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The Runaways

Chapter 2:

It had been two days since those two female ducks had joined them and ever since everything for Mallory and Tanya began to go down hill. Mallory was having issues with her aim and her combat skills had gone from perfect to outright clumsy.

Tanya was having a hard time with her inventions and with her technology in general! This kinda of thing didn't happen to her! The worst day was when Tanya was on Drake One trying to do a little research on different compounds and she just couldn't figure it out. "I ju-just need a moment." She frantically tried to keep it together, not understanding why she was having such difficulty. Casey walked up from beside Duke, "Why don't you let me try, after all this is my area of expertise." She said a little too smugly.

Mallory stepped in to defend her friend. "She doesn't need your help. Tanya's got this." Mallory crossed her arms and stood next to Tanya. Tanya looked up at Mallory, thanking her silently for her support.

Then Samantha decided to butt in. "Well she doesn't seem to be having much luck. Why don't we let Casey try. She'll find it, she's the best at what she does. Your friend just can't do it, that's nothing to be ashamed of."

Mallory turned to Samantha aggressively. "What did you say!?" She was ready to throw down. Wildwing however stepped in between them and put an arm around Samantha's shoulders, hugging her to him. "Wow, wow, time out. Mallory you need to ease off." Mallory looked to Wildwing slightly hurt but it was covered quickly, "She just insulted Tanya! I'm not going to stand by while she says that about my friend!" Samantha gloated silently over at Mallory that Wildwing came to her defense. Samantha wrapped her arms around his midsection and pressed herself into him harder so that he would pay more attention to her, it worked.

"Sweetheart she didn't mean anything by it. Come on let the beautiful ladies work! You girls seem to have lost your... edge." At Duke's statement Tanya stood up abruptly and got out of the chair. "I'll be in my lab if anyone needs me!" She said angrily walking away from everyone. No one saw her teary eyes as she left.

"Nice going DUKE." Said Mallory, adding a bit of venom to his name. She left quickly after Tanya. Nosedive and Grin just watched from the side, both unsure of how to feel about all this. Nosedive watched his brother and Duke with these two new ducks. It was weird like someone flipped a switch in Wildwing's and Duke's brains and they no longer liked Mallory and Tanya. Nosedive knew his brother had like Mallory since they recruited her on Puckworld. He knew he shied away from it being the new leader and all but he still couldn't completely hide his attraction towards Mallory from Nosedive. Nosedive was his brother, he just knew what was up with Wing. For a long time Nosedive frankly thought that Wing was in love with Mallory even if he didn't see it himself. Now it was like it wasn't there at all and that was kind of weird. Wing used to have dreams about Mallory and would talk in his sleep about her. That's how much he liked her!

Nosedive used to tease Wing about calling Mallory's name in his sleep, his brother would get so embarrassed and threaten to give him a swirly in the public stadium toilet if Dive would ever so much as pep about it to Mallory. He watched as Mallory walked out the door with significantly less enthusiasm in her step.

He knew that Mallory cared for his brother too and that this was now a missed opportunity for his big bro. When Wing finally snapped out of it, he was going to be really sad to find Mallory had closed herself off from him and locked herself behind that steal wall again.

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Mallory chased after Tanya only to find her in the hall in tears. Mallory knelt down and took a seat next to Tanya. "How did everything change so fast?" A teary Tanya asked in bewilderment, her voice cracking under the emotional strain.

Mallory looked down the hall angrily at where she had come from. "I don't know." The thought of just leaving occurred to Mallory. Something telling her that she and Tanya should just run away and not look back, that they wouldn't be missed. She shook it off and returned to comforting Tanya, while on the inside, she comforted herself. They both got up and left for some privacy to Tanya's room.

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Duke was lounging with Casey on her bed. She crawled on top of him and started to take his shirt off. Duke felt a moment of revaluation and stopped her hands. She looked at him shocked as she watched him sit up and hold his head. It took a moment to register that he was losing the influence of the powder but when she did she grabbed her vile from her bra and opened it to blow in Dukes face, only for him to move his arm last minute and knock the opened vile in the air where it sprayed down all over him. It was like sensory overload and Duke passed out, covered in white powder.

Casey could only stare in horror. "Oh shit."

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Wildwing walked Samantha down the hall to her room. "Seriously what's her problem anyway. We were just trying to help!" Samantha played up the hurt so that Wildwing would comfort her. He pulled her into an embrace, "Don't worry, I'll talk to her tonight and get this all sorted out." He said as he rested his head on top of hers. Something in him was bothering him, telling him that something was wrong but he couldn't figure out what. "Why don't you stay with me tonight?" She asked him seductively and raised a hand to touch his face but he flinched away as if in disgust. Even though he didn't understand why he did it, she did... the powder was wearing off. Discreetly she pulled out the vile and blew another puff into his face, this seemed to put him in a daze as he stared down at her.

