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Chapter 14:
Time travel x3
"Acmetropolis is under siege by a mysterious new threat. Some kind of terrifying monster machine. Reports say it was a robot stolen at the Acmetropolis weapon laboratory, code name - Trol-Bot 9000. The Loonatics are valiantly trying to stop it." A reporter in a tattered blue suit informed the viewers while having the camera move from him to the Ariel fight. As for the machine in question it was determined to make it all the way to their base.
"Lexi, Spider, on three." Ace informed the two when he saw that their individual attacks weren't working. The arachnid and the female hare flew up to his sides; he counted down from three with his fingers, and then they did a combo attack on the left propeller. Spider-Man launched impact webbing balls which covered, but did not stop then Lexi used brain blast and Ace used optic blast which all made a very nice boom. Without one of two of its propellers the Patrol mech fell to the streets below.
"Okay, we did the fun part of getting it grounded, so are you ready to give it it's punishment." Spider said through his com link as he and the other three landed in front of the caved in road. Earlier in the brawl the team went two ways: Rev and Tech prepped a blaster while the other five stalled it.
"Don't worry, bug. My metallo converter will neutralize it." He informed before pressing a button on his arm pad which caused a stand with a gun to come out of the wall of their home. A little after he landed and was heading for the gun the Patrol-Bot was out of the ground: unharmed.
"Let's jet!" The field leader said to the other three after gawking at him walking at them. The four took flight, ready to carry on with their plan. "Closing in on you, Tech." He warned while he, like the others were trying to deal with it.
"Almost there." He said back while doing some last minute wiring on his blaster. The devil, who was on Ace's team, tornado spun all the way to the robot's head. Loonatic purple tried to take a few swings at him, but was flicked away, and went through three buildings, but stopped at the far wall of the fourth. The patrol patriot felt something hit its head, it was web balls, eggs, optic blasts, and brain blasts: all of which had zero effect on it.
"Split up!" Lexi shouted when he saw the opponent raise it's right arm, and was charging for a blast. When it fired three of them were able to fly out of the way, but the fourth used his quacking powers.
"Now you'll see what a REAL superior hero this duck really is. How about a robot omelet, buddy?" He proclaimed after quacking back near the waist of the enemy fighter. The mallard created a big egg, and tossed it, but the machine had a strong defense which deflected the glowing sphere back at him. "Aah! Luck for me it was a tar egg." He commented calmly while being covered in that substance. The robot walked past them, and focused on it's target: their home.
"Come to papa." Tech said while standing at the edge of the small landing. "Rev, the Turbo-Reverse modulator." He asked when he knew the mechanical one was close enough. As always Rev's speed saved a boat load on time as he came back to the landing, after going in to search for it, and handed it to the coyote. He put it in a special spot under the handles for the blaster. The bot did not like the sight of the gun so it attacked with green beams from it's hands, "Eat dust, troll." Tech said while holding the handles, and pressed the button for firing, but instead of taking out the Patrol-Bot it blew up in his face. "You already reversed the reverse modulator, didn't you?" The now red eyed, crispy skinned scientist asked his speed warrior who was just standing there.
"I sure did, wasn't I supposed to." He answered and questioned to his fellow Loonatic. He thought that he needed it reversed before hand hence the name.
"Hold that thought." He said before his body dissolved into a pile of dust with some slight groaning. Not taking any chances the robot fired four rockets from it's four pack missile launcher on it's left shoulder, and made a BIG hole in the middle of the spire. Spider from behind tried flying behind it.
'Now, you ticked me off.' He thought while flying there. He was so filled with rage that he failed to notice that not only did Loonatic red and green got out in time, but that several pieces of debris came with it. One piece in particular hit him on his side while he was using experimental impact webbing. "That didn't tickle." He said after slamming back first into the ruins of a building and slid down. As he strained to stand up the arachnid looked up and saw the robot coming at him. Unknown to him there was a thought going through the mind of the bot.
'After taking him out I'll take care of the bunnies, and then everybody else.' It saw the hero backing up, despite being pinned on all sides. The machine raised it's foot ready to stomp him.
'This is gonna leave a bruise.' He thought while ready to accept his fate. He covered his eyes and screamed at the top of his lungs, waiting for the end, but he jolted up with his eyes wide open he saw that he was in his room. "That was one shell of a dream." Peter said before scanning his room and added, "At least I…think it was a dream." He then got out of bed, dawned on the Loonatic threads, and joined the others in the kitchen.
"Mornin` Pete. You look really run down. I'm making my super duper pick me up shake if you like one of mine, how about it." Rev said to him after seeing the wall-crawler walk over to the counter. As the runner spoke to him he was putting fruit in the juicer and in the blender, he then mixed them together, put them in a glass, and handed it to him.
