Attack of the Fuzz-balls

Ace was working out in the training room, with hover disks Tech invented for him to practice his fighting skills. By the time he finished, Lexi and Rosie entered the room with two cute fuzz balls, one pink and the other blue.

Lexi: Hey, look what we got!

Ace turned to face the two girls, not before destroying one last hover disk. When Slam saw the two fuzz balls, he mistook them for snacks and tried to eat them, but Lexi and Rosie moved to the side, and Slam hit the huge gun. The gun was turned on when Slam fell on the switch. It whirled around and hit Tech, who landed upside down and the beam from the gun was closing in on his tail. Tech yelped, but Rosie rushed over and pulled the plug out, making the beam disappear. Tech sighed with relief.

Tech: Thanks Rosie.

Rosie: No problem. Check out the new pet I bought? Cute, isn't she?

Ace: What is that? You bought a new cotton tail?

Lexi: No, it's a fuzz-z. Oh c'mon, bio-pets are only the coolest trends ever hit Acmetropolis.

Ace: Yeah? What do you hit it with?

Lexi: You don't hit it, you love it. Show it whatever you want it to be; a glove, a choker, a cuddle walker.

Rosie: Don't forget it can be used as a hat, a wristband, and a belt.

Both pets transformed into the items both girls demonstrated, when Duck walked in.

Duck: Hold is right there, sister! (grabs Lexi's fuzz-z) How did you get a hold of one of these anyway? My fuzz-z's been on back order for weeks. Are you sure this isn't supposed to be mine?

Slam tried to eat the pink fuzz-z from Duck, who held it back from Lexi, but he moved the fuzz-z away from Slam and in Lexi's face, so she took her fuzz-z back from Duck.

Lexi: Back off, Duck. Zozo is mine.

Duck: (snickers) Zozo?

Rosie: I think it's a nice name.

Duck: What about you, toots? Are you sure your fuzz-s isn't mine?

Rosie: Sorry Duck, but Bluebell is mine.

Tech: Bluebell?

Rosie: That's the name for my fuzz-z. Her name matches her color.

Just then, the TV screen came down and Zadavia's holographic face could be seen.

Zadavia: You're not going to believe this one Loonatics, but there's a situation in South Acmetropolis that requires your special attention. A residential zone in the fourth quadrant seems to have a giant spider problem.

Ace: Didn't they just spray for giant spiders last week?

Zadavia: This family barely escaped with their lives.

Tech: Species? Origin?

Zadavia: Unknown and unknown.

Rosie: It's a good thing nobody was hurt by those…those…things.

Duck: (teasingly) You afraid of a little spider, Rosie? Forget where it came from. Where's it going; it's not coming here, is it?

Zadavia: The plan was for you to go there.

Her face moved closer to the screen, and it made Duck nervous. Rosie was glad Zadavia came to her defense.

Zadavia: I'll transfer coordinates and transit. Zadavia out.

Her holographic face disappeared.

Ace: She gets to go out and we get to battle mutant spiders. Nice. Let's jet!

YELLOW TRIANGLE

The Loonatics grabbed their jet packs and flew out of HQ through the doorway of the hangar, but Ace had just caught Lexi and Rosie having their fuzz-zs on their wrists.

Ace: Maybe lose the wristbands, girls.

Lexi: I don't wanna leave mine here all by herself.

Rosie: They can be our mascots. Please?

Ace: How about...no.

Lexi and Rosie took Zozo and Bluebell off their wrists and set them on the table. Both fuzz-zs looked up at their owners with sad, adorable puppy dog eyes.

Lexi: Aw, you'll be lonely, won't you?

Rosie: Let's take them with us as long as they stay out of the guys' sight.

Lexi agreed with Rosie. They made sure Ace was a long way off, then took Zozo and Bluebell, and hid them in their jet pack's pockets, and flew after Ace.

PINK TRIANGLE

After searching the area, a giant brown mutant spider crashed its way out of a building. Duck got hit and was sent flying. Slam grabbed the monster's leg, but the spider squashed Slam to the ground. Rev dived in ad scooped up Slam before he could get crushed again. A giant crack appeared in the road by the mutant spider. Ace told Slam to pull the spider mutant towards a bridge. Rev flew around it to keep the spider distracted. Tech told Ace, Lexi, and Rosie to remove the port hold in each column of the bridge. When it was done, the Loonatics, Duck included, pushed the bridge downward. Everyone cleared out and watched as the bridge fell to the bottom. When the smoke cleared away, the mutant spider was gone.

Ace: You gotta be kidding? How did it get out of there?

Everyone flew inside the bridge to look around.

