One Of Us


Nobody's POV

"Douglas, have you seen Leo? He's late for training." Chase asks as he and his siblings walk up to Douglas in the common area.

"Why don't you just call him?" Douglas asks.

"Ugh, too much work. Let's just kick him out of the academy." Adam groans.

"Here, here!" Mia shouts holding her hand up as Chase dials Leo's number.

"Hello." Leo says as he appears on the screen.

"Leo, what are you doing back in Mission Creek? You're supposed to be here for training." Chase asks in a scolding voice.

"Sorry. I had to pop back and deal with a little situation. Janelle missed me. You ladies can be SO needy." Leo chuckles.

"She threatened to break-up with you, didn't she?" Bree asks, a small smirk on her face.

"It was implied." Leo mumbles as the doorbell rings.

"Ah! She's here!" He screams before hanging up, no doubt off to try and impress Janelle.

"Can you believe him? Skipping his training to hang out with a girl?" Chase scoffs.

"You might understand it one day if you actually have one." Adam mocks.

"For your information, later today, I will be online gaming with FrizzyBizzy21. And there's a 50% chance that's a female." Chase explains, receiving odd looks from his siblings.

"Well, good luck with that." Mia mutters, just as a girl steps out of the hydra loop.

"Ah, it's her!" Douglas yells, causing all of the students to get into a fighting stance.

"Hey, you look familiar. Do I know you from somewhere?" Adam asks walking towards the girl.

"Adam, that's S-1, Krane's lead soldier. She tried to destroy us." Chase says.

"Oh, yeah. What do you say we finish the job and get outta here?" Adam suggests, receiving an odd look from S-1.

"What are you doing here?" Chase asks, still holding his fight stance.

"I figured since this is the bionic academy you're the only people who might be able to help. Something's wrong with me." S-1 sighs.

"Yeah, we already know that, Psycho Sally. You tried to crush Leo and take us all out." Bree scoffs glaring at her.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about." S-1 says, a confused look on her face.

"Of course she doesn't. She's a blank slate, just like the rest of the soldiers were." Douglas gasps.

"And Adam." Mia chuckles, receiving a glare from Adam.

"Why weren't you rounded up with everyone else?" Chase asks.

"All I know is that I woke up in a field, then this family found me and took me in. And when they discovered I was bionic, they freaked out. So I ran away and I've been hiding ever since." S-1 explains.

"I don't believe her." Bree says glaring at S-1.

"I do." Mia says walking over and standing beside S-1.

"Mia, th-." Chase says with a cautious look.

"She's not evil." Mia says, cutting him off before he can finish.

"How do you know that?" Bree asks.

"Her eyes. They aren't green. That means she's not being controlled by the triton app." Mia says.

"How do you know?" Chase asks, still not sure if he should trust S-1.

"I blasted Krane into the sky, Chase. He's gone. The triton app doesn't work unless someone's controlling it. She has no reason to hurt us." Mia explains with a shrug.

"Oh, yeah, well that's what we thought about Sebastian too. And we ALL know what happened there." Chase scoffs as he looks around the room at all of the soldiers.

"We get it, he broke your heart. Let it go." Adam says, making Chase glare at him.

"Look, if you don't believe me, remove my chip. Then there's no way I can hurt you." S-1 sighs before Douglas uses the chip extractor to take out her chip.

"All clear. But you might wanna have that mole checked out." Douglas mutters as he puts her chip to the side.

"Alright, now that we know you're telling the truth, what exactly is wrong with you?" Chase asks.

"I keep having flashbacks about a guy named Victor Krane." S-1 sighs.

"Your preaching to the choir sister." Douglas mutters.

"Wait, when the Triton App deactivated it should have erased all of her memory. How can she still remember Krane?" Chase asks.

"I still remember him and I'm pretty sure I landed on my head after I took him down" Mia says with a shrug.

"It must be a glitch. What else do you remember?" Douglas asks.

"He said if anything bad happened to him, something just as bad would happen to me." S-1 says.

"Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. It was just the metal in his face talking." Douglas mutters, receiving odd looks from everyone.

"Look, every time I get a flashback, I get a terrible headache. I'm really scared and I don't have anyone else to turn to. Please, help me figure out what's going on." S-1 sighs.

