CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE, rise of the secret soldiers

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It's been a few weeks and Adam, Bree and Chase haven't spoken to a word to each other, creating an awkward and annoying vibe around the house. After getting information from the President saying that he needed the team back together, Donald texted the trio to gather in the living room of the house to tell them about what the President said.

"Hey, what's with the urgent text alert?" Chase asked, walking through the front door. "I was out buying sunglasses for my astronomy cruise. Check these out!" He grinned, pulling out the sunglasses and put them on his face. "They double as telescopes!"

"All I'm seeing is another reason to throw you overboard." Adam retorted, making Emilia sigh at the boy.

"The President called. There's an emergency and he needs you." Donald informed them.

"But we told him we quit." Bree reminded the man.

"Yeah, we don't even want to talk to each other. Why would we want to work together?" Chase scoffed.

"Yeah! And I'm not agreeing with him, I'm just emphasising his point." Adam made sure to point out.

"Look, I'm getting tired of your selfish attitudes. It is your duty to complete this mission." Donald told them, making Chase shake his head.

"No. It was our duty. But then people started protesting against us on our own front lawn. Maybe the world needs to get a taste of what it's like without us." Chase disagreed.

"Yeah! Still not agreeing with him, I just feel exactly the same as he does." Adam interjected.

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"Where's Donny?" Emilia and Donald heard as they headed towards the tunnels.

"Probably out trolling the streets for a new set of bionic kids to control." They heard Leo answer, making Donald scoff, as Emilia pursed her lips in slight amusement.

"I heard that!" Donald yelled as he walked into the lab with Emilia by his side, making Leo widen his eyes.

"Donny, you gotta see this news footage! Those criminals the President was talking about? Busted into the Pentagon last night." Douglas informed.

"What?" Donald looked shocked. "The Pentagon is the most secure facility in the world."

"Yeah, with all those sides, it's take me all day just to find the entrance." Adam chimed in.

"No one knows how they did it. But at least they finally got 'em on surveillance cam." Douglas held the tablet out in front of him to show them the picture. "Look, they're kids."

A picture of a teenage boy who looked around their age, dressed in all black with their eyes glowing a bright green.

Donald furrowed his brows. "Kids?"

"Yup, and look. Their eyes are glowing green, which means—" Douglas went to say before getting interrupted by Adam.

"It's the Irish again, isn't it?"

"No, Adam. It's Krane." Emilia informed, shaking her head.

"He upgraded the Triton app so he can control S-1 with his brain. Now he must be controlling multiple bionic kids." Douglas theorised.

"Multiple kids? How is that possible?" Chase wondered.

"I don't know, but if they busted into the Pentagon, I'll bet they're looking for classified information."

"Why don't we just go to Krane's cell and tell him to stop?" Leo suggested.

"Good idea! Then maybe we can tell him that being evil is bad and he'll give us all a great big hug!" Douglas snapped.

"Worked for you." Leo mumbled, crossing his arms over his chest.

Donald sighed, turning to Emilia, Adam, Bree and Chase. "Sometimes true heroes have to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. I'm not asking you to come back forever. Just one last mission. Take out Krane's bionic thugs and you're done."

Bree looked at him unfazed. "Fine. But just to make it clear, when we're done, we're done." She confirmed.

"Yeah, I can do that." Chase nodded.

Adam was laughing, making Donald look at him in confusion before he snapped out of his trance and looked at Donald. "I-I'm sorry, can you repeat that? I was thinking growing a mustache."

"Just get suited up!" Donald ushered them away, Emilia super speeding up to her room while the other three rushed to their capsules.

Once she arrived, she heard music being played making her ask. "What is that?"

"Oh, I get bored waiting for you guys to change, so I added hold music." Douglas answered before the three of them turned to see Donald dancing to the music.

The man paused, feeling eyes on him before the trio finally stepped out of their capsules, wearing their mission suits.

"Let's go get 'em!" Adam yelled, beginning to run out the lab.

Chase sighed. "We don't even know where we're going yet." He reminded the boy who walked back into the lab.

Douglas glanced down at the monitor. "When I created the Triton all, I integrated a tracking element. We can use that to locate 'em." He explained, as he typed into the monitor above the cyber desk and the others gathered around him.

"Ah ha! There's eight of 'em. They're at an abandoned junkyard, right near Pike's Crest."

"Let's go get 'em!" Adam yelled, and went to run out the lab once again before he stopped and turned to them. "Where's Pike's Crest?"

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After seeing the soldiers at the junkyard, the four teenagers arrived back to the lab. "Mr Davenport! It's worse than we thought!" Chase informed.

"Krane isn't just controlling a few random kids. He has a whole bionic army." Emilia explained.

"Girls, too! Some of 'em were hot." Adam grinned.

"A whole army? How is that possible?" Donald questioned.

Douglas looked in thought. "When Krane bought my technology, he must've started genetically engineering those kids behind my back!" He theorised, and looked over at Donald. "Although, it does explain the hundreds of baby pictures all over his warehouse."

