Loonatics: United

Episode 45: Cataclysm (part 9)

The men of Hill and Rebecca rapidly went upstairs inside the tower, dozens of stairs took them to the hallway that led to German's apartment, arriving along with Tech and Ace, almost right when the elevator's door opened in the middle of the great corridor. Ace exited the elevator followed by Tech and turned to the left, gasping when he spotted an apartment with a missing door. He then glared rightwards at the policemen and soldiers, who were being led by Slam, Matt, Hill and Rebecca.

Ace pointed at the apartment's entrance. "What are you waiting for? Let's go!" He commanded and hurried towards the apartment, followed by The Eye and the AHP, not before Slam and his other comrades. They reached the apartment and entered group after group after Ace and Tech got inside, Hank was standing there, expecting them with a battle position.

"Those were only the backups." Hank thundered his fingers. "I'm the real threat here."

"That we'll see." Ace readied his laser vision and a group of soldiers of The Eye approached Hank, trying to hold him. Hank grunted as he found it difficult to free himself from them, but then with a somersault, he managed to send them all to the floor, he landed safely on his feet, he then rapidly crouched and hit their heads with his open fist, killing them while they tried to recover. "Another volunteer?!" Hank stood up and frowned with a menacing look.

All the men of The Eye and the AHP rushed towards him, some of them firing their weapons at him and others battling him directly, the laser shots disappeared on his suit and the ones who chose a direct brawl barely managed to hit him once, the majority rapidly perished by the strength of his kicks and punches. He lifted the ones he only injured from the ground and threw them to the window, breaking the glass and therefore sending them to their deaths.

"No!" Rebecca yelled angrily and approached him.

"Rebecca!" Ace exclaimed with worry. "Wait!"

Rebecca punched his snout, with no single effect at all, Hank chuckled and grasped her neck then lifted her off the ground and smashed her on the floor. He then kicked her with an unmeasurable strength, sending her to the wall at the right, she groaned painfully when hitting the wall and then the floor. She laid there while trying to get on her feet with a lot of effort, but she couldn't get up, she let out a sigh of great exhaustion and fully laid there again, hurt and unconscious. Hank started to laugh mockingly, applauding and glaring at the remaining adversaries with eyes of challenge.

Slam growled with rage and lifted both fists above Hank after getting close to him, he lowered them fast and Hank held them with both hands, gasping and laughing at the same time. "You're so…pathetic!" He groaned and pushed Slam's fists, getting momentarily free of trouble, because Matt had got next to him and hit his face with a flying kick, managing to damage his helmet. Hank got over his knee, looking at Matt, enraged. "You'll beg for a quick death whe…" He screamed by the pain when Ace began to burn his chest with his laser vision.

"You were saying?!" Ace joked.

"Gah!" Hank groaned and tried to stand up but the heat was passing through his armor very quickly.

Tech went to help Rebecca, crouching next to her. "Rebecca." He put his index finger over her neck, finding out she still had pulse, and with a sigh of relief, he carried her and got into his feet. "Hold on, girl." He looked at her with worry. "Hold on."

Ace stopped using his laser vision on Hank, who gasped and put both hands on the floor. He walked towards him. "You're done." He sentenced.

Hank snarled, raising his gaze towards him. "I'll make you pay for th…" Slam interrupted him with a punch, which got him totally unconscious. Hank laid on the floor, knocked out and defeated.

Ace looked at Slam. "I had the situation controlled, but thanks, anyway."

Slam growled in response, stating there was nothing to thank for.

Hill approached Hank and took a pair of cuffs from his jacket, then he knelt down next to him and put the wolf's hands on his back and cuffed them. He stood up and glanced at Ace hesitantly. He nodded at him after a moment. "Thanks." He almost murmured, Ace just nodded back.

Matt looked at all the dead bodies of the soldiers of the Eye and the men of the AHP. "What a disaster." He said softly, then his ear twitched when hearing steps on the entrance, as Troy, Nate and Kyle arrived.

"This ain't over yet!" Troy glared at Matt, then at Hill, who stood next to him. "Kyle, Nate…finish them." Kyle went after Ace while Nate approached Slam, Troy rushed directly towards Matt and the General. Tech just went to a corner to keep Rebecca safe.

Kyle kicked Ace's arm, which gave him the chance to grasp his leg and hit it with his knee, making the wolf to groan and rapidly move his leg away from him, he punched Ace on the face twice and when the third hit was coming Ace stopped it with the palm of his hand then jumped and with both of his feet kicked his chest, bringing him down. Kyle gasped when his head bumped on the floor, Ace crouched next to him and took off his helmet forcedly, then punched him several times until the wolf got unconscious. Ace sighed repeatedly while standing up and glaring at his now defeated rival, he then took a pair of cuffs from a dead soldier's belt and cuffed Kyle with his hands on the back.

Slam had easily dealt with Nate, he was holding him from the feet and smashing him on the floor continuously, Nate yelled and groaned several times, his helmet got destroyed in one of the constant hits he received on the floor, Slam lifted him once again and smashed him on the floor with a growl, he then saw Matt and Hill fighting with Troy and went to help them, leaving Nate on the crater over the floor, definitely defeated.

