Chapter 10

"So where are we going first then?" Duck asked as he walked alongside Ace on the pavement.

"According to Zadavia, the location to finding our first partner is around here somewhere." Ace said as he stared down at his wrist looking at a hologram map.

"Gee. Somewhere around here. That's a good start. If only we knew where they are exactly." The duck snorted sarcastically. Then he looked down on his wrist at the watch on his wrist.

"And where is my lunch? I only ordered it five minutes ago, and they're late!" he moaned again. "I'll be seriously keeping my change when he gets here!"

As if on cue, a blue blur smacked into Duck, knocking him onto the ground. Duck looked up to see a blue roadrunner in a light blue streamlined uniform holding a sandwich bag.

"Here ya go! One Caesar sized baguette with the salad and mayonnaise included! That will be 20 quarsarliums please!" The roadrunner gushed enthusiastically.

"Sorry!" Duck snatched the bag off the roadrunner. "Your policy says that if the order isn't delivered in five minutes, we get to have the order for free! And you were clearly one minute late!"

"Please!" The roadrunner begged as tears ran down his feathery cheeks. "I need some form of pay! If I don't get any income, I won't be able to support my family, and then we'll be poor, and then we'll have to leave our house and-"

"Here ya go then." Ace said as he generously placed two quasarlium notes in the roadrunner's hand. "You look as though you've been working non-stop. You deserve at least this for delivering the order."

The roadrunner stared at the money as though he has never seen it before.

"Th- thank you..." he stuttered. "Thank you so much!"

"What!?" Duck exclaimed.

"I won't forget your kindness! I'll find a way to repay you! I promise you! Thank you! Thank you!" the roadrunner said in excitement as he sprinted in the opposite direction, leaving Duck and Ace with blank stares in their faces.

Then Duck turned and frowned at Ace.

"What did you do that for!?" he snapped. "You didn't have to reward him for being so late!"

"Hey! You got your lunch, didn't you?" Ace frowned back at him. "Now lets go."

Ace started to walk as Duck grumbled under his breath as he bit into his sandwich.

Two hours went by and the two anthros eventually sat on a park bench in the park.

"Nothing!" Duck threw his arms up into the air. "We looked for hours and we haven't found our partner yet! This is probably some wild goose chase we've been sent on!"

"Zadavia wouldn't have sent us out here for no reason now would she?" Ace sighed as he leant back on the bench.

"Get out of here! Something's here!" a random cry called out.

Ace and Duck sat up to find the roadrunner running around the park, warning people to get out of the park.

"That's the crazy roadrunner who delivered my lunch late!" Duck pointed at him. "He's lost it this time!"

"We better calm him down before the police gets involved." Ace said as they ran towards the roadrunner.

The bird turned to see the rabbit and duck running towards him.

"Get back!" he cried. "Something dangerous is gonna come from that spot from the ground in five seconds!"

"Look pal!" Duck shouted. "You've crossed the line this-"

The ground started to rumble. The ground underneath Duck started to rip from under his feet. A head then shot up from the ground, pushing Duck up into the air. Duck screamed as he was thrown high into the air. The people in the park started to run out of the park, while Ace and the roadrunner stared at a giant blue, transparent worm poking from the ground. Ace turned to the roadrunner.

"How did you know what was going to happen, uuhh..." Ace asked as he tried to guess the roadrunner's name.

"It's Rev." he replied. "I don't know. I just felt something telling me in my mind that this was gonna happen and I just couldn't help but warn people about it before it was too late."

"We'll deal with introductions later." Ace said. "Right now, Duck needs us to unearth this worm!"

END OF CHAPTER 10.