Another chapter! :)
I have to admit that I had a lot of fun writing this chapter. But I have to ask all of you for a huge favor... Don't hate Ace or Duck because of how they are here, or don't hate me for making them like that... hehehehe ^^
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Also if you follow me on DA you'll know that I always try to relate most of my projects with music, so that explains why in most of my chapters if not all there will be lyrics at the end.
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It's been half an hour since the team has been flying their way towards Jake's house, and they still had a bit of time left until their arrival. Surprisingly the team has been quiet during the flight. Until the team's leader decided to break the silence.
"So um… Tech what do we know about this guy? Any important info or hobbies that he's into, or i don't know any of his personal info that might give us some kind of hint on him and his little disappearing act?"
"Well, Rev can pull up his full biography if you want. I personally don't know anything about him, just that he's an actor and he's going to star in a big screen movie sometime next year, which by the way they are still filming" Tech said while looking up the basic info on his data pod.
"Rev…?" Asked the bunny, knowing that the roadrunner knows how to take a hint that indicated him to start searching.
"Looking-looking-looking-and-found!-Jake!-Jacob-Allan-Rabbit-but-he-prefers-to-be-called-Jake-that's-his-artistic-name-he's-28-years-old-born-and-raised-in-Acme-London-but-he's-half-british-in-real-life-he-has-a-british-accent-even-though-we-always-hear-him-with-an-american-accent-on-tv-has-starred-in-18-famous-soap-operas-took-interest-in-acting-during-highschool-moved-to-Acmetropolis-after-graduating-from-acting-school-because-he-was-offered-a-role-in-his-first-soap-opera-"Seeking-Truth"-Ohh-my-mom-used-to-watch-that-one-she-was-always-crying!-he-got-offered-the-role-because-he-made-the-entire-audience-cry-at-his-last-play-in-acting-school-that-" Tech held the roadrunner's beak, and gave him an annoying and threatening glare. "Ok maybe I shouldn't have meant the entire biography!" Growled the coyote to the roadrunner as he let go of his beak, hoping not to regret his decision.
Rev cleared his throat and gave the coyote an annoyed glare, then turned his gaze back to the screen, and read in silence for a couple of seconds before he spoke again. "Hmmm-he's-been-named-Acmetropolis-bachelor-of-the-year-for-three-years-in-a-row-now-is-that-something-concerning?-Maybe-he-got-kidnapped-by-fangirls?hehehehe" Rev suggested and laughed nervously.
Ace glanced at the roadrunner and pondered at the possibilities of such thing happening, then he shook his head. "No no no, Zadavia said there's no evidence of anyone breaking into his house, it's just weird that he just vanished just like that, he has cameras around his whole house, wouldn't the police noticed if someone kidnapped him? And then she mentioned his butler also went missing…" The bunny pondered more of the possibility that the butler somehow had something to do with this, but was interrupted from his thoughts as Duck decided to barge in with some of his non sense talk.
"Another reason why he's my hero! He's been named bachelor of the year for 3 years in a row! Can you believe that? He beat you Ace, in fact he took your place! He has all the girls falling down to his toes… It's like he's a walking girl orgasm! I need to meet him, this guy needs to give me pointers ASAP!" Said Duck while fantasizing about his "bro-mance" with Jake.
It's true, during the team's first year Ace earned a lot of awards and titles, one of them being named Acmetropolis Bachelor of the year, making him one of the most desirable single guy in the city, and making every cover of magazines the city had. Him being an anthro made it even rare that he got such title, but him having super powers, always saving the city and leading a team that made that happen, not to mention the fact that there's something about a guy in uniform that's such a panty dropper for all the ladies… Yeah he earned the title. But Ace didn't really care about things like that, sure he accepted awards all the time but they were never really that important to him even though he did earned them, to him he was nothing without his teammates. So whenever he earned something, he thought his earnings are his team's as they are his.
"Uh… Duck first of all FOCUS on what's important here! A guy is missing and all your thinking about is getting pointers about how to get girls? We don't even know if this guy is in the city, let alone alive! Second I could care less if he's now bachelor of the year, I didn't even knew I made bachelor of the year" Ace responded to Duck in an attempt to bring the mallard to reality and out of Jake-Land.
