"Excuse me?" I asked, shocked that Mr. Davenport did what he did.

Bree opened her locker angrily ", I know. And he refuses to listen to what we have to say! Sometimes I wish he could be more of a dad than our...'creator'."

'Well at least you have a dad who cares' I said inside my head but didn't dare say it out loud.

"Bree, I'm sure he wants the best for you ok. I mean, he wants you to be safe when your busy fighting on missions, right." I said and Bree paused for a moment before closing her locker.

"What could I ever do without Mia." Bree said, giving me a small smile.

"I'm not going to look into that. The thought itself is to horrifying. " I shivered and we both began to laugh.

Once our laughter died down, Bree asked me "so, are you coming over after school? "

I groaned " I can't today. My sister wants to have some girl time today because of the whole adoption thi-"

"What adoption thing" Bree cut me off and I swear my heart stopped.

Bree glared at me as the bell rang and for once I was thankful that class has begun. But Bree had no intention of moving and that's what scared me.

"Mia, what adoption thing" Bree gritted through her teeth.

I closed my eyes, turned away from her and whispered "a few months ago I found out I was adopted. That's why I've been acting so...strange."

I expected her to yell at me, catch everyone's attention, but instead I felt to arms wrap around me as if to give me a hug. I hugged back of course as we held eachother tightly before letting go.

Bree looked happy but also frustrated "first your break up with Chase, then you jump into a house that was on fire, next I find you on the ground in the hallway near the brink of death, and then we almost lose you to some jerk, and now you find out your adopted and you need someone more than ever."

My heart clenched and suddenly it was like I couldn't breathe. "Bree, I didn't mean to make you feel that way. Oh god, I'm so sorry."

I held Bree again as she sobbed and I couldn't help but do so too.

"I don't want to lose you Mia" Bree whispered and I couldn't help but let out another sob.

"You won't, I promise" we held eachother tightly in the hallway as we cried.

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"Jen, I'm home!" I greeted, walking inside the house.

"Jen?" I asked again when suddenly I fell to the ground, my whole body just felt numb like the time when Marcus...

"Not Jen, Mia. Guess again." I heard Marcus say, kneeling down in front of me before putting on a blue bracelet on my right wrist. They were made of the same stone Marcus had used against me the other day.

"Wha-what are y-you doing?" I asked as he smirked at me. He mouthed 'night night' before he snapped on the second bracelet on my left as my whole body screamed out in pain. That's all I could feel, pain, as everything else was blocked away from me. Marcus lifted me off the ground and speeded off.

No one's pov

Adam, Bree and Chase ran into the lab that was currently underneath the house where Mr. Davenport was kidnapped.

"Mr. Davenport!" Bree exclaimed once she saw him but the smile was wiped off her face when she saw his kidnapper.

"Oh goodie," Douglas marveled "everyone's here! Party time!"

Marcus ran in behind Adam saying in a straight face "I've secured the perimeter. They're ours now."

Mr. Davenport's breath hitched when he saw his kids fallen into his brothers trap.

Adam, Bree and Chase reached the laser cage in relief but curiosity "Mr. Davenport what is going on? Who is this guy?"

"Who is this guy," Douglas repeated angrily "Donny, you never told them about me? I am deeply offended. Adam, Bree, Chase. I'm your father."

Mr. Davenport's heart stopped beating and at that very moment he looked down ashamed.

Ashamed that the one man he was suppose to protect his children from was their father and afraid that they were going to chose his brother over him.

"What do you mean, you're our father?" Chase asked, confusion written on the rat's faces.

"Yeah, he's our father," Bree said pointing to Mr. Davenport in as much courage she could muster up.

Truth was she was scared about what this man could be saying might be the truth.

"No," Douglas said, picking up a remote "That's what he's been telling you."

"Well I don't know who you are but you're going down," Adam yelled courageously, running towards him but Douglas pressed a button on that remote before the three could get to him.

Soon enough all three of them were in the laser cage along with Mr. Davenport.

"You mastered short range teleportation before I did?" Mr. Davenport asked amazed trying to block the hurt in his voice.

"I've been working on that for years," he complained before stomping his foot, acting like a child.

