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Chapter 16:
Acmegeddon, Part 1
"What do you guys mean that I have to act as watchman to those three?" Peter questioned their request of him seemed strange. The other Loonatics all gave him a nod telling him that he had to do such a thing. "Seriously, why me? I mean the heavy set one and the brainiac should have a vendetta with Tech since he brought them both down, and the weather witch should have it out for Duck." He tried to reason with them even though shirking his duties wasn't his duties he was just curious why he had been drafted.
"It's an unwritten rule that the seventh member of all teams have to do things like this." Danger Duck said and then picked up a police stick from the conference table, and tossed it at him. "You may need that to keep them in line." He added after the toss feeling confident that he didn't have to do it.
"Hey, isn't this one of the night stick from the Massive art robbery?" The web-head questioned which got the Duck's attention.
"Don't you have some losers to guard?" He questioned which the brown haired spider knew was a common signal to beat it, which he did.
"Yeah, I guess I should be going." He answered back and took off while leaving Duck in the hot seat of why he had a policeman's defense weapon. The swing there did was not that hard, and he even hitched a ride on the train that they were about to use.
"Attention, prepare for the arrival of the Acmetropolis prison train." The warden said over the loud speakers in the train dock, and even with the big guns and the guards none of them notice a black and blue hero leap off the tail end of the train.
'Security in here sucks in comparison to S.H.I.E.L.D.' Peter thought as he looked around and stayed out of sight.
"Today we are transporting four of the most dangerous criminals to a new maximum security facility." The warden added before activating four individual tubes to the train, and a scanner to make sure that they were the right ones.
"Sypher: power transference." The machine said as a red and yellow man came down the tube furthest from the left.
"Mastermind: diabolical genius." A new mechanical voice said as a woman in light purple armor came down the second tube going right.
"Weathervane: atmospheric control." The voice said to a woman in a dark purple dress, purple hair, and magenta eyes.
"Massive: gravity manipulation." The voice said admitting the last of them in. The bulky man still wore his green and dark blue suit. As the four of them were put inside the arachnid decided to make himself known.
"These prison containers have completely neutralized their powers and they will be under the supervision of one of the most courageous members of the Loonatics." The warden said as Spider-Man was admitting into the train, but through one of the side doors. He then made his way to the car that they were in.
"Hello boys and girls, how are you guys doin? As you heard from the warden I'll be watching over you, but he was wrong on one thing it was not my choice. We drew straws, and who ever drew the longest lost - nuff said." He explained to them while pointing at himself. "We might as well get comfy since this may be a long train ride." He told them and that was when Sypher spoke to him.
"Yo, bug-boy." The power monger said and Loonatic blue walked over to him. "High five." He offered with his hands to the glass. The web-head looked at it, and had an idea on how to turn it into one of his jokes.
"Yes, yes it is, but can you get this high five?" Spider-Man questioned before leaping up to the ceiling and put his hand on the container to where Massive's forehead was.
"Your on." The drainer said and tried for it, but Spider pulled his hand back and combed his hair with his fingers.
"Come on, Sypher. Don't give me that look." Spider-Man said when he saw an angered Sypher, and added, "That move's a classic."
"Very true." He said back, and they all watched as he got off the ceiling just to bounce off of the floor and land on the wall opposite of them while sitting on his heels.
"I just don't get it." Spider-Man said to them since this was one thing that often bugged him when dealing with villains. He knew that the other Loonatics wouldn't get where he's coming from, so he didn't bring it up to them.
"You don't get what? How we have superior powers to you and the rest of the Loonatics, especially that miserable mutt." Mallory said to him putting plenty of venom on the word 'mutt'.
"No. It's just you guys have some serious gifts. Massive, you kept on saying that you have a dense body, and I DID see you in the alley before the bank." Peter started, but stalled for the big guy to answer.
"You…you saw me standing there, but you didn't do anything." The muscular human said.
"Sure I was. My spider sense didn't go off as I swung so I just let you pass. Anyways, have you ever thought of being a hokey goalie. I mean with a tall impervious body you could be a pretty good goalie." Spider said and saw that he got him interested, so he moved on. "Weathervane, you mainly wanted to get revenge on Misty Breeze, but did it ever occur to you to use this new look of your on a different news channel, and hurt Misty in a better way: in popularity since people would watch your report more than hers." He said moving onto the one in the dress.
"You…you really think so." She said and hid the blush from her light blue face since she knew what he meant by watch her more than Misty.
"Yep. Heck you could also help out local farmers who are suffering from a drought." He added, and could see that she too was thinking of her other option as well. "Sypher, your next. Instead of using your powers on Trick, wouldn't it have been better for the team to tap into the gaming knowledge of the team captain on the opposing team, and when the match started add, follow my lead." He said to the power drainer.
"I…I…I…" Sypher started, trying to find out a way to make fun of that, but couldn't, so he added, "I guess you do have a good point." Their thoughts of using his ideas were short lived as the shortest one spoke.
"Very good ideas, Spider-Man. Shall I calculate the odds on you being right with those ideas." Mastermind said, and that was when he knew just the right thing to say to her.
"And best of all if you guys do use my ideas then you three know the perfect broker for your money. While she's doing that on the side, she would be working at a research facility that has NO knowledge of Tech, and getting as many if not more awards than her old teacher." Spider-Man said, and she had to admit that she liked the idea of money, and showing up Tech at the same time.
