Loonatics: United
Episode 33: Strength And Weakness
The Entrepreneur District was a zone of Acmetropolis where the richest and influential lived, the area's aesthetic was far more clean and delicate than the one that the rest of the city had, the streets consisted in permanently floating platforms which sides held large lianes that decorated the place's empty space, on the bottom there was no ground but water instead, it was illuminated by underwater blue lights, the locals had put the water there to create a fake sense of nature, and it was also a deliberate attempt to differentiate themselves from the rest of the city´s population. The color of the buildings didn't vary as they were all gray, extravagant shaped edifices. Heather was contemplating such landscape from her flat and rocky vehicle, she kneeled down and put both hands on the surface then manipulated it to move towards the area along with her, she moved her hands forward and the piece of concrete started to move faster, flying already over the water below the hovering streets. She felt a quick pain on her head, gasping by the intensity of it, she blinked a few times as she felt her sight had gotten blurry, when she managed to see clearly again, she heard sirens behind her, she turned her gaze back and saw three cops riding hover bikes chasing her, the bikes were green and had an emblem of the city painted on their surface, the cops wore green uniforms and helmets.
"Heather Stanton, as members of Acmetropolis' Honorific Police, we have enough authority to arrest you!" One of the cops, a female raccoon who was between the other two warned through the mic of her helmet, her vehicle had a built in speaker that amplified her voice.
Heather braked her simple vehicle and turned to face them. "Rich police for rich scum, how convenient." She joked then tried to glitch their vehicles with a gesture but the headache returned and this time the glitch deviated towards the buildings at the sides which started to decompose weirdly and some of their parts began to collapse and fall to the water strongly.
The raccoon stopped accelerating then took off her helmet, revealing her red hair which was ponytailed, she looked at the falling pieces of building then gazed at Heather again while pressing a button on her hover-bike's steering wheel which made the vehicle's machine gun to start to fire lasers, Heather aimed her hands to the front and covered some of the lasers on glitched environment but failed to do so with the rest of them and one hit her arm and the other her leg, she yelled with pain and put one knee over the concrete.
"Enough tricks!" The raccoon exclaimed. "Surrender immediately!"
Heather couldn't listen the woman's words, she had both hands over her head, her eyes were closed and her bite was tight. "What is happening?" She mumbled. "That scammer, that freaking scammer he told me this…" She gasped by the pain. "…device was new."
The raccoon started to rub the steering wheel's fire button. "Last warning!"
Heather snarled. "Shut up!" She stood up with effort and glitched the vehicles of the cops at the sides and made them to malfunction, smoke started to come out from the bikes as each one headed violently towards a building, the cops jumped off the vehicles and got safely in the body of water, the hover-bikes impacted on the buildings and exploded, damaging their structure by creating great holes on them which let the water to get inside.
"Guys! Are you okay?" The raccoon said, having turned her vehicle towards the incident.
One of the swimming cops took out his helmet, he was a white tiger. "We'll be fine, Rebecca! Don't let her go!" He said while pointing at Heather who was getting away from them, flying over her rock with a face of pain as she was using her ability to move the rock forward. Rebecca turned again and continued to chase her with her bike, activating the sirens.
The jet of the Loonatics was arriving at the situation. "Ace, she's attacked." Tech said while seeing the two cops swimming away from the damaged buildings towards the middle of the path of water.
Ace took off his security belt and got on the cockpit next to Tech, glancing at the buildings that were leaning slowly. "This is bad." Ace turned to face Duck. "Duck! Rev! Jump out and get the people safe!" He pressed a button on the console in front of Tech, opening the back door of the jet.
Duck stood up from his seat after removing the lock of the belt. "What people?" He said as Rev stood up and got quickly by him.
Ace walked towards them and put a hand on their backs forcing them to walk towards the edge of the exit. "Falling buildings, water, build something up with that." He pushed them, making them to fall safely on the water as Tech had lowered the jet to a reasonable distance from there.
"You didn't have to do that!" Duck yelled with his fist raised towards his boss, the jet left the area quickly while getting on a higher altitude.
Ace got his snout over the comm on his wrist. "Matt, we are here, she has gotten things ugly already." He got answered by Matt almost immediately.
"Sorry, Ace, we had to arrive at the district by other route to retain discretion, did someone get hurt?" Matt asked.
