Just to reminder that none of the Loonatics have a romantic connection in this story if you think that.
Chapter 4: Rock N Roll
Where: Acmetropolis (duh!)
When: 5 months after the Loonatics found long lost loonatic, Katarina Vester.
"Loonatics," Ace declared, "Let's rock these rocks!"
Dr. Thaddeus Dare, the mad scientist and former geologist had escaped from his rock prison since so many pigeons have pooped on him so much that the acid chemical in them burned through his stone shell. Once free, Dr Dare stole the ancient and power Staff of Earth's Eastern Island Heads for his revenge on Acmetropolis and the Loonatics.
Although Kat had been a Loonatic for months, she was still excited.
Especially once she faced Dr Dare's rock men (that most of the Loonatics seen many times before they met Kat) and supernatural geological disasters controlled by the stolen staff in the middle Acmetropolis!
With all their eyes glowing, each in a different colour, the Loonatics spread out in the small area to stop the stone monsters from attacking the buildings. Ace's eyes blasted out strong beams of explosive light, blowing up the dense giant pebbles and along the way, did some awesome expert martial art moves…after all, what's Ace without his martial arts.
"Hiya!" He cried during one strong karate chop at one of the rock men's arms, slicing it off.
Lexi had her tail covered by brain blasting the rock group with powerful pink energy who kept trying to slam her with their giant fists; they missed every time since she knew where they were coming from by using her super hearing.
"Ha! Brain beat brawn." she slyly and proudly remarked.
Slam was having his fun by smashing most of the army of rock with his bare fists as they spun around him in his own personal tornado.
"Oh, you Loonatics!" Dr Dare screeched through his thick nerdy glasses on his football-like head while on a floating rock board with half his body infused with stone (with glowing green swirls) by the meteor crash, "I'll get my revenge for forcing me into a prison of rock, being constantly pooped by rat birds!"
After Kat zapped one of the monsters and heard Dr Dare's yell, she blurted from the memory of what she heard about him, "Hey! It's not our fault you went insane about rocks, nearly made Acmetropolis into a soil upside down cake and turned yourself into a statue!"
Kat suddenly noticed she was sinking into newly made sand, how could she be so distracted?
"I may like to rock on," Dr Dare laughed insanely, "But sand as always lured me to sink in! Soon enough you'll be a nice tasty and sandy sand witch! Maybe-"
"I swear, if you say one more rock pun! I'll pound your boulder sized head into a mud pie!" Kat growled as she was lowered down, almost sounded like an angry cat's meow.
Dr Dare crazily giggled, "It may not be crystal clear to you can't even reached me anyway!"
Kay couldn't get out, her paws filled with buzzing static electricity her stuck in the sand as well as her whole body, soon enough she'll be sucked in. Until a certain Duck teleported by, pulled her out and teleported metres away.
"Oh, rescued by Duck. How humiliating." she groaned.
Duck yapped on egotistically, "You have got to stop blabbing your big mouth, Kitty. It makes you distracted, unlike me. A true hero must always be silent to be focused, confident that should danger arrives, he's ready to protect the lives-"
Distracted by speaking, he never noticed the giant arm made out of earth forming out of the ground, Duck's words were stopped when the rock hand clutched tightly around him and slammed him like he was a flyswatter.
"You're right, Duck," Kat sarcastically smiled, "I could never be as silent and focused as you are."
Duck had enough of the rock arm beating him up…actually he had enough of it 10 minutes ago. Instantly he teleported in an orange atom flash near the water fountain.
"Hey! Dirt Nails!" Duck called to the arm, he continued on as it turned around, "Yeah! You! How would you feel if you were crushed?"
Duck formed out of the whizzing energy bubbling inside of his hands into orbs of orange power with his eyes matching it. Duck threw several at the arm, but it wouldn't explode. Being near the water fountain gave Duck an idea, he quickly splashed in and dipped his hands (wings or whatever) into the water. An orange glow was seen below the surface.
"Hey! Rock Slob! Wanna arm wrestle!" Duck yelled, "Aqua Dense!"
Most of the water formed into a giant liquid arm with orange rays of fiery light, it wrestled and crushed the rock arm to the ground, mentally controlled by Duck.
"And the awesome action hero saved the day once again!"
Rev sped into a red blur, having the monsters go from building to building, but every time the monsters were close to him, Rev would run off and forced the monsters to crash into the buildings.
"Ha-man-are-you-guys-slow-probably-because-I-have-sonic-speed-or-it's-because-you're-rocks-and-rocks-are-super-heavy-they-would-be-super-slow-have-you-ever-noticed-how-funny-the-word-super-is-if-you-say-it-many-times-like-this-super-super-super-super-super-super-super…" Rev rapidly spoke to the rock monster during them slamming into the building continuously.
