xxxvii. first day of bionic academy

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~Bionic Academy; Common Area~

Davenport was waiting in the Common Area as the hydraloop arrived. The doors opened and out walked Adam, Bree, Chase, Leo, Freya, and Juliet.

"Welcome to the Davenport Bionic Academy." Davenport announced and the group walked out, instantly amazed by the place.

"Wow!" Freya gasped as she walked out with Chase holding his hand.

"Whoa, cool!" Bree smiled

Adam gasped at the giant window that viewed the ocean, walking over to it with Juliet. "Ooh, a window!"

Chase went up to Davenport with Freya. "Wow, the hydraloop is amazing! We just went from the mainland to the middle of the ocean in less than 30 seconds."

Leo was seen bent over in the hydraloop, holding his stomach. "Yep, and my lunch just went from my stomach to the floor in less than three."

"No, no!" Freya gagged, looking away immediately.

"So, what do you think?" Davenport asked the teens.

Bree walked down the steps from the platform by the window. "Beautiful view, tons of space. I'm assuming we'll be living in the basement again?"

"No... Here, we call it "below sea level." Davenport corrected her. "By the way, the hydraloop will take you anywhere you want to go on the island at any time." Davenport gestured to the half circle table with chairs and a monitor. "This is one of the main classroom areas and here..." They all walk through an automatic door, leading them to an open area. "This is the training area where we'll develop the kid's skills and teach them to become bionic heroes."

"If you couldn't teach Chase how to be one, what chance do they have?" Adam joked, putting a hand on his brother's shoulder. The sisters shared an amused look.

"Guys, this is serious. You have important roles as mentors." Davenport told the trio.

"Don't worry, Big D. We got this." Leo assured Davenport. "Now, what exactly will I be teaching? Or Freya?"

Davenport frowned. "Nothing. You, Freya, and Juliet are students."

"Oh good! I could never teach," Freya sighed with relief.

Leo blinked with shock. "A what? But you gave me a mission suit. You said I was part of the team!"

Bree nodded. "Mm, yeah, he says a lot of things. By the way, still waiting on that sweet sixteen party."

"Rey, Jules, back me up here." Leo encouraged the sisters.

"I got my bionics like last week. I also really dislike people," Juliet shrugged.

"We aren't ready to be mentors," Freya told Leo, who frowned. "It's also hard to be a mentor when you have one bionic limb."

Freya sucked in air and shrugged walking away with Bree and Chase.

"Leo, you are a part of the team, but you've only had your bionic arm for six months. You still have a lot more to learn." Davenport explained to Leo

Leo folded his arms reproachfully. "Well, that's the last time I save your life." Leo pouted. "Come on, Big D, I am ready! Adam, Jules tell him."

"Leo, were you not listening? I'm a teacher now. It's Mr. Adam for you." Adam corrected Leo, adjusting his shirt.

"You really want him to teach a bunch of kids with bionics?" Juliet asked Davenport, who pressed in lips together and blinked.

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~Common Area~

The next day, all the students were at the academy waiting for the orientation to start. Adam, Bree, and Chase were wearing white mentor uniforms, while all the students were wearing black pants and boots and had shirts on with different colored shoulders.

Leo and Juliet had yellow and Freya had orange.

S-3 and Adam were sitting at the table in the classroom area. S-3 looked at the sign above the door. "Hey, what's Orientation Day?"

"Oh, that's just a fancy way of saying Mr. Davenport's gonna talk a lot." Adam explained.

Davenport walks in, passing by.

"I heard that. And he's right." Davenport said and walks over to Bree, Chase, Freya, Juliet, and Leo. "Hey, guys."

"Don't 'Hey, guys' me. I look like a bionic bumblebee." Leo hissed. "Why does Freya get a cool color?"

"Probably cause I'm better than you," Freya snickered.

"Yeah, so what do all the different colors mean?" Bree asked.

"Mr. Davenport and I assessed each of the kids bionics, and the colors represent their level of mastery." Chase shows them tablet with a graph of four different colors. "You see, red for expert and it goes all the way down to yellow for beginner."

Freya looked at the chart and saw she was an advanced level. "I knew it!"

Leo was stunned. "I'm a beginner?"

A young boy with the same shirt as Leo walks up to them. "Don't worry. I am, too."

