New Kid On The Block

Chapter 2 – Mission: Recruitment

Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Right, so after meeting my character "Blaze Tiger" we now transition over to the Loonatics to see what they were up to while the events of the first chapter were happening. Enjoy!

Meanwhile…

On the 125th floor of the Loonatics HQ things were normal. Ace was meditating on his floating platform, Lexi was listening to music on her IPod touch 7000, Duck was trying on a cape while lovingly looking at himself in the mirror, Slam was gorging on a 27-decker sandwich that had taken him ages to make and Tech and Rev were on the couch fiddling with some of Tech's "toys".

"It's amazing how an Anthro can look so darn good looking" Duck said while examining his outfit. "Aww thanks Duck" responded Lexi cleverly which was met by a chuckle from Ace, and a look of annoyance from Duck. "Have I ever told you that you're despicable?" responded Duck. "Every day, and I never get tired of hearing it" said the pink bunny with a smirk.

Ace opened his eyes and got down off his platform to hear raised voices coming from where Rev and Tech were sitting on the couch. The leader of the Loonatics rolled his eyes and smiled as he had a quick stretch. After that he wandered over to the coyote and the roadrunner to see what they were bickering about this time.

"What's up docs?" Ace asked in his usual cool voice. Tech turned around and stared up at Ace "Oh hey chief. Not much, just Rev being a pain by messing with my inventions, AGAIN" Rev overhead this and responded in his 100mph voice "Well-excuse-me-if-im-just-trying-to-help-you-and-you-don't-want-it-but-now-that-i-think-about-it-i-suppose-you-don't-really-need-help-being-a-genius-and-all-but-sti-"Tech clamped Revs beak was clamped shut before he could say another word. "I think we get the picture Rev Buddy" said thecoyote.

Ace chuckled at the two best friends. "Hey by the way Tech, did ya remember ta order a VEGITARIAN pizza for me and Lex dis time?" asked the bunny with a wry smile on his face. "Haha yeah don't worry chief, I've learned from my mistakes" replied Tech with a grimace recalling a week ago when he accidentally ordered Ace and Lexi an extra-large Meat Feast pizza completely forgetting that they were vegetarians. As punishment, Tech had to walk all the way down to the pizza place, which was a long way, get the vegetarian pizza that they had wanted to order in the first place, and then run back to HQ in time before the pizza got cold. He had taken extra care to get the order right this time. And you can understand why.

Ace smiled "Good. Cos I wouldn't want ya ta have ta walk all de way to de pizza place again!" said the bunny and then patted the coyote on the shoulder.

He then walked towards the window passing Slam as the Tasmanian devil stuffed the last mouthful of his massive sandwich into his mouth. Ace looked back at him and joked "I dunno how ya do it Slam old pal" Slam responded with a wide grin showing his giant set of teeth.

DING!

"WOHOO! Pizzas are here!" shouted Duck in an excited voice as he dashed towards the elevator.

Ace looked out of the window down at the streets bellow. It was completely dark now. It never ceased to amaze Ace how many different coloured lights there were to be seen throughout the city. However, the prominent colours tonight were blue and red flashing lights. They were twisting and turning through the labyrinth of streets. Ace frowned at the sight. He was getting used to seeing sirens around the city after the robots entered commission, but he had never seen this many before.

"That's a lot of sirens" stated Lexi as she walked up behind her leader and stood next to him. Ace couldn't hear the sirens, but Lexi obviously could due to her enhanced hearing. The bunnies stood and stared and then suddenly, a massive dark blue glow erupted from the centre of the sirens. Ace and Lexi threw a concerned glance at each other. "Hmm" muttered Ace as he slowly nodded. "Summin is definitely going down out dere."

Lexi nodded in agreement. "Hey Chief, you have enhanced vision, can you see what's going on?" she asked Ace. The male bunny squinted slightly as he focused his sapphire blue eyes on the havoc below. He stayed like this for a few seconds but then finally shook his head and blinked. "Na, de buildings are blockin my view. I can't see nuttin." He said.

As soon as Ace said this, the console/table in the middle of the room bleeped twice before a hologram appeared revealing the boss lady herself: Zadavia.

The queen of Freleng had a serious look on her face and her hair was blowing about in its usual fashion when she appeared on hologram. And then she uttered the immortal words she always said when first addressing the Loonatics.

"Loonatics, we have a problem…"

Ace looked round at the hologram. "You got dat right Zadavia, I've never seen so many flashin lights! And dat weird blue light looks fishy." He looked back to the window and watched the lights.

Tech and Rev had gotten up and were walking towards the central console. Behind them the elevator opened and out wandered Duck. Only his body was visible as his face was covered by the stack of Pizzas he was carrying. He clearly had no idea what was going on.

