Chapter 3: Exploring the City
It was the next morning and Kavasia was the first to wake up. The purple sun was shining in her eyes as she sat up and looked outside. She sighed to herself.
"Too bad my grandpa retired." She said to herself as she slowly got out of bed and walked up to the big horizontal window. "This place is amazing."
10 minutes later, Wile E. woke up and laid his laptop beside his bed. When he saw Kavasia, he cleared his throat, getting her attention.
"Kavasia, I'm going to pick up breakfast with Ace as soon as he wakes up. Make sure nobody touches Kayla, okay?" He announced to her. She nodded as she resumed looking at the beautiful sunrise. 5 minutes later, Ace woke up and saw that Wile E. was up and ready to go already. As they headed out the door, Kavaisa assisted by locking the door behind them. After 15 more minutes, everybody else was waking up almost simultaneously when the purple raccoon focused her attention back to the purple sun.
"What I'm wondering is how can there be a sun underwater?" She asked herself.
"Hey, lavender!" Slam called out. Kavasia felt offended by that name, but didn't make eye contact. "Where did Wile E. and Ace go?"
"They went to get us some breakfast. He warned me to make sure that none of you touch Kayla, his laptop."
"Why?" Tanka asked.
"I don't know. He just said don't touch her."
"Oh, okay."
"Hey, K." Lola called from her bed. "You wanna keep me company while I take my shower?"
"I'm not gonna be in there with you, am I?" Kavasia asked back, finally turning around to look at her long-time friend.
"No! You could just sit somewhere. We could talk about whatever." As the tan bunny spoke, she headed towards the bathroom. Lexi got out of bed when she saw her walk by and followed her. Kavasia came in after Lexi, but then stopped at the doorway for a minute.
"If any of you misbehaving boys touch Kayla before Ace and Wile E. gets back, I'll get Lexi to brain blast every last one of your asses!" She declaired before she closed the door as she got in.
After she was out of earshot, Tanka ran over to Wile E's laptop and was about to open it until…
"TANKA!" Bugs yelled. "Didn't ya hear what Kavasia just said? She said don't touch!"
"I'm sure that he wouldn't mind if I just let her out before he comes back." Tanka pleaded. "Somehow, I have a crush on her."
"But, still, she said don't touch!" Kazami warned.
"Who's it gonna hurt anyway?" Tanka pressed the open button, but the top didn't open. He tried opening it with his bare paws. He tugged as hard as he could for 3 minutes until….
"NYAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" The tiger screamed at the top of his lungs when he felt a 20,000 bolts worth of an electricical surge pulsate through his entire body. The other boys took a step back or covered their eyes with shock as they watched the lovestrucked tiger fall for the "opening-the-laptop-without-authorization-from-Wile E." trap. This scream got two of the ladies looking out of the bathroom door with curiosity.
"TANKA!" Kavasia yelled as she ran over to the helpless tiger and tried to pull him off, which made her get shocked as well, but luckily, it was just her finger.
"OUCH!" She screamed before she whistled for Azuki to save the day. He responded by pouncing on the laptop and waited for Kavasia's cue.
"Azuki, I wish that the electricity stops shocking Tanka right now!" Azuki nodded before he released a puff of yellow smoke from his paws, which covered only the shocking scene. This puzzled everybody, including Ace and Wile E., who just got back with several bags of breakfast and they were standing in the doorway. After 5 minutes of the smoke, it finally cleared. It revealed Tanka black and nearly burnt to a crisp as he was laying there, knocked out. Azuki sighed with relief before he lept off the laptop and went back to Silverwing. At this point, it was all silent before Wile E. broke the silence.
"He touched Kayla, didn't he?" He asked everybody, except Ace.
"Yep." Bugs replied. "I tried to tell him not to, but he disobeyed me."
"Tanka?"
The burnt tiger coughed up some black smoke before sitting up and speaking.
"Yeah?" He asked weakly.
"Why did you touch my laptop?"
"I… uh… I have a small crush on her somehow."
"You do?"
"Yeah. When you activated her on the sub, I was in heaven."
"Well, in that case…" Wile E. walked over to his laptop and pressed the open button and it slowly opened by itself before Kayla appeared in a different outfit. She was wearing a nice purple tunic with blue jeans and a turquoise beaded necklace. Tanka fell in love again as he saw her step off the platform and become solid. She looked down at the drooling tiger before she kneeled down and stroked his face.
