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"The World's First Bionic Humans"

Freya's eyes were glued to the screen as she watched a video of Adam, Bree, and Chase fixing a ruptured pipeline. She was in shock, unable to speak, and didn't know what to do. Her body felt too many emotions to express.

Juliet stood next to her sister feeling confusion and anger. She wasn't sure what to feel. She knows Adam, Bree, and Chase, not to the level Freya does, but she feels betrayed and lied to. She was warming up to Adam, feeling like she could trust him, and now all that went down the drain.

"Freya," Juliet said, looking at her sister, who was in shock. "Freya!"

Juliet gasped, looking at her sister. "Yes?"

"Did you know?" Juliet asked her sternly and Freya swallowed nervously, knowing she couldn't escape this.

"Yes, I did," Freya admitted and Juliet looked away, feeling hurt. "You have to understand I made a promise to them to not tell anyone. Bree saved me from getting run over by a car and Chase protected me from getting hit in the face by a flying chair. Jules... I promised them. I was doing it to protect them. Their father, Mr. Davenport, made me swear on my life to never reveal their secret. Even to my own family."

Juliet shook her head, feeling tears forming in her eyes. "You're my sister, we tell each other everything."

"Juliet, you have to understand-"

"I understand enough to know that you don't trust me." Juliet pointed at her sister, making Freya lean back with a sorrowful expression. "I was finally trusting Adam and starting maybe like him. But now, I can never like someone who lied right me about who they are."

"With and without bionics, Adam is still the same ." Freya shrugged and Juliet rolled her eyes, not amused. "Now that their secret is out, they are in danger. Adam has mentioned to me that he wants you to know he is bionic, but there is a risk of exposing it. I was a huge risk and Mr. Davenport made it abundantly clear that no one else should know. You want to be mad? Be mad at him. Not Adam. Adam has done nothing wrong here."

Juliet pondered what her sister said and wiped her tears away, sniffling. Juliet was angry, but she understood Freya.

"I'm sorry," Freya added, fiddling with the hem of her shirt. "I didn't want you to get dragged into anything dangerous."

Juliet let out a big exhale and looked at her sister, who had a guilty look on her face and tears in her eyes.

"It's okay," Juliet said and pulled her into a hug, which made Freya sigh with relief. "You did it for good reasoning. Protecting people you love. I would do the same."

Freya smiled against her chest. "Don't be mad at Adam when you see him. He already thinks you don't like him."

Juliet scoffed and let out a chuckle. "Dumb cute idiot he is. I'm not mad at him."

The sisters pulled away and right then Adam, Bree, Chase, and Leo walked just to school. Everyone was staring at them or whispering about them and the group was confused about what was happening.

Freya approached them with worry and Juliet followed.

"What's everybody lookin' at?" Bree asked Freya, who gave her a sheepish look.

Perry turned to them with a tablet in her hands. "A new viral video. Guess what it's called? "The World's First Bionic Humans."

"What?!" Bree and Chase asked with shock.

"Wait, there are other bionic people?" Adam asked and the sisters shared a look. "Then why are we working so hard?"

"She's talking about us," Chase told his brother.

"Yeah, look." Perry shows the video to the group of them fixing the pipeline.

"That's yesterday's mission," Chase said and Freya put a hand on his shoulder, comforting him.

"Somebody filmed us," Bree remarked.

"Your secret's out. Everybody's gonna know you're bionic." Leo told them.

"Never mind that. Now I can't blackmail Daddy Big Bucks anymore. My gravy train just ran right off the tracks!" Perry cried out.

Bree looked around and saw all eyes were on them. "Everyone's looking at us."

Juliet stepped forward. "Quit your staring. So they're bionic. Get over yourselves!" Juliet yelled. "Beat it!" Most of the students walked away.

"Rest of you, get to class before they mow you down with their finger missiles." Perry threatened and Juliet rolled her eyes.

"How could this happen? What are we gonna do?" Bree asked with worry.

"I don't know. We're in big trouble." Chase remarked and Freya rubbed his arm.

"It's not your fault," Freya assured Chase and grabbed his hand.

"Wait! I know how we can fix this! We'll convince everyone the video was made with special effects. You know, like those fake videos Adam's always watching." Leo suggested.

