“Haha! You’ll never defeat me Loonatics! You and your pathetic powers!” The villainess mocked as she dodged one of Ace’s laser blasts, “You’re going to have to move a lot quicker than that if you’re going to try to stop Magma Volcana!”

“Lex, maneuver 81!” Ace called to Lexi as he got into a fighting stance.

“Maneuver 81? Ace, we’re not ready to pull that one off!” Lexi shouted, in mid-flip while evading a fiery blast of molten rock.

The Loonatics had been in battle with Magma for several hours already, both sides refusing to give up. Although protected in heat resistant bionic armor created by Tech, the resident genius of the Loonatics, the heat generated by the new foe’s powers began to take on an unexpected increase in temperature.

“We’ve gotta try! Duck! Slam! See if you can keep Miss Lava lady over dere distracted! Lexi, let’s go! Rev and Tech, get ready with the Atomic Phase Departiculator!”

“Let’s see you cool down with this!” Danger, dipped is finger in a nearby fountain and began to fire off his Aqua-dense power while Slam gave a loud roar and launched his Thunder Mode attack.

“Rev, help me set-up the Departiculator! We have to make sure it hits Magma’s weak spot in order achieve it’s maximum effectiveness! Take these!” Tech tossed a pair of oddly looking goggles to the roadrunner.

“I’ve-never-seen-these-before! Say-Tech! Is-this-a-new-invention-of-yours?” Rev commented, while placing the goggles over his eyes.

“It’s the Biointernal-Seeker-5000! It works along with your internal GPS to scan special abilities and weaknesses of anybody you use it on.”

“On-it-Tech!” Rev’s eyes glowed as the goggles scanned Magma from head-to-toe.

“What does it say Rev?”

“Aim-for-her-neck!”

“But of course!” Tech exclaimed as his eyes seized the metallic band around Magma’s neckline. “Everyone! We have to knock that titanium-steel collar off her neck!” Tech shouted as he prepped the departiculator.

Duck and Slam adjusted their aim and targeted Magma’s throat.

“Tech, you’ve got the magnetic powers! Do something!” Duck shouted.

“Titanium has a paramagnetic ordering! I’ll have to create a strong magnetic field in order to get that baby off, but in doing so, it’ll deactivate the departiculator!”

“Ready Lexi?” Ace nodded.

Lexi shook her head, “Not with this suit on. It’s throwing me slightly off balance.”

“It’s now or never. We know her weak point, all we have to do is expose it so dat we can finish her off! Duck and Slam have softened it up already!”

Lexi looked down briefly and fixed her gaze on Magma’s collar, “Let’s go.”

The two bunnies charged towards Magma and leapt into the air. Both bunnies shifted their body weight and turned to throw a roundhouse kick towards Magma’s collar. Ace flew past Magma’s side as the bionic suit threw him off balance. Lexi’s kick was perfectly headed towards Magma’s neck as it delivered the final blow needed to break the titanium band. A huge crack began to start down the middle of the collar. Lexi flipped back away from Magma, but lost footing as she landed. Ace used his laser shot to completely knock off the band.

Magma’s eyes widened at the sight of her damaged armor, “You’re going to pay dearly for that!”

With that, the fiery orange flames surrounding Magma began to glow blue as her powers charged up to create her most powerful blast ever.

Ace turned to see Lexi down on the ground and cried, “Lexi! Get up!”

Lexi propped herself up and realized her boots had started to melt to the ground.

“I can’t move!” She screamed as she saw the blue blaze heading her way.

“Rev! Activate the departiculator!” Tech ordered as he ran towards Lexi.

Magma shot the torrid sphere of molten blue lava at the female bunny as Rev simultaneously fired the departiculator at Magma.

Lexi curled up, burying her face in her hands as she thought this going to be the end. She let the tears flow as she waited for the flames to engulf her, however instead she heard a scream of extreme aguish as she looked up to see that Tech was struck by Magma’s shot.

“Tech!” She cried, and then heard another scream from Magma’s direction. The Loonatics watched as the departiculator hit Magma, transforming her molten liquid body to a gas that evaporated into the atmosphere.

“Pretty!” Slam smiled as he watched Magma’s vapors disappear.

