Lexi heard an alert on one of the computers and rushed to it. "You guys, we got a Stony and Bugsy spotting at the Acmetropolis First National Bank!"
"Ooh, that sounds c-cool," Pinkster commented. "Bank robbers robbing a bank... I bet they're pl-pl-pl-It's a robbing."
"Does he have a nose for this business or what?" Duck put his arm around the pig with a supportive smile.
"Anyone could tell that someone is robbing the bank." Patch said.
"Even I can realize that..." Felicity pouted.
Simon gave a deadpan look at the pig as he was sucking on his pacifier.
"So, what are we waiting for?" Eloise asked. "Let's get going." she then said.
"What's that thing you are always saying?" Felicity asked. "Let's sk... Sk... Ska..."
"Skitter?" Eloise finished for her. "Yes, let's."
"Let's jet!" Ace added after giving a command to Rev.
They all then went off to the bank to handle the two crooks. They were now on the roof and looking through the glass top to find Bugsy and Stony were inside, now at work.
"There they are." Patch growled.
Simon crawled over against the glass and pounded his tiny fist into his hand, looking more menacing than usual.
"Looks like you wanna get them as much as I do." Patch smiled at Simon.
"Mm-hmm..." Simon nodded his head.
"So, how are we going to enter?" Eloise asked.
"Well, we can't chance frontal assault," Ace said, then looked to the others.
"Why not?" Akito asked. "I could get them no problem!"
"Yeah, I know, but there are too many civilians." Ace reminded him.
"Oh... Yeah..." Akito pouted. "Next time."
"We need to flush 'em out into the open." Ace then said.
"And how do we do that?" Eloise asked.
"Tech, set up one of your criminal catching gadgets at the entrance," Ace started to command.
"Right on!" the coyote replied, then bent down next to an invention he broguht with him. "I call it the 'Tech-Nabber 6000'. All you have to do is push the red button."
"That sounds easy enough." Estelle smiled.
"Lexi, Slam, Patch, Akito, cover the rear." Ace then commanded.
"You got it, Ace!" Lexi folded her arms in determination.
"Yeah!" Akito nodded firmly.
"What about us?" Felicity asked, referring to herself, Estelle, Simon, and Eloise.
"Yeah." Estelle added.
"We're goin' in," Ace told them. "When Dumb and Dumber get started, I'll signal the others."
"Okay." Estelle, Eloise, and Felicity agreed.
"Count to three and push the red button." Ace handed a control to Duck, trusting that even he could do that.
"Oh, but what about me?" Pinkster asked. "What's my j-j-j-j-Assignment?"
"Hey, maybe Pinkster can push the button?" Duck suggested, giving the remote to the pig.
"Are you serious?" Akito asked.
"Look, any dumbbell can push a button." Duck defended.
"I was thinkin' the same thing." Ace deadpanned.
"I c-c-can do it..." Pinkster held up his can again. "I c-c-can do it!"
"Please?" Duck pleaded.
"I know we're gonna regret this later on." Akito groaned.
"Okay..." Ace handed the remote to the pig. "Wait for the signal... Count to three... And push the button."
Pinkster smiled and took the remote, happily and eagerly. "Signal... Three... B-Button... Got it."
'I can already see this going bad.' Captain Planet thought to himself.
Tech sent his invention in place and let it stand up and he backed up as Stony and Bugsy were going over a normal bank robbery.
"This is going to be a piece of cake." Patch smirked.
Ace, Estelle, Felicity, Simon, Duck, and Eloise snuck down in the bank as Stony and Bugsy made the guards give up their weapons and throw them into the wheelbarrow.
"Here ya go!" the four heroes said, throwing in a carrot, hair ribbon, and baby bottle into the mix.
"Duh... What's this?" Bugsy took out the carrot, hair ribbon, and baby bottle.
"What's the big idea guardin' a bank with a carrot, hair ribbon, and brat bottle?" Stony glared.
"Oh, I don't know, I think they're quite special." Estelle smiled.