"So "Giant Baby Eats Tokyo" is fake?" Adam asked with disbelief and sighed. "I should've known. Where are they gonna get a diaper that big?"

Juliet felt herself smile at his.

"Leo, that might actually work," Freya remarked with a smile.

"Well, first, we better go tell Mr. Davenport," Bree suggested.

"Is it okay that I go? Since you know..." Juliet awkwardly said.

The bionics shared a look and Adam nodded. "I vote yes!"

"Sure." Chase smiled and Juliet silently celebrated to herself with Freya smiling brightly, happy her sister can join her on this crazy adventure.

"Let's go," Bree said and they went to leave, but Adam stopped them.

"Wait, is "Giant Baby Eats London" fake too?" Adam asked. "Because I just sent 50 bucks to the victim's relief fund."

Juliet patted his arm and pulled him along as they all left the school.

——

~Davenport House~

The group walked into the house and Tasha, Davenport, Douglas, and Cassandra walked out. Freya and Juliet froze when they saw their mom.

"Mr. Davenport!" Chase called.

"We just heard," Davenport said.

"Mom?" Freya asked with concern and glanced at a confused Juliet.

"Mrs. Monroe, what are you doing here?" Chase asked the blonde woman.

"I came by to make sure everything was okay. You kids, alright?" Cassandra asked, approaching them and looked at her daughters.

"Cassandra here has known all along," Davenport confessed and the six kids were in shock.

"What?!" They all asked.

"You knew?!" Juliet asked. "Why am I the only one who didn't know?"

"When you date one the guy who created the bionic humans, you find out a thing or two." Cassandra chuckled sheepishly and this got a stunned look from her daughters.

"You and Douglas dated?" Freya asked and frowned.

"We sure did." Douglas grinned and put his arm around Cassandra, but she shrugged it off.

"And never again." Cassandra gritted through her teeth.

"I can't believe you dated Douglas." Juliet scoffed.

"Is Douglas your father?" Adam asked with shock.

"No!" Cassandra and Douglas denied quickly and Freya sighed with relief.

"Phew." Chase let out an exhale, relieved his possible future girlfriend was not his sister.

"I married much worse." Cassandra raised her eyebrows and Douglas nodded.

"I'll explain more later. But we have a bigger problem at hand." Cassandra assured her daughters, hugging them both.

"What are we gonna do?" Tasha asked.

"I say we sell Chase to the circus and use the money to start our new life," Adam suggested, earning a glare from Freya and Chase.

"Is this how Adam always it?" Juliet whispered to her sister.

Freya chuckled. "Isn't he charming?"

"Big D, I know how we can spin this," Leo told his dad.

"No, No. We're way past spinning this, Leo." Douglas protested, walking up to the tv. "That video is all over the news. Experts have verified the footage wasn't manipulated.

The video of the pipeline plays on the news.

"People all over the world are freaking out!" Douglas added.

"Oh, of course they are." Adam agreed. "They just saw Chase in a skin-tight mission suit."

"Freya likes it." Juliet teased and Freya blushed whacking her arm. Chase blushed with a small smile.

"Douglas is right. This is way too big to spin." Davenport agreed, walking behind Tasha.

"I can't believe this. You guys are the biggest news story ever, and I got scooped!" Tasha frowned and Davenport gave her a look.

Davenport checked the video on his tablet. "How could this happen?"

"I don't know. I did a thermal scan on the mission site. No one was there." Chase explained.

"Well, the footage from my Daven-Earth satellite says otherwise. See." Davenport showed the kids the footage from his satellite and zoomed in on the girl filming from the bushes. "Someone's standing right there

Chase frowned. "What? But I scanned the site."

"Yeah, well, you missed a spot, and now the entire family is in danger," Davenport remarked, walking to the kitchen. Chase had a look of sorrow and Freya held his hand, squeezing it.

Cassandra sighed. "Come on, Donald. He made a mistake. Could've happened to anyone."

"Yeah, not really. He's the only one who thermal scans." Adam shrugged and Chase glared at him.

"What's our next move?" Juliet asked.

"Give Tasha Davenport an exclusive interview?" Tasha asked with a grin and Davenport gave her a look. "It's my job to ask."

"Don't worry guys, I've prepared for this. I've got a safe house at a secure location, you three will hide there. It's got food, capsules, everything you'll need for a year's worth of survival." Davenport explained and Freya's face fell at the idea of not seeing Adam, Bree, and Chase for a year.

