Loonatics: United

Episode 10: Diffusion

"You want more! Huh?" Nate said as he and the rest of the wolves got in combat position.

"You'll get it." Kyle added, then he ran towards Ace and threw a punch, Ace blocked it with a kick, then Tech used his powers to throw Troy to a wall by controlling his armor's metal with his powers, then he approached him and started to punch his face.

Hank growled and tried to attack Lexi, she crouched to dodge his punch, then she moved her leg fast to kick his, he gasped and got over one knee, then Lexi stood up quickly and kicked his face with strength, then Slam took his foot and lifted him up, then he smashed him to the ground.

Rev and Duck were fighting Nate, who was being moved continuously from place to place by Rev while Duck shot energy spheres at him. "Do you like that?! Scum!" Duck exclaimed.

"Tech's formula actually worked! Who would´ve thought we would use Hill's questionable but yet effective plan to temporarily gain Slam's strength!" Rev said.

"Yeah! Go ahead Rev, tell these guys our professional secrets!" Duck said sarcastically.

"Sorry, I can't help it." Rev left Nate standing up between them, dizzied and confused, then Duck jumped and threw a sphere at his chest, throwing him to a wall and leaving him unconscious.

Quentin was sitting on a corner, with his arms around his knees, looking oblivious at the fight that was taking place, still thinking about his recent failure.

Ace jumped and dodged a kick from Kyle, then he evaded several punches from him, he then punched his chest, Kyle gasped and then was hit by Troy who had been thrown by Tech's powers, then both wolves were laying on the ground. "I had him!" Ace said.

"Well, two for me then." Tech replied jokingly.

"Game over! Whoever you are." Ace walked towards Quentin, who looked at him with disappointment.

"I…" Quentin sighed, then stood up. "Surrender." He lowered his head.

"Not so fast." Ace crossed his arms. "The cat, where is he?"

"Oh he is right there." Quentin pointed at Ismael's corpse.

Ace looked at the body, enraged, then he grasped the fox's neck. "You murderer! But there´s another one!"

Quentin coughed. "He…disappeared."

"You are lying!" Ace squeezed his neck more tightly.

Quentin struggled to breathe. "I swear…I swear…I don't know where he is…"

"Ace." Lexi said with a tone of warning.

Ace sighed and let go off his neck. "We are late, guys." Ace looked at Quentin, who was trying to recover some air. "Tech."

Tech nodded and went with them, then he handcuffed Quentin with a blue, weird looking strap he had invented. "So you realized you aren't that strong without your brutes, isn't it?"

"You just stole the words from my mouth, bud." Quentin said with resignation. They took him and went outside the apartment along the rest of the team. The jet had been parked over the roof's heliport, Quentin was sitting along the team's members on the back side. "So, I'll go to jail?"

"What do you think? You and your friends will spend a long time there, but first, we need you to answer some questions at the HQ." Lexi responded.

"Whatever." Quentin said.

"And the other guys?" Duck asked as he put his belt on.

"Ace called The Eye, Hill is on his way." Rev said.

"Time to go home guys." Tech said from the cockpit, then the aircraft started to ascend and flew towards the tower.

Quentin was sitting on a metallic chair inside the HQ's lab, surrounded by the team, who were interrogating him. "He was my best creation by far, I wanted him to change things, but I failed, and now he is gone."

Ace took a step at the front. "You didn't create anything, you are just a sick person."

Quentin ignored Ace's words. "I had everyone's lives in my hands, I had the chance to do something about the injustice of nature."

"You really have something wrong in your head, man." Duck said.

Quentin chuckled. "Maybe, but none of you will ever accomplish what I did, for an instant, I gave a blind man his sight again, it was like a brief taste of glory, but then reality hit me like a wave."

"You are just a man, reality is all you can hope to see." Rev said.

Quentin nodded. "I just hope he comes back."

Tech raised an eyebrow. "Who?"

"My son." Quentin said.