"Even if we did do what you said, how could we since we are villains?" Massive asked him since he was a bit interested.
"Simple talk to the mayor, prove that your on the level and your charges should be dropped. It's the old villain to hero scenario, happens a few times back home." He said and could tell that the four was interested, but just like last time something went wrong. "Okay, who threw that?" Parker questioned to them in humor as he dodged a familiar black and blue device.
"I've never seen anything like it." Mastermind said as she and the others watched the show.
"Nice jump, bug." Sypher said as he and the others watched him dodge, but hit his head on the roof.
"Shove it Mighty Morphin Power Monger, its not my fault that this car is so narrow." He shouted back and remained on the dodging end since the last time he dealt with something small that tracked him it had a nasty habit of blowing up. The tallest of the four saw watching until a thin blue funnel, much like the one that brought the device, was in his cell.
"Ever seen anything like this?" He questioned to the female big brain with a worried expression while thumbing over to it. The thing started to pull his right arm causing him to shout, "Hey, wait a minute. Get away from me!" His pleas were unanswered as the vortex took him in.
'Huh? Where'd he go?' Peter thought before dodging the projectile. The vortex spun through on cell, and right into Weathervane's cell.
"No, no, no! NO!" She shouted after backing to the far opposite side of the cell praying that this was a bad dream, but she like the other was pulled in. The funnel kept on going into Mastermind's cell.
"Fascinating." The woman said with a laugh as she was being sucked in. Peter was able to stall it by webbing it the wall, and ran over to Mastermind's cell and saw the problem.
"No. Not that thing again." He thought in anger and watched as it sucked up the last of the four.
"Whoa! Dude!" Sypher said while trying to get a grip on the floor after his legs were pulled in followed by the rest of him. Out of anger for not living up to the responsibility he took the night stick that he tossed to the ground and the intruder, tossed the ball up, and hit it with the club.
"Seriously, do the Mets need me or what?" He questioned before looking at the empty cells. 'This is not going to end well.' He thought before activating his com link. "Guys, we have a slight problem, but I'll give you the info at base." He said to them, and started to head in that direction. The four on the other hand have been relocated to a planet like surface.
"Whoa. Where are we?" The red and yellow man asked as he saw the barren landscape.
"How did we get out here?" Massive questioned since he was confused over the whole thing.
"I brought you here." A new voice said, and just by that sentence Sypher and Massive got on the defensive while the weather witch and the big head just stared at the new guy. "I am Optimatus." A man in a black and red outfit with bits of silver armor along with purple and white hair and cybernetics to the left side of his face.
"Let me get this right, you want to take down the Loonatics?" Massive questioned after hearing their abductors game plan. He and two others were a little skeptical on his plan since alone they couldn't do that.
"Why should we help you?" Weathervane questioned with crossed arms not that she wouldn't mind going after the obsessed Loonatic. The purple haired man knew that they would ask something like that, so he was ready.
"Do as I ask and you and you will forever rule Acmetropolis and all its resources." He said to them, knowing that their egos would override the logic side of their brains for that kind of offer.
"Any objections?" Mastermind questioned to the others, and formed a three way huddle with the fourth just staring at them.
"Well, on one hand we do owe him for getting us out of jail." The ferocious forecaster said to them for a pro side. The gravity goon heard her, and understood, but he had to voice the bad.
"But, on the other hand. He's a cold blooded alien, who probably plans to take over Acmetropolis for himself." Massive said and Mastermind who was right between the both of them understood both halves, but still had to question.
"All if favor say: Aye." The brainiac of their side said to them.
"Aye." Massive said first.
"Aye." Weathervane was second.
"Aye." Mallory said the them, but then noticed that something was wrong. "Hang on, where's Sypher?" She questioned when the gel head was not speaking to them. The three of them turned over to Optimatus, and there he was.
"So, what you say, Opti-mato? You let me swipe the other super-freak's powers then I'll do the job for you solo." He offered to the liberator.
'Better get him out of there before he make Optimatus send us back?' Weathervane thought before summoning a cloud to pick him up and take the sucker to them.
"No side deals." Mastermind said in an ordering fashion with crossed arms after he was dropped on his butt. The true villain saw that this was going to be interesting, but he didn't have much choice, so he decided to give them a final piece of information.
"Oh, and I do have one other request." He said which caused them all to look at him, and when they were looking at him he added, "Once you invade the Loonatics Headquarters insert this device." He tossed the shortest one a small black and yellow square which she caught.
"Nice work, mind if I look inside?" She questioned after taking a good look at the alien tech. He knew that was going to happen as well, and knew what to say for that part as well.
"Yes. And any attempt to do so will end very badly." He informed them, and saw that they were all became a whiter shade of their skin. The manipulator of the elements was the first to shake it off, and knew how to avoid a gruesome fate.
"Maybe I should hang on to that." Paula said before looking at the device with her own eyes. Back at Acmetropolis Peter had returned and gave them the bad news in the conference room which they knew that he probably felt like crap for letting that happen.
"They escaped before my eyes. I can't believe I let that happen." He said after telling them what happened on the train finishing with a fist slam on the table. The others knew that he wasn't in the mood for jokes, but they had to try something.
"Don't be so hard on yourself, Pete." Ace said an in encouraging way, and he could tell that it helped a little bit, but then the speed creature added his two cents.
