Universe 38

Tuesday, 31st October 2017

A couple of minutes earlier, The Captain and the General approached the Davenport Tower and looked towards the top.

- "Yeah, it's exactly the same, right?" Harper said.

- "Not the surroundings; this isn't Centium City." Chase looked around.

- "I got that." The General glanced at her fiancé. "I'm happy to be in this universe again, and you?" She smirked.

- "Eh." The Captain shrugged.

- "Ahg! What a shitty response for someone who had a silly smile when opened that portal." Harper scoffed.

- "Excuse me?" Chase frowned.

- "You heard me!" The General replied.

- "Fine, do you want me to confess?" The Captain said, raising his eyebrow.

- "Yeah, about that, I think we have to be 100% honest with each other all the time... not that I don't know everything you think because you're very transparent to me, but it's good that you open up more even with me, Chay." The General said.

- "You don't know everything I think." The Captain shook his head.

- "I know you're purposely changing the subject." Harper replied. "Cuz are you afraid to seem vulnerable when we are on a mission with people who you are afraid to get deeply involved with, because it pokes an open wound of yours."

The Captain widened his eyes and blushed.

- "And me reading your psychology without you saying anything turns you on a little bit because it means I really know and care about you deeply." The General smirked.

- "Okay! Got you point." Chase said. "You don't have to psychologically undress me for that." He mocked.

- "It's just funny; your face is priceless." Harper laughed softly.

- "Okay. And as for the security of the building, I don't think it's worth going through all this since we're going to be faced with the door in the end." The Captain said.

- "I agree, we can take the faster route." Harper smiled smugly at him.

- "You Geo-leap us up there?" Chase frowned. "Isn't that kind of trespassing?"

- "And since when do you care about that?" The General asked with a shrug, and the Captain pressed his lips together.

- "You're right, I don't care." Chase chuckled. "But your face was priceless." He smirked.

- "You Silly." Harper chuckled lightly and held out her hand to him. "Let's Go?"

Chase sighed and held her hand.

- "Let's Go." Captain nodded and Harper both geo-leaped to the Penthouse.

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After the older geniuses geo-leaped and arrived in the living room, seeing Maddie on top of her Chase, her face contorted in pleasure as his face was buried in her neck, both wearing their Halloween costumes.

The young geniuses turned their heads towards them, startled.

- "What the fuck are you doing here?!" The Matthews girl yelled.

This can't be happening. The genius boy blushed brightly as his cock, immediately, started to soften inside her.

- "Ruining our lives, I presume." The Captain replied, squeezing his eyes shut, and his fiancée, with her eyes still being covered by him, nodded in agreement.

- "Oh my god." The green hazel-eyed boy mumbled.

- "Get out of the shield!" The quadbrid shouted.

- "What shield?" Harper asked.

- "The illusion shield I put around us so that if anybody came home would see that!" Maddie replied. "OUT now!"

Kill me now. Chase 2 closed his eyes, embarrassed.

- "Oh, you need to update this shield, Darling." Chase mocked, the General snorted.

- "Get out!" The Matthews girl shouted, irritated, as she used her super breath to blow them out of the shield.

The two were pushed and tripped over the TV stand, falling to the floor.

- "Ow!" Harper groaned as Chase fell on top of her on the floor.

- "Sorry." The Captain said.

- "It's okay; nothing will shake me anymore." The General said as her fiancé stood up.

- "You said that before, and it was a lie." Chase held out his hand to help her up.

- "Life is not kind to me." Harper stood up. "But what doesn't kill us makes us stronger." She winked.

Inside the soundproof shield, the quadbrid got off her boyfriend's cock.

- "I'm gonna go bury myself." The genius boy said.

Maddie super speeded upstairs, taking wipes to clean both of them, before super speeding upstairs to throw them away.

- "Thanks." The green hazel-eyed boy put his cock back in his underwear and put back his pants.

He got up and put his belt back on as his girlfriend adjusted her dress.

- "And now, we have to face them." The Matthews girl sighed.

- "Yeah." Chase 2 blushed brightly. "Definitely not how I thought we would meet."

- "Yeah." The quadbrid nodded. "Chase is gonna give us shit."

- "Language." The genius boy sighed.

Maddie smiled softly and kissed his cheek.

- "Ready?" She asked.

- "I guess." The green hazel-eyed boy sighed.

The Matthews girl took off the shield.

- "You can't geo-leap in people's homes." She frowned.

- "I think I just proved to you that I can." Harper smirked and crossed her arms, while Chase stared at the floor with a slight blush on his face.

Ignore the awkward situation and focus on what you really saw.... you were RIGHT!! He thought and smiled to himself.

- "Okay, good to know that I can teleport into your home whenever I want without warning." The quadbrid, sarcastically, smiled.

Chase 2 looked at his hands, his cheeks burning red.

- "I think you owed me that one." The General shrugged. "And by the way." She pointed. "Chase?!" She smiled.

- "Ha!!" The Captain smiled and pointed excitedly. "Also Ew!" He frowned. "But HA!!" He exclaimed. "I knew it!! I knew it! I knew it!" He said excitedly, and Harper frowned. "I was RIGHT!!"

Maddie snorted.

- "Yeah, yeah, you were right since day one." She said. "We talked after your dream, and we were going to tell you after Halloween but like you kinda ruined that."

The genius boy blushed brighter.

Chase walked closer to her and turned his ear towards her.

- "Was what? Speak more slowly so I can hear you clearly." He grinned.

- "You were right." The Mathew girl rolled her eyes, amused. "We've been together since we found each other again, like you guessed that day."

- "First thing, she told me when she left to tell you all that were back in the same universe, it's 'Chase will know'." The green hazel-eyed boy added without looking up.

The Captain chuckled and turned to Harper.

- "Did you hear that?" He asked.

- "I did." The General nodded.

- "You recorded that." Chase pointed to his head.

- "I did more than I wanted to, Babe." The General widened her eyes.

- "Pff." The Captain shook his head and looked at Maddie. "Did you really think you could fool me? It's cute that you tried." He scoffed.

- "I know I couldn't." The quadbrid chuckled. "But we said that we weren't going to tell people so we wouldn't have anybody annoying us, so I wasn't going to tell you."

- "I'm glad you were aware that I'm not a fool." The Captain said, and Harper cleared her throat. He widened his eyes and turned to her. "I didn't mean it like that."

- "That's what it looked like." The General crossed her arms.

- "I know if you had paid attention, you would have noticed like I did." Chase replied.

- "Are you saying I don't pay attention to things?" The General frowned.

- "No! No! You are distorting what I said." The Captain said worriedly. "It's just that you didn't bother to investigate further."

The General shook her head.

Maddie reached out to her side and took her boyfriend's hand, gently stroking his skin with her thumb. Relax, babe.

I can't. This is so embarrassing. Chase 2 looked at her.

Babe, my dress covered us, they didn't see anything. The Matthews girl smiled softly.

I really hope so, but it doesn't make it less embarrassing. The genius boy sent in her mind.

- "Oh, deep down you knew it too." The Captain said.

- "I did." Harper nodded.

- "See? That's the point you're not a fool." Chase said.

- "Okay, Chay, I got it." The General chuckled and walked over to him.

- "Could you guys not tell anyone, though?" The green hazel-eyed boy looked up without looking at their faces. "We want to tell people ourselves."

- "We get It. We dated in secret, too." The General said.

- "And we did other things in secret for a long time too." Chase pressed his lips together, trying not to laugh.

- "Here we go again." The quadbrid rolled her eyes.

- "Chay, take it easy." Harper nudged him as she nodded towards the younger Chase with her head.

He didn't take It easy, though. The Captain thought.

- "Sorry, Happy Halloween!" He smirked.

My Halloween is definitely ruined. Chase 2 thought, looking down at his feet again.

- "Yeah, like he knows how to take it easy." Maddie scoffed as she crossed her arms.

- "I do." Chase nodded.

- "Yeah, right." Harper shook her head.

- "Because you took it easy the last time you stood in this exact same room?" The Matthews girl raised her eyebrows.

- "I had a point, didn't I?" The Captain smirked.

- "Still, you didn't take it easy." The quadbrid replied.

- "Well, you can't say anything more about me traumatizing you ever again!" The Captain raised an eyebrow.

- "You didn't see anything." Maddie scoffed.

- "It doesn't matter." Chase frowned.

- "It does matter." The Matthews girl said. "You didn't see anything and I saw EVERYTHING."

- "Oh, grow up and overcome." The Captain said, annoyed.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes.

- "Okay, can we Just... Start over?" Harper suggested.

- "How?" The genius boy frowned.

- "Let's go back and knock on the door like normal people." The General took the Captain's hand, who frowned, and they walked towards the door.

- "Do you think play pretend will help?" Chase asked.

- "If you cooperate." The General said, annoyed.

- "I won't open the door if you go out." Maddie smirked.

- "I Geo-leap." Harper replied, pulling Chase with her to the door.

- "Come on, Harper, this is ridiculous." The Matthews girl frowned.

The green hazel-eyed boy frowned, looking at them walking away.

- "Yes, you're right." Harper sighed, letting go of her fiancé's hand.

- "It's okay, Babe, at least this time no one is hard." Chase said, frustrated.

Maddie took care of It. He snorted.

The quadbrid snorted, before covering her mouth to stop her laughter.

Chase 2 frowned at her. What the heck are they referring to?

- "At least this time the thing was done." The General snorted.

- "Yeah, right." Chase laughed.

- "What are you guys talking about?" The genius boy asked.

- "Oh..." Harper pressed her lips together. "He doesn't know?" She asked Maddie.

- "He shouldn't." The Captain shook his head.

- "You caught them?!" The green hazel-eyed boy exclaimed to his girlfriend.

- "No, he didn't. But thanks to you now he does." Maddie replied.

- "Fine, we're going to be adults, right?" Chase nodded.

- "Go ahead." Harper said.

- "There was this day that Maddie opened a portal in the lab when Harper and I were about to have sex." Chase shrugged, blushing intensely.

I have never felt so frustrated and embarrassed in my life, just like he is right now. He thought.

- "Long story short, they weren't wearing pants or underwear. That's why he's doing that tomato face." The Matthews girl continued.

- "Oh." Chase 2 said, slightly blushing. "Thank you for not showing me that."

- "You're welcome." The quadbrid snorted.

Chase pressed his lips together, blushing deeper at the memory.

- "Yeah, that can't have been a pleasant scene." Harper said. "But look, we still..." She looked at Chase, looking at the floor, frustrated and lifted his face. "Still, can we look each other in the eyes." She grinned, The Captain faked a smile.

- "Yeah, even though, it took a while for someone to stand up again." Maddie teased.

The genius boy snorted.

- "Yes, yes, laugh at the sexually frustrated guy; it's hilarious." Chase rolled his eyes, blushing more.

- "Yeah." The General snorted and he looked at her. "A little bit."

- "It really is." The Matthews girl nodded with a smile.

- "Plus, remember what he said after that?" Harper smirked. "About never doing It again?"

The Captain frowned.

- "Yep, I remember that he lost the bet." The quadbrid said.

- "What bet?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked.

- "He said that he was so traumatized that he wouldn't have sex for two weeks, and I said that he wouldn't last. We bet, and he lost." Maddie explained.

- "Ah." Chase 2 smiled, amused.

- "I won, he only lasted three days." Harper smiled.

- "It's not fair, you play dirty." The Captain crossed his arms. "VERY dirty." He said blushing.

The General laughed.

- "Thank you again for texting me that he lost." The Matthews girl smirked.

- "You're welcome." Harper grinned.

- "Remember when I said they were impossible?" The Captain asked his younger self.

- "Yeah, I see that." The genius boy nodded.

- "Anyway, he was soooo frustrated, and it was hilarious." The quadbrid chuckled.

- "I made it up to him later." Harper shrugged.

Chase widened his eyes in surprise at the comment.

- "I have no doubt." Maddie snickered.

- "F-fine Harp, they got it." The Captain cleared his throat.

- "Yeah, we did." The Mathew girl smirked.

- "Yep." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded. "I kinda feel better knowing that you've been walked on too. I feel less lonely." He sighed as he looked at his older self.

- "Yeah, except that we got to come, and they didn't." The quadbrid replied.

- "I still haven't forgiven you for that." Harper pointed at Maddie, annoyed.

- "That's why I told you." Chase smirked at his younger self.

- "Thanks." Chase 2 chuckled softly.

- "Hey, I was supposed to come." Maddie defended. "It's your fiancé who wasn't supposed to there. Like you two weren't supposed to be here either."

- "See? It happens." The Captain said, shrugging.

- "Yeah, and the scene we just saw proves that there's no way to resist when it happens." The General said.

- "Again. You weren't supposed to come here." The Matthews girl frowned.

- "I couldn't resist. She's the one who flirted with me all night." The genius boy said.

- "Don't pretend like you don't love it, babe." The quadbrid smirked.

The green hazel-eyed boy blushed brightly as he smiled. I love it a little too much.

- "I got you, Buddy." Chase nodded.

- "I didn't flirt with you that day." Harper frowned.

- "You don't have to." The Captain smirked at her blushing.

Harper bit her lip to contain the smile and blush on her face.

- "Tomatoes." Maddie gestured to the three eldest.

Chase 2 rolled his eyes.

The Captain and the General looked away from each other, shyly.

- "Anyway..." Harper said. "It's nice to finally meet you, Chase." She said.

- "Yes, now in person." Chase smirked.

- "It's nice to meet you, too, guys." The genius boy smiled softly.

This is so weird. The Matthews girl looked at the two Chases, across from each other.

This is so crazy. Harper thought as she looked at them.

- "Yeah, it wasn't that long ago that we had that dream." The Captain said.

- "Two days." The green hazel-eyed boy replied.

The quadbrid looked at her alter ego.

- "This is insane." She mouthed.

- "This is insanely amazing." The General mouthed back.

- "Wow, for me, it's been almost two weeks." Chase said.

- "Wow, really?" Chase 2 frowned.

Maddie walked closer to her.

- "It is, but like two of them in the same room." She smiled as she whispered.

- "Yeah, isn't it cool?" Harper whispered again.

- "Yeah, like you know, there's a big-time gap in our universes." Chase nodded at his younger self.

- "I know, but this is impressive." The genius boy replied. "If the time passes that fast in your universe, it explains why you are in 2020, but we're still in 2017."

- "Totally cool." The Matthews girl nodded. "Sorry for not telling you earlier for Chase, though."

- "It's not fast for us; our perspective of time is kind of different. I've been coming up with theories about it, and I have it all written down." The Captain said.

- "It's okay, I don't judge because I would do the same." The General said to her Alter Ego.

- "Me too." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded.

- "I know." The quadbrid smiled softly. "Um, guys, one question, though."

- "Oh, of course you do." The Captain said in amusement at his younger self.

- "What?" Harper asked.

- "What are you guys doing here in your mission suits?" Maddie asked. "Very cool, by the way."

- "Oh, Thanks; we designed it. Wait until you see the others." Harper adjusted the jacket of her Mission suit proudly.

- "You're welcome." The Matthews girl smiled. "So, why are you here? Because you didn't come because Chase missed me too much." She said loudly.

- "Seriously? This again?" The Captain frowned.

- "You came twice in less than a month." The quadbrid smirked. "You must have really missed me."

- "No, because there are specific reasons why I come here. Not everything revolves around you." Chase replied.

Maddie raised her eyebrows.

- "It's insane how you seem to always have an excuse." She said. "When you come, text or call."

- "It's not an excuse; it's a real reason every time." The Captain said.

- "If you say so, Captain Davenport." The Matthews girl mocked.

Chase 2 smiled at their interaction.

The Captain rolled his eyes and rested one of his hands on his thigh holster.

- "To answer your question. We are here on a mission. Mighty Force headquarters has been attacked, and the suspect has stolen one of our interdimentional extrapolators, and we assume she came here. We are with the Mighty Force team looking for her." He explained.

- "What!?" The young geniuses exclaimed.

- "How the hell did she got it?" The quadbrid asked.

- "So, your team is wandering in a universe they don't know and have no idea how it works?" The genius boy frowned. "And also, they have my team's face. Sending alter egos through the public who has no idea other universes exist, smart." He, sarcastically, nodded.

- "Relax, my team is trained to get through places without being noticed, Bree disguises herself in front of the eyes of others with precision. We've been doing missions like this for years." The Captain stated.

- "And how she got there is a complicated story." Harper replied to her alter ego.

- "No, he's right." Maddie frowned. "You didn't let me wander in your universe, so it's the same for you. Besides, there are too many telepaths in this universe, for your team to walk around with that many secrets and the knowledge of several universes existing. Look at what happened with T'him last year. If another bad guy discovers about your universe and decides to go there."

- "Exactly." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded. "Besides, they all know Mads's secret identity, this is a huge problem if a telepath reads their mind."

- "I hadn't thought of that." The Matthews girl looked at him with wide eyes.

- "Fine, you got a point. But I'm sure they didn't go far." Chase said, putting his hand on his temple and seeing the team's location, they were not far.

- "And thinking about all of that, we came to ask your help." The General said. "We need your help cuz If the target was so determined to come to this universe means there is a reason."

- "Okay." Chase 2 nodded, thoughtful.

The quadbrid's earpiece rang.

- "What's up?" She asked.

- "Ezra was attacked. He's in the hospital." Mia said. "He woke up, but apparently it was two alter egos who did it."

- "What?!" Maddie frowned.

The genius boy tilted his head towards her.

- "Ezra was attacked. He's in the hospital." The Matthews girl replied, looking at the older couple as well. "By two alter egos."

- "What?" The Captain said.

- "It must have been Ember." Harper said. "She found her Alter Ego!"

- "Wait for a sec, Mia." The quadbrid took her phone and called her, a hologram of her face appearing above the screen. "Who were they?"

- "Ezra's friend, Ember Wilder." The Krillin woman replied.

- "Where is everyone?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked.

- "Oliver is in the hospital, and Xan and I are trying to find everyone to go back to the penthouse." The Agotarian explained.

- "Okay, you have the device?" Maddie questioned.

- "Yep." Mia nodded.

- "Then, use it to come back quick when you found everyone." Chase 2 ordered.

- "Got it." The Krillin woman hung up.

- "Ember Wilder..." The Matthews girl frowned, thoughtful.

- "Yes! That's her...Ember was a waitress at the bar; she started dating one of our recruits. And she used him to take her to the interdimensional extrapolator." The Captain explained.

- "Poor guy." The genius boy frowned.

- "Guys, that's worse than we think." The quadbrid said.

- "Yeah, we know she's a mutant and is very powerful. It's on her files..." The Captain nodded.

- "It's not about that." Maddie frowned.

- "Then what is it?" Harper asked.

- "She was Giselle's assistant. She gave her powers, and Troy was like her brother. And both of them died when they met us." The Matthews girl explained.

- "That's why your Ember came here." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned. "To find someone like her, who probably hates us as much as your Ember hates you."

- "Yeah, I feel like she hates me more." The quadbrid looked at him.

- "Probably." Chase 2 nodded.

- "Giselle's assistant?" The General's eyes widened.

- "She wants revenge...wait! Wilder is her last name..." Chase asked thoughtfully.

- "Oh God." Maddie said. "Like..."

- "Derek Wilder..." The Captain said in realization.

- "Who's it?" Harper asked.

- "An employee at Davenport Industries. He died in an accident with one of Dad's inventions." Chase explained.

The genius boy used his bionic eye to scan Derek Wilder.

- "He's still alive here." He said.

- "She wants to stop it from happening to her alter ego." The General realized.

- "And she knows that if she uses this fact, her Alter Ego will not hesitate to help her get revenge on us." Chase said.

- "Well, that's fun." The Matthews girl, sarcastically, replied. "Hey, can you hand me your interdimentional extrapolator for a sec?"

- "Why?" The Captain held the device on his belt.

- "Just trust me." The quadbrid smiled softly.

- "Should I?" Chase smirked.

Maddie rolled her eyes, amused.

- "I've proven to you, hundreds of times, that you can." She extended her hand.

The Captain rolled his eyes in amusement and uncoupled the device from his belt and handed it to her.

- "This one Is the one I made." He said.

- "I'm not going to destroy it." The Matthews girl replied as she started to type on the small device.

- "I know, I'm just saying if it's a bit different, it's because of that." The Captain said.

- "Yours is exactly like the original, Chay." Harper stroked his back. "It's perfect." She said quietly, He smiled softly.

- "It is perfect." The quadbrid nodded. "And... there you go." She handed it back to him. "Now, not only can you teleport through the multiverse, but you can also teleport through the universe." She smiled.

That's my girl. The green hazel-eyed boy smirked.

- "Nice." The Captain picked up the device again. "I have two more of these."

- "I know. I was going to send you the plans in the morning, but since you are already here with it, I figured I would just do it." Maddie shrugged.

- "Thanks." Chase smirked, and He clipped the device back onto his belt, along with other gadgets he held on it, and Harper snorted. "What?" He frowned.

- "Nothing, I'm just thinking about how heavy your pants must be right now." The General chuckled.

He rolled his eyes in amusement.

- "More like she's thinking about taking them off." The Matthews girl whispered to him.

Chase 2 snorted.

The Captain blushed brightly, widening his eyes slightly.

- "Actually, I was thinking how easy it is for them to fall at any moment." Harper teased him.

- "Okay, stop." Chase pulled his pants up higher. "It's not that heavy." He said, blushing more.

- "You would LOVE the view if they fell." The quadbrid smirked at her alter ego.

- "Guilty." The General raised her hands. "I would be like, 'Oh no, what a shame'." She faked pity, and the Captain smirked, frowning in amusement.

The young geniuses chuckled.

Maddie frowned, before snickering as she listened to her family at the Halloween party.

- "What's wrong?" Chase asked.

- "I'm listening to our team, and they finally found Bree and Skylar." The Matthews girl said. "Well... Leo found them making out, and now he's yelling that he's gonna poke his eyes out." She laughed softly.

The genius boy snickered.

- "Bree making out with a girl, huh." Harper crossed her arms, picturing it. "That's a..." She chuckled before, glancing at Chase. "Very disturbing view, ew." She lied.

The Captain shook his head in amusement.

- "He's saying goodbye to Janelle, and then they are coming." The quadbrid replied. "Might take a while."

- "Alright. Let me talk to Adam, so he can bring my team here." Chase said.

- "Okay." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded and leaned to his girlfriend's ear. "Honestly, after the dream, I was expecting worse teasing."

- "He's not done." Maddie murmured.

The Captain pressed the button on his comm set.

- "Adam, can you hear me?" He asked.

- "Listening, Cap. We still haven't found anything trace of the target yet." The Vice Captain replied.

- "Change of plans; we're here with Maddie at the Davenport Tower; I want you to bring the team here but stay sharp. Copy that?" The Captain said firmly.

- "Yes. We'll be there as soon as possible, Cap." Adam said.

Chase nodded.

- "They're on their way." He said.

The young geniuses nodded.

- "I knew we could count on you for this mission." Harper said.

- "One, that's what friends are for. And two, I owe you for last year." The Matthews girl smiled softly.

The General nodded.

- "So..." Chase glanced at his younger self. "Thought I was the only Chase who's a Captain." He saluted playfully. "I might have made a mistake." He smirked.

- "Here we go." The quadbrid sighed.

- "It's just for Halloween." Chase 2 shrugged.

- "It's a good choice though..." The Captain nodded.

Even though I'm rather the winter soldier, but no one needs to know that. He thought.

- "Yeah, I Miss Halloween. I only dressed up once in my life." Harper sighed.

- "This is the first time he dresses up for Halloween." Maddie said. "And he picked my favorite Marvel hero, aka the one I found the hottest." She wrapped her arm around his lower back. "But he wears it better."

The genius boy blushed brightly as he smiled.

- "We noticed. But you ruined it for me." The Captain's eyes widened.

- "Like you ruined Indiana Jones a few years ago?" Harper smirked and he blushed.

- "Well..." Chase cleared his throat.

- "Exactly." The Matthews girl pointed at her alter ego. "I will never see this movie the same way. Or be able to listen to 'Steal my heart' ever."

- "But that's your favorite song." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "Yeah, but your horny of an alter ego ruined it for me." The quadbrid, dramatically, sighed.

- "What? The song had nothing to do with what happened later..." The Captain replied, and the General blushed at the memory.

- "That's what turned on Harper." Maddie replied.

- "Hey, don't put my name in the middle of it." Harper raised her hands.

- "Hey, you're the one who jumped on him afterward." The Matthews girl pointed at her. "And may I remind you that I read your mind, I saw everything you were thinking while he was singing this song to you." She smirked.

The Captain looked at Harper with interest as she blushed a bit more.

- "Well, you saw the whole thing, I didn't have much of a way out." The General shrugged.

- "Ew." The quadbrid faked a gag.

Chase 2 snorted. You had dirty thoughts when I sang to you.

Maddie, gently, smacked his arm. Hey, this is not about me. She smiled at him.

- "Can't we stop talking about this like it's my fault." The Captain said.

- "It is your fault I was an angel before I met you." Harper mocked and he gasped playfully.

- "Liar." The Matthews girl snorted.

- "Hey, back me up on this." The General winked at her. "He's the bad guy."

- "Bad guy, seriously?" Chase raised his eyebrow.

- "So, he can turn on me afterward?" The quadbrid raised her eyebrows. "No, thanks. I can handle it, but he can't." She pointed to her boyfriend.

- "Oh, he can." Chase nodded.

- "No." Maddie shook her head.

- "Mads, it's okay. How bad can he be?" The genius boy smiled.

- "Don't say I didn't try to warn you." The Matthews girl snickered as she patted his back. "Good luck with the guy who told me that I 'took the reigns' and 'ride'."

The green hazel-eyed boy blushed slightly.

- "What?" He looked at his older self.

- "How absurd; I would never be so unpleasant." The Captain said sarcastically.

- "Chay, Everyone here knows you let your 'pleasant' self behind a long time ago." The General said.

- "He's retired. Not dead, retired." Chase explained.

The quadbrid snickered.

- "I wouldn't say you're unpleasant. It was so funny last time you came with all of those." She said.

So, she likes it. The Captain controlled his smile.

- "Thanks." He replied.

- "You're welcome." Maddie nodded. "Besides, I started it." She shrugged. "You're just getting back at me."

- "Yup. Plus, I was right. You do ride It, don't ya?" The Captain chuckled.

Harper snorted.

Chase 2 blushed brightly.

- "You saw it, didn't you?" The Matthews girl smirked.

- "It was a rhetorical question." Chase said.

- "Really? I hadn't realized." The quadbrid gave him a shit-eating grin.

Chase looked at her annoyed. That's how It is.

- "So, pay more attention or your mind it's still on your riding." The Captain smirked as he moved his hips forward slowly, as he bit his lip. "Huh?"

Harper chuckled and covered her mouth. God, he's so ridiculously silly. I love him.

The genius boy blushed even brighter as he looked at him with wide eyes.

Maddie snorted.

- "That answers my question. Don't you agree?" Chase looked at Harper.

- "Totally." The General nodded. "And his wide eyes means that..."

- "He loved it." The engaged couple said in unison.

They chuckled at each other.

Well, given how you were moaning and biting my neck, I'd say yes. The Matthews girl smirked.

- "Stop it." The green hazel-eyed boy looked at his girlfriend.

- "I know myself, And I can confirm you that." The Captain nodded.

- "So that means that we were right, and we said that she would find him back and be together as soon as they found each other..." Harper said to her fiancé.

- "Harp, My life..." Chase placed his hand on her shoulder. "Have you ever doubted us?"

- "No, that would be dumb." The General scoffed.

- "That's my girl." The Captain replied, and they fist-bumped.

- "Boom!" They mimed an explosion while smirking at each other.

- "Are you done?" The quadbrid asked.

- "We have a long time of you lying to us to make up with." Chase said, and the General nodded.

- "Says the guy who was in a secret relationship for a secret and had sex in secret for a year." Maddie replied, using his words from his last visit.

- "Different from you, no one has never found out." The Captain said.

- "Mr. Davenport." The General muttered.

- "I was talking about sex." Chase replied

- "Oh yeah, that no." Harper said. "Thank God." She sighed.

- "Yeah, well, nobody ever geo-leaped inside your home unannounced." The Matthews girl scoffed.

- "Ring the doorbell, guys, next time, please." Chase 2 said.

- "Fair enough, just like don't forget to knock when you come to our universe." Chase said.

- "I did the last time I came." The quadbrid rolled her eyes. "Unlike you, who showed up unannounced twice." She snickered.

- "The first time was worth it." The Captain chuckled.

- "Yes." Maddie smiled. "But I still can't believe that you and Bree just stood there listening to my Bree and me. It's like really creepy."

- "Not as creepy as anything Oliver's ever done." Chase shrugged.

- "Your Oliver." The Matthews girl pointed at the older couple. "Our Oliver is totally normal. Well as normal as Oliver and Kaz can be."

The genius boy nodded. Totally true.

The couple laughed lightly.

- "But, like, at least our Oliver was never a stalker." The quadbrid shrugged.

- "Yeah, he was so creepy in the TV show you showed me." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "Poor Skylar." Harper shook her head. "Finn saved her from this one." She looked at Chase, and he nodded.

- "Yes." Maddie smiled softly. "They are so cute. Soulmates."

Chase 2 smiled at his girlfriend.

- "Yes! I don't understand what my brother is waiting for. Honestly." The General said.

- "He's probably waiting for Skylar like he's been doing for years." The Matthews girl shrugged.

- "Yeah, they will be dating before her birthday." Harper nodded, and the Captain chuckled.

- "At least now, for real, we can cross those two off the list." Chase said, pointing to the younger couple.

- "Oh Yeah!" The General smiled.

- "You made a bet on us?" The genius boy frowned.

- "To be fair, so did Kaz, Oliver, Skylar, Bree, Ezra, Mia, Leo and Adam." The quadbrid shrugged.

- "Exactly." The engaged couple said in unison.

- "Unbelievable." The green hazel-eyed boy shook his head.

Maddie chuckled softly.

- "Oh, stop, who never did that?" Harper said.

- "Adam, Bree and Leo did It to us." Chase shrugged.

- "He's only saying that because the bet is on us." The Matthews girl said. "He loved to make a bet on Bree and Skylar, and Adam and Xandar." She smirked.

- "I don't know what you're talking about, darling." Chase 2 shrugged, coyly, as he smiled.

- "Sure, he did." The Captain chuckled.

- "Alright, Maddie and Chase. Check!" The General made a check mark in the air. "Next on the list are Finn and Skylar, and Ledger and Mercy." She smiled.

- "Yes!" The quadbrid nodded. "They are all soul mates. They just need to see it."

- "She knows what she's talking about since she saw their dreams." The genius boy wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

- "What?" Harper asked. "Dreams?"

- "Yeah." Maddie nodded. "Dreams are part of people's memories, and even though, people don't remember them, it's part of their brain, and it cannot be erased. And since when two people have the same dream at the same time it means that they are soul mates if they live in the same universe, I have a long list of people that are gonna end up together and who just didn't realize yet."

- "Same dream at the same time." Chase frowned and looked at Harper.

- "Yeah." The Matthews girl nodded. "When I talk to one of you, I sometimes refer to the other as 'your soul mate'. You didn't notice?" She smirked.

- "We did, but we thought that was because we are a couple." The General said, the Captain nodded.

- "No, that's because I read your minds and saw your simultaneous dreams. You ARE soul mates." The quadbrid explained.

The green hazel-eyed boy caressed her shoulder, gently. So are we.

The engaged couple looked at each other with little smiles, both blushing slightly.

- "We are soulmates." Harper wrinkled her nose.

- "I know, Darling." The Captain held her waist, pulling her close to him. "That's why I asked you to marry me." He kissed her temple, and she closed her eyes slightly with a smile.

- "Twice." The General whispered, and he rolled his eyes in amusement.

Maddie smiled at their reactions. They are so cute.

Chase 2 nodded. They are.

The General hugged her fiancé's neck and laid her head on his shoulder.

- "Thanks for telling us this." The General said. "I was in doubt whether I was choosing the right husband, and my time to change my mind is running out." She said sarcastically, and the Captain gasped in mock offense.

- "Oh, How dare you?" Chase poked her sides, making her cringe ticklishly and giggle lightly.

- "You're welcome." The Matthews girl smiled.

The genius boy chuckled softly at them.

Harper laughed at the tickling and Chase hugged her waist from behind, returning the focus.

- "You were seriously gonna tell me about you?" He asked.

- "Yes." The younger geniuses, simultaneously, replied.

- "You asked in our dream why we didn't trust you." The green hazel-eyed boy said. "So, I told Mads, and we agreed to tell you first."

The quadbrid looked at his face with a soft smile while he spoke.

The Captain softened his gaze, The General glanced at him over her shoulder with a gentle smile.

- "Wait. For real?" Chase frowned.

You trust me? He thought.

- "Of course." Chase 2 nodded.

- "Yes!" Maddie frowned. "I wanted to tell you so many times, but since we decided to tell no one, I couldn't. And it was fun seeing you try to get the truth out of me." She smiled softly.

- "Yeah, I Know very well when you're hiding something you both are terrible liars." Chase said.

The General laughed softly.

- "Only to you." The Matthews girl scoffed. "Because you know me too well."

- "And we're practically the same person." The genius boy shrugged.

- "And he blushes too easy." The quadbrid pointed at her boyfriend's face, who rolled his eyes, amused. She kissed his cheek, and he blushed brightly. "See?"

The green hazel-eyed boy glared at her with a smile.

- "We know." The engaged couple said simultaneously.

- "But Yeah, I do know you... Matthews." The Captain said in amusement.

- "I know." Maddie smiled.

- "Too bad this meeting isn't about a good topic, though." The General leaned her head back on her fiancé.

- "I know, It would have been better if we weren't on a mission." Chase said. "Adam is the most upset, he wanted to trick or treat."

Chase 2 took his arm off his girlfriend.

- "Yeah." He sighed.

- "Don't worry about Adam." The Matthews girl shrugged. "Our Adam probably collected a ton, like every year."

- "Adams, all the same." Chase laughed.

- "No matter how old they are." Harper pressed her lips together.

- "Yep." The quadbrid nodded.

- "In this universe, you're our Adam's age." The genius boy pointed to his alter ego.

- "Oh Yeah! He's 20." The Captain frowned. "Wow, that's crazy."

- "Yep." Maddie nodded.

The Captain let go of his fiancée's waist and looked back.

- "You Guys have a Mission Command too, right?" He asked.

- "Yep." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded and walked towards the fireplace. "Put your hand here." He pointed to a specific part of the wall. "It only authorizes the actual person, shape-shifters are detected with this. But since we are the same person, it should work with you."

- "Alright then." The Captain did as instructed.

The Hyper-Lift opened.

- "Cool." Chase 2 smiled.

- "Hehe!" Chase chuckled. "If I were you, I would pay attention to your bank account or anything that requires a fingerprint, retinal scan or voice identification from now on." He grinned sarcastically.

- "Same goes for you, Captain." The genius boy smirked. "And with anything about the Mighty Force."

- "Oh, Good luck with that, Kid." The Captain replied.

- "Thanks, old man." The green hazel-eyed boy said.

The Matthews girl glanced at her alter ego.

- "Men." She mouthed.

- "Our Men." The General mouthed back.

- "Yeah, Now definitely pay attention to it." The Captain replied, offended. "Or at least pay attention to where you leave your cell phone." He showed a cell phone in his hand with a smirk.

Harper snorted.

- "You're saying that?" Chase 2 smirked.

The quadbrid snorted as she, discreetly, showed the Captain's phone in her hand to his fiancée.

- "Nice played." Chase said and pointed at her with a smirk. "By the way, I had the same phone when I was 18. It was a good phone; too bad I had to destroy it." He tossed the phone back to his younger self.

Maddie, playfully, bowed.

- "Why?" The genius boy caught his phone and put it in the pocket of his costume.

- "Long story." Chase said. "But it's the kind of thing you have to do when you can't leave a trace." He shrugged.

- "Wow." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned. "Okay."

- "Speaking of trails, we need to find Ember somehow." The Captain said. "Both of them."

- "We know, Chay, but you know..." Harper looked at the younger Chase. "We're just waiting for the Avengers to Assemble." She snorted.

The Captain scratched his nose to hide his laughter.

- "You're laughing at me, but Leo is disguised as Spider-Man." Chase 2 defended.

- "And Janelle as Spider-Gwen." The Matthews girl added.

- "But they're not here, 'Cap'." Chase made quotation marks with his fingers.

The genius boy rolled his eyes.

- "He's just jealous, because he knows he wouldn't be able to pull this costume." The quadbrid told her boyfriend.

The green hazel-eyed boy chuckled softly.

They both looked at him with smirks on their faces.

- "What the fuck do you mean by that?" The Captain frowned.

Maddie shrugged with a smile.

- "Language." Chase 2 said.

- "Wow, he really embodies the character." Harper chuckled.

- "Oh." The Captain approached him. "YOU gonna say language to me?" He raised his eyebrow.

- "Years and years of 'language'." The Matthews girl snickered.

- "You're the one who just cursed." The genius boy replied.

- "Oh right, so eat your fucking words, though." The Captain said. "Cuz it didn't bother you cursing while you were inside Maddie, did you?" He raised his eyebrow.

The General covered her mouth to keep from laughing.

The green hazel-eyed boy turned bright red as his eyes widened.

Oh my god. The quadbrid snorted, before covering her mouth.

- "You don't fool me with your 'Good boy who doesn't curse' act anymore." Chase poked his younger self on the shoulder.

- "That's the only time I curse." Chase 2 frowned, his face burning red.

- "Yeah, I can confirm." Maddie nodded.

- "Yeah, okay." The Captain said. "I started like this." He scoffed.

Harper pressed her lips together in amusement.

- "She's been trying to corrupt me for years." The genius boy glanced at his girlfriend. "Not working."

Except when you have your cock inside my mouth or my cunt. Or when you have a toy inside you. The Matthews girl smirked.

- "Mads!" The green hazel-eyed boy glared at her, his cheeks flushed.

- "Deal with it, man." Chase shook his head. "You're a lost cause." He raised his hands.

Chase 2 rolled his eyes, glaring at his girlfriend.

- "Don't look at me like that." The quadbrid snorted. "They have no idea I told you this. So, relax."

- "Still, stop it." The genius boy said. "Please."

- "Where are the team? They should be here right now." Harper asked the Captain.

- "You right." He said, and put his finger to his temple, looking for the team.

Suddenly, a portal opened and Adam, Bree, Leo, Xandar, Mia, Kaz and Skylar.

- "Dee, what's the..." The middle brother started, before freezing. "What the fuck?"

- "Leo." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "Sorry." Leo replied.

- "Is that the other Chase you always talk about?" The tall guy asked his best friend.

- "Hey, Harper." Mia smiled at her.

- "Yes." Maddie nodded. "Guys, this is Chase and Harper." She gestured to them. "Harper, Chase, you already know Adam, Bree, Leo, Kaz, Skylar and Mia, but this is Xandar. Mia's brother."

The Krillin man extended his hand towards the Captain.

- "Nice to meet you." He said.

- "Sup Mia..." Harper smiled.

Shit she looks just like Gwen! She nodded.

- "Hey Guys." She said.

- "Hello, Man, Captain Chase Davenport." Chase shook his hand. "Nice to meet you all."

- "He's a telepath too." The Matthews girl whispered to him.

The Agotarian man extended his hand to the General next.

- "This is so weird." The Karev boy frowned. "Two Chases. Kill me." He turned to his girlfriend, who patted his back, amused.

- "Oh great." Chase rolled his eyes in amusement. "And I see a Kaz is a Kaz everywhere." He looked at him.

- "Nice to meet you. I'm General Harper Davenport...Not that you care about my title." Harper shook his hand with a sarcastic smile.

- "A title is a title." Xandar smiled softly.

- "I'm fantastic everywhere?" Kaz smirked.

- "I'm sure that's not what he meant." Chase 2 scoffed.

- "No, you are a 'Kaz' everywhere." The Captain repeated.

- "Being a Kaz in our dictionary is not a good thing; it's like when someone 'Leo' things up." Harper explained.

The middle brother frowned.

- "You still use that?" He scoffed, offended.

- "Hey, Chase. Nice to see you again." The hybrid walked up to him and, quickly, hugged him.

- "I can't live with this many Chases in the same room." The eldest Davenport frowned.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes.

- "Just for old times' sake." The Captain replied to Leo. "And Hi, Bree, How are you?" He hugged her back.

- "Do you think so, Adam?" Harper crossed her arms.

- "I do." The tall guy nodded.

- "Nice suit." The Davenport girl pulled back with a smile. "I'm great. You?"

- "Thanks, Mighty Force suit." Chase clicked his tongue. "I'm good." He nodded.

- "Well, If you think that's weird, wait for It..." The General said.

- "Wait for what?" The middle brother asked.

- "Sky..." Bree called out her girlfriend. The Calderan walked up to her. "Chase, this is MY Skylar, my girlfriend. Sky, this is Chase."

- "Hey." The Storm girl smiled softly. "Nice to meet you."

- "Just wait." Harper winked at Leo.

- "Skylar, Nice to meet you too." Chase smiled. "I've heard amazing things about you."

- "Aw." Skylar looked at her girlfriend, who blushed slightly. "I've heard amazing things about you too." She glanced at Maddie.

- "Oh, you did." The Captain looked over his shoulder at Maddie. "Good to know." He smirked.

The Matthews girl rolled her eyes, amused.

- "Yeah, yeah, don't let go to your head." She said.

- "Too late." Chase replied in amusement, his comm set beeped.

- "Cap, Are you listening to me?" The Vice Captain asked.

- "Yes, Adam, where are you?" Chase asked.

- "Adam?!" Leo, Bree and Adam 2 yelled.

The young geniuses chuckled softly.

The engaged couple looked at each other in amusement.

- "We are in front of the tower." Adam replied.

- "Why did you take so long?" The Captain asked, walking to the window and looking out at the street.

- "No reason..." The Vice Captain replied.

- "Adam." Chase deepened his frown.

- "Is the way clear or not?" Adam asked.

- "They're here." Chase told Maddie.

- "Okay. Where?" She asked.

- "They are in the tower, going up the elevator." The Captain said.

- "That's gonna be fun." The Matthews girl took a step back, pulling both Chases and Harper back. "Let's admire the show." She mocked.

The genius boy snickered.

- "This gonna be epic!" Harper chuckled.

- "Oh, I'm gonna record this in my mind." Chase said in amusement.

- "Who do you think is gonna lose it more?" The quadbrid smirked. "Kaz, Leo or Adam?"

- "Leo." The green hazel-eyed boy replied.

- "Hard to say." The General replied.

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The Mighty Force team exited the elevator; Bree exited first with an annoyed look.

- "Adam, I can't believe you stole someone's mask." She turned around.

The Vice Captain came out of the elevator with a ghost face mask on his face.

- "Found. It's not stolen, Bree." He replied.

Kaz chuckled at him, exiting the elevator along with Quinn, who rolled her eyes in amusement.

- "Adam, take that off; you look like an idiot; you're the complete set." Leo walked out of the elevator.

- "Oh, but It's Halloween!" The Vice Captain complained, and Leader Dooley ripped the mask off his face annoyed.

Agent Davenport rolled her eyes, and they all walked through the Penthouse door.

- "Bree!" The hybrid exclaimed.

Leo 2 and Adam 2 stood back with wide eyes as they looked at their alter egos.

- "I have a mustache?" Kaz 2 frowned.

The Krillin siblings chuckled softly.

Maddie looked at Quinn. Who is she?

- "Bree!!" Agent Davenport super speeded to hug her tightly.

- "I don't have a mustache?!" Kaz pointed at his younger self playfully.

- "Oh my God! You're Just like me!!" The Vice Captain pointed to his Alter Ego.

Leader Dooley widened his eyes, removing his headphones in disbelief.

Quinn glanced at Maddie with a soft smile. Maddie!! She waved shyly.

The Matthews girl frowned slightly and waved back. Okay, I can't read her mind.

- "YOU're just like me!" The tall guy yelled.

- "No mustache for me. Ew." The Karev boy frowned.

Xandar and Mia looked at each other, amused.

- "This is awesome!" Leo 2 exclaimed.

- "I missed you." Bree 2 hugged her older self, tighter.

- "Me too!!!" Bree closed her eyes and squeezed her younger self. "And see? Even yourself don't like that mustache." She said, annoyed, turning to her boyfriend.

The male Agent made a mocking face at her.

- "No, YOU Just like me!!" Adam approached his Alter Ego.

- "Man, you're looking good huh." Leader Dooley hung the headphones around his neck and smirked at his younger self. "Spider-Dooley! Nice!"

Time Walker scratched the back of her neck, recognizing Maddie's gaze. She's wondering why she can't read my mind.

The hybrid pulled back and took her hand, leading her towards her girlfriend.

- "Bree, this is my Skylar." She said. "Sky, this is older me." She smiled.

- "Hey." Skylar replied. "This is so weird." She looked at the two Brees, who looked the same, except for their hair color.

- "I'm Adam." Adam 2 extended his hand.

- "Thanks." The middle brother smirked. "You're looking good too. New suit. Nice."

I wonder who she is. The quadbrid thought.

- "Hi, Sky! Girl, you look beautiful!" Agent Davenport said. "Nice to meet you." She said with a gentle smile.

- "Man, look at that baby face." Kaz chuckled at his younger self.

- "Thanks, Man!" Leo smiled.

- "No way! I'm Adam too!!" The Vice Captain beamed.

- "Shocking." Harper said sarcastically to her best friend.

- "I know!" Adam exclaimed.

Chase 2 chuckled.

- "You've got one of those too, huh?" He leaned towards his older self.

- "Thank you." The Calderan smiled back. "That's very nice of you."

- "Hey, I prefer looking like a baby than like a forty-year-old guy in midlife crisis." Kaz 2 replied.

- "You look exactly like me." The tall guy frowned as he looked at his older self.

Leo 2 smiled at his older self.

- "This is the weirdest day ever." Maddie whispered to Harper.

- "You have no idea." The Captain replied.

Bree laughed at the younger Kaz's comment.

- "Hey, You should be on my side." The Male Agent said annoyed.

- "How many times do I have to say that I date you and not that stupid mustache?" Agent Davenport responded annoyed.

- "And you look Just like me!!" Adam smiled.

- "Adam, This is so annoying." Chase said.

- "I Know." He replied.

- "And the happiest." The general whispered back.

- "Mia." The genius boy called out.

Mia walked up to him, walking through the alter egos.

- "What's up, Chasey?" She asked.

- "Stop calling me that." The green hazel-eyed boy said.

- "Never." The Krillin woman smirked.

Chase 2 rolled his eyes.

- "Whatever." He replied. "Once Kaz is done, you take him and you two go to the hospital to be with Oliver and have his back, just in case the Embers show up again."

- "Got it." The Agotarian woman nodded and walked away.

- "Good plan." The Captain said. "We need to start preparing ourselves for her; we don't know what two Alter Egos with more intentions are capable of." He walked to the middle of the room.

- "Thanks." The genius boy nodded.

- "Okay, guys!" The Matthews girl yelled. "Stop talking!" Everyone stopped and looked at her. "You can talk later. We have more important things to talk about right now." She tilted her head towards Chase.

- "We are facing a multiversal threat here." The Captain nodded.

- "Do you already have a plan, Captain?" Quinn asked, approaching him.

- "Babe, come on." Mia said.

- "Bye, older me." The Karev boy waved to his older self.

- "I'm gonna go too, guys." Xandar said. "I have a shift tomorrow morning."

- "Aw." Adam 2 pouted.

- "I'll see you later, handsome." The Krillin man, firmly, kissed his lips, before pulling back.

The tall guy stood there, his cheeks red.

- "Bye." The Agotarian man flew out of the terrace.

- "Ahg!!" Bree and Leo cringed at the scene of the two men.

The Vice Captain chuckled.

- "Bye Young Me!" Kaz waved.

- "This is so weird." Bree shook her head.

- "Oh Yeah, Quinn..." Chase waved at her, and she approached him.

- "Hey, two men kissing isn't gross." Adam 2 frowned, defensively.

Kaz and Mia flew out the terrace as well.

- "Now, imagine Bree kissing Skylar." The quadbrid murmured to Harper.

- "It's not for that. It's cuz... It's you." Leo replied.

- "Uhg! He said the same thing when they saw me kissing my wife all of a sudden." Adam explained his younger self.

- "Don't make me imagine, Girl." Harper shook her head, blushing. "I'll lose it like that." She mocked.

Maddie chuckled softly.

- "Right, you're married." The tall guy said to his older self. "That's cool. Maddie said that we weren't into the same gender but both into blondes." He smiled.

- "You get used to it." Leo 2 patted his older self on the back.

- "I Know It's just a joke of yours." Leader Dooley chuckled.

- "Yeah! My blondie girl is adorable; you would love her." The Vice Captain said. "Oh wait!" He took out a picture he kept on a keychain. "Here, That's my wife Grace, and our son Evan." He smiled proudly.

- "Aw, they're cute." Adam 2 smiled.

In a corner of the room, Bree 2, quickly, pulled her girlfriend for a slow kiss.

The Matthews girl nudged her alter ego and tilted her head towards the girlfriends.

- "Yeah, We just found out that Evan's first tooth is coming in." The Vice Captain beamed.

- "Aw, really?" Bree placed her hand on her chest with a soft smile.

- "Yes!!" Adam nodded.

Harper looked towards the two girlfriends in the corner, and her eyes widened, and she grabbed Maddie's shoulder, blushing furiously. OH. My. God!!! I can die in peace!

- "Holy Shit!" She mouthed.

The quadbrid wrapped her arm around her back as she held back her laughter.

- "That's great, man." The tall guy replied and pulled out his bag full of candy. "Want some?"

- "Congrats, Adam." The middle brother said. "Damn, this is weird."

- "Thanks, Leo, and YES!!" The Vice Captain happily replied and took candy. "I wanted to trick or treat, but Chase didn't let me."

- "I Know It's weird." Leo nodded.

- "Maddie, pinch me." The General said. "I think I'm dreaming." She mocked.

Maddie, gently, pinched her arm, amused.

- "Chases are fun killers." Adam 2 scoffed.

Chase 2 rolled his eyes.

- "It's real!" Harper grabbed her own arm, and bit her lip.

- "But he doesn't do it on purpose." Adam shrugged.

- "Technically, it's not even Halloween for you because it's April for us." The Captain pointed between them.

- "But it's not often you get to celebrate Halloween twice!" The Vice Captain said.

- "Very real." The Matthews girl nodded with a smile. "You're okay?"

- "Oh, next time I'll come to your universe!" The tall guy replied.

- "I guess." The General nodded, taking a deep breath.

- "Yes!!" The Vice Captain exclaimed. "We can dress Evan up; I know people give you double the candy if you show up at their door with a cute baby in a costume!" He chuckled.

- "I'll take Naomi." Adam 2 said. "Double babies!" He raised his hand.

The quadbrid let go of her and patted her back.

- "You'll live." She whispered.

The girlfriends broke their long kiss, both blushing brightly.

- "And I'll take my Naomi, triple babies!" Adam raised his hands.

- "Geez." Harper sighed. "Okay, Sorry... Bi panic!" She chuckled shyly.

- "It's okay." Maddie chuckled softly.

- "Yes!" The tall guy yelled and raised both of his hands for high-fives.

- "We shouldn't let them hang out." The genius boy said to his older self.

The Vice Captain high-fived his younger self.

- "I don't see why not though, it'll make for good stories." The Captain laughed. "Oh, by the way..." He looked at Maddie.

- "Fine, whatever they do, you're responsible." The green hazel-eyed boy smirked as he walked away to Leo. "So, you had a crush on Mads?" He crossed his arms.

- "Oh boy." The Matthews girl snickered.

- "Ew, on Dee?" Leo 2 frowned. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

The quadbrid raised her eyebrows.

- "Didn't mean like that." The middle brother raised his hands. "Just you're my sister." He gagged.

Maddie chuckled softly as she walked to Chase.

- "No! I mean yes..." Leader Dooley said. "But I don't have it anymore, but I didn't know her to be honest so you can't blame me." He said. "Plus, I was desperate."

- "Was?" Kaz asked.

- "Hey, I'm a lone wolf now, and I'm okay with that." Leo insisted.

- "Bullshit." Bree shook her head. He rolled his eyes.

- "Mmm." Chase 2 nodded, suspiciously.

- "But like it's Dee." Leo 2 frowned.

- "I know It's weird, but... I swear I'm not into this anymore." Leader Dooley raised his hands.

- "Yeah, he's in a serious relationship with those headphones of his, Now." Harper mocked.

- "Yeah, Just me and my music." Leo said. "Not a problem with It."

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A few feet away, Maddie walked up to Chase and Quinn.

- "Hey, Quinn. I'd love for you to meet my friend..." The Captain looked at Maddie and smirked, "Darling, I forgot your name." He said amusement.

Quinn rolled her eyes. He never gets tired of this.

- "Oh, no. Are you in the early stages of Alzheimer?" The Matthews girl put her hand on his shoulder. "I'm Maddie." She articulated.

Chase clenched his jaw, annoyed.

- "Oh Yeah, Sorry, I usually save space for you know... less annoying people." He scoffed sarcastically.

The Time Walker scratched her nose to hide her amusement. They never change.

The quadbrid gasped.

- "Oh, no. That means you don't remember your own name." She frowned.

The Captain rolled his eyes.

- "Ha ha, you think you're such a smarty-pants, don't you?" He said, sarcastically.

- "You started it." Maddie raised her hands. "Smart-ass."

- "And you continued. You're as guilty as I am." Chase raised his hands.

- "If you think I'm gonna let you annoy me and not respond, then you don't know me." The Matthews girl crossed her arms.

- "Fucking fun killer." The Captain muttered quietly to himself.

Quinn pressed her lips together. Language, Dad.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes with a smile.

- "You haven't changed at all." The Time Walker mumbled, chuckling.

Chase frowned.

- "What?" He asked.

- "Nothing. It's nice to meet you, Maddie." Quinn extended her hand gently.

Maddie shook her hand.

- "Nice to meet you, Quinn." She smiled softly. "You're one of the new recruits, right?"

- "Yes, Quinn Dav-Dawson." The Time Walker choked.

Good one, Genius. She thought frustratedly.

The Matthews girl frowned, slightly. Quinn Dav...?

- "Nice." She nodded with a smile.

- "I told you about her, Quinn has proven to be a valuable member of the team." The Captain smiled proudly.

- "Thanks, Cap." Quinn smiled gently.

- "I know. I remember." The quadbrid nodded.

- "I've heard a lot about you." Time Walker said. "You're amazing!" She said with a wide smile.

- "Um, thanks." Maddie said, shyly. "But from whom?"

Quinn glanced at Chase, who shook his head several times.

- "Him." She pointed at him.

Sorry, Dad. She thought.

- "No!" The Captain mouthed.

- "Aw." The Matthews girl looked at him. "You talk nicely about me. How sweet." She smiled.

Chase scoffed.

- "Of course not. I never talked about you, I think she misunderstood me." He smiled nervously.

- "No. You did, I remember the scene exactly; we were in the lab discussing theories about the multiverse, and you told me about her." The Time Walker smirked teasingly.

- "It was a short and dry conversation." Chase said to Maddie.

- "Want details? I remember everything; I have eidetic memory." Quinn added.

- "No need!" Chase shouted annoyed.

- "Oh, I want details." The Matthews girl nodded. "But that's weird, don't you think? Every time someone tells me that you said something nice about me. You say that they misunderstood. You should articulate better." She gave him a shit-eating grin.

- "You know why he does that." Quinn said. "Don't mind." She winked.

Chase frowned. Even though she's from the future, she seems to know too much sometimes.

- "No, I don't." The quadbrid frowned. "Why?" She smirked at him.

- "Defense mechanism." Time Walker said.

The Captain rolled his eyes.

- "Against me?" Maddie raised her eyebrows.

- "He just doesn't want to admit that he likes you." Quinn said.

- "I never said that." Chase shook his head.

- "That's the point... Chase." The Time Walker shrugged.

It's still weird to call him that. She thought.

- "I know he does." The Matthews girl nodded.

Not. She thought.

Chase made sure to laugh out loud.

- "Yeah sure." He said sarcastically, Quinn pressed her lips together in amusement at him.

- "This is All Stubbornness." She rolled her eyes with a smile.

- "I know." The quadbrid smiled softly.

I know he doesn't like me. She thought.

- "But seriously, there was no way he wouldn't talk about you. In our universe, you were concrete proof that the multiverse really exists. You can't even imagine how many doors this opened for the world of science. You're a legend!" Quinn smiled wildly.

- "A legend?" Maddie scoffed. "You're exaggerating." She snickered.

- "Totally." Chase scoffed.

It's True, She is. He thought.

- "No, you know that." The Time Walker told the Captain. "Like, I could spend hours explaining all the impacts that your visit to our universe had on different fields of reality without mentioning the effect on the timeline--Hypothetically--In addition to." Quinn started talking non-stop and took a deep breath. "...proving theories and nullifying others, which resulted in a boost in various technological developments for studies and...."

- "Okay, we get It!" Chase frowned, patting her back gently.

Quinn cleared her throat.

- "Sorry, I got carried away." The Time Walker blushed shyly.

- "It's okay." The Matthews girl smiled softly. "But I'm not a legend. And it wasn't a visit. More like a very violent encounter." She sighed, avoiding looking at Chase to not see the scar.

The Captain ran his fingers over the scar.

- "For me, you are." Quinn shrugged. "I could write a thesis on that." She chuckled at herself.

- "Yeah, don't do that." The quadbrid shook her head. "Or if you do, I don't wanna know."

God, I hate being in the spotlight, and I'm a princess and the Champion of Earth. Ironic. She thought.

- "Yeah, After all, why waste paper like that?" Chase scoffed.

I would love to read this. He thought.

The Time Walker rolled her eyes in amusement. He will read It.

Maddie scoffed.

- "Rude." She smiled.

- "I haven't reached your level yet but wait for me." Chase teased; Quinn chuckled discreetly.

- "As if you could." The Matthews snickered. "I'm the only one who reads minds, so I will always be better at annoying you than you are at annoying me." She smirked.

- "She's got a point, though." The Time Walker pointed at her.

- "You underestimate me. But there's always a twist and turn." Chase smirked.

- "We'll see." The quadbrid shrugged with a smile and walked away.

She's hiding something. She thought.

- "I love your friendship." Quinn chuckled.

- "Believe me, we have better moments than this." Chase sighed.

- "I believe that." The Time Walker smiled.

Maddie frowned to herself, glancing quickly at Quinn. I don't trust her.

Suddenly, Quinn's bracelet started beeping.

- "Oh Crap." Time Walker rolled her eyes annoyed.

Chase frowned at her.

The young geniuses frowned as they heard the sound.

- "What was that?" Chase 2 walked up to his girlfriend.

- "It's from her bracelet." The Matthews girl replied.

- "What's wrong?" The genius boy asked.

The quadbrid, discreetly, put a shield around them.

- "I don't trust her." She said.

- "Because we just met her?" The green hazel-eyed boy questioned.

- "Yeah." Maddie nodded.

- "Quinn, what is this?" Harper asked.

- "Yeah, what's wrong?" The Captain asked.

Suddenly, behind them in the Penthouse kitchen, a portal opened, and Darwin and Newton ran out of the door towards their owners and a 6' boy, blond with blue eyes, stumbled out of the portal. Ace O'Connor.

- "Ow!" Ace saw his team, standing in the room. "I did it!! I finally did it!" He kissed the device he used to open the portal as he laid on the floor.

- "THAT is the problem." Quinn pointed at him angrily.

- "Oooh." The Captain said, as Newton pushed off the couch to climb onto his shoulder.

Marie and Maxwell came running down the stairs as they heard their furry friend. They meowed at Chase's feet.

The Matthews girl put down the shield.

- "Well, I guess the play date is today." She told Harper.

- "Yup." Harper smiled as Darwin hid behind Quinn's legs and meowed.

Newton meowed loudly, leaning on Chase's head.

- "Quinn!" The O'Connor boy got up and ran to his best friend.

- "You never listen to me!!" A Time Walker deepened her frown.

- "I'm so sorry!" Ace kneeled in front of her and held her hips. "Please forgive me; I'll clean up the mess I made; let me help." He said, dramatically, looking at her.

- "You're unbelievable!" Quinn shook her head.

- "He's the one who Ember tricked into stealing the device." Harper explained to Maddie.

The quadbrid looked at him and read his mind.

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Year 2043 of Universe 38

Today, like every month, forty-four-year-old Maddie and Chase were in the yard of their big house for their monthly dinner with their alter egos and kids.

The same house where Maddie grew up in with Claire.

Their four kids ran towards the four who had just teleported there.

- "Quinn! Ace!" The youngest yelled, excited.

She was a 4'9 nine-year-old white girl with light brown hair and hazel-green eyes. Lucy Tasha Davenport.

- "Luce!!" Seven-year-old Quinn and her best friend exclaimed back, as they ran up to the little girl and attacked her with a strong hug simultaneously.

Forty-seven-year-old Harper and forty-six-year-old Chase smiled softly as they saw the kids' reactions.

The younger couple chuckled softly.

- "I really hope they never stop greeting each other like that." The younger Davenport woman said.

- "I think that's mission impossible, mom." The eldest kid snickered. "Hey, Aunt Harper. Hey, Uncle Chase." He smiled widely.

He was a 5'6 nineteen-year-old white boy with dark brown hair and green eyes and light freckles on his nose. Theo Donald Davenport.

The older couple walked up to him, the Captain raising his hand in greeting with his nephew.

- "Hey, Buddy." He smiled.

- "Hello, Guys." The General smiled softly.

- "Hi." His twin sister hugged them both tightly.

She was a 5'3 nineteen-year-old white girl with dark brown hair and blue eyes. Alice Claire Davenport.

- "Easy with the super strength, princess." Chase 2 said gently.

- "Oh, you can't beat my super strength!" Harper hugged the girl tightly.

- "Or mine!" Chase said playfully, doing the same.

Their daughter ran towards the three.

- "And Mine!!" She exclaimed with a smile and hugged Alice's legs.

- "I have nothing, so I'll keep my distance." Ace raised his hands.

- "Don't forget me." The middle child chuckled and hugged them with his super strength.

He was a 5'9 fifteen-year-old white boy with dark brown hair and blue eyes. Lucas Mike Davenport.

- "Oh, boy." His father snickered.

- "Hey, why not?" The quadbrid shrugged and joined the hug, pulling her husband with her, who chuckled softly.

Lucy hugged Ace tightly.

Theo stood back, shaking his head as he was texting his girlfriend.

- "Theo!" His youngest sister yelled.

The eldest Davenport boy put his phone in his pocket and walked up to the two children.

He crouched down and hugged them.

- "Oooh, I missed you, buddy!" He shook them gently.

- "Me too!" Ace said.

- "Me too!!" Quinn exclaimed amidst everyone's hugs.

- "Alright, a lot of people in this hug!" The Captain said, being crushed in the hugs, his wife laughed softly.

- "Live with it." Maddie replied, amused.

- "This is the life you chose, Uncle Chase." Theo added from afar. "Like mom said, 'live with it'." He chuckled.

- "I don't remember that in the contract." Chase replied playfully.

- "Always read between the lines, Dad." Little Davenport Girl looked at her father, who rolled his eyes in amusement.

- "Exactly." Chase 2 nodded. "Smart girl." He gently ruffled her hair.

Quinn wrinkled her nose.

- "Thanks, Uncle 'Baby Chase'." She put her hands on her hips playfully.

- "That's my girl." Harper snickered.

The younger Davenport man, playfully, glared at her.

- "Oh you." He pulled back from the hug and took her in his arms, tickling her.

- "No!" The Little Davenport Girl giggled, cringing at the tickling.

- "Yeah! Show her!" The Little O'Connor boy laughed at his best friend.

Chase 2 chuckled as he continued to tickle her.

- "You too." The youngest sister tickled Ace.

The younger Davenport woman pulled back from the hug and smiled softly at her entire family.

- "No!!" Ace exclaimed, laughing. "Uncle Cap, save me!" He said, trying to escape the tickling, laughing.

- "No can do." The Captain shook his head. "Do your trick, Little Soldier." He winked.

- "Yeah." Quinn laughed at her scratches. "Like this." She looked at Chase 2 and winked before Geo-leap away.

The younger Davenport man laughed as she disappeared from his arms.

The eldest Davenport boy sat on the grass, pulling Lucy and Ace with him.

Alice and Lucas pulled back from the hug and smiled at their aunt and uncle.

- "Quinn?" The General frowned.

- "Oh no, she did it again." Chase slapped his forehead.

- "Oh, boy." Maddie walked behind her best friend and patted his back. "Good luck with that."

- "Mini Harper activated." Chase 2 patted Harper's back.

The middle kids smirked at each other and ran away, taking two water guns and putting water in them.

They started to attack the three on the grass.

- "No!" Lucy laughed.

- "Alice! Lucas!" Theo yelled at his twin. "I have my phone!"

- "Oops." His twin shrugged, amused.

The eldest Davenport boy super speeded into the house to put his phone down, before taking a water gun too and charging at his younger siblings.

The youngest sister slapped her forehead.

- "Kids." She told Ace. The three eldest siblings turned their weapons to the two youngest. "Run!" She yelled.

Little O'Connor's eyes widened, and he ran away.

- "Hey! I came in peace!!" He raised his hands in amusement.

- "I'm seriously thinking about putting a tracker on this girl." The Captain looked around.

- "She's your daughter; she can handle herself." The General shrugged.

Lucy ran away, following him.

The quadbrid snickered.

- "I would have a heart attack if one of them did that." The younger Davenport man sighed.

- "He already has a heart attack every time Alice asks him to buy condoms." Maddie mocked.

- "Yeah, well, I never thought that our daughter would be more Daxamite than you." Chase 2 shrugged. "My little princess is like your brother."

- "No peace!" Lucas fired at Ace, doing an evil-giggle.

