Chapter 3: New bonds are being forged

A duck clothed in a colourful jester suit was sitting in a dark workroom. A candle illuminated the room. He sigh and the bells at his jester suit jiggles merry which only made him more depress. QuakerJack was working on his toy weapon for Nega Duck. But he could just not get it right. Things had exploded 5 times till now, which was an absolute record for one invention. If he wouldn't finish it before dawn he would be one dead duck, that was for sure….. It was almost complete now…. Sometimes he wondered why he had chosen this business. It was dangerous; you could end up in jail, ect… But at the other hand you could steal, blow things up which were all kind of fun also. And otherwise he had made a promise, he wouldn't break. He would get the stars, no matter on what way bad or good.

"I still don't get very well why you chose me? Of all the great choice you had...and still have!" a young duck in a jester suit jumped around, the bells at his head jingling softly on a loving way. "Not that I mind of course!" he add smiling broadly.

"So why do you want to know?" a young female duck with long tied up blond hair and aubur eyes asked him.

"He want to be sure you're serious, babe…" a banana puppet broke in. The jester was holding in his hand as he was hanging upside down looking at the women. He had taken a high peeked voice to comment with the puppet and his lips had barley moved, he was still practicing on that part. The women giggled softly and stood up walking toward him.

"I am more the one who would wonder about the serious part! You're the one who hides everything behind your everlasting smile!" she touched his beak softly with her hand.

He let himself fall on his feet on a flexible way and ended up right in front of her. "I'm not hiding anything behind mine smile Sweety I just have no reason to cry!" he said on a singing tune giving her a loveable smile.

She looked at him and took a piece of the jester hat between her fingers making a soft ringing with the bell that was hanging on the end of it. "Never change, Quaky. Please promise me you will go for the stars, whatever happens!" she was looking in his eyes deeply, drawing in her love feelings.

"As long as I know your believing in me, I'll catch that star!" the jester answers still with a small grin on his face, knowing that he would never be able to love someone so much as he loved her.

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"Don't touch that, you'll brake it!" MegaVolt yelped as he rushed to save his rescued lightbullb collection. "By Edison your even more trying than your dad is!" the rat said as he lifted the young girl and brought her to a room where she could break less things. "Why did I let me be dragged in this again?" he whined trying to remember.

"Hey uncl' Meg." the girl said while she rushed to the balcony of the lighthouse "Why did you became a villain?"

"Don't call me neither of those things and that are none of your businesses!" he said rushing after her.

"The view is great here!" she murmured, as she was calmed down when she was standing on the railing looking into the darkness.

"I know! That's one of the reasons I chose this place!" he said standing besides her following her look to where he thought Duckelburg was.

"You miss you're home don't you, Sparkel?" He had becoming to like her and called her Sparkel because in his opinion she was sparkling of energy. In return she kept calling him uncl' Meg, he wasn't really fond of that nickname but at least it wasn't the S… thing or Elmo.

"Well a bit I guess, this is a hole different world from me. Duckelburg was almost always light even the night wasn't dark. St.Canard at the contrary…"

It wasn't about the streetlamps she was talking even MegaVolt got this one, the thing was St.Canard was for those who had the guts to face it a dark city with a lot of criminality.

"It's not that I don't like it here, and I learned to live with the fact that my dad's a super villain and also all his friends as well but still I need to get used to it!" a cold chill ran threw her and she shivered. It was the middle of the night and it was getting pretty cold.

"Hey Sparkel you're cold!" MegaVolt said as he saw her shiver. "Come let's get in again I think I remember that people always said that kid's had to sleep a lot, why at the contrary I don't remember…" he said smiling as he led her back in. "I only have a coach I hope you don't mind you don't sleep in a bed." he said while he brought a electric blanket he had freed.

She crept on the coach under the blanket and once she was comfortable she turned to MegaVolt, who was sitting on the floor. "Tell me a story please, my mom always does!" she said smiling.

"Hey listen Sparkel that wasn't in the deal with your dad, I'm a villain I don't do stories!" he said rather shocked.

"Please even dad told me one!" she whined.

"He did?" MegaVolt asked not all to surprised but still "Well…"

She looked begging at him he hated to admit it but he couldn't deny her her bedtime story, could he? "I don't know any stories!" he said ones he came to think of it.

"Did your parents never tell you any?"

"I don't remember my parents, leave along their bedtime stories"

"That's so sad!" she said and her smile faded.

"Well you get use to it, beside I don't really care 'cause I forgot what I'm missing. I forget a lot of things. But I have new family now!" he waved at all the electrics "and your dad and the rest of the gang as friends!" he added smiling silly.

"My mom is really pretty!" she said as in trance all of a sudden.

MegaVolt didn't really knew what to say or to do now so he just waited for the little girl to continue.

"My mom was a young business women on the point of making career. She was also very smart and very pretty. There where all kind of rich and wealthy men proposing her a job in hope the get in her gratitude and maybe even have a romance with her!"

"Wow this is sounding like a good begin of novel!" MegaVolt said with his silly smile again.

"One day a young guy who just finished school came to try to get a deal with the company where my mom worked to sell his toys."

"This is sounding as a exciting story already!"

"The toymaker was a fun loving guy, who made beautiful toys and on his way up to the stars."

"I like the guy already"

"Only the company didn't think the same cause the thought he was rather weird. Meanwhile the toymaker had to negotiate with the young businesswomen of the company. And he fell for her. He tried everything he could to please her only leaving the other businessmen to be sure that he would never make a chance!"

