Ch.3: Danger Danger

"Yipes!" yelled Danger as he instantly quacked himself out of the lasers paths. The rest of the Loonatics quickly followed his lead to dodge.

"What's the big idea trying to shoot at us?!" shouted Ace to the troops as he pulled out his Guardian Strike Sword to defend against the blasts.

"Don't know" said Lexi, moving up to Ace's side, and blasting at some of the troops with her brain blast " but clearly we did something to get on their bad side."

"What do we do now Chief?" asked Tech, as Duck reappeared from his quack and stood near the ship.

"No choice but to strike back!" said the yellow rabbit willingly " Rev, you and Tech start grabbing those guns. Slam, blow them down! The rest of us, provide cover!"

Nodding that they understood, the Loonatics team quickly worked to put their leader's plan into action.

Calling upon his super-sonic speed, Rev quickly dashed his way towards the enemy lines, fire blazing his tail as he passed by and grabbed the soldiers weapons within a second grip.

Once all of the gun-toting troops were disarmed, Slam moved in with his tornado palms, blowing the defenseless soldiers away from the fight, and leaving the odds a little more even for the Loonatics to defend.

The military chief growled in disgust at seeing half of his squad taken out like flies, and nodded for the bigger weapons to approach. Duck, Ace, and Lexi prepared to settle down their cover fire while Tech grabbed out one of his inventions from their mangled ship, ready to fire against the military's tanks.

However, before such action could have the chance to take hold, an unexpected guest flew into the party, floating like a hungry predator above.

All of the Loonatics gasped in surprise when they recognized the craft hovering in the air.

"That's our jet!" said Ace.

"But who's flying it?" asked Duck.

As if to respond to the mallard's question, four hover-bikes suddenly ejected from the craft, with black-cloaked riders sitting on board. Instantly, those bikes turned and started shooting laser beams at the army, making the humans scatter, flee, and scream.

For a while the chief tried to stand his ground, attempting to calm down the chaos that got completely out of hand. His bravery did not last for long as a laser nearly struck him in the chest. Giving up soon after that shot, the chief dropped his badge and ran after his fellow soldiers.

"We have to help them," said Lexi concerned as she watched the bikes continue to shoot after the army.

Ace gritted his teeth hard. He knew that Lexi was right. Even though these jerks did try to blast them several seconds ago, it still wasn't right for them to be hunted down like this. However, just before Ace could give the command to assist, a little hitch interrupted his plan.

A laser cannon from the jet suddenly came down, pointing right towards Ace and his team. One of Tech's most deadly inventions, meant to cut threw buildings like they were thin, paper cups.

Knowing the danger that everybody found their selves in, Tech quickly threw everyone, except Rev, a jet-pack unit, and suggested they fly. There was no argument as the Loonatics did exactly that and raced away.

The jet wasn't hesitant in following, the pilot shooting off numerous blasts as the Loonatics dodged their way around the laser beams, making them miss, and wove to have them hit buildings or streets instead.

Behind the controls the pilot growled. While the Loonatics were in the air they were to manveurable. Time to bring them back to the ground.

With that thought, the pilot pushed one of the buttons on his controls, and light, green energy waves suddenly broadcasted from the ship's mouth. Tech panicked as he realized what it was. Electro-magnetic waves had begun tearing up their jet-packs. They were going down!

Releasing a gasp when he saw his friends fall, Rev Runner instantly poured on his super-sonic speed to the max, and picked up Ace, Lexi, and Tech before they could all lie splat on the ground. Danger and Slam had less to worry about.

Quickly twisting his body so that it formed into a tornado, Slam just made his way safely to the ground, while Duck just quacked his way out of his jet-pack and made it to the ground with seconds to spare.

Shaken and disturbed, the Loonatics knew they didn't have time to rest because the jet was still on their tail.

"Quick, in here!" called Ace, pointing to the entrance of a subway station. There was no argument as the others quickly followed their leader inside.

The inside of the subway station was old and wrecked, like it hadn't been used in years. In fact, it probably hadn't. With the new, high-tech development of a speedy monorail system, people didn't usually like to travel the old way anymore.

"Amazing" said Tech, as he observed the structure " this must be more than 700 years old."

"Fascinating" said Ace " but do you want to tell us how we nearly got our butts fried back there?"

"I don't know" said Tech " but clearly the army thinks we have done something wrong,"

"But we just got here" said Lexi " I bet you it was those guys in the jet that gave them the real trouble."

"Yeah, but who are they?" asked Rev " No one but us could have gotten by the security codes and the defense system would have…Whoa!"

The runner's sudden shout was dictated from the stones above them suddenly creaking and collapsing. The subway station was falling in, and they were all about to be crushed underneath hundreds of pounds of weight.

In the heat of that moment, Duck froze, to terrified to quack, knowing that death was just a few inches away their heads.

The bricks were falling faster now, dust rose, and Duck closed his eyes, preparing for the end. But the end didn't come as the black mallard suddenly heard the sounds of the collapsing subway tunnel fade away, and the familiar voice of his leader speaking in his ear.

"Ace?" said Duck, suddenly opening his eyes " How…how'd you…?"

But the question remained unfinished as a force suddenly back-handed Duck from behind, leaving the mallard to fall and black out on the ground.

The last image Duck saw before drifting into dark was his leader's evil smirk, and those mocking words.

"Everything is fine."