Loonatics: United
Episode 47: Cataclysm (part 11)
Matt, Anne and Peyton were in the HQ's hangar, mounted over the Zoomatrixes, Matt was using Tech's while Anne had chosen Lexi's and Peyton was over Duck's vehicle. They turned them on and gasped by the abrupt hover of the vehicles and the sounds of the motors. Matt held the steering wheel tightly. "Just a question…are these safe?"
"Don't ask, just ride." Duck replied, then he glanced at Peyton, who looked confident over the Zoomatrix. "And don't leave any scratches!" He warned with a straight face.
Peyton let out a brief, arrogant chuckle. "You can bet I'll handle it just fine." She twisted the throttle and made the vehicle to sound stronger.
Tech nodded. "Alright, then. Go join Slam and Rev. If anything goes wrong, contact Ace, okay?"
"Don't worry, Tech." Anne said. "Those reptiles don't know what awaits them." She smirked confidently and put on her helmet, same as Peyton and Matt. The first one to accelerate and exit the hangar through the open gate was Peyton. Matt and Anne exited from there just after her.
Tech sighed and activated his jetpack. "It's our turn, Duck." He hovered briefly over the hangar's floor and then flew quickly towards the exit, leaving the tower in no time.
Duck grunted and also activated his jetpack. "He didn't wait for my sarcastic comment." He headed directly to the hangar's exit, following the trace of smoke Tech had left.
Slam growled beastly while approaching the lasers that came from the mothership, punching, hitting and kicking the reptiles that just got on the street, neutralizing them before they could even try to exit the green, transportation lasers. Rev ran between the reptiles and the citizens, punching the hordes of scaly creatures that were closer to the people and the ones who got on his way, he glared to the sides repeatedly in search for menaced groups, finding them everywhere and therefore approaching them with his super speed and attacking the reptiles with quick punches and kicks, which came as slow motion movements, he then ran towards the sidewalk and stopped using his power, glancing at the groups he had saved and the reptiles falling unconscious before them. He chuckled and smirked proudly then received a transmission. "Rev here."
"Rev, where are you?" Matt asked from the other side of the line.
"Me or Me and Slam? Both?" Rev asked. "We are on the same area but not in the exact same spot that's physically impossible two objects can't b…"
"Forget it, I'm seeing you right now, hold on." Matt said then cut the communication. Rev and Slam were fighting just on the streets next to the tower, so Matt and his team didn't delay to find them.
Rev looked at the three hovering vehicles flying from the heights towards the battle. "He said hold on as if we were in trouble or something." He raised his shoulders and used his super speed quickly to punch a pair of reptiles that tried to attack him from behind and fell to the ground by his fast reaction. "Courtesy I guess." He said to himself and kept running among the people and the alien reptiles, feeling confident about his abilities.
Tech and Duck flew fast towards the colossal mothership. "I think I'm getting dizzy!" Duck said.
"Don't start, Duck." Tech responded. "We've flown even higher than this."
"I know but..." Duck's eyes widened. "Wow it's a really big ship!" He looked at the mothership with astonishment as it got slowly closer to them. "It looked far smaller from the lab, and from the jet! And from the inside! I could even pretend I was holding it with my hand!"
"Duck, keep flying." Tech warned.
"Oh, now I can't make jokes?" Duck inquired with a subtle frown and his eyebrow raised.
"Was that a joke?" Tech responded, glaring at him with a subtle smirk of mockery.
Duck made up a laugh. "So funny, Tech." He replied. "And I won't answer that."
"But you are right, anyway." Tech said. "It's a huge ship, indeed." His voice had a bit of worry.
"So…what will we do, again?" Duck asked. "And by that I mean, what will you do?"
Tech thought for a moment while still contemplating the menacing looks of the ship, its pitch dark surface and its golden designs. "For now…" He let out a sigh. "I'm not sure." He answered.
Meanwhile at Quantal, Ace was flying between the aesthetically similar, blue and white buildings with the Wave Cannon, evading Magnus' constant attacks, he was chasing them while throwing purple energy projectiles at them, which collided with the buildings and destroyed the affected areas of them. "I'm glad my evasive skills are still fresh!" He dodged an attack with an upwards movement, he then returned the ship to a forward position.
Lexi got her arm a bit hit by Ace's abrupt maneuver, gasping slightly. "They never were." Tech had given her a bracelet.
"Thanks for the support." Ace lowered the steering wheel and with that the Wave Cannon went fully vertical, flying towards the already dark, star filled sky, he then turned a bit backwards to see if Magnus was still after them and kept accelerating as he thought they had lost him.
"Ace, what are you doing?!" Lexi held tightly from the vehicle's ceiling and the door at her right.
"Wait." Ace turned off the vehicle briefly, waiting for it to aim at the surface, then when the cannon pointed at the city of Quantal he turned on the vehicle again and accelerated downwards towards the city.
"Ace!" Lexi had eyes of fright, and there was some anger in her voice.
