The second chapter of the story; this is back at headquarters…

Everybody was gathered around the table and was laughing about a joke that was heard. "That was hilarious, doc. Tell us another one," Ace said between laughs and was banging his fist on the table. Tech was sitting across from the hysterically charged up Ace and was laughing, too. "Okay, remember after the first couple weeks of being teamed up?" Everyone nodded. "Well, Rev and I were on a mission once and we were both trapped in this heat room? There were a bunch of toxic chemicals behind us and Rev…" "No-no-no-Tech-please-don't-tell-them!" Rev interrupted through mid sentence and put his hand on Tech's back, with a panicking expression. "No, don't listen to the bird, tell us," Duck was sitting next to Slam and was banging his fist in rhythm. "Tell us now or else I will fall on the floor; expressing of how ill I am from this strange disease I call… 'Rev."' Rev just glared at the duck and wanted go after him, but Ace stopped him. He took one last glare at Duck, sat down and crossed his arms. "Okay, so when we were going to be lured into the chemicals; Rev tried to get out, but then… then." Tech covered his mouth from laughing, Ace sat up. "Then what, Tech?" The coyote continued between laughs and Rev tried to give him the "Tech don't do it"
sign," but Tech just finished and got it over with. "Then Rev's posterior caught on fire and then I said to him, "the temperature must be pretty warm where you are!" With that, Tech and the others laughed out loud and Rev banged his head and fist down on the table, then he looked up. "You-promised-not-to-tell-anyone-why-did-you-have-to-go-and-tell-everyone!?" He breathed very lightly as his sad expression grew and it wasn't long before his voice was at slower pace and he spoke in a whining voice. "I… I thought you were my best friend," Tech came up to him and said between laughs. "Rev, I am your best friend, we just tell secrets about each other all the time." The sad road runner looked up to him, then he turned angry, stood up and was walking up to the coyote fiercely as he was trying to back away. "Okay-okay-you-want-a-secret-you're-going-to-love-this!" Rev looked to see that he had the whole team's attention, "I-wasn't-going-to-tell-anybody-but…Tech-has-a-crush-on-Mastermind!" Tech glared back at the road runner and pointed at him, "Rev? What's your deal? You weren't supposed to…" Rev cut him off, "we-had-a-discussion-about-how-Tech-used-to-be-interested-in-whoever-was-special-in-his-life-and-even-though-he-won't-admit-it-Tech-likes-Matermind." Rev crossed his arms in satisfaction and saw Tech leave the room in embarrassment.

Meanwhile back on Freling; Zadavia and Xeon were walking around the messed up planet. "So, why did you quit as being a Freling hero?" Xeon bowed his head in shame, looked up to Zadavia with guilty eyes and then took a deep breath and continued. "Things were getting out of hand, you know… like it wasn't interesting to me." Zadavia heard the stammering and could tell that Xeon wasn't telling the whole truth. She gave him a look that seemed like she was going to walk away again. "I'm sorry, Zadavia but the truth is; I turned to the dark side after retirement," Zadavia stepped away from him viciously. "Okay, Xeon; what else is there about you that I'm not aware of? Every minute of the day, you always have something to tell me! It seems that your life is more than what you have led me to believe!" Xeon just looked at her very with a guilty expression; "okay you want to know who I really am. I'm not really Xeon, I'm… I'm…" He ripped off something that looked like a costume and behind it was none other than…. Optimatus. Zadavia gasped as she saw her evil brother give her a sinister glare. But, she managed to regain her words and her expression was an angry one; with a hint of shock. "Optimatus, what are you doing here? I thought we trapped you inside the wormhole." Optimatus just slowly walked up to his younger sister and drew closer to an angry expression in it. "Oh you did, Zadavia, you did. But little did you know that I've escaped." "That's impossible, you couldn't have escaped!" Optimatus laughed evilly at her." Well you see…"

(Flashback)

"When you trapped me into the wormhole with the suction machine, I stole it just in time, before I got sucked in."This shows Zadavia using the suction machine on Optimatus; "no, what are you doing to me, noooo!" He gets sucked in as colourful streaks and the suction tool is gone, once after Zadavia leaves.