"Appreciate the offer, there, Rev, but I'm too whipped to probably drink that without spilling it on my pants. Trust me, I already lived through that." He answered back while still giving them his trademark sense of humor. The human turned his attention to Loonatic pink who activated the hover toaster. She placed a piece of bread in it, and after nothing happened she tapped the top of it with her left fist, and it cooked it just right in a flash. "That's just weird." Peter commented after bending down to get a better look at the piece of bread.
"Peter, I know that we need a new toaster, but trust me toast is not strange unless Duck makes it then: watch out." She said since he often made a big deal of the dull sounds that it makes before the tapping, and Loonatic blue knew what she meant - the last time Danger Duck made toast it was something that not even Broadway would eat, but there was something else bugging him.
"Loonatics, your assistance is urgently needed at the Acmetropolis military weapons lab." Zadavia said, appearing in holo-form, and then showed them the image of their destination on their television. The team left the table and walked closer to their boss.
"The weapons lab needs help from us, but they have all those…weapons." Tech questioned, wondering if she was for once their founder was making a joke, or a wild goose chase.
"Someone has broken in and is trying to steal: the Trol-Bot 9000." The blond haired one informed after appearing back before them. She had a feeling that one of the two jokers of the team would make a big production out of what she had said.
"The Trol-bot 9000? No! Not the Trol-Bot 9000!" Danger Duck exclaimed after pushing his way in front of Ace. He then easily settled down and asked the others calmly, "What the Trol-Bot 9000, again?" Ace and the others slammed their hands on their heads at his later point.
"The most powerful fighting machine, ever created." She said back to them, and knew that Duck would speak of that part too, but she glanced at Spider-Man, and saw that he was pretty calm about this.
"NOT, the Trol-Bot 9000!" Duck said with emphasis on 'not' and his arms to his side. Loonatic yellow decided to stop that rambling from Loonatic orange.
"Duck. Try using your inside voice." He said to the mallard, and then turned to his, and the teams, leader, and added, "We'll get right on it." She nodded, and knew that the group would not fail her since they never have.
"Zadavia, out." She said and vanished leaving the team to get prepped for this tussle.
"Let's jet." Ace instructed and the Loonatics went off in different directions to get ready to leave. Just as Duck was about to leave he heard their video com-link being accessed, and after seeing snow Danger accessed the video with a button on his arm pad.
"Hello? Make it snappy gramps we're on our way to save the city." The duck said to the elder in a hover chair in an irritable fashion.
"My name is Doctor Fidel Chroniker, and my grandson is TOTALLY out of control." The elder informed the duck and prayed that he would hear him out, but as always Danger Duck lacked the patience of dealing with the elderly.
"And this is our problem: how? We're superheroes. Send junior to bed without his video games, and let us do our job." He answered back without thinking, and thumbing to the left. The man tried to say something, but was cut off.
"OH, must we got through this again." He said to the now computer screen before him. He put his right hand over his eyes for a moment and then looked back at the screen. As for the location that Zadavia spoke of the intruder was getting down the corridors with little to no problem.
"Attention all personnel, red alert. Security has been breached. An unknown intruder has made his way into the weapons lab." A computer voice said to all available forces, but the intruder kept on coming. He clocked the one at the front desk with one punch, knocked the guard by the guard by the door away, pushed, kicked, and threw three guards that were in the hall that led to his destination, and dropped another guards gun on the owners head all while popping to each guard.
"How is he doing that?" One of the guards questioned while looking at the green Mohawked one.
"Put your hands up." Another said, not really caring for how he did that.
"Identify yourself or we'll shoot." A third said while he and the others took aim at the intruder. The boy looked at all of them and decided to answer that request calmly.
"The name's Timeskip, and today belongs to me. That Trol is mine, and I'm not hostile. I'm just reclaiming what is mine." He said to them and saw that there were a few that pulled their triggers, but he sort of used the same power to get that far only this time to make the attacks stop before him. "The military stole my design, and now they're going to pay for it." He added with his hands on his hips. Soon after his proclamation the team of seven made it to the teenager.
"This place looks worse that my room." Slam said to the others after taking a long look around it. Within the building there was a few people getting the place up and running.
"Your right, it is worse than your room." Lexi added with a slight nod of the head. She and the other six waited for the leader of the base to arrive and tell them what was going on.
"The Loonatics -at last!" A voice said. The voice belonged to a man of military origin, and decided to add, "So glad you're here. I am Colonel Trench, this is my command." An explosion was heard from down the hall. "Or, was. Follow me." He said and the eight began to walk. "Someone calling himself Timeskip has broken it claiming we stole his designs for the Trol-Bot 9000." He informed while walking.
