aren't working" Chase says "and it won't" the girl in blue says positioning herself in front of them, she takes off her helmet it's Tara "The rope blocks the signal from our chips" Chase realizes "wow give that guy the Nobel Prize" the girl in green says taking off her helmet it's Lara.

The girl in red keeps her helmet on and is silent, she touches the device on her wrists which makes a screen open like a hologram in front of her "wow, it's a computer... it's like the screen I see with my bionics, but on her wrist device" Chase says "Chase this is no time to be a nerd" Adam says.

"What do you want with us?" Bree asks "We're going to take out your chips, not just their programming information but the information contained in your memories, and hand it all over to our father, he will see that we are much more useful than bionics" Lara says "why?" Chase says "because we were made to fight for him, he raised us for this and we will not accept being left behind, let's give him everything he wants most, his path free and without you guys" Lara laughs.

"good luck finding a way to get our chips out without destroying our memories" Chase says "oh believe me we know how to do this...or rather she knows how to do this" Tara points to the girl in the red helmet "come on little sister introduce yourself to the guests don't be rude" Lara says, Adam, Bree and Chase look at the girl in red, she freezes her hologram computer screen and takes off her helmet, it's Harper.

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"Harper!?" Adam, Bree and Chase scream together "I knew I knew you!" Chase says silently, Harper looks at them with an embarrassed and upset look "Harper why are you doing this?" Adam says "I wanted to tell you" Harper says silently "Do you know them?" Lara says "Uh...just by sight" Harper says, Adam looks at her upset, Harper whispers "it'll be alright" in his direction.

Mr Davenport called the police anyway "Did these muggles call the police?" Tara says, she goes outside when she hears sirens "how long to remove the chips?" Lara asks "I need to download the memory extraction app....it will take time" Harper says.

"you are useless" Lara says "oh do you want to come here and program this thing? Do you understand these codes by any chance? Oh yeah, I don't think so!" Harper angrily says "That's Harper I know" Adam says, Bree and Chase frown at him.

"finish this...and don't let them get away, or you know what the consequence will be " Lara says pointing to the bracelet, Lara leaves.

"Harper you're not like that" Adam says, Harper ignores him and touches the hologram screen "you don't have to do this" Chase says "Harper....are we still friends?" Adam says, Harper stops and drops her head with a sigh "Of course!" Harper says her voice cracks "so let us out" Adam says "i can't" Harper says.

"they're a nightmare and helping you guys will only make it worse, and if not it's because of them it's going to get worse because of their father" Harper says "Isn't Krane your father too?" Bree asks "No! that monster is not my father!" Harper says going back to touching the screen.

"she is adopted" Adam says "Seriously, you know that but you never had the curiosity to ask her last name!?" Chase says "hey I had a crush on her didn't want to sound desperate" Adam says.

"We're on the same side... let us go" Bree says "no I can't, I'll suffer the consequences" Harper says almost finishing the download, Chase observes the screen and looks at her, Chase watches her for a while, he takes a deep breath "Harper!" Chase says.

"That day you saved me, you set me free...why did you do that?" Chase asks, Harper continues to finish the download "I don't know I just...looked at you and" Harper says, she looks at him and thinks of an answer.

"I... thought you deserved a chance" Harper says "a chance to prepare for this and warn your family" Harper says "You did it once just do it again" Chase says, she stares at him.

"I can't I've been stuck with this my whole life" Harper says "but now you've got us" Adam says, Harper looks at Adam "let us help you" Adam says "I promised you I would never leave you remember?" Adam says and smiles, Harper smiles too.

"can you get rid of that thing?" Harper shows the bracelet "Easy just get me out of here" Adam says "So are you in?" Chase asks, Harper looks at him and silently touches something on her hologram screen.

Adam uses heat vision to open the bracelet, the bracelet falls to the floor "My bionics are back!" Adam says "shh! she turned off the rope signal that blocks our chips, but disguise" Chase says, Harper delays the download and pretend not to care about them, her sisters come back.

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"How long will it take?" Tara says irritably "uhg! you know, the internet signal in this place is really bad....it takes too long!" Harper says, obviously lying as she delayed the download herself.

"the police are almost here make it go faster!!" Tara says as she walks in "I'm doing my best" Harper says "okay! if we're not getting rid of them like this...it's time for plan b" Lara says "what plan b!?" Chase says "yeah, what plan b!?" Harper says, Lara activates a buttom "a bomb! split up!" Chase says, letting go of the rope.

He runs to one side, Bree grabs Adam and super speed them away, Tara and Lara take cover behind a pillar, Harper does the same.

"Are you crazy!? The plan was just to take the chips, not kill them!" Harper says irritably "I think you more than anyone knows that plans change..." Lara says pointing a gun at Harper, she takes a step back "get away from her" Adam says running towards Lara who starts shooting at him, he dodges and throws the gun away.

Harper turns off the hologram screen and activates the skates at full speed putting on glasses, apparently normal glasses.

Chase and Bree fight Tara who uses the invisibility device "where is she?" Bree says "I don't..." Chase doesn't finish the sentence Tara kicks him in the stomach, Bree tries to fight back but doesn't see her, Harper comes close with her skates and takes the stun baton and hits Tara, she falls to the ground.

