The World is My Circus
The Loonatics all gathered around the meeting table to wait for Zadavia to wait for her to give them a mission, but she didn't appear in the hologram like she was supposed to. Tech was holding a gun-like invention and he held it up for everyone to see.
Lexi: Tech, is that a new toy?
Tech: My latest and perhaps greatest invention, the Gluco-Gel 9000. The plasma energy core fires an impenetrable gelatins substance, which provides a safe effective way to trap all enemies.
Duck: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where is Zadavia? Did somebody forget to pay the holo-com bill again?
Lexi: Patience is a virtue, Duck.
Duck: What are you, a fortune cookie?
Ace: It's not like her to stand us up. You sure we got the time right?
Sophie: I'm sure, but I have no idea on what's keeping her.
Lexi: Put a sock in it, guys! I'm hearing something I don't like!
Duck: Please, it's probably the sound of Slam's stomach gurgling.
He put his hand on Slam's tummy and gurgling noises were heard. But then, the alarm suddenly went off, startling both Duck and Slam.
Lexi: (smirks) Told you so!
From the wall appeared a strange monkey-cheetah-chameleon hybrid. Duck obviously panicked and tried to attack the monkey by throwing power eggs at her. But he missed and the monkey came towards Ace. Duck tried to grab it, but monkey hoped over his head and jumped into Ace's hands.
Lexi: I think it likes you, Ace.
Ace: Check out the collar. It's from the Space Circus.
Lexi: Wow! A Galactic Audity! Poor thing, it must've escaped and gotten lost.
Sophie: I've never seen a monkey with cheetah spots and chameleon camouflage before.
Duck: EW! Don't touch it! It's probably infested with intergalactic blood sucking fleas! I say we get rid of it, pronto!
The monkey frantically shook her head.
Ace: I think it's time we take a trip to the big top. Let's jet!
Rev: Maybe we'll get free passes to the Space Circus for doing a good deed for returning an intergalactic oddity to its home. It'll be so cool! I love the circus, there's so much good stuff to eat! Candy and popcorn and delicious taffy, it'll be totally sweet, sweet, sweet!
The monkey chirped in her cage.
Duck: Hey! Zip it, Lizard Lips! This is all your fault!
Sophie: Easy little guy. We got you home.
Tech used his powers to grab the cage, set it down gently, and open the door to let the monkey out.
Tech: You're free to go, little one.
But the monkey hesitated as like she didn't want to go.
Duck: You heard him, chimpzilla! Shoo! Scram! Buzz off!
The monkey ran out, but she stopped at the corner, and jumped up and down several times to get their attention.
Ace: I think she wants us to follow her.
Without asking questions about this, the Loonatics followed the monkey inside the building, down the hallway, and to an aquarium filled with strange hybrid creatures. A large door opened and weird rhino-eagle hybrids stormed in to capture the Loonatics. But the Loonatics managed to defeat the hybrids. And when Ace kicked the hybrid through a door, he discovered a strange laboratory.
Lexi: What? No clowns?
Ace: Nope, not even a dancing bear. Fascinating. Tech, check out the hardware. (Tech sits at computer to hack in) How's the hacking, Tech?
Tech: Genetic manipulation codes. Human mixed with every animal on the spectrum. It's an experimentation log, a most disturbing one.
Lexi: Let me get this straight, these freaks are human?
Suddenly, the alarm went off and the door shut.
Ace: Watch out! It's a trap!
Too late. The Loonatics were sucked into their own separate tube. Tech and Sophie tried using their abilities on the glass, but nothing happened.
Sophie: Tech, why can't we bust out of here?
Tech: These cylinders must've been designed to withstand our individual powers!
A blue man with a beard and dressed in weird fancy colored clothes entered the lab.
Ringmaster: Brilliant observation. They don't call you Egghead for nothing.
Tech: That's Dr. Egghead to you!
Ace: And what's your name, fancy pants?
Ringmaster: They call me the Ringmaster.
Sophie: Doesn't ring a bell. You might wanna hire a publicist.
Ringmaster: I am the greatest showman in the universe, and you, my friends, are about to become my new opening act!
At the machine was a small, short, and chubby white man wearing strange clothes like the Ringmaster. His name is Otto the Odd, the Ringmaster's assistant, and he was operating the controls of the genetic DNA scrambling machine, while the Loonatics remained prisoners inside the cylinders.
Ace: Hey Ringo, what's with the contraption?
Ringmaster: I'm always trying to improve my big top, so I had this device built to accommodate your unique genetic makeup. It will manipulate your super powered DNA and transform you into monstrous hybrids, under my control.
