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Chapter 3:
The more things change the more they all stay the same
"Man have I missed this." Peter said as he stood on top of the sphere that was located on the spire. It has been a total of four weeks since he put on the costume and is now relaxing. 'These guys aren't half bad; now that I'm done feeling sorry for myself.' He thought and recalled the things that he went through since then:
"Come on Slam another fifty." Peter said to the fuzziest hero who was currently trying to bench 300 or so pounds. The web-slinger often one of two things with the Tasmanian the first was bench with him to see who was stronger and the second was being his spot man. "Maybe doing 300 is a bit too easy for you let's try to add some pressure." Parker said to him and put his finger on the center of the bar and pressed down. He often tested Slam's strength by indirectly testing it with his own.
"Hey Pete, how is this for a Super Hero name: the Duckinator." Duck asked after spotting him in the hall way aimlessly walking about. The former photographer thought of an answer for a split second before saying.
"Let me guess, you are still trying to come up with a new name instead of the one Zadavia gave you." He easily surmised what the mallard had in mind which he countered with.
"'Danger Duck' really doesn't explain me you know, but I think Duckinator does." The modified human only could shake his head before giving off a traditional Spider-Man answer.
"Hate to disappoint you Duck, but there is a guy in my dimension with a similar name and you can't really get away with that name unless you use a really deep Austrian accent. How about you try this: grab an old yet stylish hat paint it orange and call yourself 'Darkwing Duck'." Duck immediately had to object to that.
"No way that is a lame name." With that said both of them went on their way. Tech: nothing different their just two eggheads working on schematics for a fancy vacuum. Rev on the other hand, well lets just say that he learned of a new term for speed trap thanks to some super strong webbing.
"Come on Peter can you let me go. All you have to do is use is that solvent." Rev pleaded as he ran in place, but the newly designated nut job of the team only swayed an empty bottle.
"Sorry Rev, but I am fresh out, and it will take a good week to make more. Don't worry it will wear off in about an hour or so." Peter said before walking away. Ace that was a little bit different then how they normally were with one another.
"So you're saying that there is a sword swinging rabbit back where you came from." Ace wanted to know more of this rabbit that wore a samurai outfit. Peter nodded and answered with a bit more detail.
"Pretty much, but he usually stays in his own dimension." That comment did make a lot of sense. That is what most of their conversations were about Usagi Miyamoto and what he was capable of. The final one was the one that wanted him gone in the first place, but now she was not too sure.
"Come on Pete, try to keep up." The agile rabbit stated with a playful smirk as she took the lead in this training session. The two of them mainly showed off who was faster in training simulations that were specifically designed for it. At some points they are tied until… "You might want to duck bug-boy." Lexi taunted only to be ignored.
"Not this time." Spider commented back, but he was soon corrected when his face slammed into a bull's eye.
"At least you got one, Pete." She said with a slight chuckle and they finished with Lexi winning by an ear. "Guess I won again, Spidey." She said to the hero who was still rubbing his face. Nothing was broken, it just hurt is all.
"Don't pat yourself on the back. I would have won if I had those beautiful ears attached to my head." He told her not really paying attention to the last part that he used. At first she thought that it may have been using one of his bad jokes, but she could tell that he was being sincere.
"What did you say, Peter Parker?" She asked, wanting to make sure that she wasn't hearing things. By now he was done rubbing his face so he answered her question.
"You're supposed to be the one with super sensitive hearing I said that I would have won if I had those…beau-ti-ful…ears." It was then of what was said so he immediately decided to make something up before something else happened. "Oh, would you look at the time I better make some web-fluid. So if you don't mind bye!" He said to her and raced down that corridor and into an air duct.
'I know what he said, but did he mean it.' Lexi thought before adding to her thought. 'Back when I went to school, these things kept getting in the way.' She finally decided to forget of what he said and move on. That sums up of what has happened to him after he put on the mask back on.
"That sunrise was great, but now I think I'll head inside before the others wake up." He thought aloud as he headed back inside. As he was on the homestretch to his room until a thought came to be, 'I really hope that Lexi has forgotten about that statement, if she hasn't then Ace is going to be mad.' He made it to his room, which was still empty, and went to sleep for a few more hours.
"Yuck. This pizza's cold. Where did you get it: Iceland?" Complained Tech as he bit into a piece of pizza made of snow. The speedster of the group of heroes kept on dashing to the left and the right of the coyote answering him in that usual fast pace sense.
"Actually; no. I got it at the pizza joint downtown which I have to admit is a little bit cold for this time of year. If you truly like the pie in Iceland I can be there in 3.5 seconds; of course that is an estimate because you don't know about traffic." His long sentence was cut short when the canine shoved the piece of pie into the roadrunner's mouth.
"That was one of those questions that didn't require an answer." The genies said as he began tapping the ice disk before he turned to the leader who was meditating on a pillow. "Hey Ace…" Tech lingered on that note for a while showing the meditative rabbit the frozen food. The rabbit merely smirked as he cracked one of his eyes and said to the machine expert of the team.
