So it's been about a month since my last update and I figured since of all my active fanfics and that this one was the least updated, I might as well. I read through the chapter and fixed it up A LOT (because I had it written a while ago) so I hope you guys like it. Thanks so much for all the reviews, favs and alerts!
Once again, Poison Oak is based off of DC Comics' villain Poison Ivy/Pamela Isley.
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Skye's POV
It had been a few days since Oak had taken control of the boys and Lexi and I had managed to stay in hiding from them in my old apartment, not that it was difficult. I guess Oak's hypnosis spores came at the cost of making the boys a little dumber. They didn't seem to click that a civilian wolf and bunny hanging out together in disguise were actually their teammates.
"A super villain calling herself Poison Oak has quickly risen to power in Acmetropolis. With a powerful control over plants and mind control spores, every male in Acmetropolis had become her slave. The real question is, where are the Loonatics? As for the males of the team: Ace Bunny, Danger Duck, Tech E. Coyote, Rev Runner and Slam Tasmanian, they have all fallen under her spell. But what everyone is really asking is what happened to the girls: Skye Wolfe and Lexi Bunny? Because of the females' natural resistance to the spores, women seem to be the only ones left with free will, but with Oak's iron grip on the city, it seems unlikely that the remaining Loonatics will be able to come to our rescue," spoke the news reporter before it switched to weather hosted by the 'fabulous' Misty Breeze.
Lexi had turned on the news just in time for a report of Poison Oak to air. In those few weeks, she had easily gained control over nearly every single man on Acmetropolis, stopping at nothing to prevent any uprisings as well as searching for the two missing members of the Loonatics – us. We would have done something to stop her long before now, but we were severely outnumbered and unequipped for a proper fight.
"Looks like Oak ascended to power pretty quickly," said Lexi, angry.
"Yeah, and we still haven't come up with a plan. It's going to be even harder now that more than half of Acmetropolis is under her control," I said.
"Its just too bad Zadavia can't call to update us. We could really use her help right about now," she grunted.
"I wouldn't be surprised if she's got Tech monitoring the communication frequencies, plus her call could give away our location," I added.
"I guess you're right. I just hate sitting around like this doing nothing!"
"Lexi, you angry right now. We can't let our emotions get the better of us. This isn't like all our other fights with the super villains where we can just go home and have Tech whip up so invention to save the day. We get only one shot at stopping Oak and we can't mess it up," I shouted, grabbing Lexi's shoulders. "Besides, you're Lexi Bunny: spunky and fearless second-in-command to the Loonatics! And I'm Skye Wolfe! I may not be a genius or skilled inventor like Tech, but I'm doing everything I can. If we put our minds to it, I bet we could be unstoppable!"
Lexi looked hard at me and smiled after my pep talk. "Yeah, you're right. Sorry, I'm just not used to this kind of pressure. If Ace were still here, he'd have a plan in no time."
"Lexi, he chose you as his second-in-command for a reason," I lightly shook her shoulders in emphasis. "Now what was that reason?" When Lexi didn't answer, I continued speaking. "Because you can lead under pressure and you know what's at stake. You're smart and brave, just like him."
"Thanks, Skye," she smiled. "Who knows? If we get out of this, we should form our own team, just us girls!" she grinned.
"Hm…Lexi and Skye, Dynamic Duo of Acmetropolis, I like the sound of that!" I smiled back as we both laughed.
"Well, we've managed to avoid Oak's detection for this long, but we can't wait forever. What have you managed to come up with?" asked Lexi.
"Sadly, I have no where near the amount of skill and experience Tech has when it comes to tinkering and inventions. I've worked with what little supplies my dad's old workshop had, but I've made a few modifications to our bionic suites," I explained.
"Like what?" Lexi asked. We walked over to the next room. I sat down at my dad's working station while Lexi stood next to me, hovering over my shoulder.
"Your suit still has the Sonic Siren that Tech put in when we fought Sypher – don't know what that guy did, but ever since we fought him, I've been having this insane headaches...
"Headaches? You didn't say anything about this before! You ok?" she asked, worried.
"Yeah, it's fine. Really. I've taken some pills but I'm having them more frequently than normal. Don't worry about it, we have more important things to do," I brushed the issue off, half wishing I hadn't brought it up. I pulled out one of the arms of the bionic armor. "Lucky for us, retail stores haven't been affected much by Oak's rule. I've added chainsaw extensions to deal with her little plants," I said, holding up the arm. I pressed one of the buttons on the forearms and a bar with a handle protruded from above the hand and blades lined down the forearm.
"Cool!" cried Lexi her eyes widening in excitement seeing the blades race down the arm, making a whir noise.