Ace sighed. "Duck and Rev are on it, where are you?"
"Just surveilling from above, we haven't g…" Matt stopped talking to reformulate his response. "I see her again, Peyton, follow her, full speed." Ace managed to hear Matt's orders with the help of the comm's speaker.
"What? Where is she?" Ace said impatiently.
"Peyton is tracking her movement, we'll send you the live lectures." Matt replied.
"We've got her on the radar!" Tech informed from the cockpit.
"Thanks, Matt, it's done, see you there." Ace cut off the conversation.
Duck and Rev were floating in the water in front of one of the two holes that Heather had made on the parallel buildings. "This one first, Duck, clear the path for me and I'll get' em out." Rev said.
"As you wish." Duck raised his hands then put them over the water. "Aqua Dense!" The level of water started to descend to the point were they got their feet on solid ground, Duck moved his hand slightly backwards and made the water from the inside of both of the buildings to come out and regroup with the waterway, leaving a clear path for Rev.
"I'll be back in a second." Rev ran rapidly into the first building, he exited from it carrying a pair of people and left them at safety on the floating street after a quick rush over the buildings structure, he went down again and entered the edifice, repeating the move a couple of times and getting more people safe on the hovering platform, he then went for the people inside the second building and applied the same strategy. When he was done with the civilians he took the cops with him and left them on the same spot with the rest of the people.
Duck gasped as he was starting to get tired. "Hurry up you feathered…" Rev got in front of him rapidly.
"Okay there are no more people inside they're up ther…" Rev got interrupted by the amount of water Duck let fall over them. Rev swam to the surface and got his head out of the water with continuous breath ins and outs.
"Oh, I'm so sorry man, I thought you had finished at 'Okay'." Duck said sarcastically, Rev just gave him a look of discontent.
On the meantime, Heather was approaching a big, luxurious house over an artificial hill, she grinned as she knew her target was there, her smile disappeared when the unbearable headache returned. "No, no, not again!" She stopped moving and knelt down over her rock then put both hands over it, she let out a scream of intense pain and the earring started to shake, a massive wave of yellow and orange light came from it, hitting the entire district.
The Jet trembled with the wave's hit, some lights went off briefly and intermittently but got normal when the vehicle got stable again. "What the heck was that?" Ace inquired, hoping for Tech to provide an answer.
"I have no idea." Tech replied.
Ace sighed and went where Tech. "Damage report."
"She took it quite nicely." Tech pressed a button on the console and a green, three-dimensional map of the district appeared on a screen, displaying a group of five buildings signalized with a red color. "I can't say the same for these." Tech pointed at the buildings on the screen.
Ace shook his head with disbelief. "Rev, Duck, status?" He said through his comm.
Rev was running at full speed on the floating street. "We saved them boss." He said. "Oh, and a strange wave hit us not so long ago."
"Yeah, same here, listen, that wave made serious damage to more buildings, I'm sending you the location, we'll meet there." Ace commanded.
"Sure boss, let's give her time to finish the job." Duck said, he was swimming fast in the waterway, increasing his speed with his Aqua Dense ability.
Ace growled. "There are more people in danger, Duck! The priority is to alw…"
Duck chuckled with a subtle tone of mockery. "I know, man, I'm just messing with you."
Ace sighed and turned off his comm. "Just get us there, Doc."
Meanwhile, Matt and the rest of A.R.M. were still inside the chopper, approaching the apartment Heather was heading towards. "I think she hit the primary systems." Peyton said while struggling to maintain stability. "I have to land."
Matt nodded. "Okay." He stood up a little bit and pointed at a spot on the grassed hill where the house was. "Right there, we'll arrive unnoticed."
Peyton nodded. "Yes, boss."
Matt sat down again. "Listen, the plan is simple, we break into the place, look for Heather and take that earring." He got his wrist near of his muzzle. "Ace, she is in our reach, we'll need your help soon."
"We'll be there, Matt, just hold on, we got a situation here." Ace replied.
Matt raised an eyebrow. "What? What happened?"
Ace sighed. "Some buildings got damaged." He explained from the other side of the line. "A wave of energy came out from nowhere and made a huge mess here."
"Yeah, we got hit too." Matt said. "It was her."