"Ow, now there's going to be drama: she didn't like him right?"

"No, she actually got quite fond of him and they started a romance! For a while everything was great but then there was the day when they would launch his products but the company decided to brake off the deal for an unknown reason. They had double crossed him with the contract and the business women didn't knew about it either!"

"O-ow!"

"She was furious and had a big argument with the boss and the toymaker heard a part of it, which wasn't really the best part of it!"

"What was it?!" MegaVolt asked curiously.

"She said she knew he was kinda of a idiot and that some off his toys were old but that he was really a great guy who was gonna make it, unfortunately the toymaker only heard the first part."

"Ai, this is where the bulb hit's the ground, isn't it!?"

"The lovers had a huge fight and broke up. He came to St.Canard to have a new try and she stayed and kept going for her career in Duckelburg."

"And then?"

"She went looking for him to tell him…"

"Tell what ?"

"To say she was pregnant, but when she found him he had been turned down again and got mad and took a other pad, becoming a villain!"

"The toymaker remind me at someone!"

"They tried to talk it over but …" she looked dreamy out of the window toward where she knew Duckelburg lay.

"So how did it ended!"

"You knew my dad's story better than I do and my mom well she became one of the greatest businesswomen and stayed single with a daughter!"

"Ow" MegaVolt said finally getting about who the story was. When he saw the little brown-eyed girl was staring sadly out of the window he took her little face softly so she would face him "Wanna hear a story of me now kid!" he said smiling.

"But you didn't knew any stories!"

"Of my parents no, but I got a few of my own!"

"About?"

"Do you know the story about Arnie the toaster and Annie the bulb?"

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"Hey Quaky what took you so long to pick up" MegaVolt had called QuakerJack it was a hour before dawn and he wanted to be sure his friend didn't forgot … What he had forgotten?!

"I was sleeping" QuakerJack said still sleepy at the phone with his head on his desk.

"What? You are supposed to finish Nega Duck's weapon. He'll kill you, no to mention I'll fry you if you let me baby-sit just to get a good night rest!"

"I was working all night at my invention and I guess I doze of a little!" was the only respond the jester could find he was still sleepy and the idea that he had to go and face Nega duck creped him out.

"Did you finish it?" MegaVolt asked holding his breath.

"Yeah, the best I could. Now just hope he likes it. Why were you calling anyway, you didn't accidentally fry her did you?" QJ couldn't hide a bit of worries in his voice at the end of his phrase.

"No, I didn't she 's sleeping and if I may be honest: I prefer having her over then you. At least she didn't break any of my bulbs!"

"Nice for you! Did you told her a bedtime story!" QJ was still sleep and didn't have the courage to start a argument.

"No, actually she told me a story"

This respond made QJ make a weird face, did Sparky actually liked his daughter? Was he getting soft as well? If she wasn't his, he would have laugh at him. But the fact was he was getting soft as well so he just shut up. "I'll pass by you as soon as I went to Nega Duck."

There was a silence. Both villains thinking the same: if QJ would survive Nega Duck.

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"Come in!" The voice of Nega Duck sounded as QJ had knocked at the door nervously. He entered and closed the door behind him, this was going to be it he thought scared.

Nega Duck was sitting in his chair turned with his back toward QJ so he couldn't see him. There was a weird smoke around the chair and out site the sun was coming up leaving only a small strip of light entering the room.

"At least you are in time!" he said still with a neutral voice, which worried QuakerJack. "Did you brought me my toy this time or should I just pass the pathetic begging part and slice you to pieces?" he said grinning moody on a evil way as he turned around to face him.

"I..I brought it!" QJ said fast while shaking. Nega Duck enjoined it, to see his little slave shiver before him well aware that he was holding his life in his hands. "So you did?" he said grinning less moody cause he could terrorise somebody. "Give it!" he continued with a harder voice.

QJ went forward slowly still shacking a bit and put his new laser toy and chip toy on the desk of his boss. Nega Duck took a look at them. "Explain!" he demanded shortly.

"I did what you said boss, a laser looking like a toy with a huge firing power nobody will even dare to do something as long as you have this one with you." Nega Duck still didn't look pleased. "And they little chip in the basic material for a pin up so we can follow Darkwing's every move when he has it on." Nega Duck look more pleased now .

"Call him Deadwing!" he said grinning evilly. QJ smile weakly wondering if he was of the hook

"Eeuh…boss… I…can I…"

"Yes you can go!" he groaned "You get away with it this time but don't let it happen again." "And I hope for you this works as it's suppose to!" Nega Duck added menacing. QJ nodded fearfully and left the room.

This was an absolute master plan Nega Duck thought to himself. Liqui got the school reports with the name of the student in the 5 grade. Bushroot got the control over the buskcus, who were making an edge around the school and which passed right beside the 5-grade class. MegaVolt got a new killing device, and so did QuakerJacks little laser toy. Not to forget the little chip. Nega Duck was grinning evilly and turned to his desk again where a dossier of a young red-haired girl was lying.

"You my pretty, will help me take care of Darkwing for once and for all. I thank you Gosalyn Mallard."

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Authors note: I hope you like the new chap. Sorry if you don't like the witty romance in the flash backs of QuakerJack (I have to warn you there will be even more of that but also some drama and action). PLEASE REVIEW.

I just uploaded this chapter again as well. I slightly rewrote it or structured it but most of all I tried to improve the spelling. There will probably still be a lot of mistakes in it but I can assure you it are a hole lot less. I really try to work on my grammar. Anyway I hope it's a bit better this way.