Well, before you guys start reading, you should know that this was NOT written just by me. This was originally a roleplay on "Loonatics Unleashed Online" and later "Loonatics Unleashed and You", but, due to school and college and real life, the roleplay died.

But, thankfully a good freind of mine, Syaz, agreed to finish it off with me. I asked her because the roleplay was actually her idea.

So, this chapter was written by Syaz, XtreamEmily, and myself. I do not own the Loonatics. None of us do. We're just obsessed fans. XD

Chapter One: "Let The Madness Begin"

"But why do you two get to sit there?" Duck whined, crossing his arms over his chest as he glared at the two girls.

Sapphire turned her head aside and met Quick's eye, trying not to laugh. It was a warm evening in Acmetropolis, the setting sun sending long shadows across the floor, illuminating the faces of all sitting in the room.

"Duck, for the 7th time, we were here first," Sapphire said, crossing her legs over the new bean bag in the room. She and Quick had gotten the 2 better soft seats earlier, besides Duck protest's to watch TV from there.

"And also because we say so," Quick shrugged nonchalantly with what only could have been an attempt an at innocent smirk. Naturally, it didn't turn out right. Duck stomped his foot in frustration, mimicking a bratty teenager in the process.

"Nice," Sapphire slapped Quick's palm and giggled.

"Smooth Duck, getting told off by two younger girls, that's got to be a new low for you," Icy snickered, channel surfing on the couch.

Ace, who had been clearly trying to block out the conversation let out an involuntary snort, receiving death glares from the disgruntled mallard.

Before he was able to retort whatever lame comeback he had in mind however, the door slid open, making all the rooms occupants look up.

Mairi skipped in merrily, her small shar pei puppy following her diligently. She was dressed in skinny jeans and her generic heart-design shress. Without acknowledgment of anyone in front of the TV, she trotted over to the opposite end of the room and through the door that led to HQ's living quarters.

Meanwhile, in another room, Tech's lab, in fact, Cass and Tech were working on a project. Well, Tech was, at least, Cassidy had fallen asleep on Tech's makeshift bed, a pullout couch, a few moments ago. Tech watched her for a while, smiling softly at her. He felt knots well up in his stomach as he thought about the huge event in front of him. He was getting married, and to whom he thought was the most wonderful and beautiful girl he had ever met.

"Cass..." he whispered as he stood up and walked toward the couch. "Cassidy...wake up..." His voice became louder as he tried to wake up his fiance. It was usually quite a challenge, and with all the extra activities and planning going on, it was becoming a little more difficult each day to wake Cassidy up.

"Teeeeeech.." She whined, rolling over. "Unless there's an end-of-the-world disaster happening, please let me sleep..."

Tech laughed. "Alright. Just checking on you..." He sat back down in his chair and started to think.

How in the world did this happen, you ask? How did Tech, as in, the least likely person on the team to ask a girl out let alone ask her to marry him, end up engaged to Cassidy? Tech wasn't too sure himself, but he was beyond joyful that it did.

In the midst of his contemplation, the lab doors slide open. To wrapped up in his own mind to realise, Mairi happily walked over to him, plopping a puppy onto his lap. "SAY HI UNCLE TECH!" She cried happily. Tech jerked backwards with a start, but before he even had time to scold her for frightening him, she had already flung herself upon the sleeping she-coyote.

"UP! UP! UP! I BROUGHT, LIKE, A HUNDRED BOOKS WITH DRESSES! YOU NEED TO PICK ONE AND THEN I HAFFTA SIZE YOU UP AND CUT OUT THE FABRIC AND OH FLOP FLOP FLOP I'M SO 'CIIIIITEEEED!"

"AMARA ASHLIEGH LYRE!" Tech could hear Cassidy's screech. He winced. This could get ugly.

The she-coyote was trying to sit up, but Mairi was still lying on top of her, and considering the fact that Cass was less than half the size of the tall lyre bird, she had little success.

"GETOFFGETOFFGETOFF!"

