Ch.3: Power Mad
Back at the Loonatics tower the heroes slowly returned to their slumber, but for one Loonatic in particular he didn't know about the extra guest he was bringing to bed with him that night. As Duck slowly tucked himself under the covers and drifted off to slumberland Nug made his move.
Extending his silver body Nug draped himself over Duck and began to fuse with the Acme heroes skin. The whole process was clearly uncomfortable for Duck, being broadcasted by twisting and turning in bed. But being known as a deep sleeper Duck's body refused to wake up, and that gave Nug the very oppurnity he needed.
Without rush Nug completely bonded to his new found host. The first step had been easy, but the second step into making this bond permanent would be harder. If Nug wished to remain inside the host he had chosen, the duck would first have to accept him.
In the morning, while the other Loonatics were grabbing some breakfast Tech and Rev were busy working in the lab to get the Dragon Ship fixed, although Lexi didn't see what the big rush was all about.
"Why are we working so hard to leave?" said Lexi " we all saw what Weathervane did last night?"
"She claimed she was being controlled by someone called Nug" said Ace " and whoever this guy is I want him to still think we are trying to get back to Planet Blanc as fast as we can, even though we're not,"
"Yeah" said Duck, sarcastically " that's a good plan and all, but we don't even know what this Nug character looks like, never mind the fact why he wants us here?"
"True" said Tech, joining the others at the breakfast table " I've been wondering that same fact myself, so I've been researching about this Nug ever since we found about him from Weathervane,"
" And?" asked Ace.
"Nothing" said Tech " I can't find anything about him in any of the intergalatic databases. It's like he doesn't exsist,"
" More like my race no longer exsists," thought Nug in response to the coyote's statement.
"Who said that?" said Duck, overhearing Nug's thought.
"Who said what?" asked Lexi.
" I thought I heard something" said Duck " are you sure it wasn't one of you?"
" Yes," said Tech.
"Are you alright Duck?" said Ace, frowning in concern.
"Uh...yeah" said Duck, looking confused " maybe it's just the eggs scrambling my brains,"
"To late for that," laughed Lexi. At that, everyone else began to laugh too.
Meanwhile, in the lab, Rev was going over Tech's plans for repairing the Dragon Ship when an alarm started blasting through the tower. Quickly noting the distaster Rev sped on his way to tell the others, nearly knocking over Slam who was coming out of the kitchen from raiding the refrigerator.
"Jail break!" yelled Rev, when he made it to the dining room " Massive's escaped!"
"This can't be a conwicedence" said Ace " my guess is that this Nug has struck again. Come on team, let's jet!"
With that said the Loonatics quickly strapped off in their jet packs, excluding Rev of course, and took off towards the prison. When they made it they were just in time to witness Massive heading straight for the zoo.
"Didn't know you were a fan of animals Doc?" said Ace, once he and his team caught up with the gravity-controling villian.
"Oh I love the zoo" Massive sarcastically replied to Ace's witty retort " the candy, the popcorn, the man-eating beasts,"
With that Massive used his gravity-controlling powers to open up some of the animals cages which included: the tigers, loins, bears, and pre-fossilized dinosuars. Slam dueled off with the bears, Lexi took on the loins, Duck faced off with the tigers, and the others had to tango with the dinosuars.
Being a professional wrestler was one thing on Slam's resume that came in really handy when dealing with a pair of angry bears. Going into Thunder Mode, the tazmanian devil called up a pair of twin tornados in his hands and slammed the beasts back into their cage.
Ace, Rev, and Tech were having a little trouble with the trio of volouso raptors. Tech tried to use his laser restraining leash on one of the creatures, but due to the creature's enormous strentgh, ending up being flung over to Lexi and Duck who were having trouble keeping the loins and tigers at bay.
Duck had summoned up his elemental shield and expanded it to cover Tech, as well as himself and Lexi. But the Elemental Shield had not been tested on how well it could resist animal's claws, and didn't look good on how well it doing during the test.
Animals are not considered an element and Duck had to fight hard just to keep his shield from dropping, as Ace and Rev found themselves surrounded by the trio of volouso raptors. That's when Slam came to the rescue, in his tornado form, and forced all the animals to return to thier cages.
Duck dropped his sheild and glared angrilly at laughing form of Massive up above. Nug sensed the very powerful emotion and intensified it when Duck summoned up one of his power eggs. With Nug's help the power egg increased to twice it's normal size and struck Massive with the explosive force of a mine.
Duck was amazed at how much power he had summoned as Massive fell down to the ground with a loud crash. The other Loonatics were shocked when they stepped over to the gravity-controlling villian to learn that he know lay unconious, and then they all stared at Danger Duck.
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"I don't know what happened" said Tech, when he finished scanning Duck's bio signs the moment they arrived back at the tower " but somehow Duck's cells look like they have been supercharged, which explians why he was able to conjure up so much power into one of his eggs,"
"Maybe it was just anger" said Lexi, sugguestively " he did look pretty frustrated,"
"We'll just have to accept that answer for now" said Ace " but I have a feeling, that the closer we get to Nug, the closer we get to our doom,"
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Meanwhile, in the bathroom, Duck was just drying off from taking a shower when a startling voice ripped through his mind.
" How did it feel to have a real taste of power?"
"Who are you?" asked Duck in his mind.
" I am Nug,"
"Nug? So you're the one who infected Weathervane! Wha..where...how did you get into my head?"
" I have joined with you" Nug explained " I have bonded with you. Granting your most deepest desire, to exceed even Ace,"
"I'm listening, but what's the catch?" said Duck.
" No catch my friend, no catch at all" Nug lied " I can make your dreams of being a leader come true. Will you accept my generous offer?"
Duck thought about it for a moment, thinking of all the time's he had tried to prove himself to be even greater than Ace, and how many times he failed. With Nug's help maybe he could finally change that.
"I accept," said Duck.
"Excellent," thought Nug. The duck had fallen for his trap, Danger Duck's bond with Nug was now and permantly complete.
However when the next battle would come to pass Duck would find himself regretting that decision, for the rest of his life.
