They went into the lab to find a way to hatch a plan against Melvin the Martian.
"So what do you have tech to help us fight back against him?" Jenny asked, referring to Melvin.
"It might be complicated, but the martian civilization is ten million years ahead of ours!" Tech replied once he was at his computer. "They can do a few things even I can't do."
"You mean like wearing tutus in public?" Duck scoffed.
"I mean like overpowering a trillion times bigger than our planet," Tech glanced back at him. "With that much juice, we're toast!"
This caused for Estelle and Lexi to gasp.
"Well, we got no choice," Ace said. "If 'Tiny' wants a war, we'll give him a war!"
"Yeah!" Akito agreed.
"Or we could just give him Whats-Her-Names?" Duck shrugged nonchalantly.
This caused for the others to glare at him.
"Duck's right," Lexi spoke up. "We're to blame."
"Yeah." Estelle frowned.
"I don't get it." Duck commented.
"It's a Beauty Trojan War?" Lexi insisted.
"Yeah." Estelle added.
"Beauty's got nothing to do with it," Duck scoffed. "You just agree, you're to blame."
"I'm the one who touched the computer in the first place, it's really ME who's to blame." Rev covered up.
"Right, you deserve the blame." Duck said.
"But I created the weapon's system program." Tech stepped in. "If anyone's to blame, it's me."
Duck then suddenly teleported into his lap. "I agree!" he then teleported away with Tech at hand.
"Duck!" Akito glared.
Duck put Tech into his chair and spun him around, forcing him to take blame for Rev, Estelle, and Lexi.
"Duck, you are not helping at all." Akito said.
Duck teleported next to Ace since he was the leader. "Hey, maybe we can ship 'em all out?"
Ace gave him a look, not agreeing, almost wondering why he let Duck join the Loonatics again.
"Can I please punch Duck?" Akito asked Ace.
"Hmm..." Ace rolled his eyes. "Just don't put him in the hospital."
"Fine." Akito groaned.
"You shouldn't blame yourselves..." Jenny said to Lexi and Estelle.
"But it's all our faults..." Lexi insisted. "We thought it was a video game!"
"Yeah." Estelle nodded.
"I am sorry that all this happened and the alien is coming, but we can all get through this with the power of togetherness and teamwork." Felicity spoke up.
"Yeah." Jenny nodded.
"HYAH!" Akito then punched Duck, but didn't use all of his strength in the punch to respect Ace's wishes.
"OWWW!" Duck whined. "What was that for!?"
"Why do you think?" Akito glared.
"Agh, you're scum." Duck scoffed.
Akito simply groaned that Duck couldn't figure out why he punched him.
The countdown was set for 24 hours. Jenny was worried about Vincent more than the others, though probably not as much as Akito or Estelle, he was their brother after all.
"Hopefully the invasion won't happen." Felicity said.
"Do you think Vincent's okay?" Jenny asked.
"Jennivere, I am sure he is fine..." Felicity soothed.
"I hope you're right." Jenny said.
Felicity patted her on the head.
"Maybe Melvin was all talk." Akito said.
"All talk?" Felicity asked. "What does this mean?"
"It means he's not going to shrink the planet." Duck explained.
"I do not know..." Felicity rubbed her arm.
It took a while, they waited two to three hours until something would or might happen and it had been quiet from Melvin.
"It's quiet," Estelle said. "Too quiet."
"Not good." Felicity replied to that.
"Agreed." Jenny said.
Duck, Ace, Lexi, and the kids met up to see Melvin hadn't done anything yet.
"I knew Short Stack was bluffin'!" Duck scoffed as he folded his arms.
"Uh... Don't think so..." Lexi said as she took a closer look.
"You might wanna take a closer look, Duck." Estelle said.
There were Martian dishes shown on the screen, zapping and invading Acmetropolis.
"This is bad." Felicity frowned.
Military generals came down the streets to protect the citizens from the invaders, only to get shrunk down themselves.
"Oh, dear..." Jenny said with widened eyes.
One vehicle was shrunk down and a kid chased after it, believing it to be a toy and chased it so he could take it and play with it. The Loonatics watched in horror as the martians were shrinking nearly everything in sight.
"This is terrible." Estelle gasped.
"I'm putting up the deflector shield now," Tech informed. "Don't know how long they'll last without more power."
"Uh, maybe they'll plug into a couple of different outlets?" Duck suggested.
"You're brilliant," Tech deadpanned, obviously sarcastic. "Why didn't I think of that?"
"Yeah." Akito added in the same way.
"While we are at it, we could protect ourselves in such a way, merci Canard, merci beaucop for your assistance!" Felicity even added in.
"Wow, nice work on your sarcasm, Flick." Akito was impressed.
"Maman taught me." Felicity smiled proudly.
"That explains it." Akito smiled.
"Come on, Akito, let's get to work." Tech told the mostly human boy.
"Yeah." Akito nodded.
Tech and Akito set to work. Jenny was miserably worried about Vincent, but she decided to also help. She really showed a side in her that no one had ever seen before and she was like a child prodigy when it came to science and technology. While they were doing that, Duck was trying to be a good friend to Estelle and Lexi, but in the wrong way.
"How do we test to make sure it works?" Akito asked.
Jenny took out a snow globe she brought from home. "Here, you can try this."
"Perfect." Tech smiled.
Jenny put the snow globe in place and they set up a growth gizmo to grow Acmetropolis after the martians had shrunk it down to size.
"Time to make this snow globe bigger." Akito said.
