Loonakids: Planet Cuckoo
Chapter 1
On a planet not too far away from Acmetropolis, a shadowy figure walked into a dark room. You couldn't see what they looked like even if you had night vision. The person turned on a computer, which revealed a picture of Acmetropolis. "Acmetropolis. So many things wrong with that planet. Someone must deal with the situations there. But who would be brave…and/or dumb…enough to attempt to protect it?" An alarm sounded on the computer. The person pushed a button and it revealed 9 anthro children of 14 (going on 15). The 9 kids were hovering in the air, launching attacks on a giant squid or something on a beach through use of superpowers. "Well, well. Looks like my question's been answered."
The giant squid retreated into the water.
"Once again, the Loonakids succeed!" said a young male bunny in a yellow and black uniform.
"Hmm…These 'Loonakids' seem like individuals with extraordinary powers. Why don't I draw them here? How am I going to do that?"
2 months later…
The figure stepped into the room again. "At last, everything is ready. This ought to bring those pesky animals over here. It is a shame that I had to step so low as to unleash the Parasite, but how else will I get them here?" He pressed a button on the computer.
1 week later…
The 9 anthros were walking through the streets of Acmetropolis with 7 other anthros and 2 human girls.
"Things have been kind of quiet all week," said Tech E. Coyote.
"I know," said Nadine Bunny, "It's like all the bad guys are hiding-" She ran into a tree and fell on the ground.
"Careful!" her little sister, Lucy Bunny, snapped, "You might hurt it!"
"Oh, sure, Cottontail," Nadine snapped back, "I'll try to remember that next time my brain is seeping out of my skull!"
Lucy rolled her eyes and examined the tree. "That's weird…"
"What is?" asked the pregnant Witch, Wendy.
Lucy called them over so that they could all see the problem.
The trunk wasn't the deep, dark brown trees usually were, but a greenish-tinted tan and the leaves were each a different color and some green ones had fallen. Something was wrong.
"So what've you got, Dad?" Kelly Coyote asked her father.
"Well," Tech said, "Danni and I put our heads together and examined this leaf we took from the tree we found. It's diseased." He pulled up a picture on the computer."
"Actually, the whole root system's been infected," Daniella Runner (AKA Danni) explained, "Something penetrated the planet's atmosphere last week and infected the whole planet. We're not certain if it affected all the dimensions, but we know that this has been going on for a week and we didn't notice it."
"So if the whole planet's diseased then it-" Sarah Coyote started.
"The planet's dying," Daniella finished for her.
"So what's infected us?" asked Benny Bunny.
"Some parasite," Daniella answered, "A perfect blend of science and magic."
"Extra-terrestrial," Ryan Coyote reasoned.
Daniella nodded. Jack Duck and his father, Danger, cocked their heads.
"Alien," Michael Coyote, the youngest of the coyote litter, translated.
Rev Runner, Daniella's husband zoomed over to the computer and began typing. "I-think-I-should-be-able-to-trace-the-Parasite-back-to-the-exact-location-it-was-launched-from-and—GOT-IT!" He pulled up a map of the solar system and traced it to a planet just beyond Pluto. "Meridian."
"Alright, all we have to do is get you guys in the shuttle, with the kids, of course, so you can protect them," Tech told the Loonakids, "and you can go there and find a cure and race back here and then everything will go back to normal."
"How much time do we have?" asked Sophie Coyote, Tech's wife, out of curiosity.
Tech pulled up a countdown.
To the dismay of everyone in the lab, it read 72 hours; 36 minutes; 48 seconds.
"Not long," Tech said, his ears drooping.