Summary: After Kala Mity's defeat Ace is tossed into the future where he meets the next generation of heroes and a surprising enemy.
Disclaimer: As usual I own nothing, but my ocs.
Pairing(s): undecided. Vote and we'll see.
Rating: Teen
Notes: If you haven't read Prince of Mars, some things may a bit confusing.
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Far with in the depths of space, a mysterious shadow floated around, searching for something.
"Ugh! That Duck ruined everything!" it said as it took the form of a beautiful woman with long, eboy hair and toxic green eyes that glowed as bright as a beacon. "I was sooo close to enveloping the universe in darkness and bringing glorious destruction! But that stupid Duck had to destroy my queen!" Her voice was misty and breathless as spoke. Weaving her smoke like hair she created the figure of Kala Mity. "Sigh! And she was such a perfect pawn! So easy to manipulate and taint. Now I'm back to where I started!" She wave her hand through Kala's form and it vanished. "The master is not going to be happy about this. But then, since he's not even awake yet, why should I worry?" She grabbed some more smoke and began to scope. "Still... Unless I find a new pawn, it's checkmate on me! Luckily Kala's tragic end left open a whole new beginning." The smoke took the forms of Ace and Duck and she held each in one hand. "The only question is... which becomes my pawn and which becomes my new source entertainment?"
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On planet Blanc, the Loonatics had pretty much returned to their old routines except for Duck and Ace. Both had become loners since Kala was defeated and hardly socialized with the rest of the Loonatics at all anymore. Ace spent all his time training himself till he literally dropped while Duck spent his time talking with his mother and other activities that none of the other loonatics knew about.
It's been about a month since Kala's death and because of her defeat Danger was now the ruler of Caravia and had proven himself worthy of becoming King of Mars and could take the throne any day now. And considering the way Duck had been acting, the rest of the Loonatics expected that he would take that offer any day now.
"This is all just terrible!" Lexi cried one day as she slammed her fist on the table near Slam's drink. Afraid it would fall over, Slam quickly grabbed it. "Ace won't even look us anymore and Duck's gonna leave us forever!" As she started to cry, Rev and Tech quickly went to their friends side. "I can't take this! I want everything to go back to the way it was before! Back to when we were still in Acemetropolis!"
"C'mon,-Lexi!" Rev said. "You-had-know-this-would-happen-someday." He was still sporting a scar over his left eye from his last battle while Tech had gained small limp as he walked. Despite the obvious limp, he always insisted that he was perfectly fine.
"He's right. We all knew we would have to go our separate ways one day." Tech added.
"Maybe. But I never thought we'd stop being friends!" Lexi cried. At this the men all shared a look. They all wanted to say, "That'll never happen. We'll be friends forever!" But the way Ace and Duck had been acting, they couldn't say it without it sounding like a lie.
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In the court yard a shadow lurked through the court yard. Till it took form by the fountain.
"Sigh! Such a crystal clear fountain..." she said. Then her nose wrinkled in disgust. "How disgusting!" she touched it and a ripple formed. From that ripple a sticky black oil appeared until the whole fountain was polluted.
"Ah! That's better!" she said. Then her form appeared near a pillar. "Now, it's time to get down business!" She traced her finger on the pillar and it cracked until it crumbled into two pieces. When they hit the ground it cracked opened and a black smoke exploded from it.
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At the loonatic base, the alarm went off and the Loonatics quickly ran over to the screen just as Ace ran in, drenched in cold liquid sweat.
"What's up?" he asked. He stared at the floor as he spoke, which made Lexi stare sadly at him.
"We're not sure just yet," Tech said. He pressed a button and Tweetums appeared on the screen.
"Loonatics! Something very terrible had happened! Someone has appeared in the court yard and is causing a whole lot of trouble! We need you all here now!" he said.
"We're on it, Tweetums!" Tech turned off the computer just as Duck quacked into the room.
"Eh-hem! Sorry I'm late! I, um, was handling important business." he said removed a sleeping cap. Robotic sounds could be heard from his arms and left for after his real arms were crystalized, and his leg was ripped they had to replace his limbs with robotic arms. At first Duck had trouble with them, for they were much heavier than his old limbs, but he was getting the hang of them. "What I miss?"
"Oh, nothing!" Tech said just before the building gave a rough shake. "Just the end of the world!" They were waiting for Ace to lead them like he used to, but when he didn't, Lexi took over.