"NOT the Trol-bot 9000!" Duck exclaimed after hearing the name of the robot. This caused the rest of the group to stop after he quacked to the front.
"I'm afraid so." The military man said in a still stern way. "We've been trying to pin him down, but he continues to breach our security measures." He informed them, and as six of them were worried that much, but Peter didn't show any signs of worry.
'Never do care for Government kind of groups especially S.H.I.E.L.D. Those guys wanted to smear the good names of my parents.' He thought after hearing that they could not grab the intruder. The invader of the base on the other hand took care of the guards and began making a few keystrokes, and was able to get his machine out of the special underground chamber.
"Awesome! Your mine, all mine!" He exclaimed when the elevator of the device stopped and the machine stood at full height. About that same time the eight have gotten to the end of the hallway, and it was Trench who saw the problem first.
"No, don't let him near that system! If he gets inside - no one will be able to stop him." The Colonel warned them while pointing at the one with the green hairstyle. Feeling proud of their feats Danger Duck decided to put more pressure on themselves.
"Well, we're just the nobody's to try." He said and the seven of them charged at him with all they had.
"Time out Loonatics." Timeskip said calmly freezing them as they tried to go forward to stop him. Rev tried super speed, Duck tried running, Spider-Man swinging on a web-line, Ace big land leap, Lexi leaped into the air, Tech on foot, and Slam spinning. While they were stopped he calmly got inside through the heel, into the control room, and strapped it, and that is when the spell was cleansed from the group.
'May have missed something, but I say we blew it.' Peter thought after landing from a partial swing, and did not see him around, and that is when his voice was heard.
"Now that I'M in the driver's seat. Let's show `em what ya got." He said to the bot and then made it lift it's left arm which produced a cannon of sorts. Ace tried to blast it, but that was useless since he was still able to move the limb, aim and fire.
"Incoming!" The field leader said to the team as he and Lexi got out of the way. In the end Spider-Man was fine due to his spider sense, but Slam, Ace, and Lexi along with a few guards were out like lights.
'No.' Peter thought before jogging over and checked for a pulse from them all, and the guys all had one. Then he came to Lexi, and when he tested he…found one. 'That's good.' He thought not knowing that some of his primal half was starting to rise to the surface. He looked up and saw that he had turned his sights to the other three.
"Tech, look out. I got ya." Rev shouted when he and the other two saw a missile coming at them, but with the quacking power Danger Duck was spared, and with super speed Rev and Tech were safe. The three of them hid behind the console that gave Timeskip access to the holding cell which a chunk of ceiling debris fell on top of it.
"Come on Trol-Bot, we're outta here." He said after gaining control of his hysterical laughter, and then he activated the machines right arm gun. "Let's take a tour of the city." He said to the robot and blew up a wall. After taking a few steps the mechanical maniac took flight. About this time Ace, Lexi, and Slam were back on they're feet.
"My new metallo converter would turn that thing to dust, but it's back at headquarters." Tech said as he and the others got to the hole just in time to watch it fly. Loonatic yellow heard that, and came up with a plan.
"Right. Then you take Rev and prep it. We'll bring the Trol-Bot right to ya." He said and the two of them took fight, and headed for home. The long eared one turned his attention to the other four and said, "Come on, let's clean his clock." The other five took flight, but unlike the first two the second team decided to deal with the scrapheap.
"Ace, what's the plan?" Lexi questioned after brain blasting the bot's left arm.
"Take out his blades. On three, Lexi." He answered back, and Peter could see that everything was soon becoming like his dream only with Ace sort of using his lines. "We brought it down, you in position Tech." He said.
"Don't worry, Ace, my metallo converter will neutralize it." He said just like before. "Come to papa." He added and watched the creature making a lot of property damage.
"Keep hitting him hard, the plans working." Ace said, and Peter did not recall that sentence in his dream, but he rolled with it.
"You crazy Loonatics. Can't you see I'm indestructible." Timeskip shouted at them which gave the web-head time to open his mouth, but he decided to wait it out.
"Keep driving him toward HQ." Ace told the others as he and the others dodged his fire, and his hands. After some walking the man in the suit saw his target was pretty close now.
"Well, this ought to be fun. Time to bring down the house." He said when he caught sight of their home/workplace, but he decided to get the flyers out of the way first. He fired, but missed them all.
"Closing in on ya, Tech." Ace warned the canine big-brain of the team.
"Almost there." He said back while putting some finishing touches on his ray. About that time Timeskip was getting hot under the collar because the animals were not letting him have his way.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH! I'M GONNA BLOWUP YOUR HEADQUARTERS!" He shouted to them, and Tech looked over the edge and saw him ready to attack.