"I'm guessing you're the tiger that tried to open me." She said in her deep female voice. Tanka nodded. "Well, I can stay like this forever, if that's what you want." The dazed tiger nodded again frantically. "Then, it shall be done. Wile E., close the laptop."
The brown coyote did as he was told and closed the laptop. Tanka sighed with passion as he was cuddled in Kayla's arms and she stood up before walking over to a bed and sitting down on the edge.
"Now, remember, everybody. On this day, we're gonna find Kenashi and talk some sense into him. After we finish eating, we'll head out. Understood?" Ace announced before everybody nodded in response.
Later, in the Usaki Town Square…
They entire crew was walking around the underwater city. Every civilian was either crystalized or shiny as a pure diamond. They were led by Azuki and Silverwing on their way to the Tigroni Rainforest, where Kenashi could be pinpointed. They decided to stop by a clothing shop to look for clothes that would make them feel as though they're part of the city's population. As soon as Azuki and Silverwing stopped, everybody else scattered around to have a look at the different clothes for both genders. The ladies went to their section while the boys went to their section.
"Look at these clothes!" Lola exclaimed. "They look expensive, but they're worth a bargain."
"Really?" Lexi asked as she looked at a random diamond-shiny sweater and checked the price. It said '3.50'. "Oh, my God! You're right! This sweater's only 3.50."
"Unbelieveable!" Kavasia exclaimed. "How could something so expensive be so cheap?"
"If this was our world, they would cost like 100 dollars or somethin'." Lola agreed as she looked around some more. She gasped hard, nearly making her throat sore when she stopped.
"Lola, what is it?" Lexi asked.
"It can't be." Lola remained dazed as she looked at a sparkling sapphire gemstone basketball jersey that was just her size. It had matching shorts and a matching scrunchie on the hanger. This made the tan rabbit squeal with excitement as she ran over to the outfit and took it off the rack to show it to Bugs. This made Kavasia and Lexi chuckle at her behavior before they continued searching for more clothes.
Over at the boys' section…
The boys were also bedazzled by the elegant gemstones that decorated every piece of clothing, including Loonatic design boots. Bugs saw a piece of jewlery that he couldn't take his eyes off of. It was a gemstoned carrot with pure shiny gold chains. The carrot was the color of brown topaz and the green area for the leaf part was emerald. He was nearly drooling at the sight of it before Lola came up beside him, still having excitement written all over her face.
"Bugs! Look what I found!" She screamed. Bugs turned around and saw the sparkling jersey she was holding and sighed along with her. "Isn't it beautiful?"
"Yeah." Bugs replied, grabbing the jewled carrot necklace. "Check this shit out!" He held up the necklace and Lola gasped hard again.
"What the hell…! That's cool!"
"Ain't it, though? You can't even get dis back upstairs."
"I feel ya on that one, baby. How much does that cost?"
"Only 2 dollars."
"BAM! Exactly! This place has expensive lookin' stuff for a dollar store price. This jersey's only 4 dollars even."
"Dat's crazy, doc!"
"Lola! Come over here!" Lexi screamed from the distance. Lola turned to look at her girls from far away. "Look at these boots!"
"Coming!" Lola screamed as she ran back towards the ladies. Bugs shook his head as he held on to the jeweled carrot necklace and walked over to his boys.
"Bugsth, check it out!" Sylvester exclaimed as he pulled out a pair of crystalized finger-less gloves. "How do you think thesthe would look on me?"
"Like a cat burgular. Heh-heh-heh-heh!" Bugs joked between laughs. Sylvester growled as he placed the gloves back to where he found them.
"Ha-ha. That wasth stho funny, I forgot to laugh."
"Goddamn!" Ace exclaimed as he standing with Slam and Tech in the shoes department. "Are those our boots with jewels decorated on them or what?"
"You tell me." Slam replied. They were looking at their pairs of Loonatic boots. They were just about the same as their old ones, except the colored areas of the shoes were in gemstone form, meaning that Ace's were a bright yellow, Slam's was tanzanite gemstone colored, and Tech's were pure emerald. Tech whistled after 4 minutes of dazed silence.
"Shall we get a pair for Lexi?" He asked randomly. As if on cue, Lexi came from behind the boys and showed them her onyx gemstone designed shoes right in their faces.
"I'm covered." She replied. "You boys should get these, too… in your assigned color, of course."
"I agree." Slam agreed as he took his gemstone colored boots. "I'll bet people back in Acmetropolis will be like: 'DAAAAAAAAMN! Where in the hell did you get those sparklin'-as-hell shoes?'"
