Darkly Dawns The Duck Part 2: Act 2

Somewhere in St. Canard, Marissa sat on the edge of the roof of a building. She had taken her mask off and her hair flowed through the chilled breeze of the night. Tears flowed down her cheeks as she looked at the photo in her hand; the last one with both of her parents with her right before her mother passed away, and long before her father followed along. She sighed sadly as she looked down at the photo, "I should've known he was lying to us this whole time, guys." She was completely hurt after learning the truth about her uncle; he had been selfishly skipping out on their bonding times and bailing out on her family for his own needs just so he could get fame by trying to be a superhero the entire time.

"Not only did he ruin our family, but he also put a little girl's life in jeopardy by leaving her to be taken by a criminal mastermind Dad put behind bars years ago." she said as tears dropped and landed on the photo. "But I think I was to blame too. I should have stayed behind with Gosalyn, but I thought Uncle Drake would be the one keeping her safe after seeing how much he started loving her." She closed her eyes tighter and cried harder, "But I was wrong!"

She opened her eyes again and sniffled, "I let you both down. I couldn't even get Taurus Bulba to admit he killed you, Dad." She sighed, "I'm sorry." She opened her pocket to put the photo back in there, and she wiped her tears away as she looked up at the night sky. But then she looked down at the streets when she heard the sound of wheels screeching on the pavement. On the ground was Darkwing's motorcycle being driven by someone. Just before they could pass the building she was on, Marissa jumped off the building and swung to the ground with her grappling hooks, but the hook came loose all of a sudden and she landed on the street with a grunt as she rolled on the ground. The figure on the motorbike stopped in front of her.

"Hey miss. Are you okay?"

Recognizing the voice, she looked up and said with surprise, "Launchpad?"

Launchpad looked at Marissa and smiled, "Hey, you're that girl who was with DW and that little kid! I didn't recognize you at first with that cool costume you're wearing!" Marissa looked at him riding on Darkwing's motorcycle and asked, "Why are you driving my unc- er, I mean Darkwing Duck's motorbike?" Launchpad answered, getting off of the bike, "Well, you see, Miss... uh, I didn't get your name." Marissa answered, "Marissa."

Launchpad repeated her name, and he continued, "See, Marissa, I was trying to help DW on his mission the other day when I wanted to be his sidekick and he got mad at me when I accidentally messed up and he told me he never wanted to see me again. So I thought we could start over again with this sidekick thing after I apologize to him." Marissa remembered when he was chasing after her, Darkwing, and Gosalyn while they were escaping Taurus Bulba's men and the police, and she realized how they knew each other. Marissa asked him, "But why would you want to apologize to him after you messed up and he told you he didn't want to see you again?"

Launchpad replied, "Because that's what heroes and sidekicks do. They forgive each other, especially if they're friends or loved ones." Marissa thought of those words Launchpad said, and they seemed to cheer her up a little. She thought to herself, I know this is going to be hard for me, but he's right. Uncle Drake may have lied to me and my parents this whole time, but I still have to forgive him.

Taking a deep breath, she asked Launchpad, "Do you know where Darkwing Duck is? I need to talk to him." Launchpad nodded, "Sure. Get on." He got back onto the motorcycle and Marissa rode in the sidecar. Marissa wondered where he was taking her until they arrived at the police station. They went to the side of the building where a couple of cars were parked, and Launchpad said to Marissa, "Okay, I think it's best you stay here while I bail DW out. But first I gotta park this thing." He looked at the switches and buttons on the motorbike. He found one button and pushed it, and it sent him and Marissa crashing through the wall. Launchpad chuckled nervously, "Oh, that's reverse. I thought it was park."

"Launchpad? Marissa?"

They looked over and Darkwing came over to them with a relieved smile, "Launchpad! What are you doing here?" Launchpad explained, "This was left behind when the cops took you away. I was coming to bail you out, and this girl named Marissa here wanted to tag along to talk to you for some reason." He gestured Marissa, who was getting off of the motorbike. Darkwing came over to her and she said to him, "Listen, about what I said. I'm so sorry. I just felt so angered and-"

"No, Marissa. I'm the one who should be sorry." Darkwing cut her off with a sad and regretful look. He took a deep breath and sighed, "I shouldn't have abandoned you or your parents for my own needs. I wanted to tell you about what I did for a living for so long, but I thought you wouldn't understand and you'd start hating me. And look where it got us. I let your father die while I was fighting my own criminals, and I was being selfish instead of bonding with you." He took her hand and added sadly, "You deserve a better uncle than me, and a better life without me. Can you ever forgive me for being selfish and everything else?" He looked down from her sadly, ashamed. He admitted his guilt in front of his own niece after she discovered his secret, and he was worried that she was going to hate him forever.

