Chapter 2: News
They had been married for 2 months now. Tech, Ace, Rev, and Duck were all up first. They met each other in the kitchen in HQ.
"So," said Tech, "anything interesting from last night?" They had gone on a mission and brought the Witch sisters with them.
Duck was lost in a gaze at that moment.
"Duck!" Tech shouted, quietly, snapping his fingers to get Duck to wake up.
"What?" asked Duck, frantically waving his arms at the sudden noise, "Oh, it's you, Tech. Sorry, I, uh--"
"Dreaming about Wendy again?" asked Ace.
"No, I, uh--"
"Duck, you've been married for 2 months now," said Tech, "You think you'd have moved past the 'denial' phase."
"Well-Tech-we-all-kind-of-like-our-girls-and-Duck's-really-SWEET-MEEP-MEEP!"
Daniella walked in dressed in a blue tank top and a pink sweater with a knee-length denim mini-skirt and brown cowgirl boots as well. You probably wouldn't call this completely stunning, unless you saw her brown hair brushed out and hanging down when it was usually was pulled back in a bun. Rev couldn't stop staring at her with his beak open. "Rev, snap out of it." Rev blinked rapidly a few times. "You'd think that after 2 months he would have moved past the 'staring lovingly at me' phase."
"You're telling--" Duck was cut off when Wendy walked in dressed in a black knitted dress top; knee-length striped leggings; a red velvet snap belt; and purple, pink, silver, and white glittering sneakers. "Humana-humana-humana…" His tongue dropped out of his mouth at that. He couldn't stop staring at her either.
"Duck, I think you ought to stop staring at me right now," said Wendy, rolling her eyes.
"Uh, I, uh--" said Duck.
Ace rolled his eyes when Lexi walked in wearing her normal uniform. Ace still smiled at her. "Hey there, Lex."
"Hi, Ace," said Lexi, bringing him in for a hug.
"You know, sometimes you guys can get pretty…" Tech trailed off as Sophie walked in. "Pretty…" Sophie was wearing shimmering gold ankle boots, a sequin-hemmed denim jean skirt that reached down to her lavender and baby blue striped socks, and a flowing-sleeve red satin top. "So pretty…" Tech's eyes crossed as he fainted.
"Tech!" Sophie shouted at her husband.
Tech stood up straight. "How long was I out?"
"About 5 seconds," said Sophie, crossing her arms over her chest as she drew closer to him, "Tech, I have something I have to tell you."
"Uh, you might want to wait until after I tell Duck my news," said Wendy.
"Hey, one sister at a time, please," said Daniella.
"Can I talk to you 3?" Lexi asked, pulling the sisters aside to the living room where the guys couldn't hear them, "Please tell me that we don't all have the same news."
"I hope not," said Wendy, "I have to tell Duck that…You, too?"
"So, we all--" Sophie began.
"Sure looks like it," said Daniella, "And since we all have the same news, we should tell them all together."
The girls all went back to their husbands.
"Guys, we all have the same news so we're just going to tell you all together," said Sophie, "We--"
Slam burst in at that exact moment.
"Slam," said Wendy, "we're talking here."
Slam babbled before saying, "Sorry."
"We--"
A car alarm sounded outside.
"We're--"
A jackhammer's noise came across the street.
"We all--"
A loud BANG! resounded and none of them needed Lexi's hearing to hear the cat screech that came after that.
"The 4 of us--"
The bank security system shorted out for the third time that week (with no break-in I might add).
"THAT'S IT!" cried Wendy, storming off to the couch, "I give up!" She sat down and crossed her arms and her legs.
"One last try?" asked Daniella. The guys all nodded. "We--"
"Loonatics," said Zadavia, coming online in the middle of Daniella's sentence, "we have a severe problem right now."
"Can it wait for like 5 seconds, Zadavia?" asked Sophie.
"It's urgent, Sophie," said Zadavia, "As in, now."
"Fine," said Sophie, "What is it?"
"Some strange radiation was found in the desert area of the planet and I want you 9 to inspect it," said Zadavia, "You may want to hurry. There's no telling what's causing this. It could be dangerous. Zadavia out."
"Alright, Loonatics…and Wendy, Daniella, and Sophie…let's jet!" Ace cried out as the team left.
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As the team drew closer to the area that the radiation was originating from, Sophie began to fidget more and more.
"Is there something wrong, Sophie?" asked Tech, "You want to give me that news now?"
"That's exactly it, Tech," said Sophie, "But now is not the time or place to tell you."
"Do it anyway," said Daniella, "We all have the same news and we'll not get another chance for a while."
"Fine," said Sophie, "Tech, we--"
The alarm on the ship went off at that moment.
"It's going to have to wait, Sophie," said Tech, "We're approaching the radiation."
Wendy groaned. I wish our lives weren't so hard. Suddenly, a light shone outside the ship…and one inside…
They were tossed around (luckily, they all had their seat belts on) and wouldn't stop moving until Tech finally pressed a button and saw the system go haywire. He couldn't steer at all and the whole thing finally crashed. The girls were scared to move and the guys were curious as to what had happened (except for Duck who wouldn't stop freaking out).