- "Like father, like son." The younger Davenport woman pointed, before looking at Chase. "And uncle."

- "Oh my God." The Captain widened his eyes and looked at his wife. "One day, our little girl will ask us to buy this?" He said.

- "Eh, I wouldn't worry about it." Harper shrugged. "For now." She smirked.

- "Geez." Chase sighed, putting his hand on his chest as Ace ran past them screaming.

- "This is unfair, I am unarmed!" Little O'Connor said. "Where are the rules?"

Suddenly the little Davenport girl geo-leaped back with her water gun.

- "There are no rules in a war." She shot the elders and took Ace's hand, geo-leaping with him to another place.

- "You'll live." The younger Davenport man put his hand on his older self's shoulder. "With difficulty, but you'll live."

- "And Alice asks us to buy them because she's a Daxamite and has no taboo on this. Quinn isn't, so it will be different." The quadbrid added.

- "But if one day she does, just think about the fact that it means she trusts you and doesn't want to keep secrets from you and that you taught her well about being safe and protected." Chase 2 continued.

- "Cowards!" Lucy yelled after the two youngest, before turning to her siblings and using her molecular kinesis to disarm them.

She took one of the guns and shot at them.

- "No!" The three giggled softly and ran away.

- "Get back your butts back here, you cowards!" The youngest sister ran after them.

- "I'm having a déjà vu." Chase 2 looked at his wife.

- "I don't know what you're talking about." Maddie shrugged, coyly, with a smile.

The older couple laughed softly.

Quinn surprised Lucy by geo-leaping behind her with Ace, both shooting at her.

They laughed, before geo-leaping away again.

- "Traitors!" Lucy yelled, outraged.

The younger couple chuckled.

Lucas walked up to his younger sister and extended his hand.

She high-fived him, and they started to shoot at the twins.

Little Boy O'Connor and his best friend were up in a tree.

- "Check this out." The little Davenport girl said, putting a high-tech sight on her water gun. "I made It myself." She said smugly.

- "Cool! I love it when you build things." Ace grabbed the gun and aimed at the older kids from afar, shooting them.

Theo and Alice glanced at each other, before flying to the tree.

They grabbed the two children and put them back on the ground.

- "Who's laughing now?" Theo smirked.

They both held them as their two younger siblings shot the water at them, soaking them.

- "Woah!" Ace laughed, and Quinn geo-leaped and clung to Theo's neck, shooting water in his face.

- "Ha!" The little Davenport girl laughed.

The eldest Davenport boy laughed, holding her to prevent her from falling.

Lucy shot at Ace again.

The four siblings laughed.

- "Oh Man!" Little O'Connor boy shook his head. "I got water in my ear." He laughed.

- "Stop lying so they feel sorry for you." The little girl Davenport shot at him, running at him and knocking him to the ground, throwing soft splashes of water at him while laughing softly on top of him.

- "Ahg! No!" Ace tried to defend himself with his arms in amusement.

The younger couple laughed softly as their kids ran towards them, helping their cousin to shoot at her best friend.

- "Hey, what happened, Quinny? I thought we were friends?!" The little O'Connor boy laughed.

Quinn shrugged and continued attacking him.

- "They are so cute." Maddie smiled.

- "Yeah, they are." Harper nodded.

- "I'm not cute, mom!!" The little Davenport girl said from afar, annoyed.

The General rolled her eyes in amusement.

- "Totally your daughter." The quadbrid smirked.

- "Totally our daughter." The Captain added, putting his arm around his wife.

- "Caitlin said they weren't supposed to play with anything that would get dirty because Ace's clothes are new." Harper pressed her lips together and Chase scoffed.

- "Who cares?" He shrugged.

Little O'Connor boy rolled over, throwing his best friend to the ground with him; she laughed softly.

- "We'll wash them, and I'll dry them with my super breath." Maddie replied.

- "Don't worry about it; Caitlin is our problem." The Captain sighed and looked at the children with a smile. "Let them enjoy every second."

- "Your problems are my problems." The quadbrid nudged him. "Or have you forgotten?"

- "I think he needs a reminder." Chase 2 smiled.

- "You right." Chase replied. "I don't need a reminder." He said.

- "Are you sure?" Maddie frowned, playfully as she poked his side.

The Captain cringed and laughed softly.

- "I'm sure!" He said.

- "Really?" The quadbrid chuckled as she poked his side again.

Chase blushed and defended himself by cringing.

- "Stop or you'll regret it." He smirked.

- "I'm so scared." Maddie snorted.

- "You should be." The Captain grinned.

- "In your dreams, handsome." The quadbrid smirked and poked his side again.

Suddenly the little Davenport girl geo-leaped next to her, pointing the water gun at her.

- "Stay away from my father." Quinn narrowed her eyes. "Or I'll shoot."

Harper chuckled softly, and Chase gave Maddie a smug look.

- "Oh yeah?" Maddie super speeded, taking her gun. "With what weapon?" She aimed the water gun at her.

The younger Davenport man snorted.

- "This one!" Ace stood in front of the little girl, pointing the gun at Maddie.

Quinn smiled wildly at him.

- "In your dreams, Ace." Lucas used his molecular kinesis to take the gun.

- "Ha! Now you are at our mercy!" Alice exclaimed.

The four siblings smirked and chased after the best friends.

- "Call of the mission. CALL OFF THE MISSION!" Ace yelled.

- "Oh, Shut It!" The little Davenport girl geo-leaped him away, and the older couple laughed.

Maddie laughed and turned to her best friend, shooting at him.

- "Oops." She shrugged.

The Captain gasped.

- "Oh, you didn't." He said.

- "I did." The quadbrid shot at his face. "Oops, I did it again."

- "That's how It is, huh?" Chase smirked.

- "Yep." Maddie nodded with a smile.

- "I'm not getting involved." Chase 2 told Harper as he took a step back.

- "Wise decision." The General replied and took a step back.

- "You're about to go down to the start in a Hardcore level game. Are you sure you want to continue with this?" The Captain calmly said to his best friend.

The quadbrid narrowed her eyes.

- "Bring it, Cap." She smirked.

- "Let's do this." Chase smirked. "Ammo!" He ordered, and Quinn geo-leaped next to him and handed him a water gun. "Prepare the element of surprise." He whispered to his daughter.

- "Yes, Captain!" The little Davenport girl saluted and geo-leaped away.

- "What are you two planning?" Maddie frowned.

- "Nothing." The Captain shrugged. "I just think this town is too small for the two of us." He narrowed his eyes dramatically.

Harper behind him began to whistle and hummed a tension-filled tune from an old western cowboy movie.

- "Thanks for the soundtrack, Darling." Chase said, keeping his posture.

- "You're welcome, Honey." The General said with a smile in amusement.

The quadbrid shook her head, amused.

- "You're ridiculous." She aimed at him.

- "You love It." The Captain smirked smugly, aiming back at her.

- "Do I?" Maddie smirked.

Chase's smirk disappeared briefly as Ace watched them carefully from a distance.

- "I'm kidding." The quadbrid said softly. "You know I love it."

The Captain sighed in relief and shot her with water.

- "You're terrible!" He said in amusement.

Maddie chuckled softly.

- "You should know by now that I love it." She shot water in his face. "Smart-ass." She whispered.

- "I Know." Chase wiped his face and shot her, running away to dodge her next shots.

- "Get your butt back here, you coward." The quadbrid laughed and ran after him.

- "See!" The younger Davenport man gestured to his wife as he looked at Harper. "Déjà vu."

- "Some things never change." The General shrugged.

Chase dodged her water shots with precision.

- "Give it up, you're dealing with a professional." He said, before shooting her.

- "And I love it." Chase 2 wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

The General smiled and laid her head on his shoulder.

Maddie super speeded in front of him, shooting in his face.

- "You were saying?" She smirked, before running away.

The Captain wiped his face by running his hand over his face and through his hair.

- "Now?" Quinn asked, refilling her gun.

- "Now." Chase nodded, and the two ran to Maddie, shooting her.

- "Hey, Uncle Chase!" Theo called out. "Take this!" He shot at him.

- "And this." The quadbrid joined to shot water at this face.

- "You traitor, take this." Lucy chuckled as she shot at Quinn.

The Captain turned around, firing rapidly at both of them.

The Davenport Girl shot back at Lucy.

- "We're outnumbered." Quinn said. "Where's Ace?"

- "Ace, now!" Chase said as he shot water at Maddie in the face in amusement.

- "You need to learn how to count, cuz." Alice arrived beside her mother and twin. "There are five of us and three of you." She shot at her cousin with a smile.

The quadbrid wiped her face and shot back at him, laughing.

Suddenly, Ace ran after Maddie and threw a water balloon at her.

- "Water grenade!!" The O'Connor boy shouted.

The Captain gasped and covered his mouth in amusement.

Maddie gasped.

- "That's your plan?!" She laughed at her best friend.

- "That's my boy!" Chase high-fived Ace, who had a wide smile on his face, before looking at his best friend. "And I'm sorry. It was totally Ace's idea; I just...." He shook his head, before snorting. "I thought it was awesome." He laughed.

The four children shot at Ace and Quinn, before running away.

The quadbrid bit the insides of her cheeks, narrowing her eyes at her best friend.

- "Okay." She dropped her water gun to the ground with a malicious smile.

- "Uh-Oh." Quinn looked at her aunt, distressed.

- "Too late to raise a white flag?" Ace looked at the Captain, who just rested the water gun on his shoulder, and smirked at his best friend.

- "Definitely too late." Maddie shook her head and super speeded towards her best friend, grabbing him and putting him at the edge of the pool. "Oops." She pushed him back into the pool with her index.

She crossed her arms with a smirk as she watched him into the water.

Her four children stopped running and laughed at their uncle.

Chase 2 snorted.

- "Why am I not surprised it ended like this?" He asked Harper.

- "I thought it took too long, though." The General laughed. "If she didn't do it, I would."

- "Uncle Cap!!" Ace shouted and ran to the pool with his best friend.

The Captain comes out of the water, wiping the water from his eyes.

- "Maddie!!" He shouted annoyed, still spitting out some of the water he swallowed.

- "Nice one, Aunt Maddie." Quinn laughed.

The younger Davenport man nodded as he laughed.

- "Thank you, sweetie." The quadbrid chuckled and extended her hand to her. "A problem, Chase?" She grinned, trying to stop herself from laughing.

Quinn laughed at her father as she held her aunt's hand.

- "No, I felt like swimming today." The Captain replied sarcastically.

- "Can we raise the white flag now?" The Little O'Connor boy asked in amusement.

Maddie laughed at her best friend.

- "You can." She ruffled Ace's hair. "It's between him and me now." She playfully glared at Chase.

- "Oh boy." Lucas snickered.

- "I don't get it." The Captain shook his head. "I'm soaked; that means you won." He said, swimming to the edge of the pool.

- "Good, you admit your defeat." The quadbrid replied.

- "Dad is a fair player." Quinn smiled, and the Captain pressed his lips together and glanced at his best friend.

- "She's right...Rules are rules." He raised his hands.

- "Not that you always followed them." The little Davenport girl grumbled.

- "Shh." Chase placed a finger over his lips discreetly as he blinked.

- "Yeah, your Dad might be fair with you, but not with me." Maddie shook her head. "I'm getting ready to be pushed or thrown in the pool at any point in the evening."

- "Not gonna do that." Chase said.

- "Yeah, what kind of friend does that?" Ace said, discreetly preparing to push Quinn.

- "Do that and you're dead." Little Davenport Girl replied without even looking at him.

- "I was just going to hug you." Little O'Connor boy put his arm around his friend nervously.

- "Hmm." Quinn narrowed her eyes.

- "I don't believe you." The quadbrid replied. "Good job." She whispered to the little boy.

Ace smiled back at her.

- "Believe me." The Captain replied, getting out of the pool.

- "Okay." Maddie nodded.

- "Want a hug?" Chase opened his arms with a grin, his clothes dripping onto the ground.

- "Nope." The quadbrid chuckled.

- "Come on, come here." The Captain took a step towards her.

- "No." Maddie took a step back, shaking her head.

- "Aw." Chase pouted sarcastically.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes as she turned her back to him, looking away at her children, who had started to shoot at each other again.

The Captain glanced at his daughter and her best friend, who nodded yes, with smiles.

- "Bad move to turn your back on him, baby." Chase 2 shook his head, amused, as he glanced at Harper on his shoulder. "This isn't going to end well."

- "Definitely. Want to go get some towels?" Harper suggested.

The kids laughed, and the Captain ran to his best friend.

- "Gotcha!" He laughed, hugging her and pulling her towards the pool, making them both fall in.

- "Woah!" Ace gasped in amusement as Quinn covered her mouth.

- "Yes." The younger Davenport man nodded, laughing.

He walked inside.

His four children laughed as well.

Maddie swam to the surface.

- "Oh, that little..." She started. "Where is he?" She looked around, laughing.

The Captain swam to the surface, behind her, and raised his arms.

- "Wohoo!! Hardcore game!" He said.

Ace and Quinn raised their arms.

- "Yeah!" They exclaimed.

- "You do realize I pushed in the pool first?" The quadbrid turned to him with a smirk.

- "Yeah." Lucy nodded. "You lost first, Uncle Chase. And we all saw it."

- "And it's permanently up here." Lucas pointed at his head.

His three siblings did the same; each had one eye shining bright blue, showing their bionics.

- "But we knew it would reach this level, and technically that was just a bonus..." Quinn said.

- "Hardcore game!!" Ace pushed his best friend into the water.

Maddie caught her niece with her telekinetic powers, before she touched the water, putting her back next to her best friend.

- "Now, you." She put her hands on her best friend's shoulders and pushed him back into the water.

The children laughed again.

Harper walked closer to the pool with a smile.

- "Are you done?" She asked.

Chase 2 put towels on the table of the terrace and walked up to her.

The quadbrid looked at her best friend and smirked.

- "Yeah, I guess." Chase laughed as he exchanged a look with his best friend.

- "I can't believe you pushed me!!" Quinn yelled at Ace.

- "Sorry, I got carried away." Little O'Connor scratched his nose, and she rolled her eyes.

The Captain nodded toward Harper and Chase at the edge of the pool.

Maddie swam towards the edge.

- "Come on, darling." Her husband extended his hand.

The quadbrid took it.

Harper reached out her hand to her husband, and he took it.

Maddie looked at her best friend and nodded.

The Captain nodded back and pulled the General into the water.

- "Mom!" Quinn laughed, and Ace grabbed her shoulders in amusement, his eyes widening.

The quadbrid pulled Chase 2 into the pool at the same time.

Their four children laughed as they walked behind the two youngest.

Harper swam to the surface and grabbed the Husband's shirt.

- "Chay!" She shouted with her hair wet, stuck in front of her face.

The Captain laughed softly and gently ran both hands over her face, pushing her hair back.

The General looked into his eyes and let out an amused laugh, wrinkling her nose.

The younger Davenport man wiped his face and chuckled as he looked at his wife, who laughed.

- "Should've expected that." He said and wrapped his arms around her waist.

- "Yes, you should have." Maddie nodded as she wrapped her arms around his neck. "I've been doing that to you for years."

- "Yeah, I know." Chase 2 snickered as he kissed her cheek gently, before breaking their short hug.

- "You owe me!" The General threatened as she hugged the Captain's neck, who held her legs around his waist.

- "Sorry, not sorry." Chase chuckled and rested his forehead against his wife's.

- "Kiss her." Quinn whispered to her father.

The older couple laughed softly in surprise.

- "Ew No!" Ace shook his head.

- "Come on." Theo chuckled softly and led the five youngest away, leaving their parents alone.

The quadbrid cupped her husband's face and kissed him tenderly.

The younger Davenport man put his hands on her cheeks and kissed her back gently.

- "Blah!" Ace stuck his tongue out as he looked back at the pool, drying your hair with a towel.

- "Oh, stop!" Quinn hit his arm. "It's cute." She smiled as she looked at the pool.

The General looked into her husband's eyes as he held her waist tighter, and she pulled him forward, the two of them closing the gap between them underwater, in a firm kiss.

- "No, I'll never fall in love." Little Boy O'Connor shook his head.

The older couple returned to the surface without breaking the kiss.

Chase chuckled softly against Harper's lips.

Maddie broke the kiss.

- "I love you too." She said.

Chase 2 smiled widely at her.

Their children, who had all heard with their bionic and super hearing, smiled softly.

- "I really hope Beatrix and me are like that when we're older." The eldest Davenport boy smiled softly at the scene.

- "He cannot stop talking about his girlfriend even for one hour." Lucy rolled her eyes.

- "Yeah, you two have been together since you were kids." Lucas added. "You're never gonna break up." He shook his head.

- "Like Aunt Mia said, you two are meant to be." Alice put her hand on his shoulder.

- "I hope so." Theo nodded. "I love her so much."

- "We know." His three siblings, simultaneously, replied, making him roll his eyes.

- "That's cute." Quinn smiled as Ace watched Chase and Harper break the long, firm kiss.

- "I love you so much, Chay." The General said as the Captain kissed her knuckles.

- "You are my life." Chase whispered, kissing her face several times, gently and tenderly.

The Little O'Connor boy softened his gaze and smiled dreamily as he watched the couples.

- "Okay, come on." The quadbrid tilted her head towards the edge.

- "Let's go, Madam President." The younger Davenport man smirked.

- "Stop." Maddie rolled her eyes, amused.

- "No, twice in a row, you were elected." Chase 2 replied. "This is amazing. Accept that I will never stop calling you that."

- "Okay." The quadbrid chuckled softly.

The two pushed on their hands and got out of the pool.

- "Come on, Harper." The younger Davenport man extended his hand to her.

- "Come on, smart-ass." Maddie extended her hand to her best friend with a soft smile.

- "Aw, we have to?" Harper laid her head on her husband's shoulder, who smirked and hugged her tighter.

- "If you want to eat, yes." The quadbrid snorted.

Harper pressed her lips together and looked at Maddie in amusement, with a smirk.

The Captain blushed and looked towards the children.

- "She's right, we better go, Harp." He said, and the General laughed.

- "Lady, put yourself together." Chase 2 chuckled softly.

- "Come on, we don't bite." Maddie shook her hand in the air.

The younger Davenport man raised his eyebrows at her.

- "Shush." The quadbrid said with a smirk.

- "Oh, Shut It." Harper playfully splashed water on Chase 2 before grabbing his hand.

The Captain swam to his best friend at the edge of the pool.

Chase 2 chuckled and pulled her up to the ground.

- "I won't let you go so you can fall again." Maddie said. "Come on."

- "I Know." The Captain took her hand. "I trust you." He smiled softly.

- "Good." The quadbrid smiled widely and pulled him to the ground. "Let's get dry." She wrapped one of her arms around his back.

- "Let's go, LADY." The younger Davenport man led Harper to the terrace.

- "You'll see the lady." The General hit him in the arm in mock annoyance.

- "Let's Go." The Captain put his arm around his best friend.

- "Hey, I forgot to tell you something." Maddie said.

- "What?" The Captain asked.

- "Hey, Uncle Cap." Ace threw a towel to Chase from far and he caught it.

- "Actually, two things. I'm glad to see you." The quadbrid replied. "And I love you." She used her telekinetic powers to grab a towel.

The Captain blushed and chuckled.

- "I missed you." Chase said and put his hand on her arm. "I love you too." He leaned towards her and kissed her forehead gently.

Maddie smiled softly as she closed her eyes.

- "I hope one day, I'll have what they have." Lucy said.

- "You will, baby." Chase 2 caressed the back of her head. "I didn't meet Mia until I was seventeen, and Uncle Chase didn't meet your mom until he was nineteen. It takes time sometimes to meet your true best friend."

- "Or sometimes you just grow up with them." Alice said, looking at her twin. "Even if they end up dating your twin."

- "I've known her as long as you." Theo frowned. "It's not my fault mom and dad had us the same year; uncle Kaz and aunt Mia had Beatrix." He shrugged. "It was fate."

- "Totally was, bro." Lucas wrapped his arm around his older brother's shoulder.

- "Well, I have mine." Quinn suddenly hugged Ace tightly.

- "Yeah..." Little O'Connor boy says as he is picked up from the ground by the little girl. "You do!" He laughed.

Everyone smiled softly at the two youngest.

- "The Queen and the Ace forever!!" Little Davenport girl lifted him up.

- "Yeah!" Ace laughed.

Harper stopped and smiled at her daughter and her best friend.

- "They remind me of me and Adam." She said softly.

- "Yes." The younger Davenport man nodded.

- "Come on." The quadbrid took her best friend's hand and walked up to everyone.

The Captain walked up to his daughter.

- "You'll break him like this, Little Queen." He said.

- "We're not going to buy you another one." Harper chuckled softly.

- "Sorry." The little Davenport girl let go of the little O'Connor boy, who laughed.

- "Okay, people, I'm hungry. Can we move this along?" Lucas frowned.

- "Yes, baby." Maddie nodded, amused, as she dried herself. "Wanna borrow some clothes while yours dry?" She asked the four from the other universe.

- "I brought extra clothes." Harper showed her bag. "I'm a mother; I'm always prepared." She winked as the Captain held the little girl in his arms and Ace clung to his neck.

- "Let's Go." He chuckled and took the kids inside.

- "Show off." Alice said, amused.

- "I know." The quadbrid chuckled softly. "Just give me Ace's clothes. I'll wash and dry them, so Caitlin doesn't give you crap about it."

- "Oh, Thanks." Harper sighed and smiled at Maddie.

- "Until the end of the universe." Maddie smiled back.

- "Until the end of the universe." The General smiled wildly.

- "Come on, everyone, go change." Chase 2, gently, led his four kids inside.

- "Aunt Harper." Ace said, still holding onto Chase's neck, looking back. "Come on!" He said.

- "Alright, I'm right behind you guys." The General chuckled and walked up to them.

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Year 2046 of Universe 314

It was a hot day of spring; forty-five-year-old Maddie was in the kitchen of Chase and Harper's house with their eight-year-old daughter and her best friend of the same age.

- "Okay, so I prepared everything. Now, we just need to start." She smiled. "Everyone washed their hands? I'm looking at you, Ace." She pointed at the little boy, playfully.

- "What do you mean by that?" The little O'Connor boy crossed his arms.

- "That you have terrible hygiene." Little Davenport girl replied.

- "That's not true..." Ace looked at his little hands. "One second." He ran to the kitchen sink and stood on tiptoe to wash his hands.

The Davenport woman smiled at her niece.

- "So predictable." She said.

- "Right." Quinn chuckled as the little O'Connor boy returned, waving his hands to splash water on the little girl. "No! Stop!" She pushed him, and he laughed.

The quadbrid chuckled softly and handed him a towel to dry his hands.

- "Thanks." Ace smiled with his baby teeth missing in his smile.

- "You're welcome, sweetie." Maddie replied. "Okay, so first step to make cupcakes. You take the butter and the sugar, and you pour it into our bowl, and you beat it." She handed them wooden spoons.

She had put everything on the counter so that each of them would have their own ingredients and utensils.

- "I Know." Quinn said, already putting everything in her bowl perfectly.

- "Show off." The O'Connor boy scoffed and looked at the ingredients on the table, not knowing where to begin.

- "It's not a competition, Quinn." The Davenport woman said softly and, gently, slid the butter and sugar to Ace. "It's just to make cupcakes."

- "I'm not competing; I'm just making cupcakes." The little Davenport girl said smugly and mixed the ingredients with the wooden spoon.

- "Okay, I still don't get It... Isn't just putting everything in the bowl randomly?" Ace asked.

- "You really are your parents' daughter." The quadbrid snorted as she walked towards the little boy. "No, it can't be random, because in this order it's easier to mix the preparation." She handed him the butter. "Go ahead."

- "Fine." The Little O'Connor boy put the butter in the bowl. "Alright, what's next?" He looked at her.

- "Sugar." Maddie handed him the bowl with the sugar.

While Quinn was almost done mixing hers, Ace put the sugar in the bowl.

- "Okay, now, you mix with the spoon until you get this." The Davenport woman pointed to her niece's bowl.

- "I think if my astronaut career isn't a blast, I'll be a cook." The little Davenport girl said.

- "You can be both." Little O'Connor boy smiled, mixing the ingredients.

- "That's great, sweetie." The quadbrid smiled softly.

Quinn peeked into the little boy's bowl.

- "You're doing great!!" She said.

- "You really think so?" Ace asked, she nodded.

- "She's right." Maddie replied. "Continue like that, Ace. That's great." She smiled softly.

- "So...do you really think I can be a good cook?" The little boy O'Connor asked, unsure.

- "Absolutely." Quinn nodded and looked at Maddie, wanting to boost her best friend's confidence.

- "Yes, you can." The Davenport woman nodded. "Besides, if I can teach my Adam how to make something you can actually eat, you can definitely be a good cook." She patted his back.

- "Uncle Adam always burn our food." The little Davenport girl looked back at her bowl.

- "I'm going to be better than him." The little O'Connor boy said confidently. "I will be THE best!"

The quadbrid smiled at the little boy.

- "And for your uncle Adam, we tried so many times." She shook her head. "He is a danger in the kitchen. Do not ever enter in a kitchen with Adam cooking, you will not get out alive." She, playfully, said and slid the bowls of flour towards them. "Now, you can both add the flour."

- "Did you know that flour is rich in gluten?" The little Davenport girl put the flour in the bowl.

- "There we Go." Ace said.

- "Yes, Quinn." Maddie nodded and tilted her head at the little boy. "Come on." She mouthed.

- "I read a book about it." Quinn said.

The little boy put the flour in the bowl.

- "I read it too, it was for a school project. We got an A!" Little O'Connor boy smiled.

- "That's great, buddy." The Davenport woman smiled. "Congratulations." She looked at the two kids, mixing their ingredients. "Continue like that, guys. You are both doing an excellent job."

- "Can I make you a purple cupcake?" Little Davenport girl asked. "Oh! One of those with lots of frosting!" She smiled.

- "Oh Yeah, or the ones with lots of sprinkles!" Little O'Connor boy exclaimed. "What if we put one on top of the other and make a tower?!"

Quinn laughed softly at him and wrinkled her nose.

- "Of course, we can." The quadbrid nodded with a warm smile. "But if you want to this, you need to finish making the cupcakes." She handed them four eggs each. "Okay. You break the eggs in the empty bowls next to you, so if there is an eggshell, we can take it out. Got it?"

- "Yes." The kids said.

- "You know, the best way to crack an egg is on the flat surface, like this." Quinn cracked the egg on the flat surface and opened it in the bowl.

- "Woah!" The Little O'Connor boy said smiling at her. "Okay then..." He cracked the egg the same way. "Nice tip."

- "Daddy taught me." Quinn smiled.

- "Nice job." Maddie said as she pre-heated the oven and put the paper cases in the muffin trays. "Once you're done cracking your eggs, you add them to your bowls." She instructed.

The kids did as instructed.

- "Now, you add the milk and mix everything until the mixtures are smooth." The Davenport woman added.

Ace gulped down the milk in the jar, with a milk mustache.

- "Weren't we supposed to drink this?" He asked, the little Davenport girl giggled.

- "You're unbelievable." She said in amusement.

The quadbrid chuckled and measured another glass of milk.

- "No, but here." She handed him the glass. "You put this in the bowl. Don't drink it." She smiled.

The Little O'Connor boy wiped his milk mustache with his forearm.

- "Sorry." He took the cup and put the milk in the bowl.

Quinn did the same with a smile on her face.

- "Don't apologize. It's okay. It's just milk." Maddie shrugged with a smile.

- "It doesn't make any difference to him; he drinks seawater." The little Davenport girl said as she mixed her mixture in the bowl.

- "It's not such a big deal, it's just water and salt." Ace shrugged.

- "Do you want me to list all the problems with doing this again?" The little Davenport girl raised an eyebrow.

- "It was just once and by accident!" Little O'Connor replied.

Quinn laughed.

- "More importantly, do you know how many people pee in that water?" The Davenport woman frowned, amused.

- "I've told him, but he never listens to me!" Quinn said dramatically.

- "I'm Sorry!" Ace replied.

- "Okay. Okay." The quadbrid chuckled. "How are your mixtures?"

- "Beauty!" The little Davenport girl said showing the smooth dough in the bowl.

- "Mine is more." The little O'Connor boy smiled.

- "That's perfect, kiddos." Maddie smiled. "Okay, now..." She handed them ice cream scoops and put the muffin trays in front of them as she put the dirty dishes in the dishwasher. "You put one scoop in each paper cases."

The kids did as instructed.

- "This is nice, Aunt Maddie." Quinn smiled at her.

- "Yes, it is." The Davenport woman walked up to her and kissed the top of her head. "I love you, sweetie. And I love you too." She ruffled Ace's hair.

The little Davenport girl wrinkled her nose.

- "Love you too." She said.

- "Same." Ace chuckled and blushed a little.

- "And I love you even more than Daddy does." Little Davenport girl beamed at her aunt; The little O'Connor boy smiled.

- "I love you more than him." The quadbrid replied. "But don't tell him that." She whispered to the kids, playfully.

- "Impossible, Uncle Cap has a heart THIS big!" Ace opened his arms wildly. "There's room for all of us equally."

- "That's true." Quinn nodded.

- "I know." Maddie said. "I was just messing with you." She smiled and touched the tip of their noses.

The kids laughed softly.

- "Okay, now, you two go play while the cupcakes cook." The Davenport woman added as she opened the oven and put the two trays in.

- "Will it take long?" Ace asked her.

- "Twenty minutes." The quadbrid replied. "I'll call you to come decorate them. Now, shoo, go play." She smiled and pointed out of the kitchen.

- "Come on, Ace. I think I know how to fix your drone." Quinn said.

- "Cool." Little O'Connor boy smiled as they ran out of the kitchen.

Maddie smiled softly as she watched them. They are so cute.

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Year 2049 of Universe 314

Evelen-year-old Ace and Quinn walked into Chase and Harper's living room after school. The Little O'Connor boy threw his backpack on the floor and threw himself on the couch in frustration, letting out a groan on a pillow.

- "King of Drama." The little Davenport girl said as she adjusted the backpack hanging on a coat rack.

- "You don't understand, I'm screwed!" Ace raised his head. "Mrs. Edson hates me, and she's going to fail me in the science fair if I don't do a project that impresses her." He sighed and buried his face in the pillow.

- "Fine, she gave you bad grades, but it doesn't mean she hates you." Quinn walked up to him and kneeled in front of him.

- "She literally said, 'O'Connor you're just like your mother'..." The little boy looked at his best friend. "Nobody likes my mother. She hates me."

- "Geez." The Little Davenport Girl cringed.

- "Why is it so easy for you to get good grades?" Ace complained. "Wait. Don't answer." He said annoyed.

- "Not gonna..." Quinn chuckled and raised her hands with a smile.

- "So, wipe that 'Because I'm a genius' smile off your face." The little O'Connor boy hit her with the pillow.

The Little Davenport Girl laughed and held the pillow.

Ace pulled the pillow back, and Quinn grabbed another one and hit him with it.

The two had a brief pillow fight while laughing.

- "Okay Stop!" The Little Davenport Girl said.

- "Why?" The Little O'Connor boy asked. Quinn beamed as she snapped her fingers. "Uuh! That's your 'I'm smart, and I have a plan to save your butt' smile." He said, excitedly, and his best friend nodded. "It's pretty cute, though." He said, and the little girl frowned angrily.

- "I'm not cute!!" Quinn hit him with the pillow, annoyed.

- "Okay!" Ace laughed. "I still don't understand why you hate it so much when people call you that."

- "Look, Mrs. Edson has a PhD in Social Sciences and History. Plus, she has already shown a lot of interest in documentary research." The Little Davenport girl said.

- "Alright..." The Little O'Connor boy frowned.

- "Documentary research is a research method used to collect, analyze and interpret documents, texts, images, records, that provide information about a specific object of study." Quinn explained and stood up. "And you can use documentary research to impress Mrs. Edson in her favorite field of study."

- "How the heck am I gonna do that?" Ace shook his head.

- "Well, documentary research can be applied in various fields. Why don't we do it about History...Oh!" Little Davenport Girl snapped her fingers. "You can write something about our family. Just analyze the documents and write an article about it." She suggested.

- "An article?" Little O'Connor stood up. "Quinny, I've barely learned how to tie my own shoes, and you want me to write an article?"

- "First, that's what elastic laces are for, and second, I'm going to help you." Quinn put her hand on his shoulder.

- "Will you?" The Little O'Connor boy's gaze softened.

- "Yup, but for that we need more help..." Little Girl Davenport said and held the little boy's hand and ran with him up the stairs of the house.

The two kids ran upstairs to Chase and Harper's office, where Chase was working on reviewing documents.

Quinn knocked on the door excitedly.

- "Dad!" The Little Davenport Girl knocked on the door. "Dad!" As the little boy looked at their hands, waiting.

- "It's open, Little Queen." The forty-year-old Captain replied, using molecular kinesis to open the office door.

- "I didn't want to be inconvenient by opening the door without being invited." Quinn said.

- "You're right." Chase smirked. "I taught you well." He said smugly.

Forty-one-year-old Harper walked towards the kids, leaving the couple's room.

- "Hey, Babies." She said. "What's going on?"

- "Ace needs our help." Little Davenport Girl said.

- "What's wrong, Buddy?" The Captain said, standing up and walking over to them.

- "I got another bad grade in Mrs. Edson's classes." Ace replied.

- "Aw, Sweetie." The General stroked the little boy's hair.

- "Do you want us to help you study?" The Father said.

- "The science fair is next week. If he gets a good grade on the project, he won't fail, so I suggested a documentary research, where the topic is our family, and he and I will write an article about It." The little girl explained to her parents with enthusiasm.

- "You mean your family." Ace said.

- "You're part of our family too, Buddy." The Captain patted the little boy on the back. "Plus, it would be documentary research on the nation's founders up close, with content that no other student would have access." He clicked his tongue.

- "He's right, this will definitely get you the grade you need." The Mom said going to a drawer and picking up a box.

- "Really?" The Little O'Connor boy asked.

- "Duh!" Quinn mocked.

- "Come on, kids." Harper placed the box on a table and began to take out some photo albums and souvenirs.

The two kids and the Captain walked to the table.

- "What's all this?" Ace asked.

- "Look, it's Uncle Leo and Dad in the robot competition." Quinn took a picture and showed it to the little boy.

The father smiled and sat down next to them.

- "Come here." The General took her daughter in her arms and sat her at the table as she was the smallest while the Captain sat next to the little boy.

- "Wait, is this my mom?" Ace picked up a picture of Caitlin, Bree and Chase at Tech Town.

- "Yeah, I worked with your mom for a while." Chase said.

- "That's so cool." Little Boy O'Connor said. "Although I can't see you guys working together." He said.

The Captain chuckled.

- "Oh, Look at this one of Aunt Maddie and Daddy." Quinn said and picked up a picture of twenty-three-year-old Maddie in a wedding dress and the twenty-five-year-old captain dancing with her.

- "Oh, This is one of Maddie's wedding photos." Harper replied with a smile.

- "Let me see." Ace asked, and the little girl handed him the photo.

- "Dad was her man of honor." The Little Davenport Girl smiled.

- "Wow, That's cool." The Little Boy O'Connor replied.

- "Yeah, right." The Father put his fingers to his temple and created a hologram showing a video of Maddie's wedding day.

The video showed Maddie, wearing a long white dress with floral lace sleeves and a small v-neckline and her long hair falling down her back as two strands of hair were tied back with a floral brooch to keep them away from her face.

She walked down the aisle with Ketem and Donald.

The Captain waited on the bride's side of the altar, with a proud and tender smile, behind him were Bree, Harper, Kara, Skylar and Chloe.

Across from him was Chase 2, looking at his fiancée with a couple of tears running down his face as he smiled widely. He was wearing a black tuxedo with a white shirt and a black bow tie.

Behind him were Mia, Leo, Adam, Daniel, Marcus and Spike.

The groom glanced at Tasha and Claire, who had walked him down the aisle a couple of minutes before.

The three smiled at each other, before looking back at Maddie.

Between the two Chases was Mon-El, ready to officiate the wedding of his little sister and his best friend, with tears in his eyes.

The Bride spotted her best friend and smiled wildly.

Chase winked at her proudly.

She giggled softly and with excitement, before looking back at her fiancé.

- "That's so sweet." Quinn said, looking at the video.

- "Maddie looked so beautiful." Ace leaned against the table.

- "Yeah, she was." Harper smiled as she stroked her daughter's back.

- "Yeah." The Captain sighed, looking at the video with nostalgia.

- "Oh Chay, Are you going to cry again?" The General mocked.

- "Did you cry, Uncle Cap?" Little O'Connor laughed.

- "No, I didn't cry..." Chase blushed.

- "Chay." The mother frowned, and the daughter laughed softly.

- "Weddings make everyone cry." Chase shrugged with a smirk.

- "I don't cry." Ace said.

Harper and Quinn looked at each other in frustration.

- "Boys." The Mother and The Daughter said, while rolling their eyes.

The Captain shook his head in amusement, holding his finger to his temple as the video played in front of them.

- "Hey, I'm a Man!" Little Boy O'Connor stated, and everyone glanced at him.

- "One day you'll be a man, Ace." Chase said, playfully, and Ace rolled his eyes in amusement.

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Present of Universe 38

Wednesday, 1st November 2017

A few seconds after midnight, everyone was looking at Ace.

- "That's Sad." Chase said, looking at the O'Connor boy.

- "Yup." The entire Mighty Force team responded simultaneously.

Oh, my fucking god. Maddie looked at Quinn with wide eyes. NIECE?! MOM'S ALIVE?! DAD'S ALIVE?! SPIKE IS AN ACTUAL PERSON?! I'M GONNA HAVE FOUR KIDS?! She glanced at Chase 2, who was looking away. Oh my god, my husband and the father of my children... Yay! She looked at Chase. CHASE IS GONNA BE MY MAN OF HONOR?! Crying at my wedding and when he thinks about it? No way. This is unreal. She scoffed mentally. AND PRESIDENT?! I'm gonna be president?! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?! She ran her hands through her hair. Oh my god, Mom's alive. She smiled widely for a second, before taking back her normal face. Oh my god...

- "Quinn, sorry I fucked up, I know." Ace said, grabbing Time Walker's hips.

She pushed his hands away.

- "I gave you specific orders, and you deliberately disobeyed them." Quinn said firmly.

The O'Connor boy sighed and lowered his head.

Oh, my... GOD!!! The Matthews girl stared at the two. This is insane.

- "Look." Ace stood up. "I know you're mad but...I was the victim." He pointed to himself.

- "You gave an opening to be used." Time Walker said firmly and dryly.

- "Shit, here we Go." The O'Connor boy shook his head.

- "Get the feeling a little too much." Chase 2 whispered.

Bree 2 laid her head on his shoulder, patting his back.

My niece. She is MY FUCKING NIECE! The quadbrid thought.

- "You know I'm useful on a mission, so I'm here to help." The O'Connor boy said with determination.

- "Ace!" The Davenport girl said firmly. "You don't understand; you shouldn't be here." She said more quietly.

Although it doesn't matter now, because it's too late. She thought.

- "Why not?" Ace frowned.

The Time Walker's eyes shifted briefly towards Maddie and back up to his eyes.

The O'Connor boy glanced at the Matthews girl, and his lips parted in realization. Holy Shit, Maddie! She reads minds...Fuck! Ace, you're an idiot!!

- "O-Ooh." Ace looked back at Quinn, as she glared at him with an indignant look and placed her hands on her hips. "You really always know what you're doing, don't you?" He closed his eyes in regret and Time Walker nodded, clenching her jaw. "My bad."

He sighed. She already read everything by now.

- "It doesn't matter now." Quinn shook her head.

- "Okay. So, why don't you guys go into Mission Command, and we'll all go change out of your costumes and put on your suits?" The genius boy suggested.

- "Yeah, cuz the mood around here is pretty awkward." Adam said.

- "Thanks, Adam; we wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't said anything." The General said sarcastically, and everyone on the team walked to the Hyper-Lift.

Quinn held Ace's arm.

- "What the heck is your problem?! Do you want me to lose everything I've worked for over the past few years?!" She whispered as she frowned angrily.

- "Alright, maybe I'm a little impulsive." The O'Connor boy replied.

- "You are unbelievable!!" The Time Walker groaned, whispering.

- "I need to get out of this thing." Leo wiggled into his Spider-Man costume as he walked upstairs.

- "Gross." The hybrid frowned as she followed with her girlfriend.

- "Little lady, can I use your makeup remover wipes?" Adam 2 asked.

- "Sure, they are in Chase's room." Maddie said.

- "Come on, I'll give them to you." The green hazel-eyed boy walked upstairs with his brother.

- "Be right there!" The Matthews girl yelled after them, before turning to the best friends. She put a shield around the three of them. "Are you seriously this irresponsible, Ace?" She frowned. "You're lucky you showed up after the two other telepaths left. People can't read my mind, so your secret..." She gestured to the two. "Is safe with me. But theirs can be read. Can you imagine the chaos you could have caused if any bad guys read it?"

- "Hi, Maddie, good to see you... What costume is that? Vampire?" The O'Connor boy smirked.

Quinn suddenly hit his cap, making it fly away.

- "That's exactly why I wanted you to stay in universe 314." The Time Walker started pacing around. "Is it so hard for you to understand that when I say, 'Stay in one place' it's because you can cause a universe-sized disaster if you follow me?!!" Her eyes widened. "How many times do I need to say, 'Do. As. I. Say'?!!" She said, stomping her foot.

The O'Connor boy pressed his lips together.

- "Don't change the subject." The quadbrid pointed at him and put her hand on her niece's shoulder. "Breathe." She looked back at Ace. "Do you realize what you've done? I know the future! This is serious. And anyone, even total strangers, could have too. Including things, they could use to destroy Chase and Harper!"

- "Ryan!" Quinn exhaled. "You just broke a million time travel rules. Oh!" She grabbed her hair. "If my dad finds out, he'll kill me." She shook her head.

- "How many times do I have to apologize?" The O'Connor boy asked, in desperation.

- "Until you grow up!" The Davenport girl deepened her frown.

Ace swallowed his regret, taking a step back and picking up his cap from the floor.

- "You cannot leave the penthouse if ANY telepath reads your mind. They'll know the future, but also how to destroy it. And everything you know, to this day, will disappear." Maddie said firmly.

The Davenport girl bit her thumbnail in despair.

- "Woah!" The O'Connor boy said and put his cap on with the brim turned backwards. "So suddenly I'm like a weapon of destruction?" He frowned.

- "You are!" The Matthews girl yelled, angrily. "You have twenty years of memories from the future. What do you think would have happened if Ember could read minds?! Or any enemies of the Mighty Force?! You have every secret on how to destroy them and make sure the future you have is never the same. Or to make sure they don't HAVE a future!" She crossed her arms. "Actions have consequences. If Quinn tells you to stay away, there is a freaking reason! So put your pride and ego aside and listen to her; because when it comes to the timeline, she knows better than you!"

- "She knows everything." Ace murmured.

- "I Do! That's why this is my job!" Time Walker pointed to herself. "I've been trained my whole life for this, and I've dedicated every second of my life to this, to be able to statistically calculate each variation in the timeline, that is, I know the consequences of you, a human, clandestine time traveler, being in a place or not." She walked up to him. "When it comes to my work, and I say stay in one place, it's not because I'm just mad at you because of our everyday life--Even though I am-- It's because I know it's dangerous!" She said firmly.

The O'Connor boy shook his head.

- "That's why when we return to our universe, I'll leave you back in our time." The Davenport girl looked away.

- "What?" Ace's face dropped.

- "Quinn, you can't do that." The quadbrid shook her head. "He messed up. BIG TIME!" She glared at him. "But he's your best friend, and more importantly, as much as you didn't plan it, he's your partner. You don't have anyone you can talk to about the future or when you miss your family, besides him. Like Glen and Gwen know, but it's not the same, and you know it." She said gently. "Look, I grew up with Leo; seeing him don't listen to me and having to save his butt was my everyday. Yet, I can't live without him, like you can't live without Ace. They are chaotic, but we need them in your lives. Even when they make us want to murder them. Ace is an idiot, but you can't give up on him."

- "I don't know whether to be moved or offended by your words." The O'Connor Boy frowned at Maddie.

- "No. It's precisely because I can't live without him that I have to do this. Look at the risk I'm taking. I can't risk it anymore." The Time Walker shook her head.

- "Quinn, I don't want to go back there I don't..." Ace said.

- "It's my final decision!" Quinn stated. "It's the best thing to do."

- "But I...I..." The O'Connor boy looked at her, upset.

- "If you do that, you'll regret it and it will break something between you two." Maddie replied. "You know it deep down."

- "It's dangerous, Aunt Maddie." Quinn looked at her.

- "Yeah, and I haven't seen it like that until now. But..." The O'Connor boy sighed. "I see it now, give me another chance, Quinn."

- "What in our lives isn't dangerous, sweetie?" The Matthews girl asked.

- "That's the problem, I can handle it but he can't." Time Walker told her aunt, worried.

Ace shook his head and looked down.

- "Yeah, the Davenports in both universes said to the same thing about the Leos and Grace." The quadbrid said. "Look at them now."

- "I don't meant It like that." Quinn shook her head. "This work is solo, and I've come to terms with that for a long time because it's extremely delicate, it's one of the foundations of the universe. I can't give anything a chance to go wrong." Time Walker explained.

- "Fine, you take care of the universe, but no one takes care of you?" The O'Connor boy said.

The Davenport girl shook her head with her hands on her hips.

- "He's right." Maddie nodded. "Sweetie, you have him, and he's your partner whether you like it or not. You are in this thing together. The good and the bad stuff. He proved to you and your dad, both versions, that he can. He messed up, and you can yell at him about that all you want. But don't make a decision in the heat of the moment that you'll regret later. And you WILL regret it, even if you're just trying to protect him."

The Davenport girl looked at her aunt thoughtfully.

- "Quinny, please." Ace held her hand from behind, making her frown and turn to him. He gently lifted the sleeve of her mission suit, revealing the tattoo on her wrist, a Q symbolizing the queen card in the deck. The O'Connor boy placed his wrist next to hers with a tattoo of an A representing the Ace of Cards in the deck. "We are the Queen and the Ace forever." He looked at her.

Quinn looked at the tattoos thoughtfully as he looked at her expectantly.

- "Give him one last chance and if he screws up again, I'll kick his butt before you send him back." The Matthews girl said.

- "Maddie never made a mistake." Ace glanced at her and gave her a wink.

- "Yeah, say that to Chase's eyebrow." The quadbrid sighed.

- "Why? He loves that scar." The O'Connor boy frowned, and Quinn sighed, looking up at him.

- "Maybe I'll think about it." She said.

- "The last time you said that, you gave in." Ace grinned.

- "You're pushing your luck." The Time Walker pulled her arm away and Ace put his hand on his wrist in frustration.

- "I don't know why he loves it." Maddie frowned. "And yeah, Ace, stop it."

- "Look, I just want to know if we're okay." The O'Connor boy sighed. "That's why I couldn't stay there. Knowing that you..." He shook his head.

- "Am I mad? Yeah. I am." Quinn crossed her arms. "But it's not your fault that you were deceived, or that you fell in love with a maniac." She said.

- "I'm not in love with her." Ace frowned.

- "Well, you were hanging out with her and dedicating your time to her..." The Time Walker turned and walked over to Darwin, who was on the ground.

The O'Connor Boy looked at Maddie with a serious look.

- "So were both Chases with Sebastian, yet neither of them was in love." The Matthews girl replied.

- "I've never been in love..." Ace lied, keeping a serious look.

- "I know that." Quinn glanced at Maddie as she petted Darwin. "And I know that too." The Davenport girl pointed to her best friend. "I was just exaggerating. I know if you ever fell in love, you would tell me." She chuckled and turned her attention back to the cat.

- "Obviously." The quadbrid glanced at him with a soft smile.

Ace looked back at her, shrugging and shaking his head.

Maddie looked at both of them. This is freaking me out.

- "Yeah, I would." The O'Connor boy said in an uncertain tone, as he kept his gaze on Maddie.

The Matthews girl ran her hands through her hair. I need to process all I saw. BUT HOW THE FUCK CAN I DO THAT?!

Quinn stood up and looked back at her best friend.

- "So, are we okay?" The O'Connor boy asked.

- "Uhg!" The Davenport Girl threw her head back. "I hate that I can't not like you." She crossed her arms.

- "Thanks to that I'm still alive." Ace smiled.

- "You're ridiculous." Quinn said.

The quadbrid chuckled softly.

- "Come on, Quinny, you can do better than that." The O'Connor boy said.

- "You're a jerk." The Davenport girl replied.

- "No, you didn't hit me in the soul. Try again, and you can give me a verbal slap in the face." Ace said sarcastically. "I Know you want it."

- "You are an idiot." Time Walker said in amusement.

- "Uh! Almost. I'm expecting asshole or..." The O'Connor boy says.

- "I'm not going to say that." Quinn shook his head.

Maddie smiled softly as she sat on the back of the couch, looking at her hands, taking a minute to process. Mom's alive. Her eyes watered as she looked at her hands,seeing Chase's phone. I need to give it back to him.

- "You're never gonna curse at me, will you?" Ace chuckled.

- "No." The Davenport girl said.

- "Don't you have anything better than 'idiot' then?" The O'Connor boy frowned.

- "I do." Quinn grinned. "You're Deprived of intelligence."

- "Wow!" Ace laughed. "That gave me the creeps." He said sarcastically.

This is crazy. I thought mom would never see me getting married, but she's going to. She's gonna meet her grandkids too. The Matthews girl thought as a single ran down her cheek.

The Time Walker turned and walked towards Maddie with a more serious look, Ace followed her.

- "I call it 'Temporal Torment'." She said at her aunt.

- "I saw so many things about my future." The quadbrid said, holding back her tears, still looking down.

- "It's normal for you to feel this way. I've never experienced. Because one of the rules of being a Time Walker is to never look into the future because it's constantly changing, and you can't let that affect you." Quinn sat down next to her. "But I've seen a lot of people go through this. However, some of them don't have the mental strength to handle it, and I had to erase their memories or else they would freak out or do something crazy."

- "Wow, seriously?" Ace frowned

- "Yeah. But I know that won't be your case." The Davenport girl put her hand on her aunt's shoulder.

- "You wouldn't be able to anyway." Maddie smiled softly as she wiped her eyes, looking at them. "It's just that in two weeks, it's gonna be four years since my mom died. And I just saw that she's gonna be alive in the future. Which is insane!" She exclaimed. "But this is amazing!" A tear ran down her cheek and she quickly wiped it. "I just need time to process all I saw, but I don't have it right now. My mom. My dad. Spike. My kids. Your dad. The fact that I'm president. What the heck?"

Quinn smirked and hugged her.

- "But as I said, the future is constantly changing. And I don't have control over your timeline like I do over ours. In other words, I can't guarantee that everything will be like this. You need to keep this in mind." She explained. "Time is a broad and variable concept." She said. "I don't want you to be disappointed, Aunt Maddie. So, embrace the now, the present." Time Walker said.

- "I know." The Matthews girl sighed and caressed her arm. "Between my mom or Chase, I don't know which one sounds the most ridiculous." She snorted.

- "What do you mean?" The Davenport girl frowned.

- "My mom's dead and your dad doesn't like me, so between seeing her alive and Chase being my man of honor. It's ridiculous." The quadbrid shrugged.

Ace and Quinn exchanged a look.

What the fuck? What? When does Uncle Cap not like his best friend? He thought.

Oh, they're in that phase. The Time Walker thought.

- "Well. My father is a complex person..." Quinn held her hand.

- "Uncle Cap is...he has complex layers of personality." The O'Connor boy said.

- "Yes, and we're talking about my father at twenty years old. He's still insecure and has recent traumas. He still doesn't know his inner self in depth because he's still only halfway there." Quinn said. "He's the one who said that to me." She nodded.

- "I know all that." Maddie nodded.

- "He doesn't." The Davenport girl said. "Not quite yet." She smiled. "He's a work in progress, he's on his way to becoming the Chase I know as a father."

- "Doesn't change that I don't understand how the guy who keeps telling me that only Harper wants me at their wedding and who looks annoyed at me all the time, can be my man of honor." The Matthews girl said. "This makes no sense, and it definitely won't happen."

- "I can't say how what you saw happened." Quinn said. "But I can only say that one of the reasons my father became the man he is in my time and in Ace's memories is...you."

The quadbrid frowned. Yeah, right.

- "He still has the shirt, you know." Quinn chuckled.

- "What shirt?" The O'Connor boy asked.

- "The one he hid from you for years, because you always stole his favorite clothes." She replied annoyed.

- "He has a sense of style." Ace shrugged.

- "He does?" Maddie frowned.

- "Yeah." The Davenport Girl nodded. "In perfect condition, except one of the letters in the writing faded over time, so Mom fixed it for him. As good as new."

- "Okay." The Matthews girl replied.

The guy who told me he didn't give a fuck about me kept the t-shirt even thirty-eight years later? She thought.

- "Yeah, I know you don't believe me, you don't have to pretend." Quinn shook her head.

- "Yeah, sorry." The quadbrid pressed her lips together. "It's not you. It's just... It's Chase."

- "It's okay. But you don't have to pretend for me. I know when you lie, it's just useless." Time Walker said. "And yes..." She sighed. "He must make you go crazy; you can't figure him out."

- "I already know he doesn't like me." Maddie shrugged. "Or care."

- "You say that with a lot of certainty." Ace frowned.

Quinn nodded.

- "You don't know the conversations we had." The Matthews girl replied.

- "I do!" Quinn raised her hand. The O'Connor boy frowned. "Some of them. Most of them. The most important ones." She said.

- "So, you know the one where I told me that he didn't give a fuck about me?" The quadbrid raised her eyebrows.

- "Language." The Time Walker frowned. "But yeah, he was being sarcastic."

- "I'm just quoting him." Maddie raised her hands.

- "I know, force of habit." The Davenport girl shook her head. "But he was being sarcastic when he said he didn't care about you."

- "Wouldn't be too sure of that." The Matthews girl frowned.

I can't change her mindset now; it's a concrete event that my father and her had this disagreement before the friendship. The Davenport girl sighed. But I heard that conversation; I know he was being sarcastic.

- "You're right, there's no way to be sure." Time Walker shook her head.

- "Besides, if he said it, but he will never." The quadbrid shrugged.

- "Oh, Aunt Maddie, the only thing that never exists is the concept of never." Quinn chuckled. "Everything ever will happen at some point in time, I can assure you. Just have faith that it will happen in your timeline."

She smirked. And It will.

- "Given how he keeps pushing me away, I doubt it." Maddie snorted.

- "It doesn't mean anything; you just saw Quinn pushing me away." Ace said. "And she loves me!" He smiled.

- "You're too confident." The Davenport girl frowned, annoyed.

- "See?" The O'Connor boy pointed at her. "It's the Chase Davenport temper; she gets it from her father."

- "I also saw in your mind all the times when she didn't. But that's all he does." The Matthews girl replied.

- "Just don't give up on him." Quinn laid her head on her aunt's shoulder.

- "Also, don't kick him in the nuts If he upsets you." The O'Connor boy said. "Quinny kind of needs that." He chuckled.

The Time Walker frowned at him in disgust.

The quadbrid put her hand on her niece's cheek.

- "I won't." She snorted at Ace. "And I won't give up on him." She sighed. "Same for what I said about my Chase years ago; I'd rather have him in my life than not at all, even if it slowly breaks my heart."

The Davenport girl held her aunt's hand to her face with a soft smile.

- "Thanks, Cuz I need you in my life and this is the only way that will happen." She smiled.

- "Aw." Maddie smiled softly. "I understand better the face you made when you saw me, though."

- "What face?" The O'Connor boy asked, Quinn rolled her eyes in amusement.

- "She looked excited." The Matthews girl shrugged.

- "Aw, love that face. It's..." Ace grinned.

- "Don't you dare say cute!" Time Walker said annoyed.

- "It's cute." The quadbrid replied. "I don't get why you and your mom hate this word."

- "The only person who can call my mom cute is my dad." The Davenport girl said.

- "I know." Maddie smiled softly. "He's the exception."

- "Yeah, but I don't have an exception." Quinn said confidently. "I'm not cute!" She stated.

- "Yes, you are." The Matthews girl pinched both of her cheeks and moved her head side to side. "So cute." She smiled.

The O'Connor boy laughed.

- "Stop!" Time Walker said. "You sound like Grandma Tasha." She pushed her hands away.

- "I grew up with her. What did you expect?" The quadbrid smirked. "Don't laugh." She got up and pinched his cheeks, doing the same movement to him. "So cute."

- "Maddie, stop!" Ace chuckled. "I'm not a kid. I'm older than you, and technically you just met me!" He said.

- "Yeah, but she saw the little boy who drank seawater that you were." The Davenport girl mocked.

- "Uhg." The O'Connor boy rolled his eyes.

Maddie pulled her hands away.

- "You might be older than me right now. But thanks to your minds, I have twelve years of memories of us together in the future, so." She shrugged with a smile.

- "You saw everything, right?" Ace said frustrated.

- "Sadly." The Matthews girl replied.

Quinn snorted.

- "Hey, don't laugh." The O'Connor boy pointed at her.

- "You're right, I should cry because...nobody deserves to see this." Time Walker mocked him.

Ace bit his lip and shook his head.

- "Usually I wouldn't care, but since you're a kid that I'm gonna see grow up. It is weird." The quadbrid said.

- "And It's...Ace." The Davenport girl teased.

- "We get It, Quinn!" The O'Connor boy blushed.

Maddie chuckled softly.

- "I have one question, though." She turned to her niece.

Quinn frowned.

- "How are my kids?" The Matthews girl asked. "I just wanna know if they are okay. That's it."

- "Yeah, they're okay. But I can only tell you this." The Time Walker said.

- "Wasn't going to ask more." The quadbrid smiled softly.

- "I couldn't answer either way." Quinn smiled.

- "I'm sorry if my mind scared you; I never even thought there would be anything useful here." Ace pointed to his head.

- "Yes, it shocked us all." The Davenport Girl smiled sarcastically.

- "It didn't scare me. Just... Totally freaked me out." Maddie said. "I turned eighteen a few weeks ago and thanks to you, I saw part of my wedding, part of my life, how many kids I'm gonna have, their names, their faces, without talking about Spike, my mom and dad, or Chase."

- "See? That's why to travel through time you need to have a mind blocker." Quinn said. "Anyway I think I'll give you one no one needs to see what's in this weird head of yours."

- "My head is not weird okay." Ace frowned.

- "Agree to disagree." The Matthews girl teased.

- "I'm sorry you saw him rehearsing to be Peter Pan in the school theater, that was torture." Quinn shook her head.

- "I don't think you know what torture is, Quinn." The O'Connor boy frowned, rethinking what Maddie saw in his mind.

- "Thank God, she doesn't." The quadbrid replied.

- "What do you mean?" The Davenport girl asked her friend.

- "See why you're cute?" Ace teased.

Quinn glared at him annoyed.

Maddie snorted.

- "Guys, about my Chase..." She looked at both of them.

- "What's about him?" The Time Walker asked.

- "What do you know about him right now?" The Matthews girl asked.

- "Confidential information." Quinn replied.

- "No, like in my current timeline. What do you know?" The quadbrid frowned.

- "I don't know anything." The O'Connor boy raised his hands.

- "You shouldn't even be here." The Davenport girl grumbled.

- "Quinn." Maddie crossed her arms.

- "What information do you think I might know?" A Time Walker smirked.

- "You know exactly what I'm thinking about." The Matthews girl replied.

- "You and Chase are secretly dating." Quinn said. "Mom and dad know, I don't know how, but they know. And now you know that I know and Ace knows." She said.

- "Uh temporal gossip, huh." The O'Connor boy laughed.

- "Okay." The quadbrid sighed. "Don't tell anyone. We planned to tell everyone tomorrow. Just your parents arrived when we were kissing so..." She shrugged.

- "Aunt Maddie, look who you're talking to. If there's anyone who knows how to keep secrets in the entire universe 314, it's me." Quinn said with a smile.

- "And the only person I would tell is Quinn so it's fine." The O'Connor boy nodded with a smirk.

- "Okay, good." Maddie nodded. "I can't believe I'm gonna have to hide something from Chase again. I made him read my mind so we wouldn't have any more secrets from each other. And paf, more secrets. And not small ones." She shook her head.

- "It's just that technically you shouldn't know everything you know. It's an imbalance." Time Walker explained, she got up and hit her best friend in the arm.

- "Ow!" The O'Connor boy held his arm.

- "See what you did!?" Quinn said annoyed.

- "I'm sorry!" Ace exclaimed. "For the millionth time."

- "Still a very small number compared to pi." The Davenport girl crossed her arms.

- "I know." The Matthews girl sighed. "But between the two Chases, I'm screwed. They always know what I'm hiding something. If they feel it and ask questions, I'll lie. They'll know, and they'll think I don't trust them." She slapped her forehead.

- "Well, in our universe, there are people with the power to change that. Like manipulating things so they never ask you about it." Quinn said. "Glen and Gwen. But as far as I know, they only have power over my father."

- "That's one less Chase to ask questions about the future." The O'Connor boy shrugged.

- "Okay, good." The quadbrid sighed. "Because my Chase would let it go, but your dad... God, that man is so stubborn."

The two friends laughed, nodding.

- "He is, but it's because he's strong." The Davenport girl said.

- "Super strong, in every way." The O'Connor boy said.

- "I know." Maddie smiled softly. "Okay, you guys go in Mission Command. I'm gonna put on my suit."

- "Yeah, we have to clean up the mess your girlfriend made." Quinn said to Ace.

- "She's not my girlfriend!" The O'Connor boy sighed as the Time Walker walked out of the shield towards the Hyper-Lift without looking back with a serious look on her face.

- "Ace. Never give up your dream. If you believe in it, it will happen." The Matthews girl winked and super speeded upstairs, after she took down the shield.

The O'Connor boy softened his gaze in the direction she super speeded. I hope so. If I don't keep screwing it up. He sighed.

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A couple of minutes later, everyone was in Mission Command in their mission suits and makeup-free.

Maddie glanced at Quinn. Can't believe she's my niece. I was right, though. 'Quinn' and those eyes, it was the little girl they met years ago. She looked at Chase. This is the daughter he always wanted.

- "Okay, what now?" Leo 2 asked.

- "Now..." The Captain stepped forward. "This is one of our targets." He put his fingers to his temple, showing Ember's file. "Ember Wilder, universe 314."

- "Gotta be honest, after all this, I don't even think she's hot anymore." Ace said.

Quinn glared at him, annoyed.

- "She worked with Giselle Vickers; she was her assistant and apprentice...." Harper explained to the team.

- "Oooh, she's mad at us because we made Giselle turn into more slices than a loaf of bread." The Vice Captain nodded in realization.

- "That's one way of putting it." Leader Dooley shrugged.

- "And our Ember is mad at me because I'm the one who destroyed Troy." The Matthews girl added as she handed Chase his phone back, because with everything that had happened, they all forgot about it.

- "Destroyed him?" Adam 2 snorted. "You decapitated him with a lid!" He laughed.

- "It was so cool!" Bree 2 smiled.

And so hot. Chase 2 blushed slightly.

- "That's Dee." The middle brother smirked as he put his arm around her shoulders. "Badass since day one."

Chase took his cell phone and put it in his pocket.

- "I sunk Troy's head in the sink." Agent Davenport said. "Do you think she's mad about that?"

- "No, Bee." Kaz shook his head sarcastically. "I bet she wants to kill us all but you, Babe." He put his arm around her.

She rolled her eyes.

- "There are other reasons why our Ember wants revenge on us." The Captain said.

- "Because you didn't approve that law where every Saturday would be a free barbecue day?" Adam asked.

The General frowned.

- "No!" Chase frowned. "And for the thousandth time, stop making up stupid laws and putting them under my door. They won't happen." He said annoyed.

The Vice Captain groaned and turned to his younger self.

- "Is your Chase like that too?" He asked

- "You mean boring as hell?" The tall guy whispered. "Yeah."

The Matthews girl used her telekinetic powers to make him slap himself hardly twice.

- "Ow!" Adam 2 frowned and held both of his cheeks. "I did not miss that!"

- "I did." The quadbrid grinned as she crossed her arms.

The genius boy rolled his eyes.

The Vice Captain frowned and looked at the Captain.

- "He's not boring." Harper said.

- "Yeah." Adam said. "He might not be." He looked at his brother, annoyed.

- "I won't approve your stupid laws, cry about having free barbecue somewhere else." The Captain said.

- "Fucking Fun-killer." Adam scoffed, looking at his younger self.

The Captain glared seriously at the Vice Captain with his arms crossed.

Adam turned to him and briefly widened his eyes as he moved away from the cyber desk he was leaning on.

- "Focus." Chase said firmly.

The General pressed her lips together and nodded at her best friend.

- "Yes, Cap." The Vice Captain nodded, putting his arms behind his back.

- "Can't believe you're scared of Chase." The tall guy frowned. "He's so short. It's ridiculous." He laughed with his sister.

Maddie's eyes turned red.

The green hazel-eyed boy looked at his girlfriend. Try not to murder them.

Can't make any promises. The Matthews girl smirked from across the table, letting her eyes go back to their blue color.

Chase 2 shook his head, amused.

- "So, how do we find them?" Skylar asked.

- "Yeah, because they're not gonna wave a sign telling us where they are." Leo 2 added.

- "If I were a villain, I would make a sign saying, 'I am not Adam Davenport'." Adam 2 smirked. "Smart, huh?" He crossed his arms.

The quadbrid, sarcastically, nodded.

- "It's brilliant." The hybrid mocked.

The half of the Mighty Force team looked at the younger Davenports with a frown, and the other half looked at Maddie in awe.

The Captain clenched his jaw in offense as he glared at them.

- "Dude, this plan is too predictable. If I was a villain, I would make a sign that said, 'I'm Adam Davenport.' No one would expect that." The Vice Captain chuckled.

- "Adam..." Chase sighed and looked at him. "Think before you speak."

