Lab Rats: Chasing Pavements {not edited}

Chapter Seven: Exoskeleton vs. Grandma

Davenport household....

In the lab...

Third POV:

Leo is running around the lab, looking at all Mr. Davenport's inventions on pedestals. "Oooh. Ah. Ho, ho. What's this?" Leo picks one of Mr. Davenport's inventions up.

Mr. Davenport runs over to him, "Hey, that's part of my Put That Down collection." He takes it from Leo's hands and sets it down.

Leo picks up another invention, "Oh, sweet pen."

"It's not a pen." Mr. Davenport corrects him and explains, "It's a highly-pressurized air canister that can inflate a blimp in 8.6 seconds."

Leo looks at him, "This little thing?"

"Mmhmm.." Mr. Davenport nods.

"Impossible." Leo states, but presses a button on the pen and a huge blowing wind starts to blow at Mr. Davenport and Chase. Chase goes over to Leo the best he can and Mr. Davenport grabs the pen and turns it off. They are all panting heavily. After Leo catches his breath, "You might wanna put a little warning sign on that." Leo states and looks around. He asks, "So, what're you having? Garage sale for geeks?"

Mr. Davenport fake laughs, "No. We are preparing for... The Call." He says The Call dramatically.

Chase explains, "Once a year, Mr. Davenport and I present his newest devices to all the international buyers. In other words..."

Mr. Davenport and Chase do this weird dance and sing together, "Ka-ching!" They do this weird handshake and blubber together. Leo joins in their handshake and blubbers.

They both look at Leo and Chase speaks up, "What are you doing?"

Leo answers, "I wanna be in on.... The Call." He tries to say The Call dramatically like Mr. Davenport did.

Chase turns him down, "Yeah, sorry, Leo. There's no more room. I'm already the product specialist, the set designer, chief demonstrator, and insanely happy spokesmodel." He pretends as if he's modeling and invention.

"Although, there might be a role for Leo." Chase's smiles fades and Mr. Davenport continues, "As long as someone follows him around everywhere he goes with a fire extinguisher."

Chase scoffs, "But Mr. Davenport, I'm way better at selling this stuff than Leo."

"Please." Leo fires back, "I could sell nunchucks to a nun named Chuck." He pauses and walks towards and invention, "I could sell this thing without even knowing what it is." Leo picks it up.

Leo pretends he's modeling the invention. Mr. Davenport hurries, "Leo, no. That's an electrofield destabilizer. Whatever you do, don't let it--" The invention touches metal and Leo goes flying into the doors. "Touch metal." Mr. Davenport finishes.

Chase laughs, "I have to admit. A small part of me was hoping that would happen."

Leo shoots back, "Well, can a big part of you come over and" Leo starts to yell, "help me up!?"

Later....

Third POV:

Tasha is on the phone with her mother, "Yes, Mom. Leo and I love our new home. Janet is doing fine, in fact she's on her way over right now." Tasha pauses and says in a high pitched voice, "Oh, you should come and visit."

By the couch, Adam is laying on the ground lifting Leo as weights, "467, 468-- Put some muscle in it. 469..." Leo counts.

Mr. Davenport is standing on one leg with a weird gismo on his head. He shushes Leo, "Shh! I'm picking up radio free Singapore." He starts to sing in a foreign language and says, "That's gonna be a hit. You mark my words."