Duck gasped surprised at Ace's response and assumption of the actor being dead. "DEAD?! He can't be dead! How will I know-"
"I'm not even done here Duck! Third, and this goes for everyone else in the team as well!" He sighed his eyes filled with frustration and thought for a brief second, before he let his next words exit his mouth. "Since I've been trying to make our teamwork a better environment and not to mention make it safer for others around us, I've been wanting to make the decision of us not getting involved friendly AND romantically with anyone for the time being!" Informed the bunny with his usual authority tone, yet you could also sense something else in his tone… Barely there but it was… Worry. Maybe regretting his last statement, or fear of his teammates not agreeing. But his mind was made up, and he just hoped for them to back him up and comply with such rule.
Everyone glanced at Ace at once! Mostly in shock by the words that just came out of their leader. Sure being a hero meant that everyone had to take precautions with anyone they met outside of the team, friendship or not. You don't want anyone to become an easy target. But prohibiting to make new friends or get involved romantically with anyone in general was a bit out of line and it seems the rest of the team agreed on it. Though Duck and Lexi seemed the most shocked and hurt by their leader's decision. Both of their jaws dropped, in disappointment.
"WHAT!?" Both Duck and Lexi exclaimed in unison, they both looked at each other thinking the same thing! "What the hell?"
Ace changed his expression to a determined look, he suddenly became even more determined of his decision. "I've made my decision guys, I've also talked it over with Zadavia a couple of days ago and she advised that if I thought that it was for the best than to go through with it."
"You can't do that!" Exclaimed Lexi with disappointment all written in her face. Ace glanced at her in fear of finding the one thing he did saw in her, disappointment. He simply frowned and turned back to his front view watching his way as he piloted their ship. He did feel bad that Lexi didn't back him up on this, she was his best friend and second in command, so disappointment also caught him when it came to his second in command's response. Tech, Rev and Slam remained quiet, but still disappointed at their leader.
"Lexi out of all… I thought you would back me up on this, but we'll talk about it when we're done with this mission, we don't really have time to talk deeply about this." Advised Ace to his second in command. Lexi simply stared in shock wondering what on earth has gotten into him, she really wanted to get to the bottom of his sudden bitter behavior.
Duck gave Ace a sarcastic laugh "Well I sure have time to talk about this Ace, you can't do this! You can't control who we meet and get involved with! Just because you had a bad blind date three weeks ago doesn't mean you have to forbid us from finding our one and true love!" And with that EVERYONE glanced at Ace in shock of the news that he went on a date without letting the others know. Ace's eyes widened in fear, he nervously glanced at Duck in hopes that the mallard didn't reveal anything else with his sudden outburst. He literally didn't see that one coming and he sure wasn't ready for more.
Out of all Lexi was the most in shock at the recent discovery. "You-you went on a date?" Asked a very hurt Lexi. Ace turned his gaze towards her and looked down in shame, this is what he was fearing the most.
"I- I did, but this had nothing to do with my decision Duck!" Ace started to sound regretful at first but then remembered the reason of why she knows of this and his tone changed to a more enraged one as he responded to both Lexi and Duck.
"Why didn't you tell me? aren't I suppose to be your best friend? If I went on a date I would've let you know because I trust you to that level Ace! You know everything about me, I don't keep things from you!" Expressed Lexi, usually she would've preferred to tell him this in private but her anger blurred the fact that she was surrounded by the rest of her teammates.
"Nothing happened Lexi! So I think it doesn't really matter!" Responded a very annoyed and embarrassed Ace really wanting to drop the subject.
"It matters to me Ace, now I feel like you don't trust me enough to tell me these sort of things!"
Besides the drama that was currently haunting the bunnies, a smirk grew in Duck's face. He got Ace, he didn't really know at first what it meant to carry such valuable information from the male bunny, and when he blurted out the information he didn't really do it with the purpose of hurting him or harming his friendship with Lexi, but he did, and he did like the drama that it brought, it kind of reminded him of the soap operas he so enjoyed watching, it amused him in a sickly way. So he decided to continue with his game, as sickly and wrong as it was, for vengeance of Ace's sudden and toxic decision.
"Oh nothing did happen Lexi, I begged Ace to go out with this adorable red haired bunny… What was her name again Ace? Jen? Jill? It was something with a J! You see she's best friend and roommate with Mel, the girl I was going out with, and Mel wanted to have some alone time with me… and well we had to get her out of the apartment somehow! So I hooked her up with Ace, which HE agreed to go by the way! Anyways they went to dinner, and apparently the girl was a little too straight forward for Ace's taste she was-" Duck was cut off from his amazing tale of Ace's date.