"Ace is right even though it is a major botch you probably feel-." He was interrupted with a webbed up beak. Peter fired the shot and slowly put his arm down.
"No offense Rev, but put a cork in it. I already feel bad, and I can't believe that even after all that I've been through I still made a rookie mistake." The arachnid shouted before slamming both fists on the table which caused it to shake. Lexi, who was to his left, could tell that he needed something other than kind words. She walked over and put a hand on each shoulder with a calming grasp.
"Please, calm down, Peter." She said to him in a soothing fashion, and it did work, he was calming down. Their leader could see that he was a bit better, but there was one other person that needed to hear this.
"Sorry to tell you this web-head, but we got to tell, Zadavia." He said to the team, but not even he was prepared for what happened on their table.
"I already know." The blonde in question said after appearing before the team. This caused Peter to get a bit nervous since he knew that the founder respected and trusted him, which he really didn't get back home, and he didn't know if he lost that of her to him. "How did they escape, Peter?" She questioned Loonatic blue.
"They were sent through a portal, similar to Ohn's portals, only blue. I tried to stop them, but I was dealing with a space age version of a spider tracker." He told her and prayed that she had believed him.
"You must find them before the situation escalates. I…I suspect…" She said to them after hearing the spider's words, but couldn't finish what she was about to say. In the time that they had seen her, she never once displayed fear, not even in fuzor mode, so the field leader tried to get to the bottom of that.
"Suspect what, Zadavia?" Ace questioned in a worried tone.
"I must go. I shall contact you later." She said in a dead serious tone before cutting the transmission on her end. The sword-bunny turned his back on the table and put his right fist on his chin, and tried to make heads or tails over her speedy exit.
'Somethins up.' Ace thought not knowing how right his thought was. Deep under the water was a hi tech base, and insider was their founder: Zadavia.
"I thought I was safe here. I've run out of time. I fear he's coming for me." She said aloud while trying NOT to think of a dream of hers, a dream that often wouldn't stop. One that involved their enemy and the team's bodies under his feet. As for the Loonatics Duck had taken the time to pick up a great big sack, and filled it with Tech's blasters.
"Fear not Spider-Man, I shall track down them ciminamals, and serve up justice Duck style with a side of melted cheese." Danger said after strapping the sack to his back and posing with a blaster in hand.
"Uh, I don't think so." Ace said knew how his family's rival thought.
"But my cheese will get cold." The water fowl said as a counter, wondering why the rabbit won't let him have any fun.
"This is just another sad, desperate attempt to kiss up to Zadavia, and hog all the glory." Lexi said while sitting on the guardrail in front of their computers. Duck knew that she was right, and figured that there was no need to hide it.
"Um, yeah, and your point is." The duck questioned, and that was when Ace came up with a potent plan.
"Okay, Duck. I'll make you a deal. You can go look for those super jerks." He started with a calm voice and saw that Danger Duck had dropped his gun cargo.
"Now your talkin." Duck said with a finger to his field leader, but wasn't prepared for what the bunny said next.
"So long as you take Rev with ya." He added and saw that the fowl had an expression, 'there's always a catch' on his face. The speed creature heard that and sped over to them, after getting the webbing off of his beak.
"Yeah." Rev said proudly. That was one thing that the other flyer could not handle all that well.
"Uh, sorry. I don't do partners." Danger said with his eyes closed and crossed arms. At first Ace thought that he would need to use the family tradition on manipulation, but Runner had it covered.
"Okay then. What about a sidekicks lots of heroes have sidekicks." Rev said, and knew that the teleporter would buy into that one.
"That could work: Danger Duck, and Rooster Boy." Duck said while picturing a comic version of him and Rev before adding, "I like it. Okay, let's move out." That said the two of them ran off. The female hare knew what the male had just done, but decided to ask just to be sure.
"Your just keeping him busy." She said to the swords-bunny.
"Well, gee, Lexi I have no idea what you mean." He answered back, and then decided to see what Tech, who had been at the computers since the meeting was adjourned, to try to find their friends. "Tech, give me a full planet scan, power surges, gravity flocculation's, anything that looks squirrelly." He asked after climbing three short stairs.
"Even a jaywalking sighting." Peter said from their ceiling. He had learned from Beast that hanging upside down often helped with emotional trauma. He shot a web-line and then drifted himself down to the others after hearing that the long eared big brain found a disturbance.
"We're getting a code red at the Acmetropolis zoo." Loonatic green started and then magnified the image by three and saw the source. "It's Sypher!"
"I don't like him." Slam said after looking at the bigger screen which lowered before Spider-Man.
"We have to flush out that power drain. Let's jet." Ace said to them, and after putting on their packs they flew off to that location. At the zoo there were several humans running away from the man in question even though he was just eating some zoo nuts.
"The Looser-tics." The former sports athlete said when five out of seven came down before him.
"Enjoy those nuts while you still have teeth Sypher." Ace said after deactivating his pack with his arms crossed. The drainer decided to stall for the others to get to his location.
"Hey, dudes. Don't you love this? Ya know being all up close with the animals." He said to them since in honesty he really did enjoy coming here as a kid, and he was sure that the others did as well.
"I hope your not giving them fleas." The pink furred warrior said with her guard still up. He got her comment, and decided to give them the honest truth.
