Here's the late update for SlidEds. Enjoy and please reveiw!


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In the fortress that was the Loonatic Headquaters, gloom dominated. The sky no longer shined its shades of sunset but were now forever grey and clouded. The rain that fell like tears from the eyes of the sun, pattered on the window. This only added to the already deep gloom that penitrated into the remaining members souls. It was like a reminder of how useless they had become, how easily brushed aside. Slam, flicking slowly through the channels, didn't look at the screen. His eyes were glaze over the images and he looked down next to him. The empty seats were filled with flashback of Duck and Eddy, their fights and arguments playing over in his mind. He smiled and turned back to the TV, his smile now gone.

Rev toyed with device on the table, an invention that Tech had yet to finish. It was suppose to be a new weapon or something, but he didn't try or want to find out. This was Tech's, his inventions were as much a part of him as any of his organs. He smiled slightly and got up when thunder boomed. As he walked passed Lexi, he could see that the music wasn't drowning out the emtions she felt, the feeling of losing a sister. Rev felt the same, he'd lost his brother. He walked into the hallway and glanced into Ace's room. The rabbit was still brooding, blaming himself for what happened. He wasn't mediating anymore, he was gripping his sword as hard as possiable, a trikle of blood dripping from his hand. Rev couldn't bare the sight anymore. Finally, he'd reached his stop: Tech/Kevin's Workshop.

The room that had once belonged to the coyote was now Kevin's, still as cluttered as ever. Sparks flew as Kevin was putting the finishing touches on his latest invention, a gun designed to fire neural-neutrailizing rounds.

"How's-it-going-Kevin?" Rev asked in his fast manner of speaking.

Kevin put down his tools and glared at the Road Runner from behind his googles.

"How's it going? I haven't seen my friends in weeks snice they were sent through that portal. And since than we've been having our asses handed to us by those goons of Theta. Add on top of it the fact that I've no idea how to track them or how to even begin to make a Rift to replace the one Tech has. And the fact that I can't even finish one goddamn thing because it always backfires. So how the hell do you think it's going!" Kevin yelled

Rev backed up twice. Kevin was mad, alright. But this wasn't regular mad like whn someone stumbs your toe or ticked you off. No, this was anger brought on by the fact that he was powerless to prevent what happened. That things were now so far out of control that he couldn't even begin to fix them. It was like a pain that gnawed at your heart, eating it til there's nothing left. How he hated this feeling. Then, he did something that to say between them and them only: he cried. The macho, tough kid who'd never showed his feeling was no crying softly on the floor. Rev couldn't stand to see him like this. An alarm cut it short and the boy wipped his tears away quickly, pulling one of his inventions from the wall.

Outside, the Loonatics were being beaten. MasterMind levitated stones at Lexi, who blasted them away only to be hit by a strong pysic blast. The mad genius chuckled and Lexi fired off a series of Brain Blasts. They never made contact as MasterMind made them hiss from existance. Then, she held out her hand and a purple arua formed in front of it. She sent a wave out, phasing through Lexi and hitting a pile of scrap behind her. Lexi smirked until a metal claw slashed her off her feet. Master\mind then levitated her off the ground and slammed her into boulders like a pinball. Finally, she stopped and squeezed her fist, the Loonatic gasping for air.

Slam saw this and turned to face her but hit the ground hard. He grunted as he tried to stand only to have his head slammed hard into the dirt. Massive grinned behinde him, lifting the Loonatic up with a mear gesture. He then formed the arua around his fist and punched Slam so hard that he nearly blacked out. Massive's fist did more than just hit him, it tore his innards. That fist had the force of a metor behind it. As blood form at the corners of his mouth, Massive gave a disgusted look.

"You Loonatics are has beens." he growled and threw the Tasmanian Devil aside

"I agree, these inferiors have no right to even be allowed to look at us." MasterMind had caused Lexi to pass out and was now dragging her by the ears.

Weatherbane summoned a twister and Ace was blown into a wall. He grunted and then howled as lighting couresed through his body. The weather fiend then command the rain to stop and it did. It froze in place and she shot the high-pressure liquid at the bunny, peicring his body multiple times. He gritted his teeth and fell to the ground, defeated.

"That was even easier than last time." Weatherbane mocked

Sypher scwoled, not having fought at all. Then, he heard a familiar sound and grinned. Rev blazed at the villian, fist balled. Sypher, however, backhanded him, using his momentum to send him into the rubble that was noe the Tower. He groaned and Sypher loomed over him. He gripped the loonatic by his neck and smiled. Rev gripped his hand, feeling his enegry slip out his body. Sypher wanted more than just power now, he wanted Rev's very life force. The Loonatic could do nothing as his body slowly grew limb and his hands fell. He was now motionless.

"The bird's dead. You'll only be sucking up dust." Mastermind blurted

"...Rev..." Lexi managed to wheeze

"Fine." Sypher dropped Rev's body to the ground.

At that moment, He felt his legs being crushed with so much force, it didn't even register until after it happened. He screamed as he fell to his knees, his legs now covered in blood. Kevin appeared from the Tower, totting a weapon on his sholders. He lowered his yellow hand and walked up to Rev. He put a hand to his chest and felt a weak pulse. He'd live, but Sypher wouldn't. The villian was still howling in pain when he summoned another pillar of earth to encase him, this time his entire body. He crushed his hand and Sypher was silenced. His body fell to the ground and Kevin glared at the remaining three.

"I'll have to ask you to stop, Kevin." a bone-chilling voice said

Kevin turned and fired the weapon, the Protonic Disruptor, a device that vaporized atoms. Theta held out his handand stopped the beam dead in its tracks. Kevin froze. Then, Theta appeared behinde him and stabbed him in his back, spilling blood everywhere. As Kevin collasped, he heard the villians walk away and he forced himself to stand. Another lost and another rainy day.


