I smiled and swung my legs as I watched the upgrades be placed into the new students. They had belonged to Krane as well, and I recognized some of the older ones. Donald marched in to check on progress.
"How's it going with the upgrade?" He asked.
"I'll let you be the judge," his brother answered. "Go ahead, Jenny. Show him how powerful you are now." She shot a ball of fire from her hand, and it formed a trail behind it, going just between Donald's legs.
"Wow! That is powerful," Adam marveled. I chuckled at how much he hadn't changed. "You just made an old man jump."
"Well, that's the last of the students," Douglas informed him, and his brother approached the console.
"Oh, great. I'll do Adam, Bree, and Chase." They got closer to the console, and Leo came up behind the three.
"Yeah, you do that, and the guy who really needs the upgrade will just stand right over here, wishing he was actually part of the family." I rolled my eyes at Leo's efforts, which hadn't ceased, even though he had two bionic appendages.
"Don't worry, Leo. I'm working on something very special just for you."
"Really?"
"How would you like to be the proud owner of the world's first bionic nostril?" I broke down into laughter and the little teen glared back at me before turning to his step father.
"Bionic nostril? You can't be serious." He paused. "I'm considering it; we'll talk." He walked away, aggravated, and Donald turned back to upgrading Adam, Bree, and Chase.
"Okay, Adam, we'll do you first." Donald began typing, but his confident look quickly turned to one of confusion. "That's weird. The upgrade's not taking."
"It's probably searching for him brain," I joked, earning laughs from those around me.
"Bree, let's try you." She approached the console, and Donald began typing commands in, but nothing changed. "Chase." He tried the same thing, with the same results. "I don't get it. Why isn't the upgrade working on any of them?"
"Probably because their bionics are first generation," Douglas suggested. "We built the upgrade for the students' infrastructures. It must not be compatible with their older systems."
"There has to be some way you can adapt it," Chase argued. Donald sighed and began mulling a solution over in his head.
"Don't you dare go digging in my brain again," I warned pointing a finger at the Davenport brothers.
"I can probably work something out, but given how old your bionic architecture is, I'll never be able to match the power the students have.
"Who's old now?" Donald teased.
"So let me get this straight-" Bree stepped forwards. "-They all just became more powerful, and we're stuck like this forever?"
"Oh, my, that certainly is a shame," Leo deadpanned, picking at his short nails.
"If all the students are more advanced than we are, then that means that Adam, Bree, and I are... obsolete." The three of them looked devastated as Douglas, Donald, and Leo exited the room. I stood and placed a hand on the brunette girl's shoulder, no words needed to be spoken, before we heard the train arrive. I entered the next room, and was shocked to see a police officer escorting a small child towards the Davenport brothers.
"Douglas Davenport," the officer greeted.
"Officer Nicholas." Douglas chuckled, and it was clear to me that these two were all too familiar with each other. "I haven't seen you since I scaled that wall."
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Rebooted
Fanfiction*rewrites possibly pending* It's been years since Skai's circuits were fried and she "died." So when she's reawoken by Douglas and Donald Davenport, she doesn't quite understand why. However, when all of the bionic students in the academy go missing...
