Sorry it's been a while. This fic is kinda taking a backseat to my main and more active fics. I don't plan on abandoning this fic. I've got big plans for this fic! And it's season 2 sequel!

Thanks for all the reviews, favs and alerts. I'm really glad you guys are enjoying the fic!

Review Replies:

Fox: hehe, thanks. They're both quite socially awkward. I think they're great together too and I hope to draw some cute fanart of them together ^^

drk: Yeah, THAT would be labor intensive. I'm basically only going to be doing episodes I liked/feel are important to plot and romance development, same goes for parts of the episode.

Spudwick: I CANNOT BE STOPPED lol. Thanks. I really try hard to fit Skye in well (same goes for all my OCs in fact). Plus I kinda get annoyed when series have like a full team of mroe than three people and there's only one girl. I mean, come on, Lexi should at least have a best girlfriend or something! I'll only be doing episodes I feel are important to development of TechxSkye and AcexLexi as well as episodes I really liked. Season 2 will be the sequel fic, because I've got a plan for that hehe ;)

Amazon: Yeah, I get moments where I totally get back into it. I love those guys.

Ninja: I'm glad you like it. Tech is my fav too! I just love him. And thanks! I love them together too ^^

lover: I'm glad you're enjoying the fic. And don't worry. I know Skye won't be affected. I made her after all, remember?

Champion: Thanks, I honestly thought of that last minute

Sean: I've made it my mission to keep characters in character (mostly because I'm aware of the amount of hate fanfic writers get for making canon character OOC) so thank you ^^ Hm. It sounds like a nice title, but I think I'll keep it at Shades of Gray for now.

Anon: Yeah, Misty sucks. Poor Paula. I will be focusing on AcexLexi as well but they will be taking a back seat to the main pairing of TechxSkye.

fan19: Thanks! And I'll try!

Obvious: Thanks, I hope to see this through to the end as well.

Music: Thanks! :D

MWolfL: Thanks, and actually, she's not. I grew up on those two but I just wanted to make Skye a carnivorous dog too, but not a Coyote so she could be the same as Tech, so I made her a wolf, one of my fav animals. I thought of her last name while watching CSI Miami and remember the character with the last name Wolfe and thought, "that's perfect. It's her last name and animal species" lol. I've never been that big on the TechxRev romantic pairing. Like you, I prefer them as friends, or as you put it, brothers, which I think is a great relationship between the two. TechxZadavia was nice too, but I prefer Techxoc. I agreed with the Lexi and Ace part. The show pretty much established the grounds for a potential romantic relationship between them and it's good enough for me!

I do not own Loonatics Unleashed, only Skye and other OCs. This fic is not associated with the official Loonatics Unleashed series.


Normal POV

"I don't know what it was but…it just felt amazing. I mean that spark, wow!" cried Skye. She fell back into her chair and sighed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

"Man, that must have been some kiss. It's all you've been talking about for days!" cried Lexi.

"Well, it was accidental. I mean, that cloud creature slammed him into me and we sorta just…landed like that."

"Has Tech said anything to you yet?"

"No…we've kinda been avoiding each other lately," Skye answered nervously.

"What? Come on, you guys can't do that! You have to talk about this. Define the relationship."

"What relationship, Lexi? We accidentally kissed while fighting a super villain, last time I checked, that's not the grounds for a relationship."

"But Tech's into you, and now you're into him too! You guys have to work this out."

"Yeah, but I wouldn't know where to begin. I've never been in a relationship with a guy before."

"I find that very hard to believe," said Lexi, cocking her eyebrow at Skye.

"No, it's true! Not once has a guy ever come up to me and asked me out on a date!" Skye replied.

"But, I mean look at you. You're hot. If I were a dude, I'd date you!"

"Uh…thanks, I think. But that wasn't really the problem."

"What was it then?" asked Lexi.

Skye held up her left arm and pointed at her right leg. "These were the problem. People take one look at them and they just back up like I'm some sort of circus freak. They judge me before they even get to know me," Skye replied, her eyes dropping in sadness.

Lexi moved over to Skye and wrapped her arm around Skye's shoulder. "Well trust me, you won't have to worry about that when it comes to you and Tech. He loves technology and the fact that you're practically a cyborg will only make him love you more!"

"You-you really think so?" Skye asked.

"Yeah, go for it, girl!"

"Well…ok. But I'm not making the first move. He has to."