- "Fine, but you have to admit that I and I are on to something." Adam said.

- "What do you mean?" Harper frowned. "That she's where we expect her to be?" She raised an eyebrow.

- "Well, Yeah." The Vice Captain nodded.

- "She wouldn't be so foolish." The Captain shook his head.

- "Villains aren't the brightest." The middle brother said.

- "She is." Maddie replied. "She was Giselle's assistant for a reason. She's not dumb. She's actually really smart. Don't underestimate her; it would only come back to bite you in the butt."

Can't curse in front of my niece. She thought.

- "She's right." The genius boy nodded. "We need to think with the things Mads read in her mind and what Ace knows about the other."

Quinn laughed loudly in mockery.

- "Oh, Ace only knows the taste of her lipstick." She scoffed.

- "When you say it like that, it almost sounds like you're jealous." Bree chuckled.

- "What?" Time Walker looked at Agent Davenport, blushing slightly.

Ace snorted.

- "Like Chase with Sebastian." Adam 2 snorted as he put his arm around his youngest brother's shoulders.

Bree 2 chuckled.

The Matthews girl pressed her lips together as her eyes turned red again, threatening to go after them. I'm going to fucking murder them.

- "You must have learned at least one thing about her." The Calderan said. "Even the smallest detail could be useful."

The green hazel-eyed boy looked at his older self and tilted his head towards the quadbrid, who was next to him.

- "Don't let her." He mouthed.

- "I don't promise anything." The Captain shrugged with a serious look.

- "Were we that harsh with you?" The Vice Captain whispered to his brother, who just shook his head slowly.

- "This is mean." Bree whispered.

- "Well, what I know about her is that..." The O'Connor boy walked to the middle of the room. "First, that she has great taste..." He smirked briefly, taking off his cap and running his hand through his hair, smugly.

- "Ew!" Quinn crossed her arms teasingly.

- "We don't need to know that." Maddie smiled softly at him as her eyes turned back to their blue color.

- "Okay, Maddie?" Leo 2 raised his eyebrows.

- "Well, she's smart. She saw Giselle and Troy like the mom and brother she never had." The Matthews girl explained. "And if in your universe." She gestured to the Mighty Force. "Her dad died, aka the last person she had. We need to tell the students to protect Donnie, in case they go after him."

- "I'll call Marcus and tell him to grab Daniel, Jason and Emily and go to the mansion." The middle brother walked further away with his phone.

- "What about our father?" Bree asked.

- "He's safe at the Mighty Force base with Elite Force One." The General explained.

- "But what Ember really wants is to destroy us to get revenge on him." The Captain began to walk around the cyber desk. "She lost everything she had, and she blames him. She wants him to feel the same way." He explained.

- "Well, Not a wise decision." Agent Davenport smirked.

- "No claiming victory before time, Bree." Chase said.

- "Besides, the two Embers are here." The Matthews girl replied. "Your dad's safe."

- "You can hear them?" The hybrid asked.

- "Yeah, it's faint, but I can hear them." The quadbrid frowned. "I can't understand what they are saying, though. It sounds like they are around construction sites."

- "At night?" The Storm girl questioned.

- "There are a few companies that work at night for large building constructions." Chase 2 added as he activated the cyber desk. "We just need to find where they are." He put up a map of National City with several points. "This is us." He pointed to a red point on the map. "That's the sites." He pointed to the three blue points. "What do you hear, Mads?"

Maddie closed her eyes as she focused on the sounds.

- "They can't be far." The Captain said. "Ace, she didn't let any detail of her plan slip at any time?" He asked.

- "No, she just made it clear that she doesn't think you deserve to lead the nation and that she doesn't like or trust you." The O'Connor boy replied.

- "Yeah, well, we're even." Harper said angrily. "To think she's served me at the bar more than once." She said frustrated.

- "Better not think about what she might have done with our drinks." The Vice Captain said.

- "They are South." The Matthews girl opened her eyes.

Leo 2 walked back to the cyber desk.

- "South." Bree 2 frowned. "They are at the waterfront?"

- "Why are they where our statues are if they hate us so much?" Adam 2 asked.

- "To keep their anger on focus." The genius boy replied.

- "Where is the waterfront specifically?" The Captain asked.

- "Near the statues." The tall guy scoffed. "This guy." He pointed at him. "Pfff."

The hybrid slapped her forehead, in despair.

- "Near L-Corp." The green hazel-eyed boy replied.

- "I noticed last time, there is a construction site near it." The quadbrid said.

- "That's gotta be where they are hiding." Skylar added.

- "There's only one way to find out." The Vice Captain said.

- "Calm down, Buddy." The General patted him on the back.

- "We need to have a plan first." Chase 2 replied.

- "Well, they have hypnotic powers." Maddie added. "I could get the telepathic dampers to stop their powers to come at you guys."

- "How many does the D.E.O. have?" The middle brother asked.

- "Not enough for all of you." The Matthews girl sighed. "But with the dampers, I can try to protect the minds of more people. But I can't promise anything, I'm not fully a green Martian. I don't know if I can do it."

- "Excellent, is already something in our favor." Chase said.

- "Yes! We can use one of these to shield your mind." Quinn whispered to her best friend.

- "Do you think you can do it?" Ace asked Maddie discreetly.

Safer to talk like this with everyone around. The quadbrid sent in his mind. But I'm gonna protect your mind anyway. Nobody can know.

- "I'll go get them." Leo 2 said as he took an interdimentional extrapolator and opened a portal to the D.E.O. "So much more practical. Dee, you're a genius!" He smiled and walked through the portal, closing it behind him.

Maddie smiled, shyly.

The best friends nodded at her.

- "Oh yeah, Ace, hand over your interdimentional extrapolator to Maddie." The General said.

- "Here." The O'Connor boy handed her the device.

- "Now there's only one left, the original." Chase sighed.

- "Thanks." The Matthews girl replied as she started to type on the small device.

- "You should have put a tracker on this thing." Bree 2 said.

- "No, because otherwise the Embers would have been able to track every single one of the devices." The quadbrid replied. "Including the ones, the Legends or Green Arrow or the Flash have."

- "Oh, yeah. That would be bad." Adam 2 shook his head.

- "It really wouldn't be any fun." Harper nodded.

- "Wait! The Flash!!" Kaz's eyes widened.

- "Yeah." The genius boy nodded. "She worked with him twice. And I worked with him once to save her."

Maddie smiled softly as she finished putting the modifications in the interdimentional extrapolator.

- "No way!!" The Male Agent shouted in his girlfriend's ear.

- "Kaz! Calm down!!" Bree replied.

- "How, where do I find him? I have like a box of comics for him to sign!" Kaz said.

- "Nerd." The General chuckled.

- "I'm going to his wedding next month." The Matthews girl said as she handed the device to Ace. "Give me some, I'm sure he'll be happy to sign them." She looked at her alter ego. "You were pretty happy when you got one from Supergirl." She smirked.

- "Yes! Yes!" The Male Agent nodded. "Hear that, Bee? The Flash is going to sign my comics." He held her face excitedly.

- "I heard." Agent Davenport replied with her face being crushed by her boyfriend. "I don't get why you love him so much though."

- "Must be cuz he has a thing with speedsters." Leo snorted.

- "Yeah, but I was cool." Harper replied to Maddie.

Cool and freaking out about seeing in person what I assume is the most beautiful woman ever. She blushed slightly.

- "Outside." The quadbrid said. "I know you. You were freaking out internally."

- "Like she was when she met Oliver Queen." The green hazel-eyed boy smirked.

- "I was very calm." Maddie replied.

- "Yeah, until he said that you were impressive and a great superhero." Chase 2 added.

The Matthews girl pressed her lips together.

- "Yeah, okay, I was freaking out." She chuckled softly.

- "I know you." The genius boy shrugged with a smile.

- "To be fair, she has been annoying us with him for years." The hybrid shrugged.

- "Like Chase with Spider-Man." Adam chuckled.

- "And you with that cartoon dinosaur, don't you watch anything else?" The Captain frowned.

- "Hey, He taught me how to share in a way no one ever taught me." The Vice Captain said dramatically.

- "Okay, I was happy to meet Supergirl." The General raised her hands. "You can't blame me for that."

The middle brother teleported back into the room.

- "I can't." He shook his head and put four dampers on the cyber desk. "I freaked out on everyone. Like we met Superman and Supergirl!" He mimicked an explosion near his head.

- "Spider-Man is the best." The green hazel-eyed boy said.

- "White Canary." Bree 2 shook her head.

- "No." Adam 2 frowned. "Iron Man."

Quinn discreetly took one of the dampers and hid it behind her back. No one can ask why Ace needs one. She leaned casually against the cyber desk.

- "All of them are awesome!!" Kaz beamed.

The Captain walked to the cyber desk.

- "Those are the dampers, huh?" He said, picking one up.

- "Yep." The quadbrid nodded. "They are not mind blockers, but since the girls can't read minds, the dampers will work."

And I will protect Ace's mind. She sent to the best friends. Just in case.

- "You put it one like this." The green hazel-eyed boy took one and put it on his forehead, before putting it back down since he did not need one.

Quinn looked over her shoulder at Ace, and he nodded back at her, helping her hide the device.

- "Alright, I'll take one." Chase said. "Harp, you take another one." He tossed the device to her. "And we have one more..."

- "Okay, which one of you would do the most damage if the Embers controlled them?" Maddie looked at everyone, but the Chases, Harper, Quinn and Ace.

The Mighty Force team looked at each other.

- "Adam." The Captain tossed the device to the Vice Captain.

- "Nice." Adam replied and placed the damper on his forehead.

- "Okay." The hybrid nodded. "So, now what? We go?"

The Captain glanced one last time at the map on the cyber desk.

- "Any objections?" He looked at the other team.

- "Nope, let's go kick some ass." The tall guy clapped his hands.

The five youngest of Universe 38 nodded.

- "Let's Go!" Adam raised his hands.

- "Wait!" The Leader Dooley held up a finger with his cell phone in his hand, and the Mighty Force team groaned. "Oh, come on, people." He said, increasing the volume of the headphones.

Newton and Darwin walked up to their owners; Harper crouched down in front of the cat.

- "Mommy and Daddy will be right back, okay." Se said softly and moved and turned on a button on the Newton's collar.

Just in case. She thought.

- "Ace." Quinn whispered and put the damper in his hand discreetly. "Put this on your forehead and only leave Mission Command if I tell you to, Okay?" She turned to him.

- "I won't let you down this time." The O'Connor boy replied.

- "Uh No, No, No..." Leo went through his playlist. "Do you think Katy Perry fits this situation?" He asked. "Leo, what do you think?" He looked at his younger version.

- "Do you have Bruno Mars?" Leo 2 asked.

- "Oh my god." Chase 2 rolled his eyes.

The Matthews girl snorted.

- "I was just thinking about that! Dude, you know what you talking about!" Leader Dooley said excitedly. "I have a remix." He looked at his phone.

- "Shit, now there are two." Bree put her hand to her forehead in despair.

- "Mighty Force..." The Captain placed the device on his forehead. "It's time." He said. "However, it is worth remembering that this is a delicate mission; we are Alter Egos here, meaning we cannot be seen or detected by telepaths and others, this means..." He explained firmly.

- "Protocol 5 confidentiality mission." The General said, putting a damper on her forehead.

- "Everyone got that?" The Vice Captain asked, and the team nodded.

- "Great, now..." Chase cracked his knuckles and looked at Maddie and her team. "We follow you and your universe. You call the shots."

- "Okay." The genius boy nodded. "Mads, if you will."

- "Everyone steps back." The quadbrid walked in front of everyone. They all took a step back as she opened a large portal. "Done."

- "Alright, let's go, people." The green hazel-eyed boy said. "The Embers are dangerous, so we need to all each other's backs more than usual."

- "Got it." Skylar nodded.

- "Yep." The middle brother replied.

- "Bossing us around again." Adam 2 rolled his eyes. "Yeah."

- "Whatever you say." Bree 2 nodded.

- "♪Tonight. I just want to take you higher. ♪" Leo started humming the song 24k Magic by Bruno Mars that was playing in his headphones. "♪Throw your hands up in the sky. ♪" He playfully raised his hands, and Bree and Harper exchanged a look of amusement.

The Captain shook his head in amusement.

- "Let's Go." He said, entering the portal.

- "♪Let's set this party off right. ♪" Leader Dooley grinned. "Great choice, L.D." He winked at his younger self and entered the portal.

Everyone walked through the portal, letting close behind, leaving Ace alone in Mission Command.

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A couple of seconds later, everyone walked up to the waterfront, seeing the large statues of GreatGirl, Supergirl, Valor, Chase, Adam, Bree, Leo, Skylar, Oliver and Kaz.

- "Okay, we're here." The genius boy said.

- "Where are they?" The middle brother frowned.

- "I don't know." The Matthews girl frowned. "I can't hear them anymore. There's too much noise." She gestured to the construction site.

- "Okay, everyone watches their six." The green hazel-eyed boy added. "And it's Halloween, so even if nobody is here now, that doesn't mean civilians won't come later."

- "Civilians first." The Calderan nodded.

- "Holy Shit!" The Vice Captain looked at the statues. "Oh man, why don't we have these in the nation?" He looked at Chase.

The Captain shook his head.

- "I don't get it; they could go anywhere. Why here?" Agent Davenport looked around.

- "Because you don't have a Lena Luthor." The tall guy said to his older self.

- "Because they are weirdos." The hybrid scoffed. "Wasting our Halloween on them."

- "But I'm one of the founders of the nation, I deserve a statue." Adam complained.

- "You already named a tree in the nation's central park after yourself; that was enough." Harper told her best friend.

- "Oh, Yeah." The Vice Captain laughed. "You should see the Adam Tree; it's the biggest in the park." He chuckled at his younger self.

The General rolled her eyes.

- "I'm sorry, Bree." The Agent Davenport walked over to her Alter Ego. "But at least we're together again." She smiled.

- "Yes." Bree 2 smiled at her alter ego. "It's cool to fight with you."

- "Would love to see that." Adam 2 told his older self.

Chase 2 looked at his statue, thoughtful.

- "Yey!!" Bree hugged her younger self.

The Captain walked up to his Alter Ego.

- "That's the statue, huh?" He put his hands on his hips.

- "Yep." The genius boy nodded.

The hybrid smiled and hugged her alter ego tighter.

The quadbrid walked up to her niece.

- "Is that gonna be the first time we fight together?" She asked.

- "Remember, what we agreed this statue represents." Chase said and put his hand on his shoulder. "Although if it were up to me, you would get a lot more than just a statue." He smirked.

- "Well..." Quinn looked at GreatGirl.

Oh my God! Yes!! She nodded.

- "I usually work alone." She replied.

- "Thanks." The green hazel-eyed boy looked at him. "But you were right. I deserved it." He smiled softly.

- "That's cool." The Matthews girl smiled at her.

- "That's what I wanted to hear." The Captain smiled proudly.

- "Yeah." The Time Walker nodded shyly. "I..." She looked back. "I always wanted to fight by your side, though. I'm very inspired by you." She blushed slightly.

- "Yeah, I know." Chase 2 scoffed. "You made that pretty clear last time. Well, that and everything about Mads."

Everyone was walking around the waterfront, trying to find the Embers.

- "Aw." The quadbrid smiled softly. "Really?"

- "I was right twice." Chase said smugly. "But I have to tell you, that dream was important to me. I'll never forget it." He said more softly.

The Davenport girl looked around intently.

- "Yeah, I mean." Quinn shrugged. "I've always seen you as an inspiration, a great hero. And you're the strongest in your universe, and I know it's been a long journey for you to deal with your powers and what you are really capable of..." She explained. "And since I was a child, I identified with this." She looked down shyly.

- "Neither will I." The genius boy replied. "It was nice talking to someone who understands me."

GreatGirl looked at her niece with soft eyes and side-hugged her.

- "I saw what you could do in Ace's mind, and Chase talks about you a lot." She said. "You are an amazing hero, sweetie. And I'm glad, my story made you feel less lonely." She brushed her hair off her forehead, before gently kissing it.

- "Same, though." The Captain said. "Chases must stick together." He winked.

The Time Walker chuckled, wrinkling her nose.

- "Thank you, Aunt Maddie." She said. "And it's a relief that you know who I am, at least you. It's hard to see my father and mother clueless." She said. "And not being able to talk to them openly, I have to play a character."

- "Exactly." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded with a smile.

- "You're welcome." The Matthews girl smiled. "Well, you have my number. You can talk to me any time you want, even if it's just to tell me about your day."

- "You saw in Ace's mind what's going on in my universe right now, right?" Quinn asked. "Things are taking an unpredictable turn." She said quietly.

- "I saw." The quadbrid sighed. "I'm here if you need me. Okay?"

- "Actually, I won't be the one who needs you, Aunt Maddie." The Davenport girl looked at her father, worried.

- "I can't believe his panic attacks started again." GreatGirl shook her head. "He was doing so well."

- "He is being led into this. It's only going to get worse." Quinn explained. "I'm afraid of how far this will go."

- "Crap." The Matthews girl sighed. "I would help, but your dad isn't really the most open person in the world. When he tells me something, it's because we're having a vulnerable moment or because I squeeze it out of him, and it doesn't always work. If he needs me like you say, then he needs to let me in, and he's clearly not ready."

- "Aunt Maddie." Quinn stopped and put a hand on her shoulder. "His head is already a mess without an outside force fueling his traumas. But now, it's as if he sees them before him." She explained. "Be patient."

- "I am." The quadbrid nodded. "I always am. Especially with him."

- "I know." The Time Walker smiled. "He's your Ace, isn't He?" She chuckled.

- "What do you mean?" GreatGirl asked.

- "No matter how hard it is or how much he messes up." The Davenport girl said. "You can't live without him; you can't even think about it." She explained. "He is to you what Ace is to me."

The Matthews girl sighed. Only goes one way though.

- "Yeah." She looked away.

- "It will be worth it in the future." The Time Walker said.

- "If you say so." The quadbrid nodded.

The Davenport girl smiled softly.

- "I missed you; haven't seen you in a while. I was busy." She chuckled.

- "Well, I'm happy to see you before you're born." GreatGirl snickered. "Seeing the beautiful and strong woman you are before seeing the baby version of you is amazing."

- "What?" Quinn chuckled, blushed and looked down at herself. "Oh stop! I'm just..." She shook her head. "Nothing much."

- "No." The Matthews girl put her finger under her chin, making her look up. "I mean it, Quinn."

- "It's okay, Aunt Maddie." The Davenport girl shook her head. "I'm not here to impress anyone, though."

She sighed. Although, you telling me that makes it worth it.

- "Well, you impress me." The quadbrid smiled softly.

The Time Walker chuckled and blushed more.

- "Okay, Okay." She said. "I really appreciate it." She nodded. "You're already taking your future role as an aunt very seriously."

- "Well, duh." GreatGirl snickered. "I know that I'm your aunt. I can't pretend you're a random person."

- "Thank you; you're making me feel at home." Quinn put her hand on her chest. "But tell me." She looked at her parents further ahead. "Now that you know, is it obvious?" She asked, looking at herself.

- "You're welcome. And it was already a little." The Matthews girl replied. "I recognized you from the mini you who came a few years ago. And you look like them."

- "Yeah, I figured." The Davenport Girl nodded. "It's crazy; they're at the stage where they lie that they don't want to have kids." She pressed her lips together. "And here I am."

- "I know." The quadbrid snorted. "Your dad must have been so happy to know that your mom was pregnant and that they were having a girl."

- "He always wanted a Little Girl. He was born to be a girl's father." Time Walker chuckled. "Although he's like a father to Ace too."

- "I know." GreatGirl nodded. "He's really cute with Ace. And to be fair, both of them." She, discreetly, gestured to the Chases. "We're born to be girls' dads." She smiled. "I can't believe we're gonna have two daughters."

- "I can't talk about it." Quinn pressed her lips together. "But yeah, Uncle Chase is great with too. I learned a lot from him too."

- "Aw, I'm glad." The Matthews girl looked at her boyfriend with love in her eyes.

- "It was never weird to me that they were technically the same person." The Davenport girl said. "So to me, this is all just another normal day." She shrugged.

- "That is insane when you think about the fact that genetically speaking, they are identical twins." The quadbrid said. "And you and my kids are genetically half siblings. Like all alter egos' kids."

- "Basic Biology, Aunt Maddie." Quinn scoffed.

- "I know, thank you." GreatGirl rolled her eyes. "It's just weird."

- "It will be normal one day." Time Walker said.

- "Hey, I don't think it can." The Matthews girl snorted. "Nothing about alter egos forming a family is normal. And this..." She gestured to all the alter egos around. "Is not either. It's weird."

- "Well, I was raised among them." The Davenport girl chuckled. "And I've seen them all at different ages; it's normal to me." She explained. "Sorry, but I understand that it must be bizarre."

- "It is." The quadbrid nodded. "You grow up with that. I grew up with my mom and the Dooleys, doing human things without ever showing my powers. We didn't have the same childhood because you didn't have to hide your powers. And I'm happy for you."

- "Yeah, that's all thanks to my dad..." Quinn smiled. "What's weird is having to read about him in history class and all the kids looking at me weird; you know, 'the boss's daughter'. They treated me well because of that, but it was weird." She said.

- "Yeah, I bet." GreatGirl replied. "He did a fantastic job with the nation. And they did an amazing job raising you." She smiled.

- "Duh!" The Davenport girl said with a mock smug.

The Matthews girl chuckled softly.

- "Seriously, after we arrest the Embers, I won't be able to sleep. I'll just rethink everything I saw in Ace's mind." She snorted.

- "And I won't be able to sleep because I won't stop yelling at Ace about it." Quinn shook her head. "Although even with me yelling, he'll sleep like an angel." She said annoyed. "Idiot."

- "I get that." The quadbrid snickered. "Leo could sleep through anything. It's crazy."

- "I know." Time Walker laughed. "Uncle Leo took me, Evan, Jay And Kay to my first concert when I was 13, plot twist: he fell asleep." She said frustratedly.

- "Oh, boy." GreatGirl snorted. "How can they do that?"

- "I don't know, but I've lost count of how many times we thought he was dead." The Davenport girl said and glanced at the Leos in amusement.

- "That's why my super hearing is useful." The Matthews girl replied.

- "I know, his dad updated his and could tell if he was breathing." Quinn explained in amusement.

- "Smart move." The quadbrid snorted.

- "Right." The Davenport Girl said in amusement. "Look as much as I'm mad at Ace, I'm glad he showed up, though." She smiled at her aunt.

- "I know, sweetie." GreatGirl smiled softly.

- "Because I know you wouldn't trust me if it hadn't been like that." Quinn smirked.

- "Yeah." The Matthews girl frowned. "Sorry."

- "It's okay; you have every right not to trust me." Time Walker shrugged.

- "Yeah, besides you whispering, 'you haven't changed' didn't help." The quadbrid replied.

- "Oh Crap." Quinn slapped her forehead. "Sorry, I think so much that sometimes my thoughts jump out, and I don't realize it." She shook her head. "I hate thinking out loud."

- "It's okay." GreatGirl shrugged. "Just be careful, because I'm not the only one with super hearing." She gestured to the Chases.

- "Yeah, I know, Dad's super hearing kept me from doing a lot of cool stuff for years." The Davenport Girl rolled her eyes.

The Matthews girl snorted.

- "That's his job." She said.

- "Yeah, Yeah." Quinn nodded. "Lucky, I had Mom to back me up." She winked.

- "I can already hear him complain about it." The quadbrid chuckled softly.

- "You had no Idea." A Time Walker chuckled. "But what did he expect? I'm his and mom's daughter." She smiled. "'I'm crazy'!" She widened her eyes mockingly, quoting her father.

GreatGirl laughed softly.

- "The number of times he said that." She shook her head, amused.

- "That's because he's right." Quinn chuckled. "And you know it."

- "Everyone's crazy." The Matthews girl shrugged.

- "Yeah, I mean, look at Uncle Leo." The Davenport girl pointed to Leader Dooley walking as he lip-synced the song in his headphones.

The quadbrid chuckled softly.

- "Yeah, and them." She pointed at the Adams, who were posing next to the statues.

Quinn laughed lightly.

- "And those two." The Time Walker pointed to the two Brees taking a selfie.

- "They LOVE taking selfies." GreatGirl shook her head, amused.

- "And they LOVE each other." Quinn shook her head in amusement.

- "So do these two." The Matthews girl pointed at the Chases, who were talking and smiling.

- "And so do you and mom." The Davenport girl looked at her mother further ahead with a wide smile.

- "Yeah." The quadbrid smiled. "I love her so much."

- "I know." Quinn nodded. "But she insists she loves you more." She smiled.

- "Yeah, I'm having the same 'argument' with my Chase." GreatGirl snickered. "Neither of them is gonna win."

- "I don't know; do you happen to know my mother?" Time Walker raised an eyebrow.

- "I do." The Matthews girl nodded. "But she won't win this." She shook her head. "Like she didn't win our conversation to buy me a late birthday present."

- "You'll still get lots of presents from her." Quinn shrugged. "And me!" She smiled. "By the way, never use the self-combing hairbrush I'm going to make for you when I'm 9. It doesn't work. To this day, my guinea pig, Ace, has a tuft of hair missing from the back of his neck." She cringed.

The quadbrid snorted.

- "Noted." She nodded. "Thanks for the warning."

- "Yeah, I should have just drawn a card like every other kid. But no, that wouldn't be me." The Davenport girl shook her head.

- "Hey, you know me." GreatGirl smiled. "The fact that you made it for me definitely made me happy that it worked or not."

- "I know, but don't worry, the design of that brush will be beautiful; you can leave it as a decoration." Quinn smiled.

- "I will." The Matthews girl nodded.

- "Okay, we've been walking for a long time and still no Embers." The General sighed, looking around the construction site.

The quadbrid frowned.

- "Everybody shut up." She said.

Everyone looked at each other in silence.

- "There are two more heartbeats around." GreatGirl added. "Over there." She pointed to inside the construction site, a couple of feet away.

- "Stay sharp, everyone." The Captain said, walking slowly in the direction pointed.

Skylar walked up to Adam 2 and grabbed him by the collar, before throwing him away.

- "Ow!" He yelled as he got up. "What was that for? I didn't insult Chase!" He frowned. "Well, I did, but not out loud!"

- "Crap." The Matthews girl frowned. "They took control of Skylar."

- "Shit." The Captain frowned. "Look at her eyes." He pointed. "Please tell me she forgot to take her contact lenses of her costume."

- "She was disguised as an angel." Chase 2 shook his head. "She didn't have contacts."

- "Babe?" Bree 2 tried.

The Calderan glared at her, her eyes entirely black.

The quadbrid pulled her sister back.

- "I was being sarcastic." The Captain replied.

- "Don't worry, I'll take care of it." The Vice Captain walked up to her.

- "Adam!" Harper said.

- "Skylar..." Adam approached from behind, trying to be sneaky.

The Storm girl turned to him and blasted him, sending it fly away.

- "Oh, that had to hurt." The tall guy frowned as he ran to his older self.

- "Not as much as this is going to hurt." The hybrid said, her eyes entirely black.

She super speeded to Leo 2 and body-slammed him to the ground.

- "Leo!" GreatGirl ran to him.

- "Ahg!" The Vice Captain sat on the floor with his hand on his forehead, where he felt pieces of broken plastic and metal falling from his face. "Ahh! I think I broke my face!!" He looked at his younger self in despair. Seconds later, he saw the pieces of the damper in his lap. "Ah. It wasn't just the damper that broke." He smiled in relief, seconds before his face dropped. "Uh-Oh." He looked at Adam 2.

- "Bree." The Agent Davenport super speeded, knocking her younger self to the ground. "Oh no, please come back!"

- "Oh no." The genius boy frowned as he looked from afar at the broken device. "This is getting worse."

- "Oh, you have no idea how much worse it's gonna get." Ember 2 spoke as Skylar tried to blast him, but he used his force field to block it, sending it to bounce back on her.

She flew across the waterfront.

Bree 2 super speeded up and turned invisible.

- "Bree! Behind you!" The Matthews girl yelled and helped her childhood best friend up as she used her thermal vision.

- "What?" The Agent Davenport frowned.

The hybrid tripped her to the ground, before turning visible again and super speeding away.

- "Dang it." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned and went to help Bree up.

- "I can't protect everyone's minds." The quadbrid said.

- "Thanks, Chase." Agent Davenport sighed.

Harper used his bionic skates to grab Bree 2 at high speed.

- "Where do you think you're going?" The General smirked, before grabbing her arm and throwing her to the ground. "Stay down." She used the super strength of her right arm to keep her on the ground.

- "We are losing one by one." The Captain said to GreatGirl.

- "Where's Skylar?" Quinn asked in determination.

The Calderan grabbed Time Walker and flew away with her.

- "I think that answered her question." The tall guy frowned.

- "Quinn!" The Matthews girl flew after her.

She punched the Storm girl, making her go of Quinn, and threw her back to the ground, making a hole in the form of her body in it.

The quadbrid wrapped her arms around her niece's waist, before she could free fall.

- "I can handle." Quinn said to her aunt.

- "I know that." GreatGirl landed on the ground with her. "But I wasn't going to let you free fall onto the ground. Deal with it."

- "I wasn't going to free fall." The Davenport girl shook her head. "I always have a plan, plus when we find Embers...." She let go of her aunt. "One of them is mine." She said in an angry tone, her irises shining an intense yellow color.

- "Even if you weren't going to free fall. I always catch people who are about to fall." The Matthews girl shrugged. "You, your mom, my Chase, Bree, Adams, Leos, and a lot more people, and I know you can all handle it, but I'm not going to stop." She replied.

- "Fine." Quinn sighed, suddenly between the two a blast of fire was thrown. "Oh, this is going to be fun." She said, watching Kaz approach them, his eyes completely black. On the other side a laser sphere was launched by Leo, the two were surrounded. "You take care of Uncle Kaz, and I'll take care of Uncle Leo." Time Walker said.

- "Got it." The quadbrid nodded as she used her freeze breath to extinguish the fire on Kaz's hands.

Adam 2 ran towards Chase, his eyes entirely black, and grabbed him, throwing him across the waterfront.

The green hazel-eyed boy activated his laser bo and hit him in the stomach with it, throwing him away.

The Time Walker geo-leaped up to Leo, he turned to hit her with a laser sphere, but she grabbed his hand absorbing the energy and throwing it back at him, throwing him away.

The Captain jumped to his feet again, but he threw himself back when he was surprised by a laser beam.

He looked ahead and saw Adam approaching him.

- "You owe the D.E.O. a damper, Bro." Chase scoffed.

- "Chase!" Bree shouted.

- "Stay back!" The Captain said. "This is my moment." He glared at his brother.

GreatGirl froze Kaz completely.

- "This will buy us some time until he melts it off." She said.

Leo 2 threw a laser sphere to Harper, pushing her off his sister.

The hybrid super speeded away with her brother.

- "Where are they?" Chase 2 looked around.

- "I don't know." The Matthews girl frowned, until Skylar blasted her, sending her fly against the statues. She stopped herself just before touching them. "Lena would kill us if anything happened to the statues." She sighed.

The genius boy activated his force field and turned it into a ball, which he threw at the Calderan, making her fall to the ground.

The Vice Captain started shooting with heat vision at Chase, he activated the bo laser and deflected the shots, he noticed the shots are getting close to the statues.

- "Hey Adam, try to catch me." The Captain smirked. "If you can." He ran, being chased by Adam further in the background.

Quinn spotted a light pole near the direction Bree 2 and Leo 2 ran. She geo-leaped along the thread of light accumulating energy to throw herself at them in a wave of energy, knocking them to the ground.

Meanwhile, the Captain ran dodging Adam's shots, he saw a scaffolding nearby, and ran to it, climbing it, trying to take Adam away from the statues. The Vice Captain shot him with heat vision and Chase hung on the scaffolding bar, dodging it.

- "Is that all you have?" The Captain scoffed and Adam shot again, making him hang on the bar in front. "Come on, you're not even trying." He said and the Vice Captain groaned shooting again.

Chase used his foot to hang two bars in front, dodging three shots.

Kaz melted the ice around him and threw a ball of fire to the quadbrid.

- "Come on, don't you know ice and fire don't work together?" She frowned as she extinguished each fire with her breath, making him groan irritated.

The middle brother ran towards his younger brother.

- "Come on, buddy." The green hazel-eyed boy said. "We did this before. Snap out it."

GreatGirl opened a portal and pushed Kaz and Leo through it, teleporting them across the waterfront.

Chase hung on the last bar of the scaffolding.

- "You need to work on your aim, Bro." He said, and Adam groaned in frustration. He prepared to shoot again, and the Captain let go of one of the ends of the bar giving momentum, for the bar to turn in the direction of the Vice Captain. Chase let go of the bar and landed in front of Adam. "Bring It!" He challenged and the Vice Captain advanced on him with all his super strength.

The Captain tried to hold him by grabbing his arms and was slightly pushed back.

Adam groaned, trying to take down his brother and Chase tensed his jaw and slowly pushed the Vice Captain back, a small smirk forming at the corner of her lips.

- "Good idea. Get them away from here. It gives us time." The General said, standing up, looking at GreatGirl.

- "Thanks." The Matthews girl replied.

Leo 2 created a laser sphere in his hand.

- "Guess not." Chase 2 tripped him with his laser bo.

The Captain began to push his brother, who frowned.

He grabbed his collar, firmly. 

- "How long I've waited for this." Chase said and picked Adam up by the collar and threw him away. He landed at Harper's feet. She widened her eyes and looked at her fiancé. He grinned. "I'm not even going to apologize for this one." He put his hand on his hips.

- "Feels good, huh?" The quadbrid smirked at him as she opened another portal, throwing the girlfriends inside, making them fall on Kaz and Leo, who had just started running towards them.

The genius boy pushed Leo 2 inside the portal.

- "Oh, you have no idea." The Captain said, stretching his arms back, with a satisfied smile on his face.

The General chuckled, covering her mouth.

Kaz, quickly, got up and ran towards the portal.

Quinn used her powers to push him inside the portal with an invisible force.

GreatGirl closed the portal.

Adam 2 shot his heat vision at his brother, making him stumble back, groaning.

- "Finally, some fun." The Matthews girl stepped in front of him and used her heat vision against his.

The green hazel-eyed boy frowned at the intensity of their heat visions, illuminating the entire waterboard.

The quadbrid pushed the tall guy's heat vision back, hers winning over.

She stopped right before his own heat vision touched his eyes.

- "Not killing you like that." She said, as she used her telekinetic powers to push him onto the ground.

- "Cool." Quinn said impressed.

The Vice Captain stood up, and his eyes glowed red with his heat vision as he threatened to run towards GreatGirl.

- "Ahg!" He groaned.

Seconds before shooting, Harper covered his eyes with her right hand and forced him to his knees on the ground.

- "Enough, Buddy." The General said calmly, as it was possible to see the palm of her indestructible hand glow red as Adam used his heat vision. Harper just tensed her jaw. "Cowards! Why don't you show up and face us head on?" She said loudly and angrily, pushing Adam away.

- "Thanks." GreatGirl told Harper and Quinn.

- "Not yet." Ember 2 said through Skylar, who flew back towards them.

She ripped the dampers off the Captain's and the General's foreheads.

- "No." Chase 2 frowned. "GreatGirl!"

- "I'll try." The Matthews girl super speeded to the engaged couple and touched both of their temples, one by one, putting a shield on their minds as she kept her Chase's mind shield up.

She frowned as she used all her power to keep the shields on their minds.

- "I'll back you up!" The Time Walker said.

She ran to Skylar and manipulated all the energy contained in her body, forcing Skylar to surrender on the ground, on her knees while her eyes glowed yellow.

Bree 2 super speeded towards her sister, but the genius boy used his laser bo to send her to fly away.

The quadbrid frowned as Kaz used his pyrokinesis on her.

But she did not flinch; she just used her freezing breath on him again.

Quinn clenched her jaw, holding Skylar to her knees on the ground, when Adam ran towards her, and she raised her hand, subduing him in the same way, controlling the energy contained in his body.

She spotted Bree 2, getting back up and her eyes shined brighter as she stopped her too.

She soon spotted Leader Dooley running towards her, and she groaned. I've never done this with so many people at the same time, but here we go. As soon as he created a laser sphere, she, with just her gaze, stopped the sphere from growing in his hand. Anyone else? She smirked confidently, holding almost the entire team at bay with her powers.

- "Did you know she could do that?" Harper asked Chase, who just shook his head with wide eyes.

- "That was really cool, Quinn." The green hazel-eyed boy said.

- "Not as cool as this." The younger Wilder woman arrived next to him as Kaz landed with her. She made him use his fireball on them, making them step back. "Hi, bitch." She glared at GreatGirl. "Remember me?"

- "Watch how you speak to her!" Chase 2 locked his jaw, angrily.

The Matthews girl put her hand on his shoulder.

- "I do remember you." She replied.

- "So, you remember how you killed my brother!" Ember 2 yelled.

- "Oh, come on." The quadbrid rolled her eyes. "He tried to kill Chase! And you thought I wouldn't destroy him!" Her eyes shined red.

The Time Walker looked in Kaz's direction and surrendered to him as well, gritting her teeth.

- "I'm just warming up." Quinn said, before shrugging her arms and opening them with a groan and a wave of energy, knocking down everyone under her manipulation.

This will leave them unconscious for about 20 minutes, with no side effects. She thought.

- "Oh my, Oh my..." The older Wilder appeared behind the Captain and the General, who looked distressed. "I'm seeing double. It must be a dream." She said sarcastically.

- "Ember." Chase clenched his jaw.

- "Hello, Captain." Ember bowed mockingly.

The Time Walker approached her parents with a hateful glare in the Wilder woman's direction.

- "Quinn, you took away part of the fun with this little fireworks show." Ember rolled her eyes.

- "I'm about to blow you up from the inside out." The Davenport girl's eyes lit up.

- "How scary." The older Wilder scoffed.

- "I don't care he was my brother!" The younger Wilder replied.

- "Well, I do care!" GreatGirl frowned.

- "Aw." Ember 2 smiled, mockingly. "Is that because he touched your boyfriend?"

The young geniuses rolled their eyes, used to hear the mocking comments like this even before they started dating.

- "She got revenge on him for what he tried to do to me." The genius boy said. "You are getting revenge on us for what we did to Giselle and Troy."

- "And by the way, Giselle killed herself because her laser wrapped around her." The Matthews girl added. "Your, so called, genius of a mentor did that to herself."

- "And hurting us won't bring her back." The green hazel-eyed boy continued.

- "She will be avenged." The younger Wilder woman replied as Adam 2 used his heat vision on the quadbrid, making her step back in surprise.

GreatGirl frowned and super speeded towards him, punching him in the face and knocking him out.

- "And I used less strength than I did last year on Chase." She pressed her lips together.

Chases are stronger than the Adams, and it's a fact, but that's not the point. She thought.

Chase 2 frowned as he looked at all his siblings on the floor, glaring at Ember 2.

- "Ember, you're coming with us." The Captain took a step forward, threateningly.

- "If not, what, Captain? Are you going to kill me?" The Wilder woman took a step forward.

- "That's not going to get you anywhere." Chase shook his head.

- "As if you care, you don't give a damn about the destruction you leave behind, neither you nor anyone in your family. You are all fucking reckless!!" The Wilder woman said, approaching.

Harper grabbed her by the neck, pushing her back.

- "Look at yourself before you say anything about us." The General gritted her teeth, and Ember chuckled faintly, raising her hands.

- "I at least assume that I will destroy you and everything around you; I didn't go around pretending that I'm a perfect leader like you." The older Wilder woman replied.

- "You're getting on my nerves." The Captain said.

- "Then end it, Cap." Ember looked at him, the General still holding her. "Show me the cold-blooded killer I know you are." She teased.

- "Don't listen to her." Quinn said worriedly.

- "What about Ezra?" The Matthews girl asked. The younger Wilder woman's face dropped. "You pretended to be his friend and, then, knocked him out. He's in the hospital!"

- "What?" Ember 2 frowned, worried. "That wasn't supposed to happen." She shook her head.

The Captain clenched his jaw and scoffed.

- "I'm not afraid of you." He said.

- "But you're afraid of yourself." The elder Wilder grinned evilly. Chase glared at her. "You two." She looked at the General. "You are not worthy of ANYTHING. Not in universe 314, not in this universe, and not in any other, and I will hunt you down at each one to show everyone who you, heroes, really are."

- "You'll die trying." Harper said firmly.

- "Whatever, I'd rather die than live in a world where you rule over a pile of lies!!" Ember said, and the General gritted her teeth and punched her. "Wow! General, I honestly expected more." The elder Wilder said as she fell to her knees on the floor.

- "Don't make me show you more." Harper said angrily.

- "What do you mean, 'that wasn't supposed to happen'?" The genius boy frowned.

- "I mean, it wasn't part of my plan." The younger Wilder woman said.

The quadbrid frowned and looked at Ember.

- "She did it. It was her idea to punch Ezra." She replied.

Ember 2 sighed.

- "It doesn't matter." She walked to her alter ego and extended her hand to help her up. "We're gonna destroy you now."

- "Quite the opposite." The General said before advancing on Ember 2 and pushing her, grabbing her head and slamming it against a cement column, breaking the column and geo-leaping away.

The Captain surprised the older Wilder, knocking her down with the laser bo and running away, gaining an advantage for him to think of a plan.

- "Fucking bitch." The younger Wilder woman got up, holding her head.

Leo 2 appeared behind his childhood best friend and punched her with his bionic arm.

GreatGirl frowned at him but did not attack back.

- "Aw, are you afraid of hurting your brother?" Ember 2 mocked.

The Matthews girl glared at her.

- "Everyone is already out. Leave him alone." The green hazel-eyed boy said, firmly.

- "It's your dreams, asshole." The younger Wilder woman replied.

The older Davenport boy attacked his brother.

Chase 2 dodged his laser spheres.

The quadbrid super speeded to her and grabbed her by her neck, lifting her off the ground.

- "Huh, looks familiar." Ember 2 added. "You did that to Giselle."

- "I also did this." GreatGirl threw her through the construction site, breaking several walls as she passed through them. "Oops, did I hurt you?!"

The older Wilder woman stood up and spotted the Captain from afar.

- "You son of a bitch!" She shouted.

Chase shrugged at her; suddenly Quinn advanced on her. She punched Ember and grabbed her hair.

- "You messed with Ace. You used my best friend!" The Time Walker's eyes lit up. "NOBODY..." She shouted as energy built in her fist. "Mess with my friend!!!" She shot at the Wilder woman, throwing her away in the middle of the construction site.

The Matthews girl raised her hand at her niece with a proud smile.

The genius boy used his molecular kinesis to throw his brother away, knocking him out.

- "Sorry, Leo." He whispered.

Quinn smirked and winked at her aunt and raised her hands to high five her.

Ember groaned as she stood in the middle of the construction site.

However, she was thrown back when she was surprised by a shot in the shoulder, and she gasped.

She looked in the direction the bullet came from and saw the Captain reloading the revolver.

- "Did you just shoot me?" The Wilder woman said angrily, holding her shoulder.

- "Not enough." Chase spun the gun and shot higher, making Ember wince down.

- "Ha!" The older Wilder woman stood up again. "You missed."

- "I have never miss." Chase fired once more, snapping the last rope holding the beams above her.

Ember was hit in the back by the beams, and she managed to roll to the ground before they fell on her.

She screamed in frustration.

The Captain put away his weapon and slowly approached her, darkening his gaze.

The quadbrid high-fived her niece and smiled.

The younger Wilder woman got up and grabbed him, throwing him next to his alter ego as she helped hers up.

- "You're okay?" She asked.

The green hazel-eyed boy helped his older self up.

- "Yeah!" Ember stood up and glared at the Captain as he stood up angrily. "I'm going to kill him." She looked at her bleeding shoulder.

- "Good luck trying." Chase said, he shrugged.

- "You're pathetic, Captain!" The eldest Wilder said, laughing evilly.

- "Keep underestimating my character." The Captain smirked. "I'll love to see your face after you get your ass kicked." He activated the laser bo.

- "That's not gonna happen; I'm a thousand times stronger than you." Ember said. "You're too weak to take me down. That's why you hide behind weapons." She laughed.

The Captain scoffed.

- "Save your words, Wilder. I have nothing to prove to you." He said, before running towards her and attacking her with the laser bo, she dodged it.

From the second floor of the construction, Harper shot with electrokinesis at Ember 2.

- "Hey!" The General shouted. "I thought I already sent you to sleep!" She teased her opponent.

The younger Wilder woman glared at her as GreatGirl took the opportunity to trip her to the ground.

The General smirked as she was suddenly pushed from above by Bree, who super speeded behind her.

- "Harper!!" Chase got distracted when he saw her fall, and the older Wilder punched him in the stomach and kicked him, throwing him away.

He hit a wall and fell to the ground.

The General used molecular kinesis to soften her fall at the last second.

Time Walker saw Agent Davenport super speeding towards Chase 2.

- "Chase!" Her eyes widened as she ran towards him.

- "Chase!" The Matthews girl shouted. She super speeded towards him and crouched down, checking on him. "Shit." She murmured when she saw that he was unconscious. She super speeded to Harper and helped her up. "He's out of it."

The genius boy turned towards Quinn's voice.

- "What? No!" The General looked at the groom, lying unconscious on the floor. "They're dead, for real!" She clenched her jaw and looked at the Embers.

The Time Walker grabbed Chase 2 and pulled him out of Bree's way.

She raised her hand and stopped Agent Davenport in her tracks with her powers.

- "Help my D-Captain." The Davenport girl stuttered. "I'll take care of her." She told her uncle as she glared at Bree.

- "Thanks." The green hazel-eyed boy told her, before running to his older self. "Hey, Chase. Come on, wake up." He slightly shook him. "Okay." He sighed and threw him over his shoulder as he walked away with him.

- "Want some help?" The quadbrid smirked at her alter ego as her eyes turned red.

- "Let's fucking Go!" Harper smirked back and activated the bionic skates going to Ember, who threatened to punch her. The General grabbed her arm, blocking the punch, and with the other hand held the shot in her shoulder. The older Wilder grunted in pain. "For the record, you were a terrible waitress." She said and kicked her in the stomach.

GreatGirl super speeded towards Ember 2 and spun, kicking her in the face.

- "Troy died because he hurt Chase." She said. "What do you think I'm gonna do to you after you hurt almost everyone in my family?" Her eyes continued to shine red.

The younger Wilder woman got up from the ground.

- "You should be more concerned about what I'm gonna do to you." She glared at her.

Ember pushed the General; she quickly regained her balance.

- "You know that beer you ordered at the bar last week? I spit in that beer." The older Wilder chuckled.

- "You're disgusting." Harper said and shot electrokinesis at her; she dodged it, and the General did a somersault, grabbing Ember's neck with her legs and throwing her to the ground. "But I was never stupid enough to drink something served by you, Bitch!" She said, punching the older Wilder in the face, who retaliated by kicking her.

Ember 2 punched the Matthews girl in the face with her super strength, who stumbled back.

She super speeded behind her and kicked her, making her fall on one knee.

The General held her own stomach.

The eldest Wilder kicked her in the face and stood up.

She spotted GreatGirl and ran to her and surprised her with a kick with her super strength, pushing her away from her younger self.

The quadbrid fell to the ground a couple of feet away.

The younger Wilder woman looked up.

- "Thanks." She said.

- "Hey." Harper crawled over to GreatGirl. "Okay?" She asked worriedly, putting her hand on her shoulder.

- "Sure. Let's finish these bitches off." Ember extended her hand to her younger self.

- "I'm fine." The Matthews girl sighed. "You?"

- "Let's do this." Ember 2 took her hand and got up.

- "Come on, together." The quadbrid got up and extended her hand to her alter ego.

- "Together." The General took her hand, nodding with determination.

Ember frowned as she looked at their joined hands.

- "Did you feel that?" She asked her younger self.

- "I did." The younger Wilder woman frowned. "What the hell was that?"

GreatGirl helped her up and let go of her hand.

- "I don't know." The older Wilder said, squeezing Ember 2's hand and glaring angrily at GreatGirl and the General in front of them.

- "What's with holding hands?" Harper frowned, glancing at the Matthews girl.

- "I don't know." She frowned. "It's weird."

- "I feel stronger." The younger Wilder woman said. "And more powerful."

- "If they hug or start dancing the waltz, I'm out." The General said sarcastically.

- "Same..." The older Wilder said. "Then let's finish this already."

- "Right behind you." The quadbrid nodded. "Come on, let's go."

- "Let's do this." Ember 2 grinned maliciously.

Harper nodded and took a determined step forward.

Ember smiled wickedly as she saw an energy, never seen before, beginning to form in her joined hands.

- "What the fuck is that?" GreatGirl frowned.

The younger Wilder woman extended their hands towards their enemies.

- "Watch out!!" The General widened her eyes and reflexively ran towards Maddie to protect her as a massive energy wave spread across the place, hitting both of them head on and further ahead, knocking down Quinn, who still had Bree subdued; the two are thrown to the ground.

Chase 2, who was with his older self, was knocked out as well.

- "Wow!" Ember 2 exclaimed as she let go of her older self's hand. "I didn't know we could do that... Cool!"

The older Wilder looked at her hands and then at the two unconscious girls in front of her, in disbelief.

She walked over to them and crouched down, looking at them both intently.

- "This is impressive, but..." She said thoughtfully.

- "But what?" The younger Wilder woman asked.

- "There's something different." Ember said, frowning. "We have to get them somewhere; we need them. To understand what just happened here." She stood up. "This might be what we needed." She looked at her hands.

- "Well, let's go back to the lab." Ember 2 replied. "But I suggest we broke the couples." She smirked. "Both Chases will be lost without them." She pointed to Harper and GreatGirl on the ground.

- "I like it; they'll be like ownerless puppies." The older Wilder laughed and looked at the unconscious Quinn further ahead. "And as for her... let's take her too." She walked up to the Davenport girl. "You saw what she can do; we have to find a way to get inside her head."

- "Definitely." The younger Wilder woman nodded. "And when they wake up, we need to keep GreatGirl away from them. You saw it; she protected both Chases and Harper. We can't have that again."

- "I guess she won't be a problem anymore." Ember laughed mischievously. "Let's Go." She said.

Ember 2 nodded as she made the Adams and Skylar get up, carrying the Chases, Harper, Quinn and GreatGirl.

- "See, all the pieces are falling into place." The elder Wilder laughed and put her arm around her younger self.

- "Yep." The younger Wilder woman nodded with a grin. "Let's go."

The elder Wilder waved for their hypnotized soldiers to follow them out of the construction site.

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A few hours later, Chase frowned, groggy, sitting on the floor. He opened his eyes and looked around. He was in a dark, locked room, cuffed with bionic chip's blocker handcuffs.

Crap. I don't have my bionics. He sighed. It's better when it's Mads who cuffs me. He looked next to him and saw Harper, cuffed to him.

- "Harper..." He whispered. "Hey, wake up..."

The General groaned, frowning. Shit! What the fuck happened? My head is hurting; I'm feeling weird.

- "Ahg!" She felt the handcuffs. "Oh great!" She sighed sarcastically and closed her eyes again, feeling dizzy.

- "You're okay?" The genius boy asked.

Harper cringed, putting one of her hands on her forehead. What's this? This beat.

- "Ow! What's all this noise!?" She complained.

- "What noise?" The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "This!!" The General looked around. "Everywhere!!" She said in despair. "Noise!!"

- "Do you have super hearing?" Chase questioned.

Harper looked around and started to see through the walls and everything around her.

Her eyes widened as she looked at Chase with an X-ray vision.

- "Holy Shit!!" She closed her eyes shut. "What the fuck is happening to me!?!" She moved her left arm away from Chase, breaking the handcuffs effortlessly. "What? But that's my left arm!" She shook her head.

- "What the heck are you talking about?" The genius boy made her look at him.

The General looked into his eyes, and she started to see things.

She started to see everything that was in his mind, since he was a baby to that very second, everything in detail.

She pushed him in disbelief.

- "Aaaahhgg!" She held her head. "No! No! Make It stop!!" She shouted.

- "I'm not doing anything!" The green hazel-eyed boy frowned, confused. "Harper, talk to me!"

The General looked at him again.

She saw his skull with the X-ray vision, and then the flashes of his mind started again.

- "NO!" She covered her eyes. "Not again, that's TOO much information in a very small second. Stop!" She shook her head, desperate. "Stop all this noise too!" She took a deep breath.

- "Harper, I don't understand anything." Chase replied. "What's wrong? What do you mean 'too much information'?"

- "Chase, I-I don't know." Harper kept her eyes closed in despair. "I don't know what's happening to me cuz seems like EVERYTHING is happening to me!!"

That doesn't make any sense. The genius boy frowned.

- "This is crazy." The General buried her head in her hands, trembling. "Oh my God."

- "Hey..." The green hazel-eyed boy put his hand, with the cuff still attached to it, on her back. "Whatever is happening to you right now, you're gonna be okay."

- "You can't be sure; what if I'm finally on the edge of insanity?" She hugged her knees, with her eyes still closed.

- "I'm sure you're not." Chase caressed her back gently. "Look at me."

- "I don't want to." Harper replied, the sound of her voice muffled.

- "Why not?" The genius boy frowned.

- "Cuz If I do, I'm gonna..." The General shook her head against her knees. "See things."

The green hazel-eyed boy's face dropped as he pulled his hand away from her.

- "What do you mean?" He asked.

- "I don't know, Chase. As soon as I looked at you, it was like the movie of your life played in my head without I even press start." Harper explained.

Chase blushed brightly. That means she saw Mads and I...

- "Not to mention that I could literally see your brain and every neuron in It." The General hugged her knees tighter. "And I can hear your heart speeding up right now; it's...fucking terrifying!" She said in despair.

- "You read my mind. You have Mads' powers." The genius boy frowned. "How is that possible?"

- "I really wanted to answer you, but first things first, please!" Harper raised her head without opening her eyes.

- "Can I hug you?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked.

- "Really?" The General frowned. "You think your hugs are that powerful?" She said in defensively sarcasm.

- "Just trust me!" Chase replied.

- "Well..." Harper sighed. "I'm not going anywhere, so..." She lowered her head again.

The genius boy pulled her into a hug, putting her head on his chest.

- "Just keep your eyes closed and focus on my heartbeat." He whispered, trying to make the noise around her less important.

- "You didn't heard the part where I said that that's exactly what's freaking me out?" The General smirked.

- "Just focus on it." The green hazel-eyed boy rolled his eyes. "If you focus on one noise at once, all the others will dial back a little."

Harper frowned hesitantly. Makes sense, though. She laid her head on his chest and tried to focus.

Chase, gently, caressed the back of her head. I can't believe she saw that. He blushed brightly.

- "Why did it speeded up?" The General frowned in amusement.

- "Because I'm freaking out about the fact that you read my mind." The genius boy whispered. "Meaning you really have Mads' powers, because otherwise I would still have the mind shield." He sighed.

- "YOU'RE freaking out!?" Harper raised her eyebrow. "Dude, I'm scared to open my eyes!" She said and sighed, hugging his shoulders.

- "I'm scared of you opening them again." The green hazel-eyed boy replied.

- "Me too." The General said.

I can't believe I saw All of that. He didn't needed me to see that. Poor guy. She shook her head against his chest.

- "I'm scared, Chase, and I mean it." She sighed.

- "I know." Chase nodded. "But like I said, you're gonna be okay. Besides, as bad it is that you read my mind, you also saw when Mads showed me hers. So, you know how to technically use her powers."

He hugged her tighter. Seeing Mads on top of me for one second was one thing. But now, she saw her being in control SO many times and me begging and whimpering and whining and stuttering. Crap, I also cried when... He blushed brighter. Not thinking about that right now. OH, MY GOD, SHE SAW THAT!

- "Yeah, you're right." The General sighed and took off one of her gloves, just to finally open her eyes a little, looking down, to look at her engagement ring. "Plus, there are more important things I'm worried right now." She fiddled with the ring, thoughtful.

- "I'm gonna stop talking, and you're gonna close your eyes, listening for him." The genius boy said. "Just focus on trying to find his... Our... Whatever. Voice."

- "He was unconscious before everything happen; what If I don't..." She closed her eyes as soon as the X-ray vision kicked in again.

She held the ring, worried.

- "Just focus." The green hazel-eyed boy replied as he put his hand on the back of her head. "Find his voice."

- "Fine, I'll try." The General frowned and concentrated amidst all the noises she could hear.

Chase continued to hold her. I'm gonna kill myself. Most embarrassing night of my life.

- "I'm gonna need you to guide me, babe. Because I'm basically blind." She heard Maddie say.

- "I'm not your fucking 'babe'." She heard her Chase reply.

- "I can hear him!" Harper gasped a smile.

He's cursing and annoyed. Her smile widened.

- "He's okay!" She said.

- "See?" The genius boy smiled. "I knew you could do it."

- "He's with Maddie." The General said. "And he's really annoyed by It."

- "Oh, thank God." The green hazel-eyed boy sighed in relief.

- "I know." Harper nodded, her eyes still closed.

- "And we're all okay." Chase said.

- "No, cuz I'm still feeling weird." The General sighed.

- "Physically, you're okay." The genius boy replied. "Oh, but Mads isn't. If you have her powers, that means that she is totally blind and cannot see a thing."

- "But she's with Chay." Harper said. "He'll help her."

- "Yeah." The green hazel-eyed nodded. "And you're gonna be okay, you just need a little time to get to hang on your new powers."

- "It would be the third time in my life that I've gone through this." The General sighed impatiently.

- "I'm sorry." Chase said. "But you'll figure it out, and I'm here to help you."

- "Yup." Harper pressed her lips together. "After all, the Embers are still out there."

- "Yeah." The genius boy sighed. "We need to find them."

The General pressed a button on one of her bracelets, a red light started flashing.

- "What's that?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked as he gently broke the hug.

- "A tracker, from Newton's collar." Harper explained.

- "Nice." Chase nodded. "So, how are your ears?"

- "Better." The General patted Chase's chest gently with a soft smile.

- "I'm glad to hear it." The genius boy smiled softly.

And she saw me naked! And making love! And masturbating! Oh, my freaking God! He thought, in panic.

Harper opened her eyes fully and stared at the floor, the X-ray vision stopping.

- "How about the X-Ray vision?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked.

The General stared at the ground, activating the X-ray vision and stopping it, understanding how to control it.

- "I Think I got It." She said, spinning the engagement ring on her finger with her thumb.

- "That's good." Chase nodded. "And... What about the... you know."

- "Want me to look at you to find out?" Harper frowned in amusement.

- "I don't think you have a choice." The genius boy blushed slightly.

- "Just a second, I think I know how to stop this; I just need to focus first." The General sighed.

- "Definitely." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded. "Don't want that to happen again. You already saw too much." He blushed brighter.

- "Nothing I haven't seen before." Harper said sarcastically to lighten the mood.

Sort of, I didn't expect to see what I saw, but it won't make me see anyone differently. He needs to be comfortable with it, though...Although, it will be almost impossible. She thought.

- "Yeah, on my part." Chase replied, his cheeks burning red. "But I'm not talking about just me. And Mia said that Chase and I are totally different on this." He looked down. "Mads doesn't talk about it, but Mia did."

He's in control, and I'm begging and whining. He thought. Not exactly what she said, but this is what she meant.

The General scoffed.

- "I don't think it makes any big difference between you guys, though." She shrugged.

I don't see the reason why he's insecure about it; I mean I saw it, but... She looked at her hands.

- "None of this shapes your character; it's not that different." She said.

He won't believe me. She thought.

- "It's not that." The genius boy sighed without looking at her. "It's just that people already don't respect me, and they don't need to know what I do with Mads. It's between us."

- "Exactly, no one needs to know. It doesn't matter, then why do you spend so much of your time thinking about it and fearing about it to the point that she needs to put a shield on your mind--I know it's not just for that; it's for dramatic effect-- But you get what I'm trying to say." The General said.

- "Yeah, it's definitely not for that." The green hazel-eyed boy shook his head, ignoring the rest.

He changes the subject. Harper sighed.

- "Well, I'm sorry, though." She said. "I invaded your privacy, that's not nice. I apologize." She raised her hands. "Before it happens again...if it happens."

- "You don't need to apologize." Chase shook his head. "It's not like you wanted to."

- "Fine, but it's too late now." The General said. "Be a man and face it." She shrugged mockingly.

- "Hey, Mads showed me your Chase's reaction to when he realized she read his mind, and every single time she annoyed him about it. He doesn't take it well, either." The genius boy frowned, blushing slightly.

- "I told him the exact same thing." Harper smirked.

- "Of course, you did." The green hazel-eyed boy rolled his eyes, amused.

- "You're much better than him at facing this. Chay had never thought about the concept of someone reading his mind for real, that's why he freaked out so much." The General explained.

- "Mads read my mind. Twice." Chase replied. "Then before she put the shield on, seven months ago, Mia and Xandar read it every time they saw me. And J'onn read it too. And M'gann. And every single telepath I crossed the paths of without knowing." He shrugged. "I'm used to it. But before, it was only my thoughts, now it's things that actually happened and not fantasies I had." He blushed brightly. "It's different."

- "Well, I confess that when I found out that Maddie read my mind, I was scared." The General admitted.

- "Me too." The genius boy sighed. "I avoided her for hours, until she forced me to talk it out."

- "I was scared because for a second I thought she saw what I was and everything I did and thought I was a bad person or that's what I should be, and I pretend I'm not." Harper looked down.

That's one of the reasons why Chay was scared of his mind too. She thought.

- "What do you mean?" The green hazel-eyed boy frowned. "She always talks about how good of a person you are. And I read her mind. And so did you." He blushed slightly. "You saw, that's how she thinks of you."

- "Yeah, I Know." Harper smiled softly. "But I had everything not to be like this." She sighed. "So, it was impossible for me not to think that maybe in my core I was..." She shrugged.

- "Why on Earth would you think that?" Chase asked.

- "You know who my father is, don't you?" The General frowned.

- "No." The genius boy shook his head. "Mads just told me that Douglas was like your father, but that's it. When it comes to sensible details, she didn't tell me things like that on you or Chase. I learned about what Sebastian did to all of you and the run because your Bree told mine, but that's it."

- "Yeah, I know, I'm just making conversation." Harper nodded.

Trying to open up to you naturally, see if it makes you feel better about yourself. She thought.

- "She always protects your privacy." The green hazel-eyed boy replied. "Even if in private, she annoys you about it. So, no, I don't know who your biological father is."

Very nice of her. The General nodded and looked down.

- "I am Krane's daughter." She said quietly.

- "Oh." Chase replied. "I know why she didn't tell me that about you."

- "Because my father is a monster." Harper pressed her lips together.

- "No, because she wanted to give you the space to tell me if you ever wanted to." The genius boy said.

- "Oh." The General said. "Yeah, but that detail is the least bad, I've come to terms with it because now I have Douglas." She explained.

- "That's good for you." The green hazel-eyed boy put his hand on her shoulder. "You deserve him as a father and not Krane."

- "Yeah, and in the end, he is my father for real because he married my mother." Harper chuckled faintly.

Chase smiled.

- "That's great." He nodded.

- "Yeah, but the thing is, he trained me and my two sisters to be assassins and work doing his dirty work." The General explained. "Since I was 8 years old, my life revolved around this...To be cold, and to have no mercy." She said. "That's what he wanted me to be, that's how I was raised to be before I met my Davenports."

- "Well, he may have tried to make you cold and have no mercy, but he clearly never managed to." The genius boy replied.

- "Yeah, but I'm still afraid that one day I'll be like him, he didn't realize when he lost his mind..." Harper frowned. "I wonder if the same thing could happen to me."

- "That's nonsense." The green hazel-eyed boy shook his head. "Krane was crazy in both universes. But from what I saw and know about you. You are far from going this way. You are kind and compassionate. You're nothing like him. And you never will be."

The General smiled at his words.

- "My point is that we all have insecurities, no matter how confident we seem." She said. "Chay told me that in your dream, you brought up the subject of you killing Krane in this universe." She said.

- "I did." Chase sighed. "But it was the only way to save my family, so I would do it again if I had to." He took his hand off her.

- "I know, in our universe I was there, and if Chay didn't do it, maybe I would have." Harper said. "But he feels a gigantic remorse for having done it, and he can't stop thinking about it, that maybe things would have been different if he hadn't done it and... The fact that he was my father makes Chay feel terrible." She said. "That's why he didn't want to talk about It to you in the dream."

- "I understand." The genius boy nodded. "I knew about the fact that he killed Krane, but I didn't know that he was your biological father." He raised his head against the wall behind him. "I get why he still feels guilty. Even though, he shouldn't, I get it." He looked at her. "And I understand why, after Mads killed Rhea, she preferred to call him than to talk to me."

- "Yup, they understand each other." The General nodded.

Although, he doesn't admit it. She shook her head.

- "And that day was the beginning of guilty thoughts that only got worse over time. Chay is afraid of that. He's afraid of himself, so when Maddie read his mind, he felt the same way I did. He was afraid that maybe a not-so-good version of himself had been exposed." She explained.

- "I understand." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded. "But like I told him, Mads wouldn't even talk to either of you if you were really half as bad as you think."

- "And I agree with everything he said to you as well." Harper said softly.

- "Which part?" Chase asked.

- "Everything." The General said. "Even the parts you pretended to ignore, because you know he was right."

The genius boy sighed and looked away.

- "Just like this." Harper pointed without looking at him.

- "He was wrong." The green hazel-eyed boy shook his head. "He was right about the statue, but that's it."

- "You Chases are so complicated." The General threw her head back.

- "And you're gonna marry one." Chase smiled softly.

- "I will." Harper chuckled softly. "What can I do if I fell in love with a guy who is more complicated than me?" She shrugged. "He's also the only one strong enough to handle the work." She smirked smugly at herself.

The genius boy chuckled softly.

- "Yes, he is." He nodded.

