Akito and the Loonatics

chapter 29

The Loonatics went off and Simon still crawled around town and looked up to the floating circus tent spaceship.

"By the way, what is Simon doing here?" Akito asked.

"Simon!?" Felicity yelped, she did not know her baby brother was here. She went back down after him.

Simon looked emotionlessly to his older sister.

"Simon, going home right now!" Felicity scolded him. "Maman and Papa are probably worried ill over you right now!"

Simon pointed up and shook his head.

"Non Simon, I am one of the Fous, not you..." Felicity picked him up to take him away.

Simon kept pointing up to it, he knew something about the space circus that the others didn't know.

"Wait, he keeps pointing up." Estelle realized.

"What is it, Simon?" Felicity asked the boy.

Simon pointed up. Felicity was unsure about taking him with her, but he was her responsibility when their parents or Thomas weren't there, so she flew up with him.

Rev was very excited to be in the circus, obviously liking it a lot more than everyone else did.

Tech got the monkey chameleon out of its cage with a friendly smile. "You're free to go, little one."

The monkey chameleon didn't look happy to be back in the space circus.

"You heard him, Chimpzilla!" Duck tried to make the primate lizard go.

"Wait, I don't think it wants to go back." Akito said.

Duck eventually got the creature scared off. The monkey chameleon screeched and tried to get them away.

"I think she wants us to follow her." Ace assumed.

The monkey chameleon ran off with the Loonatics following it. Simon struggled in Felicity's hold as she went with Vincent, Akito, and Estelle.

"What is with him?" Vincent asked.

Felicity tried to calm him down. "I am not sure..."

"Something smells fishy here..." Ace commented, then saw a fish camel hybrid. "Oh, I guess it's just you."

The monkey chameleon stopped once they were in the room. Simon came out from Felicity's arms and tried to pull her, Akito, Estelle, and Vincent out of the room.

"Okay, something must be wrong with this place if Simon is wanting us to leave." Vincent said.

There came an eagle rhino hybrid who looked anything but friendly. Estelle decided to use her healing powers to earn the animal's trust, but it wasn't going to let her. The chameleon monkey rushed to a corner, feeling scared. The Loonatics then decided to fight the monsters as Simon still tried to get his sister and cousins out of here.

"This big guy doesn't seem like he's going to be as easy as the Fuzz-Z's." Akito said.

The Loonatics fought and one of the eagle hybrids flew through the wall, it knocking down very easily.

Ace took a look and saw high ware that caught his attention. Tech decided to take a closer look at it and found out that the animals were mutated from DNA with every other animal specimen as a horrifying experiment.

"Let me get this straight, these animals are human?" Lexi's eyes widened.

"What monster would do that?" Estelle sounded devastated and sad for the animals.

Simon tried to crawl in, but the alarms sounded off and the door sealed shut and locked the Loonatics inside the room.

"What's going on?" Akito asked.

"Watch out, it's a trap!" Ace cried.

Tubes came into the room and sucked the Loonatics in and they were unable to get out, even with their abilities.

"This substance somehow sub-stands our individual powers!" Tech cried, not expecting that.

"Oh, great..." Akito groaned.

"Brilliant observation," a sinister looking man in a jester like outfit smirked to them. "They don't call you 'Egghead' for nothing."

"That would be Dr. Egghead to you!" Estelle huffed in Tech's defense.

"Yeah! And let me guess, you are the guy that's in charge around here." Vincent said.

"Indeed." the man grinned darkly to them.

"And just who are you?" Ace then asked.

"They call me The Ringmaster." the man introduced himself smugly.

"Doesn't ring a bell." Ace shook his head.

Akito, Estelle, Vincent, and Felicity knew his name though, Cherry had told them several times that he would be one of the most dangerous enemies they would face on their duties as Loonatics and they were now a little more scared and worried now.

"Please sir, don't hurt us." Estelle said out of fear.

"Oh, I'm not going to hurt you," the Ringmaster folded his arms. "I'm a worldwide galaxy showman and you are all going to be my new opening act!" He then started to laugh evilly to them.

"W-What?" Estelle asked out of fear.

The ringmaster's minion named Otto came into the room and was going to help him with his evil plots.

"Say, Ringer, what's with the contraption?" Ace asked.

"I'm always trying to improve my big top," the Ringmaster smiled evilly. "So with this device built to accommodate your unique genetic make-up, it will manipulate your superpowers' DNA and transform you into monstrous hybrids under my control!"

"What?!" Estelle exclaimed.

"He's gonna turn us into monsters and use our mutations against us, sis..." Vincent whispered to his little sister.

"That is not a nice idea, sir!" Felicity cried.

"That's insane and ridiculous!" Slam even defended.

"Yeah, I'm with ya, guys." Lexi agreed.

"I'm not insane, I'm a master performer!" Ringmaster smirked. "Oh, and this is going to hurt... A lot..." he smiled evilly to Estelle. "Otto? Proceed!"

Otto nodded and set the levers to change the Loonatics.

"This isn't going to end well." Estelle said.

The Loonatics screamed once they were zapped and going to mutate. Their DNA was now scrambling and they were changing into their new animal hybrids against their own will.

'Please let this end soon!' Estelle thought to herself through the pain.

Tech used his weapon in an attempt for their escape. There came sloppy white goo and it poured over the machine, worrying Otto and Ringmaster instantly.

"Otto, what's happening!?" Ringmaster was not pleased.

"It's shutting off the machine!" Otto cried.