"We're doomed! DOOMED! We've crashed and now our lives are over."
"Duck, we haven't died yet," said Wendy, calmingly, to her husband.
Duck opened his eyes and looked around. "Oh, I guess we're not."
"What happened, Tech?" asked Sophie.
"I don't know," said Tech, "But if I had to guess, I'd say that we hit the radiation and it caused the ship to lose power and we hit something when we lost the steering."
"Well," said Daniella, unbuckling herself and standing up, "I guess we ought to--WHOA!" Her weight due to the effort from standing up had caused the ship to move around. "Tech, we're on a cliff or something, aren't we?"
"I suppose so," said Tech.
"How high up do you think it is?" asked Lexi.
"I don't know," said Tech, getting up to go to the window, "Let me check. WHOA!" He caused them to move again.
"NOT LIKE THAT, TECH!" cried Sophie.
"Well, forgive me for not making windows within 5 feet of the controls," said Tech.
"OK, I will," said Sophie. Tech glared at her.
"My-GPS-is-tracking-us-at-approximately-100-feet-above-ground-if-this-thing-falls-then-we're-dead."
"I still didn't catch every little bit of that so I'm going to assume it's good news," said Daniella, "OK, this is all about weight distribution. If we all sneak out one at a time through the side that's not off balance, then we can get out through the emergency hatch and it can't tip over while we're inside."
"Uh-huh," said Tech, nervously.
"Tech?" asked Sophie, "You didn't make an emergency hatch on the front of the ship, did you?"
"How do you know that?" asked Tech.
"Your ears are drooping," said Sophie.
Tech looked up and saw that his ears were hanging on his sides. He shook his head rapidly a few times and they perked back up. "Whoops."
"You know, I would be really mad right now if I weren't so madly in love with you," said Sophie.
"Well, since I have nothing to do with that," said Wendy, "I will be. HOW COULD YOU BE SO STUPID AS TO NOT BUILD AN ESCAPE HATCH?!"
"WENDY!" Sophie yelled at her sister. She sighed. "I've got a better idea." She reached into her pocket and found it empty. "Uh-oh. I left my wand back in my room." She groaned. "Guess I'll have to try an incantation."
"Sophie, you are no good at those," said Daniella, reaching into her pocket, "Let me--Uh-oh, I left mine there, too."
Wendy looked for hers. "We're not being very smart right now, are we?"
"Must be contagious," said Sophie, "We were a little more focused on telling the guys our news. Which reminds me--"
"Sophie, now is not the time," said Tech, "Just get us out of here!"
"OK, OK," said Daniella, "Before the dangers of this problem are worsened, get the 9 of us to safety in the next 5 seconds."
They all were transported outside the ship and found that Duck had already "quacked" out. "What? I couldn't wait on you. I couldn't take you all with me anyway you know."
"Good point, Duck," said Wendy.
"Why do you always take his side?" asked Daniella.
"Because I love him," said Wendy.
CRASH! BANG! BOOM! The ship fell from their 100-foot point and fell to the ground below them.
Tech sighed, then looked at Daniella. "'Worsened'?"
"It was the best rhyme I could come up with at the time, OK? At least we got out in time."
"Where are we anyway?" asked Sophie, "There's no way we are still in the desert."
The others looked around and saw what she meant. They looked all around and saw nothing but trees, rock, and green perches just like the one they were on. The perches were all dozens or even hundreds of feet tall and appeared as though they were covered in moss from the root up.
"What happened?" asked Daniella, "Did one of us use magic when we hit that radiation field…no, wait, we can't use magic this severe inside a radiation field. And there's no way it just transported us here unless it was really a portal or something."
"Ace? Is that you?" The team turned around and saw a yellow-furred female bunny about Ace's height and age, but with more icy-blue eyes than sapphire.
"Uh, do I know you?" asked Ace.
"Ace, it's me," said the girl, "Don't you recognize me?"
"Maybe if you'd tell me who you are I'd at least get a hint," said Ace.
The girl hesitated and then turned and called out, "CAMMY!" Another bunny who looked almost exactly the same as her, but with shamrock green eyes and longer ears, climbed up after her.
"Don't rush me, Bridge, I'm not near as good a climber as you," said the bunny who was called Cammy, "Can we do some of the shorter perches so that I actually have a chance of beating you and surviving?"
"Yeah, no chance of that," said the other bunny whose name was Bridge.
Ace recognized that name. Bridge…where have I heard that before? He got closer to the 2 bunnies and asked them, "Who are you girls?"
"Oh, I'm…Lexi?" Cammy said.
"Hey, you got the same name as me," said Lexi, "Why did she call you Cammy?" Where have I heard that name before?
"I guess we have to do this a different way," suggested Bridge, "I'm Bridget and this is Camille. We're Ace and Lexi's sisters."