"It gets better. Using a few supplies easily found in a house, I've installed flamethrowers in the palms of our suits. I don't want to go into too much detail, but basically all we have to do is aim and shoot."
"Excellent. We'll be ready for Oak any minute now. Did you make anything to catch her with?" said Lexi.
"Like I said, I'm nowhere near Tech's level and I could work with what my dad had left over. I rounded some scrap pieces together to make this mask that should stop her from dispersing her mind control spores and keep her from mentally controlling plants, at least until we can get Tech to make a more powerful and hopefully permanent version. As for keeping her locked up, well…I just left that for when we catch her," I said with a cheeky grin.
"We have the weapons and we have the trap. Good job Skye. We should hit her tonight. With no sun, the plants will probably be weaker. We can't afford to waste anymore time and give her a chance to mobilize," said Lexi.
"You're right. Let's suit up; the sun sets in about an hour," I said, as we both suited up. "Oh, I added one more thing. Press that green button," I said to her, pointing to the green button on Lexi's left forearm next to the communicator.
Lexi pressed the button. "Was something supposed to happen?" she asked. I chuckled and held up a mirror, showing nothing in the reflection. "Whoa! I'm invisible! How did you pull that off?"
"I thought it might help against being outnumbered. Tech's actually the one to thank on that part. The material of the bionic armor already laid the groundwork for invisibility."
"What about Rev's internal GPS?" Lexi inquired.
"I've taken care of that. When the invisibility is activated, it emits a signal that disrupts his GPS, so he can't track us while we go about unseen," I said. "The down side is it'll only last about a minute and takes nearly twice as long to recharge."
"At this point, I'm not complaining. Now let's take that Poison Oak down," she said, punching her fist. "She's gonna pay for stealing Ace from me."
"Sorry, what?" I asked, cocking my eyebrow at her.
"Hm?" she jumped, blushing. "Us! I mean, she's gonna pay for stealing the guys from us. That's what I said," she said, crossing her arms in determination.
"Was it now? I could have sworn I heard something else," I said, elbowing her arm.
"No, that's what I said. I have super hearing, I know what I said."
"All right lover girl, let's head to the harbor. Luckily for us, Oak is still an amateur villain and still doesn't think she needs a more secure lair."
"She may have beauty, but she certainly didn't get brains," Lexi remarked. Once it got dark, we left my apartment building and managed to sneak to the harbor through a series of back alleys. The same abandoned building we first encountered her in was covered in vines and plants, more so than last time. The Venus flytraps were still there, but my new chain saw modifications easily took care of them.
"Doesn't look like Oak's servants are doing much," I said, noticing how empty the area seemed.
"She must have them scouring the city for us, or she knows we're coming," said Lexi. "Besides, its not like she's got a shortage of henchmen since she's got the guys under her control."
"No point in waiting any longer. Let's go," I said. We pushed the warehouse doors open and saw Oak in the same throne she sat in the first time the met her only this time with a more confident grin plastered across her face and the boys stood on either side of her throne with blank looks in their eyes.
"Ah, if it isn't the two missing Loonatics. I was wondering when you two would join the party," she giggled.
"We're giving you one last chance to surrender Oak! I suggest you take it! I'm not exactly in a charitable mood," I said, pointing to her.
"Please, I have the rest of your team at my disposal, why would I even think to surrender?" She waved her hand and vines snaked across the ground before wrapping firmly around our ankles. They pulled us up, suspending us above her as she stepped out of her throne. "Now what should I do with you two?" she asked as Lexi and I struggled against the vines which tightened around us.
"Not your call, Oak," said Lexi. We both looked at each other and nodded, activating the chainsaw blades. They easily cut through the vines and we easily landed on the ground.
Oak jumped back and narrowed her eyes at us. "You've been busy. I thought you'd been hiding all this time because you were cowards! Boys, attack!" Lexi and I backed up until we were in the middle of the building floor as the guys formed a circle around us.
"Green button?" asked Lexi.
"Green button," I smiled back. We both pressed the green button, activating the invisibility.
"Where did they go? Rev, find them!" Oak shouted in desperation.
"I can't pick them up on my GPS, something is disrupting it," answered Rev in monotone.
"Oh forget it, my plants will find them!" Oak raised her hand and vines sprouted from all over the place, feeling for any sign of us.
Once they got close, the invisibility wore off so I used the chainsaws while Lexi unleashed the flamethrower, burning the vines to a crisp. Ace quickly jumped over to me and pulled out his sword. I changed my arm into a sword in response. I heard Slam come up behind me in his tornado form and jumped up into the air in time for him to slam right into Ace. "Slam never was good at sneaking," I remarked.
Rev zoomed up to Lexi but she used her Sonic Siren, which stopped him right in his tracks. She easily kicked Rev back and shot a Brain Blast at Duck just as he raised his arm back to throw an egg at her.
