Chapter 4
The Loonakids peeked around the corner again. Each one of them had their hand on their communicator to muffle the sounds of Sophie's screams. It was only after Nadine stepped on a trick panel that they realized they were in a different hall and this one was extremely guarded.
As soon as Nadine had stepped, an alarm sounded and lasers started shooting at them.
Robert phased through them all.
Kelly used her power to see where each laser was going to hit so that she could dodge them.
Michael turned into an ant and hit in a crack in the wall.
Lucy covered her brother and sister with a force field.
Jack adjusted the direction of each laser that had been pointed at him.
Finally, Ryan got close enough to the wall to use his power on the lasers. His eyes glowed green as he reached up to touch the laser. If he could turn off one by contact, he could shut off the whole system. "Come on…" He reached up as high as he could, but his arm-span was about an inch or 2 too short. Just when he was about to give up, he felt someone grab him from behind. He turned to see Kelly holding his waist. She reached down and gave him enough of a boost that he could reach the laser. His eyes glowed green again as he grasped the wiring of the laser and the system turned off. But when he fell to the ground, he had been slightly electrocuted and his ears were singed. "Now I know how Dad feels."
"We have a healing spell when you get back," Daniella's voice sounded from the communicators. Sophie chose that moment to scream again. "Unfortunately, we don't have one that works when you're giving birth."
Tech was practically falling backwards, unsure what to do. "Oh, why couldn't this litter be a pack of cesareans?"
"Do you know how to perform a C-section?" Wendy asked.
Tech thought about that for a couple seconds. "Never mind."
Sophie screamed again. "You know, I would complain, but I don't think I can talk in this condition!"
"You're talking right now!" Duck corrected.
Back on the ship, the group came down another hall that hit a dead end.
The looked around, but there weren't any doors.
"I hate it when stuff like this happens," Kelly said. Suddenly, another vision struck her:
A door opened on the left wall of the corridor they were in, revealing a longer dark hall.
Kelly looked at the left wall of the hall. "I wonder…" She kicked it…and twisted her ankle. "OW!"
"Like I said, healing spell," Daniella said.
Jack groaned. "Might as well give up now and migrate to Venus. I hear it's the middle of the day this time of year." He leaned against the wall and a door opened up, dropping him on the floor behind it. He looked around. "Never mind, then."
An alarm sounded. "Intruder alert! Intruder alert!"
"Oh, now, it goes off!" Lucy whined. Her eyes glowed brown as she attempted to start another force field. Before she could finish, a bunch of robots came out of the walls. She dropped it. "OK, I can't help there."
Benny did a forward flip into a handstand and then launched himself at one of the robots, kicking it in the face and knocking it back. Thanks for loaning me the Sword, Dad, it's gonna come in handy. He pulled out the Guardian Strike Sword, his eyes beginning to glow yellow and began the Slice 'N' Dice.
Robert went into the middle of the room. "Will all robots please step this way?" About 7 robots jumped at him…and went right through him.
"Yeah-he-gets-that-from-me," Rev said, catching on to what his son had pulled.
As soon as Rev said that, they heard the sound of a baby crying. Everyone turned to see Tech holding a little baby coyote.
Sophie smiled…and then screamed again.
"Oh, not again!" Duck complained as he turned away.
Jack caught sight of an empty bucket in the corner. His eyes glowed orange as he used his power to throw it at a robot's head. He then stunned the robot, allowing Benny to come along and slice its head off.
"Thanks, Jack!" Benny said, moving on to his next victim.
Ryan caught sight of a robot charging at him and stood perfectly still. The robot made contact and smashed into a million nuts and bolts and some wires. He then saw a robot fighting with Kelly and grabbed its arms, disabling its wiring system and shutting it off. "Now, we're even."
Michael's eyes glowed purple as he turned into a bear and used his claws to slice right through a robot's arm.
Sarah's eyes turned blue as she screamed and fried one of the robots "brain waves". She smiled at Michael as he turned back and they nodded at each other (brother-sister code for "good job").
Meanwhile, Melvin was working on the dock. "Nothing can stop me this--"
"Intruder alert!"
"What?" He turned to the computer screen to see the Loonakids fighting the robots in the hall that led to the room he was in. "Oh, intruders make me so angry!" He went over to the door, passing the Mickey Mouse clock as it turned to 7:24 pm. Kelly's vision had been avoided.
Back in the tower, the team's parents were still fighting the urge to look at Sophie. Finally, the heard the sound that they had verified as the signal and turned to see Tech was holding another kid.
"Please tell me it was just twins," Duck said as Daniella took the first kid. Sophie screamed again. "I'll take that as a 'no!'" He turned away as Wendy quickly grabbed the last one.
Lucy finally bagged the last robot by sending one of her vines to pull out its wiring.
Benny had gone ahead when he had gotten tired of fighting and had motioned to Nadine to keep fighting as she threw one of her fireballs. By now, he had reached Melvin's door. He opened it and saw Melvin on the other side, holding some weird gun up at him.
"As I have said before, intruders make me so angry!" Melvin complained.
"Eh, what's up, Darth?" Benny asked.
"Just trying to incapacitate you with my Bubble Gun." He fired and a green bubble emerged.
"Aw, ain't that cute?" The bubble then exploded, launching him to the other side of the room and onto Nadine. He got up, helping his sister stand, too. "You realize, doc, that this means WAR!" He got out the sword again.
"Robots, attack!" Melvin shouted.
"Nice try, but we already--" Before Jack could finish his sentence, a couple dozens more bots came from the dock. "Oh."
As the rest of the group went after Melvin, Kelly crawled over to Ryan. "Ryan, get to the control panel and shut off the missiles. We have to get rid of Melvin." She got up and went off to fight.
Ryan raced past the fight and over to the control panel…which contained what seemed like a thousand buttons. "OK…let's try the blue one." He hit a blue button.
"Self destruct initiated!"
"OK, not the blue one!" Ryan hit the button again and it shut off.
"You know," Melvin said, "in hindsight, I question the inclusion of a self destruct button in the first place."
"You think?" Lucy said.
As the fight kept going, Ryan kept trying to figure out which button deactivated the missile controls. "Oh, I have an idea." He knelt down and took off the panel that guarded the wiring system…only to find twice as many differently colored wires than there were buttons. "I'm dead." He got back up and noticed a red button guarded by glass that had a strip of yellow and black tape that read: "Do not push; Missile control." Ryan shrugged. "Works for me." He opened it and hit the button.
"Warning, missile launch aborted."
Melvin whined. "Now, look what you've done!"
"Newsflash, dude," Nadine said, "Destroying a planet is a job for the Death Star. GET A NEW HOBBY!" She motioned for the team to move and they raced back down the hall.
"Sergeant Sirius, attack!" Melvin said.
The team stopped running and turned to see the green robot dog come into the hall.
"You're sending your dog after us?" Jack asked, laughing.
The robot dog growled, his eyes glowing red, and claws grew out of his paws.
"OK, I take it back," Jack said, "RUN!"
As the team started to run down the hall and back to their own ship, Sergeant Sirius chased after them, barking all the way.
Back in the tower, Sophie's screams finally ceased entirely.
"3 kids," Tech said, "At least it's not as bad as last time."
"So what are you gonna name them?" asked Wendy.
Tech and Sophie then looked at each other and Tech fainted.
"Too much?" Wendy asked.