On a dark alley, Adam was sitting in front of a dirty pond, resting his head against a wall, looking at the moon, a guy with a black hoodie and a pair of jeans walked by him on the sidewalk. Adam had noticed the guy's attire, he lowered his head and looked at his own, then he closed his eyes and the bodysuit morphed into an almost exact copy of the guy's clothes, only that the hoodie retained the bodysuit's red details. Adam stood up and began to walk on the street.

While walking, he glanced at the tall buildings and the occasional big screens showing advertisements, he liked to see the colorful lights of the city and the black sky accentuating its glow.

A car parked next to him, then a pink furred, young female cat got outside the vehicle, then she hugged Adam with tears of joy. "Spencer! You are alive! You are here! You are right here."

Adam didn't hug her back, his face revealed pure confusion and intrigue. "I'm Adam."

The pink cat stopped hugging him and stepped back. "What? No! You are my brother! Come on we will help you…" She had taken his hand to try to get him inside of the car, but he refused to take a single step.

"I'm sorry, your brother is gone." Adam said, then he lifted his hand and made a little pyramid of some sort to appear over his palm, the figure looked like it was made of codes and pixels.

She gasped. "What? No! You are Spencer! What did they do to you?!"

Adam shook his head and stopped doing his little trick. "This is your brother's body, but I'm afraid that he is now far away from here."

Tears began to form on the girl's eyes. "Spencer is dead?" She asked, then Adam nodded. "I couldn't even say goodbye." She began to cry softly. "This isn't happening, I mean, it´s impossible!"

Adam put a hand over her shoulder and looked at her eyes. "I'm so sorry, I'm sorry that I live because of your brother's demise."

She looked him back. "I won't accept this, you are my brother! Your are right here!"

Adam hesitated before hugging her all of a sudden. "Let go, let Spencer go, it´s all I can do for you now."

She began to embrace him tightly, crying and trying to speak with a lot of effort. "Brother, I'll miss you, everyday, I'll miss you, but I…" Her voice was broken. "I'll see you again, Spencer." She broke the hug gently and looked at Adam one last time. "Thanks, I, still don't understand this." She said.

"No one does." Adam said.

She kept looking at him, refusing to believe what she knew deep inside was true, then she sighed and got inside of the car and closed the door, then she left hesitantly.

Adam stood there, watching the car leaving. He continued with his walk, thinking about what had happened. "Spencer, I'm sorry." He thought. "I am because you are not, I breathed when you stopped doing so, I look like how your family remembers you, my consciousness took over the home of yours, and I hope you've found rest, rest from this ill, limited and beautiful life you lost because of me."

About a day later, Quentin was already living on a cell in Acmetropolis´ prison, wearing an orange uniform with an id number on it. He was sitting on his cot, looking at the floor, putting his thoughts together, then he was interrupted by a guard who knocked the cell's bars. "You got visits."

Quentin raised an eyebrow, then the guard opened the door and left, then German entered the cell. "Quentin." He said with disappointment.

Quentin's eyes widened. "Sir, what are you doing here?" He stood up.

"I had to see it for myself to believe it." German sighed. "I trusted you, you were my right hand, and you used me in order to achieve what you wanted."

"No." Quentin shook his head. "I would never do that, sir, I just, took advantage of my position, that's all."

"Call it what you want! Quentin! You betrayed me! I thought we were friends!" German exclaimed.

"We are sir! I just wanted to make the world a better place!" Quentin pointed at himself.

German lowered his head, then he turned his gaze back at Quentin. "We were doing that already, only that by the correct mediums, you committed lots of crimes, you murdered people!" He sighed. "For now, Acmetropolis will be a better place without you."

Quentin backed away a little, then he sighed. "I guess you are right, who am I fooling."

German extended his hand. "Goodbye, friend." Quentin looked at him, with eyes of regret, then he shook his hand. "I hope you to see this as a chance to find the right path again." German said.

Quentin nodded. "I can try."

German smiled and put a hand on his shoulder. "Now I recognize you." He walked away from him and exited the cell, then another guard came and closed the door.