Return to Hockey Dome

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"Alright guys I'm headed out. Be back around seven." Said Mallory, throwing on a black leather jacket.

"Alright Mallory. See you then." Wildwing was on Drake One with Tanya looking over plans of attack. Dragaunus was keeping low and Wildwing felt that something was going to happen and soon. His instincts were usually pretty good with this kind of thing too. Mallory nodded and walked over to the out door Anaheim mall. On her way out she ran into Duke and Nosedive. Duke looked kind of grumpy and Nosedive was snickering behind him.

"You okay L'Orange?" He just glared and walked past her. Mallory raised and eyebrow at Nosedive who stopped next to a slightly miffed Mallory. "What's his problem?" She asked.

"Oh don't worry about him. He's just pissed that he thought a group of girl fans were coming to see him and they instead went to me." Nosedive laughed, slapping his knee.

Mallory snickered. "Really? That's what has him so grumpy?"

"Yep. You know Duke sees himself as the ladies man. It's a blow to the ego when he gets out maneuvered by a younger duck." Mallory laughed outright at Nosedive's comment.

"Okay well I'm going to the mall. Want anything while I'm there?"

"Nah I've had my fill of that this week. I'm gonna hit the old comic books." Nosedive started making his way down into the pond leaving an amused Mallory behind. She walked over to the Mall and was looking around until she saw a familiar head of blond hair and big glasses. There was Buzz, walking around playing games.

"Hey Buzz."

Buzz looked up quickly, hearing his favorite Mighty Duck call to him. He smiled at her and ran over to give her a hug. "Mallory!"

"What'cha up to?"

"Working on a new super engine but I need a brake. I'm bored."

"Well that makes two of us. Want to go grab some food?"

"Yeah!"

"What's that device your working on?"

"Oh you like it? I made it to work on this super engine specifically. It allows me to experiment with parts and replacements to see what will happen."

"That really cool. Tanya would love that thing." She laughed, excited at seeing the new gear that Buzz had made.

"You think so?" They found a pizza place and grabbed some food, talking and laughing over their food and sharing stories about Buzz's inventions going wrong and Mallory's fights against Dragaunus. Once they finished Mallory paid and they left to walk around some more.

"Oh and check this out it has- what the?" Buzz was interrupted when the device glowed yellow and started floating from his hands.

"Uh is it supposed to do that?" Mallory looked at it as it hovered in the air.

"No!" Suddenly the device shoot off going around a building and into an alley way. "Hey come back!" Buzz chased after it.

"No! Buzz wait!" Mallory ran after him worried that this was a trap set by Dragaunus.

Turning the corner to chase after buzz she was hit in the chest with ropes. Falling onto her stomach she looked up to see none other then Weasel with a group of lion guards holding Buzz. "Hey! Your that red rat from hockey dome!" One of the guards snicked as he was lowering his gun which was smoking from firing the rope that currently held her captive. Mallory glared at them with hate.

"Well well. If it isn't the duck that attempted to kill Emperor Chargg." Weasel said throwing Buzz down to the ground, ignoring Mallory's comment.

"You freak!" Buzz got up to his feet to help Mallory but she stopped him.

"Run Buzz! Get help!" Buzz being a smart kid realized that this was a hopeless situation for him to deal with. He looked back at Mallory one last time. "Don't worry Mallory! I'll get the others!" He turned and ran from them.

"Give me a gun." Weasel held out his hand to one of the lion guards which handed it to him without question and took aim at Buzz's back. "Can't have him getting her friends now." Mallory seeing him aiming his weapon at Buzz took action. She got to her feet quickly and kick the gun out of Weasel's hand. Her arms were tied but her legs weren't, she would only be able to do so much. The lion guards attacked instantly, they knocked her feet out from under her and started punching and kicking Mallory while she was on the ground. Weasel cursed, seeing the kid get away.

"I suppose it doesn't matter. It's not like they can get to us in outer-space anyway." He turned back to his men punching and kicking Mallory while she was down, all of them were sure to avoid places that would show damage, like her face and arms. Weasel laughed as one guard got a particularly good kick in and broke two ribs. A sickening crack was heard and Mallory cried out in pain. "Alright I think she's had enough. Stand her up."

The lions pulled Mallory roughly to her feet and grabbed the back of her head by her hair, forcing her to look at Weasel. "Well now that that's over. Time to put you back in the games, only this time you won't be so lucky."

"Better watch yourself you ugly little rat." Mallory threatened, through gasps. The pain in her chest was difficult to talk past.

"Oh yeah? What are you going to do about it? Hum? You'll be lucky if you last a day. Take her to the holding bay." The lions dragged Mallory into a building which turn out was a cloaked ship. She cringed recognizing that it was the exact same ship as last time. As they dragged her through corridors Mallory took notes of her surroundings and what lead to where. Suddenly the ship started shaking and she felt the gravity of the ship's engines pushing off the ground to leaving Earth's atmosphere. "At least Buzz is safe. I don't know how the others are going to be able to help me now." Mallory was slowly dragged before another guard only this one was a saurian! "What do we have here. A duck."

The saurian was large, as big as Dragaunus expect he had black claws that came into deadly points. His red scaled skin was darker then Dragaunus's scaly hide. His face resembled more of a snake and he had black hair the was tied back behind his horns. He got in Mallory's face and ran sharp claws over her cheek and down her neck just barely putting any pressure on them. "I do love ducks. I like to hear them scream. Especially lovely females."

Mallory cringed away from him in disgust. "Hands off Orgg! This one is for the games."

