Okay, okay, since I'm kind of required by law to do this: All
characters belong to Disney, no profits were made off this. I only borrowed them
for a while and they were returned relatively unharmed. This story, story line,
and all that good stuff were created by me, Jax Nightwing! Okay I'm done now go
have fun reading this masterpiece. Ta-da.
Frienemies
"NOSEDIVE!
YOU ARE DEAD MEAT!" Mallory's voice echoed though out the Mighty Ducks secret
base and home.
Looking up from his cup of coffee, Duke glanced at Wildwing who was
lowering the paper to look at him. "It's your turn to save him." Duke said with
a half smirk on his face.
Standing up and heading to go figure out why Mallory was threating his
brother this time Wildwing muttered back to Duke, "I should just throw both of
them a the brig for a while—in fact I'm think I'll do just
that."
Duke, deciding this was to good to miss got up and followed, while
listening to Wildwing call Grin on the communicator for back
up
By the time Duke and Wildwing found Mallory and Nosedive, Grin was
already there holding the two youngest members of the team the as far apart as
he could.
"Um,
do ya need any help there Grin?" asked Duke, even though he could see that Grin
had the two in his very strong grip.
"One's
peace overcomes the anger of others"
"Right,"
answered Wildwing, while Duke rolled his eyes, "Would you mind following me,
Grin?" asked Wildwing as he already began walking away.
"Now,
you two will stay in there until you two decide you can get along. If you have
to miss practice, battles, dates and whatever else you have to do, then so be
it. You two WILL GET ALONG. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" Wildwing instructed the two
'convicts'. After getting their confirmations-or lack thereof, Wildwing signaled
to Duke and Grin and began to walk off.
"This
all your fault." Came Mallory's voice full of spite.
"WHAT?
How dare y-."
"You
sure this is a good idea 'Wing?" questioned Duke as the three of them walked
away listening to the fading echoes of Mallory and Nosedive's heated
discussion.
"No,
not really. But we don't really any other options, I don't know what else to
try. Do you have any suggestions?" responded Wildwing.
"Nah,
actually I think it's kind of funny, ya know."
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"Hey, 'Wing."
"Yeah, Duke"
"Do you hear that"
"No, what is it?"
"Silence, you can't here those two bickering."
"Nice, isn't it?"
"Yeah"
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BRRRRR, BRRRRRR! Sounded Drake 1's alarm.
"What's happening Tanya?" shouted Wildwing as he came running in the
control room.
"There's a, uh, minor, um, disturbance downtown."
"Let's move, team!" shouted Wildwing.
Beep, beep. Flipping up the cover of his combadge, Wildwing founded
Nosedive's face. "Yes, Nosedive?"
"Yo,
bro, you gonna come let me-ouch-us out of here?"
"No, I told you, you two aren't coming out of that brig t until you make
up and I pla."
"WHAT!"
"Goodbye." Turning back to the other four members of the team, Wildwing
shrugged off Tanya's astonished look and took off for the hanger and the
Migrator. "Let's go, people."
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"Well, this is a fine mess we have gotten into." sighed
Nosedive.
"Shut-up"
"What. I was talking to
myself."
"Shut-up"
"See its th-what was that?"
"I don't know, I thought it was just me."
"That's a negative Mal-Mal. I heard it also."
"Shh, listen."
"Wraith, begin scanning. Siege, Chameleon spread out and lock out all the
exits and do a through search of every room, now."
"That's Dragaunus! They must be in the Pond." Whispered
Mallory.
"We have to get out of here! It won't take long for them to find us in
here." answered Nosedive.
"How are we supposed to do that! This place was designed so that even
Duke couldn't get out, much less us."
"I dunno. I'm working on it. Wait someone's heading this
way."
Chameleon walked around the corner. "Well, well look what we have here.
Two little birds caged and all ready for the cat." Then speaking into his
communicator, "Hey, boss, you should come check this out."
"What is it?" Dragaunus had just walked around the corner. "Oh, what a
pleasant little surprise. This could be very useful."
"Don't count on it Draggy. We can get out of here anytime we want!" shouted Nosedive.
"Ha, you bluff, you see I have been inside these very cells, and if I
recall correctly a member of your team was a expert thief and escape artist, so
your dear team captain, Ratwing probably took caution to make sure that even he
could not escape. Am I right?" then walking off laughing with Chameleon he left
with Nosedive's shout ringing in his ears."
"It's WILDwing, you loser."
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"I don't know about any of you, but, I'm getting tired of all these false
alarms." Sighed Duke as Wildwing neared the Duckdog sign.
"Duke open the garage."
As
the garage door opened Wildwing slowed down for it to completely open. Abruptly
it stopped and slammed back down to the ground.
"What
the-. Tanya what's going on?" asked Wildwing.
"Uh,
I'm um, we're um, like, trapped out."
"What,
how?"
"I
don't know."
"Mallory,
Nosedive, come in. What's going on?"
"Bro,
is that you. Oh man, Dr-."
"Crud,
we were cut off."
