CHAPTER SIX, bro down

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The sound of giggles escaped Chase's mouth, making Emilia and Bree wonder what he was up to. Bree sighed before asking. "Okay, what is with all of the happy, squeaky hamster noises?"

She smirked before wondering. "Did you finally grow a chest hair?" Emilia smiled, a small chuckle leaving her mouth as Chase gave his sister a pointed look. "No! I grew two." He told her, before going on to explain what he was really doing. "Actually, this is a little something I like to call 'Adam's Payback'."

"For what?" Emilia asked, when Chase looked between them and said. "Don't you remember what happened last Thursday?" The two girls opened their mouth when remembering. "Oh, yeah." Bree said, as the two girls remembered how Adam threw Chase towards the kitchen counter. "Oh, yeah. We all love the 'Bionic brother Toss'."

"Yeah? Well, let's see how likes this." Chase challenged, holding onto a rope. Leo and Adam came walking in, with the former stepping over the rope as he warned. "Trap." Adam stopped in his tracks, wearing a confused expression on his face as he asked. "Trap what?" When suddenly, the boy was hung upside down by the rope.

"It worked! Now, let's see how you like being relentlessly manhandled!" Chase cheered in satisfaction. "That came out wrong."

"Oh, the trap was on the floor." Adam now just realised what happened. He chuckled before Chase told him. "Yep, and now we're gonna play a game called 'Human Piñata'. But instead of Candy, we're gonna guess what Adam had for lunch."

"Ironically, I'm guessing it's Candy." Leo pointed out, making Emilia nod. "You're forgetting one thing, Chase— I can use my heat vision to break free." Adam looked up at the rope before using his heat vision to cut the rope, making him land on his arm, as he crashed onto the cyberdesk, before falling onto the floor. Adam stood up looking at Chase. "Ha! Nice try!"

Everyone's eyes widened at the fact that Adam's left arm was bent around his neck. The girls stood out of their chairs as Bree called out. "Um, Adam." The boy looked to the side seeing his left hand there. "Whoa. I never knew my arm could bend like that."

"Um, it can't." Chase informed, making Adam scream in pain, leading for Leo to faint onto the floor. Emilia sighed before going to check on her best friend.

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It turned out that Adam's arm was dislocated.

But Donald had to remind them to be careful since they weren't invincible. Now at school, Chase and Emilia were walking down the stairs when they spotted Adam going unusually slow.

"Adam, what are you doing?" Emilia asked the boy who was holding onto the railing with his free hand. The teen boy sighed before explaining to them. "That accident was a wake up call. I never realised how unsafe the world is— danger lurks at every corner, and it uses the stairs to get there!" Mrs Thistle was going up the stairs, on Adam's side who then told her. "Go around, Thistle! I was here first!"

The woman slowly moved over to the right side as Chase thought out loud. "Wait. If you're suddenly so safety conscious, then I guess you won't be able to run after me when I do this." He punched Adam's shoulder, and grabbed Emilia's hand before running down the stairs, leaving Adam to shout after them. "Hey, be careful! Running down the stairs is very dangerous! Lives are at stake here!"

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Adam had quit going on missions, making them worry. Chase attempted to talk to him, but Adam still wouldn't budge and agree to join the team again. So Donald and Chase came up with the plan where Emilia would pretend to be stuck in the capsule, so Adam could use his super strength to get her out.

After a lot of begging, the girl eventually agreed, since she wanted to also help Adam get back onto his feet. The boy himself had walked into the lab, reading a comic book. "Okay, get ready. Here he comes." Donald whispered, before him and Chase approached the boy.

"Adam! Oh, thank goodness you're here. There's an emergency. The operating system in Chase's capsule has malfunctioned! See!" Donald acted, pulling the boy towards them, to see Emilia trying to act like she was trapped.

"Oh, no! I'm trapped in Chase's capsule! I can't get out!" This made Chase furrow his brows in amusement, along with Donald who sent her a look. "I sure hope I don't asphyxiate in here! And stop breathing!"

Adam chuckled, making Chase speak up. "Adam, you gotta break open the door!"

"Yeah, nice try, guys. I know a prank when I see one." Adam said in disbelief. "If this were real, Emilia would be screaming and gasping for air, like when I use Chase to clean the toilet."

Donald sighed, walking towards Chase's capsule as he told the girl. "All right, Emilia, come on out. He's not buying it." Suddenly, a beeping noise was heard, and a blast of air blew through the capsule.

"Uh, Davenport?" Emilia called out, her arms touching the side of the capsule, making the other two worry.

Donald widened his eyes when he noticed what Adam is doing. "Adam, your— your foot turned on the heat sanitizer! That thing gets up to 200 degrees!" He yelled in worry.

"Emilia!" Chase yelled as him and Donald rushed forward to try and open the capsule door. "I really can't breathe! Get me out!" Emilia pleaded.

"It's locked!" Donald stated. "Adam, you gotta break down this door!" He shouted, not wanting to see Emilia in danger again.

Still not believing it, Adam chuckled. "Ah, bravo! So dramatic! Your acting's much better this time."

The Hunter struggled to breathe, sliding down the capsule wall making Donald turn back to Adam. "Do it!" He yelled.

Chase looked at his brother in panic. "Adam, open the door now! Emilia can't breathe!"

"Wait a minute. She really is in trouble." Adam pointed out in realisation. "Why didn't you say something?!" He yelled, only for Donald to yell back. "We did!"

They moved to the side to let Adam rescue Emilia as he yelled. "I'm coming for you, Emmy!" He punched through the door, with glass shattering everywhere before Adam used his free hand to lift Emilia out of there and dropped her to the floor where she fluttered her eyes open with a groan.

"Are you okay?" Donald asked in concern as he and Chase approached, the latter of the two then helping her up and kept her steady as Emilia leant into him.

"Wait, wait. So you three set this whole thing up, and Emilia almost turned into a s'more?" Adam questioned, before chuckling sarcastically. "Ha! And I'm the dumb one."

Chase sighed and turned to look at Adam while Emilia still had a grip on him. "Adam... you just used your super strength to shatter an unbreakable capsule, and fear never even entered your mind." He reminded him.

"Yeah. I wasn't thinking about getting hurt." He theorised. "I wasn't thinking at all."

"Look, all this time you've been living in fear, and when you didn't have time to think, you just got the job done." Donald told him.

"Wow! That's it." Adam chuckled. "From now on, I just need to spend my whole life not thinking!"

"Absolutely." The three of them replied in unison, before Chase spoke up. "So, you're back on missions?" He stood up once he made sure the girl was okay.

"I guess I am. Whoo-hoo!" Adam smiled.

"Phew." Donald sighed. "I'm glad that worked out. And I think you both learned a valuable lesson today? No more horseplay."

"Got it." The boys answered, before Donald walked out the lab with Emilia.

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