Episode 2: One of Us
In the common area, Harper and Douglas were talking when Adam, Bree and Chase enter the room.
"have you seen Leo? He's late for training" Chase ask "Why don't you just call him?" Douglas ask.
"Ugh, too much work. Let's just kick him out of the academy" Adam says, the phone rings and Leo pops up on a video call on the screen.
"Hello" Leo says "Leo, what are you doing back in Mission Creek? You're supposed to be here for training" Chase says.
"Sorry, I had to pop back and deal with a little situation. Janelle missed me. You ladies can be so needy" Leo says.
"She threatened to break up with you, didn't she?" Bree ask "It was implied" Leo says the doorbell rings "Ah! She's here!" Leo says and hangs up.
"Can you believe him? Skipping his training to hang out with a girl?" Chase says, Harper crosses her arms.
"and there's a problem with that, Chase!?" Harper asks frowning, Chase looks at her startled.
"uh...of course not!...Girlfriends come first, I...I would never trade you for training let that be known!!" Chase says nervously, Harper glares at him.
"please don't leave me" Chase says startled, Harper smiles and runs her hand over his arm.
the hydraloop opens and S-1 walks out
"Aaah! It's her!" Douglas says, all of the students get into fighting positions.
"Hey, you look familiar. Do I know you from somewhere?" Adam says "Adam, that's S-1. Krane's lead soldier. She tried to destroy us" Chase says.
"Oh, yeah. What do you say we finish the job and get out of here?" Adam says whit a smirk,"Adam! Come on!" Harper says.
"Harper I'm in the middle of a conversation, don't mind her, she's an angel when you know her well" Adam tells S-1.
......................................................................
Still in the common area.
"What are you doing here?" Chase ask "I figured since this is the Bionic Academy, you're the only people who might be able to help. Something's wrong with me" S-1 says.
"Well, anyone who lived at least 24 hours straight next to Krane has serious psychological problems, look at me and Douglas..." Harper says "hey speak for yourself!" Douglas says.
"yeah,we already know that, Psycho Sally. You tried to crush Leo and take us all out!" Bree says "I'm sorry. I don't know what you're talking about" S-1 says.
"So you don't remember when I used a stun baton and left you on the floor?" Harper says "no!?" S-1 says "so that serves as a warning, I don't want to have to make you remember!" Harper says threatening.
"girl stay calm, she doesn't remember anything, She's a blank slate, just like the rest of the soldiers were" Douglas says pushing the two away.
"Why weren't you rounded up with everyone else?" Chase ask "All I know is that I woke up in a field, and this family found me and took me in. And when they discovered I was bionic, they freaked out, so I ran away and I've been hiding ever since" S-1 says.
"I don't believe her" Bree says "there's a way to tell if it's true" Adam says, Everyone looks at Harper.
"What? Why is everyone looking at me?" Harper says "Because usually you're the one who suspects everyone, it's kind of your thing" Bree says "And you never miss, you're like a human lie detector" Adam says.
"Ooh! Well in my opinion the problem is you guys that are like super blind but..." Harper says.
"I don't see anything wrong with her being honest...for now!" Harper says look at her threatening "Well, why would she lie? Krane's no longer controlling her mind with the Triton App. so she has no reason to be evil" Douglas says.
"Oh, yeah? Well that's what we thought about Sebastian, too. And we ALL know what happened there" Chase says "We get it, he broke your heart. Let it go" Adam says.
Chase makes an upset face Harper hugs him consoling him.
"Look, if you don't believe me, remove my chip. Then there's no way I can hurt you" S-1 says.
Douglas removes her bionic chip "All clear. But you might wanna have that mole checked out" Douglas says, S-1 Makes a confused face touching her neck
"All right, now that we know you're telling the truth, what exactly is wrong with you?" Chase ask.
"I keep having flashbacks about a guy named Victor Krane" S-1 says "Oh me too, constantly, I call them nightmares.... that never never go away" Harper says, this time Chase comforts her.
