Loonatics: United

Episode 48: Cataclysm (part 12)

Tech and Duck hovered under the mothership, exploring and seeking for an entrance, only finding closed ports and tiny vents. Duck sighed and approached Tech. "I hope I don't take us to the fuel chambers or something worse." He took a deep breath and put a hand over Tech's shoulder, then he teleported them to the ship's inside. They appeared in one of the innumerable ship's hallways, dark, with green lighting. "Hey, not b..." He gasped when numerous groups of reptiles covered the hallway's both sides, leaving them cornered. "Oh, I spoke too fast, that's commonly Rev's job."

Tech adopted a combat position, followed by Duck, Tech facing the ones they had at the front and Duck turning to deal with the ones at the other side. "Looking for a fight? Scalies?" Tech readied his magnetic powers. "You got it!"

"Wow, so heroi..." Duck was interrupted.

"Shut up and fight, Duck!" Tech began to control a pair of reptiles' golden armors, while Duck started to form a big orb with his hands put together.

Matt ran over the reptiles he encountered in his way with the zoomatrix, hitting several hordes of them with the vehicle's front and sides and managing to neutralize them. Anne and Peyton imitated him, so the three managed to make a way towards their comrades while defeating the enemies at the same time. They braked right in front of Rev and Slam and got off the zoomatrixes, taking off their helmets and leaving the three vehicles floating over the ground.

Slam greeted them with a growl, then he knocked out two reptiles with a single fist movement.

Rev rapidly stood before them after a quick rush. "You could've gotten here earlier not that I'm trying to be mean or something but we would've appreciate it."

"Well." Anne glared at the three hostile reptiles that were hurrying towards them. She got in combat position. "We are here now." She backed her arm then rapidly punched the reptile's snout, the reptile groaned and let out a scream of rage, he juggled with his spear and tried to puncture her, but she blocked the attack with her hand and then grabbed the spear, jumping to the ground while still holding it and therefore bringing the reptile down, she stood up and kicked his head, leaving him unconscious.

Matt fought with another reptile, who constantly threw punches at him, bringing Matt to a nearby wall, Matt used that to his advantage and placed his arms and hands over the wall and used it to impulse his legs quickly, hitting the reptile's face with his feet. The reptile groaned while rubbing his snout, then Matt jumped and tackled him, then began to kneel his face while they were both over the ground.

Peyton was just backing away from the reptile that threw attacks at her with his spear, she was barely evading the fast movements of the golden weapon, frightened, wanting to defend herself, she then finally got the courage to briefly hold the spear and move it to the side, she then threw a weak slap at the reptile, who let out a slight groan and looked at her with angry eyes. "Uhm, sorry?" Peyton expressed, the reptile punched her fiercely while growling, she gasped when painfully laying over the ground, groaning and only thinking about the pain, then she opened her eyes and glared at the reptile raising his spear right over her, she closed her eyes in wait for the end, but then she heard a familiar, monstrous growl. Peyton opened her eyes again and saw Slam standing between them, who snatched the spear from the reptile's hands and broke it in half with his knee then dropped the rests of the weapon and grasped the reptile's neck, lifting him from the ground. The reptile coughed and glanced at Slam with fright, Slam growled at him and then threw him with strength, sending him to a wall of a building a couple of blocks away from there. The screaming reptile broke the wall and left a hole on it, entering the building, defeated and badly hurt.

Slam turned and looked at Peyton. He approached her and helped her to stand up. He crouched a bit and stroked her hurt face, growling softly and worriedly, telling her to stay away, that they got everything under control.

"But..." Peyton gasped when feeling pain on her cheek when Slam stroke it. "I can't, I have to help."

Slam got his hand away from her face, as he noticed it hurt her. He sighed and glanced at the zoomatrixes, then he glared back at her, looking at her with pleading eyes, growling again, asking her to leave, a reptile had approached him and wanted to attack him from behind, but Slam raised his arm and hit his snout, the reptile fell to the ground unconscious, Slam didn't even turned his gaze as his eyes were still locked on hers. He growled again, insisting, taking her hand gently.

Peyton could see the worry in his eyes, and even if she was good at hiding it, she was very afraid. She sighed and nodded at him. "I understand." She let go off his hand and began to walk towards the zoomatrix, but then she turned and hurried back towards him, approaching him and standing on the tip of her feet, and with the help of a small impulse, she kissed him briefly and stroked his cheek. "Please, be careful." She smiled at him then headed to the zoomatrix, getting on it and putting on her helmet, giving Slam one last glance before accelerating and leaving, heading to the HQ.

After a few minutes, Ace arrived at the HQ's hangar, the big gate let Lexi and Quentin enter after him and then closed automatically, generating a powerful echo in the place. He exited the Wave Cannon, leaving the doors open to take Heather out, carrying her carefully. He rushed towards the gates that led to the HQ and put his hand on the recognition pad, then they opened, he ran rapidly through the small corridor then reached the lounge, turning right to head to the lab. Ace entered the lab then went to the infirmary and stopped for a moment when remembering Rebecca was there, he growled and shook his head then entered the infirmary nonetheless, placing Heather on the floor next to the bed occupied by Rebecca, who was still unconscious. He opened the drawers with desperation, breathing in and out while glaring continuously at Heather, who had fainted. He threw several devices and medical equipment while trying to find something useful, but he didn't know much about medicine or health. He grunted and exited the lab, frustrated, he walked towards the table and placed his hands on it, with his gaze lost on its surface, breathing anxiously.

Quentin and Lexi arrived at the lab in a hurry. "Where is she?" Quentin inquired then noticed the infirmary at the bottom of the lab, rapidly rushing towards there and stopping right in front of the glass, putting his hand on it, looking at her with guilt and sorrow, laying hurt and unconscious on the floor. He turned and looked at Ace. "What will we do?" He waited for an answer, but Ace stood silent. "What will we do?!" He exclaimed, demanding a response, wanting to enter the infirmary and work on the issue by himself.