Sapphire poked her head around the door at Mairi's shriek, Quick by her side. The two shared an excited grin and easily slipped into the room as the chaos unfolded.

"NOT UNTIL YOU GETUPGETUPGETUPGETUP!"

"I CAN'T GET UP UNTIL YOU GET OFF!" Was the reply.

"Should we do something?" Sapphire nudged Tech, having slid closer to the coyote genius. Tech stared at her for a second, too caught up in the scene in front of him to have realized their presence in the room.

"If you're going to do anything, now would be a good time thanks."

"Now, Mazz. I think you've given me permanent hearing damage."

Quick nodded meekly, hands covering her ears. Within a second, Mairi found herself hovering 3 feet in the air.

Cassidy huffed, sitting up. Her usually sleek, fire-red hair was now unbelievably frizzy, with chunks of it falling out of the braid.

Tech bit his lip to keep from laughing. Cassidy noticed this and chucked a pillow at him. "Oww!" He whined, throwing it back at her.

Mairi looked at the couple from her place in the air. "Aaaawe. So kah-yooooouuu-tuh." After that, she coughed, blinking once or twice, before squealing: "PUT ME THE FLOP DOWN RIGHT NOW OR I'M GUNNA CRYYYYYY!"

Cassidy giggled a bit at Mairi. "Don't worry, Mazz. Sapph won't let you fall..."

Tech snuck around the back of the couch while Cass wasn't paying attention, then grabbed her around the waist.

Cassidy screeched. "GAAAAAAAAHHH!" When she realized it was Tech, she squirmed and turned around, still in Tech's arms, and gave him the most intimidating glare she could muster. "On the couch." She whispered, her face serious.

Mairi grinned and pointed gleefully. "NOT YOOOOUUURS!"

Sapphire gently let Mairi down back on the floor and linked arms with the tall lyre bird.

"Think it's time to get her moving?" she gestured with her eyes to Cass.

The lyrebird nodded gravely. "We have many, many books to look through." She then opened up her backpack and tipped out at least 11 magazines and bridal design books. "LET THE SEARCH BEGIN!"

Cassidy blinked, staring wide-eyed at the books. Her third worst fear besides needles and blood... dresses. She turned and glared at Tech again. "Why did I let you talk me into this?"

Tech just burst out laughing.

However, the next thing Tech felt was a gust of energy that -quite literally- shoved him out of the room. "Sorry Tech, this is a total 'girls only moment', Sapphire grinned wickedly out of the crack of the door.

"But it-it's my lab! And my wedding too!" Only after he said it did he realize how dreamlike and unreal the words felt rolling off his tongue.

"Yesss, but it's tradition that the bride's friends help with the preparations," Mairi yelled from inside.

"Who came up with that rule?" Tech demanded, as Sapphire began to shut the door. The young girl whipped the door openand said seriously straight at the coyote's face, "We just did," before slamming the door shut again.

Cassidy glanced at the girls with the most innocent look ever. "Mazzz? Sapph?" She whimpered.

Mairi clapped her hands gleefully. "This is going to be FUN! SO! Cass! What did you have in mind! I was thinking ribbons and lace and some embroidery across the bust and lots of floral designs-"

"For ME?" Cassidy stared at Mairi in shock.

Mairi blinked before scoffing. "Pffft. No! For ME!" She then began to flick through one of the books. "Flop it I can't wait for Duck to propose."

Quick giggled. "You'll be waiting a looooong time, senorita. That loco Duck weell take forever."

Cass just kinda stared at the girls with a blank look. "I... I... realllllly don't know." She confessed.

"Weellll... We'll help you know!" Sapphire clapped her hands together and beamed. "First of all, do you even know where you're getting married?"

"Wella I'mma thinking of sometinga simple." Mairi began in a really bad Itallian accent.

Cassidy choked down a snort at Mazz. "Yeah, simple is good." She paused at Sapphire's question. "We're not totally sure yet. We don't want to set any for sure dates until absolutely necessary. Who knows when a mission might pop up."

