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The Runaways

Chapter 6:

The flight back to Anaheim was fast in the Arrowwing but not fast enough for the two males that worried over the females. They both took turns checking over them and flying the high powered plane. When they finally landed Mallory and Tanya were still unconscious, so they carried them down to the Medicom to check their vitals and find out what was wrong with them. Once scanned, they found nothing physically wrong with them.

"Whatever Draganus did to them, it wasn't something that we are going to be able to find with our equipment." Wildwing rubbed his beak in thought as he walked over next to Mallory's bed and brushed some of her hair out of her face. He really wished he had Tanya's help on this, but she was in the bed next to Mallory, in the same condition. He was worried about her too, she was a good friend and he depended on her for her knowledge and support.

Duke was holding Tanya's hand, rubbing his thumb over the top of it in a comforting manner. "Come on Tanya wake up." Duke thought as he stared at her strained face. "She's still in pain."

"Yeah, so is Mallory." Wildwing resisted the urge to run his fingers along Mallory's beak and the urge to kiss her. Now that he had been with her, he found that he constantly wanted to be near her. He wanted to always make contact with her in some way or form. He looked over at Duke and Tanya and wondered if Duke felt the same.

Duke looked over and saw Wildwing staring at him and Tanya from his spot next to Mallory. "What Wildwing?"

Wildwing seemed to think over his words carefully. "We are down our team tech and weapons expert. This is not a good position to be in, we're venerable and Draganus knows it. I've been expecting an attack an any given moment now but nothing has happened. Why?"

Duke looked off in thought. Wildwing was right, now would be the opportune moment to attack. So why hadn't he?

"It's gotta have somethin' to do with what he did to Tanya and Mallory." Duke stared hard at Tanya's face wondering what was happening behind her closed eyes.

"That's what I think." Wildwing stood with his arms crossed, over Mallory's bed. Looking like a guard. "But the question still remains. What did he do to them?" Uncrossing his arms he took off his mask and rubbed his tired eyes with a sigh. "I'm afraid this is an answer we're not going to get until it actually happens." He looked back down at Mallory, sad that she was going through this and that there was nothing that he could do to help at this point but wait.

"I feel useless." Duke had unknowingly spoken Wildwing's thoughts. Realizing that this wasn't going to help them Wildwing chose to take Duke's thoughts off of such negative views. They had to stay positive... for Mallory's and Tanya's sake.

"Now that my relationship with Mallory has changed and we were intimate, I feel this overwhelming need to be by her always. Do you feel that with Tanya?" Duke seemed surprised by his question at first but then laughed a little, realizing that Wildwing was trying to help him get his mind off of the negative emotions but it worked.

"Ya know, I actually do." Duke laughed again.

Wildwing smiled at Duke, happy that his teammate was happy but Wildwing was concerned about more then just what Draganus did to them. He was concerned about what the girls reaction would be when they wake up. Would they try to run again? Would Mallory just pretend that what happened between them didn't happen?

"Well the Medicom said that nothing was wrong with them but it's probably best to keep them here overnight and under surveillance." Wildwing set up the medicom so that it would scan them through out the night. Duke nodded his agreement and both went to check up on Nosedive, Grin, and the two prisoners.

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Nosedive was in the rec room playing space invaders while Grin meditated, when Wildwing and Duke walked in. They looked up at the same time surprised to see them back already.

"Yo! Bro did you find them?"

"Yeah but they were attacked by Draganus directly. Wraith did something to them but we don't know what." Wildwing knew something was going to happen from this, but he didn't know what. "How have the prisoners been keeping?"

"Those divas sure complain a lot for prisoners but otherwise they haven't given us any trouble." Said Nosedive crossing his arms behind his head, looking troubled. "I hope Mal and Tanya are okay. I'll go check on them tonight."

"Well at least there's that. Last thing I want right now is to deal with them." Duke grumbled to himself.

"You are both tried from your travels. You should rest. Nosedive and I can watch Mallory and Tanya." Grin finally spoke up and stood from his cross legged position on the floor.

"Yeah Bro don't worry. We'll take care of them."

Wildwing and Duke both nodded and went off to bed, too tired to do anything else.

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Elsewhere that evening, Wraith was preparing to take over Mallory's and Tanya's minds. "This better work." Said Draganus as he passed behind Wraith, watching him prepare himself for the rigous task ahead.

"It will Lord Draganus. It requires a great deal of focus and strain to establish the official connection between my mind and theirs but once it is done, controlling them will be effortless."

"Good. Once I have those two female ducks under my control, taking down the rest of them should be easy. After all, they wouldn't hurt their own teammates now would they." Draganus laughed and wandered off down the corridor with his hands behind his back. Clearly pleased.

Wraith's eyes followed him out of the room and once he was gone he then turned back to what he was doing. "Tomorrow evening I will take control of their minds. Then nothing will stop us."

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It was the next day and Mallory and Tanya still hadn't woken up. Wildwing and Duke had separately checked on them throughout the day but there was no change in the females' condition.

Feeling frustration building up Duke went to work it off in the gym. Wildwing stayed with them for a few hours. He took a seat close to Mallory's bed and crossed his arms over his chest. After thirty minutes he grabbed a sports magazine and began to do some reading to entertain himself. Two hours went by and still there was no change. Sighing he got up and went to get ready for practice that was in thirty minutes.

