Just another normal day for the crew of the Righteous Indignation: blasting down toads, stopping evil plans and having a heck of a time doing it. Especially for the ship's gunman and former member of the Corsair Canards, Deadeye Duck. At the moment, however, all had been quiet and it was driving him up the wall.
"Come on, come on, where are them toads hiding?" He impatiently asked from his position at the ships' cannon. "I'm just itching to blast their scaly hides inta space dust!"
"There's no need to be so bloodthirsty, Deadeye." Jenny, first mate and pilot of the Indignation, said to him.
"Aw, come on, Jenny, lass," Deadeye said. "We both know that there's nothin' better than wipin' out whole legions of storm toads!"
"I'm not disagreeing with you, Deadeye, but we mustn't forget that the toads are under the mind control of KOMPLEX."
"What does that matter? The toads are wastes of space. Always have been, always will."
"But they never hurt anyone back then, Deadeye. If we forget that they are all victims, then we run the risk of fighting them just for the sake of it."
"You can be compassionate if ya want, Jenny girl. I'll just keep blasting."
"I suppose we'll just have to agree to disagree." Jenny sighed as she left him.
'Such a bleedin' heart, ya are, lass…" Deadeye thought to himself. 'Any reptile or amphibian would be more than willin' to steal your money and stab ya in the back. The sooner ya realize that, the better.'
A few minutes later, Willie came over.
"Deadeye, Bucky needs you to come up. He's heard about the latest toad plot."
"All right, lad, I'm comin'."
Deadeye got up and noticed a strange rectangular device with wires attached in Willie's pocket.
"Say, Willie, what's this here contraption?"
"Oh, it plays music. You can borrow it if you want."
Willie handed the device to Deadeye, who looked it over curiously for a few moments before putting it in his pocket and following Willie up to the main deck where everyone else was waiting.
"I've just received word from Genus," Bucky told them. "According to intel, a toad shuttle is carrying an experimental teleportation device capable of transporting objects to the other side of the Aniverse. We need to capture it."
"Do we know where the shuttle is, Bucky?" Jenny asked.
"It's on its way to the toad homeworld. If we move fast enough, we should be able to intercept it."
The Righteous Indignation moved through space in search of the toad shuttle until a sensor went off and alerted Jenny.
"There it is, Bucky. The toad shuttle, dead ahead." Jenny reported.
Sure enough, there was a large ugly toad-shaped ship cruising through space with half a dozen double bubbles guarding it.
"All right, here's the plan," Bucky said. "We'll pull the ship up underneath the shuttle and cut a hole for our entry. Then we'll push our way through until we find the teleporter. Once we've found it, we'll grab it and get out."
Slowly, the Righteous Indignation made its way under the shuttle from behind and hovered right underneath the shuttle's underbelly. Bucky and the crew exited with their space helmets on and floated up to the underbelly where they all fired at a section of the ship, weakening it. They did this for several minutes and then let Bruiser tear the heated metal open. Then they all entered the shuttle.
"All right," Bucky said. "We'll split up and search for the teleporter. Willie, Bruiser, you're with me, and Jenny, you're with Deadeye. Use your communicators to let the others know if you've found the teleporter, but don't hurt it! Who knows how badly the toads built it."
With that, the two teams split up and began the search. It wasn't long before Jenny and Deadeye ran into a group of storm toads and a shoot-out commenced.
"Come on, you stinking toadies! I'll personally wipe out each and every one of ya!" Deadeye yelled, his four guns shooting anything he could see. Jenny gave him a disapproving look.
Deadeye and Jenny came out the victors, the hall littered with gunned down toads. With a grin, Deadeye put away his guns and strolled through the corpses. He picked a still conscious storm toad up off the floor and held him close to his face.
"Where's the teleporter?" Deadeye growled.
"Through that door!" The toad whimpered, pointing straight ahead.
"Thanks."
With that, one of Deadeye's lower hands shot the toad in the gut and Deadeye tossed him away.
"Was that really necessary, Deadeye?" Jenny asked.
"You bet." He replied.
Deadeye went up to the door, opened it and jumped inside, much to the shock of the toad personnel working on the teleporter, a large crude machine hooked up to several large transport tubes.
"Name's Deadeye Duck, the best shot in the whole aniverse!" He declared. "And I won't rest till this war is over, even if it means turning every one of you toadies into space dust!"
With that, Deadeye opened fire on every toad in the room, worker and storm, until only one technician was left. The toad raised his arms in surrender.
"Don't hurt me! Please don't hurt me!" He pleaded.
Deadeye scoffed and raised his blasters. Jenny placed a hand on his arm.
"That's enough, Deadeye." She said. "You've more than filled your kill quota for today." She turned to the toad.
"Don't worry, we won't hurt you." Jenny told him. "Just move to the back and stay quiet."
Suddenly, Jenny heard footsteps approaching. She turned towards the door and saw Bucky, Willie and Bruiser running towards her.
"All clear, Bucky." She said.
Suddenly, Deadeye fired one of his guns at her. The blast flew past her head and hit the technician, who'd pulled a gun and had been about to shoot her.
"That's what ya get fer trustin' a toady, lass." Deadeye said.
"All right, he was an exception but the rest of these toads would've surrendered, Deadeye. You didn't need to slaughter them all!"
"The toads are the lowest form of slime there is, Jenny girl. They take everything that isn't theirs and force everyone else to bow down." Deadeye said dismissively. "They all deserve to get blasted."
"Similar things are said about pirates, Deadeye."
"Hey, don't you even make that comparison, lass! My crew never hurt anyone who didn't cross them!"
"No, they just robbed them. But they're so not toads, so that makes it perfectly fine."
"Watch it, lass…"
At that point, Bucky and the others made it to the teleporter lab.
"Good work, you two." Bucky praised. "Are either of you hurt?"
"Just fine." Deadeye growled, turning away from Jenny.
As he did, he noticed a fallen storm toad, grabbing his blaster and aiming at the unaware Jenny.
"Jenny, look out!" He yelled.
He fired one of his blasters at the toad, hitting him in the arm. The toad howled in pain as his aim was thrown off, the blast missing Jenny and hitting the teleporter, which began the spark and smoke.
"It's gonna blow!" Bruiser cried.
The crew ran out of the lab in time before the teleporter exploded, but the energy blast enveloped Jenny and Deadeye, who both vanished. When Bucky, Willie, and Bruiser looked back inside, everything in the room was gone: machines, toads, and Jenny and Deadeye.
"They're gone…" Willie whispered in shock.
"Oh, it's brother Bruce all over again!" Bruiser sobbed.
"They could be anywhere in the Aniverse…" Bucky murmured fearfully. "And who knows what'll happen to them."