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Chapter 6:
Weather girl's wrath
"Another night, another weird costume appearing saying I need to build it." He said as he decided to get some chow. As he was searching for some bread he thought deeper into that dream. 'Maybe I should tell the others about these dreams.' After sifting through some strange types of bread such as sesame seed bread he finally found a piece of traditional white bread. 'Maybe I shouldn't after all Duck still doesn't like it that I am wearing a two color costume.' He tried using their toaster but the piece of bread that he used was chard to a crisp. "Looks like it's another cold one for Breakfast." He muttered dissatisfied before walking to the fridge and grabbed a Root Beer. He drank his beverage fairly quickly and noticed his suit clean and pressed on the table. 'Wow, Rev even got that stubborn tomato sauce stain from when Talon challenged me to pizza eating contest; it was a good thing that Broadway wasn't there he would have won hands down.' He thought as he put on his costume then headed over to his room to get his belt and shooters. As soon as he put them on he heard some banging. "I thought I was the only one awake." He muttered aloud when he was about to put on his mask.
"Hey, Pete, you going out for some web-slinging." Tech asked as he noticed a figure clinging to his wall. The coyote was putting some finishing touches on a new vehicle, which of course the paint job was black.
"Yeah, planning on it by the way two questions pal." The genius put away his socket wrench and turned toward the arachnid.
"What's up?" Is all that he said and waited for a response which he didn't need to wait a long time.
"1.) what is that thing? And 2) why don't we ever try a different color other than black?" Those questions that he asked only made the canine smile. The web-slinger definitely was funny at times and the genius really did like to toot his own horn.
"Simple questions the name is the porta-lab. As for your second question I don't know how others would react if we painted one of my babies: red and blue, I mean it's simply…" Tech dropped what he was about to say when he remembered what Peter's colors were. "Have I mentioned that you have great fashion sense?" He recited with a weak smile.
"Nice recovery, see ya." Parker said to his fellow big brain and flipped into the vents, but before he left completely his voice asked the machine maker one last thing. "Where's the cape?"
"In cold storage to where not even Duck can get to it, and I'll only wear it on special occasion." The sentence that he just said antagonized Spider-Man's annoying sense of humor.
"Oh, I get it. Your going to save it until we run into Black Velvet again, aren't ya?" He questioned, and he saw Tech's fur deepen with red as he stuttered out.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Before another word was said Tech remotely closed the door and went back to work. Peter dismissed his friend's reaction and continued to walk over to the hanger; when he opened the door for another day of web slinging he thought to himself.
'Even if Tech wasn't under mind control he would still follow her requests as would the others. Not I, to me, Lexi definitely has an even hotter body then the Zadavia wannabe.' At the end of that thought he added, 'Careful, you already lost a pretty face because of your heart; don't let it happen again.' He took off for his morning slinging and as he was deep in his swinging he noticed that the sky was looking mildly annoyed. 'This is a good reason if Storm or Thor came with me.' He thought in a joking matter before becoming seriously depressed. While thinking back whenever he met the two in question he failed to realize that he swung over a news van.
"All right Misty we're going live. Is' everything ready?" A cameraman questioned a teal haired weather girl as their boss was coming out of their van with the day's script. As he was making a few front page changes and while Misty was watching a female assistant came to them with a liquid beverage.
"Here's your coffee tube, Misty." The assistant said innocently handing the weather girl her drink. Once she took it the assistant tried to give her an idea that she had been working on, "You know I was thinking. You should do a piece on barometric pressure."
"That's absurd." The green haired woman said after snatching the tube out of her aids hand. She was looking over a pack of paper that an African American with yellow glasses gave to her so she did not see the shocked expressions of her assistant.
"What – barometric pressure." She questioned, her somewhat sweet voice was quickly cut short by her boss' harsh, unforgiving tone.
"That you were thinking! I'm Misty Breeze, honey: 'I' do the weather…you…uh…you bring the coffee." The arrogant one said before looking at the papers. The man that was there left fearing that a catfight may ensue. Sure enough something was going to go down since the assistant was tittering on being truly ticked.
"Boy, this is gonna be a big one." The black man said as he looked at the sky before heading to their van. That was the same thought for Spider-Man who was standing on a roof trying to figure out where to go next that was until the Com link under his mask spoke.
"Web-head need your help with something." Tech said to him; thinking it was urgent decided to hightail it over there.
"No worries Tech, I'm on my way." He answered back and decided to swing back home, since he did it back in New York. Before firing a line he went with a running start. Back at the site there was a heated argument between assistant and director.
"You said if I told her my idea you'd back me up." The assistant said with a miffed expression on her face. The director who was getting an updated script heard her, turned to her, and decided to tell her why he did not.
"Oh, come on, Paula: you can't be on air. You're too young; you're inexperienced and let's just say…' Those she allowed to pass, but it was the past part that really helped her anger along. "The camera loves you – when you're behind it."
"What!?" She said within a startled gasp. As the camera man was giving his instrument a once over he noticed that the wind had picked up, but he almost could have sworn he heard a voice that said, "No one appreciates me!" That sudden change in the weather caused the man in the van to fall in surprise causing the papers on one of the consoles to blow everywhere.
"Misty's script ohh she's gonna." The man didn't have time to complete his statement as he heard the diva's voice from outside.
"Where's my script?!" He turned and saw the inconsiderate woman standing beside the assistant still with the coffee tube in hand. "I need my script, Rob!" She yelled at him, forcing him to put the papers he held up as some sort of shield. "I can't make up the weather ya know." She continued to rant to her employer. He looked at the papers he held for some sort of salvation from her mouth. Speaking of mouth that was where she poured her drink before spitting it back out. "This is cold you twit." She yelled at her assistant before pouring over the young woman's head and even added insult to injury, "You are absolutely worthless."
'I'll know more about the weather than you'll ever know.' Pam thought, and like last time another force of nature happened: a small cloud appeared over Misty's head and started to pour down a medium rain.
"What was that?" Rob questioned, and looked into the stormy heavens for an answer. As he was doing so he was unaware of cruel sneer Paula had or the unimportant statement from Misty.