"Oh brother…" The girls were interrupted when Ace and Rev finally returned from the evening's Basherball game. "Hey Ace, Rev how was the Basherball game?" greeted Lexi.

"The game was good, the only problem was what happened after that," started Rev.

"Hey Rev is something wrong? Your voice is so…slow," said Skye, cocking her head in confusion.

"That's exactly the problem. Rev can't fly or run super fast! And I don't have laser vision anymore!" cried Ace.

"You lost your powers? We should run some tests. Skye can you help me set some stuff up?" asked Tech. He almost forgot about the awkwardness currently between them when he asked her the question.

"Yeah…sure thing," she replied awkwardly.

They all went to Tech's lab where he and Skye pulled out a treadmill. "Rev, take a run on this. It'll measure your steps per hour," instructed Tech.

Rev tried to keep up with the treadmills' speed. "This is as fast as I can go! AH! Cramp! Cramp!" Rev tripped and the treadmill sent him flying into the wall. Skye and Lexi helped Rev up. "Thanks guys."

Ace walked over to the treadmill and looked at the speed indicated on the screen. "36 miles per hour? Are you sure this thing is working properly?" Ace asked.

"The machine is working, but Rev isn't. And it's actually only 18 miles per hour. I doubled it just to be nice," said Tech. He came up pushing a small wall of cement bricks and placed it in front of Ace. "Try and shoot your power peepers at this Ace."

"Tech, I've already tried to shoot 'em hundreds of times," said Ace. He took a stance and leaned forward, trying to use his laser vision. Ace wiped his eyes and tried again. Nothing still happened. Slam came over and punched the cement wall to pieces. "Thanks Slam, I was starting to get a headache."

"Well I can't think of any clearer way to say this Ace but it looks like you and Rev are no longer in possession of your super powers!" declared Tech.

"Ok but how about this?" Ace did a few punches in the air and did a back flip. "My super powers may be gone, but I still have my moves."

"That's right. You still have your martial arts skills from before the meteor and Rev can still run like a normal roadrunner," said Tech. "Whatever did this to you guys must not have affected your natural abilities."

"But what could have caused this? It'd have to be pretty powerful to strip someone of their superpowers," said Skye

"Well, who needs super powers? We can still kick butt without 'em," cried Ace.

"Excuse me, but the last time I checked 'super' heroes need 'super' powers. You guys were good but now without your powers, we need a new leader," cried Duck.

"That sounds like a good idea Duck." Zadavia appeared on the screen in the lab.

"It does? I mean, it does!"

"I can't believe it," whispered Skye.

"What?" asked Tech.

"Zadavia just said Duck had a good idea."

"Hehe, good one," grumbled Slam while everyone else laughed.

"Ace, until we can figure out what happened to you and Rev, the two of you shouldn't be out in the field. Therefore, your replacement will need to be smart, cunning, cool under pressure and have excellent leadership skills not to mention a dazzling smile." Duck looked up hopefully. "Lexi, I'm counting on you." Finished Zadavia.

"You got it boss!"

"And you'll have to be fast, my satellite just picked up an image of the Central Acmetropolis Reservoir is about to burst. Hundreds of people are currently camping there and there isn't enough time for us to initiate an evacuation. Take Slam and Duck with you and do whatever you can. Skye and Tech, I want you two to keep trying to figure out what happened to Ace and Rev. Good luck. Zadavia out." The screen went blank.

"All right you heard her. Let's jet!" Lexi ran out followed by Duck and Slam. Tech and Skye remained behind with Ace and Rev in hopes of figuring out the cause of their sudden loss of powers.

"All right Ace, tell us exactly what happened starting from the Basherball game to when you got back here," said Skye.

"Ok well, Rev and I were in the stands the entire time and at the end of the game we met the guy who scored the winning goal after Trick Daley kinda lost his game skills. He shook our hands and when we were ready to leave, Rev couldn't fly," explained Ace.

"Did you by any chance start feeling strange after you met this player?" asked Skye.

"Come to think of it, yeah! Right after we shook hands I felt really weak. What about you Ace?" asked Rev.

"Hey, yeah me too!"

"What was this player's name?" asked Skye, walking over to the computer.

"I think it was, uh, Drake Sypher." Answered Ace.

"Drake Sypher. Doesn't sound familiar. Unless he just joined the team today, I don't recall any Drake Sypher on the Rangers," Skye typed in his name into the computer.

