Loonakids: Game On!
Yay, I got this up fast! Well, that should be normal for a while. Anyway, thanks for reading, keep reading, review, blah, blah, blah. Oh, and this one may seem a bit like Spy Kids 3...yeah. Well, wish me luck and let the fun begin!
Chapter 1
Four teenage coyotes were in a nursery with three baby coyotes.
The younger girl was with the youngest baby girl. "Sarah."
"Sammie."
Sarah glared at her. "Sarah."
"Sadie."
Sarah put a hand on her hip. "I'm starting to think you don't like me, Poll."
Polly just clapped her hands.
The two boys were with the baby boy.
The older one looked at his little brother. "Ryan."
"Why-in."
Ryan gave him a look. "Good enough." He handed the kid over to his other brother. "You take over now."
"Fine. TJ, can you say my name?"
"My name."
The middle coyote brother stopped smiling. "Smart aleck already. No, Michael."
"My-Krawl."
Michael looked at Ryan. "What's a Krawl?"
"A Spectrobes bad guy."
Sarah picked up her baby sister and walked over to her brothers. "I tried the italics thing. It don't work."
Meanwhile, the eldest coyote, a girl, was with the eldest baby. "Kelly."
"Kiwi."
"Kelly!"
"Kiwi!"
"Gabby."
"Me."
"Oh, for crying out loud!" Kelly picked up Gabby and walked out of the room with her to the living room. She sat down on the couch next to an older coyote woman. "Make her say your name."
The coyote woman looked at her and took Gabby. "Gabby, can you say Mommy?"
"Mommy."
"No, your real name," said Kelly.
"Sophie?"
"Sophie," Gabby echoed.
"Now let me try," Kelly said, "Ryan."
"Ryan."
"Sarah."
"Sarah."
"Michael."
"Michael."
"TJ."
"TJ."
"Polly."
"Polly."
"Kelly."
"Kiwi!"
Kelly gave her mom a look.
Sophie looked at her in return. "Apparently, she likes you. She's given you a nickname."
Kelly groaned and took Gabby back.
BOOM!
Kelly smiled. "Believe it or not, I missed those explosions."
An older coyote man walked into the room, clearly recovering from that. "No one go in the lab."
Sophie smiled. "Believe it or not, I missed those grumblings."
Kelly giggled.
Sophie turned to look at him. "Tech, I love you, I've missed you—please don't kill yourself again!"
Tech glared at her. "First of all, I'm fine! Thanks for asking! Got regeneration, didn't matter that I got electrocuted!"
Ryan walked in with TJ. "What do you know. Twice in two weeks."
Sarah smiled, following with Polly. "It's just plain nice to have him back. I'll take what I can get."
"What does that mean?" asked Michael, "You wanna get electrocuted?"
"No! It's just nice to have a simple electrocution we know will do nothing in place of the gigantic explosion we know could kill him."
"Kill him? Ha!" a duck about Tech's age scoffed.
Tech glared at him. "Duck, I know I've survived a lot—"
"Try 'everything,'" pointed out a cream-furred bunny woman.
"Lexi's got a point, Tech," said Sophie, "In fact, this last time, you had us all worried like crazy for two months! And Kelly and I—"
"Kiwi!" Gabby giggled.
Kelly glared at her baby sister. "You're just not gonna stop, are you?"
"What's up with that again?" asked a teenage road runner.
"Robert, she's been calling me as the same fruit all week. For the past two weeks. Here we are teaching everyone the names and everything and I'm the only one that gets screwed up!"
"That's ridiculous! Here, let me try!" Robert walked up to them. "Gabby, say Robert."
"Robert."
"Jack."
"Jack."
"Benny."
"Benny."
"Nadine."
"Nadine."
"Lucy."
"Lucy."
"Kelly."
"Kiwi!"
Robert blinked. "Huh. How 'bout that."
A younger duck came up. "Hey, I thought Austin was the only one allowed to give you nicknames." He started laughing.
Kelly snapped her fingers and the duck boy turned into a tiny Mini Rex bunny.
"AAHH! Switch me back! Switch me back!"
A beagle walked into the room and saw the Rex bunny there. "Alright! I got a playmate!" (Yeah, he talks.) "Or should I say lunch-mate?"
"You're not saying anything! It's me, Jack!"
"Ooh! Duck! Even better!"
"KELLY!"
Kelly smiled and snapped her fingers again, Jack turning back to normal. "I love being a Witch."
Another cream-furred female bunny walked up to him. "Archer, how many times do we have to tell you not to eat other animals…unless they're already cooked?"
"As many times as I've tried to eat Jack and Duck?" the talking beagle answered.
She put a hand on a hip and glared at him.
"Alright! But I'm not happy about it."
