eighteen.
Saturday, 26th September 2015
Almost three weeks later, the four youngest of the team entered the common area to find Bob wrapped, from neck to ankles, in tin foil.
What the hell? Maddie frowned.
- "Uh, Bob? Why are you wrapped in tin foil?" Bree asked.
- "It's not just tin foil. I'm also wearing three layers of pasta, tomato sauce, and cheese." The blonde boy replied.
- "I turned him into a human lasagna pan." Adam explained. "Forty-five minutes in the sun, and it's Bob appetit."
- "That's gross." Heather frowned, in disgust. "I can't believe he's my brother." She sighed.
Chase chuckled softly and patted her back.
- "You know, given what I've seen of Bob's training, this might be the most productive use of him yet." Leo said to the three youngest mentors.
The tall guy dipped his finger around Bob's neck.
- "Mm, don't move. You need more oregano." He ran off.
- "Mm, lasagna!" Perry exclaimed as she walked in. "Got any garlic bread?"
- "You betcha. They're strapped to my shins." The Krane boy smiled.
- "I'll be back. Save me the greasiest piece." Terry said.
- "I give up." The Krane girl threw her arms in the air and walked away.
- "Hey, where are you off to, and how long can you stay there?" The middle brother asked.
- "Your cheap father forgot to pay the trash bill. I am so sick of working for a guy who won't let me throw trash in the ocean." The head of security blew her nose on a napkin and tossed it on the floor, before leaving in the hydraloop.
The alien girl frowned and used her telekinetic powers to throw the used napkin in the trash.
- "The planet thanks you for your services." Leo mocked.
- "Guys, check it out." Douglas walked in with a device in his hand. "This is gonna change our bionic academy forever. I found a way to replicate Chase's bionic intelligence."
- "What?" The genius boy frowned.
- "Yeah. Remember how Giselle Vickers wanted to give your intelligence to all of her androids? Well, this intelligence duplicator will wirelessly add it to everyone's chip." The uncle explained.
- "Wait, so you're gonna make me like him?" The bionic girl asked.
The green hazel-eyed boy crossed his arms and grinned as he looked at the girl he loved.
The Matthews girl pressed her lips together as she tried to contain her smile. God, he's gorgeous. And cocky, but mostly, gorgeous.
- "Pass." The Davenport girl added.
- "Don't worry. The four of you won't be affected. Your chips are older models, and Leo doesn't have one." The Davenport man replied. "But if this works, all the students will be just as smart as you. I just have to find someone to test it on."
- "This is stupid." Maddie scoffed. "You're just gonna change someone's personality just like that because their intelligence is not enough for you?"
- "It's just for a test, Maddie." Douglas said.
- "That's even worse." The alien girl rolled her eyes.
- "And do you really think that someone's just gonna let you randomly experiment on them?" Chase added.
- "Sorry, Bob." The eldest teenager walked back in. "It's getting cloudy. I'm gonna have to cook you in here with my heat vision."
- "Will it hurt?" Bob asked.
- "Let's find out together." Adam smiled.
- "Okay." The blonde boy replied. The tall guy fired his heat vision at his student. "Ooh, something's cookin'!"
- "Bob it is." The uncle said.
The three youngest siblings nodded.
- "Don't come ask for my help when everything will go wrong." The Matthews girl raised her hands in the air.
- "When did anything I create went wrong?" The Davenport man smirked.
- "You really want me to answer that, Dougie?" Maddie raised her eyebrows. "I can start with your most disgusting one of the year: the spider."
- "I thought we were past that, Mads?" The genius boy asked.
- "We are. I don't want to strangle both of you, anymore. It's an improvement." The alien girl smiled.
The green hazel-eyed boy shook his head, amused.
- "Alright." Douglas gulped. "When everything will wrong, I will not expect your help. But nothing will go wrong, I got this."
- "Heard this too many times." The Matthews girl patted his shoulder. "I don't believe you." She walked away.
- "She is difficult to convince." The uncle said.