On the little screen showed which hybrid the Loonatics would be transformed into. For Ace there was a cheetah and a jackalope, for Lexi there was a lion and a lizard, for Duck there was a rabbit and a monkey, for Tech there was a crocodile and a rooster, for Rev there was a cow and a porcupine, for Slam there was an elephant and a skunk, and for Rosie there was a coyote and a fox.
Slam: Psycho!
Lexi: Ugh! I'm with you, Slam.
Ringmaster: I'm not clinically insane, I'm a master performer. By the way, this is going to hurt – a lot. Otto, proceed!
When Otto pulled down the lever, the floating round sphere in the center of the machine began to pulse. When the device pulsed, it sent powerful electrical shocks into the very tanks the Loonatics were in. The Loonatics screamed in pain and agony as their DNA was manipulated and their bodies began to change into hybrids. The Ringmaster chuckled cruelly as he watched the transformation proceed.
Ace: Tech, your Gluco-Gel thingy!
The egghead coyote prepped his gun and tried to aim it at the opening in the cylinder, despite feeling his body still changing, he was able to concentrate.
Tech: Here goes nothing!
He fired a couple of shots and the glue covered the bright green and blue glowing sphere ball. When covered with glue, the glowing ball began to spin out of control.
Ringmaster: Otto, what's happening?
Otto: He's gumming up the machine!
The ball exploded, and so did the rest of the machine. The doors flew open, the Ringmaster and Otto were blown out of the lab, along with the Loonatics, once the explosion broke the cylinders they were in.
Once the Loonatics recovered, they were shocked to find themselves transformed into hybrids. Ace was a cheetah with deer antlers, Lexi was a skunk with frog arms and legs, Duck was a gorilla with antelope legs, Tech was an alligator with a muscular zebra's body, Slam was a large lion with elephant feet, Rev had bat ears and a pig's nose and bat's wings and a rat's tail, and Rosie was a coyote with fox arms and legs.
Ringmaster: (coughs) You wrecked my sonic DNA scrambler, swallowed my main attraction, and I'm not sure but I think I chipped a tooth. For that, you will pay dearly!
Ace tried to use his laser vision on the Ringmaster and Otto, but instead he had Duck's power orbs. Slam tried to use his tornado power, but he had Lexi's brain blast.
Ringmaster: It's time for you to get in the center ring NOW!
He raised his scepter and it glowed, opening the cage doors of various animal hybrids like crocodile-goats, rhino-eagles, and alligator-lions. Ace tossed a flaming egg on an alligator-lion, but it had no effect.
Ace: Uh oh. I hope you like your eggs Sunnyside up. (gator-lion growls) Guess not.
When the alligator-lion came close, Ace teleported himself onto the head of a rhino-eagle, then on top of the Ringmaster, and then in Duck's arms.
Ace: This is totally ridiculous!
Duck: Excuse me! My powers are not ridiculous!
Lexi was running from a buffalo hybrid, Rev was running from a bunch of cans magnetically chasing him since he had Tech's powers, and from an alligator-lion. Slam tried to fight an octopus hybrid, then tried brain blasting it, but he accidently struck Tech by the tail. Then the octopus hybrid struck Slam down. Lexi got caught up in her own tornado while trying to fight off a buffalo hybrid. She hit Tech, and Tech hit the wall and landed on Duck, who accidently fired Ace's laser vision on Rev, disintegrating him into a pile of soot.
Duck: REV! Rev, pal, buddy! Speak to me! H-He's gone! And it's all my fault...I'm sorry for calling you a disgrace to the bird community. I'm sorry for stealing cookies from your secret stash.
But, since Rev had Tech's powers, he can regenerate himself, and he heard everything Duck said to him.
Rev: (angrily) So, you're the one. I did suspect it to be you, but how could I accuse you without any proof. Man, it's been BUGING ME FOR MONTHS! I don't know why I'm surprised, really. Duck, you are ONE TEAMMATE WHO WOULD STOOP SO LOW!
Duck: (annoyed) I liked you better when you were smoldering husk.
When a crocodile-goat tried to eat Sophie, she ran so fast to get away that she bumped into Rev and Duck.
Sophie: Boys, this is not the time to talk about cookies! We gotta stop those things before – LOOK OUT!
When a rhino-eagle head-butted Duck to the wall, he used Ace's laser vision to blast the hybrid, but he couldn't blasting it wherever he faced. The Loonatics dodged Duck's laser beams.
Ace: Duck, close your eyes!
Duck shut his eyes and the laser beams stopped.
Lexi: We can't keep this up, and this Pepe Le Pew look definitely is not me.
Sophie: Speak for yourself. I happen to like this.
Tech: But you do look pretty, as a coyote.