But to his surprise, Marissa wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly. She whispered, "I forgive you, Uncle Drake." They heard Launchpad gasp, "Wait a minute! You're actually related to Darkwing Duck?!" He smiled and jumped with joy, "This is the best day of my life!"

He looked at the wall he made from crashing into it, and he shrugged with a chuckle, "I guess there's no point to bailing you out now."

A confident smile grew on Darkwing's face and he said as he put his hat back on, "Don't worry about it. Heroes don't stop for paperwork. And maybe this costumed clown can be a hero." He looked at Marissa and said to her, "Marissa, can you find it in your heart to give your foolish uncle a chance to bond with you for real this time?"

Marissa felt a bit reluctant about his idea, then he added, "There's a little girl who needs us, and I'm going to need help from my new partner in crime-fighting. Which is you, kiddo." Marissa looked at him with a surprised look when she heard him call her his new partner, and she smiled, "You want me as your partner?" Darkwing nodded, "With that expertise of yours, we'll need it to bring Taurus Bulba to justice together, rescue Gosalyn, and avenge John. What do you say?" With a confident smile of her own, Marissa tied her mask around her eyes and said, "Let's do it!"

She climbed onto the motorcycle and held onto Launchpad as he drove while Darkwing sat in the sidecar. Darkwing said to them, "By now, Taurus Bulba must have Gosalyn in his airship. We have to find a way of getting up to him."

That gave Launchpad an idea, and he said to him, "Airship! No problemo, DW. I've got just the thing!" He took a turn on the street, but he felt Marissa letting go of him and the sound of a hook shooting. He stopped the motorcycle and they saw the Scarlet Swan swinging onto a buildinh. Darkwing called to her, "Marissa, what are you doing?"

"Go with Launchpad! I'll look for Taurus Bulba!" she called back to him before going to another building using her gloves, leaving Darkwing being taken by Launchpad somewhere. While they were doing that, the Scarlet Swan tried to think of where Taurus Bulba would be in his aircraft in order to make his plan work. She remembered that Gosalyn told her and Darkwing that the device can make things float no matter how large the mass is, and in order to find what Taurus Bulba was looking for, he needed higher ground other than in his aircraft.

She knew Canard Tower would be the perfect spot for him, and she went back there to confront him again and save Gosalyn. She scaled the tower with her gloves and arrived at the rooftops just as she saw Taurus Bulba's aircraft hovering above it. When she reached the top, she saw her uncle and Gosalyn being held at gunpoint by Taurus Bulba and his men, with the Waddlemeyer Ram Rod all set to use.

"So you two are close. Just like you are with the Scarlet Swan, right Darkwing Duck? How touching, how fortunate." Taurus Bulba sneered as Tantalus flew off of his arm and onto the Ram Rod. He leaned over to Gosalyn and added as he squeezed her cheeks, "I'm afraid I'll never get the code from this one. She has too much spirit." He pointed at Darkwing, "If, by chance, she trusted you or the Scarlet Swan with the code..." He looked up at Tantalus and nodded at him, and the condor nodded back in response. The Scarlet Swan and Darkwing were both shocked at what the condor did next.

Tantalus let out a screech as he swooped down to Gosalyn and grabbed her by her arms with his talons. He flew higher up until they were both away from the building right above the streets.

"Let her go!"

Everyone turned around and saw the Scarlet Swan standing near the edge of the building. Gosalyn cried happily as she was hanging from Tauntalus, "Scarlet Swan! You're here too!" Tantalus made her be quiet by tightening his talons on her arms, almost digging into her flesh. The duck in red looked at Taurus Bulba and glared, "I'm not going to tell you again, Bulba! Let Gosalyn go or you'll pay the price!" Taurus Bulba sneered, "Just like you and your father did with me seven years ago?"