Ace couldn't help it but to laugh a bit, trying to hide his chuckles with no success. "What?" He said between chuckles.
"Ace I'm s…" Lexi gasped by the sudden hit that impacted on the vehicle, on the side where she was.
Ace gasped. "Are you okay?!" He looked at her then at the window, stabilizing the vehicle and seeing Magnus laughing while the palm of his hand burned in a purple fire.
Lexi sighed then glared at Magnus with eyes of fury. She began to shoot her brain blast inside the helmet and the cannon started to charge. Ace held the steering wheel tightly, aiming at Magnus. "Shoot now! Ace!" Lexi exclaimed, making Ace to press the fire button of the steering wheel and with that shooting the pink charge at Magnus, who evaded the attack with a quick hover upwards, then he lowered himself down to his previous spot and laughed again.
"Dang it!" Ace hit the vehicle with frustration. He moved the steering wheel all the way rightwards and turned to the opposite way, flying near the tallest buildings' rooftops.
"Ace." Lexi turned a bit and saw Magnus flying rapidly behind them, then she looked at him. "We have to chase him not the other way!" Lexi argued.
"Lexi…" Ace breathed in, then exhaled. "Just, trust me, okay?"
Lexi looked at his eyes with hesitation, then crossed her arms and looked at the front. "You know I do." She began to shoot her brain blast into the helmet. "But I'm taking precautions."
Ace nodded. "I'm fine with that." He accelerated and the castle over the mountain got in his sight. Magnus followed them closely, forming an energy sphere over the palm of his hand, raised and ready to throw.
"Uhm..." Lexi glared terrified at Magnus' white eyes. "I'd like to know what your plan is."
"I'm leading him to the castle." Ace lowered the steering wheel, making the Wave Cannon to fly upwards, as they had reached the middle of the mountain. "That's how we'll beat them with one strike."
"Are you sure about that?" Lexi inquired.
"No". Ace answered and braked in front of the castle, getting the vehicle horizontal again, then he went in reverse and moved the vehicle backwards, then maneuvered with the steering wheel to move the vehicle to the right. For one second he and Lexi just saw the night sky ahead, but then Magnus appeared, floating from above, then stopped hovering right in front of them.
"The charge is ready." Lexi said.
"I know." Ace pushed the pedal and the vehicle moved quickly backwards and got over the castle's rooftop, then Ace went back to drive mode and with several turns began to hover all around the building. Magnus was ready to attack and followed them closely but found it difficult to get a clear shot.
"Ace!" Lexi looked up a bit at the vehicle's ceiling. "What ar…!" She sighed.
"Hold on." Ace replied and then braked next to a column attached to the castle's frontside, he looked a bit upwards and saw Magnus flying above, a second near to spotting them again, he pressed the button and shot the charge, which approached Magnus rapidly, but Magnus reacted and used the sphere he had on his hand to shield himself, the impact of the cannon's charge on Magnus' generated a strong expansive wave, purple and pink colored, Magnus got hit directly by it and flew all the way towards a column on the other side of the roof, hitting it strongly and destroying it, the pieces of the broken, tall column destroyed a great part of the roof, so Magnus fell down into the castle and landed heavily on the floor.
Simultaneously to that event, the expansive wave hit the Wave Cannon violently and made it to impact on the castle and make a huge hole on the diagonal part of the facade's roof, so that way Ace and Lexi got in the castle inside the vehicle, entering through the hole, the vehicle smashed the floor a couple of times, then stopped bumping a few meters in front of Magnus, while a huge piece of concrete fell from the hole that the Wave Cannon had made on the ceiling, Heather was below that area as she had gone there when hearing the battle on the outside. The huge, white and blue piece of concrete fell right over her legs, she let out a scream of insufferable pain and began to yell more and more, trying to get her legs out, with null results.
"Heather!" Quentin stood up from his throne, totally ignoring the entrance of Magnus and his adversaries, rushing towards her with gasps of serious worry.
Ace gasped and for a moment saw everything blurry, he blinked a couple of times then slowly began to go back to his senses. He looked at Lexi, who was also recovering from the hits. "Lexi." Ace looked at the front and saw Magnus standing up, barely. "Charge it up." He grasped the steering wheel. Lexi shook her head a bit, in order to focus. She obeyed Ace's command and began to shoot her power inside the helmet. Ace rubbed the button cautiously while watching over Magnus, who was already over his feet. "Lexi." He noticed the charge wasn't ready yet. "Come on!" His voice sounded tired as the impact of the vehicle was strong.
Lexi made an effort to shoot a stronger attack. "I'm doing what I can!" She gasped.
Ace couldn't wait and pressed the button, a small charge exited from the tip of the vehicle, Magnus was still stunned and didn't have the chance to react, the small, yet powerful shot hit him right on the chest, sending him towards the wall at the bottom of the castle, far from the thrones, he smashed badly on it and then fell to the ground, letting out a scream. Ace breathed in and out a couple of times, determined, eager to end the battle. "Again!"
