Yes! Remake power will be yours as well! Welcome to my rewrite for the DuCaine Legacy, my first finished story on . A few things will change of course in this rewrite (hopefully for the better). Anyway on to the new and improved Mighty Ducks story!
The one and only Disclaimer: I will not and do not claim The Mighty Ducks movies, Disney, the hockey team, the cartoon, any comic books made of it, any action figures, or any cosplayers as my own idea. I was a fan of the animated series before it even premiered on Saturday TV (thanks to Disney Adventures. I don't very much like the movies though). This story is my own brain child though, passed down from generation to generation to me from me (ok...i'm a bit nuts now) and if Miya shows up in the series she's an original character created by me. I didn't kidnap anyone from Disney to make her up. I've been doing fan fictions since I can remember! (It's true, I think my first true fan fictions where Chip and Dale rescue rangers). If you try and sue me (that means you Disney and your lawyers or the hockey team) all you'll get is some student loan bills. I'm not being paid to write this! I love writing fan fictions! Especially when they've been dropped by a company poke poke Disney to keep the fandom alive! grumbles Never thinks of the fans they may be loosing...nope...
Anyway on to the story:
A story was told long ago, of their one hero on Puckworld.
Of how a single man changed the face of an ongoing war that had lasted for so long nobody could remember when it had started.
Every generation heard of his heroic tale.
Every generation held him up to be god like.
So when their mortal enemies, the Saurian's attacked again the citizens of Puckworld looked for their hero but nobody stepped forward.
But as a whole unite; with the help of one team of ducks, they drove all the Saurians off of Puckworld.
On to Earth.
It's been six years.
The DuCaine Legacy
By Candy aka solarsun
Prologue
A lot can change in six years. Dive knew that out of the most of the ducks. Turning his head looking at his rear view mirror he took a deep breath readjusting it, seeing his right eye staring back at him. He was twenty-two now, had been sixteen when they hand landed on the blue planet. Six years and the small private war that they had been fighting with Dragonuas had grown considerably.
It wasn't just Anaheim anymore under attack. Dragonuas had used the fact he looked like a twisted version of the cartoon devil to start recruiting humans to his army. That was about four years ago. Because the United States had laws that anyone could worship anything they pleased Dragonuas used that to create a cult like following that would do anything he ordered. It was mass chaos in Anaheim for a few months after the saurian had gotten that idea. With marshal law and the ducks help his human army had been cut in half and most of them had fled away from California. The police where still looking for a lot of them. When some where found nobody would speak about Dragonuas. It grew so damn annoying.
Dragonuas also disappeared after all that, rumors and reports had him everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. It was assumed that after marshal law Dragonuas, Siege, Chameleon, and Wreath left the ship and also fled somewhere else. They had found the ship not to long after it all and it had looked to be abandoned. Tanya even had hacked into their computer to see when the last log entry had been but it turned out that the Saurians had wiped the hard drive before fleeing. Probably copied it to something and took it with them. All Tanya could tell them was that it had been wiped during the mass chaos months in Anaheim but she couldn't give an exact date.
Sure they had fought against Wreath, Siege, and Chameleon since then. But it was only usually a few minutes before those human recruits would crowd the place and they would have to retreat. Once for a second, Nosedive even thought he had seen Dragonuas's shadow on a wall where they where battling but the saurian seemed to stay out of site more then ever now.
The team was much different now to say the least. At the beginning of everything nobody but Duke really had a handicap (his eye) though he fought well enough where you wouldn't think there would be any problem. But with a war do come injuries and fatalities. That's what war is. And with war come scarifies. The first sacrifice that they truly had to make was the hockey team. After everything had settled in Ahaheim after marshal law Wildwing gave Phil the news. With Dragonuas now really trying to destroy and conquer Earth they couldn't afford to be lollygagging around playing hockey. So the team name was sold and since they didn't have the money to pay the bills for the ring and their headquarters they had to sell that too. Nosedive had just turned nineteen during all that. Not much of a birthday that year, or the year before that to say the least...hell even the year after that sucked and really every year since his seventeenth birthday. I guess that was his big sacrifice; he never did get to have a normal teenage life. That and the fact that during marshal law Mookie and Thrash where killed. His only two human friends on Earth died when the saurians attacked their comic shop to get back at them...at him. Nosedive hated himself for quite a while after that...because their deaths where a direct cause of him. He still hadn't forgiven himself for not being there soon enough. He had another sacrifice to make down the road though, one he still hasn't gotten over at all.
During a battle in New York Grin, trying to save a bunch of children at a park during an attack by Dragonuas's human army lost his eye site. Both eyes. That was his main sacrifice during this war. He had jumped in front of them as a bomb of sorts went off, a flash grenade, burning his retinas instantly. Not much else on him was damaged. Being who he was and how big he could handle that exposing at the distance it was to the children, but the children wouldn't have. Tanya went right away making something to help Grin after she had informed them there would be no way she could fix the damage. Actually the scientist with the help of a small following of scientists she had now helping her, to fight the war of course, built a set of goggles that she could hardwire into Grins brain. Although Grin objected to the machine in the beginning Tanya finally talked him into doing the surgery saying though he was training his hardest to fight with just feeling and hearing, they needed him to be able to see.