"Rev, the turbo reverse modulator." Tech instructed, and got the piece as soon as he said it's name. He put it in as soon as it landed in his hand. Timeskip sent a shockwave blasts from the bots right hand, but Loonatic green stood his ground. "Eat dust, Trol." He said and pulled the trigger and just like in Spider's dream it blew in his face. "You already reversed the reverse modulator, didn't you?" He questioned Loonatic Red, who came to the genius' right side.
"Just saving you time, isn't that what you wanted me to do." He said back with a low voice. Wondering if he did the right thing to a fellow Loonatic, but he knew that thanks to his healing factor he was going to be fine. Timeskip took the time to use four missiles to bring down their home. After dodging some of the rubble Pete saw that Loonatics: red, green, orange, purple, yellow, and even pink did not fair to well.
"Hey, itsy bitsy spider, give up. Can't you see that I won." The green haired youth said in a snobby fashion. The wall crawler could only stare at Lexi form, and that was when it happened: his rage. To prove this his eyes went blue, very blue before he picked up BIG pieces of stone, and started throwing them at him. "Come on, buggy." He said while laughing at his attempts, but he kept on throwing at top strength. "Is that the best you got?" He questioned, and that was when Pete started backing away, but he saw that he cracked it. "Now, it's my turn. I'm gonna show you what I do with bugs." He said as he raised his foot and brought it down.
'Now.' He thought to himself and dodged the foot. He landed on the leg that attacked him, and charged at the crack at full speed. With both fists out he rammed the damage, and was able to come inside.
"THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! I AM INDESTRUCTABLE!" He shouted in anger when his instruments told him of the breech. Even with them telling him there was danger, not even technology could tell him how bad he was about to get screwed. The boy heard banging from the floor, and after a few dents a creature came threw the floor.
"Now, it's your turn." Spider-Man said darkly. As he climbed out of the hole with a torn up Loonatic suit, due to his climbing around, he could see the kids fear, but that was normal when he was pushed too far.
"I'm still in control." He said but Spider did not believe him. The body suit that he was wearing to control it was suspended by a thick metal pole, but Parker tore the suit and pole together. He slammed him against one of the walls of the head.
"Let's see if your REALLY indestructible!" He shouted and was about to slam his fist through his face, but everything went black. "Whoa. Another night, another dream of kicking Shell-Head's butt." He guessed before getting out of bed and onto the kitchen area. He walked through the right doors and saw that Ace and the others were already there.
"Another bad night. I feel as though I have the same nightmare over and over." He told the others as he was walking to the table.
'So, I'm not the only one that's been having that sort of problem.' The male rabbit thought after hearing his comment. The others on the other hand either didn't have the same dream, or they weren't listening.
"Sorry, Peter, but I'm making up one of my super duper pick me ups. Would you care for one?" He questioned and presented him a fruit/veggie shake. The former loner dismissed the offer and said to him,
"Appreciate the offer, there, Rev, but I'm too whipped to probably drink that without spilling it on my pants. Trust me, I already lived through that." He took a few minutes to think of what he had just said. "Okay, weird, I think I'm still dreaming because I remember saying that." He said aloud and that was when he heard someone yawn behind him: it was Lexi.
"Hello? Only like every single morning, web-head." She told him after the yawn. She accessed the toaster, put the bread in, banged on it, and it worked.
"No, cottontail. I mean you, Rev…all of this seems way too familiar." He informed her while stressing the word 'way'.
"Hello? We only make the same breafasty thing every single morning." She answered him after taking a couple of bites of bread ending in a smile. He walked over to her and said to her flat out.
"And that. What you just said, I'm sure you said before…or something like that." He said to her, while saying that last part lowly.
"Pete's right. Something feels off." Ace said to the others: cementing Spider-Man's theory. The logical member of the team took a practical approach for his comrades plight.
"Sounds like, dejavu." He said calmly while reading the paper, which on it was a snapshot of their brawl with Sypher. 'How does the newspaper ALWAYS have shots of our fights.' He though, but already knew the answer.
"Ja-ja, who?" Duck commented after hearing that one word since he had no idea what it meant.
"Dejavu: the sense your experiencing something over and over again, but I don't think it has happened for two people." He said to them, while mentally reviewing any material of it happening to more than one person, and came up with nothing. 'A new scientific discovery.' He thought with praise, and that was about the time that Zadavia summoned herself in the usual holo style.
"Loonatics, your assistance is urgently needed at the Acmetropolis weapons lab." She said to them with a rushed voice. They all saw their destination, and that was when the other five were getting the same vibe as Spider and Ace.
"Hey, uh, you thinkin what I'm thinkin?" Ace questioned to the others as they walked closer to their founder. Lexi saw a big smile on both Loonatic blue and Loonatic yellow, and knew that it was either a smile of they were right, or in Ace's case another time to see Zadavia.
