Hello everyone! I am back with another new Lab Rats story! This one was inspired by TKDP's Mighty Med story "Just a Dream" which was an amazing story! If you haven't read it already, you should really check it out! It's hilarious! I wondered what would happen if the Lab Rats traveled into each other's dreams so this is what I came up with! Originally this was going to be a one-shot, but it ended up being too long that I decided to make it a multi-chapter instead! Also, this story takes place in the lab and not at the bionic academy! :D
Anyways, hope you enjoy "Dream Traveling!"
"Can I touch this?"
"No."
"Can I touch that?"
"No."
"How about this?"
"No."
"How about that?"
"No."
"What about–"
"For the last time, Leo, you can't touch anything!" Donald exclaimed.
"Why not?" Leo asked.
"Do I even need to explain?" Donald asked, rolling his eyes. "Now that you have a bionic arm, my fear of you breaking things has increased ten times."
"Oh, come on, Big D!" Leo made a pouty face. "I'm bored and I want to do something fun!"
"Isn't there something fun you can do that doesn't involve breaking anything?"
Leo thought for a moment then shook his head. "No, unfortunately there isn't."
Donald raised his eyebrow, confused.
Leo sighed and began to explain. "I played video games last week with Adam. I beat him in every game we played and he got so mad that he broke the TV and set the game console on fire. I haven't played video games for an entire week!"
Donald's eyes widened. "Wait, he broke the–"
"And then Chase and I arm wrestled three days ago. We made a bet and I ended up winning it. However, Chase got mad he lost and Spike came out. Not only did I lose the ten dollars I won in the bet, but I lost at least half of my superhero action figure collection due to Spike destroying my bedroom." Leo put a hand to his heart. "Rest in peace, Tecton, Blue Tornado, and Solar Flare. Rest in peace."
Donald opened his mouth to say something, but he was interrupted.
"Finally, yesterday Bree volunteered to do chores around the house for my mom. I decided to help her. We dirtied everything more than cleaned it. Bree's super speed glitched and she trashed the whole place with her cyclones. I still have the taste of soap in my mouth."
"How did I not notice any of this?!" Donald yelled.
Leo grinned. "Not only am I great at breaking things, but I'm great at disguising messes!"
Donald sighed, shaking his head. "Leo . . ."
"Point is, you have four kids that are bionic. When aren't disasters happening?"
"Leo, please, just sit at your Mission Specialist desk and play with your robot toys or whatever." Donald said.
Leo didn't budge. "I don't want to just sit around and be the background character! I want to be part of the action!" He picked up some of the inventions that were lying on the desk. "I want to play with stuff, like this invisibility cloak, this bionic chip signal interrupter, and this . . . thing!"
Donald took the invention out of Leo's hands. "Don't touch that! It's new!"
Leo's face brightened up at the mention of something new. "Really?! What is it?! What does it do?!"
"Please get out of my face. You're spitting on it." Donald stated. Leo apologized, immediately backing away. His father proceeded to explain. "It's a neurological scanner. It scans someone's brain and projects an image on a computer screen, showing what that person is thinking about."
"So . . . it's basically a dream showy thingy!" Leo exclaimed.
"No, it's a neurological scanner that scans the brain and projects an image." Donald replied.
"Still sounds like a dream showy thingy!" Leo said in a sing-song voice.
"Whatever. You're not going anywhere near it. It's a prototype and I don't want you to suddenly start Leoing things up again." Donald stated, putting the invention back on the desk.
"Right, okay. Gotcha, Big D! No touchy the dream showy thingy!"
"It's a neurological scanner!"
"Not as fun-sounding."
Donald rolled his eyes. "Anyways, Tasha and I are going out. Douglas will be watching you four while we're gone."
"You actually assigned us a babysitter?" Leo asked in disbelief. "You trust us so little?"
"Yes, goodbye now!" Donald rushed out of the lab.
Leo shrugged and grabbed the neurological scanner, a grin on his face. "Time to go dream traveling!"
"Leo, why did you drag all of us down here? Douglas was just about to tell us a story about when he and Mr. Davenport were kids." Chase said, walking into the lab.
"Trust me," Leo replied. "I am saving you from having to wash your eyes out with soap."
Bree groaned, looking bored. "Is there a point to any of this? I had something important I needed to do!"
"Let me guess, texting on your phone?" Leo asked. "Well, I have something even better than that!" He then pulled out the neurological scanner from behind his back. "Behold!"
"A helmet? Whoop-de-doo!" Bree exclaimed, rolling her eyes.
"It's not just a helmet! It's a neurological scanner!"
"Huh?" Adam asked, looking clueless.
"The brain." Chase replied.
"Right," Leo said. "You put this on and it scans your brain, projecting an image of what you're thinking about on a computer screen."