Lexi charged her brain blast then after a yell of effort started to shoot it again. Ace waited a bit more for the charge to form and when feeling confident, he pressed the button and a now bigger charge went towards Magnus, hitting him again while he tried to stand up, he let out another scream and hit the wall again, then the floor. The black, gooey substance that Mourn was didn't take the hit well and abandoned Magnus, leaving him unconscious and back to normal on the ground while the substance trembled violently over the floor next to him, like a gooey pond. Ace took off his helmet and opened the vehicle's door and exited from it, then ran fast towards the substance. Lexi raised an eyebrow and also went out of the vehicle, taking off her helmet. "Ace!" She heard Quentin's desperate voice, she turned and saw him trying to move the concrete over his girlfriend, with no success at all. She stayed there, doubtful, then Quentin looked at her.
"Help!" Quentin exclaimed with no hesitation, he then started to cry while keeping trying. "Please!" Lexi believed Quentin's desperate emotions, so she rushed towards him and Heather.
Ace approached Magnus and Mourn, the dark substance sensed him and slowly started to move towards him, Ace readied his laser vision and then started to shoot it at Mourn, which seemed to be absorbing the attack, he didn't stop shooting, he had his glare locked on Mourn, it began to make melting sounds and its composition started to turn red, it shook more violently and even gave small jumps over the floor, sliding towards Ace, trying hard to approach him and make him its host, but Mourn couldn't bare the heat anymore and it exploded into hundreds of tiny pieces of goo that splatted over the floor and the walls. A bit of black goo reached Ace's face. He sighed repeatedly while looking at the rests of Mourn, then he cleaned the goo off his face. "Try to do something now." Ace concluded, then hurried towards Adam, who was still shaking and groaning inside the cell of glitch. He started to weaken the cell with his power, he shot at the bars for a couple of seconds then stopped shooting, he then jumped towards the cell and with a kick destroyed its bars into several pieces as the heat of his laser vision had weakened them enough. He approached Adam and stood before him, he noticed his shakes were decreasing, until he didn't tremble at all. He slowly opened his eyes and after a few blinks he recognized Ace, who smirked at him and crouched then helped him to get into his feet. "Are you okay?"
Adam sighed, looking at his surroundings then glaring back at Ace. "I…I think so."
"Ace!" Lexi exclaimed, as Quentin and her were having trouble in lifting the concrete, he then headed there quickly and helped them lift it, with a gasp of effort he used all his strength to get the concrete away from her legs. With Ace's help they managed to fully lift the piece of concrete then immediately dropped it over the floor.
Heather groaned while looking at her hurt, damaged legs, sighing desperately. "It…" She looked at Quentin. "It hurts a lot…" She let out a cry.
Quentin knelt down next to her. "You'll be alright." He said between sobs. "You'll be fine."
Ace tried to approach her while offering her a hand, but she hit his hand with hers, refusing the help. "I'll kill you!" She exclaimed with a broken voice and tried to stand up, and with a scream of pain she glared at her legs while trying to move them, uselessly. She hyperventilated by the anxiousness she felt and looked at Quentin with desperation. Quentin glared back and saw Magnus laying over the floor on the other side of the castle, noticing Mourn had been destroyed, he then glared back at his girlfriend, who started to close her eyes, he reached for her ear and took the earring from it, he opened his fist and glared at the device for a moment, then with tears he clenched it strongly and broke the earring, then he just dropped the device on the floor.
"Wha…" Heather barely managed to see what Quentin had done, she looked at him with confusion. "What are y… doing?" She closed her eyes.
Quentin had a lump in his throat. "This was a mistake." He cried. "My mistake." He looked at Ace. "Can you help her?" Tears never stopped running across his face. "I don't want to loose her." He lowered his head and kept crying.
Ace felt compassion for him and hesitantly nodded at his request. "Don't worry." He said. "We'll take her to the lab."
Quentin glared back at him with grateful eyes, he then carried Heather on his arms and approached Ace. "Everything will be fine." He kissed her forehead, then handed her to Ace, who turned and walked hurriedly towards the Wave Cannon, then he got in the vehicle after carefully laying Heather on the copilot seat. He closed the vehicle's doors and hovered over the floor then headed to the hole on the ceiling.
Ace stopped accelerating for a moment and looked at Lexi from above through the cannon's window. "I'll see you at the HQ!" He said then finally left the place.
Lexi went to the aperture where the castle's principal door was before getting destroyed, exiting the castle and activating her jetpack. Before trying to leave, she glanced back at Quentin, who had his gaze lost on the floor, rubbing his arm with anxiety. She looked at him for about a minute, then she decided to take him with her, approaching him while hovering over the floor, entering the castle again, offering him her hand. He looked at her with hesitation, then he slowly took her hand. She smirked at him and embraced him, then exited the castle again, now holding Quentin.
They finally left Quantal en route to the HQ.