Chapter One: Only the Beginning

Adam, Bree and Chase Davenport walks into the lab after finishing the mission they were just on, greeting Leo and Mr. Davenport. Adam walks up to Chase and slaps him on the back, "thanks Chase."

"For what? I didn't do anything."

"Exactly, best mission ever." Adam and Bree start laughing while Chase walks over to his capsule and changes out of his mission suit. Once he gets done he exits his capsule, as his siblings still laughing. He walks to the elevator and goes up to the main floor, and greets Tasha, who is Leo's mom and my step-mom, "Hi Tasha."

"Hi honey, are you hungry? I can make you something."

"No thanks, I'm not hungry."

"Are you sure? You just got done with a mission and you need to keep up your strength."

"I'm sure Tasha, but thank you anyway."

"Ok." Tasha moves herself into the kitchen keeping her busy while Chase goes to the couch in the living room and lay on it. A few minutes later Tasha comes over and sits a cup on the table next him, Chase looks over and asks Tasha while looking at the cup, "what's this?"

"Its' herbal tea, it helps."

"Thanks Tasha but I'm not thirsty."

"Just try it honey."

"Ok." Chase takes a sip of the tea and gives a smile to Tasha. Tasha moves back to the kitchen, preparing the ingredients for dinner when Adam and Bree comes up from the lab. Bree tells Tasha, "Hey Tasha, I'm going to the mall, ok."

"That's fine Bree."

"Sweet, later losers." Bree says this while looking at Chase, Adam also says, "I'm going to the park, see ya suckers." Adam also says this while looking at Chase for the last part before leaving the house. Chase gets up from the couch, takes his cup into the kitchen, sat it down by the sink and walks out the back porch and sits in one of the lounge chairs.

Leo comes up from the lab into the kitchen where he sees his mom by the counter, "hey mom, why did you make tea?"

"Made it for Chase."

"Where is he?"

"The back porch."

"Thanks." Leo pecks his mom on the cheek and grab the cup of tea and heads out to the back porch. He sees Chase on the lounge chair, Leo sits the cup of tea on the patio table and sits on the other lounge chair. "I don't want to talk Leo, just leave me alone."

"If you want to talk about anything, I am here for you."

"Thanks Leo, but I'm ok."

"Just drink the tea."

"Ok. I'll just sit here and read and drink tea."

"Ok." Leo gets up walks to the house, he opens the door and looks back towards Chase, Chase had picked up an e-reader and had started reading. Leo walks through the door and went to help his mom with dinner.

An hour later Leo walks out onto the porch, "hey Chase, dinner is ready."

"Thanks Leo, I'll be right there."

"Ok." Leo walks back and sits at the kitchen table when Chase walks in and sat down at the table asking Tasha, "Where are Bree and Adam?"

"They called, both of them are eating at the food court in the mall."

"Ok, so what are we having for dinner, everything smells good."

"We are having baby back ribs with baked potatoes, home style mac and cheese, baked beans, corn on the cobb and cornbread."

"Wow, what's the occasion?"

"No occasion, just thought that you kids should have something special, you all do so much and deserve a treat.

"Then shouldn't Bree and Adam be here too."

"I told them that we are having a special dinner, if they want to eat at the food court instead of at home then so be it, more for the rest of us. So tuck in and enjoy."

"Can I say something first."

"Of course you can."

"I just want to say thank you for everything, for teaching us what it is to be a hero, to be a person, you taught us what it to have a family, you became our dad without us realizing it, and Tasha, you became a mom to us, so thank you for all you have done for us."

"Chase, you don't have to thank us that is what being parents are all about, we love you unconditionally." With that said every filled their plates up with the food and ate their dinner while making idle conversation between the four. When everyone got done with their dinner, Tasha went into the kitchen and brought out half a gallon of vanilla ice cream and an apple pie. Leo went and got the dessert plates from the cabinet, Tasha cut the pie in fours and gave each one of them their piece while Mr. Davenport scooped out the ice cream. They sat down and enjoyed their desserts. Afterwards, both Chase and Leo cleared the table and went to the couch in the living room and played some video games.

One hour later, Adam and Bree came waltzing in with a smile on their face, "Hey Leo, hey dork." Adam said to them while going into the kitchen. Bree sits down on the couch, knocking Chase of the side of it onto the floor. Leo looks over to her, "hey, Chase and I were playing a game."

"Whatever, the games stupid anyways."