"I don't know!" Ace replied with a frown, then he glared back at the table while clenching his fists.

Lexi approached him and put a hand on his shoulder, trying to calm him down. "Ace."

Ace let out a sigh of frustration. "Sorry, I..." He looked at her eyes, finding a bit of calm on them. He sighed again and glared at the front then looked at Quentin, who was still waiting for an answer to his pleads. Ace thought for a brief moment, for Quentin it felt like an eternity, he then activated his comm, getting it close to his snout. "Rev." Lexi raised an eyebrow, wondering why he would call him. "Rev, come to the HQ, it's an emergency."

"The HQ? But I'm on a spree right now we are actually doing an excellent job with the rep..." Rev was interrupted.

"It's not a question, Rev!" Ace exclaimed, then sighed and shook his head. "Just… Come, please."

Rev arrived quickly and with no delays, appearing right in front of them, with the red blur behind him fading slowly. "Alright what's so import..." He turned his head a bit when seeing Quentin standing next to the infirmary. "Uhm...guys..."

"It's Heather, she is badly hurt." Ace explained. "You are the only one who can save her."

Rev backed away a bit, confused and fearful at the same time. "What? No, Tech can I mean I j..."

"Tech is not here, Rev." Ace said. "You know of these things too, right?" He gestured at Quentin. "He needs your help."

Rev glared at Quentin again, who was also looking at him, worried, with deep concern on his gaze. Rev glanced down for a moment, then rapidly rushed towards the infirmary, entering it in a split of second, he gasped when seeing Heather's wounds. "Okay." He said to himself and exhaled then reached for the console that was next to Heather and started to activate the infirmary's systems, pressing the keys over the console with expertise. Some parts of the ceiling opened like small doors and robotic arms came out from them. Quentin entered the infirmary followed by Ace and Lexi.

"Will you save her?" Quentin inquired.

Rev remained attentive to the commands he was activating. "I can't assure you anything." He suddenly stopped typing, having made up a plan in his mind, he then looked at Quentin. "I need space." He also glared at his comrades, who understood and walked away from the infirmary, but Quentin refused to do so. Rev gave him an insistent look and with that made Quentin to exit the room hesitantly, then he left the lab along with the others. Rev glanced back at the console and lowered his head, closing his eyes and letting out a sigh. "Anesthesia, true."

"Charging mecha-syringes with substance 81-A, Anesthesia." A female, robotic voice said.

Rev turned and started to breath deeply, looking at Heather. "You'll be fine." He nodded. "Everything will be fine." He said to himself.

Duck threw explosive orbs at the reptiles he confronted while Tech crushed them with their own armors, they were handling the battle well but Tech knew they were losing valuable time while fighting all those soldiers. "Think fast, Duck!" With the help of his magnetic abilities, he lifted the rest of the reptiles he was dealing with and threw them towards Duck, who reacted fast and started to throw orbs at them one by one, neutralizing them before they fell to the floor. He turned when dealing with all of the reptiles Tech had thrown at him, to deal with the ones he still had before him. "Okay, I'll let you choose, as you know what these can do." He juggled with a pair of orbs menacingly. "You leave us do our job and forget ab..." A reptile swung his spear at him and hit his face. Duck groaned and fell down, rubbing his beak. "Alright, option two then." He got into his feet and merged the two orbs, making a big one between his hands. He swung his arms towards them and let go the orb, which collided with the first line of reptiles and after brief screams of pain and defeat, the light that the exploding orb generated in the hallway faded and revealed all of the reptiles laying over the floor. Duck smirked cockingly and dusted off his hands, turning and running by Tech. "The zone is clear, let's keep going!" He said with arrogance.

"I hate to say this, but..." Tech followed him. "That was pretty impressive."

Duck chuckled. "Well, that's the result of greatness...and practice." Tech just shook his head and let out a subtle chuckle, then they kept running. "Wait, do we actually know where we are heading to? This place is a labyrinth." Duck inquired.

"We can't be too far of the control room" Tech replied. "Maybe there we'll find out where they are taking the hostages." He briefly looked at his comrade. "And disable the ship."

Matt, Anne and Slam were battling a numerous horde of reptiles, barely managing to fight them with their skills, Slam defeated them more easily with the help of his tornado, his twists sent each reptile he hit far from his spot, but it still wasn't enough to deal with all of them.

Matt gasped when dodging a spear attack from a reptile, he then grabbed the spear's end and moved it towards the golden armored soldier, hitting his side with his own weapon, the reptile groaned and Matt threw a powerful punch at his snout, winning the brawl with that final strike. He looked at his girlfriend. "This is useless..." He recovered some air. "...they just won't stop coming."

Slam stopped using his tornado and looked up at the ship after hearing Matt's statement. He noticed the black discs that the ship had attached to its bottom, which were the devices that shot the lasers that were bringing the reptiles to the surface. He pointed at them with a growl while looking at Anne.

Anne gasped. "Slam is right" She looked at Matt. "We just have to destroy those things, it's the only way to stop them from getting here."

"And how will we do that?" Matt inquired after defeating another reptile with a flying kick.

Anne scratched her chin and lowered her gaze a bit, thinking for a couple of seconds, then she looked at her boyfriend again. "The zoomatrixes, we can fly there to reach them and destroy them with explosives."

Slam growled, accepting her proposal and stating he would get the explosives from the HQ. He activated his jetpack and left in a hurry.

"Uhm, Anne." Matt approached her. "Are you sure about this?"

Anne raised her shoulders a bit. "What other choice do we have?"