All was well until their next mission when it was time for darkness. While they were all sleeping after celebrating their two new members, it was slowly becoming more dark and depressing over Acmetropolis. They did not know what it was, as of now, they had to wait until Zadavia would tell them like she always does.
"I-It's getting kind of dark." Estelle said once she noticed.
"Kinda reminds me of Aunt Cherry's place..." Akito thought it was darker than it really needed to be.
"Something's wrong, I can feel it." Leo, Akito's Fuzz-Z, said in it's animal language.
"I agree, this darkness doesn't seem normal." Akito said, having the same feeling.
Akito and Estelle decided to see the others as they were just lounging, unaware of the dangers of today so far.
"Hello, Super Hero's Costume Warehouse?" Duck was on the phone. "I'm trying to place an order! Hello?" he didn't seem to have any signal.
Slam was eating watermelons and offered some to Akito and Estelle once he saw them.
"No thank you, Slam." the twins said politely before joining Tech, Ace, and Lexi.
Slam shrugged, then went back to savagely eating, at least he was eating fruit.
"What's tech doing?" Akito asked Ace, after seeing the coyote meditating in the above floor. "And how is he floating?"
"He's meditating," Lexi said without looking, knowing that was normal for the coyote. "Loosens up stress for him."
"Cool." Estelle said.
Duck was very annoyed by Slam's eating habits and tried to tune it out as he was on the phone.
"So Duck, why are you trying to get a new uniform?" Estelle asked him.
Duck was told the hold on the phone after placing an order and jumped up right next to her. "Just giving myself a little more flair, trying to look my best and presentable for the big boss lady." he replied, trying to sound cool as always.
Slam merely grinned after eating more melons.
"How does Tech meditate like that?" Akito wondered.
"I showed him how to do it." Ace answered with a proud smile.
"Cool." Akito said.
Duck struggled with his phone. "This is ridiculous!" he got cranky. "It's the 28th century! We got jet packs, hovercrafts, computer synchronized watch activity, but I still can't get a good cell service on the 183rd floor!"
Suddenly, his phone rang which woke Tech up from his peaceful zen.
"Duck, shut that ringer off..." Tech grunted, annoyed and trying to sound generous.
"Hey, at least the ringer works, the rest of it is junk!" Duck scoffed.
"Oh, please, I bet you couldn't laste one day without technology." Akito said to Duck.
"I agree with Akito." Tech added in.
Duck was about to retort, but then his phone beeped and rang. "Hello? Hello!" he then gave up after there was no answer. "Oh, that does it! From now on, no more technology! I'll do everything the old-fashioned way!"
"Aunt Cherry and Uncle Forte live like that." Estelle remarked based on visits she had in the past with Akito when visiting the creepy and spooky couple.
"Yeah right..." Lexi doubted the duck. "No phone, no MP3 music boxer 5000."
"And no high-tech weapons?" Ace added.
"Who needs 'em?" Duck said, showing two egg spheres made out of water in his two hands. "My bare hands are lethal weapons."
"Oh please, you couldn't go one low tech week without high-tech stuff." Akito and Tech said with a smirk.
"Oh, really?" Duck forced laughter, looking fierce to them. "How 'bout you, Techno Geeks?"
Tech stood high over Duck with a satisfied smirk. "Make your bet... If you get through one week, I'll buy you that new cape myself and if not, you buy for me!"
"Me as well." Akito added in, couldn't resist to not be included.
"What about the high-powered boots?" Duck said to them.
Tech and Akito looked to each other, then agreed with him and they shook each other's hands.
"Done!" Duck shook hands with them both, feeling lucky.
"By the way, I'm a thirteen wide," Tech said with a smirk. "And Akito is an eight wide."
Duck merely narrowed his eyes to them. Felicity and Vincent were sent in then, wearing their uniforms and ready to work with the Loonatics as today was another mission day.
"Hey, Vincent, hey, Felicity!" the twins called.
"Zadavia is about to call." Felicity informed them.
