I don't own Loonatics Unleashed. A little bit of a Lion King (do not own) reference here with Fleur and Miranda as well.
Loonaticslover13: Thank you for the review! Lexi finally got her chance and she took it thanks to Andrea's advice. Not to mention that she finally has a boyfriend now. Looks like the two besties cannot be defeated. Enjoy this chapter! :D
Sweeping through the streets, Rev and Michelle worked together to free the innocent people that were trapped in the ice. Michelle pointed out where she saw the frozen civilians while Rev melted the ice and freed them from the ice. "This- is-really-exhausting," Michelle breathed after they had finished freeing the last civilian and reunited them back with their family.
Rev looked at her. "True-but-I'd-rather-spend-saving-the-day-with-you," he smiled at her which made Michelle blush yet again. "Good-thing-that-we-saved-everyone-before-anything-else-happened-to-them."
"Yeah-now-that-we-are-finished-lets-head-back-and-help-our-friends," Michelle said.
To tell the truth, Rev was a little worried as to why Ace wasn't notifying them to where he was. He hoped that their leader was doing okay. "Rev," Lexi's voice suddenly came.
"Lexi?" Rev said when he heard her voice.
"Its me," Lexi said, "Ace has been injured but he is going to be okay. How are you guys doing?" she asked.
"Yeah-we-are-finished-where-are-you?" Rev asked.
"Uh..." Lexi said as she looked around, "I don't know but we are in-"
"In the middle of downtown!" Andrea's voice rang out.
"Ooh-I-know-where-that-is-come-on!" Michelle said as she grabbed Rev's hand and the two roadrunners raced down the street to meet up with the bunnies.
Hunter finally arrived to aid Andrea, Lexi, and Ace. Andrea immediately grabbed the supplies out of his hands and attended Ace. She rolled up his shirt and looked at the bloodied wound. Lexi sucked the air through her teeth when she saw the ungrateful sight. There was a gash and his gray fur was stained with the dry blood.
"Now I ain't no nurse, but I'm gonna do what I can," Andrea said as she opened the bag of cotton balls. She took a few of the soft cotton and took the alcohol plastic bottle in the other hand. She wet the cotton with the alcohol and gently cleaned Ace's wound.
The sting from the alcohol caused Ace to open his eyes. "OW!" he yelled as he looked at Andrea in surprise. "What are ya doin'?" he asked.
"Well ya'll got wounded so I am helpin' ya," she said.
"Ace just squeeze on my hand if it hurts," Lexi said as she put her hand on his. Ace looked at her hand and then looked at her. A sting entered through his wound and on instinct he squeezed her hand. After a few more stings, he finally felt the bandage covering his wound. The pain subsided and he stood up from the ground.
"Tanks Andrea," he thanked the Southern rabbit, "and tanks for being there for me as well," he smiled to Lexi and she gave him a smile in return. "Guys," he said into his watch, which also served as a walkie-talkie to the whole team, "are ya guys okay?"
"We're coming right now!" Tech's voice rang through the watch.
Minutes passed and the teammates finally arrived and met Ace, Lexi, Andrea, and Hunter in the middle of downtown. Once Quinn arrived and looked at the unknown male bunny, she looked over at Andrea who only gave her an excited smile in return. Quinn only managed to give Andrea a nod, understanding what the situation was about.
"How did you go?" Ace asked them. He eyed them to make sure that they weren't hurt.
"Eet was tres, tres difficile," Fleur said as she fanned herself with her hand.
"Mais nous managed," Pierre suddenly said as he put his hand on Fleur's waist and pulled his closer to her.
Andrea rolled her eyes at his gesture. Even though he was suddenly on their side because he loved Fleur, she didn't trust him for he had attempted to kidnap Fleur a number of times, but she had to get used to it for the meantime.
Ace looked around the group and he didn't see Duck, Slam or Bridget anywhere. When he was about to ask where they were, an mini-earthquake shook the ground. The Loonatics looked up and saw Slam and Bridget arriving with two mammoths. Slam gave his teammates a wave as him and Bridget hopped off.
"Man," Hunter suddenly said as he looked at the mammoths. "Those things are huge."
"Bwt fweidly," Slam told him as he patted the mammoth's fur and the mammoth patted Slam on the head with his trunk.
"Aww," Lexi said, "at least you guys made some new friends."
"Speaking of friends, where is Duck?" Ace asked. Coincidentally, Duck and Miranda suddenly appeared in front of the group. Ace was happy to see Duck but he wasn't ecstatic to see Miranda. He couldn't believe that she had betrayed her team and put them in jail like that.
