Hi everyone! A guest requested that I do a Canard/Mallory story in a review, so here it is. :)
Also I just want everyone to know I plan to finish all of my stories ( The Runaways, Return to Hockey Dome, Old Friend, Blast to the Past, and The Job. ) Some of these have been sitting unfinished for a long time but they will be completed! Thanks for reading. :D
Left Behind
Chapter 1:
The Aerowing shook and rocked angrily back and forth as it fought the strange air currents in dimensional limbo. Pursing Dragaunus through limbo again they found that the deeper they went the more landscape it had.
The landscape was surrounded by dark grey jagged rocks and a purple sky. Some strange creatures were on the ground staring up at them as they flew by. A few BRAWNS looked up at them but didn't attack, however they did attack Dragaunus's ship. Making it more difficult for him to get away.
Their fight had taken them all over limbo's landscape and air. In their pursuit of Dragaunus, they came too close to some mountainous terrain. A large beast from limbo with long claws and sharp teeth jumped onto the Aerowing. Holding on to the back.
Tanya and Nosedive yelled out in surprise when the Aerowing's back end was pulled down. "We caught some added weight! We're losing Dragaunus!"
"Whatever that is we need to get rid of it!" Nosedive yelled back to the others. Mallory and Duke ran to the back of the plane to figure it out. Opening the tail they looked around not seeing anything until a giant clawed hand suddenly came from the outside of the Aerowing and grabbed the inside hoisting with it a large blue beast. It was ugly and vicious looking. It's flat face was squished up except for it's lower jaw which had small but sharp teeth sticking out. It's black beady eyes looked at the two ducks in front of it and it licked a large black tongue over it's mouth.
Duke grabbed his saber and stood ready to fight while Mallory aimed her puck-canon at the creature. It hissed and whipped it's extremely long tongue out at the two ducks. They jumped back and instead it caught at chair. Ripping it out of the floor it pulled it back to this mouth and opened wide. Mallory and Duke thought that it would take at hard hit to the face and end up knocking itself out of the plane but instead this thing had an upper jaw that shoot forward like a shark and teeth extended out clamping down on the metal chair and breaking it in half.
It hiss and tossed the chair out the back. Mallory fired on the beast trying to keep it at bay, it seemed to work for a time too. Duke pulled out his gun not wanting to go near it and get caught by that tongue, he fired on it from a distance. Wildwing joined them shooting his pucks at the creature and pushing it back. It's back foot slipped and the rear of it's large body fell over the side, it's front claws catching on the ground of the plane's rear. In desperation it whipped it's tongue out to grab something to hold onto, the ducks saw it too late and the tongue wrapped around Mallory's legs. It's claws gave way and Mallory was dragged out the back just able to grab onto the hydraulics that lowered the plane's rear platform.
"MALLORY!" Wildwing yelled running back to help Mallory with Duke following him.
"GUYS! WE'RE LOSING DRAGAUNUS AND WE'RE GONNA BE LEFT BEHIND IN LIMBO! LOSE THAT WEIGHT NOW!" Tanya yelled from the front, not seeing what was going on in the back.
Duke tried to shoot the creature's tongue but the pucks just bounced off the rubbery muscle extending form the creature's mouth, wrapped tightly around Mallory's legs. Wildwing grabbed her hand wanting to pull her up but she was too heavy to pull with the creature on her. He watched her face in horror as he realized that this was the same as Canard. "Mallory! Hold on!"
"WE'RE LOSING HIM!" Nosedive yelled from the front. Grin wrapped his arm around Wildwing's midsection, trying to hold him in the plane.
"TANYA SOMETHING HAS GOT MALLORY!" Duke yelled back to the front.
Nosedive and Tanya looked back to see Mallory hanging out the back of the plane with a giant creature holding on to her. Tanya gasped and Nosedive yelled at them to get it off of her.
Duke was still shooting at the creature, trying to get it to let go of Mallory, even shot it in the eye but it still wouldn't let go. Mallory looked up at Wildwing sadly. "I'm sorry." She said to him as he started frantically shaking his head no.
"Don't do it!" But it was too late. Mallory let go of the plane, she could hear of the other ducks voices getting smaller and screaming for her as the plane became smaller and smaller. The air rushed around her signaling her drop as she watched the plane fly away and follow Dragaunus's ship out of dimensional limbo.
She didn't even bother looking at the approaching ground. She was dead no matter what she did. Better that it was a quick death then a slow one. The creature below her screeched as the ground approached, signaling their end was near.