An article appeared on the screen next to a picture of the player Ace and Rev met. "That's him!" cried Rev, pointing to the picture.

"It says here that he was also on the Acmetropolis Wrestling team, the Hockey team, basically he's been on every sports team in Acmetropolis," said Skye.

"Sounds like he's been around," said Ace.

"That's not all. He's only been on the team for as long as a week and after he leaves the team, their star players start playing badly, as if they've lost their skill. That's way too high on the coincidence meter for me."


Within the hour, Lexi, Slam and Duck all returned to HQ, Lexi and Slam, now powerless. "Then he touched us and we didn't have powers anymore," explained Lexi.

"Well with Skye's research and what just happened to Slam and Lexi, I think it's safe to say this Sypher guy is making it his goal to steal the best talents around, namely, our powers," said Tech.

"Well if he's stealing our powers, at least he's using them to save people," said Rev in normal speech.

"It doesn't matter what he's using them for! He stole our powers and stealing is stealing. Besides, I want my powers back," cried Lexi.

"Calm down Lex. Now, since Tech, Skye and I are the only ones left capable of fighting, and since neither of the lab geeks could lead a Simon Says game, I'll take over the position of team leader," declared Duck, earning him glares from the two canines.

"Ok then Duck. What do you think we should do?" asked Ace, playing along with Duck's fantasy.

"Well we should…we should…hunt down this dirt bag and find a way to get our powers back!" Duck announced.

"Hm, why didn't I think of that?" joked Ace.

"Sypher shouldn't be too hard to find. Check out the news. Looks like he's hosting a parade in his honor," said Skye, pointing to the TV.

"Do not let the parade fool you. Sypher is not as heroic as he seems. This is footage from my satellite moments before the dam burst," said Zadavia. The video showed Sypher on a hovercraft shooting the dam with Ace's laser beams.

"That big phony! He used my powers to crack the dam so he'd look like a hero!" cried Ace.

"You mean he set us up to steal our powers just so he could be in the spot light?" asked Lexi.

"Precisely the point. He must be stopped before he orchestrates a stunt that super powers can't fix," said Zadavia.

"We should get down there then," said Ace.

"Sypher! Can I have your autograph?" cried one fan.

"Sypher! Can I get a picture?" cried another.

"Relax everyone, there's enough Sypher to go around," said Sypher, milking in the attention he was receiving.

"You're nothing but a fraud Sypher!" shouted Skye from the crowd.

"You stole my friends' super powers, Sypher and we're here to take them back!" cried Duck.

"Stole? I am hurt by such an accusation. They're just jealous because I'm doing more of the saving than them!" shouted Sypher, joined by his fans. "But Sypher is willing to forgive and forget."

Using Rev's super speed, Sypher zoomed right up to Skye and Tech and placed his hands on their shoulders.

"Get your hands off him!" cried Skye, pushing Sypher's hands off her left shoulder and Tech. Tech's ears became limp and he began slouching. "Tech are you ok?" asked Skye, tenderly supporting him.

"Uh…no, I fell really weak," he replied.

"Now you see that? I'm just trying to be friends but these has-beens won't let me," said Sypher, further rallying his fans.

"That's it, I've had it. Maybe if we rush him all at once, he won't be able to defend himself," said Duck.

"Nice idea Duck. Though you are starting to scare me," said Ace. Everyone ran to tackle Sypher but he easily knocked them all back with Slam's tornado attack.

"You see, now I have to defend myself!" Sypher fired Ace's laser beams to some buildings, causing debris to fall onto the Loonatics, but everyone managed to dodge.

Duck suddenly appeared on a chunk of rock in front of Sypher. "All right, Captain Suck Up, and I mean that literally. Let me ask you something, can you do this?" he asked, whipping out two eggs in his hands.

"No, but it looks cool!" Sypher said with a grin.

"Duck, I don't think you should be rushing into this!" protested Skye.

Duck ignored her and threw an egg at Sypher, but he sped out of the way. He glanced back at the ground where the egg landed and smiled. "Sweet! I gotta get that power too! But can you do this?" Sypher sped up to Duck and wrapped his arms around him, but felt nothing. "What the?" he cried, confused.

"Ha!" Sypher looked up to a parade balloon and proud looked down at Sypher. "Top that!"

