Grease Monkey

Loonatics Unleashed

Tech x Rev fan fiction

Author: Pyry Cole

Yet again, this is free fan fiction. if you pay, you've been tricked

Chapter Ten: Suspicion

Two days had passed since the Loonatics' arrival on the Pholdarian home-world. The reptilian natives were very helpful to their efforts, providing leads, and resources. However, any investigation into the whereabouts of the supposed dignitary came up dry. During this time Rev and Tech spent their time aboard the Sky-runner,from which they kept in contact with the others and helped to co-ordinate the investigation.

Rev stirred from his slumber, preparing for another day of fruitless search brushed a hand through the blue and purple feathers on his head, shaking off the lethargy of sleep, afterward getting dressed and shuffling to the kitchen. He prepared a breakfast for two, with omelets, pancakes, and sausage. This was quite slow, to him, though any observer would practically see it all go by in a flash. And as usual, due to his speed the food suffered. Nothing on the plate seemed remotely edible.

He yawned, stretching his limbs and shaking off the last bit of tiredness before setting the table. Rev looked about the mess hall, finding no sign of Tech. The roadrunner walked over to the wall, tapping on a small intercom device.

He began speaking in his usual manner to the intercom device, "Come-on-sleepyhead-wake-up, get-some-breakfast, the-most-important-meal-of-the-day, you-know-they-say-that-it's-really-a-bad-idea-to-skip-breakfast. For-that-matter-it's-a-terrible-idea-to-skip-sleep-too, you-know-I-know- this-girl-and-let's-just-say-she-needed-her-beauty-sleep-not-that-I'm-saying-you-don't-look-good-without-it-though, but-anyway-I-hope-you-slept-I'd-better-not-find-you-in-the-lab-again!, oh-right-breakfast.. come-and-get-it-before-I-have-to-go-get-you from-whatever-you're-doing"

Rev waited for a few moments by the intercom, tapping his foot and checking the clock on his wrist guard. Two minutes had elapsed, and he had yet to hear a response. The roadrunner was growing impatient, and decided to search the ship for Tech himself. In a flash he ran through the corridors, checked the bridge, the armory, the core, and the bedrooms. Tech was nowhere to be found.

He paced about the galley for a few moments before figuring out what to do. The roadrunner concentrated a few moments, his eyes lighting up as he tried to track Tech down with his psychic echo. The roadrunner concentrated, producing an image of the nearby Pholdarian home-world, and then, the image started to split, producing no coherent results. It was clear to Rev that the coyote was on the planetary surface, but he couldn't figure out where. He took the next sensible step, hurrying over to the communications array in the ship's ops room.

He fiddled with the dials and buttons, punching in the communicator protocols and waiting for the system to establish a link. Its main screen lit up with a blue triangle as the machine sent its communication signal. The process must have lasted only four seconds, but to the worried bird it felt like an eternity. Ace appeared on the screen before rev, "Whats' goin' on rev?"

The bird started to ramble worry obviously in his voice. "I woke up this morning and I couldn't find Tech, I made him breakfast and everything but he's not here not in the bathroom not in the ops the core the bridge or the bedrooms it's really odd I can't find a sign of him anywhere do you know where he is because this is just strange you know, not telling me anything or-"

Ace loudly interrupted the fast, nearly incoherent bird, " Calm down rev buddy, he's out here wit' us. He uh, said he wanted to check the uh.. bio somethin'." Tech E. Coyote's familiar voice could be heard coming from the comm. array, "That's Biological Synchronization. these creatures are very strongly linked to their world, even though they've apparently been faring into deep space for centuries. The planet has a more diverse biosphere than what Acmetropolis has left. I wonder how they managed to maintain it so well. Oh and Rev, sorry I'm not available for breakfast. "

Rev's eyes lit up, having received proof of Tech's well being, "Well-that's-really-fascinating-and-I-do-think-I should-see-it-in-person-just-send-me-your-co-ordinates-and-I'll-be-right-down-there-in-a-jiffy,-you-know-I-never-did-figure-out-why-they-call-it-a-jiffy-it-sounds-kinda-strange-i-mean-for-that-matter-where-did-any-words-come-from? I-mean-clearly-we-need-them-in-order-to-get-the-point-across-just-imagine-what-kind-of-world-we'd-have-without-communication?" The runner started to ramble.

Ace rolled his eyes "Oh, believe me, I can try." immediately the screen went blank and the system was silent.

He stood for a few moments in front of the comm array, his mouth open, being cut off in the middle of his speech. "Well, that wasn't very nice. Huh, speaking of, it's not nice of Tech to leave without saying goodbye. He's never here for breakfast either."