- "For good reasons." Bree replied. "When will you learn? She is always right. Men." She scoffed as she followed her best friend.
- "We heard that!" The middle brother complained.
- "I know!" The bionic girl yelled from afar.
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Later, Chase was with Douglas and Bob in front of the desk, in the mentors' living room.
- "All right, Bob." Adam walked in with five of his students. "Now, that we've made body lasagna, we should do something important. What do you think, CPR training, volunteer work? Ooh, got it. We should figure out how many students we can cram into the pool."
- "Easy. All you have to do is divide the average mass of the students by the pool's volumetric capacity." The blonde boy said.
- "Aah!" The tall guy screamed, in horror. "What'd you do to my Bob?!"
- "Thanks to my intelligence upgrade, Bob is now as brilliant as Chase." The uncle wrapped his arm around his youngest nephew's shoulders, who bit his lower lip as he smiled widely.
- "Yep, I'm finally the whole package." The younger Krane boy smiled.
- "Isn't it great?" The genius boy asked. "I have an intellectual peer." He wrapped his arm around the young student's shoulders. "We've been bonding for hours about the stock market, physics, and ancient philosophies."
- "Although we did have that tiff about Socrates." Bob replied. "Ah, good times."
The green hazel-eyed boy nodded.
- "Bob, you're scaring me. I demand you burp the entire alphabet right now." The tall guy ordered.
- "Can you believe it? Douglas' intelligence duplicator actually worked." Chase said.
- "Actually?" The Davenport man frowned, offended.
- "Mads is right: you don't have the best track record." The genius boy replied.
- "Do you have to agree with her on everything?" Douglas scoffed.
- "I agree with her when she is right. It's not my fault if she is always right." The green hazel-eyed boy defended.
- "Sure, alright. And I made you, didn't I?" The uncle smirked.
The eldest teenager picked off lasagna from Bob's neck.
- "Hey, look. Leftover lasagna." He ate it.
- "And you also made him." Chase pointed at his eldest brother.
The Davenport man nodded.
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In the meanwhile, in the common area, Perry set down a flag and yelled a fanfare.
- "Welcome to the United Republic of Perryland." She said.
- "I know I'm gonna regret this, but what's Perryland?" Leo asked.
- "And why does this flag have a cow on it?" Bree questioned.
- "It's an ox." Maddie corrected.
- "At least, one of you knows her meats." Terry replied. "When I went to pay the garbage bill, they told me you'd never registered the island as a country, so I seized the opportunity. As of today, you're all second-class citizens of Perryland. This is the official charter. Read it and weep." She handed to the trio the charter.
- "You expect us to believe that's real?" The Davenport boy frowned.
- "Oh, it's real. Just ask my muscle." The head of security blew in her whistle and a group of men in camo came marching in.
- "This is bad. This is very, very bad." Leo said.
- "I say we move to another planet. What do you say?" The alien girl murmured.
- "I'll follow you anywhere, as long as I don't stay with her." The Davenport boy whispered.
- "Can we come too?" Spin asked.
- "This is private conversation, ballerina." Leo replied.
- "I'm not talking to you." The youngest Krane scoffed, before turning to his mentor. "So?"
- "Sure." The Matthews girl ruffled his hair.
Spin chuckled and turned to his rival. He stuck out his tongue.
- "Who are they?" The Davenport girl asked.
- "They're on loan from a tyrant friend of mine. And speaking of tyrants, guess who the dictator of Perryland is?" Perry smiled widely.
Bree read the charter.
- "Your cat, Mr. Whiskers?" She scoffed.
- "Don't be ridiculous. He's vice-dictator, and he reports to me." Terry explained. "Now, join me in singing the Perryland national anthem." She cleared her throat and the soldiers saluted as one of them played a recording.
- "O Perryland." An operatic voice started. "You're all at my command. You'll do what I say. While I eat rack of lamb. Your sweat and tears will bring me cheers. Your robot hands will fan my face. From dawn to dusk, O Perryland. I stand on top of you. O Perryland. I stand on top of you!"