They threw her none to gently into a cell and activated the glowing bars that electrocuted you if you touched them. Slowly getting to her feet and she looked around her cell. It was the same one that she had been in before. There was no way out of here unless they walked you out. She was in trouble. Looking at her com, she opened it to try and contact Wildwing. "Wildwing come in." Trying to be as quiet as possible. There was no response. "Wildwing come in." Still nothing. "Anybody please come in." No one answered. Mallory closed her com despondent. She hoped Buzz was able to make it to them safely.

Suddenly some pressure bandages was thrown at her feet. She looked up to see who did it and found the saurian standing in front of her cell. She raised an eyebrow at him, wondering why he would help her. She needed this to bandage up her ribs or else if left untreated could cause serious damage but why did he care? "Can't have you die too quickly. I still want to have fun with you." He laughed and walked away from the cage. Mallory sneered at him in disgust and picked up the bandages. Sitting down on the bench she removed some of her armor and tried to bandage herself to the best of her ability. Once she was done, she found that despite her injury, she did a pretty good job! Placing her armor back on her body she mentally prepared herself for the challenges ahead.

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A couple hours later found Mallory still in the holding cell. She could hear the crowds cheering. It was different this time. This time she could hear people screaming and the sounds of fighting. It wasn't like this before. Some of the lion guards were approaching with someone in between them. When they came around the corner she was stunned to see that it was in fact Kazor! The captain of the lion guard that had helped them escape the first time! "KAZOR!"

He looked sharply to her. "Mallory?" They walked Kazor into a holding cell opposite from Mallory and locked him in. "How did you get captured? Where is your team?"

"They caught me by surprise and my team is safe on Earth."

"So you are alone." He hummed to himself. "That is not good."

"Why? What's going on up there?"

"Things have changed. They still play the games but now they have added gladiator tournaments to their off season. It's one on one combat. Kill or be killed. Much worse then before."

"Crap." Mallory leaned against her cell wall. She was in more trouble then she originally thought. "What's up with the lizard?"

"He in the new captain of the guard. The one who took my place after I left and betrayed Chargg."

"Oh great. This just keeps getting better and better."

The saurian came back and walked up to Mallory cell. "Step forward duck." Mallory did as told. He lead her to the weapons wall. "Pick your weapons." Mallory studied them. She grabbed a gun, sword and a shield. Both the sword and shield looked like they were made by Spartans. Once her weapons were chosen the saurian nodded. "Follow me little duck."

He led her down a corridor that she knew would lead her to the ice rink. There it was... out before her, the ice rink, only this time it looked like a massacre had happened on it. There was blood everywhere. Some robots were using long T shaped sticks with rubber on the bottom of them to brush the blood aside and over into corners where they pooled into small pockets. She shuddered realizing that there was the possibility that her blood might be added to those pools.

Chargg sat up on his throne. The fat tube of guts held out his chubby arms to silence the crowds. "Fighters take your positions." Mallory was roughly pushed out onto the ice.

Her first opponent walked out. He was an odd hairy creature. He almost looked like a large purple monkey except for his elongated snort and very sharp teeth. He had four arms and stood ten feet tall. By comparison he looked like he would obliterate Mallory in one hit but Mallory was fast and agile. The crowd actually started booing the match up, thinking it unfair. Chargg silenced the crowd again by raising his hands, everyone grew quiet and waited to see what he would do. He smiled cruelly at Mallory, thinking he was sending her to her death, a punishment for firing on him when she was there before. "BEGIN!"

The large monkey like creature approached it pulled out swords for each hand. Mallory grabbed her gun and shield and prepared for battle. It charged her slashing a cutting at her but it was unable to land a hit. The crowd's boos continued until Mallory dove under the large clumsy creatures legs and rolled out from under it. Turning quickly she aimed her gun and shot it in the back three times. Silence was the only sound heard until the large creature stumbled forward and fell on it's face. Changing their minds quickly the crowd cheered loudly.

Lions came out onto the ice and surrounded Mallory, all aiming their electrical spears at her but she refused to drop her weapons. Chargg stood and glared down at her but then smiled and gave her a thumbs up. Weasel stood behind his chair a shocked expression on his face. "Why did you let her live?"

"Because they loved her Weasel. Besides... She will keep fighting until she eventually does die." He laughed, shaking his fat rolls. Weasel shifted uncomfortably behind him. He didn't like the duck being near Kazor in the holding cells. Perhaps putting her some where else was in order but that would take time and Orgg was in charge of all of that. Orgg would be hard to convince.

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Mallory was brought back to the holding cell where she clutched her burning side. The broken ribs were acting up. Putting a pressure bandage on them helped but she needed time to heal. She wasn't sure how she was going to do it but she had to survive this. Looking over at Kazor's cell she found him standing by his door watching her.

"What happened?"

"I had broken ribs coming in. Complements of Weasel and those guards." Mallory focused on her breathing.

"Guards!" Kazor suddenly called out surprising Mallory and making her look at him. What was he doing? "Every player in the games has a right to be treated by a physician after every fight, do they not? She is in need of one. Go and get them!"

The guard was surprisingly respectful to Kazor. "She is exempt from that for firing on the Emperor the first time she was here in hockey dome. I'm afraid these rules don't apply to her, sir."

Kazor looked back over to Mallory as the guard walked away. She smiled at him. "Thanks for trying." He nodded and sat down in his cell. "Why are you here Kazor? We're you captured?"

"I was. Leading the resistance on Alture 4. We had made a strike against them when I was cornered and captured with a few others."

Mallory didn't need to ask where they were, she knew they were dead. Otherwise they would be in the cell with him. "I'm sorry." She truly was, she couldn't imagine if something like that had happened to her team. At that moment, she was actually glad that they weren't there with her.

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