Ch.9: Tech's Cure-All

Together, the combined efforts of both Duck and Ace in their Ascended Forms managed to do some damage agianist Nug. But obivously it wasn't going to be enough. No matter how much damage he had previously taken Nug's liquid silver body quickly healed him.

" This isn't working" said Ace " whatever we throw at him he just takes and heals,"

" Then how can we beat him?" said Duck.

" Fools" said Nug " you shall never beat me. in less than two minutes the eggs will hatch and infect the people of your world. My race will be reborn. And there's nothing you can do to stop it,"

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Meanwhile, at the Loonatics Tower, Tech and Rev were studying the strange silver eggs that had been retrieved from Nug's missle. With time running out Tech found himself in doubt on whether or not he could actually find a cure. Rev was sensing his friend's tension, and quickly thought of a way to resolve it.

Rushing to and from the kitchen in less than a second Rev handed Tech a small glass of water just as the coyote placed one of the silver eggs into a petrie dish. Tech subconiously reached for the drink as Rev handed it to him but failed in his grip and the glass shattered onto the table, with some of it's contents spilling inside the petrie dish.

Both Rev and Tech quickly fumbled to pick up the shattered pieces of glass making Rev tip over a salt shaker that Tech had brought in to test the soduim content of cheese. Some salt also landed in the petrie dish.

"Oh man" said Rev " look at the mess we made,"

Tech was about to respond back with a witty retort when his eyes caught sight on what was happening in the petrie dish. The salt and water concotion was melting the silver egg like a hungry acid. Twevle seconds later the entire egg was gone.

"Salt water" said Tech " so that's how we can destroy Nug. All we have to do is lead him to the ocean,"

"Yeah, but he's so big we may never get him there" said Rev " oh there's another problem too,"

"What's that?" asked Tech.

"That!" yelled Rev.

Tech turned around and saw the cause of Rev's distress, the parasite eggs were hatching. Each one looked like tiny silver vipers with obsidian fangs and bat-like wings. Before Tech and Rev could make a move to stop then the little beasts took to the skies and everyone in Acmetropolis was on their buffet.

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In the middle of town square Nug found himself on the defensive when Slam and Lexi joined the fight to help duck and Ace defeat him. But no matter how many wounds were inflicted on his body it healed just as fast.

Frustrated that his attacks were doing nothing Slam sped around in a tornado and managed to anpitate one of Nug's legs. Losing his balance Nug fell backwards and squashed two buildings with his massive form.

Duck and Ace came in with gold light shining in their palms ready to finish Nug off, but were interupted by the sound of a million screechs piercing through the sky. As the heroes turned around to see just who was coming, Nug took the moment and attached his leg back to his body, then he too looked at the sky and smiled.

"You're to late" Nug said to the Loonatics " my race has been reborn,"

The tiny, silver vipers dived down and attached themselves to the many humans of Acmetropolis. With one bite of their osidian fangs bodies dropped to the ground, lifeless, allowing the parasites to have free reign.

The osidian fangs were a primitive form on how Nug's race used invade their chosen host's form. The posion injected into the body from the fangs killed the host instantly allowing the parasites to reactivate the body so they could you use it or eat the person from the inside out.

Nug had long ago abandoned his primitive ways, even though he still possessed the osidian fangs from his birth, but still he laughed at the torture the humans were going through as if he were taking part in the fun.

Lexi and Slam imediately rushed to help the humans struggling with the parasites, trying hard not to get bitten themselves. Ace and Duck turned their attention to Nug with angry expressions plastered on their face.

"You monster!" they both said at once " you're going to pay for this!"

Together the two rushed at Nug, but once again the liquid-silver, winged wolf deflected their attacks and this time unleashed one of his own pinning Duck and Ace to a building with such force that the golden glow of their Ascended Forms began to disappear.

"Pathetic creatures" said Nug " to think that you ever stand againist me. Acmetropolis has fallen, my race is reborn, and your lives are about to end,"

With that last statement Nug dragged the two heroes close to his mouth, doing something he hadn't done in thousands of years, eating another living being.