- "When did you have time to write that?" The Davenport boy asked.
- "Probably when she wasn't doing her job." Chloe retorted.
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Later, Chase and Bob were playing chess.
- "Ah, you're still hanging out with Chase?" Adam frowned as he walked in with Maddie. "No one should have to suffer that long." She smacked his chest. "What? Beside you, nobody can hang out with him that long."
- "Great game." The genius boy said as he shook the hand of the student. "Another draw. Wanna go triple check your homework?"
- "I already did, but one can never be too right." The blonde boy smiled.
The green hazel-eyed boy chuckled.
- "You know, if signs of affection didn't strike me as frivolous, I'd hug you right now." He said to the Krane boy.
He finds signs of affection 'frivolous'? The alien girl frowned. Why didn't he ever tell me? I would've stopped touching him before, if I knew. She lowered her head.
- "I have to go." She whispered to the tall guy, who frowned as she walked away.
- "Oh, what the heck!" Chase started to, aggressively, hug the student.
- "Whoa, whoa, Bob." The eldest pulled them apart. "Why waste your time doing stupid science stuff when we can do something useful. Let's go grab a couple of jellyfish and wear 'em as wigs."
The genius boy rolled his eyes. This is absurd.
- "I'm sorry, old friend, but I'm afraid we don't have much in common anymore." Bob walked away.
- "I can't believe it. You stole my best friend." Adam said, sadly.
- "I did not steal him. We just..." The green hazel-eyed boy started. "Yeah, you know what, you're right. I stole him." He chuckled, before shrugging.
- "You know what? Fine. I don't need you, guys." The tall guy replied. "I still got my bionic bros, right, guys?" The four student turned around, each holding a book. "Aw, quit reading. I told you it was bad for you." He slapped the book out of two of their hands. Douglas walked in. "Douglas, what is going on with them?"
- "Not a thing. My intelligence upgrade worked so well on Bob, I decided to give it to all the other students." The uncle explained.
- "What?! First, you steal my Bob, then, you take my... that guy, that guy, and him?" The eldest asked, in disbelief.
- "Who wants to discover a new element for the periodic table?" Chase asked.
- "Yeah!" All the students yelled and walked out of the room with the genius boy.
- "This is so much fun." Aaron chuckled.
The green hazel-eyed boy smiled, softly.
- "Don't worry, Adam. I'll be your friend." The Davenport man said.
Adam scoffed.
- "I'm not that hard up." He replied. "I'm gonna go find Maddie. I didn't like the look I saw before she left."
- "What happened?" Douglas asked.
- "I don't know, but she saw Chase and Bob talking, and she left sad." The tall guy shrugged.
- "Maybe, she's jealous." The uncle suggested.
- "No." The Davenport boy shook his head. "She doesn't do jealous. It's deeper than that. I'm gonna give her time, before asking." He walked away.
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Later, the trio walk in their living room to discover that Perry completely redecorated the room to fit her own tastes.
- "You've got to be fucking kidding me?!" Maddie frowned.
- "You cannot just come in here and take over our home." Bree said, angrily.
- "Of course I can. In Perryland, Perry does whatever Perry wants." Terry replied.
- "Okay, look, you may own the island, but we still need to sleep in our capsules." The bionic girl explained.
- "Fine. Because Dear Leader is a compassionate goddess, you may recharge your robot batteries right before bedtime." The head of security said. "And FYI, I changed the lock on that door, so you're gonna have to buy key cards from me. They're twenty bucks each."
- "What?" Leo frowned.
- "That's insane!" The Davenport girl exclaimed.
The alien girl sighed loudly.
- "Fine. They're forty bucks." Perry replied. "Now get out of here. I have work to do." She clapped her hands and soldiers with wheelbarrows of sand walked in.
- "What is that?" The Davenport boy asked.