Turning
the Migrator around Wildwing headed for the Pond's parking lots. "I think
Dragaunus is behind this, guys. Mallory and Nosedive aren't in a very good
position if he is. They are both in the brig. We've got to save them and get
Dragaunus out of there."
"I, um, have an, uh, idea." Tanya cut into Wildwing's nearing-frantic
thoughts.
"How?"
"We, um, like, cut the power."
"So? That's what the back-up generator is for. How would that help us."
Questioned Duke.
"There's, like, a, um, slight delay."
"I get it." Duke took over for Tanya, "If we acted on that time delay we
could get inside the perimeter defenses. Once inside, the rest is a cinch."
"Okay, first things first. Do we have anyway of knowing what Mallory and
Nosedive's condition and location even though our communicators aren't working?"
Wildwing asked Tanya.
"Wait a sec, there 'Wing" interrupted Duke as he turned around and opened
his communicator, immediately Wildwing, Tanya, and Grin's communicator began
beeping. "You see the communicators are working, there must just be a shield of
some sort around the 'Pond that Draggy put up."
"Wildwing, um, Mallory and Nosedive, uh, are still in the brig and, uh,
appear in, like, healthy."
"Thanks, Tanya. Now how do we cut the power?"
"Well, its, um, really simple we just cut the wires, uh, right there."
Tanya was pointing to the west side of the Pond, where the power lines connected
out to the power receivers of the 'Pond.
"Okay, team, here's the plan: Duke and Grin are with me. We'll position
ourselves as close to the doors as we possibly can. Tanya, on my mark you'll cut
the power and the three of us will get inside the shield. Once inside the shield
will spread out. Duke, head for the brig and get 'Dive and Mallory out. Grin,
you and I will head for the control room and try to stop Dragaunus. Duke, once
'Dive and Mal are free, you three come help us. Everyone know their
part?"
"Uh, what, about, like, me?" Tanya asked Wildwing.
"Tanya, you'll have to stay out here, and distract Dragaunus with the
Migrator."
"Um, okay."
"Alright team, ready?" asked Wildwing as Duke and Grin got in place o run
like mad once the shield was down.
"Roger."
"My soul is strong."
"Okay, then, here we go. Tanya, cut the power NOW!" There was a
flickering of a pink light around the 'Pond, then all the lights went off.
Wildwing, Duke, and Grin ran helter-skelter from where they were standing and
were to the main doors before the lights inside all flickered and turned back on
slowly.
Wildwing, Grin, and Duke quickly hid out of sight of surveillance
equipment, while Wildwing tried to contact Tanya and failed. "We'll guys looks
like we're on our own now. Duke go get my brother and Mallory and be
careful."
"Hey, this is my specialty, don't worry." Duke's voice floated back to
where Wildwing and Grin were still hiding as Duke began sneaking down the
corridor with every trick he knew already in play.
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"Did you find anything
yet?"
"No, did you?"
Mallory and Nosedive had been looking for a way-out for the last fifteen
minutes and to no avail. Getting up from where she was kneeling on the ground
looking along the walls Mallory went and sat on the bench and leaned back. She
was joined a couple seconds late by Nosedive.
"Ya, know Mallory, we're going to have to install an emergency switch in
here someday."
"Yeah. Wait did you see that? The lights flickered!" Jumping up Mallory
ran to the front of the brig just as the power went out.
"How did that happen?" Nosedive asked as he came running from the bench
and stepped out into the hall.
"I don't know? But I'm not going to argue with it. Let's go!" Mallory was
already running down the hall, changing into her battle gear, and pulling out
her pucklauncher when the lights came back on. She ducked (pardon the pun) into
a broom closet and waited for Nosedive to catch up. "Okay, we need a plan! We obviously
can't reach the others to warn them and we don't know what Dragaunus & Co.
have plan so we're on our own and we have to take them out by ourselves. Do you
have any ideas?"
Thinking to himself quickly Nosedive looked at Mallory and smiled. "Yep,
I have a idea alright."
"Why do I not trust that smile?"
"I think we first figure out what Dragaunus is up
to."
"And how do you propose to do that?"
"Follow me."
"No! Absolutely no, we'll never fit." Nosedive had led Mallory to a vent
opening where she immediately began protesting.
"Sure, we will. Duke and I did it before and we are both bigger than you
are. Come on, I'll give you a boost." Nosedive crouched down and made a cradle
with his hands for Mallory to step on.
"Fine, whatever." Mallory stepped on Nosedive's hands and climbed up into
the vent shaft. Once up Mallory waited for Dive to get up. "Okay which
way?"
"Go left, then left again at the next intersection." Nosedive instructed
Mallory once he was up and caught his breath.
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"What was that?" Dragaunus shouted as the power went off and the
emergency generator came on. "Siege! Go check on the caged birdies! Chameleon,
Wraith, find out what happened, NOW!"
"Sire, it appears that those meddlesome mallards outside cut the power."
Wraith was pointing to the screen of a surveillance camera, that was focused on
Tanya running back to the Migrator, carrying a large pair of wire cutters and of
the frayed cables dangling next to the power receivers.
