An unexpected visit leaves the team to discover more about Tech's past and mysterious villains come from Ace's past that unlocks more about him as well. I don't own the Loonatics just my ideas. Please enjoy and don't forget to R&R
Several missions later Shimmer and Kyla were officially part of the team. One morning Tech was in the lab working as usual when Rev came with a bright pink box.
"Hey- Tech- I- brought- some- donuts- cause- I- thought- you- might- be- hungry- even- though- you- can- go- days- and- days- and- days- without- eating- and- oh- wow- what- are- you- working- on- there- some- kind- of- high- tech…" Rev rambled but was stopped by Tech's paw clamping his beak shut.
"If you must know, I'm working on a more improved self defense mode for HQ" Tech said releasing Rev's beak and leaning back in his chair. Tech turned to face Rev and took a donut out of the box. Tech just happened to look over Rev's shoulder as he grabbed the donut to where his new weapon should have been.
"No!" Tech said with panic in his voice as he rushed over to the empty space.
"What?" Rev asked.
"My multi-ray gun isn't here. I just built it this morning. I don't know how it could have disappeared" Tech said starting to look around.
Rev started to look with him. All of a sudden there was something off to the left that sounded like mischievous laughter and Tech froze.
"Did- you- hear- that- could- have- sworn- it- was- laughter- hey- Tech- did- you- hear- it-Tech?" Rev said shaking the coyote.
"No… it can't be" Tech said as more laughter came off to the right. "Just kill me now" Tech said.
Suddenly two small figures came running out right toward the two.
"Big bwother!" the two figures yelled, tackling Tech.
Tech struggled to get up again as the little coyotes clung to him.
"Let go Nelly! No Kelly stop!" Tech yelled trying to pry them both off.
"We missed you big bwother" one of them said, bouncing around him.
"What are you doing here?" Tech asked as both girls continued to bounce around him, but before either could answer Tech heard his name being yelled from the kitchen.
Tech took off and when he got there he saw Danger was cowering under a big mean looking coyote sitting on the counter, growling.
"Bruce no!" Tech yelled pulling the larger coyote away from Danger, but before he could do anything there was a crash from the main room.
When Tech got in there Rev was running around the room away from two adult coyotes. Tech had had about enough of this, he called to Rev to get behind him and let out a fierce, aggressive, bark that seemed too mean to come from someone like Tech. The two coyotes came to a halt in front of him.
"Tech you are in the way of our meal. Get out of the way" the earthy brown male coyote said.
"No dad. These are my teammates and you can't eat any of them. If you don't like it you can leave" Tech said growling at the coyote in front of him.
"Is that a challenge?" Tech's father asked, growling.
"Stop! Stop! Don't do this" a tawny grey female coyote said getting in between the two.
"Ember stay out of his" Tech's father growled.
"No Willy, this needs to stop. Our sons are constantly fighting and that's why Tech left our family" Ember said.
Willy turned away, still angry.
"Mom's right dad, this needs to stop. We have forgotten what it's like to be a family. I mean look at Tucker, it's my fault he is the way he is now" the misty grey coyote called Bruce said.
Bruce looked at the yellowish brown coyote that stood next to him. Tucker did look beat up. His ears were both torn and scratched up badly, he had a long scar going from the top of his head all the way to his right shoulder and three scars that had to be claw marks running across his left arm and right leg that looked deep. Tech looked at Tucker and Tucker gazed down at Tech's paws. The team soon saw that Tech was using sign language.
"Would you tell him I'm sorry, I never got the chance" Bruce said.
Once Tech signed that to Tucker he started to translate what Tucker signed back, "he says I forgive you Bruce. I just don't want any more fighting."
"Well then if Tucker wants the fighting to stop too then it needs to end" Bruce said.
"Ok then if we aren't fighting anymore I welcome you to stay here. There are only two extra rooms so mom and dad can take one, Bruce and the twins can take another, and Tucker can stay in my room with me" Tech said while he motioned with his paws for Tucker.
Everyone went off to their rooms to get settled except for Tucker who stayed out with the team in the main room. Tucker watched his brother as he talked with the team. Even though Tucker couldn't hear anymore he was still able to read lips so he could follow the conversation easily.
"So how come you're the only one in your family who can do sign language?" Ace asked.
"Because I was the only one that cared about my family so when Tucker went deaf I took him to classes so he could learn it. It would have never happened if Bruce hadn't lost control. It's the stupid instincts we have that make us want to fight, but fighting never solves anything and I learned that the hard way" Tech said showing the team his back which was covered with faded claw and teeth marks, "They are from my dad and brothers."
"Wow Tech your family seems quiet interesting" Lexi said.
"So why did you leave?" Ace asked.
"Like my mom said I just got tired of fighting. No one in my family saw my gifts, but no one really saw anything after Tucker's accident. He was going to be a singer…" Tech said, stopping for a minute to regain control of himself.
