A Creep in the Deep
Far out on the Acmetropolis Ocean, the Loonatics were riding on Tech's new super-boat. Ace and Slam were at the tip of the boat, Tech was maintaining the controls with Rev and Sophie at his side.
Ace: This is one kicking boat, Tech.
Tech: With my superior knowledge of aqua dynamics, it was no challenge to build the ultimate watercraft. And with a top up, it'll make four hundred knots under water.
Rev: Why do they call it knots anyway? I can make real knots, a slip knot, a double knot, Windsor knot, a half inch knot, a double half knot, a forget me not...
Tech: Speaking of knots that was highly elucidating. Not!
Rev frowned and Sophie rolled her eyes.
Sophie: (stares at horizon, inhales deeply) I love the sea.
Tech set the lever upward, increasing the speed of the boat. Down the lower deck, Duck was sitting on the rail, wearing sunglasses, and enjoying the ride.
Duck: Wow! This is the life. Out at sea, perched on the rail of a ship, after all I am a waterfowl.
Unfortunately, Lexi was holding in the need to toss her lunch with her right index finger and middle finger.
Lexi: (groans) Foul is the word for it alright. I've never felt so sea sick in my life!
Duck: Ha, ha! Buck up, Lexi! You just gotta get your sea legs, like me!
Suddenly, three dolphins hit the propellers of the boat. The vibrations caused Duck to lose balance and fall into the water. Nobody knew what it was, but a strange orange blue energy beam appeared within the water, causing the boat to turn a different direction. Tech tried to take control before the boat could hit a cruise ship while Lexi was almost close to losing her lunch.
Tech: Engines full reverse!
Just in time. The boat was nearly close to crashing into a cruise ship.
Ace: What's going on? What turned the boat?
Lexi: (groans) Not to mention my stomach.
Sophie: Well, at least everyone's ok and no accidents happened.
Rev: Whew! That was close. I haven't been that scared since I went on the jet slalom at the Acmetropolis Waterpark. Of course, at the waterpark we weren't about to plow into a full sized ocean liner.
Tech: It appeared we're not their biggest concern.
He pointed towards the cruise ship, where a large whirlpool formed around the cruise ship, sucking it underwater.
Lexi: Since when do whirlpools form around ships?
Ace: Since now.
Tech: The centrifugal force of the whirlpool, it's pulling down the ship!
At that time, Duck teleported back on board and he too saw the cruise ship going tail first into the whirlpool.
Right after the cruise ship went down to the sea, the Loonatics rescued the survivors from their life pods. Then they went to pay Zadavia a visit in her underwater home using the boat in submarine mode, while disbelieving Duck's warning about a dolphin with huge fangs and shoulder pads or something. Once arriving at Zadavia's home, the Loonatics took a seat at a desk while Zadavia sat in a hover chair before them.
Zadavia: There have been several reports of mysterious attacks at sea. Observe.
On screen, it showed various building structures being sucked into whirlpools.
Zadavia: Disappearing oil rigs, light houses, ships, oceanography stations, and even small land masses. The size or weight of the structure doesn't seem to matter.
Ace: Zadavia, hang on! What's gotten into those whales? They're swimming in formation and causing the whirlpool. Zoom in! And those dolphins are on the scene every time.
Lexi: There was something weird about them. It sounded like that dolphin was talking.
Slam: Talking?
Sophie: Dolphins really talk?
Tech: Dolphins are highly intelligent creatures with quite sophisticated communication skills.
Ace: Hey Tech, Sophie, can you rig up some language translator so that we can talk to those dolphins?
Tech: Child's play! Zadavia, may I?
Zadavia: Of course, you two. Be my guest.
When the other Loonatics walked away to watch Tech and Sophie built new language translators, Duck was left back at the table, trying to figure out the sudden orange blue energy beam he created underwater before.
Back under water, Tech and Rev stayed in the sub while Ace, Duck, Lexi, Sophie, and Slam went in their own colored minisubs or sea pods.
Tech: Engage your dolphin communicators!
Ace: All set, Tech!
Tech: Ejecting Sea Pods!
Pushing a button, Ace and the group emerged from several openings in the sub and into the water. Duck and Sophie took their sea pods for a quick spin, since they're a duck and a wolf, they both love the water.