"Then why is the power still on?" Dragaunus shouted while towering over
the cowering Wraith and Chameleon.
"Sir, it appears these ducks have a back up power source somewhere."
Suddenly Dragaunus communicator went off, "What is
it!"
Siege's voice came across the communicator, "Sir, those two ducks
escaped."
"WHAT! FIND THEM NOW!" Dragaunus bellowed into the communicator.
"Sir, I caught a different one though. The ex-thief
one."
"Well, tie him up and bring him to me, you incompetent
fool!"
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"Mallory,
Nosedive. You guys there?" whispered Duke as he entered the brig
area.
When
he saw that their cell was empty he began to turn around and look for anything
to tell him what happened and came face to face with Siege's tail swinging
straight for his face. Duke tried to duck (pardon the pun) but wasn't quick
enough. Siege picked up the unconscious duck, bound his wrists and feet, and
then lumbered off carrying Duke across his shoulder like a sack of
potatoes.
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"Okay,
Grin, on the count of three, we go in, ready." Wildwing and Grin were waiting
outside the control room preparing to charge in. Wildwing was standing behind
Grin who was preparing to 'open' the door and didn't hear Siege sneak up behind
him until it was too late.
Grin,
hearing his leader grunt, turned around and was immediately welcomed by Siege's
tail flying at him. Grin caught the tail and jerked causing Siege to howl in
pain. The doors opened behind him, and Grin felt the business end of a laser gun
shoved in his back.
"Let
go of him and turn around slowly with your hands up."
Grin
turned around to face Dragaunus, who summoned Chameleon to bind Grin's wrists
behind his back.
Siege
picked himself off the ground, quickly bound Wildwing's wrists and then picked
him and Duke up and walked in the control room where he unceremoniously dumped
them on the floor.
"Good
work, Siege. We now have the big one and the leader, the rest should soon
fall."
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Meanwhile,
in the vent shaft's system, Mallory and Nosedive were slowly making their way
towards the control room.
"Which
way now, 'Dive."
"Straight,
I think, yeah, straight."
"Are
you positive? Crud, I just cut myself."
"Careful, yes I'm sure." Nosedive couldn't help but
detect the slight edge of extreme-nervousness in Mallory's voice in the last
fifteen minutes and thinking to himself 'What's wrong with her? I wonder if
she's claustrophobic-nah, Mallory wouldn't be scared of something like that,
would she?' "Whoa, slow down Mal-Mal, and be quiet, look we're right over the
control room. Hearing Mallory's sharp intake of breath caused Nosedive to look
up at her in alarm. He followed her arm to where she was pointing and saw his
brother and Duke knocked out and tied up, and next to them Grin sitting
patiently.
"Crud."
" Look, 'Dive, over there by Drake 1. See that vent
opening back in the back, we could get out through there couldn't we?"
"Yeah, good idea!"
They soon arrived at the aforementioned vent, where
Mallory gently and slowly lowered Nosedive down, then climbed down herself using
Nosedive's ready hands to catch her and not make a sound.
"Okay, do we release the team or take out the creeps
first." Nosedive asked once they were safely hidden behind Drake 1.
"Do you think we can get to the team without being
caught. Oh look your brother is coming around, Duke's still out though."
"If you follow my lead, getting over there should be
a cinch." With that Nosedive was up and sneaking out from behind Drake 1 and
making a beeline for the next hiding spot, the chess table.
"I'm going to kill him one day." Right when Mallory
took the first step, Dragaunus turned around and spotted Nosedive. Mallory
quickly jerked back to safety and waited to see what would happen.
"GET HIM!" Nosedive took off running as if his life
depended on it and it did. He was just about to safety when he slipped and fell,
he quickly got up but not soon enough, Dragaunus had already fired in his
direction. Nosedive braced himself for the hit, when all of a sudden Mallory
came soaring out of no where and knocked him out of the way. Sliding along the
floor and stopping in pile at Grin and Wildwing's feet. They quickly grabbed
their guns and began shooting towards Dragaunus. While he was taking cover,
Mallory and Nosedive got behind 'Wing and Grin and untied them. Then jumping up
again they began shooting and avoiding the henchmen.
As soon as Wildwing was up, he began shouting orders
to the others, "Mallory, 'Dive, split up and surround them. Grin stay here and
guard Duke and when you get a chance, get him to safety."
Finally a couple minutes later, Dragaunus teleported
out, followed by the rest of the motley crew.
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"NOSEDIVE, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Mallory's voice
again echoed though out the 'Pond.
Wildwing looked up from the crossword he was working
on and saw Tanya, Grin, and Duke's expectant looks.
Reaching up to feel the tightly-wrapped bandage on
his head, Duke asked, "So are you going to do something about them, 'cause ya
know I can't do anything about them this time." He said with a huge smirk on his
face as he pointed at his damaged head.
"No, I think I'll just let them work it out on their
own."
"Good choice, there buddy, good choice."
~The End~