"What do we do?" Bree asks.

"I think we should help her." Mia says.

"Me too." Chase adds.

"Okay, but if she crushes your heart like Sebastian, don't come crying to me." Adam says patting Chase on the back and running out.

"Alright, almost done with the tests. How you holding up?" Chase asks as he, his siblings and Douglas stand around S-1 in the training area, who is sat in a chair hooked up to wires.

"Ah, pretty good. I'm probably gonna need a snack around two." Adam says with a shrug.

"I agree, I could really go for some nachos." Mia adds.

"Douglas, check this out." Chase mutters as he points to the monitor.

"Looks like the triton app left a virus in her bionic infrastructure." Douglas says.

"You mean like a virus where I have a bowl of chicken noodle soup and I'm all better?" S-1 asks.

"More like a virus that will cause you to explode and look like chicken soup." Chase chuckles

"What?!" S-1 yells, an alarmed look on her face.

"Uh, but, who knows? The chicken soup could work." Chase mutters with a nervous smile.

"When I showed Krane the triton app he did ask me to build in a doomsday virus, but I refused." Douglas says with a shrug.

"Thank you Douglas. That totally makes up for the other 500 times you tried to take us out." Bree scoffs.

"Yeah and both times you kidnapped me!" Mia adds.

"Technically it was 522, you just didn't see me hidden in the shadows. Oh and I actually tried to kidnap you four times, you just kept getting away." Douglas chuckles, receiving alarmed looks from everyone.

"Krane must've done it on his own. And if he did it to the triton app, that means-." Chase mutters before he uses his bionic eye to scan the students.

"The other students have it too!" He gasps turning back to his siblings.

"It all makes sense. Krane was an egomaniac. If he wasn't around to control his own creations, he wanted to make sure no one else could." Douglas explains.

"According to this, anyone who had the triton app will self destruct in 10 hours." Chase says as he reads the monitor.

"That makes everyone a ticking time bomb!" S-1 gasps.

"All the bionic students are gonna die!?" Bree yells, causing all of the students to turn towards her.

"Smooth, Bree. Real smooth." Mia mutters glaring at her.

"Nice knowing all of you! You should start saying your goodbyes! I'm gonna grab a tarp and a poncho." Adam says as he begins to walk towards the door, only to get hold back by Bree.

"Oh know, this is worse than I thought!" Chase gasps.

"Oh your right, I should probably grab goggles too." Adam sighs as he tries to run for the door, only to get held back again.

"No! Wait!" Chase orders before he uses his bionic eye to scan his siblings, the results shocking him.

"Just as I thought. We also had the triton app, so we're set to self destruct too!" He gasps.

"What?! I'm gonna die!? I need to make some phone calls! Has anyone seen my phone? I've gotta call Beyonce!" Mia yells, receiving odd looks from everyone.

"What? Me and her have weekly gossip sessions. There's rumors going round that Gwyneth Paltrow is pregnant again! We were organising a baby shower!" She cries before running out.

"Adam, I'll take a poncho." Douglas says turning to Adam.

"It's gonna be ok. Douglas and Chase are geniuses and they have a whole nine hours to figure out how to stop the virus." Bree says as she and Adam walk into the living quarters.

"You know what, your right." Adam says nodding his head.

"We're gonna die!" He cries.

"But I'm too young! I have thirty more years left of being really, really cute!" Bree whines.

"Really? I was thinking more like ten." Adam says with a shrug.

"Do you wanna die right now?" Bree asks as the two of them flop onto the couch.

"There were so many things I never got the chance to do. Like, make a list of the things I never got the chance to do!" Adam groans.

"Well I am not just gonna sit here and let the last few days of my life pass me by." Bree sighs.

"Me neither! If I'm gonna go out, I wanna be remembered for doing something meaningful!" Adam shouts jumping up from his chair.

"You mean like being a bionic hero and saving thousands of lives?" Bree asks as she walks towards him.

"No, like blowing up balloons. I'm gonna use my enhanced lung capacity to blow up as many balloons as I can and beat the world record." Adam explains.