"On it Tech." He replied calmly and showed off some of his heat beam ability. As the smoke cleared from the box the pizza looked normal with a sigh the brainiac of the team said with pleasure.
"Extra crispy. Pizza Duck?" He questioned turning to the mallard who was flexing in what seemed to be a mirror while wearing a bath towel. The orange creature only scoffed at the gesture.
"Are you kidding? I already had my protein shake and you can't be flabby when you're the 'Duckinator.'" The rabbit had to interrupt of what his self-absorbed friend said about himself.
"Yesterday, you were calling yourself: Super Duper Duck." The duck was still admiring himself as he told the swords-rabbit.
"That one didn't really roll off the tongue; besides I need a name that will fit on the costume." The rabbit had an excellent comment to help his friend with his name searching.
"Hey, how `bout 'Duck.'" That statement earned Ace a drained look from the duck.
"Very droll." As this conversation was going on Tech was trying to pick out the right piece to start on. As soon as he had the right piece to start eating it was yanked away from him by a familiar web-line belonging to the arachnid based hero.
"I thought you were asleep." The scientist said as he saw the red and blue arm from the couch the only answer the comical member could think of.
"I am, don't bother me." Tech let his anger pass and began eating another piece of pie, but as soon as he was eating this one the door opened.
"Hey, Tech, did you order more then one pie?" The question came from Lexi who took off a pair of headphones after dancing a little bit. Once he took another a little bite he answered and countered her.
"No, why?" He asked with some of the cheddar cheese dripping from his muzzle. By now Peter has sat up from his lying position and that is when the female hare answered him.
"Because, Slam is in the house." As soon as she said that the door opened up revealing smoke and when that was settled a snow covered Tasmanian stood there shivering. Immediately Peter had to use his sense of humor that the others have yet to understand.
"Ahh! It's the Yeti someone call for help!? Wait, we are the help." The others could only stare at him awkwardly. Just as soon as they were about to ask what he was talking about a hologram of Zadavia appeared and with her arrival she said to the group of seven.
"Loonatics, we have a problem." She said simply, their leader was done with his meditation and walked over to the window. After he rubbed some frost he saw the problem himself.
"You got that right, Zadavia. I say we have a serious problem." Peter on the other hand had to use his comedic talent in the worst moment.
"How bad could it be?" He questioned before looking through the same circle Ace made and added. "Oh, it's that bad." They all went over to the main communication room to learn more about this strange event. Spider sat in between the rabbits and prepared to listen to the bad news.
"What's up, Zadavia? Certainly not the temperature." Ace started off. Spider thought that his comment wasn't half bad almost up to his standards.
"So far no one can figure out where this iceberg came from I don't have to tell you what will happen if the temperature keeps dropping" The blonde woman said to them with one of the monitors showing a rather large ice cube in the middle of the city. This was another shot for Peter to open his big mouth.
"Yeah, all of the clothes store will have a huge clearance sale on summer and spring clothes." All of them groaned at his joke; all but duck who said to the spider.
"No, it means were going to lose cable again." By now Zadavia decided to step in before Peter had another outburst.
"Ok, maybe I do have to tell you two." Duck seemed to have taken that as an insult with a surprise look on his face, the arachnid was not so fortunate. He received a 'serves you right' look from Lexi. "The entire planet could be facing a new Ice Age." She said in an always serious manner.
"Oh, great those winter sweaters make me look chubbo." Lexi said with a groan. Peter, who was now wearing his mask and looked over to his teammate, he had a fiendish smirk hidden under that cloth.
"And here I thought you could wear anything. Just goes to show that even a spider can be wrong." That statement from the spider creature angered her a little bit, but she didn't Brain Blast him. Instead she elbowed him in the ribs and said back to him in a low tone.
"I can pull their look off, I just hate the fact that they make me look like I gained 600 pounds." Right when the wall-crawler was about to say something the holographic woman started it off again.
"When the meteor hit your Super Powers weren't the only thing that happened. This iceberg could be related." As soon as she said that Ace said back to her with a bit of confidence.
"I think we can handle one little iceberg." She of course had to add to the pressure of the seven by saying.
"All of Acmetropolis is counting on you to handle this; Zadavia out." With that said the hologram ended. The pink furred one did bring up an interesting question once she was gone.
"When she does go out where do you think she goes: the movies?" Normally, Peter would have said something, but his ribs were still sore from that elbow attack. Their leader had a different thing to say to the others.
"Tech, we're going to need some toys to melt this ice cube." Being a semi genius the wall-crawler knew that the coyote would take offense to that, and he did as he voiced his opinion.
"Excuse me chief, their not toys. They are precision hand crafted alloy instruments." The rabbit that was their leader made a small joke about that.