"We're doing pretty well on our own don't you think?" asked Lexi, as we regrouped. We kept our backs together so we could both see any incoming attacks.
"Absolutely," I chuckled. "Maybe we really should consider forming our own tag tem?" I said, looking at her for a quick second. Once I looked back straight ahead, I saw Slam charge towards us. "Give me your hand!" I shouted. Without hesitation, Lexi tightly grasped my hand as I lifted her with all my might and spun around, giving her a boost to kick Slam back. Just as Slam fell back, the rest of the guys ran up to us. Lexi used her momentum to kick the rest of them back, each step looking like she was running. I let go of Lexi and we resumed fighting off the guys.
I heard a loud noise behind me and turned around just as a shipping container flew out right towards me. I didn't have enough time to move out of the way so all I could do was hold up my arms as the container smacked into me and threw me into the wall. I fell to my knees and grabbed my head. Another one of those stupid headaches was coming back. No! Not now of all times! We couldn't lose this one! There were no second chances this time! My vision was a little blurry, but I looked up and managed to make out Lexi getting overpowered. She tried to hold off the guys, but five against one weren't favorable odds. Lexi fell to the ground with Duck and Rev holding her down by her arms.
"Finish her off then go back for the dog," ordered Oak.
Ace raised his sword over Lexi's head, the tip pointing straight down. Lexi struggled, but she was worn out and Duck and Rev had a strong hold on her. When her struggling ceased, she looked up to Ace's blank eyes. "Ace, please…I know this isn't what you want," she said, tears lightly forming in her eyes. Ace raised his sword.
"Do it now!" shouted Oak, impatient.
"Ace…" said Lexi. Ace hesitated. My vision was starting to clear up and I'm sure that I saw his hands shake as he held the sword above Lexi's head. I regained my composure and rushed over to Ace and kicked him aside. Duck and Rev jumped up but I shot them with a weak blast from my arm.
I grabbed Lexi's arm and pulled her up. "Lex, you ok?"
"Yeah, I think I almost got through to him. He hesitated when he held his sword," replied Lexi. "Ace is still in there!" she beamed.
"I've got a plan. Distract them!" I cried. I pressed the green button and my bionic armor turned invisible.
"I got your back," she replied, as the guys advanced on her.
"Come on! It shouldn't take all of you to take down one of her!" shouted Oak.
Lexi managed to fend off the guys for a while, but we couldn't keep this up forever. We had to finish this now! I snuck up behind Oak's throne and changed my arm into a sword and pressed it against her throat, grabbing her arm to keep her in place before my invisibility wore off. "Call of the boys and I won't slit your throat," I said.
"Y-you're a super hero, you don't have the guts," she stuttered. She clearly wasn't expecting a physical confrontation.
"Try me! You took control of my team, almost killed another one of my friends and now you're just pissing me off! So call off the guys," I said, pressing the blade closer to Oak's throat.
She hesitated for a moment before speaking. "Boys, stop," said Oak. They immediately ceased their attack on Lexi.
"Lex, now!"
"Gotcha!" Lexi cartwheeled over to a hose attached to the wall and pulled the nozzle off. "Time to wash up guys," she said as she sprayed them with water and shot a Brain Blast with it, which got carried by the water. The force of the water pushed them all back. They slowly got up, coughing and groaning, their eyes returning to normal.
I grabbed Oak and threw her down to the ground, pulling out the handcuffs and mask I made earlier. "Oh, you'll pay for this!" cried Oak, struggling, but I was much stronger than her, especially when she didn't have her plants to do her work for her.
"Save it for someone who cares," I said.
"Oh, what happened?" asked Duck. He snapped his head in all directions to try and establish what was going on.
"Lex? Skye? What are you doing here?" asked Ace, confused.
"Is there any way someone can explain why I have a real big headache all of a sudden?" asked Rev.
"Ugh head hurt," grumbled Slam.
"Skye, why are you wearing your bionic armor?" asked Tech. "What's going on?"
"Man, you guys just missed out on the coolest smack down ever!" exclaimed Lexi.
"We'll explain back at HQ, once we get little miss poison ivy here to Acmetropolis prison," I said, grabbing Oak roughly and pushing her out the door.
"So Poison Oak had us under her control the entire time?" asked Ace.
"Yup. Her little poison spores tapped into your nervous system and took control of you," said Lexi. "I guess when I hosed you guys off, it washed the spores away."
"But how come you and Skye weren't affected?" asked Duck, crossing his arms.
"Her spores only affected males. She eventually got control of every male in Acmetropolis, so we had to hide out and lay low for a while," I said.
"So where did you guys hide out?" asked Tech.
