CHAPTER FIFTEEN, bionic showdown

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"What do you mean, you're our father?" Chase questioned, after looking back at Douglas. Bree gestured to the man in the cage before chiming in. "Yeah, he is our father."

"No, that's what he's been telling you." Douglas scoffed before Chase then looked at the other man in the room. "Then, who's this guy?"

"Me?" Nick scoffed and glanced at Emilia before admitting. "I'm this little girl's father." The girl muffled a scream in response making him roll his eyes before walking over and ripping the tape off her mouth.

"Ow! That hurt, you bastard!" Emilia scowled to the man who raised a brow.

"Language, sweetheart." Nick scolded. "I thought I raised you better than that."

"You didn't raise me at all!" The Hunter was quick to remind him just as Douglas teleported the trio into the cage with Donald.

"You mastered short-range teleportation before I did? I've been working on that for years!" Donald huffed at his brother who smirked. "I know. I'm awesome." He bragged.

Emilia roll her eyes. "God, your egos are both the same." She muttered.

Seeing that they couldn't use their bionics in the cage, all they could do was stand there.

"I know there's more to why you needed Emilia here, so why is she chained up?" Donald asked with his face filled with concern and anger.

"Emilia..." Nick turned to his daughter. "Do you remember anything when you were younger? Did your mother tell you anything, perhaps?" He questioned.

"No." Emilia simply answered. "I don't remember anything, and the only thing my mother, who you killed, told me about was me being a banshee."

The bionic siblings looked between the father and daughter duo in shock, noticing the angered expression Emilia held on her face.

"So, she didn't tell you why she took you away from me." Nick continued with a hum before chuckling to himself at her silent response. "And yet, she just let you have the instinct to sacrifice yourself for others. How lovely."

"Maybe it was a good thing what happened to her then because of how useless she was." Nick tuttered, continuing to make Emilia angry on purpose. "The woman kept complaining on how hard it was to deal with the voices in her head every day." He scoffed in disbelief.

"You think being a banshee is easy?" Emilia then scoffed in response. "The whispers... I can't think, I can't sleep, I can't even breathe. That's what you call power. No glowing eyes or super senses. And you let her die!" She raised her voice at the last part, making Nick smirk knowing he finally got her to the right level to see the spark in her eyes, almost as if a blue glow was shining through them.

The group of four in the cage frowned at the girl, though managed to notice what Nick had seen as well.

"Actually, you do." Nick corrected, making Emilia furrow her brows. "You have bionics. Your mother was a banshee, so you're one." He went over her abilities. "But I guess what your mother failed to inform you about is me giving you bionics when you were a baby. I guess my old bionic self felt left out."

"If that were true, how come she hasn't activated them yet?" Donald inquired, furrowing his brows at the man when Douglas turned to him and answered for Nick. "Because, Donny, to activate her bionics, she needs to activate her Protector side."

"Protector?" Bree questioned, as they all shared confused looks. "What do you mean by that?"

"Exactly what I mean when I say the word." The blonde-haired Davenport continued. "Ever since you have met Emilia, has there ever come a time where she tried to sacrifice herself in order to save one of you guys?"

The group stood in thought as they remembered what happened at the Particle Collider Mission, the time the exoskeleton crashed their dinner when Leo's Grandma came around, and when she pushed Tasha out of the way before Adam crashed his truck into the school.

"When Emilia was born, we knew instantly that she would follow in the footsteps of Lily." Nick started to explain. "Becoming the protector of the others, or in Emilia's case, becoming the protector of you three." He gestured between the bionic siblings. "Including everyone she cares about. She will do everything she can to make sure they don't get hurt."

"Because that's who she is." Chase mentioned, glaring daggers at the man after finding out all the information about him.

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After explaining everything to the trio about how Douglas is their father, Leo had arrived then, making them panic. "Oh, look who showed up to be a hero." Douglas smirked, sitting down on the chair. "And this one's not even bionic. I can take him out with the sprinklers." He taunted.

"Leave him alone. He's just a kid." Donald told his brother who was quick to shout back. "A nosy kid who keeps getting in our way."

"Stay away from him!" Bree exclaimed, making Douglas plaster a fake frown at his lips. "Don't worry, Princess. I'm not gonna hurt him." At that, Marcus' door to his capsule opened. "Marcus wanted that privilege all to himself. Your little friend Leo is back. This time, take care of him for good." He explained.

"Done." Marcus smirked in their direction before walking out the room, leaving Douglas hanging as he shouted after him. "Really, dude? You're just gonna leave your creator hanging like that?"