"Hmm, of course you are. Well I'm gonna throw myself an awesome farewell party. I'm gonna invite all my friends from high school." Bree says with a smirk.

"You don't have any friends from high school." Adam says with a confused look.

"Actually, I have tons. I just never brought them around you guys because-." Bree says, just as Adam begins to blow up two balloons with his nose.

"Well, that about says it all." She mutters just as Mia walks in on her phone.

"Queen B, it's not my fault that I'm can't make the baby shower. I'm gonna blow up in like nine hours! No I can't just stop blowing up! No I can't tell Adele to cancel my meal plan! Oh, now you want me to tell Rihanna?! What do you take me for?!" Mia yells before she hangs up the phone, her siblings giving her strange looks.

"Oh hey guys." She says waving at them.

"Actually, that says it all." Bree mutters as she and Adam continue to give Mia odd looks.

"Ok. I scanned S-1's chip and mirrored the doomsday timer. Only 8 hours until...you show the world what your made of." Douglas chuckles nervously, just as Mia walks into the room on her phone.

"Ryan! For the last time, I am not broadcasting my funeral on Keeping Up with the Kardashians!" Mia groans as she hangs up her phone, receiving odd looks from everyone in the room.

"Ryan Seacrest. I told him about the whole 'us blowing up thing' and now he wants to broadcast my funeral on Keeping Up with the Kardashians. I've only met them like twice!" She explains.

"When did you meet the Kardashians?" Chase asks.

"That time I went to Kanye's party." Mia says with a shrug.

"You met Kanye West?!" Chase gasps, his eyes almost bulging out of his head.

"Oh, I've gotta take this. Tyra Banks is calling." Mia says as she pulls her phone out again and runs out.

"I've gotta hand it to her, she knows people." Douglas says with a shrug.

"Ahh! My head, it hurts!" S-1 cries clutching her head.

"She's having another flashback!" Douglas shouts as he and Chase surround her.

"I'm starting to see Krane again! It's dark, he's angry-!" S-1 gasps.

"Run towards the light! It's your only hope!" Douglas screams, receiving odd looks from everyone.

"Is he saying anything about the doomsday virus?" Chase asks.

"No! Someone used the last of the battery acid and didn't replace it!" S-1 groans as she lets go of her head.

"It wasn't me!" Douglas shouts holding her hands up.

"There has to be a way to access this virus and disable it!" Chase groans walking over to the console.

"Good luck with that. He buried it in so many layers of encryption that it would take months to crack it." Douglas says.

"Well, do you think he ever gave her the code?" Chase asks motioning to S-1

"I know one way we can find out. When patients lose their memories, sometimes doctors try to recover them by re-enacting scenes from their past. If we can do that with S-1, maybe we can trigger the memories we need." Douglas explains.

"Yes! That's brilliant!" Chase gasps smiling at him.

"I know! I said it!" Douglas shouts back.

"Let's get to work. Whatever's in that girls head is the only thing that's gonna save all of us." Chase says as the two of them start to work away on the consoles, Leo stepping out of the hydra loop behind them.

"You!" Leo gasps, pointing an accusing finger at S-1.

"Who are you?" S-1 asks, a confused look on her face.

"Maybe this'll remind you!" Leo shouts as he begins to generate a laser sphere in his hands.

"Leo! No!" Chase yells, just as Leo fires the sphere at S-1 and knocks her out.

"What do you mean no? I just saved your butts!" Leo scoffs, a smug smirk on his face.

"No you didn't! You just dug our graves!" Chase snaps as he kneels down beside S-1, a concerned look on his face.

"Come on, wake up, wake up!" Chase groans as he frantically shakes S-1, who is still unconscious on the floor.

"So I leave for one afternoon and now everyone has hours to live? Why didn't you call me?" Leo asks.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I've been a little busy trying to find ways not to blow up!" Chase snaps glaring at him.

"I'm sorry, but that's simply not good enough." Leo says in a defensive tone.

"She's still out of it. Leo, how could you attack her?" Douglas groans turning to Leo.

"Look, with everyone around here flip-flopping between good and bad, it's hard to keep track. I have to stop myself from taking you out five times a day." Leo protests.