"We'll take those two, but first the toys!" He said with a little pleasure in his voice. All of them got up from the table and all headed over to the genius' lab. Once there he handed all of the others a device no bigger than a bottle cap. While the others began looking at them Peter was thinking of something different.
'I really hope that Slam doesn't eat…whatever these things are.' Still curious of what Tech had in mind, luckily he enjoyed explaining about his new inventions.
"I present the Retro-fire master blaster. Hold it in the palm of your hand squeeze twice." He did not need to go any further as Rev did so and that small disk turned into a gun that consumed the entire lower arm. The others instantly liked this invention Peter thought of only one thing.
'If this super hero thing doesn't work out Tech defiantly could invent guns for the Golden Eye games.' He was about to voice his opinion until he heard the strength of the team accidentally stepped on his. He activated it and just like that he began to spin around the lab with the blaster acting as a rocket.
"Uncurl your toes, uncurl your toes." Tech ordered, Slam did so and landed on a wall. He smiled as he held his device up. Lexi walked over to Ace and said to him and stated with a grin.
"Ya gotta love the toys." Ace who also had a smile on his face said to the team.
"Time to crush some ice. Let's jet." With that said all of them headed out, but naturally Spider-Man had to say one of his comments.
"Actually Ace, I'm more partial to cubed ice." The yellow hare just groaned and said to the spider.
"Let's get going." He mock saluted and followed after them. They all went to the hanger to get some better air. Rev already having the ability of flight didn't need the jetpacks located in the back. The others took there, but when Peter went to grab his but, there wasn't one.
'Nice of you to keep a fellow Science geek in the loop, Tech.' He thought as he watched them fly off. Not having any other idea in his noggin he ran through the triangle shaped hole and… web-swung. Being an expert of that mode of transport it did not take him long to meet up with them. They were all a little ways off so he had time to hassle the canine whiz kid. "It was nice of you to think of me Tech when you were making those packs."
"Sorry, Peter, I had other ideas on my mind." That was the only thing he could think of as an apology. The web-head knew that it was true, but there was one last thing he should tell them.
"Not to sound mean guys, but as long as we're in public I would I appreciate it greatly if you do not call me that. That is why I wear a mask." The others could tell that he was being serious so they nodded. Rev saw their target quickly coming into view so he had to say something about it.
"Would you look at the size of that thing? That has to be the largest iceberg in the world and I've seen some doseys." As he continued to babble he wasn't watching so their leader gave him a hand.
"Rev, watch where your talking." The roadrunner turned and saw the wall of ice fast approaching so he immediately ascended and rejoined the others who were flying in place; all but Spider-Man who was sticking to a building next to them. As Peter tried to ignore the cold snow on his finger tips he heard Tech ask the others.
"Alright, what whiz guy moved Mt. Everest?" Since none of them had any idea how to answer that well one of them did.
"Not really sure but it's either a fun loving mayor or angry ice cube people." All of them were thinking maybe it was better if they had doom and glom Peter. Ace paid no head as he said to all of them.
"Snow cones for everyone. Set blasters on thaw." All of them fired their blasters at the chunk sitting before them. There was absolutely no change in that chunk of frozen water.
'Maybe Rev was right, maybe Tech should have put more juice in these things.' Peter thought as he kept firing, but he decided to say something. "I don't know how the bergs are around here but back home when you have seven blasters focused on an unfinished ice-sculpture it usually starts melting even a little bit." Ace had to agree with what he said.
"He's right, no dice. Cease fire, cease fire." All of them did as he commanded and stopped firing. Tech unfortunately did not like this outcome as he spoke in disbelief.
"How could my Retro-fire master blasters not work?" Always able to cheer up the team the rabbit said to the coyote.
"No worries Tech, there's still plane 'B'." They all landed onto the ground including Spider-Man even though he did it in a showboat fashion. "Finished?" The rabbit asked once the red and blue member arrived. He nodded as an answer. "Good, then your on Slam, buddy." He received no complaining from the big guy as he sped to the top of that mountain of ice and began to spin at an accelerated speed. As the temperature began to rise and the ice melted Ace said to the others, "What did this guy have for breakfast?"
"Not sure, but what ever it was I am filing it under 'must avoid'." Spidey said to them which he actually received a smile from some of them. After watching Slam spin Duck decided to attempt something so he could be the center of attention.
"Glorified zambonie, chipping ice isn't a super power; quacking is a super power: observe." He tried to demonstrate his porting power, but he ported himself into the ice cube. "You can stop observing now." He said to them embarrassingly. After one Slam spin duck was sent free and landed head first into one of the puddles cause by the melting process. The all watched the temperature go from the negative back to the hundreds.
"Good guys one; Mother Nature nothin`." Ace said with pride. Slam was catching his breath, but he was grateful as well. Peter looked over to the transport member and said to him.
"You looked good under ice, now if we can try under glass." The mallard looked at him with a deadpan look and replied back to him.
"Hardy har." Unfortunately using her super human hearing Lexi had to spoil their good moods.