"My hair." She then walked away from the three. All of them were unaware of the creature that saw that last bit.
"Portable rain clouds; Next thing you know this town will start selling sunlight in a bottle." He said, thinking that the cloud was like the Fuz-z, a fad. He then went back to swinging where Tech's signal was coming from.
"We're on in thirty; try to lose that cloud in the meantime." Rob yelled back at the diva that was leaving.
"Let me do it." Paula asked with a smile to the director, who of course was against the idea of an 'unattractive' direct the weather.
"No, Paula you..." He said back, caring more for his rating than her chance. The problem was that Paula was pretty swift in terms of a way around his 'no'.
"What other choice do you have?" The man had to admit that her question was right: there was no other choice. He gave it a little thought and smiled thinking that maybe this was good, a new face would boost up their rating better than Misty. The three of them got set up and as he said they were ready in thirty minutes.
"Ok, we're going on in 3…2…1." The cameraman said making the sign of three, two, and when it came to one he pointed at the young stand-in. Paula was pleased at this – that she will finally get a shot at television.
"This is Paula Haze and I'm standing in City Hall plaza where a giant storm is brewing over Acmetropolis." She said to the camera with confidence in her tone. The video man pointed the camera over to the purple clouds for a moment before pointing it to Paula so she could continue, "There thunder, lightning, and dangerously high winds." After she said the last part the wind picked up – almost as if the weather was following her lead. The gust was so powerful that it did a variety of things: tip over the camera (which was caught), shake their van, and topple over a statue. Paula stared up at the circling clouds and the purple lightning that was near the eye of the maelstrom. One of those bolts slammed onto Paula who, with an ear-splitting scream fell to her knees; trying to let her body adjust to what happened.
"Paula!" Rob yelled in alarm and rushed to see if she was alright. That was also when she screamed again, and her body went into a fetal position while barely hovering over the ground; a dark aura with a purple barrier had formed around her while she was off the ground.
"What is she doing?" Misty said, not seeing and not caring what was happening to the assistant. She mainly focused on the fact that the camera wasn't on her. "Cut, stop taping!" She yelled while pushing over the camera guy and added while pointing her thumb to herself, "I'M MISTY BREEZE! I DO THE WEATHER!" Her rambling, if she had anything left was cut short when some laughter was heard.
"There's a change in the air Misty, because I AM THE WEATHER!" The voice was Paula who was loving of what just happened to her. She was loving the rush of power so much that after one spin from full height and a scream she created two cyclones and fired them at the diva – Misty Breeze. "Sorry, Misty, but your program is canceled." Paula said with evil glee. "They said I couldn't be on the air; well I AM NOW!" She leapt into the eye of the storm and began laughing at the final pieces of transformation.
"Man, I thought I'd never get here." The web-spinner muttered as he saw three of his friends at a communication building. He leapt over to their roof and saw the problem that they asked for – a downed satellite.
"What kept ya bug-face?" Ace questioned the arachnid, since he knew that he could usually get to a chosen spot in no time with his webbing. The truth was that Ace was already expecting one of his usual comical statements.
"Are you kidding me? It's hard moving against 'this' heavy wind; so I went old school of getting here." He answered back with a hidden smirk. This answer surprised him because that it held some truth to it, but he did not know what he meant by: old school.
'Must have taken a bus.' The leader concluded not knowing that 'old school' meant Tick style. Tech remained on task as he said to the others.
"If you guys haven't noticed we do have a satellite to fix." The arachnid saw it and was about to figure it out, but the canine's voice already beat him to it. "Slam will lift it then you two will then hold it for Ace to finish the job." That is when the purple bruiser got to work and lifted up the dish.
'The people below have to be freaking out.' Spider-Man thought, since he knew how people reacted to a storm – mystical or space based. He then saw his friend forcing the dish off of the edge and to the side that it broke from. With a grunt of effort the Tasmanian lifted up the dish to the base, "Better get to work." He said while leaping to the other half and held it with his adhesive powers. After the broken halves were brought together the green genius gave the word.
"That's it: Now!" He gave the word while looking at something that looked like his version of a PDA. Ace then took his cue and welded the two halves together.
"There we go; that oughta keep duck from complainin`." He said once he was done blasting away at the metal. He turned to Tech who had his own sly remark to say to the two of them.
"That's it: we're done. Now was that so hard?" He said with folded arms to open arms and the arachnid and the fuzzy strength of the team was pleased because even with a tag-team effort that device was indeed heavy. As Spider-Man jumped off of his spot he noticed that Slam was taking a breather at the ledge of the roof, but he sensed nothing wrong.
"Thanks a lot Slam." Duck said while opening a small door that led to the roof; which was where Slam was wiping off some sweat. He then added, "Just in time to miss my favorite TV personality of all time – Misty Breeze." The three heroes could careless of that as they went over to the edge to see if he grabbed something.
"Duck!" Ace yelled out, trying to tell his friend what had just happened.
"What!" The mallard said back to him, not caring what they were doing. The arachnid was grateful that his friend was not street pizza.
"I break more nails picking up after you." Lexi said as she held the devil's back and Rev held the lower side as he ran up the building. Once the three of them made it to the surface Slam grumbled out something that the wall-crawler could only guess meant.
"You sorry duck, be thankful we're friends or you'd be duck pasta." This fell on deaf ears as Duck answer casually.
"Such language." He then quacked away to a different spot of roof. The white eyed one looked over to the pink member of their team and began thinking.
'Ok, my Spider Sense can only work for me, but Lexi did make a great save. She is one shell of a woman.' The thought was cut short from his stubborn side, 'Stop that, you lost one love; DON'T LOSE ANOTHER.' As he was thinking he heard a woman scream. He then watched a green haired woman land in the same dish that they just fixed. She looked down and was either amazed at the fall going down or of the six animals and one 'human' staring at her.
"Misty Breeze." Duck said as the bug could have sworn that the duck's eyes turned into hearts. Even though the woman may have seen that as well she didn't act like it.