"Guys. Focus. We to have to find a way to revive S-1 before every bionic person here explodes!" Chase orders, just as his phone buzzes.

"Not now, FrizzyBizzy, not now!" He snaps as he shuts the phone off.

"Just to be clear, since we didn't have the Triton App, we're good, right?" Leo asks turning to Douglas.

"Yeah. In a few hours, you and I could literally be the last ones standing. Probably best to keep that to ourselves." Douglas mutters.

"She's waking up!" Chase gasps as S-1 begins to regain consciousness.

"Aaah!" Leo screams before firing another laser sphere at S-1, knocking her out again.

"Did you say 'she's waking up' or 'she has a knife'? 'Cause I'm just saying, those two sound very similar." He mutters as everyone glares at him.

"People of Earth, I, the late Adam Davenport, am on my way to breaking the world balloon-blowing record. Six hundred and eighty-five down four hundred and eighty thousand to go." Adam explains into the camera as he stands in the training area, blowing up yet another balloon.

"Chill." He chuckles as he drops the balloon to the floor.

"Adam, what are you doing?! Arggh! I told you, I'm having my party in here." Bree groans as she storms into the balloon filled room.

"And I told you I'm breaking a world record. Now back up and respect my balloon boundaries." Adam replies motioning to the balloons.

"No! Get rid of these! My guests are coming any minute!" Bree orders.

"I doubt it, not after that rude invite you sent out." Adam says.

"What rude invite?" Bree asks, a confused look on her face.

"Check your phone. It's right there." Adam says as Bree pulls out her phone.

"You're all dear to me so I'm having a party." Bree says as she reads the text.

"Read it closely." Adam says.

"You're all dead to me so I'm having a party?! Oh, no. I was in such a rush I didn't see the typo." Bree gasps.

"Yeah, you also spelled "Davenport" wrong." Adam adds with a smirk.

"No, I didn't." Bree says giving him an odd look.

"Agree to disagree." Adam mutters in a sheepish voice.

"I cannot believe this. All I wanted on my last day was to have a party with all my friends, and now I'm never gonna get the chance." Bree sighs.

"Hey, that's not true. They could still show up to celebrate your funeral." Adam says, receiving a piercing glare back from Bree.

"Cara, hold on a sec. Ok? Ok." Mia says as she walks into the room on her phone, receiving odd looks from her siblings.

"Cara Delevingne. Such a good friend, but she's kinda needy." She says turning to her siblings.

"I can still hear you." Cara says on the phone, which Mia quickly shuts off.

"I'm gonna die today anyway, no biggie." Mia says with a shrug.

"She's awake!" Chase gasps as S-1 begins to regain consciousness, Leo lunging for her instantly.

"Don't even think about it." Douglas orders pulling him back.

"Sorry I took you out. Twice." Leo says in an apologetic voice.

"Yeah, well, at least you didn't use your bionics full strength." S-1 replies.

"Yeah, that's right. I always dial it back for the ladies." Leo mutters, trying to hide the hurt look on his face.

"We think we found a way to stimulate your memories by acting out some scenes from your past with Krane. We're hoping that when he gave you the Doomsday virus, he told you how to deactivate it." Chase explains.

"So we're gonna reenact that moment. I'm gonna play Krane, and Chase will play you."

"Hold on. How come you get to play Krane?" Chase asks in an accusing tone.

"Because I knew him better than anybody. Plus, I do a spot-on impression. I used to kill at our dinner parties. And then he'd threaten to kill me." Douglas explains.

"Well, I'm definitely not gonna play S-1. No offense." Chase says looking over at S-1.

"Why not? Too much of a stretch for you to reach that level of macho? No offense." Douglas mocks, giving S-1 an apologetic look.

"Guys, we don't have time to argue. But just for the record, I do think you'd make a great S-1. You want to borrow Bree's boots? You can stuff some paper in there so they fit." Leo chuckles turning to Chase.

"Can we just do this?!" Chase snaps laying down on the desk.

"You're on an operating table in Krane's lab. It's dark. You're terrified. The madman approaches." Douglas says before he pulls out a piece of foil and puts it against his face.