"A year?" Bree asked.

"We can't see them for a year?" Freya asked, now holding Chase's arm with her free hand.

"You three will have access to see them whenever you want," Davenport assured them and Freya and Juliet let out a sigh of relief. "And well, it's 343 days. After that, play rock-paper-scissors and eat the loser." Davenport walked by them and continued. "In the meantime, I'm gonna hold a press conference, and prove to the world you're not dangerous. When they're ready to accept you, you'll come home. Any questions?"

"Yeah, I finally decided to whiten my teeth," Adam mentioned and frowned. "Wait, that's not a question. So, yeah, no questions."

"Everybody get your stuff, we leave in five minutes," Davenport announced and the kids rushed off.

"I'm going to head home," Cassandra told her daughters, who turned to her. "We aren't going anywhere, but we have a cat that needs to be fed."

Cassandra left the house and Leo turned to Juliet.

"Want to see the lab?" Leo asked and Juliet nodded with a smile.

"Yes!"

Freya chuckled as they ran off and Freya caught up to Chase. Leo and Juliet went into the elevator and Freya stopped Chase.

"Chase," Freya said and Chase turned to her. She could see the distraught in his eyes and she took his hands. "It's okay. You made a mistake. It happens. Don't beat yourself up."

"Because of my one mistake, the whole world knows our secret and now we have to go into hiding." Chase reasoned with irritation.

"We are gonna figure this out," Freya assured him. "We seem to always do that. Please don't beat yourself over this. "

"Rey, I-" Freya cut him off by kissing his cheek gently and his face turned into a flustered one with a smile.

"I don't want to hear it." Freya pulled him to the elevator once it opened.

"If I talk more, will you do it again?" Chase asked still blushing.

"I'll do it with my fist instead," Freya smirked and Chase immediately became silent, looking at his shoes with a giant blush and smile.

——

Freya and Chase went down to the lab and Leo and Juliet were there. Juliet and Freya were helping the two pack stuff.

"I don't get it. I know I scanned the mission site. How did I not notice that girl?" Chase asked, placing his bag on the console.

"Yeah, it is weird." Leo frowned. "Usually, it's the girl who doesn't notice you."

Chase glared at him as Juliet grinned. "Freya does."

Freya blushed, giving her sister a look and Chase rubbed his neck, flustered.

Chase shook the feeling off. "You know what? I'm gonna check my chip log."

Douglas walks in as Chase checks the chip log.

"Guys, hurry up." Douglas rushed them and paused, turning to them. "See, this is why I should have raised you. Then you'd know how to abandon a building."

"I do." Juliet put her hand up and Douglas nodded with a grin.

"Nice."

Chase pointed at the screen and his chip log showed his scans of the site.  No girl is there. "Aha, look."

Leo frowned. "Chase is right. He did do a thermal scan at the mission site."

"That's weird." Freya folded her arms with confusion.

"Yes! I knew it! Still perfect!" Chase bragged and Freya rolled her eyes.

Leo matched up the time codes of the chip log and the satellite video. "Hey, look. The time codes match and that's the spot where the girl showed up on Big D's satellite footage, but on your chip log, she's nowhere to be found.."

Juliet and Freya share a look of confusion.

"That's impossible," Chase remarked. "Something weird is going on. I'm gonna go tell Mr. Davenport."

"Good idea. But leave out the part about being perfect. It just makes people wanna punch you in the face." Douglas advised.

"It does." Juliet nodded and Chase nodded with confusion before he left the lab.

——

~Monroe House~

Cassandra had finished feeding Cinnamon and was planning on heading back to the Davenport house as soon as she could. However, she has this odd feeling that she is being watched and sensed something wasn't right.

The aura around her felt off and she didn't like it. Cassandra picked up Cinnamon and carefully headed for the door, looking around to make sure she wasn't being followed.

Once she reached the front door, Cassandra put her hand on the door handle and went to turn it.

"Hello, Cassandra."

Cassandra took her hand off the handle and froze in fear at the voice that spoke. She knew that voice, she couldn't forget that voice. It was the same voice that almost killed her family many years ago.

Cassandra swallowed nervously and her body began to tremble, holding Cinnamon closer. She purred in response.