"See? You're preachin' to the choir, sister" Douglas says pointing at Harper
"Wait. When the Triton App deactivated, it should have erased all of her memory. How can she still remember Krane?" Chase says "It must be a glitch. What else do you remember?" Douglas says.
"He said if anything bad ever happened to him, something just as bad would happen to me" S-1 says "Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. That was just the metal in his face of him talkin'" Douglas says.
"Look, every time I get a flashback, I get a terrible headache. I'm really scared and I don't have anyone else to turn to. Please, help me figure out what's going on" S-1 says.
"She seems sincere" Harper says "The lie detector has spoken, Everyone!!" Adam says pointing at Harper, she just glares at him.
"What do we do?" Bree ask "I think we should help her" Chase says "Okay, but when she crushes your heart like Sebastian, don't come crying to me" Adam says.
......................................................................
in the training area.
"All right, almost done with the tests" Chase says.
"How ya holding up?" Chase ask S-1 "Eh, pretty good. Probably gonna need a snack around two" Adam says "Great to know Adam" Harper says sarcastically.
computer beeps "oh boy!" Harper says looking at the computer "Douglas, check this out" Chase says.
"Huh. Looks like the Triton app left a virus hidden in her bionic infrastructure" Douglas says "You mean like a virus where I have a bowl of chicken noodle soup and I'm all better?" Adam says.
"More like a virus that'll cause you to explode and look like chicken soup" Chase says "What?!" S-1 ask "Uh, but...who knows? Chicken soup could work" Chase says nervous.
"Oh Krane used my research to upgrade the Triton app, at the time he also requested that I find a way to destabilize an antvius that was installing on the chip" Harper says "and you did it?" Chase ask, Harper looks scared.
Harper turns to S-1 "so, good consultation...here want a lollipop?" Harper smiles nervous.
"Wait, when I showed Krane the Triton App, he did ask me to build a Doomsday virus. But I refused" Douglas says
"Krane must have done it on his own, using your search" Chase says "He deleted the antivirus and installed the virus in the app" Harper says "And if he did to the Triton App, then that means..." Chase says.
He scans the students in the training area with his bionic eye "The other students have it too!" Chase says "It all makes sense. Krane was an egomaniac. If he wasn't around to control his own creations, he wanted to make sure no one else could" Douglas says.
"According to this, anyone who had the Triton App will self-destruct in ten hours. That means that everyone here is..." Chase says "A ticking time bomb" S-1 says.
"All the bionic students are gonna die?!" Bree says "Shhh!" Chase says the students stop training in the background and turn to look at Bree.
"Bree!" Harper says "Probably shouldn't have said that so loudly" Bree says "Nice knowing all of you! You guys should start your goodbyes. I'm gonna grab a tarp and a poncho" Adam says he starts to leave, but is stopped by Bree.
"Wait Douglas installed the Triton app on...you guys! didn't he?" Harper says, Chase realizes "Oh, No. this may be worse than I thought" Chase says.
He scans Adam and Bree with bionic eye "you right, We also had the Triton App, so we're set to self-destruct, too" Chase says "oh my god.." Harper says "Adam, I'll take a poncho" Douglas says.
"Wait I don't have the Triton app do I?" Harper ask "No you don't" Chase says "I didn't see the need for you to have it" Douglas says.
"Finally! At least you did one thing right!" Harper says, Douglas looks at her annoyed.
"Oh let's be honest my chip isn't the most perfect thing you've ever done" Harper says "look girl! it's never too late to install an app or two" Douglas says threatening.
......................................................................
In the common area.
"Okay, I scanned S-1's chip and mirrored the Doomsday virus timer. Only eight hours left till you guys...show the world what you're made of" Douglas says "Ohh! My head! It hurts!" S-1 says.
"I know, his jokes are awful" Chase says "No, she's having another flashback!" Douglas says "What are you seeing?" Harper ask.