"So, it's a dream showy thingy?" Bree asked.
"Yes!" Leo exclaimed. "Finally! Someone gets it!"
"Leo, I don't think my brother would like you messing with one of his inventions." Douglas stated. "Besides, it looks like something a responsible parent would confiscate and not let their children play around with. Good thing I'm an uncle!"
Leo grinned. "Then let the dream traveling begin! Who wants to go first?"
Everyone turned their heads and looked at Adam, who was smiling and acting all innocent. "What?" He asked, noticing they were staring at him.
"I say we let Adam go first." Bree replied.
"Yes, I'd like to see what my son is thinking up there." Douglas said.
Chase looked skeptical. "Do we really want to risk looking inside–" He shuddered. "–Adam's head?"
"Well, the worst we could be seeing is a bunch of empty cardboard boxes. Let's do it!" Leo proceeded to place the neurological scanner onto Adam's head. "Okay, Adam, sit down and do nothing, got it?"
"Ooh! I'm awesome at sitting down and doing nothing!" Adam exclaimed, sitting down in a chair.
Leo found a button on top of the scanner and pushed it. It lit up blue and an image appeared on the screen of Mr. Davenport's computer. "It worked!" He exclaimed. "We can see what Adam is dreaming about!"
"Hmm . . . I wonder what would happen if you touched–" Bree gasped as she touched the neurological scanner and disappeared.
"Ah! Bree!" Chase yelled. "Where did she go?!"
Leo looked at the image on the computer screen. "Look!" He pointed to it. Chase and Douglas ran over and saw that Bree was in the image.
"Did she just teleport into Adam's dream?" Douglas asked, amazed.
"Yes!" Leo exclaimed. "It's amazing! Let's go after her!"
"No! No way!" Chase protested. "I am not going inside my brother's head!"
"Fine, then you can stay here and watch us have all the fun." Leo said. "Come on, Douglas! Let's do this!"
Douglas patted Chase on the shoulder. "Your loss, son." He then followed Leo over to where he was standing by Adam. Both of them touched the scanner and they immediately disappeared into the dream. Chase watched them appear in the image on the computer screen.
"Uh . . . I probably should join them. Just to make sure nobody messes anything up." He said. Chase sighed as he walked over to his brother and hesitated to put his hand on the scanner.
"I have to do this, but it's all Leo's fault if we get stuck inside Adam's head." Chase bit his lip and closed his eyes before finally putting his hand on the neurological scanner.
In Adam's dream . . .
Chase opened his eyes to find Bree, Leo, and Douglas standing on what looked like a bunch of white, fluffy clouds.
"What in the world?" He asked. "What is this?!"
Bree grinned. "It's clouds! Check this out!" She started bouncing up and down on the clouds like a trampoline. "Whee! This is so fun! Chase! You should so try this out!"
"So fluffy!" Leo exclaimed, bouncing alongside his sister.
"This definitely beats the trampoline Donnie and I had when we were kids!" Douglas replied. "Ours wasn't this bouncy!"
Chase frowned. "Guys! Quit goofing off! Aren't you the least bit freaked out that we're in a dream? More importantly, Adam's dream?"
"Are you kidding? I love Adam's dream! If this is what he thinks about all the time, I take back all the times I made fun of him!" Bree stated.
"I'm with Bree on this one!" Leo added.
"Ditto!" Douglas piped in.
Chase looked annoyed. "You three are so childish!"
Bree rolled her eyes. "Chase, stop being so serious and just have fun for once!" She grabbed her brother's arm and both of them bounced up and down on the clouds. "See? Isn't this fun?"
"No," Chase replied. "This isn't the least bit fun."
Bree frowned, planting her hands on her hips. "Are you for real?"
Chase grinned. "This is a lot of fun! I love this! Woo-hoo!" He exclaimed, doing a back-flip and landing on the fluffy, white clouds.
Bree smiled, jumping and flipping right next to her brother. The two siblings laughed as they laid on the clouds like a blanket.
Leo bounced over to his brother and sister. "Hey, where is Adam? If this is his dream, shouldn't he be here?"
Bree and Chase looked at each other and shrugged. They had no idea where Adam could be.
"Hey guys! Look at this!"
The three siblings turned to look at Douglas, who was pointing out in the distance. "There's a giant tower of hot dogs over there!"
"A giant tower of hot dogs?" Chase repeated. "Oh yeah, we're definitely inside Adam's head."
Bree squinted as she looked out in the distance. "Is that a nacho volcano?"
"Hey! I think I see a town up ahead! Let's go check it out!" Leo exclaimed.
The family then followed Leo through the mass of clouds and toward the town. As they were walking through the town, they saw multiple Adam doubles, greeting each other and smiling.
