Ch.3: A Darkstar Rises

"It's Massive," called Ace as they got close to Darkstar Labs.

"Again?" said Lexi "doesn't that guy ever take a break?"

Arriving inside the building the Loonatics were out and ready for action. The gravity master supervillian was already levitating some of the major chemicals out of Darkstar Labs. What he wanted with them was a question even Tech E. Coyote would have trouble answering.

"About time" said Massive noticing the Loonatics " I was wondering when you guys would get here,"

"Ah ain't that sweet" said Ace sarcastically " just what are you planning to with that stuff?"

"Me?" said Massive " I don't plan to do anything. I was hired break in here and steal these chemicals. Science is not one of my fortes. So why don't you reach for the sky,"

"How 'bout you reach for the ground!" came an unexpected voice.

All the Loonatics and Massive turned their heads to see who had made the threat. duck was open-mouthed when he saw his brother Dathe standing behind the gravity controlling villian with a blaster in his hands.

"I wouldn't make a move if I were you Massive" said Dathe " this blaster packs enough energy to make you nothing but a weakly human again. And even if you try to take me out the Loonatics will just come in from the other side. In order to stop them you would have to drop your precious cargo and we don't want that to happen now do we?"

After looking over his options Massive finally said " Fine, you win,"

That was that, without further struggle Massive was taken to jail while Dathe flew over to the Loonatics. Danger Duck was the first to bring warm greetings to his lost brother.

"Man Dathe" said Danger " if you hadn't come along Massive would have probably gotten away,"

"How did you come to be here Doc?" asked Ace.

"After seeing my brother with you guys I got curious and started following you around" said Dathe " as soon as I saw you have to face a villian I just stepped in with this baby,"

"Does that gun really revert people back to their orginal stasis?" asked Tech.

"Nah" said Dathe " I was bluffing,"

"Well done Loonatics" said another black duck just coming out of the shadows "my name is Drake Darkstar, owner of Darkstar Labs,"

"What a conicedence" said Rev " Duck's first name is Drake too?"

"Yes" said Darkstar " I remember both him and Dathe very well, since Daffy Duck's death,"

"You knew our dad?" asked Danger " but you look to young to be old,"

"Time travel does wonders doesn't it?" said Drake " now I think you would be interested in the final story about your father. He was murdered,"

"When?" asked Lexi.

"765 years ago " said Drake " a war had consumed the entire planet. A war where humans turned againist the toons and murdered them on the spot. The most active group for these assassinations was called Fire Star. Daffy was killed by this group's leader while trying protect his family. Shortly his wife followed, but a young female duck had been spared. Or at least that's what I was told."

"Some rumors sugguest that the leader of the Fire Star group took the child and raised it like his own daughter. The ones who disagreed with that theory said he got tired of the thing and shot it on sight. No one really knows,"

"So our sister is either still alive or dead," said Dathe.

"Do you know what happened to Fire Star?'' asked Ace.

"Oh" said Darkstar "they're still around. No one knows where though. But I'll tell you one thing, I heard a rumor saying that Fire Star plans on finishing what they started all those years ago,"

"We better put all our focus on finding out more about this Fire Star outfit," said Lexi.

"Good idea" said Ace " if Fire Star is planning on launching another war againist toon kind, we'll be there to stop them,"

After the Loonatics left along with Danger Duck's brother the leader of Darkstar Labs slowly made his way back to his building. Massive had done a lot more damage to the outside than in the inside.

The inside was totally clean; no sign of debris or the chemicals Massive had dropped when he was taken by surprise by Dathe. After Drake Darkstar finally made it back into his office he imedately looked with pleasure at his wall.

Posted on his wall were pictures of Daffy, Daine, Dara, Danger, and Dathe. All of them were posted to a dartboard with only two crossed out with a bright red 'X'. The two marked out were Daffy and Daine, Dathe's and Danger's parents.