"Don't just stand there, you dolts, get me outta here." She yelled down to the two before releasing the center piece of the dish. Before Peter could pull off his usual hero bit Duck beat him to it as he ported to just the right spot and caught her.
"I'm your biggest fan: Danger Duck at your service, hot stuff." He then let his idol stand on her own two feet. After going into a pose with her right hand in her hair and the other on her hip she casually said in a diva tone.
"Thank you. Don't get too close." The team took that as their cue to see just where she flew, but Spider-Man had a feeling that they were only trying to get some distance between them and her.
"Misty and her crew were broadcasting from City Hall Plaza." Ace said as the six jetted off and Spider-Man swung behind them. As they were on their way Parker was in disbelief over the location that they were going to.
'Odd I didn't see any problems when I swung over there, and didn't see anything.' He thought as he continued to follow them, "Guess, I should have thought something when I saw that low cloud." He murmured under his breath. He then heard the bird try to defend that spoiled harpy.
"I just don't get it. Who would ever want to hurt the lovely Misty Breeze." It was obvious that the duck was looking for some support for his idol, but got nothing in return except a ticked answer from the female of the group.
"Anyone who has ever met her." It startled the arachnid of how even her angered comment was.
'Mental note: stay on her good side.' He thought to make sure that he got the gist never to upset her. Before his heart could give him a different thought he was interrupted by Danger who believed of what he said was true.
"Jealous." While they were on route the boss-woman showed up on the screens that they passed; Zadavia already had the insight of their mission, but did not want to give away any details.
"Loonatics, we're receiving reports about a mysterious weather phenomenon is materializing all over the planet." She said to the others with that aurora borealis background. Spider-Man, who did not have his pack clung to the building behind his friends; Ace gave it a moment of thought before stating his point.
"Say Zadavia, isn't monitoring the weather mor of a job for…" The rabbit's statement was cut short thanks to the fan-boy of the team: Danger Duck.
"Misty Breeze." The leader of the team ignored the enthusiasm of the mallard and answered the hare's statement.
"Not this kind of weather. You better move fast, Loonatics, Zadavia out." As soon as she said that the screens went blank while the seven headed in the specified direction. The group got there and took a look around, and the first thing that they saw was a downed van which they checked out first.
"I got this one, Slam." Spider said, thumbing to himself. The devil allowed it and he went to work. Thanks to his Spider strength he had the potential to lift between 800 pounds and 25 tons. Almost as soon as it was overhead the side door opened and a green outfitted man fell out.
"Whoa, Sorry about dropping you like that buddy." He said after seeing the man at his boots. Obviously the guy went through something bad since he was doing some babbling.
"Paula…assistant…the script…Misty…wet hair…crazy weather…storm…Misty gone." He said, adding a hysteric laugh at crazy weather and stood on his hands to finish his statement. While Spider held the ride up Ace snuck in behind him and decided to get more information.
"I'm gonna need some mo` words pal. Got any voibs?" He questioned, but he got his answer in a different style then he wanted.
"Here's one: Look." Lexi said while pointing up at the clouded sky. Within a sphere was a woman that did not like the arrival of the city's best heroes since her voice was truly angry.
"No stealing MY thunder, Loonatics." She yelled out and with a display of aerial thunder she added, "BACK OFF." Spider, had by now put the van down and the man that fell out was now focused. He saw the person and decided to fill them in on which one that may be.
"That's her." The others looked down and saw the fear in his eyes. The woman descended onto one of the taller buildings and decided to show them her powers.
"Cloud creatures put these heroes in a fog." She yelled out, and several purple puffy – red eyed creatures formed around them. The group was a little caught off guard except for Tech, who was amazed by this mysterious power.
"Amazing." Ace watched as one of the creatures formed over his right shoulder and said to the others.
"Was this in the forecast?" As six out of the seven got into a defensive stance, but Duck was not afraid of what was going on around him. He looked at the Anti-Misty Breeze and said in a sarcastic fashion.
"Ooh, scary clouds; what are you going to do: stop us from getting a tan." The cloudian that was in front of him did not like the fowls attitude so it gave a reason to fear him and his friends. As it's hand crushed around the ducks body he said with wide eyes, "Maybe stop us from breathing." He then was yanked off the ground. The others did not make a move they were wanting the Loonatics to make the opening attack.
"Okay, chief, what's the plan?" Tech said as he stared down his cloud. The rabbit got ready and gave his team the go ahead.
"Kick some cloud." He then tried kicking it in the head; with no success. While making a landing the creature grabbed the rabbits leg and showed him that the attack meant nothing: as its head grew back. The method of how the head came back reminded him of an old friend; he then heard Ace yell to the creature, "Hey, watch the foot – it's lucky." The creature's grip was lost as Slam came up and bit its arm off.
'I have a feeling she is not going to like that.' Parker thought as he stayed on the evasive, and he was right since the bubble-woman moved her hands and a different cloudian football tackled the running purple devil. 'Knew it.' He thought before landing on a streetlight and saw Rev running around in circles and talking at the same time.
"Here's something you don't see on a sunny day. I could be wrong, but it looks like they're alive. How's that possible – clouds are only for making rain not causing terror in the heart of a city." The runner said in his mach speed kind of voice. The cloud was able to keep up with its moves and with one punch to the ground he tumbled out of control.
"Good reflexes for a bunch of hot air." The web-slinger stated while jumping out of the way of another cloud. While in the air he tried to double kick the thing's head, but received a 'light' punch. He then decided to try a different tactic.
"Here's a present for you: via duck mail." The orange one yelled to the one that still held him as he created an egg, swirled it around, and through it. The bad thing was that these things did not have a true solid mass so even their special attacks were useless.
"Let's pump up the clouds and bring in the fog." The blue face woman said as she noticed that her creatures had the upper hand. The fog obeyed her and flowed down the building she stood and filled the battlefield in no time.
"Yoo-hoo, puffy boy?" Lexi questioned after dodging the creatures attacks until she lost visual. While scanning around she was struck in the back; it did not do anything serious since she turned back to him and still seemed centered, "Ahh, there you are." Spider-Man relied on his Spider sense and his reflexes since this fog was messing with his eyes.