Lexi: Very impressive. Itsy bitsy go bye-bye.

Rosie: But how the heck did it get out?

Tech: There's gotta be an explanation.

Then, Duck found a small, brown, cute fuzz-z, naming it Wonderfluff. Ace snatched it away and looked at it.

Ace: Big spider pulls a disappearing act and we find a hard to get bio-pet in its place. What are the odds?

Tech: Four million, twenty seven thousand and eight hundred sixty-seven to one.

Ace: Kind of high on the coincidence meter, don't you think?

Duck: Aw, c'mon! You're not trying to pin this on Wonderfluff, are you?

Ace: Until we can come up with something better, yeah.

When he placed Wonderfluff inside a tube, Lexi and Rosie heard the purring of their fuzz-zs in their backpacks.

Lexi: Zozo!

Rosie: Bluebell!

The two girls walked to the side, away from ear and eye sight of the boys, and took Zozo and Bluebell out of their pockets, both fuzz-zs squeaked thank you.

Lexi: Oh, how can anyone think bio-pets are anything but sweet?

Rosie: Yeah. They're too cute to do anything dangerous.

But the two fuzz-zs jumped out of their hands and bounced toward the guys.

Lexi: Zozo, come back! Zozo!

Rosie: Bluebell, don't!

Zozo and Bluebell bounced toward Duck and jumped into the compartment of his jetpack. Then Wonderfluff jumped out of the tube Ace was holding and into Duck's backpack.

Duck: Sorry, I guess they like me better. Now I have three superhero sidekicks! How cool is that?

Ace: (scowls) You had to bring the fuzz-zs.

Rosie and Lexi responded with sheepish grins and shrugs, when Lexi heard the three fuzz-zs eating something inside Duck's backpack.

Lexi: There's a party going on in your backpack.

Duck: I never go out in the field without some chocolate ab inducer bars. They must be really hungry.

He pulled out the three fuzz-zs from his backpack, but the three fuzz-zs eyes glowed and Duck yelped in pain when he felt the sharp tip of their clawed feet and dropped them. The three fuzz-zs screeched as spikes grew out from their heads and they grew razor sharp teeth, while their owners watched with worry.

Lexi: Zozo?

Duck: Wonderfluff?

Rosie: Bluebell?

The fuzz-zs grew bigger, taller, and menacing, but they also grew spikes on their heads, sprouted six legs, and their teeth grew long and sharp. Those cute little fuzz-zs had transformed into giant mutant spiders.

Commercial break at this point.

Duck: I'm not sure Wonderfluff has had all his shots. Anybody wanna buy a bio-pet cheap?

Ace: Duck! (everyone ducks for cover)

Duck: What?

But he got hit swatted at by the giant spider, sending him flying. The spider monsters tried to swipe at the others, but the Loonatics scattered. Wonderfluff swatted Ace to a wall, making the wall crack. He got into fighting position, but Lexi stopped him, not wanting Ace to hurt Zozo.

But when Zozo tried to attack the two bunnies, Slam charged in to attack, but Zozo grabbed Slam and intended to eat him. Slam punched Zozo in the face to save himself. Bluebell raised a hand to swat Rosie, but Tech pushed her out of the way as Bluebell's hand came down. Rev flew circles around Bluebell to distract her.

Tech: I'm sorry Rosie, but Bluebell is going down.

Rosie: No! You can't hurt my baby! (Tech looks at her dumbfounded) Ok, a big baby.

Rev: That's not a baby, that's a spider mutant monster that's trying to eat us!

Lexi: Look out!

Tech, Rosie, and Rev looked up to see Wonderfluff tower over them, about to attack, when Wonderfluff clutched his head and shrank to his original, cute size. Zozo and Bluebell changed as well. All three fuzz-zs bounced into the hands of Lexi, Rosie, and Duck.

Ace: What's gotten into these power puffs?

Zadavia: Something powerful.

High atop one of the buildings, Zadavia appeared in a billboard. The Loonatics flew up towards the billboard.

Ace: Powerful, but easy to get a hold of.

Zadavia: Good point, ace. The boy with the first fuzz-z fed it a whole stash of chocolate candy before going to bed.

Lexi: And our fuzz-z ate Duck's chocolate!

Rosie: And when the fuzz-zs eat the chocolate, they transform into mutant spider monsters!

Zadavia: Professor Zane's laboratory is located in the seventh quadrant. Just east of the industrial center.

Ace: The guy who invented these hairballs better know a way to cure their sweet tooth, cause Acmetropolis is crawling with them.

They watched as every civilian in the city played with a fuzz-z, totally unaware of how dangerous their new bio-pets were if they gave them chocolate candy.