- "And what can I do if I'm..." the General shrugged shyly. "Really starting to like the other one." She glanced at his feet beside her.

The green hazel-eyed boy smiled softly at her, his cheek slightly red.

- "Well, the other one already loved you before he met you." He looked away.

Harper finally looked at him, no flashes of his mind. Ha! I got it! She smiled.

- "I know." She grinned wildly. "Maybe I'll love you too...one day." She shrugged sarcastically.

Chase snickered softly and looked at her, blushing brightly.

- "No flash?" He asked.

- "No." The General smiled, finally looking at his face intently.

He's so cute, he's just like Chay when he was 18, everything. She thought.

- "Told you, you could do it." The genius boy smirked.

- "I didn't doubt it for a second." Harper smirked sarcastically.

- "Uh-uh." The green hazel-eyed boy, sarcastically, nodded.

- "Thanks." The General said softly.

- "For what?" Chase questioned.

- "For helping me control this whole mess." Harper pointed to her head.

- "You're welcome." The genius boy nodded with a soft smile. "We should go and try to figure out the Embers' plan."

- "Luckily for us, I've already solved the first puzzle." The General shook her wrist with the cuff still on, she smirked.

- "Yep." The green hazel-eyed boy replied. "Do you mind, please?" He extended his hand with the cuff still on it, blocking his bionics.

- "Aw, and get rid of the matching bracelets." Harper pouted sarcastically.

- "Chase was right, you are more sarcastic than us." Chase said.

- "Oh, what nonsense." The General shook her head. "Chay doesn't know what he's talking about." She said sarcastically.

- "Yeah, obviously." The genius boy, sarcastically, replied. "He was totally wrong."

- "Yes, as always." Harper continued the sarcasm.

The green hazel-eyed boy rolled his eyes.

- "But seriously, too bad you want me to take this away from you. I thought you were into it." The General smirked.

Chase blushed brightly as he looked at her with wide eyes.

Harper bit her lip to contain her laughter and shrugged coyly.

The genius boy looked away, his cheeks bright red. Should have seen it coming. Besides, I'm the one who told Mads to cuff me.

- "I don't judge you, to be honest, I even understand." The General raised her hands, before resting them on her thighs, looking at him in amusement.

- "Oh really?" The green hazel-eyed boy raised his eyebrows at her. "He did it to you?"

- "Woah! You're asking too many questions." Harper frowned.

- "You're the one who said that you understood." Chase snickered.

- "Yeah, but I don't need to give you the context." The General looked away, shyly.

Although, would be fair. She thought.

- "You don't need to." The genius boy snorted. "Your face says it all."

- "Oh, believe me, It doesn't." Harper raised an eyebrow.

- "Okay." The green hazel-eyed boy raised his hands.

The General laughed softly and covered her face with one hand. What the hell am I doing here?

Chase chuckled. It's nice to finally talk to her, outside from a phone.

Harper sighed, and pulled up her sleeves, leaving her bracelets and tattoo visible.

- "Alright." She broke the handcuff on her wrist.

The genius boy frowned.

- "You tattooed his initial?" He pointed.

- "No, that's a C because it's my favorite letter of the alphabet and I love Cars." The General smiled sarcastically.

- "Do you ever answer anything seriously?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked.

- "Chay asked me the same thing when he met me, and I would answer the same, 'Nope'." Harper smirked.

Chase scoffed, amused.

- "But yeah, I tattooed his initial. And..." The General turned her back and lifted her hair, showing the silhouette of a cat on the back of her neck. "Newton." She smiled. "My little family."

- "That's cute." The genius boy smiled softly.

Harper let her hair fall and turned to him.

- "Yeah, although the day I made them was pretty chaotic, and I barely remember it." She chuckled.

- "How?" The green hazel-eyed boy frowned. "Don't you have an eidetic memory too?"

- "It kind of fails when I get drunk." Harper pressed her lips together.

- "Yeah, make sense." Chase nodded.

- "Same goes for Chay and Adam, but luckily neither of us have any regrets." The General chuckled.

- "I knew about Chase from Mads' mind. But Adam has a tattoo too?" The genius boy asked.

- "That day he tattooed 'Family is my heart' on his chest and a year later, him, Chase, Bree and Leo tattooed the Davenport symbol on their collarbone. Well, you saw Bree's tattoo is visible in her Mission suit." Harper explained.

- "Yeah, besides, my Bree told me after Chase and Bree came to see Mads." The green hazel-eyed boy replied.

- "Yup." The General nodded. "You know, Maddie hasn't told you a lot about us." She sighed.

- "No, she didn't." Chase shook his head. "Because it's things I'm supposed to learn by talking to you, not because she read your minds or because of private conversations you had."

Harper smiled softly at him and held out her hands to him.

- "Well, maybe this will be fun." She grinned.

- "Yep." The genius boy nodded with a smile as he extended his wrists.

Harper gently held his wrist. Control that super strength, don't break his wrist. She easily broke the cuff.

- "Freedom!" She smiled.

- "Finally." The green hazel-eyed boy put his hands on his wrist. "Thanks, Harper."

- "You're welcome." The General said softly.

Chase got up and extended his hand to her.

Harper looked up at him and took his hand, smiling slightly as she stood up.

- "Okay. We need to get out of here." The genius boy said. "But first of all, can you still hear Chase and Mads? Are they okay?"

The General looked around, trying to concentrate.

- "Yes, they are, but..." She frowned. "I hear someone else." She said.

- "Who?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked in a whisper, so she could hear better.

- "In the Underground." Harper looked down. "Quinn." She said.

- "Anyone else?" Chase questioned. "The Embers? Our teams?"

- "The Embers have Quinn there. They're keeping her locked in a room on a table." The General tried to listen. "They want to find a way to invade her head like they did with the others." She said urgently.

- "Crap, we need to go now." The genius boy said. "Try to open a portal for us to go there."

- "Uhg Shit." Harper looked at her hand, frustrated.

Now this is up to me. She thought.

- "Language." The green hazel-eyed boy replied. "Just focus on where you want to go."

- "Sorry." The General raised her hands. "Alright, let's Go." She sighed and glanced at him.

- "You got this." Chase nodded.

Harper, closed her eyes for a second and then, took a step forward, opening a portal. She widened her eyes in shock. Oh my God!!

- "You did it!" The genius boy smiled.

- "That's so fucking cool!" The General chuckled with a smile.

- "I know." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded. "And language." He chuckled.

- "Oh, whatever." Harper smirked. "I rock this shit." She clicked her knuckles in determination and stepped into the portal, confidently.

Chase rolled his eyes, amused, and followed her in the portal.

They arrived at a large field, in a cloudy place and full of marks of destruction.

- "Uh, I think I may have gotten the coordinates wrong." The General frowned, looking around.

- "Where are we?" The genius boy frowned.

- "I have no idea..." Harper turned around, and her eyes widened. "What the...?" She said in disbelief.

The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "Do you see that too?" He pointed at something a few feet away.

- "You mean if I see Perry, and a Perry and other Perrys commanding Perry robots?" The General's eyes widened even more.

- "Yeah." Chase nodded. "This is insane."

They stared at the army of Perrys approaching them in disbelief.

One of the Perry robots rushed near them.

- "You will never defeat me, Ch-." The robot was silenced by a blast of energy that blew her head off, and she fell at their feet.

Harper's eyes widened, and she looked at Chase.

- "What the heck was that?!" The genius boy yelled.

The General looked in the direction the blast came from.

- "Uh...." She pointed.

The green hazel-eyed boy looked at where she was pointing, and his eyes widened, in shock.

A girl ran towards the other robots that were coming towards them, she was wearing a blue and black uniform, similar to that of the Elite Force, but dirty with dust and with some tears.

Matching the post-apocalyptic scenario they faced, over her uniform she had a plaid shirt tied at the waist, her dark blonde hair tied in a long ponytail.

She wore goggles and a cloth covering the lower part of her face and neck.

As she approached the robots, she somersaulted to dodge the shots and activated a blue laser bo, which she spun and used to rip off the head of one of the robots and knock down another simultaneously.

Chase frowned, looking carefully at her.

The General's lips parted slightly as she watched the girl, who spun the laser bo and stopped it under her arm as another robot stopped in front of her.

The girl nodded her head slightly, defiantly and the robot advanced on her.

The girl agilely spun the laser bo and hit the middle of the robot; she grabbed the back of its neck.

She deactivated the laser bo to hold the robot's head and ripped out the chip on the back of its neck, splashing oil on her goggles.

She let the robot fall and walked over it.

Who the hell is she? The genius boy thought.

Oh, I really want to know who that girl is. Harper closed her mouth.

The girl looked at the robot on the floor and wiped her goggles with her hand before lifting them up, placing them on top of her head.

Revealing the intense color of her hazel eyes, when she spotted the two.

- "Who are you?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked, feeling a strange sensation.

The hazel-eyed girl chuckled, shaking her head.

- "Very funny." She said, putting her hands on her hips. "This must be a joke."

- "What do you mean?" Chase frowned.

Suddenly, one of the Perrys appeared with a giant energy weapon aiming at them.

- "Means let's Go!!" Harper shouted, her eyes widening as the girl created a force field in front of them.

The General pulled Chase by the shirt into the portal and closed it behind them.

- "What the heck was that?!" The genius boy frowned. "Who the heck was she?"

She had my bionics, and her suit looked like mine. He thought.

- "I-I don't know, and first of all, I don't want to talk about it." The General said incredulously. "But secondly, I really wanted to know."

She pressed her lips together. She was... wow.

- "That was weird." The green hazel-eyed boy looked at her. "Are you okay?"

- "Uh...um..." Harper frowned. "Yeah, I guess so." She nodded.

Chase chuckled softly.

- "What's funny?" The General looked at him.

- "Your face." The genius boy smirked.

- "Wh-what's wrong with my face?" Harper frowned.

- "You had the same face when you saw Bree kiss Skylar." The green hazel-eyed boy replied.

The General scoffed.

- "What are you implying?" She shook her head. "I don't even know that girl, I couldn't even read her mind." She said.

Yes, I tried. I really wanted to know who she was. She thought.

- "Nothing at all." Chase shook his head with a smirk.

- "Oh, stop!" The General pushed him, in amusement, shyly.

The genius boy chuckled.

- "You're making me lose my focus." Harper cleared her throat.

- "Am I?" The green hazel-eyed boy raised his eyebrows. "Or she is?" He put his hands on his hips.

The General bit her lower lip and looked at him, raising her eyebrow in amusement.

- "Seriously?" She said.

Chase grinned and nodded.

- "You." Harper pointed at his face. "Are ridiculous, you know that?" She chuckled softly.

- "I know." The genius boy nodded as he snickered.

The General rolled her eyes in amusement.

- "We need to get to Quinn, though." The green hazel-eyed boy said. "Let's leave Chase and Mads alone. Maybe they'll finally tell each other what they feel." He shook his head.

- "Eh, knowing Chay, I think it's difficult." Harper said.

- "She's convinced that he doesn't like her at all." Chase sighed. "I mean, you saw it." He pointed to his head.

- "Yeah, Chay has serious trust issues." The General said. "He's not as cool as me." She said sarcastically, pointing at herself.

The genius boy snorted.

- "You think he'll tell her some day?" He asked, seriously. "Because I know Mads, and she's not gonna give up on him, even if he keeps hurting her. And I'm trying to be understanding, but I can't stand seeing the woman I love suffer." He sighed.

- "And do you think Chay doesn't suffer from this too?" The General said.

He almost had a panic attack because he doesn't think he's good enough to be friends with her. She sighed.

- "He's just a work in progress, he's not doomed, like he thinks he is. He'll tell her someday." She continued.

- "I hope so." The green hazel-eyed boy sighed.

- "Wait." The General frowned and listened carefully. "One of the Embers is leaving the building." She said.

- "Which one?" Chase asked. "And what is the other doing?"

- "My Ember left." The General said. "And the other is with Quinn, still unconscious." She sighed.

- "Try to open another portal." The genius boy replied. "But this time also create a shield, so they can't hear or see us."

- "Oh, I confess I wouldn't mind making that mistake again." Harper chuckled.

- "I knew it." The green hazel-eyed boy smirked.

- "Duh!" The General rolled her eyes in amusement.

- "So, what are you waiting for?" Chase asked, amused.

Harper chuckled.

- "I'm just concentrating." She said.

- "Okay, okay." The genius boy raised his hands.

- "Okay, shield." The General said, creating a shield around them.

- "Good job." The green hazel-eyed boy replied. "Now, try to focus on making an illusion."

- "Alright." Harper sighed and created an illusion, so they would not be seen.

- "Now, the hearing." Chase said softly.

- "I'm one step ahead of you." The General smirked, glancing at him, making no one outside the shield hear them.

- "Great job, Harper." The genius boy smiled.

- "Easy peasy." Harper smiled.

The green hazel-eyed boy rolled his eyes, amused.

- "Okay, now, close your eyes and try to focus on Ember's voice." He said. "And open a portal; don't think about the location, just follow her voice."

- "Let's go." The General closed her eyes and concentrated.

She then opened a portal.

- "Okay." Chase stepped forward. "Let me check first." He passed his head through the portal and saw Ember 2 next to the table where Quinn was. He stepped back. "It's the right place."

- "Ha!" The General celebrated and accidentally activated her heat vision in the direction of Chase's hair. She gasped and covered her eyes right after. "Sorry."

The genius boy patted his hair quickly.

- "Don't worry about it." He sighed.

Harper peeked between her fingers.

- "I don't know where that came from." She said, still covering her eyes.

- "It came from you not controlling powers you got a few minutes ago." The green hazel-eyed boy shrugged. "No biggie."

- "Fine." The General uncovered her eyes. "Let's go." She said and pulled him into the portal.

They both stepped into the portal, the shield hiding them.

Quinn was unconscious on the table, and Ember 2 tried to put a needle with tranquilizers in her, to keep her unconscious, but the needle broke in the Time Walker's skin.

- "They want to keep her unconscious." Harper said.

- "Okay, create an illusion of Quinn waking up and running away." Chase ordered. "Ember will follow her, and we'll free her and get out of here."

- "Good Idea." The General said, she frowned as she heard something. "Did you hear that?" She looked around, hearing a muffled, low voice coming from what seemed to be a small device.

- "I did." The genius boy frowned. "What is that?"

Harper looked at a table nearby where, on top, there were some accessories and other things that were with Quinn.

- "Quinn!" A voice that sounded like Ace's came from a small comm set on the table.

- "Is that Ace?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked.

- "Quinn! Can you hear me?!" The O'Connor boy said through the comm set, in despair.

- "Sounds like him." Harper approached the table.

Chase grabbed her arm and stopped her.

- "Get rid of her first, so we can free Quinn." He said.

- "I have everything under control." The General pulled her arm.

She watched the Wilder woman closely as she circled the table impatiently as nothing worked.

- "Fine." The genius boy replied, rolling his eyes.

Harper picked up the comm. Set from the table. Where did she get this comm set? I've never seen this before; it must be from the future. She analyzed the device.

She then looked towards the table, keeping her gaze steady as she created an illusion of Quinn getting up, letting go of the table, and running out of the room.

- "Holy shit!" Ember 2 yelled. "Where do you think you're going, you bitch?!" She ran after her.

The green hazel-eyed boy freed Quinn, before picking up her unconscious body in his arms, bridal style.

- "Harper, let's go." He said.

- "Quinn!!" Ace yelled at comm set. The General pressed a button where it was possible to hear his voice on speakerphone. "What's going on? Answer me?!" He shouted.

- "Ace." Harper said firmly as she motioned for Chase to follow her.

- "Harper? Where's Quinn?" The O'Connor boy asked worriedly.

The genius boy followed her, carrying Quinn.

- "She's Fine..." The General replied and looked at the Davenport girl. "Sort of."

- "WHAT?" Ace yelled, interfering with the sound of the comm set.

Harper cringed and dropped the comm. Set on the floor, covering her ears.

- "Ahg!!" She groaned. "Shit! Super hearing." She closed her eyes.

The green hazel-eyed boy picked it up with his molecular kinesis.

- "Ace, it's Chase. Quinn is unconscious, but she'll be fine." He said in the comm. Set. "But don't yell. We don't know how it happened, but Harper has Maddie's powers and probably vice versa. Meaning you yelling is not helping Harper to get used to her new powers. Got it?"

- "Got It, Cap." Ace replied. "My bad."

The General sighed, taking her hands away from her ears.

- "Wrong Chase." Chase said.

- "Ah, Really? Dude, your voices always confused me, no matter how different you guys are." The O'Connor boy said.

- "Yeah, I know." The genius boy nodded. "The point is, stop yelling." He looked at Harper. "You're okay?"

- "Yes, I am. Ace, listen to me carefully. Quinn is fine, she'll wake up soon." The General explained.

- "It's only a matter of time." The green hazel-eyed boy added. "I scanned her with my bionic eye. There's no internal damage."

- "Do you want help? I have a damper." Ace said.

Harper frowned. What? She looked at Chase.

- "It's useless." The genius boy shook his head. "The Embers control everyone and managed to take everyone's dampers. If you come here, you are putting yourself at risk when you are not even supposed to be here, if I listen to what Quinn said."

- "More importantly, why do you have a Damper?" The General asked curiously.

- "Um....I picked it up from the floor, someone...dropped it." Ace replied, nervously.

The green hazel-eyed boy glanced at Quinn in his arms. Come on, wake up.

- "What do you want me to do then?" The O'Connor boy asked.

- "Well, you shouldn't even be here." Harper replied.

- "I'm just dead weight, got It." Ace said, annoyed.

The General thought.

- "I heard Ember saying something about her plan before leaving." She told Chase.

- "What did she say?" He asked.

- "Something about finding a device to invade Quinn's mind, and once she returns, forming an army." Harper explained. "She only kept us alive because she wants to study exactly what effects the combination of her powers and the other Ember's caused on us. Apparently, only Maddie and I were affected, but they haven't come to that conclusion yet." She said.

- "That's good." The genius boy nodded. "If I recall you saying that Mads and Chase are together, they are probably out already. We just need to go somewhere else, because they will come back here."

- "Ace." The General said.

- "I'm here, General." The O'Connor boy replied.

- "Leave Mission Command and monitor the perimeter; keep an eye on civilians near areas Ember may pass through; we don't want her taking control of anyone else." Harper said.

- "Okay." Ace said.

- "Be careful, and if you see any sign of them, let me know." The General said.

- "Yes, General." The O'Connor boy said.

- "Good idea." The green hazel-eyed boy replied.

Ember 2 walked back inside the room and kicked the table down, angrily.

She let out a frustrated scream and threw something across the room, breaking on the wall.

- "Uh, someone didn't take their stress medication today." The General said sarcastically.

Quinn heard the crash and, with a gasp, opened her eyes, grabbing onto Chase.

- "Wha-What?" She said desperately. "Where am I?"

- "Sssh." The genius boy whispered. "You're okay. I got you. We got you."

Uncle Chase. Time Walker sighed in relief and looked at Harper. Mom!! They're fine. She smiled slightly.

- "What happened?" She closed her eyes briefly.

- "The Embers knocked everyone out and took the ones they couldn't control away." The green hazel-eyed boy explained.

- "Where's the Captain and Maddie?" Time Walker asked worriedly.

- "They were together, in this same building. They must have left by now, they're fine." Harper replied

- "Both of them, together?" The Davenport girl frowned.

- "Yeah, don't worry. They'll be fine." Chase smiled softly as he gently put her down. "Easy." He continued to hold her to stabilize her.

Dad and Maddie together, great. It has to be like this. It's a concrete event. Quinn thought as she held onto her uncle's shoulder.

- "Thanks, Chase." She smiled softly at him.

- "You're welcome. You're okay?" The genius boy replied. The Wilder woman threw something towards them, the keyboard brushing the shield. "We need to get out of here before something hits the shield."

- "I'm a little dizzy, but it will pass." Time Walker held her head.

- "This way." The General said heading towards a corridor.

The green hazel-eyed boy followed her, helping Quinn.

- "What about Ace?" The Davenport girl asked worriedly. "Where is he?"

- "Harper sent him to patrol the perimeter." Chase said.

Quinn sighed in relief. He's fine.

- "Here." The genius boy handed her the comm. Set. "He asked for you."

The Davenport girl took the comm set, with a relieved smile, and wrinkled her nose.

- "Of course he did." She chuckled softly.

- "If I were you, I'd keep my ear away from it at first." The green hazel-eyed said, amused. "Feeling less dizzy?"

- "Noted, Ace screams too much." Quinn rolled her eyes in amusement. "Yeah, I'm feeling better." She nodded.

Chase chuckled softly.

- "Okay, I'm gonna walk with Harper to give you some privacy." He said, letting go of her carefully.

A Time Walker frowned. Privacy?

- "What? It's okay, though." She said.

- "I'll leave you anyway." The genius boy walked away to Harper, who was a couple feet forward.

- "Alright." Quinn frowned and put the comm. Set on her ear. "Ace?" She said.

- "Quinny!" The O'Connor boy said in relief. "Are you okay?" He asked.

- "Yes, I'm fine." The Davenport girl smiled.

- "You didn't answer me for hours; I was worried." Ace said.

- "Relax, I'm fine." The Time Walker smiled.

The green hazel-eyed boy put two fingers on his temple and scanned the building.

- "There were cameras in the room we were in." He told Harper. "There must be a command center somewhere."

- "Can you find It?" The General asked.

- "Just did." Chase smirked.

- "Uh! Good job, soldier." Harper smirked.

The genius boy frowned slightly. Soldier?

- "Follow me." He walked away towards an empty room and opened it. The room was dark, illuminated by the several screens for each camera. One of the room they were trapped in. One with a destroyed door. One where Quinn was. Once showing the terrace of the penthouse. One showing the hallway. One at CatCo. "Wow." He frowned.

- "That's...scary, they monitor everything." The General frowned, and Time Walker turned off the comm. Set.

- "I know." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded. "Our Ember is really after Mads. It's her desk." He pointed at the camera at CatCo.

- "That's creepy." Quinn said.

- "Definitely." Chase sighed. "If Mads has your powers, they can kill her easily." He said, worried.

- "Thanks." Harper frowned in offense.

- "You know, that's not what I mean." The genius boy frowned. "Bullets bounce off her, and now a simple fall could kill her."

- "Her arm is indestructible, though. I think she will know how to use it." The General frowned.

- "Stop frowning at me like that." The green hazel-eyed boy scoffed. "She was entirely indestructible, and it's just her arm. I'm just saying if Ember really wants to kill her, now she actually can."

Harper rolled her eyes.

- "Got It." She said.

- "You guys switched powers?" Quinn asked. "You and Maddie?"

The General nodded.

- "We don't know exactly how it happened, but Harper is a quadbrid now." Chase nudged her. "And the woman of Steel."

Harper chuckled softly at him.

- "I know what happened." The Time Walker said.

The genius boy frowned at her.

- "What happened?" He asked. "I was focused on Chase. I didn't see anything."

- "The Embers joined hands and created an explosion of energy that I have never seen before." The General explained.

- "Exactly what happened is what a scientific study will call 'Spontaneous Multiversal Reconstruction' and in fact a very interesting study; it explains the way that two Alter Egos, however different they may be, share cells, DNA, and similar influences on existence. They are so similar that both can double the strength of their powers once they are superhumans of any species...." The Time Walker explained.

- "And the Embers have the control of both Leos, Brees and Adam." The green hazel-eyed boy looked at the women, worried.

- "Doesn't work like that." Quinn scoffed. "This Guy."

- "You said two alter egos." Chase scoffed, crossing his arms.

- "Exactly, the Reconstruction only occurs when two Alter Egos join their powers, but it's not that simple. The connection between the two would have to go beyond the physical; you wouldn't be able to create the necessary energy just joining their hands together forcefully; both have to be spiritually connected and want the same thing. It is a set of forces that create a power strong enough to restructure the multiversal fabric and reality in unpredictable ways that often don't even make sense..." The Davenport girl pointed to the General, who frowned.

- "Well, I couldn't have known this is how it worked." The genius boy rolled his eyes. "But it's reassuring." He looked at Harper.

- "Yeah, well, I know." Quinn smiled. "I've summarized a 340,000-page archive of theories now, but that's basically what 'Spontaneous Multiversal Reconstruction' boils down to." She shrugged.

- "Okay...?" The General looked at the Davenport girl in amazement.

- "Where did you find that?" The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "Confidential information." Quinn replied.

Harper looked at her. Lie, answer: In the future.

Chase frowned at her, his arms still crossed.

- "Anyway, the point is that it can be undone." Time Walker said.

- "Great." Harper sighed.

- "And I think I can get the others out of the Embers' hypnosis." The Davenport girl put her hands on her waist.

- "How?" The genius boy asked.

- "If my theories are correct." Quinn began to pace around the room. "Ember hypnosis works based on the communication they are able to make with a specific neuron in the person's brain. If I can manipulate the energy of this specific neuron, I can turn off the connection to their powers." She explained, walking around the table thoughtfully.

- "Okay." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "You're the one that fucking left!" Ember 2 shouted on one of the screens at her older self.

- "Uh-Oh." The Davenport Girl looked at the monitor.

- "What's going on?" Harper asked.

- "I think they noticed we were all gone." Chase said as he augmented the volume.

- "You left me all alone with her, and as soon as you did, she ran away!" The younger Wilder woman yelled, angrily. "It's not my fault! It's yours!"

- "You're right, it was my fault for thinking you were competent enough to take care of things on your own!" The older Wilder replied as she entered the building.

- "That's right. Destroy each other, and it will save us the trouble." Harper crossed her arms.

- "You were supposed to watch the Chases and their bitches!" Ember 2 shouted. "And will you look at that?! They are all fucking gone! You are incompetent too!"

The genius boy locked his jaw angrily as he heard the insult.

Quinn and Harper made the exact same hateful expression.

- "Can I kill one of them already?!" The General's jaw clenched, and her eyes glowed red.

- "Wow." The green hazel-eyed boy put his hand on her shoulder. "Easy. Your eyes."

Harper sighed, and her eyes returned to their usual green color.

- "I'm just tired of those two." She said. "I should have broken a beer bottle on her head when I had the chance." She shook her head.

- "I know, I can't believe I let Ace date her." Quinn sighed.

Chase continued to look at the two Embers arguing, when suddenly the door behind them opened. He frowned and looked at it.

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In the meanwhile, GreatGirl woke up, groggy. Her vision was completely blurry, and she felt different, like when she did not have her powers.

I can't see anything without my powers. She frowned. Shit. This is bad.

Beside her, Chase opened his eyes and found himself cuffed and dizzy, his head aching. Ow! My head. He closed his eyes tightly and opened them, feeling the handcuffs on his wrists. What? He glanced at Maddie next to him. Oh, great. He sighed. I prefer it when I'm handcuffed with Harp, though. He blushed slightly. He shook his head, coming back to his senses.

- "Hey." He said. "Are you okay?"

- "Oh, you're here." The Matthews girl sighed, in relief. "I think I'm okay. You?"

- "I'm okay." The Captain nodded. "Just my head hurts. But I'm okay."

- "Thank God." The quadbrid replied. "Chase?"

- "Yes." Chase looked around.

- "Hum... I don't have my powers." GreatGirl said. "But not as if I was in solar flare. I have none."

- "What? Did the Embers take away your powers?" The Captain asked thoughtfully.

- "I don't know." The Matthews girl shook her head. "Last thing I remember was them joining hands, and it created some sort of energy, and it knocked Harper and I out."

Harper? Chase frowned in concern.

- "We have to get out of here and find Harper and Chase." The Captain said.

- "Yeah..." The quadbrid sighed. "But I can't see anything."

- "What?" Chase asked. "But, like, you really can't see nothing at all?" He frowned.

GreatGirl looked at him.

- "I can see the color of your skin." She frowned. "Like you are a blurry point of color."

- "I'm Sorry." The Captain said.

- "It's okay." The Matthews girl sighed. "Just when we get out of here, you're gonna have to guide me, babe. Because I'm basically blind."

Chase frowned and looked at her, pulling away. Babe?!

- "I'm not your fucking 'babe'." He cringed.

- "What?!" The quadbrid frowned.

- "You heard me, weirdo!" Chase said, frowning at her in disbelief.

- "I can't see anything!" GreatGirl replied. "You have the same voice!"

- "I don't have the same voice as him!" Chase shook his head.

- "Yes, you do!" The Matthews girl frowned.

- "No!" Chase said. "My voice is deeper than his."

- "Nope." The quadbrid shook her head. "Exact same one."

- "Oh, come on!" Chase said. "How did you not realize it was me?"

- "You didn't say 'Maddie'. You didn't curse. You didn't say 'Harp'. You didn't make any sarcastic comment." GreatGirl listed. "How am I supposed to know that the older version of my boyfriend isn't my boyfriend when I can't see?!"

- "It's quite simple; don't go calling anyone similar to your boyfriend 'Babe' knowing that there is another guy just like him around." Chase said annoyed.

The Matthews girl rolled her eyes.

- "You'll live." She replied. "Why did they put us together anyway?"

- "I think you're not the only one who confuses the Chases." Chase rolled his eyes.

- "I can't see!" The quadbrid frowned.

- "Well, they can and still switched couples, or they think they're right. I don't know which is worse." Chase said.

- "How could they think you're my Chase?" GreatGirl scoffed. "This is ridiculous. Why would they think we're together?" She frowned. "Because I'm a girl, and you're a boy?"

- "A very handsome boy." Chase smirked smugly.

- "Oh, gag!" The Matthews girl rolled her eyes, amused.

- "Oh gag!" The Captain scoffed, rolling his eyes and imitating her voice.

The quadbrid chuckled softly.

- "So, I guess Harp..." Chase said.

- "Is with my Chase." GreatGirl completed.

- "Okay, good, means she's safe." The Captain nodded. "Let's get out of here and find them."

- "How?" The Matthews girl asked.

- "First, we have to get rid of these handcuffs." The Captain squirmed, trying to get free. "They're blocking my bionics."

- "Wait what?" The quadbrid's face dropped. "Cuffs?" She moved her wrists, feeling the cold metal.

Not again. She thought as a wave of panic washed over her.

- "Yes." Chase pulled the handcuff.

GreatGirl looked down at her blurry hands and started to hyperventilate.

- "Maddie?" The Captain glanced at her. "What's going on?"

The Matthews girl, simply, shook her head, unable to speak. Mom. Krees. Ship.

It's a panic attack. Chase turned to her.

- "Maddie, Breathe." The Captain said softly.

The quadbrid gulped as her heartbeat quickened and her chest tightened. She put her hand on her chest, trying to breathe.

- "Hey." Chase said. "Listen to me." He said. "It's okay. I'm Here."

GreatGirl looked at his blurry silhouette, tears running down her cheeks.

- "Maddie..." The Captain took her hand firmly. "I'm here with you, and nothing will happen to you as long as I'm here." He said softly.

The Matthews girl exhaled loudly and closed her eyes.

Chase held her hand tighter.

- "I promise." He said.

The quadbrid took a deep, ragged breath. Just breathe.

- "It's okay; take a deep breath." The Captain said, taking a deep breath.

GreatGirl took another deep breath, holding it, before releasing it.

- "Now, breathe out." Chase sighed. "That's it, see? It's okay." He said softly and wiped her tears.

The Matthews girl exhaled loudly, before opening her eyes.

- "Sorry." She whispered as she sniffled.

- "It's okay." The Captain kept his frown. "I understand."

The quadbrid looked away, regulating her breathing.

- "Just breathe, you're okay, and you're gonna be okay." Chase said softly.

- "Thanks." GreatGirl sighed.

- "Of course." The Captain said.

- "It's just the..." The Matthews girl, slightly, moved her wrists, gesturing to the handcuffs.

- "The cuffs?" Chase asked.

- "Yeah." The quadbrid nodded.

- "Okay." The Captain nodded. "Must bring back bad memories, I understand..." He sighed. "If we were tied to a column, I would have had a panic attack too." He said.

- "When my mom died, I was cuffed. And on the ship, at every torture." GreatGirl replied, almost in a whisper.

The Captain looked at their hands still held together.

- "But you're with me now." He said.

- "Thank you." The Matthews girl answered, a single running down her cheek.

- "You're welcome." Chase said.

- "I didn't have one of those since last year." The quadbrid replied. "With you in the closet."

- "I guess that's our thing then." The Captain said.

- "That's fun." GreatGirl, sarcastically, smiled.

- "Right." Chase nodded.

- "But seriously, thank you." The Matthews girl, gently, tightened her hand.

The Captain stared at their hands, and blushed.

- "Again, you're welcome." He said.

- "I was seriously earlier, though." The quadbrid replied. "You're gonna have to guide me, because I really can't see."

- "How?" Chase sighed.

- "What do you mean 'how'?" GreatGirl frowned.

- "We don't even know where we are." The Captain looked around.

- "Yeah, I'm not the one who's gonna answer that." The Matthews girl chuckled as she let go of his hand, wiping her cheeks.

- "Alright, let's move, though." The Captain looked at the handcuffs. "Let's get rid of these things." He said.

- "Oliver Queen style." The quadbrid grabbed the thumb of her cuffed hand and dislocated it, as she winced a little, before sliding her hand out of her handcuff and putting her thumb back in place.

- "Oh, good one." Chase did the same once he dislocated It. He mumbled. "Shit." And slid his hand out and put it back in place. "Fuck!" He shook his hand. "Alright, want me to guide you, I will guide you." He stood up.

- "You're okay?" GreatGirl asked as she got up.

- "Why do you ask?" The Captain frowned.

- "'Shit', 'Fuck!'." The Matthews girl imitated his voice.

Chase rolled his eyes and looked at his hand.

- "Sorry for feeling agony of dislocating my thumb and expressing this." He said sarcastically.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes.

- "Sorry for asking if you're okay." She scoffed.

- "There's a metal door in this room." The Captain said.

GreatGirl frowned.

- "Wow. I feel weird." She looked down.

- "Weird how?" Chase asked.

- "Like Harper when she got her powers." The Matthews girl frowned.

- "What?" The Captain asked.

- "I don't know." The quadbrid raised her hands, and sparkles came out. "What was that?"

- "Didn't you do this before?" Chase asked.

- "I did the flash of light?!" GreatGirl looked at his silhouette with wide eyes.

- "I don't know you have so many weird powers." The Captain mocked. "Wait, can you do this with both hands?" He asked.

- "Gnagnagna." The Matthews girl mocked, but tried again, and larger sparkles came out of her right hand. "What the fuck?"

- "Woah!" Chase's eyes widened.

It looks like Harper's powers, but how? He sighed.

- "Alright, Do you still have super strength?" He asked.

- "I don't know." The quadbrid shrugged as the sparkles stopped. "I have nothing to test it on."

- "Well." The Captain looked at the door.

We have to get out of here anyway. He pointed.

- "Knock down the door...Try it." He said.

- "Ooookay." GreatGirl frowned and walked carefully towards the door, her arms extended in front of her.

She punched the door with her right hand, knocking it down.

Chase smirked. I Knew It.

- "And now, can you lift that door with your other hand?" He asked.

The Matthews girl bent down, trying to lift the door with her left hand.

- "Nope." She straightened up.

Ha! I Knew It again!! The Captain smiled.

- "Impressive." Chase said quietly, walking up to her. "Can I see your arm?" He asked.

- "Sure." The quadbrid took the thumb out of her sleeve, before lifting it up. "Do I have Harper's powers?" She extended her arm to him.

Chase grabbed her arm and forced her fist closed, watching her veins lit up like Harper's.

- "You do. But that's impossible." He frowned. "How? Harper's powers are a consequence of an injury caused by the energy of the Arcturion that changed her system at a cellular level. It is not the kind of thing that can be exchanged with another person." He shook his head thoughtfully.

- "You mean like my powers?" GreatGirl scoffed as she put her thumb back into the sleeve of her suit. "The Embers' weird wave; you think they swapped our powers?"

- "I think so." The Captain nodded thoughtfully. "I believe that two Alter Egos shouldn't be so close to each other like that, much less use powers simultaneously. This might cause a glitch in reality restructuring it or something..." He ran his hand over his chin. "In this case, when the Embers joined hands and created the wave you mentioned, this hit you and Harper, restructuring part of your beings, which includes your powers and hers." He moved away, looking around. "But that's just a theory."

- "This is insane." The Matthews girl frowned. "But if Harper really has my powers, she better understand them fast, or it's gonna hurt A LOT."

- "Hmm." The Captain placed his hands on his hips, still thinking. "This must be a natural event; either reality restructures itself during a 'glitch' like this, or it disintegrates. Either thank goodness you and Harper swapped powers or you two would have turned to dust by now." He theorized.

This must be studied for real. He thought.

- "Good thing, we'll never know." The quadbrid replied.

- "It's still frighteningly impressive that such an anomaly exists." Chase said, running his hand through his hair.

- "The multiverse is weird." GreatGirl shrugged. "That's not new. And it won't change."

- "Sorry." The Captain raised his hands. "I still get fucking impressed by this." He chuckled.

- "It's okay." The Matthews girl sighed. "I just can't find it impressive when I'm practically blind."

- "That's pretty impressive too if you think about it." Chase said in amusement. "You have the same vision you would have if you were an ordinary person, an experience that you are only able to go through because of a fucking multiversal anomaly!!" He said enthusiastically.

- "Not funny." The quadbrid shook her head.

- "I didn't say it was funny; I said it was impressive." The Captain corrected.

- "You were mocking." GreatGirl scoffed.

- "No, I wasn't; I'm just excited because I'm witnessing an event that has probably never happened in history until now." Chase grinned.

The Matthews girl rolled her eyes.

- "Recognize a milestone in history when you experience one." The Captain said.

- "Yeah, whatever." The quadbrid replied. "Let's go."

- "Fine." Chase sighed. "Harp will understand what I'm talking about, though." He rolled his eyes.

- "Good for you." GreatGirl, sarcastically, said.

- "Yeah, right." The Captain said, annoyed. "At least I have at least one person to listen to my theories." He complained.

- "I'd listen if I could see." The Matthews girl rolled her eyes, annoyed.

- "Do you hear with your eyes?" Chase frowned. "Your alien biology is fucking weird." He chuckled.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes again and started to walk out the door, carefully, trying not to trip.

- "Don't you want help?" The Captain asked.

- "No. I'm good." GreatGirl replied, walking slowly into the hallway.

- "Are you Sure?" Chase raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms.

- "I'm sure." The Matthews girl continued to walk carefully until she tripped on something, almost falling.

She sighed as she stopped herself.

- "Oops, did you trip, Darling?" The Captain said sarcastically.

- "No, I'm fine." The quadbrid scoffed as she started to walk again. "I don't need you."

The Captain pressed his lips together and nodded sarcastically.

- "Evidently." He said, walking closer to her.

GreatGirl rolled her eyes, annoyed, before she tripped on something again.

- "Aaah..." She started as she fell backwards.

Chase reflexively held her in his arms; he looked at her slightly surprised as well.

- "You were saying?" He grinned smugly.

- "Fine." The Matthews girl sighed. "I need help."

- "You're so lucky, I don't give a shit about what you say." The Captain mocked. "Because if I did, I would have already left, and you would be flat on the floor." He looked down at her.

- "Thank you." The quadbrid sighed.

- "You're welcome." Chase smirked and gently lifted her up.

- "Can you help me, please?" GreatGirl asked, annoyed.

Chase's smirk widened.

- "Sorry what?" He asked, turning his ear towards her.

- "Oh, my dear, strong, handsome Captain, could you please help me?" The Matthews girl mocked as she put her hands on her chest.

Chase smiled. I Know, she would never mean that, though.

- "It will be an honor." He said smugly.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes. Gnagnagna.

Chase walked in front of her.

- "Do you trust me, though?" He asked, looking at her arm, hesitant to hold it.

I don't know exactly how would be the best way to guide her. He thought.

- "Yes." GreatGirl nodded.

Chase pressed his lips together

- "Fine, let's go." He reached out to her forearm.

- "If you make me eat a wall, I'll kick you in the nuts as soon as I have my glasses." The Matthews girl threatened.

No, I won't. I promised Quinn and Ace. She thought.

- "There goes my dream." Chase sighed as he gently took her forearm.

- "Ha. Ha. Ha." The quadbrid, sarcastically, laughed.

The Captain rolled his eyes and began to guide her along the way.

- "I really hope I get my powers back soon, or at least, my glasses." GreatGirl sighed. "I hate depending on people."

- "Yeah, me too." Chase nodded in understanding. "But you're lucky to be with someone who knows how to lead people." He smirked. "You're in good hands."

- "In the hands of someone who threatened to kill me." The Matthews girl replied.

The Captain rolled his eyes

- "You really test my patience." He said.

- "See!" The quadbrid raised her eyebrows.

- "Maybe if you were nicer and didn't threaten to kick me in the nuts, I would be more delicate." Chase frowned.

GreatGirl rolled her eyes.

- "This won't work if you don't cooperate. So, no threats." The Captain said.

- "Don't get your panties in a bunch, handsome." The Matthews girl smirked. "I didn't mean it."

Wow, that's the best she can do? Chase looked at her, annoyed.

- "Oh! so you really think I'm handsome." He distorted the subject with a smirk.

- "It's just a word; I don't actually mean it." The quadbrid scoffed.

Chase scoffed back. I know.

- "Oh, don't be a hypocrite. You even said you liked my beard and my haircut." He smirked smugly.

- "I said that to calm you, obviously." GreatGirl lied. "I don't mean it. Like you said, I hate beards."

- "No, you sounded very genuine when you said that." The Captain replied.

The Matthews girl rolled her eyes.

- "You know I even leveled my beard recently; I thought I won't shave it because I know you like it." Chase smirked.

The quadbrid shook her head. I do. It suits you.

- "Now, I wanna rip it off your face and make you eat it." She gave him a shit eating grin.

- "Doesn't mean you don't like it." Chase said with a sarcastic grin.

- "Yeah, whatever." GreatGirl replied. "I like your beard, and you like my soft voice." She teased.

The Captain sighed impatiently.

- "I'm going to kill Harper." He grumbled.

- "You said that weeks ago." The Matthews girl smirked. "I will never listen when you tell me to shut up, now that I know that."

- "And I'll never listen when you talk bad about my beard or my face because I know deep down you think I'm cute." Chase grinned back.

- "I never said cute." The quadbrid frowned.

- "It's between the lines." Chase shrugged.

No, It's not, but... He thought.

- "No, it's not." GreatGirl shook her head.

- "Yes, It is." Chase smiled playfully.

- "Nope." The Matthews girl frowned, amused.

- "Oh, come on." Chase frowned. "Not even a little bit?" He cringed playfully.

The quadbrid took a deep breath.

- "Nope." She smiled.

Chase chuckled.

- "Okay, then I suggest wearing glasses again." He said.

GreatGirl gasped.

- "No, thanks. I don't want to see your face clear again." She replied.

- "What's wrong with my face?" Chase frowned, offended.

- "Everything." The Matthews girl smirked.

- "I don't know if you noticed, but your boyfriend isn't that different from me." Chase shook his head.

- "He doesn't have a beard." The quadbrid shrugged.

- "I'll hide his razor and see what you say later." The Captain said.

- "That I don't want beard burns on my thighs when he eats me out?" GreatGirl smirked.

- "Blah Blah Blah." Chase mocked.

Harper never complained, I think she's always busy feeling other things. He smirked, blushing.

The Matthews girl chuckled.

- "Fucking prejudice of yours, huh?" Chase rolled his eyes.

- "Yep." The quadbrid nodded.

- "There is a man with feelings under every beard, know that." The Captain said.

- "Chase..." GreatGirl sighed. "Okay, fine. I like your beard and your haircut. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with your face. Well, except the scar that I did." She looked down.

What? She means It? Chase widened his eyes slightly and blushed.

- "Some say the scar is cool, though." He shrugged.

I like it. He thought.

- "I know." The Matthews girl sighed. "I'm still sorry I did it. I wish I could erase that part of your meeting."

I wouldn't change a thing. The Captain nodded silently.

- "But I mean it. I like your beard and your haircut. And there is really nothing wrong with your face." The quadbrid added. "I just said otherwise to annoy you. I didn't mean it."

Wow, I didn't expect that. Chase blushed more.

- "Yeah." He cleared his throat. "I knew that."

- "Uh-uh." GreatGirl frowned. "You sound like I hurt and offended you."

Chase chuckled. There's no way to get hurt or offended when you don't expect anything.

- "Yeah sure. Like your words hurt me. What a joke." He shook his head, sarcastically.

- "'Like your words hurt me. What a joke'." The Matthews girl imitated his voice.

- "Wow! You're so fucking annoying." Chase shook his head in mild amusement.

And I love It. He thought.

- "I spend too much with you. You have a bad influence." The quadbrid smirked.

- "Oh me? You're the worst influence ever." The Captain frowned.

- "No." GreatGirl shook her head. "It's you, sir. You are the oldest; you are supposed to show the right example."

- "And I do. You're the one who never listens to me, even when you know very well that I'm right, you negligent." Chase scoffed.

- "Like when?" The Matthews girl scoffed.

- "Like when I say, 'Shut It', there's like a 1% chance you'll listen to me." The Captain mocked.

- "I know that you don't mean it, because you like my soft voice." The quadbrid smirked.

- "I thank God you have a soft voice, because you talk so much that if it was a fucking screechy voice I would have already ripped my ears off a long time ago." Chase said annoyed.

- "Aw." GreatGirl chuckled. "So, when I annoy you, you don't want to rip your ears off? That's good to know."

Chase snorted impatiently. No, I like to talk to her so much to do that.

- "I mean, for now I don't want to, but there is a limit to everything." He said.

- "This will never happen." The Matthews girl shook her head. "Because if you rip your ears off, you won't be able to hear Harper moan." She shrugged without looking at him, amused.

Chase blushed, annoyed. Damn, she's right.

- "I could still feel the vibrations from her vocal cords---" He frowned.

It's not the Same. He shook his head.

- "Wait, no! Uhg! Shut up!" He said annoyed.

The quadbrid laughed softly. Gotcha.

- "Oh, if one day I rip off my ears, I'll make sure you swallow them." Chase shook his head.

- "No, thanks." GreatGirl shook her head. "There are only two things that I swallow, and your ears are not part of it."

Food and... I'll stop there. She thought, amused.

- "It won't be optional." The Captain grinned menacingly.

- "Oh, no. I'm so scared." The Matthews girl made her hands exaggeratedly shake.

- "You should be." Chase nodded.

- "In your dreams, handsome." The quadbrid smirked.

- "We'll see, Darling." Chase scoffed.

I like when she calls me that, though. It's fun. He thought.

- "'We'll see, darling'." GreatGirl imitated his voice.

- "You seem to really like my voice too, don't you?" The Captain smirked.

- "I prefer my Chase's." The Matthews girl shrugged.

- "Yeah, I bet you do." Chase chuckled.

The quadbrid pressed her lips together, smiling widely.

- "Mm-hmm, I saw." The Captain nodded.

GreatGirl snorted.

- "Oh, you think is funny when I talk about It?" Chase raised his eyebrow.

- "What if I do?" The Matthews girl raised her eyebrows at him.

- "Nothing." The Captain shrugged.

I like it when you laugh. Even if it's at me sometimes. He thought.

- "But it's good because now you understand why I annoy you about your sex life." The quadbrid shrugged. "You think it's fun, too."

- "No, I don't." Chase shook his head.

Obviously I do, but no one needs to know that. He thought.

- "Says the guys, who kept laughing at the faces I was making on my birthday when he kept going on and on about it." GreatGirl replied.

- "Maybe you got a point." The Captain said. "Just maybe." He smirked. "But also, I let you mess with me on purpose that day, and I don't think it will happen again." He said in amusement.

- "Hey, we both know I'll do it anyway." The Matthews girl smirked.

- "Don't you dare." Chase narrowed his eyes playfully.

The quadbrid laughed softly.

The Captain shook his head in amusement.

- "Best day ever, though." GreatGirl said.

- "What?" Chase frowned.

- "My birthday." The Matthews girl replied.

- "Oh." The Captain said.

Same though. He smirked.

- "I'm glad to hear that." He continued.

- "Part of it is because you showed up." The quadbrid added.

And just like that, she made my day. Chase blushed and smiled wildly.

- "That's fair since I spent hours there with you." He said. "Bree's fault." He mocked.

- "You liked it." GreatGirl smiled. "And the shirt."

- "There was no way of me not liking that day with that cake." Chase smirked playfully.

- "You have good taste." The Matthews girl chuckled softly.

- "Yup." The Captain chuckled.

- "I have three questions though." The quadbrid said.

- "Ahg, Shit." Chase sighed loudly. "There we go."

GreatGirl rolled her eyes, amused.

- "How did Harper react? Is the shirt still intact?" She snorted. "And was I right when I said that it would take her five minutes of you two alone with you in that shirt to strip you completely?"

The Captain stopped, blushing brightly.

- "Um, you really want to know?" He asked.

- "Yes." The Matthews girl snickered.

Chase sighed in amusement.

- "I'm guessing that I was right about her reaction." The quadbrid smirked.

- "Okay. First question, she was happy and glad you were that thoughtful in giving me that shirt, and..." The Captain blushed brightly.

- "I bet she was." GreatGirl nodded.

- "Mm-hmm, yeah, second question. The shirt is intact." Chase nodded shyly.

Can't say the same about my old office chair. He thought.

- "Like you said you would keep it." The Matthews girl smiled softly.

- "I am a man of my word." The Captain nodded, his cheeks burning red.

- "I know." The quadbrid nodded.

- "Yeah, that's it; you have your questioner answered." Chase sighed nervously.

- "So, the last one I was right?" GreatGirl smirked.

The Captain pressed his lips.

- "Well...." He shrugged.

Yes!! Totally!! 100%!! He thought.

- "I knew it." The Matthews girl chuckled. "I told you!"

Chase giggled shyly.

- "It was better than I thought it would be, though." He blushed more.

- "Oh, I bet." The quadbrid snorted.

The Captain blushed more intensely and bit his lip.

- "Thanks for that shirt." He said, chuckling. "Like really, thank you!!"

GreatGirl laughed.

- "You're welcome." She replied.

- "Although It's not the shirt that is magic cuz I brought a towel last week that had the same effect so...." Chase pressed his lips.

- "Wow." The Matthews girl snorted.

I do the same with my Chase, to be fair. She smirked.

- "I don't know what's wrong with that girl. Gotta be honest." The Captain chuckled.

- "Nothing. Absolutely nothing." The quadbrid shook her head with a smile.

Chase shook his head. I know. I'm the problem, cuz I can't keep it together when she's around, or just existing and being...her. He sighed, blushing brightly.

- "Who's shutting it up now?" GreatGirl smirked.

Chase pressed his lips together, still blushing.

- "What?" He cleared his throat.

- "You heard me." The Matthews girl replied. "I know that I can't see you, but I know that right now you look like a tomato."

- "Wh-what? No! Why would I?" The Captain blushed more.

- "Right. Why would you blush?" The quadbrid teased.

Because you can't stop thinking about Harp and about having... Chase frowned and shook his head.

- "Yeah, no reason for me to blush here." He said, nervously.

- "None at all." GreatGirl, sarcastically, replied. "Just thinking about fucking Harper." She shrugged with a smirk.

Holy shit. The Captain closed his eyes; he felt his cheekbones burning.

- "Yeah." He rolled his eyes.

What the fuck you mean, 'yeah'?! He frowned.

- "I mean No!" He corrected.

- "Too late, you said it!" The Matthews girl laughed.

Chase rolled his eyes. You can't deny the obvious. You can't deny that you like this reminder that you 'had sex with Harper' every single time. He smirked, with a bright flush on his cheeks.

- "Huh, Big deal." He replied sarcastically.

- "I'm not answering that." The quadbrid snorted.

She didn't mean what I thought she meant... The Captain frowned.

- "You're unbelievable." He said.

- "Hey, I've been called worse." GreatGirl shrugged with a smile.

- "Did I tell you to fuck off today or did I forget?" The Captain said annoyed.

- "Nope, you forgot." The Matthews girl replied, amused.

- "Oh Yeah, that's right." Chase nodded. "Fuck You!" He frowned.

The quadbrid chuckled softly.

The Captain smiled sarcastically.

- "It's too easy to push your buttons." GreatGirl snickered.

Chase rolled his eyes. I know. It annoys myself.

- "I don't recommend it; it's not a very safe thing to do." He said.

- "Again: oooh, I'm so scared." The Matthews girl mocked.

The Captain threw his head back and sighed impatiently.

- "I love doing that." The quadbrid smiled.

- "Why? I honestly don't understand." Chase frowned.

- "Because your face is hilarious. Every single fucking time." GreatGirl snickered.

- "I don't see the funny side of it." Chase shook his head.

- "The funny side is annoying you." The Matthews girl replied.

The Captain sighed annoyed.

- "You get annoyed so easily, and you do the same face every time." The quadbrid said. "And even if I can't see it right now, I can perfectly imagine it."

- "It's always either that face or walk out of the room, but something tells me you wouldn't like my absence." Chase smirked.

- "No, I wouldn't." GreatGirl shook her head. "Because you're the only reason why I'm not eating walls right now."

And because I love spending time with you, even if you don't feel the same. She thought.

- "I'm very close to throwing you against one and run away, so don't test my patience." The Captain said, playfully.

- "You're too nice to do that to me." The Matthews girl replied.

- "I have my moments, so don't play with fire." Chase replied with a smirk.

I do have moments, but with those who deserve. I would never do that with you. He thought.

- "Gnagnagna." The quadbrid mocked.

- "Wanna play a little game? Call it 'what flavor is the wall'?" The Captain grinned. "I bet it's sweet. Wanna tell me, Maddie?"

- "I trust you on this." GreatGirl nodded. "After all, you know something about eating walls." She smirked.

- "Oh no. Still, I think you're asking to try it." Chase said annoyed.

- "No, I'm good." The Matthews girl shook her head.

- "Then behave." The Captain rolled his eyes.

- "You can't tell me what to do." The quadbrid rolled her eyes.

- "Who's the Captain here? ...The real one, not the one just wearing a costume." Chase smirked. "I mean the one who gave you this." He flicked the Mighty Force pin on her Mission suit.

- "Gnagnagna." GreatGirl mocked. "I'm the captain, and I'm a cocky asshole." She imitated his voice, mumbling.

The Captain let go of her.

- "Okay, I'm done." He said annoyed.

The Matthews girl rolled her eyes.

- "Sensitive." She scoffed as she continued to walk by herself.

- "You despise my good will; now I want to see you do without it." Chase started walking alone.

- "I don't despise your good will." The quadbrid shook her head. "I despite your cocky comments."

- "I despise many of your comments too. So, I think we're even." Chase pushed some things in front of her with his foot, so she did not trip.

GreatGirl, faintly, saw the movement.

- "Thanks." She said.

- "You're welcome." Chase said dryly.

I won't stop my cocky comments, but I also don't want you to trip. He thought.

The Matthews girl frowned at his dry tone. Did I hurt him? She sighed and, blindly, reached for his arm.

- "I'm sorry." She grabbed his bicep. "I swear I didn't mean it."

Chase glanced at her hand to her face. I know she hates my cockiness; I'm not proud of it either, but... it's not like I have much of a choice.

- "Don't worry." He held her forearm.

- "No." The quadbrid shook her head. "I'm sorry. I just wanted to annoy you. I didn't want to offend you." She looked down.

Then I wonder why he doesn't like me. She thought.

- "I'm not offended." Chase stepped back as he guided her.

It's not like I'm expecting you to agree or compliment me. I mean, I do expect it, but I'm not deluded. He looked at her.

- "Don't worry about it." He added.

- "I'm really sorry, Chase." GreatGirl said, feeling guilty that she might have upset him.

- "I'm not offended. You're not going to be the one to get this." The Captain looked into her eyes, knowing she could not see him clearly.

She's the only one who can achieve this. She's the only one I seek approval from. He thought.

- "Okay." The Matthews girl sighed. "I didn't mean the 'asshole' either. I don't think you are one."

Chase nodded.

- "I know." He smirked.

No, you believed It. He thought.

- "You know my Chase had the right to an 'asshole' too." The quadbrid said.

- "What?" The Captain frowned.

- "You're not the only Chase I called an 'asshole'." GreatGirl explained.

Chase looked at her thoughtfully.

- "Oh." He said.

So, she actually doesn't mean it. He thought.

- "I told him that several times." The Matthews girl added. "But unlike you, there is one time; I meant it."

- "Oh shit." Chase shook his head. "So, I'm not that special." He said in amusement.

The quadbrid snorted as she rolled her eyes, amused.

The Captain smiled gently at her.

- "God, I hate not being able to see anything." GreatGirl sighed, annoyed.

- "I've been in your shoes." Chase said. "Not cool at all."

- "Nope." The Matthews girl shook her head. "You know what the worst part is about not having my powers?"

- "Having the asshole guiding you?" The Captain pointed to himself.

- "I don't see one." The quadbrid scoffed. "It's Harper having my powers."

- "I'd say your powers are in good hands, then." Chase smiled.

Really good hands. He pressed his lips together in amusement, blushing slightly.

- "You do realize that she can read your mind? And my Chase's?" GreatGirl raised her eyebrows. "Who, by the way, has also my mind, because I made him read my mind so we would be even."

Chase frowned thoughtfully. Shit, she'll see everything since the very start. There goes any surprise I had planned for our wedding. He shook his head.

- "I'm not worried about that." He said.

- "You should be." The Matthews girl nodded. "She's gonna see every single dirty dream and thought you've had about her and that you didn't tell."

Chase blushed brightly. Oh my God!! She'll see it all, for real, and she'll throw it in my face later. I don't know how I feel about this.

- "I think she would find out eventually." He frowned worriedly.

- "I may not be able to see, but I can tell that you are worried." The quadbrid chuckled. "Remember her reaction about the fact that you dreamed about her and kissed the wall of your capsule. Imagine now; she's gonna see all the other dreams."

- "Th-they're not that bad." The Captain shook his head, nervously.

Lies, The one you had after our first date was pretty bad. He blushed.

- "Yeah, say that to someone who hasn't seen them." GreatGirl replied.

- "You know they're not." Chase said.

They are. The ones you had when we were on the run, and you couldn't do anything with her. He closed his eyes in despair.

- "Not all of them." The Matthews girl shook her head. "But there are some that are SO dirty. I'm shocked you even had them."

- "They're dreams; it's not like I scripted them." The Captain frowned.

- "Okay, fair enough." The quadbrid nodded. "How about the thoughts you have about her when you are awake?"

Chase scoffed. Yeah, I'm guilty.

- "Have you seen Harper? How could I not?" He shrugged.

She's so cute and hot as hell. I Still don't understand how It's possible she's into me. He thought.

- "I don't blame you." GreatGirl shrugged. "Just know that she's gonna see them. I already tease you about them sometimes, but she's gonna tease you about them every single second of every day until you die. Just remember that." She chuckled.

Chase sighed loudly

- "That's the price I'll have to pay. At least in compensation, I'll have her every second of every day until I die." He smirked.

- "Good for you." The Matthews girl smiled. "My Chase is gonna lose it, though." Her eyes widened as she looked away.

- "He'll be fine. Harp isn't you." The Captain shrugged.

- "But just the fact that she saw THAT, he's gonna lose it." The quadbrid snorted. "I mean, I don't give a shit, but he does."

- "Like I did?" Chase frowned.

- "I don't know." GreatGirl sighed. "Maybe worse."

- "Oh, come on." The Captain said.

- "I'm serious." The Matthews girl nodded. "You'll finally see from the outside what we mean by looking like a tomato."

Chase chuckled.

- "I can already imagine, though." He said.

- "At least, Harper and I will be even." The quadbrid chuckled softly.

Sort of. She thought.

- "Best day Ever." The Captain grinned.

- "Not for you, because you haven't seen anything." GreatGirl smirked.

- "She and I are one." Chase shrugged. "Just the fact that she's going to know everything is already an achievement for me as well."

- "Not everything." The Matthews girl shook her head. "I may have showed my mind to my Chase, but I didn't show him everything."

- "She'll know enough." The Captain smirked.

- "When I give him my thoughts, I avoided to show him the moments when we talked about your secrets, so don't worry about him knowing that." The quadbrid explained. "And Harper's. And my first five years of life." She mumbled the last part.

Chase pressed his lips together and held her elbow as he guided her.

- "Thank you for keeping our secrets." He smiled softly.

- "I told you; I'm a tomb." GreatGirl smiled softly.

- "Me too." The Captain nodded.

- "I know." The Matthews girl nodded. "Thank you."

Chase softened his gaze toward her.

- "Chase keeps trying to push me to open up about my time on the Kree ship. He thinks that if he knows, he'll be able to help me." The quadbrid sighed. "It's very sweet, but I'm never telling anyone what I've been through. People can't handle knowing that I was tortured until I was five; if they knew the details, everyone would look at me differently." She continued to look at the blurry ground.

- "I understand." The Captain nodded.

- "I know you do." GreatGirl replied.

- "We all have memories that shouldn't be shown to the world." Chase said. "And that's okay...I guess." He looked down.

- "I know." The Matthews girl sighed. "I just hate keeping things from him. But there is no way I'm telling him that. It would hurt him so much."

- "Harper never told me what she did while working for Krane for the same reason." The Captain said. "At first, it really bothered me that she didn't believe I could handle it. But after all, I understand that it's better this way, because those memories, things she did and suffered don't matter anymore because they are not part of who she is."

- "But that's the problem; they are part of who I am. My powers, my panic attacks and my traumas are from there, and they are part of who I am." The quadbrid replied.

- "They're not. Those consequences don't shape who you are." Chase shook his head. "If that were the case, Harper and I would be murderers for real, since our traumas came from there. Right?" He said seriously. "But I really want to believe that's not how it works."

- "You guys are not murderers." GreatGirl shook her head. "It's just that I am who I am now, because I shaped myself into never becoming like them. I learned how to be caring and compassionate because they weren't. I learned how to take care of kids, because they didn't. I don't know if that makes sense." She frowned, looking down.

- "Well, That's what my traumas and hers tell us through our nightmares, every day." The Captain said, thoughtful. "But they're consequences, not who we are." He said. "Same goes for you. What you suffer does not shape who you are, but rather how you deal with them. The way you dealt with these traumas that transformed you into who you are today."

- "Yeah." The Matthews girl sighed. "You're right."

The Captain stroked her arm with his thumb almost imperceptibly.

- "But even if I'm right, it doesn't make my fight any easier. It's okay to have doubts about it; it's not like there's really a right answer or a right way to get through it." He said calmly.

- "You're really wise when you're not pretending to be cocky." The quadbrid smiled gently, without any mockery in her tone.

- "Well... Not everyone gets to this part." Chase smirked.

GreatGirl chuckled softly.

- "You know I hate that we are seeing each other to fight criminals. But I'm happy to see you again." She looked at her blurry feet.

I wish you would randomly come by like you did on my birthday. She thought.

I wish I could come here more often, but I don't want to seem clingy. The Captain frowned.

- "You're not seeing me." He said, playfully.

The Matthews girl looked at him, frowning.

- "Ha. Ha. Ha." She, sarcastically, laughed.

Chase laughed.

- "But it never crossed my mind that you'd want to see me in a non-professional context, though." He frowned.

- "I thought we were friends?" The quadbrid frowned.

- "We are, but not like..." The Captain said, confused.

Shut up. He stopped.

- "Not like what?" GreatGirl repeated.

- "I-I mean, we can barely hold a conversation without telling each other to fuck off." Chase frowned.

- "Yeah, but that's how we work." The Matthews girl frowned. "Doesn't make us less friends."

I like to believe that, even if I know that he doesn't. She thought.

The Captain got silent for a second. Friends, I can't keep a friend.

- "I don't know how to have friends." He shook his head. "I only have my family."

- "I can teach you." The quadbrid looked at his blurry face.

Wow, that was cheesy. She frowned at herself. Too late to take it back now.

Chase smirked slightly.

- "That would be nice." He said softly.

- "Really?" GreatGirl raised her eyebrows.

Like he means that? She smiled.

- "Hmm?" The Captain frowned as if he did not understand the question.

- "You're serious?" The Matthews girl asked. "You meant it?"

Chase cleared his throat. Why so nervous?

- "I... I didn't even say anything." He looked away, blushing slightly.

Why are you on the defensive? He thought.

- "I'm blind, not deaf." The quadbrid smiled softly.

Please, say it again. Please, tell me I didn't imagine it. She thought.

The Captain pressed his lips together to keep from smiling as they stopped in front of a window where he could see his reflection.

Chase glanced at his own reflection and saw Spike.

Wow, you're pathetic. Just talk to her, open up to her, stop fooling yourself. He scoffed.

- "Oh, shut up!" Chase replied out loud by talking to his own reflection.

- "What?" GreatGirl frowned.

Chase looked at her. She thinks that's for her.

- "Sorry, I wasn't talking to you." He shook his head.

- "Who were you talking to?" The Matthews girl asked.

Spike? She thought.

The Captain sighed impatiently.

- "Spike." He replied.

Spike rolled his eyes.

Wow, where's the excitement? He said.

Chase frowned at him, annoyed.

I knew it. The quadbrid thought.

- "Wait, what?" She frowned. "Spike?"

- "In short, I kind of tried to fix the command app. And now Spike talks to me, and I talk to him; it's like a voice in my head." The Captain explained.

I am much more than a voice in your head. Spike shrugged.

- "Oh, boy. The chaos that must be." GreatGirl snickered.

Chase shrugged.

- "It's not all the time, just when I allow him to." He said.

Like now? You want me to tell you exactly what you're doing wrong? Because just so you know, mate. It's all wrong. Spike mocked.

- "Can't you see I'm in the middle of a conversation here?" The Captain replied.

Spike groaned.

- "You look..." The Matthews girl frowned. "I mean, sound crazy talking alone." She teased.

- "Well, before, I already seemed like a crazy person with multiple personality disorder..." Chase nodded. "Now, I'm an admittedly crazy person with multiple personality disorder." He said, frustrated.

- "We are all crazy." The quadbrid shrugged. "And Spike is worse than you."

