CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR, first day of bionic academy

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"Welcome to the Davenport Hunter Bionic Academy." Donald announced, holding both his arms out to the sides to gesture around the room after seeing the bionic teens finally arrive by the hydraloop.

"Whoa, cool!" Bree gasped, stepping out from the hydraloop while taking a look in her surroundings.

Adam shared the same reaction, although not caring about the actual designs of the room but what you would usually find in a house. "Ooh, a window!"

Chase and Emilia approached Donald, hand in hand. The boy was still scared to leave her side after the whole soldier battle which ended up with Emilia being sent to the hospital and almost dying.

"Wow, the hydraloop is amazing. We just went from the mainland to the middle of the ocean in less than thirty seconds!" Chase described the trip, still in disbelief.

Donald nodded before the three of them turned to look back at Leo who hadn't managed to get off the hydraloop yet since he was too busy holding onto his stomach, showing the outcome of the hydraloop did not go well for him. "Yep, my lunch just went from my stomach to the floor in less than three."

Emilia shook her head, pulling a face of disgust before turning to the siblings. "So, what do you guys think?"

"Beautiful view. Tons of space." Bree described, smiling at Emilia before turning her gaze to Donald, her facial expression changing into a more annoyed one as she guessed, hoping that wasn't the case. "I'm assuming we'll be living in the basement again."

The Davenport chuckled at the brunette, looking around at the teens with a scoff. "No. Here, we call it 'below sea level'."

Emilia nudged the man, shaking her head before gesturing to the hydraloop. "Oh by the way, before I forget, the hydraloop will take you anywhere you want to go on the island at any time."

Following Donald around the place, the man went on to explain. "This is one of the main classroom areas and here— 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 questioned, earning a stern look from Emilia.

Donald sighed. "Guys, this is serious. You have important roles as mentors."

Leo smiled, going over to approach Emilia and his step father. "Don't worry, Big D, Emilia. We got this. Now, what exactly will I be teaching?"

"Nothing." Emilia informed, wincing at herself due to Leo's surprise.

Donald nodded, agreeing with the girl. "Leo, you're a student."

"A what?" Leo questioned, shocked by the news as he expected differently. "But you gave me a mission suit. You said I was part of the team."

Bree hummed at the boy, making sure to take a glance towards Donald's way, before directing her next words at him. "Yeah, he says a lot of things. By the way, still waiting on that sweet sixteen party."

After Chase and Bree left the room, Emilia sighed, looking towards Leo with an apologetic look. "Leo, of course you're a part of the team. But, you've only had your bionic arm for six months."

"You still have a lot more to learn." Donald interjected.

"Well, that's the last time I save your life." Leo grumbled, crossing his arms over his chest as he side-eyed Emilia who simply rolled her eyes.

"That's fine." Emilia sighed, going to walk out the room. "But, remind me again, how many times have I saved your life?"

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The next day had finally arrived, meaning it was Orientation Day for the Bionic Academy, also meaning that Donald was going to be talking quite a lot.

Emilia stood beside Chase, as her along with the siblings dressed in their mentor uniforms ready for the day when Donald approached them, his gaze turned to Leo with a greeting. "Hey, Leo."

Still pissed about his status, Leo turned to glare at the man, scoffing in annoyance. "Don't 'Hey Leo' me. I look like a bionic bumblebee."

"I would have described yellow as sunshine, but bumblebee it is." Emilia playfully pointed out, earning a chuckle from her boyfriend.

Bree looked around with furrowed brows, having noticed how not every one of the students was wearing yellow coded shirts. "Hey, so what do all the different colours mean?"

Emilia smiled. "Davenport, Chase and I assessed each of the kids bionics, and the colours represent their level of mastery. Go on bub, show them."

Chase nodded, taking the tablet from her and held it out for everyone to see. "You see, red for expert, and it goes all the way down to yellow for beginner."

The others smiled excluding Leo who looked at them in disbelief. "I'm a beginner?"

"Don't worry, I am too." A young boy reassured Leo as he approached the group.