"Hold on Ace. Mother Nature may be done, but I'm picking something up." Trying to be funny Duck said to her.
"Perhaps, a high pitched dog whistle." Not wanting to be outclassed Peter decided to say something as well.
"Naw, I'm betting she's hearing someone getting done eating a 16 bean burrito. I heard that those are murder in the bathroom." Before someone could retort to what he said the small chunk of ice began to crack on its own. From it emerged a steel Viking ship. "Then again I could be wrong." Peter said as he looked at the strange out of date vessel. Under the figure head a door opened and out jumped seven metallic Vikings.
"Boy are you guys lost." Ace said to the new arrivals, but Peter had something different to say to the yellow rabbit.
"I thought there was supposed to be a costume party next week. Maybe these guys just wanted to avoid the traffic in getting here." The animals could not believe that he was making bad jokes about someone twice his size. Now they knew why he had those blemishes, just so the villains had some time away from his mouth.
"What up doc?" Ace said to the leader of the tin cans. The creature in the white and blue armor with red eyes spoke to the seven.
"I am Gonna." Naturally their leader had to antagonize him.
"Gonna what? Gonna go to a Viking convention at the Civic Center." That was of course Spider's turn to add a little flare of his own.
"Good, because I think that there is one in a couple of hours. Now it's down that road and to the…" His directions were short lived as the metallic Viking creature said in a still calm tone.
"No, we're here to take over your world." Being the leader it was Ace's territory to say something humorous about someone trying their domination tactics in his hometown.
"You, frosted flakes might as well go back to where you came from because this is a no invasion zone." Peter thought of that for a few moments.
'That statement wasn't half bad, but I would have added a fine to invasion, but that's just me.' Unfortunately what was said did not go through that tin plated face mask because the leader said to them.
"We will conquer your world by any means necessary." By nature Peter instantly startled to think of a plan but not Ace he tried something that the web-head knew he saw off of TV.
"No you won't." The opponent immediately said to Ace a rebuttal.
"Yes we will!" He insisted but the rabbit also said with a bit more force than before.
"No you won't." Once again the Viking machine said to them with his anger rising.
"Yes we will!" Actually agreeing with the robot Ace said in an easy going tone.
"Yes you will." The machine stood perfectly and proclaimed to the Loonatics.
"No we won't take over your world." With a relaxed look in his eye the hare said to the now angry robot.
"Have it your way." Now realizing that he had been tricked raised his sword and shouted in pure anger.
"I will enjoy crushing you rabbit." All of them moved with ease out of the way of the blade. Ace looked at him and said in a voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Oh yeah like that's ever gonna happen." He drew his sword and began to battle him while the others watched. After a few blade clashing moments he decided to retreat to the rest of his team he said with a bit of smugness. "I can keep this up all day." Having enough of his arrogance the machine said to them.
"Taste my cold steel." That said he fired a powerful light blue beam from the tip of his sword; when he fired it he added "Time to chill out bunny!" In which Ace countered with a beam of his own as he screamed.
"I don't think so." The two beams met right in between the two combatants. Fire and Ice both sides had a losing and gaining ground moments. The two walked over to each other and after a slight explosion the leader called in the rest of his team to give him an advantage.
"Hammer's of Frost!" When that command was given the others powered up their hammers and fired at the seven heroes; to be accurate they slammed their weapons at the ground turning it to ice instantly. Ace lost his footing so the others propped him up as he continued his optical assault. Tech stepped and decided to tell his leader.
"Their weapons seem to be charged up with a sub-zero hypothermic solidification liquid which can freeze." While still firing he interrupted the brainiac.
"Yeah I got that part figured out." The other mechanical Norsemen circled in and consumed all of them in solid ice. Feeling triumphant the leader said in a boastful tone.
"Let's put this city on ice." That suggestion made they all ran off leaving the new ice cube unguarded. As the city slowly froze over the heroes stood in their new prison. In a few moments the mallard was capable of quaking out of the ice. He shivered for a few moments before speaking.
"I'm out, I'm out and I'm safe which is of number one importance. No need to worry about me I'm…" The orange member stopped talking and looked at the others and thought to himself, 'Look who's under ice now.' He may have been thinking that but after taping on the frozen water he said to the others, "Hello? Are you still in there?" Once he did not receive an answer he said to himself, "I think that puts me in charge." His self-gratification was cut short when the area around him began to rumble. In a few seconds their prison was no more all thanks to the purple member of the team.
"Nice work there Slam." Ace said congratulating the living tornado in a shivering voice. He laughed meaning that he enjoyed breaking that ice, but Duck wasn't so proud.
"I would have gotten you out if you gave me the time to think." He did not care much for that statement so he said walking away.
"We had seconds not hours Duck." The mallard member said a satisfied tone.
"I liked you better as a snow bunny." Unfortunately being frozen did not save them from Spider-Man's all powerful tongue.