"What are you talking about?" the Scarlet Swan growled. Taurus Bulba replied, "Perhaps you've forgotten that day we first met?" He began to take off his jacket and tie, then he began unbuttoning his shirt. Darkwing snarled, "If you lay one finger on her, you sicko-"

"Keep your trap shut, buddy!" Hammerhead glared as he and Hoof and Mouth held him back. Taurus Bulba finished undoing the last button and held his shirt in his hand. He said to the Scarlet Swan, "Remember this, my dear?" On his shoulder was a scare that looked like a bullet wound. He continued, "This was your little present to me when I first met you and your beloved mother, and you were just a little brat back then." Marissa looked at his scars and remembered the first and last time she ever saw Taurus Bulba.

Seven years ago, when she was just nine years old, her mother Sarah was at her school for Parent's Day to tell them about her work as a scientist at St. Canard University. During the middle of her presentation to her fourth grade class, the class was interrupted by Hammerhead, Hoof and Mouth, and they took both Sarah and Marissa hostage to a warehouse where Taurus Bulba was ransoming St. Canard Tech for a million dollars and one of their latest projects, and he threatened Officer Mallard by telling him that if the money and project weren't with him within just one hour, he would murder both his wife and daughter.

When the police were already on their way with the ransom money, Taurus Bulba was going to murder them anyway. Before they arrived, Taurus Bulba was going to kill Sarah first, but Marissa intervened before he could pull the trigger by biting his hand and never let go. Taurus Bulba hit her on the head with the butt of his gun, but he let it go in the process. Marissa was lucky she didn't get knocked out, because once she got up, Taurus Bulba was kneeling at her with a cruel grin saying, "Give me back the gun, little sweetie. Those things are not toys for little girls to play with." Marissa got scared and grabbed the gun from the ground, and Taurus Bulba tried to take it from her, but the safety lock was off and when Marissa accidentally pulled the trigger, it hit him in the shoulder.

He tried to attack her and snarled, "You little brat! I'll kill you!" But just before he could grab the gun from her, Officer Mallard had already arrived and apprehended him before Marissa could pull the trigger in fright. She remembered the words her father said to Taurus Bulba after cuffing him, "If you ever come near my wife and daughter again, I'll make sure you won't walk on this earth again!" Taurus Bulba had been arrested and sentenced to a hundred years in prison for kidnapping, ransoming, child endangerment, and attempted murder, but his henchmen got away before they would get arrested too. It took weeks for Marissa to get over that traumatizing day and the kids in her class were too afraid to go near her for firing a gun at a criminal, and she was even bullied so much that her parents had to transfer her to a different school. While she got over that fateful day and her parents told her that she saved Sarah's life, she swore to never touch another gun again, having developed a fear over them ever since and she never told anybody about it as she grew older as she did her best to hide her fear when hearing a gunshot or seeing a gun, and she was still so afraid of seeing Taurus Bulba again.

Despite everything, she still remembered her mother's words to her; "Marissa, honey, no matter what happens even in the darkest times, I hope you'll be a brave hero like your father one day and never let your fears get to you."

The Scarlet Swan snapped out of her memories and looked back at Taurus Bulba, trying to be brave in front of him. She said to him, "I'm not afraid of you anymore, Taurus Bulba!"

"I can fix that!" Taurus Bulba sneered as he put his shirt, tie, and jacket back on. He looked up at Tauntalus and the condor flew higher above the building. Darkwing said to him with a glare, "Bring Gosalyn down!" Taurus Bulba snarled, "In a second! Just give me the code! Either you or little Marissa have it with you." The Scarlet Swan glared, "What are you talking about? We don't even know what the code to the machine is, and neither does Gosalyn."

Darkwing shook his head, "That's a bit untrue. Remember that lullaby Gosalyn's grandfather used to sing to her and she taught us when we put her to bed? It was really the code in disguise." The Scarlet Swan stared at him and Taurus Bulba in disbelief. The criminal looked at them and said with a glare, "If she already told you, then tell me what it is."

"We'll never tell you! If you do, you'd kill her anyway! And I'll never let that happen to her! I'm not letting an innocent little girl like her get killed by the likes of you!" the Scarlet Swan glared. Taurus Bulba sneered, "Well, that is too bad." He looked up at Tauntalus and nodded at him, and Gosalyn screamed as he let go of her and she started falling. The Scarlet Swan screamed, "Gosalyn!" She was about to run over to the edge of the building, but then the henchmen grabbed her arms and held her back. She froze in fear when Hammerhead pointed a gun at her head and threatened her, "Not so fast, sweetheart!"