"Haven't tried my web-shooters on these things; guess it's worth a shot." Spider whispered before sensing an attack, he leapt up and fired a stream of his trademark substance. As expected it went through the beast, but he did feel it hit something. 'Whatever I just snagged may help.' He thought and pulled, but on the other end was not a solution.
"You pulled me by my tail because why?" The thing that he pulled was Lexi who stood up and was glaring at him. Fearing that she was going to Brain Blast him he decided to make an excuse.
"Oh, man, my shooters are acting up; there must be too much moisture in the air." He said in a rush before adding, "Well, better get back to the fight." He then ran deep into the stationary fog.
'He did say that this stuff was bio-degradable.' She thought, and decided to harm him after this. Being done feeling like a piñata, since the creature re-captured him with the other arm, he used his laser vision and blasted the arm. While falling he used it on the main body, but it went through and hit one of his friend's in the tailbone.
"Yaa-haa ha how." Tech yelled out while holding his but since he was the unfortunate member at the end of the attack. Hearing that noise the field leader thought it best to apologize instantly for that.
"Oops, very sorry there, Tech." After he said that the red member of the team ran to his side and told him that there was a slight problem of facing these things.
"Ace, my internal radar can't distinguish between what's a creature and plain old fog, and it's getting pretty hard to avoid their gri—ack!" Rev said before he was grabbed by one of the creatures in question and pulled away. Now, really fed up with these guys he glanced over at a certain member of the team with a determined look in his eyes.
"What do you say we help him out, Slam." The cyclone maker was being held down by both hands of one of the creatures, but he was still able to answer.
"You bet." He said after some gagging. He created his tornado body which took care of the fog illusion. With the fog gone the yellow one was able to see one of the cloudian, but he simply dodged and let Slam body-check into it: sending it flying.
"Slam – 1, Cloud – none." Ace said after seeing what just happened. The problem was that he was not the only one watching: Weathervane was too, and she did not like what she saw.
"Clouds of thunder destroy them!" She ordered after a short scream. The devil went about his business while Lexi after jumping behind a fire hydrant an idea hit her. She charged up and let loose a Brain Blast which took out the hydrant and the water entered the creature she was facing.
"Clouds absorb water. And to think I only got a 'B' in Science." She said to her boss in a happy fashion; proud that her theory worked. The thing only increased in size, and despite the surprised look on the cloudian's face Ace did not like where this was going.
"That's real great, Lexi, but do you really want to make 'em bigger." He said to her with a raised eyebrow, and watched the enemy simply formed a basic cloud and started raining.
"Whoa." Lexi said, watching the end result happen as the creature evaporated after its drizzle. The others saw it, but none were more impressed than Rev Runner who ran up to the two rabbits and began to talk.
"Cool! I wanna try that! I wanna try that! I wanna try that! Here I go!" He said while running in place and clapping his hands at the same time before running to the pond under the clock tower. As he ran there one of the minions saw this and followed him. Rev made one turn then stayed in place while kicking water onto the creature and just like its friend this one also evaporated after raining. Ace ran over to a water spouting statue and blasted it with his optics. Once it was turned into ruble, the creature evaporated with the usual roar of pain.
"And me without my slicker." He said with a smirk.
'There's four left, but this should help.' Spider-Man thought while dodging. He ran over to another fire hydrant except unlike Lexi he stood on top of it. 'This will defenitly be dumb luck if this works.' He thought and fired three web-lines on the hydrant he stood on. The three closed in and right when they all had their hands raised he leaped up and with all his strength pulled the caps off. The three absorbed the water and Spider-Man was left to putting the caps back on. Duck was taking care of the last one, the same one that grabbed when they were first brought forth.
"Water egg, pray for water egg; water egg," Duck said while bringing an egg to his hand and shoving it in the creatures mouth. The lackey did as the others did, but it was not the liquid that Danger asked for, but he was still pleased. "Orange Juice will do the trick too." Really not liking how that went the villainess shot duck while yelling a simple statement.
"Pesky duck." Slam caught Duck just by presenting his arms. The group glared at the woman on the building. She then, like most villains, started her rambling to the heroes, "You may have won this round Loonatics, but I'M the star here." She turned to the frightened cameraman who she took after she giving herself a new look. "Keep that camera pointed at ME!" She then looked down and continued, "I've got breaking news. Here me, Acmetropolis, I am Weathervane, and tonight there is a 100% chance of destruction." The sky provided some serious lightning bolts and with a gesture they all started hitting the ground. She laughed happily as they eight tried to dodge two of the bolts, but she was far from done. "Here's a newsflash for you, Loonatics, and it's a real shock!" She said and pressed her fingertips to her bubble forcing one of the bigger bolts to come down at their heads.
'We're toast.' Peter thought since he had a feeling that not even his reflexes were going to save him, but the genius of the team came prepared. He pressed a button near the shoulder of his pack to produce a rod.
"Ahh ha ha ha ha Ahh." The coyote shouted in pain, and all that remained was the pack. The group circled around it and Ace was the first to speak.
"Nice lighting rod, Tech. That definitely is going to earn you some vacation time." He said with his right index finger pointed upward. Tech reformed himself and decided to ask a simple and much needed question.
"Can I take it right now?" He was hoping he would say yes, but somehow he doubted it.
"Well let me think about it: yes, no, yes—NO!" The Loonatics all looked up at the manipulator, seeing if she had anything left.
"All the elements are at MY command!" She started to tell them and quickly continued, "I don't need to report the story I AM the story." The woman then laughed and said to the cameraman, "Make sure you get this. It'll make everyone forget about Misty Breeze." The wall-crawler heard that, but almost could not believe that she was doing this out of petty vengeance. He then turned to Duck who had long since got off of Slam and had an expression that seemed to say, 'she's nuts.'
"Forget about Misty Breeze. I'd sooner forget…well, what's-her-name here." He said motioning to the pink rabbit who took serious offense to that remark.
'I thought I was dead for webbing her tail, but I know she is going to hurt Duck first.' Spider thought before looking up at Weathervane who seemed to be cooking up something else.
