Loonakids: My Defenses
Chapter 1
It was just another day, like any other for the silver and white 14-year-old bunny getting out of bed. Wake up, lie in bed for a few minutes, get up, forget to open door and/or eyes, and bump into wall trying to go down hall to kitchen. He massaged his head and then opened his eyes (and the door) and went down the hall to meet 4 other bunnies, 6 coyotes, 2 roadrunners, 2 ducks, 2 humans, and a Tasmanian devil. "Hey, guys."
"Hey there, Benny," said his older sister. Her name was Nadine Bunny. She had cream-colored fur, emerald-colored eyes, and blond hair. She was a perfect match to her mother, Lexi Bunny.
The last in the bunny family was Lucy. "So, you bump into the wall again?" she asked, brushing her silvery-blonde, shoulder-length hair out of the way of her violet eyes.
"How did you know that?" asked Benny.
"Mom heard your smack," Lucy said, referring to her mother's super hearing.
"Very funny," Benny said, grabbing a piece of toast from the toaster, "Ouch! Hot!"
"Careful, they just came out of the toaster," said Danger Duck.
"Thanks for the warning, Duck," said Benny, grabbing an ice cube. At that moment, his watch beeped. He pressed a button and a holographic image appeared of a blonde woman from Freleng named Zadavia.
"Sorry to call so early, Loonakids, but there is something going on in New Chinatown that I need you to inspect."
The "Loonakids" were the 14-year-olds in the room. They had super powers and their parents had been the "Loonatics" 4 years before and long before that. It was a long story, but Zadavia was their boss.
"You got it," said Benny, "We'll be right there."
"What is that?" asked Daniella Runner, a human, "The 5th mission in the past 2 weeks?"
"I don't know," said Sarah Coyote, the youngest girl in the group, "I wasn't keeping track." She and the other 14-year-olds pressed some buttons on their watches and were each in a black uniform with a triangle on the chest in a different color: Nadine in pink, Benny in yellow, Lucy in brown, Robert Runner (Daniella's roadrunner son) in red, Jack Duck (Duck's son) in orange, Kelly Coyote (Sarah's older sister) in silver, Ryan Coyote (Sarah's older brother) in green, Sarah in blue, and Michael (Sarah's younger brother) in purple.
"Well, then, let's jet," said Nadine, running off to the "hero room".
"Hey, you said I was the leader!" Benny called after her, "That's my line!"
"Here they go again," Lucy said, rolling her eyes and following her older brother and sister.
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By the time the team reached New Chinatown, the fight had moved to downtown Acmetropolis, where they found a woolly mammoth.
"Whoa," said Benny, "What's with the giant elephant?"
"Technically," Kelly said, Ryan and her being the smart ones, "it's a miniature mastodon from the Mesozoic era."
"So it's a hairy, old, giant elephant," Nadine added.
"Moving past that," said Sarah, "How do we get rid of it?"
"Wait," said Michael, "didn't we see that exact same creature at the Retro Petting Zoo a few years ago? It must have gotten out!"
"Didn't Dad say this exact same thing happened to them 15 or so years ago?" asked Lucy.
"Yup, he did," said Nadine, pressing a button on her watch.
"What is it?" It was Ace (Nadine, Benny, and Lucy's dad) back at HQ. "You guys haven't used this line since you were apprenticing."
"Well, we figured, since we have a problem you guys have experienced, we might as well call," said Benny.
"Uh, what exactly is going on down there?" asked Lexi, from HQ.
An elephant's trumpet loudly echoed through the receiver and injured her ears slightly.
"Does that answer your question?" It was Sarah.
"And injure my ears, thank you very much!" Lexi responded.
Tech took the device he had designed. "Are you saying that this guy escaped from the petting zoo again?"
"You could say that," said Lucy. Her eyes glowed brown slightly as some vines sprouted beneath her and attempted to restrain the mastodon, unsuccessfully.
"Nadine, don't scorch it!" Lexi said, almost shouting, "You need to bring it back to that zoo in one piece."
Nadine had been planning to do just that with her fire power. She stopped.
Michael turned into an elephant and attempted to attack it, making sure not to do any serious damage, when a pterodactyl came along from above and swooped down at him, knocking him back to normal. "That wasn't such a good idea."
"The mastodon not alone, is it?" came Tech's voice through the connection.
"Not really," said Kelly, "And you'd think I would have seen that coming."
"What did you see coming?" asked Jack.
Kelly didn't hear him. She was focused on what she was seeing, which wasn't the same as what the others were seeing.
At the Retro Petting Zoo, someone in a cloak pressed a button on a cage and released a saber tooth tiger into the streets, laughing.
Kelly snapped back into reality. "Someone set them loose! And that same person, whoever it was, just did…or is about to…let a saber tooth tiger out, too!"
"That sounds familiar, too," said Duck.
"She has visions every week!" said Ryan.
"Not that! I'm talking about what she saw!"
"Oh."
"Alright, do you have any way to get them back?" asked Tech.
"Let me try," said Benny, stretching his arms around a couple light poles in front of where the mastodon was running and making it bounce off of them and fly backwards right past the group and into a wall behind them, "Uh, that would be a 'no'."
Tech sighed. "One of you, come back here. The rest of you, try to figure out a back-up plan."
"I'll do this," said Jack, flying off to HQ while the others hung up and began to plan.
"What if we—"
Before Nadine could finish her sentence, they heard someone scream. They looked down and saw a girl fall on the ground, attacked by a saber tooth tiger.
"Why don't we save that girl first?" asked Benny, flying down to push her out of the way while Michael turned into a normal tiger and pushed the saber tooth tiger into a wall.
Michael turned back and saw that the tiger was trapped in a gelatinous substance. He looked up and saw Jack was already back with a gun or something.
"So that what this does," said Jack, "That problem's solved." He trapped the pterodactyl and mastodon and he and Michael and Ryan took them back to the petting zoo.
"You OK there?" Benny asked the girl, helping her stand up.
"I'm fine, thanks." She brushed off her outfit (a sky blue tee, a blue sequined belt, a knee-length, denim blue skirt, and green flip-flops). "I'm Christiana Elizabeth Allison Pierce."
"Wow, long name you've got there," said Nadine, "We're the Loonakids."
"I like your necklace," Sarah complimented.
Christiana looked at her neck to see a choker with a dark sea blue strap and a crystal in the center with a pearl on either side. "I didn't even notice I was wearing it. I don't even remember how I got here."
"What do you remember?" asked Kelly.
Christiana hesitated. Do I trust them? Of course not, I just met them! They didn't even tell me their names. "Not much."
"Why don't you come back with us until you remember?" asked Michael, landing next to her as he, Ryan, and Jack came back from the petting zoo.
"I guess I should," said Christiana.
Benny held onto her tightly as he reactivated his jet pack, as well as the others, and they all flew back.