CHAPTER TWO, crush, chop and burn

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The next morning, Emilia and Leo were both in the living room sulking as Tasha attempted to make them see the bright side of things, though it didn't work.

"Good morning, happy family." Donald turned around to face his step-son and wife who looked behind him in question. "What is that?"

"Whatever it is, don't get too attached." Leo said, looking at his mother in reference to the man moving Adam, Bree and Chase to a different location.

Emilia jumped down from the kitchen counter as Donald sighed. "Look, Leo, Emilia, I know you're gonna miss Adam, Bree and Chase." He said before starting to explain what he was hiding underneath the sheet. "So, I laser scanned their features onto these biosynthetic robots and I programmed them with their core personality traits. Is this great or what? It'll be like they never left."

Leo approached Robot Adam before flicking him on the forehead. "Ah!" He yelled, holding his hand in pain from the robot material.

"What do you think?" Donald asked.

"I think the excitement of having a billionaire dad just wore off." Leo sneered, mentally rolling his eyes as Tasha walked up to her husband to tell him. "Donald, I don't know about this. I kind of prefer Leo and Emilia to have friends who can't malfunction and tear them limb from limb."

"What are those?" Bree questioned as her, Adam and Chase finally walked in wearing their mission suits.

"Oh, Dr. Franken brain here is trying to replace you with creepy robots." Leo scoffed, gesturing to the robot replicas before Emilia chimed in herself as she waved her arms around, rolling her eyes in annoyance. "Welcome to Crazy Town."

Adam then walked up to his robot as it turned to look at him. "Good morning. The time is 11:22 and the temperature is currently 68 degrees."

Adam looked at Donald. "You made a robot of me that just stands around telling people the time and the temperature?" He asked, receiving a nod from the man. "That's the coolest thing I've ever seen!"

"To be honest I would rather have this Adam then that fake." Emilia pointed out, getting a smile from the boy himself.

"Does my nose really look like that?" Bree asked, squinting her eyes at her robot replica who came up with a remark that made the others laugh apart from Tasha and Emilia. "No. Yours has a faint moustache underneath."

"Hey, everyone. I'm Chase. Let's do ma... ma... ma... ma..." Robot Chase stammered before Donald hit it's chest. "math."

"That is not funny!" Chase looked at them all in offence as they laughed, with Adam coming up with a mocking response. "No. You're right. It's fuh... fuh... fuh... funny."

Donald walked up to the door when it rang and he opened it to reveal Fitz, wearing a black suit and tie and sunglasses.

"Hey, Fitz."

"How's it going?"

"How's life?"

"How's tricks?"

"Alrighty then." Donald said before turning to the others and added. "You guys should've seen him at the christmas party. He's a karaoke master."

Bree turned to Emilia and Leo, sighing. "Well, I guess this is it. Thanks for everything, guys."

"Yeah, you two are the best friends we've ever had." Chase nodded along before Adam was quick to correct him. "No, they're the only friends we've ever had."

The group all shared a group hug before pulling away, letting Tasha do the same, frowning as she pulled them in for a hug. "Well, don't forget to bundle up on your deadly missions." Soon pulling away, she moved to the side so the trio could get to the door.

Adam, Bree and Chase stopped there and turned around to give them one last look with Donald reminding them. "Hey, remember, this is a good thing. Without any distractions, you might finish your training early." The trio simply stared at him before walking away.

"Whoo hoo! They're gone!" Eddy cheered once Donald had shut the door behind him, the man glaring at the screen and scolded his smart-home system who corrected. "I mean, have a safe trip. I love you." At that, Eddy disappeared once again, leaving Donald to look at the three in front of him who stared at him with nothing but disappointment before walking out of the room, leaving him alone.

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Emilia fidgeted with her fingers as she waited for the elevator to reach the basement before the doors finally opened just in time for Emilia to see one of the robots attacking Leo who screamed.

"Leo!" The Hunter ran up to Robot Adam before going to get the robot off him, only to surprise herself when she managed to twist his arm and suddenly the robot was flipped over onto the ground, yelling in pain. "Huh. That's one emotional robot."

