"Luna! The other Thundercats are finally coming!" yelled Alluro.

"It’s about time! Its almost mid night!"

It was night when the Tick, Tygra, Wilykit and Wilykat finally made it home tying up Grune had slowed them down a little bit. They saw a most startling sight. The sight of the Lunattacker parked right outside the Cat’s Lair, the drawbridge half way in, and the some noticeable cracks.

"Friend of yours?" Tick asked.

"Lunatacs!" yelled Wilykat. "They attacked while we were gone!"

"Now they’ve got everyone inside! We’ve got to save them!" yelled Wilykit.

"Wait!" Tygra held both kittens back. "Going in gung ho is probably just what they want us to do. Why else would they still be here?"

"What are Lunatacs?" asked Tick.

"Bad people just like the mutants and Grune. Maybe worse. They’ve got powers. They can freeze stuff, control gravity and minds and other things."

"Keen."

The Tick, Tygra, Wilykit, and Wilykat entered the lair via the air conditioning shaft. Tygra lead the way, followed by the Thunderkittens with Tick in the very back. Tick found crawling through the shaft was most difficult.

They spent about an hour or two crawling around, trying to find out if the Lunatacs were all in one room or divided throughout the lair. The foursome eventually found that almost all the Lunatacs were gathered in the control room. Only Chilla was missing.

"Is it me, or did they abandon that tank?" asked Luna.

"I knew we should’ve hidden our Lunattacker."

"If I know the Thundercats, they’ll try to sneak in and take us by surprise," said Alluro flatly.

"Well, there’s going to be a little surprise in here for them!"

"You never could resist an old cliché, could you Luna?"

Then Chilla came into the room, looking very agitated. "Finally back! How do you like your new room, Chilla?" asked Luna.

"Remind me to thaw out that fur ball butler of theirs!"

"What for?"

"That Thundercat ho Cheetara’s bed is disgusting! The sheets are covered with chocolate fudge stains!"

"So Cheetara was the one who ate the fudge!" exclaimed Wilykit.

"SHHH! You want them to hear?"

"Chocolate?" asked an anxious Amok. "Chocolate? Where? Where?"

"Later, Amok," said Luna, temporarily pacifying her beast of burden. "Later. What’s the big deal about chocolate fudge?"

"I will not sleep in a bed covered with fudge! It’s unsanitary!"

"I always figured Cheetara was a binge eater," said Alluro.

"And to make things even more unsanitary, there are even more stains on the sheets!"

"More stains?" Luna was puzzled until a certain nod from Chilla tipped her off as to exactly what she meant. "Oh… And Lion-O protests that she wasn’t a ho," Luna sighed flatly.

"That’s no way to talk about a lady!" Tygra felt compelled to satisfy his sense of moral outrage. He smashed the vent open and jumped down cracking his whip, the Thunderkittens followed, Tick temporarily held up.

"Can’t… follow! Ventilation shaft! Too… narrow!" Tick struggled not only to break free, but to break free without drawing too much attention to himself.

"It’s the Thunderbrats and the gay architect! It’s about time!"

"I am not gay!" Tygra defied for the umpteenth time. "Why does everyone think I’m gay?!"

"You hang out with Panthro in the Thunder Tank so much?" asked Wilykat.

"That’s not even remotely gay!"

"Enough of this nonsense! Get them!"

Tug-Mug shot out his gravity beam at them, making them light as feathers and making them float, while Alluro threw out his psych club ball.

"Give up Thundercats! You cannot win against the power of Alluro!"

"No!" yelled a defiant Tygra. "Must… fight!"

"Fight? Why bother? You have no power to fight me, Thundercat!"

"No! I have… power!"

"No! You have no power!"

"You’re wrong!"

"Am I wrong, Thundercat? We’ll see who’s wrong!" In a matter of seconds, Tygra, Wilykit, and Wilykat lost their will.

"We have no power."

"Who is your master?"

"You are, Alluro."

Tick couldn’t believe what he was hearing. This wasn’t the first time he had seen mind control, but he still didn’t like it. With a few mighty twitches of his muscles, Tick broke the shaft open and fell down into the control room before the stunned Lunatacs. Standing up, brushing himself off, the Tick pointed his finger at them.

"Villains, I say to you, knock off all this/that evil!"

"And who are you?"

"I am the Tick! Champion of justice! Protector of the innocent! Defender of underdogs!"

"You don’t look like a tick."

Tick ignored that. "Set them and their friends free, or I’ll clock you all one!"

"Brave words, but clocking us is easier said than done! Get him!"

As Tick rushed forward, Tug-Mug shot out his green beam and increased the Tick’s gravitational pull. Tick suddenly felt himself being pulled down. "Feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders, mighty Tick?" Tug-Mug laughed.

