Chapter 3: Zappondellyo and his True Purpose

It's now day three of this crisis that nobody believes. Zappondellyo and KyeVarnyar XVT found Taiguard once again… in an old building. The both of them didn't show any fear in their eyes as they entered inside the building and cornered Taiguard by a machine. The red-orange dragon Loonatic growled as he saw his creator apporach him slowly.

"You just never give up some goddamn hope, do ya?" He asked deeply. Zappondellyo ignored that question as his yellow eyes were covered by a mahogony color and lightning charged up in his hands. Kye was prepared for any unexpected events as he got into his fighting stance.

"I never thought you would be this resistant against my strength." Zappondellyo quoted in a deeper tone of his voice with determination. "But, now that I see Tahitii's evil brother in you, I might as well do my ancestor, Zokandello, a favor for creating Dragon X at his time…" After that was said, he formed all of his charged up lightning into a ball and fired it at Taiguard with all his strength and fury. Taiguard stood his ground before he simply raised himself on his tentacles, but it was no use. He still received the impact from the lightning and he was forced against a factory switch that turned on the old machinery. When the dragon landed on the moving conveyor belt, that was Kye's cue to find a way to get him without getting scratched while Zappondellyo made a run for the moving belt. When Taiguard finally came to, he looked up at Zappondellyo with anger as he tried firing his plasma lasers at him, only to be absorbed into his creator's hands. When he realized this, he got up on his tentacles again and lept up into another moving device and hung there. Zappondellyo was coming to the point where he needed more help than just Kye. He soon did sense some other presence and smiled as he saw a swift purple figure fly by behind Kye. Taiguard never noticed as he was about to escape, but a strong purple hand grabbed him by his neck and jerked him back all the way to Zappondellyo. The figure revealed to be Slam Tasmanian himself, holding Taiguard by his neck. Kye landed next to Zappondellyo seconds after and he was also thrilled to see the tasmanian devil.

"Slam Tasmanian?" Zappondellyo asked as he was surprised. "How did you… where did you…?"

"Stunned, aren't ya?" Kye joked after a chuckle. Slam chuckled himself as he handed Taiguard to Zappondellyo, who took him by his sides this time, holding down his arms hard. "Slam, how did you know we were in trouble?"

"Vsoaiohjashdieoncas." Slam replied. Zappondellyo was able to translate it.

"Wow. Lexi's super hearing does come in handy, huh?" He said saracastically. Slam nodded. "Well, now that we finally got this son of a bitch, let's head on over to your tower."

"Ummmm… nafairpiajdsade."

"What do you mean 'you don't think so'?"

"Ace don't believe you."

"Oh, hell no!" Kye exclaimed. "How come you and Lexi believe him and…"

"Tech, too."

"Tech believe her, too? Well, let me rephrase my question. How come you, Lexi, and Tech believe him and not him? Is there something about this message that they think is a fraud?"

"Mm-hm."

"No…" Zappondellyo whispered in despair. "…they… they have to believe. Otherwise, they'll perish along with the rest of planet itself."

"Huh? Flavejaodhoasdue!"

"Yeah, I know I said half of the planet will suffer, but I just made a further research of the impact. Since plasma and lasers don't mix well at all, the explosion will actually be big enough kill the whole planet. There must be someway we can change their beliefs."

"I think not." Kye predicted with fear. "We better head on over to the place, if we wanna get things straight with Ace's non-believein' ass."

"Duck and Rev, too." Slam added with sadness. Zappondellyo grew even more pissed as heard those names.

"Godamn their asses!" He swore to himself as he jetted off back to the Loonatics' tower.

Back at the tower…

Ace, Rev, and Danger were just watching tv, as if there wasn't a dangerous situation at stake for Acmetropolis. Minutes later, Slam, Zappondellyo, and Kye came back with Taiguard still in his creator's hands. This made every Loonatic stop what they were doing and look at them with shock. Slam remained calm. Lexi and Kaiguard came from the room while Tech just came from his lab. They were happy to see them, except Ace, Danger, and Rev.

"You must be Zappondellyo." Tech guessed politely as he walked up to the rabbit-like Loonatic and offered a hand. Since Zappondellyo's hands were full, he could only offer his tail to him in place of his tail as Tech shook it. "It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Pleasure's all mine, thank you." He greeted back.

"Is this Taiguard you've got in your clawed prison?"

"Yes. It is very important that you keep these two away from each other before it's too late. They have a month to make up."

"A month!" Lexi screamed from the distance. "What if they do touch before then!"

"Then, everyone will die."

"There's gotta be a reverse effect for this shit!"

"There isn't. Once it's done, it's done."

"Zappondellyo, you know Taiguard was the one that started the fight with me." Kaiguard chimed in with anger. "So, why in the hell should we make up anyway? He's difficult to argue with and he always… I repeat… ALWAYS wins."

"So? It's for the planet's sake that you two must become lovable brothers again. In case you haven't been looking back at your ancestor's past, he was the victor against his killer brother, thanks to his girlfriend."