"How Did you?" Bree says "heat signature!" Harper says fixing her glasses, Chase on the ground, makes a face like he just realized it "...what? Didn't you think of that?" Harper smirk "of course I thought of that I....I just forgot" Chase says getting up.

Before he gets to his feet another bomb explodes "how many bombs are you going to explode?" Adam says "Enough to knock you out!" Lara says hitting Adam "this place is going to come crashing down!" Bree says "Let's get out of here" Chase says, they start running towards the exit.

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Adam throws Lara away, she hits a wall but quickly gets up, debris starts to fall, one lands on Lara's foot leaving her trapped, Adam and Bree are already outside going to warn the police and Mr Davenport, Harper follows them to the exit "not so fast, traitor!" Lara says shooting Harper's skates she loses her balance and falls to the ground, the whole place is collapsing, Harper sees her skates damaged.

Chase notices commotion behind them, he comes back, and sees Harper on the ground, she looks scared at Lara "if I'm not leaving here you won't leave either!" Lara says, Harper quickly takes off her skates, and tries to get to her feet, before she could walk again a part of the roof of the place starts to fall right on top of where she was "Look out!!" Chase yells running towards her.

She hadn't even seen him there until that second, Chase holds her pushing her a little to the side where she was, he uses his force field to protect both of them from the falling debris.

When his force field would no longer hold the weight the wreckage ends, Chase looks up and deactivates the force field, while Harper turns her face away from his chest, trying to understand what happened.

She looks at the open roof of the place, moving away from Chase, she looks into his eyes confused.

"you saved me? Why?" Harper asks "I thought you deserved a chance" Chase says, she smiles slightly "thanks" she says, Chase smiles slightly nodding his head.

He clears his throat "I recommend you get out of here before the police see you" Chase says, she nods, and starts walking towards the exit.

Chase is thoughtful for a moment "hey!" Chase says "Yeah?" Harper says in an oddly anxious tone, turning to him again "did you really find a way to get our chips out along with our memories?" Chase says.

Harper looks startled by the question, she looks Chase in the eye as she thinks about the answer "No" Harper says in a dry way she turns and leaves.

Chase is thoughtful about it, it would be something that even Mr Davenport would not have been able to do, but he ends up coming to the conclusion that it was just a lie that Harper invented so that her sisters would not punish her in some way, Harper goes out the back but a police officer is already there, she just rolls her eyes and goes with him.

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Chase goes to find Adam, Bree, Mr Davenport and Leo who had arrived there along with the police, they are reclusive so the police do not suspect them, they put on coats hiding their
mission clothes "Chase!" Bree says going to hug him "what happened? Where's Harper?" Adam asks worried "Oh she..." Chase says "she's over there" Leo says, they see Harper surrounded by cops taking her.

"No! don't take her! She didn't do anything" Adam says "Adam I'll be fine" Harper says "no!" Adam says "Adam, it's going to be fine" Harper says approaching him "Adam let them take her" Mr Davenport says "No I can't, she helped us!" Adam says to Mr Davenport "hey! I'll be fine I'll be out of there real quick you'll see" Harper says "I..I'll miss you" Adam says "Me too, I'm your best friend after all right" she says smiling, Adam gives a broken smile, she approaches and kisses him on the cheek, Adam hugs her tightly "what will be the fun of going to work now?" Adam says, she walks away from him "I don't think any of us are going to need to work there anymore" Harper says "well...let's see the glass half full" Adam smiles.

"thanks...for saving us" Bree says, Harper smiles at her, the cops take her to the car, halfway there she passes Chase, she looks at him, smiles and nods, and he does the same, she tucks her hair behind her ear, one of the officers opens the car door, the police leave.

"I can't believe it was her" Adam says "I know Adam but the police have been after her and her sisters for years" Mr Davenport says.

"what happened to her sisters?" Leo asks "were not found" Mr Davenport says "So you're saying there are two female assassins out there and the only one who didn't want to be a part of it got arrested?" Chase says.

"of course, fair enough" Adam says irritably "Adam I know she's your friend and you like her very much but the law is upon us" Mr Davenport says, Adam shakes his head.

"okay, I...will find a way" Mr Devenport says "really?" Adam says "yeah, maybe if they look at her files, there's a way to forgive her" Mr Davenport says "yes!" Adam hugs Mr Davenport "let's go home" Chase says, everyone goes back to the Lab.

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Adam goes to the prison to visit Harper, they talk separated by a glass "hey Adam" she says "how's the prison?" Adam says "well...the house I shared with my sisters was way worse" Harper says "wow so you prefer prison!?" Adam says "no! I'm just exaggerating...but I can manage" Harper says.

"you can do it...it's so good, you finally know my secrets and I know yours..." Adam says "so you have nothing left to hide from me ?" Harper cross her arms "nope! and you?" Adam crosses his arms too "I don't think so" Harper says smiling "now officially best friends!" Adam prepares to give her a high five "Adam no..." Harper says.

Adam forgets the glass that was separating them and hits the glass, breaking it "...the glass!" Harper finishes "oh sorry" Adam says hearing the prison siren go off, Harper stands there staring at the glass "are you going to have to clean this up?" Adam says "nope" Harper says "oh cool at least you don't have to work here" Adam smiles, Harper smiles sarcastically.

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