"Leo, Emilia, we're not robots. It's really us."

Leo furrowed his brows in confusion. "Huh?" But unlike him, Emilia widened her eyes and turned to Adam in concern. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry, Adam." She apologised to the boy who reassured her he was fine before getting up to his feet with Emilia's support.

Chase then went to explain. "We told the driver we forgot something, and then we swapped the robots in our place."

Adam leaned down and made kissy faces while teasing. "You said you loved us. You said you loved us." Leo looked at him for a second before slapping him across the face. "Ow!"

"It is you guys!" Leo yelled before they all pulled each other into a group hug.

"Wait, what about Davenport?" Emilia asked as they pulled out the hug.

Adam shrugged. "We'll just have to act like dumb robots every single time he's around." At Adam's comment, Bree was quick to retort. "It'll be easier for some of us than others."

"Hey Emilia, Leo." At Donald's presence, the trio quickly returned back to their robot positions as Leo greeted. "Big D, Donny, man of the house!"

"What're you two doing?" Donald asked the two teenagers who widened their eyes with Emilia first to respond with a nervous stammer. "What are we doing? We are hanging with our robo-fake people friends."

"Ain't no party like a robot party 'cause a robot party don't stop!" Leo sang and started dancing, receiving a strange look from his best friend.

"See, I told you guys, you would like them." The billionaire inventor smiled, unaware of how nervous they were that the robots were the real Adam, Bree and Chase.

"Like 'em? We love 'em." Leo said, smiling at his step-father. As soon as Donald turned his back to them, Adam leaned down and made kissy faces at Emilia and Leo who sent him a look.

"Oh, you know the greatest thing about having robots is?" Adam returned to his robot position as Donald approached them with a device in his hand.

"What?"

"They are virtually indestructible." The inventor smiled, making Emilia widen her eyes, raising her brows at the man. "Say, what now?"

"Watch this." Donald turned to Adam and zapped him with the device in his hand that made the boy shudder in pain.

"Quit it!" Leo shouted as him and Emilia looked at the boy in concern, although Donald couldn't recognise the worry in their faces since he didn't know Adam, Bree and Chase had escaped.

"No, it's okay." Donald then chuckled in a way of reassuring them. "He can't feel a thing. He's a robot." The man moved over to Chase to do the same thing with Adam as the boy looked like he was in pain.

"Stop!" Emilia shouted in worry, and once again Donald didn't notice. "No it's okay. Ha ha! they are so incredibly lifelike." He chuckled before zapping Chase again before going over to Bree who stopped him before the device could touch her. "Don't even try it."

"Oooh, you're a feisty robot, you." Donald didn't question it since Bree spoke in what she thought was a robot voice. The man walked over to Emilia and Leo and held out the device. "You wanna give it a try?"

"No." Leo immediately denied, although Donald kept on insisting for one of them to try using the device until Emilia finally had enough and snapped. "Fine!" She grabbed the device from him zapping Donald with it, causing him to shudder in pain and fall to the floor.

"You're right. It is fun." The auburn-haired girl smirked, making Leo laugh loudly along with the bionic siblings who did their best to hold in theirs so they wouldn't get caught by Donald.

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The next morning, Leo and Emilia managed to leave the house without getting any questions from either adult about the 'robots'. Although Emilia made sure to leave some proper breakfast food out for them since they didn't get to have that opportunity with Leo serving them food that morning that consisted of wheat bread and a side of sugar packets for Adam, two old wings and a drumstick from the Chicken Shack for Bree, and the peel to Leo's banana for Chase.

As soon as school was over, Emilia and Leo ran home so they could hang out with Adam, Bree and Chase again. They ran inside and let their bags drop to the floor with Emilia first to ask the adults. "Where are the robots?"

"We ran all the way home, and I wasn't even being chased!" Leo said exasperatedly.

"Emilia, Leo, the robots are gone." Tasha told her son and his best friend. "We just dropped them off at the recycling facility."

"You what?!" Emilia yelled.