"Yeah. Your guys' dejavu just became a team sport." Lexi answered him, and knew that neither of them were the 'I told you so' sort, but Parker had to put a comical spin on it.
"So for once the one that sticks to walls is not crazy - weird relief since my nonsense makes sense." He said to the others and got strange looks just like always. 'Maybe I should refrain from making Deadpool references.' He thought as he rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment.
"Then I'm thinkin what your thinkin is what I'm thinkin." He said while thumbing to Lexi, to clarify. He then looked at the leader of the leader and added, "We're on it, Zadavia." She vanished and he said his trademark line: "Let's jet." He and five others got prepped while Duck had to answer their phone…again.
"Yes. Make it snappy chappy we're about to save the city." He said with irritation to the elder on the screen, and with his arms crossed. The doctor, who also has lived this day over and over again, tried to be reasonable…again.
"My name is: Doctor Fidel Chroniker, and…" He started, but was interrupted by the bird on the other end of his transmission.
"Blah-ditty-blah. Heard it before, bored me then. Now knock it off with the prank phone calls." He nearly shouted back to him. The mallard then angled his arm to the arm pad was right in front of him.
"Please, don't hang up. My grandson is…" He said while watching him press the button, and just like that he was cut off…again.
"What a nut. He makes the bug seem normal by comparison." He said after a laugh, and turned away from the black screen. Back on the end the doctor was hitting the arm of his wheelchair in anger.
'If I wasn't such a nice guy. I swear I would buy one of those high-octane wheelchairs and use him for a speed-bump.' He thought before turning his attention on the monitors. Which this time had the Loonatics arrive before his nephew.
"Loonatics, I'm so glad you're here." Trench said to the heroes as they along with a few guards stood in the chosen room.
'That makes one of us, pal.' Peter thought, he still knew that the explosion of his home was his fault for not stopping him the first time, but Fury said that he would protect the ones he cares for. 'That's why I CAN"T cave in this world.' He thought while glancing at the girl bunny, but continued to listen to Trenches words.
"Someone calling himself: Timeskip has broken in, claiming that we stole his designs for the Trol-Bot 9000." He said while pressing the right buttons to activate the machines holding cell.
'Probably isn't the first time.' He thought and added in thought form, 'If he's after the bot then why don't you just blow up the control panel that brings it out.' He then heard Danger say a line he was certain he heard before.
"NOT! THE TROL-BOT 9000!" Duck said with his hands on his head.
"I'm afraid so. If he gets inside that bot - NOBODY will be able to stop him." He said and emphasized - nobody. "We've been trying to pin him down, but he seeps to breach our security measures." He added to his first statement.
"That's real nice: Trench, but I don't suppose you come with good news." Peter offered while using his comedic talent, but just as he said that his spider sense went off. He turned his head just in time to see Timeskip raise his arms.
"That bot is mine, got it. And no bunch of super-freaks is gonna stop me." He said and put the group in a time out. While most of them were holding expressions of surprise Spider had been frozen just when he was about to fire a line. He rushed past them, but decided to use the frozen creatures as an obstacle course with his hand grazing the pink obstacle' butt; he then went back to his original idea. Went inside, and powered up the armor.
"We don't understand how he's moving so fast, or how to counter it." He said before hearing the machines engines starting to warm up. The muzzled professor decided to toss a theory of his to everyone.
"My guess is that he's inducing temporal displacement by fragmenting the quantum fabric." He said to everyone that was on the ground, but only got a spaced out look from the group; all but Pete who glanced over and saw that his female partner was rubbing her left cheek.
'Now, he really is going to die.' He thought before countering, 'Stop that!' He then listened to Tech as he tried to explain his theory to the others.
"He's manipulating time." He tried that and once again: the soldiers, the colonel, and five out of seven Loonatics were still gawking at him.
"Jumping just ahead of us." He said, using the most basic statement of time travel, and still got no response except from Spider.
"Huh?" Slam said to the others since he did not understand.
"We have to contact Doctor Fidel Chroniker, he's the worlds foremost genius on time displacement theory." He said after finally deciding to skip it. Duck thought of it for a moment of that name and decided to tell the others of his call.
"Wait a minute. That old crank called HQ this morning. Trying to hoodwink us into dealing with his 'totally out of control grandson'." He said to the others while using his best old man impression for the last part.
"Loona-pests!" Timeskip shouted when he realized that no one was paying any attention to him. He fired a missile at the group at his feet.
"Incoming!" Ace shouted and he and the others dodged It safely. The coyote, bunny, and duck hid behind a wrecked control panel. "This is a wild guess, but do you think HE fit's the bill." The swords-bunny commented while stressing 'he'.
"Oh." Duck said as he realized his blunder.