"I'm Victor Krane, and I want to take over the world! I also told Douglas I'd take him on a vacation to the Florida Keys never happened! Now you." He cackles before turning to Chase.

"Ahem. Oh, no! Mr. Krane! Please don't give me, S-1, that bad, bad virus!" Chase yells in a mock girl voice.

"I don't suppose this is helping you remember anything?" Leo mutters turning to S-1, who is watching in horror.

"No. But it is making me hope that when I do blow up, I take these two out with me." S-1 says, receiving offended looks from Douglas and Chase.

"No offense." She says holding her hands up.

"So, when I saw how sad you were, I quit blowing up my balloons and tried to figure out a way to cheer you up." Adam says as he and Bree walk towards the mentors quarters.

"So you called all my friends from Mission Creek to convince them to come to the party?" Bree asks with an excited look.

"You bet! And they all said no. But don't worry. I got you the next best thing." Adam says as he leads her into the room, only to find a bunch of random people stood there.

"Surprise!" The people shout.

"Wow! Heh heh heh. Who are these people?" Bree asks giving Adam an odd look.

"Your new friends. Or, as I like to call 'em, random people I picked up on the pier." Adam chuckles motioning to all the people.

"Why would you do that?" Bree asks giving him a confused look.

"Because your real friends don't like you. We've been over this. Look, you said you wanted a party, and since no one was gonna come, I figured I had to do something. And don't worry. Took a lot less effort than it looks." Adam explains with a smirk.

"You know, Adam, in a weird way I am really touched. If this is my last day on Earth, I'm glad I'm going out knowing my brother loves me." Bree says patting Adam on the back.

"Hmm. And I'm glad I'm going out knowing all of our valuable possessions will be stolen by these lovely drifters." Adam says with a smile.

"Guys! Now, I know the age gap is pretty big, but Jennifer Lawrence wants to play me in my life movie! What do you think?" Mia gasps as she runs over to her siblings, her phone in hand.

"I think you need to give me all the numbers in your phone." Bree says giving her an odd look.

"Sorry, no can do. T-Swift doesn't want her number getting leaked." Mia says before walking off.

"How does she do it?" Bree mutters as she and Adam exchange shocked looks.

"Role playing didn't work, decrypting the virus didn't work I'm out of options!" Chase shouts as they stand in the common area, the timer ticking down fast.

"Hey, guys, any progress?" Adam asks as he, Bree and Mia walk into the room.

"Oh, great, more mess to clean up! This is useless! There's no fix." Douglas groans slamming his fists onto the desk.

"What do you mean there's no fix? I'm not having Krane's virus take me out. I'd rather have one of you guys do it." Adam protests.

"Oh, Adam, that's ridiculous." Douglas scoffs.

"He's right. If that virus takes me out, then he wins. I'm not letting him win." Mia says.

"I know what to do. A virus needs a carrier, and without the carrier, the virus dies." Chase gasps.

"So what are you saying?" S-1 asks with a confused look.

"We need to trick the virus into thinking we're dead." Chase says.

"Good idea. We'll be ghosts. Bree, go get the sheets. I'll cut out the eye holes." Adam says as he runs for the door, Bree pulling him back.

"If we give ourselves our own Doomsday virus, it'll shut down our bionic infrastructures." Chase explains.

"Great plan, Chase, except you forgot one little thing: We'll be dead." Bree says with a sharp look.

"Only temporarily. We can control our own virus. As long as Douglas starts uninstalling it right after it takes effect, none of us will actually die." Chase explains.

"So our lives depend on this guy? And we're all okay with that?" S-1 asks with a concerned look.

"The plan's too risky. We're not doin' it!" Douglas shouts as he walks across the room.

"We only have two minutes left! What else are we gonna do?" Chase protests following after him.

"There has to be another way! I have a firewall program on my old laptop. If the codes match, it could block the virus. I'll be right back." Douglas gasps before running out.

"We don't have time to wait. We have to install our own Doomsday virus." Chase says turning towards the console.

"I agree." Mia adds nodding to Chase.

"Attention, everyone! I'm about to wirelessly install a lethal virus into your chips. But I'm doing it to save you. And if for some reason it doesn't work, well, you can all forget about last night's homework." Chase explains, receiving odd looks back from the students.