"Of course." Ace expressed. "Okay, wait for us to attend this thing and we'll be there with you in no time."
Peyton landed the helicopter on the spot Matt had told her to do so, she looked through the lateral window and saw Heather from the distance, she was standing up effortfully from the ground, she then got out of her sight by walking uphill towards the house. "She is moving." Peyton warned.
"I don't think we can wait much, Ace." Matt said. "We are getting in, we'll keep you updated."
"No, Matt, y…" Ace's voice stopped coming out of the comm's speaker as Matt just turned it off.
Anne shook her head while looking at him. "He won't be happy for that, hon."
Matt sighed. "I know, but there's no time to lose." He stood up and jumped out of the chopper, followed by Anne. Peyton turned the systems off and remained inside the vehicle. "If you need back up, just contact me." She told them.
Anne nodded. "Don't worry, Peyton, we'll be back soon."
"Matt!" Ace exclaimed with disgust, putting his snout more closer to his comm. "Matt!" He repeated.
Tech landed the jet on the floating pathway then looked at Ace, waiting for an order. "Is here."
Ace growled and turned his comm off. "Right." He got out of the cockpit to instruct Lexi and Slam, who had stood up and taken off their security belts. "Big guy, I need you to do a general check on the buildings with a tornado, you understand?"
Slam growled affirmatively while crossing his arms.
"Good." Ace looked at Lexi. "Lexi, you and I will look for cracks on the bottom of the edifices, we'll seal them with the heat of our powers." He turned and look at Tech who had gotten at his side. "Doc, you will help us two by strengthening the structures with all the metal you can gather."
Slam hit the button on the vehicle´s ceiling and the jet's door opened.
They jumped out of the jet one by one then the door closed automatically behind them. They were all standing over the floating street, looking at the slowly collapsing buildings. "Do the honors, Slam." Lexi said then Slam nodded and with his tornado flew sloppily towards the edifices.
"Rev, Duck, we ne…" Ace got interrupted by Rev's sudden presence.
"Perfect timing, right?" Rev said.
Ace sighed and lowered his arm as it was pointless for him to keep using the communicator. "Maybe a little late, actually." The comment just made Rev to chuckle subtly.
Duck managed to see a wing of the jet from underwater so he impulsed himself with his Aqua Dense moves and jumped out of the water then landed over a knee in front of the team flawlessly. "You missed me?" Duck stood up.
"You know the answer to that." Lexi responded with a serious look.
Duck put a cocky face. "Then it's a yes, my dear." He expressed jokingly.
"Enough." Ace said. "You two, get inside those buildings and rescue all of the people."
"Basically the same thing we just did a while ago, correct?" Rev asked.
"Correct, Rev, now go!" Ace ordered a bit upset.
"Okay I'm on it I mean we're on it you don't have t…" Rev's phrase went unfinished as he rushed towards the buildings, getting inside one by passing through one of the several big cracks it had on its facade.
Ace looked at Duck. "What are you waiting for?"
"Oh, sure, uhm, Aqua Dense." Duck said dryly then dived into the water again and swam towards a hole that led to one of the buildings' inside, he entered rapidly with an impulse and left a trace of bright, orangey bubbles behind him, he got out of the water with a jump and landed on an elegant floor made of marble, partially flooded and with the level of water increasing slowly. Duck walked towards a sign next to the elevator, it had some warnings about using it, he smiled at discovering it didn't warn anything about using it during floods. "Well, gotta trust the signs, Duck." He pressed the button to go up and the elevator's door opened.
Ace nodded at being sure Duck had complied. "Alright, Lexi." He looked at his girlfriend. "Let's go."
Slam returned with them aided by his tornado, he started to growl explaining what he had found.
"Critical? All of them?" Tech asked.
Slam nodded and snarled affirmatively.
"Okay, thanks Slam." Ace said. "Tech, Slam will help you search for scraps, Lexi and I are doing as planned."
Tech nodded with commitment. "Understood, boss."
"How are we going to get down there?" Lexi inquired.
"You said you wanted to take diving lessons, didn't you?" Ace replied.
"Uhm, yeah but…" Lexi's eyes widened as Ace had taken her hand and ran towards the street's edge. "Hey but I didn't mean t…" Ace jumped with her and they both started to fall towards the waterway until they submerged. After a moment they both got their heads out of the water, Ace breathed in and out a couple of times and Lexi spat out a generous quantity of water she had accidentally got in her mouth. "You never do that again!" Lexi exclaimed upset.