Just then Mallory happened to come down the hall. She was heading back to her bedroom when she saw them standing at Samantha's door. Listening in on what they were talking about she waited around the corner and spied on them. Samantha's spoke, "Well, what do you think? You want to spend the night with me?" Wildwing just stared down at her for a moment and after a couple of seconds gave his answer. "Ya, I'd like that."

Mallory felt her heart shatter into a thousand pieces. "The bastard! After all that flirting with me and pulling me back and forth! It was just a game!" Mallory watched them walk into Samantha's room and lock the door behind them. Tears started to come but she clenched her fist and pushed them back. "I'll never make the same mistake twice." She said to herself as she finished her walk back to her room.

Inside Samantha's room, she was about to start making out with Wildwing when there was a knock on her door. Annoyed she excused herself and got up to open it only to find a near panicked Casey. "I spilt my vile! Its all gone!" Casey whispered frantically. "Shit Casey! We'll have to contact you know who to get more now! He's not going to be happy!" With that she ran back to Wildwing, who was waiting on her couch looking bored. "Sorry Wildwing, Casey has an emergency. We have to run out to grab some stuff for women's troubles." Wildwing understanding what she meant put his hands up. "You don't need to explain I get it." He laughed, while giving Samantha a goodnight kiss on the cheek and left to his room for the night.

They left the Pond making it look like they were headed to the convenience store, only to duck into an alley and contacted Wraith. Letting him know the situation, he angrily gave them instructions on what needed to be gathered. "Be sure to get one of Tanya's feathers! It won't work without it."

Casey being kind of an idiot asked why. "Because you twit, we need the essence of someone that he is already attracted to in order to change that attraction over to you! Same goes for if you needed more potion for Wildwing, we would need a feather from Mallory!"

"How did you get their feathers and how do you know who is attracted to who?" Questioned Samantha. "We've been in many battles. I always collect each of there feathers and I take the time to observe them when they are not in the Pond." Explained Wraith. "Creepy." Whispered Casey.

"Remember this powdered potion will only continue to work if you keep up the dosage. If you don't continue to give it ever 3 hours it will expire. And the potion will no longer work on them. Now get going!" Growled Wraith.

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Samantha and Casey sunk down the hall to Tanya's lab. It was late and everyone was asleep. Going in they saw Tanya sleeping over her inventions. "This will be easier then I thought." Said Casey walking up and plucking a feather from Tanya, cause her to jump in her sleep.

Both were about to walk out when Casey turned back around to stare at Tanya. "She's kind of cute when she sleeps isn't she." Casey smiled cruelly at Samantha. Samantha just rolled her eyes. "Now is not the time to be diddling with girls, you can play with them later." Samantha smirked wickedly. Casey ran her fingers along Tanya's face but the blond duck did not awaken. "Fine." Casey followed Samantha out and brought the ingredients to Wraith back in the alley were he added the feather to the concoction. "This should do. No get out of my sight." He teleported out and left the two female ducks to go back to the Pond. "Just in case, I think we should grab some feathers from Mallory as well." Said Samantha. Casey looked at her like she was nutty. "Are you kidding? She'll see us coming a mile away!"

Samantha laughed. "Not if she is unconscious before she can do anything. We'll get her in her sleep... Tonight."

Walking back into the pond both girl waited until 3am when everyone was asleep to sneak into Mallory's room. The red head was laying on her bed in a small purple night cami. The sheet lay below her waist, showing off her defined but feminine stomach.

"Oh she'll be fun to play with later when Draganus captures all of them." Whispered Casey a little insanely. Samantha just rolled her eyes.

They both slowly approached the bed. Samantha grabbed Mallory's hockey stick off the wall while Casey run her hand down Mallory's shoulder to her hand, causing Mallory to awaken and sit up.

Mallory looked to her side to see the figure of someone crouched next to her bed like they wanted to talk to her. "Hello?" Being groggy from being woken up from deep sleep, Mallory couldn't react to the sound of an object swinging through the air behind her. She heard and felt the pain of something cracking her in the back of the head and then everything went black.

Samantha threw Mallory's hockey stick to the ground and plucked a feather from her. Samantha moved some of Mallory's hair out of her face and ran her fingers over her features. "Such a pretty duck, too bad Draganus will change that when he gets his hands on you."

Looking over at her alarm clock she smirked evilly as she changed the alarm time to an hour later. "Guess we won't be seeing you at morning practice." Said Samantha as she sat her alarm back down. Casey laughed and ran her fingers over Mallory exposed stomach. "See you later sweetie." And with that both girl left to their own rooms.