"I'm just glad I charged up my thermal underwear before we left." Then he looked around. "Those guys don't mess around." Ace agreed to that last part of his comment.
"I love what they done with the place." They were all walking down the ice cold street looking at their visitor's craftsmanship. Lexi had her own view to say to the others.
"Snow drips are very trendy this year." Out of the blue some sort of ring tone went active in this now Arctic metropolis.
"Sounds like Zadavia's ring." The leader said to the team. All of them followed the sound and walked over to a phone that wasn't frozen.
"Spider-Man's pizza service, how can we help you?" The crimson hero said after pressing one of the buttons. The others only rolled their eyes as to what he said. A square floated in front of them with a head shot of Zadavia.
"I guess you know by now that these are no ordinary Vikings." Ace already had something to add to that.
"Yeah they didn't even sound Scandinavian."
"I believe that these creatures came from one of the inter-dimensional portals that opened after the meteor hit just like our arachnid friend. These mutant techno Vikings must have been frozen in an Ice Storm in their home dimension, but now that they are here in Acmetropolis and have been released." By this point Ace had pieced this much together so he intervened.
"They freeze and paralyze the city so it's easier to take over." Mentally she admired of how easily the yellow rabbit could figure it out.
"Precisely, but right now you have bigger problems." As soon as those words escaped her lips a familiar tingling sensation in the back of his neck occurred. Still not used to being part of a team he leapt onto the closest building as a chuck of ice came from the sky and destroyed the phone; in addition knocking the other six flat on their butts.
"I didn't get the last part. What other bigger problems?" The mallard as recovering from that sneak attack. Out of the fog the figure head to the ship was in clear view.
"I'm no expert Danger but I am guessing their ship." Peter said as he sat on his heels sticking to the side of the building. They were all about to ask how he missed the first attack, but he pointed to the figurehead and said to them, "Shouldn't we be running." Right after he said that the head launched another ball of ice. All of them dodged but Duck quacked out. The head kept launched those spheres and everything that they hit turned to ice.
"If their trail leads into the city what are they doing back on their boat?" The pink rabbit asked as they all hid to the left side of the boat. There really was something wrong with this but the web-head could not figure it out. The leader of the small team walked from behind some crates and voiced his reasons that there were Vikings still on the craft.
"Maybe they didn't want to miss the floor show Gonna on ice. Let's jet!" The orange one stepped in front of them and said to them.
"Ready team; 1…2…3…" He attempted to use their jetpacks, but that idea quite literally fizzled out. Ace took off his pack and stated in a dejected manner.
"Looks like the ice short-circuited our jetpacks." He then turned to the green member and asked, "No worries gotta backup plan, Tech." The wild canine smiled and answered.
"Glad you asked." He pulled out a remote of some sort, extended his arm and pressed a button. The others looked with anticipation of what he created. From one of the streets came seven cycles most of them were black except for the last one which a red and blue paint job. "I see that you found my motorcycles." Tech said to the red mask who was already at his ride.
"Sure did. Hope you don't mind that I gave it a different paint job." He replied and put on a solid red helmet with a white visor.
"Let's fly." Commanded Ace, and away they drove; in under a minute the cycles transformed into a flying vehicles. Their take off did not go unnoticed as one of the mechanical men on deck said aloud.
"The bunny is back." The figurehead reacted to their presence and began to fire at them. Dodging the attacks was pretty easy, and a certain web-spinner was enjoying every second of it.
'Yep this invention is definitely a keeper.' He looked over and noticed that Duck was tale spinning and a bolder of ice was on target. 'That's gonna scratch the paint.' Luckily he was saved by a familiar pink blast. As Spider flew beside her he heard the mallard say.
"Dare-devil Duck, thanks you." When he flew off she said to him with a bit of anger.
"Pick a name already; why don't ya`." Peter decided to voice his opinion before she blasted him for no other reason that he is ticking her off.
"Personally, I think he should actually try out: Darkwing Duck." She nodded and before they separated she replied.
"Anything's better then the lame names he picks." Once they dodged yet another ball the arachnid noticed that Slam was not dodging them he punched his way through three of them.
'Just goes to show that even the overgrown frozen looges are no match for the strength of the devil of our team.' As he continued to make sport over this attack Lexi was irritated with the whole thing.
"How long are we going let them use us for target practice?" In that easy going tone Ace answered her calmly.
"Just as soon as they run out of spit-wads; which is right…" He waited for a moment or two until the head closed its mouth and looked at the Loonatics buzzing around. "Now; Loonatics unite." After he said that they all flew into the fog bank.
'I guess I should follow.' The arachnid thought and pursued them. He could hear one of the machines on deck celebrate of their retreat. 'Just keep talking you Asguardian wannabe this is a strategy.' He thought at first but after a while of following them leading into no where he began to doubt it. "Ok, maybe it isn't a strategy."