Ace chuckled. "Sorry, love." He looked at the building in front of them, he instantly noticed the vertical crack that came all the way from the last floor to the first one. "That's a big one, Lexi, shoot!" He started to shoot his laser vision towards the crack, Lexi did the same with her brain blast.
The crack started to reseal slowly by the melting material they were both heating up. "Keep going!" Lexi said after a gasp.
Rebecca was on the apartment's rooftop, she had followed Heather and A.R.M. there, she walked towards one of the edges and crouched to look down, she saw Heather approaching the wall below, she moved a little bit backwards to prevent herself from getting caught but her sight was still focused on Heather who aimed both hands towards the wall and glitched it, she groaned with pain but managed to resist it then just pulled the wall by moving her arms to the back, she let the glitched wall to fall behind her, Rebecca just kept looking, Heather got in the apartment by walking through the entrance she had just made.
Rebecca raised an eyebrow and got fully into her feet, she then sat on the edge of the rooftop with her legs facing the other side, she took a deep breath and jumped to hold from a pipeline that was a few meters over the ground with a hand then she just let go off the pipeline and landed safely in front of the entrance Heather made.
Slam was hovering with the help of his tornado over the two corners of the floating street, gathering all the lampposts he could carry in the process. He stopped right in front of Tech who had his hands pointing towards several cracks on one of the buildings. "Ready?" Tech asked.
Slam growled affirmatively and threw the lampposts towards the cracks.
Tech held the lampposts in the air with his magnetic ability and gasped a bit by their weight, he pushed them onto the cracks and started to bent them in a way that they were starting to serve as a structural support. "Almost…there…" He clenched his fists and put them together to conclude the task, he then stopped using his power and the building stood stable by the support he and Slam had created. "Well, this one is done." Tech said, sighing repeatedly.
Duck was on the hallway of the first floor of the building, he had managed to take out all of the people of that floor from their apartments, but they were refusing to leave the building. "People! Come on! I have to get you out of here!"
A male fox from the crowd walked past everyone and stood in front of them, facing Duck. "If you didn't know, this building was built with the finest m…" The sudden shake of the edifice interrupted the fox's words.
"You were saying?" Duck inquired sarcastically.
"Okay, I'm going with you." A female wolf said. "But I need to take my stuff first."
"Yeah! I'll do that to!" A male voice from the crowd exclaimed, making the rest of the people to adopt the same opinion and start arguing at the same time.
Duck put a hand on his face and let out a sigh. "There's no time for that!" His voice couldn't be heard by the amount of noise the crowd's words were making." Duck knelt down and took a deep breath. "You leave me no choice, then." He put both hands on the floor and started to feel the humidity on it then pictured all the water that surrounded the building's base. "Aqua Dense." He started to make the water of the waterway to form into big, arm like structures, he ascended them to get in front of the window behind the crowd.
"What the…" Ace said while feeling the water level going down and seeing the things Duck had formed with the water.
"I bet it's Duck." Lexi said. "Quite impressive, honestly."
Duck moved his hands backwards and the water made arms broke the window and went inside, he then grabbed the people with them and took them out of the building, placing them safely over the floating street.
"My dress! Ruined!" The female wolf stood up while looking at the continuous dripping of her green dress.
Duck stopped using his ability, making the arms of water to break and regroup with the rest of the water on the waterway. He got into his feet then leaned over a wall after a gasp of exhaustion, he activated his comm to speak with Rev. "First floor is clear."
Rev responded immediately from the other side of the line. "Same as the other twenty nine and I actually got time to clear the other buildings as well I felt kind of in a spree so I just did it but don't worry I'm sure you did a good job w…"
"Okay! I get it, Rev! I'll see you down there." Duck deactivated his comm. "Smug." He backed away from the wall and teleported from the building to the floating street.
Ace and Lexi were still on the water, sealing the last cracks of the building they had been taking care of with their powers, Tech used his magnetic ability to place one last patch of metal pieces Slam had helped him to make over a building's ruptured space, Rev was just watching on the hovering street along with Duck. Ace stopped firing his laser vision then Lexi did the same with her brain blast, all the cracks had been sealed. "We're done here." Ace said. "Duck! A little help!" He yelled while looking at his comrade from below. Duck rolled his eyes then teleported to the waterway, he appeared between Ace and Lexi and placed a hand on each one's shoulder then teleported them to the floating street along with himself. "Thanks, man."