"Time for you to be gone with the wind." She created a BIG tornado that sucked up all but one.
"I just love the fact that I can walk through a tornado." He said, knowing that the twister was muffling his voice. He then turned to the cyclone and was about to save them until he saw three of them free themselves. The first was Ace who grabbed the base of a streetlight and eased himself onto the concrete, Slam was next who was flung into the base of a stone tower.
"Yeow!" The devil said in alarm, and duck was the third who tried quacking out of there, but all he did was quack into a nearby television set.
"Look mommy, I'm on TV." He said with his beak pressing into the glass. The other three members were still caught in that twister. Ace had a plan of dealing with this obstacle.
"Your on, Slam." He said, and the purple one prepped for his spin and then really made it a good one. While he was proving that he could make a tougher twister one of the victims spoke.
"Ace! Help!" It was Lexi and just as soon as she said that a grappling hook landed on her: butt. He then pulled her out of there, she landed on the ground pretty hard, but she was alright. "Thanks." She said to him after 'oof'. Parker saw that and felt a bit bad, but he dismissed it when he heard another voice in the cyclone.
"Not liking this!" This time the voice was Rev. Out of instinct Spider fired off two web-lines, one from each wrist, and he was able to snag Teach and Rev's ankles. He pulled them both out. Ace saw this and said to the arachnid.
"I was going to save them next." The hero shrugged in return before giving him a proper answer.
"I got impatient." They all, including the duck who quacked out of the flat screen, watched as Slam directed the twister into a construction site. As soon as it hit Weathervane's wind attack was gone and Slam was left feeling a little dizzy. Everyone cheered for what he had done, and he rose both arms as a way of saying, 'That's right, I won.'
"They defeated my clouds, my lightning, my tornado, but can they handle them all at once." Weathervane said angrily before summoning up something truly bad. "I release all of the elements upon you, Acmetropolis." She added while staying within the cloud formation. The first thing that happened was a whole mess of lightning over head that destroyed stone structures such as buildings and monorail tracks. Once the rail was gone she gave the people a direct order, "Bring me Misty Breeze or start building an ark!"
"Move it Loonatics!" Ace said as the group headed to the lake side monorail. Parker was able to keep up, but he had little idea what his powers could do about this kind of crash. The people within that metal monster were screaming in panic while hoping that something good was heading their way. "Come on gang, let's get that monorail!" Ace said once the group got there they all got to work: Slam – using his tornado legs pushed the car that was hanging upwards. Tech – using his magnetic powers held the rest of the train while Slam carried it across. Ace and Lexi – used brain blasts and optic blasts to deal with some of the ruble in the way, and once the train was on the other side it took both the backside of Slam and the front of Spider-Man to stop it.
"Man that hurt!" Exclaimed Spider as he and the Tasmanian were trying to cool off their feet. While those two were praying that they did not have blisters the size of Duck's ego Ace decided to open up the door and see if the people were alright.
"Who ordered the Acme Heroes?" He questioned and got praise as an answer for his question. As the group was about to leave web-spinner heard a strange comment from one of the passengers.
"Oh, I knew his Great-Great-Great grandfather." This statement did not seem right to him since the time period was later than three or so generations, but he chalked it up to the lady of being senile.
'How am I going to follow them?' He thought while watching the rabbits leave, and that is when he heard a whistle. He looked up and it was Slam, "Good ol` Slam." He muttered before firing a line at him which he caught and carried him off. The Loonatics made it back to city hall plaza, all facing the same building that they believed the villainess was still there.
"Box her in! One of us on each side. Go!" Ace said to the others when the group saw her bubble, and they all charged at the building with Spider-Man scaling the tower as fast as he could. There was a problem with is strategy already. "Ok Weathervane, your forecast calls for…" Ace said feeling confident of what he was about to finish with, but he didn't get the chance.
"Aah! Don't hurt me!" The cameraman said waving his hand at Ace, pleading that the two didn't pummel him.
"Ahh, I didn't get to finish my line." He said with a tone of disappointment, but decided that maybe he knew something about this latest villain so he asked, "Where'd she go."
"I don't know. She just flew up and vanished." He answered back while advancing the leader. After that conversation they all left him to see if there was anything they could do. As always the team trusted the radar with opposable thumbs who was hovering over the city seeing if he could find anymore danger; while the arachnid did it his own way.
"Hey, Rev. Does your radar show anybody else in danger?" Ace questioned their eye in the sky once he got close enough.
"Well a lot of wet people, but no one in danger unless you count soggy underwear danger." He answered back while looking over his shoulder and then saw that Spider-Man was talking to others to see if they needed help, but they calmly declined.
"We should evacuate the area." Ace said to the others, but that order only brought up a variety of questions.
"The whole area? Why?" Lexi asked questionably to the leader who decided to give her an answer while staring at the ocean.
"I got a little feeling, something big is coming." Ace's view of the sea was interrupted by the devil flying in front of him. When the big guy was floating there a familiar rainbow stayed in front of them and behind him.
"Suspicions confirmed, Ace." The woman was the true founder of their team with her blonde hair flowing upward.
"Zadavia." Slam said while looking over his right shoulder. Now aware that they all were listening she decided to inform the others just what was going on.
"There's an unnatural energy source brewing with intensity 35 miles off the Acmetropolis coast. All efforts to contain Weathervane have failed." She said to them before vanishing. The animal heroes were about to leave until they realized that Spider-Man, who was on a local building left, still does not have his pack, so he could not follow.
"Love to come with you guys, but I need my…" He stopped talking when he noticed that Rev was not there in the sky anymore. This, in a way, did not surprise him since he glanced over to his left and saw the speed creature holding his pack. "Thanks." He said and the group flew off to this weather mistress.
"With all this water we could sure use a duck." Lexi pointed off once the six were over the water. The others could not have agreed more, but it was Ace that spoke an answer.
"Yeah, where is Duck?" The fact was that Danger Duck got his hands on one of Tech rocket powered surfboards, which he made two weeks back, and was following the bubble. Naturally, he was taking the 'make everyone forget Misty Breeze' thing a little too far. "Duck, where are you?" Ace said through their com link.