"So what's our next move?" Bree asked.

"Uh oh." Emilia mumbled, looking towards the monitors.

"What is it?" Donald asked the banshee.

However, before Emilia could respond to his question, Leo answered for him, noticing who was on the monitor as well. "Krane!" The others followed their gazes to see Krane stood behind the President.

"Aw, nice job, Mr President, you caught Krane. Our work here is done." Adam grinned, making Emilia shake her head before pulling him with her towards the monitor.

"Whatever you do, do not negotiate with this man." The President said, making Krane laugh in response.

"I don't negotiate." Krane said, before using his bionics on the man to stop him from escaping and forcing him to stay in the chair. "Sit down!"

"How did you escape?" Emilia narrowed her eyes at the screen.

"It's amazing what an army of bionic teenagers can do when they really put their minds together." Krane smirked.

"We're onto you, Krane. We know you're using your Triton app to control them." Chase told him.

"Oh, I'm not just controlling them. Now that I've perfected this technology, I can transmit the Triton app to anyone. Allow me to demonstrate."

Krane pulled out a device before using it on the President, who's eyes turned green making them all look in shock. "Well, will you look at that? Now the most powerful man in the world... is under my control."

"Why are you doing this, Krane?" Donald asked.

"Ordinary humans are inferior. My soldiers have proven that. So together, we're gonna create one nation-state under bionic rule." Krane explained.

"With liberty and justice for all!" Adam chimed in with a smile, earning a look from Emilia and Bree.

"That's your plan?" Chase asked. "To create a bionic dictatorship?"

"No one in their right mind would ever bow down to you." Bree glared at the man.

"They won't have a choice. Once my Triton signal connects with the government's satellites, it'll beam an electromagnetic wave over the entire planet." Krane explained. "Then... I'll be the most powerful man in the world."

Donald grinned. "Good luck. You can't access the government's satellites without the classified security code."

This made the others grin apart from Emilia who shook her head. "You're gonna regret saying that." She told Donald.

"Oh, right. And that is?" Krane asked, holding the tablet in front of the President before he started typing in the code.

"Well, he obviously planned this out." Donald thought out loud.

Emilia turned to him with a scoff. "Really?"

"There. Now the satellites are orbiting right into the path of my Triton signal." Krane smirked at them. "Don't you just love technology?"

Then the screen went off.

"Krane's army is constructing a satellite dish. That must be how they're gonna transit the signal." Chase voiced his thoughts.

"Okay, we have to shut it down."

"But how? He has too many soldiers." Bree threw her arm out to the side.

"We don't have a choice." Douglas called. "If Krane succeeds, it'll be the end of the world as we know it."

"He's right, but if you're gonna face a whole army, I'm gonna have to max out your bionics. Get in your capsules. Emilia, I'll do yours in a minute." Donald instructed before turning to his brother. "Douglas, go and find us our most powerful weapons. And Leo—"

Leo rolled his eyes. "I know, stay here and monitor everything on the com-set." He sighed, before Donald stopped him.

"No, not this time. You're coming with us." He said to his step-son, making Emilia smile.

"What?" Leo asked in disbelief. "Is this another 'let's use Leo as bait plan'?"

"No, we need all the help we can get, and after all the hard training you've put in, you've earned the right to fight alongside this family." Donald told him, as Leo turned to the trio and Emilia.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Whoo! Yes! Yes!" Leo cheered, screaming as he ran around the lab doing cartwheels. "Yes! Yes! Ha ha! Ya-ha! Ha!"

Bree and Emilia giggled as Leo approached them, managed to calm himself down. "Yeah, let's do this."

"We're proud of you." Emilia smiled, with Bree nodding along with her.

"Way to go."

"Don't mess it up."

While they were waiting for Leo to get changed into his new mission suit, Donald made sure to max out Emilia's bionics as well, ready for the mission.

Soon enough they heard footsteps, making them turn to see Leo approaching. He kept his head down before lifting his hood off, and raised his head to look at them.

"Well? What do you think?" Donald questioned, smiling at Leo.

"I think you should donate the rest of my clothes to charity, because I am never taking this thing off." Leo answered, making them laugh.

"Wait! One more thing." Douglas spoke up before typing into the cyber-desk. "There. I just unlocked a new ability for you. Energy transference. Now your bionic hand will be able to absorb energy from power source. Go ahead, give it a shot."

Leo turned around to use his new ability to absorb the energy from the lamp nearby, making it form in his hand. "No way! Oh, I could definitely get used to this."

"Nice, Leo, now you can suck all the energy outta things. Just like Chase!" Adam grinned.

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All arriving at the junkyard, the whole team walked further down — like it was in slow motion, before stopping to realise nobody was in sight.

"And there's nobody here." Chase sighed.

Bree shrugged. "Maybe they left."

"Where would they go?" Douglas questioned.

"Well, Jets are playing Green Bay."

"C'mon, let's go make sure they're not hiding over there." Bree told Adam before the two walked away.