"Like… shit… you… pancake!" Despite the extra gravitational pull, the Tick continued to press forward.

"Is it me or is he still coming?" asked Alluro.

"NO! It’s not possible!" To Tug-Mug’s horrorific discovery, the Tick was indeed still advancing.

"I’ll cool him off!" Chilla shot out an arctic blast, covering Tick in ice, but it still didn’t stop him. "Okay, now I’m a little worried."

"Alluro!"

"Already on it," Alluro brought down his psych club ball in front of a half frozen Tick. "Listen to me, Tick. You have no power. You cannot win. Give up, and we will let you live!"

"Never!" yelled Tick defiantly. "I’ve never given into evil before, and I’m sure as Hell not gonna start now!" Slowly, Tick made it over to Tug-Mug, who was frozen in horror, ripped off his gravity cannon, picked him up, and threw at Red Eye, knocking the two back into a wall and releasing Tick from the extra gravity and dropping Wilykit, Wilykat, and Tygra. Tick then rushed Alluro and kicked him in the face, causing him to drop his psych club and the mind control balls fell.

Tug-Mug managed to get himself out of the wreckage of the wall and rushed at Tick, looking mad as Hell. Tug-Mug bounced up and down so he could pound Tick in the face with his right fist a couple of times, but Tick eventually grabbed hold of his mo-hawk, punched him back, and then threw him through another wall. Tick ran over to Alluro, grabbed the psych club and when Tug-Mug came back at him, Tick him across the face, sending him out knocked him out through the big monitor. "Batter up!" Tick yelled as he promptly broke the psych club over his knee.

When Tick turned around, he came face to face with Alluro, who was not happy that Tick had broken his psych club. Alluro kicked Tick in his gut, and gave him a left and a right hook in the mouth. Rebounding from the right hook, Tick grabbed Alluro’s wrist, and gave him a few swift kicks in the stomach, causing Alluro to vomit. Tick grabbed Alluro by the neck and tossed him through the hole that Red Eye was charging out of. Tick and Alluro were about the same height, but Red Eye was more massive while Tick was more slender.

Red Eye started ramming his fists into Tick’s stomach like a bull, but Tick hit him back, striking him down. As Red Eye stood back up and avoided one of Tick’s kicks, he himself kicked Tick right in the store. Tick was briefly stunned, giving Red Eye an opportunity to try and headlock him, but Tick grabbed the wrist just in time and threw him over his shoulder.

"Get him Red Eye!" cheered Luna.

"Dirty fighter! Dirty fighter!" Amok yelled.

Red Eye performed an almost impossible martial arts move for someone as large as he, doing a spinning jump kick in the face that spun Tick around and back with a back fist that knocked Red Eye into a control consol. Red Eye took out one of his discs and desperately smacked it right in Tick’s face, not throwing it as was his trademark. Tick gave Red Eye a right hook that sent him stumbling back.

Tick shadowboxed with Red Eye for a moment, as he had done with Grune. Red Eye gave Tick a left and a right hook, and Tick threw both fists forward, giving Red Eye a double whammy. Red Eye and Tick went at each other’s throats and held each other still for what seemed like an eternity. After that eternity, Tick broke the grip and hit Red Eye straight up. While Red Eye was paralyzed by the move, Tick picked him up and threw him through a wall. When Red Eye tried to get back up, Tick grabbed him again and threw him through another wall.

When Tick was sure that Red Eye was down for the count, he reentered the control room to see to the remaining Lunatacs.

"Get him Amok!" screeched Luna. "Charge! WHOA!" Luna clung to her saddle for dear life as Amok charged forward.

As soon as Amok was within an inch of him, Tick faked a left and gave him a right, followed up by a real left. Tick then gave Amok a quick kick to the chin followed by picking up a piece of junk and bashing him with it. Luna fell off in all the storm of garbage.

When the storm of garbage subsided, Amok hit Tick in the stomach and hit him across the face. While Tick steadied himself against the wall, he remembered his suit had built in pockets, reached in, and pulled out a Nestlé’s CRUNCH bar. Tick unwrapped the centuries old candy bar, turned around and jammed in Amok’s mouth. While Amok realized it was candy and started eating it, Tick stalked around and picked Luna up off the ground.

"Put me down you blue hulk!" Luna screeched.

Tick felt like he had forgotten something. Then he remembered. Chilla. That’s when he noticed that Chilla was still standing and blowing her ice breath at him. Tick held Luna out in front of him and Luna got frozen instead.

"Chilla you stupid-" was the last thing Luna said before she became an icicle.

"I’ve always wanted to do that," Chilla grinned. "Now its your turn!" That’s when Chilla got whacked on the back with a bag filled with a substance most deadly to her. "ARGH! Rock salt! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Thanks Tygra!"

"My pleasure, Tick." No one calls Cheetara a ho!