"I'm starting to see Krane again. It's dark, he's angry" S-1 says "Run towards the light! It's your only hope!" Douglas says.
"Is he saying anything about the Doomsday virus?" Chase ask "no. Someone used the last of the battery acid and didn't replace it" S-1 says "Well, it wasn't me" Douglas says.
"There has to be a way to access this virus and disable it" Chase says "Okay calm down I'm trying to crack the encryption of this thing!" Harper says looking at the cyber desk.
"Good luck with that. He buried it in so many layers of encryption it would take months to crack it" Douglas says "Don't worry, it can't be that different from the antivirus I cracked, I should know how this virus works based on this " Harper says.
"Well, do you think he ever gave her the code?" Chase says "I think it's unlikely, and if we're going to wait for her to have the correct flashback it's going to take ages, that won't work!" Harper says.
"if only there was a way to unlock the correct memory" Chase says thoughtfully "I know one way we can find out. When patients lose their memories, sometimes doctors try to recover them by reenacting scenes from their pasts. If we can do that with S-1, maybe we can trigger the memories we need" Douglas says.
"Yes! That's brilliant!" Chase says "No!That's ridiculous!" Harper says.
"What? Why?" Douglas says angrily "It's not time to play theater Douglas! We have to find another way, and fast! I'm going to decipher this thing or....I will find another solution!" Harper says angrily.
"Harper, we already tried it, there's no other way, Whatever's locked in that girl's head is the only thing that's gonna save all of us!" Chase says "Fine, Go ahead, But probably It will be a waste of time" Harper says trying to decipher the encryption.
"We have no choice, let's go to work" Douglas says.
Leo arrives via the hydraloop and spots S-1 "You!" Leo says scared "Who are you?" S-1 says "Maybe this will remind you!" Leo says "Leo, no!" Chase says.
Leo fires laser sphere and knocks S-1 to the floor "What do you mean, no? I just saved your butts" Leo says "No, you didn't! You just dug our graves" Chase says.
......................................................................
Timer has 7 hours left and S-1 is still unconscious.
"Leo what's wrong with you!?" Harper says "Come on, wake up, wake up!" Douglas says to S-1 "Wait, So I leave for one afternoon and now everyone has hours to live? Why didn't you call me?" Leo says.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I've been a little busy trying to find ways not to BLOW UP!" Chase screams.
"Calm down Chase or this vein on your forehead will burst before the rest of you!" Harper says, Chase puts his hand on his forehead.
"She is still out of it. Leo, how could you attack her?" Douglas says "Look, with everyone around here flip-flopping between good and bad, it's hard to keep track. I have to stop myself from taking you out 5 times a day" Leo says to Douglas.
"Oh my god doesn't anyone THINK around here!!?" Harper says angrily "Hey hey be careful because you're not much different from him in that regard Miss Krane!" Leo says.
"Guys. Focus. We have to find a way to revive S-1 before every bionic person here explodes!" Chase says.
"Just to be clear, since we didn't have the Triton App, we're good, right?" Leo says to Douglas and Harper.
"Yeah. In a few hours, the three of us could literally be the last ones standing. Probably best to keep thato ourselves" Douglas says "Yeah keep it down!" Harper nods.
"She's waking up!" Chase says "Aaah!" Leo scream and fires laser sphere and knocks S-1 out again, everyone looks at him.
"Did you say "she's waking up" or "she has a knife"? 'Cause I'm just saying, those two sound very similar" Leo says.
"Okay, Forget the three of us, Douglas, it's just you and me, because I'm going to kill him!!" Harper says irritably Douglas holds her arm.
......................................................................
S-1 get up "She's awake" Chase says "Don't even think about it" Douglas says holding Leo.
"Sorry I took you out. Twice" Leo says "Yeah, well, at least you didn't use your bionics full-strength" S-1 says "Yeah, that's right. I always dial it back for the ladies" Leo says nervous.
"We think we found a way to stimulate your memories by acting out some scenes from your past with Krane" Chase says.