"Yeah, yeah, what else can I do but to be your personal taxi cab?" Duck replied.
Ace ignored Duck's sarcastic comment then Tech and Slam met with them. As the team was fully reunited, he pointed at the jet to give his next command. "Everyone! To the jet! Now!" He ordered. "We gotta stop her before Matt and company run out of chances." They all started to hurry towards the vehicle then got inside the jet, Rev was already sitting on the back side with his belt on.
"Why it took you so long?" Rev said jokingly.
"Not now, Rev." Lexi said and sat down next to him.
On the meantime, Heather was walking across the living room of the house she had broke into, the furniture was rustic and the walls dark green, with old paintings hung over them, she looked at her surroundings and raised her hands then felt a painful headache again, she gasped and put both hands over her head, making the house to glitch and its rooms and hallways to mix together and get all over the place, some stuff like more furniture and several collectible objects fell down product of her sloppy attack.
Matt and Anne were standing up as they had fallen to the ground by the glitch, they were inside a hallway that was floating above Heather because of the glitch. "Are you okay, hon?" Matt inquired.
"I think so." Anne said while rubbing her head. "Look!" She pointed at Heather who was kneeling down over the living room's black carpet, groaning by the constant pain.
"She made it easy for us." Matt hopped from the glitched hallway to the living room area followed by Anne, they both landed safely on the floor.
"What…what happened." A male lion who wore a black suit said, he was laying on the floor of his room which had gotten right next to the living room thanks to the attack, a wall had disappeared by the same matter so he could see Heather when he managed to stand up. "Heather?!" He began to approach her while looking around, confused. "What the heck is going on?!" He spotted Matt and Anne. "Oh great, now you got a gang?"
Matt took a step at the front. "We are the Active Risk Management agency, sir." He explained. "We are here to stop her."
The lion frowned. "And you are doing a wonderful job!" He pointed at the most glitched areas with his hands then looked back at them. "Congratulations! Just look at this mess! She ruined my home!"
Heather recovered from the pains she had been feeling and stood up. "I'm not here to destroy your house, Leonard." She turned and walked towards him. "I'm here to take what's mine."
"Oh, and what would that be, pretty?" Leonard said while crossing his arms.
"Money!" Heather exclaimed and grasped the cloth of his suit under the neck. "You owe me money! Scum!"
"What the heck are y…" Leonard rolled up his eyes. "The holo-soccer match, now I remember." He took her hand and moved it to make her let go off his jacket. "The referee got paid, and you know that."
"And?! It's not my fault!" Heather punched him in the face, making him to fall to the floor. "Where is my money! Leo!"
Matt hurried and got closer to her, taking out his laser gun from the holster and aiming it at her. "Don't move or I shoot!"
Heather sighed and turned to face him. "Can't you just leave me alone for t…" She screamed and got on her knees again, Matt took advantage of that and rushed towards her, he grabbed her arms from behind and tried to lift her up but she threw a random punch and hit his snout, she stood up and hurried towards Leonard who had just got up, she was suddenly hit on the face by a flying kick, courtesy of Rebecca, the raccoon agent of A.H.P.
Heather laid on the floor, stunned by the unexpected hit. Matt rushed towards her and crouched to get the earring but Heather glitched the floor with a gesture and made it to become ramp shaped which made Matt to fall down to the other side of the room, Heather stood up and Rebecca confronted her.
"There's nowhere you can hide." Rebecca adopted a fighting position, Heather just growled and jumped at her, sending them both to the ground.
"I'm tired of you! I shall kill you right now!" Heather raised her hand and before she could try to glitch Rebecca, a red rush appeared on her place, then Heather snarled at discovering Rebecca had vanished. "Loonatics!" She exclaimed with anger and stood up.
Rev had taken Rebecca to a safer area, a terrace that was partially mixed with a guest room due to the glitch. "Don't worry you're safe now let the profe…" As he was kneeling down and holding her with both arms, he got speechless while looking at her eyes. "Uhm, I…"
Rebecca raised an eyebrow. "Wait, I know you."