"Cat got your tongue?" The voice chuckled darkly and Cassandra felt a presence behind her. "I don't remember my wife being so quiet. You always spoke your mind."

Her blood boiled as he continued to talk. She wanted to turn around and knock him dead, but she couldn't do that now. It's different now. He isn't the same as he was then. He has the power to take her down with one flick of the wrist.

"What do you want?" Cassandra asked, refusing to turn around and face this man.

"Revenge. For you running away with our children." He seethed, getting closer to her and she shut her eyes, fear filling her body every second.

"You were no father to them." She mumbled angrily, tears welling in her eyes.

"Guess what? I'm about to show them what kind of father I could have been." He chuckled menacingly and Cassandra quickly turned, but he had geo leaped away.

Her nose scrunched with anger and she gritted her teeth together. "You'll never be their father Victor Krane."

——

Cassandra had returned to the Davenport house and outside the door were two secret agent guards. They blocked the doors and Cassandra folded her arms.

"Let me in."

"We are permitted to not let anyone in." The first guard told her.

"By who?" She asked.

"Agent Graham, ma'am." The second one replied. "Now, please back away or we will have to force you to."

Cassandra rolled her eyes and pretended to walk away for a few moments. Suddenly, she ran back over and tried to barge in, but the guards stopped her and showed her back.

She huffed, brushing her hair back. "You're good."

The guards didn't react and she tried to get in again, but they blocked her.

"I can do this all day, boys." She challenged.

Suddenly, the door opened, and inside was Agent Graham with a bunch of other guards and Adam, Bree, Chase, Davenport, and Tasha.

"Cassandra?" Davenport frowned. "What are you doing?"

"Trying to get in." She responded.

"You know this woman?" Graham asked.

"My son's girlfriend's mom." Davenport told him.

Chase got flustered. "We aren't dating!"

"Talking about me and Juliet. Duh!" Adam chuckled. "She doesn't know it. But she will."

"I know them! Can I please come in?" Cassandra asked. "I'm worried about my daughters. Please?"

"She's not bionic. She's our friend." Tasha told Graham and he thought about it, before sighing.

"Let her in." Graham instructed and the guards moved to the side, allowing her to walk in.

"Finally!" She said with relief and looked around for her daughters. She leaned toward Davenport with a hushed voice. "Where are my daughters?"

"In the lab." He mumbled back so no one could hear. "They are safe there."

——

In the lab, Leo, Douglas, Freya, and Juliet were watching on a screen of what happened upstairs. The bionic trio was ambushed by special agents and are now trapped with Tasha, Davenport, and Cassandra, unable to do anything, and Leo, Douglas, Freya, and Juliet were stuck in the lab, unable to help them in any way.

"We have to help them!" Freya exclaimed with worry.

"We don't stand a chance against those guys." Douglas objected.

"Well, then, I'll go rescue them myself." Leo declared and Freya snickered.

"You?" She grinned and Juliet chuckled.

"Yes! Me!" Leo remarked. "I can take down those guards."

"By fainting on them." Juliet joked and Douglas chuckled.

"I said that before." Douglas got serious. "The only way we can help them is if we don't get captured." The sound of the elevator was heard and Douglas pulled up the elevator footage on the screen. "Look!"

The four saw a couple of guards coming down in the elevator.

"They're coming in the elevator." Freya panicked and they started to run toward the tunnel but stopped when they heard footsteps.

"They're coming in the tunnel, too!" Juliet exclaimed.

"We're surrounded. You want me to blow up the lab again? I'm good at it!" Douglas suggested with a smile.

"What?!" Juliet asked with shock.

"I have a lot to tell you about," Freya told her sister, who was staring at Douglas with a frown.

"Let's make that plan B," Leo told him.

"Well, what's plan A?" Douglas asked.

"This." Leo pressed a button on the tablet to make the floor open, and the four fell through screaming as the agents ran in.

——

~Mission Creek High School~

The four ran into the high school for safety. Juliet suggested her and Freya's house, but Douglas feared that the agents would find them there eventually.

"We'll hide here till we figure out our next move," Douglas told them.

"Aw, man. School is our safe place?" Freya groaned.

"Yeah, you know things are bad if school is our safe place," Leo mentioned.

"What a downgrade." Juliet folded her