A/N: Hello everybody! This is my first story, written in English. This is not my native language and I really do hope you can put up with my grammar or some spelling mistakes I might have put in there. This is also my very first MD fic and blimey it´s been ages since I last saw the episodes on tv. Well, I do remember Tanya´s habit of stuttering, when agitated i believe, but I´m gonna cut that out of the story, ´cause I prefer her the way I wrote her before I remembered her habit and ´cause of that I implied another habit to her, but you´ll see that. Besides I have no map of the pond, so please bear with me if I make up their place a bit different then you know it from the series. Another one: I´m pretty unsure of the spelling of the Mighgrator, ´cause I just know it like that from the german reading, but to be honest I always expected it to be the Migrator, so I´m really pissed at myself that I just have no idea how to write it, so I just take the longer version. Nearly the same with the Aerowing, I always imagined it to be the 'Arrowwing', before reading something on a german page, so now I decided to take the shorter version this time. Why I´m telling you all this? I mean who am I kidding, I´m clinging to the hope that someone´s gonna take pitty on me and give´s me a review if just for telling me the correct spelling.
As I don´t have anything important to tell you anymore...now I´d say: Let the story begin!
THANKS to my first ever Reviewer on LIASHI! Thanks a lot for your Review, it really helped me, so here it is, the corrected version! AND it´s longer than before!
A boring day ...?...
Chapter #1#
It was a rather boring day, really. He´d already been in the mall 3 times and it was just noon, for crying out loud!
Wildwing had woken him up at 6 (sharp) for practice, knowing that his 'lil bro' wouldn´t be able to go back to sleep after practice was finished, around 8:10 am.
Since then Nosedive was trying to keep himself busy, but alas it just didn´t work to be busy while he knew that there wouldn´t be any new comics for him to read until next week and he already ran out of new comics yesterday night at 9 pm!
Now he was sure about a thought which crossed his mind at 6:03 am this morning, while getting into the shower. Wing´s cruel... and that was final.
Nosedive lay on the couch in front of the tv, which was only showing reruns of really boring cartoons, in the ready room of the pond and he was restless, energetic, somehow anxious, but also depressed. He was just an inch before the point at which he would go to Tanya, out of his own free will, to ask her if he could help her fix anything. Normally he would just help Tanya after complaining about it, ´cause his 'big bro' would have made him do so, but now he was just too bored to lay on the couch any longer, regardless of what he would have to do to keep the boredom at bay.
So he finally got up, switched off the tv and started his little journey towards the hangar where, no doubt, Tanya would be struggling with her work to complete the installation of the new amplified shields for the 'Aerowing' and the 'Migrator'.
Stepping through the door, which slid aside while he approached, he instantly sighted Tanya fumbling with her worktools. She lay under the motor of the Migrator cursing like there was no tomorrow. I´m sure Wing would freak out if I swore like this! He would bench me for the next year if we weren´t one player down without me. "Hey Tauny what´s up?" he called, causing Tanya to hit her head.
"OUCH! HELL! Is that you Nosedive?"
"Sure it´s me, who else would be crazy enough to disturb you, while your working and swearing at your work like you wouldn´t know the results of your enhancements. But hey as you do know what your doing..." he trailed off, noticing the look of pure astonishment he received from Tanya. He held up his hands in defensive mode. "Whoa, whoa! One lil´ mo´! You do know what your doing, don´t you?" He quaked, remembering the last time Tanya did something 'experimental', as she had called it, resulting in the new hangar in which he now stood.
"Oh yeah, I´m just enhancing the speed of the Migrator, something I put off for too long now."
"That´s great Tauny! I remember Draggy overtaking us last week."
"See, that´s what made me do this today. Now why are you here? Did Wildwing send you to fetch me for practice, again? I thought I would have some time ´till then..."
"No, he didn´t. I just wanted to ask if I might help you enhance the Migrator a bit. You remember you wanted to install the amplified shields today, don´t you?" he asked unsure.
"Well I already did that, but if you want to help you might help me, if you could think of a way to enhance the motor while keeping the same petrol consumption, along with adding new tires, which would be required as we need the best there are for maximum grip, so the Migrator would still be safe, but a hell of a lot faster."
"You do realize, that you are swearing?"
"Nobody knows that I swear while constructing, besides you. And I don´t think you would want your brother to know where a part of your inspiration comes from. Otherwise the hangar might soon be out of bounds for you."
"Awww Tauwny. You know I would never tell Wing about your lil´ habit while constructing."
"Another problem solved. So would you remove the rest of the motor while I look for new tires via the internetshop?"
"Sure, whatever you want."