"Chase, what are you doing? Don't you need Douglas to bring everyone back?" Leo asks with a concerned look.

"No. We have you." Chase replies.

"Who 'you'? Me 'you'?" Leo stammers.

"Yes, you. Look, Leo, don't worry. As soon as I send the virus to all of our chips, I'll tell you exactly how to uninstall it." Chase explains patting him on the back.

"Fine. But we only have thirty seconds left. Hurry!" Leo gasps as Chase runs towards the console, frantically typing away.

"Okay, the virus is installed. Leo, all you have to do is-." Chase says before he, his siblings and all of the students pass out.

"No. No. No! No. No. No." Leo stammers as he frantically looks at the students.

"What did you do?!" Douglas snaps as he storms into the room with a laptop.

"It wasn't me! It was Chase! I told him not to install the virus, but he did it anyway! He is trouble, that one trouble!" Leo yells frantically.

"Get out of the way!" Douglas snaps as he runs over to the console, typing even faster than Chase did.

"Krane's Doomsday virus deactivated. Now I'll just have to uninstall Chase's." He mutters as he finishes typing on the console, only to get no result.

"Why isn't anyone waking up?" Leo asks with a concerned look.

"I don't know." Douglas replies.

"What do you mean you don't know? They can't go much longer without oxygen!" Leo yells.

"It's not my virus! I'm doing my best!" Douglas cries as he shakes Leo's shoulder.

"Great job, Professor. Chase's virus is still active because you forgot to hit Enter." Leo groans pointing to the button on the console.

"Well, I probably didn't hit it because I was busy doing-." Douglas protests.

Hit! It!" Leo snaps before Douglas hits the button, everyone waking up with a gasp.

"We're alive." S-1 gasps as they all stand up.

"And no one blew up." Bree adds with a smile.

"The students in the training area! No!" Douglas yells as everyone runs into the training area, only to find Adam pooping balloons.

"Adam, what are you doing?" Bree asks giving him an odd look.

"Trying to make you think students were popping." Adam chuckles.

"Utter genius." Mia chuckles hi-fiving him.

"Don't just stand there guys. Help me pop!" Adam says looking over at the others.

"Eh, why not?" Bree mutters as they all begin to pop the balloons.

"Okay. All right, listen up. I know we're all having fun celebrating being alive and stuff, but your homework is due tomorrow." Chase says as he stands around the students.

"Only you could make being brought back to life a buzz-kill." Bree chuckles before everyone starts to pop the balloons again.

"Wait, so we're definitely not dead?" Mia asks turning to her siblings.

"No, Mia. We're not dead." Chase says giving her an odd look.

"I've gotta call George Lucas! He's got my will hidden in his toilet bowl!" Mia gasps as she frantically pulls her phone out of her pocket.

"Why has George Lu-you know what, it doesn't even matter anymore." Bree mutters with a shrug.

"I've got the tarp. I'm gonna go blow somethin' up." Douglas says before walking out, a large tarp in his hands.

"Hey, wait up! I wanna set off the explosion!" Mia shouts before running after him.

"Now I see the relation between those two." S-1 chuckles.

"Well, I'm happy to say we're all virus-free." Chase says as he finishes typing on the console, making all of the students cheer.

"Speak for yourself. I caught something nasty. That is the last time I buy used balloons." Adam groans rubbing the side of his head.

"Yeah. No, it's not." Bree mutters as she and her siblings walk off.

"So, does this mean we can finally put our past behind us?" S-1 asks turning to Leo.

"I guess. But just in case you decide to get all evil again, I'm rockin' a bionic leg now." Leo says as he puts his leg up on the table.

"I'm sorry. I want to be intimidated by you, but I just can't." S-1 chuckles, receiving a glare back.

"Look, let's just make a fresh start and see where it goes from there." Leo says with a smile.

"Deal. I'm just glad I'm not getting those flashbacks anymore." S-1 sighs.

"Hey! Guys, look, I found two more." Adam says as he runs back over, blowing the two balloons up with his nose.

"Hang around here long enough and you'll have plenty of other horrifying memories to replace 'em with." Leo mutters as the two of them look on with disgust.

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