"I'm on a personal mission." He answered back to the leader and that is not what he wanted to hear.
"Personal? Listen Duck we don't do…" Ace said starting to try to reason with him, but Duck cut off the transmission. He then turned his attention on the hater of his idol and began speaking, "Anyone who insults Misty Breeze insults Danger Duck." The mallard notices that the villainess had stopped over the ocean; he was so focused on avenging Misty that he failed to notice the clouds above her were creating an eye. He stopped his ride and pointed an accusing finger while stating, "Excuse me, bubblehead, but as Misty Breeze biggest fan, I'm going to have to ask you to apologize to her: right now!" That one name made Weathervane loose her temper once again.
"Misty Breeze?!" She then pressed her hands to her bubble and yelled out one other thing, "She is nothing compared to me!" She then fired two pillars of water into the ocean.
"Well, somebody has an ego." He said with a chuckle before seeing a tidal wave, which was caused by the weather witch's attack, Seeing the wave the water fowl added, "And a temper! Yaah!" He then went into the water, but he quickly corrected himself and flew out.
"I am queen of the elements, a weather goddess!" Weathervane said, ending in a laugh, but was interrupted by the return of Danger Duck. As a counter move he kicked her bubble with a grunt and she added a short scream of surprise.
"Did you see that coming Misty HATER?" He questioned the now really teed off woman.
"You again?" She demanded while still keeping her voice neutral.
"No one insults Misty Breeze or you answer to the vice president and founding member of her international fan club!" He yelled back while shaking his left fist at her.
"I answer to no one because I…" She said back, but was interrupted by the duck once again.
"Excuse me miss partly cloudy, you had your moment I'm trying to expound here!" He said back, but failed to realize that he was not helping the problem tiny tad.
"I've heard enough!" She yelled and in a big smoke screen: a black dragon with magenta eyes appeared.
"Now, there's something you don't see everyday." He said aloud with the fire against Misty's attacker gone from his voice. The other six members finally got there, but instead of seeing the villain of the day they say a ticked off dragon.
"Duck, what are you doing? Where's Weathervane?" Lexi questioned the duck on their way there, and that is when she got their answer.
"I hope that's not her? Ace said looking at the beast, but he had a gut feeling that the beast was their target. As they all stared at the dragon Parker could have sworn he heard laughter before the roar, but he could have been wrong. The first thing that the dragon did was shoot out purple lightning in order for the Loonatics to clear a path for it.
"Seriously who ever heard of a dragon spurting out purple lightning?" Spider-Man questioned to relieve some of the attention, but was ignored which got him a little down.
"The dragon's heading back to Acmetropolis." The pink one informed, and the seven flew after it. The first thing that was struck was a concrete building and then a dock with two terrified fishermen; luckily they were able to get off the dock with nothing more than soiled jumpsuits.
'Didn't I see that off of a monster movie?' Spider thought to himself before watching the creature go deeper into the city; still shooting lightning everywhere. The next thing to really feel its wrath was a metal tower which fell, and would have hurt someone if it wasn't for Tech who flew right where it was supposed to land and turned it into a ball with his powers. He then tried throwing his new weapon, but the dragon merely sucked it up and roared at him.
"Oh ho ho ho!" He said before flying off. The yellow rabbit with one foot on the ledge of the building he was standing on just watched the beast, and he also saw what the genius tried.
"A busted hydrant is not going to take that thing out." Lexi said once she flew up beside her boss. Spider-Man landed on the building and walked over to the ledge; where he got there he heard his leader ask a simple question.
"Hey, uh, Tech; I don't suppose you would have a really big hairdryer?" Ace questioned the green one who was to his left.
"If you're thinking of evaporating THAT thing. It will take a hairdryer, oh, a mile wide." He answered back while stretching his arm to an estimated amount. That was not the answer he was looking for.
"Nah, nah, nah. Hey, Rev, any idea where we can find the hottest spot within 100 miles?" He questioned the red one who was to his upper right.
"Oh, baby, do I have I fiery hotspot for you guys. This is gonna burn the hair off you if you get too close. Man this place is scotching!" He answered back enthusiastically, and in the time he said all that Slam, who was to the left of Ace, and Duck, who was in front of Ace heard that news too.
"Got it. We just need some bait." Tech said while pointing to Rev, approving of the area, and that just left one easy question of 'who is the bait.'
"Why's everybody looking at me?" Danger questioned before adding something else, "Let me guess…me again."
"Why not, Duck, I mean look how well you look to Weathervane." The wall-crawler said while pointing over at the dragon. There were a few hidden snickers about that, but duck turned his beak up at that statement. Slam, Lexi, Ace, and Spider-Man traveled by pack and Tech traveled by porta-lab to said island.
"This gonna work." Ace questioned the coyote, and was praying for an easy answer.
"If the lava charges n sync with the timing mechanism there should be enough combustion to…" Tech said, simply answering the field leader with his own lingo, but was cut shot by Ace who said a different sentence.
"English, Tech?" He answered it with fewer words this time.
"Yeah, it should go boom." The four liked that answer better, even though Peter liked someone that smart around. As the five were landing the yellow hare asked a different question – one that was kind of important.
"That all we needed." He said first and then added, "And that will activate the volcano?" He questioned, and did not like the answer once they touched down.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Lexi said to the others, and right when Tech opened the hatch the island shook.
"Misty predicted the weather, not nightmare!" Duck yelled to the dragon as he was being pulled by Rev. "Well look at the mighty storm dragon acting big and superior." He added while still water skiing. "Let me tell you something dragon lady Misty still number one in my charts!" For this statement he put his right hand to his chest. When that was said the dragon shot off basketball shaped hail which Rev saw and evaded with ease. Danger still felt like opening that beak in the process, "Oh ho! Missed me! Whoo-hoo. Missed me again! And again!" When the attack had stopped he decided to press his luck, "Whoa, bad aim!" After he said that the dragon was right beside him: staring at him. "Is that as fast as you can go? You're such a sad excuse for a monster much less a weather girl! Ho ho, pathetic!" Rev then kept going as fast as he could go hoping that the others had everything in place.