"Let's take a tour of the city." He said after using two missiles to make a new door. The bot began to walk off, and once again Tech came up with the same plan as before.
"My new Metallo converter would turn that thing to dust, but its back at headquarters." He said to them…again.
"Lexi, take Slam and Rev. Get the gun prepped while we pay Doctor Chroniker a visit." Ace informed and after switching their packs for flight Lexi could have sworn Peter's eyes telling her, 'be safe', but she had other things to worry about. The four flew over to the address that Tech got from a scientist's award magazine, and went inside. Once inside they all saw some big league gear.
"Loonatics, it's about time you showed up." A familiar elderly voice said to them. The males looked up and saw a man in a hover wheelchair came down to meet them.
'I guess no matter the world there will always be someone with a hover wheelchair.' Parker thought, and wondered what a bearded X would look like, but he shelved that idea for now.
"It's an honor to meet you Doctor Chrnoiker. I have read all your research on time displacement." Loonatic green said, geeking out for a moment after seeing the time expert in the flesh.
"Thank you for coming." He said to the group. "At LONG last." He added, giving a ticked glare to the duck. His choice of words intrigued the rabbit.
"Eh, what's up with that, doc? How'd you know we'd be here at all?" The field leader questioned. The doctor knew that the question was valid, so he gave them an abridged story.
"I've called you to come here for the last FIVE days." He said with closed hands. The insight of that made the arachnid question what was going on.
"I must have a chunk of granite in my ear because it sounded like you said five days." He said in a comical fashion, but received a nod as his answer.
"I've been resetting each day back to its beginning." He informed before hovering over to one of the consoles which the heroes followed.
"That explains the dejavu." Ace said as the crew of four was heading in that direction. When they all got there, the canine scientist saw the tech and had a feeling he knew what it was.
"Your time displacer, it works?" He questioned with his finger tips touching each other. The fellow scientist once again decided to answer the truthfully, and tell them of their latest threat.
"Yes. Unfortunately, my grandson: Arthur, who now calls himself - Timeskip was irradiated by it one week ago. It imbued him with the power to phase time. Enabling him to leap moments ahead of the rest of us." He informed them and showed them what he meant on one of the monitors.
"That doesn't explain why he stole the Trol-Bot 9000." Ace said with his palms in the up position.
"Ah, Arthur's quite a genius himself. He's spent YEARS designing a weapon exactly like the Trol-Bot 9000. When he learned the military developed a bigger, meaner bot; he took it hard. He set out to acquire what he believes to be his." He added while giving them more file footage. "And that's why I've been calling." He said in a level headed shouting tone, turning his attention on the duck.
"All right. All right. Next time I'll write a message." He said to them after he got an eight eyed death glare. "I'm a super hero, not a secretary." He added while thumbing to himself. The group decided to speak of a plan of attack.
"In order to defeat my grandson we have to set a time trap." The time travel elder said to the group.
"You can show us what he's going to do." Ace questioned to him while looking at the screen. The question had been bugging him ever since he first showed them those images.
"Of course - observe." He said back and then hit 'play' which showed them the latest timeline.
"Time out, Loonatics." The green haired one said and did his freeze ability.
"Now watch as he freezes time allowing him to get past you and the security allowing him to enter the Trol-Bot undetected." He said and showed them a spliced time period which the web-head was grateful for because did not need to be reminded of his grandson being fresh. "Once inside, he's unstoppable." He added darkly when showing him suit up.
"Let's take a tour of the city." The boy said before making a hole with the right arm gun.
"Wait. This looks familiar." Danger said after his memory of this moment came to the surface.
"Right. We chase the bot and he beats us." Ace added after remembering the battle as well.
'Beats us once.' Peter thought after realizing that what he almost did actually DID happen, and he was worried that the doc would show that version of the battle. Regardless he and the others watch as the Trol-Bot took flight, and to the city.
"Hey, can this contraption send things back through time?" He questioned the man that built it.
"Yes, of course." He said back since he often did that to give his day younger self a note such as sleep or eat.
"Hmm, let's get a head start." Ace answered back after hearing that.
"Doctor Chroniker, rewind the clock." Tech said to one of his idols politely.
"So, we can finally stop the dejavu." Peter said and was grateful that the doc used the footage of him about to be stepped on. 'Last thing I would want is to have these guys fear me of when I loss it.' He thought and watched as the elder activated the device. Peter got out of bed with his energy seriously less than half strength. The only thing that was keeping his face off the ground was that he was using his wall-crawling powers to stay up, and he could see that the others weren't all that great either.
"Breakfast?" Rev questioned while holding his homemade drink to Loonatic blue. He ignored the offer, got to the table, and let gravity have his head meet the table. Tech, who was reading a note saw that the seventh one was out of it so he decided to voice his opinion to the field leader, who arrived shortly after the arachnid.