"Get the others." Tech nodded.
The Loonatics all met up to test the gizmo and when the button was pressed, it made the snow globe grow in massive size. It had worked!
"It works!" Jenny cheered.
"So, you think this suped up gizmo will do the job?" Ace asked.
"Well, the molecular reconstructer is my design," Tech smiled in confidence. "Plus, Jenny's been such a great help, I'm quite impressed with her genius."
Jenny smiled bashfully to that. "We're gonna need a lot of power to get the shrunken buildings back to size though."
"It's true." Akito said.
"We'll see what we can do," Tech said. "We barely have enough power to keep up the shields."
Duck came behind Lexi and Estelle.
"I know you're feeling bad, girls," Duck said to the two females. "Blaming yourselves for this whole mess you caused, but you really shouldn't."
"Wow, thanks, Duck." Estelle smiled.
"Why is it throughout history many have to suffer from the acts of the few?" Duck walked over to the screen as the martians invaded and shrunk their home. "Or in this case, just two?"
"Thanks, Duck, we feel so much better." Lexi grew bitterly sarcastic.
"Hey, that's what action hero friends are for." Duck smiled innocently.
'He does not get sarcasm.' Estelle thought to herself with a groan.
Simon saw a blinking orange button and gestured for Tech to come over.
"What is it?" Felicity asked.
"It's the power grid," Tech rushed over. "We're losing sector three shields. According to my calculations, Melvin's forces will break through by morning!"
"Oh, my..." Jenny said with wide eyes.
"Well, no one's turning our headquarters into a dollhouse!" Ace argued.
"There is still some power..." Akito noticed. "It won't stay for long though, I'm sure."
"Yeah." Tech nodded.
The Loonatics met in the main room and just had to wait up until something would strike. It took a rather long time and most of them ended up falling asleep. While they were asleep, Estelle and Lexi left, leaving behind a hologram. Felicity cuddled with a battered orange teddy bear. Simon whined and poked and tugged her to wake her up. But she didn't seem to wake up at all. Simon narrowed his eyes and tried to shake his sister awake. Eventually, the others slowly started to wake up and questions were asked.
"I dunno, but I'm hungry." Slam pouted.
The screens showed that Melvin's forces were fleeing the planet.
"They're fleeing?" Jenny asked.
"Huh..." Akito was surprised.
"Of course he did," Duck said, sitting on top of a monitor and flexed his arms. "He realized who he was up against: The greatest action hero of the galaxy!"
Ace was about to say something back, then noticed something missing. "Uh, anyone seen Lexi or Estelle?"
Simon crawled over to a microchip on the table and held it out to show everyone.
"A microchip?" Felicity said out of confusion.
"It's not just any microchip," Tech took it. "It's a calling card left from Lexi and Estelle."
"Our Lexi and Estelle?" Ace and Akito asked together.
Tech placed in the chip to show a hologram of the female bunny and girl Fudo twin.
"Hi, everyone, sorry for skipping out on you all, but we knew that you would try to stop us from what we need to do." Hologram Estelle started.
"We decided to take Melvin on his offer..." Hologram Lexi added, blowing a kiss, making the hologram end and fade away.'
"W-What!?" Ace was the most shocked, and he never got to ask Lexi what he's wanted to ask her for what's felt like an eternity. "Why would they do that?"
"You know women," Duck folded his arms. "When they got somethin' into their heads, they can't stop them! You can try, but they never listen!"
Jenny and Felicity gave glares for that. Before anything else was said, the hologram then turned back on.
"Oh, before we forget, thanks for your advise, Duck, it is better to sacrifice two then for all to perish." Hologram Estelle and Hologram Lexi said before ending again.
Now everybody was mad at Duck. Slam snarled, if looks could kill, Duck would definitely be dead meat right about now.
"Well, yeah, obviously, I was taken completely out of context..." Duck grew incredibly nervous. He got even more nervous when Akito grabbed him, wanting to take care of this duck, once and for all.
Simon looked like he wanted to do the same and even showed his baby fang with a low growl.
"Never mind, you're not worth it." Akito said, letting go of Duck.
Simon narrowed his eyes at Duck.
"Why can't you just clap and laugh like a normal baby?" Duck picked up Simon in his hands.
Simon seemed to now ignore Duck.
"We gotta get to work, Melvin can't keep Estelle and Lexi..." Jenny sounded sharp.
"That's right." Felicity added.
Ace talked with Tech about a way to get Lexi and Estelle back.
"Unfortunately, my remote scanners indicate that the martians space craft is impenetrable." Tech told him.
"Hmm..." Rev paused to think until he had an idea. "Say, remember what Lexi and Estelle said?"
"Feeling like Helen of Troy." Akito said.
"Exactly," Rev agreed. "I have a plan."
"We're listening." Jenny smiled.
Rev then told the others his plan.
"So... This equine... Was it not real?" Felicity asked.
"Don't you know about the Trojan War?" Akito asked her.
"Um,..." Felicity tried to think. "Is that the one with a fake equine to trick the enemy?"
"Yes." Tech nodded.
"Okay... Just making sure..." Felicity nodded. "My education is strange... I was raised in the eighteenth century... My mother is from the twenty-first century... My life is very complicated."
"You don't say." Duck said.
"My life is a bizarre one..." Felicity had to agree.
"Let's get started." Akito said.
"Come on, we got a job to do." Tech agreed.
They started to get to work on the plan. It took a good while, but what felt great was when they finished and they could trick Melvin into getting what they wanted.