"Spider-Man, just keep going we're right in front of you." Tech spoke to him from a communication system in the helmet. This confused the teen but he continued in no time at all he saw a boat that gave the impression of a supped up speed boat. Once Peter began to land on the boat Tech set this machine in motion.
"Tech you've outdone yourself." Ace said congratulating the scientist of the team. The coyote smiled.
"You can say it: I'm a genius." He said in the patting yourself on the back fashion.
"Fire the torpedo." The yellow hare said and with a push of the button the torpedo soared straight over to their ship. The sea missile was on target and the mallard had to celebrate.
"So long Ice Geeks." When he spoke those words the boat suddenly went skyward. Slam pointed up at it and grumbled something; Ace was able to understand it though.
"Yeah, Slam, we didn't see that one coming." The wall crawler who secured his bike behind the main controls with webbing presented even more of his strange sense of humor.
"I bet the subtitles suck on that flight." They all ignored it and Ace asked their pilot.
"Flying Vikings?" Tech merely said to him as a return.
"They won't be flying for long." He then pressed another button and their sea worthy vehicle also took flight. When they arrived over them Ace gave him the ok.
"Tech, take `em out." He pressed a button that activated the weapons.
"Engaging: ionic de-stabilizing gravity disks." The said weapons moved a little bit but they were frozen over. Ace believed that everything was alright so he said with enthusiasm.
"Now!" When Tech pressed the button that was meant to release them nothing happened.
"Something is wrong with the modulators; it won't respond." Tech announced to them which Ace used their muscle to get them free.
"Go, Slam." The Tasmanian walked over to the disks picked them up before returning to the front and threw them onto the invading ship below. Admiring of what they were doing their pink furred fried said.
"Anchors away." The disks detonating on impact sending that vehicle plunging back into the sea.
"I love those `splotions." Ace said as he watched the ship go down and the bruiser of the team babbled in agreement. Once the heap of metal was floating there the heroes went on deck to investigate a bit further. The crew lied there. "With their ship destroyed, do you think the big freeze is over, Tech?" Ace asked as he Lexi and Tech stood around one of the ice slinging mutants which turned into an amber brown.
"All of their power seems to come from the horns on their helmets." Tech said to them as he ripped off the head and held it to the sky. The leader then looked over to Rev.
"Anything else on board?" He asked and the speedster went all around the ship saying aloud to inform the others.
"All clear starboard, bow, and no spit wads." He returned to them and shook his head. Lexi turned to their leader for an answer to her question.
"So where did they all go?" He began to think of something else.
"First we see them, now we don't. I think this game of Battleship was all a distraction." This information was not going over very well with Spider-Man as he clung himself to the figurehead.
'Damn where are those cold storage soup cans?!' He thought bitterly before leaping back onto the floor. He walked over just in time to hear Ace asking.
"Rev, think you can locate those Noradic nutjobs." The roadrunners eyes turned red and the symbol presented a hologram of one of the streets in the city.
"They're heading for the planetary power grid." Lexi said to the team recognizing the building that was at the end of the road.
"That must have been what Zadavia had been trying to tell us." Ace said as he thought back to her message. The green coated genius had to really bring them down.
"Not to alarm anyone, but if they manage to freeze the city's power core…" Lexi's eyes went wide as she said the rest in simplified terms.
"Then the whole city will get one bad case of frost bite." While the guys were piecing it all together their armored opponents had already made it to their destination. The leader of the group looked over at the entrance and said to his troops.
"The power core is ours; our mission cannot fail." He blew the door down and saw the center of the power core and said with pleasurable tone, "Let the Ice Age begin."
"I'll go on ahead while you guys think of something." Spider-Man suggested as he leapt from the Viking ship to their boat, he then tore his bike from its webbing and got on it.
"Hold on, it'll be faster if we all go." The leader said to the somewhat angered spider hero.
"I work better alone, but I will let you guys help me." The teen replied as he activated the flight mode of the vehicle and left. The others also rushed for their bikes as well, but they did so: together.
"Ok, can someone tell me what's his problem?" Lexi asked as she flew in formation. The others did not know how to answer her question until Tech spoke up.
"Be patient; after all do to his abridged version of past life he prefers to work alone." The others wanted to be patient, but it was still new to them to have a member that is comical one second and bitter in a blink of an eye.
"Set weapons on maximum freezing." Gonna insisted as he pressed a button on his blade before firing it at the center of the complex. In a few moments the arachnid made contact followed by the others.
"I don't know about the rest of you guys but I am ready to give these renegade Ice Cream men the boot; unless they have Rocky Road then I might let them go." Peter said to the others as he dismounted. The others walked with him as he headed to a very big hole in the door.
"Are you ever serious?" Lexi asked which the web-head countered with another question.
"That's a trick question, right?" She could only roll her eyes at that, soon they saw what they were doing and Ace had just the right phrase to get their attention.
"What's up horn heads?" It did get his attention so much so that he ordered a few of his soldiers.
"Freeze them." With that order given a few of them stopped freezing the building to freezing the heroes, and that did not go over very well with Ace.