Sypher sped up to the roof of a building and jumped onto the balloon, but Duck teleported away. "Ah!" Sypher cried out in annoyance. "Where are you?"

"Aren't you gonna help him?" asked Rev.

"He seems to be doing a fine job on his own," replied Skye.

"Yeah, he's actually…winning? Man, that felt weird to say," said Ace.

"Heads up!" cried Duck from a rooftop. He threw an egg at Sypher, who began spinning in a twister, deflecting the egg.

"Right back at you!" The egg hit Duck right in the face, covering his entire upper body with a thick purple sludge. He tried to wipe it off, but he lost his balance and fell off the building. "Gotcha!" Sypher flew right under and wrapped his arms tightly around Duck's body to keep him from escaping. "How does it feel to be so powerless?"

"Despicable," muttered Duck, as Sypher dropped him by the other Loonatics. "Thanks for the help, Skye!" cried Duck, annoyed.

"What did you want me to do? He's supped up with super powers!" Skye protested.

"She's right. We should fall back for now," said Ace. The team regrouped back at their tower. "Now he's got Duck and Tech's powers. Couple that with Rev's speed and that makes him nearly invincible," cried Ace.

"And now that he has my powers, he's unstoppable! We're doomed, DOOMED!" cried Duck.

"I hate to say it, but Duck is right. Without our powers, we're useless against him," said Tech.

"The only thing I don't understand is how come Skye wasn't affected when Sypher touched her?" asked Lexi.

"Well, I don't have any super powers like you guys so I guess he didn't have anything to take. Plus he only grabbed my robot arm. I guess it doesn't count or something," she replied.

"Powers or not, we can't let him get to us. We can take him down with our skills!" said Ace.

"And I know just the thing that can help! Leave it to me!" cried Tech. He quickly turned to Skye but suddenly became awkward and nervous. "Um, Skye, you think you could give me a hand?" he asked uneasily.

"Oh, uh…sure, Tech," she answered, equally as nervous. They both came into Tech's lab and began constructing the equipment they needed to defeat Sypher, as per Tech's specifications.

Tech glanced at Skye, who had her back turned to him and was working on something. "Hey, Skye…" he started, rubbing the back of his head.

"What is it, Tech?" she asked, not turning around.

"Um, about that fight we had with Weathervane a few days ago, you know, when we…uh…we…" he spoke nervously, feeling his face heat up as a blush crept across his cheek.

Skye suddenly sat up straight and turned around to face him. "Tech…I know that we need to talk about…that incident, but we have some really important work to do right now."

"Right, right…sorry. Let's get back to work," he replied, turning his back. Skye turned around as well and Tech's ears slowly drooped as quietly suppressed a whine.


"All right, here we go! Everyone put these on!" cried Skye. Everyone donned the body armor that Skye and Tech fashioned. It was a green-blue and grey that covered their entire bodies.

"These are nano powered bionic suits, each designed to withstand his magnetic powers and mimic and deflect our individual super powers, which will give us just the edge we need. Ace, your suit is equipped with laser goggles. Rev, you have speed accelerated legs and wings. Lexi, you've got an ultra sonic siren to mess with Sypher's super hearing. Slam, you have circular jets that will allow you to create a tornado. And Duck…"

Duck held out his hand and a small red pellet landed in his palm from his body armor. "Yeah, I found it. Doomed…"

"Hey give me a break, we only had five minutes to come up with and put these all together," said Tech.

"Now that we're ready, let's head over there and kick some butt!" cried Ace, punching his fist into his other hand. Everyone mounted on the Zoomatrixes and flew off to Sypher's new HQ, a tall and very imperial-looking building made of metal standing on top of a tall rocky mountain overlooking the main sectors of the city. Once they landed, they came up to the large metal doors marking the entrance.

"So how do we get in?" asked Duck.

"Did I forget to mention that my suit is equipped with electromagnetic palms?" Tech held up his palms and green surges of energy pulled the doors apart.

"Why, hello Losertics, check out my new pad, pretty sweet, huh? Nice outfits," remarked Sypher, sitting in a hovering chair at the end of the room. "Now we all know why you're here, so let's get down to business."

Sypher jumped up and shot a laser to Ace, who deflected it with his armor. "Ah, nano bionic armor. Nice move Tech, but it won't help you against this!" Sypher turned his head sideways and fired a Brain Blast. Ace fired his mock laser vision at Sypher, who easily dodged. "Wow you guys made bogus powers too, how sad," said Sypher.

