Tech and Akito were still under Black Velvet and Felicity's influence as they hacked into the computers. Outside the Zeppelin a satellite dish came out of the front of it looking like it was ready to fire a signal or in this case a shroud of darkness. Black Velvet's henchmen were standing guard around the generator.
Lexi saw the generator and the guards that were guarding it and smirked. "Piece of cake..."
Slam came to the generator and grunted.
"Right behind ya, Slam!" Rev came right next to him.
However, the floor looked funny and blobs came to them, revealing to be more henchmen.
"Okay, time to get inside." Vincent said.
Ace used the blaster to make a door inside and hopped right into it. Tech and Akito were heard typing at the computers in Black Velvet's secret room.
"Hey, guys, let's make like an atom and split!" Ace called to them.
The coyote and boy did not answer them and kept working.
"Hey, guys!" Ace called.
"They're not answering..." Duck observed.
"Your friends only answer to us now," Felicity came to them with Black Velvet, sounding better with her English speaking. "You boys are just in time to watch us usher in the Dark Ages!"
Estelle and Vincent couldn't believe of what they saw. Black Velvet used her rays, but Ace tried to block them with his own, they were both evenly matched.
"Oh, no, you don't, Loonatics." Black Velvet said before starting to shoot at Ace, Duck, Estelle, and Vincent.
The others did their best to dodge her blasts. Ace slid on the floor and tried to shoot at her with his gun. Black Velvet missed by covering herself with her cloak and still shot at them, but successfully trapped Duck into a bubble. Black Velvet then blasted Ace with her rays this time, making contact.
Ace grunted as he hit the floor. "Duck, maybe you can deal with her friends." he suggested before going back up.
Duck saw the henchmen coming and he rolled in his bubble to take them on and hit them like a bowling ball against a bunch of pins. "STEERIKE!"
"Great work, Duck!" Vincent congratulated for the first time.
"Aw, it was nuthin'." Duck chuckled.
"Guys, tell me you're ready." Ace whispered into his communicator.
"I still need another minute." Lexi replied before giving a swift kick against more baddies.
Duck created an energy field in his hands and used it to pop himself out of the bubble.
"Miss Velvet," Tech called with an evil smile. "Your ShroudCaster is ready."
"Why thank you, baby." Black Velvet smirked to him.
"Tech, no!" Ace cried before getting shot at yet again.
"Shall I assist you, Miss Velvet, and get rid of the pests?" Akito asked.
"By all means..." Black Velvet allowed him to.
"DESTROY THEM!" Felicity added with an evil laugh that sounded actually pretty scary since she was never a bad girl.
Akito then walked away from Tech and walked up to Ace, ready to fight him, Estelle, Vincent, and Duck to stop them from ruining the plan. Tech continued to work at the computer while Akito would 'take care' of Estelle, Vincent, and Duck. Akito continued to fight Ace, Estelle, and Vincent, but not bothering with Duck, not finding him a threat.
"What, I'm not good enough to get beaten up by ya?" Duck huffed, a little offended.
Akito glared at Duck, scaring him. Black Velvet had tied up Ace from her blasts, barking orders to Tech while Akito took on his own flesh and blood.
"Akito, it's us, Estelle and Vincent!" Estelle cried to her twin, trying not to get hurt.
"Akito, please listen to us, break free, don't let Black Velvet order you around or let anyone order you around." Vincent said.
Akito yelled, grabbing them both by their collars and threw them all the way across the room.
"Great, now finish them off while you, Tech, activate the shroud caster NOW!" Black Velvet and Felicity ordered.
Tech was just about to push the button.
"Tech, buddy, come on, wake up!" Ace called to him.
"AKITO, PLEASE WAKE UP!" Estelle cried out to her twin brother.
"Wait, I can wake them!" Duck called and took out his lousy cell phone.
Tech was just about to push the button and Akito was about to throw his siblings down to fall and die, but then, when they heard Duck's phone alarm, it made them shake and instantly wake up in seconds.
"That annoying phone!" Tech snarled.
"I need a little help here, Tech!" Ace called as he struggled in his trap.
"Huh? What the heck?!" Akito asked as soon as he saw what he was about to do.
Estelle and Vincent screamed as they were about to fall. Tech used the gun to break Ace out of his prison and Akito put his siblings back in a safe spot. Estelle then hugged her twin brother for having him no longer being mind controlled.
"Madame Velours Noir," Felicity spoke to her new mistress. "They broke Akito and Tech free!"
"No matter, time will still be up for the Loonatics!" Black Velvet assured as she clicked the button herself.
The generator charged up with electrical sparks everywhere, making it very bright in the darkness from the deathly powerful volts. This was enough to charge up the satellite which was not good at all.
"Oh no, this isn't good." Vincent said.
A big dark midnight blue glow cast over the town to make the town into permanent darkness. The citizens were worrying with black-outs all over the city, not knowing what happened to the light. Lightning flashed from the big black doom clouds.
"Lexi, have you reversed the polarity?" Ace asked into his communicator.
"Not yet, Ace!" Lexi called as she tried to beat up more Shadowborgs. Once she finally found a stopping point, she pulled down a lever. "Got it!"
The satellite reversed and made it bright and sunny in Acmetropolis once again.
"Yes!" Vincent cheered.
"My city of darkness!" Black Velvet cried, trying to avoid the bright light. "Nooooo!"
"Oh, but yes!" Estelle retorted.
"Come on, ya guys, let's get out of dodge!" Ace called.
Akito and Estelle trapped Felicity in a bag and ran with her to get out with the other Loonatics. The bright light was destroying the Zeppelin, Black Velvet, and the Shadowborgs with it.
"Run! Run! Run for your lives!" Vincent yelled out.