Seeing the gun at her head made her breathing and her heart beating faster and her stomach churn, and those memories of Taurus Bulba threatening to kill her mother with that gun she shot him with and when the schoolkids teased her with little water guns because of her fear of them.

Darkwing exclaimed, seeing the two girls in danger, "No! I'll tell!"

Taurus Bulba grinned cruelly as he nodded at Tauntalus to grab Gosalyn before she could hit the ground. He flew back up again with Gosalyn in his talons, and the young duck groaned, "And to think I used to buy tickets for rides like that."

The Scarlet Swan snarled as she struggled to break free from Hammerhead, Hoof and Mouth's grips and Hammerhead still kept the gun positioned at her head, "If you try that again on her, I swear I'll kick you off of this building and put you in her place to see how you'll like it! You hear me, you psycho?!" Taurus Bulba replied with a glare, "I'd watch your tongue, my dear. Or you're next if your partner doesn't give me the code. And this time, no tricks! Or you'll both make ugly stains on the street." Darkwing came over to the Ram Rod control panel and looked over at the Scarlet Swan. He said to her, "I'm sorry, kiddo. I have no choice."

She smiled sadly at him reassuring, "It's okay. When we have the chance, you take care of Taurus Bulba, I'll save Gosalyn." Darkwing nodded at her before pressing the coloured buttons on the panel. She followed the pattern of the switches Darkwing was pressing and muttered the colours. When he was done, she gasped, "Holy watercress! The lullaby really was the code! No wonder it didn't sound right."

The machine was activated, and Taurus Bulba said triumphantly, "At last!" Darkwing brushed his hands and looked at him with a glare, "Now bring Gosalyn down and release my partner! And get that gun away from her!"

"Not before a test!" he snapped before pushing Darkwing away and going over to the control panel. He looked around the ground for a building until he found the federal gold depository. He activated the switch and Darkwing and the Scarlet Swan watched as the beams hit the building, and to their surprise, the building was lifted into the air with ease as if it only weighed light as a feather. The building opened like a candy box and gold blocks started being pulled out of it and up to Taurus Bulba's aircraft.

"Gold secured Taurus Bulba." the heroes heard a voice say from inside the aircraft. Taurus Bulba chuckled wickedly as he climbed down the Ram Rod, "I'll strip St. Canard clean, then hit every city in the country!"

"And just what will you be doing with all those riches you stole when you're done, by any chance?" the Scarlet Swan asked with a sneer. Taurus Bulba came over to her as Hoof and Mouth held her and Hammerhead put the gun back in his jacket, and he said as he ran a finger over her cheek, "Why, I'll gather every criminal organization in the world, and with my new riches, I shall have everything I need to take over; bombs, guns, nuclear weapons, take your pick my dear."

"Then you're done with Gosalyn!" Darkwing glared.

"Oh, quite." Taurus Bulba said with an evil smile before looking up at Tauntalus. The condor nodded and flew higher into the sky, then he let go of Gosalyn.

"Not again!" she screamed as she started falling.

"You butcher!" Darkwing yelled as he kicked Taurus Bulba in the stomach and hitting him on the head, knocking him out. The Scarlet Swan took her chance and pulled Hoof and Mouth towards each other and made them hit their heads, then she balled her hand in a fist and back-handed Hammerhead. Then she quickly ran to the edge of the building and jumped off. She dropped down towards Gosalyn and grabbed her in her arms. She said to Gosalyn, "Don't worry, kiddo. I got you." She had Gosalyn hold her arms around her neck as she pointed her hands at the side of the building and fired a hook to it. Her confidence disappeared when Tauntalus swooped down and sliced it, disconnecting the wire.

"Oh no!" she screamed. She held onto Gosalyn tightly and cried, "I'm not letting go of you, I promise!" She closed her eyes tightly as she kept ahold of the little girl and tried not to scream. But then she stopped falling when she landed on something hard. At first, she thought she had already hit the pavement below, but when she opened her eyes, she was still in the air.

"Hey, Scarlet! Good to see you!" she heard Launchpad's voice.

"Launchpad!" the Scarlet Swan smiled in relief as the pilot winked at her. Gosalyn added with a sigh of relief, "Nice save."

"I'll say." the Scarlet Swan agreed. She looked at what she and Gosalyn had landed on and what Launchpad was flying.

Another aircraft!