"We're hoping that when he gave you the Doomsday virus, he told you how to deactivate it. So, we're gonna reenact that moment. I'm gonna play Krane and Chase will play you" Douglas says.
"Hold on. How come you get to play Krane?" Chase says "Because I knew him better than anybody" Douglas says "do you say that with pride?" Harper says.
"oh what, you want to represent him, since he was your daddy!" Douglas says annoyed "I will not submit to this humiliation, thank you" Harper says.
"Well, I'm definitely not gonna play S-1. No offense" Chase says to S-1 "Why not? Too much of a stretch for you to reach that level of macho? No offense" Douglas says to her.
"Harp!?" Chase ask "No! I can't babe, I have layers and layers of codes to decipher!" Harper smiles sarcastically fiddling with the cyber deck, Chase
rolls his eyes.
"Guys, we don't have time to argue" Leo says to Chase "But just for the record, I do think you'd make a great S-1. You wanna borrow Bree's boots? You can stuff some paper in there so they fit...""Can we just do this?!" Chase interrupts Leo.
"You're on an operating table in Krane's lab" Douglass says.
He claps and Chase lays down on one of the consoles "It's dark. You're terrified. The madman approaches" Douglas says he turns around and puts a string of tinfoil on his face, turning back dramatically.
"I'm Victor Krane, and I want to take over the world! I also told Douglas I'd take him on a vacation to the Florida Keys, never happened!" Douglas says "Oh my god" Harper rolls her eyes.
Chase sits up and clears his throat "Oh, no! Mr. Krane! Please don't give me, S-1, that bad, bad virus!" Chase says in a thin, high-pitched voice.
Harper laughs "didn't you have codes to crack!?" Chase asks angrily "Sorry, it's hard to ignore...whatever that is" Harper says.
Douglas shoves Chase back down on the console "I don't suppose this is helping you remember anything" Leo says to S-1
"No. But it is making me hope that when I do blow up, I take these two out with me" S-1 says Douglas and Chase glance at her "No offense" she says.
......................................................................
The timer is down to 2 minutes.
"So? Got it!?" Chase asks "no! But maybe there's another way...I""no no no!" Chase stops her and Chase starts freaking out.
"Role playing didn't work, decrypting the virus didn't work, we're out of options!" Chase says "Chase!" Harper says "Harper!!" Chase holds her.
"if nothing works, I want you to know that I love you! and I want you to take care of our son!" Chase says desperately "What son!?" Harper ask confused.
"little Jerry!" Chase says "ooohh!! you mean that virtual pet that we were taking care of when we started dating?" Harper says "yeah!!" Chase says.
"Oh suure I'll take care of him since he's.... right here on my phone... always" Harper says nervously.
Adam and Bree walk in "Hey, guys, any progress?" Adam ask "Oh, great, more mess to clean up!" Douglas says
"This is useless! There's no fix" Chase says.
"Chase! maybe has another way.." Harper says "Which way?" Chase says.
"it sounds crazy, but think with me... it's a virus like any other after all, every virus needs a carrier, because without it...""the virus dies! That's it!!" Chase completes.
"So what are you saying?" S-1 says "We need to trick the virus into thinking we're dead" Chase says "Good idea. We'll be ghosts. Bree, go get the sheets. I'll cut out the eye holes" Adam says.
"We need a way to shut down your bionics infrastructure" Harper says thoughtfully "well, If we give ourselves our own Doomsday virus, it'll shut down our bionic infrastructures" Chase says.
"Great plan,except you forgot one little thing: We'll be dead" Bree says "Only temporarily. We can control our own virus. As long as It starts uninstalling it right after it takes effect, none of us will actually die" Chase says.
"The plan's too risky. We're not doin' it!" Douglas says "Douglas, there's no choice!" Harper says.
"We only have two minutes left! What else are we gonna do?" Chase says.
"There has to be another way! I have a firewall program on my old laptop. If the codes match, it could block the virus. I'll be right back!" Douglas leaves the room.
