It is not the most interesting part of the story, but this chapter is very important for the following chapters. This chapter takes place in the past, but the following ones aren't going to.

Prologue

(7th October, 2010)

Eddie popped on his lab interface.

'Hello, laser brains! How're you doing today?'

Bree and Adam groaned- they really didn't like Eddie.

'What do you want, Eddie?', Bree asked combatively.

'Yeah, we don't like you!', Adam added.

'I don't like you either, but- Eddie made a pause- Donnie wants you in the sitting room... NOW!'

Eddie vanished and the screen went black.

'Oh I can't believe that I'm going to leave this damned lab!', Bree said, visibly excited.

'Yeah, I want to go upstairs, too and I'm going to, finally!', Adam added as he always did, trying maybe to agree with Bree all the time. 'What shall we wear, Bree?'

'Time for fashion!', Bree cried, jumping with Adam as they were two schoolgirls. 'I know!', Bree exclaimed. 'We shall wear what we do now!'.

'Bree, you're a genius!'

'I know, I know Adam. You know what would be fun?!'

'No, what?', Adam asked, visibly interested.

'If you showered yourself! You smell worse than a pig!'

Adam looked totally indignant.

'I don't... I...', he stopped himself when he sniffed his armpit.

'Oh man, you're right!'

Some minutes later...

'Why did you call us here?', Bree asked a cheerful Mr. Davenport.

She was cheerful too! She loved being out of the lab and she also liked the sitting room-it was so big and coloured...

'Because I want to present you somebody!', he cried happily. And then, pointing his arms towards a place near him, where there was no one, said: 'I present you... Ch... Wait, where is he? Donald ran towards the door and opened it loudly, shouting a really funny name, the name of running after somebody and not letting him alone. Bree chuckled at Adam and Adam grinned back at Bree. 'Did Mr. Davenport run mad?' Bree smiled at her sibling. 'I have this certitude for a while.'

Their session of gossip was interrupted when Mr. Davenport returned holding a short skinny boy with brown spiky hair. He was wearing a checkered shirt in blue and green. "Quite casual this boy is.", Bree thought. But what she really found interesting was the boy's face-it was so serious, with no expression. His eyes looked dead and his whole face, even the boy's way of being was too mature for his age.

'Now, I'd like to present you your little brother, Chase Davenport.'

Bree and Adam startled. 'Wait, what? Do we have a brother?'. She couldn't believe what she have heard. Mr. Davenport nodded in confirmation. 'But... But... This can't be possible!', Bree tried to argue, but then an idea struck her: 'If he's our brother, than why didn't we live with him before?'.

As always, Adam tended to agree with his younger sister.

'Well,', Mr. Davenport said, 'Chase had some problems with his bionics when he was little, so it was crucial for him to train alone. He lived in Canada for years, so that's why this is the first time you remember to meet him. I mean, Bree was one whwn Chase was created and Adam was two.' Donald smiled to himself- the years when Adam, Bree and Chase were together were the nicest, but he had to take Chase away for his own good, though he always thought that something inside Chase's soul was broken...

'OK, I got to go to the lab for some minutes, in the meanwhile chat... I really hope that you three will get along well.

'Well...', Bree tried to start the conversation, but she didn't know how to behave with her new found brother. 'how old are you?', she asked Chase.

'11, ma'am.', he said as he was a soldier.

'Bree, my name is Bree and this is Adam-she said pointing her index finger to her elder brother.

'Nice to meet you!', Chase said as polite as he could.

Adam tried to take Bree's initiative: 'So you're from Canada, huh?'

'Affirmative, mr... Adam.', Chase remembered quickly.

'And how big was the igloo you lived in?', Adam asked.

Chase was bewildered by the question. At first he thought that Adam was joking, but his elder brother's expression suggested that he was serious.

'No, we don't live in igloos. And anyway the climate is quite warm. During summer there are temperatures of 45 degrees.'

'Oh poor you!', Bree exclaimed. 'It must be freezing cold in Canada.'

'You think so?', Chase asked suddenly interested. What's your maximum temperature, then?'

'About 102 degrees.'

'What?', Chase asked. 'But I haven't seen water boiling on my way here!'

'But...', Bree understood nothing. Water boils at 212 degrees.

'Wait,', Chase said, 'are we talking about the same scale of temperature.'

'Fahrenheit.', Bree said.

'Oh, then in Canada the maximum temperature is of about 113 degrees Fahrenheit and 318.15 degrees Kelvin.'

'WOW! You're a genius!', Adam exclaimed.

'Yes, it's one of my bionic abilities.'

'And your bionic abilities are...?', Adam asked.

'As far as I know, I have super smarts, super senses and a forcefield.'

'Interesting!', Bree said, though she thought the opposite. 'Well, I have super-speed and agility and Adam has super-strength and eye-laser vision.'

'Wow!', was all Chase said before they were interrupted by Mr. Davenport's coming in the sitting room.

'Glad you like your little brother. Come in the lab, now that I prepared you capsule, Chase.'