The Scarlet Swan said, impressed by the ship, "Wow, this looks amazing! What is this thing?" Launchpad replied, opening the glass roof, "I call this baby 'the Thunderquack'! I've been working on it for a year. And I made it especially for DW in case I met him by chance. What do you think?" The Scarlet Swan exclaimed, "Are you kidding? This is incredible!" She looked up at the building and began to grow worried. She put Gosalyn in the passenger's seat next to Launchpad and said to him, "Get Gosalyn to safety! I gotta help Darkwing!"

She lifted her hand in the air and shot her hook up at the roof, and she soared back up to it as Launchpad closed the roof and flew away with Gosalyn. Going up the roof was hard without one of her other hooks since Tauntalus had sliced it off. By the time she got back onto the roof, Taurus Bulba and his minions were starting to recover from their beatings. With quick thinking, the Scarlet Swan reached into her utility belt and threw some smoke balls towards them. They went off and smoke surrounded the criminals.

She even noticed that Darkwing was nowhere in sight.

She looked around, wondering where he went, until she heard a sound from behind the Ram Rod, "Pssst! Marissa, over here!" She looked over at the machine, and Darkwing was hiding behind it. She went over to where she was and crouched down behind the machine. Darkwing said to her, "We need to destroy this thing and take down Taurus Bulba and his goons."

The Scarlet Swan protested, "But Uncle Drake, I can't fight them! They've got guns!"

Darkwing assured her, "You leave those guys to me. You sabotage the machine. I know Gosalyn's grandpa worked hard on that invention, but we can't let it fall into the wrong hands again." He took her hand into his and added, "We're doing this together as uncle and niece." She nodded with a comforted smile, and they put their next move into action.

Hammerhead was helping Taurus Bulba up from the ground, and Taurus Bulba snarled, "Where are they?!" Hammerhead looked around the smoke and exclaimed, "They were right here a second ago!" They got their answer when they heard a voice coming from the smoke.

"I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the chill that runs through your spine!"

Hammerhead fired his gun into the smoke. The criminals hoped that Darkwing was shot, but when the patch of smoke cleared, they saw nothing. They heard the voice from behind them, "I am Darkwing Duck!" A hand grabbed Hammerhead by the horns and pulled him in, and Hammerhead groaned as punches were being thrown at him before being tossed over at Hoof and Mouth, knocking them off their feet. The smoke cleared and Darkwing walked out of it with a glare at the three henchmen.

Taurus Bulba was about to go over to the duck in purple with a snarl, but then he heard a loud whistle from the Ram Rod getting his attention. He turned around as he heard a voice, "Hey, Taurus Bulba! What happens if I press these buttons?" The Scarlet Swan was at the control panel of the Ram Rod, and she started pressing the buttons randomly. Hammerhead recovered and when he saw the Scarlet Swan sabotaging the machine, he took out his gun and pointed at her. Taurus Bulba stopped him and glared, "No! Not while she's on the Ram Rod!"

While the Scarlet Swan continued pressing the buttons, the machine began going haywire. With one last press, the machine started going completely out of control and began firing beams in different directions, and one even hit Hoof and Mouth. They were levitating off of the ground, and Hammerhead called to them, "Grab onto something!" They grabbed Hammerhead, and he was also being lifted off the ground with them.

"Not me, you lunkheads!" he yelled, and they screamed as they were floating away.

Taurus Bulba watched with fury as the machine malfunctioned, and Darkwing kicked him in the stomach, knocking him off his feet before he said to him, "It's over, Taurus Bulba! And this time, you'll be in a non-portable prison!" He looked over at the Scarlet Swan, and his face had a look of shock and fear when he saw the aircraft about to fire its laser at her.

"Marissa, look out!" he called. The Scarlet Swan looked up and she managed to dodge the lasers by jumping off the Ram Rod, and the lasers hit the control panel. The machine's ray lifted itself to the aircraft and fired another blast into it. The airship began to float away and the gold that Taurus Bulba stole from the depository fell out of it while the aircraft landed in the river and blew up.

Darkwing came over to the Scarlet Swan and asked her as he helped her up, "You okay, Marissa?" She nodded, "Yeah. Thanks for warning me, or I would have floated away like a circus balloon." They avoided a blast from the machine, and they knew from the looks of the machine that it meant bad news. Darkwing whimpered, "I think this is where the heroes make their dramatic exit!"

"I agree!" the Scarlet Swan added. "That thing's gonna blow up any minute!"