- "Sand to fill the pool with. Vice-dictator Mr. Whiskers is helicoptering in tomorrow, and he demanded a much bigger litter box." Terry explained.
- "Ew." Leo frowned, in disgust.
- "That's disgusting." Bree added.
- "Don't worry, you can still swim in it." The head of security laughed with two of her soldiers. "It's not that funny. Get back to work!"
- "I'm gonna bury you in that litter." Maddie smiled deviously.
- "No." The siblings dragged her out.
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Later, Adam was listening to the new genius students in the common area.
- "I can't even fathom what we were like before the intelligence upgrade." Bob said to his siblings. "I mean, how obtuse was I? I was so beyond obtuse."
- "You were Bob-tuse." Jason replied.
All the Kranes laughed as Douglas walked in.
- "I cannot live in a world with this many Chases." The tall guy grabbed his arm.
- "I have bigger problems." The uncle replied. "I just found out that Perry now owns the island, and has installed herself as dictator."
- "Oh, that explains why her face is on all of the toilet seats." The Davenport boy said.
- "The first law that 'Dear Leader' Perry passed says that I must serve as her personal servant and massage therapist." The Davenport man complained.
- "It's about time somebody put you to work. What do you do here again?" Adam asked.
- "I have to go fix this." Douglas entered the hydraloop.
- "Okay, but Douglas, before you go, can you please just maybe..." The tall guy started as his uncle left via the hydraloop.
- "If you had expressed yourself quicker, he could have listened to your request." Chloe explained.
- "Oh, the frivolities of your consistent blunders." The blonde boy smiled at his mentor as his siblings laughed.
- "That's it, Bob, Chloe. If Douglas won't fix you, I will. You are freaking me out." The eldest picked up the intelligence duplicator and scanned all the students. "All right, that should do it. Let's see if it worked. Quick, Bob, spell your name backwards." Bob bleated like a sheep. "Uh-oh." Chase walked in. "Guys, Chloe, what's wrong with Bob?" He asked, in panic, and all the students bleated in response.
The genius boy frowned.
- "Adam. What's going on?" He questioned.
- "I was trying to dial everyone's intelligence level back to normal and... Oh, what do you want from me? I'm obtuse." Adam frowned.
- "You must've dialed it back too far. You downgraded their intelligence to the level of a farm animal." The green hazel-eyed boy explained.
- "Yeah, well, for Bob, that's still an upgrade." The tall guy replied. "But Chloe is being nice and calm, it's weird. And since she is like Maddie, when they are calm, it's never a good sign."
- "You don't get it. Bob and all the students are brainless zombies." Chase said.
- "Okay, then we'll dial it back." The eldest answered.
- "Where's the intelligence duplicator?" The genius boy asked. The two brothers heard a loud chewing. They turned to see Bob eating the intelligence duplicator. The green hazel-eyed boy ran up to him. "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no!" He ripped it out of his hands.
- "Hey, in my defense, normal Bob probably would've done that, too." Adam defended.
The Davenport brothers started pushing the students out of the way.
- "Now, that Bob destroyed the intelligence duplicator, there's no way to turn them back to normal." Chase said.
- "No problem. We'll just get rid of these students, and have Douglas whip us up a new batch." The tall guy replied.
- "Adam!" The genius boy yelled.
- "Calm down. I will never do that. Maddie would kill me for good if I touched her babies, and I don't wanna die." The eldest explained. "It's not like they're a danger to anyone."
- "Yes, she will and they are. They're a danger to themselves." The green hazel-eyed boy answered as Kate flopped over a chair. "What are we gonna do? If we can't find a way to bring them back, every one of our students will be completely useless."
The blonde boy started chewing on a console.
- "Ugh. Worse than that, I think you and I are gonna be on the hook for some very expensive dental work." Adam pointed at his student.
Chase shook his head, in despair.
- "Mads is going to love to rub this in our faces." He sighed.
- "She was right. And we were wrong, like always." The tall guy shrugged. "It's part of our routine." He chuckled.