Leo turns expecting to find an older teenager, but he has to look down to find the little boy. The boy waved and Leo frowned. "I'm on the same level as him? He's tiny."

The kid lowered his hand and gave him a look. "I'm young. What's your excuse?"

Leo and the young boy walk away separately.

"Am I actually advanced?" Freya asked her boyfriend.

"Definitely, you have improved so much. You'll be expect in no time," Chase smiled at her and kissed her cheek, making her giggle.

"I don't care that I'm a beginner, I just want to get to expert so I can wear red," Juliet shrugged and walked over to Adam.

A blonde boy with a beginner shirt on walked over to them. "Hi." He turned to Bree and grinned. "Ooh. 'Sup little, mama."

"Can we help you?" Bree asked.

"Yeah, I have a little problem with my, uh, uniform. How can I put this? I need a little bit more room in the, cargo area." He gestures to butt and Freya softly chuckled.

So does Chase. Freya bit her lip, glancing at Chase's butt.

"Uh, are you sure about that? Because tight is where it's at, right guys?" Davenport chuckled and does a little dance, but he rips his pants. "Oh!" He stood and stands up straight, covering his butt. "You know what? Let's just get started."

Everyone heads toward the training room and Freya sneakily smacked Chase's butt. He yelps and turned around, blushing.

"Baby, you need more room back there." She winked and walked by him, leaving him flustered.

"So do you." He remarked, jogging after her.

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All of the students are gathered in the training room with the mentors and Davenport on the platform.

Davenport stands in the middle of the platform. "Hello, and welcome to the world's first Davenport Bionic Academy."

Everyone applauds.

The little boy aggressively steps forward. "When do I get to throttle people?"

"Hey! We don't throttle people, Mighty Mouse!" Leo protested.

"Leo's right. You're not soldiers anymore. You're students. Now I know you've had it rough and you're still adjusting to the outside world, but we're here to help. You see..." Davenport continued talking as Adam leaned down to S-3 and Juliet.

"Told ya." Adam says and made a blah-blah gesture, making Juliet chuckle.

"This facility is here so that you can train your bionics in safe space and develop into the heroes you see before me. But, first things first. We have to get rid of your soldier numbers and give you some really cool new names." Davenport explained and grabbed a tablet. "S-12, you are now Donald Junior! You're Donald III. Donna, Donaldella, Donaldina-"

"I don't wanna be a Donald. I already gave myself a name." The little boy called. "Spin!"

"That's not really a name. Why do you wanna be called Spin?" Davenport asked.

"Cause I can do this." Spin starts to use his rapid gyration ability, making him spin like a tornado.

"Woah," Freya said as everyone was impressed. "That's cool."

Spin noticed Freya and the little boy blushed. "Thanks."

Davenport chuckled, impressed. "All right. You're Spin. I did not even know you could do that. You know what, forget yellow, you just moved up to green."

"Yes!" Spin cheered.

"Oh, come on. He twirled!" Leo complained and Freya gave Leo a look.

"Mr. Davenport, I'd like to change my name from S-3 to Sebastian." S-3, who is now Sebastian, grinned.

Davenport frowned. "Really? 'Cause I always saw you as a Julio."

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Later, Juliet was training with Bree and a few other girls. Juliet has superspeed, so she was pretty excited to train with her. Leo followed Davenport into the training area.

"Come on, Big D." Leo complained

"Leo, you're not ready to be a mentor, so stop complaining and start getting to know your fellow students." Davenport instructed his son.

"I don't have to. They're all named Donald." Leo objected. "Plus, I don't fit in anywhere. Everybody's already formed their own groups. Adam's mentoring the bionic bros."

Across the room, Adam and a group of boys are laughing and pushing each other around.

The pushing and laughing got stronger and Adam stops laughing. "Guys." Adam gets in between them, breaking them up. "Hey, hey, hey, settle down! Settle down!" He pushed the group away.

"Bree's the leader of the alpha girls." Leo continued, gesturing to Bree, Juliet, and some other girls.

Bree kicks off the head of a dummy uses her superkick.

"You can use that move to fight off an attack or to get even with a boy who stands you up on prom night." Bree seethed and chuckled. "Not that I'm bitter."

"Been there, sister," Juliet grinned.