"Who ordered the volcano starter?" Spider-Man questioned as he hoisted the bomb overhead. He then looked to the others for directions.
"Right over there, web-slinger." Tech said while pointing over to a section of sand. He put it down on the ground and once he stood up he saw Slam to his left, Tech to his left, Lexi to his left. The green machine maker told them his plan and the unlucky one for this mission, "Slam can withstand the heat better than any of us." He showed them all a, 'what did you just say' look. Tech continued while pointing to the target, "Take this to the volcano and when I say now…push this red button and throw it into the volcano. Got that? Now."
"Yeaah." Slam responded and did what he was told which may not have been a good move. As soon as his finger was mere inches from touching the said button the female and the canine shouted his name in unison.
"Slam." The problem was that it was already too late. He had pressed the button activating a computer voice instantly.
"Detonation in 30 seconds." This truly aggravated the genius as he said back to the brute while slamming a hand to his face for a moment.
"Not now NOW, now LATER." He said and after hearing that, Slam tried to make good.
"Later?" He questioned before pulling the button out. Once that was done he smiled to the others. The sad thing was that the counter was still going.
"17…16…15"
"Just get it up there - NOW." Ordered Ace, since neither him or the others wanted to decorate the palm trees around them. Angrily the devil picked up the device with his eyes glowing babbling something angrily which the loner guessed it meant.
'Next time be clearer of what you meant.' While he made his way up there the two had made it to the island with Duck still talking.
"You want Misty, you bag of wind? Catch me!" He said and this time he got some commentary from his ride.
"Yeah Duck! Woo-hoo!" Rev said in celebration, and in this time Slam had made it to the base of the mountain. It didn't take him long to reach the top since he used his cyclone legs. When he got to the hole he could feel the heat, and he knew the coyote was right he could stand it…for a while. After shielding his face for a moment the Tasmanian threw it with the digital tone still talking.
"10…9…" This time Rev was tearing up dirt as he continued carrying Duck behind him. While getting there the mallard was slammed in the face by a leaf filled tree branch. Danger saw the volcano and released the bar and stopped at the edge, waiting for the dragon.
"4…3…" Duck decided that he stayed there long enough and quacked away with a laugh.
"Chance of explosion…100%!" Duck exclaimed once he quacked a safe distance away. The lava did as Tech guessed it went through the dragon, which was still able to fire some lightning before going boom, and the flowing aftermath forced the Loonatics to get off that island, but not without a casualty.
"Oh! My porta-lab, I just built it." The egghead said with a surprised gasp of where the molten material was headed.
"Forget the porta-lab, Tech. Let's jet!" Ace said, not really feeling sympathy to the mechanic.
"My precious porta-lab – destroyed! No!" He yelled out for the others to hear while they made their getaway. "It never harmed anyone!" He added dramatically after hearing a couple more explosions which he new was his latest toy.
"Wow…he really needs to get out more." The yellow rabbit said in disbelief that his old friend would care that much for a hunk of steel. The team was able to make it back to the city and the first stop they made was the 'Acme News' van for a certain purpose.
"I'm picking up Zadavia's signal." Lexi said and with that the team landed beside it. They all saw that the same cameraman was finishing of checking his gear.
"There are no traces left of the storm dragon." The blonde said when her face appeared on the screen on the side of the van. She continued to give them some strange news, "Whatever happened to Weathervane remains a mystery. We can only assume she escaped." While Zadavia was talking Misty came out and heard the female voice; the seven looked at her, but listened to their boss. "Good job, Loonatics. Zadavia…" Her transmission was cut short by missed who clicked the off button and practically demanded.
"Who is this? I'm the only pretty face on this channel." Despite everything she was still a pain and Duck was still head over heels.
"Misty, this is my chance." He said while looking at her dreamily.
"In 3…2…" The camera man started with his hand in the may, but the diva pushed it aside and began talking.
"This is Misty Breeze, and the massive storm front that battered Acmetropollis has finally come to an end. I for one am…" She was interrupted by her obsessed fan. He giggled at her and decided to stop for the moment despite having a beautiful background that showed that she was right. "Cut! Can I help you?"
"Ah, yes, it's me Duck! Remember your number one fan!" He said proudly to her.
"Uh-huh." She said back annoyed.
"I was just wondering if you'd sign a few things." He said which he knew just what for her to write on.
"Ok, just make it quick." She answered back and thought it would only be one, two things tops.
"Here's your fan club picture." He said giving her a picture of herself with a red background. She signed it with an 'uh-huh'. Then item number two, "Your official weather cookbook." That one got a higher response.
"Hey." Her tone was difference and the web-head could have sworn he saw a genuine smile, but it didn't last.
"Your commutative beach towel." This time she groaned if frustration. This third one she had to ask.
"What else!"
"Oh, uh…this inflatable beach ball." He said to her, and after she signed it she had to ask a dumb question.
"How many more of these things do you have?" She will soon be horrified once she finds out what 'a few things' means to Danger Duck.
"Not much." He said and that is when his idol sees a dump tuck dump all of her junk, but he continued to talk, "Just all your posters, all your books, your discarded chewing gum, your eighth grade report card…" He had to stop a while so he and Misty could come to the surface. It wasn't the underwear on her head driving her up the wall, but Danger Duck who was still going on, "All the shaky snow globes with you wearing that tiny parka…just the essentials." As he was digging for the next thing for a signature his dream girl has had it.
"Enough!" She yelled out, not wanting to see those snow globes ever again. The other members saw this and did nothing to help her.
"Maybe we should leave the two lovebirds alone." Ace said to the others, and the other five followed his lead.
"Next, your limited edition sweat-sock set. I wear them everyday." Duck said while holding the footwear in question; Misty rested an elbow on her junk and groaned in response.
"Rev take my pack, I'm going to go check on something." Spider-Man commented and gave the red one his jetpack. The others were a little curious of why, but he already knew that much, "Don't worry guys, it's nothing bad; just need to clean the cobwebs."