"Let's go team!" she said. The others left, but she turned to Ace. "Hey, you gonna be okay?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine." he said without looking at her. Lexi stared after him sadly before following.
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The loonatics made it to the court yard and saw that the whole court yard was destroyed. The plants were black and withered while the stones were dusty and cracked as if it had suddenly aged a thousand years.
"Whoa! What happened here?" Lexi asked.
"Looks as if it was hit by bomb or something." Duck said.
"Actually," a airy voice said. "It was hit by Destra Struction." The Loonatics all looked up and saw the smokey form of a woman lying on top of the fountain.
"Who are you?" Lexi demanded.
"I just told you dear. And I thought you had super sonic hearing," Destra said as she appeared in front of them. "I've actually already met one of you face to face about a month ago. But back then, I looked more like this;" She shifted into a shadow with a crescent moon and Duck gasped as he remembered seeing the shadow with Kala when she tried to kill him.
"No way..." he gasped as he stepped back. "Jem?" At this everyone gasped as they prepared to fight. Destra laughed.
"Nope! Just her shadow," she said as she regained her smokey form. This she became a giant which towered over the loonatics. "Now didn't think it over because you killed her, did you? Don't you ever listen? That was only the beginning and this... is the encore!" Just then a bunch of warped, twisted shadows appeared from the ground and they attacked the loonatics. Lexi, Slam, Rev, and Tech managed to block the first attacks, but Duck, who so shocked at the shadow's appearance, was unprepared and so was hit into the polluted fountain.
"Duck!" Ace yelled. He pulled out the guardian sword to attack and Destra laughed.
"Put that away, Mr Ace in the hole!" she said. "You can't use that thing so why bother?" Ace growled at her.
"I can use it better than you think!" he snarled. He used the sword to cut through the warped shadows like a samurai.
"Ooh! A super samurai aren't you, bunny boy?" Destra purred. "It's too bad you make a terrible leader." This threw Ace off his game a little.
"Sh-shut up!" he yelled as he blocked an attack.
"Ooh! Did I touch a sore spot?" Destra taunted as she rolled like a cat. "I don't hear you denying it, so I guess that means I'm right." In a smokey breeze she appeared behind him. "Sighhh... You're such a failure as leader, aren't you?"
"You're wrong!" Ace yelled as he tried to attack her. Unfortunately, because she was made of smoke, it went right through her.
"Am I now?" she asked. She appeared behind him and grabbed his shoulders to make him look at his struggling team mates. "Look at them, Ace! Because of you and your leadership, they all have wounds that will last forever!" And Ace did look. He looked at Tech who was having trouble staying on his feet, at Rev, who still not used to seeing with only one eye, Lexi, who's shoulder was still deeply damaged, Slam, who's right arm was still healing, and Duck... Duck's who pain ran deeper than all theirs.
"Some leader you turned out to be in the end." he heard Kala's voice echo.
"It doesn't work for you anymore! I guess that means you're not worthy of being a leader anymore!"
"I..." he gulped before his voice broke.
"Failed as a leader!" Destra finished. "And now, you don't even have the confidence to even try to lead them. You're a bigger idiot than Duck!"
"Hey!" Duck yelled. "I'll have you know that no one is a bigger idiot than me!" With that he summoned a large black egg that swirled like a black hole and threw it at Destra who vanished before it could hit her, so it collided with Ace instead.
"Aggh!" Ace cried as the orb consumed him.
"ACE!" he heard his friends yell before they vanished from sight.
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Ace wasn't sure what was happening to him. He didn't know in he was floating, or falling, or if he was just standing there. All he knew was that he was that he was spinning. Faster and faster, he felt like he was on the tea cup ride at Disney World.
When he finally stopped spinning, he fell to his knees, feeling sick.
"Ugh... I'm throw up!" he mumbled. After he managed to calm his stomach down, he looked up and gasped. Around him was more building than he had ever seen with more neon lights than he thought could ever exist, and yet the area was still extremely dark with a stench that reeked of pollution. All around him he could hear the sound of race cars, yelling, explosions, and other sounds he couldn't identify.
"Whoa! Where... am I?" he asked no one as he stood.
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Yay! The beginning of the sequel! So exciting, ain't it? Three guesses who appears next time! Review, please!