Chapter 3: A Mission Worth Training For

A few hours after ZaQuintina-Mitchell visited her sick brother at the hospital, she began to feel determined as she was preparing her things for tomorrow's classes. Flazentino-Raaviarno was feeling the same way as he was preparing himself for bed. They were prepared for tomorrow.

"So, ZaQuintina, how do ya think the training mission is gonna be like tomorrow?" Flazentino asked. ZaQuintina just got into her pajamas as she spoke.

"I reckon they won't be too hard, since it's just training." She replied as she got into bed. Flazentino got in his cage and got confortable as he continued.

"Well, maybe for you, but for a ferret like me, hell no!"

"Don't flatter yourself, Flazentino. Who knows? It might be easier than it seems." She laid her head down on her pillow as she said this. The black-footed ferret just scoffed to himself as he laid his head down on top of his front legs. "Don't be too nervous."

"I'll try… for my own sake."

"That's a good little ferret. Goodnight."

"Goodnight." After that, the both of them fell asleep peacefully.

The next morning…

ZaQuintina, Flazentino, Havintine, and Destiny all went out to the nearest Shotozan Breakfast House for some good breakfast before their classes. Each and every one of them had the usual: pancakes with 3 strips of bacon and 5 slices of fried hot dogs. Flazentino had something new: french toast with loads of maple syrup. This made the other three look at his plate with shock. This made him puzzled.

"What?" He asked them. "Haven't seen a black-footed ferret eat french toast before?"

"Well, it's amazing, yes." Destiny replied as she took her first forkful of her pancake. "So, today's your first mission…"

"Uh… our first mission." ZaQuintina corrected.

"Right… our first mission… of doing what again?"

"Fighting aliens, I think. Flazentino, did you get the memo?"

"Yeah." Flazentino replied with his mouth full of his mushed-up french toast. "Right before we left yesterday, Tech told me that we're gonna be fightin' some former alien prisoners the ACME Silver Dragon Agency's been holding for punishment. Since they took 10 goddamn days to capture each and every last one of them, they know that they are an expert in kickin' some ass."

"How many of them are there?"

"About 200 I believe."

"What! I thought Tech said that this was gonna be easy!"

"Nope!"

"Flazentino, you're not helping. Thank you."

"Calm down, guys." Destiny commanded calmly as she looked at the two. "Once this mission begins, it'll be so quick, the bullies at this school will piss in their pants for acting like bitches all year."

"I feel ya on that, girlfriend." The girls got silent as they looked at Havintine, who hasn't said a word since they arrived at the place. Destiny looked at her best friend in wonder before ZaQuintina continued by saying: "Don't mind him. He's just mad because he doesn't do karate or anything and we ladies and ferret can."

"And I thought I had sentimental issues." Flazentino muttered to himself as he resumed his eating.

Later, in chemistry class with Destiny and ZaQuintina…

"Okay, class." The teacher, Mr. Johansen, started. "Today, we're going to be making… our own genetic experiments!"

"Say what?" ZaQuintina muttered in question as the tall red fox continued.

"That's right, my brilliant students. I'm pretty sure you all know that every alien in outer space is made of every element in the periodic table. Would anyone like to name a species of alien they like to demonstrate?" He looked around and eyed Destiny. "Destiny Michelle Raiguard?"

"Yes, sir?" Destiny replied.

"Do you know an alien that is made of elements?"

"Yes. It's the very rare Talantonian Flavadale species."

"What the hell…?" ZaQuintina whispered as she was watching her friend speak from her seat next to her. "Has she been studying all the time I thought she was planning a strategy for our mission?"

"Excellent, Destiny! What elements are made inside this species?" Mr. Johansen asked.

"Hassium, Barium, Seaborgium, and Thorium."

"Oooooooh!" The entire class murmured with amazement, except ZaQuintina, who looked not too impressed, but jealous as she slumped in her seat. Mr. Johansen applauded at her speech as he walked up to her with honor.

"Exquisite, Ms. Raiguard. Do you have an image of this species?" He asked. Destiny nodded in response as she pulled out a picture that was printed on a sheet of paper from her backpack and showed it to the wise fox. The picture showed a purple fox-like creature with smooth amphibian-type skin at a height of 3' 6" with intense muscles and a long lizard-like tail. He had white markings on his arms and back and also had blank white eyes. He was in a pair of tan khakis with a black belt with his arms crossed against his strong chest in a smug position against an invisible wall. Mr. Johansen was impressed as he took a good look at the image. "Excellent. Is he famous or something? It looks like a movie image. It looks so real."