"You try, Juliet," Bree suggested and Juliet shrugged.

"Sure." She went up to the other dummy and did the same move as Bree did. She successfully knocked the head off the dummy.

"Nice!" Bree praised and high fived her.

"And Chase..." Leo and Davenport walk into the common area to find Chase and his students. Freya was sitting at the table, not really understanding all of Chase's jokes. They weren't funny. But Chase is cute so she laughs for his sake.

Leo sighed. "Is still being Chase."

"What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?" Chase asked and moments later everyone burst out laughing, except for Freya. She eventually let out an awkward chuckle, turning to Leo and Davenport.

"Help me," she whispered and they backed away from her.

"Everyone else is hiding because they're afraid you're going to give another speech." Leo added.

"Well, then let's find them and give them one." Davenport leads Leo out of the room.

"As your mentor, I have scheduled today's activities by military time. If you'll direct your attention to the virtual blackboard..." Chase began to explain and a schedule popped up in the monitor.

Donald III raises his hand and Chase points at him aggressively. "Donald III, no questions until 1100 hours."

Freya got up and touched her boyfriend's arm. "Chase, it's only the first day. Take it easy on 'em."

"I am taking it easy on them" Chase objected and lead Freya back to her seat. He then gestured to his schedule. "If you had bothered to look at the magenta block, you'd see that I scheduled six-and-a-half minutes of general horseplay. Shenanigans, if you will."

It wasn't Freya's choice to be here. Chase literally put her in his class. She never imagined she would be dating a teacher.

"Chase," Freya said.

"Yes, honey?" He asked and this got looks from some of the students. "She's my girlfriend. She gets special treatment."

"Chase..." she sighed. "Did you only put me in your class to spend time with me?"

"Maybe..." He shifted his eyes away and Freya shook her head. Sebastian went over to the schedule and looked at the different blocks.

"Oh, okay, there it is. Guess I must have missed it since I don't have microscopic vision." Sebastian rolled his eyes.

Chase let out a burst of laughter and pointed to his head. "I do! This guy."

"Look, I'm just saying, if I was in charge--"

"Well, you're not in charge, okay? You're in my class, so why don't you sit down and pay attention?" Chase ordered him.

"I've got a better idea. How about we just have our six minutes of fun now?" Sebastian scrambles the blocks on the screen and Chase was astonished in anger.

"What are you doing?" He asked and started yelling. "You touched my blocks. Nobody touches my blocks!" Chase puts them back into place as Freya got up.

Sebastian grinned amused. "Oops. Sorry. Must've slipped. Just like now." He scrambles the blocks again and Freya sighed.

"Guys." She's tried to say.

"That's it! You just earned yourself detention, mister." Chase threatened, angrily.

"Good! I don't even know what that is." Sebastian shot back and Freya took a breath, before stepping between.

"Chase, let's walk away and compose yourself, okay?" Freya suggested and pulled an angry Chase away.

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~Common Area~

"And at 1400 we'll all jump out the window, and get eaten by sharks, 'cause it's better than listening to..."

Sebastian sighs as he see Freya and Chase walk back in together.

"Oh, look. He's here," Sebastian rolled his eyes.

"What do you think you're doing?" Chase asked Sebastian. "Freya is in charge when I'm gone."

"How am I in charge if I wasn't with them?" Freys asked her boyfriend.

Sebastian went up to them. "Look, I'm just trying to make people laugh before you put 'em to sleep."

"I don't put people to sleep. I motivate them to think with their eyes closed." Chase protested.

Sebastian frowned. "Oh, well, do you also motivate them to snore?"

"That's it. It's time I show you who's boss." Chase threatened.

Sebastian gave him a look. "Really? Are you sure you scheduled enough time for that? And shouldn't you be the boss in your relationship before being the boss at anything?"

Freya covered her mouth, hiding her laughter and Chase blushed from embarrassment.

Bree and Juliet walk in, noticing the argument.

Bree broke them up, looking at her brother. "Hey. Stop it. You cannot pick a fight with him; you're a mentor now."

Chase pouted. "He's turning my group against me."

Juliet went up to Sebastian. "Sebastian, you may not like the way Chase runs his group, but it's his."

Bree nodded. "Yeah, and if you can't respect that, then maybe you should find a different one."