They all made it to the jet on time for the Zeppelin to cease to exist.
"Get me out of here!" Felicity cried from the bag. "I will destroy you all for this!"
"Do you think she's back to normal?" Vincent asked.
"She doesn't sound like it..." Estelle said, removing the bag, then saw Felicity still looked evil. "Flick, it's us, we're your cousins and we love you!"
"No, you don't!" Felicity hissed. "My parents replaced me with a baby, you all don't love me, nobody understands me!"
"We do love you, Felicity, we have always loved you and we always will and so do Aunt Cherry and Uncle Forte and Mom and Dad and Thomas and Simon and Grandma and Grandpa and all of our friends." Vincent said.
"Noooo!" Felicity refused to believe them and clamped her hand over her ears.
"Think about your mother, Felicity, she loves you very much!" Estelle insisted.
"She doesn't!" Felicity looked very angry once her mother was brought up. "She abandoned me and never came back until I was eight!"
"Felicity remember of what Aunt Cherry told you." Vincent said.
Felicity refused, she squeezed her eyes shut, then was thinking back to some of the actually tender and heartwarming moments she shared with her mother. Ace took the jet to HQ, he just hoped the kids' cousin was going to be okay as she went to the dark side for this one mission and would hopefully get over it soon enough in time so she wouldn't destroy herself.
'I hope that Felicity doesn't destroy herself.' Estelle thought to herself.
Rev was playing Air Hockey against himself while Slam stood by the table and watched in confusion.
"What can we do?" Akito sighed as Felicity was still struggling with them.
"If only we could get Aunt Cherry here..." Estelle added.
"Maybe we can?" Vincent shrugged, unsure.
And then out of nowhere, Cherry appeared.
"Aunt Cherry...?" the Fudo siblings were surprised and confused.
"What are you doing here?" Estelle asked. "How are you here?"
"I have a book on this world, remember?" Cherry came to them, then saw Felicity struggling. "Black Velvet controlled her..."
"Yeah, but why?" Akito asked.
"I did something kind of terrible to Black Velvet back in my day..." Cherry looked back ominously.
"I don't think we want to know." Estelle said.
Tech then brought Akito a cape with matching boots that were the same color as Tech's.
"Come here..." Cherry picked up her daughter and gave her a big hug.
Felicity yelled, but then powered down, turning back to normal. "Maman..." she whispered and hugged her mother back.
"Thank goodness, she's back." Estelle said, relieved that their cousin wasn't evil anymore.
Cherry placed Felicity back down on the floor.
"What happened to me, Maman?" Felicity asked.
"Manipulation," Cherry explained. "I do it to your father all the time, but not in that way."
"Wow, so do you think we'll ever see her again?" Felicity asked.
"Only time will tell, my dear..." Cherry patted her daughter on the head simply. She then saw Duck going over to Ace and Lexi. "And what is this going on here?" she wondered.
"Oh, Duck and Tech made a bet earlier today." Estelle informed.
Tech wore his cape and boots and Akito got into his as well, surprising Duck.
"But, those are mine!" Duck glared at them. "You guys were supposed to buy those for me!"
"Oh, no, no, no, no, the bet was that you couldn't use any technology for one day." Akito reminded him.
"Yeah, you used your phone, Duck, we all saw it." Ace smirked as he held a pool stick.
"But I used the phone to save them!" Duck tried to defend himself. "Without me, they'd still be sayin' 'Whatever you say, Old Velvety One'."
"A bet's a bet." Lexi cooed to him.
"You have to keep your end of the bargain." Cherry even joined in.
"Yep." Estelle added in with a smirk.
"No matter what." Vincent added in.
"Good work, Loonatics," Zadavia came back, she had a very satisfied smile on her face, she must have been in a very good mood now. "Despite Black Velvet's disappearing and bewitching act, her Shroundcaster has been dismantled and the power has been returned, and Tech, Akito, don't you two look manly?"
"Why thank you, Zadavia." Tech and Akito smiled.
"Very impressive indeed." Zadavia said with a smile.
"But.. But,.. But!" Duck got frantic once he didn't have any attention.
"Is that Cherry?" Zadavia noticed.
"Yes, it's me," Cherry looked to her. "You've probably heard of me..."
"Yes I have, I even remember seeing you the first day of the children's first day here." Zadavia said.
"I didn't think you would've seen me..." Cindy stroked some of her hair out of her face.
"So dark and mysterious, yet still so caring and thoughtful for others." Zadavia spoke to the gothic woman.
"I might have lost my blood, but I still have a heart." Cherry glanced to her slightly.
"I noticed, what happened to you?" Zadavia asked.
"What do you mean?" Cherry glanced to her. "I've always been like this. I may look like a 19-year-old woman, but I'm much older due to my new life."
"Maybe it's just been a while since she's seen you." Estelle guessed.
"I have a baby at home..." Cherry shrugged.
"We must catch up... But for now, Zadavia out." Zadavia then signed off for the day.
"Wait, come back!" Duck called. "I picked up the cape and the matching boots, I'm the heroic looking one, be impressed with me!"
"Don't worry, Duck, maybe you can give her a call." Lexi teased.
"If you can get a signal." Ace added with a smirk.
"You know, you're all despicable." Duck glared at them all.
Cherry then went to take Felicity and Vincent back home.
"We'll see you both, next time we visit and hopefully each of us will have our Fuzz-Z during a mission or visit." Vincent said.
"We'll just have to see." Estelle added as she cuddled with her Fuzz-Z.
"Yeah." Akito added in as his Fuzz-Z climbed up and seemed to really like the cape and boots.
They all shared a laugh while Duck was still angry about Tech and Akito getting all the attention for their new capes and boots.
"Oh, lighten up, Duck." Estelle said.