Chapter 7
The Loonakids opened their eyes to see themselves surrounded by the wormhole and their parents. They didn't know if they were the past or future Loonakids, for they had both memories.
"What-is-that?" Rev asked.
"It's a wormhole. I think—"
"DAD!" Kelly and Sarah wrapped their father in a bone-crushing hug before he could finish his sentence. Ryan and Michael did the same (but softer) with Sophie.
"Kelly…Sarah…choking…not breathing…"
"Sorry." Kelly and Sarah both let go and noticed Ryan and Michael, who immediately let go of their mom.
"Boy, we've got some story now, huh?" Lucy asked the rest of the team.
"Whatever it is, it can wait," Tech said, "That wormhole is turning into a black hole. At the rate it's growing, it could swallow the entire planet in 2 and a half hours before finally overloading and disappearing. We've got to somehow close it!"
"How are we going to do that?" Sarah shouted.
"Rev, could you go get my atomic—"
Before Tech had finished the sentence, Rev had already zoomed off to the lab and brought back a detonator.
"OK, this works." He pressed a button to turn it on so that it would be ready to activate when they tried to close it. "Just throw this in." He gave it to Ryan. "Turn it on and make sure it hits the core when it explodes or it won't work."
"Got it!" Ryan said, "How do you turn it on?"
"Oh, just give me that!" Kelly shouted, taking it and putting it in her pocket before turning on her jet pack and zooming up, followed by the other Loonakids. Before she could turn it on and toss it in, Macy came out of nowhere and pinned Sarah to the wall of a building nearby.
"You ruined my plan once," Macy said, using her power against Sarah, "I won't let you do it again!"
Sarah fought back the urge to scream in pain.
"Macy!" Kelly called out to the mad scientist's daughter, "At the rate this thing is growing, we could all die any second now!"
"Then at least you're going down with me."
Sarah's eyes glowed light blue as she screamed, knocking Macy off of her. She took the device from Kelly's hands and turned it on, getting ready to throw it into the black hole.
Macy grabbed the device from her hands. "I'll take that." All Jack had to do was give her one kick in the stomach and the device fell out of her hands to the ground.
Before it could hit the ground, Robert zoomed by and caught it. "Hot potato! Catch!"
Lucy caught it. "Macy in the middle!" She threw it to Benny who tossed it to Kelly who gave it to Jack who handed it over to Ryan who gave it to Michael who gave it to Nadine.
Nadine noticed the timer. It read "0:30". It was going to blow in 30 seconds! She prepared to toss it into the black hole, but Macy took it and threw it to the ground. No one was able to catch it and it landed in Tech's hands.
"Oh, dear," was all Tech could say before it exploded. He was ashes on the ground. He regenerated. "I hate when that happens!"
"This isn't good," said Lucy, "How do we get rid of it now?"
Nadine looked down at her parents and her friends' parents, and then she turned to her friends, and then she looked at Macy. She saw the anger and hatred burning inside Macy's eyes.
Macy used her Power of Pain and threw them all around, clearing a path to the black hole, unintentionally. Before she could make her move, the black hole swallowed her.
Nadine didn't need to think. "I've got a plan on how to close it."
"Really?" Ryan asked.
"What?" asked Benny, suspiciously.
"This." Nadine rushed into the black hole, grabbing Macy's arm and using her jetpack as a back-force to counteract the black hole's gravitational pull. "Lucy! Put a field over the core! Don't let it close on us and don't let it get any bigger!"
Lucy's eyes glowed brown as she did what her sister had suggested. The core was covered, giving Nadine time to figure out how to carry out the rest of her plan.
"Lucy! When I count to 3, drop the field!"
"What?"
"Just do it!" Lucy nodded. "1…" Nadine let go of Macy's arm and threw her back far enough to where she was in a spot where she couldn't get sucked into the core when Lucy dropped the field. "2…" Her eyes glowed pink and her hands lit fire balls, ready for launch. "3!" Lucy dropped the field and Nadine launched her fire balls at the core of the black hole, shrinking it. She concentrated hard, gritting her teeth as the flames in her hands grew stronger. She finally felt her hands themselves burn aflame. She held them over her head and threw them out, throwing a beam of fire at the core of the black hole, exploding it and finally making the entire black hole close and disappear from the sky. The Loonakids cheered.
"Wait," Sarah said, "where are Nadine and Macy?"
The Loonakids stopped cheering and looked down. Lucy gasped to see the 2 girls unconscious on the sidewalk where their parents stood. The team landed to see if their teammate and nemesis were OK.
Nadine sat up in pain. "Next time, don't drop the detonator."
"OK," Benny said, "She's back."
Macy got up.
"Whoa!" Jack said, "Back up! Mean girl's awake!"
"Wait." Kelly shot a killer look at her duck cousin. Sometimes he drove her crazy while he got on everyone's nerves…wait, what?
"You came back to save me," Macy said, "Why'd you do that?"
"We're superheroes," Nadine said, "It's what we do."
Macy still didn't get it.
"Listen," Sarah said, "just because your mom was evil doesn't mean you have to be."
"Actually, to tell you the truth," Macy said, "my mom is dead because of me."
"What?" Kelly and Tech both said, shocked. She hadn't expected this. She was the one who had the vision, but she didn't know it was this bad. Tech could hardly believe what he was hearing. Mallory's daughter had killed her? Who else in her family had she injured? Did she even have a family? And who was her dad?
"She didn't know what my powers were and neither did I and she got the first shock," Macy said, "The pain was too much for her and she died. My dad left us when I was like 3. I don't even know who he was, let alone where he is now."
"Well, look on the bright side," said Nadine, "Since your plan was never really put into action, your not, technically, a bad guy and, therefore, you have a chance to put that brain of yours to use."
"And I would advise staying away from time traveling, to the past, at least, so that no other's from your family get hurt," said Kelly.
Macy smiled.
"Did you ever get the feeling you missed something?" Duck asked the rest of the parents (and Slam).
"Pretty much all the time around here," said Lexi.
"Looks like we're just going to have to get used to it with these guys as our kids," said Ace.