Sophie: Are you saying I was ugly as a wolf? (glances at Tech's body, her eyes turned into hearts, and she started to drool) You look like a hunk!
Tech: ( Thinking ) Better start working out more.
Ace: I never thought I'd say this but, all tail!
The Loonatics jumped into a hole in the ground to escape into the sewers. Luckily the hybrid monsters didn't follow them.
In the sewers...
Ace: What's going on here, Tech?
Tech: My Gluco-Gel 9000 destroyed the DNA scrambler.
Ace: But not fast enough. I mean, look at us!
Tech: It also mixed up our genetic codes which explains...why we switched powers.
The monkey-hybrid from before crawled down from the wall. Duck was not pleased to see her.
Duck: Hey, monkey face! This is all your fault!
He tried hitting it, but he was so tall he couldn't reach her. The monkey stuck her tongue out at Duck.
Lexi: Well, look on the bright side. It can't get any worse than this.
But Lexi was wrong. There was a strange growling noise from the water and the water rippled. The Loonatics turned to see what it was, just as the creature reared its head back, revealing it to be a gorilla-snake hybrid. The monster wrapped its long tail around the Loonatics and lifted them high up.
Ace: You had to say it, didn't you?
The Loonatics looked up in horror as the gorilla-snake monster was about to devour them.
The Loonatics were about to become lunch to the giant snarling gorilla-snake as they struggled to free themselves.
Duck: Ace, what's the plan?
Ace: Who's got Slam's power?
Lexi: Ooh! Hey! That would be me!
Using Slam's super tornado, Lexi took out the gorilla-snake by spinning him round and round until it fell into the water, freeing the Loonatics.
Lexi: I am so grossed out! That gorilla-snake licked me! Blech! I'm gonna need a hot bath quick!
Slam: (helps Lexi up) I like slime!
Tech: We need a plan and fast. I can't live like this.
Ace: All right. The way I see it, we gotta somehow rebuild the Ringmaster's sonic DNA scrambler and reverse the transformation. You up to it?
The zebra-gator took out a small computer while activating four halo screens.
Tech: Normally it would take me at least two days to reconstruct a machine of that magnitude. But with Sophie's assistance and super speed, I'd need say...oh, five minutes?
Ace: Ok then, make it four and a half.
After getting out of the sewers, the Loonatics tiptoed behind the wall and pass the rhino-eagle guards.
Rev: Ace, those hybrid creatures have amazing hearing. We don't wanna get their attention.
But the hybrid monsters did hear them as they turned their heads and growled at the intruders.
Rev: Uh oh!
Ace: Tech, Sophie, go! We'll cover for you!
Tech grabbed Sophie's arm as she ran super-fast past the security guards and inside the building, while the others kept the guards busy. When they got to the laboratory, they found the Ringmaster rebuilding the damage of the DNA scrambling machine.
Tech: Give it up!
Sophie: We got you trapped!
Ringmaster: YOU!
The Ringmaster used his electric whip to try and Sophie, but she was too fast for him.
Sophie: Whoop! Too slow! Missed me! Try again! Ha, ha!
Once the Ringmaster was distracted by Sophie, Tech used Sophie's thunder claw to slash the whip and zap the Ringmaster to the wall.
Tech: THAT'S for calling me egghead.
Sopohie: Good shock, Tech! Now let's build our own DNA scrambler!
In a matter of four seconds, Sophie and Tech built a new DNA scrambler resembling a power glove.
Sophie: (happily) We did it! We got our own DNA scrambler!
The wolf hybrid gave the coyote hybrid a quick kiss on the cheek, much to Tech's pleasure
Tech: Reconstructed at four minutes flat. The genetic DNA scrambler ready to descramble!
Moments later, Tech used the DNA scrambler glove to descramble the monster hybrids, all revealing to be children whom had disappeared after visiting the circus. Then, Tech used the glove to transform himself and the rest of his team back to their original selves, along with getting their original powers back. As for the monkey hybrid, the radiation of the DNA scrambler glove transformed her into none other than Zadavia.
Zadavia: I'm back. Hello Duck.
Duck: (gasps in shock) You mean, all along, that monkey thing was...uh...heh, heh. You never looked better.
Zadavia: We need to talk.
Sophie: ( snickering ) You are in trouble.
Duck: (sees Ringmaster) Sorry, love to chat, but got to stop Ringmaster!
The Ringmaster tried to make a run for it, but Ace used his laser vision to destroy the controls that would open the door, only to make it close shut, trapping the Ringmaster, who now looked afraid.
Ace: And that's a wrap, circus boy.
Lexi: The show is over!
But then, Otto the Odd entered the scene, grinning malevolently.