The goggles worked although Grin lost all true color sensory and all the goggles could do was show the big duck outlines of heat. It was better then nothing. Tanya is still working on a better device for Grin, one that would mimic or even be an improvement to their real eyes. Something a bit smaller too. The goggles he wears look a lot like a Virtual Gameboy (if you know what that looks like). If you don't know what they look like, it's big and heavy, not to mention ugly. Grin was never a vain one but when he actually saw what the goggles looked like, Nosedive thought he saw Grin wince a little.
Tanya's sacrifice was her left hand. Lost it while trying to keep a set of elevator doors open at a building near Miami so people could flee before the elevator fell. She lost it before Grin lost his eye sight. Joking, she would said that she didn't even need that hand and when she got around to building a better one she'd be able to hack into a mainframe without even twitting a finger. And she did make herself a biotical hand. One that could jack into any computer, and she had been right. Now a days Tanya doesn't have to type to hack into something. She connected her arm to a sensor in her brain she had installed that would turn her thoughts into data and send it directly to the computer it was jacked into. She's in the middle of upgrading it now to be able to jack into computers and servers wirelessly. Tanya also put a kick ass gun on her new left hand so she was always armed...so to speak. Nosedive made jokes about that for a few months after the whole incident. He felt it gave Tanya hope that they would make it out of this war alive at least, and with their humor intact. She had thanked him one day not to long after, for being himself while everything was going on.
Now Mal-mal. She seemed normal enough if you looked at her now. But during an attack in Dallas she had gotten severely burned on the right side of her face and upper shoulders. The duck spent a lot of time in the hospitals after that. Lost feeling in some of her fingers as well, not to mention the big giant bald spot she now had. Tanya, again, helped her by creating skin graphs for her so her body would at least heal. Then she went in and had a lot of the scar tissue lazored down so her skin was a bit back to normal. Though Tanya tried, Mallory could not regrow hair or feathers there and now ends up using a wig and with Tanya's help again, creating a material that looks like her feathers and sticks right on her bare skin. With a few pats of her hand you can barely tell she's got a giant bald spot anymore. Dive still pokes fun at her about it, calling her an old hag or the crazy wig woman. He doesn't do it as much to hurt her as to lighting the mood. And she still beats him for it, though more so trying to relive the past and how things had been. After their fights are done they just sit and laugh. Nothing hurt, nothing gained.
Well besides Mal-mal's pride...o and his shoulders...that hurts too.
Then there was Duke. Out of them five he came out almost unscathed, minus a few new scratches to his collection and bumps. What he sacrificed was his hope. After Mallory had gotten severely burned Duke lost it blaming himself for the injury. It wasn't long after that that Grin told the team that Duke was in love with Mallory. Saying that he had known about this before the whole change in the war had begun. That's why he had taken it so hard. Actually it seemed that Duke had taken it harder then Mallory in some cases. The red headed duck, before she had gone into her skin graph surgery, had talked to Duke privately trying to tell him it wasn't his fault it had happened and that she knew about his feelings and if everything ended up ok in the end of the war that she would like to start a relationship with him (since they where so busy now to even try to start a relationship like that, not to mention the added fear it would cause during battles). Duke lost it again, blaming himself and ran off.
Nobodies heard from him sense.
Sure they still hear rumors about him fighting against Dragonuas's army alone somewhere, usually far away from where the ducks are stationed, but Nosedive hasn't seen him since he tore out of that hospital. He had been standing by the door of Mallary's room when that had happened. Sometimes Nosedive wonders if their "tips" from the now established tip line weren't from Duke. More then likely one of them probably was but all the ducks knew that Duke, when he didn't want to be found, couldn't be, and when he finally came to terms with what was going on and what had happened to Mallory he'd be back. Duke just needed some time. And as long as he was still on their side fighting Dragonuas, the team was willing to give it to him. It wasn't like he couldn't defend himself.
Then...then there was Wildwing. That was the biggest sacrifice of all. No. It's not what you're thinking...well not quite. Actually the team wasn't quite sure of what happened to Wildwing. It was during that battle where Dive had saw a shadow that could be Dragonuas on the wall. Wildwing pushed through the onslaught of humans and ran after it.
He never came back. That was three years ago.
It wasn't like they found a dead body of his brother, so Nosedive couldn't properly morn his loss, their teams' loss. It was their second team leader that had disappeared. A second time someone else would have to step forward and try and lead the team. A second time Dive had secretly swore under his breath for revenge. Sure Canard and he didn't get along all that great but growing up he had looked up to the one duck. It was like loosing Canard all over again when they lost Wildwing.
All they actually found of Wildwings was the mask and his communicator, which held a homing beckon so there was no way they would find him or his body easily. So sometimes in a fleeing moment of hope Nosedive thinks Wildwing is still out there somewhere lost, in need of them.