Bree and Juliet share a look of confusion. "Okay, when did we start talking like moms?" The two girls leaves

"They are right." Freya sighed, putting a hand on their shoulders. "The two of you in the same group isn't gonna work."

"I agree on that." Chase raised his eyebrow.

Sebastian grinned. "Good. So I'm gonna take half of your group, and make my own. Let's go, guys."

Sebastian takes half of Chase's group and they follow Sebastian out of the room with Chase protesting.

Chase called to them. "Wh- Hey, you get back here! You can't do that!l

Sebastian yelled already out of view. "Just did."

Freya tried to sneak out, but Chase caught her. "Rey!"

"Right. Sorry." She apologized, walking back.

Donald III raises his hand and Chase angrily snaps. "Does it look like 1100 hours to you?"

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Later in the Common Area, Adam was surfing on a levitating Bob across the room.

"Wee!" Bob laughed.

Adam laughed. "Whoa, radical. Way to shred, little man."

Bree and Juliet walk in and immediately stop the shenanigan.

"Adam, get off of him! He's not a surfboard." Bree berated his brother.

"He could get hurt!" Juliet told him.

"I know. Surfboards don't belch every time you take a corner." Adam hops off Bob and laughed, high fiving him. "That was awesome."

Bob greeted Bree, giving her finger guns. Adam and Juliet stood behind them, watching. "Hey, Breezy. I got a name now." Bob looked at Adam. "What is it again?"

"Bob."

Bob turned back to Bree with a grin. "It's Bob. Aren't you lovin' it."

Juliet and Adam share amused grins as Bob continues to flirt with Bree.

Bree smiled. "Yeah. Um, I'm gonna go love it over there with Juliet." Bree grabs Juliet and walks away with her.

"Isn't he cute," Juliet jokes and Bree gives her a sarcastic glare.

"Oh yeah, the cutest!"

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Juliet, Freya, and Bree were in the common area, chatting and laughing when the whole island shook violently.

"What was that?" Freya asked and the three girls looked out the window to see the island was being submerged by the ocean.

"MR. DAVENPORT!" All three girls yelled and everyone ran into the common area. Davenport, Leo, and Spin rush in from the training area as Chase, Sebastian and their groups rush in from the other side.

"Look!" Freya pointed fearfully, going up to Chase and he grabbed her hand.

"The entire island is sinking," Davenport informed everyone.

"What? How?" Chase asked.

"Well, you see, Chase, when water rises above--"

Chase yelled loudly at Sebastian. "I know why things sink!"

Freya rubbed his arm, calming him down. "Yelling doesn't solve anything."

"Leo punched a wall and cracked the foundation." Davenport explained.

"That's so stupid!" Freya frowned.

"Why would you do that?" Bree yelled.

"Well, I didn't think this was gonna happen!" Leo argued back.

"Well, what did you think was gonna happen?" Juliet asked him.

Bree sighed, "Honestly, Leo..."

Everyone starts arguing at once as the ocean continued to submerge the island.

"Hey!" Spin shouts and everyone stops talking. "So he made a mistake. We all make mistakes. I mean, not as big as that one. It was this huge-"

Leo cut him impatiently. "Okay, we get it."

"I like him," Freya chuckled and Spin grinned flattered, before getting serious.

"Instead of yelling at him, let's help him fix it." Spin continued.

Sebastian nodded. "He's right. Maybe I can lift the island back onto its foundation. I mean, after all, I do have molecular kinesis."

"So do I, buddy. Get in line." Chase gestured aggressively.

"That'll help but it's still not enough. The island is too heavy." Davenport reasoned.

"Don't worry. My whole group has molecular kinesis." Sebastian assured him and his group nodded.

Chase mocked him. "So does mine." He leaned to his group. "And if you don't, just fake it. Look, we can pool our abilities together to form one giant force and raise the island. Come on. Follow me."

Freya, Chase, and his group walk into the training area.

Sebastian called after them. "Oh, no, you don't. My group will raise the island. Follow me."

"Why is this a competition?" Juliet asked following them.

In the training area, Freya, Chase and his group start to raise one side of the island and Sebastian and his group try and raise the other.

Chase encouraged his group. "Come on, guys, we got this."