Watching it all happen on screen, they watched as Marcus shot lightning out of his fingers before shooting them at Leo, who flew back into the bushes.

"No!" The four people in the cage screamed in unison as Emilia stared at the screen with tears in her eyes. She moved in anger before letting out a loud scream in pain as the chains dug into her skin, making them all look away in pain, especially Chase as they physically couldn't watch the girl who was in pain.

"Poor Leo." Bree muttered softly, pulling away from Donald's grip. "He was trying to save us."

"He tried to warn us about Marcus and we ignored him." Chase said in the same tone before Adam glared at the two men standing outside the cage. "When I get out of here, I'm taking you two and Marcus down." He challenged.

"Good luck with that mate." Nick smiled smugly, talking in a British accent as Douglas held up the Triton app device. "Once I press this, it'll activate your triton apps, then I'll control you permanently." He explained before pressing the button, only for nothing to happen. He turned to the doorway before shouting. "Marcus, did you put batteries in this thing?"

Donald smiled. "Ha! I went into their chips and put a block on your app a long time ago. Ooh, it is so good watching you eat it."

"Very clever, Donny." Douglas growled. "But, I'll get around it. I've always been a better programmer than you. There, see? Only eight minutes till my cypher key decrypts your block and activates the triton app." He smirked before questioning. "What're you gonna do? Call mommy? If you do, don't tell her I'm alive."

As soon as Nick and Douglas left the room, the Hunter girl looked up with a smirk. She knew something that nobody else did. And that came with the power of being a banshee.

Bree looked at the computer in panic. "Guys, there's only four minutes left until the block is decrypted. We have to get out of here." She told the others as Donald was thinking of an idea of how to deflect one of the beams when he looked behind the three siblings and his answer just came to him.

"Emilia." He called out, making the girl look towards the cage. "You can do this. You can get yourself and us out of here. All you need to do is channel that anger and power inside of you. And scream." Donald advised, but Emilia looked at them with an unsure look.

"Lia, I know you can do this." Chase joined in to encourage the girl. "You're the strongest girl I know. So scream. Emilia, scream."

Chase's words rang through her mind as Emilia stared ahead with her anger increasing by the second. Just for that moment when she forgot about the pain in her arms, the four stood in the cage covered their ears to prepare before Emilia opened her mouth and screamed Leo's name.

Sparks shot through the room, as the scream was that loud, it hit the computers, flowing through until the chains that were holding Emilia up, broke apart, including the cage as the beams slowly fell down.

"And that's what I call girl power." Bree smiled proudly as they began to step out of the cage with Emilia getting the chains off of her, grunting in pain as it brushed against the cuts that it caused.

The group went to run out only for Marcus, Nick and Douglas to walk into the room.

"Bravo. But just a dog gets out of his cage doesn't mean he's going for a walk." Douglas informed.

Adam stepped forward with a gasp. "You have a dog? Where, where, where?"

Donald reached his arm out to push them behind him. "Guys. You're not getting these kids." He declared.

"Wrong again, Donny." Douglas told him. "Look, the decryption is complete. Now I'll have total control of their—" Emilia interrupted him by kicking the device out of his hand and made it land upstairs.

"Guys, run!" Donald warned the teenagers after being shoved back by his brother. "We're not leaving without you." Bree insisted.

"Just go!" Donald screamed.

Emilia then turned to the Anderson who smirked evilly whilst Marcus went to deal with Adam, Bree and Chase. "You're angry, Emilia. Why don't you use it? Maybe you might even activate your bionics." He smirked before speeding upstairs.

The same spark flashed in the girl's eyes and she didn't think twice before speeding off after him with her new super-speed that caused her to loose her balance and crash into the wall from the shock of her new abilities.

"Come on, Emilia. You want to hurt me. Just like I want to hurt everyone. You are just like me." He taunted his daughter who growled just after getting her balance again.

"I am nothing like you." She spat, stepping closer as they stood on the top floor. "You are not my father. You are just a gene donor." She continued to speak bitterly, as the man scoffed out a breath.

"I am my mother's daughter, not yours." Emilia said before charging towards him and the two started to fight each other, with the others being too busy in their own fights.

"You have no idea what you took from me." The auburn haired girl seethed, ducking under his punch before punching him in the stomach. "My mother. My children's grandmother. Someone to hold— me, when I'm scared and to call me when I'm lonely." She continued to tell him as she fought him off. "The first eyes I ever looked into! I mean my best friend!"

She kicked him in the stomach, making him fly back into the wall. She looked back as a tingle rang through her to see Chase practically struggling to hold onto the chains of the railing and if he let go, he would fall into the trap of what used to be a sausage factory.

