Little Tech/Rev moment in this one, just FYI :)
Also, Ace/Lexi, because they're ADORABLE! :)
Kit yawned widely, showing cute little fangs, and open her eyes.
Lexi was trying to punch through the wall across form her.
"Lexi, what are you doing?" Kit asked, cocking an eyebrow at her friend, "the walls are, like, a foot thick."
Lexi punched the wall, irritated, "we can't just sit here, we have to find out who kidnapped us, and why."
"Well, why didn't you just say so?" Kit asked, standing up, "I know the answer to both."
Lexi turned to Kit in surprise, "what? How?!"
Kit pointed to the mirror and Lexi looked at it confusion.
"The mirror?" Lexi said and Kit shook her head.
"It's not a mirror," Kit said, smiling, "it's a screen."
"Wait, I'm confused." Lexi frowned, "you mean it plays movies?"
Kit laughed lifelessly, "I wish," she said, "no, it shows something a little more recent."
"What do you mean?" Lexi asked, starting to get aggravated again.
"Just wait," Kit said turning away, "they turn it on after breakfast."
Biting her tongue to keep from asking a million questions at once, Lexi sighed and tried to brain blast the wall, but the attack just sputtered and died. Lexi punched the wall again in aggravation, but her attack was like hitting it with a fly swatter.
She was just going to have to wait.
Ace hovered in midair as his communicator flashed urgently. The Loonatics had rushed out to search immediately after breakfast, but there was still no sign of their missing comrade. Ace had stopped a few break-in's at a few grocery stores on his way to the bus station on the other side of the city.
Revs excited face popped up on screen and Ace felt a glimmer of hope in his heart.
"Rev, buddy, please tell me you have some good news?" Ace said.
"Oh-boy-do-I-ever-Ace!" Rev said, faster then usual, "you'll-never-ever-believe-what-I-found-at-the-old-sweet-factory!"
"Lexi?" Ace asked, know it was too good to be true.
Rev looked sad for a minute, but then perked up a bit, "nope-but-something-almost-as-good-better-hurry-before-they-go-poof-again!"
Rev hung up and Ace shot toward the old Sweet factory on the other side of the city.
Lexi looked at her food with mixture of disgust and confusion.
"You mean you actually eat this stuff?" she asked, looking up at Kit, who was already halfway through her bowl.
"Yeah, so?" Kit asked, her mouth half full.
Lexi sighed and set her bowl down. The two girl were sitting across from each other in the small room, a tiny rectangle had opened in one wall and pushed out two bowls of what looked like gray mush, but what Kit claimed to be oatmeal.
The small space had closed almost as soon as it had opened, but Lexi had jumped at it anyway, earning her a small lump on the head, which throbbed painfully.
Kit sighed, and set her empty bowl by the place where the rectangle had been.
"Look," Kit said, "if you don't eat you'll lose what little strength you have left."
Lexi looked at the ground, she was starving and exhausted, but still refused to eat the food, what if they had poisoned it?
Suddenly the lights dimmed and the mirror lit up with a logo Lexi had never seen before.
Both girls stood up and faced the screen, Lexi's fists clenched at her sides.
"The following is a live broad cast of actually events happening this very second." A computerized voice announced.
The logo faded away and a video of the remaining Loonatics appeared.
"Ace!" Lexi cried, stepping forward.
Kit frowned, "that's weird, usually they show the News and Weather first."
The team was crouching behind a large container, and standing in formation beside the sweet factory, were at least two dozen men in black body armor.
Ace and the others ran forward, attacking the black clad men, who raised their weapons and fired at the Loonatics.
Ace felt anger bubble up inside him, these were the same guys who had taken Lexi, and now he was going to make them tell him where she was.
"Rev, grab those guns!" Ace called.
"Already-on-it-boss!" Rev cried, speeding forward and snatching the guns out of the men's hands.
The men, now weaponless, charge forward, kicking and punching.
The team retaliated with equal strength.
Duck blinded them with eggs, and annoyingly quaked out of reach when any of them got close.
Tech used his magnetism on the armor of the men to fling them into metal crates and render them unconscious, or knock them into each other.
Rev zipped in between them, confusing some and infuriating others; and whenever one tried to hit him they ended up hitting their own teammate.
Slam just spun a tornado and knocked them down like bowling pins.
Ace blasted some with laser vision and sliced others with his sword, he never killed them just knocked them out.