Chase and Spike exchanged a look.

Can I talk to her? Spike asked.

- "No, you can't!" The Captain replied

She'll be happy to talk to me. Spike smirked.

- "I'm sure she won't." Chase said.

You're scared because she'll see that I'm much more fun than you. Spike scoffed.

Chase rolled his eyes.

- "You're sure I won't what?" GreatGirl asked.

- "Want talk to him." Chase replied.

- "Um..." The Matthews girl frowned. "I love my Spike, and he was my friend. But I saw in your family's mind how your Spike is. And he's more animal than human, the opposite of my Spike." She explained. "Besides, I miss my Spike, so it would be weird." She sighed.

Spike gasped and put his hand on his chest.

How dare you! He said, and The Captain chuckled.

- "He heard that, and you offended him." He smirked.

- "Seriously?" The quadbrid raised her eyebrows. "That offended him? Wow, doesn't take much."

- "You called him an animal." Chase said.

Spike scoffed annoyed. Bitch. He muttered.

- "Hey!" The Captain snapped angrily at his own reflection. "Relax your ass right there, you nervous wreck!" He deepened his frown, and Spike raised his hands.

- "What did he say?" GreatGirl snickered.

- "Nothing; he just growled and snorted, Spike stuff." Chase said, and Spike growled, hitting his own reflection.

- "How can our Spikes be so different?" The Matthews girl frowned. "I swear my Spike is violent, but when I manage to calm him down, and he listens to me." She snickered. "One time I told him to shut up, sit down and listen; he did without complaining." She chuckled.

There's only one person I would do this for. Spike grumbled.

- "Dude, she was a psycho." The Captain said.

I don't care she was mine! Spike growled.

- "What did he say?" The quadbrid frowned.

- "That there's only one person he would do that for." Chase replied.

- "Oh." GreatGirl frowned, sadly. "I feel bad for him."

Who's not human now? Spike grumbled.

- "He said, 'Who's not human now?'" The Captain quoted.

- "I said that he was more animal than human. I didn't say that he wasn't human." The Matthews girl scoffed. "He's still a person, a violent one sure, but a person with feelings who will never see the woman he loves again."

Chase looked at him.

Yeah, Never. Spike said.

- "Sorry man." Chase said, with pity.

- "He's living your worst nightmare." The quadbrid replied. "Glitch is his Harper."

- "I know, but there's no way to bring her back. No matter how hard I try, she'll never be the same." The Captain said.

I know. Spike said, looking down.

- "I know." GreatGirl sighed. "Just try to remember next time he annoys you, that he lost the woman he loves and that he lives through you. He doesn't have a life of his own. So, no matter how much he annoys you, be compassionate and try to understand why he's always on the defensive and angry."

Okay, she's not that bad. Spike admitted. I see why you like her. He told Chase.

- "I'm trying to get used to him. I've never talked to him before. I don't really know him yet." He said.

- "Well, my Spike always said that we were alike." The Matthews girl chuckled softly. "Well, that I'm a mix between you and him. So, I'm nice, but also extremely violent."

Chase frowned.

Huh! She's just like you then. Spike smirked.

- "Sounds like you." The Captain chuckled at the quadbrid, ignoring Spike.

She smiled.

- "Also remember that as much as you hated when he took control of your body a couple of hours once a year. It's also the only time he had a life. You lost a few hours of your life; he only got to live a few hours." She said.

Yeah, and now I'm just a voice in your head...Oh! Wait, I can do that. Spike said and made Chase slap himself in the face.

- "We agreed we weren't going to do this anymore!" Chase frowned angrily.

It slipped. Spike shrugged.

GreatGirl snorted as she saw the blurry motion.

- "Did he make you slap yourself?" She pressed her lips together to prevent her laughter.

- "Yeah." The Captain said.

Yeah, I can make him do other things, see... Spike said.

- "No!" Chase frowned. "He's still kind of a jerk." He said, Spike growled.

The Matthews girl laughed softly.

- "I made you do that last time. Are you saying I'm a jerk?" She smirked.

- "A little bit." The Captain said playfully.

You're more. Spike replied.

- "Okay, that's it; go back to the cage!" Chase frowned, and Spike rolled his eyes, disappearing into the reflection.

The quadbrid chuckled. That was fun.

- "Okay, he's gone." The Captain sighed.

- "Okay." GreatGirl snickered.

- "Sorry about him." Chase said.

- "It's okay. I like him." The Matthews girl shrugged. "He's better than Trent."

Chase chuckled. I had forgotten about him.

- "Trent is such a distant memory for me. Though I'd like to see him bully me now." He grinned. "Oh, if I lifted a finger at him, I'd make him cringe." He smirked.

- "He's distant for me too. But I will forever hate him. And I will forever cherish the moments where he ran away from me screaming." The quadbrid smirked.

- "That's cool." The Captain chuckled.

- "You have no idea how much." GreatGirl snickered. "Trent being scared of me was amazing. Also, it stopped him from doing everything he did to you and your Leo to my Chase and Leo." She shrugged. "You said that you had a bodyguard in this universe, but you have no idea how much."

Chase smiled in amusement and continued guiding her.

- "The best threat I did was to him." The Matthews girl snorted. "Everyone got so scared by it, even Chase and Leo."

- "What did you say?" The Captain asked.

- "You remember that time when he used you and Leo as football dummies?" The quadbrid locked her jaw.

- "Uhg! Yeah." Chase rolled his eyes.

- "Well, my Davenports have watches and necklaces with a signal button to call me for help. So, Leo did, and I arrived outside right before they started." GreatGirl explained. "And I told him that if he didn't tell his players to put Chase and Leo down, I will kill him. But before, I was going to rupture his delicate parts with a pair of stilettos and close up all of his openings with a hot glue gun."

The Captain snorted.

- "Holy shit!" He laughed.

- "You should have seen the looks on every guy's faces." The Matthews girl laughed. "It was epic!"

- "I bet it was... I'm gonna write down this one." Chase said in amusement.

- "It's not over." The quadbrid chuckled.

- "What?" The Captain grinned.

- "Well, he put them really quickly, and then I told him, 'Good news, today is a very special day.' He asked why. And I said that today was the day a girl was finally going to touch him in his little special place. And then I kicked him in the nuts." GreatGirl pressed her lips together to contain her laughter. "Every single guy, including Chase and Leo, turned pale."

Chase laughed.

- "I shouldn't be laughing at this though." He shook his head, laughing.

- "It's Trent. He deserved it." The Matthews girl laughed. "Laugh." She shrugged.

The Captain laughed.

- "You get why it's my favorite threat?" The quadbrid laughed.

Chase wiped the tears from his eyes quickly.

- "Yup." He chuckled softly.

GreatGirl smiled proudly. I made him laugh! Ha!

- "Uh-oh." The Captain looked back.

- "What?" The Matthews girl frowned, in worry.

- "Stairs. Lots of stairs." The Captain put his hand on her shoulder to make her stop.

- "Please, tell me you're kidding." The quadbrid sighed.

- "I wish." The Captain sighed.

- "That is just great." GreatGirl, sarcastically, said.

- "Okay, let me think." Chase looked at the stairs, then at her. "I could push you, and we met down there." He smirked sarcastically.

The Matthews girl rolled her eyes, amused.

- "That's your great idea, genius?" She asked.

- "Oh, it works very well to me." The Captain chuckled. "Don't worry, I'll be gentle with the push, but I can't assure you the steps will be too." He shrugged.

The quadbrid snorted.

- "You're an idiot." She smiled.

And she loves It. Chase smiled in silence.

- "Fine, let's do it the slow way, then." He said.

GreatGirl closed her eyes, in despair.

- "Or just leave me here. I'm gonna slow you down. Go find the others, and you'll come for me when you have my glasses." She snickered. "Or any glasses. It will be better than not seeing anything."

- "Don't be silly. I'm not gonna leave you here helpless like that." The Captain shook his head.

- "It will take less time." The Matthews girl replied.

- "I was kidding; we can do this. Come on." Chase assured.

- "Chase, it's gonna take forever." The quadbrid said.

- "So, yes to push?" The Captain smirked.

GreatGirl rolled her eyes, amused.

- "Now hold on to me." Chase said.

- "I can't see." The Matthews girl frowned. "I wouldn't want to grab something I shouldn't. Like you." She snorted.

The Captain frowned and glanced at himself.

- "I don't think that's going to happen." He raised an eyebrow.

- "I still can't believe you did that with Harper." The quadbrid shook her head, amused.

Chase frowned.

- "Oh, please, you know very well I was seeing her the whole time." He smirked.

- "Dirty man." GreatGirl snorted.

The Captain chuckled. It was worth it.

- "The point is. It's not the same thing." He took a step closer to her. "And I'm right here, blindy." He put his hand on her shoulder.

- "Okay. Let's do this." The Matthews girl sighed. "You know if I was still indestructible, I would have said yes to being pushed." She smiled.

- "And I would gladly push you." The Captain grinned sarcastically.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes, chuckling.

- "I know." She nodded.

Chase gently took her hand and placed it on his shoulder.

- "But I got you. Don't worry." He said.

- "You threatened to push me down the stairs and into a wall, sorry to be." GreatGirl smiled.

- "You right. You have every right to be scared." The Captain nodded in amusement. "But I'm honest, I got you."

- "Okay." The Matthews girl sighed. "I trust you."

- "Really?" Chase asked, putting his hand on her back and glancing at the stairs.

- "With my life." The quadbrid smiled softly. "Literally."

Chase smiled and held her tighter.

- "Not your wisest decision." He said sarcastically.

- "Gnagnagna." GreatGirl mocked.

The Captain chuckled and took a step forward.

The Matthews girl followed carefully as they went down the first step.

- "How many steps exactly are there?" She asked.

- "Uh." Chase looked at the stairs. "About 50." He nodded

- "Oh, boy." The quadbrid closed her eyes, in despair. "This is going to take forever."

- "When we reach the 25th step, I'll push you." The Captain mocked as they went down one more step.

GreatGirl lifted the hand that was holding onto him to smack his shoulder quickly, before holding on again.

- "Hey!" Chase chuckled. "Careful with this; it's the only thing keeping you from falling."

- "I know." The Matthews girl snickered. "But you deserved it."

They went down one more step.

- "Who would know you'll have to lean on me after all?" The Captain pressed his lips in amusement.

- "You are enjoying the fact that I depend on you a little too much." The quadbrid chuckled softly.

- "Sorry, it's more satisfying than I expected." Chase chuckled.

GreatGirl bit her lower lip as she shook her head, amused, as they went down one more step.

- "Once we're out of here, I'll kill whoever it's the dipshit that built this place and those fucking stairs." The Captain said.

The Matthews girl chuckled.

- "You know it's funny because I depend on you, but also you have to help me like my little servant." She teased.

- "Wanna kiss the floor? Keep talking!" Chase said annoyed as they went down one more step.

The quadbrid snorted.

- "No, I'm good." She smiled. "Sorry."

The Captain rolled his eyes in amusement as they went down one more step.

- "I can't see you, but I know you rolled your eyes." GreatGirl smirked at him.

- "Yeah, you probably heard how rusty and worn out they are from rolling too much because of you." Chase said as they went down one more step.

The Matthews girl snorted.

- "Fair enough." She nodded.

Chase glanced at her and smirked as they went down one more step. This is nice, though. I like talking to her.

- "I'm gonna kill the Embers." The quadbrid sighed, annoyed.

- "Let some fun for me too." The Captain said sarcastically.

- "You kill yours, and I'll kill mine." GreatGirl joked.

- "Deal." Chase smirked. "Although I feel like I'll have to share the work with Quinn."

- "Yep. I can't believe they teamed up to destroy all of us." The Matthews girl shook her head. "Especially the two of us."

- "Such an idiocy." The Captain scoffed.

- "Right!" The quadbrid scoffed. "Like you saved every single superhuman, and I decapitated an indestructible android. Get over it. And I can understand why my Ember wants me gone. Troy was an android, but he was like her brother. But you? All you did was give her a life back. I don't understand how she can hate you for that. When all she has now, is because of you." She frowned.

- "Yeah right! But it's not even that the idiocy, it's that they think they can do it." Chase smirked smugly as they went down one more step.

- "Idiots." GreatGirl shook her head. "I just need my glasses, before we kick their asses."

- "Hang in there." The Captain said as they went down one more step.

- "I am. To the handsome, strong Captain." The Matthews girl mocked with a smile.

She called me that again... Chase blushed and looked at her, tripping on the step but quickly regaining his composure, holding the quadbrid tight.

- "S-sorry." His eyes widened.

- "It's okay." GreatGirl chuckled softly as she tightened her grip on his shoulder. "Just try not to kill us."

Pay attention, man. The Captain laughed nervously.

- "Mm-hmm." He nodded.

Shit. He thought.

- "What got you so quiet?" The Matthews girl frowned, amused. "Not even one sarcastic reply? I'm disappointed." She teased.

They went down another step, as Chase looked at her with a blush on his cheeks.

- "Uh...almost fall to our death?" He answered nervously.

- "Uh-uh." The quadbrid nodded, sarcastically. "Liar." She said as she coughed. She cleared her throat. "Sorry, I meant 'liar'."

The Captain rolled his eyes, and they took another step down.

- "Thank you for helping me, though." GreatGirl said.

Chase glanced at her and cleared his throat.

- "It's my duty. No one gets left behind." He said.

Always have to play the Captain, right? He thought.

The Matthews girl nodded. Always because of his duty, not because he cares.

- "Even the person who annoys you the most?" She smiled.

- "I wouldn't be a good Captain if It wasn't like that." The Captain replied as they went down another step.

You can't help yourself, can you? He thought.

- "True." The quadbrid nodded.

Chase nodded as they went down another step.

After a few seconds of silence, GreatGirl felt panic rush over her as she glanced at him.

- "You can talk? About anything. Please?" She sighed, sadly. "Nobody knows, because I'm always surrounded by noises, but I can't deal with silence. On the Kree ship, when there was silence, it meant that someone died. Or that someone was coming to get you..."

The Captain looked at her. Poor Girl, she didn't deserve that. His gaze softened as he took another step down.

- "Wow, you're the only person besides Harp who asks me to talk, not to shut up." He said.

- "Well, like you said earlier and like I texted you last time, I like your voice." The Matthews girl shrugged.

- "Eh, I don't blame you. I like my voice, too." Chase said smugly.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes. The arrogance of this man.

- "I Saw that." The Captain said as they went down another step.

- "What?" GreatGirl frowned, amused. "That?" She rolled her eyes again.

- "Yeah, that eye's rolling." Chase said. "No right to say anything about me."

The Matthews girl chuckled softly as they went down another step.

- "Don't like silence, huh? I can sing for you." The Captain suggested with a smirk.

I need to take a little weight off my chest anyway. He thought.

Oh, yes! The quadbrid smiled softly.

- "Sure. Just not 'Steal your heart'." She shook her head. "You ruined my favorite song for me."

- "Harper says the exact opposite." Chase smirked.

- "Yeah, because afterward you fucked HER and did the striptease to HER." GreatGirl snickered.

The Captain blushed brightly. I've never seen that as a striptease. He chuckled.

- "Yeah, okay. I see why she loves that song." He said shyly.

The Matthews girl laughed softly.

Chase chuckled.

- "But seriously, do you want me to sing?" He asked.

- "Yeah." The quadbrid nodded. "If you want."

- "Well okay." The Captain said as they went down another step. "Just let me get the tone." He cleared his throat.

- "Okay." GreatGirl replied.

Chase took a deep breath.

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- "Let me think of a song. Okay." He nodded as they went down another step. "♪It's game time. But I've been wasting seconds on the sidelines. ♪" He started humming softly.

The Matthews girl listened carefully.

- "♪'Cause I've been scared of failing for my whole life. ♪" The Captain continued humming and nodded at her briefly as they took another step down. "♪But I'm not scared of failing no more, no. ♪" He sang a little louder. "♪No more, no, no-no. ♪"

The quadbrid smiled softly.

- "♪'Cause I've seen giants fall to their knees. ♪" Chase sang with more intonation as they went down another step. "♪And I've seen losers rise to their feet. ♪"

GreatGirl's smile widened as she listened to his voice.

- "♪Well, who cares if it all goes wrong?♪" The Captain closed his eyes slightly. "♪'Cause when I die, at least I'll smile to say I tried. ♪" He deepened his voice a little before the chorus.

The Matthews girl held onto him as they went down another step. I like this song.

- "♪So it's not how you get knocked down. ♪" Chase sang louder but softer. "♪It's how you get back up. ♪"

They went down another step.

The quadbrid listened to the lyrics. This song was made for him.

- "♪Don't play safe. ♪" The Captain shook his head. "♪ It's how you break that makes you strong enough. ♪"

His voice echoed in the empty place. Fuck if the Embers hear me, though.

GreatGirl sighed softly, in contentment, as the silence was now filled with his soft voice, and they took another step down.

- "♪Set fire to your soul. ♪" Chase grinned at her. "♪Go hard or go home. ♪" He sang with more feeling.

The Matthews girl smiled as they took another step down.

- "♪If you wanna be a winner. ♪" The Captain sang. "♪You gonna learn to lose. ♪" He softened his voice. "♪Ooh Looose. ♪" His voice echoed, and he smiled wildly.

Yeah! That's what I'm talking about! He thought.

The quadbrid pressed her lips together to stop herself from smiling more as they took another step. I love when he sings in any universe.

- "♪You gonna learn to lose. ♪" They took another step down. "♪Oooh! Looose! ♪" He sang, having fun with his own voice echoing.

Okay, singing in this place is awesome! He thought.

GreatGirl chuckled softly as they took another step down.

- "♪You gonna learn to lose, Oooh Looose! ♪" The Captain closed his eyes briefly. "♪You gonna learn to lose, Oooh Looose. ♪" He sang, they took another step down. "♪Hey, I've been standing still too long. ♪" He softened and lowered the tone of his voice.

The Matthews girl smiled as she continued to listen carefully when they took another step down.

- "♪Now those wasted days are gone. ♪" Chase sang, seeing the few steps left.

Is It bad that I don't want this to end? He thought.

The quadbrid closed her eyes, just enjoying the song, as they took another step down.

- "♪Who cares if it all goes wrong? ♪" Chase sang.

I love how this song speaks to me. He thought as they went down one more step.

- "♪'Cause when I die, at least I'll smile to say I tried. ♪" He sang softly.

GreatGirl opened her eyes when they walked down another step. Okay. I love this song.

- "♪So it's not how you get knocked down. ♪" The Captain glanced at her with a soft gaze. "♪It's how you get back up. ♪" They went down another step.

She's enjoying it!! He thought.

The Matthews girl looked towards him with a small smile, even though she could only see the color of his skin.

- "♪Don't play safe. ♪" Chase kept looking at her and singing more softly. "♪It's how you break that makes you strong enough. ♪"

He did not control the smirk while singing. Just look at her.

The quadbrid, gently, moved her head to the rhythm of his voice as they took another step down.

- "♪Set fire to your soul. ♪" Chase moved the shoulder she held lightly to the rhythm he sang. "♪Go hard or go home. ♪" They went down another step.

I take this song seriously, though. Chase quickly returned his gaze to her.

- "♪If you wanna be a winner... ♪" He grinned with expectation, waiting for her to complete the chorus.

- "♪You gonna learn to lose. ♪" GreatGirl continued softly as she looked down at the stairs.

Chase chuckled lightly and held her tighter. Yes!!

- "♪Oooh Looose. ♪" He sang louder, his voice echoing again, and they stepped down another step. "♪You gonna learn to lose. ♪" He sang.

The Matthews girl smiled widely.

- "♪Oooh Looose. ♪" The Captain sang. "♪You gonna learn to lose. ♪" He sang more softly and moved his shoulder, which she held, a little with a playful smile. "♪Oooh Looose. ♪"

The quadbrid chuckled as she felt his shoulder move.

- "♪You gonna learn to lose. ♪" Chase sang the last line as softly as possible with a smile. "♪Looose. ♪" He added with a softer echo, and they went down another step.

- "Whoo-hoo!" GreatGirl cheered as she used her free hand to smack her thigh to fake applause.

I can't believe I did that. The Captain blushed and chuckled, shaking his head.

- "Stop, this song is much better with a guitar in the background." He said.

- "You know, if you want to stop being a hero when you're older, you can definitely be a singer." The Matthews girl smiled.

- "I've already had job offers with this." Chase nodded. "You know, it was what kept me alive for a while in the run." He said.

- "I know." The quadbrid nodded. "But it's true. You are a very good singer."

- "Thanks." The Captain smirked shyly.

She means It!!! He thought.

- "You're welcome." GreatGirl smiled.

- "Whenever you want, just ask." Chase pressed his lips together, as they went down another step. "I love to sing." He said.

Mainly for those who actually listen. He thought.

- "Thanks." The Matthews girl said. "I know you do. And you know I do too." She closed her eyes in despair. "That fucking coma." She mumbled, amused.

The Captain chuckled.

- "Yeah, I know. But my team is kind of crazy about music. You saw my Leo, and we have a habit of suddenly singing in unconventional moments, like... life or death situations." He smiled sarcastically.

- "Well, so you do in another universe..." The quadbrid chuckled.

- "How so?" Chase asked.

- "Well, your alter ego in the original universe 38, did the 'Teen Beach movie' saga." GreatGirl smirked.

The Captain laughed as they went down another step.

- "Oh my God!" He said.

- "'Teen beach movie' 1 and 2 were so much better, knowing that you and my Chase would find it ridiculous." The Matthews girl laughed.

- "Yeah." Chase frowned in amusement.

- "You in a movie where you dance and sing out of nowhere every two seconds that would drive you insane." The quadbrid laughed.

- "Yes, it is so illogical." The Captain chuckled.

- "It's the point of a musical, not think and relax." GreatGirl snickered as they took another step.

- "I know." Chase smiled as they took another step.

- "Loved your interpretation of 'cruising for bruisin'" though." The Matthews girl smirked.

- "Okay, I get it." Chase chuckled.

That's so fucking weird. He thought.

- "Ooh, you're screwed. Harper is gonna see that." The quadbrid snickered.

- "No! She's going to want me to recreate it." The Captain frowned in amusement.

- "I can't stop her from reading my Chase's mind. I don't have my mind shield anymore." GreatGirl chuckled. "And to be honest, I wouldn't stop her. I want a video if she makes you recreate it." She smirked.

- "Oh Shit." Chase chuckled, closing his eyes and shaking his head as they took down another step.

- "No, seriously, I want a video." The Matthews girl laughed.

- "I won't do that. Until today, she insists that I sing to her 'From now on' from the movie The Greatest Showman. Never happened." The Captain shook his head.

- "Fucking fun killer." The quadbrid imitated his voice with his words from earlier.

Chase snorted, holding back a laughter.

GreatGirl smiled proudly.

The Captain smiled and took another step.

The Matthews girl pressed her lips together as the silence filled the room once again.

She doesn't like silence. Chase started humming just to dispel the silence.

- "Thanks." The quadbrid smiled softly.

- "I don't like silence either." The Captain replied and took another step.

Just like I don't like to stand still. It feels like something bad is going to happen If I do. He thought.

- "I'm never in silence. My Kryptonian hearing makes me hear every single sound on Earth all the time, so it's pretty new to me to not have noises." GreatGirl explained. "Besides the two times I was in solar flare, one was at the academy, so it was anything but silent and the other was when we were kidnapped, Kara, Mon-El and I, so not silent either."

- "I see, must be weird." The Captain said. "I just don't like silence; I'm not used to there always being someone around making a mess." He chuckled.

- "Yeah, living with Chaos Dooley for years helps fill the silence." The Matthews girl chuckled.

- "Yup, I know." Chase nodded. "I don't like it either because with Harper, silence means there's something wrong with her." He sighed.

- "My Adam says that silence with me means that someone is gonna die." The quadbrid rolled her eyes.

- "Geez." The Captain frowned.

- "I know." GreatGirl snorted. "He says that when I'm angry I'm scary, but when I'm furious I go silent until I explode. When we met the students, he told them that, 'Maddie angry: run, Maddie furious, silent who smiles: change universes'." She rolled her eyes.

Chase chuckled lightly and took another step down.

- "I know more than anyone that you're not the type of person who's going to mess around when angry." He said.

- "Yeah, I didn't even use full strength." The Matthews girl looked down. "When I use full strength, I destroy indestructible things so. Mostly if the person messed with Chase..."

- "Ironic, you almost destroyed a Chase because someone 'messed' with Chase." The Captain frowned.

- "I said I'm sorry." The quadbrid said.

- "My eyebrow didn't forget, thanks to you, I look like a rap singer." Chase scoffed.

No, thanks to you, I look cool and tough. Statistically, I got twice as much respect with the scar as without it. He smiled.

GreatGirl gasped. Thanks for that. I don't feel guilty enough. She looked down at the stairs.

- "Just kidding." Chase smirked.

- "Not funny." The Matthews girl frowned. "It was a year ago, and I still feel bad."

- "Aw." The Captain held her tighter, but after a second, he eased his grip, hesitantly. "You don't have to feel like this. I like this scar, like not that it helps with my look, but It's the only scar I have that has a good memory."

- "It was a good memory?" The quadbrid frowned.

- "Yeah." Chase nodded.

- "How? I hurt you so much." GreatGirl sighed.

- "Yeah, but..." The Captain shrugged. "That's when I met you." He murmured

- "Aaww." The Matthews girl smiled widely.

Chase shook his head in amusement.

- "You know that's all I remember when I look at It." He said.

And every time I think of you, I run my fingers over the scar, without even realizing it. He thought.

- "That's so sweet." The quadbrid smiled.

The Captain blushed, and they took another step down.

- "Does that make you feel better?" He asked.

- "Yes." GreatGirl nodded. "Thank you. And you look way better than a rap singer."

Chase looked at the steps and sighed. Almost there.

- "Thank you." He smiled.

- "You're welcome." The Matthews girl replied.

The Captain took a deep breath.

- "Fucking never ending stairs." He sighed exhausted, taking down the 49th step.

- "How many left?" The quadbrid sighed.

- "One." Chase smiled.

- "Thank God." GreatGirl sighed.

- "Yup. I think they should make a movie about us." The Captain mocked.

- "Longest stairs ever." The Matthews girl said. "But with good music."

Ha! Suck that elevator music!! Chase shrugged smugly.

- "You're welcome." He smiled.

- "You are 100% doing your smug face." The quadbrid chuckled.

- "You know me way too much." The Captain frowned and continued to hold her as they took down the 50th step.

- "Yeah, I do." GreatGirl smirked.

Chase looked at her.

- "This is fucking annoying." He said playfully.

- "Hey. I think it's fair. I know you too much, and you know me too much." The Matthews girl shrugged.

- "Fair enough." The Captain smirked softly at her.

- "Thank you for helping me down the stairs and not pushing me." The quadbrid smiled softly.

Chase continued to hold her.

- "You're welcome. I only did this cuz there are too many steps to go down alone, it would be a lonely journey." He said sarcastically.

- "You did this because you didn't want to get hurt or killed." GreatGirl replied.

- "I did it because I'm smart." The Captain corrected.

- "What does that have to do with anything?" The Matthews girl snickered.

- "I'm smart enough to know that pushing you down the stairs once you get your powers back would cost me my life." Chase chuckled softly.

- "One, If it killed me, no. Two, like I would ever hurt you again." The quadbrid rolled her eyes.

- "Aw, you don't wanna hurt me, even if I keep that smugly smile on my face. Don't you want it ripped off?" The Captain teased.

- "I want to. But I'm not gonna." GreatGirl snickered. "This is the whole difference, my dear Chase."

- "I understand completely." Chase nodded. "It's a relief I have to say."

The Matthews girl rolled her eyes, amused.

Chase chuckled in amusement.

- "It's bad I hurt you more than how much I hurt Adam and Trent." The quadbrid sighed.

- "Hey!" The Captain snapped his fingers in front of his face to make her look at him.

- "Don't you snap your fingers at me." GreatGirl frowned. "I'm not your dog."

- "It's just for you to see when I look at you." Chase groaned.

My bad, I did this to Perry once. He sighed.

- "You make everything so difficult." He grumbled.

- "Because I'm a dog or Perry." The Matthews girl rolled her eyes. "You can't snap your fingers at me, because you want my attention."

- "Oh, fuck It." The Captain grumbled.

- "What?" The quadbrid asked. "Why did you snap your fingers?"

- "Because I wanted to tell you that it's for you to let It Go! You didn't hurt me...like, not in a way that made me feel bad or anything." Chase said. "Just don't have any regrets about it, okay, it's in the past."

- "A little hard to with the scar or the fact that you keep bringing it up." GreatGirl frowned.

- "You know if I was really hurt or upset about it, I wouldn't talk about it that much." The Captain said. "That's how I deal with things."

- "Okay." The Matthews girl said.

- "Really?" Chase asked.

The quadbrid took a deep breath.

- "I'll try." She replied.

Chase smirked.

- "What do you want, huh? Do you want me to say that..." He sighed hesitantly.

Wait, you were really gonna say that to her? He thought.

GreatGirl raised her eyebrows at him.

- "That of all the scars I have, that are a few. This one, it's my favorite?" The Captain admitted. "Truly my favorite."

He sighed. That's good.

- "Aaawww." The Matthews girl smiled. "This is so cute."

- "Yeah, Yeah, you're happy? That's what your stubbornness makes me admit." Chase blushed and shook his head.

You actually did this on your own. He thought.

- "I am very happy." The quadbrid nodded as she smiled widely.

Aaww. The Captain softened his gaze at her.

- "You're impossible." He said in a tone that did not match his gaze.

- "Yes, I know." GreatGirl nodded.

Chase shook his head and let out a slight chuckle. She's great.

- "I feel like you're gonna tell me that until you die." The Matthews girl snorted.

- "Really?" The Captain smirked. "Will it last that long?" He frowned playfully.

- "Definitely." The quadbrid nodded with a smile.

I really hope so. Chase smiled softly.

- "We'll see." He said.

- "So, you'll think I'm less annoying in the future?" GreatGirl smirked.

According to Ace's memories, I'm not, but you don't mind it. She thought.

- "I'm sure you won't be." The Captain said as they started walking again.

The Matthews girl snickered.

- "If you bet, you'll be even worse." Chase added.

- "You think so?" The quadbrid snorted.

- "Yeah!" The Captain scoffed.

GreatGirl rolled her eyes, amused.

Chase shook his head in amusement.

- "You can say that I'm annoying, but you still talk nice about me behind my back." The Matthews girl smirked.

I do, more than you can imagine. The Captain took a deep breath impatiently.

- "And so do I about you." The quadbrid, gently, nudged him.

Chase pressed his lips together to hold back a smile.

- "I'm glad to know." He said softly.

- "Smug face or not?" GreatGirl frowned, amused.

Nope. The Captain shook his head silently with a smirk.

- "May I remind you that I need words?" The Matthews girl snickered.

- "May I remind you that you don't necessarily have to keep holding on to me right now?" Chase smirked.

- "You're holding onto me too." The quadbrid smirked.

Not complaining, though. She thought. I'm gonna enjoy every second with you until you push me away again.

The Captain glanced at her, annoyed.

- "Well..." He said.

I don't want to let you go. He thought.

- "Well?" GreatGirl raised her eyebrows.

- "I don't mean to be rude." Chase explained. "I'll only let you go if you assure me that you don't need me to hold you."

He looked at the ground. Or make it clear you're not comfortable with it like I am.

- "And I'll let go if you can assure me that I won't trip and break my face." The Matthews girl replied.

Don't let go. Chase pressed his lips together and looked at her.

- "Then I guess we'll stay like this." He smirked.

- "Yep." The quadbrid nodded with a smile. "Sorry."

The Captain shrugged, and they continued walking.

- "I've carried dead weights much heavier than you." He teased.

GreatGirl snickered.

- "Thanks?" She frowned.

Chase chuckled.

- "You're welcome." He grinned.

- "Can you explain to me how villains can be so messy?" The Matthews girl frowned. "Like they don't know how to clean after themselves?"

- "Tell me about It." The Captain scoffed. "I was the one who had to clean up one of the biggest villain messes in our universe." He said.

- "They are idiots and slobs." The quadbrid rolled her eyes.

- "They have their reasons, though." Chase said.

- "And they are?" GreatGirl raised her eyebrows.

- "Everyone has a story, Maddie. No one is born a villain." The Captain said. "Life either teaches them that, forces them to be that, or they lose their minds along the way, others only know pain as the only way they know how to live, but there is always a reason."

- "I know that. But people always have a choice." The Matthews girl replied. "People who had an easy, painless life are rare. Especially if you are a hero, but that doesn't mean you turn evil and hurt innocents. I feel bad for most of the villains I fight, because I read their minds and saw when, they've been through, but that doesn't excuse anything. At the end of the day, no matter how many reasons they have, they made their choices and became the villains."

- "Not everyone is strong enough to fight the dark." Chase said.

- "It's the easy way." The quadbrid replied.

- "Exactly." The Captain nodded.

- "Some people are born evil, though. Not every villain as story." GreatGirl sighed.

Like my bio mother. She thought.

- "And some are born heroes. So much so that they make it seem like it's no effort or hard work to make sacrifices for the greater good." Chase said thoughtfully.

Not my case. He thought.

- "Mon-El always says that this description is made for you and Kara." The Matthews girl smiled softly.

And me. She thought.

- "Not me." The Captain scoffed and shook his head. "I mean me ME." He pointed to himself.

- "Yes, you YOU." The quadbrid nodded.

- "He didn't mean ME I'm sure of that." Chase said.

I am not worthy of that description. He thought.

- "He said, 'the Other Chase', that's you." GreatGirl replied.

He doesn't know what he's talking about. The Captain looked at her in surprise.

- "I'm not. I mean, I'm not like Kara, or any of the purest types of heroes out there." He said.

- "Kara did some things she's not proud of either. Doesn't make her less than a hero with a pure heart. Like you." The Matthews girl said.

Chase swallowed the lump in his throat.

- "I'm the last person I would classify that way." He shook his head.

- "You're the first person I would classify that way." The quadbrid replied.

What?! The Captain looked at her with a surprised look.

- "Say something, please; I can't see your face." GreatGirl sighed.

- "Sorry." Chase cleared his throat. "But when I think about someone with that description, I think of someone like Leo or Quinn."

- "They are, but so are you." The Matthews girl frowned. "You have the purest and biggest heart I know. Both of you."

- "Thanks." The Captain said softly.

She really believes it. He thought.

- "I mean it." The quadbrid smiled softly.

I know how to deal with this. Chase smirked, blushing slightly.

- "Where are your glasses? Where can we find them?" He changed the subject.

- "In my bedroom." GreatGirl frowned. "Wait. No. Chase's."

- "Shit, do I have to drag you to the Penthouse?" The Captain complained.

I can't do It though, if we didn't have limited time. He thought.

- "Gnagnagna." The Matthews girl whispered.

Chase chuckled and held her tighter.

- "Okay, let me think." He looked around. "I just need a mean of transport." He said. "Preferably something with a trunk or... Or I can find a bike with a basket, and we can recreate the scene from the movie E.T." He mocked.

The quadbrid pressed her lips together, amused.

- "Really? You're gonna call me 'E.T.' now?" She asked.

- "Oh, come on! You're an alien. This is as close as I'm going to get to the original scene." The Captain said. "I'm going to put a cloth around your head, and you get in the basket, and that's it." He chuckled, imagining the scene. "The only thing missing is the full moon, but we can use our imagination for that."

GreatGirl laughed.

- "You're an idiot." She smiled.

I Am. Chase chuckled.

- "Nope, your line is E.T, phone, home." He pointed at her, imitating the character.

The Matthews girl rolled her eyes, amused.

- "E.T. wants to hit you." She replied.

- "E.T. won't hit me." The Captain snorted.

- "E.T. wants to." The quadbrid replied.

Chase laughed.

- "Anyway..." GreatGirl snorted.

- "Okay, uh..." The Captain looked around. "The plan is to go to the Penthouse and find your glasses. Once we do that, I can find a way to track Harper and find her and your Chase." He said.

- "Yep." The Matthews girl nodded. "I'm looking forward to seeing again."

- "Aw, then you won't need me anymore." Chase faked a pout.

I'll always need you. The quadbrid thought.

- "Oh no." She pretended to cry. "I'm gonna miss you."

- "Me too." The Captain sniffled sarcastically.

GreatGirl held onto him tighter as she continued to fake cry.

Chase tried to control his amused smile and tilted his head towards her. We are ridiculous.

- "Life is so unfair." He faked a whimper.

- "I know." The Matthews girl sniffled.

The Captain held her tighter.

- "Don't cry." He said sarcastically. "As hard as it will be."

He nodded. I don't want to let her go.

- "I'll be strong." The quadbrid nodded. "But very sad. I'll miss you, my dear friend." She sniffled again.

- "We'll be strong." Chase said. "I'll miss you too. I'll miss not being able to use one of my arms because I'm holding you."

He faked a tearful tone. No, It's actually comfortable.

- "I'll miss not having to depend on you to walk." GreatGirl let a fake tear run down her cheek. "I'll finally see your handsome face, that's a good side."

The Captain sighed dramatically.

- "That's exactly the point, isn't it?" He shook his head.

- "Yes." The Matthews girl nodded.

- "I know. It's the hard choices, see my handsome face or lean on me. You can't have both." Chase said dramatically.

What bullshit. He thought.

- "I know. Life is so unfair to me." The quadbrid, dramatically, put her hand on her forehead and threw her head back.

She's as ridiculous as I am. The Captain looked at her and laughed.

- "But you're getting a taste of both." He shrugged playfully.

GreatGirl laughed.

- "Yes, lucky me." She said.

- "We are ridiculous." The Matthews girl chuckled.

The Captain chuckled, throwing his head back in amusement.

- "Yes, we are." He said.

The quadbrid smiled widely. I love him.

- "You're enjoying this. You can tell me." Chase said.

Cuz I am. He thought.

- "I am." GreatGirl nodded as she smiled. "What about you?"

The Captain took a deep breath.

- "It's not as bad as I thought it would be." He smiled.

- "I guess that's the best answer I can get from you." The Matthews girl snickered.

- "There's not much more I can say." Chase shrugged.

Unless you admit it. He thought.

- "That you are enjoying this too." The quadbrid said.

The Captain shook his head, pressing his lips together. Took the words right out of my mouth.

- "Admit it." GreatGirl smiled.

Chase scoffed.

- "I already said what I had to say." He said.

The Matthews girl tried to pinch his side, but, made, accidentally, her fingers linger more on his side.

The Captain did not let go of her but instinctively flinched at the tickles she caused in his side.

He tried to control it but let out a soft giggle, accompanying the tickling.

- "No." He chuckled.

- "Oh my god, that's right. You two have the same weak spots." The quadbrid, maliciously, smiled and started to tickle his side with her free hand.

- "No, I don't..." Chase chuckled and bent toward the tickle. "Stop that."

He laughed. I can't believe she's actually doing this.

- "Admit it." GreatGirl smiled as she continued her merciless attack on his side.

- "Never." The Captain chuckled.

- "Then, I'm not stopping." The Matthews girl continued to tickle him faster.

- "Yes, you are." Chase continued laughing and held her hand tightly. "Stop!" He pulled her hand away from his side, holding her wrist firmly.

Mainly because now, I have super strength, and she doesn't, at least in one of her arms. He thought.

- "Admit it." The quadbrid smiled.

- "You don't deserve my sincerity." The Captain smirked.

How old are we anyway? He thought.

- "Fine." GreatGirl forced him to let go of her hand and started to tickle his side again.

- "Oh fuck!" Chase chuckled, cringing again. "Stop it! What's your problem?" He said and lightly slapped her hand.

- "Admit it!" The Matthews girl snickered as she continued her relentless attack on his side.

- "I'm gonna throw you on the ground if you don't stop!" The Captain chuckled with teary eyes.

Fuck! I can't with this. He thought.

- "Admit it!" The quadbrid laughed, without stopping the tickles.

- "Fine!!" Chase shouted.

- "Say it, then I'll stop!" GreatGirl still tickled his side.

- "Yeah, I'm enjoying this!!" The Captain chuckled. "Now stop that shit!" He cringed, chuckling.

The Matthews girl pulled her hand away with a grin, the other still holding onto him.

- "It wasn't too hard. Was it?" She asked, amused.

- "Well, I was until you started that fucking tickling." Chase wiped away the tears of amusement.

- "I'm loving this." The quadbrid chuckled.

- "I know." The Captain sighed.

GreatGirl grinned. Okay, I'm starting to see how he could be my man of honor in the future.

The Captain bit his lip to keep from smiling as he looked down. I'm partially happy that she doesn't see my silly face at her right now.

- "You have the same weak spots. The exact same ones." The Matthews girl snickered.

- "Shit." Chase grumbled.

- "Be grateful, with my Chase, I would have continued." The quadbrid smirked.

- "Yeah, well, you were seconds away from losing that hand if you kept going." Chase smirked.

You would only have one hand to fight back, and...wait, she has all, ALL of Harp's powers...? He frowned.

- "Uh-uh." GreatGirl, sarcastically, nodded.

The Captain rolled his eyes in amusement.

- "Wait a minute!" He said.

- "What?" The Matthews girl frowned.

- "Do you have Harper's powers AND bionics?" Chase asked.

- "Yes." The quadbrid nodded. "Why?"

- "Uhg! How stupid am I?" The Captain rolled his eyes. "Why are we dragging ourselves around when you can Geo-leap us to Penthouse?!" He realized.

- "Oh my god! Why didn't we think of that before?" GreatGirl sighed.

I know why I didn't. She pressed her lips together. I was too focused on enjoying spending time with him.

- "I didn't stop to think that when Ember switched your powers, Harper's bionics were included in the package." Chase shook his head. "I thought maybe that only worked with superpowers." He said.

What a fucking stupidity. But it doesn't mean I would go back. He thought.

- "Nope." The Matthews girl shook her head. "Let's go."

The Captain sighed tiredly.

- "Let's fucking Go." He said.

I love saying this, judge me. He thought.

- "Let's fucking go." The quadbrid geo-leaped to the hallway of the penthouse with him.

- "Well, that was unnecessarily fun." Chase said sarcastically.

And I mean It. He thought.

- "It was." GreatGirl snickered. "Could you just turn me to Chase's room?"

- "Uh...there are like a thousand doors in this hallway; could you be more specific?" The Captain looked around.

- "The one where it's written 'Chase'." The Matthews girl snickered.

The Captain pressed his lips together.

- "How self-explanatory." He said in frustration. "But seriously, do you put your names on the doors? Are they bedrooms or offices, after all?" He mocked as they walked down the hallway.

- "Donnie did this." The quadbrid shrugged.

- "He has a worse obsession with labels than I do." Chase shook his head.

- "Hey, at least, before everyone got used to their rooms, they knew where they were." GreatGirl said.

- "Fair point." The Captain said.

- "Yep." The Matthews girl nodded. "Besides, it's also easier for you to find it now."

- "Well, if the name wasn't on the door, I'd know it by the tidier room. It's me after all." Chase smirked.

- "Yes, but that would mean you would have to see the other rooms. I can promise you; you don't want to." The quadbrid shook her head.

- "I can imagine." The Captain said and stopped in front of the door. "Oh, look, this door is literally calling for me." He smirked sarcastically.

- "Okay." GreatGirl pressed her lips together. "He put away my glasses when I was doing Adam's makeup. I don't know where they are." She sighed.

- "I'll find them." The Captain said.

- "Thanks." The Matthews girl sighed. "But they are probably in one of the nightstand drawers."

- "I'll help you." Chase looked at her.

The quadbrid pressed her lips together. Shit.

- "Thanks." She nodded.

- "Come on." The Captain said and entered the room, turning to her, holding her hand. "Watch the door." He said, pushing the door open further with his foot.

GreatGirl followed him carefully.

- "You're doing great." Chase smiled, walking backwards.

- "Thanks to you." The Matthews girl smiled softly.

The Captain gave a nervous, melting smile as he looked at her; he still walked backwards.

- "Can't wait to see again." The quadbrid chuckled softly.

- "You are very close to your destination." Chase smiled.

GreatGirl snorted.

- "Yay." She said.

- "Okay then." Chase watched her carefully. "Uhg! I'm having déjà vu." He frowned. "That's exactly how I got home with Harper after Douglas's wedding party." He said frustrated.

- "Oh, yeah." The Matthews girl chuckled. "I remember that."

- "Sorry, I know that drunk Harper is..." The Captain pressed his lips together.

Nothing polite. He thought in amusement.

- "I get it." The quadbrid nodded.

Chase chuckled as they approached the bed and nightstand.

- "Here we are." He said, putting his hands on her shoulders to turn her towards the nightstand.

- "Thank you." GreatGirl sighed. "Now, just go a couple of feet away."

She pressed her lips together. Because you definitely can't see what is inside the drawer.

The Captain looked at the bed and went to the end of the bed and sat down. I'm exhausted; I haven't had a second off today.

- "Thank you." The Matthews girl said as she opened the drawer a little bit as she slid her hand inside, trying to find her glasses.

Chase, seeing that she had achieved her goal, sighed tiredly and lied down. Finally.

- "You're okay?" The quadbrid asked as she continued to search for her glasses through the several objects inside the drawer.

She grabbed something. Oh, nope. That's definitely not it. She smirked.

- "I'm fine." The Captain closed his eyes. "Just resting." He sighed, putting his forearms behind his head.

- "Sure?" GreatGirl found her glasses and took them out, before closing the drawer. She put them on. "Finally." She murmured.

- "Mm-hmm." Chase nodded with his eyes closed.

I hope Harp is okay, though. He thought.

The Matthews girl sat next to him.

- "Thank you." She said.

The Captain kept his eyes closed.

- "For what this time?" He asked.

- "Everything you did since I lost my vision until now." The quadbrid replied, putting her hands together as the temperature finally hit her.

- "You're welcome. I already told you it's my duty." Chase replied; he lightly swung his feet that were hanging off the bed.

- "Duty or not, thank you." GreatGirl said.

- "You're welcome." The Captain replied softly, forcing his eyes closed to not look at her.

If I look at her, I'll blush. He thought.

The Matthews girl looked over her shoulder to see his face.

- "Are you sure you're okay?" She asked.

- "I am." The Captain replied. "It's just that I know this is the calm before the hustle and bustle. So shut up and enjoy this brief moment as well." He smirked, raising a finger at her with his eyes closed.

The quadbrid snorted and pressed her lips together. Okay, silence.

Chase sighed, relaxing.

GreatGirl, silently, pressed her hands together, trying to warm herself up. I'm so fucking cold.

- "Oh yeah, you don't like silence." The Captain kept his eyes closed.

- "It's fine." The Matthews girl shook her head. "I just really need my powers back. My Daxamite DNA was not meant to be on Earth."

- "What are you feeling differently?" Chase rested his hands on his stomach.

- "Just a teeny tiny bit cold." The quadbrid lied.

I'm fucking freezing. She caressed her arms, trying to warm herself up, as her legs trembled slightly.

Chase nodded.

- "Makes sense." He said. "Why don't you grab a coat?"

- "Yeah..." GreatGirl sighed. "I have none. And nobody is the same size as me, so." She shrugged. "I'll be okay; don't worry."

No, she won't. Chase smirked, keeping his eyes closed.

- "Sure?" He asked.

- "Yeah." The Matthews girl nodded.

- "Don't lie." The Captain said.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes.

- "Stop doing that." She sighed.

- "I'm literally not doing anything." Chase replied.

- "Besides reading me like an open book." GreatGirl scoffed.

- "Ha! With my eyes closed." The Captain grinned with his eyes closed.

I'm fucking good. He thought.

The Matthews girl chuckled softly. He's so proud of that.

- "You're freezing, aren't you?" Chase sighed.

- "Yes." The quadbrid sighed.

And I'm gonna have to do something about it. The Captain gritted his teeth while keeping his eyes closed.

- "I'll be fine." GreatGirl said.

No, she won't. Chase shook his head.

- "Don't worry about it." The Matthews girl continued. "It's just until I get my powers back."

Chase opened one eye and glanced at her. She can't stay like this.

The quadbrid looked back at him.

- "I'll be fine." She added.

- "Stop lying to me." The Captain said. "You haven't been freezing for the past few hours, and it's killing you."

GreatGirl rolled her eyes.

- "Okay. Wanna know the truth?" She raised her eyebrows.

- "I'm listening." Chase closed his eyes.

- "I could be in front of a lit fireplace with a blanket and the warmest clothes on, and I would still be freezing." The Matthews girl explained.

The Captain opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling.

- "This is terrible." He said.

And you're just going to lie there? He thought.

- "I'll be fine." The quadbrid said. "When we were walking, I wasn't cold, so when we'll fight I won't be."

Chase looked at her and pressed his lips together in pity. Just do something.

- "Just close your eyes and relax." GreatGirl got up. "I'm gonna go walk around the house." She started to walk out.

The Captain groaned and sat on the bed.

- "Wait." He said.

- "What?" The Matthews girl turned around.

- "Nanotech linen fabric." Chase took off his jacket, wearing just the black Mighty Force uniform tank top. "Instantly adapts to body temperature." He tossed the jacket to her.

The quadbrid caught the jacket.

- "What? No." She tossed it back at him. "You already helped me with my vision and to find my glasses. I'm not taking your jacket on top of that. It's just a couple of hours; I'll be fine."

- "Don't be silly; I know it won't help completely, but it's what will help you the fastest." The Captain tossed the jacket back to her.

It pains me to lend my favorite jacket, but it's for a good cause. He thought.

GreatGirl caught the jacket and looked at him.

Chase smirked gently and leaned on his arms, looking at her.

- "Put it on already." He said.

- "Fine." The Matthews girl sighed and unhooked her cape, throwing it on the couch behind her, before putting on the jacket. "Thank you."

Geez, that's already better. She thought.

- "You're welcome." The Captain grinned, before laying back down. "And just so you know, this was beyond my call of duty."

He closed his eyes. For real.

- "I know." The quadbrid nodded. "Thank you, Chase."

Chase smiled softly.

- "I'll leave you to it." GreatGirl smiled back and walked away.

Nice move, Chase. The Captain sighed.

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A couple of minutes later, GreatGirl came back into her boyfriend's bedroom to find Chase still laying there.

- "Hey, Cap." She said softly.

The Captain frowned but did not open his eyes.

- "Wait, you just left." He said.

- "No, I left a few minutes." The Matthews girl replied and threw a small bottle of water on the bed next to him.

- "I swore I was home." Chase opened his eyes, looking at the ceiling.

- "Yeah, sorry you're not. Yet." The quadbrid frowned. "You were just sleeping." She walked closer to him and handed him a granola bar.

The Captain sat up in bed and ran his hand through his messy hair, before picking up the granola bar.

- "Thanks." He said gently.

- "You'll be able to sleep soon." GreatGirl replied, in pity. "You just need to hang on a little longer."

Aw, she feels sorry for me. The Captain glanced at her, before rubbing his eyes.

- "I expected more from this room service." He said in defensive sarcasm.

- "Later." The Matthews girl replied. "I promise when this all over, I'm gonna do a huge meal like last year. Okay?"

Chase picked up the water bottle on the bed and unscrewed the cap.

- "Promise you'll have other things to drink besides water?" He smirked.

- "You want alcohol?" The quadbrid smirked. "I don't think it's a good idea, given what happens when you drink."

- "What do you think might happen? Me asking Harper to marry me a third time?" The Captain grinned in amusement.

- "Get another tattoo?" GreatGirl raised her eyebrows. "Maybe that you regret like Adam's first one." She teased.

Chase snorted.

- "Of course I'm not talking about alcohol, Silly. I don't drink." He shook his head. "But seriously, you don't have juice, tea or energy drinks. Every time I come here; you offer me water." He smirked in amusement.

- "Water is better for hydration, and you're gonna need it." The Matthews girl smiled.

- "I'm kidding." The Captain took a sip of water.

The quadbrid nodded. Juices next time, noted.

- "Mm!" Chase gulped down the water. "Still cold?" He closed the bottle.

- "A little, but it's better thanks to you." GreatGirl smiled softly.

The Captain smiled gently, standing up.

- "What would you do without me?" He said as he straightened the sheets, he crumpled.

- "I would probably be dead down the stairs." The Matthews girl shrugged.

Chase grabbed the bottle and the bar and walked over to her.

- "Yeah, you're welcome for being your hero." He said and looked at her with his jacket.

She looks cute with It. He nodded.

- "It looks good on you; just be careful that all my pins and badges are there." He pointed.

- "Thank you." The quadbrid smiled softly. "And don't worry, I will. I may be violent, but I can be careful and delicate too."

- "Delicate? You?" The Captain scoffed.

- "Yes." GreatGirl frowned, amused. "I will have you know that beside for being violent, I'm also known for 'my hands of a fairy'." She rolled her eyes at the name.

- "Thanks for telling me that." Chase grinned.

- "I'm scared of what you're gonna do with that information." The Matthews girl frowned.

The Captain shrugged as he opened the granola bar package with his teeth.

- "Don't try me." He spat the piece of the package out of his mouth and caught it in the air as he passed her.

- "Oh, boy." The quadbrid sighed as she closed her eyes in despair.

Chase took a bite of the bar and put his fingers on his temple. Trying to connect with the others or Harper. Come on, Baby, where are you?

GreatGirl walked out of her boyfriend's bedroom, closing the door.

She walked up to Chase.

- "We can go in Mission Command." She suggested.

The Captain did not detect the location of anything.

- "I can't locate Harper without her bionics; her chip is inactive." He explained. "And the others don't respond because they must be under the command of the Embers; Quinn's locator is off too." He started walking down the hallway. "The only way to find them is finding your Chase."

- "I hope we can locate him." The Matthews girl sighed as they walked down the stairs.

- "We will." Chase assured.

The quadbrid nodded.

As they arrived in the hall, Maxwell and Darwin ran between them.

- "What the..." GreatGirl frowned, before she saw Marie and Newton chasing after them, playfully.

- "Oh cool, they're everywhere." The Captain said sarcastically.

- "Oh, stop. They are so cute." The Matthews girl smiled.

- "Yeah, they are." Chase nodded.

Newton's collar was on; or was it just me? He frowned.

The quadbrid pressed her hand on the wall of the fireplace, opening the Hyper-Lift.

The Captain glanced at the couch as he passed through the living room.

- "Well, at least this time no one is having sex on the couch." He grinned sarcastically.

GreatGirl looked at him.

- "Seriously?" She snorted.

- "Oh, Yeah." Chase nodded slowly with a smirk.

The Matthews girl chuckled.

- "Oh, I don't judge. This couch has history." The Captain chuckled, biting his lip with a playful smile.

- "Yeah. I know." The quadbrid frowned. "Thank you for reminding me of that. I'm never having sex on that couch again." She shook her head, faking disgust.

- "That's a fucking lie." Chase said in amusement, walking up to her.

- "Hey, we'll see." GreatGirl shrugged, before frowning. "That came out wrong."

The Captain laughed.

The Matthews girl chuckled softly.

- "Okay, fine. It was a lie." She smirked.

- "Of course it was." Chase chuckled. "I know that in the moment of tension, you don't even think about where you are." He said.

- "Mostly when you can create illusions to make sure nobody sees." The quadbrid smirked. "Well, except when people geo-leap inside." She frowned playfully at him.

- "Oops." The Captain grinned coyly.

GreatGirl snickered.

- "At least we're almost even now." Chase walked over to the Hyper-Lift.

- "Yeah, you don't want us to be even." The Matthews girl shook her head, amused, as she stepped into the Hyper-Lift.

They went down and entered Mission Command.

The quadbrid activated the cyber desk.

- "You know, I would normally be freaking out about being away from Harp for so long without even knowing where she is..." The Captain took another bite of the granola bar.

- "But you're not because she's with him." GreatGirl smiled softly.

- "Exactly." Chase walked up to her. "He takes care of my girl, and I take care of his." He smiled softly. "It's that simple. I know he thinks the exact same thing."

The Matthews girl smiled.

- "I can even imagine how much he freaked out when he realized that Harper read his mind." She said to herself.

- "I think every Chase has to go through this at some point." The Captain said. "He'll handle, Harp will take care of him." He shrugged.

- "I feel bad for her." The quadbrid frowned. "I mean, not only did she read his mind, but her X-Ray must have made her see him naked in front of her too."

Oh... Chase looked down at himself.

- "She's a grown woman, I don't think that's going to scare her, mainly because he's me." He pressed his lips together.

- "He's not totally you." GreatGirl looked down.

- "I know, he has...issues that I don't have." The Captain nodded.

And vice versa. He thought.

- "Yeah." The Matthews girl sighed.

- "I tried to help him, though." Chase sighed.

- "You did for the statue." The quadbrid smiled softly at him. "Thank you."

- "You're welcome." The Captain smiled. "But I know it's still not enough."

- "My Chase is much more insecure than you. Adam stopped insulting you at some point, mine never did." GreatGirl explained. "People respect you, but they don't respect him." She shook her head, sadly. "I know how he works. I know that Harper reading his mind is making him think that..." She took a deep breath. "Forget it. I shouldn't be talking about this."

- "Think what?" Chase frowned.

- "Nothing." The Matthews girl typed on the cyber desk.

- "You can tell me, I'm sure that I would understand myself." The Captain said.

- "No, because on this, you two are totally different." The quadbrid replied.

- "Well, you think I've never been insecure? I've never been insulted? You know, I've been through a lot of moments where I felt like shit, and it still happens sometimes. But maybe I have the key to him overcoming it." Chase said.

- "Okay!" GreatGirl rolled her eyes and turned to him. "When people read your mind, they see you on top and being in control, when they read his mind, they see me on top and him losing control. They already don't respect him. He'll just think that people knowing this would make it worse, would make people respect him even less, would make people think that he's weak or pathetic or both. He'll think that people would only mock him for begging, since he always acts so cockily."

Oh, that's nonsense, he shouldn't torture himself over it. Chase frowned and shook his head.

- "Well... I'm not going to lie and say I don't understand." He said. "Although I think it's silly to think like that."

- "Like insecurities have ever been rational?" The Matthews girl raised her eyebrows at him.

The Captain shook his head.

- "You know, everything started to change for me once I completely shut myself off from the world, not by choice, though. But at a time when I forgot about everything else and started looking to myself and the way I looked at myself..." He said.

- "I know." The quadbrid sighed. "But my universe accepted superhumans and aliens decades ago, so it's unlikely what happened to you happens to him." She smiled softly. "I try to help him, but eighteen years of insults and bullying don't go away easily." She pressed her lips together as she looked back at the cyber desk, her eyes watering.

- "That's not the point. The point is that he sees the same thing I saw when I decided to look at myself, a distorted, weak figure who has no control even over himself. It's horrible to feel this way, and it's really not an easy image to erase from your mind because I'm still haunted by it..." Chase looked at her. "I'm still haunted by this because deep down I still think I have no control over myself, over anything and as if you were drifting, and you feel like you're not strong enough to swim to the shore and that you're not even worthy enough to be helped by someone." He looked down thoughtfully.

- "I'm sorry." GreatGirl looked at him, her eyes still full of unshed tears. "But you guys are so strong and the calmest people I know. You are so patient and so kind. So respectful. So caring. So loyal and trustworthy. Neither of you deserves to feel like this."

Chase swallowed the lump in his throat and looked away from her.

- "The problem is that being all of this in a world surrounded by people who sometimes don't see it makes you feel weak. It makes you feel pathetic for still trying when you only get ingratitude. You start to let go of everything that you are and get sucked into what they make you believe you are." He explained. "And the fight against this is terrible, it's a torment, but I came to the conclusion after 18 years of fighting and falling, falling more than standing. That I was the only person who save me?" He said. "I still have moments where I forget that. But I always have to remember that maybe if it takes a bunch of people coming together, maybe the whole world coming together just to bring me down it means that logically I am stronger than them." He smiled faintly.

- "You are." The Matthews girl nodded. "I'm really sorry for how you feel. You both deserve so much better. And I'm sorry people are too stupid to realize your worth and their luck to have you."

- "Do you still think he and I are that much of opposites?" The Captain raised his eyebrow.

- "I meant sexually." The quadbrid replied.

- "Uhg! Of course." Chase rolled his eyes in disgust.

As If Harper never got on top, though. He cleared his throat.

- "Why did I thought you were talking about something else?" He shook his head in amusement.

- "Chase, I'm serious." GreatGirl rolled her eyes. "I'm telling you, he's freaking out about that. In fear that people will respect him even less."

- "I get It." The Captain said. "But seriously, going back to the point. I understand him, and maybe it's just a change of heart that he hasn't gone through yet. But I really hope I can help him if I get the chance." He said softly.

- "I hope too." The Matthews girl smiled softly. "Thank you. And you know, if you ever feel like that again, I'll listen."

Chase nodded.

- "Thanks." He smiled slightly. "But you know Harper has always helped me a lot with that. I call her my confidence." He chuckled faintly. "Maybe she helps him too."

- "Maybe." The quadbrid sighed. "I try, but he only started recently to believe me a little." She smiled softly at the memory.

- "Like I said, it's not easy, and I can't promise it's something that's going to go away." The Captain pressed his lips together.

- "I know. Which makes me want to kill Bree and mostly Adam so fucking much." GreatGirl locked her jaw as she locked away.

- "Woah! Relax, where are the fairy hands because that's what I need right now?" Chase pointed to the cyber desk.

The Matthews girl glared at him.

- "Ha. Ha. Ha." She sarcastically laughed.

- "Well, If you want, we can swap Adam and Bree, I doubt yours will last a week with me and Harper at headquarters." The Captain winked.

The quadbrid snickered.

- "Did you think about Grace, Evan, Skylar and Kaz?" She smiled.

- "I said they wouldn't last a week. In other words, they'd be back here in less than that with their tails between their legs." Chase smirked.

GreatGirl snickered.

- "Thanks, but I'm good. I'd rather hurt them." She shrugged as she typed on the cyber desk as she tried to locate her boyfriend. "I can't find him. Damn it."

- "How not?" The Captain leaned on the cyber desk and deepened his frown.

- "His location is off." The Matthews girl said.

- "Are you sure you're setting it up correctly?" Chase asked.

The quadbrid scoffed and glared at him.

- "Do it yourself, smart-ass." She stepped back.

- "Don't mind if I do." The Captain took a bite out of the last piece of his granola bar and tossed the plastic into the trash under the table.

He gently pushed her away from the table.

GreatGirl scoffed and crossed her arms. Jerk.

Chase messed with the cyber desk and opened settings and files related to Chase 2

- "Okay, maybe If I..." He opened the keyboard and typed something. "Ha! Got him." He smirked.

The eyes of the Matthews girl widened.

Chase chuckled.

- "No, I didn't, but the face you made." He snorted. "Priceless." He closed his eyes.

The quadbrid gasped.

- "Asshole." She slapped him upside the head.

- "Ow!" The Captain chuckled. "Sorry, but I tried to access his chip with a very specific access code that I created myself and that only I could access in case mine was stolen or something, but his code must be different."

- "I know his code. It's the first thing I tried." GreatGirl sighed.

- "You know his code, then?" Chase asked. "There's no way he changed it recently? Because I changed mine after I met you." He frowned, annoyed.

The Matthews girl snickered.

- "He did, but he gave it to me." She sighed. "The Embers must be blocking his signal."

The Captain put his hands on his hips.

- "Maybe they escaped like us." He said.

- "I hope so." The quadbrid sighed. "I swear I'm gonna kill him if his watch works, and he didn't use it."

- "I'm sure the Embers took it from him, just like they took all my weapons." Chase pointed to his thigh hostler without the gun attached. "And my strawberry gum!" He complained, annoyed.

- "Honestly, I don't know. He never uses his watch." GreatGirl shook her head, in despair. "And I'm sorry for your gums." She patted his back.

- "I didn't even get a chance to open the package." The Captain shook his head in frustration.

- "I'm so sorry for your loss." The Matthews girl mocked.

Chase sighed dramatically.

- "It means that they took all of Harp's equipment too, there's no way to track her unless she emitted a signal..." He said thoughtfully.

- "Maybe there is if she uses my heat vision." The quadbrid replied. "But unless she does, there is no way."

- "I don't know if she'd use her heat vision for that." The Captain said. "But maybe there's another signal she could send, a signal emitted by something the Embers wouldn't take from her..." He thought.

GreatGirl frowned.

- "But it wouldn't be a signal for me." Chase said.

- "What the hell are you talking about?" The Matthews girl frowned.

- "The only one of Harper's trackers that the Embers wouldn't find and that I don't track." The Captain said with a smile. "The most random and unusual of them, though."

- "Aaah." The quadbrid smiled. "That poor boy can't be a peaceful cat."

Chase put two fingers in his mouth and whistled, alerting Newton, who ran to him.

- "Hey, Buddy." He said, and Newton jumped onto the cyber desk. "Got something for me?"

He petted the purring cat, and he noticed its collar flashing. I knew It!

GreatGirl walked closer to them.

Newton meowed.

- "Can you lend this to Daddy?" Chase asked, taking off the cat's collar.

My little boy saving the day. He thought.

The Matthews girl pressed her lips together. Damn my dirty Mind.

The Captain looked at her.

- "What?" He frowned seriously.

- "Nothing." The quadbrid shook her head.

Newton purred and rubbed against Chase's arm, who looked at the collar and smirked.

- "Yeah. That's my girl." He said, looking at the slowly blinking light on the collar.

- "Do you know where they are?" GreatGirl asked.

- "Not yet." The Captain handed her the collar. "But this will show us the way." He petted the cat. "We can convert the collar frequency into coordinates."

- "Okay." The Matthews girl nodded.

Newton meowed.

- "Yeah, Buddy, you're the hero of heroes." Chase picked up the cat. "There should be a comic book collection just about you." He stroked the cat's head, and it purred.

The quadbrid chuckled softly as she started to convert the collar frequency.

Newton meowed loudly.

- "Yeah, we'll save mommy, I promise." The Captain said softly, stroking the cat's belly.

- "And to think you said 'no' to Harper at first." GreatGirl smirked.