"Work faster!" Chase yelled at his brother, who was trying to find how to close the opening of the trap.

Due to her being distracted, Emilia was suddenly kicked from behind, making her topple over and grab onto the chains of the railing, being put in the same position as Chase.

"My little girl would never fight her father like this." Nick spat, with the both of them having cuts across their faces.

Emilia hummed confidently. "Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I don't have a dad." She growled before kicking herself up and back onto the platform. She looked back seeing Chase's hand slip from the chains, and let out a scream as he started to fall to the floor.

Without thinking, Emilia raised her hand in front of her while focusing on Chase who suddenly stopped falling, floating just an inch above the ground. He looked towards her direction, only to widen his eyes when he saw her using molecular kinesis as she let him drop to the ground without hurting his back before she was kicked to the ground by Nick.

She grunted in pain from all the blood that the kidnapping had basically caused her, before a smirk appeared on her face. She span her legs around, sweeping the man off his feet before jumping back onto her own feet as she smirked down at Nick.

"Oops. Sorry." The Hunter banshee apologised sarcastically seeing as that took a hard hit for him.

His lips tugged up into a snarl before going to get up, but Emilia kicked him again making him flip backwards into the wall.

She stepped towards him with a frown. "Sorry if you're disappointed that this 'father-daughter' reunion is going to be cut short." The Hunter girl snarled, before kicking him in the head, making the man fall unconscious.

Seeing the three bionic siblings on the ground around Marcus, she looked towards the two other men in the room just as Douglas rolled off the platform and fell flat on the ground, grabbing a hold of the device. However, before he could press the button, something fell down from the ceiling, making rubble crash everywhere and Douglas to lose his grip on the remote device.

Emilia smiled brightly seeing the exoskeleton and knew exactly who was controlling it. Her answer was confirmed as the familiar voice of Leo's spoke. "Exoskeleton in the house! Or whatever you call this funky place."

"Leo, you're alive." Donald breathed in relief, making Emilia smile before she jumped over the chains and landed beside her best friend.

"Who knew?!" She exclaimed playfully. "Oh wait. Me!"

"I asked you to do one thing." Douglas exclaimed, glaring at Marcus who groaned. Donald jumped off the platform before landing on the remote, crushing it with his foot before Douglas could grab it.

"You broke it! You always break my toys." The younger Davenport sibling cried like a five year old child making Emilia shake her head in disbelief before running towards Adam, Bree and Chase to check up on them.

With sharp breaths, Emilia then asked. "Are you guys okay?" She looked behind her to see Leo shooting lasers at Marcus who dodged them before speeding towards him and pushed him to the ground.

"So, this thing can bust through walls and shoot lasers but it can't get back up?" Leo questioned, struggling to do so in the exoskeleton, in which Donald shrugged at him. "Well, it's a prototype."

Emilia helped them up off the floor, grunting in pain slightly as she forgot about her injured wrists. "You just don't seem to go away, Leo. This time I'm gonna finish you for good." Marcus threatened, standing above him.

Marcus held out his fists to reveal sharp tools making Leo scream loudly. Emilia moved to stand beside Adam as the two stared at the scene in anger.

"Leo's alive!" Chase pointed out, only seeing him just now, when Marcus turned to face them and corrected. "Nuh-uh. Not for long."

Electricity crackled as blue sparks shot from Adam's arms. "Get away from him." He growled, getting angrier by the second. Emilia stepped forward with her eyes now glowing a bright blue hue. "Now. Before we make you." She threatened.

Sparks of electricity shot through the room as the banshee prepared herself to do what she always did best.

"What's going on?" Chase looked between them in question before Bree confirmed for him. "I think Adam just discovered his new ability and Emilia's protector side might be fully coming through."

"I think we should get behind them." Chase told his sister before they both ran behind and watched just in time to see Adam send a blast wave Marcus' way while Emilia let out an ear piercing scream at the same time, making everyone except from them fall to the ground.

"That was awesome." Adam smiled, going to high-five Emilia when his face twitched in slight concern. "You don't look so good." He stated, seeing how pale she looked.

Chase and Bree ran up behind with the former catching Emilia before she fell to the ground, picking her bridal style as Adam and Bree helped Leo get off the floor.

"You are not going anywhere." Marcus scowled as he stood in the middle of the room with a blue glow appearing in his hand.

"Marcus! Look out!" Chase warned the boy, even if he was too late as Marcus looked above him just before he was completely imbedded by the pile of rubble that fell from the ceiling. The group left the lair in a rush, needing to get back to the mansion immediately.

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MEGAN SPEAKS !

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