Chapter 7: Short Endings

Tech's day was full of surprises, not only did he and the Loonatics found out Kat used to be a secret agent, but the culprits got away in the explosion and they have to find them before it's too late. He watched every move on his portable super computer of the surveillance footage from Area 55, while in the lounge room of HQ. Despite his superior intelligence, he couldn't find a single clue that would lead to their next destination. Kat was no help at all, she was behind him and the sofa, attaching a coconut cream pie to the left side of the horizontal plank of wood with one spinable metal flap and string tried to it near the doorway. Obviously planning another prank on one of her teammates because of her upset emotions towards of losing Nigel's goons, like many of her pranks…they end in disaster.

"Kat, focus. Who knows how much further the goons have gone by now." Tech firmly insisted.

"Not now, T. He's going to come through the doorway at any second now," Kat whispered with her claw up to her lips, "Once I pull the wood back with the string and release it, it will fling the pie in the target's face when he walks through."

Lexi's supersensitive heard a cat meowing a plot and entered into the lounge room through the other way. As she noticed Kat with the pie, the wood and string, she put all the scheme's pieces together and realised what she was up to.

She tried to make Kat focus, "They're your enemies, Kat. You need to stop pranking and start helping your team."

"I'm planning this prank on Duck." Kat flatly added and held the string tightly.

"Okay, fire away." Lexi changed her mind quickly.

"Katarina! You ate the last fruit pop! I need flavored ice before beauty sleep!" Duck yelled as he walked through the doorway.

Kat was so distracted by the fact that Duck used her full name, that she didn't pull the string, Duck walked past and no pie went in his face.

But Kat was so mad, she screamed, "It's not Katarina! It's Kat! K-A-T!"

Such gigantic anger inside a little girl, Tech's thought echoed.

And at the 'T', she tugged the string strongly, the wood plank spun around, rushed forward into Kat, leaving her with a pie in the face. Taking the pie's tin dish off didn't change a thing, Kat's facial fur was covered with cream, filling and crust.

Lexi knew why Kat was playing pranks, so she tried to cheer her up, "Kat, why don't we have a girl's-night-in at my room. We can have make-overs, try on each other's clothes and do each other's hair!"

"No, no and barf." Kat gagged on bits of her pie from her face.

To Lexi, Kat was okay, but she doesn't like anything she likes; the latest clothes, high heels, pink, skirts. Which was disappointing: after all, she spent almost two years working with boys. She certainly didn't want a girl who acts like a boy as an addition. It wasn't long before Ace, Slam and Rev raced in the lounge room.

"Hey, Tech. Found anything yet?" Ace asked curiously and leaned over the sofa to see the super computer's screen.

"No, chief. So far, I couldn't spot anything that would be a location." Tech disappointedly answered.

Ace turned his head around and saw Kat's face covered with pie, "Why do you-"

"Don't ask." Kat muttered as she pulled out a handkerchief and wiped her face.

Before she could wipe all the pie off, Rev whooshed over, dipped a feather into some of it and swiftly slid it into his beak.

The taste caused his buzzing yapping, "Mmm-coconut-although-I'm-not-quite-sure-you-didn't-use-banana cream-or-apple-or-cherry-or-plum-if-there-is-plum-wouldn't-it-be-cool-if-there-was-plum-flavoured-pie-I-love-plum-everything-plum-juice-plum-cake-plum-muffins-basically-plum-everything-maybe-next-time-I-cook-I-shall-make-plum-pie-but-first-I-need-to-learn-how-to-cook."

Once Kat's face was pie free, Ace asked her, "Kitty, who was that Valerie chick?"

"Valerie Venom was the S.I.D.'s best assassin and my combat trainer for a few weeks. While I quit for the right reasons, she quit for the wrong reasons. Val switched sides; she became a freelance assassin and got hired by most villains, which would explain why I fought her so many times." Kat explained with the memories of her fights with Valerie rushing through her head.

It wasn't long before Kat noticed a piece of pine tied to string around Duck's neck, "Duck, where did you get that?"

"I found this pine of the floor of Area 55 before that knife throwing psycho and her ninjas jumped away. I made it into a medallion to show the ladies I'm eco friendly." Duck smiled and showed off his souvenir.

"Eco friendly? You purposely throw your garbage on the park." Lexi scoffed.

Tech snatched Duck's pine necklace off and sniffed the little green object, "Duck, you've just found our clue. This little bit of pine has traces of melted snow and the only place on this planet which has snow is Acme-Mountains."