"You picked the wrong planet to invade palley." Then the true fight with these Vikings began. At first the heroes evaded the first attack, but Lexi preferred to antagonize her opponent.
"Come one you over grown trash can show me what you got." The metallic Norseman was more than happy to show as he charged in headfirst. To bad for him she was charging too; a Brain Blast that is. She fired at he went down. Duck on the other hand had two to deal with fortunately he quacked behind one and kicked him to the floor. The second Viking robot was about to freeze the duck but he ended up freezing his own teammate.
"Come on, Come on. How hard is it to freeze dry a duck?" He said confidently feeling proud of what he did along with blinding them with egg attack. Our number one wall-crawler was having a difficult problem, over what type of insult to use.
"Have you guys thought about becoming a portable cooling system?" He asked one of them before rapidly punching it in the chest. Once it fell he felt his knuckles throbbing. "What are you guys made of: Adamantium?" He asked as he shook his hands.
"Tech, we got to turn the tables, make things hot." He said to the genius when they were back to back. Luckily the inventor already had a plan.
"I'll reprogram them just keep them busy." They split when an axe and a hammer came at them. Ace then kicked one of Viking's head's off which Tech recovered. Ace then gave his friends another suggestion.
"Get them to use their freezing powers." That said one of them tried to fire a beam of solid ice at the wall crawler, but missed by a few inches.
'Thank you Spider Reflexes.' Peter thought gratuitously, thankful that even if his body was freezing that it did not slow down his reaction time. He then looked at the pillar of ice behind him and sensed the goon heading to him from behind. 'Worth a shot.' He thought and with all of his strength pulled the pillar of ice from the wall and swung it at the mechanical man. "Do the Mets need me or what?" He said aloud before hearing his weapon shatter. 'So much for using that a second time.' He thought and turned to another fight of these guys.
"Nope, sorry, `fraid not; your turn Slam." Lexi yelled out after easily evading multiple ice assaults. The purple furball decided to attack the leader by charging straight at him with tornado legs. Naturally the leader of the band of ice makers did not like being threatened.
"You dare!" He yelled out and charged at Slam with his sword ready to strike. Unfortunately the bruiser of the Loonatics lost that head to head battle. As the female rabbit easily evaded another ice sickle assault with a back-flip and saying…
"Alley-oop!" The wall-crawler could only think of one thing that was embarrassing even to him.
'No wonder she is able to kick my butt in the simulation.' As he dodged the opportunity of being a spider-sickle he saw Ace near the central cord where Tech was still working.
"Tech, in position." The yellow rabbit said to the dog before two robots appeared behind him, but when he turned around to face them another one stood behind him. "Please tell me you're almost ready." He hoped with a pleading voice but Tech calmly told the boss of this team.
"Ya` can't rush brilliance." As he continued to work Ace could only say one thing to that as he leapt to meet the invaders face to face.
"No, but you can give it a swift kick in the can." Speaking of can kicking that is exactly what he did as he triumphantly said, "One Viking bits the ice." Blasting the first one down then he had spun in mid-air and kicked the second while saying: "And another." The leader saw what the yellow rabbit was doing to his men out of anger he yelled out.
"I've had enough of you bunny." As he swung his sword down Ace saw the answer of dealing with this windbag standing behind Gonna. He dodged the sword attack then leapt on to the icy wall and jumping from that point he gave the white Viking a double foot stomp sending him to the center of the Power Core. Tech who, now was done with the modifications plugged the helmet into the core.
"Got it Ace." The genius said to the leader not noticing Gonna sitting on the central coil. All of a sudden the entire room was filled with red energy which did three jobs: shatter the ice around them, deactivate the bots, and of course electrocute Tech. Seeing that happen made the spider slip out one of his bad jokes.
"Look at you all lit up." Luckily no one noticed it. Seeing all of the coils light up Lexi told them of what happened. Ace said in a happy tone.
"We did it! It worked!"
"The energy from the Vikings have recharged the power core." This time he said one of his statements on purpose.
"Good, because if there is one thing I really can't stand it's being turned into a spider-sickle." The pink member rolled her eyes wondering why he always had to say something like that. Duck on the other hand looked around at all of the deactivated robots and complained.
"Aw, Tech, I was about to let them have it." He then received an answer of some sort from underneath one of the helmets.
"Talking about taking one for the team." Duck looked to the helmet that spoke and raised it a little bit.
"Tech?" The mallard asked a strange green and black blob which only whimpered as a response. Once Tech re-assimilated himself they left with Peter saying another one of his bad jokes.
"I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I'm gonna stay away from frozen foods for a while." The others only groaned as a response then the web-spinner said a bit seriously, "Tech you mind putting my bike on remote." This confused the certified genius before he continued. "I just like traveling my way: by webbing." He then raised his arm and tried to fire but nothing happened. 'Great, looks like my web-shooters are damaged too.' He thought before turning to the others and said in a humorous tone, "You know what I think I will take my bike." That said they all flew back to the spire; once they put up their wheels and went about their business. After a few moments Rev came into the commons room where most of the team was with a pizza in hand.