She looked at the others and sat down next to Kelly and Gabby and Sophie. "I'm really starting to hate him. I'm thinking of making beagle soup."
Archer looked at her, startled.
Kelly looked at her best friend. "Nadine…I'm surprised he's not eating you right now in that dress."
Nadine looked at her outfit. The headband was made of walnuts, the bracelets were made of gummy bears, the belt was made of fruit snacks, and the dress itself was an ice cream cone pattern fabric with real cherries on the hem and neckline and sleeves. "So I'm getting a little creative."
"'A little'? Next I'm gonna be seeing you wear a pancake hat!"
Nadine looked at her. Finally, she caught herself and forced out a fake laugh and a scoff. "Yeah, right!" She got up to leave the room and go to her own room.
"Got breakfast for tomorrow?"
"Maybe."
"Tell me you didn't make a matching bacon scarf!"
Nadine walked back into the room to glare at her.
"And a scrambled egg necklace?"
"I hate you." With that, she left again.
"Well, there goes my cooking plan," Sarah sighed, handing Polly to Sophie.
Suddenly, something started beeping.
"What's that?" asked a tan-furred bunny girl.
"It's OK, Lucy, it's just Zadavia," said a silver-and-white-furred bunny boy, hitting a button on his watch. As he hit the button, an image appeared on the TV of a blonde lady with white eyes in a rainbow aura. "What's the deal?" He saw his big sister come back into the room. "You know, besides Nadine's new dressing style."
Nadine glared at him. "I hate you, too, Benny."
"I'm afraid this is more than a fashion emergency, but an actual crisis," said Zadavia.
Nadine pulled out a compact mirror and started messing with her headband.
"It appears that a strange new development in the technological audio-visual entertainment—Nadine!"
Nadine came to attention. "Sorry! My hair keeps getting caught in the walnuts." She fiddled with her headband a little more and glanced at the image in her mirror. Nothing behind her.
"So what's the problem?"
"AAHH!" Nadine jumped. She looked behind her to find a grey and white wolf standing there. She looked in the mirror. He wasn't in the reflection. "Quit doing that!"
"I can't. It's fun." With that, he sat down next to Kelly where Nadine had been sitting earlier…and jumped back up. "Ow!" He picked up a dried up cherry he'd just sat on and glared at Nadine.
Nadine forced out a nervous smile.
"Wait a second," Ryan suddenly said, "Zadavia…you said 'technological audio-visual entertainment'?" Zadavia nodded. "Alright, guys, let her talk to me."
"Oh, so suddenly, you're the techie?" asked Kelly.
"Maybe not entirely, but this is my turf. She's talking about a video game."
"What?!" Jack yelled, "You called us about some dumb game?! We're not Beta testers!"
Zadavia gave him a glare. "Maybe not, but if you would let me finish—!"
Jack shut up. "Sorry."
Ryan gave him a quick look and turned back to Zadavia. "So when you say 'new development', I'm assuming you mean Game On! going on the internet."
"Precisely. This concerns me. See, once they're logged into the game, parents have no way of getting their children's attention."
"So basically, it's like normal," said Jack.
"This is different. Once you're inside the game, your mind belongs to the Toymaker, the creator of the game."
"So this guy is planning to take over the mind of every kid in the world so that he rules it?" asked Lucy. Zadavia nodded in confirmation. "Oh, this guy is SO going down."
"Yeah, how are we supposed to do that?" asked Ryan, "No one knows where this guy is."
"Because he's locked away in the electronic world where he made the game."
"Well, that explains a lot."
"If we are to do this, you must go into the game and shut it down from the inside."
"Oh, this just gets better and better!" Ryan started towards the lab. "I'm going in! Wish me luck!"
"WHOA!" Nadine stopped him, "Who said you get to go in alone?"
"Well, I'm the game guy here, I'm the one that's gonna actually be able to beat this thing."
"We don't wanna beat it, we wanna kill it!"
"Isn't that the same thing?"
"Not really. We're all going in together…well, all except Austin, obviously."
"Thank you," Austin said, gratefully. While being a good fighter, he was nowhere near a gamester.
"So what we really need to do here," Kelly said, handing Gabby back to Sophie, "is go into the game through a little magic-science communication with Danni and Dad and maybe—just maybe—we might be able to turn this thing off."
"And even if you don't, we can still pull you out!" Daniella (Danni, brown-haired human girl) agreed.
"You must put this plan into action fast, Loonakids," said Zadavia, "You only have until midnight. Zadavia out."
"Where does she go when she goes out, anyway?" asked Nadine, taking her dried up cherry from Austin.
"Don't know," said an older silver-and-white-furred bunny whose name was Ace, "But you guys got a game to beat."
"Finally, a good mission," Ryan sneered.