Rolf slugishly awoke from his dreamless sleep, the boy's hair matted and frazzed from sleep. Sleep caked in his eyes, he made his way to the bathroom. He washed up and headed in the kitchen. There, Johnny was already at the table, carrying out plans between him, Plank, and Plucky. The green mallard glanced up at Rolf, nodded, then quickly returned to his conversation. Rolf, still rather tired, headed for the second table and sat down next to Babs. The pink rabbit had been through much in these pass few weeks, both emtionally and physically.

"Hi Rolf." she said glancing up at him, a fanit smile tugging at the corners of her mouth.

"Hello, Go-Go Rabbits Babs." he replied and then yawned loudly.

"...Fifi and Beeper found some refugees yesterday. They toke them to the shelter a little while ago." Babs voice was timid.

"I see. Johnny the wood boy, have you no plans for tomorrows jouney?"

"Plank says we should cut throught downtown and gun it towards the park. Its the safest route." Johnny explpained

Rolf nodded and returned to his room. There, he found Furrball, sitting on the windowseil, The toon looked his way and motioned his head towards him. Rolf grabbed his coat and swiftly put it on, following the cat as he jumped from the window to the ground. He breifly looked back before running after the Toon. In his room, a peice of thattered paper fluttered in the breeze that still blowed from the open window. Pinned on the wall, a note explaining Rolf mission into the city.

The city, once a place of wacky and fun adventures was now a place of great crisis. Smoke still bellowed from the ruins of the destroyed buildings, debris littering the broken streets. Furrball, sprinting on all fours, hopped from foothold to foothold, Rolf lagging behinde. The toon had a habit of acting much more feral than he really was and now, in his nightmare, that habit had become a valueable assest. His movement became harder to follow as they crossed what was called 'The Accident', a series of crashed cars, drivers that never made it out of cars were now bare bones,a frightening thing to the any not trained for this.

Rolf quickly hopped through the Accident. He couldn't bare to be there another second. The duo finally hopped through the piles of cars and landed on the cracked and ragged pavement. Rolf focused and flames formed on his feet, slowing his descent. Furrball landed softly, preping his legs for the jump. He rose and leaped to the nearest parking meter, stabilizing himself on the top of it. he then leaped to the next and then the next until he had a neat system going. Rolf raised his flames and hovered after him on hot soles.

As the two were making it to the heart of the city, back at home, Johnny was busy chatting it up with Plank. Babs had discovered Rolf's not and was now worried sick about his whereabouts. Plucky was silently cursing Rolf, making Babs worry so much. Then, a loud blare made the kids jolt. Johnny ran for the door and Plucky hid Babs in the shelter. Outside, Johnny came face-to-face with the enemy. The person in front of him was named Jupiter, the same man who had stopped Aira all that time ago. He gave a bl;ank stare, the same as he had that day, and Johnny focused. Green enegry traced Plank and the 2x4 grew longer, sharper. Now it resembled a sword, the wooden blade shimmering with green energy.

"Johnny...are you really going to attempt to fight me?" Jupiter asked

Johnny yelled and rushed at him, Plank lowered at him like a spear. Jupiter dodged and grabbed Johnny's arm, sending him into a tree. He grunted from pain and willed the trees around him to attack. Limps and roots rumbled as they made their way up through the soil. They all moved towards him and Johnny grinned widely. However, in a flash, they stopped, then half of their bodies lobbed backwards. Jupiter, holding a blade made of pure white light, slashed the air, and Johnny grew wide eyed. He looked down and saw as beads of blood flew from the diaginal wound on his chest. His head fell back and he passed out.


The night air, bitter and sharp, blew in the face of the SWAT KAT known as Isis as she rode on the modified motocycle. The bike was black, blue, and red, the sifnuture colors of the SWAT KATs. She was on potrol, sweeping the eastern sector. Her com-limk beeped and she turned it on, slight static occuring as the person spoke.

"Isis, found anything?" Jake asked

"No, not much. No signs of MC or his crew."

"Hm...........Spike just checked in and everythings clear on his end too."

"Man, I hate this!" Isis growled and slammed her fist against the metal.

"I don't liker it either, but we have to do want we can for the city." Razor replied

Isis grunted in anger and cut off her com-link. right now she definatly was in the mood for any of the Kat's lectures on responsiable and disclpine. He might be a great macanic, inventor, and one heck of a great shot but he could get annoying. Still, he was better than being left by herself. She pumped the brakes, did a complete U-turn and raced back to the base. As she looked at the moon she recounted theevents that led to this. 2 weeks ago, T-Bone and Shade had been sucked into the Void and left them at the mercy of MC and his villian army. After narrowly escaping, they decide to come up with a plan of action against the new threat. Snice then, they've been on the look out, with twleve attaks so far with less than desirable results.

She raced across the rough dusty ground of the junkyard and clicked a button on her suit. The hatch opened up and she slipped inside, the hatch closing once more. She braked to a stop on the platform and started to undress as it went down. below, Jimmy was waiting patiently for his friend to return, knowing the streets were no longer safe. AS he heard the whirring of the platform he jumped fromhis seat, then blushed as he saw Sahra ina white tank top and underwear. She looked at him and blushed even reder. She quickly dismounted and put on her uniform, trying to keep a striaght face throughuot.

Upstairs, Jake was watching the news. Nothing speical was reported except for te theft of an excess amount of coolent and heilum. As the two Kat came upstairs, giggling like little school girls, Jake smiled. At least he still had them.


Sorry for the aburpt endings but I really made this to satify the need of anyone who was curious of the lifes of those lieft behinde. We will return to the Eds in the next chapter. TTFN!