"It's not what I give it's what I get, cause I get to swipe their natural abilities. The kangaroo's hop." He said to them and demonstrated by hopping right in Lexi's face with a growl. "The falcon's speed." He added while jumping up high and then dive bombed them, but they were able to get out of the way. He saw that they were on their guard, so he decided to show off the third one. "And the grizzly bear's strength." He through a bench at them, but it was destroyed by Ace's optic blast.
"And evidently the yak's smell and the dog's breath." Ace added to him after looking back at their target once the bench pieces were done falling.
"Let's not forget the Baboons butt, ape face, and lizard lips." Spider said and that lifted them up a bit, but they were still angry at him. The super genius decided to give Sypher a math lesson.
"Give up, Sypher. After all you are out numbered five to one." He said with a whole left hand raised and one finger on the other.
"Wrong dog-boy." An annoying familiar voice said to them which caused them to turn and see the three others.
"Alright, let's party Loonatics." Massive said and they all charged at the band of five. Ace's fight was with Massive after giving him an eyeful with zero success. "Get down, rabbit." He ordered and added gravity to the bunny. "Well, would you look at that, he's kissing the ground I walk on." The big boned bruiser said before lifting the leader up.
"Never on the first date." Loonatic yellow said back before hitting the ground and falling into unconsciousness. Lexi was easily dealt with when Weathervane gave off a mild cyclone just around Loonatic pink. Slam tried to use muscle on them while picking up a cooling unit of sorts.
"Hey, Slammy." Sypher said to him causing the devil to turn and saw a slight problem.
"Uh-oh." He said before the power drain slammed him with a natural rock from one of the habitats.
'I said that I had the strength of the bear, I just didn't tell them how many bears I absorbed.' Drake thought after dusting off his red gloves. He and the others saw that Tech was the only one still on the board.
"Your still the same ol` windbag, fido." Mastermind said as she and her old friend had been sizing each other up while moving in a circle form. "Which reminds me." She added before pulling out a hand full of what seemed to be dust which she blew at the canine.
"What is that? Mega dandruff from your mega head." He joked to her as visibility for him was zero at the moment. She decided to correct to canine for his bad joke.
"Nanites, tiny robots designed to take over your jet pack." She informed him, and as soon as he heard the engine on his pack activate on his own he knew that he was in trouble.
"Can't control it." He said while spinning in the air, and then crash landing into a wall. The four looked around and saw that the good team was defeated.
"Master villains: 1. Superheroes: 0." Mallory said to them with a laugh.
"Now that that's done I can start collecting." Sypher said to the others and walked over to knocked out knock out. Just as the others were about to stop him a web-line snagged his back and flung him into a habitat.
"Now don't tell me you guys have forgotten about little old me." Spider-Man said to them.
"We took down four Loonatics. You can't win." Mastermind said to him, not knowing that had had taken on worse by himself, and won.
"You'd be surprised what I've dealt with." He said to her, and decided to equal the playing field on Sypher first. Tapping into his spider reflexes, he was able to grab the transferor tyrant, and give back all of the bears strength to the owner before flinging him to the others.
"How'd you do that?" The red/yellow one demanded before being greeted by a fist to the face.
"You've had my powers for a while you should know what I used." He said darkly. Mallory tried using her nanites, but as soon as they had his pack he angled it to Weathervane, and took her out. Massive knew that Ace was out cold so he tried to do the same to Spider-Man. The bad thing was that even if it was Massive and Sypher against him; Loonatic blue was still holding his own.
'I've got to do something otherwise Optimatus will be furious.' Mastermind thought as she watched the fight. The genius turned to the other Loonatics and thought of threatening them, but that gave her an image of him plowing his fist through her head ten times over. That's when she saw a tranquilizer gun in one of the habitats that Sypher visited when he was deciding which animal power to use.
"This time I'm going to personally drag your butts to you new home." Peter said as he had the two of them on the ground, they were not defeated, but close. The problem was that since his focus was on them he did not sense the needles until they were in him, and worked instantly.
"What did you do?" Paula questioned after getting up from her fall. She saw that the arachnid was fast asleep. Mastermind showed them an average tranquilizer gun and gave her answer.
"Best way to deal with an out of control monster." That said they decided to take them to their new home as they decided to follow the Cyborg's plan.
"Hey, Tech. Isn't this…" Ace questioned after coming to, and waiting for their green furred genius to finish his comment.
"The underground prison I once designed to hold Mastermind." He said after taking a look around, and felt angered for being in the same prison that was meant for his old prodigy.
"Yes. It couldn't hold me, but it'll keep you on ice nicely." The female in question said on the outside of the bubble. She enjoyed the sight of the five, now fully awake heroes. 'This is where super animals belong.' She thought before hearing Ace's voice.
"Hey, Craniac, ever get premonitions cause here comes a psychic flash." The field bunny said before trying optic blast, but it bounced in the dome six times which caused the other four to dodge, or for Slam play secret service for Tech and it slammed the source of the attack on his ears. "Didn't know it was time for a hair cut." He joked with the tips of his ears smoking.
"The security shields I built will activate when you try using your powers." She informed them why his attack bounced.
"Prisoner specific defenses? Nice." Tech said, admitting that this idea was a good one, and he knew that she would appreciate those words.
