Wow, thanks to all of you who reviewed, and thanks to Halloween Witch for help with the villain's name which sounds so much better now. Anyways, time to introduce the newest member of the Loonatics (aka my oc). With a little flasback set in, let's continue one with the story!
Loonatics Unleashed
A Lightning Personality
Ch. 2-A Most Suprising Encounter
Meanwhile at the Acmetropolis University, just before Zadavia contacted heroic team explained the possibility of a new Loonatic beind added to the team, it was a passing period where people were either going to a different class or exchanging stuff out of their locker for another class. And yes, if you were inquiring, the traditional hierarchy of high school/college was considered, and heavily used, so those who were considered the "normal, popular" people took full authority of their status to torture others who they thought were "abnormal" or "weird", or even both; people that don't do or look like what they consider normal.
And the one that received the worst of it was Presca Pussycat, the descendant of Penelope Pussycat. Since she was an anthro cat, and goth for that matter, she was considered one of the lowest statuses in the student popularity chain. As she was exchanging a book for another, a voice behind her sneered, "Well, well, well. Look who we have here, guys. It's our little old friend, Fuzzball. How's it going, Furface?"
She didn't have to look, for she knew exactly who it was. It was none other than Richard Flucas, the quarterback of the football team and considered one of the school's most popular boys. What she considered him to be was the school's biggest idiot and jerk, right next to the cheerleading squad. When she gave him no response, simply because she had better things to do than just give in, the jock motioned for his cronies to move in on their plan to humiliate her, which was to step on her tail and see how loud she could yowl in pain and embarrass herself.
As she reached up to grab something off the top shelf, her tail had relaxed itself and rested on the floor for a few seconds, which gave Richard the perfect opportunity. Just as her heels touched the ground, his foot crashed heavily into her extremely furred appendage, instantly erupting an almost ear-splitting cry from her, making the feline antromorph drop her things and instantly silencing the entire hallway. As she shivered in pain, he laughed and mocked, "Awww, does the wittle kitty cat need a band-aid?"
"You're the one whose going to need the band-aid, you big idiot," Presca growled, looking up, her normal silver eyes glowing full blue, her powers that she received from the meteor strike beginning to charge up.
She slowly stood up, and while she did, her normal white patches of fur turned blue, and her big, fluffy tail had transformed from fur to pure electricity that rippled off streaks of electrical charges whenever it swished from side to side.
"You really shouldn't have did what you did," she warned. "It's considered to be bad luck in certain places."
"What kind of bad luck?," Richard asked, as he and the other football players began to back up along with him.
"The kind that brings nasty suprises to the person who stepped on the tail," the anthro replied, advancing.
Trying to see any way possible of escaping, the football jock accidentally stepped onto a slick spot and fell right to the floor, then asking in a quivering voice, "Wh-wh-wh-wh-what kind of a freak are you?"
"The freak whose going to show you how big of an idiot you really are," Presca growled lower, holding up her hand at the same time, which was producing a ball of pure lightning.
By now, everyone who was in the hallway had stopped what they were doing to watch the soon-to-be fight. As the jock kept scootching back, still on the floor, trying his best to get away, the electric ball kept growing bigger and bigger and bigger in the cat's hand. When she felt the power reach its peak, she raised the sphere over head to strike, watching her enemy crouch in fear in anticipation of the pain that was about to insue. But just as she was about to attack, she stopped herself, seeing that roles had reversed, making her the bully instead of being the bullied, and realized that he really didn't deserve the strike after all. Bringing her hand down, the ball flickered then died away, her eyes stopped glowing and her tail returned to normal. She stared at him for a few seconds longer, turned her back, picked up her stuff, then headed to class, leaving everyone in a complete dumbfoundment.
When the last class let out for the day, Presca walked the short distance to her off-campus apartment when she stopped to rest against a wall in an alleyway with another one opening in the middle. While she was there, her thoughts ran across to what happened earlier that day then her memory flashed back to that unfateful day a few months ago when the meteor crashed into the planet, giving her the new life that she was living now.
\/\/\Flashback/\/\/
It was a normal day, like any other, and Presca, the shy but otherwise happy antro was doing her favorite thing in the entire world while she was in school: practicing her colorguard routine. Being a part of the college's marching band meant that she had to perform at all the fall games, and she wanted to make sure that she knew what she was doing perfectly and not mess up and make an embarrassment of herself. While she was getting ready, she started feeling a slight discomfort in her chest. She rubbed the area where her heart was located, felt it go away a bit, then grabbed her flag and began to practice her routine. She loved the way she could use her natural agility and gracefullness and channel it into the way she controlled the flagpole in the show.