Tech was busy fighting off the rock monsters with his green magnetism by levitating a tall metal street light, wrapped some of it around one like a rope and telekinetically swung it around, smashing the surrounding rock monsters with the rock monster at the end.
Lastly, Kat used her natural expert parkour skills combined with her Electric Kinetic Enhancement (that can use electric energy to make her natural cat jumps faster, stronger and higher) to go up in the air from the building to building (not from the top, basically from the middle of the buildings) as she twisted and pounce, she zapped each rock monster with lightning bolts to explode them from existence. During her midair trips she noticed in the reflection of the glass buildings that she looked completely different in her full body suit; the hair on top of her head was the same, but her black fur was covered in material darker than the fur with blue hands, blue linings of the feet, blue belt, blue tail and a blue upside down triangle…you get the idea, blue. Even her facial features looked different; the insides of her ears were now blue, her bright red nose was black and the white fur patch around her mouth was blue. Plus, because of her using her Electric Kinetic Enhancement power, her body and eyes were glowing blue.
I'm a whole new person, thought Kat, And I love it!
Kat's dazing was over when she landed perfectly on her feet with the body glow fading away, she knew she had to stop Dr Dare immediately. Sure, the rest of the team was doing okay, but more and more rock monsters were forming. Kat had to think of a way to stop Dr Dare from controlling rock.
Kat looked up at Dr Dare with his long stolen staff, holding a silver eastern island head on top. The shape and size of the staff gave her an idea.
"Tech!" she called to her good friend many metres away.
The coyote spun around to see Kat calling out to him, "Wrap the staff with metal!"
"Why would I-" In a nanosecond, Tech understood what Kat was planning, "-Oh, I gotcha!"
Tech's eyes and hands began to glow green again, the magnetic energy peeled off the roof of a car, zoomed it over to Dr Dare and wrapped the long wand around with metal.
"Be my guest." Tech offered Kat with a gesture.
One of Kat's paws were sparking with large blue volts of static electricity, after she gathered all the power she needed, Kat zapped a huge powerful lightning bolt at the eastern island head staff. As the new metal absorbed the buzzing voltage, Dr Dare was screaming from being electrified. The nutcase let go of the large wand, lost balance and fell off the floating rock board and landed back first onto the ground. The staff rolled off the board and crashed on the road with a green blast heading towards Dr Dare.
"Not again." Dr Dare moaned right before the blast turned him into a stone statue and before all of the rock monsters melted away into the sewers.
"That was quite a show their, doc." Ace commented to Kat as the other gathered to her.
"Yeah, I would be impressed," Duck grumbled, "If I understood what just happened!"
Tech cleared his voice and rationally explained, "Well, lightning is basically an electric discharge and we all know metal conducts electricity. So Kat had me to envelop the staff with metal, once she struck it with lightning Dr Dare was willing to let go because he was being electrified."
The other Loonatics, except for Rev, were baffled by the explanation of why. Slam even said 'what' in a grumble.
"The short story of this is the staff was the perfect height and width with metal to be a lightning rod." Kat made it clear.
"Why didn't you say the short story before? It would've been a lot better than 'blah blah blah'," Duck scoffed, "I guess it was okay, not as cool as my Aqua Dense on that dirt arm, but it was okay."
Lexi gave an icy glare at Duck and returned to Kat with a kind smile, "What Duck means was that it was pretty smart, how do you know all about that stuff?"
"Yeah-not-as-in-book-smart-or-art-smart-or-street-smart-or-social-smart-or-athletic-smart-if-that's-even-a-smart-or-mechanic-smart-or-puzzle-smart-I-think-what-you-did-before-was-more-of-a-mixture-of-science-smart-and-tactic-smart-if-there-can-really-can-be-a-mixture-how-did-you-know-that-after-all-you-were-only-a-museum-technician-who-never-went-to-school-when-we-met-you-so-how-did-you-know-about-lightning-rods-if-you-never-went-to-school-of course-it-was-a-museum-so-you-could've-learnt-a lot-there-including-"
Tech interrupted Rev before he could go one with what kinds of subjects there are at a museum, "What Rev is trying to say is how do know all of this information if you never went to school? I'm not just talking about electricity. I'm talking about computers, hacking, electronic engineering, martial arts, parkour, acrobatics, driving, cryptology, stealth, languages and science."
Oh boy, they're crowding me about my old old job, half the stuff Tech said I was trained at. Kat nervously thought.
"Let's just say, I picked this stuff up." Kat mysteriously answered, leaving the team with no information of who she really was.
Nearby in the street, two men in black hiding in the shadows watched the cat in blue and black walking away with a rabbit in yellow and black, another rabbit in pink and black, a coyote in green and black, a road runner in red and black, a Tasmanian devil in purple and black, and a duck in orange a black many metres through the high tech binoculars.
"Sir," one of the men spoke into his cufflink, "We found her."