Soon all the men lay on the ground, either unconscious or incapacitated, but no one dead.
The team gathered around a guy lying against the wall, his leg bent at an odd angle, his breathing labored, but steady.
"Right," Ace said pointing his sword at the man, "now, tell me Lexi is or else."
"What?" the man said a deep inhuman voice, "you kill me?"
"Whoa!" Duck exclaimed at the sound of the other mans voice, "man, are you even human?"
He meant it as a joke, but the other man laughed.
"No, in fact." He said.
Ace frowned, "let's take a look behind that mask." He said, reaching out and pulling the black mask off the man's face. All the men wore pitch-black masks, concealing their faces.
All the Loonatics gasped in unison, behind the mask, an electrical face stared blankly at them.
"It's a robot!" Tech exclaimed, "fascinating!"
Suddenly a screen opened on the robot's face, and a count down for ten began, along with a loud beeping.
"Uh, I don't think that's a clock," Ace said quickly, "run!"
The team dived for cover (except Duck who just quacked away) as the robot exploded, sending flaming hunks of metal everywhere.
"Ace!" Lexi cried, stepping forward again.
"They can't hear you." Kit said, arms crossed in front of her chest, "what's the point?"
Lexi ignored her and watched the screen furtively.
Ace staggered to his feet, ears ringing from the blast.
"Report!" he cried, looking around anxiously, "everyone alright?"
"Fine, chief." Tech called, and he and Rev walked up.
Duck quacked up next to Ace, "gees, what was that all about?" he complained.
Slam growled something that sounded like, "I don't know." but it was hard to tell.
"I think some one doesn't want us poking at their toys." Ace said thoughtfully, trying to hide his disappointment. Now they had no way of knowing where Lexi was.
"For them to be able to fight like humans," Tech said quietly, "they'd have to have a cerebral type cortex chip." Tech paused for that sentence to sink in.
The other just looked at him blankly.
"So," Tech explained, "in theory, I should be able to hack into the memory and vision circuit of the chip and find out where it's been."
Ace felt his spirits soar; now they had something to go, "and it looks like you've got plenty to work with." Ace said, gesturing to dozens of other bodies lying everywhere.
Suddenly a loud insistent beeping echoed out of every robot, and Ace felt a cold knot form in his stomach.
"Uh, oh!" Duck said, "looks like we better high tail it out of here!"
Rev felt frustration bubble up inside him as the others ran for cover.
Despite the voices in his head screaming at him to run, Rev dashed to a robot and began ripping it apart, searching for the chip Tech had talked about.
Tech looked back and stopped, "Rev!" he cried, "leave it, and come on!"
The others turned back at Tech's cry and watched in horror as the numbers on the robots faces ticked down to two, then one.
"Got it!" Rev exclaimed, speeding away from the deformed Robot, a small computer disk in one hand.
The numbers hit zero when Rev was about ten feet away.
"Rev!" Tech screamed, something he rarely did.
Ace pulled him behind a crate with the others as the explosion hit where he had just been standing, and fire reached skyward. The shock wave pushed the crate forward a feet, but it didn't fall, and the Loonatics were thrown forward onto the ground.
Tech staggered to his feet first, and, ignoring the heat of the flames, ran forward.
"Rev!" he called, searching wildly for his missing friend.
The others joined in, trying to put out the fires and calling for Rev.
Tech found him first, lying on his back, surrounded by debris and rubble.
"I found him!" Tech called to the others, and they ran over.
Tech pulled Rev onto his lap, quickly checking his pulse and feeling relief flood through him.
He was alive; breathing ragged, unconscious, and badly burned, but alive, and still clutched in one hand was a slight chard computer disk.
Tech laughed softly, pulling the disk out of the roadrunner's hand slipping it into his pocket, "you idiot." He muttered.
"Is he going to be okay?" Ace asked, fighting back panic.
"He better be," Duck interjected, "I still have to beat his high score on Battle Brawlers." Duck hoped the Runner was okay, but tried not to let it show.
"He should be fine," Tech said, lifting Rev and laying him in Slams arms, bridal style, "but we should get him back to the tower and treat those burns."
The Loonatics took to the air, headed back home to heal their wounded friend, and to unlock the secrets of the disk still in Tech's pocket.
Stay tuned for more exciting chills and thrills! And let me know what you think in the reviews. :)