"Apparently Spider-Man had me send this to you from later today." He said and saw that what he said kind of freaked the hare out.
"He had you send me what from when?" He questioned in alarm, and sat up right in his chair.
"Oh, and also these planes for Doctor Chroniker's time displacer." He added while holding a white cylinder, and ignoring his question.
"He had you send me what from who?" The sword wielder said, still not understanding the situation.
"Oh, please. Notes sent from later today: ridiculous." The duck said to them after hearing their conversation. "Zadavia will straighten this out when she calls in the next few seconds." He added and as soon as he said that he and the two others held a wide-eyed expression. Just as he said the founder of the Loonatics called them.
"Loonatics, your assistance is urgently needed at the Acmetropolis weapons lab." She informed them again and got slacked jawed reaction from six out of the seven, but she paid no mind. "Someone has broken in and is trying to steal…" She added but was cut off by the mallard.
"The Trol-Bot 9000." He finished for her without raising his voice when he said that. "How do I know this again?" He asked the long eared big brain since the eight legged kind was out.
"Because we're all remembering shadows of the future, mental fast forwards. We're moving in time through a day that has already happened." He said and looked at the field leader.
"But there's something different about today." He said back as he really did feel something different. Lexi, picked up the piece of paper the nano-second he said that, and looked at it. "You thinkin what I'm thinkin." He offered to the fellow hare, not knowing of the smirk on her face.
"I was already thinking it yesterday." She answered back while making eye contact with him. 'This is good, but he could have wrote in tiny form something about me.' Her softer side thought while countering, 'No, he just likes me as a fellow good guy.' She tuned out the question of the kiss and focused on Ace's speech.
"Listen up. Some of this might not make any sense." He began, but was interrupted by his families rival.
"Like it ever does." He ignored that and went on.
"But here's what we're gonna do." He continued and told them of the plan. The team was about to leave, but Slam pointed out one thing.
"What about him?" He garbled to them, and they saw that Spider-Man was sound asleep. He looks to the others for options on what to do.
"I have an idea." Lexi said to the others, and walked over to their fridge. She stuck her arm in the back of the freezer, and pulled out an old fashioned water gun. The bunny knew that the case of water when put in freezer never froze the water, just kept it at a nice COLD temp. She aimed and fired at his thick brown hair which caused a reaction after fired.
"Cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold. Okay, that woke me up." The hero said as he clung to their ceiling with drenched hair. He looked at Lexi who was standing there twirling the gun by the hole around the trigger.
"Come on Pete, time to go." She said after walking over to the fridge and put her gun back. He let go of the ceiling and landed safely on the floor.
'Why does a pink bunny with a water pistol seem familiar?' He questioned, but soon shrugged the question off. The seven made it to the base and was able to get everything set for the guest of honor.
"This'll be a piece of cake: no security alarm." The green haired punk said while walking down a deserted hallway. After entering his chosen room he saw something missing, "Nobody home?" He questioned when he saw that there was not a soul to be seen. "Weird. Not that I mind." He added with a cocky grin. He pressed a few buttons and the 9000 unit appeared before him. "They stole my design, but they have no idea what this baby can do." He said to himself when stood before him. "Ah-ha, that's right. We're gonna get you out of here right now." He told the machine, not expecting someone already inside.
"Look at that, little Skippy showed up right on schedule." Lexi, who was in the suit, said to the other three: Danger Duck, Slam Tasmania, and Spider-Man.
"Can I please kick his butt." Slam grumbled to the pilot of the mech. She understood and respected her teammates willingness to deal with that joke of a time traveler, but she decided to tell him that.
"Yeah, you can kick his sorry butt; right after me." She told the tornado tough guy. She was ticked because the twerp before her coped a feel for her butt in one of the timelines. "Surrender now, and no one gets hurt." She said through the robot's head. This shocked him, but he knew that there was another weapon aside from the machine there was a fighter jet.
"That bot is mine! And no bunch of super freaks is going to stop me!" He shouted as he climbed into the pilot seat, and took flight. The two shot two laser shots each, but Lexi ignore the gnat, and fired a missile at the wall; making a doorway. "If I can't have it. Neither will you." He threatened as he gave chase.
"Got to keep heading toward HQ." Lexi said with determination after failing to shooting him down with three missiles, and took on minimal laser fire. Peter who was in the head, he guessed for moral support, decided to give her an edge.
"Mind if I give you a hand." He offered, but did not wait for an answer. The hero placed his hand on her armored hand before closing his eyes. "Don't move the bot's hand until I tell you to." He instructed softly before closing his eyes. The pink bunny couldn't believe that if it wasn't for the helmet she could probably feel his breath. The jet moved in, not knowing that Peter was using spider sense, and tried to fire, but all he could do was lock on. "Now." He shouted and she swung and hit him.