"I try." She said with a slight bow and added, "And unless you know the deactivation code nothing can get in or out of that cell." The five in front of her knew that she was right, without the use of their powers they were as powerless as her when the EMP went off. As she said that sentence the others came out of the elevator from the far wall, and gathered to her.
"Hey, big-brain." Sypher said while tapping her shoulder. "How about you shut down the shields long enough to let me in. I take their powers - bingo - they're not a threat anymore." He added while gesturing to the five in front of them. In truth they knew that he was going to offer that, and their brainiac was one step ahead.
"But you become one. That is why only I can drop the shields." Mastermind ending with her left hand on her chest armor. Peter felt as though this was the perfect time to open his mouth.
"Besides you remember the last time you absorbed my powers? How will you get past that little problem?" He questioned, and knew just the thing to add after his comment.
"Don't worry. While I was locked up I figured out how to get past that. All I have to do is not think." Sypher answered back not knowing that he opened himself up for the arachnid's mouth.
"Well, that shouldn't be too hard since you think even less than me, and that's saying quite a lot." He said back, but was able to get a one word response from the drainer.
"Hey!" He answered back feeling insulted that fellow super villains didn't trust him, and the seventh hero was still cocky enough to make fun of him.
"You won't get any sympathy from us. We don't trust you either." Paula said before walking off.
"Spider-Man does have a point, about your way of thinking." Mallory said before walking off, but then added, "Now stay here while we track down the other two." When the two girls and one guy got into the elevator the tall one decided to give the fellow male a piece of advice.
"But remember…" Massive started to say to the sitting man.
"No touching I know." He finished for him, and the elevator brought them to the surface. The two in question were currently trying to figure out: how they left.
"Clearly this wall was perforated by an unknown force. The question is what kind? Was it a…" Danger said as he looked at the holes edge with a magnifying glass built into his suit, and put it back.
"Well, Tech might say the walls were subjected to a time and space vortex better known as a wormhole. Thou technically that's inaccurate because there aren't any worms involved at all." The speed creature said before getting wide eyed at the glare the fellow bird creature was giving him for interrupting his own babble.
"I just realized that there's but one force to have this kind of affect: termites." Duck said deciding to use a different insect instead of a worm.
"Or a wormhole?" Rev suggested with crossed arms knowing that Duck modified his idea just a little.
"Yeah, that too." He said and the two decided to get home, and tell the others what they think went down. As they were doing that the villains were also on their way to their headquarters, but as they were the three got distracted three different times - first was Massive.
'That trashcan gives me an idea.' He thought and used his powers to take the trashcan from the alley and gently placed it behind him, and then tore off a gutter from a nearby house with his own hands. "Just try to get past me." He announced which caused the two to stare at him in an odd fashion. "Come on you two can't tell me that you have forgotten what Spider-Man suggested to us." He said while putting the stuff back.
"Not in the least." Paula said before spotting a couple dying flowers on the windowsill. She walked over to them and created a small rain cloud which with the rain they perked up pretty quickly. She saw a beautiful blue rose, but she also saw a pink one too. 'Why does a human have to be pals with a group of animals?' She thought since she did not like how Lexi got to be close to six guys: let alone Spider-Man himself.
"You coming?" Mastermind questioned to the lagging one. In truth she did not care if she did or not, but the weather witch was the one with the chip that the alien gave them, and that was kind of important.
"Right, I'm coming." She said and followed after them. They were about three buildings away from their destinations, but they stopped when Mallory's genius instincts took over. She walked over to a window, which got a little help from Massive to see in and saw on a desk a mess of papers with wrong math formulas on it.
"Is this stop necessary?" He questioned when he saw that the papers held no purpose to their mission.
"Yes." She answered back and used her powers on a nearby pen and was able to write down the write formulas before hopping off of the big guy's hand and walking to their headquarters.
"Welcome back to headquarters Danger Duck." Their security system said and added, "Facial scan confirmed." Their computer held the voice of Black Velvet which caused Massive to go weak in the knees, but with his overall strength that went without being seen.
"Yeah, there's a good look for you." Weathervane said to the holo-duck head on Mastermind's body. The genius deactivated the hologram and glared at the taller female.
"Clam it Weathervane, or your forecast won't be pretty." Mallory commented before walking in. The fellow bad girl took that tone as a challenge, and knew just what to say to counter that.
"You try anything, bubble-head, and I'll hit you with a little acid rain." The three continued to walk, but the male of the group could see that this was going to get worse before it got better, so he decided to interrupt them.
"Ladies." He said to them, and the three of them walked over to a small console on the far wall. Tech's old prodigy turned on the computer while the manipulator of the elements dug into her outfit to try to find the device.
"What do you think this thing does?" She questioned after pulling it out of her outfit since technology was not one of her strengths. She gazed at it surprised that it survived a jetpack to her midsection without even a dent.
"Well, if you let me look at it." Mallory said while snatching it out of the magenta eyed ones hand, and then looked at it. Her gaze was short lived thanks to the tallest of the three.
"Don't worry your pretty little giant head." Massive said while snatching it from her, and added, "I'll handle this." He gave the device a once over and then looked at the console before them. With all of his heists he understood computers a little bit, so he had a rough estimate where to put it. "Hmm, that looks like a fit." He said as he put it into a slit with pink and yellow arrows around it.
"Genius. Fascinating." Mastermind said when a mess of red symbols rolled through their screens. On the outside of the room the two were ready to go in and meet with the others.