"Sure thing doc; we need to handle a few things at HQ, anyways." Ace said back and the six took off while the web-spinner went a different way. The 'whatever happened to Weathervane remains a mystery' part that Zadavia told them did not sit well with the arachnid, so he headed to the closest area that the dragon attacked.
"Maybe she had really disappeared." He whispered once he made it to the edge and was looking at the ruble that used to be a building. "I should probably head back home." He said after a few more minutes of searching for the weather witch. He spent a few minutes of watching the waves he heard his com link beep. "Spider here, what's up?" He said after activating it.
"Mind heading back to the base, we have something` for ya." Ace said into the earpiece, and for a moment the slinger thought he heard snickering in the background.
"Right, be right there, bunny." He answered back and turned it off. He stood up and was about to go until something caught his eye: a washed up body, but it was wearing black. "Weathervane." He said in alarm at the face down woman. He was grateful of meeting Beast for the tips of checking vitals. "She's alright, just exhausted; guess making that dragon took it out of her." He muttered as he picked her up – bridal style. 'Guess I'm hoofin' it.' He thought as he ran over to one of the buildings and continued to run on the side of it; he then carefully did Tick jumps until he made it to the police station.
"Whe-where am I?" The blue faced woman asked before realizing that she was being held. She saw that it was Spider-Man and then she looked to her left and saw the police station.
"You've come too; don't worry those guys down there will take care of you." He said to her in a calm and soothing manner. She almost blushed until she got her high horse attitude back.
"I DON'T NEED ANYONE'S HELP. I AM THE COMANDER OF THE ELEMENTS." She shouted with only half, if at best, the strength then before. She shrugged it off.
"You also endangered hundreds of lives in your petty act of vengeance." He answered back before firing a web-line. "Now hang on tight." He then jumped from the ledge and she instinctively wrapped her arms around his neck as they landed right on the stump. "It'll be alright." He whispered to her once she stood by his side.
"It's Weathervane!" An officer said in alarm once exiting the doors.
"Easy chief, I'm taking her end." Peter answered back before entering the building. A man with a solid black beard and a peak, for a human, build walked over to the crimson warrior.
"I am Commissioner Arthur Oliver. I see that you have, Weathervane, Spider-Man." He said once he met the two. Parker handed the woman over to the bearded one.
"She's all yours, but try to take it easy on her after all she was around Misty Breeze." He said while heading over to the door. It was then and there that the man and the others who heard that understood why she was angry. The hero glanced over his shoulder to look at the building and he was reminded of two gargoyle allies and one vampire lover.
"Spider, where are you? Didn't you get Ace's message." Lexi screamed into his earpiece without him even noticing a beeping sound.
"Sorry, just had to finish a king sized Root Beer, but I'm on my way." He answered back and once he made sure the piece was off he turned to the boys in blue, "Don't tell them, and let it be a secret." He said before heading back on course. He as grateful that the station was a couple of blocks away from the spire, and he also knew that this station was for trials and for transport station nothing more. He made it to home in halfway decent time, to save on time he fired a line as high as it would go and then did a gym rope exercise. "Made it." He muttered once he made it into the sphere, glad that one of the lounge room's window was open. He saw all the lights were off so he turned on a homing beacon ability that was on his ear and followed up to the meeting room.
"There's something we got to tell you, bug face." Ace said as he swiveled his chair from back to front, to face the hero. Spider-Man saw that all, including Duck who had a stamper that seemed to have 'Misty Breeze on it, was there as well.
"Don't tell me: a TV studio actually signed Danger for a TV show." He questioned in that usual sense of humor.
"Not exactly, and before you say anything else it has to deal with the team." He said in a semi-serious tone. He got up off the chair and walked over to the wall-crawler; the others followed his lead. He noticed that the pink bunny had a box in hand. The six surrounded him which got him on his guard.
'If that thing has restraints in it I'm webbing these guys so bad it will take a year before they would be able to be peeled off the ceiling.' He thought and then saw that Lexi had taken the cover off and Ace had put his hands in the box.
"You can't be a proper Loonatic…without the right gear." The hare said before and after pulling out a Loonatic uniform. He noticed the triangle color: Blue.
"Why blue?" Peter questioned, not minding the color just wondering of all the colors why that one.
"Rev has one of your main colors and Slam has the combination of the colors so that left blue." Tech said to the latest addition. Peter took it in his hand before looking at all of them.
"Thanks guys." He said in an honest tone, which he was. This was the first team that wanted him and did not have a loophole of why he couldn't join. He then left the room. "I'll be right back guys, but I think it's best that I change somewhere else." He said with his head poking from the doorway.
"Like I would even do that." Lexi said while crossing her arms, showing how angry he made her. With noting better to do they waited for him to come back. In truth they did not have to wait long since he knew how to dress in a hurry, and the best way to tell them he was done when he screamed. "Peter." She said in surprise and the team all ran over to him and Rev was the one that head butted the slinger.
"What's wrong, Peter?" The canine questioned after seeing that he was wearing his costume.
"The thing that's wrong is that my face went blue." He answered back after getting to his feet and shaking away the stars in his eyes. The others looked at him as though he had gone nuts. "What's with the staring?" He questioned as he nearly glared at them.
"Zadavia designed the suits to change our fur or feather in accordance to the color we wear." Tech explained and five of them took off their masks to show their true colors; Duck didn't want to.
"Why should we show him? He may tell the bad guys who we are." He stated in his whiny tone. The others couldn't believe him.
"Look Duck, everyone knows who we are and he's been with us for a while now." The field leader said to the duck and after a while Danger took off his too. Ace then turned his attention to the blue member, "See, your ok just blue, but why the surprised look?"
"Maybe because I've never seen ANY of you guys without your uniforms and in casual look." He answered back, and after hearing that the others could understand. "No worries; let's just get some z's." He said and headed off to his room. Duck glared angrily at the newest member and despite not looking at the mallard he knew why: a big blue spider logo on his back. The others followed his lead and went to their quarters too.