Chapter 7: A Trap
A loud click rang out in the room as Mallory finished securing the main entrances, the rest would be up to everyone else to do. Decided to go and check on the others Mallory walked down one of the halls for a minute and then soon bumped into Tanya, "Did you secure the hanger?"
A nod was her response, "Yeah, you would need someone to uh…open them from the inside."
The red head seemed to be satisfied with the response, "Well how about Duke?"
That earned a confused look from the blonde duck, "Uh…I didn't run into him, I thought you might have."
A small chill ran down their spines as a bad feeling ran over them, "I think…I'll try the comm." pulling up the device he activated it and sent a transmission to Duke, both waiting for a response. No response came after a few seconds; they waited for a while longer just in case he was busy but still nothing. Turning off the device Mallory wore a look of worry, "Something's not right, something must have happen to Duke."
"But that must mean…" Tanya tried to say but couldn't, although Mallory seemed to know who she meant.
Taking out her puck blaster she started down the hall, Tanya doing the same. "If he is in here we need to be careful." A rod received as they continued down the hall, both of their guard up just in case of surprises.
Duke mentally groaned as he was roughly tossed into one of the hall closets, the force he was thrown only causes the pain to be worse. His shot up to see Wildwing smiling at him, "This outta hold for a while." The one eyed mallard glared at his captor, really wanting to give him a piece of his mind right now but couldn't because of the tape wrapped around his beak.
'Just wait till I get out of here, you'll be sorry!' he mentally screamed.
As if hearing him Wildwing could only chuckle, "oh I'm going to have some fun, especially with the new toy I have." Duke's fire seemed to be extinguished as he heard that, confused to what that meant. But then his eye widen once the duck in front held up his saber! "I'm not sure what to do with it…maybe I should dull the edges or maybe I should break it entirely."
Anger flared up in Duke as he struggled to get free again, but the tape held on. His saber was one of his prized possessions and there was no way he was going to let him do anything to it. Seeing his captive struggle only made Wildwing smile, he was enjoying the sight. But then he proceeded with his plans, reaching over to the struggling duck he took off the comm. that was on his wrist. Holding it up for Duke to see the emergency button was pressed, making dread fill the bound mallard, it would alert the others and they'll walk into a trap! Wildwing could see that Duke understood what he was doing and then tossed the device back, "I only have a few minutes, bye for now, and don't go anywhere." He mocked, closing the door and covering Duke in darkness, his struggle increased more, and the severity of him escaping became his highest priority.
Mallory and Tanya both entered the med lab and their sights were set on a still sleeping Nosedive and a meditating Grin, said duck opened his eyes once the two females entered the room. Seeing them with their weapons drawn made his curious, "What is wrong friends?"
Mallory was the first to speak, "Wildwing may be in the Pond, Duke's not answering his comm."
Hearing that made Grin rise to his feet, "how long ago have you heard from him?"
"Right after we uh…left here," Tanya responded walking over to Nosedive, looking him over she could tell that he might be out for a while longer. "What should we do now?"
"We have to find Duke," Mallory responded, moving closer to Tanya. "Even though it may be a trap we need to find him."
Just then their comm. rang with an alarm that was used for an emergency, all of them knew that this was the emergency feature of the comm….and it was coming from Duke's comm.
Tanya looked at her's and studied the signal carefully, "Uh…from what it Said's. It's coming from nearby."
"It could be a trap," Mallory commented, looking at her remaining friends, "Wildwing could have gotten a hold of Duke's comm. and used it to call us.
"Still we can't leave our friend in Wildwing's hand, he must be saved," Grin spoke up.
"I know but…" Mallory began to think over, but knew that he was right, Duke could be in trouble and might need their help. "Ok we'll go, but only me and Tanya. Grin stay here and keep an eye on Nosedive, chances are this could be a diversion to lure us away, make sure that Wildwing doesn't get close to him."
"I will do what I can to protect little friend," Grin responded with a bow.
"Ok, come on Tanya lead the way," She responded as Tanya took the lead and both of them left the room but stopped and turned before they fully left. "If things get too bad for us we'll press the emergency button on the comm and them come help us."
Grin nodded at the request, "Yes, I'll wait for your summons." She nodded as they both left the room, the door locking right behind them just in case.
With much effort Duke managed to get to his feet and started to pound himself against the door, trying his best to force it open. It had only been a few minutes since Wildwing left him here and summoned the others, so time wasn't on his side. Using every single ounce of strength he had he kept pounding his body against the door, but nothing happened. Stepping back a big he started to pant a bit, 'I need to get out of here! Everyone is in danger if I can't warn them!' he thought as he tried to give it once last effort.
Using all he had left he reared back and charged at the door, the force was enough to break to door open, the light blinding him a bit as the force caused him to fall to the floor. The impact dazed him a bit, trying to regain his bearing, "Duke!" voices suddenly shouted.
A cold chill rand down his spine as he looked in the direction the voices came, Mallory and Tanya both ran over to where he was and helped him sit up. Even though he was gaged Duke tried to shout out the warning, but it was all muffled. "What, we don't know what you're saying!" Mallory responded as she begin to take off the tape from his beak.
As soon as the last bit of tape was off Duke finally shouted what he had to say," It's a trap!"