"Yeah. His name is Tavshakeito Flavawarii, a.k.a. Tavii." Destiny replied. "Since his alien-like feature, which is lightning, started to go outta control, the director of his next film fired him outta show business for good. He's jobless now."

"I feel sorry for the guy. Excellent example, though. Excellent!" Mr. Johansen handed the image back to Destiny as he headed back to his desk. As for ZaQuintina, she was the only one who didn't join the applauding class as her best friend sat back in her seat next to her. Destiny looked at her jealous dragon friend and giggled at her behavior.

"What? Didn't think I had an alien to explain about?" She asked ZaQuintina, who nodded in anger. "Don't worry about it. You just need to research aliens more."

"Like I need it." ZaQuintina finally muttered to herself as she regained herself. Destiny just shook her head as she resumed her learnings from Mr. Johansen.

Later, at lunch…

Havintine was already at his crew's usual table, studying a list of words for a spelling bee while eating his slice of pepperoni pizza and a small cup of fries with a bottle of lemonade at the corner of his tray. Minutes later, he saw Destiny and ZaQuintina approach the table and settle their things down before they started eating themselves.

"Hey, Havintine." Destiny greeted as she picked up her fork, ready to eat her chicken salad. "What's that you're studying?"

"I just qualified in the 7th Annual Radford Seahorse Spelling Bee today. The word was hard to spell, but I took a lucky guess at it and well… ta-da!" Havintine replied.

"Which word was the qualifying word this year?"

"Prestidigitation."

"What in the hell…?"

"It's a long word for 'magic'."

"And you spelled it perfectly?"

"I struggled a few times, but I still made it, thank god!"

"How do you spell it then?"

"Okay… um… let's see, if I can remember... it was only 10 minutes ago… uh…"

"Spell the damn word, Havintine!"

"Okay, okay! Keep your skirt on! Sheesh! P-R-E-S-T-I-D-I-G-I-T-A-T-I-O-N. Thank you."

"Wow. And you struggled the first time? Humph! I am not impressed."

"Oh, stop." Havintine resumed his eating as he began to stare at ZaQuintina, who was quiet since they entered the lunch room. "What's wrong with ZaQuintina?"

"Oh, she's just mad because I knew something that she didn't."

"What was in chemistry for ya'll?"

"Making genetic experiments."

"Sweet. So, what did you know that ZaQuintina didn't?"

"I knew a made-from-element alien that exists."

"Oooooh, that's deep. What was it?"

"My little secret. Only ZaQuintina and I know. You'll have to find out for yourself."

"I hate it when you do that, Destiny."

"Thanks."

"Yeah, sure. Thanks." ZaQuintina finally spoke under her breath as she was eating her corndog. Havintine scoffed at her.

"Stop hatin', ZaQuintina-Mitchell." He said to her. "It could've been worse."

"Oh, it could've been."

Then, as if it was right on cue, everybody around the large lunch room started to panic, run, and scream for their lives. This questioned the three still sitting at their table as the watched the chaos leave the room.

"What's happening?" Havintine asked in wonder. Destiny and ZaQuintina remained silent as they continued watching what was going on. After a few minutes, 200 aliens came rampaging into the lunch room and started wrecking everything in their paths. When the two ladies saw this, they looked at each other with determined looks on their faces as they knew what the other was thinking. Havintine got the hint as well and remained calm and quiet as the ladies stood up and took their stances. When the leader of the aliens, which was the same alien that Destiny mentioned, spotted the two ladies, he commanded all of the destroying aliens behind him to stop and face in the same direction as he was. ZaQuintina was wide eyed as she looked at Havintine at the corner of her eye.

"Havintine, get my cell phone from my backpack under the table and call Flazentino… NOW!" She commanded in a whisper quickly. The nervous husky didn't say a word as he did as he was told and called Flazentino-Raaviarno right away. While that was happening, Tavii walked up to the two ladies slowly as he spoke.

"Well, hello, ladies. Welcome to your training mission." He announced in the deepest male voice ever heard in history. "My name is Tavii, in case you don't know me. I work for the ACME Silver Dragon Agency, so I'll monitor ya'll."

"You work for the agency!" ZaQuintina exclaimed with amazement as she saw her black-footed ferret companion walk up to her left leg. Tavii nodded.

