"I guess we go back home until tomorrow?" Jenny asked, unsure what to do next.
"We got a guest room in case your portal wouldn't make it back in time, you guys can sleep there, we even got a crib for little Simon." Lexi offered.
"Thanks, Lexi." Patch smiled.
"Sure, anything to help you guys." Lexi smiled fondly back.
The guest room had enough beds for them all, there was even an enlarged doggy bed for Patch that had a lot of pillows for him. The beds were big, but not too big, just big for little kids, but no trouble. Felicity placed Simon gently in his crib after she got her nightgown on and took her boots off, going to bed with her friends and family. Jenny patted the pillows for comfort and lay down in the new bed, trying to get comfortable.
"This sure is a great place." Patch said.
"Yeah, it'll do until we go home," Vincent smiled. "I can see why Akito and Estelle like it here so much."
"It's not home, but it's a good fit until we do go home." Jenny smiled as she bundled down.
"Bon nuit, Simon..." Felicity cooed to her baby brother, rising up the bars of the crib so he wouldn't fall out or get hurt. She then handed him his bottle through the bars.
Simon took the bottle and started to drink his milk until he would fall asleep.
"Let's all get some sleep." Vincent smiled.
"Bon nuit..." Felicity yawned as she curled up in her new bed for the evening.
"Good night..." Jenny added, burying her face into her pillow.
"Night, all." Patch told them.
"Night..." Vincent muttered as he got to bed.
Everyone was now asleep, well, all but Duck, as he was scared of Stomper coming to get him. In fact, he looked to the outside monitor of the Tower and saw a frighteningly familiar shadow.
"I want my mommy..." Duck whimpered.
Suddenly, a random cow fell from his ceiling and landed on his bed just as he got out of it. This woke the others up and they rushed to see Duck as he teleported out in the hallway. Simon was holding a candle in his hand, looking angered that his slumber was interrupted.
"What was that!?" Ace asked.
"What's up?" Estelle asked.
"It's Stomper!" Duck grew frantic. "He dropped a cow on me!"
"A vache?" Felicity asked in disbelief.
"A big one!" Duck sprawled as he explained. "With udders and hooves, the whole package!"
Rev and Slam looked to each other oddly. The others decided to check Duck's room.
"You better be telling the truth, Duck." Akito said.
When they got to the room, there was no bovine to speak of.
Lexi yawned, looking over to Duck dully. "I think someone's having a bad dream..."
"Probably brought on by a guilty conscience." Jenny assumed.
"For taking credit when you shouldn't have." Tech added, shaking his head at Duck.
"Totally." The twins said in unison.
"Get some sleep and stay out of trouble right now..." Felicity firmly looked to Duck beofre leaving with the others.
Simon blew out his candle, growling to Duck as he was carried back to bed.
"Oh, d-don't worry, I won't," Duck smiled nervously. "It's not like I'm afraid, I just thought you'd wanna know! Uh, would you mind leaving the door open a tad?"
"Why?" Akito asked. "You scared of the dark now?"
"Uhh... Maybe?" Duck chuckled nervously.
Akito rolled his eyes and shook his head. "I wonder about you sometimes, Duck..." he then went off to join the others to bed.
Duck frowned and decided to get some sleep himself, believing he was having an overactive imagination. But of course, he didn't sleep, he just hid in terror.
The next day, the Loonatics were called to town. Dr. Dare was out for his long-awaited revenge and used Perseus's shield to zap the innocents of Acmetropolis to turn them all into stone after his punishment for trying to sink the city planet underground.
"You got rocks in your head if you think you're gonna get away with this!" Jenny sneered, shocking the other kids a little, they never actually saw her get angry.
"Let's see how you all like being statues forever!" Dr. Dare laughed wickedly, attempting to blast them with his new weapon.
"This guy is seriously annoying." Estelle said.
All they could do right now was dodge the shield's blasts and so they did.
"RISE, MY BOULDER ARMY!" Dr. Dare commanded, making rock robots rise from the ground with boulders in their hands.
"Better let me have my turn!" Akito smiled evilly to the villain.
"You go crush those boulders, bro!" Estelle and Vincent cheered.
Ace hopped the boulders while Akito would destroy them. Ace slashed the robots with his sword, smiling that it had worked on the first one. Lexi then used her brain blasts on the others to give Ace a helping hand. Estelle came to Lexi's side to join her brain blast with the female rabbit's.
"Nice work, girls!" Ace praised.
A couple of more bots came up and threw more boulders.
Akito punched them, making them shatter on the road. "Is that all you got!?"