Mallory watched the Aerowing disappear though the gateway as it closed behind them. "They made it." The creature's screeches became louder and she closed her eyes waiting for the killing impact. She could hear it hit the ground below her, it's horrible screeching suddenly stopping. She hit seconds after but instead of hitting solid ground she bounced painfully off of the fat creature's stomach and landed rough, rocky ground face first. "UGH!"
Taking a moment Mallory realized that she wasn't dead, but it certainly felt like she should be. Ouch. Looking over she saw that the ugly beast had taken the impact of the fall. It's hollow eyes staring at nothing, glazed over in death. Blue blood leaked out from it as it's limp tongue finally released her legs. Mallory stood up and scanned her surroundings. It was a giant purple barren waste land.
She was fucked.
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She walked. That was all she could do. In a daze she looked at the landscape that would be the place of her death. She would most likely die from exposure or of thirst. Neither were good ways to go. Looking at her com she tried to reach the others even though she knew it was no use. It gave her nothing but static. Sighing she left her com signal open in a desperate attempt to reach the others as she walked.
Looking for something. Perhaps a BRAWN would help her. YES! That was it! A BRAWN! Surely they could help her. They could get in and out of the limbo as they liked! She just had to get to them but could she do it before she died? From her conversations with BRAWN's head, back in the pond, Mallory knew that limbo could be endless but she had to try besides the fight was not that far from here and BRAWNS were all over that area. This was the answer to her problems! Won't the guys be surprised when they she walked into the pond just fine. Mallory smiled to herself. Everything was going to be okay.
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…...This was not fucking okay.
She had been walking for hours and there was no sign of a single BRAWN anywhere! She saw wreckage from pieces of Dragaunus's ship that fell off and could see landmarks that indicated that she was in the right spot but no BRAWNS. "They must have pursued him." She said to herself.
She searched on. Hoping to find some help. The colors of the sky hadn't changed. Everything looked the same and there was nothing in the sky that gave her a way to navigate. It was looking bad for her. "What was I thinking letting go of the ship? Oh right, sacrificing myself to save my friends." She muttered sarcastically to herself.
She hadn't see a signal life form out here besides the dead creature she left back where she landed. Damn this sucked. She continued on, hoping to find, something or someone. She had to keep up hope, if she didn't then she really was going to die.
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It had been a whole day and she had come across nothing. It was very hard to keep track of time since the sky never changed. Climbing up high on a large rock formation she looked around herself trying to find someone or something. Nothing... She could only see the dark rocky terrain stretch out all around herself. The situation was leaning more and more towards hopeless but she wouldn't give up.
She continued onward towards another large rock formation that was maybe a days walk from here. Whatever, she had to kept going. She had to try.
I was midday through the next day when she realized that the she had gone without water for three days. The max a body is supposed to go without water, or else risk death but the funny thing was she was still perfectly fine! She could still keep moving and wasn't thirsty. What was going on? She wasn't hungry either but figured that was because she was more concerned at finding some help. Something was different here she just didn't know what.
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Two hours of walking and this is what she found.
Water... out in the middle of nowhere! With no sigh that it connected to rivers or anything. Did it rain in limbo? Oh well! This had to be good right? If there was water then there was life!... But life here didn't need food or water. …..Fuck.
"Well mind as well make camp here." She mumbled to herself.
Finding what could pass for a cave she made her temporary home. Not realizing that someone was watching her. She heard some rocks slide as if someone was out there. She looked around herself, hoping that there wasn't any more of the strange monsters out there that tried to attack her the first time.
Pulling out her gun she scanned her surroundings. "Come out! Who ever you are your not very good at stealth." There was no answer. She narrowed her eyes and wandered away from the cave, scouting the area. Looking for the source of the noise, she kept her gun out and ready for a fight. "I won't hurt you if you have no intention of hurting me. Just come out."
Something shifted to her right and she aimed her gun at where the noise came from. There was a shadow covered area that hid whoever was moving around her. Activating her tactical light on the end of her gun she approached slowly, searching the shadows for danger. Her light scanned the darkness and she came across something that surprised her, there was a feather on the ground, a peach colored feather that was darker then hers. It definitely belonged to a Puckworldian.
"So someone else is here. They just don't want to show themselves. But why?" She thought as she dropped the feather to the ground. When she stood up, she saw purple hair out of the corner of her eye. She turned quickly to see the shadow disappear.
"I see. That's why they ran away... It's Lucretia DeCoy." She growled her name out loud, not happy that the bitch was still alive. She would not be able to rest now, she was going to have to remain on her guard if Lucretia was running around spying on her. "Why didn't she attack?... She must have been hoping that I had a way out. Whatever hopefully I won't have to see her again... If she tries anything I'll just shoot her."
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