Everyone tried to match Sypher with their fake powers but he was still just a little better. Ace managed to get Sypher from behind and grabbed a hold of him.

"No, let go of me!" Sypher cried in great distress as if his life depended on it. Ace suddenly felt strong again when Sypher managed to get Ace off him. Slam jumped in and engaged Sypher in a spinning tornado fight, neither one seeming to let up. The other Loonatics took cover behind fallen pillars as Slam dealt with Sypher.

"Tech something weird just happened. When I touched him, it felt like my powers returned to me," said Ace.

"That makes sense! He absorbs the powers through touch, so we must be able to get them back the same way!" cried Tech.

"Ok everyone, charge him all together!" cried Ace. Everyone ran up to Sypher, but none of them could grab on long enough to get their powers back. Soon enough they were all on the floor, groaning, covered in small cuts and bruises.

"He's never gonna let us get near him, chief," said Tech.

"Not unless he doesn't see us coming," said Ace.

"Nice try Ace, but I have Lexi's super hearing remember? I've tasted the glory and I'm not going back. Now it's time to finish all of you off and I'll start with you." Sypher used Rev's speed and zoom through the fallen Loonatics and grabbed Skye, holding her up by her throat.

"Skye!" cried Tech in distress.

"I don't know why I couldn't absorb your powers, but if you have anything useful, I'll hold on as long as I have to, even if I drain the life out of you," said Sypher, tightening his grip around her throat.

"Sorry," she strained, "there's just one thing you forgot," Skye said with a smirk. She quickly drove her leg into Sypher's gut and the cannon in her leg blasted him off her. He crashed into the wall and landed on the ground with a thud.

"Now's our chance!" cried Ace. They all ran up to Sypher and grabbed onto him tightly, feeling their powers surge through them and return to their bodies. Sypher, drained of energy, lay on the ground, defeated.

"Skye, are you ok?" asked Tech, running over to her in worry. He bent down on his knees and put one arm around her waist and wrapped his other hand around her arm, slowly helping him up.

"Yeah…thanks. My head just hurts a little, that's all," she said. She suddenly stumbled forward. Tech quickly reacted and kept her from falling. "Thanks, Tech," she said with a smile. He put her arm around his shoulders and wrapped his own arm around her waist, helping her stand up and walk.

Sypher was quickly detained with specially made gloves to prevent him from stealing powers via physical contact. He was immediately incarcerated in the Acmetropolis prison. After making sure he was locked up, the team returned to the tower, ready for a long period of rest they deserved.

"All right, everyone! I expect a full report from each of you on the Sypher mission on my desk by tomorrow morning," declared Duck.

"Reports? Since when do we write reports?" asked Lexi.

"Yeah, isn't the paperwork more of Zadavia's job?" asked Skye.

"Well, as team leader, I've decided to make a few changes around here. I am going to be running a tighter ship."

"Did you take too many hits to the head, Duck? Ace is still our leader!" Lexi remarked.

"Excuse me, but I didn't hear anything about the boss lady mentioning Ace being back in charge. Clearly, she wants me to remain numero uno," he declared.

Zadavia suddenly appeared on the screen. "Duck, get over yourself. Ace is back in charge. Now is that understood?" she asked.

"Yessum…" he muttered.

"Good. Zadavia out," she said, the screen turning off.

"Yeah, clearly," remarked Skye.

"Come on, I hear there's an all-you-can-eat special tonight in Chinatown!" cried Lexi, as the team made for the elevator.

"Oh, I love all-you-can-eat, because like the name suggests, it's all you can eat. So the waiter can't come in and say you're not allowed to order anymore or stop you from getting more food because it is all you can eat!" rambled Rev.

"You know, I didn't hear her say when she wanted Ace back in charge. It could be tomorrow, or even next week!" cried Duck in protest, but the elevator doors shut behind the rest of the team.


I hope you liked this chapter. I'm getting pretty excited for getting Skye and Tech together, so yeah! Review! And I've decided to mix things up a bit and throw in some original content. So the next two chapters will be original stuff.

Next Chapter - Rise of Poison Oak: The seductive and beautiful Poison Oak, capable of controlling plant life (and based on DC's Poison Ivy), takes over Acmetropolis by brainwashing the male Loonatics, leaving Skye and Lexi their only hope.

~ZP