The Dooley turned around at the voice, his brows furrowed after not seeing the boy at his eye level, until he looked down, locking eyes with one of the younger soldiers on the team who smiled brightly, waving at him.

This only made Leo look more utterly in disbelief as he turned to the others. "I'm on the same level as him? He's tiny."

The young brunette dropped his hand down at that, quick to come up with his own remark. "I'm young, what's your excuse?"

Emilia pursed her lips in amusement. "I think I'm gonna like that kid."

Another boy, around the same age as the other one approached the group. "Hi." His eyes then lit up upon seeing Bree and Emilia, his lips tugging up into a smirk as he spoke. "Ooh, 'Sup little mamas."

Emilia stared at the young blonde with a polite smile, before Chase pulled her back by the waist and narrowed his eyes at the boy. The banshee stared at her boyfriend, amused by his actions as she spoke. "Chase, he's a kid. Relax."

Bree stared at the blonde, wanting to be polite as he was only just a kid. "Can we help you?"

"Yeah." The young blonde answered. "I have a little problem with my uniform. How can I put this? I need a little bit more room in the cargo area."

"Uh, are you sure about that? Because tight is where it's at, right, guys?" Donald pointed out as he started to dance, receiving strange looks from the teenagers. Ignoring the looks, he continued to dance until he felt the fabric rip from his pants, immediately trying to cover it up with his hands as he stared ahead in embarrassment. "You know what? Let's just get started."

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All gathered in the training area, Donald smiled at the students standing in front, holding his arms out as he announced. "Hello, and welcome to the world's first Davenport Hunter Bionic Academy."

The room erupted in applause, smiling at the man until the young brunette from earlier piped up, rather aggressively. "When do I get to throttle people?"

Leo looked at the young brunette. "Hey! We don't throttle people, Mighty Mouse."

Donald gestured to Leo. "Leo's right. You're not soldiers anymore. You're students. Now, I know you had it rough and you're still adjusting to the outside world, but we're here to help. You see, there are many things here—"

"Told ya." Adam whispered to S-3, making a gesture with his hands, referring to their previous conversation they had that proved how he was right about Donald was going to be talking a lot.

"This facility is here so that you can train your bionics in a safe space and develop into the heroes you see before me." Donald continued, gesturing to Emilia, Adam, Bree and Chase. "But, first things first. We have to get rid of your soldier numbers and give you some really cool new names."

Chase passed the man the tablet, allowing him to continue. "S-12, you are now Donald Junior. You're Donald III. Donna, Donaldella, Donaldina." The Davenport man called, pointing to a few soldiers.

Emilia sighed, shaking her head as she snatched the tablet off Donald. "No. No. Living in one place with too many Donald's is a nightmare for me. Let them choose their own names."

Donald looked at the girl offended as the trio laughed, agreeing with the girl. From the crowd of students, the young boy stood beside Leo sighed in relief. "Thank goodness. I did not want to be a Donald. I already gave myself a name. Spin!"

"That's not really a name. Why do you want to be called Spin?" Donald asked, furrowing his brows at the boy.

Spin smirked. "Because I can do this."

The brunette spun himself around, turning into what looked like a small cyclone before stopping as normal.

"All right. You're Spin." Emilia smiled, impressed by Spin's bionic ability, along with everyone else.

"I did not even know you could do that. You know what, forget yellow, you just moved up to green." Donald told him.

"Yes!" Spin cheered at the news.

Although, Leo shared a different reaction. "Oh, come on. He twirled."

Emilia pursed her lips, sighing at her friend. She understood how Leo was feeling but he still needed time to train with his bionic arm.

S-3 looked at the two leaders, raising his hand with a smile. "Mr Davenport, Emilia, I'd like to change my name from S-3 to Sebastian."

Donald furrowed his brows. "Really? 'Cause I always saw you as a Julio."

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Because there was a bigger group with the girls, they decided for Bree and Emilia to train them together, while Adam was the leader of the bionic bros, and Chase was mentoring the rest.

While on a break, Bree and Emilia were walking with each other, chatting about their new life on the island when two male voices rang through their ears as they stepped foot into the common room, watching as Chase and Sebastian were stood by the hydraloop, bickering with each other.