Chase glared at her annoyed

- "I've always loved him." He said and hugged the cat. "I just take a while to realize these things sometimes." He glances at her briefly.

I have a bad habit of doing this. He looked back at Newton.

- "Yeah, no kidding." The Matthews girl scoffed.

The Captain rolled his eyes in amusement as he put Newton down.

- "It's true." The quadbrid said. "Got them." She showed him the coordinates on the cyber desk.

Chase sighed.

- "The cat always outdoes me, though." He said, frustrated.

GreatGirl snickered.

The Captain scanned the coordinates.

- "It's always like, 'No, Chay, I have to give Newton a bath' and 'But Newton doesn't like the cold; he's going to sleep with me'." Chase imitated Harper sarcastically.

- "You love it." The Matthews girl, gently, nudged him.

Chase shook his head in amusement. Yeah, She's so cute with him.

- "No." He crossed his arms, trying to keep a straight face.

- "Liar." The quadbrid said as she coughed.

- "Seriously?" The Captain raised his eyebrow in amusement.

- "Yes." GreatGirl grinned.

Chase chuckled.

- "You're right, I love It." He bit his lip.

- "I know." The Matthews girl smiled.

- "You know everything." The Captain grumbled but did not complain.

- "Not everything anymore." The quadbrid shrugged. "One year passed since I read your mind."

- "Oh, you don't wanna read that." Chase chuckled mischievously.

Harper and I have done a lot since then. He blushed.

- "I really don't." GreatGirl shook her head and pretended to gag. "You traumatized me enough." She smirked at him.

The Captain smirked in amusement.

- "Oh, I bet out of all your traumas, this is the least worst." He said.

- "No." The Matthews girl shook her head. "It was the worst one, I want to rip my eyes out." She covered her eyes to annoy him.

Chase leaned on the cyber desk, annoyed.

- "Oh, stop! It's not like you've never seen it." He smirked.

The quadbrid's eyes widened.

The Captain crossed his arms.

- "Yeah, you heard me." He grinned.

- "What do you mean?" GreatGirl pressed her lips together with a frown.

- "Like you've never seen It my mind before." Chase frowned.

- "Oh, you were talking about your mind. I thought... Never mind." The Matthews girl snickered. "And I told you, it traumatized me."

The Captain blushed. Oh, She thought... He shook his head, annoyed.

The quadbrid chuckled at his face.

- "Stop lying that it wasn't a trauma for you." Chase rolled his eyes.

- "It was a trauma." GreatGirl nodded.

- "Oh, yeah, like you've seen everyone else's, but mine traumatized you? I don't buy it." Chase scoffed.

- "I never said they didn't traumatize me too." The Matthews girl replied. "Just yours is my BIGGEST trauma." She smirked.

The Captain scoffed again and frowned. The biggest? Like the BIGGEST. He smirked. Wait, She means... No! Stop! It's not What she meant, like... He tilted his head. Well Maybe... He looked down. No! Stop Chase!

The quadbrid's smirk widened as she noticed all the different emotions he was going through.

Chase glanced at her and blushed brightly. Oh great, now I'll keep thinking about it. He looked at the cyber desk.

GreatGirl chuckled softly. Worked just like I thought it would.

She didn't mean It like that for sure. The Captain shook his head. And now she's laughing at me.

- "Okay, stop this." He said annoyed.

- "Can't do." The Matthews girl shook her head, laughing. "You should see your face."

- "That's my normal face." Chase smiled.

Maybe she meant It...wait why do you care? He thought.

- "Sure." The quadbrid, sarcastically, nodded.

He won't be able to stop thinking about it. She smirked.

- "I'm serious." The Captain said annoyed.

I can't believe I'm still thinking about It. He thought.

- "Okay, okay. I'll stop mentioning my BIGGEST trauma." GreatGirl raised her hands with a smirk.

And she said it again. Chase pressed his lips together.

- "The biggest?" He frowned.

Did you really ask?!! He thought.

- "Yep." The Matthews girl nodded.

Fuck, now I'll never stop thinking about this. The Captain blushed more. It can't be. He rolled his eyes.

- "Uhg! You're really annoying." He said.

- "I know." The quadbrid smirked and put her hand on his shoulder. "Good luck trying to figure out if I meant it or not. Maybe I wasn't even talking about that." She shrugged, playfully.

- "Oh, Fuck You." Chase grumbled looking at the cyber desk.

So maybe she means It and is deviating from the answer...okay enough! He thought.

GreatGirl pressed her lips together as she laughed softly. This is too funny.

The Captain sighed impatiently.

- "But like everyone's minds traumatized me, but yours was worse." The Matthews girl frowned, faking disgust.

- "Why?! What's wrong with It?!" Chase said annoyed.

- "Everything. You're the alter ego of the guy I'm in love with." The quadbrid frowned. "I didn't want to see YOU like that."

Chase tilted his head.

- "Fair enough." He nodded. "But that's what you get for invading my mind." He shrugged. "You saw it because you wanted to."

- "You do realize that if I didn't read your mind, I would have continued to hit you?" GreatGirl raised her eyebrows.

- "Maybe you wouldn't need to read my mind if you stopped and thought about it for a bit." Chase frowned.

The Matthews girl rolled her eyes.

- "I couldn't guess that you were A Chase. Normally, Chases don't curse. And don't have super speed." She defended.

- "I'm one of a kind." The Captain smirked.

The quadbrid scoffed, amused.

- "Hey." Chase took a step towards her. "Don't forget that it's because of me that you're standing in your Mission Command, seeing and partially warm." He raised his eyebrow.

- "I know." GreatGirl nodded, amused. "Are you going to remind me every time?"

Chase grinned.

- "Yeah, because even I can't believe I didn't let you roll down the stairs." He said.

The Matthews girl looked at him and gave him a middle finger as she grinned.

Chase smirked, annoyed.

- "Oh, what's that behind your ear?" He raised his hand towards her ear. "Would that be...oh Yeah!" He showed her his middle finger. "You must have lost it there because I remember very well giving you this a while ago." He grinned sarcastically.

The quadbrid chuckled.

- "Behind my ear, really? That's the only thing you could come up with?" She mocked.

- "You're the only person I need to do this with often, I'm running out of ideas." The Captain said, annoyed.

- "Good." GreatGirl snorted.

- "You feel like we're both running in circles?" Chase said, annoyed, drawing a circle in the air.

- "Not really." The Matthews girl shrugged. "I mean, sure, we don't have the calmest friendship, but I like it just the way it is. I wouldn't change it for anything."

Chase crossed his arms.

- "Wait, are you serious?" He asked.

- "Yeah." The quadbrid nodded. "Why?"

Chase shook his head, looking at her. I would change something, though, about myself.

- "I don't, you just..." He shrugged.

- "What?" GreatGirl frowned.

- "Nothing." Chase shook his head and looked down, thoughtful.

You are losing focus. He thought.

- "You can't start a sentence and not finish it." The Matthews girl looked at him with a frown.

- "It's not important, forget it." The Captain looked at the cyber desk.

- "I won't." The quadbrid shook her head.

This is getting out of hand. You're losing focus, there's a mission going on. Chase took a deep breath, deepening his frown.

- "Let It Go!" He shook his head. "I don't even know why you care so much about what I think." He tried to divert the subject.

GreatGirl frowned at his tone, before looking away. I shouldn't have pushed. I'm stupid to have thought that what I saw in Ace's mind could happen.

- "Because I do." She shrugged, before sighing.

You can't. The Captain looked at her with a soft gaze. I'm just going to hurt you. I don't want to hurt you.

The Matthews girl sighed and walked away to the weapons room to take some for her friends. I'm ridiculous. She shook her head.

No, what did I do? Chase looked at her leaving and sighed loudly. You idiot. He put his hands on his face and ran them until he reached the back of his neck as he walked around the room, thoughtful. You're liking her too much, man. What are you doing?

In the weapons room, the quadbrid several guns, cuffs and devices that could be useful against the Embers and their families, which the villains still controlled.

What did you do?! You hurt her. I knew this would happen, why did you let this happen? The Captain crossed his arms and bit his thumbnail, just listening to her in the weapons room. You don't deserve friends because you are like this, you always do this! You hurt people when they don't hurt you. He shook his head to himself. You're such an idiot. She must hate you.

A couple of seconds later, GreatGirl came back with a bag and put it on the cyber desk.

- "Think we need more?" She made it slide towards him, without looking up.

Chase stopped the bag, after glancing at her briefly, he looked inside.

- "I think that's enough." He said dryly.

Now it's too late, she'll never want to talk to you again, you jerk. He thought.

- "Okay." The Matthews girl nodded and took the bag. "Let's go."

The Captain nodded, and Spike appeared in the cyber desk's reflection.

You have serious issues, mate. He said in disapproval.

- "No one asked for your opinion." Chase frowned at his own reflection.

He's absolutely right. What if I don't have a fix anymore? He thought.

- "What?" The quadbrid turned to him.

- "Nothing. I wasn't talking to you." The Captain pointed to the reflective surface of the cyber desk.

- "He's back?" GreatGirl asked.

Chase looked at the cyber desk and Spike was gone.

- "He's gone." He said.

Even Spike doesn't feel like talking to me. He thought.

The Matthews girl nodded. He didn't even tell me he brought Spike back. He could have told me weeks ago or when he came for my birthday, but he didn't. Why would he talk to me anyway? He doesn't care about me.

- "Let's Go." The Captain said firmly and walked to the Hyper-Lift.

The quadbrid listened to his tone. That's it. I'm done. She took off his jacket and handed it to him.

- "I won't need it anymore. Thanks." She said without looking at him.

Wait, What? Chase softened his gaze to her worriedly.

- "Are you sure? Because I don't mind It at all If you wanna keep It." He said.

- "I'm sure." GreatGirl put the jacket against his chest.

Don't cry, Man. The Captain pressed his lips together, swallowing a lump in his throat, and silently picked up his jacket. This is exactly what I was afraid would happen.

- "Be right back." The Matthews girl geo-leaped to her boyfriend's bedroom.

She's gonna need it. She grabbed her cape, looking at it, tears in her eyes. Why do I always do that to myself? I'm such an idiot. Always loving someone, platonically or romantically, that doesn't reciprocate. I'm breaking my own heart, and I'm sick of it.

The Captain looked at the jacket in his hand.

- "Congratulations, you ruined everything." He whispered to himself and pressed his lips together.

You always ruin everything. He thought.

The quadbrid attached the cape back on the should. He doesn't like me. I knew it. She took a deep breath, wiping her eyes. I can't let him see that I'm hurt. And I'm tired of giving my love to people who don't want it!

Chase shook his head as he put his jacket back on.

- "What's wrong with you? Why are you like this?" He grumbled, abruptly adjusting the collar of his jacket.

You are such an idiot; you don't deserve her friendship, and you just proved it. He thought.

GreatGirl geo-leaped back into Mission Command. Be cool. Pretend nothing happened.

The Captain glanced at her and sighed. Hold on tight, man, you need to find Harp. I need her now, or I'll collapse here, lonely.

- "Ready?" He asked.

- "Yeah." The Matthews girl gave him a fake smile. "Come on." She tilted her head, gesturing to him to touch her so she could geo-leap them to the coordinates.

A fake smile, why don't you just punch me in the face? I deserve it. Chase walked up to her hesitantly. I'm so Sorry. He gently put his hand on her shoulder and glanced at her face.

The quadbrid gave him another fake smile and geo-leaped them at the location with the bag.

As they arrived there, The Captain immediately stepped back, letting go of her shoulder. I know you don't want me near you right now.

- "Can you hear them?" GreatGirl asked without looking at him.

I just want to be again with the only Chase that loves me. She thought, swallowing her tears.

- "Give me a second." Chase fixed the hair around his ear, activating his bionic hearing.

- "Okay." The Matthews girl looked at the bag in her hands.

The Captain heard the voices of Chase, Harper and Quinn in one of the rooms. Breathe.

- "They're in that room." He pointed to a door on the left of the hallway.

- "Let's go." The quadbrid walked away in the direction he pointed.

Focus, Chase. Focus. Chase sighed and walked behind her while, with his bionic hearing, he noticed the three of them were whispering.

GreatGirl stopped in front of the door.

- "This one?" She asked.

- "Yeah, but open it carefully; I think the Embers are around." The Captain said.

The Matthews girl, carefully, opened the door without making any noise.

Chase placed his hand on the door as she opened it to silence the door even more.

The quadbrid, completely, pushed the door and saw her boyfriend with the Davenport women behind a desk, watching the Embers arguing on a security footage.

Harper lifted her head and looked at them.

- "Chay." She sighed in relief and ran to her fiancé.

- "Harp." Chase said softly and ran, lifting her up in a tight hug.

- "Mads!" Chase 2 rushed to her girlfriend, hugging her tightly, lifting her feet off the floor.

GreatGirl giggled softly.

- "Hey, my love." She said.

Dad! Quinn walked up to the older couple with a wide smile.

- "Hey, D-captain." She choked.

- "Hi, Quinn." The Captain smiled and put his hand on her shoulder.

- "I missed you." The genius boy replied. "I wanna kiss you so badly." He whispered as he put back on the ground.

- "Do it." The Matthews girl nodded. "Quinn won't say anything."

And I need it. She thought.

- "Okay." The green hazel-eyed boy cupped her face and pulled her for a slow, tender kiss.

The quadbrid melted against his lips as she put her hands on his.

- "Are you okay?" Chase 2 asked as he broke the kiss. "Baby, you're freezing."

- "I'm fine." GreatGirl shook her head with a soft smile. "I'm with you." She hugged her waist.

The genius boy put his hand on the back of her head and frowned slightly. What happened, baby?

The General ran her hand through Chase's hair. I missed him so much.

- "What about you? Are you okay? Did they do something to you?" She asked worriedly as he held her waist.

- "I'm fine. Better now." Chase held her chin.

I need you, though. He pulled her in for a kiss, he eased his shoulders into the kiss, trying to focus only on that. Wait, this taste is...? He pulled away.

- "Are you chewing strawberry gum?" He frowned.

- "You never pay attention to your pockets when you're with me." Harper smirked.

Why does he have that face? She frowned.

- "What happened?" She asked.

- "Nothing." Chase shook his head and held her tighter.

I feel fucking terrible, I need help. He thought.

- "Fine..." The General frowned.

He's got that 'I'm a horrible person' face, why is he feeling like this? She thought.

The Matthews girl hugged her boyfriend tightly, letting the warmth of his body warm her up a little.

The green hazel-eyed boy kissed her temple.

- "The human radiator is always here for you." He whispered.

The quadbrid chuckled softly, her breath tickling his skin.

Let's see what's going on. The General held her fiancé's face and caressed his cheek as she read his mind. Holy shit. She tried to keep a straight face, she read the last moments he spent with GreatGirl. Oh No, Chay.

- "What?" The Captain asked, and Harper glanced at the youngest and sighed.

- "Come here." She hugged Chase tightly, she put his head to lay on her shoulder. "You didn't ruin everything, Babe." She whispered.

The Captain blushed slightly. Shit, she did It. She knows everything.

- "I did. But it's okay." He sighed regretfully.

No, It's not, I'm a lost cause. I'm terrible, why don't you ever give up on me? He thought.

- "I..." The General frowned, being able to read his immediate thoughts.

How am I doing this? She sighed.

- "I will never give up on you, you are everything to me. Why would I give up everything?" She caressed the back of his neck.

- "Harp..." The Captain sighed and rested his forehead against hers.

I messed up. He closed his eyes.

- "Stop it, you're not a lost cause. It's okay." She said

- "You got your glasses." Chase 2 pulled away.

- "Chase and I went to get them." GreatGirl replied. "It was very messy." Her eyes widened.

- "I believe that." The genius boy chuckled softly. "What happened between you two?"

The Matthews girl sighed.

- "I'll tell you later." She replied.

- "Okay." The green hazel-eyed boy cupped her face with a frown.

The quadbrid closed her eyes and leaned into his warm hands.

The younger couple pulled away from each other.

- "It doesn't matter anyway." Chase opened his eyes and moved away from his fiancée a little.

- "Stop this, Babe." Harper said.

- "We have work to do. I can't think about it right now." Chase deepened his frown.

He has the 'I'm about to break down because I messed up' look on his face. He and Aunt Maddie have fallen out. Quinn walked up to the Captain.

- "It's been a while, huh?" She said, Chase took a deep breath and looked at her.

- "You have no idea." He sighed.

- "Look, it's gonna be okay." The Time Walker said softly.

- "I know." The Captain nodded.

- "I'm not talking about the mission." The Davenport girl said.

- "Don't..." Chase shook his head. "Don't tell me this is something that has to happen." He said.

- "I'm not going." Quinn looked down.

But yes. She thought.

- "I'm glad you're okay." The Captain approached him and gave her a hug, the Time Walker smiled in relief.

Harper walked up to her alter ego.

Chase 2 walked up to his older self.

- "Thank you, man, for taking care of her. Again." He smiled softly.

Quinn glanced at his uncle.

- "I'll monitor the Embers." She said and walked over to the monitors.

The Captain stepped forward.

He smirked faintly at his younger self.

- "It's my duty, and I knew you'd take care of Harp too. Thanks, man." He said.

- "You're welcome." The genius boy nodded. "It was the least I could do after everything you did for Mads since last year."

Chase smiled gently.

- "You're lucky to have her." He said quietly so GreatGirl did not hear and glanced at her, then back to Chase 2.

He deserves her in his life, I don't. He looked down.

- "I will do whatever it takes to keep it that way." He said.

- "I know." The green hazel-eyed boy looked at his girlfriend with a smile, before turning back to his older version. "Thanks."

What the heck happened between them? He thought.

The Captain nodded silently.

- "I hope Harp didn't give you any trouble though. She's adorably difficult." He smirked.

Try to think of something else. He thought.

Chase 2 shrugged as his cheeks flushed slightly.

- "I date Mads, and my best friend is Mia. I'm used to dirty comments. Even though, someone reading my mind after all of that doesn't feel good." He sighed as his face reddened.

Chase smirked and put his hand on his shoulder.

- "Don't worry about it, man." He said calmly.

- "Yeah." The genius boy sighed, looking away.

- "I'm serious." The Captain said.

The green hazel-eyed boy nodded. I worry about it so much.

- "Listen." Chase approached his younger self.

- "What?" Chase 2 frowned.

- "I know your fear, I know what haunts you because I was haunted by the same things, same insecurities and insults." The Captain started.

- "I know." The genius boy sighed. "I mean, you are me. Kind of."

- "Then you know that I understand. And you will know that I am right when I say that you are much stronger than you think. That you are much more capable and superior than you think you are. And than others make you believe you are." Chase said, holding his shoulder tightly.

Why he's the one who feels this way when I'm the one who's an asshole? He thought.

- "It's easier to say that after you passed this period and are respected by everyone." The green hazel-eyed boy replied, looking down. "I mean, you saw earlier in Mission Command my Adam and Bree."

- "Yeah, but you didn't even say anything about It, did you?" The Captain frowned.

- "What the point?" Chase looked at him. "They never stop anyway."

- "The point is that you believe them." The Captain replied. "You shouldn't." He said. "Look... I'm talking about us. About our essence that makes us who we are. And I'm only respected because I made them respect me after digging really, really hard to rescue the Chase that was drowned in comments from people who are actually more afraid and insecure than us." He said quietly but firmly.

- "Thanks." The genius boy sighed.

- "Tell me you believe me." The Captain asked for reassurance.

- "You said the same thing to Mads a few months ago." The green hazel-eyed boy smiled softly.

- "I had to say it to your face." Chase smirked. "I needed to see it in your eyes." He sighed.

Chase 2 snickered.

- "You're even better than me, man." The Captain looked into his younger self's eyes.

You're not a sad, stupid guy who doesn't know how to have friends. He thought.

- "Absolutely not." The genius boy shook his head as he frowned. "You're delusional."

- "Trust me. You are." Chase nodded. "Much better than me." He looked down. "I fight with myself every day to be a little more like you."

He smirked faintly. And I fail miserably.

- "I don't see why." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "Maybe you're still too young to see." The Captain said playfully.

Chase 2 rolled his eyes, amused.

- "Whatever you say, old man." He smirked.

Chase chuckled.

- "Seriously, you'll see one day because it's very clear to me." He said gently.

I miss being like him. Being who I was before I lost myself. What if I never get back to being like that? He thought.

- "If you say so." The genius boy shrugged and glanced at his girlfriend. "What happened?" He looked back at his older self.

I was an idiot to her. I hurt her because I let myself get carried away like I always feared. The Captain swallowed the lump in his throat and felt a tightness in his chest.

- "Nothing. I just..." He looked at her. "It doesn't matter." He looked down.

- "I don't believe you." The green hazel-eyed boy crossed his arms and looked at him, firmly.

- "I don't want to talk about this right now." Chase kept his gaze serious.

Quinn glanced at him worriedly. He's hanging by a thread.

- "Fine." Chase 2 sighed loudly. "But you won't escape this conversation. Know that." He pointed at him.

The Captain nodded.

- "Whatever happened. It's gonna be okay." The genius boy said as he put a hand on his shoulder.

I can't believe this. Chase sighed and nodded again.

- "It will." The green hazel-eyed boy added.

This place is too small. The Captain looked around; he faked a smile to his younger self.

Without saying a word, Chase 2 wrapped his arms around his older self's back.

- "You need that." He whispered.

I do. The Captain took a deep breath.

- "Thanks." He whispered and slowly embraced his younger self.

- "I got you." The genius boy patted his back.

Chase nodded. Stay calm. He smiled.

The green hazel-eyed boy tightened his arms around his older self. I don't know what happened, but they'll work through it.

The Captain took another deep breath, and his smile widened.

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In the meanwhile, a couple of feet away, Harper walked up to her alter ego.

- "Hey, are you okay?" She asked.

- "I'm okay." GreatGirl nodded. "You?" She asked. "Your mind is not breaking too much from what you're seeing? Your ears are okay? Not too overwhelmed?"

The General chuckled and shook her head.

- "I'm getting used to it. It's crazy, but it's an experience like no other. You're a mess, though." She said.

The Matthews girl rolled her eyes.

- "What do you mean, 'I'm a mess'?" She frowned.

- "Too much power in one body." Harper said. "I don't know how you put up with it, but my respect for you has increased a lot." She bowed playfully.

The quadbrid chuckled.

- "Thanks." She smiled. "Your powers are super cool. Geo-leaping is much more useful than opening a portal."

- "Thanks." The General smirked. "FYI, I don't open portals, never again; I'm done with It."

She shook her head. I actually kind of wanted to do it again.

- "What happened?" GreatGirl frowned.

- "I don't even know how to explain it, but I opened this portal and... there was a lot of information." Harper frowned. "A lot of Perrys and... This girl." She pressed her lips together.

- "What the..." The Matthews girl looked at her with wide eyes. "How did you open a portal to THIS? And what girl?"

- "I don't know, I don't want to know, and I hate those who do know." The General raised her hands. "Well, except the girl." She chuckled.

The quadbrid chuckled.

- "I'm sorry." She said.

- "The point is. Never again." Harper stated.

- "Okay." GreatGirl nodded, amused.

- "Chay sang for you?" The General frowned

The Matthews girl sighed. Here we go.

- "He did." She nodded.

Harper softened her gaze.

- "Did he give you his jacket?" She said.

- "Are you going to continue asking me questions you already know the answer to?" The quadbrid smiled.

- "I just want you to think about it." The General smirked.

GreatGirl rolled her eyes, amused.

- "Do you have any idea how much he loves that jacket? The other day I accidentally put it in the washing machine, and he broke down It's door to get it back." Harper snorted lightly.

- "You're kidding?" The Matthews girl frowned. "For a jacket?"

- "It's not just a jacket for him; it's his captain jacket, made by himself with 'nanotech linen'." The General said, imitating his voice.

The quadbrid chuckled.

- "And he let you use it." Harper raised an eyebrow.

He's so cute. She thought.

GreatGirl frowned and glanced at Chase.

- "That's weird." She looked back at her alter ego.

Harper pressed her lips together and shrugged innocently.

- "Anyway." The Matthews girl shook her head and changed the subject. "Your ears? How do you feel?"

The General tilted her head.

- "It's a lot." She sighed.

- "When it becomes too much, try to focus on someone's heartbeat. It helped me when I was a kid." The quadbrid said.

- "I know, that's what I did when I came to my senses, with your Chase's." Harper smiled. "He is very cute."

She glanced at him. He is what Chay wanted to be again, though.

GreatGirl giggled softly.

- "I know." She nodded. "What about X-Ray vision? Any accident?" She snickers.

The General looked her up and down with a smirk creeping in.

- "Nope." She snorted.

Only on purpose. She thought.

- "Okay, weirdo." The Matthews girl snorted. "My eyes are up here."

- "I know." Harper smirked. "But you can't blame a girl for trying." She shrugged playfully.

- "Did you do it on your Chase?" The quadbrid smirked. "I mean, my X-Ray vision is based on biology, not science."

- "I'm one step ahead of you." The General winked.

- "I knew it." GreatGirl snorted.

Harper chuckled and looked at him. Damn, he's so hot.

- "I don't play at work, girl." She sighed. "Oh, boy, what about what in this man's mind, though." She widened her eyes.

- "I told you." The Matthews girl laughed.

- "I know, but damn!" Harper chuckled.

The dreams he had, Holy Shit! She thought.

- "Are you gonna tease him about it every day?" The quadbrid smirked.

- "Sure thing! I already know how to torture him." The General smirked. "Like 'I'll make your dreams come true, oops! Not really.'." She laughed and wrinkled her nose.

GreatGirl laughed.

- "Oh, please do." She nodded.

Harper laughed.

- "He's asking for it in his mind, now I know." She nodded.

- "Definitely." The Matthews girl nodded. "And..."

- "And what?" The General frowned.

- "What about what you saw in my Chase's mind?" The quadbrid pressed her lips together.

Harper sighed. Poor boy.

- "I'm not going to talk about it, I know how he feels." She nodded.

- "Thanks." GreatGirl nodded. "But honestly, I thought you would mock me as revenge." She snickered softly.

- "I have grown as a person since then." The General, sarcastically, put her hand on her chest.

What a bullshit. She thought.

- "You wanna mock me so bad." The Matthews girl scoffed, amused.

- "I want to, but everything has its time. I know how to manage my comments." Harper said.

I hope I have a long life of friendship to do this. She smiled.

- "I'll be ready." The quadbrid snickered.

- "Better be." The General chuckled. "Sorry for whatever Chay said to you. He's adorably difficult." She smirked.

- "He didn't say anything." GreatGirl shrugged.

- "You sure? Because sometimes he manages to annoy people while silent." Harper mocked.

Also, I know exactly what he said, it's clear he hurt you. She thought.

- "Yeah." The Matthews girl nodded.

- "But he doesn't mean it, though." The General smiled. "So, don't take to heart some of the things he says or doesn't say."

- "I don't." The quadbrid gave her a fake smile.

- "You do." Harper said.

Fake smile. She sighed.

- "But I know he likes you." She briefly put her hand on her shoulder.

- "If you say so." GreatGirl nodded.

I don't believe it. She thought.

- "Trust me." Harper smiled gently.

He's falling apart just because he hurt you. She thought.

The Matthews girl smiled softly and nodded.

- "And what you saw in my mind, except my sex life, you can tell Chase what you saw. I don't mind." She said.

- "I know, don't worry." The General smiled softly. "I'm glad you're okay, though. The Embers really hit us." She said.

- "I'm happy you're okay." The quadbrid replied.

Harper smiled. If I have to go through such madness, I'm grateful that it's with her.

- "Found the collar, huh? Knew it would work." She smiled proudly.

- "He did." GreatGirl glanced at the eldest Chase. "It was a great idea."

- "I knew he would think of it." The General said. "And thank you. But I would say none of this would be possible without my little soldier Newton." She shrugged proudly.

- "He's cute." The Matthews girl smiled softly.

- "Newton always knows where I am." Harper nodded. "And if necessary, he comes after me."

- "That's sweet." The quadbrid said.

The General smiled.

- "Yeah. But I think this experience will bring something good to both of us in the end." She said softly.

- "How so?" GreatGirl frowned.

- "Well, speaking for myself, I got knowledge-- more than I would have liked, though-- and I loved spending time with him." Harper looked at Chase 2 with a soft smile.

Like I really did. He's sweet, and he's good under pressure, disciplined... She thought.

- "Told you it was a great way to get knowledge." The Matthews girl smiled. "And I'm sure he does too. Like you saw, he already loved you before he met you."

The General agreed. I love him too.

- "Yeah, I hope I never cross the line at any point, so he gets too upset with me or something. I would hate to hurt his feelings." She said.

I want to protect him. She thought.

- "I'm sure you didn't." The quadbrid shook her head. "You would have noticed. If you had upset him, you would see it on his face or in the tone of his voice."

The General looked at Chase 2 thoughtfully, before looking back at her.

- "Missed you, friend. Someone needs to be by my side to show these Chases how It's done." She smirked.

GreatGirl smiled at her.

- "Oh, yeah." She nodded. "I missed you too."

Harper grinned proudly as she nudged her with her elbow in determination.

The Matthews girl wrapped her arm around her shoulders with a smile. I missed her.

- "Oh! By the way, I think I'll need to borrow the cape." The General grabbed her cape.

Now I can fly!!! She thought.

- "Actually, you need it." The quadbrid pulled away from her. "I took it for you. Capes are necessary when you fly with the powers of this universe." She took off her cape and handed it to her.

Harper gasped with a smile.

- "Fuck! This is the best day ever!" She put on the cape. "I mean... partially."

GreatGirl chuckled softly.

- "Besides, it's indestructible, so you can do whatever you want with it and use it as a shield too." She added.

- "Ah! Stop, I'm going to cry." The General said with an emotional smile, giving a little spin with the cape.

Oh my God!! She thought.

- "You look good!" The Matthews girl exclaimed.

- "Obviously I do." Harper smirked. "Oh, my... I've always wanted one of those, but I won't fly, so I'd just look like an idiot."

- "Now, you fly." The quadbrid smirked.

- "I do." The General smiled wildly. "Oh, That's such a turn on, though." She looked at the cape.

- "You're LOVING this." GreatGirl smiled.

- "Duh! Look at me!" Harper smiled.

Oh, I look awesome!! She thought.

The Matthews girl laughed.

- "I feel amazing." The General put her hands on her hips.

- "I know it feels great." The quadbrid nodded.

You're geeking out, get a grip. Harper cleared her throat.

- "Sorry, I got carried away. How are you and my bionics?" She asked.

- "I'm good." GreatGirl smiled. "It's a little weird to have electricity coming out of my fingers." She snorted.

The General nodded. It's Crazy.

- "But this increases your sensitivity to touch, meaning it's easier for you to feel things with your hands." She smirked.

Don't ask me how I found this out... She thought.

- "And my mind went dirty." The Matthews girl closed her eyes, amused.

That's the point. Harper nodded with a malicious smile.

- "Exactly." She said.

- "Oh, boy." The quadbrid chuckled.

- "Have you tried the skates yet?" The General asked. "As agile as super speed. Just relax, and let your feet be carried by the antigravity."

- "Never been good on skates." GreatGirl frowned. "Ever." She shook her head.

- "They do the work themselves; it's like walking, only faster." Harper explained. "It's not like normal skates; they're controlled by your brain, like everything else in your body."

- "Maybe later." The Matthews girl said.

- "You're going to need it since you can't fly anymore." The General said. "And remember that your arm is indestructible too, impenetrable, it breaks anything, and you can use it to protect yourself."

- "I know." The quadbrid pointed at their heads. "Mind reading, remember?" She smirked.

- "True. But I've never seen anyone with superpowers like mine, so it's weird." Harper said.

- "I've never seen another quadbrid before." GreatGirl replied.

- "I am, and I am not. Because I still feel my bionic structure, my chip." The General put her hand on the back of her neck. "But nothing works. It's fucking weird."

- "I know." The Matthews girl nodded.

- "Yup." Harper said. "But we're doing great."

- "Yeah, except that without my glasses I'm blind." The quadbrid snorted. "Your fiancé had too much fun with that."

We were having so much fun. And paf! Now, we don't talk. She thought.

- "I saw it." The General chuckled.

- "I know." GreatGirl nodded.

- "I love it when he laughs the way he did with you." Harper smiled. "He rarely laughs like that with anyone outside of his family."

She looked at him. Too bad he's afraid to let go.

- "Even now?" The Matthews girl frowned.

The General nodded.

- "Yeah, it's not like we have a lot of friends, and to him everyone must see him as Captain, so he doesn't loosen up that much." She said.

And recently seeing Sebastian again brought all his fears to the surface again. She thought.

- "Ah." The quadbrid frowned. "It's not the first time he laughs with me."

- "I know." Harper smiled.

GreatGirl frowned and looked at Chase.

The Captain briefly glanced at her back and looked at Chase 2.

The General pressed her lips together. I feel bad for them.

- "He was using his actual laugh, not the polite laugh." She said

- "And now, it's awkward." The Matthews girl sighed.

- "I told you don't take it to heart." Harper said.

- "Yeah. I don't know how to do that." The quadbrid shook her head.

- "Yeah, but I have to try." The General said. "Plus, my fiancé is the most stubborn person in the universe. I have the knack of it."

- "You're a pretty close second." GreatGirl replied.

- "That's why I'm going to marry him." Harper smirked.

- "Yep." The Matthews girl snickered.

- "A stubborn person can and will only fall in love with another more stubborn person, or else it won't work." The General nodded.

I can't believe I'm going to marry him. She smiled.

- "True." The quadbrid chuckled softly.

The Captain took a deep breath. Focus.

- "All right people!" He walked to the middle of the room and put his hands on his hips.

The younger couple looked at him.

- "I was thinking." Chase frowned. "Quinn, if you manipulate the energy contained in the neurons of those hypnotized by the Embers, can't you take them out of the hypnosis?" He said.

Quinn smirked. Like father, like daughter. She walked up to him.

- "Wow, who would have thought of that?" The Davenport girl crossed her arms sarcastically.

- "Well, this smart girl." Chase 2 smiled at her.

Time Walker blushed and wrinkled her nose at her uncle.

- "That's me." She shrugged shyly.

GreatGirl smiled softly. She's so cute.

The genius boy smiled. She's adorable.

The General smiled proudly. I love her.

- "Alright, good job, Quinn." The Captain nodded proudly.

- "However, I cannot guarantee that I can keep them out of hypnosis in the long term. However, I can us buy time." The Davenport girl explained.

- "Have you done this before?" Harper asked.

- "No, but it won't be that hard." Quinn shrugged with a confident smile.

- "Harper, you need to put a mind shield on Chase and I." The green hazel-eyed boy added. "With Mads' powers, you immediately had one."

- "And mine is part of my DNA." The Matthews girl continued.

- "Exactly." Chase 2 nodded.

- "Fine." The General shrugged confidently. "I can do it." She nudged Chase 2 with a smile.

- "I know." The genius boy smirked.

- "Just close your eyes and put your fingers on both of their temples. And focus on wanting to keep them safe." The quadbrid explained.

Quinn placed a box on the table.

- "Here, I found our weapons." She said.

- "Nice." Chase said and looked at the box, taking his equipment and his gun, putting it in the hostler.

The General looked at her fiancé and smiled softly.

- "Okay, come here." She said, and the Captain approached her, she looked into his eyes and placed her fingers on his temple.

Chase smiled back and blushed slightly. I always blush when I look into her eyes for too long; it's so silly, but I can't help it; her eyes are beautiful. He thought.

Harper put a shield on his mind.

- "Done!" She smiled.

The green hazel-eyed boy put the bag of weapons his girlfriend brought on the table as well.

- "And now we have the anti-powers cuffs and bionic chip's disrupter just in case." He looked through it.

- "Okay." GreatGirl nodded at her alter ego. "To be sure, look into his eyes and try to make him do something by giving him an order in your mind."

- "That's good." Time Walker leaned against the table as she received a signal on the comm. Set.

- "Quinn, are you still there?" Ace asked.

Harper looked at her fiancé, she narrowed her eyes.

The Captain looked at her and gave her a flirty wink.

- "You silly." The General grumbled in amusement. "Okay, it worked." she rolled her eyes.

Chase chuckled.

- "Okay, now, my Chase." The Matthews girl took her boyfriend's hand and led him to her.

- "Alright." The General approached the younger version of her fiancé.

He is so young. She softened her gaze and placed her fingers on his temple.

Chase 2 smiled softly at her.

The quadbrid glanced at Chase, before looking down.

Harper smiled back at him softly and closed her eyes.

The Captain put all his equipment back in his pockets, ignoring her gaze.

- "Okay." The General sighed and looked into his eyes. "Done."

- "Thanks, Harper." The genius boy replied.

- "Yes, thank you." GreatGirl smiled.

He doesn't even look at me, anyone. She thought, sadly. I don't care what Quinn and Ace say. I'm done trying.

- "You're welcome." The General smiled. "I've been doing this my whole life." She mocked.

- "Guys, Ace said that the Embers are creating an army. They are starting to hypnotize civilians to find us." The Time Walker said, taking her finger off the comm set.

- "Then we have to act quickly." The Captain said, suddenly they heard a crash in the hallway.

- "Well, we better go." The green hazel-eyed boy scanned the hallway.

- "Everyone, grab on." The Matthews girl said.

Chase 2 put his hand on her shoulder.

Quinn geo-leaped out of the building.

- "Let's go." The General took the captain's hand and walked towards her.

The quadbrid took her free hand and geo-leaped them outside the building.

- "That was cool." The genius boy said.

GreatGirl smiled softly at him.

- "We should slip up." The green hazel-eyed boy suggested.

- "Good idea." The General nodded.

- "What took you so long?" Quinn said mockingly at her aunt, leaning on a fire escape.

The Matthews girl pointed at her boyfriend and the older couple.

The General widened her eyes.

- "Watch out!!" She shouted as a dumpster was thrown towards them, and she instinctively used a shield to protect them. 

- "What was that?" The Captain frowned, and from behind the building, Adam appeared in their view.

- "Crap." Chase 2 frowned.

- "Immediately attacked, wow. So nice, Adam, as always." The quadbrid, sarcastically, said.

The Vice Captain groaned and ran towards them, lighting his eyes with heat vision.

- "Quinn, now!" The Captain shouted.

- "On It!" The Time Walker took momentum on the fire escape and jumped in front of Adam, he shot her, and she did a backflip, dodging it as her irises lit up yellow, and she stopped him in his tracks. "Okay, focus, Quinn." She frowned, trying to focus.

- "God, I miss my heat vision." GreatGirl whispered to her alter ego.

The genius boy shook his head, amused.

The Matthews girl put her hands together, trying to warm herself up. I'm still freezing.

The green hazel-eyed boy frowned as he looked at her.

- "Yeah, I miss my normal vision." Harper replied.

- "You can do It, Quinn." Chase said.

- "Of course I can." The Davenport girl said. "Gotcha!" She closed her hand, cutting the connection between Adam and Ember's powers, and his eyes instantly returned to their normal color, he fell to his knees on the floor. "Yes! It worked!" Quinn said in disbelief as she turned to them.

- "Adam!" The General exclaimed and ran to her best friend.

- "What happened?" The Vice Captain asked.

- "Ember hypnotized you." Harper explained.

Chase 2 followed her.

- "You're okay, Adam?" He asked.

- "You did it!" The quadbrid smiled at her niece as she walked next to her. "I'm so proud of you."

- "Thanks, for a moment I thought I wasn't going to get it..." The Time Walker approached her. "He is known for having no neurons." She chuckled softly.

- "Yeah, I'm fine, I just... I don't remember the last few hours." Adam said as Harper helped him up.

GreatGirl snorted.

- "I know." She nodded. "Now, we have the proof that he has at least one."

- "We were knocked out for the last few hours, so we don't remember either." The genius boy shrugged.

- "Yup!" The Davenport girl nodded in amusement.

- "Oh, okay, I didn't miss anything important then..." Adam sighed. "Oh Wait!" He took out his phone. "Shit! Over fifty unread messages from Grace." He sighed. "I'm screwed." He said.

The Matthews girl leaned to her niece.

- "You knew this was going to happen, right?" She whispered.

- "Ooh, yeah." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded with a frown. "And language."

- "Sorry, can you be more specific?" Quinn frowned.

- "Good to have you back, Bro." The Captain said and hit him on the back.

- "What's wrong?" The Vice Captain frowned at his brother.

- "Nothing." Chase shook his head.

Shit, well, now I'm surrounded by all the people who know me best. He thought.

The quadbrid tilted her head towards Chase.

Chase 2 frowned at his older self. Yeah, like we believe you.

- "Oh." A Time Walker nodded. "Yeah, concrete event." She put her hands behind her back.

- "Alright..." Adam frowned and glanced at Harper, who just shook her head.

Not now, Adam. She thought.

- "Wonderful." GreatGirl, sarcastically, nodded.

Concrete event to get hurt. She thought. Why do you hate me so much, universe?

- "It's just a phase." Quinn smiled softly, putting her hand on her aunt's shoulder.

The Matthews girl nodded without believing it. Phase or not, I'm tired of getting hurt.

- "Okay, we have to get moving." The Captain said. "Quinn, I know this is asking a lot of you, but I need you to keep as many people as possible out of hypnosis for as long as possible." He said.

- "Yes, Captain." Time Walker nodded, moving away from her aunt.

- "Mads and I will take check out the south side, you guys take the north." The genius boy added.

- "Deal." The General said.

- "I'll go ahead of you and try to clear the way." The Davenport girl said, walking away.

And try to find Ace. She thought.

The younger couple walked away.

- "So, what happened?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked as he looked around, trying to find his family.

The quadbrid sighed.

- "We were talking and laughing, and he was about to open up but stopped mid-sentence." She explained. "So, I tried to make him say it. He ended up yelling at me and being super dry." She glanced at her boyfriend. "He pushed me again. I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but it... It just hurts. And I'm tired of getting hurt. I already got hurt a lot in my life, I don't need to be more because of him."

- "I'm sorry, baby." Chase 2 frowned.

Chase watched the younger couple walk away. How many more times does life have to slap you in the face for you to learn that you don't deserve friends because you only hurt people or else they hurt you? He swallowed the lump in his throat.

- "Let's Go." He said to his fiancée and brother as he started to walk away.

- "He has that face." The Vice Captain said.

- "It's complicated, Adam." Harper sighed.

- "I don't like this..." Adam said.

- "This is exhausting." GreatGirl said, wiping the unshed tears in her eyes.

The genius boy walked closer to her and took her hand in his, his thumb stroking her skin.

- "You were patient with me." He replied.

- "Yeah, but you were my friend. My best friend." The Matthews girl smiled softly at him. "He doesn't even admit that sometimes we are close without pushing me away and being dry."

- "You told me yourself that he doesn't have any friends and has trust issues." The green hazel-eyed boy added.

- "So what?" The quadbrid frowned. "I annoy him a lot, sure. But he started to do the same, so I thought that maybe you guys were right and that he likes me. But that proves that he doesn't." Her body, slightly, trembling due to the temperature.

The Captain continued walking and glanced at GreatGirl and her Chase, his chest tightened. What's wrong with you? You push people away, you're despicable cuz you don't know how to deal with people. Maybe I deserve to be alone. He tensed his jaw.

Adam and Harper glanced to the young couple and back to Chase.

He scratched the back of his neck in despair and looked around.

The Vice Captain looked at the General with an indignant frown.

- "Again?" He asked quietly, recognizing his brother's symptoms. Harper sighed and placed her hands on her hips in concern. "I thought he had gotten better from these attacks."

- "That's not how it works." The General said.

Adam clenched his jaw.

- "Okay." Chase 2 stopped walking and put himself in front of her. "Stop it." He unzipped his mission suit jacket and blocked it between his legs. "Come here." He opened his arms. "Let me warm you up."

GreatGirl chuckled softly and wrapped her arms around his back, letting his warm hands travel her back and arms.

- "And I understand." The genius boy sighed. "I'll support you no matter what you do, but I don't think you should give up on him. But that's just my opinion."

The Matthews girl sighed, thinking about it.

The Captain stopped in his tracks as he looked back at them. She's still cold. He felt his eyes fill with tears that hesitated to fall.

Harper sighed in pity as she saw the scene and heard her fiancé's heart race in despair.

She's still cold for you, you idiot. He shook his head as the air grew heavier, he moved his fingers as if he could not feel them and blinked as his vision blurred.

- "Not again." Adam grumbled. Chase put his hand on his chest and hurried his pace to an alley; from that step, he felt like it was his last; he could not breathe. "I'll talk to him." The Vice Captain walked behind his brother.

- "Adam, I don't think you..." The General said.

- "Stay sharp!" Adam shouted firmly.

Harper pressed her lips together. And I just read my best friend's mind...just Ew! She bit her thumbnail.

- "Come on, babe." The quadbrid pulled away from him. "We need to get moving." She looked around.

- "Alright." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded and handed her his jacket. "Only if you put it on."

- "What if I don't want to?" GreatGirl asked, amused.

- "Then, I'll have to hug you more and not let go." Chase 2 replied. "And I really don't to." He shook his head, amused.

- "I want to." The Matthews girl smiled. "But that's not the moment, so I'll take your jacket." She took his jacket and put it on.

Just as warm as Chase's. She thought.

The genius boy walked closer to her and zipped the jacket for her, looking into her eyes.

- "How do I look?" The quadbrid smirked.

- "You are always hot. But when you wear my clothes, it's another level." The green hazel-eyed boy blushed slightly.

GreatGirl leaned towards him and kissed his cheek. I love you.

- "I love you too." Chase 2 smiled as he blushed brighter.

- "Come on." The Matthews girl took his hand, and they started to walk, looking around again.

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Meanwhile, the Captain walked down the alley, breathing heavily.

You don't have a fix. Accept that you're the jerk who has no friends. He shook his head. I want to go home; I want to get out of here!! He held back the tears in his throat and saw a loose brick on the floor. Without thinking, he picked up the brick and threw it at a window.

- "I can't take it anymore!!" Chase shouted and closed his eyes, letting the tears flow.

He leaned on his leg, vision blurring and hyperventilating. I hate this. He squeezed his eyes shut and leaned against the wall. I do everything wrong. He hyperventilated loudly.

Adam walked up to him after hearing the glass breaking.

- "Chase?" The Vice Captain asked, and Chase slid down the wall, sitting. "Hey!" He walked up to his brother.

- "I can't breathe; I want to go home; I want to disappear from here!" Chase said breathlessly as tears streamed down his face.

Adam put his hand on his knee.

- "Chase, we need you, Bro, don't do this!" He said.

- "I can't. I want to leave. I can't. I don't..." Chase threw his head back, and placed his hand on his chest, closing his eyes.

- "Chase, you're not thinking straight, breathe!" The Vice Captain put his hands on his shoulder worriedly.

- "I do everything wrong." The Captain sniffed and sucked in the air; he seemed to be lacking. "I'm an idiot; I ruin everything; I create problems; I'm a terrible person." He said, clutching the fabric of his pants at his knees in despair. "I'm a lost cause." He said, and suddenly Adam slapped him in the face, and he widened and held his cheek, still hyperventilating. "Wh-what was that?" He asked.

- "You're talking shit about my brother!" Adam pointed at his face, angrily. The Captain frowned. "I know about my brother's body! Stop it!!" He grabbed his shoulders.

- "Adam, I'm here." Chase said.

- "Then show me!!" The Vice Captain stated, deepening his frown. "Why aren't you talking like my brother? Where's my brother?!!" He said.

Chase let more tears fall and shook his head.

- "I don't know where he is anymore." He said, and sniffled.

- "Shut the fuck up, 'panic attack' and let Chase talk." Adam clenched his jaw. The Captain let out a shaky sigh. "Breathe, Chase, stop it!"

- "I fucked up everything." Chase took a deep breath. "I always do this." He exhaled and looked down.

- "Hey!" The Vice Captain said. "Look at me!!" He said in concern. The Captain looked at him. "The world is not ending like you think it is." He said. "There is time to fix it." He said.

- "That's not how it works, everything has a limit. I've reached mine, I'm tired." Chase said, and another tear ran down his face, his hands trembling, gripping his knees.

- "No, nothing can't be fixed." Adam said. "I know I'm a mechanic." He said smugly. The Captain rolled his eyes. "Seriously, you talked shit to her, but it's not the end of the world." He pointed behind him.

- "How do you know that was it?" Chase asked, his breathing calming as Adam stroked his arms, gently.

- "Because I know you, Chase. I know that's exactly what you're afraid of." The Vice Captain said, Chase shook his head, looking away. His breathing was labored again. "Hey! Look at me." He said.

- "There's no way to fix it this time." The Captain looked at him again. "She hates me, I'm a jerk." He sighed shakily.

- "You're not, the only thing wrong with you, Bro, is that you think there's something wrong with you." Adam said. "Nothing you went through is your fault." He said.

- "I'm scared." Chase whispered.

- "Your fear is just attracting your fear. You think so much about what could go wrong that is happening." The Vice Captain said and wiped the tear from his younger brother's cheek.

- "See?" Chase took a deep breath, the air still thick. "I'm the problem."

- "No, because that's not your thing. I can't stand to see you creating problems in your head anymore." Adam said. "I'm worried."

- "I don't know what's going on either." Chase shook his head.

- "Fight it, Bro!" The Vice Captain said firmly.

The Captain remained silent, and closed his eyes, releasing tears.

- "It's okay." Adam whispered and pulled his brother, who rested his head on his shoulder. "Breathe." He said. Chase took a deep breath and sighed, breathing again, and Harper appeared after hearing the two behind the wall. "Again." The Vice Captain glanced at the General as the Captain took a deep breath and exhaled. Harper smiled softly. "I just want to know if Chasey is still there?" Adam smirked.

Chase chuckled faintly.

- "I'm here." He replied, raising his head and wiping away his tears.

- "Good." The Vice Captain smiled proudly.

- "Thank you, Vice Captain." The Captain nodded.

- "Always, Cap." Adam saluted.

- "Is everything okay, My Love?" Harper asked, Chase nodded and stood up, with a sigh.

- "I will survive." The Captain replied.

- "Okay, kids." Adam hugged them both, the couple rolled their eyes in amusement. "Let's kick some asses!" He smiled, the couple laughed and agreed.

They then walked out of the alley with determination.

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A couple of seconds later, the trio walked out of the alley. Chase 2 and GreatGirl were laughing as they were checking their side.

- "Stop it." He frowned, playfully.

- "I cannot, sir." The Matthews girl shook her head. "You are in a black compression sleeveless shirt. Like fucking kill me!"

- "Language." The genius boy blushed brightly.

- "You are SO hot in this." The quadbrid added. "I'm gonna keep your jacket, and you're gonna on missions like that." She squeezed one of his biceps.

The green hazel-eyed boy shook his head, amused, his cheeks reddening even more.

The Captain looked back and took a deep breath. Focus, Cap. He closed his eyes, letting his vulnerable expression become a serious and determined expression.

Suddenly, the Brees super speeded in the place.

The younger couple frowned as they could hear them but not see them.

- "Guys!" Chase 2 called out. "They're here!"

- "Stay sharp!" The Captain said.

The Time Walker approached.

- "Hey, I managed to get all the civilians out of the Embers' control." She looked around. "Who's next?" She frowned.

- "Brees." The General said.

The younger couple walked closer to the others as Leo 2 arrived.

He threw a laser sphere at his brother, who dodged.

- "Leo, come on!" GreatGirl frowned. "Come back!"

The middle brother threw another laser sphere.

The Matthews girl used her right arm as a shield to protect herself.

- "Leo! We need you!" The genius boy yelled.

Harper used thermal vision to see one of the Brees super speeding towards Adam.

- "Gotcha!!" The General smirked and super speed behind Bree 2 and grabbed her, throwing her to the ground. "Sorry, girl." She said. "Quinn!"

- "Got It!" The Davenport girl ran to them and used her powers to take Bree 2 out of the hypnosis. "Done!" She sighed.

- "Bree, are you okay?" Harper asked.

- "No." The hybrid frowned and held her head. "My head hurts. What happened?"

- "You were under a hypnosis." The General extended her hand. "Embers caught you and were playing puppet with you." She shrugged.

- "Great." Bree 2 sighed and took her hand, getting up.

Everyone hero who was still under hypnosis arrived, surrounding them.

- "That's gonna be fun." The quadbrid frowned.

- "Sky..." The hybrid sighed, sadly at her girlfriend, still under their control.

- "Don't worry, I can save her." Quinn put her hand on her shoulder with a soft smile.

- "We're surrounded." Adam said.

- "This shit again?!" The Captain said. "Jokes on you, you can't hide behind your soldiers forever, Embers." He frowned.

- "Oh, we can, Captain." Ember 2 said through Skylar. "And we will."

- "Bree, take care of Bree." The green hazel-eyed boy ordered.

- "Done." Bree 2 super speeded after her older self.

GreatGirl tripped her childhood best friend.

- "I'm sorry, Leo." She whispered.

Adam 2 fired his heat vision at his alter ego.

- "Stay back!" Harper took the Vice Captain out of the crosshairs and fired heat vision back at Adam 2.

- "Wait! When did you steal my heat vision?" Adam pointed.

- "It's not yours." The General said.

Leader Dooley ran up to the Captain; he grabbed his arm and spun him around, throwing him to the ground; the headphones fell to the floor.

Leo kicked him in the stomach with his bionic leg.

- "Fuck!" Chase groaned and cringed. Leader Dooley threw him to the ground, and he fell next to the headset with the song 'Yellow Submarine' by The Beatles playing. The Captain frowned and looked at his brother. "Beatles? Since when do you listen to the Beatles, man?" He frowned. Leader Dooley stepped forward to punch him with his bionic arm. Chase rolled away on the ground, and Leo's arm got stuck in the asphalt. The Captain gave a push and jumped to his feet, grabbing Leo while he was held by the neck with an arm lock. "Quinn!" He called out.

- "We'll explain later." The Matthews girl told the Vice Captain as she used electrokinesis against Skylar, briefly, shocking her, before she super speeded away.

Chase 2 activated his laser bo and went behind his eldest brother, tripping him to the ground, making his heat vision stop.

- "Sorry, bro." He said.

Leo 2 ran towards Chase, trying to get him off his older self.

He pushed him to the ground.

The Captain recovered and grabbed his brother's neck again and used the bo laser to knock Leo 2 to the ground.

The Time Walker geo-leaped behind him and used her powers to snap both Leos out of hypnosis.

Chase took his arm away from his brother's neck.

- "What the fuck happened?" Leo 2 frowned.

The genius boy ran towards him and extended his hand.

- "Long story short, the Embers took control of you." He said.

- "God, I hate being a mindless puppet." The middle brother sighed.

Adam 2 ran towards his best friend.

The quadbrid kicked him in the stomach. Fuck! That hurts with human legs.

The tall guy punched her stomach.

- "Shit." GreatGirl mumbled, before using the super strength in her right hand to punch him in the face.

- "What happened?" Leader Dooley's eyes widened. "And why do you have your knee on my coccyx, you weirdo?!" He complained to his older brother on top of him.

- "Sorry!" The Captain got off him. "But you didn't give me a choice, you were being controlled by the Embers." He explained while leader Dooley took the headset.

- "Pretty good for a beginner." Harper put her hands on her hips with a proud smile at the Matthews girl.

- "You're not doing so bad yourself." She smiled at her.

- "What are they talking about?" Leo 2 asked.

- "The Embers exchanged Mads and Harper powers." The green hazel-eyed boy explained.

- "What?" The middle brother frowned. "So, you're telling me that right now, Dee is basically bionic?"

- "Yep. With a superhuman arm." Chase 2 nodded.

- "That's so cool!" Leo 2 exclaimed.

Bree 2 sweep kicked her older self.

Kaz threw a fireball at Harper and she gasped.

- "Oh you." She narrowed her eyes. "I wanted to kick your ass every time you make those old man jokes on dinner." She threatened him. "Shoot." She said. Kaz shot a flame in her direction. "Ha! Bad aim. I know It, You know you look like someone who misses the target even in the toilet." She mocked. He frowned annoyed and took it off again and this time she blew in his direction and froze him with her freeze breath. "Holy Shit, this is amazing!!" She smiled.

The quadbrid chuckled at her reaction when she noticed Skylar aiming at Chase.

GreatGirl activated her new bionic skates and super speeded with them in front of him, deactivating the skates and taking the plasma grenade for him.

- "Shit, that hurts." She stumbled back, holding her stomach.

The Captain looked at her in disbelief. What...she threw herself in front of me? He frowned.

- "What do you think you're doing?" He said.

- "You're okay?" The Matthews girl asked, ignoring his question.

I'm protecting you, you fucking dumbass! She thought.

She saved me... maybe she doesn't hate me. The Captain frowned.

- "Well, I..." Chase looked back in Skylar's direction. She prepared to blast them again. "Get down!" He threw himself in front of her, taking the blast and falling to the ground. "Uhg!" He groaned.

- "Chase!" The quadbrid yelled, worried, before using the electrokinesis of her right arm, sending the Storm girl to the ground. She kneeled next to him. "Are you okay?" She frowned.

- "I'm fine." Chase held his side in pain and knelt on the floor, keeping his jaw tense.

Damn, that hurts. He thought.

- "Thank you for protecting me." GreatGirl got up, extending her hand to him with a soft smile.

- "Sure." The Captain took her hand and stood up with a soft smile.

- "Cause what you don't understand is I'd catch a grenade for ya." Leader Dooley sang suddenly, losing himself in the sound of the headphones, in the sound of 'Grenade by Bruno Mars'. Chase frowned, annoyed. "Throw my hand on a blade for ya." He noticed the Captain's gaze and stopped.

The Matthews girl chuckled softly, letting go of his hand.

- "I mean, we both just did." She shrugged.

His captain duties until the end. She thought.

- "Yeah, yeah, yeah." Leo clapped his hands to the beat. "I'd jump in front of a train for ya." He sang.

- "Yeah, we did." Chase pressed his lips together, blushing slightly.

And I would do it again. He thought.

- "I'd jump in front of a train for ya." Leader Dooley sang in the Captain's ear.

- "Shut up!" Chase frowned, annoyed.

Leo made a zipper sign with his mouth.

The quadbrid snorted and patted the Captain's back.

- "Good luck with that." She super speeded away with the skates.

Skylar chased after her.

Leo 2 threw a laser sphere at her, surprising her and making her fall.

GreatGirl stopped next to him.

- "Nice skates, Dee." The middle brother said.

- "Thanks." The Matthews girl nodded. "I borrowed them from a friend." She glanced at Harper with a smile.

- "Like I borrowed this..." The General gave a push and flew towards Skylar. "For a friend!" She held the Storm girl and flew away with her.

- "Woah!" The Captain looked at her and blushed.

- "I need a song for that." Leader Dooley said.

- "Been there." Chase 2 whispered to his older self with a smirk on his face.

Adam 2 walked up behind the childhood best friends and pushed Leo out of the way, before grabbing the quadbrid by the collar.

- "Oh, so that's how you feel when I do it to you." She said.

- "Enjoy this, GreatGirl." Ember 2 said through the tall guy.

He threw her away.

The General threw Skylar into a pile of soft dirt nearby. I don't want to hurt her. But I could, easily. She, in a quick reflex, saw Maddie being thrown away, and with super speed, caught her in her arms. And smiled at her.

- "Fuck." The Matthews girl sighed. "Thank you."

- "I told you I'd catch in the next time." Harper winked.

The Captain was still standing in the same place; his eyes widened in shock. Holy fuck... He blushed even more.

- "And you did." The quadbrid smiled. "Thanks."

The genius patted his older self's back in compassion.

The General placed GreatGirl on the ground, and Chase cleared his throat and flexed his arms back discreetly.

- "I'm okay!" He said in an oddly agitated tone and walked in the opposite direction.

The green hazel-eyed boy snorted.

- "Nice catch, Harper." Ember 2 said as Skylar. "But you won't be so lucky next..."

Leo 2 kicked her down.

- "Quinn!" The Matthews girl yelled.

- "Jokes on you." Quinn suddenly geo-leaped in front of Skylar. "Deprived of intelligence!" She said as the Storm girl got up to run towards her.

The Time Walker raised her hand and used her powers to take Skylar out of the hypnosis.

- "What?" She frowned as she looked around. "Where am I? What happened?"

Bree 2 super speeded towards her, ditching her older self for a moment.

She cupped her girlfriend's face and kissed her firmly.

- "Fuck, baby. I missed you." She said.

The Calderan blushed slightly.

- "What happened?" She asked.

- "Hypnosis." The hybrid replied.

- "Oh." The Storm girl frowned.

Bree 2 pulled her into another firm kiss.

The quadbrid glanced at her alter ego, smirking.

The General's eyes widened slightly when she saw her gaze in her direction. These two want to kill me.

- "Okay! Get a room." She turned around nervously.

Quinn snorted lightly and put her hands on her mother's and aunt's shoulders.

- "Okay, I need to say something." She said.

The girlfriends ignored her, deepening their kiss.

- "What?" GreatGirl looked at her.

- "You two..." The Time Walker noticed Harper's gaze towards her two girlfriends and snapped her fingers in front of her face. The General frowned and looked at the Davenport girl. "You two can defeat the Embers and get your powers and bionics back simultaneously. You just need to perform the spontaneous multiversal reconstruction together, like the Embers did in the beginning." Quinn explained.

- "Okay." The Matthews girl nodded. "You just need to take everyone out of hypnosis to force them out."

- "Yup." The Time Walker said and looked into the distance and saw Bree super speed towards Chase 2.

Suddenly, she was surprised by a spear hitting her legs and making her fall at Chase 2's feet.

Ace came out from behind a wall, swinging his handheld spear with a smirk.

- "Ha!" The O'Connor boy chuckled.

Quinn's eyes widened, and she glanced at Harper. She can't read his mind.

- "Oh Crap!" The Davenport girl said, annoyed, and tightened her grip on her aunt's shoulder.

The genius boy looked at him.

- "Thanks, man." He said.

- "I'm gonna kill him." The quadbrid whispered.

- "You're welcome." Ace said smugly, spinning the spear and resting it on his shoulders.

- "No, because he's already dead." The Davenport girl said, annoyed. She tilted her head toward Harper and mouthed. "Distract my mom." To her aunt and ran towards her best friend.

How the hell am I supposed to do that? GreatGirl frowned.

Adam 2 ran towards Chase, shooting his heat vision at his chest and making him stumble back.

- "Shit, Chase." The Matthews girl said loudly to her alter ego.

- "Chase!" The General looked in his direction.

- "I'm fine!" The Captain shouted, and Adam 2 shot at him once more, and he bent back to dodge. Harper super speeded towards Adam 2 and kicked him, making him fall. "I could handle it." Chase said.

- "I didn't say you couldn't." The General shrugged. "I just had a crazy idea." She smiled.

The Captain frowned and took a step back. I confess that I'm feeling both aroused and scared by her right now. He thought.

- "What idea?" Chase frowned.

She saw Kaz unfreeze and fly away.

- "Let's touch the sky." The General said with a smirk.

- "Wait! No!" Chase's eyes widened, and she quickly grabbed him and flew with him after Kaz.

- "Oh my..." Quinn looked up in amusement.

- "Good enough for you?!" The quadbrid smirked at her niece.

- "Perfect!" The Time Walker smiled and walked over to his best friend. "Ace! What's wrong with you? My mother could have read your mind." She whispered and pinched him.

- "Ow!" Ace grabbed his arm. "I'm doing my job." He frowned.

- "Your job? And by any chance is your job is..." Quinn said annoyed as the O'Connor boy saw Bree light up her hands and join them creating a sphere of energy and super speed in a ball of energy towards them.

Ace reflexively held the Davenport girl and pushed her against the wall, dodging It.

Quinn's eyes widened as she hit the wall and looked up at him.

- "Protect you? Yes." Ace smirked.

The Time Walker blushed slightly, she shook her head and pushed him away with a frown.

- "Get off!" She said and went to Bree and used her powers to get her out of hypnosis.

GreatGirl walked up to him.

- "If Harper sees you, you are in the trouble." She said.

Adam 2 walked up to Skylar and Bree 2, but the hybrid used her electrokinesis on him, making him fall to the ground.

- "I know, but I needed to help. I'm not dead weight." The O'Connor boy said.

Agent Davenport put her hands on her head and Leader Dooley walked over to her.

- "Hey, Bree." He hugged her. "It's okay, you were just hypnotized." He said, and Agent Davenport frowned and scoffed.

- "Huh! Just hypnotized?" She said.

- "Yeah, I know. It sucks. But we all go through it, I'm even thinking about creating a support group." Leo nodded.

Bree rolled her eyes.

The Davenport girl sighed and walked over to her aunt and best friend.

- "Nobody said you're dead weight." She said, her cheeks still flushed.

- "She's right." The Matthews girl nodded. "You are not a dead weight. I read your mind, and I saw the things you can do. It's impressive. It's just that right now. Being here put you and Quinn's mission in danger." She explained. "But I have a deal. What if when we get our powers back, you're the one putting the cuffs on Ember as a big..." She glanced at her niece, then back at him. "Fuck you." She mouthed.

The O'Connor boy rolled his eyes.

- "Seriously? This is like when you made cakes and only let me put the cherry on top to make me believe I did something." Ace said.

- "Aunt Maddie never did that." Quinn frowned.

- "I know, I'm talking about you." The O'Connor boy replied. The Time Walker rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "This is the most frustrating mission ever." He said.

- "Then it's a no to cuffs." The Davenport girl tilted her head.

- "No, no, I'll take It." Ace nodded.

The Time Walker frowned in amusement. Idiot.

The quadbrid chuckled softly and put her hand on his shoulder.

- "Enjoy it while you can. Tomorrow you are going back to doing the missions too." She said. "So enjoy when you have nothing to do. Chase fell asleep earlier because of how exhausted he is. One day, you will be like that. So, while you're not, just enjoy until next mission."

The O'Connor boy pressed his lips together. It doesn't make me any less frustrated.

- "Thanks, Aunt Maddie." Ace nodded. "So, if you girls don't mind, I'll go across the street and buy a hot dog and enjoy it." He said sarcastically.