"A little ski trip, eh," Ace declared, "Lets jet."

The mention of snow shivered Kat's nerves in fear, snow is frozen water and as we all know…cats hate water.

Hours of flying in their sky transport later, the Loonatics were on top of a mountain covered from top to bottom with white frozen mush, radiating in the clear blue cold sky like a diamond in the rough. They were all dressed in warm winter clothes similar to their black and chosen colour suits, whist strapping in skis and holding skiing poles. Kat looked down from above in fear, not the fear of heights, but fear of embarrassment when the team will see her clumsiness in skiing.

"Looks like you're correct, Tech. I heard Valerie, Tweetdumb, Rapid, the ninjas and an old man's voice down at the bottom of the slop, must be a secret lair." Lexi said as her superhearing activated with glowing pinks hoops hovering around her ears, matching her glowing eyes.

"Aren't I always correct?" Tech confidentially smiled.

Slam excitedly grumbled as they all skied down the mountain with such ease and no effort…almost all. Kat was unbalanced on her skis as she went down, she kept switching back and forth on the right ski to the left, she uncoordinatedly swayed down the hill and it wasn't until two minutes later she tripped and rolled down the frosty hill as a giant snowball. By the time the rest of the Loonatics skid to a stop at the bottom, Kat the snow ball crashed into a pine tree. The noise caused ninjas to bounce out of their hiding places and hold each Loonatic in place.

"Nice going, thumb sucker." Duck sarcastically groaned at Kat before the ninjas knocked them out into darkness.

"Wakey, wakey, rise and shine." Hissed a very deep and devious voice that shivers your spine into an icicle, making a friendly idiom sound so deadly.

The Loonatics awoken to the voice and saw its owner surrounded by the goons, the ninjas and Valerie, he was a tall old man with his body thin enough to see bone, skin as pale as his wintery hair and his face was completely scared.

"Nigel Banks." Kat whispered at the sight of one of many enemies she knew she would see again, but still surprised.

Nigel's devilish smile more frightening than a murderous scowl came through, "I'm so glad your new 'superhero' life hasn't faded your memories of me away."

"I wish they would." She grumbled.

"You shouldn't back sass me while you're in here."

The Loonatics looked around and they round themselves in chains on the round wall of the circular room with a huge rocket ship above with the lethal thrusters aiming towards the team. On top of the rocket was a laser like machine combined with the right inventions…including the Electro-Sphere and the Sonic-wave Blaster 3000.

"You must be confused of what my plan is, allow me to explain-" Nigel began.

But he was interrupted by the chained coyote, "No, allow me to explain. You're going to send the machine as well as the rocket and you to the moon so you can be safe from blast that will destroy Acmetropolis unless the mayor gives you her position and let you be the new leader."

"Clever dog," Nigel sniggered, "I will it so, for my name is Nigel Banks!"

"Even though Nigel is your middle name." Kat giggled.

All the Loonatics stared at Kat in awe, curious to know what Nigel's first name is, Kat continued on laughing, "It's Leslie."

"Leslie! A girl's name for a hundred year old dude!" Duck hysterically laughed.

"That's it! Start the rocket as soon as we get out!" Nigel/Leslie shouted as he turned around to Rapid, not seeing Duck teleporting out of his chains and melting all the Loonatic's chains with his orbs.

Instantly, the Loonatics defended themselves from the enemies with their powers. Ace shot laser beams from his eyes at the ninjas with force pushing them back; Lexi did the same with her brain blast. Duck forced the ninjas back by throwing his orange energy orbs, getting them by surprise with his teleporting. Slam was in a battle with Tweetdumb, spinning him around with his powerful purple tornado. Rev ran as fast as he could to catch the speedy Rapid Gonzales. Tech controlled the metal chains to capture some of the ninjas. And Kat was busy in martial art conflict with the guard of the doomsday device; Valerie. In no time, Kat brought her down with a strong electric shock and zapped the rocket with a huge electromagnet pulse, sending it into a huge explosion like a daytime firework.

"NNNOOO!" screamed Leslie, squatting down on his knees.

"You may have a chance with Agent Panther, but who had no luck with the Loonatics." Kat slyly grinned as all the Loonatics glared down at the unconscious ninjas and goons on floor, waiting for them to be ready for jail. Who knows what would've happened if Kat's new, first and only friends weren't there for her.

The End (I made it short to make time for my next story)

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