Akito and the Loonatics

chapter 80

They all then went to the tower and made Sam stay in a prison cell they had installed for any hostage bad guys they may pick up. Estelle was looking extremely pale herself and holding onto her stomach now too. Simon looked to his older cousins and looked thoughtful to them.

"Zadavia, I don't know what to say," Ace walked up to the alien woman. "I should've listened to you about Deuce."

"And I thought I was the only one who ever screwed up around here." Duck narrowed his eyes slightly.

"You guys are looking different..." Felicity looked down to Akito and Estelle. "Are you getting shorter?"

"No, why did you get so tall?" Estelle asked, her hair was slowly turning back to how it used to be, complete with her headband.

"What's what's happening to us, Zadavia?" Akito asked.

Zadavia looked extremely concerned for them and decided to check them out.

"I feel really different..." Estelle frowned.

"Me too." Akito added.

"Let me see..." Zadavia felt their foreheads. "You don't really feel warm... Plus you seem to be shrinking... Estelle, your hair looks like it did last year..."

"Maybe someone is interfering with their family!" Felicity tried to suggest.

Akito and Estelle looked to her.

Felicity let out a sigh before explaining to them. "When I was with my friend Gabrielle, Belle and Adam's daughter, I made a very bad wish that Simon would never be born... The Enchantress made a curse though... She brought us back to before we were born and my parents were not getting together in that time frame back when they first met and I was aging backwards until after I was an enfant..."

"What happened after you were a baby?" Estelle asked.

"I perished..." Felicity whispered sadly and warningly.

"Oh, dear...." Estelle said out of worry.

Felicity frowned and nodded.

"But who could be doing this?" Zadavia asked.

Akito tried to think with what brain power he had left, he had always been a brilliant boy, but was more street smart like his mother. "Deuce!" he called out. "He must be using the wormhole to stop Mom and Dad from meeting or something so that we're not born!"

"Oh, no! Wait, but then that means...." Estelle said before she gasped.

"The same thing will happen with Vincent and Jenny!" The twins called out of concern.

"Whoa!" Ace was shocked.

"So, what does that mean about us then?" Duck asked.

The others glanced to him.

"We have to find a way to stop him!" Zadavia urged them. "I knew something like this would happen!"

"Zadavia, I think it's time you told us everything that happened." Akito said.

"Very well..." Zadavia sighed. "I'm sorry for protesting you earlier, Ace, but Deuce is not what he seems to be."

"We found that out the hard way." Ace nodded, now going to listen to her.

Simon crawled over and held his arms up to the alien woman. Zadavia noticed this and picked him up in her arms and had them all be seated to find out all about Deuce and find a way to fix this mess before it would be too late.

"Okay, Zadavia, we're ready to listen." Estelle said.

"I should've told you all the entire story," Zadavia started. "Back on Freleng, Deuce was once one of my most powerful generals. He was determined to lead one of the greatest armies ever assembled, but tensions grew between us when I refused to place all the authority and attention on command. Deuce was only interested in glory for himself. When the uprising took place, he was disbanding, with nowhere to be found."