- "Ace, duty is duty." Quinn stepped forward. "And now your duty is to protect what is here at all costs." She pointed at his head. "It's protecting the future of our universe; it's the most important mission here. Even though it's kind of boring." She smirked.

Ace smiled softly at her.

- "Okay, now go, sweetie." GreatGirl smiled and gently pushed him away. "Shoo."

- "Déjà vu." Ace chuckled. "I'm 8 again." He mocked and started walking away.

Quinn chuckled softly, watching him leave.

- "Wait!" Bree looked around. "Where's Kaz?" She asked worriedly.

- "Uh-Oh." The Time Walker glanced at Maddie and then up into the sky.

- "On a scale from one to ten, how much do you think your dad is freaking out right now?" The Matthews girl smirked.

Adam 2 used his heat vision on his older self.

- "9, but eventually it will go down to 3, maybe." Quinn shrugged and looked in Adam 2's direction, using her powers to break him out of the hypnosis.

- "Thanks, Quinn!" The Vice Captain said.

The Davenport girl smiled.

The three youngest siblings hugged Adam 2, relieved.

The Matthews girl nodded.

- "Like my Chase." She shrugged. "Freak out at first, then realize how awesome it is. Did I ever make fly you in the future?"

- "Yup, me and Ace. Well, that was until I created jet boots, but I abandoned the idea." The Davenport girl said. "Flying is not my thing."

- "Did you enjoy it at least?" GreatGirl asked.

- "Obviously, it's flying after all." Quinn smiled and looked up.

- "Good to know." The Matthews girl smiled.

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Meanwhile, The General flew after Kaz above the height of the buildings holding Chase, with both arms around his waist.

- "Fuck!" The Captain kept his eyes closed.

- "Open your eyes, Chay. Look how beautiful everything is from up here." Harper smiled.

- "I wish I had had advance warning!" The Captain shouted.

- "Open your eyes!" The General chuckled.

Chase slowly opened his eyes, feeling the wind on his face and having a clear view of the city from above.

- "Woah!" The Captain sighed.

- "I know." Harper smiled.

- "This is fucking amazing!" Chase smiled widely.

- "Hey, Chay." The General smirked.

- "Yeah." The Captain replied in awe.

- "Remember us at the Hollywood sign?" Harper asked.

Chase grinned and glanced at her. Got It.

- "WOOOHHOOOOO!!!" They both screamed loudly.

- "WOOOHHHOOOOO!!" Chase yelled, with a smile.

Harper closed one eye. Super hearing. She smirked in amusement.

- "It's unbelievable." The General said.

- "I fucking love you for bringing me up here." The Captain chuckled.

Harper wrinkled her nose.

- "I couldn't enjoy this experience alone." The General smiled. Suddenly, a fireball came towards him, and Harper dodged it. "Uhg, Kaz always spoiling the mood." She rolled her eyes.

- "Still up for doing something crazy?" Chase smirked and bit his lip.

- "Look who you're talking to." Harper said.

- "It's dangerous." The Captain glanced at Kaz right behind them.

- "Danger is my middle name." The General smirked.

- "Actually, that's my middle name." Chase chuckled.

- "Then let's show It off." Harper smirked confidently.

Kaz threw another fireball at them; the General dodged it by spinning in the air.

The Male Agent kept shooting.

- "We have to get him back to the ground." Harper said.

The Captain looked back at Kaz flying behind them.

- "Oh, this is going to be insane." Chase smiled as Harper flew lower.

- "I won't let you fall." The General said.

- "I blindly believe in you." The Captain replied. Harper let go of his waist and grabbed him by the hands, his body hanging. "What the hell are we doing?" He looked down.

- "Uh...saving the world?" The General frowned.

- "It works for me." Chase replied and dodged another shot from Kaz. "On three." He said.

- "One." Harper said.

The Captain began to swing to gain momentum.

- "Two." Chase looked at the Male Agent approaching, still gaining momentum.

- "Three!" They both said.

Harper released Chase into the air towards Kaz; he quickly activated the bo laser, and spun him in the air, and he hit Kaz with It, sending him to the ground.

Soon after, the General quickly flew towards him and grabbed him again.

- "Do your thing, sweetie." GreatGirl patted her niece's back.

- "Woah! They're fucking insane." Adam said, looking up at Kaz falling on the ground.

The Davenport girl quickly ran up to him and used her powers, getting him out of the hypnosis.

Meanwhile, Chase and Harper looked down in disbelief.

- "Oh." The General said.

- "My." The Captain said.

- "God!" The said in unison.

- "Are you...?" Harper asked in awe.

- "I am!" Chase nodded.

The General landed on the top of a building and released her breath.

Chase sighed and grabbed his hair, his eyes wide.

- "Language." Chase 2 frowned at the eldest.

- "Poor Kaz." Skylar frowned.

- "That's going to hurt a lot." Leo 2 said.

Kaz sat on the floor and held his head.

- "Shit, what happened?" He asked as Bree ran to him.

- "You were under the Embers' hypnosis, but now you're back because Chase punched you on the ground." She said.

- "Chase did that?" Kaz asked.

- "And Harper." Adam added.

- "And unfortunately, your mustache didn't survive." Leo said.

The Male Agent ran his hand on his mustache, worried.

Agent Davenport sighed, relieved and hugged him.

- "I missed you so much, Babe." She said.

- "I'm here, Bee." Kaz smirked and pulled her in for a soft kiss; both blushed brightly before they pulled apart and hugged tight.

- "Think mom and dad are okay?" The Time Walker asked her aunt, quietly looking up.

- "Yeah." The Matthews girl nodded. "They are probably just geeking out."

I hope. She thought.

Bree 2 gagged at the sight of her older self kissing Kaz.

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Meanwhile, on the top of the building, The Captain and The General looked down in shock. Both slowly looked at each other and gasped smiles.

- "Fuck! This was the most insane thing we've ever done!!" Chase said his eyes widened. "And I would totally do it again!!" He chuckled.

- "I know!! And like, our timing was perfect, and It's the first time I've done this!!" Harper smiled.

- "Me too!!" The Captain nodded. "This was wow. Did I see a whole movie of my life run before my eyes? Yes! But It was awesome!!" He said.

At least this adrenaline makes me forget my problems for a while. He thought.

- "Yeah..." The General frowned.

I'm the one who actually saw the movie of his life. She shook her head.

- "That was incredible!" She added.

The Captain laughed his adrenaline out. Looking at the view at the top of that building. I loved this view, especially with her here.

- "I love doing insane things with you, though." He sighed.

- "I love doing anything with you." Harper smiled. Chase smiled back and held her waist tight as he held one of her hands, kissing It. "I love you too." She replied

I heard something. Ember, she punched someone? She frowned.

- "We have to go back down." She looked down.

- "They can handle a few seconds more..." Chase said.

I wanna kiss her so fucking much. He thought.

- "Chay, I'm serious, they're in danger!" The General said.

Shit, Can't I have a break? The Captain thought.

- "Okay, let's go." He sighed.

Harper smiled. My poor baby. She cupped his face and placed a warm, soft kiss on his lips.

Chase smiled in the kiss, deepening it while The General opened a portal behind them. She pulled apart and pushed him into the portal with a smirk.

The Captain rolled his eyes in amusement and frowned, back to the mission.

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On the ground, Ember 2 came out of the building behind the quadbrid and her niece.

She turned both of them around and used her super strength to punch them away.

- "GreatGirl!" Chase 2 and Leo 2 yelled as they rushed to her.

GreatGirl got up from the ground, frowning. Ouch.

The middle brother gasped.

- "What's wrong?" The Matthews girl asked.

The genius boy pointed to her eyebrow.

The quadbrid touched her eyebrow and noticed blood on her fingers. Same spot as on the ship. And same spot as Chase's.

GreatGirl ran to her niece and helped her up.

- "You guys fucking ruined everything!" The younger Wilder woman shouted angrily.

Harper walked through the portal and closed it behind her.

The Captain glared at Ember 2 with anger.

- "Us? You're ruining things for yourself by following a crazy alter ego of yours." The Time Walker said.

- "Aw, thanks." The older Wilder walked up to them. "But you have to admit that I'm good. Look at the mess we just made." She said. "I wish Giselle was here to see all this...to see all these desperate faces." She smiled.

- "Giselle was a psycho." The Matthews girl scoffed as she wiped the blood falling from the cut on her eyebrow.

- "It's not our fault if she killed herself with her laser." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "Exactly." Leo 2 nodded. "The only one responsible for her death is herself."

- "Don't you dare say that!" Ember 2 pointed at them angrily.

- "What about Troy?" Ember said.

- "Well, his goal was to control all humans; he said himself he thought that Androids were superior... Why do you think he would save you? Why are you the exception when not even Giselle was?" Harper said.

- "She took the words right out of my mouth." Quinn said.

- "You don't know ANYTHING about what Troy was for me!!" The older Wilder shouted.

- "Or for me!" The younger Wilder woman. "You killed him and didn't even look back!"

- "We did." Adam 2 nodded. "To see his head across the room from the body." The five youngest of his teams glared at him. "What?" He frowned.

- "You all never look back in any universe. Can't wait to see Davenport's face before your graves just to ask him how it feels to lose everything!!" The older Wilder said angrily.

- "Your father's death was an accident. You can't blame someone for It." Chase said.

- "It wasn't!! It was a flaw created by your father. He is a reckless idiot, just like all of you!!" Ember shouted.

- "You out of your mind." The General frowned. "Both of you."

- "Time for discussion is up anyway." Ember 2 locked her jaw, running towards them.

She pushed Chase 2.

The quadbrid punched with her right arm.

- "Get away from him!" She yelled angrily.

Leo 2 used his bionic leg to kick her in the stomach, making her stumble back.

The eldest Wilder ran towards The Captain and pushed him; he blocked her hand.

- "Guess who's gonna run the Nation once you're dead?" Ember said.

Chase clenched his jaw, holding her arm.

- "Dream On." The Captain said, and bent her arm back, breaking It.

The older Wilder groaned in pain and kicked him.

Leo ran up to her and held her, putting his bionic arm around her neck and throwing her to the ground.

The genius boy looked at his older self in shock. He broke her arm? He looked at his siblings, who had the same expression on their faces.

The younger Wilder woman used her super strength to throw Chase and Leo away from her older self.

- "Come on." She helped her up.

- "Fuck!" Ember held her arm. "My arm." She groaned.

Chase and Leo are thrown, both rolled in the ground and groaned.

Ember saw a loose metal pipe in the wall; she used her good arm to pull the pipe out of the wall.

- "That this, you son of a bitch!" The elder Wilder threw the pipe like a spear towards the Captain, before he stood up.

The General super speeded in front of him and held the pipe in the air.

- "Stay." Harper crushed the metal pipe with her hand. "Away." She threw the pipe away. "From him." Her eyes lit up red.

- "Oh my..." Chase widened his eyes.

That's my girl. GreatGirl smirked.

Chase 2 walked up to his alter ego.

- "Again, been there, my friend." He patted his older self's back.

- "This is fucking crazy." The Captain whispered. "But I'm not complaining." He blushed brightly.

The General super speeded and used super strength to throw both Embers away.

She returned to the Matthews girl.

- "Ready to end these bitches for good?" She asked.

- "Yeah, your face says it all." The genius boy snickered.

- "Always." The quadbrid extended her hand to her.

- "What are they doing?" Adam 2 frowned.

The Captain rolled his eyes in amusement.

Harper took her hand.

- "Better we all back away!" Quinn shouted at the team.

Everyone took several steps back.

GreatGirl tightened her grip on her alter ego's hand, a small ball of energy forming in their palms, invisible to others.

- "Till the end of the universe." The General looked into her alter ego's eyes with a soft smile as the light of the energy in their hands lit up their faces.

- "Till the end of the universe." The Matthews girl nodded with a smile.

Everyone frowned as the light started to blind them.

The two women extended their interlaced hands, aiming for the two villains.

- "Oh Fuck!!" Ember grabbed her younger self's hand and tried to run away.

That was when a huge wave of energy spread around the place.

Everyone, but the two super heroines, fell to the ground.

The quadbrid glanced at her alter ego, feeling her powers kick in, as the cut on her eyebrow healed itself like it never happened.

- "What the hell was that?" Skylar frowned.

Harper looked at her right arm, seeing her veins lit up. She looked at Maddie and gasped an emotional smile.

- "We did It!" She whispered.

- "What...that was awesome!!" Adam smiled.

- "We did it!" GreatGirl exclaimed simultaneously and pulled her alter ego into a hug.

Chase 2 got up, helping Skylar and Bree 2, as his brothers got up as well.

They did it. The genius boy smiled proudly.

- "I don't understand what happened, but that was cool!" Leo 2 exclaimed.

They actually did it! The Captain smiled proudly as he helped Quinn up.

- "They did it!! They did it!! They did it!!" She jumped in her father's arms, hugging him tightly.

Is she hugging me? Chase's eyes widened.

Oh No, I never hugged him, not like this. The Davenport girl pulled away; her cheeks flushed.

- "Sorry, Cap." She said.

- "No." The Captain shook his head, blushing. "It's okay." He smiled.

Quinn smiled back and hugged him. I missed hugging him so much.

The other on the mighty force team got up.

- "This was awesome with Katy Perry singing in the background!!" Leo smiled, adjusting his headphones.

The General hugged her alter ego tightly as a tear ran down her cheek.

- "This is such a unique connection, though." She whispered.

- "I love you, Harper." The Matthews girl whispered.

Quinn, tell Ace to come cuff them. She sent in her niece's mind.

The green hazel-eyed boy sighed and explained to his team what happened.

- "I love you too, Maddie." Harper whispered back.

The Time Walker nodded and walked up to a bush and kicked it.

- "Ow!" Ace replied behind the bush.

- "It's your moment." The Davenport girl said.

- "Liked my bush? I learned from your grampa Doug." The O'Connor boy smirked as he walked out of the bush.

- "I hate you." The Time Walker handed him cuffs.

- "You love me." Ace smiled and picked up the cuffs.

Quinn rolled her eyes in amusement.

The quadbrid pulled back, smiling, and put her hand up for a high-five.

The General smiled wildly and high-fived her.

Ace and Quinn walked up to both Embers.

- "Well, well, well. Look who it is." The O'Connor boy spun the cuffs. "I'm breaking up with you, psycho." He said as he handcuffed the youngest Wilder.

- "But that's not the Ember you dated." Quinn handcuffed the older Ember and pointed. "This one is." She frowned.

Ace looked at both Embers.

- "Oh..." The O'Connor boy said. "Oh, Fuck you both anyway." He showed both his middle fingers at them.

- "Language, Ace!" The Time Walker slapped his hand away.

- "Okay, I'll take both of them to the D.E.O." GreatGirl told everyone as she looked at the sunrise. "Because I am not letting you go home now. It's too late, and you are all exhausted. So, the D.E.O. will keep your Ember until you have a good night of sleep. And I don't want to hear one objection." She pointed at Chase. "Got it, grumpy?"

Chase 2 snorted.

The General nudged him lightly.

- "No objection." The Captain said.

Everyone on the Mighty Force team celebrated.

- "This calls for victory music, people!!" Leader Dooley took off his headphones and hung them around his neck, turning up the volume on his cell phone. "Leo, give me a song!" He looked at his younger self.

- "Geez, man, I don't know." Leo 2 yawned. "It's too late for my brain."

- "What brain?" The Matthews girl scoffed.

- "Hey!" The middle brother playfully frowned at her.

- "Too late." Leader Dooley scoffed. "Oh Yeah, that makes sense; it's about time the kids are asleep." He smirked playfully.

- "Woah! Good one!" Bree chuckled.

Leo 2 rolled his eyes at them.

- "Be right back." The quadbrid opened a portal. "God, that feels good." She took the Embers and walked through it, before closing it behind her.

- "We have three spare rooms." Skylar said.

- "Three?" Adam frowned. "One, two, three, four..." He counted the people on his team. "Oh, Wait, I counted Chase twice."

Bree 2 slapped her forehead in despair.

- "It's okay; you don't need to worry about us. We'll find our way." Bree said as she hugged Kaz's torso.

- "We could have four." The hybrid replied. "Maddie wouldn't mind sleeping with Chase. It wouldn't be the first time." She shrugged.

The genius boy blushed slightly.

The older couple glanced at him with a smirk.

- "Is she okay with that though?" Harper asked Chase 2. "Would she mind me and Chay staying in her room?" She frowned.

GreatGirl teleported back.

- "Staying in whose room?" She asked.

- "Yours." Adam 2 replied.

- "Oh." The Matthews girl said.

- "It wouldn't bother you to sleep with him again, would it?" Bree 2 asked.

- "No." The quadbrid shook her head and opened a portal towards the penthouse. They all walked through it, before she closed it. "Out of everyone, I prefer Chase and Harper in my room. Because I'm sure they are clean and that they won't snoop around."

- "I Knew It." Harper smiled.

The Captain remained silent.

- "I'm gonna see you again tomorrow." The hybrid smiled at her alter ego.

- "Aw Yey!!" Bree smiled wildly. "This is going to be awesome!" She clapped her hands.

- "I confess I find the bond you have adorable. You're like twin sisters who were separated and reunited again." Kaz chuckled.

- "Oh, yes!" Skylar snickered. "It's totally that."

- "And you can tell me more about Grace and Evan tomorrow." Adam 2 smiled at his older self.

- "And you can tell me more about your boyfriend." The Vice Captain winked at his younger self.

Bree chuckled at her boyfriend and Skylar's comments and glanced at Chase, who sat on the edge of the couch.

He kept a serious and distant look as she walked towards him.

- "Hey, we won." Bree said softly.

- "I know." The Captain nodded.

- "Then tell your face." Agent Davenport poked his cheeks to make him smile. Chase chuckled softly. "There It is." She held his face.

GreatGirl unzipped the jacket and handed it back to her boyfriend.

- "I don't need it anymore, thanks." She smiled.

- "You're welcome." The green hazel-eyed boy put it back on.

- "Oh yes." The tall guy nodded at his alter ego, his cheeks bright red. "He's great. And he's a firefighter. So, he's HOT." He giggled softly.

- "Ha!" Leo 2 smiled. "You giggled again."

Adam 2 rolled his eyes.

- "Of course he is. An Adam doesn't have bad taste." Adam nodded. "My wife is pretty hot too." He giggled.

- "Are you okay?" Bree asked the Captain.

- "I'm just tired, Bree. I've been working all day." Chase held her hands. 

- "I'm tired, too; that's not what's going on." Agent Davenport shook her head.

- "Don't worry, I'm fine." The Captain nodded.

- "I'm glad you have a Chase to be proud of in your universe." The tall guy said to his older self.

The Matthews girl frowned.

Bree and Chase frowned at Adam 2, as he let go of her hands.

The Vice Captain frowned and chuckled in confusion.

- "Wait, what do you mean?" He asked.

The General sat on the Captain's lap with a confused look. What the hell does he mean? She thought.

What the fuck does he mean by that? Chase kept his gaze serious as he wrapped his arms around her waist.

- "Like, my Chase should take yours as an example." The tall guy added. "He's actually doing something important with his life, unlike you." He snorted.

The quadbrid locked her jaw, her eyes turning bright red.

Bree 2 chuckled.

- "Seriously, Adam?" Chase 2 frowned.

- "It's true." Adam 2 shrugged. "He's at the head of a nation he created and... You're 'team member'." He mocked.

The Captain glanced at Chase 2 and clenched his jaw. I can hit him? Where It hurts.

- "But Chase was a team member when he was his age. Exactly the same." Adam said.

- "Chay, can I ask you something that I've been thinking about? As a Captain?" Harper asked. Chase nodded seriously, and the General whispered something in his ear. He smiled slightly. "So?" The General asked.

- "Good idea." The Captain whispered.

Harper smiled.

- "I don't see how my Chase can become like yours." The tall guy frowned. "Yours is a badass. Mine is a loser."

- "That's so true." The hybrid nodded.

The genius boy looked down.

GreatGirl glared at them, staying silent since her boyfriend did not want her to intervene. I'm gonna kill them.

The Captain frowned at the lack of Maddie's voice amidst the absurd comments. Holy shit... 'Silence means someone is going to die'.

The Time Walker and the O'Connor boy exchanged an indignant look.

It's happening. She thought.

This is not going to end well. Ace took off his cap.

Adam frowned.

- "That's not true; he's as capable as my Chase. You have no idea what you're talking about, and you also have no idea what he feels." The Vice Captain said.

- "He's our little bro. We have to take care of him... Even if he doesn't want to." Agent Davenport glared at her younger brother, and he rolled his eyes in amusement.

- "You are the ones who should take them as an example." Leo mumbled softly, almost imperceptibly.

- "You guys can't seriously mean that?" Bree 2 scoffed.

The Matthews girl looked at them, her eyes shining brighter than usual.

Leo 2 glanced at his childhood best friend, pressing his lips together.

- "Yeah, I mean, he's pathetic, and that's..." Adam 2 started.

The green hazel-eyed boy sighed. He's right.

- "Adam, shut up." The quadbrid said, firmly.

- "Oh, come on, little lady. It's true." The tall guy laughed. "He's not doing anything with his life. He's a loser."

GreatGirl slapped him, startling her family.

Thanks; if you hadn't done it, I would have. The Captain closed his eyes.

Harper deepened her frown and looked at Chase 2 and shook her head. That's not true.

The Vice Captain clenched his fists and looked at Bree seriously; she looked back at him awkwardly.

Quinn closed her eyes and sighed.

- "Uuuh!" Ace flinched.

Leo and Kaz exchanged an incredulous look.

- "Shut the fuck up!" The Matthews girl pointed at him. "He's doing more with his life than you ever will!" She shouted angrily.

The middle brother looked at her in shock.

Wow. Chase 2 looked at her with wide eyes. I never saw her this mad.

- "M, relax. He's joking." The hybrid said.

- "Oh, yeah." The quadbrid, sarcastically, nodded. "It's so fucking funny to make your little brother feel this way."

- "Mads..." The genius boy started.

- "No! I'm done!" GreatGirl glared at his two eldest siblings, her eyes turning back to their blue color.

- "This is not going to end well." Skylar whispered.

- "Nuh-uh." Leo 2 shook his head.

- "Maddie..." Adam said worriedly.

- "Adam, No." Harper shook her head.

The Vice Captain frowned, and Chase just nodded to the spot on the couch next to them for him to sit down.

Adam sighed and sat down on the couch, taking off his gloves.

Kaz gently pulled Bree by the arm towards him.

- "You wanna talk about people who are not doing anything with their lives?" The Matthews girl raised her eyebrows. "Fine! Let's talk about you. Chase has 10 masters; you two didn't even finish high school. And he may not be officially a leader anymore, but when Rhea attacked and J'onn was down, the entire D.E.O., including Supergirl and Superman, turned to him! He led everyone through that fight: superheroes, vigilantes, aliens, cops, even the white Martians! He's better than you will ever be, and you're jealous!"

The Captain looked at Chase 2. Exactly what I said, wasn't it? He raised his eyebrow.

- "Jealous of him?" Adam 2 scoffed.

- "Yes!" The quadbrid nodded.

- "That's ridiculous, M." Bree 2 chuckled.

- "Oh, shut the fuck up too." GreatGirl glared at her. "You're no better. You always put Chase down."

- "Mads, that's enough." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "I'm not done!" The Matthews girl pointed at him, before turning back to his siblings. "You two spent your entire fucking lives insulting and hitting him!"

Bree frowned in disapproval.

Kaz held her upper arms from behind her, staring at the floor.

Adam stared at his hands, fiddling with his wedding ring.

- "You call him weak; he's stronger than you in both universes!" The quadbrid shouted. "You always complain about how he always does too much. THAT'S BECAUSE OF YOU!"

The objects around the room started to shake slightly.

Chase 2 and Leo 2 looked at each other with wide eyes.

Team Mighty Force widened their eyes in concern.

- "He feels like he needs to prove his worth to everyone because you two always told him that he was useless, so he tries to prove that he's not!" GreatGirl yelled angrily. "Like the avalanche! He almost died because he tried to prove to his siblings! HIS FUCKING SIBLINGS! That he's worth their love and respect! To prove his fucking value! But you can't see that!"

The genius boy listened to her defend him, his eyes watering in disbelief.

Harper glanced at Chase.

I've been there. He thought; she held his hand.

- "You always told him that nobody will ever love him!" The Matthews girl continued. "That he was gonna end up sad and alone! I mean, what kind of siblings do that?!"

Baby... The green hazel-eyed boy let a single tear run down his face. He, quickly, wiped it.

Adam 2 and Bree 2 looked at her, their eyes watering.

- "And you wonder why he trusts the first person who shows him a little bit of appreciation! Sebastian happened because of you!" The quadbrid frowned.

Bree and Adam looked at Chase in concern.

The Captain frowned. That's not true for me... I think. He thought. Is It? He looked down.

Harper looked at Chase 2 with pity. I wanna hug him.

- "You can't be serious." The tall guy frowned, shaking his head. "It wasn't our fault!"

- "Yes, it fucking was!" GreatGirl shouted. "Every single thing you think Chase does is annoying is because of you! You always complain about Trent and how he bullied Chase, but you guys are no better!"

- "You can't compare us to him!" The hybrid yelled. "We didn't bully him!"

- "Yes, you do!" The Matthews girl replied. "Bullying is insulting, belittling, and hitting someone on a daily basis! That's exactly what you do! That's the only thing you know how to do anyway." She scoffed.

She's not mad at you; that's her being mad. The Captain thought and swallowed a lump in his throat.

- "Trent's words hurt, but you are his siblings; you are supposed to be the people that will love him unconditionally, not put him down." The quadbrid added, before glancing at her boyfriend. "He doesn't even react anymore!" She yelled, startling the two. "Because of how much he's used to be insulted! The thing that shocks him is me defending him because you told him that he was worthless, and nobody will ever love so many times that he actually believes it!"

The genius boy sighed, knowing that it was true.

The Captain took Harper off his lap. I don't like seeing her like this, either of them. He thought.

The General frowned.

GreatGirl took a deep breath, closing her eyes briefly, before opening them again.

- "Remember years ago, you said that you were the worst brother ever? Well, you were right, and you are the worst sister ever, Bree." She smiled angrily.

Adam 2 and Bree 2 stayed silent, tears streaming down their faces, guilt consuming them.

Everyone on the Mighty Force team looked at each other awkwardly, and the Captain slowly stood up.

- "I'm ashamed of being your friend." The Matthews girl added. "You both are pathetic." She looked at them, disgust evident in her eyes. She sighed and looked at the Mighty Force calmly. "Good night, guys. Make yourself at home." She grabbed her boyfriend's hand without looking at him. "Come on, my love."

They walked upstairs, leaving everyone downstairs.

The two older siblings continued to cry silently.

Leo 2 looked at Skylar in shock.

- "Did she say, 'my love'?" He asked.

- "She did." The Calderan smiled softly.

The middle brother smiled widely.

- "Finally." He whispered.

The Captain left the room towards the terrace in silence. I can't see this anymore.

- "That was really awkward." Adam whispered to his best friend. "Thanks for never making me cry like that." He said.

Harper rolled her eyes.

- "Not that you never deserved it." The General whispered back.

- "I feel bad; I wanted to say something." Bree looked at her younger self.

- "Not now, Bee." Kaz whispered, turning her to him. "I think anything you say will only upset her more; don't get involved in this." He tucked her hair behind her ear.

Quinn kept a straight face. It had to happen. She turned to her best friend.

- "Come on, Ace, let's go to sleep." She said, gently pushing him towards the stairs.

- "Did you know that?" The O'Connor boy asked.

- "Yes." Time Walker nodded. "Where do you think I learned to defend you?" She smirked faintly.

Ace sighed a smile. Poor Aunt Maddie and Uncle Chase.

Leo looked at Chase on the terrace, thoughtful.

Leo 2, Bree 2, Adam 2 and Skylar walked upstairs.

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A couple of seconds later, GreatGirl walked into her boyfriend's room, followed by him.

Chase closed the door behind himself.

- "I'm sorry, babe." The quadbrid started as she let go of his hand. "I know you didn't want me to tell them how they make you feel, and especially not in front of everyone, but I couldn't take it this time." She turned around, finally looking at him.

The bionic boy had tears streaming down his face.

- "Wow." The Matthews girl walked up to him, worried. "Babe, what's going on?" She put her hands on his cheeks, wiping his tears.

- "It's..." The Davenport boy started as his voice broke. "It's the first time that someone defended me like that. Because of their insults, I always felt like I wasn't worth anything." He explained as she started to cry in silence, looking into each other's eyes. "I thought that I was pathetic and boring and a loser. I wasn't worthy of love or of having someone who always stood by me. But because of you, I feel like I deserve all that, and they are wrong." He sniffled.

- "You are my favorite person in the world. I can't live without you. You deserve the world, and you are more than worthy of love and to have someone who stands by you." The blue-eyed girl replied, tears running down her face, in silence. "I love you, and I always will." She pulled him into a tight hug.

- "Thank you." The green hazel-eyed boy wrapped his arms tightly around her as he sobbed in her neck.

- "I will always be here for you, Chase." GreatGirl silently sobbed as her heart broke to see the man she loved like that.

Chase tightened his grip on her waist as he continued to cry.

The quadbrid, gently, caressed the back of his head.

- "I love you." She repeated, feeling like he needed to hear it again.

The bionic boy sighed, in relief, as he kissed the crook of her neck.

- "I love you too." He replied. "Thank you again."

The Matthews girl smiled softly through the tears.

- "You're welcome, my love." She said.

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In the meanwhile, Chase watched the city and the sunrise illuminating the terrace.

I hope Adam is right and that it can still be fixed. I can still fix myself. He blinked, and a single tear rolled down his face. Stop. He wiped it away.

The Captain sighed. I really wanted her friendship... She is; she understands me. He smiled faintly and closed his eyes.

- "'Cause I've seen giants fall to their knees." Chase sang softly, breaking the silence of the night. "And I've seen losers rise to their feet." He sang almost in a sigh, trying to reconnect with the moment he sang this song to Maddie. "Well, who cares if it all goes wrong?" He opened his eyes. "'Cause when I die, at least I'll smile to say I tried." Letting the lyrics speak to him.

I need to try more. I need to try to be The friend she needs. He sighed.

- "So, it's not how you get knocked down. It's how you get back up." He sang softly. "Don't play safe. It's how you break that makes you strong enough." He closed his eyes again, reconnecting with the memory. "Set fire to your soul. Go hard or go home." He sang in almost a whisper.

Don't give up on her, until the end. He thought.

Harper approached the door, listening intently.

- "If you wanna be a winner..." The Captain opened his eyes. "You gonna learn to lose." He sang and whistled softly in time to the music, which had taken on a more melancholic tone.

- "Chay." The General said kindly. Chase turned to her. "Come to sleep." She pressed her lips together, her gaze soft.

The Captain nodded and took a deep breath, walking towards her.

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Meanwhile, Quinn and Ace went up to a spare room in the Penthouse. The two entered the room and both threw themselves on the bed, side by side.

- "I'm fucking exhausted." Ace sighed.

- "Language." Quinn said. "But yes, me too."

- "I'm so sorry, Winn." The O'Connor boy sighed.

- "It's not your fault. You were used." The Davenport girl said. "I'm sorry I wasn't understanding about it." She looked at him.

- "You had every right to think that way. I should have listened to you when you said there was something wrong with Ember." Ace took off his shoes.

- "I don't understand, though." Time Walker put her arms behind her head, looking at the ceiling.

- "What exactly?" The O'Connor boy asked, putting his feet up on the bed.

- "She never really showed any interest in you, and you weren't in love with her, you said so yourself. So why did you try so hard to impress her?" Quinn closed her eyes.

- "Well..." Ace sighed. "Maybe because I thought this would be a way to distract myself from what I really want but can't have. It seemed worth it, even if I was fooling myself." He said.

The Davenport girl frowned.

- "What do you really want?" She looked at him, and he looked back.

- "I don't know, actually." Ace looked at the ceiling. "I just know it's something I can't have." He whispered.

- "I don't get it, man." Quinn shook her head.

- "It doesn't matter anymore." The O'Connor boy said softly.

- "I don't believe it." The Davenport girl replied.

- "Just sleep." Ace ran his fingers over her eyelids, making her close her eyes. The Time Walker chuckled softly. "Don't think about it now." He smirked.

- "Fine." Quinn kept her eyes closed in amusement and sighed in relaxation, facing upwards.

The O'Connor boy looked at her profile lying beside him with a soft gaze and a slight smile. She's so pretty. He thought.

- "What are you looking at?" Time Walker asked with her eyes closed.

Ace scoffed.

- "I'm sleeping. Not everything is about you." The O'Connor boy closed his eyes, shrugging.

The Davenport girl chuckled.

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A couple of minutes later, the two young geniuses stepped under the warm water of the shower.

Chase sighed as he closed his eyes, letting the water run down his naked body.

Maddie wrapped her arms around his waist from behind, gently caressing his abs, which tensed under her touch.

The bionic boy smiled and leaned back against her bare chest, his cock hardening at the contact of her skin.

The quadbrid kissed his shoulder blade, running her hands on his hips, passing over his birthmark.

- "Mads..." The Davenport boy started as he turned off the water.

- "Ssshh." The Matthews girl made him turn to face her as she shampooed his hair. "Let me take care of you."

- "You always do." The green hazel-eyed boy looked at her, his eyes filled with pure, unconditional love.

The blue-eyed girl took a bottle of soap and poured some in her hands, before she started to wash his body, running her hands over the hickeys she did in their prior love making sessions.

Chase took a bottle of shampoo and started to massage her scalp, washing her hair.

Maddie smiled softly as she spread the soap on his chest, gently, caressing his skin.

The bionic boy smiled back as he finished to soap her hair.

- "Thank you." The quadbrid said as he turned them around and let the water run again.

She threw her head back, letting the water wash off the shampoo as he continued to massage her scalp.

The Davenport boy sighed in contentment as her delicate hands moved to his shoulders.

The Matthews girl lifted her head again and turned off the water.

She walked behind him and massaged his shoulders.

- "Aaah." The green hazel-eyed boy moaned softly as her soapy hands massaged his shoulders, working out the tension he did not even realize was there. He felt safe and cherished in her care. "I love when you do that."

- "I know." The blue-eyed girl chuckled as she started to soap his back, his fingers tracing his muscles.

Chase closed his eyes, content, as she caressed his arms, spreading the soap.

Without a word, she got on her knees, washing his legs.

The bionic boy opened his eyes as he felt her hands on his ass.

- "You're loving this too much." He said, amused.

- "Not at all." The quadbrid kissed one of his butt cheeks, before putting soap where her lips were a second ago.

She got up and walked around him, getting on her knees again to wash his legs.

The Davenport boy looked down at her, putting her hand on her cheek and stroking her skin.

He looked at her, washing his legs with a tenderness that made his heart jump in his chest.

He was completely and utterly in love with her.

He knew there was no going back, and he would not have it any other way.

The Matthews girl got up and started to soap her entire body.

The green hazel-eyed boy let his eyes explore her skin, biting his lower lip, completely hypnotized by the view before him.

- "My eyes are up here." The blue-eyed girl gestured to her eyes.

Chase blushed slightly.

- "Can't I enjoy the view?" He asked.

Maddie chuckled softly, wrapping her arms around his neck, their soaped skins against one another.

- "You can." She nodded.

The bionic boy smiled with an appreciative hum and kissed her forehead, his hands tracing up and down her back in slow strokes.

The quadbrid let one of her hands slide down his chest.

- "I forgot to wash one part." She said.

- "Mmm?" The Davenport boy raised his eyebrows.

The Matthews girl pulled him into the slow kiss with her hand on the nape of his neck.

The green hazel-eyed boy hummed against her lips, smiling into the kiss.

One hand found its way into her hair while the other tightened on her hip.

The blue-eyed girl guided her right hand between their bodies, wrapping my fingers around his length.

Chase moaned into her mouth and pulled back to look at her, his hips bucking slightly into her touch.

- "You're gonna..." He started.

- "Sssh..." Maddie whispered. "Let me take care of you."

The bionic boy nodded, surrounding to the feeling of her hand, gently stroking him.

He looked down, watching his cock disappear into her soapy hand, his breathing growing heavier.

The quadbrid kissed the side of his neck.

The Davenport boy moaned softly and tilted his head to the side, giving her better access to his neck, as she continued her slow pace, caressing his chest with her left hand.

The Matthews girl massaged one of his shoulders.

The green hazel-eyed boy let out a low, content sigh, closing his eyes.

He walked backwards, leaning against the shower wall for support, feeling like he might melt into the tile at any moment.

Her skilled touch and tender kisses were driving him crazy with need.

The blue-eyed girl smiled softly. I love him so much.

Chase put his hands on her shoulders, holding her, as his orgasm slowly built in his stomach.

- "So good..." He whispered.

Maddie, slowly, picked up the pace, stroking his erection faster.

The bionic boy whimpered at the change of pace, the slick glide of her hand, and the pulsing heat of his arousal, making him dizzy with need.

- "Fuck, yes..." His voice was husky, barely above a whisper.

The quadbrid kissed his jaw.

The cock of the Davenport boy throbbed in his girlfriend's hand, his breath catching in his throat.

- "Chase and Harper interrupting us, left you wanting more, huh?" The Matthews girl smirked.

The green hazel-eyed boy looked into her eyes and nodded, blushing brightly.

The blue-eyed girl leaned to his ear.

- "Then, come for me, pretty boy." She whispered, moving my hand down his length faster.

Chase's breath caught in his throat as she whispered into his ear and picked up the pace.

The dirty talk combined with her rapid, firm strokes and her tender kisses sent him spiraling out of control.

With a final, strangled cry, he shattered completely into her arms, his body convulsing with the force of his release.

He came undone, his hot seed spilling over her hand and mixing with the soap, as he rode out the intense waves of pleasure.

Maddie continued her strokes, milking his cock for every last drop.

- "Holy shit..." The bionic boy gasped, his voice weak and shaky. "Fuck...."

The quadbrid pulled her hand away and turned on the water, letting the warm water wash the cum and soap off their bodies.

The Davenport boy watched her through heavy-lidded eyes, still trying to catch his breath, as she cleaned them up.

His heart was racing in his chest, and his body was numb.

- "You're something else; you know that?" He smiled softly as he took sight of her.

- "I know." The Matthews girl smiled back.

The green hazel-eyed boy chuckled softly, wrapping his arms around her slick, naked body.

- "I love you." He said.

The blue-eyed girl pecked his lips.

- "I love you too." She replied. "Let's go to bed."

Chase nodded and turned off the water.

Maddie stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around her body, handing him one.

- "Thanks." The bionic boy took it and wrapped it around his waist, droplets running down his chest. "Mads..." He frowned, noticing her staring.

The quadbrid smirked and shrugged, drying herself.

The Davenport boy shook his head, amused.

They both finished drying completely their bodies, before sliding under the sheets.

The Matthews girl laid on her back as her boyfriend rested on top of her, his face between her breasts and his legs between hers.

- "Thank you." The green hazel-eyed boy whispered.

- "For what?" The blue-eyed girl asked.

- "Everything." Chase said. "Defending me. Taking care of me. Loving me."

Maddie melted at his words as she caressed his hair.

- "I always will, babe." She murmured.

- "So will I." The bionic boy closed his eyes, drifting off to sleep.

The quadbrid stayed awake a little while, thinking about their night.

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In the meantime, the engaged couple went to Maddie's room. The walls were painted white. Her king-size bed was between two nightstands. On the left was a door to the bathroom and her desk. On the right was a mural mirror and her reach in closet, with a piano not far away.

Above her bed were several pictures: with the Krillin siblings, Ezra, the Elite Force, the students, the Davenports, the Dooleys, the Super Friends, the heroes from Universe 1, Harper, Spike, Mon-El, Leo, Bree and Adam.

But at the top of all of those pictures were Chase 2, Claire and Chase.

- "Wow, this room is beautiful. Mr. Davenport has never given me a room like this." Harper narrowed his eyes.

Chase put his hand on her shoulder.

- "But you know he helped pay for our house." He said.

- "Now I know, I saw it in your head." The General smirked.

- "I'm sorry you saw...more than you wanted to." The Captain blushed.

- "We have a lot to talk about, though." Harper chuckled.

- "Fuck." Chase ran his hand over his forehead.

- "Now I know, to the core, the man I'm going to marry." The General caressed his cheek. He smiled softly. "And I promise that by our wedding day I will tell you everything you don't know about me, so we can start without secrets." She said softly.

- "You don't have to do that." The Captain shook his head.

- "I'm not asking your permission." Harper smirked and walked to the bathroom.

The Captain took a deep breath and exhaled, taking off his belt and removing all the equipment and weapons on the nightstand.

While the General was in the bathroom, letting her hair down and washing her face.

Chase took off his jacket and looked at the jacket in his hands, a bitter taste in his throat. I can't believe you pushed her away again. He threw his jacket on the chair of her desk and sighed, before taking off his tank top. Let's not dirty her bed with our Mission suits. He thought.

Harper took off her Mission suit, leaving her with the top and gym shorts she was wearing underneath.

The Captain took off his Mission suit pants, leaving only the boxer shorts he wore underneath.

- "It must be a relief to get all that weight off your waist, right?" The General teased, looking at him from the bathroom.

Chase chuckled softly, before his gaze turned to the photo wall. He climbed onto the bed and kneeled, facing the wall, his eyes went over all the pictures. She looks so happy. He smiled softly.

The General left the bathroom, fixing her hair, and climbed onto the bed, kneeling beside him, both of them facing the wall.

- "That's her mom." Harper pointed to Claire's pictures on the wall.

- "She's beautiful." Chase said softly.

- "Her heart was beautiful too." The General said, with a soft and sentimental look.

The Captain smiled. I wish I had met her. He thought, and his gaze turned to three pictures of him at the top of the mural.

- "She has three pictures of me on that wall." Chase frowned.

- "Obviously." Harper said. "Plus is at the top, with the people who matter most to her." She smirked. The Captain felt his eyes water. "Aw, Chay." She put her hand on his shoulder.

The Captain sighed and turned around, sitting on the bed, his head resting against the headboard.

- "What's the point? She'll take those pictures off the mural tomorrow, for sure." He looked down at his pendant on his chest.

- "She won't, stop talking like you don't know Maddie." The General said.

- "Do you think..." Chase ran his fingers over the scar on his eyebrow. "I can fix things, like Adam said?" He asked.

- "You're getting better. Like..." Harper shrugged. "Look at today, you've improved a lot today. I admit I'm proud." She smiled.

The Captain frowned and looked at her.

- "Are you there?" He asked.

- "Yeah, if you don't tell me the last part. You were opening up to her, and you were smiling and singing in a way that you don't do with anyone outside of your family. You were being yourself, and you were comfortable with It." The General explained.

- "Yeah, I know. But I messed up. It was like I deceived her." Chase frowned.

- "It's just that you were on a tightrope which was built by your fears, and you were focused on what was on the other side, the friendship which you always sought and dreamed of, and you were almost at the end of the crossing, but you started to think too much and..." Harper said.

- "I looked down." Chase nodded. "I can't look down." He said.

- "Exactly." The General said, running her hand over his abs. "But back then, you wouldn't even put your foot on the rope. Now you are halfway there." She said.

- "Do you really believe that?" The Captain asked.

- "I know that." Harper stated.

- "Are you using metaphors now?" The Captain smirked.

- "You are a bad influence, sir." Harper leaned toward him with a smirk. Chase chuckled softly, blushing slightly. "Really bad." She whispered, blushing brightly.

- "Guilty." The Captain looked into Harper's eyes; his heart raced. "I love you, my life." He whispered, slowly, his hand reached up to cup her cheek, his thumb brushing against her soft skin. "I want to believe you." He murmured, his voice low and vulnerable.

Harper's smile softened, and she leaned into his touch, her breath steady but her heart pounding in her chest.

- "You don't have to be perfect, Chase." She whispered. "You just have to be real. You, yourself, is all she needs." The General said.

- "I'll try." Chase sighed, in a soft and vulnerable tone.

- "And I will be by your side, always and forever." Harper smiled softly, the blush on her cheeks delicate and intense.

Without thinking, Chase closed the gap between them.

His lips found hers in a kiss that was gentle at first, tentative.

But soon, the kiss deepened.

His hands tangled in her hair, and Harper's arms wrapped around his neck, pulling him closer as their kiss grew more urgent.

Chase's lips were warm against Harper's.

I know how much he needs this. Also cuz he looks so hot right now. The General leaned in closer, her fingers curling gently around the back of The Captain's neck, urging him forward.

Damn, How I was missing her lips. Chase responded with equal intensity, his hand moving to cup her cheek, his thumb brushing softly over her skin. Her skin is so soft. He deepened the kiss just slightly, parting his lips as his pulse quickened.

His kisses are so fucking good. Harper followed him, her lips opening to meet his more urgently, the soft pressure turning into something more heated, more desperate.

Their mouths moved together in a slow, rhythm at first, savoring the moment, before their kisses grew more intense, more demanding.

The warmth between them intensified, and everything else in the world disappeared.

It was just the two of them, their bodies drawn together as if pulled by a magnetic force.

My safe haven. The Captain's hand slid down from her cheek to the curve of her waist, pulling her even closer until their bodies pressed against each other.

I would die in his lips. The General's hands slid into his hair, tugging him closer, her breath quickening as she kissed him back with equal fervor.

The kiss deepened further, each movement more urgent than the last, the pressure between them building as they gave in to the intensity.

I want her so bad; She's going to kill me. Chase's hand moved to the small of her back, pressing her even closer as if he could not get enough of her, and Harper's body seemed to respond to him instinctively, pressing closer, as if there was no space left between them.

Fuck, One of his dreams began with a kiss like this... She thought.

For a brief moment, they both pulled away just slightly, gasping for air, their foreheads resting together as they tried to steady their racing hearts.

The Captain let out a long breath, his fingers gently brushing through her hair as he let his thoughts settle.

- "You know." He murmured, his voice a little rough. "Are you in the mood for...?" He asked, raising an eyebrow with a grin, his face and neck in a deep shade of rosy red.

- "I thought you were very tired." The General replied to her lips in a deep red.

- "Yeah, But seeing you defend me from Ember and kick their asses with powers you never had and mastered in less than a day..." Chase said, softly.

- "I got it. I felt the same way... Seeing everything that's on your mind." Harper blushed deeper. "But not here, Chay." She chuckled.

- "Oh, come on, just a quickie. I've been thinking about you all day." The Captain kissed her cheek.

The General smiled wildly.

- "I don't think Maddie would be comfortable knowing that we had sex in her bed." Harper whispered.

- "But we never had sex in another universe." The Captain giggled softly.

Oooh, he's right. The General thought.

- "It's okay, my life." Chase tucked her hair behind her ear. "Let's rest, it's been a busy day." He adjusted the pillows.

- "Maybe in the morning?" Harper bit her lip and wrinkled her nose. The Captain chuckled and kissed her cheek and temple softly and slowly. "What do you think?" She asked.

- "You know I don't refuse morning sex." Chase said and pulled her into a deep, hot kiss.

Harper pulled away and hugged him, laying her head on his chest.

The Captain wrapped his arms around her and closed his eyes.

- "I love this universe, though. Everything is different but the same, and.... I feel at home here, not because of the place but because of the people. Maddie, Chase, Leo... you know, I think we could come back here more often, or invite them to come to our universe, we have enough space there. What do you think, Chay?" Harper asked. "Chay?" She frowned and looked at her fiancé.

Chase was asleep, holding her in his arms.

From his heavy breathing, it was possible to tell that he had already reached a stage of deep sleep.

Harper smiled and admired the way he slept peacefully for a moment. He's so handsome and looks so cute when he's sleeping. She came closer and kissed his cheek. I love him so much. My life. She thought and pulled the blanket over the two of them.

The Captain settled down under the blanket, resting his face on his fiancée's head, and the two slept, peacefully as if they were at home.

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A couple of hours later, Maddie woke up and, gently, pushed her boyfriend off her.

Chase groaned in his sleep as he rolled on his stomach.

The quadbrid chuckled softly and super speeded into her clothes.

She was wearing a black mini pleated skirt and a red off shoulder bodysuit with her usual ankle-heeled boots, her three necklaces falling above her breasts, but she did not put on her rings since she was going to cook.

Her hair was tied in a high ponytail, letting her curls fall down her back anyway.

She glanced at her boyfriend and smiled, before walking to the kitchen.

Time to do a huge brunch for everyone. She thought as she started to cook and bake.

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A couple of hours later, Maddie was still cooking in the kitchen.

Quinn silently walked down the stairs, barefoot.

She wore an oversized black and white plaid shirt and black gym shorts that she wore underneath her Mission suit.

Her hair was loose, and a hair holder was on her wrist as she yawned and rubbed her eyes.

The Matthews girl looked over her shoulder and put a soundproof shield around them.

- "Morning, sweetie." She greeted. "How did you sleep?"

- "Good morning, Aunt Maddie." The Davenport girl said, tying her hair into a messy bun. "Good, although I wish I had slept more." She whispered and walked to the kitchen.

- "Oh no." The quadbrid frowned and looked at her. "Did I wake you up or something?"

- "It wasn't you." A Time Walker chuckled. "It was Ace." She rolled her eyes.

- "Oh." Maddie snickered. "He snored?"

- "That's not snoring; it's an airplane engine." Quinn said, annoyed, and sat down on the counter. "Ace snores when he sleeps in different places." She explained.

- "Yeah, I knew." The Matthews girl frowned in compassion. "I feel sorry for you." She walked up to her and kissed her temple, before going back to cooking tons of bacon.

- "It's okay; it was like that for the first few weeks, he slept with me in the RV." The Davenport girl said.

That sounded weird. She frowned.

- "Uh, when I say slept with me, I-I mean...." She said nervously, blushing slightly.

- "Don't worry, I get it." The quadbrid shook her head. "I read his mind. And I slept with my best friend too."

- "Okay, good." Quinn nodded shyly, still blushing. "It's just that people always think that me and him..."

- "I know." Maddie smirked, her back facing her.

- "But we're not...never...not even close." Time Walker said, blushing more and rocking on the bench.

Why are you still talking about this? Why are you even thinking this? She scratched the back of her neck.

- "Quinn. I get it." The Matthews girl chuckled softly as she put a large plate of bacon on the large table.

She went back to doing crumbled eggs.

- "S-sorry." The Davenport girl looked down, feeling her cheeks burn.

- "It's okay." The quadbrid smiled softly at her. "I'm sorry too."

- "Why?" Quinn pulled up her shirt sleeves, hiding her hands.

- "Losing it in front of you yesterday." Maddie said. "I shouldn't have. I'm sorry."

- "Actually, we who shouldn't be here." The Time Walker said. "It should happen."

- "Still, I'm sorry you had to see me losing it like that." The Matthews girl put the crumbled eggs in a large bowl.

- "I'm not a kid, Auntie Maddie. I've seen everyone I know snap at some point in time." Quinn shrugged. "It's not a big deal."

- "I know that you're not a kid, but you're my niece. And you cannot expect me to not feel sorry you saw that." The quadbrid replied.

- "I'm just saying you don't need to worry about." Time Walker said. "I don't get shaken easily." She smirked.

Maddie chuckled softly.

- "You know..." She started. "I know you won't answer what I'm about to say, and I don't expect you to. I'm just processing out loud. But I don't understand how what happened last night with your dad can be a concrete event for our future friendship." She frowned.

- "Oh, boy." Quinn tilted her head.

How can I explain this without sounding insane? She pressed her lips together.

- "Like he doesn't even look at me anymore." The Matthews girl frowned. "And he's supposed to be my man of honor?" She scoffed. "How?"

- "Mm-hmm." Time Walker nodded.

The fact that I know more than Aunt Maddie right now is awesome, though. She pressed her lips together.

- "Yeah, My dad is a very..." She added.

- "Complicated man?" The quadbrid continued.

- "Very, if you think your life is hard. Try being his daughter." The Davenport girl leaned against the counter, her hands in her sleeves, with a sweet grin.

- "I feel sorry for you." Maddie smiled, not meaning a word.

Quinn chuckled.

- "What exactly did you feel, though? I know what happened, but..." She shrugged. "I feel like you need to talk about it, and I'm the only one who can have a broad perspective on the situation." She smiled softly.

The Matthews girl sighed and leaned on the opposite counter, looking at her.

- "I feel like every time we take a step forward, we end up taking two steps back." She replied. "And I told you that I won't give up on him, but I can't lie to you. I keep thinking about it since it happened." She sighed.

- "I see." The Time Walker nodded. "You know, he hasn't stopped thinking about it either. You have no idea how much he thinks about it..." She started.

- "You're right. I have no idea because he won't talk to me, and every time, we get just a tiny bit closer, he pushes me away." The quadbrid said.

- "I know, he does that." Quinn shook her head. "I'm a bit like him, though." She frowned.

- "Oh, yeah?" Maddie raised her eyebrows.

- "Ace is my only friend, since I was 7 years old. Luckily because he didn't even talk to me before I hit one of the boys who was bullying him." The Davenport girl said. "Other than that, I don't have anyone because I distance myself from everyone. I created a rule for myself: 'Never get involved'." She explained. "Precisely, for fear of what happened to Ace and Ember happening to me."

- "Sweetie..." The Matthews girl walked closer to her niece. "Life is about taking risks, and I'm not talking about being a hero. I'm talking about risking meeting a new friend, maybe someone you will consider family. Risking falling in love. And all of those things are scary, yes. But they are also so beautiful. You can't follow your dad's path on this."

- "I know, Dad told me that, but don't worry..." The Davenport girl said. "I mean, I dedicate my life to a job I love, and I have my family and Ace; I'm fine with that." She said. "And about falling in love and stuff, I don't have time for that, and I gave up on it a long time ago anyway..." She looked down with a thoughtful look.

- "You shouldn't." The quadbrid shook her head. "If you do, one day you will look back and regret it."

- "I won't; I'm avoiding disappointment." Quinn shook her head. "No guy has ever shown interest in me; maybe I don't have the sparkle that you and Mom have to make someone fall in love; or they don't even know..." She shook her head. "I'm fine alone." She said to Darwin, empathizing with the girl's feelings and climbing onto her lap, purring.

Maddie put her fingers under her chin, making her look up.

- "You are a magnificent young woman, and any guy would be lucky to have you." She smiled softly. "And you're like your dad on this matter, never noticing people into with you."

- "What do you mean, though?" The Davenport girl frowned.

- "That you are blind." The Matthews girl shrugged and walked away.

The Time Walker gasped and turned to her.

- "I'm not blind; nothing escapes my gaze." She said. "Unlike me, in front of every guy at school and everywhere." She sighed and crossed her arms.

- "I'm sure that's not true." The quadbrid shook her hand.

- "It's true, I never even..." Quinn choked mid-sentence and blushed.

- "Even what?" Maddie asked.

- "I've never kissed anyone?" The Davenport girl looked out the window, petting the cat on her lap.

- "So what?" The Matthews girl frowned. "You still have time."

- "As ironic as it is, I don't have time to worry about that, so it doesn't matter." Time Walker said.

Darwin meowed, rubbing against her.

- "One day you will fall for someone." The quadbrid replied.

Yeah, right. Quinn pressed her lips together. I'm not interesting in that regard. She sighed.

- "But this is not about me; the issue is you and dad." She said.

Maddie rolled her eyes.

- "Hey! Don't roll your eyes at me." The Davenport girl pointed.

- "Just like your dad, I swear." The Matthews girl shook her head.

Time Walker laughed softly.

- "I know." She gave a proud smile. "I'm his little Queen." She said. "He just doesn't know it." She pointed upstairs.

- "One day." The quadbrid smiled.

- "Yeah." The Davenport girl put Darwin down. "Want some help? I'm good in the kitchen. My aunt taught me how to cook." She smiled.

- "No, thank you." Maddie smiled back. "Just relax. I'm almost done anyway."

- "I insist, it's the least I can do to thank you for letting us stay here and for keeping my secret and helping me protect Ace." The Time Walker walked up to her.

- "Stop it. It's normal." The Matthews girl shook her head.

The Davenport girl rolled her eyes. 

- "We've had this discussion before." She said. "Or rather, we will have this discussion."

- "Why am I not surprised?" The quadbrid smirked and picked up a tablet, sending a very small alarm in each room. "That should do it."

- "Look, I know you still don't understand this thing about my dad." Time Walker looked at her. "But it's very clear to me why all this, and you'll see it too; one day you'll come to me and say, 'Now I see It'." She said. "You have to think that there will come a time when he will think about all of this and will appreciate the fact that even though he is broken like this, you were by his side from the beginning. The most valuable companies are those that are by your side in the moments you don't want them but need them." Quinn smiled softly.

Maddie looked at her, thoughtful.

- "I hope so." She replied.

- "I promise you it will happen. This is what I work hard for every day. To make sure the future I know and call home happens." The Davenport girl said confidently. "If you believe in me, as a Time Walker, you can take my word without fear." She said.

The Matthews girl nodded.

- "Dee! I love you!" Leo 2 yelled from upstairs.

The quadbrid snickered.

- "Well, one's up." She said, putting the soundproof shield down.

- "Morning, Leo." Quinn smiled and walked into the living room.

- "Hi." The middle brother waved at her and walked into the kitchen.

The table was full of tons of pastries, crêpes, bacon, crumbled eggs, brioche, blueberry French toasts, juices, coffee, tea and chocolate milk.

- "Hey." Maddie smiled at him.

- "You're insane." Leo 2 frowned at the table.

- "This table looks beautiful." The Davenport girl smiled. "It smells even better."

- "Thank you." The Matthews girl smiled back.

- "You're welcome." Quinn smiled and pointed to a brioche. "Your brioche is the best." She mouthed.

The quadbrid smiled proudly.

- "Thanks." She mouthed.

- "Okay, where is everyone?" The middle brother asked. "I'm starving."

- "That changes." Maddie scoffed.

Leo 2 rolled his eyes, amused.

- "Yeah, Smiley Face, I'm fine..." Adam's voice came from the stairs as he and Leader Dooley walked down the stairs. "Yes, Yes I'll be home soon." He said on the phone with Grace.

- "Good morning!" Leo said stretching.

- "Morning." Time Walker smiled. "Excuse me, I'm going to get dressed more properly and wake up Ace." She said and ran up the stairs.

- "Morning!" The middle brother replied.

- "Hi, guys." The Matthews girl smiled. "How did you sleep?"

Chase 2 walked out of his room, meeting his two older siblings in the hallway, who walked back into their rooms. What? He frowned.

- "Very well." Leader Dooley said.

- "I love you too, Smiley Face." The Vice Captain said onto the phone with a soft, loving smile. "Alright, I'll tell them. See you later." He said. "Bye." He hung up his phone. "Grace says 'hi'." He beamed.

- "Aw, I miss her." The quadbrid smiled softly. "It's been a while since I saw her."

- "Did you guys see the table?!" Leo 2 pointed.

- "Damn! I died, and I'm in heaven." Leader Dooley put his arm around his younger self.

- "She misses you too." Adam said. "Oh, and Evan said..." He stuck out his tongue and blew. "It's hello." He chuckled softly.

- "I feel the same." The middle brother sighed dramatically.

Maddie chuckled softly.

- "That's cute." She said. "She keeps texting me updates on Evan. I love it. It's just so cute."

- "Yeah, It is!! I can't believe I made him!" The Vice Captain sighed proudly.

- "Can I have your jacket; mine isn't warm enough?" Agent Davenport said as she walked down the stairs with her boyfriend, zipping up the jacket.

- "Uhg! Bee, this way there won't be any clothes left in my closet." Kaz replied.

- "Glad, you got it." Bree chuckled and gave him a quick peck on the lips before turning to them. "Hey Guys." She snorted.

- "Morning!" The Male Agent said.

- "Good morning, people!" Leo 2 waved.

The Matthews girl patted Adam's back with a smile, before turning to the couple.

- "Morning." She said. "While you're here, I would like to apologize for last night. I shouldn't have lash out in front of you guys."

- "I'm surprised it took you that long." The middle brother snorted.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes.

The genius boy stayed in the hallway, sadly. I have to go see them now.

- "Are you talking about that speech that made Adam and Bree cry and made us really uncomfortable?" Adam asked.

- "Adam!" Leo hit him on the arm.

- "Sorry, I mean we were cool." The Vice Captain shrugged.

- "Don't mind him." Bree rolled her eyes. "But I speak for everyone when I say that it's okay; you have no reason to be ashamed of what you did, quite the opposite. And know that no matter what, we are all on your side." She opened her arms towards her.

- "I'm not ashamed. I just think you guys didn't need to see that." Maddie leaned into her arms, hugging her.

- "Like she said, it's okay." Leo 2 said. "What is really shocking is you and Chase?!" He grinned widely. "When did that happen?"

- "Uhg! Chases keep relationships secret in all universes. I'm starting to think it's personal." Leo said, leaning on the counter.

- "Oh yes!!" Agent Davenport broke the hug and held her hands. "I'm so happy for you guys."

- "And I can say that I thought what you did yesterday was really cool." Kaz smiled.

- "Thanks." The Matthews girl chuckled at the couple. "And in both Chases' defense, you guys are really invasive when you want."

- "Didn't answer my question, Dee." The middle brother crossed his arms.

- "Since day one of seeing him again." The quadbrid replied.

- "Seven months?!" Leo 2 looked at her with wide eyes. "Wow..."

- "Sorry for not telling you." Maddie said.

- "Don't worry about it." The middle brother smiled. "It's just that I can't believe now you are officially my sister."

The Matthews girl smiled softly at him.

- "I know how it is, friend." Adam smiled in empathy at Leo 2.

- "Invasive? I was never invasive with my Chase; I still don't understand why he hid it from me." Leader Dooley frowned.

- "Yeah, why would he hide it from the guy who turned him into Spike when he got involved?" The quadbrid, sarcastically, asked.

- "What?" Leo 2 looked at his older self with wide eyes as he put his arm around his sister's shoulders.

The green hazel-eyed boy walked down the stairs, behind everyone.

- "Everything would have worked out if Chase hadn't freaked out." Leader Dooley replied.

- "Admit it, you were a terrible cupid." Bree said in amusement.

- "But it's worth remembering that, thanks to me, Harper gave the first kiss on Chase's cheek." Leo nodded, and Agent Davenport rolled her eyes.

- "Dude, seriously. You don't even know half of these people's stories." Kaz said to Leo 2. "They're all very crazy."

Chase 2 entered the living room.

- "That includes you, Kaz." Maddie snickered.

- "Morning everyone." The genius boy said.

- "Hey." The middle brother smiled.

- "Morning, babe." The Matthews girl replied.

Now, I can call him that in public! She thought amused.

The green hazel-eyed boy blushed brightly. First time she calls me that in public.

- "Hi." He smiled softly.

- "Hey, Chase." Kaz and Leo wave.

- "Morning, Man." Adam smiled.

- "Hello, Chase." Bree smirked.

Quinn returned, walking down the stairs with her hands in her pockets, Ace following her.

- "Morning, Chase." The Davenport said gently, putting her hand on his shoulder.

- "Morning, Morning don't worry people!" The O'Connor boy said. "I'm still here for your happiness." He smiled.

The Time Walker rolled her eyes.

The three youngest waved at him.

- "Yeah, we can see that." The quadbrid snorted.

- "Did you see what she did?" Leo 2 pointed to the full table.

Maddie rolled her eyes.

- "Quinn told me." The O'Connor boy walked up to her. "And all I have to say is, I love you..." He smirked playfully and gave her a side hug, resting his head against her briefly. "Aunt Maddie." He whispered softly and pulled away. Quinn smiled softly as Ace walked over to the table. "That's a good way to start the day, huh. I'm starving; I can't remember the last time I ate." He turned his cap backwards.

Chase 2 smiled softly.

- "You're welcome." The Matthews girl chuckled.

I love you too, buddy. She sent in his mind.

Adam 2, Bree 2 and Skylar walked down the stairs.

- "Morning, everyone." The Calderan smiled.

The two eldest siblings stayed silent, waving at Leo 2 and Mighty Force.

The O'Connor boy glanced at Maddie and winked.

- "Morning." Leader Dooley waved as he stealthily stole a bacon from the table.

- "Hey Guys!" Adam waved.

- "Morning." Bree and Kaz smiled gently.

- "Sup." Ace waved.

- "Good morning." Quinn said, waving.

The middle brother went to the table and took a crêpe.

- "You have to taste her crêpes; it's like heaven on Earth." He smiled and took a bite.

- "Leo Davenport, never in the exaggeration." The quadbrid scoffed, amused.

- "Never." Leo 2 smirked with his mouth full.

While everyone's back was turned, Maddie cupped her boyfriend's face and slowly kissed him.

The genius boy smiled against her lips, wrapping his arms around her waist.

- "Get me one then?" Leo said to his younger self.

- "Oh, Thank God there is chocolate milk." The Vice Captain sighed.

Kaz faked cough.

- "Childish palate." He coughed, and Adam rolled his eyes. "Sorry, Man, but the last time we talked about it, you denied it." The Male Agent chuckled.

- "I have my moments." Adam shrugged, pouring a glass.

- "Hey, Sis." Bree walked up to her Alter Ego and opened her arms. "Hi again!" She smiled expectantly.

- "Hey." The hybrid smiled sadly and hugged her tight.

The tall guy walked up to the table.

- "I love chocolate milk too." He said.

The middle brother handed a crêpe to his older self.

The geniuses broke their kiss.

- "Good morning." The Matthews girl whispered.

- "Definitely a good way to start the morning." The green hazel-eyed boy smiled, before kissing her forehead.

The quadbrid smiled and closed her eyes.

Agent Davenport embraced her younger self tightly.

- "Look, now we have to get even. I slept at your house; you'll have to sleep at mine one day." She smiled gently.

- "I figured." Adam handed his younger self a cup of chocolate milk and patted him on the back.

Quinn glanced back over her shoulder at the young couple and smiled proudly.

- "Whenever you want." Bree 2's smile widened.