Duck: Whoo-hoo! Water sports, yeah! Is this great or what?
Sophie: Are you kidding? I'm a wolf, I love the water!
Duck: So...what are we doing again?
Sophie face palmed and Ace groaned. Rev detected an old battleship that had sunken in a war years ago, where several dolphins swam around but swam away when they saw the Loonatics. Ignoring Duck's warning that those dolphins aren't to be trusted, the group went their separate ways to try and find the dolphins and talk to them.
Lexi and Slam went in their own direction while Duck went with Ace. Sophie was left alone, but she wasn't afraid. She tried to follow one of the dolphins, but she quickly lost sight of him.
Sophie: Aw, man. I lost him. Maybe that dolphin is shy, which is unlikely for dolphins.
She had succeeded in locating the dolphin she had been following. But all of a sudden, the dolphin began to transform. It's bluish white color changed into a mutant dolphin with a red back, purple face, white underbelly, shoulder pads, sharp teeth, and menacing red eyes. He spoke to her in a nasty voice.
Adolpho: Aw, what's the matter, little pup? Lost your way?
Sophie: (stunned) What?!
The mutant dolphin slammed into her sea pod, breaking the glass and filled the sea pod with water. Sophie swam out, but Adolpho used his teeth to grab the tubes of her helmet and tossed it off her head. Without the helmet and her breathing mask, Sopohie couldn't breathe as Adolpho tried pinning her to a rock pillar to suffocate her. But Sophie fought back by giving Adolpho a shock claw.
Once Adolpho had been taken care of, Sophie swam for the sub that was close by, while frantically trying to escape several more mutant dolphins. She was losing her hold on her breath fast, but luckily the sub's claw reached out for her and pulled her inside. Once safe, Sophie staggered toward Tech, gasping for air as the coyote rushed to her side and helped her sit down.
Tech: Sophie! Are you alright? What happened out there?
Sophie: (gasping) Duck was right all along! Those dolphins are evil! They took my oxygen mask off and tried to drown me! We gotta warn Duck and the others before it's too late!
Tech and Rev tried to communicate Ace and the others, but the others were caught up in their own battle with the mutant dolphins. Slam was able to fight back by using his tornado power on the dolphins, but Lexi's brain blast backfired when she tried to defend herself. Duck's sea pod crashed when attacked by the mutant dolphins, but he took care of them easily when the use of his new power he called Aqua Dense. However, Duck became worried when he realized Ace wasn't around, for Ace was left face to face with one of the mutant dolphins.
About an half an hour later, Lexi and Slam returned, without Ace or Duck, but they told Tech and Rev and Rosie what had happened.
Rev: Have you tried modifying the harmonic manipulator or trying to triangulating the epidemic wave length, or how about up linking the bi-flexing on vector flat?
Tech: I still can't lock on to Duck or Ace's com units.
At that moment, Duck emerged from below deck, looking terrified.
Duck: Seal the hatches, call the marines, hoist the mizenmasts!
Tech: Duck! Where's Ace?
Duck: He's been fish-napped, I mean dolphin-napped! Ah, kidnapped by dolphins! See, those dolphins were coming at me and I slammed them with my new aqua dense power, it worked so great!
Lexi: Dense is right! You let Ace get captured!
Duck: Not my fault! We were attacked by those mad dolphins and got separated!
Sophie: Calm down, you two! What we need to do is rescue my brother now that he's a prisoner of savage mutant dolphins.
Tech: Now the question is what are they gonna do with him?
Ace was a prisoner in the old battleship and tied to a jellyfish, and met the leader of the mutant dolphins, Adolpho, the same dolphin who attempted to drown Sophie earlier. The boat drove around the ocean for a few moments trying without success on finding Ace.
Rev: I'm not picking anything up on sonar other than a bunch of really cool sea anemones, a bunch of swanky bottom feeders, but certainly not anything resembling a rabbit.
Tech: Quiet down Rev and take a look at this. Those whales are back and they're forming a whirlpool around that island. Correction. What island?
On the tiny screen, a small island mass, the one with a volcano where Weather Vane was blown up in, was being sucked down into a whirlpool and disappeared.