"I know," Douglas bragged "I'm awesome."

"No you're not awesome! I'm awesome."

"I'm awesome!" Douglas fired back but Mr. Davenport cut him off jabbing his thumb towards himself.

"Awesome!"

"Well you're still going down!" Adam made a move but abruptly stopped.

He suddenly didn't feel as strong as he use too and that's when he started to panic.

"My super strength, it's gone."

Bree tried to run but stopped as well "So is my speed."

Chase placed his finger to his temple, concentrating on turning on his bionics but said defeated "I've got nothing."

"That's because I designed these lasers to block the signals from your bionic chips." Douglas started laughing like a maniac.

Then he looked at the three and said gloating "That's right! Daddy gave you toys but he can also take them away!"

"Yeah and here, you're not super human. You're just a bunch of pathetic kids." Marcus sneered earning a glare from Douglas.

"Hey sad clown," Douglas pushed Marcus to the side stealing his spotlight before saying "This is my moment. Save it for the stage."

The Davenport brothers were too busy glaring at each other to notice the three of them huddling away from him.

"Well Marcus," Douglas said to him "We finally captured them. Actually I captured them. Me, me, me, me."

Marcus rolled his eyes at his father's ridiculous behavior before walking closer to the cage.

"You got one of those too, huh?" Chase muttered through the bars.

"You have no idea," Marcus grumbled, crossing his arms in annoyance.

Douglas started to walk away snapping his fingers "Come on, we've got work to do."

Marcus followed his father so it was just the four of them.

It was then silent for a few more minutes before Chase asked curiously "Mr. Davenport? Why did that guy say that he was our father?"

"Because technically, he is your father," Mr. Davenport said disappointed "And my brother"

It was like their whole world was turned upside down as their breath hitched.

The man who raised them and took care of them since as long as they could have remembered wasn't their father but they were the kids of the psychopathic maniac who kidnapped their father figure and creator?

This just didn't make sense to the three as they all shrieked at once-

"What?"

"How is that even possible?"

"Wait, so does this mean that Chase is also my father?"

Everyone looked over at Adam in disbelief but shrug it off getting to the subject at hand as Davenport started reminiscing "Years ago, Douglas and I started Davenport Industries together. It was great! We had a cute little lab, you know? Not as good as the big lab we have now but then we didn't have so much money…"

Bree motioned with her hands not wanting to hear the long story "Get to the point."

"We developed bionics so that robots could do the jobs that were too dangerous for people but then Douglas went behind my back and implanted them into genetically engineered humans." Davenport explained in shame.

Adam looked at him confused and asked "You mean us?"

"No Adam," Bree rolled her eyes sarcastically "the Green Bay Packers."

Mr. Davenport continued his story "Your bionic chips were never designed to be interfaced with the human nervous system."

"So that's why we glitch," Chase said finally putting two and two together.

"Exactly."

"And all these years I just thought you were a terrible scientist," Adam said jokingly but that just darkened the mood even more.

"Douglas also hid all kinds of secret codes in your chips. That's why you all have mysterious new abilities popping up out of nowhere." Mr. Davenport explained looking at them all in the eye.

"So if your brother created us, how did we end up with you?"

Mr. Davenport tried not to angrily shout and said as calmly as possible "He wanted to make you into cyber soldiers of mass destruction. But I knew that if I raised you in a safe environment, I could train you into bionic heroes so I built the lab and I hid you there."

"Wow," Chase spoke up "So everything we ever known about ourselves, about you. It's all been-"

"One big lie." Bree cut him off.

"Wow That changes everything." Adam said but tried to joke by asking "Am I Jewish?"

"Please tell me there's another unexpected twist where I find out I'm not related to him?" Bree said exasperated.

Adam looked at her and said with a lame Italian accent "Oi, this one with the fussing and the complaining..."

Mr. Davenport wanted to crack a smile.

"Look I wanted to tell you guys but I figured the less you knew the safer you'd be"

"But we trusted you," Chase said hurt "I mean if you were lying about this then who know what else you were lying about."

"Exactly," Suddenly Adam grabbed a hold of Mr. Davenport's hair as Mr. Davenport winced.