- "Thanks." Adam 2 took the cup and took a sip. "She always makes it amazing." He whispered.

- "I hate not waking up with you." Chase 2 murmured.

- "I know, but it was for a good cause." Maddie leaned her head on his shoulder, hugging him, as she looked at the full table.

- "You're fantastic." The genius boy replied.

- "Thank you." The Matthews girl smiled softly. "How do you feel?"

- "Better now." The green hazel-eyed boy hugged her tighter.

- "Ah! Yes! I live with my Skylar and Taylor; they would love to meet you and your Skylar." Agent Davenport beamed. "Just don't mind that our neighbors are a pain in the ass." She said sarcastically.

Kaz and Leo turned to her.

- "Hey!" They both said together offended.

Bree chuckled.

The hybrid chuckled.

- "I have no doubt." She said.

- "Oh, yes! I would love to meet her." The Storm girl smiled widely.

- "She would love to meet you too. Unlike me and Bree, you two look identical." Bree said.

Upstairs Chase and Harper leave the room, the Captain having a deep blush on his face along with a melting smile.

The General smiled softly at him, closing the door behind her.

- "Gosh! How I love you." Chase pulled her gently into a kiss.

Harper chuckled against his lips, blushing as well.

- "I love you too." The General broke the kiss and let him put his arm around her as they walked down the hallway.

She glanced at him and noticed an obvious hickey on his neck. She pressed her lips. Oopsy. She thought as they walked down the stairs.

- "I can't wait." Skylar smiled.

The quadbrid pulled away from her boyfriend's arms, kissing his cheek softly.

Chase smiled widely.

- "Good morning, people!!" The Captain walked down the stairs with a wide smile.

Damn, I'm having déjà vu. He thought.

- "Morning, Guys." Harper said gently.

- "Hi." Bree waved.

- "Morning!" Leader Dooley covered his mouth full of food.

- "Good morning, Captain, General." Kaz saluted playfully.

- "Morning!" The O'Connor boy nodded, picking up a plate and handing it to the Davenport girl.

- "Good morning, Captain." She smiled. "Good morning, General."

- "Hey, Chasey, check out this table. And Harper, there's your favorite: French toast." Adam smiled.

- "Hey, guys." Leo 2 waved as he sat at the table.

- "Morning." Bree 2, Adam 2 and Skylar, simultaneously, said.

- "Hey." The genius boy smiled at them.

Maddie pressed her lips together to prevent her laughter as she noticed the hickey. I knew it. They are so horny.

The green hazel-eyed boy frowned at her. What?

Look at his neck. The Matthews girl smirked.

Chase 2 frowned and looked at his older self's neck. Oh. He smirked. She's not as discreet as you.

Nope. The quadbrid shook her head, amused.

- "Woah! You did all this?" The General said with a soft look. "That's so sweet. You didn't have to bother with us."

- "Actually, she needed it; she kind of promised it." The Captain said, keeping his eyes on the table.

- "Chay, I know that." Harper pointed to her own head.

Chase nodded. This is going to take a while to get used to It.

- "Oh, I see that at least this time we won't be offered just water." The Captain smirked.

- "Yeah, I did." Maddie smiled at her alter ego. "And I did it last year, so you can bet your ass I was going to do it again." She looked at Chase. "And I told you there would be more than water."

- "Nice, I appreciate it." Chase smiled gently.

- "Yeah, Thank you." Harper leaned on his shoulder as he held her waist.

- "You're welcome." The Matthews girl smiled at them. "And I can see that this..." She gestured to the table. "Isn't the only thing you appreciate." She whispered with a smirk.

The genius boy snorted.

The older couple exchanged a look, both blushing intensely.

- "Yes, I appreciate you letting us all stay here." The Captain said.

- "Of course." The quadbrid nodded and leaned to him. "Did you change the sheets?" She whispered, before pulling back to see the look on his face as she pressed her lips together.

The green hazel-eyed boy chuckled.

Chase frowned annoyed, his blush deepening, and the General snorted.

Maddie smiled proudly.

- "I'll do it later." She nodded.

- "We did It, don't worry." Harper said.

The Captain bit his lip. Oh, we REALLY did. He smirked.

- "Okay." The Matthews girl chuckled. "I don't sleep in my room anymore, so it doesn't really matter to me." She shrugged.

- "It's her room, but it's not her bed." Chase 2 added.

- "Exactly." The quadbrid nodded.

- "You could have said that before!" The Captain frowned.

Otherwise, the 'Don't have sex in Maddie's bed' litany would have been postponed. He thought.

The General laughed softly.

- "She knew about it." Maddie pointed to her alter ego, chuckling. "And was I supposed to say, 'Don't worry, Chase. You can totally have sex in my room.'?" She snorted.

The genius boy laughed softly.

Harper covered her mouth to keep from laughing, and Chase glared at her, his cheeks burning.

- "Oh, you think it's funny?" He said.

- "Your face? Yeah, But it's adorable too." The General chuckled.

- "It's hilarious." The Matthews girl added.

- "Yeah, thanks to you, now I see why Mads loves to make me blush so much." The green hazel-eyed boy snorted.

- "Same, though." The Captain said, annoyed.

- "Also, Babe, my Life. You have a mark on your neck..." The General pointed to his neck, pressing her lips together, blushing slightly.

- "I have makeup in my room if you want." The quadbrid covered her mouth, trying not to laugh.

- "I'm pretty sure he doesn't mind." Chase 2 smirked.

- "This one knows me well." Chase pointed to his younger self, blushing more. "Thanks for the heads-up, Harp, but I know I looked in the mirror before I left the room." He shrugged.

- "Oh..." The General nodded, shyly. "Okay."

She bit her lip. He loves it when I do that a little too much.

- "Just a little." The genius boy gestured with his fingers.

- "At the same time, it's not like it's at a very discreet spot." Maddie said. "It would be hard to miss."

- "You're not the only one who knows how to suck." The General smirked mischievously.

- "Harper!" Chase's eyes widened.

- "Hey, I'm talking about your neck..." The General raised her hands. "I don't know what you're thinking about." She bit her lips to keep from laughing.

- "Harper!" The green hazel-eyed boy blushed brightly.

The Matthews girl snorted.

- "Good way to make both of them blush at the same time." She raised her hand towards her alter ego for a high-five.

- "I'm a Mastermind." The General tossed her hair back smugly, and high-fived her. "Thanks."

- "Oh God..." The Captain sighed worriedly.

- "Those were good pick-up lines." The quadbrid smirked. "I mean, you saw his face every time."

- "It's not funny." Chase 2 frowned at her, his cheek burning red.

- "You kicked me out of your room because I was breaking your brain too much." Maddie said.

- "Because we had a party to go to." The genius boy replied.

- "So, you would have let me do everything I said?" The Matthews girl smirked, making her boyfriend turn redder.

- "He would." The Captain grinned.

Harper chuckled. Not that he knows the lines.

- "Shut it." The green hazel-eyed boy looked at his older self, the redness spreading to his neck.

The quadbrid giggled softly.

- "Never little me. Many have tried, but no one can silence me." Chase took a step forward, smugly.

Except for Harp. He smirked.

Except me, in several different ways. The General chuckled.

- "I wouldn't say no one." Maddie smirked, glancing at Harper. "She can silence you just fine. In MANY different ways."

- "Ha! In your face." Chase 2 smiled.

She's making fun of me again!! The Captain blushed. It sounds weird, but I'm glad about it. He tilted his head.

- "It really depends on your definition of silence." He snorted.

The General raised her eyebrows in surprise.

- "Your face between her thighs really seems to silence you." The Matthews girl smirked as she looked away.

The genius boy snorted, before covering his mouth.

Harper blushed and held back a laugh.

- "Yeah, It's the way to do it." Chase smirked, blushing deeper. "You know how It works every time." He glanced at Chase 2.

The green hazel-eyed boy narrowed his eyes to him, his neck and face turning redder.

- "I'm loving this." The quadbrid mouthed to her alter ego, trying not to laugh.

- "I figured." The Captain looked at her, his gaze softening.

That's the point. He thought.

Maddie chuckled softly without looking at him. He's VERY skilled with his tongue. She looked at her boyfriend.

- "Mads." Chase 2 frowned at her, blushing brighter.

Harper chuckled softly.

- "I'm loving this too." She said in amusement. "But I don't complain about you talking too much, that means you are very articulate with your mouth. If you know what I mean." She nudged her fiancé.

- "Harper." The Captain frowned, blushing intensely.

- "This is why I love you!" The Matthews girl pointed to her alter ego, laughing.

The genius boy shook his head, amused.

- "I know." Harper said smugly, and Adam walked over to them.

- "Hey, don't you guys come, or Me, Adam and the Leos will eat everything." He put his hand on his brother's shoulder.

- "Yeah, in a minute." Chase nodded, and Adam looked at his neck and chuckled.

- "Oooh, Good job, Sis." The Vice Captain raised his hand to his best friend for a high-five.

The General high-fived him, and Chase blushed deeply.

- "Come on, my love." The quadbrid took her boyfriend's hand and led him to the table.

- "You should have seen the way he was looking at you yesterday in the fight; I swear he was drooling." Adam put his arm around his brother.

Aaww. The General blushed.

- "You're done?" The Captain said in amusement.

- "Sex in another universe, huh?" Adam teased. Chase blushed harder, and Harper chuckled, nodding. "Nice!" He smirked.

- "Idiot." The Captain shook his head in amusement and walked over to the table.

- "You Naughty Bro." The Vice Captain chuckled, and the General snorted.

- "Shut up. I'm going to leave you trapped in this universe." Chase said.

- "Hey, Chase!" The green hazel-eyed boy called out. "You NEED to taste Mads' caramel. I hate sugar, but this thing is amazing."

Maddie smiled softly.

- "I don't eat sugar, either." The Captain shook his head. "But I'll trust you." He said.

Further away, Harper and Adam watched the Captain.

- "How is he today?" The Vice Captain asked.

- "He seems better, he and I talked yesterday and... He's putting pressure on himself too much." The General said. "You were right in what you told him, but... even seeing his mind, I don't know exactly what's going on." She crossed her arms.

- "You'll find out, General." Adam hugged her. "But not with an empty stomach." He smiled.

Harper smiled, and the two walked to the table.

- "Eat it with a crêpe." Chase 2 handed him the plate with the piles of crêpes.

- "I swear, Dee, you get better and better at cooking; this is insane." Leo 2 said with his mouth full of brioche.

- "Thanks." The Matthews girl smiled and handed the plate with the blueberry French toasts to her alter ego.

- "Thanks." The Captain smiled kindly at his younger self.

- "Uh... Maddie, do you mind if I take one of these crêpes to Grace? She would love it." Adam asked.

Harper took the plate and smiled wildly.

- "Thanks, I can't survive the day without French toast in the morning." She said.

- "I made a plate for her with a dozen crêpes." The quadbrid replied. "And you're welcome."

- "Aaww, thank you!" The Vice Captain beamed.

The Captain tried the caramel crêpe.

- "Woah!" He closed his eyes.

Harper smiled as she sat down next to him at the table.

- "You're welcome." Maddie smiled at Adam.

- "I told you." The genius boy grinned at his older self.

- "Holy Shit!" Chase nodded, tasting.

- "Language." Quinn said from across the table.

- "Language." The green hazel-eyed boy said at the same time. "Hey, Bree. Could you give me the brioche, please?" Bree 2 did not reply. "Adam?" Adam 2 ignored him as well.

What? He frowned, sadly. They are ignoring me too?

They are such assholes. I yell at them for how they treat him, and they ignore HIM? They can ignore me all they want, but not him. The Matthews girl frowned, angrily and sadly, before using her telekinetic powers to give the brioche to him.

- "Thanks." Chase 2 smiled softly at her.

The Davenport girl blushed slightly and wrinkled her nose as she spoke 'Language' along with her uncle.

Bree and Adam exchanged an upset look.

- "Want some juice?" The Captain asked his fiancée, holding the jug in his hand, after pouring himself a glass.

- "No, Babe. But hand me the coffee, please." She replied.

- "Here, Mo-Harper." Time Walker choked as she handed her the coffee pot.

Crap! She thought, and Ace chuckled.

Quinn kicked him under the table.

- "Ow!" The O'Connor boy frowned.

The quadbrid pressed her lips together, amused.

- "Happy to have juice instead of water?" She teased Chase.

- "It depends. Do you have alcohol too?" The Captain smirked playfully, recalling their conversation.

The General smiled as she took a bite of toast.

- "Want to ask Harper to marry you again?" Maddie smirked.

- "I would." Chase grinned.

- "And I would say yes again." Harper replied and kissed his cheek.

He blushed slightly.

- "But you don't drink." Leo scoffed.

- "No, but it's just..." The Captain glanced at Maddie. "An inside joke." He blushed more and looked at his plate.

We have inside jokes. He smiled.

The Matthews girl chuckled softly, before looking away. Moments before disaster.

The genius boy put his hand over hers. Hey, it's gonna be okay.

The quadbrid nodded slightly.

Chase's cell phone rang, and he put his hands in his pocket but could not find it.

- "Where's my phone?" He frowned, and Harper showed him his phone in her hand.

- "Pay more attention." The General said, and he rolled his eyes in amusement and took the cell phone from her hands.

Maddie sighed. They are leaving.

- "Who is it?" Bree asked, looking at his phone from behind, and he hid the phone. "Uh, sorry, Captain. I forgot your cell phone is top secret." She teased.

- "It is." Chase nodded and read a text. "It's Douglas, he said he has a mission alert, and he doesn't have any Elite Force teams left to handle it." He sighed.

The Matthews girl looked down at her plate. I knew it.

The green hazel-eyed boy squeezed her hand.

- "No." Bree 2 frowned. "You're leaving already?"

- "No." Leo 2 frowned, sadly.

- "Aw, No." Bree said.

Kaz hugged her from behind.

- "Unfortunately, duty calls." The Captain responded to Douglas' text. "Everyone, get ready." He said. The Mighty Force team groaned. "It's not my fault." Chase raised his hands.

- "Yes, It is. Why didn't you build the nation in this universe?" Adam frowned.

The Captain rolled his eyes.

- "I think people who freak out to see two of us." Skylar said.

- "It was nice while it lasted." Chase 2 smiled softly.

- "I'll go get your Ember." The quadbrid got up and opened a portal, before walking through it and closing it.

- "Yeah, totally. No offense, but one Adam is enough." Bree held his shoulders. "Remember the nightmare it was when he duplicated himself." She said.

The Vice Captain frowned.

I didn't want to leave. Chase sighed.

- "Yeah, It was really nice." He smiled at his younger self.

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A couple of minutes later, Chase 2 was in the kitchen, putting everything away while everyone was talking in the living room.

Ember was in an impenetrable and soundproof shield with the illusion that she was still in her D.E.O.'s cell, when in fact, she was on a chair in the hall.

Harper walked down the stairs to the Captain, tying up her hair.

- "Okay, I'm ready." She put her hands on her waist, and Chase adjusted the collar of her jacket, hiding a mark on her neck.

- "Some things we keep secret." He wrinkled, and she blushed, adjusting her jacket with a smile.

- "Alright, I'll take her to Headquarters, at least that way we'll have more peace of mind to say goodbye to everyone." The General looked at Ember.

- "Good idea, and... Do me a favor. Get that box from the music room closet for me?" The Captain asked.

- "Sure, what about that thing I asked you yesterday, permission granted, Captain?" Harper smirked.

- "Of course." Chase chuckled softly. "Couldn't agree more." He said.

- "Okay, I'll be right back." The General said, taking the device on his waist and opening a portal.

- "Let's Go." The General pushed Ember's chair into the portal, and once she was inside the portal, she geo-leaped away with her.

The genius boy continued to put everything in the fridge and in the cabinets, glancing at one of his rings. I don't have to hide the 'To my love, I'm yours, and I love you' anymore. I can show it. He raised his hand. I have a special message from my girlfriend. He blushed slightly, putting his hand down. Actually two, but nobody can know.

The General geo-leaped back in front of the portal and walked through it, closing it behind her.

She sighed.

- "I left Ember with Douglas, he said he's going to put her in the headquarters prison for now." She said to the Captain, handing him a cardboard bag with the box he requested inside. "It's better, we have certain protocols to carry out with her." She said.

- "Excellent." Chase replied and took the bag and looked at Maddie on the terrace, thoughtfully.

Harper smiled and stroked his cheek.

- "It's going to be okay; she loves you." She whispered gently, and he blushed, taking a deep breath.

- "Thanks, My Life." The Captain smiled softly and kissed one of her hands.

The General wrinkled her nose, and Chase walked towards the terrace.

The green hazel-eyed boy looked at his older self, walking to Maddie on the terrace. I really hope they're gonna be okay.

Don't mess up, Chay. Harper thought. She glanced at Chase 2 in the kitchen and sighed.

She slowly walked towards him with her hands in her pockets.

- "Hey, Chase." She said softly. "Can I talk to you for a second?" She glanced at the others. "Alone?"

Chase 2 started the dishwasher.

- "Sure." He nodded and walked closer to her. "What's up?"

- "I really wanted to thank you..." The General began and glanced at the others briefly.

The genius boy, gently, took her wrist and led her further away from the others.

- "For what?" He asked, crossing his arms.

- "For everything, If it weren't for you, I would be freaking out in that lab, seeing behind walls and into people's minds until now." Harper pressed her lips together.

- "You don't need to thank me." The green hazel-eyed boy smiled softly. "That's what friends are for."

- "I thank you. I was so grateful to be there with you." The General said. "And I mean it from the bottom of my heart." Her gaze softened.

- "Then, you are welcome." Chase 2 smiled.

Harper chuckled softly at him and pressed her lips together with pride in her eyes.

- "Why are you looking at me like that?" The genius boy blushed slightly.

- "It's just that I was thinking about that whole situation yesterday, we both found ourselves in a sudden situation, an unprecedented situation, literally a multiversal anomaly testing our psychology, our strength and many other things..." Harper began. "This goes for both of us."

- "Okay." The green hazel-eyed boy frowned.

- "And as a General, I'm good at evaluating people in intense situations. It's literally my job to identify when someone has the discipline, the authority, the focus, and everything that is essential in a mission, and unfortunately not everyone has these characteristics naturally. No matter how hard they try..." The General put her arms behind her back.

Chase 2 frowned, slightly. Is she doing what I think she's doing?

Harper cleared her throat, straightening her posture.

- "You, Chase, have shown me something different. You've shown me grit, the ability to think on your feet, and stay calm even when your own psychology is put to the test. I've seen a lot of people on much simpler missions than these crack under pressure, and you handled it with a lot of discipline like I've never seen." She said.

- "Thank you." The genius boy replied.

- "Not to mention everything I saw in your mind, everything you did as a hero, every mission, every risk, every strategy..." The General said.

The green hazel-eyed boy blushed slightly at the mention of reading his mind.

- "Taking all this into consideration, I..." Harper took a small box from her pocket. "The Captain and I talked, and we both agreed to..." She smiled wildly, glancing at him.

- "No way." Chase 2 smiled softly, in disbelief.

The General opened the box, and inside was a golden Mighty Force pin.

She sighed.

- "Chase Davenport, I General Harper Davenport, representing the Mighty Force army and the Nation in intercession of the Captain, officially appoint you a member and soldier of the Mighty Force." She said.

- "I don't know what to say..." The genius boy looked at her with wide eyes. "Thank you."

- "There are only 14 of these pins...well, now 15." Harper smiled, handing him the box. "They represent our most loyal and strongest heroes in the entire Mighty Force army." She said. "You are the second representative of the Mighty Force outside of our universe, and I know that I will only see great achievements ahead of us if we have you on our team." She smiled proudly.

The green hazel-eyed boy smiled at her, touched.

- "Thank you." He took the box. "I will put it on my suit."

- "I wear it with pride because this pin is the greatest symbol of respect in our universe. Because what this gesture represents in our nation is something that goes far beyond just being a good hero or a good soldier. It is something much more. It is a complete set of what makes a hero, brain, heart, strength, courage..." Harper said. "And come with this cheesy speech for free." She chuckled.

Chase 2 chuckled softly and pulled her into a tight hug.

- "Thank you." He whispered, unshed tears in his eyes. "Feels nice to be appreciated."

- "You're welcome." The General tightened the hug. "But even so, this pin is more important to you than to any other soldier...." She sighed.

The genius boy smiled softly.

- "Know that this pin is not just a gift from the General to you as a soldier. It is a gift from me, Harper, to you, because..." Harper looked into his eyes, her gaze soft and proud.

The green hazel-eyed boy raised his eyebrows.

- "I love you." The General said softly.

Chase 2 smiled widely, blushing slightly.

- "I love you too." He replied.

Harper wrinkled her nose, blushing slightly, and leaned in, wrapping her arms around his torso.

The genius boy hugged her tightly, putting his hand on the back of her head.

The General closed her eyes and smiled wildly, tightening the hug.

- "And thank you for trusting me about your past." The green hazel-eyed boy whispered.

I've barely started. Harper thought and sighed.

- "Of course. I will always trust you, and I hope you trust me too." She said.

- "I do." Chase 2 replied. "With everything you saw in my mind." He blushed brightly.

- "You're safe." The General said. "As long as you don't tell anyone about the... girl from the Perry universe." She blushed and bit her lip.

The genius boy pressed his lips together.

- "I might have told Mads already." He replied. "Last night, when we were checking the south side."

The General glared at him and punched him playfully on the arm.

- "Sorry." The green hazel-eyed boy chuckled softly. "I didn't know it was a secret."

- "It's not." Harper chuckled. "It's just that..."

She blushed and shrugged. She was so hot.

- "It's just that what?" Chase 2 smirked.

- "Nothing." The General smirked coyly.

- "Uh-uh." The genius boy, sarcastically, nodded.

- "Stop, you Silly." Harper chuckled. "That way you make me shy." She said sarcastically, blushing.

The green hazel-eyed boy chuckled.

The General bit her thumbnail.

- "But she was pretty cute, right?" She said.

Chase snorted.

- "I don't know; I didn't stare at her like you did." He smirked.

Harper gasped.

- "I didn't stare!" She said in amusement. "But you talked to her."

- "For two seconds." The genius boy replied.

- "That's how long I looked at her." The General shrugged.

- "Right." The green hazel-eyed boy, sarcastically, nodded.

- "That's true, two seconds was more than necessary." Harper snorted.

- "To realize that you find her cute?" Chase 2 smirked.

- "Yes." The General nodded calmly. "And very badass." She giggled.

- "Bi panic." The genius boy said as he faked a cough.

- "Mm-hmm, you know how it is." Harper tilted her head.

- "I do." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded.

- "And to think I'll never even know her name." The General sighed.

- "You can still give the coordinates you thought about to Mads, and she'll take you there." Chase 2 suggested.

- "Oh no." Harper shook her head and blushed. "I'm fine; I was just curious." She said.

And also, because she was very familiar, I can't know why. She thought.

- "She's here if you ever change your mind." The genius boy shrugged, smirking.

- "Wanna stop that?" The General chuckled.

The green hazel-eyed boy snickered.

- "Payback for earlier." He said.

- "Okay, totally fair." Harper said.

Chase 2 nodded with a smile.

- "I'm going to miss you so much." The General said. "I know we only spent one day together, but it felt like an eternity." She smiled.

- "I'm gonna miss you too." The genius boy smiled back. "But we'll text and call each other. And I'm sure everyone here agrees that we should hang out more often."

- "I would love that...." The General nodded. "Actually, since you and Maddie are now official. I would love for you to come to my wedding as her plus one." She smiled. "What do you say? There's a seat!" She bit her lip in anticipation.

- "How?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked. "Didn't you take off her plus one seat when she said that she was coming alone?"

Harper shook her head.

- "No, Chay didn't even tell me that she said she was going alone. He just added her and a plus one to the list. I found out yesterday that she said that." She said.

Chase 2 snorted.

- "Of course he did." He smiled.

- "Yup, It's Chay." Harper shrugged. "And you would be at the same table as Ace and Quinn. Which is great because they ended up creating a great bond with you two." She smiled.

- "Yes, I love them." The genius boy nodded. "And I would love to come to your wedding. I'd be honored." He smiled widely.

I love how he easily says he likes people. Harper smiled widely back.

- "Can't wait to see you there, you will be welcome in the Nation." She said.

- "Thanks. And Mads and I have been officially together since March 24th. We just weren't public." The green hazel-eyed boy corrected.

- "Boy, I Know." The General pointed to her head. "It's just a way of saying it." She smirked.

- "I know. I just love being able to say it." Chase 2 giggled softly.

- "Oh, You're just like Chay, for real." Harper chuckled.

The genius boy shrugged as he laughed softly.

- "And about him... I saw your dream and how you helped him." The General said. "And I wanted to ask you to continue. He feels comfortable with you because you are him, and you remind him of who he was and... If you have the opportunity, help him reconnect with himself." She smirked softly.

- "I already planned on it. Don't worry." The green hazel-eyed boy smiled softly. "I got his back."

- "Oh, of course you did." Harper smiled.

- "I'm glad we are less complicated than them." Chase glanced at his girlfriend and his alter ego on the terrace.

- "I'm surprised... I speak for myself, I am..." The General took a deep breath. "A complete mess since day one." She sighed.

- "I don't think you are." The genius boy shook his head. "And as for myself, I'm probably the less calm person. Mads is the calm one. Violent, sure, but calm."

- "I know." Harper smiled. "Well, I usually say that Chay is the beautiful, organized bookshelf in the big, messy room that is my life." She said.

- "That's cute." The green hazel-eyed boy smiled.

- "Thank you, I'm a poet." The General bowed sarcastically.

Chase 2 laughed softly.

- "Okay, come on, let's sit in the kitchen while those two finish talking." Harper put her hand on his arm.

- "Let's go." The genius boy nodded. "I hope he'll manage to talk to her someday. She's thinking about giving up."

She can't, or he'll collapse. The General thought.

- "He will. She is too important to him. He will fight for her till the end." She said.

- "I hope so." The green hazel-eyed boy sat down. "He keeps pushing her away, and it's hurting her. And she gave him time, but it's been a year. And she's tired of getting hurt. And I can't blame her."

- "Every time he pushes her away, he hurts himself." Harper sat down next to him. "He's fighting himself, but it's because he cares because he wouldn't torture himself to face his fears if he didn't care." She said.

- "I know, but we both know that she's convinced he doesn't like her, so she doesn't see that he's trying." Chase 2 sighed.

Because he would never want her to see the panic attacks, he had because of It. The General nodded.

- "She loves their friendship aside from that." The genius boy said.

- "He does too, he just doesn't show it." Harper said. "It's just that he can do a lot of things, like, he has to watch his back all the time."

- "Yeah, but without telling her what he feels at least ONCE. Mads is gonna give up." The green hazel-eyed boy added.

- "I've tried everything, but unfortunately he's the only one who can help himself." The General sighed.

- "Then, we just have to wait and see what happens." Chase 2 sighed and leaned back, crossing his arms.

- "Yup." Harper leaned against the counter and looked at the two on the terrace.

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In the meantime, Maddie was on the terrace, sitting on a lounge chair.

They are already leaving. She sighed. I did a good job, pretending that I wasn't still hurt by what happened last night. Chase seemed to have believed it.

The Captain entered the terrace, holding the cardboard bag.

He kept one hand in his pocket and walked slowly towards her.

- "Hey." He said softly.

The Matthews girl closed her eyes, her back facing him. Of course, he's coming now.

- "Hey." She opened her eyes without looking at him.

She's upset with you.... I'm upset with me, too. Chase nodded and walked up to the chair in front of her.

- "I just wanted to...say I'm sorry." He sat.

- "For what?" The quadbrid frowned, looking into his eyes.

- "For sounding distant and dry and..." The Captain said.

Being an asshole. He sighed.

- "Being...A version of myself that you don't deserve..." He continued.

- "You weren't." Maddie shook her head, looking away.

- "I know I was. And I know I am." Chase shook his head. "I know that..." He took a deep breath.

I am a Jerk, and controlled by fear, which is pathetic. He thought.

- "You aren't." The Matthews girl shook her head again.

You totally were, but I won't tell you that because even if you keep hurting me, I don't want to hurt you. She thought.

- "I'm just sorry." The Captain looked down.

Don't cry, man. He thought, reliving everything he said to her in his head.

- "It's okay." The quadbrid replied.

It's not. Chase shook his head and sniffled.

- "I really liked spending that time with you. I appreciate It." He smiled faintly.

Maddie looked at him with wide eyes.

- "You did?" She raised her eyebrows.

- "Mm-hmm." The Captain kept looking down. "I loved to sing for ya; that song, it's still in my head." He chuckled faintly.

- "Same." The Matthews girl smiled sadly.

Mostly because I can't stop thinking about what I did wrong to go from this to THAT. She looked down.

- "And I liked how well both of us worked together." Chase said.

- "Me too." The quadbrid nodded.

The Captain finally looked at her and nodded with a smile.

And then you pushed me away again, and I'm fucking TIRED of it. Maddie thought without looking at him.

I can't stand her upset with me. Mainly when it's all my fault. Chase sighed and handed her the cardboard bag, with a soft, sadly gaze.

The Matthews girl frowned, looking at him.

- "What's that?" She asked.

- "It's for you." The Captain said softly, blushing slightly.

- "What? Why?" The quadbrid frowned.

- "No reason, actually." Chase said, still holding the bag in front of her. "If you open, you'll understand." He said.

I hope. He thought.

- "Okay." Maddie took the bag, frowning at him, before opening it and taking its contents out.

There was a box.

The Captain pressed his lips to contain a smile. This is gonna be hilarious!! I hope she likes It! He bit his lip.

What the...? The Matthews girl put the bag away and the box on her thighs, before opening it. She took its content out and put it in front of her. It was a black top with thick straps and a square neckline with written in white, 'life is made of phases'. Oh my god... She snorted.

- "You didn't." She smiled and looked at him, putting the top down on her thighs, still holding it.

Chase chuckled softly.

- "Yeah, I did!" He nodded.

- "Oh my god." The quadbrid laughed softly. "This is amazing. Thank you." She looked at the top. "Oh my god..."

The Captain blushed brightly. I knew It!!

- "You're welcome. Glad you liked it." He fiddled with his chain while looking at her.

- "I LOVE it." Maddie corrected with a smile.

- "Glad You loved it." Chase grinned.

- "I can't believe you did that." The Matthews girl said. "For me." She whispered.

- "Of Course I did." The Captain nodded. "I know how much you love my philosophy." He smirked.

The quadbrid rolled her eyes, amused.

- "And I'm not a fashion expert, but Grace told me it goes with anything." The Captain smiled.

- "It does." Maddie nodded. "Thank you."

- "You're welcome. She did the writing, by the way." Chase looked down shyly.

And demanded me to give her credit. He thought.

- "I'll thank her." The Matthews girl said. "But do you realize that this..." She held the top up. "Means we have matching shirts?"

That's the point. One of them... The Captain smiled softly.

- "Yeah, I did." He nodded.

- "And you still did it?" The quadbrid asked.

- "Well, yeah. Why not?" Chase frowned.

- "I don't know." Maddie shrugged, looking down.

Didn't think you would want a matching shirt with ME. She thought.

- "I was going to pass by to give you this, but...the Embers happened." The Captain said.

And I fucked up everything. He thought.

The Matthews girl nodded. I can't believe he did this for me. Her eyes watered, looking at the top in her hands. Maybe it's not totally a lost cause. Maybe I shouldn't give up on him and our friendship.

- "Did you really liked it?" Chase asked for reassurance.

- "I did." The quadbrid nodded. "I just can't believe you did this." Her voice broke slightly, before she cleared her throat.

- "I'll want a picture." The Captain said playfully.

- "Wait." Maddie super speeded away with the top.

I knew it. Chase chuckled and shook his head.

The Matthews girl super speeded back, wearing the same clothes, except her top had changed into the one he just gave her.

- "Tada!" She extended her arms with a smile. "What do you think?"

- "Woah! You look great." The Captain nodded.

She really does. He smiled and chuckled.

- "But I was thinking about a picture of the two of us with It." He said as he stood up.

- "Really?" The quadbrid asked.

- "Yes!" Chase smiled wildly.

- "I would love that." Maddie smiled softly.

She looked down, her eyes watering. I can't believe I'm gonna cry because of a fucking shirt. It probably didn't mean that much to him anyway. This is ridiculous. It doesn't change what happened last night. Or on my birthday. Or on the phone call. Or all the times before.

- "Too bad I don't have my shirt right now." The Captain said.

She really seemed to like it. He smiled softly.

- "Too bad you can't teleport." The Matthews girl scoffed, amused.

- "It's washing." Chase tilted his head.

- "Too bad." The quadbrid blinked the tears away, before looking at him.

- "Maybe next time." The Captain said.

I hope there is a next time. He thought.

- "Yeah. Maybe." Maddie replied.

- "It looks pretty on you." Chase blushed and looked down.

The Matthews girl looked at him with wide eyes.

- "Thanks." She said, surprised.

- "It's true." The Captain said gently.

- "Thank you." The quadbrid smiled softly.

Just waiting for the moment, he pushes me away. She thought. It always happens after a nice moment. So, when are you gonna hurt me?

Chase shrugged shyly, his cheeks a bright red. He slowly looked at her. I don't want to ruin this.

Maddie smiled at him. Please, don't hurt me again. She held back her tears, blinking them so he would not see them.

- "It was great to see you, Maddie, again." The Captain said gently. "I mean It."

- "Yeah." The Matthews girl nodded. "It was... Great seeing you, Chase."

- "Even under these circumstances?" Chase asked.

- "Always." The quadbrid replied.

Even when you break my heart. She thought. I'm insane.

- "Yeah, Same." The Captain smiled.

- "Really?" Maddie frowned. "Like you enjoyed seeing me?"

Shit. She pressed her lips together. Why did I say that out loud?

- "Obviously." Chase nodded. "Why do you think I came here in the first place?"

- "I don't know." The Matthews girl shrugged and looked down.

- "I think my team would handle the Embers, normally I would take the risk without getting involved with anyone in the universe. Like, arrive, do the job and disappear. But I wanted your help, you're part of my team, and that's why In any emergency, even personal, I'll go to you..." The Captain said.

The quadbrid's eyes watered as she pressed her lips together, holding back her tears and still looking at the ground.

- "Well... I don't regret making that decision one bit." Chase said.

- "Good." Maddie nodded.

I don't believe you. She thought.

The Captain sighed and looked down. She doesn't believe you.

- "We should go back inside." The Matthews girl wiped her eyes. "The others must be waiting."

Chase took his cell phone out of his pocket.

- "Yeah, Douglas is calling us home." He said.

- "Yeah." The quadbrid walked back inside the penthouse.

The Captain entered the room and put his fingers to his mouth, whistling loudly.

Newton ran down the stairs and ran towards his owner.

He grabbed a hold of a bookshelf and jumped onto Chase's shoulder.

- "Everyone here?" He asked the team.

- "Yeah." Harper stood up.

Marie and Maxwell meowed loudly, jumping on the back of the couch.

Chase 2 walked up to them and gently petted them, making them purr.

Goodbye. Maddie thought. No more hurting.

- "So, I guess that's it." Bree said as the team gathered in the room.

Ace picked up Darwin, and he meowed.

- "I guess it is." Bree 2 nodded. "I'm gonna miss you."

- "It was nice knowing you, Adam." Adam 2 said.

- "I'm gonna miss you, man." Leo 2 looked at his older self.

- "I'm gonna miss you." The Matthews girl whispered to Quinn and Ace.

Quinn walked up to her aunt and hugged her tightly.

- "I'm going to miss you so much." She said.

- "Same." Agent Davenport smiled.

- "But let's repeat it, someday." Kaz smiled.

- "It was awesome to meet you." Adam replied.

Harper walked up to her fiancé.

- "It seems she liked it." She said softly.

Chase smiled slightly.

- "Yeah." He said softly.

The quadbrid hugged her tightly.

- "Call me whenever you want, okay?" She replied.

The hybrid hugged her older ego.

- "We definitely should." Skylar nodded.

- "Nice shirt." The genius boy told his older self with a smile, looking at his girlfriend.

- "I probably will." Quinn walked away. "There's so much going on right now, as you saw, I'm freaking out." She said.

- "And we will...Feel free to visit us whenever you want." Kaz chuckled.

Agent Davenport agreed.

- "Yeah, I asked Grace for help with It, I wanted to make something cool for her... I don't know." The Captain looked down shyly as Newton rested his head on his front paws.

- "Good." Maddie smiled at her niece.

- "We'll take you up on that." Leo 2 nodded.

- "It's look great." The green hazel-eyed boy replied.

- "See you, sometime in time." The Time Walker blinked.

- "Let's keep in touch." Leader Dooley put his arm around his younger self.

- "She seems to like it, right?" The Captain asked Chase 2.

The Matthews girl chuckled softly, looking down at her shirt.

- "Dee already put the chip and your number in my phone." The middle brother wrapped his arm around his older self's back.

- "She does." The genius boy nodded and glanced at Harper, smiling.

- "Tell your wife, Adam says hi." Adam 2 said.

The Davenport girl smiled and walked away, to the other side of the room with the Brees.

Ace approached Maddie with Darwin in his arms.

- "Say 'bye, Aunt Maddie'." He shook the cat's paw in a thin voice. "Bye!"

- "Cool, I wanna hear all your mission stories, though." Leo said to his Alter Ego.

Harper glanced back at him and smiled.

- "Good." Chase nodded.

- "I will, although she will really want to meet you. She always asks Maddie about you." The Vice Captain said.

The quadbrid chuckled softly.

- "Bye, Darwin." She petted his head.

- "I want to hear yours." Leo 2 smiled.

- "I would love to meet her, too." The tall guy replied.

- "Hey, Mads always talks to us about you guys, and Adam really wants to meet Grace." The green hazel-eyed boy walked up to his older brother.

- "Yeah." Adam 2 moved away without even looking at him.

Chase 2's face dropped as he walked backwards away from him.

The Calderan walked up to him and laid her head on his shoulder.

- "They'll get over it." She said.

- "I hope you're right." The genius boy nodded, wrapping his arm around her shoulders.

- "It was great to meet your Kaz." Bree 2 said to her alter ego. "Even though, it freaks me out."

The O'Connor boy smiled at her and smiled.

- "Thank you for everything, Aunt Maddie." He said softly.

- "Boy, I could spend hours telling you my stories. You have no idea what kind of shit we've gotten ourselves into." Leader Dooley smiled. "Plus, what was it like for me to become Mission leader." He smiled smugly.

- "Hey, Man, relax. He'll get over it... He just needs to mature." The Vice Captain said quietly to Chase 2.

- "I know, Sorry." Kaz shrugged. "But I love and take good care of you in another universe." Kaz hugged his girlfriend.

She smiled.

- "It's true." She nodded.

- "You're welcome." Maddie smiled. "You can call me too, you know that?"

- "Oh boy." The middle brother chuckled.

Skylar walked up to her girlfriend.

- "I hope you're right." The green hazel-eyed boy sighed. "You and Chase have a nice bond."

- "Still weird." Bree 2 snickered.

The Calderan wrapped her arms around her waist from behind.

- "I know, I always knew." Ace nodded. "But I'm...fine." He pressed his lips together and petted the cat.

- "Yeah, I know he's my best friend... I mean after Harper." The Vice Captain said. "But you know it wasn't always like that, I always insulted him too and made jokes... but then..." He frowned thoughtfully.

- "I don't care." Kaz chuckled. "Get over It." He grinned sarcastically, and Bree laughed softly.

- "I know." The Matthews girl nodded. "It's just a reminder." She smiled.

- "Mmm..." Chase 2 frowned. "You ran away together."

- "You get over it when I do this." The hybrid cupped her girlfriend's face and kissed her passionately.

The Storm girl moaned into her mouth.

- "You think I can...get there? Don't you think what I want is beyond my limits?" The O'Connor boy asked, worriedly.

- "Yeah..." Adam sighed. "But it was something much more than that, it was almost as if we hadn't really met until that moment, and in the blink of an eye, he was all I had and the same for him." He shook his head. "Actually, I didn't know myself until that moment because I hid behind the older, stronger brother who teased the younger, smarter one. I never even stopped to really get to know him, and when we spent that time together, I realized that I barely knew him..." He said.

Harper blushed deeply, seeing her girlfriends. Oh, my fucking good!! She widened her eyes.

- "Oh, You're freaking out right now, aren't you?" The Captain smirked, teasingly.

- "Shh." The General said without blinking.

- "I think for someone who has been in your shoes, anything is possible if you give it a chance and time." The quadbrid replied.

- "When Mads was gone, Bree and I got closer, but it didn't last long." The genius boy said. "Adam and I never that much. To be honest, I think I'm closer to Marcus and Daniel than him. The only one who truly gets me is Leo." He smiled softly.

Bree 2 put her hands on her girlfriend's waist, pulling her as close as she could.

- "It doesn't quite help." Ace shook his head.

- "I never gave Chase any space to get close, it just happened by accident, and I regret it. If I had known what he and I could have been, I would have given him space a lot sooner." The Vice Captain said. "I feel bad for your Adam, honestly. But I don't think you need to be upset about it. The one who's losing is him." He smiled.

Leo walked up to them.

- "Dude, I just got an idea." Leader Dooley grabbed his older brother's arm.

- "I'm going to die." The General whispered.

The Captain laughed, and Newton jumped into her arms.

- "Well, yes. I think you can get there." Maddie smirked.

- "Thanks." The green hazel-eyed boy smiled back.

Bree 2 broke the kiss with her girlfriend and smirked widely at Kaz.

- "Still not weird?" She asked.

Skylar blushed brightly.

Ace smiled wildly and pulled her into a hug.

- "You're welcome." Adam smiled as Leo looked at Chase 2 and snapped his fingers at the Captain.

- "Hey, Chase." He said.

The Captain walked up to them, glancing at his younger self.

Kaz rolled his eyes, and Bree chuckled.

- "Show off." The Male Agent said. "Got your point."

- "Could you two stop this?!" The General put her hand on her chest and walked towards them with a blush on her face.

The Matthews girl chuckled softly and hugged him tightly.

- "Hey." The genius boy replied.

The hybrid smirked.

- "Stop what?" The Calderan asked.

- "Now I'm taller than you, Aunt Maddie." Ace teased, tightening the hug.

- "What's going on?" The Captain asked.

- "I, as one of your best men, and honorary party planner, Dooley." Leo said smugly. "I say we invite Chase to your bachelor party next week." He said.

- "Oooh, Yeah!!" Adam smiled.

The Captain smiled. Cool!! YES!!

- "Stop it!" Harper pointed between the girlfriends. "I can't take it." She walked past them.

Kaz snorted.

- "Sorry for her." Bree said.

- "She has a crush on Bree." The Male Agent whispered.

Agent Davenport blushed.

- "Yeah, yeah." The quadbrid broke the hug. "But I can still do this." She ruffled his hair. "And this." She pinched both of his cheeks.

- "Wait, really?" The green hazel-eyed boy smiled. "You'd want that?"

- "Oh." The Storm girl chuckled. "Can't blame her." She looked at Kaz. "Am I right?"

Bree 2 snorted and blushed slightly.

- "Yeah, don't tell her that, but her alter ego in my old universe was one of my fictional crushes." She whispered.

The O'Connor boy chuckled softly.

- "No! Stop!" He laughed.

- "Well, I want it. Do you want it?" Chase looked at his younger self expectantly.

Bree and Kaz's jaws dropped.

- "Seriously?" The Male Agent snorted.

- "Oh, my, you're going to kill her if she finds out." Bree covered her mouth.

Maddie pulled her hands away, laughing softly.

- "Yes!" Chase 2 smiled widely. "I would love to!"

- "Yeah, let's not tell her." The hybrid shook her head.

- "Okay, I missed this, though." The O'Connor boy fixed his hair.

- "Deal! I've been planning this bachelor party for months." Leader Dooley said.

- "We Know Leo, the same goes for the wedding." Adam rolled his eyes.

- "Then I apologize in advance for anything, all Leo's fault." The Captain smirked.

Leader Dooley glared at him, annoyed.

- "This is where the matter ends." Bree made a zipper sign with her mouth.

- "I don't promise anything." Kaz chuckled.

The Matthews girl smiled softly at her nephew.

- "Got it." The genius boy chuckled.

- "Poor Harper." Bree 2 snickered.

- "But I'll love having you with all the guys, you'll get to meet all the guys. Hang out." The Captain put his arm around him.

- "Oooh! Jack can do 'The Test' with him!" Adam chuckled.

- "No!" Chase frowned. "Better not let that freak guy near him." He said.

- "Oh, but it would be fucking cool." The Vice Captain laughed.

- "I don't feel Sorry for her; I love when Harper has Bi panic, though." Kaz laughed. "But I love her." He assured.

- "Jack is dating Perry, right?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked his older self with a frown.

- "Good." Skylar nodded.

The three men cringed

- "Yeah." They said in unison.

- "But other than that, he's really cool." Leo smiled.

- "He's called 'El Matador'." The Vice Captain deepened his voice dramatically. "Oh, come on, Chasey, let mini you have Fun."

- "No!" Chase shook his head.

- "What's up with this guy?" Chase 2 asked, curious.

- "Chase thinks you can't handle it." Adam whispered.

- "That's not true. I just think Jack's jokes and games aren't the kind of jokes you're used to, that's all." The Captain shrugged. "It may be shocking."

- "Like what?" The genius boy frowned.

- "Um, you know, he likes radical bets like..." Chase said.

- "Stab between the fingers without touching the knife in any. He's a champion at this; he does it after a whole bottle of whiskey." Adam smiled.

- "Wow." Chase 2 frowned. "He's crazy. Explains why he's dating Perry."

- "He's insane!" The Captain said. "But he has a good heart; the first motorcycle I ever rode in my life was his." He smiled.

- "Wasn't it Dad's?" The genius boy raised his eyebrows. "With Adam." He chuckled softly, glancing at his brothers across the room.

- "Oh, come on, that wasn't riding a motorcycle for real." Chase scoffed.

- "But I see Chase's point; if you're a guy who can't hear a curse without saying 'language', you better get ready for Jack." Leo grinned.

The green hazel-eyed boy rolled his eyes. Depends on the context of the curse.

- "Curse won't be a problem; Mercy won't be there." The Captain said.

- "But Ledger will." Adam said in amusement.

Chase rolled his eyes. Ahg! Ledger.

Chase 2 blushed slightly. Right, Bucky Barnes' alter ego.

- "He doesn't matter." The Captain said.

- "So, why are you inviting him?" The Vice Captain asked.

- "I didn't, Leo did." Chase said.

- "He's a great bartender and... He's our friend even if you can't have a conversation with him without wanting to strangle him in the end." Leader Dooley pointed at the Captain, who rolled his eyes, annoyed.

- "Mads showed me the only conversation she had with him." The genius snorted. "She said what she said just to give you something to use in case he annoys you. She did it to protect you, the day you met." He smirked.

She did? What was it? Why I don't remember that? The Captain frowned.

- "Wait, I don't remember that." He said.

- "She did." The green hazel-eyed boy nodded.

- "Why don't I remember that?" Chase frowned. "Anyway, don't worry, Chase. We won't let Jack challenge you to any crazy challenges."

- "Aw, but these are the best!" Adam complained.

That's weird. Chase 2 thought.

- "No!" The Captain frowned. "Chase is from a universe of people who are right in the head, not from our universe of crazy people. He won't do 'The Test' or any other crazy bet." He said.

Adam scoffed.

- "I'm very curious." The genius boy replied.

- "Let Jack explode an apple on your head, Pow!" Adam dramatized.

- "Oh God." The Captain rolled his eyes.

- "I am very worried about the people you hang out with." The green hazel-eyed boy teased his older self.

- "I am, too." The Captain replied.

- "It didn't seem like it when you took on the challenge." The Vice Captain smirked.

Chase rolled his eyes.

Chase 2 chuckled.

- "We all passed 'the test' though." Leo shrugged.

- "But I think mini-Chase doesn't need to worry about Jack, though; after al,l it's your bachelor party..." Adam looked at his brother. "So, you're in the spotlight." He smirked.

The Captain frowned.

- "I'm looking forward to seeing that." The genius boy smirked.

- "Oh, but I know if I were you, I would wait for at least the 'Death Stare'." Leader Dooley dramatized to Chase 2.

- "Oh, Yeah, this one more light." Chase chuckled.

- "Okay." The green hazel-eyed boy chuckled.

- "But seriously now, it's going to be nice to have you with us." Leo smiled.

Chase 2 smiled back.

- "I'm happy to come." He said.

Leader Dooley smiled broadly and glanced to his two brothers.

- "Come here, Buddy!" He said, pulling the two brothers along to hug Chase 2 in a group hug.

The genius boy chuckled into the hug.

As the three of them tightened their embrace, the General walked up to Maddie.

- "Remember when you went to our universe, and we were wondering if we would ever see you again?" She looked around. "Look at that." She smiled.

- "I know." The Matthews girl smiled softly. "This is crazy."

Leo pulled away from the hug.

- "I'll send you the invitation by message. It will be at my house." He said, smiling.

- "Totally, but crazy..." Harper glanced at her family. "It's my specialty. We don't call ourselves Freaks for nothing." She winked.

- "Thanks." The green hazel-eyed boy replied with a smile. "And thank you for not listening to Mads about her plus one." He smirked at his older self.

- "I know." The quadbrid chuckled softly. "Never thought I would see all of them in the same room."

- "Of course. I knew It all along." The Captain said. "And our dream only confirmed it further."

- "Neither did I; we didn't even though the Chases would meet." The General smiled. "In person."

- "I know. Hard to hide something when I blush so easily." Chase 2 smiled.

- "Same." Maddie nodded. "I mean, it's weird for me. But it must be weirder for you because you are literally seeing your Chase younger."

- "That's not true." Chase shook his head.

- "What dream? Oooh, you're talking about that dream you had where you and Harp..." Adam started.

- "Shut up!" The Captain frowned annoyed, blushing intensely.

- "It's not weird, it's just...This gives me a good feeling, but it also gives me a feeling of longing somehow." Harper said.

The genius boy snorted, laughing at his older self.

The Matthews girl nodded.

- "Alright, I think we're losing focus, we need to go." The Captain said.

- "See you soon, Mini Chase." Leader Dooley said, patting him briefly on the back.

- "Take Care, Buddy." Adam said as they both walked away.

- "I was great meeting you in person, man." The green hazel-eyed boy hugged his older self.

- "Same, Man." The Captain hugged him back and pulled away. "Plus, welcome to the Mighty Force, Soldier." He extended his hand more formally.

Chase 2 shook his hand firmly.

- "Thank you, Captain." He said.

- "An honor to work with you." Chase nodded respectfully.

Harper looked at Maddie and gave her a firm hug.

- "Thanks for everything; it was fun." She said.

- "Same." The genius boy nodded.

- "I can't wait next week to see you again." The quadbrid hugged her alter ego tightly.

- "Yey! Me too. At least we won't have to kick anyone's ass this time." The General chuckled.

The Captain smiled proudly at his younger self and walked to the center of the room with Quinn, Ace, Leo, Adam, Bree and Kaz.

- "Yes." Maddie pulled back. "Just hanging out together." She smiled.

- "I guess this is goodbye." Leo 2 sighed.

- "Yes, hang out and enjoy my last moments as a 'bachelorette'." Harper chuckled softly.

Chase opened a portal, and Newton and Darwin ran through it.

- "No, it's never goodbye. It's just a see you later." Leader Dooley smiled at his younger self.

- "Yep." The Matthews girl smiled.

Marie and Maxwell meowed sadly, seeing their friends leave.

- "Aw, babies." The quadbrid crouched down and petted them.

- "Bye, guys." Bree 2 waved.

Leo 2, Adam 2 and Skylar waved.

The green hazel-eyed boy walked up to his girlfriend and bent down, petting the cats; his flannel, which had the two first buttons opened, showed a hickey on his chest.

- "Bye!" Agent Davenport waved back as Kaz grabbed her hand.

- "You guys are awesome! Take Care!" The Male Agent said as the two went through the portal first.

The General looked at the younger couple and pressed her lips together in amusement and nudged her fiancé.

- "What?" He asked.

- "His chest." The General whispered, and Chase looked at his younger self's chest and smirked.

- "Hey, Dude..." He said to him.

- "What's up?" Chase 2 straightened up as Maddie stood up, letting go of the cats.

- "If you're going to show it, show it properly." The Captain smirked playfully and pointed to his chest.

Harper chuckled.

The genius boy frowned and looked at his chest, seeing one of his hickeys showing.

He blushed brightly.

The Matthews girl snorted, before adjusting his flannel.

- "Mine to see." She smirked and kissed the crook of his neck, making him blush brighter.

- "All yours." The green hazel-eyed boy whispered with a wide smile.

The Captain rolled his eyes in amusement, adjusting the collar of his jacket, hiding his hickey.

- "Goodbye everyone." Quinn and Ace waved, and both smiled wildly in Maddie's direction.

- "Bye." The quadbrid smiled at them.

- "Bye." The siblings and the Calderan simultaneously said.

The two best friends entered the portal; Adam and Leo waved.

- "Take Care, Guys." Leo said.

- "We'll miss you, guys." Adam smiled.

- "You too, older me." Leo 2 replied.

- "We'll miss you too." The tall guy smiled back.

Maddie took her boyfriend's hand, interlacing their fingers together.

Chase 2 smiled softly, blushing slightly.

- "Bye, Young me. I miss me already." Leader Dooley said to Adam, who rolled his eyes in amusement as they both entered the portal.

The General looked at her fiancé with a smile.

- "Home?" She reached out to him.

Chase smirked and took her hand, kissing it.

- "Home." He replied, with a slight blush on his face, and the two walked to the portal holding hands firmly. They looked back. "You all did a great job; I was grateful to meet and work with each of you." The Captain told the team.

- "Me too; I'll never forget our first mission together." Harper told them.

- "Same." Skylar smiled.

- "Bye, guys." Bree 2 added.

- "Bye." The middle brother smiled softly.

Adam 2 waved.

The genius boy, quickly, pecked her girlfriend's cheek.

- "I love you too." The Matthews girl whispered, before turning to their alter egos. "Bye, guys. See you next week, Harper."

- "See you next week, Chase." The green hazel-eyed boy smiled.

The two waved to the team and looked at the younger couple.

- "See you soon, Maddie." The General smiled.

- "See you soon, Chase." The Captain said and glanced at Maddie.

He gave a slight proud smile in her direction and nodded.

Chase 2 smiled.

The quadbrid looked away.

Harper looked at Chase 2 and smiled with a wink.

Chase sighed, his smile disappearing.

The genius boy smiled at Harper.

- "Bye, Chase." Maddie smiled sadly.

- "Bye." The Captain replied, sadly.

The General nodded, smiling and entered the portal, pulling the Captain by the hand.

He saluted the team and the younger couple with a slight smirk, before passing through the portal and closing it behind them.

Leo looked at his best friend.

- "I miss me already." He said.

The Matthews girl chuckled.

- "I know." She patted his back.

- "I'm going upstairs." The hybrid took her girlfriend's hand and walked upstairs without looking at the geniuses.

- "I'm going to Xandar's." Adam added and walked out the door.

The green hazel-eyed boy sighed, sadly.

- "They'll get over it." The middle brother patted his brother's back.

- "I really hope." Chase nodded.

- "I'm gonna go check on Ezra." Leo said. "He came out of the hospital this morning." He walked towards the door.

- "Tell him we hope he'll feel better." The quadbrid replied.

- "I will." The middle brother walked out the door.

- "I'm sorry." Maddie put her arms around her boyfriend's neck.

- "It's okay." The genius boy nodded and wrapped his arms around her waist. "You were just defending me. Thank you."

The Matthews girl sighed and hugged him tightly.

- "Can we go tell mom and dad?" The green hazel-eyed boy whispered.

The quadbrid pulled away.

- "Let's go." She smiled.

- "Yeah?" Chase raised his eyebrows.

- "Yes. Let me just." Maddie super speeded upstairs and came back wearing her off-shoulder top instead. "Let's go." She took his hand and opened a portal.

The genius boy frowned, sadly. I feel bad for them.

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Universe 314

The team stepped through the portal, arriving at the Mighty Force headquarters command center.

Commander Douglas Davenport spun his chair around to face them, a wide grin spreading across his face.

- "Hey, hey!" Douglas greeted with enthusiasm. "Welcome back!"

- "Well, whoever's alive always shows up." Harper said with a smirk, walking up to her father.

She opened her arms wide.

- "Hey, girl." Commander Davenport replied, pulling her into a tight hug.

- "Sorry, the mission took longer than expected." The Captain said, stepping forward.

- "I figured as much when you told me which universe you were in." Douglas replied.

- "Quinn, Ace, prepare your mission reports." The General instructed.

Both recruits nodded.

- "Great mission, guys!" Ace called out, heading toward the door.

- "Good job, everyone." Time Walker added, following Ace out.

- "Things tend to get chaotic when we're with Maddie and her Davenports." Bree said with a grin.

- "But it's not our fault they're so cool." Kaz replied.

- "Though, I suppose it does sound smug to say that." Leader Dooley mused.

- "Indeed." Commander Davenport agreed with a chuckle.

- "You'll understand once you meet Chase." Adam said, leaning casually against the cyber desk.

- "What?" Douglas raised an eyebrow.

- "We invited Chase to the bachelor party." Leo said with a grin.

- "No way!" Kaz's face lit up.

- "Yeah, it's going to be awesome having him here with us." The Captain said, his smile growing.

- "Two Chases in one place? Oh, this is going to be fun." Commander Davenport said with a mischievous grin.

Chase rolled his eyes in amusement.

- "Come on, Bee, Leo, let's head home. It's the first time Oliver's spending the night alone at the house, and he won't stop texting me. I'm worried." Kaz said, his tone more serious.

- "Oh, Shit, better grab ice cream and tissues on the way." Leader Dooley teased as the three walked out.

Grace walked into the command center, waving as she entered.

- "Adam!!" Grace's eyes lit up as she beamed at her husband, rushing toward him.

- "Teddy Bear!" Adam grinned, picking her up and spinning her around. "I missed you so much."

- "I missed you too." Grace giggled. "The house feels so empty without you." She held his face gently as Adam closed the gap between them, pulling her into a firm kiss.

- "Hey, get a room." The General teased.

- "Oh, look who's talking." The Vice Captain broke the kiss, setting his wife back on her feet, though his eyes still held a teasing look.

Grace blushed deeply.

- "So, how was the mission?" Grace asked, stepping toward the Captain and jumping into his arms with a smile.

- "It went well." Chase chuckled. "Though it would've been a lot easier with you there."

- "I was busy fulfilling my mission here, being a mom." Grace sighed, though her voice was soft and affectionate.

- "That's a mission I'll never be able to fulfill, but it's one of the most honorable." Chase said, his tone sincere.

Grace chuckled warmly.

- "Was Maddie there?" Grace asked, her expression expectant.

- "Yeah." The Captain replied with a slight sigh.

- "Did you give her the top?" Grace clasped her hands together, her eyes sparkling with anticipation.

- "Yes, I did." Chase nodded with a smile.

- "Did she love it?!" Grace jumped up and down, her excitement palpable.

- "She loved it. She even wore it." The Captain confirmed, his smile widening.

- "Aw, yay!! I knew it!! She loves you!!" Grace clapped her hands together.

- "Woah! Grace." Chase shook his head, holding her arms gently. "She loved the gift, but I assure you she doesn't love me."

Harper rolled her eyes, looking at the monitors in the room.

- "How can you know that?" The blonde girl asked the Captain through the command center.

- "Because I know, I said something stupid, and she didn't seem 100% comfortable talking to me anymore." Chase explained, opening files on the monitors.

- "Oh." Grace pursed. "Maybe because she loves you so much that her heart swells, and it becomes uncomfortable for her to talk to you! Uh! Like a balloon, balloon heart!" She smiled wildly.

The Captain looked at her with a soft gaze. She's so adorable; too bad she's wrong.

- "I don't think that's it, Sunshine." He smirked softly.

- "I think you're the one who's seeing the situation upside down. You know what happens when you see a happy face upside down? It looks like a sad face, but it's still a happy face that loves you!" Grace beamed.

The Captain frowned in amusement and chuckled.

- "I want to say that you are the one who is complicating everything. But I don't judge, because you are the things complicated guy." The blonde girl pointed to the monitors.

- "I think you're right." Chase sighed.

- "Of course she's right; she's always right." The Vice Captain approached with a package.

- "That's a well-trained husband." Commander Davenport chuckled.

Grace smiled at her husband.

- "Maddie sent you crêpes and brioches." Adam handed the package to his wife, and she gasped a smile, taking the package and peeking inside.

- "Aaww, I love her!!" The blonde girl lit up.

- "Where's Evan?" The Vice Captain asked.

- "He's with Melody at the cafeteria; let's go see him. He misses his dad." Grace hugged the package and took her husband's hand as he giggled.

- "You still don't believe you're a father, do you?" The General teased.

- "No! I'll never get used to it." The Vice Captain said as they walked out.

The couple chuckled, and Douglas stood up.

- "I'll get the gear. I prepared for your next mission in my office. I'll be right back." The Commander Davenport walked out.

Harper walked up to her fiancé.

She hugged him from behind, wrapping her arms around his waist.

- "Are you okay?" The General asked.

- "Yes and No." Chase replied. "I don't feel the tightness in my chest that I had yesterday, but I'm still... angry at myself." The Captain said, and the General kissed behind his ear gently.

- "Just be patient, Chay." Harper whispered in his ear, sending a shiver down his spine, and he blushed brightly.

- "Fuck." Chase sighed heavily and silently.

The General pressed her lips together, blushing at his reaction as he turned to her.

- "But what if she doesn't want to talk to me anymore?" The Captain asked, after taking a deep breath.

Harper lifted his jacket and shirt enough for her to caress his waist.

- "She will, sooner or later." Harper said softly and smirked. "And if not, you'll go after her." She said.

Chase scoffed. Yeah, right, like she would want that. He thought.

- "You'll go to go after her and be the unwavering, stubborn guy that I know you are." The General smiled.

Captain chuckled softly.

- "I'm scared; you already had almost 300 IQ points naturally, and now plus Mine, Chase's, and Maddie's..." He frowned.

- "Harper Davenport, the smartest woman in the world, or rather in this universe." Harper smiled proudly.

- "And my future wife." Chase bit his lip, blushing.

The General nodded; her smile widened.

He leaned forward, pressing a gentle kiss to her forehead, then stepped back, running a hand through her hair.

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Universe 38

A few minutes after everyone left, the two geniuses went to the mansion.

- "Ready?" Maddie asked.

- "Never been more ready." Chase interlaced their fingers, before ringing the doorbell.

A couple of seconds later, Donald opened the door.

- "Chase! Maddison!" He smiled widely and pulled both of them into a hug.

- "Hi, Donnie." The quadbrid replied.

- "Hey, dad." The bionic boy added.

- "What are you guys doing here?" The father asked as he let them in.

- "Um..." The green hazel-eyed boy glanced at his girlfriend, letting her go in first. She nodded. "We wanted to tell you and mom something."

The scientist frowned.

- "Is it serious?" He questioned, worried.

- "It is, but in a good way." The Matthews girl replied.

Donald narrowed his eyes at them, ignoring the fact that they were holding hands since they had been doing that for years as friends.

Tasha walked into the room with Naomi.

- "Who's hungry, my sweet little muffin?" She cooed, before noticing the young couple. "Oh, hi, guys. We weren't expecting you, were we?"

- "No, it's a surprise, mom." Chase shook his head.

The mother smiled and put her daughter down in the baby playpen.

- "My babies!" She exclaimed and hugged them tightly.

- "Hi, Tash." Maddie chuckled softly.

- "Hi, mom." The bionic boy smiled.

The journalist pulled away, putting her hands on their cheeks and smiling.

- "So, what do you want to tell us?" The father asked.

The geniuses looked at each other.

- "We're dating." They, simultaneously, said.

The parents looked at them with wide eyes as smiles crept on their faces.

- "It was about time!" The scientist exclaimed.

- "Finally!" Tasha squealed and clapped her hands.

The young couple chuckled softly.

- "We told you." The mother smacked her husband's arm.

- "We?" The quadbrid frowned.

- "Claire and I told him that you two were meant to be, but he said that you were too young for us to say that." The journalist explained.

- "When did you say that?" The green hazel-eyed boy asked.

- "Maddison's fourteenth birthday." Donald said. "They were already talking about you getting married."

Chase blushed slightly. It's gonna happen someday.

- "Wait, so you were planning our wedding since 2013?" The Matthews girl frowned, amused.

- "Yes." Tasha chuckled. "And for good reasons!" She pulled the geniuses into a hug. "I'm so happy for you both."

- "Me too." The father smiled and joined the hug. "You both found the perfect person for you."

The young couple smiled widely, hugging the parents tighter.

- "Addie!" The youngest stood up in her baby playpen, extending her arms to them.

The four broke the hug and looked at her, smiling.

- "Hey, baby." Maddie picked her up.

Naomi hugged her with her little arms.

The bionic boy smiled in awe at the view.

The mother pushed him towards them.

The green hazel-eyed boy chuckled and kissed his little sister's forehead, who giggled as she looked at them.

- "Hey, Naomi." He cooed.

- "I'm really happy for you, guys." The scientist said. "And Claire would be too."

- "When did it happen? Who made the first move? And what did you say?" The journalist asked. "Tell me everything." She sat on the couch.

The geniuses snickered.

- "Honey, relax." Donald chuckled as he sat next to her.

- "Sorry, it's my reporting side kicking in." Tasha shrugged with a smile.

The quadbrid put Naomi down.

- "Um..." She looked at her boyfriend.

- "A little while." Chase scratched the back of his head.

The parents frowned.

- "How long?" The mother frowned.

- "Since I came back in the universe as you." The Matthews girl said, awkwardly.

- "It's been seven months!" The father gasped.

- "We know." The bionic boy nodded. "But we wanted to stay in our bubble for a while. Just the two of us."