"Gonna have to do way better than that." He gloated, believing that a woman could never bring out the full power of 'his' robot. Loonatic pink just kept on walking to the spire that they called home.
"Come on, Lexi. Bring `em on home." Ace said to himself as he watched his fellow hare walk over to them. Rev and Tech were also on that landing with him: watching the same thing.
"This time, we're ready." Tech said while patting the top of his metallo matter converter since he recalled letting Rev get the turbo reverse modulator which ended in disaster; he got it himself.
"Just in case." The rabbit said while pulling out a dull orange and light blue disk. "Rev, you know what to do." He issued while giving the device to the speed creature who nodded and sped off.
"I guess it was a good thing that Peter had me send Doctor Chroniker's plans back to us through time." The super genius canine told the bunny since they had a few seconds to kill.
"Guess for once he was thinking ahead…backwards." Ace said with a slight shrug, and was grateful that Spider often thought outside the box. On the ground Rev sped past the giants feet without being seen by Arthur. Tech angled his gun just right, right when the flyer was right in front of the robot's head. "Now, Tech, fire." He ordered and that is what he did.
"NO!" Arthur screamed after the blast hit his wings, and the heap of what seemed to be yellow dust crashed to the ground. Thankfully the concrete was fine, and so was the thug. Rev sped over and stopped right behind him.
"Courtesy of your granddad. Your own personal time trap. Hope you like it. Buh-by." Rev said after placing the disk in the kid's open right hand. The Mohawk man came to and saw the device, but before he could do anything a bubble ensnared him.
"Hope tour not claustrophobic." Duck said to the captive after the four of them got out of the armor through a hinged foot. This time Spider-Man did not add anything since one of his best allies has that problem as well.
"Cause that bubble is going to hold you for a long time." Lexi added and was pleased that his powers did not work. Their current enemy looked at his hands after seeing that his powers could not get past the bubble barrier.
"Let me out of here! Let me out of here!" He demanded to them while pounding his fists on his prison wall. Soon the other members joined Lexi's team to sort of gloat that they were able to finally stop the time walker.
"I'd say better luck next time, Skippy, but your time's up." Lexi said to him with her left hand on her hip and the right one just dangling.
"Which is good, cause we're all out of time jokes." Ace added, and saw that the grandfather had arrived; Arthur Chroniker saw that as well.
"This bubble won't keep me forever. Then what will you do, huh?" He questioned his elder, and knew that there was nothing he could do.
"Don't worry. I'll soon neutralize your powers." He said calmly to his flesh and blood.
"You can't do this to me." He said with eyes of fear. Only this time it was the fear of being an average Joe again. The father of his father knew that he was going to be devastated to hear that, but he had no choice.
"I can and I will. It's for the best." He said flatly. As Timeskip began to pound on the bubble shouting 'no' a police care with a suction attachment came by and took him away.
"Bon Voyage, see you next week." Duck said while making a reference to what they just went through today.
"And I thought this day would never end." She said to them as the car disappeared from view. Ace heard her and decided to add his two cents in.
"And I didn't know you were gonna say that." He said while thumbing to himself. Spider-Man decided to talk to the doc.
"Next time you make a bubble trap, could you make to soundproof?" He questioned in humor.
"I'll give it a shot, but as I said I am going to neutralize his powers so there is no need to worry." He said back, and with nothing else to say the wall-crawler decided to head back.
"I don't know about the rest of you, but I am starving." He told them while holding his belly.
"Yeah, me too." Slam mumbled and so the two of them, with the others as well, went to their non destroyed home. The group went to the kitchen and chowed down, but there was one thing that was bugging him.
'I guess there's a unwritten rule that animal hero teams must have at least one time adventure.' He thought while recalling his time with the turtle and the Drako fuzor along with him being with the Mighty Ducks and future Phil. 'Those two fights were…interesting.' He thought after remembering the fights.
"Hey, you okay, Pete." Ace questioned with concern since his fellow Loonatic was staring off into space, and not paying attention to his milkshake.
"Yeah. I'm fine, Ace. Just thinking of the giant spider robot some of my friends said that they would make for me." He said to him, and recalled talking to Lillandra about such a beast. "My pals said that the bot they were working on would have some sweet guns." He informed the field leader. "I'm gonna go swing around." He said and walked over to the launch pad.
"He still misses his friends?" Lexi questioned with the last word having a bit of a bad edge to it.
"Yeah. Just wish there was a way to help him out." Ace answered back noticing the venom, but did not question it.
"Maybe we can." Tech added to that and disappeared to his lab. The other five just relaxed in their usual fashion.