'Dude, you want to be as strong as your bro? Then sneak off while they aren't looking and search for the Rings of Pollution.' The voice told Vincent.
Vincent's inner voice had returned, he smiled rather sinisterly.
"Time to take out these rocks!" Tech decided to use his invention to help Akito.
Akito pounded more boulders while Tech turned the bots into pure water.
"Tech, once again, you are The coyote!" Akito cheered.
Tech chuckled. "Aww, it's nuthin'."
"NOT AGAIN!" Dr. Dare cried in anguish. "NOOO!"
"You're next!" Tech rose his invention and zapped at Dr. Dare's podium, turning it into water and made him fall from being in the air.
The shield fell on the road and Dr. Dare fell on top of it, turning him into stone instantly.
"Great job, Tech!" Ace praised, putting his sword away.
"Yeah, Tech, you really did it." Akito smiled.
Once Vincent heard that, he knew he'd have to find the Rings of Pollution soon, but unfortunate for him, he couldn't find all of them, but he did find two of them. It was super radiation and deforestation.
"Stop the presses!" the interviewer rushed right to them. "Another crime solved, what a scoop! Danger Danger Duck does it again!"
"No, no, no, no," Duck put his hands up. "It was Tech and Akito who saved the day! They're the heroes! Yeah, they're the ones who stopped Stomper too! They deserve all the glory!"
Akito and Tech smiled for the camera, even though Tech was more of the nervous. There was even a news report on them about how they saved Acmetropolis.
Jenny looked around, a little worried. "Has anyone seen Vincent?"
"Here I am." Vincent appeared with his right hand in his pocket.
Jenny flinched slightly, but smiled to him. "Oh, good, I thought maybe you got hurt or something..." she said in relief. "Come on, Dr. Dare's gone now."
Vincent nodded and walked with her, keeping up appearances.
Once they all go back to the tower, the news was on, telling what happened. After the report, the doorbell went off. The doors opened, but no one was there and there was a bouquet of flowers, followed by a falling refrigerator.
"Looks like it's from a secret admirer." Duck said.
Tech saw a card for him and Akito. "'Dear Tech and Akito, your days are numbered and it's a very low number. Your Friend'..." he then gulped in midsentence. "'The Stomper'."
"Does he really think he can scare us?" Akito asked.
"It's working for me!" Tech shivered.
"Must be some kind of joke, right?" Duck smiled as he put his arm around the coyote. "Better you than me."
Akito saw an extra note and read it aloud. "'P.S, And don't forget the duck too!"
This caused for Tech to shudder.
"You took the shudder right out of my mouth." Duck said.
"Oh, for the love of peat! Ace! We have to go check on Stomper again!" Akito called out.
"We'll learn in our own time." Duck said.
Akito rolled his eyes in annoyance. Once Ace was ready, they went to the Acmetropolis Prison. Simon did not go with them this time and was trying to learn how to walk.
"This better be the last time we're doing this." Akito groaned.
"You said it." Ace agreed.
"Now, you know we're just here so you feel ready, right?" Duck smiled anxiously.
"Yes," Tech agreed, trying to hide his obvious fear. "Don't want Ace to feel nervous around the Stomper!"
"Thanks, you can all let go of my hands now." Ace said to them.
"Yeah, and try to hide your nervousness." Akito told them.
When they got to Stomper's cell, he was gone, worrying Tech and Duck instantly. They were so scared, they jumped into Ace's arms and clung to him. Stomper was actually under his bed and showed his face to them.
"Why were you under your bed?" Akito asked.
"If ya don't mind, I was takin' a nap!" Stomper glared to him.
"See?" Duck pretended to scoff. "Told ya he's here! You're getting weird, checkin' the cell..."
Tech took out a device to scan the cell and saw that it was secure enough to hold Stomper within it. "Yep, completely unbreakable, nothing can get in and no one could get out!" he confirmed.
"All right, now to get home and get a good night's sleep." Duck smiled, relaxed.
"Agreed." Tech smiled.
"Funny thing about sleep..." Stomper smiled darkly, making them stop dead in their tracks. "You never know when you're gonna wake up!"
Ace noticed a ball of yarn with a pair of knitting needles in his pocket. "New hobby?"
"Just a little somethin' to keep me busy behind bars..." Stomper smiled evilly as he showed a blanket he knitted of him strangling Duck and Tech to death while crushing Akito with his foot.
"Wow, very, um...unique." Akito said, disturbed.
"Come on, guys, let's get some sleep." Ace suggested, leaving with them.
"Agreed." Akito said.