"Welcome back to headquarters, Danger Duck." The computer said and scanned, but said something different this time, "Facial scan of Danger Duck is a duplicate."
"WHAT?! What do you mean 'duplicate'? Listen here you overblown ATM when they made this kisser they broke the mold." Duck said back while Loonatic red was right behind him, and decided to take action when Duck added, "So open this door or else." He had the scanner scan his face.
"Access granted." The BV program said and opened the doors. Danger saw that the doors were opened and suspected that he himself was behind that.
"See the respect I command. Even the computers are afraid of me." He told the speed warrior and then walked on inside followed by Rev. When the two of them entered they saw that every monitor was showing snow. "Who forgot to pay the satellite bill?" He questioned to Runner, but as he said that one of the smaller monitors showed the face of their founder.
"At last I'm getting through. Duck get out now!" Zadavia said before having the monitor she was using be blown up by Mastermind's shooting skill.
"Your really clueless aren't you?" She questioned allowing both to spot her. "Blast `em." She ordered while charging straight ahead. Lightning blasts came from their ceiling.
"Yeow!" Danger shouted as Misty's former assistant began attacking. Massive decided to take on Massive. The two remained on the defense since they knew this room, their meeting room, didn't hold a lot of room for a fight. It was out of dumb luck that they were able to perform an old school crisscross pattern: Massive got hit by a lightning blast and fell on his butt while Weathervane was hit by a gravity blast which caused her to hit the ceiling, and fall right on top of him.
"What did I do to deserve working with you super incompetents." Mallory complained to them after watching the two make a run for it. The two villains looked at her with a 'huh' and then rested for a moment or two. Within their rest the two Loonatics were able to get a narrow lead.
'Good thing I left this by the entrance.' Duck said as he flew, by pack, with Rev. The three others got done with their nap and followed, but lost them when they ducked into an alley. Duck, in a dumpster, took a quick look, and then quacked out of it, and Rev zipped right beside him.
"Rev, Duck can you hear me?" Zadavia questioned to them through Duck's communicator allowing both to see their boss. "I'm tapped into a private data net, bad signal, you must find the other Loonatics. All of my systems have been sabotaged, find the others NOW!" She ordered before the signal went completely out.
"Focus, focus, focus, focus. Think, think, think, think. OW." Rev said while trying to figure out the answer, and then stood at attention.
What've you got?" Danger questioned, wondering if he had come up with an answer to this mystery.
"A headache." He answered honestly, and just with his own sentence he figured out where they were at. "Wait, Duck, that's it - a headache!" He said in praise after figuring it out.
"What are you talking about?" Duck questioned since he did not know how a beginner level head problem was going to help them out. Rev decided to help the teleporter out on this one.
"Okay, who has the biggest head, Mastermind, right. And who was in the specially designed underground prison that isn't open anymore: Mastermind again. So, where would be the closest place for her to lock up our buddies?" He said and questioned with three fingers on his left and going for the curling fashion meaning that he should be able to answer this with no problem.
"Uh…go fish." Duck answered back. That was usually his answer when he did not understand what was said or if he just didn't know the answer. Rev knew that they did not have the time for him to think, so their speed member gave away the answer.
"The underground prison Tech designed. Come on." Rev said before racing off in that direction. This caught Duck off guard, but he was able to quickly bounce back.
"Hey, wait up. Your just the sidekick." He shouted as the two headed off in that direction through a shortcut that the green furred one told them about. Sypher had grown bored with watching them so he decided to look at a paper the switchboard operator forgot about - just to pass the time. He glanced over the paper when he heard Lexi and Slam whistling innocently, and Spider playing hackie sack with a web ball. He knew of all of the leisurely tactics to avoid getting caught, so he decided to talk to the captives.
"Yo, dudes, give it up. Mastermind reset the deactivation code." Drake said to them after walking to the edge of the walkway. Ace knew how dumb this villain was, so maybe there was a chance for freedom.
"She tell you what it was?" Ace questioned, giving him an obvious question, and that was what Sypher fell for.
"Are you kiddin? If I knew those six little numbers I'd have all your powers by now." He said to them, not knowing that he gave them a lead, and at that same moment their backup had arrived.
"Ahem. Forget about somebody?" Duck questioned which caused the syphoner to turn around. Ace saw Loonatics red and orange and knew what to do with them.
"Duck entertain our friend. Rev help us get out of here." The yellow hare ordered, and that was what they did. Duck quacked near the guard while Rev ran over to the others.
"You can look." Duck said after appearing on Sypher's back which caught him off guard. He got off and quacked away before the grab. "But you can't…" He started to say after he reappeared, but quickly disappeared before another attempt. "Touch." He added after reappearing.
'This is going to get old really quick.' Sypher said since this almost drove him mad last time, but last time he had five other powers.
"Try again." Duck said after quacking behind the ex-athlete, and quacked away before that swipe too.
"Okay, Ace, I'm rarin to go." Loonatic red said after making it to the ledge before the bubble. Tech walked up close and gave him the info that they had so far.
"The security code contains six numbers, random sequence - HURRY." Their tech egghead said to the speed demon knowing that there were few places the other could quack to with out falling. Rev sped over to the panel and typed in all six number combos that he knew of.
"Too slow." Duck said after quacking before another try and appearing from behind. "So low." He said after another attempt. "No go." He said and quacked again, but this time Sypher waited for him which made Duck appear on his head. "Uh-oh." Duck said after realizing his problem.