When he got to the rink Duke was already shooting pucks at the goal with as much force as he could put behind it. He looked pretty tired... and angry.

"Let's just hope he doesn't plan on shooting those at me today." Wildwing said to himself as he joined Duke on the ice.

Duke didn't notice Wildwing had been there until he heard his skates approaching, but he didn't need to look at him to know who it was.

"Your early." Said Wildwing, coming to a stop not too far from him.

"Yeah well, figured I mind as well take out my frustration on something. Can't beat on those girls down in the prison." He said the last part more to himself then to Wildwing.

Wildwing just raised a brow at that last comment but choose not to say anything about it. If Duke was talking about something like that he was mad, cause Wildwing knew Duke had a strict code about not hurting women, frankly so did he, but those two were working for Draganus. They hurt Mallory and Tanya, so if he had to, he would hit or shoot them. Family and the team comes first, everyone here was too important for him to lose.

Wildwing had been staring off into space when Duke finally looked over at him, seeing him off in his own world.

"Well maybe they will be up after practice." Said Duke, effectively snapping Wildwing out of his thoughts.

"Yeah... Maybe." Grin and Nosedive walked out onto the ice passing the puck back and forth . Wildwing took his position and began practice.

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Wraith was finally ready, he began chanting in the old tongue as mist circled him. His eyes glowing red as his spell began to take full affect.

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Down in the med lab Tanya and Mallory began twitching their fingers and feet, as if trying to wake from a dream that wouldn't let them go.

Deep down in the pond no one could hear the ear piercing screams they let out as someone invaded their minds and took control.

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Samantha lounged in her cell with Casey, waiting for the tell tale signs that they would be soon set free. They both froze after hearing the screams from both Mallory and Tanya. They looked at each other and smiled wickedly. "Looks like it is almost time to go." Said Samantha smugly.

Casey just laughed and continued playing with Mallory's peach colored feather that they had plucked the night they had to sneak into her room and knocked her unconscious. She ran her feather along her beak and over her face.

"Almost time to play with my two female duckies." Casey giggled insanely. "Who should I play with first Samantha?"

"Don't know and don't care. Just as long as they suffer." Samantha looked at the cell around her. Trying to entertain herself with thoughts of what she would do when she got out of there. She found Casey creepy how she could change her personality like flipping on a switch. One moment she could be the most normal duck that you ever met but then the next her true colors came out and she was insane.

While Casey liked to molest and torture her victims, Samantha just liked to break them mentally and wasn't above anything to do just that. Samantha also liked the loved ones to suffer as well. She made sure to clue in her victim's family, friends, or lovers, on what was happening to them with videos.

She was always near by to watch said friends or family witness the horrors that the people they cared about were going through, that way she could watch every spectacular moment of pain, sadness, or rage on their facings. Knowing that there was nothing they could do to help their loved ones... It. Was. Great.

Samantha sighed in content as she thought about the kind of videos that she would be sending the rest of the Mighty Ducks. Especially Wildwing, she would make those videos extra special, maybe do things in them he only dreamed about doing. That was bound to get a reaction, after all he was such a pathetic love sick puppy when it came to Mallory.

She kinda liked him at first, he was handsome and she still thought that he was but getting to know his personality made her sick. Sure she would have enjoyed a good screw from him but it just didn't happen, she was interrupted by Casey freaking out about spilling her powder. "Oh well! A missed opportunity but that's alright. I'll screw around with his girlfriend instead." She thought to herself.

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It was late and practice was in it's last ten minutes when Mallory and Tanya both opened their eyes at the same time and sat up in unison. Their eyes were glowing a light purple, their pupils and iris completely gone.

Both moved off the bed with no trouble and collected their gear. They made their way down to the holding cells where Samantha and Casey were waiting.

"Well hop to it. Let us out." Said Samantha like she was talking to a slave, Casey only giggled while nibbling on Mallory's feather.

Tanya put in the code to let them out only to find that the code had been changed. She then plugged her Omitool into the keypad and began overriding the access code, once this was done the high tech cell opened and both imprisoned ducks walked out.

"Lead the way ladies." Mallory took the lead now and lead them out to the garage. Tanya grabbed two bikes while Mallory placed puck grenades on the rest of the bikes and the Migrator's wheels. This would slow down the other ducks from coming after them. Once done Mallory got onto the front of the bike and prepared to leave. Samantha got on behind Mallory while Casey got on behind Tanya. They were about to take off when they heard the doors to the garage slide open. Looking over they saw the rest of the team run into the garage, looking shocked at the scene before them.

"It's Mallory and Tanya! They have Samantha and Casey with them!" Wildwing froze seeing them together like that.

"Look at their eye's Bro! Their eyes are purple!"

"It's some sort of mind control! That's what Wraith was doing!" Wildwing went to charge forward with the others fast on his heels, all intent on saving Mallory and Tanya from themselves.

Mallory and Tanya didn't wait another minute and revved the bikes, taking off before anyone could stop them. Lifting her hand before she was out of sight, Wildwing saw Mallory hit a button and was thrown off his feet when a series of explosions went off in the garage. Destroying any form of ground transport that the ducks had to chase them with. Leaving the four female ducks with a clean getaway.

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