"Skye's old apartment. We used the disguise belts to change our appearance," replied Lexi.
"Amazing, I never would have thought of that!" said Ace.
"And look at these enhancements on the bionic armor: chain saws, flamethrowers and even invisibility that disrupted Rev's GPS!" exclaimed Tech, examining my modifications.
"Well I didn't have a lot of time and my resources were very limited," I said, nervously rubbing the back of my head.
"Still, this is some amazing work," said Tech with a smile.
"You should all be lucky that Skye and Lexi managed to subdue Poison Oak. Thanks to them, she is safely behind bars in the environmentally altered prison specially designed to inhibit her plant manipulation powers. She won't be getting out anytime soon." Zadavia's image appeared on the screen while an image appeared next to her showing Poison Oak in her cell, wearing the same mask I had placed on her. The image faded as Zadavia took up the full screen again and continued speaking. "Skye, Lexi, you both did a fantastic job. You two performed beyond the call of duty and prevailed against all odds. I'm immensely proud you!" Lexi and I looked at each other, exchanging proud smiles before hi-fiving each other. "Boys, I suggest you all take a look at the footage from the warehouse during your battle. You could all learn a thing or two. Zadavia out," she said, as her image disappeared and the screen powered down.
"Do we really have to watch some boring footage from a night none of us remember?" asked Duck.
"Zadavia's right. We could learn a thing or two from it," said Ace. Tech played the footage for everyone on the big screen in the den. "Wow, you girls are kicking butt!" cried Ace.
"Yeah, I've never seen you guys fight like that then again I've never seen you guys fight us at all since we don't normally fight but then again we weren't exactly ourselves so I guess it doesn't count but man you guys are kicking butt – even if it's our butts you're kicking!" cried Rev.
"Whoa, did I really shoot that at you?" Tech asked me with worry. The footage had gotten to the part where I was hit with the shipping container, which now I learned was actually thrown by Tech via his magnetism powers.
"Yeah, don't worry about it. You didn't mean it and it didn't really hurt all that much," I answered, trying to quell his worry. It was still pretty awkward between us this we kissed during the Weathervane fight and this only made it worse.
"Well still…sorry," he said, rubbing the back of his head as his ears drooped.
"Tech, it's ok. It wasn't your fault," I said, putting my hand on his shoulder. I smiled at him as he smiled back.
"Lex, you mean I tried to kill you?" he asked, his eyes widening.
"Ace, it's no big deal. You didn't mean it," replied Lexi casually while she turned her face away slightly to hide her creeping blush.
"No, it is a big deal. I-I'm sorry. You know I'd never hurt you, Lex," said Ace, taking a hold of her hand.
"I know Ace," she said with a smile.
Batman and Robin reference LOL
For those who remember the evil dolphin episode from season 2, Lexi's brain blast gets amplified by water and can mess up mind control. They don't know it now, but they will by season 2/sequel fic. Hope this was enough to satisfy you AcexLexi fans. Believe me, I've got more planned for them AND SkyexTech.
Remember guys that Skye may be intellectually smart, but she is not much of an inventor. She can tweak with things like her limbs, because that was something she had to learn. Her old place where she lived with her dad had lost of spare parts plus Skye helped to make the bionic armor so she knows more or less how it works.
Here's something I had in the chapter originally near the beginning. Deleted scene if you will.
Deleted Scene:
Just then, there was a knock on the door. Skye and Lexi looked at each other and Skye hesitantly answered the door. A policeman stood at the door holding a clipboard with the same glowing pink eyes as everyone else under Oak's control. "We are looking for Lexi Bunny and Skye Wolfe of the Loonatics. Have you seen them?" he asked.
"No, sorry." Replied Skye.
"We require your names for the city-planet wide search. Who are you and your…friend?" he asked, looking suspiciously at Lexi.
"I'm Marissa Henderson and this is my sister Lola," said Skye.
"But you are a wolf and your sister is a rabbit."
"Our father was a wolf and our mother was rabbit. I got his looks and my sister got our mother's." explained Skye.
"Very well. Thank you for your cooperation," said the policeman. He wrote a few things down and walked away. Skye shut the door, leaned on it and sighed.
"That was close. How did you come up with that?" asked Lexi.
"Well, you know how a lot of people have been after my dad right? I was in charge of coming up with our cover stories. It just comes naturally to me now."
Next Chapter - Mastermind episode
After that, maybe another original content. I've come up with a couple ideas. Plus my buddy Zacnichols123 (who is also writing an LU fanfiction of his own about Tech and Skye, with my permission of course - link on my profile) suggested that since I based Oak off Poison Ivy, why not make a thief character based on Catwoman? What do you guys think?
Also, if any of you guys have ideas for original content chapters, let me know!
Review! ~ZP