"Oh, really!" Rev grinned.
"Yeah." Rebecca replied. "You are one of those heroes, uhm, what's the name?"
"Oh." Rev laid her on the ground for a moment and stood up then offered her his hand, helping her to get into her feet. "I'm Rev Runner member of the Loonatics my superpower is basically running really fast and sorry what's your name?"
Rebecca chuckled as she had never heard anyone talking that fast. "I'm Rebecca Moon." She extended her hand. "It's a pleasure."
Rev shook her hand nervously. "T…Th…The pleasure is…mine."
Rebecca raised an eyebrow. "Are you okay?"
"Oh sorry maybe you´ve noticed I talked a bit slower for a moment I think it happens when I get nervous like when I meet a beautiful girl and…" Rev hit himself on the forehead after saying that. "No, Rev that was supposed to stay in your head now you'll freak her out!"
Rebecca let out a laugh. "You are funny."
"Sorry I…" Rev looked at her with confusion. "Like, for real?"
Rebecca just sighed and chuckled softly. "Thank you for saving me, by the way."
"Oh." Rev did a gesture of modesty. "It's nothing." He gasped. "Saving, my friends need my help." He left after a red blur then returned immediately with her. "Stay here." He left her again, leaving the same trace of red blur behind him.
Matt managed to climb the ramp Heather had improvised with the glitched floor, he began to run towards her. Heather was about to attack Leonard with her claws but she got suddenly hit by Lexi's brain blast on the arm, she groaned and backed away from him, Anne rushed towards her and threw several punches at her face then knelt her stomach, Matt hit her side with his elbow, throwing her onto a nearby wall which she broke in half with the impact, due to Matt's super strength.
Slam roared and with a few jumping steps approached her and grabbed her with his clenched fist then threw her upwards, Duck took the chance to teleport next to her while she was still on the air and rapidly took the earring from her ear then teleported back to his previous spot, standing next to Ace. Heather fell strongly on the floor, not even cushioned by the carpet's soft texture in the slightest. She groaned and laid on her side then started to get up while rubbing her arm. She got fully into her feet and looked at Ace and Duck. "You…will…" She coughed. "Die now." Heather backed her hands then moved them fast towards them, waiting for a deadly glitch to happen. She looked at her hands, confused and disappointed. "Wha…" She gasped then touched her ear, noticing her earring was gone. "Oh b…" She got hit by Rev's rush abruptly then he appeared next to Ace after the red trace. "Did I miss something?"
"Perfect timing, Rev." Ace said with a smirk.
Heather hit a wall and then fell down, Tech used his powers to manipulate a metallic, abstract statue that was on a corner and transformed it in a flat, metal disc which he then moved towards her and wrapped it around her so she couldn't move any muscle.
"Ace." Duck handed him the earring.
Ace looked at the device, then he dropped it. "We've had enough of this." He stepped on it, breaking it into several tiny pieces.
"No!" Heather screamed after hearing the crack.
"Good job, team." Ace said then looked at Heather. "She will spend a long time in prison."
Matt and Anne approached him. "We'll take care of that, Ace." Matt said.
"I'm taking your word, bud." Ace replied.
"Thank you all for saving my life!" Leonard walked towards them and stood in front of them. "How will I ever pay you? Do you accept quasar linium lingots?"
Ace chuckled while shaking his head. "There's no need for that, sir, we…" He was interrupted by Duck who approached them and stood between them.
"What my partner wants to say is that we'll conform with a dinner at Sapphire´s." Duck proposed.
"Duck!" Ace scolded him with an upset tone.
Duck raised his shoulders. "What?"
"Sapphire's." Leonard scratched his chin. "It happens that the owner is my cousin so I just have to call him and I'll get you all a table on the rooftop, what do you think?"
"You see it, guys?" Duck turned to look at his comrades. "Destiny!"
Ace sighed then grinned gratefully at Leonard. "If you insist." He finally chose to accept the offer.
"Splendid." Leonard took out his phone to do the call.
Rev gasped as he remembered Rebecca was waiting for him at the terrace so he rushed quickly towards the place and found that she was still there waiting for him. "Hi."
"Hi." Rebecca said.
"Uhm, we…" Rev scratched his nape. "We did it, she is beaten, Heather will spend most of her life behind bars from now."
