It has been awhile, I know. But here is the first episode part of the third season.

I understand No Going Back is Season Two. But I moved it here.

"I'm so glad that school's over," Bree states as the four walk down the stairs, "Mrs. Thistle talked for an hour in history. She's ninety, should she really be wasting that breath?"

The reach the end of the stairs, where Adam jumps over the last few steps. Astrid doesn't comment on Bree's rant, but she is also happy for school to be over. Trent was a pain to have around now that he's the gym teacher, among other problems with school.

The group starts for the doors, when they see a line of students. "What's all this?" Chase asks.

Perry turns around, holding a bucket, and sees them. "Listen up frog spawn," she says, "Security check. Put all metal objects in the bucket. Then, proceed to the wands for a more, thorough search," she says with a laugh.

"Principal Perry, what's going on?" Bree asks.

"Someone's been stealing laptops from the computer lab. So I'm going to bust the perp. Or perps," she adds, looking at the group. "Bottom line, no one leaves this school without going through those metal detectors," she points to the lunch ladies with the wands.

The bionic trio look at each other.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna sort through your loose change and have a little heart to heart with the vending machine," Principal Perry walks away, digging through the bucket.

Bree turns to her brothers and friend. "Guys, we cannot get wanded," she says, "Those things will go crazy when they detect our bionics."

"Well, Astrid can," Adam says.

"What are we going to do? She's totally going to bust us," Chase says.

"Bust ya for what?" Perry says, appearing next to Chase's right shoulder. Chase turns to her, while everyone else tenses up. "What're you hiding Little Bo Peep?"

Bree comes to his rescue, "Um, heh, he's not hiding anything."

"Well, he does have an unusually large birthmark on his left hip," Adam states. Astrid looks at Chase. And by the way he's looking at Adam, he's right. "You stare at it long enough and it kinda looks like Justin Bieber."

Chase nods over in Astrid's direction and makes a 'cut it' motion, hoping Adam will shut up. Principal Perry starts to push Chase to the wands, "Let's go."

"I.." He can't do anything but follow. All the other students have gone through.

"Empty your pockets," Perry demands.

"Principal Perry, I-"

"Comply perp!" Chase sighs and puts his wallet in the bucket. "Want him."

He stands there, inwardly groaning at what comes next. The metal detectors start at his ankles and the lunch ladies move them up. Once they reach his neck, they start to beep louder.

"Well what do you know," Perry states, looking at the others. Chase looks at the ceiling tense. "We got one. Flank him, girls. The little ones always put up a fight." Two lunch ladies move Chase away. Bree is next, and the same thing happens to her and Adam.

Finally, it's Astrid's turn. She puts her backpack down and walks over. She looks at the others. "..We'll be okay," Chase assures. Astrid smiles faintly and turns back.

She's wanded, but nothing comes up. "I guess you're good to go," Principal Perry says, sad that she didn't get another perp to punish.

Astrid picks up her backpack, then looks at the others, "See you guys back home, okay?"

"Yep, see you soon," Bree says. Astrid leaves, scared for her friends.

Astrid walks into the house and Mr. Davenport is on the phone. She walks to the stairs, while hearing the words 'assets,' 'company,' and 'hacker.' She climbs the stairs, passing Leo's room.

He sneezes. "Hey Leo," she says, stopping for a moment.

"Hey.. Astrid," he mumbles, "Where are the others?"

"Just.. at school. They should be back soon though," Astrid says. She walks to her room and puts her backpack down. She looks at the picture of her dad that she left on her desk. It's him and her. She's about eleven in that picture, but he doesn't look any different than when she last saw him, minus a few gray hairs. 'He must have got them from raising me,' she chuckles.

She smiles sadly, then looks at the picture next to it. It's her host family. She still has her mom out there somewhere, so it's not like they can adopt her. But.. she's glad they can't, for her own reasons.

Astrid walks out of her room to get a snack. "-So now you're going to start listening to me!?"

Chase?' Astrid starts to the stairs, but once she gets to the bottom, the team is nowhere in sight. Someone is ringing the doorbell.

"Am I the only person capable of answering the door?" Tasha asks, walking over to it from the hallway.

A guy in an FBI jacket is standing there. "FBI, I need to see Donald Davenport."

Tasha smiles stiffly. "Donald! You'd better come downstairs!" Tasha calls up the stairs, "The FBI is here!"

"Tasha, have you seen Adam, Bree, or Chase?" Astrid asks. Tasha looks at her.

"Uhh, no. Didn't they come home with you?" Tasha asks. Astrid shakes her head. "I'm sure they are here somewhere, Astrid."

"..I'll go check on Leo," Astrid says.

"Donald!" Tasha yells again.

Mr. Davenport arrives at the door. "Mr. Davenport, I got your call about your company," the agent says.

Bree slows down once they reach the lab and the three skid around the corner. Chase looks back at his siblings. "Guys, what are we gonna do!?"

Adam gawfs, "What are you worried about? You're so small they probably won't even see you."

Chase stares at his brother, "Adam, is this really the time to be making short jokes?"

"Chase, there is never not a time because like you, life is short," Adam says. Even Bree is annoyed at his response, rolling her eyes.