"Haven't you heard, pal?" Duck added. "Carrots and milk bring out the heat in your eyes?"
"Huh?" Stony asked, not getting it.
"Show 'em what Duck means, Ace." Estelle said.
"No prob." Ace smirked before activating his laser eyes.
Stony and Busgy screamed and tried to make their escape.
"Oh, they don't wanna make this easy, do they?" Eloise folded her arms with a sigh. "Typical bad guys..."
"Shall we chase them down?" Estelle asked an obvious question.
"Let's get 'em." Ace agreed.
Stony and Bugsy tried to run around and Stony ended up inside of the wheelbarrow.
"Uh, what do we do, Boss?" Bugsy asked.
"Shuddap, we gotta make our getaway!" Stony obviously replied.
"Yep, these two are definitely the descendants of Rocky and Mugsy." Estelle giggled.
"Pinkster, now!" Ace said through his communicator as they purposley let the bad guys get away.
"He better get the timing right." Estelle whispered.
Simon took a look to see how far the bad guys were getting away and they were almost out the doors.
"Pinkster, now, push the button!" Eloise exclaimed.
The pig seemed to be stalling on pushing the button for some reason. The others came out the entrance door just as Bugsy and Stony got away in their car.
"PINKSTER?!" Estelle complained.
As they came out, the trap then landed on top. Estelle, Felicity, Simon, and Eloise got out of the way, but Duck and Ace got trapped in the trap.
"I got 'em!" Pinkster rushed over. "I-I-I got 'em!"
The other Loonatics rushed over with smiles, but the trap lifted up and opened up to show the male bunny and duck were caught and not the bank robbers.
"You didn't get them!" Estelle glared. "They got away!"
"Yeah, you were right," Ace smirked to Duck. "Just like having three Ducks."
Akito lifted up the trap off the two of them and placed it in the grass.
"Thanks, kid." Ace sounded relieved.
"Well, that surely is mortifying..." Felicity rubbed the back of her neck.
"Pinkster, next time, DON'T STALL ON PUSHING THE BUTTON!" Estelle exclaimed.
"I-I-I didn't mean to, it was an acci-acc-acc-My fault." Pinkster frowned.
"Next time, just press the button as soon as the criminals are under the trap." Estelle told him.
"Uh, gotcha.." Pinkster nodded.
They returned to the Tower since the bad guys got away for now and they had to plan other ways to capture them.
"Uh, guys, you're not gonna like this..." Rev said to the others as he was in front of a TV screen.
"Rev, please don't tell us that we're on the news." Eloise begged.
"Okay." Rev said, then showed them instead to see they were on the news.
"I asked you not to tell us!" Eloise wailed.
"I didn't, I showed ya." Rev weakly chuckled.
"Bird Brain..." Eloise rolled her ocean blue eyes.
The news report with Scoop Carlson reported the Loonatics were no longer Action Heroes and were now Action Zeroes as their bank robbery plan failed and showed the footage.
"Oh, great, thanks to that pig, we're now laughing stocks!" Estelle groaned before bringing out her spell book. "There's gotta be a time travel spell to stop us from bringing Pinkster along with us."
Pinkster overheard that and looked hurt to hear that.
"Come on, there's just gotta be a spell for that." Estelle said while flipping through the pages.
"Here, I'll help." Akito took his own spell book out to help them search easier to make their spell come true.
"Oh, I can't believe you guys are sayin that about Pinkster," Duck frowned in disappointment. "He's a hero in training!"
"The guy was stalling!" Patch barked.
"My apologies, Canard, but they are rght." Felicity agreed.
"Simon, what do you think?" Duck asked.
Simon took out a pig stuffed animal and then threw it right out the window, having murder in his eyes.
"That's his way of saying it's all Pinkster's fault as well." Felicity said.
There was then suddenly a new flash report on Stony and Bugsy.
"This time they won't get away," Akito said, closing his spell book. "And this time, Pinkster, you are not coming along."