"Hello Adam!"
"Hi Adam!"
"Good day to you, Adam!"
"Hey Adam!"
"Hola Adam!"
"Aloha Adam!"
"This is seriously getting weird." Bree remarked, eyeing the many Adams.
"So, no one is fazed by the fact that the houses and buildings in this town are made out of bread?" Leo asked.
Chase walked up to one of the bread houses and picked a piece out of it, popping it into his mouth. "Hmm, multi-grain."
"Ooh, what's this one?" Douglas asked, tasting one of the buildings that was made out of food. He immediately spit it out. "Agh! Meatloaf! And it's rotten!"
The three siblings tried their best to stifle their laughter. Douglas glared at them. "Not funny! Let's just keep going and find Adam so we can get the heck out of here!"
The family then walked up to where there seemed to be a carnival going on. There were many different attractions and the Adam doubles were playing with them.
"Wack-A-Nerd?" Bree asked, looking at one of the attractions. "Chase, that looks just like you!"
"What?" Chase's eyes widened when he realized that Wack-A-Nerd involved wacking cardboard cutout heads of himself that popped up. "Seriously?! Adam still tortures me even in his dreams?!"
"Well, it's not as worse as Splat-A-Nerd." Leo commented, pointing to an attraction where Adam doubles were throwing tomatoes at a giant cardboard cutout of Chase.
The Adam doubles then turned around and gasped when they caught glimpse of the nerd himself. "It's Chase!"
"Wait, what?! Hey!" Chase exclaimed as the Adam doubles picked him up and carried him to what looked like a dunk tank. "No! No! No! You're not dunking me!"
The Adam doubles pumped their fists in the air and started chanting. "Dunk Chase! Dunk Chase! Dunk Chase!"
Chase looked at his siblings and uncle pleadingly. They just stared back, not doing anything. "I will have my revenge!" He exclaimed as the Adam doubles plopped him down on a platform above a tank with a shark in it.
Chase's eyes widened in panic. "A shark tank?!"
"Yup! Say hello to Dog! I stole him from a hospital!" Adam exclaimed.
"You stole a shark from a hospital?" Leo asked.
"Hey, it's my dream, I can do whatever I want."
"Wait, Adam? Is that really you and not just a double?" Bree asked.
Adam grinned. "Yeah! Hey Bree! I'm so glad you guys decided to jump into my dream! Now we can dunk the real Chase instead of the cardboard cutout one!"
"No! Don't dunk me!" Chase protested. "I do not want to be shark bait!"
"Don't worry! Dog is very friendly, aren't you, Dog?" Adam teased, tapping on the glass. The shark growled menacingly.
"That fish is no friend of mine!" Chase exclaimed. "Get me out of here!"
"Adam, please let your brother go. This may be a dream, but we don't want to risk anything happening that could tear a hole into the time space continuum." Douglas stated.
"How is that related to jumping into people's dreams?" Leo asked.
Douglas shrugged. "No idea, but I don't want to be going back into reality with half a Chase."
Adam groaned. "Fine . . ." He looked at the Adam doubles. "You can let him down."
The Adam doubles misunderstood what the real Adam meant and instead threw a ball at the target, causing Chase to fall into the shark tank.
"Chase!" Bree exclaimed, rushing over to the tank. Her brother popped up out of the water, failing around.
"Get me out! Get me out! Help!"
Bree grabbed her brother's arms and pulled him out of the tank. Chase was soaking wet and his shirt was in shreds. "What happened to you?" She asked, looking at him.
"A shark attacked me! What do you think?!"
"This is getting out of hand. I say we get our butts out of here before Adam decides to trap Chase in a cage full of lions." Douglas said.
Adam perked up. "Ooh! That gives me an idea!"
"Nope!" Leo exclaimed, grabbing onto everybody's hands and closing his eyes. Suddenly, everyone had teleported out of Adam's dream and back into the lab.
"How did you do that?" Bree asked.
"I just thought of the lab and here we are." Leo explained. He turned around to see Adam was still asleep with the neurological scanner on his head. "Should we wake him up?"
Bree nodded. "It'd be a good idea." She walked over and took the scanner off her brother's head. Adam immediately woke up.
"Hey guys! So, what happened?"
"You don't remember us jumping into your dream?" Leo asked, surprised.
Adam shook his head. "No, not really. Why? Were there aliens and spaceships?!"
"No."
"Oh, that's a bummer."
Chase sighed. "Before we do any more dream traveling, I'm going to change shirts." He then walked out of the lab.
Leo grinned, holding up the neurological scanner. "So, who's next?"
So, what did you think? Reviews are appreciated! See ya on the next chapter where we go inside another one of the Lab Rats' dreams! :D