“We showed her didn’t we,” Duck scoffed as he polished of his fist using his chest.

“Guys! Tech’s badly hurt!” Lexi called and she stripped off her bionic armor to reveal her usual battle uniform. The other Loonatics rushed to Tech’s side as Lexi knelt by the coyote, and began to peel off bits of the bionic armor that had fused with his fur and skin. Tech grimaced as he felt the layers shedding off and was surprised that the blast didn’t hurt as much as he thought it would. Perhaps was he becoming desensitized to the pain? Either way, it still hurt nonetheless.

“Tech-buddy! You-can-make-it-through! I-promise-I’ll-stop-sneaking-into-your-lab-and-playing-with-all-of-your-gadgets!” Rev pleaded as he watched his friend slowly regain consciousness.

Tech began to glow green as his blistered and blackened skin began to regenerate back to normal, followed by the growth of fur. “You better not have had your fingers crossed, ‘cause I’m holding you to that.” He weakly smiled.

“We need to get him back to HQ,” Ace instructed, as Slam hoisted Tech over his shoulder and they set off on their jet packs.

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Ace and Lexi sat at the meeting table going over what had happened during battle earlier.

“Ace, I told you we weren’t ready. The suits threw us off balance.”

“But it worked didn’t it?” Ace smiled.

“It did.” Lexi agreed, then stood up, “but I almost died out there! Tech could’ve died too!”

Ace’s smile quickly disappeared as he realized what would have happened if Tech didn’t have molecular regeneration capabilities. He too stood up and ran a hand through his hair, “You’re right. I’m sorry. I guess I wasn’t thinkin’ straight. I was just so exhausted from the battle-”

“Ace, we all were. It’s okay,” She hugged him, “but just don’t try to push too hard if you’re not sure that something is going to work and end up putting others at risk.”

He nodded, “How’s Tech doin’ anyways?”

“Last Rev checked, Tech was resting in his lab, but that was about an hour ago,” she replied, “I suppose I should to check up on him, just to make sure that he’s okay.”

Lexi turned around to head towards Tech’s lab, but was stopped when Ace grabbed her wrist.

“I’m sorry,” Ace apologized.

“I already said it was ok-”

“It’s not. You’re right.” He hugged Lexi tightly, “We coulda lost you. I coulda lost you.”

Lexi let out a deep breath and hugged Ace back, “It’s already over. Don’t worry about it anymore.”

She smiled at Ace and headed to Tech’s lab. Ace watched as Lexi turned the corner.

“I coulda lost you,” a voice mimicked.

Ace turned to see Duck sitting in the lounge area, he had no idea that Duck had been sitting there the while time.

“Relationship troubles?” Duck asked, rolling his eyes and pretending to gag.

“Eh, shaddup.”

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Lexi noticed the door to Tech’s lab was open and decided to slip in. There were all sorts of gadgets and gizmos that were spread all over the workbench, but no Tech. She continued to wander through the lab in search of the coyote.

“Tech?” She called, but no answer. Hmm. He’s probably in the med-lab then. She proceeded into one of the elevators and headed up the medical lab.

Tech stood in front of a long, full body mirror to inspect for any injuries he might have acquired during the fight earlier. He stripped down to his boxers, revealing a slim, but yet built physique.

I really need to work out more, he thought as he stared at his reflection. 

Tech began with an inspection of his front side, observing for any visible lesions and palpated for any abnormalities in his bone structure. So far, so good. He turned his back to the mirror, and did the same - this time more meticulously as it was a bit difficult to do an inspection of the posterior self. He began to write his findings in a medical journal as he liked to keep records of how much his powers of molecular regeneration could handle. Interesting… no noted abnormalities. Just then he heard the elevator tone ring as the pod reached the level of the med lab. Tech nearly fell back as he scrambled to grab his clothes off the bed.

“Hey Tech!”

The elevator doors opened.

Tech’s eyes widened as the elevators slid opened. Lexi stepped into the med-lab.

“I just came up to-”

Lexi was now bearing the same facial expression. She very briefly looked him up and down before cupping her hands over her face and turning around quickly.

 “Tech! I’m so sorry!”


MUAHAHAHA! To be continued! Questions? Comments? Bricks?