3 Hour of work later the Migrator AND the Aerowing were ready to be tested. And after ten minutes, in which Dive and Tanya had cleaned the hangar and carried every tool they had needed back to its rightful place, they heared the siren from Drake One. They ran into the RecRoom to find their teammates already standing before the computer, watching the screen with interest and anticipation.
T: "Some strange energie detection in the forest near the mall."
W: "Exactly our first landingplace on this planet!" exclaimed Wildwing after looking at the coordinates. "Let´s check this out, Ducks. We´ll use the Migrator." He told them, running down the last corridor towards the hangar.
N: "Good we were ready in time, huh?" Dive asked Tanya, once she was level with him.
T: "S´pose." She told him, out of breath.
They filled into the Migrator, Dive taking the driversseat and letting the machines roar to life, before speeding off towards the edge of the forest.
He carefully maneuvered through the trees, until they were 50 yards from the location. Wildwing told everybody to leave the Migrator, but wanted Dive to remember the way the best he could, so it wouldn´t take him too long, to go back and recollect the Migrator, if the need for 'a lil´ backup' arose. Nosedive looked around carefully while moving his way with the others. He even looked back from time to time, to better recognise the route back. They arrived to hide behind some shrubs, so Seige and Chameleon wouldn´t see them.
Ch: "What was it?"
Si: "The sensors tell it to be 2 Ducks and a human."
Ch: "Leaving? Or arriving?"
Si: "I can´t tell, maybe it was just their car exploding."
Ch: "Why their car?"
Si: "´Cause they made a picnic?"
Ch: "You shouldn´t tell that to the boss when he asks you. He can be really nasty about picnics, if you remember last month."
Si: "Yeah. Maybe we shouldn´t tell him of the energetical interruption at all. No one says it was from a gateway, after all."
Ch: "I think so. Let´s go back, before he thinks us missing." And with that Chameleon went first.
Siege disappearing just a second later.
The Ducks threw puzzled looks at each other. Wildwing ordered them to search the place within a radius of 50 feet, just to be on the save side.
After an hours work, without finding anything suspicious they broke off the search to return to the pond.
Once there they ran into Phil and without question he dragged them away, to let them sign 'just some autographs' for their fan´s.
This turned out to be a 5 hour long autographsession, after which Duke was ready to kill Phil and Dive had no energy what so ever left in his hands, ´cause they´ve been stressed enough from his work with Tanya. Even Grin seemed to be in a bad mood and Mallory couldn´t help it to let Phil fall down flat onto his nose, after tipping accidentally, as if anyone of the team believed that, over her right foot. Then Phil´s phone rang and after he exclaimed a joyful cry, they let him scurry off towards his new girlfriend, as they assumed, without complaint.
Just after a light dinner, Wildwing had tried to make sure everyone got enough vitamines, so he had decided to make a big bowl of salad, (Nosedive mumbled that he was a fast food teenager, not a vegetarian like Mallory, he just received a glare for that, so Mallory had to be pretty exhausted.) the alarm went off once more, so they left the table in a hurry.
Ten minutes later they arrived in an old storagehouse (warehouse). The backdoor was open, thankfully, so they slipped into the darkness of the building. Not even two minutes later they were battling with the Saurians. Duke just crashed two Drones, when he saw a Saurianlaser aimed at his heart, he had no time to react. But a splitsecond before Siege shot, he was tackled from a shadow and fell to the side, so his laser just nearly missed Duke´s right shoulder.
The Shadow vanished into the darkness, but Duke heard it jumping, so he looked up, to see the shadow beneath an open window, climbing through it and running along the roof. Duke followed, after splitting three Drones on his way, to see the rooftop empty, as well as the surrounding rooftops. He sighed and climbed down to his successful teammates. The Drones were gone, even the damaged ones and they were into the middle of the speculation, which target Dragaunus had in mind this time, when Duke arrived.
W: "You´re pale and you look troubled. What happend?" Wildwing noticed him at once, but he was just so confused, that he shook his head in the negative, mumbling 'nothing' when he passed him on his way out. He waited in the Migrator, thinking, stretched out over two backseats, in a rather uncomfortable looking position. But actually he felt rather relaxed, just tense inside, because he thought he had seen something silver on the side of the Shadow. A Weapon? But why didn´t he use it then? Well, I´m pretty sure he didn´t want to draw much attention towards himself, otherwise he would have fought openly, but why? Why hide and then help? Just to run off when detected? I just don´t get it...
The rest of the team secured the exits and they left, back to the pond. Once there they fell into their beds, to be awoken at 7.a.m. from Wildwing, for practice.
They gathered, grudgingly, on the ice and began their warmup, before they really started with practice, 20 minutes later.