CHAPTER TEN, leo vs evil

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"Chase." Leo called out to the boy. "There's no way you can beat Adam arm-wrestling. It'd be like a chicken wrestling an alligator. All we hear is a cock-a-doodle-crunch." Bree chuckled, as Adam shrugged. "He's right, bro. Your spaghetti arms are no match for these meatballs." He began kissing his biceps when Chase interrupted him. "Hey. When you're done kissing your girlfriends, let's do this."

The two boys got on either side of the table bench as Bree turned to the boy beside her. "Better back up, Leo. You're in the splatter zone." Leo stood between the two boys before telling them. "Okay, I want a clean match. No whining, screaming, crying, or tap-outs. I'm looking at you Chase. Three, two, one, go!"

Chase licked his hand before slapping it against Adam's, who groaned before his arm was soon knocked down by Chase's hand. "Hey! No fair! He licked his hand!" Adam groaned, in which Chase pointed his finger towards him. "Exactly. Clever beats strong any day." He told him.

Leo grabbed Chase's hand and lifted it up as he announced. "Chase wins." His face dropped before asking. "Wait, which hand did you lick?"

"That one." Chase informed, making Leo wipe his hand on Chase as he moved around him, before lifting up the other arm. "Chase wins!"

Marcus approached them. "Hey guys, how's it going?"

Leo fake smiled. "Ooh, bundle up, everyone. It just got partly creepy with a hundred percent chance of annoying," He said, narrowing his eyes at the newcomer.

Adam furrowed his brows. "Oof. Am I gonna need my umbrella for that?" He wondered.

"So, you guys wanna hang out at my house after school? Emilia can come as well." Marcus asked.

"We just got a sick new flat screen." Leo looked at the boy before questioning. "Is it as sick as you make me? 'Cause that'd be pretty sick." Chase held out his arms to the side with a smile. "We'd love to hang out today. And I can text Emilia about it. I'm sure she'd come." He said, having no idea what Marcus' plan was.

No, she wouldn't. Leo thought before placing his hand on Chase's shoulder to chime in. "Chase is too polite to say it, so I'll say it for him. You're a lunatic, and we're leaving." They all groaned at the boy as he pushed them out the school. He turned to Marcus with a smug smile. "Nice try. See you later, Captain Eyebrow." Leo went to go out, only for Marcus to shut the doors with his Molecular Kinesis.

"What the...?" Leo muttered before turning to Marcus and asked. "How did you...?" Marcus leant against a pole as he looked back at the teen boy. "Chase isn't the only one who can move things with his mind." He admitted.

"Help! Somebody! I'm trapped!" Leo yelled, before running to the Principal's office as he called out. "Principal Perry?! Who am I kidding? She's not here. It's five cent rib night at the Buffalo Barn." Marcus stepped towards him as he said. "Looks like it's just you and me, Leo. Man, it is fun to mess with you when you can't tell anyone I'm bionic."

"Yeah, it's a real party over here, too." Leo said sarcastically. "I should just turn you in." He said, going to walk away with Marcus following him.

"Go ahead. Then I'll just expose Adam, Bree and Chase as bionics, along with Emilia who has the power of a banshee, and the government will swoop in and take them away." Marcus threatened, in which Leo turned to him. "Not if I turn you in first." He declared and went to run away when Marcus lifters up a garbage can with his Molecular Kinesis and threw it towards Leo, who screamed before ducking just in time.

The garbage can fell to the floor, with the trash spluttering out of it before Leo turned his head to look at Marcus as if he was insane. "You are gonna keep your mouth shut. Or next time... I won't miss." Marcus threatened before walking out the doors.

Emilia came out from hiding in the hall, shocking Leo who noticed her presence. "Oh my god, Leo are you okay?"

The boy nodded. "Where the hell have you been? Did you hear?"

"Yes, I heard everything." Emilia panted. "Now, come on. Let's get home."

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Emilia walked out of the elevator after looking around the house seeing no sight of Leo. "Hey, guys. Have you seen-" She went to step through the teleporting machine that Donald has built when the bionic siblings shouted in unison. "No, don't!"

Emilia stepped back with a flinch. "What?" She spat out a confetti piece that fell onto her mouth.

"It's not on. You're good." Chase sighed in relief as Emilia stepped towards them. "What the fuck is going on?" She asked.

Bree grimaced. "We may have made Tasha teleport due to that machine, and we don't know where she ended up." She stammered out. "It was Adam's fault!"

"What?!" Emilia screamed, leading for Chase to cover her mouth with his hand. Emilia sighed as Chase removed his hand before she asked. "How could you idiots have lost Tasha in the teleporter?"

"Us? Bree was the one getting grabby with the controls." Chase defended, making Bree scoff before gesturing to her older brother. "And Adam was the one who spun the globe, so we have no idea where Tasha is."

"Me?!" Adam gasped before nodding his head as he continued. "Oh, wait. Yep, that was me." He chuckled in response.

