The Loonatics went about regular business until later, but they were given attention when a video call rang in. It was not Zadavia, but it was someone else. Someone they had never seen before.
"May we help you?" Akito asked.
"Hello," a martian appeared. "I would like to have a word with you all about something extremely important."
"And that is?" Duck asked.
"For destroying my galactic death fuser, my collection of handmade space discus, my framed portrait painting, AND my Martian Made Monkey Statue, I command you surrender at once or your planet will be destroyed!" the alien threatened.
"Oh, dear." Estelle frowned as the other Loonatics panicked.
"By the way, nice missile targeting." The alien complimented the brown-haired girl and female rabbit.
"Thanks..." Lexi smiled, then shrugged. "I mean... It was an accident."
"We thought it was a game, but it wasn't a game, it was real, of course, you already know that, I mean, you sorta knew that, you would know that, but you know that now, ya know?" Rev came to Lexi and Estelle's sides.
"I think he just got confused because with how fast you were telling him all of it at once." Estelle said.
"Indeed..." the alien agreed with the human girl.
"Well, I say-" Duck said before getting interrupted.
"Be careful of what you say, Duck." Akito warned him.
"Your duck friend is quite the finger whacker where I come from." the alien gave a glare to Duck.
"Oh, like I haven't heard that one before!" Duck folded his arms. "I bet you couldn't hit the bright side of the moon with that thing!"
"Oh, really?" the alien challenged before clicking a button and destroyed a moon before their very eyes.
"Well, that just happened." Estelle said with widened eyes.
Duck looked scared, but turned away smugly. "Eh, easy shot! Could've started with something smaller, like those stars over there!"
The alien then zapped a bunch of stars out of the sky.
"Okay, another easy shot!" Duck taunted. "How 'bout trying the-"
Akito jumped on Duck's back and covered his beak.
"Duck, could you please and I mean this the nicest way possible, could you please SHUT UP?!" Akito told the black duck.
"Let's not get carried away," Ace added. "At least leave something that twinkles up there."
"Maybe we should do the talking?" Lexi suggested, referring to herself and Estelle.
"Yeah, we did cause this mess." Estelle agreed.
The two of them then went up to the screen.
"Hello there, Mr. Melvin the Martian, sir," Lexi smiled, slightly nervously. "Nice helmet, oh, not to mention those shoes! Who knew martians had the best fashion sense?"
"Fashion sense?" Duck scoffed. "The guy's wearing a tutu!"
Slam had to admit that was funny.
"You are seriously not helping!" Akito glared at Duck.
"Fine, I'll help," Duck walked over, he shoved Lexi and blocked Estelle. "Listen here, buddy, if you're here to take over Acmetropolis, there's just one more planet you're gonna need to keep track of!"
Melvin looked thoughtful for a moment. "It's true... I do have so many planets..."
"So why don't we just let bygones be bygones?" Estelle smiled.
"Won't it be like crowded in your collection?" Duck asked.
"Hmm... That gives me an idea..." Melvin replied. "I won't actually destroy your planet, I'll just shrink it and everyone on it and add it to my collection."
"Oh, come on!" Akito groaned.
"You see how easy I handled that?" Duck looked to the others. "Now, he's gonna-" he then panicked once he realized what he had done. "SHRINK OUR PLANET!?"
"Please don't do anything rash just because we thought we were playing some silly game." Estelle and Lexi told the alien.
"You must be very good game players," Melvin said to the two. "Hmm... I just learned a new game, Celestial Checkers... Unfortunately, Sargeant Sirius lacks a system strong enough to master such a game." he then folded his arms smugly.
The robot canine net to the alien then licked his face like a traditional dog.
"He's more of a rock-paper-scissors kind of robot." Melvin then added.
"That's too bad, it's not too much fun playing games when no one's around that has your skills," Estelle and Lexi said. "Believe us, we can relate."
"Oh, goody, then it's settled," Melvin tried to look menacing. "I won't destroy or shrink your planet, I'll just take you both."
"What do you mean take us?" Lexi and Estelle gasped.
"All right, listen here, Space Cadet," Ace stepped in while Akito also did and growled about the idea of someone taking away his sister. "No one's taking Lexi."
"Or Estelle!" Akito snarled. "She's my best friend!"
"I thought she was your sister?" Duck asked.
"Seriously, you are not helping at all." Tech said.
"I've always been close with Estelle, we consider each other as our own best friends." Akito explained.
"Ohh." Duck said, understanding.
Melvin looked menacing again.
"Hey, hey!" Duck barged in as always, going to Ace and Akito.
"Duck, we are not turning them over to that tutu-wearing alien!" Akito glared at the black duck.
"Oh, come on, what's so bad about traveling and playing checkers?" Duck chuckled nervously. "Uh, about, I dunno, a billion lightyears away?"
"You have 24 hours to reconsider or else Acmetropolis will be hard to find on ANY map." Melvin finalized before signing off.
This caused for Estelle and Lexi to look depressed as they were now feeling like they were to blame. Felicity, Simon, and Jenny arrived then.
"Uhh... What have we missed?" Felicity asked.
"Acmetropolis is going to be shrunk." Akito said.
"It's all our faults..." Estelle bowed her head sadly.
"Why's that?" Jenny asked.
"We... Kinda played what we thought was a video game and we made this martian angry." Lexi explained.
Simon gave a 'shame on you' gesture to Lexi and Estelle.
"We know." Estelle frowned.
"Can we fix this?" Felicity asked Tech and Akito, handing Simon over.
"We'll have to do some research on Melvin's technology." Akito said.
"Ready to work today?" Tech asked Simon.
Simon, of course, said nothing and slowly nodded.
"I'll take that as a yes." Tech said.
"Let's go then." Akito nodded.
"Yeah." Jenny nodded.
"Um... Anyone notice anything missing here?" Felicity asked.
The others looked around.
"Hey, where's Vincent?" Slam asked in his language.
"Didn't he come with you guys?" Akito asked.
Felicity and Jenny merely shrugged.
"I hope he's alright." Estelle said.
"Me too..." Jenny sounded heartbroken.
"Let's get to the lab, we'll worry about Vincent later, right now, Acmetropolis's fate rests on our shoulders. "Tech told the others.
"Tech is right." Akito said.