"Will you stop it," she says, poking Adam in the chest, "The FBI is upstairs ready to drag us away and who knows what they'll do to Mr. Davenport." She looks between her brothers, "We have to do something, fast."

Chase sighs and walks slowly to the middle of the room, "Do you guys remember the conversation we had a long time ago. ..When we first started living as normal kids?"

"The one you told me to forget and never bring up?" Adam asks, "No." He winks.

"The one where we made a 'last resort' pact if anyone ever discovered our bionic secret."

Adam waits a beat, "I don't know what you want me to say, did you not see me wink?"

Chase ignores the statement, and solemnly states, "It's time. We have to protect ourselves. ..And Mr. Davenport." He holds his hand out, "Are you in?"

Adam thinks a moment, then puts his hand on Chase's, "I'm in."

They both look at their sister. "Bree?" Chase asks.

"Our lives will change forever," Bree states, hesitant to give it all up.

Chase sighs one person entering his mind. "..I know."

"But there's gotta be another way to-"

"Bree," Chase says firmly. She looks at him. He shakes his head. "We have no other choice." He has a pained look. She knows what he's been hiding. She knows that Astrid knows too. Neither of them wanted to tell the other, and now that is beating Chase to his core, she can see it. He's hiding behind the mission leader calmness, but he's never been this bothered by a decision he had to make.

If he can do this, so can she. She walks over and sets her hand on Adam's, "I'm in."

Leo and Astrid walk down the stairs when the front door closes. "Hey Big D, where's your friend from the FBI?" Leo asks.

"He just left. I gave him all the information, but he said this hacking is beyond anything he's ever seen before," Mr. Davenport replies, waving his arms horizontally, "It's going to be weeks before they have any leads." The mogul sits on the couch.

There's a knock at the door. It pauses for a second, but then it happens again. Mr. Davenport sighs and stands up to answer it. It's Principal Perry.

"Principal Perry, what are you doing here?" Mr. Davenport asks.

"Does our front gate even have a code?" Leo asks him.

"You don't run a women's correctional facility without learning how to scale a few walls," she tells them. "Anyhoo," she says, walking in. "I just want to stop by, say hello.." she drags on. "And tell you that I know your kids are bionic!" She yells, turning around.

Everyone is silent. Perry keeps nodding and trio that live there stare at her. Then Mr. Davenport starts fake laughing. "Bionic," he says, like she's crazy.

He looks at Leo and Astrid. They go along with what he's doing.

"What- I don't- what are you talking about?" Mr. Davenport asks, "I don't think so. Just because a child-" he wraps an arm around Leo, "-says they are bionic-"

"The big one shot lasers from his eyes, the girl ran faster than lightning, and the stumpy one could move things with his mind," Perry explains.

Leo and Astrid look at Mr. Davenport. "Oh yeah, she's got you," Leo states.

"Where are they?" Astrid asks. Perry shrugs.

"What do you mean?" Mr. Davenport asks.

"They had to stay behind at school, that's where she must have seen their bionics," Astrid states.

Perry pokes Leo lightly, "Is he bionic too?"

"Seriously, look at him," Mr. Davenport states. Leo looks at him, offended.

"What about her?" Perry asks, nodding to Astrid.

"If I was bionic, you would know by now," Astrid states, "I went through your metal detector. ..I thought I heard Chase earlier.."

"Their probably in the lab. Leo go downstairs and bring Adam, Bree, and Chase up here, now." Leo scampers away with his tissue box. Astrid goes with him.

They arrive at the lab, but no one is there. "Are you sure you heard them?" Leo asks.

"Yes, I heard Chase." Leo gives her a look. "No, that's not what I mean," Astrid says. Leo knows she's daydreamed before.

Leo shrugs, as if to say 'agree to disagree.' They look around, and find an invention just sitting on the console. "What's this?"

Astrid picks it up. "It's for everybody." She looks at Leo. "Let's show Mr. Davenport."

They race back upstairs. Perry is gone and by the look on the adults' faces, things got worse in their absence. "Big D, we have a problem," Leo says.

"Leo, Astrid, where are Adam, Bree, and Chase?" Mr. Davenport asks.

"..We found this in the lab." Leo sets it down. A hologram pops up of all three bionics.

"Hello, testing testing," Adam says, leaning forward a little. "Echo, e-cho-" he stops when Bree shoves him.

"Mr. Davenport," Chase speaks up, "we really messed up."

"We didn't mean to expose our bionics to Perry," Bree continues, "But.. she was in danger and we had no choice."

"You trained us for any mission," Chase picks back up, "and right now, the mission is survival. Yours and ours."

"I mean, if we're not around, there's no proof we exist," Adam points out, "so.. We're leaving. For good."

Astrid gasps at that. "..Thank you, for all that you've done for us," Bree says, "You made us who we are. We're sorry we let you down."

Bree reaches for the device to turn it off. "Wait," Chase says, stretching his arm out. Bree and Adam look back at him. Chase looks straight at where the camera must have been. "Astrid, I'm sorry that you had to lose a few friends," he starts, "But I promised that you would be taken care of. That includes protecting you. If this is how it has to be.. at least you are safe."