Just as she sent the flag spinning into the air again, the pain in her chest returned, sharper and a lot more painful than it was before, the unmistakable sign that she was having a heart attack for no reason at all. She fell backwards to the ground, her body quickly growing weak, with her prop falling to the ground near her in a crumpled heap.
While she was dying, a meteor was hurtling into the planet's amtosphere, quickly flying into the surface and crashed, sending the globe off it's axis and sending out huge shockwaves that rocked and covered the entire world.
Just as her heart gave up and quit and her last breath slipped away, one wave hit her and her organ was quickly shocked back to life, beating once more, but much faster than it usually did. As the power passed through her, she felt strange electrical surges pulse througout her entire body, giving her the strength she thought only belonged to made-up superheroes in comic books and kid's TV shows.
As soon as it started , it was over and she took her breath of her new life. She bliked her eyes a couple of times, then slowly leaned up and looked herself over. But she discovered that she wasn't herself. Her white patches of fur had changed to a deep shade of blue while her black fur remained the same. She felt her eyes glowing a small shade lighter than her new blue fur, then felt something funny with her tail. She turned to look at it, and nearly jumped ten feet into the air. The big, fluffy fur on it had turned into pure, blue lightning, which began to ripple off stray lines of sparks as it swished back and forth. Not being able to completely understand what was going on, she felt everything shrink back inside of her, everything that had changed returning to normal as she slowly stood back up on unsteady legs, and when she was standing fully upright, everything was back to the way it was before she had died.
Looking around to see if anybody was around, she grabbed her flag, put back into storage, she made her way home as fast as she could, where after doing some hard thinking, decided to completely change her outlook on life, not wanting to be shy anymore but be more outgoing, more aware of what was going on around her, but most of all, more protective of herself so she wouldn't be hurt again. Grabbing her wallet, she went on a shopping spree and came back with a complete gothic apparel, having thrown out her previous set of clothes before she left to make room for the new set that she had returned with. She had also gotten four piercings in each ear, one in her left eyebrow, and one under the left side of her bottom lip.
What she had decided to do, since now she was changed on the inside, she was now transformed on the outside as well.
\/\/\End of Flashback/\/\/
While she as reflecting on the past, she didn't realize that the sun had slipped behind the horizons of buildings, unknowing of the danger that was slowly coming up the alley next to her. As he stepped out, he said in a quiet but clear and well-spoken voice, "My dear, you shouldn't be out this late. Don't you that there's a monster on the loose?"
As soon as he spoke, the goth-apparelled cat was snapped out her thoughts and nearly jumped out of her fur, he completely suprising her.
"Geez, dude, what were you trying to do, scare me to death or something?," she asked, breathing heavily as she tried to calm herself down.
"In a way," he replied in a creepy-like manner, taking a step closer to her.
She looked at him, gave him a weirded-out look on her face, and questioned, "What the heck are you talking about, 'in a way'?"
"I mean, by nearly scaring you to death, it was in a way that makes people see their death," he explained in a darker voice now, taking another step. "But of course, in my line of work, I take a more...personal approach."
By now, every warning bell and alarm in her mind was going off, telling her that she had to get away, and get away fast. She instantly started backing up, hoping that she would be able to get out of there, but she sensed something coming up behind her at the last second, and quickly hit the side of a large dumpster with her back, at the same time the man coming closer and closer.
"Who are you?," she almost whispered, quickly getting the feeling the entrapment and a little bit of claustrophobia.
"The monster that's been running through the city, of course," the energy vampire answered, almost hissing his reply.
Just as he was about to grab the antro cat and drain her of her powers and her life force, a small but powerful cannon blast hit him, sending the villain right into the corner of the connecting alleyways.
"And we're da ones huntin' you down," Ace replied, holding the cannon that fired the shot with the other Loonatics around him.
He then looked at Presca and asked her, "You okay? He didn't touch you, right?"
"No, you fired just in the nick of time," the female feline replied. "What is he, to be exact?"
"He's Donovan Delano, an energy vampire that lives on the natural energy of other people," Tech explained. "And he's a dangerous one at that."
"You're kidding me," the goth-claded cat returned, giving the coyote a you've-got-to-be-kidding look.
"Trust me, he's not," Lexi told her. "He's destroyed several planets by taking the lives of the people, ceasing all civilization to exist. Now that he's here, we have to stop him before he does the same thing to Acmetropolis."