"So what if he won against Kevin in the past? It's not gonna be easy for a dragon powered by laser and a dragon powered by plasma who constantly fight until one is standing! I'm telling you, Zappondellyo, if Taiguard doesn't truly give a damn about about these Loonatics, then by all means let him kill them instead of the whole planet!"

Zappondellyo's pupils shrank at those words. He was shocked to hear something like that come out of a creation that was his last. Lexi's pupils shrank with tears as she witnessed how this situation was going to turn out. After a 5 minute silence, Taiguard smirked with satisfaction.

"You really think that I may still win?" He asked with evil in his voice. Kaiguard sadly nodded. "I knew it! So, when can I kill 'em?"

"YOU'RE NOT KILLING ANYBODY!" Zappondellyo yelled with fury as he tightened his claws on Taiguard. "Kaiguard, I don't know where the hell you got that thought from, but you need to delete that from your memory cells! Don't give up just because you think you'll never be brothers again. I'm your creator, therefore, I make the decisions. Lexi, I need you and Tech to monitor these two while I settle myself down for a while from this bullshit." After that was said, Zappondellyo walked off towards Lexi's room. He really didn't care which room he was heading for, for he was extremely pissed. As soon as he entered the room and the doors closed, Lexi looked at Tech. The look on her face told him that he must monitor the two dragons alone in his lab. He got the facial expression and placed both dragons in separate cages before heading off towards his lab. Ace, Danger, and Rev were both shocked and speechless at what they just witnessed. NOW they believed the news. Lexi noticed this, but didn't say not one word to remind them that she told them so. She just humphed as she turned away and walked off towards her room. Rev was able to stop her right at the doorway with his super speed and showed a desperate look of worry.

"Lex,-we're-sorry!" He pleaded, but she just put a pink hand in his face.

"Don't waste your non-believing breath. You didn't believe me at first, and now that we found them both, you wanna believe me? I scoff at your misery." Lexi announced as she pushed the red roadrunner out the way. Ace shot a laserbeam at the wall, stopping her in her tracks again as he spoke.

"C'mon, Lexi. I mean, sure, we didn't believe ya first. We thought you were just invisioning a dream or something, but now that we saw the whole conversation just a few seconds ago…"

"You finally realized the danger that lies ahead of your asses! Look, Ace. I'd love to hear your desperate plead of forgiveness, but I have other businesses to worry about." Before Ace could say something else, she entered the room and doors closed, immediately shutting the yellow rabbit up. Danger just shook his head with dismay.

"At least you admitted the truth." He added. Ace turned towards the duck and just sighed as he walked back to the couch.

Inside Lexi's room…

Zappondellyo was sitting at the edge of the bed with his face deep in the palms of his hands. Lexi stood at the entry of her room with a little concern for about a minute before she walked up to him and sat down next to him. She placed a hand on his shoulder, but he didn't flinch or move as he spoke.

"Lexi, this is really starting to hit me hard." He groaned in his deep voice. "Kaiguard's already given up and Taiguard is just……… just…"

"Trying to win us over?" Lexi finshed. He raised his face from his hands and looked at her with confusion. "Taiguard thinks he has it all with his plasma and everything and… that is pretty true. With the fact that he hates us Loonatics, he thinks he can do this thing he calls 'killing the Loonatics instead of the Acmetropoils itself'. I think what you need to do is let them get together themselves."

"But, how can I? Kaiguard does have a point about his evil twin. He always wins fights, no matter how hard he yells back. It's just only a matter of time before things get any worse and…… I'll suffer from this disease."

"What disease?"

"My lightning powers along with the ability to hack passwords and see through opague surfaces."

"How is that a disease? You got them from the meteor, right?"

"No………… I… received this from…… from…"

"From what?"

"A nearly piercing scratch Taiguard gave me and Kaiguard healed. By combining Taiguard's plasma-infested scratch with Kaiguard's laser-infested healing, I received these powers by the next morning, when I woke up vomiting at an alarming rate."

Lexi felt sorry for the rabbit-like Loonatic and embraced him tightly. Zappondellyo didn't embrace back. He felt as though he didn't really didn't deserve this. He just bowed his head and released a tear from his eye as it slowly flowed down his cheek. Lexi sensed this and released the embrace, wiping the tear away afterwards. When she did, she realized how cute he looked and how brave he was. She looked deeply into his moisened yellow eyes before she planted a passionate kiss on his mouth, slowly working her tongue into his mouth. He grew wide eyed at this before he gave in and slowly wrapped his arms around her waist while he deepened the kiss, sending his tongue into her mouth. They both moaned simultaneously as they tasted each other. After 15 minutes, they slowly released the kiss, but before Zappondellyo could say anything after gasping for air, Lexi shushed him before she laid him down on his back on the bed and continued the kissing, regardless of what Zappondellyo had to say. While this was going on, Kye took a peek in the room and was happy to see the sight before him. He left them alone as he closed the doors and said:

"Zappondellyo really trusts Lexi to be by his side. He knows that she'll be with him every step of the way. I just hope, however, that Ace, Danger, and Rev will be forgiven."

To be continued…