"Why don't we leave you alone with your brother. I wanted to go do some training anyways, come on guys" Ace said and they all left.
Tech went over and sat down next to Tucker.
"I saw what you said" Tucker signed to Tech.
"You saw?" Tech signed back.
"Please just talk. I can read lips and it is easier for me" Tucker motioned.
"You never told me you could do that" Tech said aloud.
"You wanted me to learn how to communicate so I just went along with it for the time being. Tech… there is something I need to ask"
"By all means go ahead"
"I don't understand, we fought a lot in the past and I'm your older brother, but when Bruce really hurt me you stepped in and took care of me even though I should have cared for you. Why did you do that for me when I wasn't being a good brother?"
"Because that's what I do Tucker. I was the only member of the family to notice that you were really suffering and as my brother, older or not, I couldn't stand to see you suffer. No matter how bad you were to me, Tucker, I still loved you and I always will."
Tucker smiled and pulled Tech into a hug. When they pulled back Tucker was signing again, "You are different from other coyotes Tech and I'm so happy that I was the one to get you as a brother."
"Thanks Tucker that really means a lot"
"No problem. Now are you going to show me around or what?"
Tech laughed, "Alright first we can drop your stuff off in my room then I'll give you a tour."
Tech showed Tucker everything including the weapons and Tucker was loving every minute of it. Once they were done the two headed back to Tech's room.
"Wow I can't believe you did all that! It's just amazing and to think mom and dad never realized that they had a gifted son" Tucker signed.
Tech smiled, "Our family has more than one gifted son. I know you always wanted to be a singer."
"Well to be honest I still want to be. I even still write songs, but I'll never get to be a singer. Dad tells me I need to stop dreaming."
Tech considered this information for a moment, "I don't think you should give up on your dreams quiet yet Tucker. I'm going to go work in the lab, you go ahead and get some rest."
Tucker lay down in the bed so his back was to the door and closed his eyes as Tech headed out to the lab. Once he was there he started working on something and hardly noticed Kyla coming in.
"Whatcha working on?" Kyla asked leaning on the desk so she and Tech were face to face.
"I hate to see my brother not be able to live his dream so I'm creating a device that will act like an eardrum for Tucker's ears" Tech said hardly looking up.
'"You and your brother are pretty close huh" Kyla said.
"Well we weren't always like that, but after Tucker's accident I realized that there was more to life then just fighting."
"Wow Tech you sometimes seem to be wiser then your body gives you credit for."
Tech smiled, "thanks Kyla, tell me something is your family as violent as mine?"
Kyla looked down, her eyes filling with tears, "I…I don't really like to talk about them."
Tech saw that he had stumbled onto something painful and felt terrible he had asked. Tech got up and walked over to her. He put a comforting paw on her shoulder and Kyla pulled him into a hug. Tech was surprised, but hugged back trying to ease her pain.
"You're a good friend Tech. I know I have just met you, but I feel safe around you" Kyla said.
The two pulled back and shared a smile.
"So what do you think of Tech's family?" Ace asked as he dodged lasers.
"They are certainly different. I mean I had no idea the hard time Tech had at home before he came here. It's no wonder he was so eager to join the team" Lexi said as she brain blasted robots.
"Yeah I never knew a family could be so mean to each other. I hope they can work things out I know that would make things easier for Tech" Ace said getting a drink of water now that the training was over.
"Yeah me too… Ace I'm wondering something"
"And what would that be?"
"Is it true that you had always liked me?"
"Well at first I didn't want to admit it because I wanted us all just to be a team, but the more I thought about it the less I could control myself until we got to this point. The thing that was holding me back was the fear you might reject me"
Lexi came over and gave Ace a kiss on the cheek, "I would never do anything to hurt you. I love you too much Ace.
"So have any other family members come here?" Shimmer asked as she filed her claws.
"Oh yeah, blabber beak's family had visited. It was horrible, a whole family of fast talking road runners" Danger said looking at Rev.
"Oh- yeah- Mr.- hot- stuff- I'd- like- to- see- how- annoying- your- family- is- I- mean- if- they're- anything- like- you…" Rev started, but stopped when he saw Danger's eyes.
Danger turned from them so he could hide his watering eyes, "If I had a family"
"Danger- I'm- really- sorry- I- didn't- have- any- idea- please- forgive- me" Rev said speeding over to put a comforting hand on Danger's shoulder.
Danger shook it off and walked away. Rev was just about to go after him when he found Shimmer's paw on his shoulder.
"Better just leave him, Danger looks like he needs some alone time" Shimmer said.
So Tech isn't the only one with a troubled past, but thank goodness they all have the team to lean on. And who are the mysterious new villains in Acmetropolis that come from Ace's past? Find out next chapter, to be continued…