"Honestly, can't you guys come with good news?" Duck sounded annoyed as he had to do another duty with his fellow Loonatics.
"If they did, then they wouldn't visit more often." Akito stated.
Duck scoffed. They all then took their seats and got ready for their next mission from the woman herself.
"Gather around, Loonatics," Zadavia greeted them as usual. "The world is in crisis. The whole area is being enclosed in a dark energy field."
"I thought that the sky was darker then usual." Estelle said.
Tech pushed a button to take a look at it to see if there was anything he could probably do to solve this mess.
"How bad could it be?" Vincent asked.
Zadavia showed them a screen of a cloaked and dark, yet mysterious woman called Black Velvet is responsible for the utter darkness in the Acmetropolis. "She stole the radar system."
"That system gets all air and space in Acmetropolis." Tech told the kids.
"How much trouble can go?" Lexi spoke up.
"I'm afraid it gets worse," Zadavia warned. "It's also taken the Acme Super Computer."
"Oh my, that sounds like it's the most powerful computer." Estelle said.
"In fact it is," Tech informed her. "It's the most advanced system in the planet. I should know... I built it."
"Very impressive..." Felicity was wowed, even if she didn't exactly know what a computer was.
"See what happens when you rely on technology?" Duck scoffed. "Utter chaos! I am sooo going to win this bet!"
"Don't count your chickens before they hatch, Duck." Akito said.
"Now pay attention!" Zadavia scolded Duck then.
"Yes, ma'am..." Duck replied quickly.
"I'm uploading some security footage now." Zadavia showed them a screen of this Black Velvet and her henchmens' heist to make a worldwide blackout.
"Get a closer shot of those fellas, Tech." Ace told the coyote.
Tech did as told, fiddling with the buttons and did a zoom in with the camera.
"Wow, those look kind of scary." Estelle said.
"Fascinating..." Tech was curious of their constant growth and multiplication.
And then the screen showed the villain of the week, Black Velvet, and where up close, she looked rather attractive.
"Hubba Hubba!" Slam chuckled.
Lexi scoffed, a little jealous. "She's not that pretty!"
Black Velvet removed her hood and showed her glowing red eyes and wavy short hair.
"Nah, she's hot." Ace was even seduced by Black Velvet's charm.
"Keep your eyes on your phone!" Lexi scolded him.
"She is attractive." Vincent even agreed.
"Not you too." Lexi groaned.
"This woman is bad to the bone," Zadavia warned the group. "And you have to figure out what she's up to. Good luck, Loonatics... Zadavia out..." she then signed off to leave them for their mission.
"Alright guys, let's jet." Akito said.
"Hey, that's my line." Ace playfully looked angry at him.
"Let us just go." Felicity sighed, not getting that what Ace said was a joke.
They all went into the Loonatics jet and out of all the boys who found Black Velvet attractive, Lexi was the most angry with Ace about it.
"Uh-oh, I think Ace is in hot water." Estelle whispered, after noticing how angry Lexi was.
"Should we cool him down?" Felicity sounded worried.
"No, no, no, she means that he's in trouble." Akito explained.
"Oh... English is so confusing..." Felicity rubbed her head a little.
"Yeah, it can be confusing at times." Vincent said.
"Oh..." Felicity still shook her head.
"Poor Ace..." Akito looked to his bunny friend, he did find Black Velvet attractive, but only in a kid's perspective, especially since he already had Emi and Vincent had Jenny.
"Let's hope he won't be in too much trouble." Estelle said.
The others nodded and kept going until the jet was ready to land and drop them off to their newest mission.
"New mission, here we come." Vincent said.
"Looks like we're going to the tech site." Tech noticed.
"Which is the ancestral homeland of geeks, dweebs, and braniac nerds." Duck commented.
"I went to school there." Tech explained.
"There's a shocker." Duck deadpanned, folding his arms.
"You kids hang tight, we're about to go to hyperdrive." Ace told the human children.
"Yes, sir." The kids said in unison.
Big black clouds flashed lightning that was enough to blind an innocent victim or two.