Before they could even react Tanya was jerked back, prompting Mallory to turn with her puck blaster aimed forward, but she could pull the trigger. Right in front of her Tanya was being held by Wildwing, who had Duke's blade near her neck. "Drop it," Wildwing spoke with seriousness. At first Mallory didn't respond, not wanting to give up that easily. "I said drop it!" The blade then started to dig into Tanya's neck, choking her a bit. Mallory couldn't let this happen, but knew she was at a disadvantage, so she tossed the weapon aside. This only made Wildwing smile deviously, but little did he know what that Mallory managed to press the button on her comm, call Grin. So all she needed to do was stall and wait for him.
"I did what you did now let her go!" Mallory shouted, despite her plan she was getting angry.
He still help held his grip firm on Tanya, "I don't think so, I still have leverage and there's nothing you can do about it."
"Wildwing let her go!" Duke pleaded, still tied up. "You've taken this too far, you can't hurt Tanya, you know you can't!"
"You want to bet?" He responded with another smile, as he dug the blade in further, cutting her skin. But then stopped before anything worse could happen, it was enough to let Mallory and Duke know that he was serious. "Now things can go one of two ways, one you can Tanya can lay down with your arms behind your back and stay like that, or…I can continue to have some fun with her-" he didn't get far as a huge force tackled Wildwing from behind, forcing him to release Tanya and drop the sword.
Grin and Wildwing rolled around as one of them tried to overpower the other, meanwhile Tanya grabbed Duke's saber and rushed over to him. Mallory also grabber her blaster and aimed it at Wildwing, ready to fire but didn't since she didn't have a clear shot. Using the saber Tanya started to cut Duke free of the tape, slowly increasing their numbers.
Grin managed to roll on top of Wildwing and pinned him, but it didn't stay like that for long as Wildwing moved his free leg and kicked Grin in the gut, causing his to loosen the grip the was applied. Another kicked knocked the burly mallard off of him as he got back to his feet, but Grin recovered fast enough and they both locked hands, both evenly holding their own. It was unusual at the moment because everyone knew that Grin could easily over power anyone of them. This surprised everyone because somehow Wildwing become a long stronger than he originally was. This all made them realize that Grin wouldn't be able to get the job done.
Grinning deviously Wildwing then started to push Grin's hand back, slowly bending them back, making the burly mallard wince in pain as he realized that he was losing the battle. Wildwing then head-butted Grin in the head, causing him to lose focus but then a swift punch to the face knocked him down. Everyone was stunned at this, the shock froze them for a moment, but that short delay was enough for Wildwing to close in the distance between himself and the others.
Mallory prepared to fire but a hand reached out and grabbed the weapon, forcing her hand to aim in another direction. Grabbing a hold of her hand he aimed her weapon over at Tanya and fired the weapon at her, the puck hitting her in the stomach. Even though it was just one it was enough to disable her. He then painfully twisted her wrist, causing her to let go of the weapon before punching her in the stomach then striking her across the face.
Letting her fall to the floor Wildwing turned his attention towards Duke, who was finished getting free and picked up his saber. He held his ground as his leader charged him, exchanging punches that were easily defeated by the saber. Once an opening was made Duke thrust the butt-end of his saber in the gut of Wildwing, the attack caused him to stumble back and left for a bigger opening. Duke charged but his attack failed as Wildwing recovered quickly. Raising his armored arm up to block the blade before punching it, flinging the weapon out of the older mallard's hands and launched it towards the wall, embedding it into it. Taking the chance Wildwing then grabbed Duke's neck, causing him to stop all actions before punching him real hard in the gut, all the air escaped out of duke's beak before he slammed him into the wall. Letting go he let Duke slid to the ground as he backed up. Looking at his work he could see that everyone was down, and at his mercy. Deciding to ignore his previous plan he then loaded his wrist mounted launcher. "I can say that you all put up a good fight…but it wasn't good enough."
He then aimed at Mallory first, ready to take her out first, smiling he made one last mock, "I enjoyed working with you but this is where it all ends."
Mallory saw this and closed her eyes but then a loud bang was heard, followed by something heavy hitting the ground. Opening her eyes everyone looked in the direction where it came from and were shocked at what they saw. Wildwing was one the ground, knocked out, behind him was Nosedive, in his hands was a badly dented metal tray. A terrified look was in the eyes of the teen as they realized what he did, the kid bashed his own brother over the head with the tray, practically saving them all. He reaming like that for a while till everyone felt fine to get back up, then walking over to the teen. "I…I…hit him," he finally spoke in shock.
"Easy there kid," Duke responded first, easing the tray out of the teen's hands. "You did what you had to."
"You saved us all," Mallory furthered assured him. "There's no telling what he could have done if you didn't do that."
"I know but…" He started to say, some shock still remaining. "Now we both laid a hand on each other…we broken our promise."
"Don't fret little friend, it's alright," Grin furthered tried to comfort Nosedive. "You did the right thing."
"Yes you did, now he's uh…not a threat right now," Tanya added in moving over and turning Wildwing on his back to check him over. "I don't know how long that blow will keep him out, I suggest we restrain him before then."
"Yeah, good idea, Grin can you carry him?" Mallory asked.
He nodded as he moved over to his down leader, "Yes, lead the way."
"Ok let's go back to the med bay, I need to take another look over him anyway," Tanya responded as Grin lifted Wildwing off the ground and over his should. Duke gave a nod as he wrapped an arm around Nosedive and led him back to the med bay, followed by everyone else. Wildwing was out cold for the moment, but now they needed to find out what's wrong with him, that is if they could find out what's wrong.
A/N: Hope you like, once again I had to change things up, but don't worry I'm nearly done with one of my other fics, so I'll be able to focus of this one. I thank all who read this so far.
