Eloise began to make faces with Ditto to pass the time. Ditto enjoyed that very much and laughed, it then started to even imitate her. Which caused Eloise to giggle.
"You and Ditto seem to be getting along really well." Ixta smiled.
"Yes," Eloise smiled back. "He's perfectly lovely."
Ditto smiled to the blonde girl.
"He can change into any Pokemon you want him to." Ixta smiled.
"I wonder..." Eloise looked curious. "Okay, Ditto, turn into something warm, fluffy, and cute like a bunny rabbit!"
Ditto nodded to her, he then changed his form, melting into a bunny shape and was now a brown bunny with vanilla puff.
"He's a Buneary now." Ixta told the younger blonde girl.
"Aw! He's so adorable!" Eloise smiled before hugging the Pokemon.
Ditto, now a Buneary, smiled and nuzzled into Eloise's face.
Ixta smiled at the bond between the city girl and the shape-shifting Pokemon. "I think he likes you."
"And I like him!" Eloise beamed. "Yes, I do, do, do!"
Ditto changed back into his original form. Eloise smiled fondly to the Pokemon.
Ixta looked thoughtful for a moment, but said nothing, she looked over to the male bunny. "We should be almost there by now."
"You're correct, Your Highness." Ace said.
"Great..." Ixta said. "I do hope Tweetums is holding up okay... I raised him from an egg, he was a gift from visitors before my parents were killed."
"I'm sure he's just fine." Akito assured her as he held Rupes in place so he wouldn't escape.
Meanwhile with the bad guys...
"If we're gonna conquer the galaxy, we're gonna need help." Deuce said.
"You know what to do," Optimatus told him. "With Zadavia's powers, you should have no trouble with carrying out MY plans."
"Soon you'll have your throne and the Loonatics will be destroyed." Deuce shook his fist.
"And soon everyone will know our names." Vincent said.
"Now," Optimatus said as they were about to split up. "I'll keep looking for that wretched bird and that escaped rebel princess while you're gone."
"You might need some company." Vincent said.
"Right then." Optimatus agreed.
"I'll be off." Deuce told them before taking his own way away from them.
"Hop on." Optimatus said as he got ready to travel again to find Tweetums and Ixta.
Vincent joined Optimatus to find the yellow canary.
"Finding a little bird should not be this difficult..." Optimatus snarled as he rode off with Vincent.
"Aye-Aye." Vincent agreed.
The Loonatics decided to interrogate Rupes while Eloise, Akito, Estelle, and Felicity played with Ditto and Ixta watched.
"Now change into a Piplup." Estelle smiled.
Ditto waded slightly, changing into a penguin shape, then became a blue penguin like Pokemon which was the Piplup.
"This is very fascinating." Felicity smiled in approval of the shape-shifting Pokemon.
"Yes yes this is." Estelle smiled.
Akito began to overhear the interrogation somehow. "'Scuse me a sec, guys." he told the others as he listened in.
"Listen, guys, if I knew anything, I'd sing like a canary before those mangy cats would get to me." Rupes's voice snapped at his enemies.
"That's nuthin' compared to what we're gonna do to ya!" Duck's voice scolded. "Like... Wear Lexi's shoes and make you dance to disco music!"
'Is that really the best he's got?' Akito thought to himself, referring to Duck.
"Okay, Liberace," Ace's voice said then. "You tell us what you DO know."
"Wait." Lexi's voice said before the door opened.
The Loonatics and Rupes then looked over to the door.
And where they saw Akito.
"Hey, guys." Akito smiled nervously.
Rupes glanced down at Akito, once he found his voice, he spoke again. "When I took away Zaddy's powers and had to get CP's as well, I about had my chance with Optimatus," he started to 'spill'. "My chance to let me join his court. I used my guitar to fulk my way through the wormhole with your brother and his 'new buddy'... A blackhole... While I found the Op man through the prison scene, I sang him my moody blues and busted his way out of the big house and become free as a bird."
"And let me guess, in return of freeing him, you wanted him to make sure that the Freleng national anthem was changed to your song, right?" Akito asked.
"That, and to be a member of his Freleng court," Rupes replied. "He also asked me to find his greatest general: Deuce. All that was left was to find the man with a plan with his own ideas on how to bag worms."
"And soon as you found him, you decided to attack planet Blanc and capture Tweetums along with his royal scepter." Akito said with his detective skills.
"Well, aren't you just a half-pint know-it-all?" Rupes scoffed.
"He's a detective's son, what did you expect?" Ace asked.