"Feel like a little company dudes? So, now that I stole Duck's power, I'm gonna quake myself in there, and steal you too." The power pilferer said after tossing the powerless one aside and walked over to the pen.
"Uh-oh." Ace said since he did not see this one coming when he made that two way plan. As Tech got back to work and the other four stood guard Rev decided to stop his work and distract Sypher since keeping their powers came before being free.
"Want a little super speed, dude?" Loonatic red questioned with a finger taunt. The two then had a one on one of speed to teleporting, but with his GPS ability Rev stayed ahead by just a split second. As that went down their super genius remembered something of his past that his old prodigy had a habit of doing.
"Why didn't I realize it before?" He questioned to himself allowing the others to watch as he gave himself a palm slap to his forehead and added, "I think I know the activation code." That was the right statement to say in the field leaders opinion, and knew what to do next.
"You do?" He questioned and then decided to make use of their ex-teleporter member. "Duck…" He waited for a response since he knew that the body was sluggish at first when it came down to being power drained, but soon added, "Get to the keypad."
"Can't a guy recover from an injury? I'd just like you to know that I'm doing all the heavy lifting around here." Duck said as he stumbled to the keypad, but was able to get to the panel, but fell on a knee.
"Hurry." Ace said meaning for Loonatic green. "Tell him the code." He instructed since he did not wish for Sypher to get another power.
"1. 6." Tech started and with his kneeling pose he saw that the mallard was typing it in, so he added, "3. 2. 0. 8." The duck pressed in those exact numbers.
"Ok." Duck said after pressing the '8' button. At that instant a small square beeper went off on the right side of Mastermind's waist as she and the others were just casually walking down the hall to the elevator.
"Impossible. Someone has deactivated the prison's security system." Mallory said after taking to device off of her waist. The three knew that it couldn't have been their teammate, but that did throw one question into the air.
"But how could they have known the code?" Weathervane questioned before she and the others decided to high tale it down to the sphere. The field leader asked their canine big brain how he knew the code, but the answer surprised him.
"That's it? Mastermind's locker combination?" Ace questioned wondering if he heard right. This was another fact from his past that he prayed the others did not have to find out, but he decided to be truthful.
"Yeah. We shared one in collage. Well, i-it's a long story." He said in a breif way since he did not want to freak them out, and distract them on this fight.
"Ew." Slam said with a shudder. Just that one statement from the devil was just what the other needed to open up his mouth.
"It can't be that bad. It's not like she left some of her unmentionables in your books, or…any…thing." He started to say in a humor fashion and saw that the muzzled one gave him a nod. "Uh, forget I said anything." He added to his first comment, and outside of the down bubble a minor conversation took place.
"You did it!" Rev said to his orange partner in praise.
"I did. I rule!" Duck said after he fully grasped over the good deed that he had done with both fists raised to the heavens. Rev then used his GPS power and knew where he was going to be and as soon as Sypher quacked back the speed member tapped him on the shoulder seven times.
"Aw, no." The former sportsman said after turning around and saw that they all were free.
"Aw, yeah. We've got a little score to settle Sypher." Ace said to him, and about that time the elevator dinged in. The red and yellow man thought that it might have been more backup for them, but was still worried over who it really was.
"You let them escape!" Paula shouted in disbelief, sort of believing that he was that incompetent. Drake tried to save himself with a little silver tongue try.
"Relax weather girl, I'm handling it." He said back and received a brain blast from the back which sent him into the wall to the left of the elevator. The pink bunny thought that he deserved that since according to Peter he was hopefully only going to absorb her power. "See?" Sypher questioned after sliding and falling off of the wall.
"Never let a boy do a weather girl's job." Paula said and shot off a lightning blast with a familiar hand stance. Ace saw this and countered it with optic blast.
'This lady's mine.' Massive thought and channeled his gravity powers on the ground causing chunks of the earth to go to Lexi, but she countered it with brain blasts. Tech and Mastermind were having a quick draw contest.
"Flying dagger pens." Mastermind said and made three of them.
"Repulser fragmestan." Tech said and made his tool. The two threw them and no soon that they blew up that they started it again.
"Weaponized spoon." She said as she upgraded a spoon on her armor.
"Automated patroziny." Tech said and had those two blow up.
"Kamikaze keychain." She said and created.
"Deflecto vemo-fetcher." The canine genius said as he threw the red and yellow device, and those two also blew up. Mallory was about to make something else, but got hit by Sypher's boot after he quacked in front of her, still trying to get Rev's super speed. Massive was still battling with Lexi, and was surprised that the bunny was an even match for his powers. The pink furred one destroyed a couple of the rocks, but dodged the others.
"Here's a present for you, Duck." Massive said after he saw that the telepoter was unguarded. Danger feared for his life since he could no longer form an egg as a defense.
"Uh, ho, ho. That's okay, I don't want anything." Duck told him, but grew worried when he saw the graviton gladiator crack his knuckle, but his attack was put on hold as he was caught in a Tasmo tornado that was still attached to his arm.
"How do you like me now?" Slam asked through grumbling. The other four were starting to back up since they were being surrounded by the other three villains.
'Seriously, why do villains have to be so dumb.' Peter thought after watching their powers at work. He then decided to help them out by firing and swinging on a web-line, grabbing Duck from his back and tossed him to the elevator all before landing in front of the others.