"Yeazzzz, what if we serve the pizzaria or speghettiiii?" Sapphire cought on to her friend's game, adding a ridiculous little twirl before tripping back and landing hard on her arse. "Owww..."

"Mama mia! Ummm... Julius Ceasar... Pizza... Colusseum and... Stuff."

Quick giggled insanely. This was going to be a great night in.

"It's cold in here." Mairi observed. Figures, they were waiting for a random comment from her.

"Eet's always mucho cold een here." Quick admitted.

Cassidy smiled slyly. "It's not ALWAYS cold in here..." She muttered before following Mairi.

"We should move this to MY room." Mairi beamed before scooping all her books up and wandering away happily.

"As in Duck's room" Sapphire quipped, skipping along and dragging Cassidy behind her.

Cassidy smiled slyly. "It's not ALWAYS cold in here..."

Mairi giggled. "Oi. It's not just Duck's room anymore... Not now that I've covered all those posters of him."

"Yeah, the same way you help decorate my room," Sapphire laughed before running down the familiar corridor leading to Duck's ro- Mairi and Duck's room.

Mairi danced her way up the corridor, adding leaps and bounds similar to that of a ballerina... Except a ballerina would be much more graceful.

"I guess you lot haven't been in there for a while."

"We avoid eet eef we can." Quick snickered, giving Cassidy a playful elbow. They all stopped in front of the door, and waited for Mairi to type in the code. It was usually locked during the day when no one was in, or when Duck didn't want anyone in. Or when Duck and Mairi were in together.

The doors slid open to reveal a room that hadn't changed much, except for the fact that instead of the traditional orange blanket on Duck's bed, there was a hand-sewn orange quilt. And instead of several faces looking down at them from the walls, there were almost a hundred. Pinned and taped and stuck over the multiple A2 sized pictures of the mallard were numerous photos, hand drawn pictures and other crafty things. Photos of the team were amongst those upon the wall, but predominantly they were pictures of Mairi. There were colouring-in pages and collages and a few magazine posters of Misty that had been graffitied over with red markers.

"It started with one, and then we kinda went crazy with it." the lyrebird grinned. "I told him the posters of him were lonely with out me, so he stuck that one up next to him," she pointed to a picture of her pulling a silly face, stuck on one of the posters beside Duck's bed. "And then we just kept adding more and more." And with that, she spread all the books out over the miniature table at the foot of Duck's bed and began inspecting them once more.

Sapphire looked around her in wonder, slightly -if not totally- freaked out at the number of eyes looking back at her.

However, the moment she leaned over the book a flash of light illuminated the room. Duck looked back at them, "What are you guys doing here?"

"Mairi let us in."

"Since when did I allow that."

"Doesn't matter. We would have done it even if you said no."

Duck opened his beak to respond but snapped it close again, pulling a face, "There's this hot chick in the living room, asking for the bride. Something about being a professional planner, I searched the whole tower for you guys."

"Well, can you tell her we're busy," Mairi said defensively, in a slight louder tone than she meant too.

"She wants to see Cass, something about a party," Duck shrugged, completely oblivious to the situation before quacking himself back out again.

Mairi pouted. "I bet I'm hotter." She mumbled, not sounding too convinced.

Quick looked around at the group. "Should... Should we go see?"

Mairi slammed a hand on the table. "YES! NO!" She thought for a while... "MAYBE!"

The 4 girls left the room and trudged down the corridors back to the living quarters. However, Sapphire felt as if the wind was knocked out of her the moment they stepped into the room.

She had heard her before she saw her, "Oh, I've heard. My whole family worked in this area. Why," a shuffle of papers "my great-great-great-great-great-GREAT grandmother planned Princess D's party."

From the back, all they saw was a thick lock of golden-blond hair, that shone under the lights of HQ. She turned around as the girls approached her, grinning a perfectly even smile that lighted up her emerald green eyes.

However, her smiled faltered when she saw Sapphire, "Sapphire?"

Sapphire managed a tight smile, "McKella..."

(END CHAPTER)

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