"Yep. They're being melted down as we speak. Don't tell anybody, they're probably toxic." The Davenport man chuckled, making Emilia and Leo panic more — the latter of the two shaking his head before deciding now was the time to say something. "No, we have to go get them! They're not robots, they're real!"

"Okay, see this is why I didn't want those things around. They're delusional." Tasha reminded her husband.

"No. It's really Adam, Bree and Chase. You have to believe us. There isn't much time!" Emilia exclaimed.

"Leo, Emilia stop."

"Leo, Emilia, when I was your age, I had to say goodbye to a lot of my friends. There was Lava Man and Stretch Legstrong and JoJo Biggs and all of his friends in the space cantina." Donald told the two teenagers in attempt to reassure them, but they simply didn't care.

"Those are all action figures." Emilia deadpanned at the man who let out a dramatic cry. "More like fully poseable pieces of my heart."

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Leo and Emilia decided to sneak out of the house to go to the recycling facility to save the trio. But when they finally got there, Leo was too scared to jump in. "Oh my god, just hold my hand you big baby." Emilia said and he glared at her before jumping in once he got a hold of her hand.

Emilia of course wincing as Leo screamed like a girl and they both landed on the ground with a thud. "Okay, this is disgusting." Emilia grimaced, as she started getting up from the ground.

"Leo, Emilia?" Adam called out from the other side of the truck.

The two teens turned to see the trio on the other side and glared at them. "No, it's Oprah and Hope Mikaelson!" Leo yelled sarcastically before snapping once again. "Get us out of here!"

Soon, Donald and Tasha came through the door and stood beside the trio. "Mr. Davenport!" Bree exclaimed in shock.

"Hello, we are robots." Adam said pretending to be a robot.

"Dude, I think he knows." Chase told him.

Adam scoffed at his younger brother. "Well, now he does." The walls started moving causing Leo to scream while Emilia looked at them slightly scared.

The two adults both called out to the teens before Donald spoke up. "I'll find somebody to shut it off." He was about to run out the door when Bree stopped him. "There isn't enough time!"

"Guys, I have an idea." Chase interjected before they all went out. The next thing Leo and Emilia knew, the bionic trio jumped down screaming and landed in front of them.

"Ah, it never gets old." Adam grinned as he began to get up from the ground.

"Emilia, Leo, what are you doing here?" Chase asked them.

"We came to save you guys."

Adam chuckled. "Oh, thanks. We're good. Ha, sweet kids."

"Come on, let's do this." As Bree said that, Chase began to explain to Emilia and Leo about their plan to escape the wreckage in the truck. "Okay, Lia and Leo, hold on to Adam. We're gonna surround you and then we'll all go through it together, okay? Three, two—"

Emilia interrupted the boy when she then noticed something on the wall. "Hey, what's that?" She asked, stepping forward to press her hand on the bright red button that caused the recycling system to automatically stop.

"That would be the off button." Chase pursed his lips in annoyance as Adam chuckled before asking his siblings. "Yeah. Oh, you guys didn't see that?"

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Once the group arrived home, the teenagers were surely surprised to see Donald change his mind and decided to keep Adam, Bree and Chase with them after seeing them risk their lives for each other, it made him realise that he had been focusing too much on training their super-human side and forgot all about their human side.

He even made the decision of allowing the trio to attend school with Emilia and Leo, but only on one condition, which was that nobody could find out about their abilities and that they had to control their emotions so they wouldn't glitch.

At the very moment, they were all gathered in the lab watching Tasha in the living room through a screen. Donald decided to play a prank using a robot replica of himself to see how it would all play out.

"You know, I'm just not sure about the throw pillows. They're a little plain. So, I got these. Are they too busy?"

"No."

"So, you like them?"

"I do if you do."

"You are so sweet." Tasha smiled as she sat down on the couch and leaned in to kiss her husband, causing the people standing in the lab to erupt in laughter.

Donald laughed. "That robot may be my greatest invention ever." He said as electricity crackled from the robot, making the woman jump up in confusion before narrowing her eyes. "Donald!"

At his wife's yell, the man himself turned around in his chair in fear before running out, ignoring the laughing teenagers behind him. "Uh-oh, busted!"

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