Rev walked to the Sky-runner's airlock, A Pholdarian guard had been posted to protect their guests, and the reptilians' scientific interest in the vessel. He approached the guard and asked him for help. "What is it?" the feathered lizard-man replied. He was much larger than the other Pholdarians Rev had seen. With deep red scales and black feathering, his facial features appeared almost dragon-like. He was quite intimidating.

"Well-uh.. heh" Rev chuckled, he had trouble finding the words with the soldier looking down on him, he regained his composure, and his speech returned to its normal pace, "I-need-to-get-down-to-the-surface, you-see-the-others-are-down-there-and-there-might-be-a-way-I-can-help, not-only-that-but-some-thing-seems-to-be-off-about-my-abilities-from-here-and-maybe-it'll-clear-up-when-I'm-planet-side, so-could-you-get-me-a-shuttle-down-please?"

The lizard-man spread his hands, extending his arms forward slightly in a halting pose, "Whoa, pleasse, not sso fassst." Meanwhile a small red orb came about from around the corner. It spoke in a blunt and deep tone. "Don't worry Aglok, I caught it all." It turned about to face Rev Runner, "I'm taking care of it now." The sphere, and the Pholdarian remained quiet for a few fleeting seconds suddenly the sphere lit up momentarily and began to speak "You have been granted a shuttle pass, proceed to south terminal thirty eight. It will be ready for take-off in ten minutes."

In a flash the roadrunner was out the airlock, blazing through the spacious hangar complex towards the was stopped only when he slammed into the transparent door of an elevator, becoming dazed for a few moments. Rev managed to peel himself off of the door and shake it off. He pushed the call button several times and started to pace about. To anyone else, he was little more than a red blur, moving from one side of the lobby to the other as he waited for the lift. Less than a minute had passed before it arrived, but this was torturously long to the red-clad Loonatic.

Immediately he rushed into the waiting lift. The transparent doors had shut behind him with a hiss, sealing it. Rev looked about the walls for buttons, but failed to find any. Suddenly a beam of light scanned him over and a computerized female voice resonated through the small chamber. "Passenger, Rev-Runner. Please state destination." The synthetic voice sounded vaguely familiar to the bird, but he couldn't place it.

"Well uh.. I-think-I-was-supposed-to-go-to-south-terminal-thirty-eight-if-this-lift-goes-there-it-does-go-there-right?-I'd-hate-to-be-on-the-wrong-lift." The loonatic questioned sheepishly

The transparent walls of the elevator lit up for a moment, and then dimmed. The voice responded, "Acknowledged, departing for terminal thirty eight." Its voice really seemed all too familiar, and to the bird, it was even a bit unsettling.

The lift shot upward, immediately accelerating to blinding speed. Hundreds of levels of the gigantic complex passed before the runner's eyes in seconds. Even he was having difficulty keeping count of the passing floors. It seemed to be almost as immediate as the acceleration, the lift began to decelerate, the levels passing by more and more slowly. Eventually the elevator ground to a halt.

Things went from uncomfortable, to downright strange. The lift had stopped in-between floors, in all directions was nothing but piping, wires, and the cold, steel floor and wall panels one may expect to see between floors. Rev tapped on the walls of the transparent lift system for a moment. "Excuse-me-is-everything-alright? It-looks-like-you-stopped-me-mid-flight."

Suddenly the sides of the chamber lit up, and the voice began to cackle. "Ahaha!. This was far too easy. You're a real bird brain aren't you?

I should've known that coyote would fall for an airhead." The malicious tone of the voice had the runner frightened. He was trapped at the mercy of another.

The familiarity of the voice began to grow. This was clearly a bad situation for the bird.

Rev scrambled to find his way out, slamming against the walls of the ethertanium cylinder in a futile attempt to break through. The voice let out another high pitched cackle.

"Are you about to give up? I don't see how he'd take an insipid pest like yourself, not that it matters anymore.

I have you right where I want you." The voice broke into a crooked laughter once more, and the encapsulated lift began hiss as it was flooded with a green gas.

Rev started to cough, becoming disoriented as he continued to breathe in more of the greenish tried to speak, gasping for air.

"I .. you're *cough* not going to get away with this. *gasp* I should-have-known that *cough* voice! You... you're !"

Before he could finish the statement he had collapsed to the floor, blacking out.

~ Author's Note:

Well, I finally finished Chapter Ten. Yes that's right, now that real life is out of the way once more, I can continue on my evil evil fiction.

If you have not found other texts that give some things away about this. You may or may not be able to guess who's behind this attack.

Please Review, both positive and critical comments are appreciated.

Stay tuned for chapter 11. When plots are revealed, and enemies, both new and old come to light.