"I feel ya on that one, man." Ace agreed as he took his shoes before Tech took his. Everybody else gathered towards the check-out and brought their stuff for the bargain.
Minutes later…
Azuki and Silverwing were sitting outside the clothing shop with Kayla, waiting for the others to come out. When they saw at least one of them come out, they sat up straight. First to come out was Lola. She was dressed in her new sapphire jeweled style basketball jersey and shorts with the topaz brown scrunchie in her hair. After her, Kavasia came out in her stylish tanzanite purple business suit with a garnet gemstone designed necktie around her neck. Lexi, Ace, Slam, and Tech came out in their gemstone designed boots. Next was Sylvester and Daffy. They were dressed alike. They both wore New York style, gem embroded clothing decorated with sapphire on the shirt, white diamond on the jeans, and tanzanite and ruby on the sneakers. Next was Bugs. He was dressed New York style as well, except he was wearing a different outfit. He wore a green emerald embroded vest with a brown topaz gemstone designed t-shirt behind it along with a pair of sapphire embroded jeans and his gemstone carrot necklace around his neck. Lastly, the two animals, Kazami & Tanka, came out in only collars around their necks. Tanka's was decorated with tanzanite and sapphire on the collar and a white diamond in place of the license. Kazami's was decorated the same way, except it had a ruby gemstone in place of the license. Azuki nearly fainted at the sight of all of them. Same for Silverwing. Kayla just smiled at their new outfits.
"Well, we really got our money'sth worth." Daffy started.
"I wonder how long it took to make all these outfits." Kavasia wondered aloud.
"Probably years." Kayla agreed. "Shall we move on?"
Hours later…
They all finally reached the Tigroni Rainforest and waited at the location Kayla pinpointed not too long ago. Azuki and Silverwing were scared as they shivered to death. Lola looked down at them and felt sorry for them.
"I know you guys are scared." She cooed at them before she kneeled down towards them with her arms opened. "Come here."
The two terrified tigers did so and lept into the tan bunny's arms before she picked them up and hugged them close to her chest.
"Tzaporion did say it was a bad experience for both of them." Lexi predicted.
"I really wish that…"
"Lola, watch it!" Bugs exclaimed. "Ya don't want Azuki to trigga ya wish."
"But, Bugs, I really want this wish."
"Okay."
"Azuki, I really wish you were a…"
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" An angry voice yelled from nowhere. This startled everybody and they were starting to look scared as well, except for Kayla and the Loonatics.
"Alright, Kenashi!" Ace yelled back. "Show yourself. I'm ready!"
"Sure, you are." After that reply, Kenashi flew down from the darkness of the trees and snached Lola from her shoulders and from behind to be exact, catching her off guard. This made Bugs terrified.
"LOLA!" He screamed as he saw his wife get snached by the killer. Tech looked determined as he pulled out a jetpack and handed it to Lexi. She strapped it on the moment she took it and took off after Kenashi and Lola.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Lola screamed a high pitched scream as she held on to Azuki and Silverwing closer to her chest. The two tigers roared with Lola scream as Kenashi headed higher into the sky. As soon as he was in the clouds, Lexi was able to catch up to him and attempt to brain blast him, but she soon realized that if she brain blasted him, she could hit Lola, too.
"Shit! This won't work. I've gotta try something else." She said to herself, but Kenashi heard her and stopped in her tracks.
"I don't think you'll be trying anything, pink bitch!" He yelled in her face before he fiercely kicked her jetpack and it malfunctioned, sending her plummeting back down towards the rainforest. This made Kenashi chuckle with satisfaction.
"What do you want with me?" Lola asked in a terrified tone.
"You'll find out soon enough, sexy." He replied before he continued on his way.
Back in the forest…
Lexi came crashing down through the trees' branches before she landed with a hard THUMP! This made the boys geer.
"Ooooooh!" Slam geered. "That musta hurt like hell, Lex."
"Don't remind me." She muttered under her breath as she stood up and removed the damage jetpack from her back and dropped it on the floor. At this point, Bugs was in tears.
"Why is Lola always da victim in dese situations?" He asked himself as he looked up at the sky in sadness.
"I don't know, but I like it." Daffy complied, making Bugs slam him in the back of the head with a carrot. "I wasth justht kidding!"
"I hope so."
"Well, Kayla, now that Azuki and Silverwing have been captured along with Lola by Kenashi, what's gonna happen next?" Wile E. asked.
"What will happen next is not going to be very pleasant if we don't hurry and get them back." Kayla replied. This made everybody gulp with fear.
To be continued…