"I've seen it, the code doesn't match!" Harper says "We don't have time to wait. We have to install our own Doomsday virus" Chase says.
"Attention, everyone! I'm about to wirelessly install a lethal virus into your chips. But I'm doing it to save you. And if for some reason it doesn't work, well, you can all forget about last night's homework" Chase says.
"Leo we need your help to bring everyone back" Harper says "What I!? it's not better to wait for Douglas" Leo says.
"Leo, don't worry. As soon as I send the virus to all of our chips, I'll tell you exactly how to uninstall it" Chase says "Fine. But we only have thirty seconds left. Hurry!" Leo says.
Chase rushes over to console,Harper watch him "Okay, the virus is installed. Leo, all you have to do is.." Chase doesn't finish he falls to the ground.
Adam, Bree,and the rest of the students immediately collapse to the floor.
Harper and Leo look at each other.
"No. No. No! No. No. No" Leo says Douglas walks in with laptop.
"What did you do?!" Douglas ask "It wasn't me! It was Chase! I told him not to install the virus, but he did it anyway!" Leo says, he grabs Douglas.
"He is trouble, that one! Trouble!" Leo says "Calm down!" Harper says she rolls her eyes in the console.
"you're also a trouble it was your idea" Leo says "hey I just guided him, I didn't create the virus!" Harper says messing with the console.
Douglas runs over to console he pushes Harper away "Krane's Doomsday virus, deactivated. Now I'll just have to uninstall Chase's" Douglas says "already did that!" Harper says.
"Come on, come on..." Douglas says.
"Why isn't anyone waking up?" Leo ask "I don't know" Douglas says "What do you mean you don't know? They can't go much longer without oxygen!" Leo says.
"Oh genius!! hit the button enter!!" Harper says angrily "Oh. Well, I probably didn't hit it because I was busy doing.." Douglas says "Hit! It!" Harper and Leo shout out to Douglas.
He hits enter and they wait "Come on, come on!" Douglas says.
Adam, Bree, Chase, and the rest of the students wake up and inhale heavily, Harper runs up to Chase and hugs him.
"It worked!" Chase says "We're alive" S-1 says "And no one blew up" Bree says, loud pop is heard from training areas.
"The students in the training area!" Douglas says "No!" Everybody says, everyone rushes in to see Adam popping balloons.
"Adam, what are you doing?" Douglas ask "Trying to make you think students were popping. Well, don't just stand there. Help me pop!" Adam says.
"Eh, why not?" Bree says everyone starts to pop the balloons.
"Okay. All right, listen up! I know we're all having fun celebrating being alive and stuff....But your homework is due tomorrow" Chase says.
"Only you could make being brought back to life a buzz-kill" Bree says, Chase shrugs, and they all resume popping balloonsin the common area.
......................................................................
"I've got the tarp. I'm gonna go blow somethin' up" Douglas says he leaves
"Well, I'm happy to say we're all virus-free" Chase says, everyone starts cheering in the background.
"Speak for yourself. I caught something nasty. That is the last time I buy used balloons" Adam says he blows his nose "Yeah. No, it's not" Bree says.
"By the way Chase, about that thing you said about you loving me, and wanting me to take care of that virtual pet..." Harper says "what about it?" Chase says.
"I sort of....uninstalled it a couple months ago" Harper fearfully says closing her eyes.
"You What!!? You uninstalled little Jerry!!" Chase says in disbelief "well..i needed space on my phone and no one has taken care of him for weeks.." Harper says.
"You were supposed to take care of him when im not!" Chase says "it's just a little game Chase" Harper says.
Chase gasps and make a surprised face "you are bad bad mother!" Chase says and walks out "oh no.." Harper rolls her eyes.
"Chase get back here! we can make another one.." Harper says she frowns at what she said Adam and Bree frown and look at her with a confused face.
"yeah I get it that sounded weird" Harper says embarrassed and she leaves.
Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: Truyen247.Pro