"Well, in that case," the feline replied, locating a long metal rod close to the size of a flagpole, stepped on the end of it with her heel, which caused it to jump and spin around, and quickly caught it with her hand. "I'm in on the fight. No one gets away with trying to steal my energy."
"You sure you can handle it?," Danger asked, making it sound like it was rhetorical challenge.
"Trust me," Presca replied, feeling very small electrical snaps start going off around her. "I know I can. You can just sit back and watch."
The next thing they heard was a low growl coming from in front of them, as Delano rose up off the corner, clearly pissed off for being deterred from his almost-feast.
"Who do you think you are, denying someone like me whose just trying to get some nourishment for my near-pitless appetite?," he asked, his dark eyes seeming to glow with his anger.
"You mean you haven't heard of da Loonatics?," the yellow rabbit asked, taunting the vampire like he with every villain the group encountered. "I think you may have a screw loose, doc."
"The Loonatics? The band of superheroes led by the ignorance of the Frelenging called Zadavia? I was wondering when I was going to be seeing you," Donovan inquired. "So, if you are the great heroes you are, let's see some of that...delicious power and energy you possess."
"If it's a fight you're wantin' then," the team leader replied, pulling out his weapon, a retractable blade called the Guardian Strike Sword. "Den let's dance."
His eyes glowing brighter, Delano charged forward and swiped at Ace with his talon-like fingers, which the male bunny blocked, then pushed the vampire away, saying to the others, "Try to keep him going down da street. If we can push him out of da area, we'll have a better chance of taking him down without harming innocent people."
Everyone quickly agreed, then began firing their cannons at the vampire, except for Presca. As the barrage kept pushing the villain away, the pussycat was trying to figure out how she could help when a pile of unused electrical wire caught the corner of her eye. Her vision followed the trail and saw that the guy that nearly attacked her was about to step on a larger pile of wire that was looped up but apparently dropped, and an idea popped into her head. She quickly ran over to it, activated her powers, in which caught the duck's eye. He looked at her like she was crazy and asked, "What are you doing? Trying to get your energy sucked out by a member of the undead?"
"Nope. An idea, you can say, just sparked in my head," the anthro cat replied, eyes glowing blue, and the metal rod lighting up with a supercharge of electricity. "Just keep pushing him back and you'll see in a minute what's going to happen."
By this time, Donovan's foot was just lifting up to step back down onto the pile of cords. Just as it was coming down, Presca touched the electrified rod down on her end of the wiring, which passed the surge blazing at lightning speed to the other end just as the vampire's foot connected. The resulting jolt was more powerful than anyone truly realized. A few seconds later, the feline lifted the metal pole, canceling the electrical current and leaving Delano burnt and hurt, but still standing.
"My, what power we hold, little kitty cat. You shall be a true feast to feed upon, once I get my hands on you. But next time, my dear. Next time!," the villain declared, quickly being enveloped by rapid oncoming darkness of the night.
As soon as he disappeared, the street lights came up like they usually did every evening around that time and everyone saw that he was truly gone, and definitely would be back to fight another day. After Presca deactivated her powers, Ace came up and said, "Nice thinking, using da wireas a connector for your lightnin'."
"No problem," the pussycat replied. "But what am I going to do now that Delano is out for me?"
"I was thinking da same thing," the yellow rabbit, but was answered as Zadavia appeared on a nearby video screen.
"For the best, I believe that she will be the safest back at headquarters," the Frelenging advised, apparently knowing what happened during the short battle the entire time.
"Are you sure on this, Zadavia?," Tech asked. "We've never really brought a civilian in to protect before."
"True, Tech," the teams advisor replied. "But there is a reason why, which I will share once you arrive. Zadavia out."
"Well, if Zadavia has a reason why, then it has to be important for here to come," Lexi pointed out.
"I-agree-completely-I-mean-come-on-it's-Zadavia-right-the-head-honcho-the-big-cheese-the-boss-lady-Whenever-it's-a-reason-it's-always-important," Rev added.
"Well, den, let's get back to HQ and see what dis reason is," Ace decided.
He then said to Presca, "You don't mind with Tech, do you?"
"Not at all," the feline replied, following the coyote to his Zoomatrix.
Tech quickly handed the fellow antro a spare helmet, putting it on as fast as she could while climbing up behind the green canine, and when everyone was ready, they took off to one of the tall towers in the city that had large sphere located at the top that served as the base to the superhero team.
Man, now things are really getting freaky. And what could Zadavia's reason possibly be? I bet you can figure it out on you're own, of course, and you can read about what happens in the next chapter. Plz review and see you all next chapter!