Troy blocked a kick from Matt with a fast leg movement, and at the same time blocked a punch from Hill with his elbow. He kicked Matt's shin, who let out a small groan of pain but resisted the attack and punched Troy, who gasped and got a bit stunned, Hill took advantage of that and gave a slight jump then raised his arm and with his elbow hit Troy's nape. The Renegade groaned by the pain and fell down, almost instantly trying to stand up. Slam took the chance to make his way towards him and gently moved Hill and Matt to the sides, he growled beastly and covered his fist with a hand, then he snarled again and hit Troy right on the head, the wolf couldn't even react as the attack neutralized him instantly. Matt nodded at their success and looked at Hill. "Good job, General."

Hill stood silent for a moment, then smirked a bit at him. "You've improved, fellow."

Matt smiled then Slam got next to him and growled upset. Matt chuckled and looked at Slam. "Okay, you did well too, Slam."

Ace cuffed Nate and dragged him where he had left Kyle, laying before the large, broken window, then he did the same with Hank and Troy, helped by the others, except for Tech, who then approached his boss, carrying Rebecca. "Boss." Tech glared a bit at Rev's girlfriend. "She needs immediate attention." He glanced at Ace. "We must go now or she won't make it."

Ace nodded. "Sure." He looked at Hill. "Gener…"

"Don't worry, fellow." Hill crossed his arms. "I'll take care of these guys." He gestured at the four red armored wolves. "Again."

Ace nodded at him, then glared at his team, Matt, Tech and Slam. "We sh…"

"Wait, where's the pr…" Matt got interrupted by tenuous, sudden groans.

Ace walked towards the closet as he heard the sounds came from there, he tried to open the door but found out it was locked, then he burned the door lock with his laser vision and the door opened before him, revealing German Gillian laying on the floor, looking at him with lost eyes, groaning by the wounds he had. "H…help…m…" German sighed and closed his eyes.

Ace gasped. "He is badly hurt." He looked at Tech. "Do we have enough space in the in…"

"We'll take care of him in the base." Hill proposed. "Is our duty."

Ace crouched and lifted German, getting his arm over his shoulders to take him with Hill. "Thanks, General." Hill received the President the same way Ace was carrying him. Ace turned and approached Tech, then Slam and Matt did the same. Ace gave a final look at Hill, then activated his jetpack and left the apartment by the broken window followed by Tech, who carefully carried Rebecca.

"Alright I'll tell you when I'm…" Matt got suddenly hugged by Slam, who activated his jetpack and left the place hurriedly. "Reaaaaadyyy!" Matt's scream was heard from many near spots.

Hill activated his comm, watching over the unconscious wolves. "Hill here, I need all the teams at full disposition."

"Sorry, Sir?" A soldier said from the other side of the line. "I thought you only needed the first legions."

Hill sighed. "They are all done, fellow." He lowered his head, then glared at his dead men. "They are done."

Rev had taken Lexi and Duck to the ship's hangar after having escaped from the explosions. He stopped running right in front of the team's jet. Lexi briefly glanced at him and thanked him with a nod. She then rushed into the ship's cockpit. "Get on!" Duck and Rev obeyed Lexi's command and entered the jet, standing behind her while she was activating the systems. Lexi let out a sigh of relief. "The block is off." She informed and closed the jet's door with the press of a button. "Time to go home." She then placed a hand on her face. "The gate…" She was glancing at the front through the window, remembering they still had to exit the mothership.

"Leave it to me." Duck thundered his fingers. "I'll take care."

"What will y..?" Lexi couldn't finish the phrase as Duck teleported, she then saw him hovering with his jetpack outside of the jet, right in front of the hangar's gate.

Duck started to throw countless orbs at the gate, at first it seemed it wasn't taking any damage but after about a minute several cracks began to appear on the gate's black surface. "Aren't I awesome?!" He yelled.

"I didn't think about that." Lexi said, with a face of approval.

The gate started to make cracking noises. Duck was still throwing orbs at it. "Get ready, Lexi!"

Lexi set up the console before her and the ship began to hover. "Ready!" She grasped the jet's steering wheel.

Duck gasped when the gate finally broke into lots of pieces that got vacuumed out to the outer space. Lexi reacted fast and accelerated to get completely out of the mothership. Seconds before Lexi managed to take the vehicle to a safe distance from the alien ship, Duck teleported rapidly to the jet's inside, appearing behind Lexi and next to Rev. "Yeah!" Duck celebrated with his fist raised. "Mission accomplished!"

Lexi and Rev looked at the mothership entering Acmetropolis' orbit. She shook her head and followed the ship. "We did nothing, Duck."

"She is right." Rev said, then walked away from them to sit down on the backside.

Lexi sighed and glared back a bit. "Sorry, Rev. I didn't mean t…" She stopped talking as Rev gestured at her, letting her know he had enough. She looked at the front again and activated her comm. "Ace…" She was afraid to tell him what happened.

"Lexi…" Ace's voice sounded worried, the ship had arrived at the city.

"We…we have a huge problem." Lexi replied. "The mission failed."

In the HQ's lab, Ace was looking through the window along with Slam at the enormous shadow that was covering the city, and the huge, black and golden mothership above it. "Copy that." Ace said monotonously, anguished by the darkness that increasingly covered his home world.

Tech was in the lab's infirmary taking care of Rebecca, who wore a hospital gown and laid over the bed, with her eyes closed and still unconscious. Tech noticed the darkness and with an eyebrow raised exited the infirmary and gasped when seeing the mothership taking over the sky's sunset. He approached Ace and Slam, Matt was also glancing at the scene. Peyton and Anne joined them later, with the same looks of concern and amazement at the same time.