"I'm having personal space issues." Lexi said as she did not like the way the three were looking at them. Their field leader knew this to be true, but he really didn't have a plan to get out of this one.
"Well, what do you say we get out of here." Ace said, in a way for one of the others to speak up.
'Oh man, he didn't have to be so rough.' Duck thought after giving his head a shake. The mallard then saw that his team was in trouble and knew what to do.
"Ahem. First floor: toys, furniture, ladies undergarments." He said after knocking on the side of the open elevator. Ace saw that the three were closing in on them, but he finally came up with a plan.
"Slam, a little blowback, please?" The swords-bunny offered to the purple furred muscle. Using his left free arm he sent a cyclone at them which the three ducked for cover before it could hit them. When the path was clear the other six ran for it causing Massive to fall on his butt. "Go." Ace said when all seven were in the elevator. Mastermind saw the elevator, but she knew how to counter their escape.
"Bring down that elevator." She bellowed to him, and he was more then happy to do just that for the sake of a rematch.
"With pleasure." He said and channeled his power into the elevator shaft, and could feel it following them, so he really poured it on, but their was a problem with that. All the rock that made up the shaft, let alone the building came down to them; thankfully Weathervane protected them with her bubble.
"Not quite what I had in mind." Mallory said back. She was glad that he followed orders, and liked his enthusiasm, but he could have had some self control just the same.
'Did I really do all of that?' He thought to himself with a wide eyed expression since he never poured that much power into his attack. Weathervane looked over head and saw the elevator glowing green, and knew where they were.
"Nice going, Tech." Lexi said as she and five others fled the elevator. Tech used his power to keep them out of reach of Massive's attack, and that was why he was the last one out.
"Careful guys, my spider sense is going nuts." Peter said to them which after his tales knew that spelled trouble.
"So, don't get comfy." Ace added as he and the others turned to the big hole in the ground, and out of it came a bubble with all four inside. Massive was at the top of the bubble while Sypher, Weathervane, and Mastermind were below him (in that order).
"Care for another round Loonatics?" Mastermind questioned confidently, knowing that stopping them was in their blood she already knew the answer.
"I'm gonna wipe the shine right off that head." The acrobatic avenger said to the others, really wanting to put that one in her place. That was when they heard a familiar sound: their holo call sound, and when the heroes turned to their left they saw a figure. "Zadavia?" Lexi questioned since she was the only one that could do that, or so the bunny thought.
"Uh, not exactly." Ace said since he knew the face of his crush and that DEFINETLY was not it. Their foes wondered what the heroes of Acmetropolis was staring at, but when they saw who it was fear became evident on all of their faces.
"I ask you to do one simple thing: catch the Loonatics. But you can't even do that." The mystery man said after seeing that all seven were still standing. "I should eradicate you as well." He added and saw that their fear had grown. "But I suppose you can still prove useful to me." He informed them and summoned a blue wormhole, the same vortex that saved them the first time.
"No way, suction boy." Danger said after realizing that what they were seeing was the saw vortex as Peter described, and ran to the four.
"Duck wait!" Ace shouted trying to stop him, but it didn't work as the duck continued to them.
"You've still got a little thing called by powers to return." He shouted and as the enemy were pulled in: Massive and Weathervane then Sypher and Mastermind grabbed onto Drake's ankles and was pulled in with them ending in a, "YEOW!" The vortex went back to the man's hand and the whole thing vanished. On the unknown location the four were oozed out while Duck was thrown out of the wormhole.
"Whoops." Danger said after realizing that he was staring at their four villains, and he still did not have powers, so he was in trouble.
"Well, look what the wormhole just dragged in." Optimatos said to the duck billed Loonatic before he fainted from fright. Back in his city the rest of the team were wondering what just happened.
"Who was that?" Lexi questioned since she had never seen the like before.
"I don't know." Slam answered her, and once again Peter spoke out of turn.
"A bad Dr. Droid impersonator." He said and saw that the rest of the team gave him strange looks. "A different enemy back home, don't ask." He said to them, and that was when a new voice was heard.
"Loonatics, there's something I must tell you." The voice said and they all saw a pink outfitted woman with a dark crimson cloak coming at them. The new person took off the hood and looked at the team with stunning dark green eyes.
"It's Zadavia." Lexi exclaimed since as soon as they all saw her face they dropped their guard and were happy to finally see the face of their founder.
"In the flesh." Tech added to Loonatic pink's comment. He and the others knew that for an instant after they de-spliced they saw her, but this was the first time that they saw her actual face. The team got up to her starting with Lexi, and then the others.
'She's okay, but I don't think Peter likes her more than a friend or a boss.' She thought as she looked at the other female's face. She then heard their field leader's voice to Zadavia.
"Uh, Zadavia, ya know something about that big guy looked familiar." Ace said to her while trying not to get lost in those deep green eyes. He saw her eyes switch from grateful that most of them were safe to ashamed of his observation.
"I'm not surprised, after all, he is my brother." She said to them after deciding to be honest with her team, and saw their shock over her announcement.
"Oh brother!" Ace said, feeling that it may be difficult for him to get her family's blessing if he wanted to go that far.
"Well, every family has it's problems." Lexi said in honesty, and then wondered if what she said was alright and saw him give her a silent nod.