The island's left side tilts up and Bree, Davenport, Juliet, Leo, and Spin are pushed across the room, hitting the wall.

Sebastian groaned. "So do we."

The island's right side tilts up and Bree, Davenport, Juliet, Leo, and Spin are pushed to other side of the room, hitting the wall.

"Stop it!" Bree and Juliet yelled.

"If you guys don't work together, we're not gonna have an academy!" Davenport yelled.

Bree ran over to the window to see the island was almost underwater. "We're almost completely submerged!"

"That's it!" Freya yelled and let go. "You two need to set aside your differences and work together! If we do that, we can spread the force equally, and lift the entire island at once!"

"She's right. Good idea, Rey." Chase praised. "Everyone form a circle."

Chase's group stops lifting the island and gathers in a circle around the room.

Sebastian gestured his ground to follow. "Well, don't just stand there. Do what he says."

Sebastian's group stop lifting the island and joins the circle.

Juliet ran into the room. "Guys, water's already coming through the hydraloop tunnel."

"Hurry!" Davenport yelled.

"All right, on my count. Three, two, one. Now!" Chase yelled.

Everyone in the circle uses their molecular kinesis to lift up the island.

"It's moving!" Leo yelled as the island was moving out of the water.

Eventually, the island is lifted high enough, and settles on its foundation, clicking into place. Everyone stumbled around.

Davenport smiled. "Yes. You did it! The island's back on its foundation."

Freya hugged Chase, getting lifted off the ground by him.

"Good idea, love," Chase told her as he set her down and she smiled at him as he kissed her forehead.

Freya saw Sebastian and gestured Chase to talk to him. Chase got off the platform and hugged Davenport, before approaching Sebastian.

"Good job." Sebastian told him.

Chase nodded hesitantly. "Yeah. You, too."

Chase hugged Bree and Juliet as Leo went up to Davenport.

"Hey, what do you know? All's well that ends well." Leo smiled sheepishly and Davenport shook his head. "Yeah, this isn't gonna end well."

"I'm very disappointed in you, Leo. But you took responsibility and you didn't leave Spin on the hook. You've learned a very valuable lesson today." Davenport sincerely told Leo, before grinning loudly. "As a student!"

As Davenport leaves, Freya approaches Leo and Spin.

"Hey, kid nice speech. Takes guts to do that," Freya kneeled down to Spin, who was sitting on the platform.

"Uh, thanks Freya!" Spin chuckled nervously and Freya smiled, rubbing his hair and walked out. "Bye!"

Leo chuckled as he watched Spin blush. "Never happening. She's dating Chase."

"But she's so cool?" Spin frowned.

"I know right?" Leo shook his head.

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In the common area, Sebastian and Chase were sitting on chairs as Bree, Juliet, and Freya lectured them.

"And I hope this experience has taught you two to stop working against each other and start working together." Bree explained to the boys.

Freya nudged her boyfriend. "Now, Chase, is there anything you wanna say to Sebastian?"

Chase sighed, reluctantly. "I guess I could call a truce, as long as he learns to respect my authority as a mentor."

Juliet folded her arms. "And Sebastian."

"I'm good with a truce, as long as he stops acting like a bionic dictator." Sebastian reasoned.

"I only do that because I know what everyone should do and when they should do it." Chase sat up impatiently and Freya leaned toward him with electricity in her hand, threateningly. Chase leaned back and nervously laughed. "Okay, okay! I see your point."

"All right, good. We're gonna go make you two a snack." Bree smiled and Juliet gasped.

"No! No we aren't!" Juliet shook her head and Bree blinked horrified with herself.

"Ugh, what is happening to us?! Pretty soon, we're gonna start carpooling at a soccer practice." Bree quickly left with Juliet.

"I did soccer when I was a kid," Freya tilted her head in confusion as the boys looked at her. "I wouldn't mind a snack. Wait!" Freya rushed off.

Sebastian grinned. "Freya's pretty cute."

Chase glared at him. "Dude, that's my girlfriend!"

Sebastian nodded smugly. "I know." He pauses and sees Chase's anger look. "You could still put in a good word for me?"

"No! She's mine! The truce is off!" Chase huffs impatiently and walks away, clenching his fists.

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Up Next: Adam Steps Up

Get ready for some serious drama this upcoming season. Whole different vibe this season.