(Pre- chapters 5-7)
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Ace had received Tech's instructions as the tear began to close and Tech and Skye faded out and vanished. Ace opened Tech's messages
"Set a trap for Time Bandit, make sure you use something extremely valuable"
"Rev, Do you know of anything worth a lot of money or is extremely rare?" Ace asked
"Oh you're going to like what I've got to show. It'll brighten up your day and make it better!" Rev exclaimed
The team followed Rev throughout the Museum, every stair case took them down a level. After going about ten floors down, they arrived at what appeared to be a metal door encased by several layers of Locks and blockades. Rev went over to a keypad and inputted a 12 digit code. The door's slowly began to open and revealed a chamber.
" Me see nothing" Said Duck
"Put these on" Rev Instructed
They all grabbed a pair of goggles off Rev's hand. After they put them on, they saw what appeared to be a greenish yellow gem gleaming
"What is that?" Lexi asked being awestruck by the Gem's shine
"Officially a name hasn't been given because it's a material that's new. But Tech and I just call it the Rebirth Stone" Rev Replied
"Rebirth?" Slam asked
"On the day of the meteor's impact remnants of it remained in the bay, Tech and I were studying the radiation that was still being given off to see if it still could have side effects. When we were in the water, I found the stone. It contains some energy burst strong enough to either rebirth a sun or power several planets at once or if you want to get evil power a weapon that would kill a planets power grid" Rev explained
" I see why it's guarded heavily!" Ace exclaimed
" Yea, sort of don't know why we don't add a few turrets and that" said Rev
"Rev, think you can make a exact duplicate, good enough to fool Time Bandit in to thinking it's real?" Ace asked
"Yea, give me say about an hour or two"
"You got one and a half" said Ace
Rev made his way right to HQ using his super speed and began work on the fake Rebirth Stone. Ace and Lexi were busy setting strategic vantage points while Slam and Duck were placing Camera's and sensors around the place in case Shale decided to make an un-announced visit.
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"How the heck!" Exclaimed Tech
"What is it?" Skye asked
"The Rebirth Stone, what is it doing in this Machine" Tech Replied
"Rebirth what?" Skye asked again as she got up from looking inside the Machine
"The stone is what was giving off the high energy spike, it's from the remnants of the
meteor that hit Acmetropolis and gave us our powers" Tech replied as he looked at it.
Tech took a closer look at the insides of the stone. He noticed these small box shaped items in there. Skye also saw something but didn't see the shapes that Tech was seeing. Tech knew it was a fake because it isn't as light as the real stone. He picked up a hammer he had laying on the table and then laid the stone on the table and smashed it open.
"Tech!" Exclaimed Skye in shock
"It's a fake, Ace did what I asked him to do"
After Tech Smashed it open the little square cubes Tech saw inside became full sized Packages and had both their names labelled on each one. Inside Skye's box was her watch she had been turning it into a cloaking device along with a few other items of interest. A note was attached
"Skye, Watch is fully ready, test it first to make sure it work
Rev"
She put her watch on around her wrist and turned the clocks finger dial. The cloak became active, Tech noticed Skye was vanishing
"Skye?" Tech asked in confusion
"Over here, glad my cloak works" Skye replied as she turned it off
Tech gave a smirk of impression at how Skye and Rev made a cloak into a small object like a watch. He opened his package and saw that Rev had put in some more Knockout-nades, EMP-grenades, some of his lab gear and his computer.
"Man, I'm missing Home" Skye said as she dropped her eye's down
"Yea, I do to, sort of not the same without the team" Tech said as well
"All through, it's a lot of quieter without Duck bragging every five minutes" Skye said
They both laughed a bit at how Skye was right.
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The trap was set, Ace and Lexi were on the catwalk watching the stone and to try and see if anyone was acting out of the ordinary. While Duck, Slam and Rev walked around to try and blend in with the public wearing casual clothing of course.
"Any of you guys noticed anyone acting strange down there?" Ace asked over com
"Nothing on our level yet" Rev replied.
Hours passed and nothing happened at all. Just as Ace was about to call off the operation the building began to shake as if an earthquake was about to happen. Ace and Lexi held onto the catwalk's bars while Duck, Slam and Rev moved away from anything that could fall on them and injure them. As the Shaking got more violent by the minute it suddenly stopped.
"What was that?" Ace asked Lexi
"I don't know, but look" Lexi replied as she pointed to the ground
A portal had opened out of nowhere and out came Shale along with his guards which appeared to be robot sentries.
"No one move!" Yelled Shale as his guards begun to round up the people within the vicinity
"Ace, any ideas?" Asked Lexi
"Jump down and surprise him!" Ace replied
Lexi gave a firm nod of agreement and they both jumped down off the catwalk.
Ace drew his sword as he landed
"Ok Time Bandit, Your time's up!" Ace exclaimed
Shale chuckled as if it was joke
"My quarrel is not with you, I'll give you one chance to stand down and leave" Shale replied
"Surrender my lucky foot" Lexi bantered
Shale's face went from a casual shoving it off look to a more serious demonic look
"Very well, now you die"
He threw out two clockwork cogs. As they landed towards the ground they turned into two bronze tigers. Just as they were about to pounce at Ace and Lexi, Slam came around the corner and destroyed them both with his tornado.
"Nice timing Slam!" Exclaimed Ace
Duck and Rev came around the corner and joined them. Shale was furious
"As I recall there was seven of you?" Shale asked
"You took our geek pair and we want them back!" Exclaimed Duck
"Oh, the Wolf and the Coyote, those two are quite smart" Shale said
"Now if you could excuse me, I'll be taking this stone and going"
As shale was about to grab the stone Ace lunged at Shale to try and attack him with his Sword. Shale put his hand out and a burst of blue light came out of it. Time stoped, Ace was frozen in place and so were the others
Shale Laughed
"Time Radiation, exposed to enough of it and it gives you powers, the battlefield is now even my boy" Shale said as he grabbed the stone
"Now, I'll be going"
He opened up another portal and walked through it followed by his Robotic Guards. The portal closed and time began to move. Ace fell where he was and got back up.
"Well that went according to plan" Lexi said
"Yea, but now it's all up to Tech and Skye" Ace said