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In the meanwhile, a soldier was painting a portrait of Perry.
- "Make every mole count." She said, making the man frowned, in disgust. The trio walked in. "Hey, Perryland peasants. Check out this thing I found in the weapons room." She lifted her sleeve to show a laser fist. "It shoots lasers."
- "What were you doing in our weapons room?" Bree asked.
- "Leveling the playing field. You never know when you machine people are gonna turn on us fleshies." Terry replied. Several students walked into the Mentors' Quarters, bleating. "What's going on?"
- "What the hell?" Maddie frowned and walked towards the twins. "Emily? Alison?" They both bleated. "Oooookay."
- "I don't know." Leo frowned.
- "It's a rebellion. They're trying to take me out so that they can rule Perryland. Well, the only way that's gonna happen is over Dear Leader's dead body." The head of security explained.
- "Well, you had a good run." The Davenport boy nodded.
- "Back off. I've got a battle to fight." Perry started to activate her laser fist.
- "No, no, no, you cannot attack them. They're innocent." The bionic girl stopped her.
- "I'm not gonna attack them. I'm just gonna give them a gentle warning. A gentle 15,000-volt warning." Terry replied.
The alien girl opened a large shield, protecting every student and her best friends.
- "Stop protecting them!" The head of security yelled.
- "Stop being a bitch!" The Matthews girl shouted.
Perry frowned and shot at the shield, sending her flying across the room.
- "Ooooh." The Davenport siblings frowned.
- "Karma." Maddie laughed.
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Later, the Davenport brothers were trying to fix the intelligence duplicator.
- "Ah, come on." Adam complained and started to bang two parts of the device together. "Get back together!"
- "Wow, I can't believe that didn't work." Chase sassed.
- "Well, I don't see you doing anything." The tall guy said.
- "This is all your fault. We wouldn't even be in this mess if you hadn't touched the device in the first place." The genius boy replied, irritated.
- "You don't have any proof of that. The only person who knows whether I did it or not is me, because I was the one who did it." The eldest explained.
The green hazel-eyed boy frowned. Seriously? Do you hear yourself?
Adam frowned at himself.
- "And I wouldn't have touched the device if you hadn't stolen my best friend." He defended.
- "Oh, well, excuse me for finally having a person around here I can relate to." Chase, sarcastically, said.
- "What about Maddie?" The tall guy asked.
- "She doesn't like science that much. She's great at it, but if you ask to do something in science or literature, she will choose literature any day. I just wanted someone to talk to about science." The genius boy sighed.
The eldest sighed as well.
- "You should talk to her, maybe she would agree to speak about science with you." He said. "She would do anything for you." He continued, making his younger brother blush. "Even spend two hours listening to an orchestra, every year."
- "Every year?" The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.
- "Yeah, she already planned to take you to see an orchestra at least once a year, even if she is bored by it." Adam said. "That's how much YOUR best friend loves you."
Maybe he's right. Chase thought. I don't need another intellectual peer. I already have Mads.
Douglas walked out of the hydraloop.
- "Chase, why does it sound like a bionic barnyard in here?" He asked.
- "Adam used your intelligence duplicator and turned all of our students into mindless zombies." The genius boy explained.
- "Heh. Kind of funny, right?" The tall guy, awkwardly, laughed.
- "Then, Bob ate the device, so we have no way of turning them back to normal." The green hazel-eyed boy said.
- "See? This is why I always have to make two of everything around here." The uncle took out a second intelligence duplicator out of his bag.
- "Yes!" Chase exclaimed. "Problem solved."
Leo ran in, screaming.
- "Sound the alarm. Perry's on a rampage." He said.
The girls and Perry walked in.
- "I don't wanna hurt you. I just wanna shoot you with a laser." She fired her laser fist at the middle brother but missed and destroyed the second intelligence duplicator instead.
You've got to be kidding me?! The genius boy frowned.
- "Come on!" The Davenport man complained.
