Lab Rats: Chasing Pavements {not edited}

Chapter Six: Rats on a Train

Davenport household...

In the lab...

Third POV:

Mr. Davenport starts, "Okay, guys. The next phase of your training is handling extreme climates. So we'll frost Chase," he points at Chase, "bake Bree," he points at Bree, "and submerge Adam." He points at Adam and continues, "That's not part of the training, I just got one of those carnival dunk tanks and I can't wait to try it out." Chase gets in his capsule and Mr. Davenport tells him, "Okay, Chase, I'm setting your tube on 'Antarctic.' If it gets to be too much, just give me a sign."

"Bring it!" Chase exclaims.

Mr. Davenport presses the button that freezes Chase and Leo complains, "Hey, that's not fair. I want to be abused by weather."

Bree replies, "Leo, if you really want to be abused, try standing over here next to Adam's morning breath."

Adam sighs, "I don't have morning breath. It smells like that all day." Bree's nose scrunches up in disgust.

Mr. Davenport turns to Leo, "Leo, these guys are genetically engineered to handle these kind of climates. You're not."

"I can handle extreme cold." Leo retorts.

Mr. Davenport fires back, "Leo, you get brain freeze from chewing mint gum."

Mr. Davenport's phone ring and he searches everywhere for it. He finds it and answers, "Davenport. What?! Well, that's terrible! I mean, that's awesome, but that's terrible! I- I gotta do something." He hangs up.

Adam asks the question they are all thinking, "What's going on? What's so terrible?"

Mr. Davenport answers, "I created the world's fastest train, but now it's speeding out of control full of highly explosive nuclonium towards downtown Welkerville!"

"Well, then what was awesome?" Bree asks.

Mr. Davenport smiles, "It's going like four hundred miles an hour!" He cheers.

Leo, Adam, and Bree look at each other, shocked. Until realization dawns on Leo, "Wait! You said Welkerville?" Mr. Davenport nods and Leo continues, frantic, "Janet and her Aunt Kathy are out of town in Welkerville! We have to stop that train!"

Mr. Davenport tries to find out how this could happen, "My entire career is riding or perhaps crashing on this train! I don't understand it! My design was flawless!"

Mr. Davenport starts typing on a computer trying figure out how this happened. Leo fires back, "So flawless you forgot to include an emergency brake?"

Mr. Davenport stops typing and responds, pointing at the computer, "No. I never counted on the conductor dropping his papaya smoothie all over the controls and then jumping off the train."

Adam tells Mr. Davenport, "Well, if I were to build a high-speed train, the first thing I would have put in was a cup holder. Oh! And one of those bumper stickers on the back that says, 'I brake for cows.'"

Mr. Davenport looks at Adam weirdly before continuing, "When stuff like this happens, they always blame the scientist. This is human error. Scientists don't make mistakes."

Chase taps on his capsule, frozen. Mr. Davenport sighs, "Chase, Now I have to explain the whole train story again." Adam groans.

Leo steps out of the lab and calls Janet. She answers, "Hey, Leo."

Leo sighs in relief, "Thank God, your okay. You and your aunt have to get out of Welkerville. One of Mr. Davenport's trains are headed straight for there and there is no one to stop it."