They turned to make their escape, but then two hands grabbed the both of them by the neck. Taurus Bulba snarled as he gripped their necks tightly, cutting off their air supply, "I underestimated you two once, Darkwing Duck and Scarlet Swan! This time, you both simply die, and you shall be joining Officer Mallard and his beloved wife very soon!"

The they struggled out of his grip as they gasped for air, but he didn't let go. Finally, the Scarlet Swan glared as she kicked Taurus Bulba in the face hard, knocking him off of his feet and releasing her and Darkwing. She got back onto her feet again and ran over to him, then she started throwing punches in his face. When she was done, she grabbed him by the jacket and snarled, "Not until I get my answer, Taurus Bulba! If you are the one that killed my father or arranged his murder and that robbery that day, I can finally avenge his death!"

Taurus Bulba, his face covered in blood from a broken nose and a cut on his lip, just glared at her, "I will tell you after we all die!" He reached into his jacket and took out a gun, pointing it at her. "But first I am going to do what I was about to do ten years ago, Marissa Mallard!" At first she froze in horror when she recognized the gun; it was the same one that Taurus Bulba threatened to kill her mother with, and the one that Marissa shot him with that caused her fears. But her fear disappeared quickly and her rage was clouding it. She grabbed his wrist and twisted it, making him howl in pain as he released the gun from his hand. She took the gun and pointed it at him. She snarled, "Last chance, Taurus Bulba! Tell me, or you'll be the one who dies first!"

She pulled the hammer back and held her finger on the trigger, preparing to fire at him. Darkwing saw what she was doing and cried, "Marissa, stop! This isn't what your father wanted!"

"This man deserves to die! He tried to kill me and Mom once, and now he killed my father!" she yelled with tears in her eyes. Taurus Bulba finally yelled, "I did not kill Officer Mallard! Sure I had a deep hatred for him and you and your mother, and I hoped that one day I could kill him in revenge for putting me in that life of prison! But that blasted bank robber beat me to him! I had nothing to do with that murder or robbery!" He looked at the Scarlet Swan and sneered, "But go ahead, little Marissa! Pull the trigger and kill me! It will be just like old times! Let your anger control your intentions, and do it!"

Marissa held the gun above Taurus Bulba's head, about to pull the trigger, but Darkwing said to her, "Marissa, please! Don't be a murderer like your father's. During my times as a superhero, I never wanted to kill anybody because that would have been bad for my image, but now I see that if I did kill someone, it would make me more of a monster than them. Please don't make that same mistake those people made." The Scarlet Swan's anger started to disappear a little, and it faded into realization.

Darkwing would be right! If she killed Taurus Bulba, then that would make her the real monster. Her anger came back for a second, and she pointed the gun at Taurus Bulba again. Darkwing cried, "NO!"

Marissa pulled the trigger.

BANG!

Taurus Bulba expected her to shoot him in the head, but much to his surprise and Darkwing's relief, the bullet hit only between his horns. The Scarlet Swan growled under her breath, "You're not the man I was looking for anyway!" She threw the gun to the side and it hit the wall, smashing into little pieces. She looked down at Taurus Bulba and glared at him before getting off of him. Darkwing watched as Taurus Bulba said to her with a sneer behind her back, "Stupid girl!"

He grabbed a piece of debris that fell off of the machine and he was about to strike her with it, but then Darkwing rushed over and pushed the Scarlet Swan away just in time to take the blow. The bar hit him on the head, and he collapsed to the ground. The Scarlet Swan gasped when she heard the sound of the metal hitting him and saw him on the ground, "Uncle Drake!" The building began to shake as the Ram Rod began overheating and blasting pieces of metal all around.

KA-BOOOM!

So how was that? Drake and Marissa now know of each other's double lives, and Darkwing and Marissa work together to defeat Taurus Bulba and save Gosalyn. But Marissa has no answers about her father's killer and Taurus Bulba is no longer her prime suspect. And what happened to her and Darkwing Duck after their fight with Taurus Bulba? Sorry I took so long to write this. I had a major writer's block with this and it was hard for me to come up with some ideas. I hope this would make it up for it.

I thought of adding a little bit of drama to this chapter and adding a fact that Marissa has a fear of guns due to a past incident with Taurus Bulba from her childhood, but she secretly hides it from the world out of fear they wouldn't understand her. And her uncle manages to save her from making a mistake that would lead her to darkness.

Darkwing Duck belongs to Disney, and Marissa/The Scarlet Swan and her parents belong to me.