(End of flashback)

On Optimatus's ship, Zadavia is tied up. "You see, Zadavia; I let you suck me into the wormhole, so I can come back with the most cunning plan." He laughed again and smiled in satisfaction, as he saw his little sister struggling to get free. "Isn't this like old times, but look on the bright side, no one is here to save you," Optimatus looked away in anger and clenched his fist; "not even that pesky Duck," he turned back. "You seemed to be enjoying yourself eh, Zadavia?" "Not at the slightest, brother!" She glared and her face pumped right up at him. "Well, good; it just wouldn't be fun to see you comfortable, it's better to watch people suffer. Just so you'll know, I was the one who hypnotized you, to trap the Loonatics. I made sure that it was evident enough for them to follow such a scheme; so they would never trust you again. I figured with them out of the way; no one will save you, because no one will trust you and to make sure; I was the one who blocked out all of your communications, so you'll have great difficulty into contacting them." Zadavia was surprised, but not too surprised. She knew that he was evil, the moment she met him and she knew that there was something going on with what happened to her team. "For the record, I used this gas to knock you out, so you will not remember a single thing that has happened." Optimatus held up the gas in front of Zadavia for display, she then realized and it finally made sense. The knock out, being stranded, the trap; was all apart of the evil plan.

"You won't get away with this, Optimatus! I knew that I couldn't trust anyone on this planet!" Zadavia yelled at her brother, but seeing that her brother didn't care; Optimatus began to laugh at her, again.

After that, he left the ship and began to walk around the planet.

Back in the ship, Zadavia struggled to break free. But she just couldn't: her communications were down and she was lost. Just when she was about to lose hope, Zadavia saw the suction machine; laying there on the floor. Then, she remembered about the super powers that she had. With that, Zadavia broke free from the track with her laser vision and landed near the suction machine. She picked it up and put it near the communication feature was. Zadavia pulled out a long plug from the back and connected it the outlet of the machine. She soon opened up the machine and shot lasers from her eyes, into the machine. The laser went through the ship, flying into space and into Acmetropolis.

Back at HQ, Ace saw a colourful ray in the sky and called his team over. "Hey guys, check this out. That's Zadavia's ray up in the sky," Ace was pointing to the long ray in the sky. "I'm tinking that we should follow it," after everyone agreed, the team leader pointed straight ahead. "Let's jet!" He ran off and the rest of the team followed behind him.

Inside the spaceship, Ace was sitting on the high chair; "hey, Tech. Do you think you could track where Zadavia's ray is comin' from?" Tech smiled at him "no problem, chief. After I cross reference the coordinates, we will have our location and…" "Well-maybe-just-a-thought-only-it's-not-a-thought-but-last-time-I-checked-I-have-GPS-and-my-GPS-says-that-the-ray-is-92-degrees-North." Rev interrupted, but Tech tried to correct him. "Rev, that's impossible, we are currently North East and we haven't even passed the ray yet…" Rev cut him off again, "what's-the-matter-Tech-jealous-huh-huh-huh-huh?" The coyote saw Rev's teasing smirk, "I am not jealous, I believe that you are the one who is jealous of my superior intellect and…" Pretty soon, both voices collided together and Ace was soon annoyed and he held down one green mouth and one red beak, to silence the argument. "Thank quackers; I could not take another minute of that," Duck sighed in relief and sat back in his chair. "Ace, we've located the ray; it's coming from the planet Freling." Ace turned around by the sound of Lexi's voice and ran towards the monitor. "Great woik, Lexi; everyone activate your space suits." Everyone did on Ace's command and everyone soon was out of the spaceship, looking for Zadavia.

After walking around, the Loonatics stopped and saw Zadavia and Optimatus fighting. Ace saw the suction machine near by; Optimatus saw this "no, the Loonatics, how could this be?" He ran near Ace and this gave Zadavia the advantage to shoot her laser optics at him, which made him go flying and Ace sucked him up, into the machine. Zadavia was relieved and hugged her team; "Loonatics, it's a pleasure to see you." Ace and the others soon pulled her away from them. "Listen, Zadavia; we know all about your scheme about sticking us together." Zadavai gasped, "Ace, that was Optimatus; he hypnotized me into trapping you, I didn't mean any harm to come about." The others just looked at her, not believing it. "Follow me, Loonatics; there is something that I must show you." Everybody followed Zadavia back into Optimatus's ship and showed them footage from her earlier communications and everyone just gasped. "Zadavia… I…I had no idea that you really…. I 'm sorry," Ace hung his head. "It's alright, Ace; she put her hand on his shoulder, "I did want you as a team to compromise, but you know I would never trap you, anywhere." Everyone smiled at Zadavia and they all went back to Acmetropolis.