"We need to tell Davenport." Bree declared, in which Chase scoffed at the girl. "Oh, oh, tell him what? 'Sorry... we messed with your machine and lost your wife'?"

"No! Let me give him the good news." Eddy appeared on the screen. Emilia narrowed her eyes before sighing. "Leo is gonna freak."

Adam looked at the banshee. "Not if he doesn't know Tasha's gone. We'll get Chase a wig and a skirt. This could work, people."

"Stop it." Bree whispered to her brother before Donald came in with a spinning chair. Emilia sighed before saying. "I'm gonna go back upstairs to look for Leo. Be back soon!" She ran out of there without another word.

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Back in the lab, after watching Chase's software update fail, as multiple items that were tested to be returned, not one of them came back in one piece.

Donald walked around the corner, making the three bionic siblings widen their eyes as the man spotted the ruined objects on the floor. "I know these handlebars. Did you just try to teleport my one-of-a-kind prototype, hybrid ATV?" He then dropped the handlebar on the floor, stepping towards them as Chase stammered out to the man. "No. Maybe? I'm just gonna go back to No."

Adam chuckled. "Wow. If he's this mad about his ATV, wait until he finds out we put Tasha through there." He confessed, without even thinking about it.

"What?!" Donald screamed. "You put my wife through the teleporter?!"

Adam didn't seem that fazed. "Enjoy it, dude. Take a day off." He advised the man.

Bree stepped towards him. "I'm sure she's fine... wherever or whatever she is."

Chase nodded. "Yeah! We just have to figure out a way to get her back here without turning her into... Tasha Tartare."

"Okay, Okay." Donald said breathlessly. "Let's not panic. I'm sure one of my software patches can fix this." He thought out loud, in which Chase informed him. "I've already tried them all. None of them worked." He gestured to the pile of broken objects, making Donald gasp.

"You know, I had a simple solution." Adam said to them, making a smile appear on Emilia's face since he was the one who asked her if it would work.

Donald stepped towards him. "Simple solution. Um, Adam... you remember the time when we locked the keys in the car, and it took us three hours to get them out?"

"Yeah." Adam chuckled. Donald pointed at him before yelling. "You were inside the car!" Donald rushed out the lab with a panicked look on his face. Once he came back in, the group worked together to figure out a solution to get Tasha back. "Okay, this is our last possible fix." Chase informed the others.

Donald shook his head. "If this doesn't work... I don't even wanna say it."

Eddy appeared on the screen. "Say it. Say it."

Emilia glared at the emoticon, making Donald sigh before saying. "Okay, fingers crossed. This brings Tasha back in three... two..." He turned to the machine after clicking the button, still seeing no sight of Tasha. "Why isn't it working?" Donald asked, with panic evident in his voice.

"Because I'm right here." Tasha answered for him making Emilia smile, knowing Adam's idea worked. "Ew, she's hideously deformed! Look away! Look away!" Eddy said, before Tasha switched him off.

Donald, Chase and Bree walked towards Tasha as Donald hugged his wife. "Oh, don't hug her too hard. Her guts might come squishing out." Bree warned. Donald pulled away before asking his wife. "What happened? Where were you?"

"200 miles away in Fresno." Tasha sighed before gesturing behind them to Adam. "Thankfully, Adam was smart enough to call my cell phone and tell me you guys accidentally teleplanted me."

"Well, it's- it's- it's teleported." Donald said, correcting his wife, who glared at him. "Tele someone who cares." She snapped before letting out a sigh. "I'm just glad he called me before my cell phone died... Since, obviously, no one else thought of that." They all slowly turned around to see Adam and Emilia smirking.

"He was actually the one who suggested the idea to me." Emilia said, backing up Adam, who then chimed in to explain. "I figured if Tasha didn't return through the teleporter, she couldn't end up back here in a big, steaming pile of mom."

The two stood in front of the others as Adam continued. "So, I called. Told her to take the bus home."

"Which I did." Tasha nodded. "And it was weird. The guy sitting next to me was wearing a tank top."

"Why was that weird?" Donald wondered, in which Tasha clarified. "Just a tank top." They all frowned in disgust while Adam kept smiling.

"Told you I had a simple solution." He reminded them. Chase stepped towards him. "Adam... we may have said some things earlier..." The taller boy nodded. "Duh. We say things every day. Could you narrow it down?" He asked.

"What he's trying to say is, 'We owe you an apology'." Donald said to Adam, who leaned towards them. "I'm sorry. A what?" He asked.

Chase sighed. "An apology."

However, before he could apologise, Leo interrupted him by stumbling around the corner, as he panted. "I'm back!"

Chase sighed in relief. "Oh, thank you."

"Right here, on my phone, I have undeniable proof that Marcus is-" Leo went to say, before accidentally slipping on the handlebar, making his phone drop to the floor and teleport out of sight. "Where'd my phone just go?" Donald managed to bring it back but to no surprise, it came back destroyed.

"No!" Leo screamed. "But it had evidence." He whimpered. Donald turned to Adam with a nod of agreement. "Yeah. Bus was a good call."

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