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Family Bonds

Tanya sighed as she leaned back in her chair. Her teammates were out on patrol but she was needed to do repairs to Drake One's operating system, not to mention that she had sprained her elbow days prior and needed to let it heal. She massaged her elbow silently, she had used it too much today, and she knew it as it seemed to be protesting painfully with every motion.

She looked up as she heard another enter the room. She had yet to tell her teammates of her injury as she saw it as insignificant and easily dealt with as they were in the off season. She instantly quit rubbing her elbow and started back to work, but it was too late her teammate had seen what she was doing.

"What happened to your elbow, darlin'?" the drake asked and Tanya groaned inwardly, of course it was Duke. Her luck was too bad for it to be anyone else other than her boyfriend.

"It's fine." Tanya replied doing her best to keep the bite out of her tone, but Duke heard it anyway.

"Tanya, you're hurt. You need to recover… let me help you." He offered. Tanya sighed, the way her elbow was hurting the offer sounded too tempting to refuse.

She gave a sigh, "It's just a sprain, but if you insist, I'm not going to refuse, just do what I tell you, okay?"

"No problem, darlin' you know more 'bout this than I do," Duke pointed out.

Tanya started to give Duke some instructions when an energy surge set off the alarms.

"What the…" Duke wondered nearly falling out of his chair at the sound.

"I don't know… it's some kinda dimensional gateway… but it's not from the other Anaheim, the… the computer isn't picking up any magic from the person that came through." Tanya sighed. "Come on, let's go, they're really close to us, we can call Wildwing on the way."

"Tanya, tell Wildwing about that elbow."

"I will later… let's just worry 'bout that gateway, okay?" Tanya said.

"You got it."

Tanya and Duke grabbed the duck cycles and started towards the location, Tanya was on the communicator as they rode.

"Any idea what we're dealing with this time, Tanya," Wildwing asked nervously.

"Not a clue… but we're pulling up to the location we'll find out soon."

The communication ended and the couple got off their bikes to investigate.

"Slow and easy darlin, we have no idea what this is." Duke warned taking the lead. He was concerned about Tanya, they had been dating several weeks now and with her elbow not up to snuff he knew her hand to hand skills would be greatly affected.

Tanya let him go forward, knowing with her elbow sprained it was best he take any hand to hand threats.

They got closer and Duke gasped.

"It's a kid, and he's hurt!" Duke called out.

Tanya came around Duke and saw the boy sprawled out on the concrete. She gasped and ran to his side putting her puck blaster away as she got to him.

"Duke; get the first aid kit!" she yelled but it was unnecessary the former thief was already a step ahead of her.

Tanya turned her attention to the child; he was unconscious and bore several noticeable injuries. She ran her hand over his left shoulder and noted that it was dislocated and a pang of sympathy ran through her. She knew how bad it hurt to have a joint forced back into place and only hoped she could do this while he was unconscious and spare him the majority of the pain of that action. She had done this before and knew exactly how to handle it and since the boy was unconscious the muscles around the joint were completely relaxed making putting the young boy's bone in its proper place a much easier task, one that was completed by the time Duke returned with the first aid kit. She then began to work on his other injuries and sighed, they weren't really as bad as they had looked at first glance and she was grateful for that.

Duke looked up as the Migrator pulled in.

"It's a kid, he looks t' be around twelve, thirteen at the oldest." Duke informed Wildwing.

"Does it look like he was attacked by whatever came out of that gateway?" Mallory asked trying to piece together what happened.

"Na… I think he was the one coming through the gateway." Duke replied as they all gathered around Tanya and the child.

"Tanya what happened to him?" Wildwing asked in concern.

"Dunno, his injuries… they don't seem too bad. So far worst that I've found is a dislocated shoulder… already put that in place." She sighed, "Poor kid." She whispered running her fingers through the unconscious child's hair.

"Let's get him back to the pond, the medi-com should tell us more about his condition." Wildwing said.

Tanya started to lift the boy when someone yelled at them.

"Leave my brother alone!"

The ducks turned to see a young man running towards them; he looked to be about seventeen years old.

"We didn't hurt him." Wildwing protested and Grin caught the teenager by the back of the shirt.

"We are trying to help your brother; we were not the ones that harmed him." Grin said.

The boy seemed to relax at that statement, it seemed he believed Grin.

"What is your name?" Wildwing asked as Grin set the teenager on his feet.

"My name is Jack." He replied

"I'm Wildwing; this is Grin, Duke, Nosedive, Mallory, Tanya and Talia." Each duck gave a nod or wave as their leader spoke their name.

"It's good to meet you." Jack stated still in a bit of shock.

"What is your brother's name?" Talia asked kneeling by her older sister.

"His name is Rafael, but we usually call him Raf." Jack replied.

Duke watched as Tanya started to lift the young boy and it instantly became obvious her elbow was not going to permit that action and before even he could do anything the team captain swooped in and took Rafael out of Tanya's arms and muttered something to the nature of 'We'll talk later' before walking towards the migrator.

"Where are you taking him?" Jack demanded.

"Relax, you're coming as well, we're going back to base so we can treat his injuries better." Duke explained trying his best to settle teenager down. He knew it was hard for the boy to trust them but if they were going to treat his brother they were going to need to get him to their base and their medical equipment.

They got into the migrator and were soon on their way back to the Arrowhead pond to tend to their latest young charge.

To Be Continued…