Unusual Allies.
I don't own the ducks, but I do own Angel and Roxy (plus one or two others).
Chapter One: The Space pirate Angel.
The last he remembered he'd sacrificed himself for the good of the team; he'd seen his friends fly after Draganus and the gateway close behind them. The energy worm then dissipated and he was left to float in the nothingness, it wasn't long before he'd lost track of everything and his mind seemingly went numb. Which was why Canard felt more than a little confused at being in a bed covered with thin yet warm sheets and a soft pillow under his head? He opened his eyes and looked around, the lights had been mercifully dimmed, the room was small and there were one or two pictures on a dresser to his left, from the décor he figured the room belonged to a girl. He got up and to his surprise found that his legs worked despite his not having used them in however long he'd been a resident of limbo. Opening the door he took a left and began to explore, there wasn't really much to find there was what looked like a lab, a kitchen, a few other rooms that looked like they were used for storage, and then he reached a . . . cockpit! He was in a ship, a pretty high tech one too and when he explored a little further realised that that the ship was in orbit around Puckworld!
"Oh you're awake." Canard spun around to see what to him was an odd looking girl, she had long, thick purple hair, she was thin but not skeleton thin, she stood about five feet four inches, not only that but she had no feathers, just pale skin! Her beak was missing as well and on top of all that she had red eyes! Her outfit was silver which consisted of thigh high leather boots that ended in a point at the front of each, on top she wore a mini dress which he would barely call decent and it had long sleeves which formed into fingerless gloves. On a belt around her waist she wore a gun on her right hand side and what looked like some high tech device on her left, "Are you gonna tell me your name or are you going to stare at me all day?" The girl grinned at him.
"Oh uh I'm Canard, and you are?"
"Angel," She walked around him and typed something into a computer, "So how'd you get stuck in that sub space tunnel anyway?"
"I thought it was dimensional limbo?" Canard asked confused.
"Well that's what the saurians call it." Angel replied looking back to her computer.
"What do you know of saurians kid?" Canard asked suspiciously, he'd learnt appearances could be deceptive, for all he knew she could be working for them.
"Relax," Angel looked at him and winked, "they're the reason I'm here, so don't get your knickers in a twist, oh and by the way," Angel put on her sweetest face, "less of the kid okay."
"But you are a kid. . ." Angel glared at him menacingly, "oh never mind, what do you mean they're the reason you're here?"
"Well where I come from they were originally banished from our world thousands of years ago, at least the overlords were. Anyway, they came back about a decade ago and started making trouble again, you know taking over planets and stuff, well they weren't able to take all of them in our galaxy and those who could fight back did."
"And you would be one of those people fighting back right?" Canard asked sceptically.
"Yes and no," Angel replied folding her arms trying to think of the best way to tell the guy before her what she did to live, "I fight the saurians yes but only so I can take their loot to survive."
"So you're a pirate!" Canard yelled not believing what this little girl was telling him, she didn't look older than fifteen.
"Don't throw hissy fit geese, yes I'm considered a pirate but I only take from the bad guys so technically that makes it okay." Angel reasoned.
"If you say so." Canard shook his head.
"You still haven't answered my question yet."
"Huh?" Canard looked at her blankly and she rolled her eyes.
"How did you get stuck in that sub space tunnel?" She repeated in a tone much like that of a teacher talking to a child who refused to listen.
"Oh well. . ." he recounted his story to her up until the point where he woke up in what he knew now to be her room. "So that's pretty much it, I have to find Wildwing and the others or Draganus if they failed."
"Huh, well you guys have had it ruff haven't you, well . . ." there was a large bang and the ship shook, then all manner of alarms went off.
"What's happening!" Canard yelled over the din.
"We're being attacked!" Angel yelled back and jumped into the pilot seat, "Looks like it was the creep I was following when I found you! Damn it!"
"What?"
"It has to be her that creep's taken out my weapons system in one shot!" Angel said then set the ship in motion heading for the planet surface.
"Why does that mean it has to be him?" Canard asked suspiciously.
"Well this ship kind of . . . used to belong to her, sort of." Angel said sheepishly.
"What does sort of mean?"
"I kind of stole it when they invaded our planet, around about the time I became a space pirate." Another explosion rocked the ship and yet another alarm was set off, "Uh oh."
"Uh oh, what's uh oh!" Canard yelled.
"That last shot took out the main engine, along with the landing stabilisers," Canard felt his empty stomach turn, "hold on I'm gonna separate the ship." Before he could ask what on Puckworld she was talking about he heard a loud clunk and the main bulk of the ship was falling away from them, in the smaller part she sped away from the attacking saurian ship. Before long they'd lost them and Canard was directing her to the safest landing spot for them to land that would be near a resistance base. "My, was that ever close!" Angel winked at him after they'd landed.