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The next day Tanya awoke in her lab on her desk. "Oops! I never went back to my room." She looked at her clock only to realize that it was 9am! Practice started an hour ago! Jumping up she rushed out of the room and up to the rink where she could hear the sound of skates on the ice. "Oh I hope they are not too annoyed with me." When she got up there she found that not only were they not annoyed but they were playing in teams without her and Casey was wearing her jersey! Not sure what to do she moved up to the side of the Feeling forgotten she moved onto the ice, looking at Mallory's jersey she felt hurt that she didn't come get her. "Wait that's not Mallory! Samantha is wearing her jersey. Oh I hope Mallory doesn't see that!...Well then again... I kinda hope she does." And Tanya got her wish.

Mallory came out looking as rushed as Tanya and rubbing the back of her head. She looked onto the rink only to come across the sight of these two 'bitches' wearing her and Tanya's jerseys! Mallory snapped. She was out on the ice before anyone could stop her and slugged Samantha good. Casey came in to hit Mallory with her stick but Tanya body checked her into the boards, knocking her out for the count. What Mallory didn't expect was for Wildwing to come flying in to knock her back so hard that she hit the boards after skidding across the ice.

Tanya was in a similar situation with Duke as he went to charge her but she dodge out of the way. Duke was going to attack Tanya again when Casey groaned, he went over and kneeled down to check on her crumpled form on the ice. "What's the matta' with ya Huh!?" He yelled at Tanya. Tanya backed away from the obviously enraged Duke.

Grin moved in front of him and held him back from trying to attacked Tanya again. She moved away, wanting to hate Duke for playing with her heart and then stepping on it. She turned and was stunned to see Mallory crumpled on the ice with Nosedive trying to wake her up. He held her bleeding head in his lap and continued to talk to her. "Mal, come on wake up!" Nosedive looked to Wildwing in disapproval, "What the hell bro! You didn't have to do that! Just separate them from each other not knock Mal out!" Wildwing stood in front of Samantha with his arms crossed.

"No Nosedive, the way Mallory and Tanya have been acting is unacceptable. We can't have them breaking up the team! Their both benched. Samantha and Casey will take their place until I say so."

"Bro! They are the team not those two! We don't even know Casey and Samantha, they've been with us for only one week! Wake up and smell yourself!"

Tanya could only watch as she and Mallory were just replaced with Wildwing's orders. Mallory woke up just in time to hear that she and Tanya were being booted to the benches. "So your just going to replace us huh?" She said slowly getting up with Nosedive's and Tanya's help.

Wildwing looked un-remorseful for the harsh blow he dealt her. "Until you learn to get along with everyone your going to have to deal with it." With that final word he skated off the ice supporting Samantha on his arm. Duke followed him soon after carrying a still unconscious Casey. He glared hatefully at Tanya and Mallory as he left.

"These are some seriously bad vibes." Said Grin as he came up to Nosedive, Mallory, and Tanya. Mallory nodded but only ended up making herself dizzy and began to fall back to the ice. Nosedive and Tanya caught her but Grin came in and picked her up and carried her off and down to her room.

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Mallory was all cleaned and sewed up. She had hit her head harder then everyone thought. She needed three stitches in the back of her head where it had smacked against the boards. Grin and Nosedive left Tanya and Mallory to give them privacy.

"Tanya. Let's get out of here." Tanya looked to Mallory confused. "Let's go on that vacation but let's not come back." Mallory's voice cracked at the end of her sentence. Tanya sat down next to her, she knew that this was a rash decision, she knew that they should try to figure out what was going on but she couldn't fight the urge to want to just run away. "Yeah let's go."

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Wildwing and Duke left the two new female ducks in the infirmary for the night. They went to bed to sleep off the long day and unknown to them, the effects of the powder potion.

The next morning both Wildwing and Duke awoke from their dreams startled. That was just a dream right? Those things didn't happen! Right!? Thought Wildwing frantically as he jumped out of bed and got dressed. He ran down to Mallory's room to find it locked. "Crap" He ran to Dukes room to find that he wasn't there. Going down the hall to Tanya's room is where he found Duke. Trying to break in. "Duke?!" Duke turned to Wildwing with a haunted look in his eyes. "Wildwing... did we? Was it a dream or were we really so terrible to Tanya and Mallory!?"

Wildwing's eyes widened at hear Duke speak the words that were on his mind. Both just stared at each other for a second and then switched to their battle gear. Duke used his saber to cut a large hole through the door that both he and Wildwing could walk through. Tanya's rooms looked normal except for all of her clothes and equipment were missing!

They ran to Mallory's room and Wildwing blasted the door open, Only to find the same thing. Opening their coms they tracked both the girls coms to the locker rooms above, only to find that they had left there coms on the benches.

Duke cradled Tanya's com in his hand heart brokenly and looked to an equally upset Wildwing. "They left us."

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