"Oh, that's great." Rebeca replied. "Did she hurt you? I mean I could hear all the mess from here."
"Oh I'm perfectly fine thank you." Rev looked at his wounded leg. "Well technically my leg is severely wounded but my friend is a genius, so."
Rebecca chuckled. "You are all so, interesting." She put a hand on his shoulder, making him to blush. "Well, not like in a science experiment way but just, uhm, interesting." She smirked.
"Uhm I…I was going to tell you if you wanted to come with me and my friends to, uhm, Sapphire´s, the rich guy is inviting us so, maybe, you could, uhm…" Rev pulled the piece of cloth of his suit that covered his neck as he was getting nervous again. "Yeah."
"I don't know." Rebecca looked away. "I better go back to the station to fill some reports and…"
"Please." Rev said. "I know that sounded weird and desperate but you seem like someone good to have a conversation with, you know, it's just something I, uhm, intued." Rev lowered his head as he felt awkward.
Rebecca got thoughtful for a moment, then just let out a sigh of acceptance and nodded. "I guess those reports can wait."
"Yes!" Rev exclaimed then looked at her with regret as he thought he had just spoken too loudly. "Sorry, I mean, cool."
The Loonatics and Rebecca, Rev's new friend, were sharing a table on the place that Leonard promised them, the rooftop of Sapphire´s, a luxurious restaurant that was on the top of a tall building in Acmetropolis' downtown. The sun of the morning was starting to show as the mission had taken the whole night. "You brought her there already?" Ace inquired through his comm.
"Yeah." Matt, who was on the other side of the bars of Heather's cell, put his comm close to them. "Wanna say hi?" He looked at Heather who was sitting over a cot, wearing an orange uniform, she just ignored Matt's joke. Matt put his comm back in front of his snout. "I think you underestimate us a bit sometimes."
Ace chuckled. "I'd never do that, Matt." He replied. "Thanks for your help, take care." He ended the communication, then tilted his head towards Lexi with his gaze on Rev and Rebecca. "They're getting along quite fast." He looked at Lexi. "Don't you think?"
Lexi glanced at them, Rev offered Rebecca a bit of his food with his fork and put it on her mouth, making her to chuckle a little. "Well, it's Rev who we are talking about, so, it's kinda expected."
Ace laughed. "That's true." He looked at the early sun of the morning. "I'm glad Duck didn't just keep his beak shut this time."
Meanwhile, on Acmetropolis' prison, Quentin was sitting at his metallic desktop inside of his cell, soldering a tiny metallic marble over the surface of a circular device, also small sized. His ear twitched when one of the guards knocked the bars of the cell with his truncheon. "It's lunch time, loser!" Quentin left his work pending and stood up from the chair then exited when the guard opened the door for him. The guard took him to the dining room, he got in line after taking a tray from the pile, they served him the food then he looked for a place to sit and found Magnus sitting at one of the tables on the corner of the room, devouring his food.
"May I?" Quentin asked while approaching him.
Magnus growled. "I don't care, you'll stay anyway."
Quentin nodded. "Good point." He sat down in front of him and put the tray over the table. "You know, I was skeptical about the new menu, but after tasti…"
Quentin slammed the table with his fist. "Get to the point! Fox!"
"Okay, okay, calm down." Quentin said. "I have excellent news, Magnus."
"Which are?" Magnus said with the mouth full as he had munched the chicken leg he was holding.
"We might've just found a new ally." Quentin said. "Powerful, unmerciful." He thought about another adjective. "Beautiful."
Magnus raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"Nevermind." Quentin sighed and tried to remember the name of who he was talking about, his eyes widened when the name came to his mind. "Heather…"
"Stanton?" Magnus inquired.
"Yes." Quentin replied. "The panther."
Magnus shook his head. "She is done, I heard she lost her powers."
"No." Quentin said while standing up. "Correction, she lost what gave her her powers, but what if a technological mastermind was creating a much, much better replacement right now?"
Magnus sighed and put his hand on his face. "Tell me you're joking."
"I never joke, Magnus." Quentin responded. "A cataclysm is coming, my friend." Quentin sat back down. "And we are the ones who're bringing it to the city, you, me and her, no one will stop us, not even those filthy Loonatics."