Just then, a large pool was forming right in the middle of the bay. An alarm went off somewhere in the city the second the whirlpool started. Other boats were being sucked into the whirlpool.
Tech: And now they're after Acmetropolis City! We've gotta get out of here before that whirlpool gets any bigger!
But as the whirlpool got bigger, the Loonatics' boat got pulled in. Rev held onto the glass windshield while Tech kept his grip onto the controls, Slam grabbed onto the boat's side, Duck grabbed onto Tech's seat, Sophie dug her nails into Rev's seat, and Lexi kept her grip on a handle near the controls.
Lexi: TOO LATE!
The Loonatics' boat was being pulled farther into the whirlpool. Tech tried to steer them out of the whirlpool, but with no success.
Tech: We need more power!
Duck: How about this! AQUA DENSE!
Duck jumped out of the boat and into the water. Using his new aqua dense power, Duck was able to push the boat out of the whirlpool and to a safe distance away from the whirlpool. When Duck teleported back onboard, Tech was halfway over his seat, Rev lay against the side, Lexi, Slam, and Sophie were on the floor.
Sophie: Nice, Duck.
Duck: Whew, that was close. Lexi, you and I better find Ace pronto, while you other guys try to stop those whales!
Lexi: (smiles) Ok, let's go, water boy!
As soon as Lexi and Duck left, the rest of the team had to figure out how to stop those whales.
Rev: I don't know but Duck did a tough job, but how are we gonna stop those whales when they're really, really huge, or really, really tiny, not to mention they got us way out numbered?
Tech: The only feasible mythology for neutralizing that vortex is to establish a countervailing projector at the perimeter.
Slam: Eh, what did he say?
Rev: We have to spin the other way.
Slam: Oh! I get it!
Sophie: They need to learn these kind of things,Tech.
Tech: Tell me about it.
So Rev and Slam sped out onto the water and began spinning the whirlpool in a different direction. However, a large whale smacked Rev with its tail and he flew through the air, and into the whale's mouth. Slam, seeing what happened to Rev, rushed over to help his friend. But the whale soon got the best of Slam and he too fell into the whale's mouth.
Sophie: Tech, I'm going out there to help Rev and Slam! Stay here and make sure Duck and Lexi come back with Ace!
She turned to leave, but the coyote abruptly grabbed her wrist and pulled her back to her seat.
Tech: No Sophie! You can't run on water or spin in a tornado! You'll be swallowed by that whale too! How are you gonna save them if you don't have an idea?
Sophie: But I-
Tech: And you were almost drowned by a savage dolphin! I'm not letting you go out there alone again!
Sophie: I can't leave them!
Tech: Don't you have faith in them.
Sophie tried to say something, but she just sighed in defeat.
Sophie: I suppose your right, Hun.
Tech: ( Kissed her ) It's OK. I know you're worried. Let's wait until Duck and Lexi come back with Ace.
They didn't have long to wait. Duck and Lexi returned with Ace, after freeing him from the jellyfish's tentacles.
Duck: We're back!
Sophie: Ace! ( Runs towards him, and hugs him ) Thank god!
Ace: ( Smiles ) Were you that worried about me? ( Sophie lets go of him, and slaps him upside the head ) OW!
Sophie: What do you think?! You're my brother!
Ace: ( Smiling while rubbing the spot where she hit him ) Right, sorry.
Tech: Good! We need all the help we can get.
Ace: Where's Rev and Slam?
Tech: (nervous chuckle) Whale food.
Duck: You heard the coyote, they need us! We're a team, remember?
He grabbed Lexi by the arm and dragged her back into the sea. Together, they combined their powers to stop the whirlpool and cause an explosion that made whales, big or small, fly high into the air, then back into the sea.
Adolpho had lost his signal to command the whales to form the whirlpool and got caught in a net by the Loonatics. Then Ace asked the whale that swallowed Rev and Slam to spit their friends out, which the whale did by shooting them out of his blowhole.
A little later, Adolpho was taken to prison and placed in a giant fishbowl with a fake underwater castle. Adolpho continued screaming his hatred on the Loonatics, who just mockingly ignored Adolpho, and they turned off their translators to reduce Adolpho to incoherent squawking, with a power suppressed helmet on his head. The Loonatics ignored Adolpho and walked away as he continued to squawk loudly at them.
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