- "Any chance you make three of everything?" The eldest teenager asked.
- "What is going on? Why are you shooting at them?" Douglas questioned.
- "These students are trying to oust me from power!" Terry shouted.
- "No, they're not." The uncle frowned.
- "They're not?" The head of security asked.
- "No." The Davenport man replied.
- "Oh, okay." Perry nodded.
- "I have been telling you that for an hour. Why do you stop when he tells you?" Bree questioned.
- "Because he's the future king." Terry chuckled. "And because of Matthews, I can't really hear everything!" She frowned, before walking away.
- "What did you do?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked the girl he loved.
- "Nothing, you wanna know." Maddie smiled.
Chase snickered.
- "So much for an easy fix. Now I have to build a new duplicator from scratch." Douglas walked out.
- "What happened to them?" The alien girl gestured to the bleating students.
- "I happened." Adam said, awkwardly. "I was trying to bring the students back to normal, and I went too far."
- "I told you it would go wrong." The Matthews girl smirked.
- "See! Every time." The genius boy turned to his eldest brother as he gestured to their best friend.
- "So, what do we do?" The middle brother asked.
- "Well, as long as they don't tap into their bionics, there's only so much damage they can do." The green hazel-eyed boy said.
Jason used his super strength on a console which made all the doors of the room and the hydraloop, repeatedly, open and close and the lights flicker.
- "You were saying." The Davenport girl glared at her youngest brother.
- "You, guys, always have to jinx us." Maddie said, before walking to her student. "Hey, Jay. Let's not." She, gently, pushed him away from the console.
- "They're gonna destroy everything." Bree replied.
- "So, what do we do with 'em?" Leo asked.
- "We need to block them somewhere." The alien girl added. "And to be clear, I am not helping YOU fix YOUR mess, I'm only helping the students."
- "We know." Chase nodded.
- "I have an idea." The tall guy smiled.
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A couple of minutes later, Adam was smiling while every single student was contained in the drained pool in the Mentors' Quarters.
- "Good idea, Adam. I can't believe they're not smart enough to find their way out of the pool." Chase smiled and wrapped his arm around the shoulders of the girl he loved.
Maddie, normally, would have put her hand on his back, but today, she did not move.
- "Ooh, we can finally figure out how many people we can cram in there. Everybody count off." The tall guy said. The students continued to bleat. "Ah, hold on. Somebody said five twice."
- "They are ninety-nine." The alien girl replied.
- "How do you know?" The eldest frowned.
- "Because all the students are here and that's how many they are." The Matthews girl said. "And I counted." She murmured.
The genius boy smiled, proudly. Of course, she can count that fast.
- "Hey, whatever happened to your military goon squad?" Leo asked Perry.
- "When they found out they weren't getting paid, they threatened to quit, so I had to fire on them." She explained.
- "You mean fire them." Bree corrected.
- "Nope." Terry shook her head.
- "And we just became her accomplices." Maddie sighed. "Again."
- "Okay." Douglas walked in. "This better work. Otherwise, I'll have to get rid of these kids and whip up a whole new batch."
- "That's what I said!" The eldest teenager exclaimed.
- "We are not doing that." The alien girl, menacingly, frowned. "We took them in to help them and to save them. But you are NOT creating more bionic kids to give them a life where they will have to fight forever. It's already bad enough with the Kranes. They are people, not robots you can replace when you see fit."
- "She's right." The green hazel-eyed boy replied.
- "Yep." The middle brother nodded.
- "Like always." The Davenport girl added.
- "Fine." The uncle scanned all the students in the pool with the new intelligence duplicator.
Chase moved away from his best friend and leaned down to Bob.
- "Bob, name an element in the periodic table." He said.
- "Uh, lasagna." The blonde boy replied.
- "That's my Bob. Welcome back, buddy." Adam smiled and hugged his best friend.
- "Everyone out." The Matthews girl said as she extended her hands to help them out.
The students walked out.