Fleur's feelings were mutual like Ace's. She was never going to forgive Miranda for doing something like that. "Well, well, well," she said as she put her hands on her hips and glared at her, "vous changed your mind?"
"Yes and I'm sorry," Miranda said, "to all of you."
Her teammates stayed quiet and only looked at her. Quinn ignored making eye contact with her, while Andrea looked down at her feet, Bridget only stared at her, and Fleur glared. "Well apologizing eez not enough Miranda," she spoke up.
"Well what do you want me to do?" Miranda suddenly exploded. What else was she supposed to do? She couldn't turn back the time and correct what she had done. She admitted that she had been careless about it but now she was hoping that at least they would accept her back. She was trying hard to stop this whole scheme but her teammates were making it difficult for her.
This time, Andrea looked at her. "At least tell us why you did this whole stupid thing in the first place."
"Because I felt left out from you guys," Miranda said, "whenever I tried to hang out with you, one was busy checking out her clothes, the other was busy playing ping-pong, the other was stuffing her head in the fridge, and the other was too busy carving out wooden dolls and yelled at me for accidentally cutting off his head!"
"That's because I worked hard on that!" Andrea yelled as she spread out her arms.
"And you deed zees because vous felt left out?" Fleur asked. She let out a laugh, "zat eez the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. How old are you Miranda? Only an enfant would do sometheeng like zees."
"Hey," Duck jumped in Miranda's defense, "can't you see that she is trying to apologize. She knows what she did was wrong but she is trying to fix it. If she was on their side, she wouldn't have helped Tech and Quinn defeat the werewolves!"
"Well she eez ze one zat kidnapped you and put vous in jail," Fleur reminded him as if Duck had forgotten about it.
Rev and Michelle suddenly arrived to their teammates. "Everyone-was-successfully-saved!" Rev announced. He looked and saw that Miranda was standing right there. He kept his beak shut, deciding that it was better to say nothing at all. Michelle did the same thing. It was better to keep her comments to herself than to say anything mean to Miranda. She couldn't believe that Miranda would do something like that as well.
"Well I'm not the one that's in love with a villain!" Miranda shot back at Fleur.
"Excuze-moi?" Pierre asked as he looked at her, "vous need to have your eyes, how you say, checked."
"At least I deedn't betray my team," Fleur argued, "even if I deed, I would feel guilty about eet. Zat's what vous should be feeling maintenant."
Michelle had about enough of their argument. "Guys," she interrupted as Miranda and Fleur looked at her, "both-of-you-need-to-relax-okay-what-we-need-to-do-now-is-set-our-anger-aside-and-work-together-to-defeat-Croc-King-and-Irene!"
Ace nodded. "Michelle is right. The sooner the better."
A female laughter was heard into the distance as the Loonatics turned around and saw Irene standing behind them with Croc King. "I would say that you are wrong there rabbit," Irene smirked at the team.
"What up doctress?" Ace said as he faced them in a fighting stance.
Irene pointed her cane in front of her and a net of ice shot out of the blue orb. The Loonatics dodged just in time but the mammoths weren't so lucky. The ice trapped them and they were unable to move. She started to shoot out more ice at the Loonatics. She wasn't doing this just to catch them, she was doing this to tire them so she would take the powers of a specific superhero.
Michelle dodged the icy blue icicle that threatened to freeze her. She jumped in the air as she managed to dodge another but when she landed back on the ground, she twisted her ankle on the ice. She moaned as she squeezed her eyes shut and grabbed her aching ankle.
"Perfect," Irene purred.
"MICHELLE!" Rev yelled but when he was about to run and save her, Irene opened her eyes and blue lasers shot out of her eyes. The blue lasers hit Michelle's body as she yelled in pain. The lasers were making her weak. Irene had to power to suck the powers out of her since Michelle was associated with ice. Irene could feel herself getting stronger and stronger as she drained Michelle of her powers. It wasn't just her powers, it was also Michelle's life.
Once Irene felt that she had finally drained Michelle's powers, she held out her orb in front of her and pointed it on the roadrunner. Michelle slowly looked up as a white light blinded her. She felt something reaching inside her chest and pulling out her soul. A yellow orb was taken out of her chest and was immediately locked into the blue orb. Michelle fell to her knees and collapsed on the ground.
Irene smirked as she stroked the blue orb on her cane. She faced the Loonatics. "Thank you Miranda for confiding in me which superhero has ice powers," she said as she waved her cane in the air and both she and Croc King disappeared.
Rev immediately zipped at Michelle's side. He took her body in his arms and looked at her. She looked peaceful as if she was sleeping but she was not breathing nor were her eyes flinching. Rev slowly shook his head when he looked at her.