That was Nosedive's ultimate sacrifice of this war. He'd lost all of his true family, stranded on an alien planet, with a growing war around them. By loosing his brother, Dive felt he had lost a part of himself for good. He hadn't been the same after that. He wasn't the same. At times he had to force the jokes out so hope wasn't totally lost. What was left of the team, and their followers now, seemed to look toward him for guidance. Maybe it was because Wildwing had been his brother, Canard being Wildwing's best friend, or the fact Duke ran off, and Grin denied the position when Tanya asked him later on. Then Mallory had been asked by Grin and Tanya to wear the mask but she swore at it saying it was just bad luck. Anyone who wore the mask would die. Tanya then said after Mallory had denied it later that she wasn't good with giving orders, then saying that Wildwing HAD been the last one to wear it that Dive should at least keep it. But the fact was it now set on the floor in the back seat of his human made car, probably under a pile of paper and cans. He didn't want to be leader. Nobody asked him to be leader. He had been after all just a kid when this whole war started, the jokester, the one who would put a lighter spin on things.
But Dive knew that even if he objected, like he had with the mask (and look where it set now) that it would fall on deaf ears (at least nobody lost that during their fights yet). That he was the leader and he had four people to worry about (five if you counted Duke who was still somewhere off by himself or six if you wanted to believe Wildwing was still alive somewhere) and their small army. The position of leader was a nearly crushing weight on Dive. He had never been one to want to bear it.
Now here he was, popping Prozac pills, trying to keep his road rage down at the humans who didn't seem to realize what the hell was going on around them, on their own damn planet no less! His head hurt, and nobody on the team KNEW all this. Around them he tried to be the lovable Nosedive they all looked at him and expected him to be. Because they all NEEDED that Nosedive. It didn't matter what he needed. He was leader now, and the leader always does what's best for the group. Look at Wildwing and Canard. They left the mask so the leader could use it, he was sure of that. And the way things where going Nosedive feared he'd leave the mask next. After all his sacrifice hadn't been nearly as bad as Grins, Mallory's, or Tanya's. Nosedive felt he was along the same level as Duke at least, that he knew of. A leader was expected to sacrifice everything. Nosedive didn't have anything else left to sacrifice to this war. He'd lost everything else, why not his life? His hope? His identity while they where at it. Sometimes Nosedive wondered if Drake DuCaine felt like this during the first war. Was it as near crushing weight to him or did Dive just suck being a leader? It didn't matter anyway anymore. The youngest duck had accepted that he'd probably die like the other two in this war. As long as in is final moments he could take revenge for his brother and Canard he could die in peace.
Things had changed to say the least. Nosedive just wished every night on that first star that it had been GOOD change. Not this hell hole that he was stuck with for a life.
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I made a sorta bookcover thingy for the new rewrite too! It's at:. It's my first attempt at drawing Nosedive in a few years. I hope it's ok. I know I'm not as great as Dolphy but I try. Ok so it's shaped more like a CD cover, so sue me :P.
cough Wow. When I thought about rewriting my first finished story on I never thought it would be so...dark. So depressive. I didn't think it would be at all, not until the second paragraph I realized where exactly this story was heading. I figured I'd write the original story but better and now here I am writing a story where Nosedive is 22 and Wildwing might very well be dead.
I guess the DuCaine Legacy grew up a bit. I didn't realize how much my writing had changed either in four years.
First of all I want to apologies to all who did like my first fan fiction. I will keep it up on for you guys to read renaming it something like "The DuCaine legacy first write" or something like that. I fear that after reading my first trial of this story it was very much rushed and not very well done. Not to mention how horrible at spelling I was then. Though I still kind of suck at it now. Though for all you readers of the DuCaine legacy original it was suppose to be a bit darker then it turned out to be with Miya being rapped and all but like I said I didn't take the time or effort to make it a truly great story.
Yes I do think Miya will be in this story as well. Though as is and the title and everything I could very well leave her out and the title of the series would fit. I'm still slightly debating on it. If you guys commented one way or the other in your reviews would help me a lot in my decision.
Yes Nosedive is all Angst and depressive. Come on, don't you just want to cuddle him and tell him everything is gonna be ok?! It's a 360 (not the console silly) from the way he was in the original TDL. I'd be all angst if my brother disappeared/died too!
This will be PG-13/Older Teen/Teen (what ever uses for ratings) and could very well go into R later if he STAYS super depressive/angst (not because of sex or anything, I don't write that stuff). So I warn you now. You can tell from the first chapter it's all dark and moody. I've been wanting to write a dark and moody mighty ducks story for a while too .
And don't ask me if Prozac works for alien ducks, we'll just assume it does or he's just taking it wink wink. Since Tanya doesn't know about the prescription after all she can't be the one to make it.
Anyway I hope you like the rewrite. There should be more down the road. Please leave a review before you go (since this is so drastically different then the first PLEASE leave a review on what you think if it's bad or better) and as always thanks for your time for reading one of my stories! (you guys rock!)