"Here's your pie Tech." He said in his speedy tone of voice. The genius nodded to his fast talking friend. The others in the room were relaxing: Ace sat a hovering pad: meditating, Lexi: flopped onto a beanbag chair, Duck: was still thinking of a different name.
"Thunder Duck, Dazzling Duck, Dancing Duck, Super Duper Duck…" The coyote opened the box then looked up and saw Peter hanging upside down on a web-line with his mask off.
"I thought you said that those were broken." Tech said referring to the web-shooters. Peter answered him semi-seriously.
"I did but it turns out that they simply ran out of webbing." The canine could understand that then pointed over to the exposed pie. "All yours pal." Tech pulled out a disk and set it in the center of the pie. In a blink of an eye it cut the pizza into eight slices and presented one of the slices to Tech. He took it and began eating it, but while he was doing that the aroma drifted into the vent and a familiar creature knew that smell. After much banging the door opened.
"Pizza!" Slam yelled triumphantly as he rushed over to the others. He may have been too frozen to eat the last time but this time nothing was going to stop him. The scientist on the other hand had his invention attack the big hairball; instead of slicing him to ribbons it muzzled him.
"Ah, ah, ah Slam." Tech said rather smugly and only received a quiet growl from the devil. The holographic display grid activated showing the founder of the team.
"Loonatics, I had to congratulate each and every one of you job well done. The Ice Age is averted, the mutant techno Vikings destroyed, and Acmetropolis is safe thanks to you." She then looked at the animal based heroes and called them by name, "Ace, Rev, Lexi, and Slam {who was still muzzled}, and Tech {who was still enjoying his pie}…" Duck waited for her to congratulate him but instead she said. "Spider-Man." It felt to duck like his entire beak fell off his face.
"You know me I'm just here to help." Peter said to her which she nodded and continued onto her subject.
"Good work team, Zadavia out." When she left she left a very upset duck who said in annoyed tone.
"She could congratulate the spider but not me. How could she do that, I was standing right here." The others tried to calm him down with the pink rabbit first.
"Relax Duck you were fantastic." In a sarcastic tone the leader agreed.
"Oh yeah, heroic." Peter decided to throw his two cents in too.
"A very professional job out there, buddy." All of these comments were not getting through to him. He pushed Ace aside and decided to get her attention. Before he summoned the hologram he yelled out.
"No one disrespects this duck." He then pressed it and Zadavia returned.
"Is there something else?" She asked calmly, duck calmly walked over in front of her and asked one simple question.
"Hello, Duck here, didn't you forget something?" He asked her as if this something was genuinely obvious. She responded to his question with a comment of her own.
"That's right; Peter your costume is still in its development stages." He nodded and added.
"Can you add some originality to it? After all I can't be Spider-Man without a spider insignia."
"Of course, Spider-Man." This angered duck even further.
"No, not him; the something that pertains to me, and you know what it is." Duck said in a bit more force then before. That is when she remembered what it was that he wanted.
"Right I almost forgot…" She paused watching duck's expression turn into 'good I'm getting my name changed' instead when she continues. "No more memos about changing your name. Danger Duck is self-sufficient and easy to remember, request denied." That said and done the transmission was terminated again.
"At least it's better then what she used to call you." Ace said with a smirk as he rested a hand on his shoulder. After a few moments the mallard finally came to terms with what was said.
"Fine, Danger Duck, I can live with that." His leader added.
"Good `cause we like it too." The rest of the day was uneventful. It was just a group of seven relaxing in a spire that seemed to have it all. The only thing that they were now getting used to was the arachnid based hero who was still hanging by what could be confused with for a piece of string.
"Hey Ace…" Pete called down to the yellow furred leader who was done meditating and was done lying on their couch he looked up at the brown haired youth. "Nice move on the frost giant." Ace smiled and made sure of what he was referring to.
"You mean that reversal gag. Yeah that's kind of a family tradition." When night fell they all headed for bed. As soon as Peter put his hand on the doorknob a voice was heard beside him.
"How is it that every other time you opened your mouth it was a joke or an insult?" The voice was the super human hearing member of the team whom just asked an unanswerable question.
"That's just the way I am out on the field." He replied and went to bed. He did not really feel like telling them the true reason why he acted that way. As he slept he dreamt that he was swinging around in him home town until another swinger knocked him onto a near by roof. "Watch it; I had the right of way." Peter said defensively he then stood ready for battle until he saw the diagonal spider insignia he found himself asking. "Who are you?" The figure simply walked clearer into view until Peter saw a sleeveless light blue jacket while the rest was red. The being also had silver armbands that might act like web shooters.
"You can call me, Scarlet Spider." He said to the red and blue figure that was still on guard. As soon as he said that he vanished.