- "I'll be inside preparing for the royal bathing. Good news." The head of security turned to the middle siblings. "You two get to scrape my heels." She turned to Maddie. "And you get to cut my toenails." She cackled as she walked away.
- "So, what do we do?" Bree asked.
- "Same thing I did in high school detention. Grab a bucket and a cheese grater, and let your mind drift somewhere else." Leo replied.
- "I could burn her to dust." The alien girl suggested.
- "Mads." The genius boy warned.
- "But I won't." The Matthews girl smiled.
The green hazel-eyed boy snickered.
- "I went through all the paperwork, and I can't find a legal fix that will remove her from power." The Davenport man explained.
- "Well, then I'm afraid we have no choice. We have to relocate the academy." Chase said.
- "Great, another moving." Maddie, sarcastically, smiled.
- "Well, there is one possible legal solution. If Perry were married, her spouse would own half the island, too." The middle brother replied.
- "Yeah, but... We all know there's no person in their right mind who's gonna marry her." Douglas laughed, until he noticed the entire team smiling at him. "No. Please, do not make me."
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Later, Douglas and Leo were dressed up in the training area, redecorated for a wedding reception.
- "I can't believe this is happening." The uncle said.
- "I can't believe Perry only has one guest." The nephew replied.
All the students were sitting on the groom side of the aisle, and a training dummy was on the bride side. Adam walked in wearing a black robe.
- "All right. I signed up online. I'm officially allowed to marry you and Perry." He explained. "And Zack says: 'congrats'." He patted the older man's back.
- "You almost look official. Nice touch with the robe." The younger brother said.
- "Oh, no, this was just 'cause I was chilly." The tall guy took off the robe to reveal a tank top and swim shorts. "All right, let's do this. Hit it, Bob."
Bob pressed the keyboard, and it started playing a synthesized polka music, before realizing his mistake and switching it to a processional music.
Chase, reluctantly, walked down the aisle, throwing flowers, and grimacing every step. I hate my life. He, finally, reached to the front and drop the basket to the ground.
- "You are a lovely flower boy." Alison mocked from behind him.
- "Shut it." The genius boy glared at her.
Emily chuckled as she turned off her phone, after sending the video of the youngest Davenport being a flower boy to her mentor.
Perry walked down the aisle with a bouquet, Bree and Maddie were holding her white dress from behind. They were both wearing white knee-length dresses.
Wow. The green hazel-eyed boy smiled. I hope to see her in a long white dress one day. Maybe, walking towards me.
- "Thank you for coming." Terry told the dummy. "Aren't you going to lift my veil?" She asked her fiancé.
- "Actually, I was hoping there was a second one that I could cover it with." The Davenport man replied, before, reluctantly, lifting her veil.
- "I've been dreaming of this since I was a little girl. This is exactly how I pictured it." The head of security smiled.
- "On an island filled with bionic superhumans and an alien from another universe?" The Davenport girl asked.
- "You don't know what I dreamed. You weren't there." Perry replied and walked away, making the girls follow her, before dropping the back of her dress to the floor.
- "I can confirm, she actually dreamed about that." The Matthews girl frowned.
- "Hear ye, hear ye." The eldest teenager started. "We are gathered here to join Theresa Cherry Perry and Douglas Orville Davenport in marriage."
- "Orville?" Leo mocked.
- "Given everything that's happening right now, do you really think that that is gonna embarrass me?" Douglas asked.
- "If anyone here sees a reason why these two should not be married, please raise your hand." Adam continued. Everybody but him and Perry raised their hands. "Nothin'? Nobody? No one here objects? Not a soul? Good. By the power vested in me by some random site on the internet, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the..."
- "Cue the music!" The uncle cut him off.
The blonde boy pushed a button and a processional started to play again and everybody, weakly, clapped.
- "Hold on." The middle brother stopped the couple as they started to walked down the aisle. "There's still one minor formality to make this... Beautiful arrangement official. You have to sign a marriage license."
