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The alarms were blaring in Chase’s head before he even woke up.
Because before he was human , he was a very intricate system of technology that was attached to his flesh. In his flesh and also all around it.
The system detected an intruding device attempting to infiltrate through an app during the reboot. The reboot which had been caused by Chase desperately activating two abilities at once during a dire moment.
He took notice of his surroundings to see himself up someone’s shoulder, swaying slightly.
He knew it was likely Adam , being able to easily hold him on his shoulder as if Chase was nothing more than a sack of cotton.
Though Bree would probably argue she could hold him too , given with Chase’s “dainty” figure.
Chase’s sacrifice had been worth it it seemed. He located their current position and they were miles away from where he'd felt his consciousness slip.
He saw his sister was walking slowly behind them as he raised his head, picking up his sight from Adam's backside.
Her eyes lit up when she noticed, washing away the concern when she saw Chase conscious again.
“Chase! You’re okay!?” She beamed and the older brother stopped in his tracks to gently lower the younger one down.
Chase nodded slightly as he sat down in a stool nearby looking around to see they weren’t far from the davenport mansion. It was still a risk to have walked all the way from Krane’s facility though.
“Why didn’t you speed us through home? Krane might be onto us.”
Chase said , calculating every possibility as per usual.
Bree rolled her eyes “You know what’s more tiring than dragging someone while you run? Dragging one person who is twice your size and another who is unconscious. We decided to walk when we got in Mission Creek.” she threw her arms in the air in frustration.
Adam laughed “All I’m saying is we would have been here , hours ago if I had superspeed.” He said while flexing his arms in the annoying way only Adam knew how to.
“If you had superspeed THEN I WOULD HAVE SUPERSTRENGTH, genius!” Bree was quick to reply but Chase could no longer pay attention. He realised what the Alarm in his head had been ringing about.
Even normally , Chase was the one who had more control over his siblings bionics. Be it the fact that he simply understood how bionics worked better so such control only belonged to the smart one , or maybe because he had been the last subject so they had both been linked to him as a last minute decision. That said, thanks to the override app he had the ability to overwatch and slightly modify their chips , reboot their system , send commands , or even control their bionics when necessary. The override app was also one of the reasons why Chase was able to locate them at all time without needing the control panel that Mr Davenport used.
The triton app had been downloading into each of their systems while on the way back and Chase could only assume Douglas had found a way to access their systems when they were locked up in Krane’s facilities and could now activate it remotely.
Adam , being subject A , chase thought, was closer to having the triton app fully downloaded, while on bree , subject B, it was significantly less than him. Chase still had more time than both of them and he’d only realised it was loading due to the fact that his chip had rebooted once he had fainted , allowing the system to notice anything out of the ordinary.
He realised he could probably override the triton app on Adam and Bree with his override app and temporarily block out Douglas while he found a more reliable solution , seeing as Chase wasn’t able to override his own system into blocking out the triton app.
And well … if Chase could control Adam and Bree, and Douglas was able to control Chase… that didn’t really help their case even if only he had the triton app plaguing his brain.
Bree shook him out of that train of thought when she stopped bickering with Adam and turned to Chase who had zoned out , concerned.
“Are you feeling unwell Chase?” She said , the fear of seeing her brother’s system explode by having used two abilities at once, not having resided yet. “We should go inside so Mr Davenport can examine you and you don’t … explode.” she motioned with her hands.
“Wait, what you said about exploding isn’t real right? Cause I was wondering what would happen if my flame vision mixed with my blast wave and I am so ready to try it out.” Adam said , practically jumping in joy.
Bree rolled her eyes.
Chase turned to Adam , put his hand on his temple and Adam dropped on the floor next to him.
Bree looked at him confused. “Now I know He’s annoying but you didn’t need to-“
Chase turned to her , his hand still to his temple.
“Sorry Bree, no time to explain”
Her face was a mix between horrified and confused before she dropped next to Adam unconscious.
Chase made the effort to lay them comfortably on the stool and probably even make them look a bit normal to anyone that might pass by, though they lived in a pretty remote area of Mission Creek.
He took a seat where he had been before and closed his eyes, attempting to access the inner workings of the Triton app on Adam’s system.
He calculated that no matter how long it took to figure out on Adam , as long as it was within 45 minutes and 42 seconds , which was the time the app would finish uploading on Chase , it would take even less than a quarter of that time to apply the dismantling process to Bree and Chase’s systems and have them free of that app permanently.
And Chase was sure he would be able to do it.
He had been studying that app ever since the first time Douglas had threatened them with it. Though at the time it was dormant and he was not able to access it properly he had come prepared, and Chase was the smartest man in the world after all.
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He had been fairly sure he would be able to outdo his father in this matter , at least 30 seconds ago before he had come to the horrifying conclusion that he wouldn’t be able to dismantle it on time.
Chase understood where the difference between his smarts and Douglas’ smarts stood.
Surely Chase was able to know and understand anything and everything, remembering information he had learned as a kid and solving any problem that came his way.
But Douglas was strategic and sneaky. He had designed Chase to be able to know how to dismantle the app , but had made the app in a way that it was impossible to do so without spending much time on it. Time that Chase didn’t have.
That’s the conclusion he came too as he realised that the triton app had been created along with integral parts of their bionics. They were created to have been controlled by Douglas, and that’s just how it was.
By integral part of their bionics he also meant that the app was designed accordingly for each system, and it would take Chase the same amount of time for each.
It would probably take years before a normal person was able to change their whole system, dismantling the triton app, and it would take chase significantly less but not significant enough to be able to save them right now.
He was panicking as the mental alarms in his head started blaring. He had around thirteen seconds before he would be in Douglas’ control and his siblings were still unconscious, not that they would be very effective against Chase with the override app that he possessed.
That’s where chase got an idea. or rather he settled on a more realistic solution. He took some time to work on his own system but the thing he focused on right now was his override app . He blocked the override app , hoping it was strong enough of a block to stop Douglas from enabling that too. As he realised he still had some time before it would all turn to black and he caused destruction he wasn’t aware off , he ran away as far as possible from where Adam and Bree were . He was going to be possessed by two diabolical maniacs and he realised they should have a head start.
For the first time chase wasn’t calculating , he was hoping that Mr Davenport would figure everything out and save him from the burden of doing too much damage.
He ran away like a lunatic , his eyes burning as tears ran down his face.
He couldn’t get too far but his siblings had already woken up.
They would go inside, strategize with Mr. Davenport , and they would bring him back.
Chase had been too prideful to understand there was a reason Mr. Davenport hadn't been able to do anything about the triton app , even having known about it since way before them. He was the smartest man alive, so why was he always making decisions based on his complex and unpredictable emotions. If he was the smartest man alive, why did Chase never know any better?
It was becoming harder to breathe as he ran.
Once again , he had not been able to escape his creator. That father and the purpose for which him and his siblings had been created.
They were weapons with a bunch of unnecessary feelings to him, the sting of which burned in his eyes and rolled down his face .
Then it all went black.