Rupes scoffed at that. "So I played a power chord through the merry melody of the galaxy and we got the drop on that canary king," he then continued his story. "Despite scrambling all his eggs, Tweetums somehow got away, that mistress of his was in our clutches, but instead of being a damsel in distress, she was a damsel of destruction. I never thought Optimatus would double cross me!"
"He's a villain, what did you expect for him to do?" Akito asked.
Rupes shrugged. "I thought he would go for it since we were on the same side."
Ace stepped aside and activated his communicator. "Zadavia, come in."
"What is it, Ace?" Zadavia replied while the other kids were having a lot of fun with Ditto, especially Eloise.
'Looks like someone invited the Deuce man to our little party.' Ace replied.
"Hmm... My brother has been very busy." Zadavia hummed.
"Sure seems like it." Captain Planet said.
'Better get Tech, Rev, Jenny, and Simon to update security at the Railway,' Ace suggested. 'Just in case Deuce gets any ideas of building up his old robo army.'
"I'll contact them immediately." Zadavia nodded.
"We'll both contact them." Captain Planet said.
Zadavia then nodded with a small smile to him.
"Time to put the pedal to the metal and blow this taco stand," Ace told his teammates. "We gotta find Tweetums before Optimatus does. Let's-"
"Yo, cats!" Rupes interrupted the male bunny's catchphrase. "What about me?"
"I'm afraid you're just a one hit wonder." Akito said, shutting the dungeon door.
"A little harsh, but totally understandable." Duck said.
Rupes gripped the bars as they left.
"I thought we told you to stay with your uncle, Zadavia, and the princess, kid." Ace said to Akito, not angry, just surprised.
"I wanna help." Akito said.
"He always does..." Duck mumbled.
"Well, okay, but you know the rules." Ace said to the boy.
Akito nodded, then flew off with them, leaving Rupes to his punishment.
"Tech, Rev, Jenny, Simon, come in." Zadavia and Captain Planet said together.
"Don't you hate it when old enemies come in without calling?" Deuce walked in with an evil smile.
"I know, its just so rude and impolite." Captain Pollution added in with an evil smile.
Zadavia and Captain Planet glared, they then started to lunge for their worst enemies, only to get blasted by Duece's gun.
"Sweet dreams." Deuce smiled darkly down to them.
"Now, let's make sure there aren't any other people here for us to carry back." Captain Pollution said.
"Agreed." Deuce nodded.
"I'm bored, bored, bored..." Eloise flopped around.
"Me too..." Felicity half-way yawned.
Ditto heard someone coming and came over to the princess for protection.
Ixta picked up the Pokemon in her hands and looked around since he was scared. "What's going on?"
Ditto pointed to the door, still scared, somehow knowing something bad was coming. Ixta came over with Ditto in her hands.
"Hello, Princess." Captain Pollution grinned darkly, entering with Deuce.
"Oh, no, it's you!" Ixta stepped back in fear and alarm.
"You're coming with us." Deuce said.
Felicity, Estelle, and Eloise came over, then looked worried and nervous of who they saw.
"Go away!" Eloise glared. "You're gonna be in a lot of trouble!"
"Who's gonna stop us, you little city brat?" Deuce picked up Eloise by her collar.
"Ditto, quick, change into a Pokemon and get the others out of here." Princess Ixta told the Pokemon.
Ditto nodded as he began to shape-shift.
"Put me down!" Eloise demanded as Captain Pollution grabbed Felicity. "My mother is a very important person!"
Felicity snarled and hissed, showing her baby fangs. Ditto changed into a Kadabra.
"Alright, now, get the others to safety." Princess Ixta told him.
And that's what the shape-shifting Pokemon did as it teleported away with the girls, except for the princess.
"All right, it's just you and me," Ixta glared. "I'm not afraid of anything or anybody!"
"Time for you to go to sleep as well." Captain Pollution smiled evilly.
"I don't think so." Ixta glared.
Deuce started to shoot at her. Ixta dodged the blasts and hopped like a swift and clever ninja.
"Clever girl." Captain Pollution said.
"You'll pay for trying to hurt my little Tweetums..." Ixta glared.
"Get back here, you brat!" Deuce demanded.
"Never!" Ixta refused to give in. The princess was then hit in the back by a red radiation blast. She shrieked out and fell forward.
"Finally..." Captain Pollution and Deuce smiled darkly at the fallen princess.
They both then took off with their prisoners. This did not look good, this did not look good at all. At least, hopefully Ditto and the others would be safe wherever they were teleported to. And which were to Planet Blanc.