Rev: It is gonna take a miracle to gather up all these fuzz-zs. I can grab a half of them, but we're gonna need something really amazing to get the rest of them.

Rosie: If those people give their fuzz-zs chocolate, they'll be in grave danger!

BLUE TRIANGLE

Ace: I bet Tech has a few toys we can use.

Tech: I give you the Exovac 2400 X.

The door lifted when Tech pressed the button to reveal a really huge vacuum.

Rosie: Wow, Tech!

Tech: It's the ultimate urban vacuum.

Ace: Now what in the world made you come up with this?

Tech: Try eating with Slam. Not pretty.

Slam grumbled at Tech, when Rev ran around the vacuum, observing it and babbling about it.

Ace: I get it. So you're saying this machine sucks. Fuzz-zs, that is.

They took off. Duck and Lexi were sent to warn Prof. Zane. Rosie, Tech, and Ace sat in the driver's seat inside Tech's invention while Slam controlled the direction of the vacuum and Rev was gathering up the fuzz-zs.

Ace: Mission accomplished.

Rosie: (through COM) How are things on your end, Lexi? Lexi? No answer. Duck, come in! Not even Duck is calling.

Ace: I got a bad feeling about that.

They dropped the fuzz-zs back at HQ and flew off toward Zane's laboratory, with Rev in tow.

They got to the lab just in time, as Prof. Zane was about to have Duck and Lexi eaten by one of the mutant spider monsters. The turbo vac machine crashed through the wall, and Lexi and Duck freed themselves from the spider monsters.

Ace, Tech, Rosie, and Slam jumped down from the machine, but Zane pulled down a switch and glass containers crashed to the floor, freeing a whole pack of fuzz-zs. Then Zane let out a whole stash of chocolate which Slam and Rev cleaned out, but it wasn't enough.

Duck tossed an orb at Zane, knocking the remote control out of his hand. When Zane was covered from the tar of the egg, Duck grabbed the controls. Then, Bluebell, Zozo, and Wonderfluff jumped out of their owners' backpacks and hopped off toward the large pile of chocolate candy bars.

Rosie: Bluebell, come back!

Lexi: Zozo!

Duck: Wonderfluff! No!

Too late. The minute they ate the chocolate, Bluebell, Zozo, and Wonderfluff transformed. A spider mutant grabbed Lexi, but was saved by Tech by using his magnetic powers to tie up the monster's feet with a catwalk. Duck wrestled with Zane for the remote control when the spider mutant with its tied feet nearly fell on them. Then, Lexi and Tech were grabbed by Zozo. Rosie leapt forward and slashed Zozo in the face, causing it to drop Lexi and Tech.

Ace grabbed the remote from Zane, but a spider monster grabbed him and made him drop the remote. Zane tried to get it back but Ace used his laser vision to blast it out of Zane's reach and managed to free himself from the spider's hold. Ace took the remote and got control over the fuzz-zs. All the fuzz-zs stopped in their tracks, now under Ace's control, much to Zane's dismay.

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With Zane now in jail, the Loonatics released all the fuzz-zs back to where they came from. Lexi, Duck, and Rosie had to say goodbye to Zozo, Wonderfluff, and Bluebell.

Lexi: Time to go. (Zozo cries) Aw, c'mon. You'll be much happier there. No deranged scientist to mess with you and no chocolate, let's hope.

Duck: I salute you. You've been a brave solider Wonderfluff. I also fear you, but let's not go there now.

Rosie: I wish I could keep you, Bluebell, but I can't. But I won't forget you, baby.

After the partings were done and goodbyes were said, Tech activated his communicator and Zadavia's hologram appeared.

Zadavia: Congratulations Loonatics. Thanks to your efforts, Prof Zane's nefarious operation has been shut down. Take the rest of the day off, you deserve it. Zadavia out.

Her hologram disappeared.

Rosie: I miss Bluebell already. (wipes away a tear)

Duck: Cheer up, toots. Fuzz-zs are so over. I already moved on to my next thing. Take a look at this!

He pulled out a box with little toys in them for Rosie to see.

Rosie: A look at what? Oh! A little hamster playhouse. How cute.

Duck: No, it's a flea circus.

Rosie: But, I don't see any fleas. And there's a hole in the bottom.

Duck: Oh great! Where are the fleas? (yelps in pain and scratches his butt) I think I found them.

Rev: Anyone got a flea collar?

Everyone laughed, except for poor Duck.

CAST OF CHARACTERS:

Jeff Bennett - Professor Zane

Steve Blum - Fuz-z