Loonatics: United

Episode 12: Stranded

A battle between allies had inevitably begun, Matt and Anne were protecting Adam from the wolves' shots while running and seeking for a place to take cover from the duel between The Eye and the Loonatics. Ace was firing his laser vision at Duck's spheres which had been thrown towards the army, making the orbs to explode in the air right in front of the groups of soldiers and sending them with a hard hit onto their heavy vehicles. "Nice trick!" Duck said.

"Two powers are better than one." Ace hurried towards Hill's side of the battle. "This doesn't have to end like this!"

"I agree! Bring us the feline and we'll stop our fire." Hill argued.

Ace sighed and lowered his head, then he glanced back at him. "Then you leave me no choice!" He started to shoot the laser from his eyes towards the front of the vehicles, making them to explode one by one, the wolves hopped away from them quickly.

Hill growled as he got into his feet. "You are out of your mind!"

"He is not going with you! We only want to find out what's up with him." Ace said as he approached Hill.

"So do we." Hill punched him on the face, then Ace kicked his belly before grabbing his arm and starting to break it, making Hill to groan.

"You may have super strength, but you don't know how to fight." Ace hit his face with his knee several times, then he left him unconscious and dropped him on the ground.

The soldiers reacted and recovered from the previous attack, they started to shoot at the Loonatics, Slam had stood in front of his team and protected them from the sudden shots so they could stand back, as he walked, the shots had no effect on him at all, he started to walk faster and then he jumped in front of the soldiers and smashed the ground with both of his fists, breaking the concrete and throwing the wolves a few meters away from him.

A group of wolves had split, three wolves were fighting with Tech and Lexi, while the others had gone to where Adam was being covered. Tech levitated a trash can with his powers, then he threw it at them strongly, with such force that the trash can broke into several pieces as it hit them, they growled by the smash that sent them to lay against the wall of a building. Before they could even try to stand up, Lexi threw a long kick at their muzzles, neutralizing the three of them. "I guess that will do." Lexi said.

"I hope so, come on, we must take the guy with us." Tech sprinted followed by Lexi.

"Is this, like, treason?" Anne said as she watched the pair of soldiers approaching them with their weapons aiming at them.

"Well, I don't think the boss would be happy with us getting him away from his objectives, so, yeah I'm pretty sure is treason." Matt replied.

"Give us the…" One of the wolves suddenly disappeared from their sight after a red blur showed up briefly, then all of a sudden the wolf was hanging from his vest from a lamppost. "What the heck! Whoever did this, get me down of here!" The wolf yelled angrily.

Rev was dashing the fastest he could while seeing everything in slow motion, the remaining wolf had fired his gun against Adam, he hoped to be able to stop the laser on its way, but he didn't get there on time, and the laser hit Adam near the stomach, he heard his scream as he hit the soldier with his head, making the wolf to fall down, slowly, time began to flow normally as Rev stopped running in front of Anne and Matt who were kneeling down next to Adam. "Oh no." Rev said as the rest of the team arrived with them.

"What happened?" Ace asked.

Rev shook his head. "I was too slow."

"How bad is it?" Duck said.

"I…" Anne was trying to check the wound. "I don't know, I'm no doctor."

"Let me see." Tech kneeled down and put his hand over the wound, then he pressed a little bit and Adam gasped with pain. "Okay, it is bad but, I think he can make it if we attend him fast."

Suddenly, a shine of light came out from the wound. "Uhm, Tech, what is going on?" Lexi asked with alarm.

"Like if I knew!" Tech backed away a little bit instinctively, then everyone did the same and their surroundings turned completely white by the intensity of the growing light.

Ace opened his eyes after gasping fearfully, his breathing was fast and his gaze widened after realizing he was laying in front of the sea under a florid sunset, resting over a great amount of sand. "What the…" He rubbed his forehead and stood up carefully. "A beach? In Acmetropolis? What?"

"Ace you are awake!" Lexi hugged him and left him even more unsettled.

"Uhm, yeah." Ace broke the hug. "What is going on?"

Duck hiked towards them. "I was going to ask you the exact same question."

Slam grunted with anger as he and the rest of the team met them.

"Tech, where is Adam? And the other two guys?" Ace asked.

Tech pointed with his thumb over his shoulder behind him. "Matt and Anne are taking care of him over there."

"I didn't know Acmetropolis had beaches." Rev said.

Ace sighed. "It doesn't! Man what's up with this guy, we try to help him and he send us to this, strange place."

"I think he didn't do it on purpose, maybe it was some sort of defense mechanism." Tech stated. "The weather, that smaller sun over there, I think we are on other planet."

"And this is the day when our weird lives become weirder." Duck shook his head.

"What is this place?" Adam asked Anne who was helping him to stand up along with Matt.

"You tell us, I got a feeling that it was you who brought us here." Matt got his shoulder under Adam's arm to help him stand while walking towards the Loonatics.

Adam sighed. "I still have so much to discover."

"You did this? How do we get back?" Ace asked after he approached them.

"I didn't even know I could do that." Adam groaned. "I'm sorry."

"I told you." Tech added. "Defense mechanism."

Lexi gasped. "So we are stranded here!"

Ace turned to his other side and glanced at the vast jungle that was behind them. "For now."

"How will we help him?" Anne said as she looked briefly at Adam, then she returned her gaze to the rest. "He is still hurt."

Tech sighed. "And he could be our only way out of here."

"We'll find something to help him, but first, we must divide in groups, Tech and I will try to find a source of water, Duck and Slam, you two will look for food, Lexi and Rev, I need you to search for a safe place to take shelter, on the meantime, Anne and Matt will take care of Adam here on the beach." Ace commanded. "We´ll meet right here in two hours, am I clear?"

"Whatever." Duck grunted. "Come on Slam, maybe there are trees that grow ham on this planet."

Slam growled doubtfully.

"Of course I'm kidding!" Duck said as they went inside the jungle.

"Wait, we have no medicine!" Anne said.

Tech pointed at the jungle. "Then improvise, there could be something in there that could help him, just don't take anything that looks poisonous and it should be fine."

Matt raised an eyebrow. "So, that's everything we can do? Look for random stuff that could cure him?"

Tech stared at him. "Exactly." He walked away with Ace.

Minutes later, each group had gone to do their assigned tasks, Matt and Anne were with Adam, sitting over the sand. "Okay, you stay here with him, I'm going to bring some plants or whatever." Matt stood up and left them.

Anne looked at Adam. "Don't worry, he will find something useful."

"This hurts, a lot." Adam said. "What do you say when things are very bad and everything seems lost?"

"Uhm." Anne began to think. "I would say something like, this sucks."

Adam nodded. "Okay." He sighed. "This...sucks?" He said so in a very unnatural way.

Anne smirked. "You are full of surprises, maybe I should help him…"

Adam took her hand. "No, stay." He looked at her with pleading eyes. "Please, I'm scared."

"Alright." Anne nodded. "Everything will be fine."