Otto: No. Actually, the show must go on. For we have one last surprise. Feast your eyes on our main attraction!
He took out a remote control DNA scrambler and transformed the Ringmaster into a giant, fearsome Baelrog face, big fist, crab clawed, and tentacle monster hybrid.
Otto: The Ringmaster is only the face of the circus. I'm the real brains under the big top! HE works for ME!
Ace: ATTACK!
Ace blasted his laser vision on the monster while Tech tried to descramble the monster, but it knocked the DNA scrambler glove out of his hand and onto the floor. Tech went to get it, but the monster crushed it, much to Tech's dismay.
Tech: (anguish) NO! How could I let this happen!
While Otto was at the controls, Duck teleported from one side to another to distract the monster, but the monster smashed Duck hard on the floor. Slam grabbed the monster's crab claw and ripped it off, but another claw grew on the monster's arm. So Slam tossed the clawed arm onto the monster, and it bounced off the monster, right onto Otto, destroying his own DNA scrambling remote in the process.
Slam: Whoop!
Otto: CURSES! What have you done!
The monster shot fire from his mouth, but Lexi and Sophie jumped out of the way.
Lexi: Ok, now I'm getting annoyed.
Sophie: How we can we stop that thing without our DNA scrambler?
Tech: Sound waves trigger the DNA transformations. We need to create a sonic boom.
Ace: Sonic boom, huh? Yo Slam, twist and shout!
Slam immediately spun around and around the monster hybrid, making his tornado as big as the monster. Rev joined in and ran super-fast around the monster with Slam. Then, Ace, Lexi, Duck, Tech, and Sophie used their powers to blast the monster. But the sonic vibrations of the sonic boom began to knock the Space Circus out of the sky, as it also transformed the monster back onto the Ringmaster.
Duck: Uh oh! The Space Circus just ran out of space!
The flaming Space Circus crashed into the water near Acmetropolis. The Loonatics were tossed to one side during the crash. Thankfully, no one was hurt, but the Ringmaster and Otto were making a run for it.
Lexi: Guys! Shorty's on the run!
But Tech took out his Gluco-Gel gun and fired at the escaping felons, entrapping them in cubes of gel, while Otto gave the Ringmaster an angry look.
Lexi: That was a lucky shot, Tech.
Sophie: Way to go, Techie!
Tech: True genius is never appreciated.
The green coyote said it while stylishly sheathing his gun in his holder and put his arms across his chest. Then the Acme Rescue Units showed up to take the children home to their families.
At HQ, Zadavia congratulated the Loonatics for capturing the Ringmaster and Otto the Odd
Zadavia: The Ringmaster and Otto are both in custody, and all of the human children that were turned into Galactic Oddities have been reunited with their families. Once again Acmetropolis is in your debt. Excellent work as always.
Duck was hiding his face under a magazine in fear. Ace decided to put the glory-seeker on the spot.
Ace: Uh, anything you want to add, boss?
Zadavia: Not at the moment, Ace.
Ace: Hmm. Anyone you may want to have a few words with?
Zadavia: I don't believe so. Zadavia out.
Her hologram disappeared. Duck peeked out from his magazine shield. Some of the members left their seats and left the room.
Duck: Is she gone?
Ace: Yeah Duck, she's gone. You can relax now.
Duck: I'd get busted for ragging on her while she was that disgusting monkey thing.
Sophie: Uh Duck...
Duck: I guess this finally proves that Zadavia really likes me best.
Sophie: Duck...
It was as if the wolf girl knew Zadavia would call back to speak with Duck, because her hologram appeared.
Zadavia: Oh, I did forget one thing. Duck, we need to talk, alone. NOW.
Slam/Sophie: (laughs) Busted!
Duck only glared at them before Slam left. Before Ace dragged her away, Sophie called out to Zadavia.
Sophie: Zadavia! ( Zadavia turns to her ) I don't know if you heard, but Duck did something really messed up.
Zadavia: ( confused ) Oh? What did he do?
Duck: ( Panicking ) Nonononononnono.
Sophie: ( Smirking ) Duck, saw me in my bra and underwear, and he didn't even say sorry.
Ace: ( Trying to hide a grin ) OK! Sophie, let's go see Tech.
They left the room and Poor Duck was left alone to fend for himself to Zadavia, who was glaring at Duck, with boiling rage.
Zadavia: ( Furious ) YOU DID WHAT?! DANGER DUCK?!
Duck: (meekly) Help.
In the hallway...
Ace: ( Grinning ) You are messed up, Sophie.
Sophie: ( Smirking ) I know. Tech told me.
The siblings laughed as they walked down the hall.
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