"Is she..." Hunter spoke up, "dead?" He didn't know Andrea's friends really well but seeing someone dead in front of him made him really upset and sympathetic.
Rev was at a loss of words. He put both of his fingers at the side of her neck, hoping to find a pulse but there was none. "No," he whispered, "NO!" he yelled as he hugged Michelle's body closer to his. Tears escaped from his eyes as his body shook.
"Oh non!" Fleur yelled as she covered her face with her hands.
Rev suddenly felt two hands on his shoulders. He looked up and saw Tech and Ace standing over him, looking at Michelle with sympathetic gazes.
Lexi put a hand over her mouth as tears escaped from her eyes. Slam pulled Bridget close to him and she buried her face in his chest. Andrea was a usually a strong rabbit. She tended to keep her emotions hidden but this was usually during when she watch sad movies. This was not a movie. Her friend had been killed and she had died right in front of her eyes. She felt an arm around her shoulder as Hunter pulled her closer to him.
Miranda tried to catch her breath. "What have I done?" she whispered as she put her hands on her head. Duck saw that she was going to go into another breakdown so he pulled her close to him. "What have I done, what have I done?" she kept asking herself.
Fleur moved her hands away from her eyes. She turned her head and glared at Miranda. "What have you done eez right!" she yelled at her. She clenched her hands into fists as she marched over to her. "How can you be so...so-"
"Peu profonde, la pierre coeur, stupide, imbécile?" Pierre helped her finish the sentence.
"Oui," Fleur said, "Michelle eez dead because of you!"
"I didn't want this to happen," Miranda defended herself, "I didn't even tell Irene about Michelle at all."
That got on her last nerve. "Menteur!" Fleur screeched as she slapped Miranda on the face. She didn't notice that she had her claws out. When Miranda looked up, Fleur noticed that she had sliced through the fabric of Miranda's mask. She didn't care that she did that. She didn't even care about Miranda anymore. "Get out of here! Get out of my sight!"
"Fleur-" Miranda said but she was interrupted by the leader.
"MAINTENENT!" Fleur yelled as she threateningly raised her claws in the air.
Miranda backed away from Fleur. She knew well that when Fleur was angry, it was better not to bother her. "Would you stop?" Duck suddenly jumped in, "she is trying to be accepted back into the group."
"Well she eez not coming back to ze group," Fleur shook her head, "not after what she has done to us and to Michelle." She turned her back on Miranda and walked away from her. She walked over to Rev and looked at Michelle. She couldn't believe any of this. Miranda had broken her trust in them and she was not going to allow her back, no matter how much she apologized.
Miranda saw that the rest of her teammates went to join Rev and Michelle. She couldn't argue with any of them. They were right, this was all of her fault and she deserved what she got. She turned and faced Duck. She had treated him badly but he was on her side and she was thankful that she had someone that believe her. "We need to get Michelle's essence back," she whispered to Duck.
"How?" Duck asked.
"Her spirit is trapped inside the blue orb. Irene needed to get Michelle's spirit along with her powers so she could be as powerful as Michelle was. I know a way to get her back, but we do need help from someone. The stinkiest teammate that is with us right now."
"Slam?" Duck asked.
"No," Miranda shook her head, "him," she pointed at Pierre.
"But he doesn't have that stench anymore," Duck reminded her.
"Well he is related to a skunk so he still has some skunk in him right?" she asked as Duck only gave her a skeptical look in response. "Come on, there's got to be some stench in him."
"Its worth trying," Duck shrugged, "but how do we get him to come with us? He only stays with Fleur."
"You can transport yourself out of places. We'll jump on him and you transport us to Irene's and Croc King's place," Miranda told him, "we'll get back Michelle's spirit and defeat Irene and Croc King once and for all."
Duck gave her a nod. "But why do we need him again?" Duck asked her.
"Either to try and seduce Irene since he flirts with women or use his disgusting smell to make them unconscious," Miranda said. The two mallards sneaked behind Pierre. Miranda grabbed his shoulders and pulled him back.
"Ahh! What eez ze meaning of zees?" Pierre yelled in surprise. Suddenly, Duck hugged both Pierre and Miranda and transported out of the scene.
"Non!" Fleur yelled, "where are zey going? Why did zey take Pierre? Mon amour!" she yelled.
"Chillax Fleur," Andrea told her.
"I don't know where but lets try and find them," Ace spoke up.
Quinn sniffed the air as she tried to pick up their scent. "This way," she pointed west as she led the way and her teammates followed her.