Ch.2: Where Are You?
Police sirens blared as three police cars tore after an escaping motorcycle. The thug who had stolen the bike lifted up a laser gun and fired away at the speeding police cars behind him. Meanwhile,from up above, the Loonatics soared down to cut off the thrill jockey's escape route.
Making a wild U-Turn the motorcycle theif forced himself to a stop. All six of the Loonatics finally decided to pop out, but as soon as Danger Duck saw who was riding the motorcycle his eyes widened in shock. A duck with a white ring strapped around his throat sat shotgun on the motorcycle.
It was the white ring that caught Danger Duck's attention even as Ace did his usaul villian taughts.
"Is he?" thought Duck "can he really be?"
"Dathe?" whispered Danger out loud.
Although the Loonatics didn't hear what Danger had said it was pretty obivous that the biker did because he looked at Duck. as soon as he did a look of shock covered his own face.
"Drake?"
Tha wail of the police sirens were getting louder even as Ace finished his taunt. But when he realized that the crook was paying more attention to Duck than to him he just got to the usual thing the heroes say before busting the bad guy.
"Now you can either come with us quietly or not at all,"
"Hmmm" thought Dathe "I choose 'not at all',"
With that Dathe fired up his motorcycle and tore off in the other direction heading straight for the arms of the cops. Needless to say when the cops figured out that Dathe wasn't going to stop they moved out the way and let him through. The Loonatics weren't far behind.
Danger Duck still couldn't believe it, he hadn't seen his brother Dathe in years, not ever since...that terrible day.
(Flash Back)
The time portal flashed open exactly 765 years later dropping off two little black birds off in the year 2760. shaking off some dust that had clinged to their feathers during the crash the two youths looked around to see that they were in a whole 'nother world.
The land was green and lush with millions of people strolling around, but these people ignored the new arrivals barely noticing them. Dathe and Drake stared at each just wondering where and when they were. All of a sudden that's when things started to go wrong.
"Hey you kids!" yelled a voice.
Both ducks' heads turned to see a man running straight towards them with a net in his hands. Scared Dathe and Drake took off in different directions to aviod being captured and lost each other in the crowd. As soon as Drake realized that Dathe wasn't behind him he started to shout "Dathe! Where are you?"
Apparently Dathe was wondering the same thing cause he shouted the same call to his brother. "Drake! Where are you?"
Drake was to far away to hear his brother's call and by the time the day went on both brothers were split up forever. Years later Drake ended up in an orphanage for stealing food from the market and was overlooked by many charming couples that came to adopt.
One day the choices were narrowed down to him or his best friend Pinkster. By false chance Drake managed to sneak his way into the winning the very last family. However spending all those days in a human family was probally even worse than in the orphanage.
His new sister, Sharia, was always getting him into trouble with mom and dad. She never got blamed for anything, Little Ms. Perfect. Thanks to her Drake's new mom and dad started to have their doubts about adopting someone like him.
"He's to different from us" said Dad "sometimes I wish we never adopted him,"
That statement sunk Drake into the quick. Luckily mom and dad didn't hear him as he walked up the stairs into his room. Everything went downhill from that day on. Drake refused to eat or even come out of his room that way he wouldn't have to see mom and dad's face.
Whenever someone knocked he just sat quietly and didn't say anything until they left. Finally, one day, dad got clever and picked the lock to Drake's bedroom door only to find out that his son was gone. Drake had ran away from home.
A note that Drake left behind read like this: "Sorry I such a big disappiontment, but I'll make up for it you'll see,"
Unfortunately they didn't live around long enough to see. Turns out that about two weeks after Drake had run away a crazy mobster by the name of Darkstar had killed his parents. No news made it that Sharia had survived the attack, but part of Duck was hoping she didn't.
Two years later Darkstar still hadn't been found and Drake kept focused on getting himself a heroric job. However the job he got stuck with was typically the worse job he could ever think of. A pool cleaner.
It wasn't to long after that that the meteorite came and gave Duck his powers. Contacted sometime later by Zadavia Duck joined the Loonatics and never lay his thoughts on his past again. That is...until now.
(End Flashback)
"Hey Duck!" came Ace's voice "Earth to Duck!"
"Huh...wha?" said Duck coming out of his meditative trance "what's going on?"
"You were day dreaming that's what's going on" said Ace "the biker got away because you were sleeping at the controls,"
"Sorry" said Duck "my mind was somewhere else,"
Secretly Duck was glad that they didn't manage to catch Dathe, but was careful no to express his relief out loud, especailly someone wth Lexi's super hearing talents. As soon as the Loonatic's arrived back the base Zadivia gave a call.
"What happened ?" she asked.
"We had that biker cornered and Duck fell asleep at the controls," said Ace.
"Hey I said I was sorry" said Duck "it's not everyday somebody runs into their long lost brother!"
Quickly realizing what he just let slip out loud Duck shut his beak trying to hide his embrasment for even blurting out the last phrase. The team, including Zadavia, were to stunned to speak and just kept staring at Duck in disbelief.
"That thrill jockey's your brother?" said Lexi.
Duck was to embrassed to even respond and quickly quacked himself out of the room leaving his team to wonder with so many unanswered questions. He couldn't tell his team the truth, thought Duck as he reappeared in the living room, it just wouldn't feel right.
But Danger knew that even though with his power to teleport out of reach that he couldn't aviod his friends forever. As proof the metal door leading into the living room admitted his friends to enter. Lexi was the one who spoke first.
"Why didn't you tell us that guy was your brother?" she asked.
"I didn't know for sure until I saw the white ring around his neck" said Duck "funny he looks almost like dad,"
"And who's your dad?" asked Ace.
"I guess you heard about him 770 years ago" said Duck "he played along side your great-great grandfather in the series called the Looney Tunes. His name was Daffy. Daffy Duck,"
"Your dad is the Daffy Duck" said Tech "but that's impossible he died hundreds of years ago during the war. And if you and your brother are really his sons than how come you and him haven't aged?"
"Ah the marvels of time travel" said Duck "me and my brother were sent here just as we turned five years old. A Fire Star tank had started blasting it's way up to our house and dad told my mom to take my brother and me, plus my sister and run. Dad was destroyed and so was our home,"
"Mom later asked Marvin the Martian to transport me and Dathe through time where the war would hopefully end. It had ended all right but me and Dathe were seperated and later I ended up in an orphanage. You know the whole story from there,"
"Any more surprises we should know about Duck?" asked Ace.
As if on cue Zadavia's face entered the screen saying "Loonatics big trouble at Darkstar Labs head over there imedately,"
Oh yeah there would be more surprises all right, and the fingers were all pointing at Danger Duck.