Even though Adam didn't have super strength, he was still pretty strong.

"He's not lying about the hair. Just looks fake," Adam tightened the grip on his hair for just a few seconds before releasing Mr. Davenport in satisfaction and disappointment. 

"Hello family." Douglas greeted before Bree growled "We're not your family. Let us out of here!"

"Yeah, you can't force us to be your cyber soldiers."

Douglas smirked "Actually I can Boy Wonder, see when I created you all, I installed my Triton app on your chips. Once it's activated, I'll control you bodies and your minds. I'll do whatever I want, whether it's start a world war or a little light housekeeping."

"Oh no way, you cannot make me vacuum!"

"Why do you need us? I mean you already have Marcus and apparently a barber with a sense of humor." Bree asked, mockingly.

"Marcus is just an android. He's not sleeping, he's recharging. Trouble with androids is they burn out too quick. He won't make it to his sixteenth birthday...oh, but don't tell him that. He thinks he's getting a car."

Bree sighed sadly and mumbled "I wish I was with Mia and her sister having a girl day instead of being trapped in a stupid cage."

Douglas spoke up ", well, ain't today your lucky day Bree. It just so happens that Mia is actually here with us." Douglas clicked a button on his remote and suddenly Mia was on the ground, next to the cage.

"Mia!" They all yelled in unison, sitting as close to her as possible without touching the electric bars.

"What did you do to her?" Chase asked, growling.

Douglas smirked again and answered "those blue stones around her wrists are called 'cytons'. One of those small stones can kill thousands of superheroes if used on full force."

Bree looked at Mia for a moment before she realized something and yelled "it was you! You were the one who almost killed Mia that day in the hall."

Everyone looked at Bree confused as Douglas explained " Actually it was Marcus. You see he wanted her to stay away from our plan and in order to do that...we had to hurt her."

"But hurting and almost on the brink of death are two entirely different things!" Bree yelled at Douglas who was taken back a bit.

Suddenly the computer screen turned on revealing Leo knocking on the side of the house.

"Oh, well look who showed up to be a hero. And this one's not even bionic. I can take him out with the sprinklers."

"Leave him alone! He's just a kid!"

"A nosey kid who keeps getting on our way!"

"Stay away from him!" They all stood up and looked at him pleadingly

"Don't worry Princess. I'm not gonna hurt him. Marcus wanted that privilege all to himself." Suddenly, Mia's fingers began to twitch "Your little friend Leo's back, This time take care of him. For good."

Marcus smirked "Done."

Suddenly, he was gone.

The mood darkened drastically as everyone stayed silent, crying.

That was all Mia heard before the pain returned again as she blacked out.

Mia's pov

"Are they off?"

"Yes, she's going to be fine" I heard someone say as relief swept over my body, making me sigh.

I felt someone pick me up and whisper quietly ", your going to be alright Mia, just hang in there."

It was Adam, I almost smiled but everything I did made me feel like I could just slip away and the thought itself scared me.

"Bravo," someone said "but just because a dog gets out of his cage doesn't mean he's going for a walk."

"Wait, you have a dog? Where, where, where, where, where!"

"Douglas, you're not getting these kids."

"Wrong again Donny, look the decryption is complete now I'll have total control…" I heard a smack and something hitting a metal bar "Ah man not cool! What are you wearing? Clogs?"

"Guys! Run!"

"We're not leaving without you!"

"Just go!"

I felt Adam slightly loosen his grip on me as he began to run but he suddenly stopped "Get out of our way Marcus!"

"Not a chance, I'm more powerful than all of you." Marcus growled as I felt myself being placed onto the ground as Adam said "Oh he's lying. I haven't seen him at the gym once."

Suddenly I heard a smack and someone hitting the ground pretty hard. At this point I was tired of staying put, I tried to stand up but when I did it was as if anything else I did would make me disappear as in, not exist and again, it scared me. Of course I didn't care so I tried to move again but I felt someone hold me down as if to keep me still.

"Adam! Are you alright?"

"No one touches my brother you freak!"

I heard some skin and metal making contact together as Bree yelled "Chase!"