"Emilia and Leo, go help Adam and Bree. We'll take care of that satellite dish." Donald instructed, the two nodding at him in response.

"Lia, wait!" Emilia turned around at Chase's voice. "Please, be careful."

"I'm always careful, Chase." Emilia said playfully, sending him a gentle smile.

"No. I mean, I want you to promise me that you won't do something to get yourself hurt." Chase clarified, making Emilia frown.

Emilia sighed, knowing that it could only go one way or the other. "I promise. Now you, be careful as well. I love you." She promised, before kissing him on the lips.

"I love you too." Chase said, and watched Emilia run off and follow after Leo who was talking to S-1.

"Emilia, you help Adam and Bree." Leo told the brunette who glanced over to where the siblings were. "I've got her."

"You sure?" Emilia questioned in concern, and getting the nod in confirmation she needed, she ran over to help Adam and Bree. "I don't think so, bitch!" She growled, before jump kicking one of the girl soldiers before she could touch Bree.

"Nice one, Emilia." Bree smiled, flipping the other girl soldier over who landed hard on the ground.

Two more girl soldiers showed up, putting up a fighting stance making Emilia and Bree smirk at each other before running towards the two girls and jumped before flipping behind them. Once they both crouched down on the ground, the two girls hit the soldiers' legs, making them flip over and land hard on the ground.

"And that's what I call girl power." Emilia quoted, as the two girls smiled in satisfaction.

"Damn right." Bree agreed, and the two girls high-fived each other before Emilia went off running to find anyone else who needed help before ending up getting tripped by another soldier.

"Okay. That's it." Emilia growled, standing up before throwing her elbow back to hit the girl in the face who stepped towards her. Emilia span herself around before grabbing the girl's arm and flipped her on to the ground with a thud. The banshee hummed before she got swept under the leg by the soldier, making her fall to the ground.

"Bitch stole my move." Emilia mumbled in pain, narrowing her eyes up at the soldier before jumping back up to her feet. The two continued to fight, but as Emilia got distracted seeing Donald battling Krane alone, the girl soldier kicked Emilia in the face, before using her bionics to throw the girl back.

Groaning in pain, Emilia's eyes flashed a bright blue, looking past the soldier to see Donald with no weapons in his hands while Krane was forming energy in his hands. She grew even more worried, making her shout. "Davenport!"

She sweep kicked the girl soldier underneath, making her fall to the ground before super speeding over to push Donald out the way who began to run at Krane.

"Not on my watch, bastard." Emilia seethed, opening her mouth and let out an ear piercing scream towards Krane who just managed to throw the energy blast out of his hands, making it hit Emilia who flew into the air, causing her scream to die down when she felt her back hit something and she fell to the ground, feeling nothing but pain.

"Emilia!" Was the last thing she heard coming from Donald and Leo before she fully lost consciousness.

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The trio began to sit up from the ground as they managed to throw Krane into the sky, finishing him. They looked around at all the bionic soldiers to see their eyes starting to change back to normal.

"It worked! The Triton app is deactivated!" Bree yelled, before all the soldiers fell to the ground.

"Yes!" Douglas grinned in relief, looking around at all the bionic soldiers.

"Guys! Get over here quick!" They heard Leo yell from a distance.

"Guys, hurry!" Donald yelled, making the four of them turn around to see Emilia laying completely lifeless between Leo and Donald.

"Emilia!" Chase screamed, being the first one to sprint over with the others behind him.

"I don't think she's breathing." Leo panicked as the others approached.

"No, no, no." Chase muttered and crouched down to bring Emilia into his arms, before checking her pulse. "Emilia, no. Emilia, come on, wake up!"

But he didn't get a response. "Emilia, please. Don't do this to me. You promised." Chase continued, tears practically running down his face. "Emilia, wake up! Come on, please! Open your eyes for me, bub. Let me see those blues. Come on, Emilia. Wake up!"

Everyone around him was crying, scared that they could lose Emilia. Donald pulled out his phone before dialling 911, looking down at Chase sobbing on Emilia's chest.

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Everyone was sat around in the lab, waiting for any information about Emilia when Leo's phone rang making him instantly answer. "Mom! How's Emilia?" Leo questioned, walking away from the group.

Douglas sighed. "Poor Emilia. If I went back to help Donny, Emilia wouldn't have had to protect him." He frowned, looking down at the three bionic siblings.

"Don't blame yourself Douglas." Adam said, since Chase stayed silent. He hasn't actually uttered a word since Emilia was taken away in the ambulance. "Blame Chase."

"Now's not the time, Adam." Bree sighed, before whacking him on the arm. "It's no one's fault." They all stood up to approach Leo who came back. "How is she?"

"Not good. She's out of surgery, but it's still touch and go." Leo informed with a frown.

Chase sighed before starting to walk out the lab, making Bree question. "Chase, where are you going?"

"Going upstairs. I need to be alone." Was all that Chase said before disappearing out of the lab.

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