Little Lost Loonatic

Stygian Skunk Part 5

As far as I know, Cosmo Sambo and Willo-Z are my own creations. They are decedents of Lil' Sambo and Willoughby (who are Bugs Bunny villains that I did not create).

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"Hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah," waughed, I mean laughed, Fudd, "It doesn't matter how many of dem dey is, I will defeats dem wif my awesum stwategies. Even Dangerwous Duck. First, I will disable der toys, and den I will spwit dem up to pik dem off at owr weasure." He continued to invisibly observe the Loonatics from the bushes near the fountain.

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Meanwhile, there seems to be a little dissension in ranks of the Loonatics. Okay, it's mainly just Duck being a jerk.

"I told you," squawked Duck, "we should have left the NOOB back at base."

"No you didn't," replied Ace.

"Did too," replied Duck. "Did not," replied Ace. "Did too," replied Duck. "Did not," replied Ace. "Did too," replied Duck. "Did not," replied Ace. "Did too," replied Duck. "Did not," replied Ace. "Did too," replied Duck. "Did not," replied Ace. "Did too," replied Duck. "Did not," replied Ace. "Did too," replied Duck. "Did too," replied Ace. "Did not," replied Duck. "Did too," replied Ace. "Did not," replied Duck. "Did too," replied Ace. "Did not," replied Duck. "You're absolutely right," replied Ace. "Told ya," replied Duck.

Skunk stepped over to Ace, cupping his head in her hands as she kissed him once on each cheek. "Vous êtes mon chevalier brille (You are my shining knight)," she said.

Glancing towards Tek, he asked, "and that means?"

"Huh?" asked Tek, scratching his ear, "Oh... Skunk called you 'her shining knight'."

Both Ace and Lexi stared a little after that one.

"Hey Tek," said Ace, "You got any of your scanning toys with you?"

"They're precision..." began Tek, "Yes, I brought scanners with me."

A round rust colored sphere about the size of a grapefruit rolled into the middle of them.

"ROORADE!" shouted Slam, but it was too late, it exploded in a flash of light. A few seconds passed as the Loonatics cringed.

"I was expecting that to hurt more," said Ace.

"I felt my body absorb some electricity just now," said Skunk.

"Electromagnetic Pulse Grenade," said Tek, "It won't hurt us, but all of our high tech gear is now shorted out. I don't think I'm going to have time to repair any of it."

"That means the scanners are busted too," growled Ace, "We'll have to find these punks the old fashioned way."

"Fudd or one of the H.A.R.M. must be close by. There's a finite limit on how far you can roll a grenade under these conditions giving the timer limits of that class of grenade and the surface conditions of the pavement surrounding the fountain."

"Got anything with your hyper-sensitive ears, Lex?"

"The park is too noisy," replied Lexi, "I haven't heard anything I can pinpoint yet."

"Lex?" asked Skunk.

"Just a pet name I call her," he replied.

"Ah, so you are sweet on the Lexi Bunny, no?"

"I said before...", snapped Ace, "This isn't the time."

Skunk just smiled.

A round dark gray colored sphere about the size of a grapefruit rolled into the middle of them.

"ROORADE!" shouted Slam, but it was too late, it exploded in a multiple burst of different colored lights accompanied by a horrendously loud bang. All of the Loonatics were blinded and deafened by the attack. Lexi especially grabbed her ears and screamed in pain.

"FLASH BANG!" yelled Tek, but no one heard him over the deafening ringing in their ears, not even Tek.

Fudd shot Duck with a net. The one covered with the slimy green anti-quacking gel.

Cosmo Sambo shot a missile at Rev, which burst into another net that anchored itself into the ground once it covered him.

Willo-Z fired a great gooey glob at Slam that covered him from his chin to toe in blue stuff that almost instantly turned into a solid stone-like substance.

Ace, Lexi, Tek and Skunk all stumbled away from the fountain as they held their ears. They were also all stumbling away from each other.

"Thwee down, four to go," laughed Fudd.

He summoned a machine that looked like an Acmetropolis Garbage Truck, whose sides opened as robot arms popped out to collect the three trapped Loonatics. In the case of Rev, a giant maw just ripped up the pavement and ground along with him. Each was dumped unceremoniously into a force bubble prison. There were three more spots.

"There's three cells and four more Loonatics," called Willo-Z over the radio, "what are we gonna do?"

"We gonna kill dem all evenchewally. Won Woonatic is jus gonna hav to die earwy," said Fudd, "Nuttin personal, new Woonatic, but it mus be you... What da hek iz dat?"

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Skunk was terrified, deafened and could hardly see anything. She reacted instinctively by standing on her hands, raising her tail, and cutting loose with a cloud of musk. After that, she dropped to all fours and began to crawl away. She coughed a few times along the way. The other Loonatics were coughing more. While the musk stank like crazy, Skunk was immune to the amnesia effects. Ace, Lexi and Tek... not so much.

On the good side, the Loonatics were already blinded, so it was only the hunters who were any worse because the couldn't see through the thick cloud. Even in his battlesuit, Fudd backed away from the expanding cloud of stink. The fake garbage truck followed Fudd like a faithful hound.

"Curses," said Fudd on the radio, "Retweat! We come back for da udders waiter."

The three converged on the truck, jumped in the cab and flew away.