My heart started pounding as I felt the ground shake beneath me. I tried to move again since the force holding me down was gone but no matter how hard I tried, everything around me began to slip away faster and faster. I didn't care, I just wanted to help them out and make sure they were ok before anything happens.

'I...can't do this' I thought sadly letting out a few tears before remembering what my brother told me when we were younger. Using all the energy I had left, I sent a signal to my brother before everything went black again.

No one's pov

"Hey I think I got it," Adam yelled as he pushed buttons as an attempt to close the floor shredder.

Fire shot out of the floor making Adam panick and yell "Nope still working on it."

Chase's hand loosened up as Marcus stomped on it making Chase fall but right before he hit the ground, a blur jumped over the pit and pushed him away as the ground closed.

Chase looked up and his eyes widened to the size of saucers when he saw his savior. "Jake?"

Jake turned and saw his sister lying on the ground and said "Mia sent me a Falcon signal. It's what Mia and I use whenever we realize we need help so here I am."

"Thanks." Chase said, as Adam and Bree came towards the two.

"Hey Jake. I'm guessing your here to help?" Bree asked getting into a fighting stance. "isn't that what supers do?"

"So, you ready to fight?" Adam asked as well, getting into a fighting stance.

Jake answered with a smirk on his face ", Please. I'm always ready for a fight."

Suddenly Marcus appeared between the four as they circled him.

"You may be strong but let's see you take on all of us."

"Go ahead creep, take your best shot."

Smirking, Marcus raised his hands, small sparks appearing as he said "Gladly"

Electricity shot out of his palms as all of them fell down like dominoes.

"Ha! Now they're bionics are all mine!" Douglas yelled from above the four.

"No!"

Jake smirked slightly, hearing a familiar voice above him as a metal robot jumped through the ceiling and yelled "Exoskeleton in the house! Or whatever you call this funky place."

"Leo, you're alive!"

"Was he suppose to be dead or something. I'm not seeing the full picture here" Jake said pointing up at Leo as they all stood up.

Marcus groaned in annoyance as Douglas yelled "I asked you to do one thing!"

Everyone looked up as Donald crushed the remote"You broke it! You always break my toys!"

While everyone was distracted, Adam quickly picked up Mia as Leo yelled "How do you like me now Marcus?"

"Still not a fan," Marcus replied before knocking him down to the ground.

The robot reached around to get up but it didn't work "So this thing can bust through walls and shoot lasers but it can't get back up?"

"Well it's a prototype."

"You just don't seem to go away Leo," Marcus growled ",This time I'm gonna finish you for good."

"Leo's alive!"

"No, not for long."

Adam placed Mia into Chase's arms and yelled as sparks surrounded him ",Get! Away! From him!" The lights began to flash on and off.

"What's going on?" Jake asked.

"I think he just discovered his new ability."

"I think we should get behind him!" Chase yelled running over towards the metal pillar, holding Mia close to his chest. He looked down and used his super hearing to detect a heartbeat. It was small but it was there though he didn't know for how long.

When Adam finally let loose, everything around him shook as they all fell to the ground. Adam cheered as the whole room began to shake. Soon everyone was gone and out of the house except for one person who will probably never make an appearance again.

Mia's pov

I felt something pierce my skin from my wrist and though it did shock me, I couldn't say anything. I don't know what is happening other than the fact that I was somewhere dark and that I probably will never escape this place.

I could still hear everything around me, that's for sure but I just couldn't connect with my other senses and as scary as that is, I couldn't help but worry about how everyone else was.

It haven't heard from anyone other than Mr. Davenport come in here but all he said was that he hoped it could wake up soon. Also, I'm pretty sure I'm not at home because if it were, my mom and dad would never let me see them again and the thought of that as well, is scarier than death.

I guess you could say that I'm in between, not alive but not dead. Just hanging on a small rope determining my fate which I have to make myself. But the weird thing is that right after we came back, I heard them all have a family moment and though it was very brief, it was amazing.

That is a family, maybe I should cherish the things I have a bit more, if I ever wake up. As a ghost, at least I can visit them once in a while and I'm good with that.