- "Of course." Terry signed the paper. "Congratulations. You're now Douglas Orville Perry."
- "We did it!" Leo yelled.
- "Ha! As your husband, I now own half the island." The Davenport man replied.
- "You may think you own half of what's mine, but in Perryland, the lady takes it all. Read the charter." The head of security said. "Come on, Dougie-poo. It's honeymoon time." She took his arm and started to walk away with him.
- "Oh, my evil past has finally caught up to me." Douglas frowned, sadly.
- "Not yet, Dougie." Maddie smirked.
- "Hold on there, bridezilla." Bree added. "Joke's on you. Maddie had an idea, and I switched documents." She smiled.
- "What are you talking about?" Perry asked.
- "Oh, this isn't a marriage license. You just signed a contract that gives total ownership of the island back to us." The Davenport girl explained.
Chase chuckled. Of course, Mads had this idea.
Everyone, silently, cheered as the girls high-fived.
- "Women are smarter." The Matthews girl shrugged, proudly.
You are. The genius boy smiled.
- "Yes, we are." Bree smirked.
- "What? Give me that!" Terry tried to take the paper but the Davenport girl super speeded out of the room.
- "Wait, so they're not actually married?" Bob asked. "Well, if those two can't make it, what chance do any of us have?!" He ran out.
- "I got him." Heather sighed and ran after him.
- "You may have taken my island and my man, but you will never take my laser fist!" The head of security lifted her sleeve, but nothing was under. "Wait, what?"
- "Are you looking for this?" Maddie showed the laser fist.
Everyone chuckled.
- "How did you do that?!" Perry yelled.
- "It's called super speed." The alien girl smirked.
- "Give me that!" Terry shouted.
The Matthews girl used her telekinetic powers to make the laser fist fly high above them.
The head of security jumped as she tried to catch it. She groaned, angrily and stormed out.
- "Thanks for nothing!" She yelled at the dummy.
The uncle ran towards Maddie and hugged her.
- "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" He repeated.
- "You're welcome, Dougie." The alien girl chuckled.
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Later, the three geniuses and the dumb ones were in the common area.
- "Well, now that zombie-pocalypse is over, I can finally use the intelligence duplicator to make all the students smart again." Douglas said.
- "It's about time." Chase smiled.
Maddie slapped both of them upside the head.
- "Don't you, boys, ever learn?" She asked.
- "We are not 'boys'. We are men." The genius boy frowned.
- "I'll call you, two, 'men' when you stop creating irresponsible devices." The alien girl turned to the uncle. "And you stop helping him." She turned to the youngest nephew.
- "Did you ever think maybe Bob doesn't wanna be super intelligent?" Adam asked.
- "Oh, I don't mi..." Bob started.
- "Nobody cares, Bob." The tall guy stopped him. "Look, just because you can change someone doesn't mean you should. I mean, Bob might not be as smart as everyone, but he's Bob. That's why I love him." He smiled. "And Chase..." He walked up to his brother. "You're Chase. And that's why..." He put his hand on his brother's shoulder. "Well, I'll stop there." The Matthews girl grabbed his ear and started to pull it. "Okay! Okay! Sorry! I love you, Chase, and I'm sorry for not saying it more or admitting that I do."
Maddie let go of his ear.
- "See, it wasn't so hard." She smiled at him.
The eldest teenager glared at her, before smiling.
- "Well, thank you." The green hazel-eyed boy said. "And I love you, too, Adam."
Adam side-hugged his brother.
- "That might be the smartest thing he's ever said. Did you hit him with the intelligence duplicator?" The uncle whispered to his youngest nephew.
- "You know, Adam's right." Chase said. "We should destroy it."
- "Finally." The alien girl sighed.
The genius boy chuckled, before looking at the console.
- "Where'd it go?" He frowned.
A loud chewing was heard, and the four turned to see Bob chewing the intelligence duplicator.
- "Ah, told you normal Bob would do that, too." The tall guy smiled.
The Matthews girl slapped her forehead.
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