"I don't put people to sleep. I motivate them to think with their eyes closed." Chase defended from Sebastian's previous point.

Sebastian nodded, going to ask him in a mocking tone. "Oh, well, do you also motivate them to snore?"

Chase glared at him. "That's it. It's time I show you who's boss."

"Really? Are you sure you scheduled enough time for that?" Sebastian wondered, mocking the Davenport once again.

"I'll make room." Chase scowled, making Bree and Emilia approach them before it could escalate further.

"Hey! Stop it." Emilia scolded, pulling Chase away from Sebastian.

Bree nodded, agreeing with the girl as she turned to her brother. "Yeah, you cannot pick a fight with him, you're a mentor now."

Chase sighed, glancing at Sebastian before turning to the two girls beside him, whining like a toddler. "He's turning my group against me."

Bree and Emilia sighed, shaking their heads at the boy before the former turned to Sebastian, clapping her hands together. "Sebastian. You may not like the way Chase runs his group, but it's his."

"And if you can't respect that, then maybe you should find a different one." Emilia mentioned.

Realising how that sounded, Bree pulled a face, furrowing her brows in question. "Okay, when did I start talking like a mom?" As she started to walk away, she muttered. "That's Emilia's job."

"And I do it proudly, Bree Davenport!" Emilia yelled, running after the girl, leaving the two boys to themselves to solve their problems, however failed as usual.

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"Earthquake ahhhh!" Emilia squealed, feeling the whole building shake causing some of the students to lose their balance, trying to hold on to something.

"What the hell just happened?!" Bree exclaimed, pulling Emilia off the floor. Emilia went to reply, before Bree was quick to interject. "And don't you dare say earthquake!"

"I wasn't going to say that." Emilia contradicted, her face falling as she felt something wrong with the island.

"Emilia, Bree, is everything okay?" One of their students asked in concern after seeing the look on Emilia's face.

Bree sighed, following the girl's gaze. "Ain't nobody dying today." She mumbled under her breath, obviously assuming the worst as Emilia was a banshee. "I'm sure everything is fine. We'll go check it out now." She told the student.

Bree pulled the Hunter out of the room, heading into the common room. "Adam, get off of him! He's not a surfboard!" Bree scolded, after the two girls saw him standing on Bob's back, who was levitating around the room.

Adam sighed. "I know. Surfboards don't belch every time you take a corner." The boy stepped off, allowing Bob to get up from his position before high-fiving Adam. "That was awesome."

As soon as Bree caught his attention, Bob switched into his flirtatious mode. "Hey, Breezy. I got a name now. What is it again?"

"Bob." Adam reminded him.

"It's Bob." The blonde chuckled, turning to look back at Bree who still had a grip on Emilia who continued to be in a daze. "Are you lovin' it?"

"Yeah." Bree said, giving him a polite smile. "Um, I'm gonna go love it over there. Come on, Em."

The two girls looked through the rooms trying to find Donald or any damage that might have caused the island to shake. Arriving back in the common room, Bree looked to Emilia in confusion who mumbled. "Hold on to something."

"Huh?" Bree asked, not understanding why she had said that when the whole island began to shake, a loud rumble echoing around the island.

"Yeah, that's not an earthquake. What the fuck is happening?!" Bree exclaimed, looking around the room before following Emilia who ran towards the big window, looking out to the ocean with widened eyes.

"That's because we're sinking." Emilia corrected the girl, sharing a look of panic.

"Mr Davenport!" Bree yelled, grabbing the man's attention who soon ran in from the training room with Leo and Spin behind him. "Look!"

Chase and the other students ran in at the same time, all of them looking out the big window as Donald clarified in panic. "The entire island is sinking."

Shocked by the news, Chase turned to look at the Davenport man. "What? How?"

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

Chase glared at Sebastian, quick to cut him off as he scowled. "I know why things sink!"

Donald rolled his eyes at the interaction. "Leo punched a wall and cracked the foundation."

"Why would you do that?" Bree yelled.

Leo threw his arms out, trying to defend himself as he snapped. "Well, I didn't think this was gonna happen!"