"That's enough Duck!" Demanded an enraged Ace. Ace knew where he was going with this, and he couldn't believe that the mallard was actually spilling the beans on him like that. He had a bad date, a date that went completely wrong, a date that he shouldn't have agreed to go in the first place. Yet he did, and it happened, though there's nothing he could do to change that, he still wanted to forget it, and clearly that wasn't in Duck's book.
"Ok! You just stood up and left! The girl walked to the apartment as a crying wreck! Which meant MEL and I didn't get our alone time! She wanted to tell Mel all about her horrible date experience and how Ace didn't want to give in! And when I got to HQ you were already gone again with Lexi getting some ice cream! I never got the chance to thank you for ruining my date!" Duck said as he frowned at Ace knowing that somehow that ending would hurt the bunny even worse.
Ace wanted to strangle Duck for his abrupt words, that was only for him and Duck to keep to themselves, not for the whole team to know. They'd agreed on it.
Rev opened his beak as if to say something about the subject, but was simply cut off by Tech's hand and murmur… "Don't say anything, don't get involved…"
Lexi was just completely hurt and dumbfounded, she felt betrayed by her best friend, how dare he keep this from her? She then remembered Duck's words, and the fact that he mentioned her and Ace in his little outcome.
"You were with me after your date? and you didn't tell me? I- I can't believe you out of everyone would lie to me like that! Me!" Tears threaten to fall from her now, as her eyes glittered, her throat tighten. But she held back, she had to, she has to be strong about this, and not let him break her, not now, not in front of the team.
"I didn't lie to you Lexi, I just never told you!" Said Ace trying to sound convincing, but it was simply not working.
Duck sighed at all the drama he caused yet wanting more, he knew how to get to the girl. "Yeah, and why are you so worked up about this Lex? Last time I checked Ace wasn't your boyfriend or anything like that, he's just your BFF! so I don't know why you're getting so jealous over all of this"
"I am not jealous Duck! That's not the point! I could care less if he went on a date with all of Acmetropolis, the point is that he kept it from me! I wouldn't do that to him! Friends or BFF's as you call it don't do that from each other!" Responded a very annoyed Lexi at Duck.
Ace now turned to face both Duck and Lexi, this has gotten too far in general and it needed to stop! "Listen Lexi, let's not talk about this now ok!? This is the exact reason of why I didn't want to talk to you earlier, anything else you have to say I suggest you keep it to yourself until we're done with today and head back to HQ!" He really felt bad for hurting his best friend by keeping her from such thing, but they had a mission to worry about now.
"Yeah well I guess it's a little too late for that now…" mumbled the female bunny, Ace heard her words clearly but decided to let it go and get to his next target.
"And Duck, haven't you disrespected me enough today? You and I are gonna have a looooong talk when we get back home! How dare you talk about my personal life like that in front of the whole team? I would-"
"Uhhh… Chief! Ace? CHIEF!" Ace was interrupted by a concerned Tech.
"WHAT TECH?" yelled the annoyed bunny.
"Sorry about interrupting, but you just passed Jake's house."
Ace cocked an eyebrow to the coyote but turned away from him and stared at his current location, taking notice that the coyote was right. And with that the bunny growled under his breath in frustration and turned the ship around in such an abrupt way that even though the rest of the team was strapped with their seat belts they felt the need to hold on. Yeah Ace was pissed, and then they roughly landed on Jake's personal landing terminal.
END OF CHAPTER 2
"I Feel So"
Sometimes
I wish I was brave
I wish I was stronger
I wish I could feel no pain
I wish I was young
I wish I was shy
I wish I was honest
I wish I was you not I
'Cause
I feel so mad
I feel so angry
I feel so callous
So lost, confused, again
I feel so cheap
So used, unfaithful
Let's start over
Let's start over
Sometimes
I wish I was smart
I wish I made cures for
How people are
I wish I had power
I wish I could lead
I wish I could change the world
For you and me
'Cause
I feel so mad
I feel so angry
I feel so callous
So lost, confused, again
I feel so cheap
So used, unfaithful
Let's start over
Let's start over
'Cause
I feel so mad
I feel so angry
I feel so callous
So lost, confused, again
I feel so cheap
So used, unfaithful
Let's start over
Let's start over
I feel so mad
I feel so angry
I feel so callous
So lost, confused, again
I feel so cheap
So used, unfaithful
Let's start over
Let's start over
Let's start over
Song by Box Car Racer