"What he means-" Bree starts to interject.

Chase clamps a hand on his sister's mouth. "To put it simply," he looks back up, "I love you, Astrid Feire." The video turns off.

Astrid stares ahead of her and starts to tear up. Tasha wraps an arm around her. "We need to find them," Mr. Davenport says.

"I already tried," Leo says, "they must have disabled their GPS signals. There's no trace of them anywhere." Leo looks at Astrid, "..They're gone."

Mr. Davenport is down in the lab, looking at the capsules. Astrid came down with him, sitting at the rock wall. She remembers one time that she had climbed up it, but fell and landed in Adam's arms.

She chuckles weakly, thinking about Chase's response to the incident. She didn't know why he'd get so worked up, but now she understands. "To put it simply, I love you, Astrid Feire," were his exact words. She wishes he'd tell her in person someday.

"The guy from the bank says we need to leave now," Leo says. Astrid looks around the corner, seeing him at the entrance to the lab. "They're changing the locks on all the doors." Astrid stands up slowly and walks over to the main area of the lab.

"I can't believe they're gone," Mr. Davenport says. Astrid changes course and sits in the middle capsule. She brings her knees to her chest.

She wants them all back. She wants to hear Chase say those three words to her face, to hear him say her name again. Or a uber nerdy science pun that no one laughs at but her.

"I should have been at school today," Leo says, "It's my job to watch out for them and I didn't. It's all my fault."

"It isn't your fault Leo," Astrid says. Mr. Davenport and Leo look at the girl in the capsule. She looks up at them, tears in her eyes, "It's mine."

"Astrid, get out of there," Mr. Davenport says with gentle direction. He walks over to help her. She doesn't fight back, but makes it hard for him to lift her out.

"I was at school today and I did nothing. I should have know that something would go wrong," she argues.

"It is not your fault," Mr. Davenport states. Astrid sits at the console. "It isn't theirs, either. I've gotta find them." He goes to his cyber desk and tries to activate it. But nothing happens. "I can't even use my cyberdesk." He walks to the console that Astrid is at. "Who is doing this to me!?"

"It's obviously a tech whiz that will do anything to destroy you. Someone with intimate knowledge of your life and Davenport industries-" Leo looks up. "Wait a minute, I know who it is."

Mr. Davenport and Astrid look at him. "Who?" Astrid asks.

"It's your brother," Leo tells Mr. Davenport.

"Douglas?"

"Leo, that's impossible," Mr. Davenport says with an Epad in his hand, "we froze Douglas in a block of ice. He's under twenty-four hour security in my most remote off shore facility. See?" Leo walks over and looks at the footage. "He's gone, but.. how?"

Astrid stays where she is. She listens to the guys as they review the footage.

"If Douglas escaped, that means Adam, Bree, and Chase are in real danger. We all are," Mr. Davenport tells the teens.

"You sure are, Donnie!" They all look at the wall of screens, where Douglas' face is on every single one. "Ha ha, I'm back~!" He sings, laughing evilly.

"..Yeah Leo already figured that out," Mr. Davenport says, pointing to the boy. Astrid gets off her stool and looks at the evil genius warily. She prefered him frozen.

"Anyway, I just thought you should know that it was me that did this to ya," Douglas states, "Well, I had a little help. And now that I'm free, I think I'll spend some quality time with my three wonderful kids!" Astrid tenses up at the mention of the bionics.

"Those are my friends!" She yells.

"You go anywhere near them, it'll be the last thing you ever do!" Mr. Davenport warns immediately after.

"They're mine, Donnie!" Douglas argues.

Mr. Davenport rolls his shoulders, "I'll find them first."

"Good luck, that's going to be a little difficult without your lab," Douglas holds up a large red box with a switch on it. He starts to chortle again.

"That's a detonator, run!" Astrid and Leo run as fast as they can for the elevator, Mr. Davenport not far behind. The explosion propels them into the metal box and the doors close before it gets to them.

Astrid sits up from her spot on the floor and scoots to the corner, trying to catch her breath. Mr. Davenport looks at both Leo and Astrid, assuring himself that they are okay. Leo moves over to Astrid and offers his arms. She accepts his comforting hug. Mr. Davenport stands up and checks the phone.

"The phone is dead," Mr. Davenport tells them. He drops it to the ground. He turns to look at them, "Hopefully the sprinkler system extinguished the fire before it spread to the rest of the house."

Astrid pulls out of the hug, feeling a little better. "So we're trapped in here? What are we gonna do?" Leo asks.

"I'm working on it Leo," Mr. Davenport assures. Astrid stays silent as Leo reminds Mr. Davenport that they are running out of assets to use to find the team. Only when his loss of money does he sit on the floor and start sobbing. "I'm crying about the kids," he tells Leo.

Astrid curls up tighter. She doesn't like it that she buckles under pressure like this. But she was almost caught in a fiery explosion, her friends are missing and may be captured by an evil father figure, and she may never get to tell Chase how much she needs him.

Even if it gets her in danger.

I'll try to get the next chapter up this week. But bare with me. I have school now. It takes up time.