"You are being rude Bree."

"Well I can, I am your sister."

"Whatever," with that both Chase and Leo head down to the lab. When they get there, Chase goes to his capsule in the middle and changes into his nightclothes. After a few seconds, he exit his capsule and still see Leo in the lab with him, "I'm just going to do homework Leo, you can go back upstairs.

"That's cool, I have homework too. What are you going to work on?"

"Homework for history." Chase looks up to see a panic look on Leo's face, "what do you mean history homework." Both Chase and Leo are in the same history class, "oh, I'm working on the paper that isn't due for another couple of weeks."

"Oh," Leo calms down after that, "what are you doing your paper on."

"I'm doing it on the beginnings of the NASA program with emphasis on the mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions along with an emphasis on President Kennedy and his role in the program."

"Cool, I haven't figured out I'll do for the paper yet. I don't want to do either the civil rights movement or Martin Luther King Jr., I think those are to cliché and it will probably be done quite a few times, I also don't want to do the civil war or the American Revolution so I am stumped on what I want to do."

"What about something that has to do with world history."

"Well I thought about something to do with World War 2, but I just don't know, I think that will be done too, or at least the American side of the war."

"What about doing a comparison paper."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, Mr. Andrews said we can combine any two elements, so why don't you compare Adolf Hitler to a literature character."

"Yea, but which character and which literary reference."

"What about Tom Riddle from Harry Potter?"

"You think Mr. Andrews would approve."

"I would think so, he did say we can combine two elements together."

"Yea, that sounds interesting." At that moment, both Adam and Bree come down into the lab, "hey you two, doing some nerd studying," Bree says, "Yea, maybe you should do some, you might actually get better grades," Chase retorts back.

"Maybe if you notch down your geekiness, you might actually get a girlfriend." Adam pipes, "Ha, he will never get a girlfriend, he is not cool enough."

"Whatever, I'm going to bed." Chase climbs into his capsule and closes his eyes, while Adam and Bree goes back up to the living room, and Leo goes up to his room for the night.

The next morning, Chase wakes up a look at his siblings' capsules, seeing that they are still asleep, he walks out of his capsule and up to the kitchen for some breakfast. Once he get to the kitchen, he sees that he is the only one there, so he looks into the refrigerator for something to eat and picks up a selection of fruit, a piles strawberries, watermelon, grapes, orange slices, banana slices, pineapple and kiwi into a bowl and then pick up a container of strawberry and banana yogurt and dip some into a bowl, then he got a glass of apple juice and went to the bar seating. A couple minutes later, Leo comes down to the kitchen from his bedroom, his nightclothes still and rummages through the fridge getting the milk out along with a box of powdered sugar o's, he dumps the cereal in a bowl along with the milk and head to the bar and sat next Chase and they eat in companionable silence. Tasha comes in a few minutes later, hugs both Chase and Leo and greets them, "hello boys," Leo answers back, "hey mom, what are you doing up early."

"Donald has a meeting this morning, so I just got up when he did. You want anything else, I'm making pancakes for Donald."

"No mom, I'm fine with my cereal." Leo finishes up with his breakfast and gets up, "well, I'm going to get dress for school." With that, Leo walks back up to his bedroom while Chase finishes his own breakfast, gets up and out his dishes away, walk over to Tasha a give her a hug and went back down to the lab. There he sees Adam and Bree, with Bree panicking, "Chase, why didn't you wake me, now I'm going to be late for school."

"No you won't, you can get ready in your capsule and super speed to school."

"I like taking a shower and getting dress on my own, and Davenport doesn't like it when we use our bionics like that."

"Never stopped you before."

"Anyway, why didn't you wake us up?"

"It's not my job to wake you up Bree, you have to do that all on your own."

"Are you always this obnoxious?" Adam pipes up after hearing this question, "of course he is, just like being tiny and a fun-killer."

"Whatever, I need to finish getting ready. Chase gets into his capsule, the capsule changing him out of his nightclothes into a burgundy shirt, a burgundy and plaid button shirt, black jeans and back high top shoes. He gets out of his capsule and walk over to his book bag, grabbing it, he walks over to the elevator and went up to the living room where he sees Leo ready, he sees Mr. Davenport at the table eating breakfast, he calls out, "bye, Leo and I are going to school." Tasha replies back, "Ok honey, have fun." With that both Chase and Leo walk out the door and on their way to school.