"Yeah. I'm the only alien they accepted as an agent because I'm the friendly one."

"Well, that's good to hear." Destiny sighed. "So, how about the other aliens behind you?"

"They're the evil alien prisoners that were about to be euthanized for their trouble, but if you girls complete your training, this can make a perfect punishment replacement for them."

"Sounds easy to me. How about we do this?"

"In front of the students and faculty though?" ZaQuintina asked as she eyed the crowd of teachers, nurses, the principal, and all of the students at the lunch room doorway. Destiny scoffed.

"Like they're gonna tell anybody?"

"I guess not."

"Well, shall we?" ZaQuintina looked back at her friend and down at her ferret friend as she showed a sly smile.

"Lets." The three got into their fighting stances, ready to fight. Tavii saw this and smiled with a nod as he turned towards the other aliens.

"Okay, you bitches. Make your punishment count." He demanded as he walked off towards the crowd at the lunch room entrance. Havintine did the same and stood next to the strong, but short alien. "BEGIN THE MISSION!"

The aliens roared in response as they all ran for the three. Flazentino took the far 100 while ZaQuintina and Destiny took the other 100.

Flazentino-Raaviarno started the fighting first. He tackled one of the monsterous aliens and gave him a straight punch to his nose, making him roar in pain and making his nose bleed immensely. As he was phased, Flazentino lept up to another monster that was about to clank him in the head with a crowbar and kicked him under his chin, knocking him and the crowbar down towards the floor. This made the black-footed ferret stand his ground and watch him. As he was, a group of 3 aliens tried to sneak up on him and ambush him. Flazentino sensed it from behind his back and he looked at them at the corner of his eye, making the sneaking aliens nervous as they froze. The ferret chuckled as he did a backflip, landing on his feet behind the three aliens and gave each of them the big spin-off kick, knocking them all out.

As for ZaQuintina and Destiny…

They already killed 50 of their aliens and they were now surrounded by the remaining 50, who growled with hunger in their mouths. Destiny and ZaQuintina were standing back to back against each other in their fighting stances, having Destiny looking at ZaQuintina from the corner of her right eye.

"We're surrounded, ZaQuintina." She whispered as the circle of aliens were slowly apporaching them simultaneously.

"I've got a plan." ZaQuintina replied smoothly as she kept her focus on the other aliens. "Listen and listen good…"

3 minutes later…

"Got it?" ZaQuintina asked. Destiny nodded.

"Yeah. Let's do this." She replied. The two got ready as the aliens were an inch apart from them. ZaQuintina ran up to the first 5 on her side and started punching, kicking, and flipping them out of her way while Destiny did the same to her group of 6.

While this was going on, ZaQuinto was watching the footage from his hospital bed while sipping on some apple juice. Five other doctors were watching with him, having one of the doctors nudge him gently.

"You got one hell of a little sister." He commented smoothly. ZaQuinto smiled in agreement and continued drinking his juice.

Back at the fight…

ZaQuintina, Destiny, and Flazentino finished the remaining 3 off by pulling out their swords that were given to them as they returned to the college yesterday and slashing them at the same time, rendering them dead in return. Tavii was very impressed as he clapped for them.

"Not bad for some beginners." He complied as he walked up to them. "Congradulations!"

"That wasn't too hard." Flazentino said between tired breaths as he placed his sword back in his sheath. ZaQuintina playfully punched his arm in response.

"Told you that it wasn't gonna be hard." She said as she placed her sword away. Destiny did the same as she nodded in agreement. Havintine walked up to the group minutes later.

"I gotta admit, ladies!" He started. "Ya'll really kicked some alien ass!"

"Thanks, Havintine." Destiny replied. She looked over at ZaQuintina, who showed a seductive look on her face while staring at Havintine, who became nervous. Tavii ignored it as he continued speaking.

"And Flazentino, you were excellent. Being short does have some advantages, man."

"Really? Wow." Flazentino said surprisingly. "I never knew that."

"Well, now ya know. Now that you guys completed your training, we can…" He finally noticed ZaQuintina approaching Havintine sexually as she placed her arms around him. Destiny giggled to herself as Flazentino covered his eyes with disgust.

"I never thought this would happen…" He muttered to himself as he covered his eyes. Destiny stopped her giggling and smiled.

"Awww. I knew it. Won't ZaQuinto be happy for ya?" She complied as Tavii smiled in response.