Chase scoffed in annoyance. "Well, what did you think was gonna happen?"

"Honestly, Leo..." Bree sighed, before all of them began to argue with one another.

This earned Emilia to reach her hands up to her head, scrunching her hair up with her clenched fists, wanting to scream.

Noticing her panicked look, although annoyed about the constant bickering also, Spin was quick to yell out, stopping all the arguing. "Hey! Quit yapping before Emilia explodes!"

"So he made a mistake." Spin continued, after a few people sent apologetic glances towards Emilia's way. "We all make mistakes. Not as big as that one. It was this huge—"

"Okay, we get it." Leo snapped, cutting Spin off.

The young boy simply narrowed his eyes before turning to the others. "Instead of yelling at him, let's help him fix it."

Bree turned to her best friend, shaking her arms as she pleaded. "Emilia! You're basically our mom, tell us what to do!"

Chase facepalmed at his sister since Emilia was still in daze, trying hard not to scream, not knowing if she did, the sound could cause more damage.

Sebastian sighed. "Since Emilia is frozen, I've got an idea to help. Maybe, I can lift the island back onto it's foundation. I mean, after all, I do have molecular kinesis."

Chase narrowed at the boy's clear way of showing off. "So do I, buddy. Get in line."

Donald shook his head. "That'll help, but it's still not enough. The island is too heavy."

Sebastian held his arm out. "Don't worry. My whole group has molecular kinesis."

"So does mine." Chase mocked to Sebastian before turning to his group, and went to whisper to them but they still heard. "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."

They watched as Chase led his group into the training room, leaving Sebastian to shout after him. "Oh no, you don't. My group will raise the island. Follow me."

The others followed them into the training room to see Chase and Sebastian's group separately trying to raise the island using their molecular kinesis.

"Come on, guys, we got this." Chase encouraged his group, not stopping from using his molecular kinesis.

With the two groups not working together, this earned Chase's side of the island to raise up, the others stumble across the room and bashing into the wall.

"So do we." Sebastian's voice was strained as he called, before lifting his side of the island up, earning the people from behind to be pushed across to the other side.

"Stop it!" Bree yelled before stopping in her tracks as Emilia grabbed onto her arm before she could hit the wall. Seeing the blue glow flash in Emilia's eyes, Bree smiled brightly. "That's my girl."

"If you guys don't work together, we're not gonna have an academy!" Donald yelled, attaching himself to the corner by the doorway, tightly grabbing onto something before sending a nod towards Emilia's way.

"We're almost completely submerged!" Bree yelled in panic after looking out the big window.

"Boys!" Emilia yelled. "Instead of arguing with each other, work together and save the academy!"

"Emilia's right." Sebastian sighed, looking over at Chase. "What if we combine our groups? That way, we can spread the force equally, and lift the entire island at once."

"Good idea. Everyone form a circle." Chase said, agreeing with the idea. His group stopped what he was doing, running to the middle to form a circle.

Sebastian looked at his group. "Don't just stand there. Do what he says!"

Bree came running back in from the common room to inform. "Guys, water's already coming through the hydraloop tunnel!"

"Hurry!" Donald yelled in warning.

"All right. On my count." Emilia instructed them, standing in the middle with her arms held out to the sides. "Three, two, one. Now!"

Chase, Sebastian and their groups all worked together, reaching their hands forward and activated their molecular kinesis to lift up the island with Emilia doing the same, using both of her hands to lift up the island.

"It's moving!" Leo yelled. Soon, the island was back on it's foundation, earning the students to stumble slightly.

"Yes. You did it! The island's back on it's foundation!" Donald sighed in relief before pulling Emilia into a hug.

Pulling away, Emilia turned to see Chase and Sebastian approach each other. The latter of the two being the first one to speak. "Good job."

"Yeah. You too." Chase sighed, nodding at the boy.

"Yay! My girl's back!" Bree cheered, pulling the banshee into a hug who laughed at her.

"Excuse me. She's my girlfriend." Chase interrupted, pulling Emilia away from Bree who simply rolled her eyes with a smile. She loved teasing Chase.

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