"Don't you think you're being too harsh?" Duck asked Akito. "You're only seven, but that was cold!"
"Listen, we can't have anymore slip-ups, these two are dangerous and the more we keep having slip-ups, the less and less chances we have of putting those two to jail." Akito said.
"He's right." Estelle, of course, agreed.
Simon glanced at the back as Pinkster was there.
"Listen, Duck," Ace decided to break it down gently. "Pinkster means well, but I'm afrad things just ain't workin' out."
"I agree." Captain Planet said.
"I know 'ol Porkloin's not perfect, maybe it's our fault for not finding what he's good at." Duck suggested.
"I've never seen this side of you, Duck," Lexi smiled in surprise. "Caring so much about someone other than 'Numero Uno'?"
"Duck, could there possibly be another side of the story of how you got adopted instead of Pinkster?" Akito asked suspiciously.
Duck turned away and looked guilty, but decided to get it over with before it would eat him up on the inside. "Okay... There may be something I forgot to mention earlier."
"What did you do?" Estelle asked.
"Okay..." Duck took a deep breath. "When the couple came to the orphanage, but no one knew this..." he then reached into his pocket and took out the old coin. "My lucky two-headed coin."
"Two-Headed Coin, that's how it happened!" Akito and Estelle realized.
"Duck, how could you?" Eloise firmly folded her arms.
"That is just cold." Patch growled.
"It was my biggest, deepest, darkest secret..." Duck admitted.
"Once again, the World of Duck makes sense." Lexi commented.
Simon pointed to the doors to show that Pinkster was coming from them, looking forlorn.
"Hey, Pinkster, where are you going?" Eloise asked.
Pinkster heaved a sad sigh. "I'm sorry for being so much tr-tr-tr-Such a screw-up."
'Did he overhear us?' Patch thought to himself.
"Well, you know, I can honestly say you've done better than any of us expected, right?" Ace smiled with a shrug to cheer up Pinkster.
"That's right." Captain Planet said.
"Really...?" Pinkster asked, doubting that at first.
"You're being too hard on yourself," Lexi soothed.
"Oh, that's probably what makes him a perfectionist like me." Duck replied.
The others groaned to him, Akito was about to punish the duck, but Ace stopped him. Akito groaned, but held back his frustration.
"So, uh, do you think I could help you with tomorrow and g-guard Curium 247?" Pinkster asked.
"Curium 247?" Ace repeated. "Hmm... Well, sure! There's no one I'd rather have on my side than a man in pink!"
This won the pig over instantly.
"Wow, thanks, guys for b-b-believing in me..." Pinkster put his bags down once he was happy again. "I p-promise you I can d-d-do it!"
"That's the spirit." Estelle smiled.
Pinkster then went back out to put his bags away.
"If he messes up, I'm seriously using that spell..." Akito grumbled.
"Akito, you and I are gonna do a little research project with your uncle." Ace whispered to the boy.
"Hm?" Akito asked.
"We're gonna find out how Pinkster got fired from his other jobs." Ace whispered.
"Oh.. I getcha..." Akito smirked.
"We'll be like detectives." Ace then said, knowing the boy would enjoy that since he was a lot like his father.
"Yeah." Akito nodded before going over to his uncle.
"You have a plan about something?" Lexi asked the bunny she loved.
"Sorry, guy stuff, I'll explain later." Ace replied to her.
"All right." Lexi shrugged.
"We're gonna do some detective work on Pinkster," Akito came to his uncle's side. "You in?" he then asked even though he already knew the answer to that question.
"You know it." Captain Planet said with a thumbs up.
"Knew I could count on you." Akito smiled eagerly.
"No problem, I can never say no to a danger call." Captain Planet gently patted him on the head.
"You two ready?" Ace asked.
"Ready, Ace." Akito and Captain Planet replied.
"Great, then let's go." Ace said.
With that, they got to work, both on the major mission and the mission involding a certain pig friend of theirs. And where this would help them in more ways than one.