Before they knew it, ZaQuintina kissed Havintine on the mouth deeply. The dazed husky was caught off guard for a moment, then gave in to the kiss as he moaned deeply and wrapped his arms around her waist, nearly playing with her long tail. The entire staff and student body saw this and sighed in awe at this display.

Back at the hospital…

ZaQuinto started shedding his scales again, but he didn't feel it because he was too stunned and speechless when he was watching his little sister kiss her best friend, Havintine, on the mouth for the first time. He was just sitting up in his bed, wide eyed and speechless as his scales automatically peeled themselves off his body. Minutes later, Henry and Kate came in and were also stunned when they saw what their sick son was staring at on the tv.

"Is that… what I think it is?" Kate asked surprisingly. ZaQuinto nodded in response as he smiled, regardless of the small pain he was receiving from his peeling scales. Henry sat in a chair next to his son and grew wide eyed.

"That's not ZaQuintina… kissing Havintine, is it?" He asked him. ZaQuinto nodded again. "Well, now!"

"What?" Kate asked back.

"She's finally becoming a young woman. ZaQuinto, I bet you're proud of her right now." ZaQuinto nodded with a smile again, still ignoring the slow peeling scales. Kate giggled as she noticed her son's naívete.

"I know I am." She agreed as she looked at the television. "Somehow, I felt this coming because I knew she had some kind of secret crush on Havintine."

Back at the college cafeteria…

Havintine was extremely speechless at what he just experienced for almost 15 minutes. He looked at ZaQuintina with wide eyes while she looked at him with seductive eyes. She stroked his chin gently seconds later, nearly startling him.

"I always knew you were too cute to be just a friend, Havintine." She cooed softly. "You wanna be my boyfriend instead?"

Havintine didn't know what to say, for he was sweating to immensely to speak. ZaQuintina smiled, then giggled at his nervousness.

"I'm… guessing that's a 'yes'. Am I right, baby?" She asked him. He slowly nodded in response before he finally fainted to the floor on his back hard, burping up a heart-shaped bubble afterwards, making his new girlfriend look down at him with passion. "So cute."

"Wow." Flazentino muttered to himself. "She's a young woman now."

"That's true." Destiny agreed as she shook her head at Havintine's behavior. Minutes later, Tech, Ace, Lexi, and Slam arrived with their jetpacks. They've been watching the whole thing from their headquarters and was impressed.

"Well, well." Tech started. "Looks like we have a little… love connection between a dog and a dragon here. How does it feel?"

"It feels great." ZaQuintina replied proudly. "I always knew he was cute to begin with."

"Well, other than that, you three did excellent for your first time. Are you ready for the real thing?" Ace asked. ZaQuintina looked down at her ferret friend, then at her kinkajou-wolf mixed friend, who nodded in response.

"Yeah. We're ready."

"Excellent. You have two minutes to say goodbye to your boyfriend. Destiny, Flazentino-Raaviarno, come along and get in your new limo while you wait." Tech commanded before he left with his Loonatic friends, Destiny, and Flazentino. When they were out of earshot, ZaQuintna kneeled down next to her new boyfriend and placed a slender hand on his chest before she spoke.

"Havintine?" She called in her deep-for-an-18-year-old voice. The husky sat up in response as she continued. "I wish you good luck on your spelling bee. I was wondering why you wasn't in our chemistry class earlier."

"Well, I wish you good luck on your mission to get your sick brother back to full health again. Oh, and if you find out why he had to retire from his street dancing at 14 years old, let me know so I can tell my boys on my bus." He replied as he embraced the peach dragon. "Please, be careful, ZaQuintina-Mitchell. I'll be hoping that you'll complete these missions successfully."

"I will… and I promise. No matter how much effort I have to put into it." She looked into his eyes and gave him a quick kiss on the mouth before she continued. "See ya later, Havintine." After that, she got up and walked out to the limo to meet up with Destiny and Flazentino. Havintine just sat on his knees, watching her leave. He was in happy tears as he smiled slightly before one of his boys, a brown rabbit named Jonathan, helped him up.

"Whoa, Havintine." He started. "You finally got a girlfriend. How does it feel?"

"Really cool, actually. I never thought ZaQuintina could fall in love with me. I mean, she's famous for being a former street dancer's little sister and got to be her boyfriend. Do ya know what this means?"

"That you're famous as well?"

"YES! WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO! I AM ONE LUCKY SON OF A BITCH… LITERALLY!"

"Havintine, you a fool, man!"

"Thanks."

To be continued…