"Too close of you ask me." Canard jumped out of the ship and walked off to his left.
"So where are we going?" Angel asked keeping pace with him.
"We?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"You wouldn't leave a cute and innocent girl out in the open on an alien planet on her own now would you?" Angel pouted and looked as cute as she possible could.
"I'm just kidding," he said deciding that if they ever met Angel and Duke would get on like a house on fire, "there's a resistance base close by I want to find out how long I've been gone and if Wildwing's already back or not, before I go do anything I don't need to."
"Oh okay."
It wasn't long before they got there but Canard wished he'd chosen a different base. It had been discovered and it looked like all of the inhabitants had been slaughtered, there were bodies everywhere. The Canard and Angel searched the bodies to see f anyone was still alive but none were found. Except . . .
"Freeze!" A woman's voice spat from behind him. Canard lifted his arms above his head and turned around slowly. "Canard?" The voice asked, the voice sounded familiar to him but he just couldn't place it and who ever it was was using the darkness of the trees to the left of them as cover. He jumped when he heard a shot then a scuffle. Then a limp body was unceremoniously chucked out in the open and he saw who the woman was.
"No way!" Canard walked over to the body and inspected it more closely just to be sure, "but . . . she died. Duke saw her fall."
"Oh, you know her?" Angel asked as she too walked out into the open from the direction his old friend had been thrown.
"You didn't have to knock her out you know!" Canard glared at Angel then set about making his friend more comfortable.
"Sorry," Angel replied sheepishly, "who is she anyway?"
"Her name's Roxy Hart," Canard said as he checked Roxy over, it looked like she'd been in a battle, probably the one at the base, "my friend Wildwing he was her boyfriend, she was supposed to be in the strike team against Draganus but in a mission just before she fell off a cliff into the sea and we all thought she had died. Guess we were wrong huh?" Canard brushed a few stray stands of ebony hair out of Roxy's face, "I don't even want to know what she went through when she found out we were gone."
"They were that close?" Angel asked. Canard nodded then noticed Roxy was waking up.
"Ugh what happened?" Roxy groaned.
"I'm sorry I thought you were one of the bad guys." Angel said, blushing a little.
"Huh who," she sat up and noticed Canard, "I wasn't dreaming, it is you!" All Canard could do was smile, he knew Roxy pretty well and could tell that she wasn't glad just because he was back; she thought he'd have brought Wildwing with him.
"I'm sorry Roxy I got stuck in Dimensional limbo just after we followed Draganus through the gateway, I don't know where Wildwing is now." He told her dejectedly. He watched her face fall and she turned away from him.
"But you and the others have been gone for well over two years now." Roxy fought as hard as she could to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall.
"Haven't you tried to hack into some of the saurian systems and find out what coordinates Draganus used so you can teleport there yourself?" Angel asked.
"We don't have teleportation technology," Roxy replied then looked back at Canard, "not only that the plan didn't work. After Draganus went some female saurian showed up and started running the place and she more ruthless than he is, thousands have been slaughtered. Any resistance base she's found she's had decimated, our forces are so depleted now we can only hide from the saurians."
"Well that's lame." Angel stated.
"What do you mean!" Canard fumed.
"Well think about it, even one person can make a difference, I was taught never to stop fighting, no matter what. So long as I kept fighting for what I believed in then things would turn out alright in the end, we just have to figure out the best way to help your world." Angel thought for a moment, "And I think I might know how, it could be risky but it might just work."
"Well what is it already!" Canard yelled again.
"Short temper you've got there haven't you?" Angel joked, Canard glared at her and she decided it best to get on with it, "my plan is this, first we set up base somewhere with some reasonable technology that I can work with, then I'll use what's left of my ship to upgrade the communications enough to allow contact with the rebel forces in my galaxy. Once I've done that they can work on getting things ready to send out forces to help your planet. Then we'll locate Maleficent's base, then we break in hack into her computers, find out the coordinates that Draganus used last and used her teleporter to get us there. The one catch is it'll be a one off journey."
"Us?" Canard asked raising his eyebrow again.
"Why would you want to come along?" Roxy asked.
"Lets just say I remember a saurian named Draganus that visited my planet a while ago and I'd like to see if this guys the same one so I can repay him a favour." Angel said grimly shaking off a memory of bloodshed and screaming and burying it once more in the depths of her memory.
Well what do you think that's the first chappy up, I hope you like it but feel free to review either way. Till next time, toodles Angel xxx.