"Phew! These things are a lot heavier than they look! That pizza boy will have muscles like boulders if he carries on delivering these babies!" he joked. He finally set them down on the table in front of the couch. "Right, who's got the napkins? I'm starvi-" Duck cut himself short as he finally saw what was going on.

"Ah you're just in time Duck" said Zadavia with a wry smile.

Duck chuckled nervously "Oh hey boss lady! I take it the universe calls on us once again to kick evil's butt."

"You would think so Duck, but not exactly." replied Zadavia, her face looking more serious now. The rest of the Loonatics were just as baffled as Duck and for a few seconds, there was silence.

Tech eventually broke it "So what's with all the sirens?" The Loonatics all looked at Zadavia, ready for the answer.

"Watch this" she replied. Moments later, Zadavia's image disappeared and was replaced by a video feed. The quality was poor but the Loonatics could still see what was going on. The top right hand corner of the video had the Acmetropolis police department badge on it indicating that the video was being taken by a police bot.

The video showed that that they were in hot pursuit of somebody, an anthro. It was hard to make out but judging by the black and orange stripes he was a tiger anthro. His clothes were tattered and in his hand was what looked like a loaf of bread. He was very fast, but unfortunately for him, the robots were faster as the tiger seemed to get closer and closer as the pursuing robots closed in on him. Suddenly the tiger took a left turn and disappeared out of sight. There was a bit of confusion before finally the filming bot turned down the street too. The dark street was illuminated by the flashing police lights and eventually the bot came into a clearing. The bot evidently stopped and the video showed that the tiger had run into a dead end. He had his back to the bots.

"What the heck is the point of this?" commented Duck suddenly "It's just a tiger stealing a loaf of bread. We fight super-villains not stupid anthros with nothing better to do than steal loaves of bread. We have more important things to do, like EATING PIZZA!"

The others all gave him a look that basically said "shut up Duck."

Duck rolled his eyes and with a sigh looked back at the video.

On the video, the tiger turned around revealing his face.

"Ooooo he's cute" Commented Lexi with a smile. Ace shot her a quick, envious look which she didn't see.

Back on the video, the tiger's eyes suddenly turned a deep blue and he was surrounded by an aura which was the same colour as his eyes. He raised his fists and then suddenly launched into the air. The camera looked up and showed as the tiger plummeted down with tremendous speed right into the middle of the police bots. There was a sudden flash of dark blue, and then the screen went black.

The Loonatics shared a look of shock, especially Duck.

The image of Zadavia reappeared. "As you can see Loonatics, this is no ordinary anthro." She said.

"Looks like we aint de only anthros dat got powers from de meteor" commented Ace as his normal face returned.

Rev was the next to speak. "Sooooo-lemme-guess,-you-want-us-to-head-on-down-there,-show-that-tiger-who's-boss,-capture-him-and-put-him-in-the-pokey,-return-the-loaf-of-bread-to-its-rightful-owner-and-then-everybody-is-happy-again."

"Not exactly Rev" replied Zadavia in a mysterious tone.

Duck looked annoyed "So what do you want us to do then? Go down there, shake his hand and give him a medal if he promises never to steal again?" he said sarcastically with a look of disbelief.

"Oh my gosh, ENOUGH with the jokes Duck! This is serious!" said Lexi in an annoyed voice.

"So what do ya want us te do Zadavia?" asked Ace.

Zadavia explained "This tiger's intentions are clearly not bad judging by the state of his clothing and the fact that he is stealing bread. He is just trying to survive" she said with a tinge of sadness. "And since he is obviously powerful, I think that with a little help, he would be a great asset to the Loonatics."

They knew where she was going with this now. "So you want us to recruit him?" asked Tech. "Exactly" replied Zadavia looking at the coyote. "But be cautious Loonatics" she continued "he will probably not trust you at first so you will have to persuade him. And if reason doesn't work, you will have to beat him into submission to make him realise that your intentions are good. But remember, he doesn't have a suit that makes him impervious to physical harm like you do so try not to hurt him." The 6 of them nodded "Good luck Loonatics. Zadavia, out…" And with that, her hologram disappeared.

"Sweet! New teammate!" said Lexi with a smile.

Slam agreed "nedj tetmty!" (New teammate)

"Aww man! The pizza's gunna go cold!" Sulked Duck as his head sunk.

Everyone went off and got their jetpacks and they met up at the landing pad, suited, booted and ready to go. When the 6 of them were present, Ace asked them "Everyone ready?" His fellow Loonatics all nodded eagerly. "Good stuff, right…"

"Let's Jet!"

So there we go! The Loonatics are now on their way to confront the mysterious Blaze. What's gunna happen? Next chapter will be up soon so that you can find out. Hope you enjoyed

P.S. Before you ask NO! I do not plan to create a romance between Blaze and Lexi. I am an ACEXI fan all the way and believe that Ace and Lexi belong with nobody else but each other! ;)